Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
SOYLENT GREEN ISN’T PEOPLE – YET
This
comment on an item on Common Dreams started me wondering if corporate
capitalism actually wants to reshape the entire world in its own image. Because
that image is ugly in the extreme..
“It is in the SELF Interest of Mosanto for the natural
honeybee population to go extinct as Mosanto develops its own genetically
modified bee. The less natural honeybees, the greater the profits for Mosanto.
So it is with the fish farming industry and companies like Aquabounty. It is in
their self interests for the natural population of salmon to vanish. This will
maximize their profits. These "self interests" collide with anothers
"self interest". So the consumer that wants to eat organic and avoid
these GMO products will have a direct impact on the "self interest"
of the Company wishing to force their own product on them. It is in the
"self interest" of the Politicians to side with the Corporations.
They will receive outight bribes from the Corporations, be assured cushy jobs
with the Corporation once their JOB is done, and see all manner of monies come
their way when they are campaigning for office from those Corporations.
"Self Interest" is the holy grail of the Randians and the Libertarians
and those that speak to the magic of "The market". To them it a
wonderful thing. Interest in only the self is leading to destruction of our
Natural World across the entire globe.” Click here for the whole story.
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for Charlie Mingus
The secret
word is Grub
Sunday, February 10, 2013
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
So how full
is a Full English? (And wasn't there an episode of The Simpsons based on this
all-you-can-eat concept?)
“The Kidz Breakfast, available at the Jesters Diner in
Norfolk, UK, isn't on the children's menu. The meal got its name because it
weighs as much as a baby. If you can eat this massive version of the
traditional full English breakfast in one hour, it's free:
Consisting of a dozen sausages, 12 bacon rashers and enough
eggs to be produced from a coop of chickens in a week, Jesters Diner's fry-up
in Great Yarmouth contains more than 6,000 calories and weighs in at 9lb
(4.08kg). But despite hundreds being sold after it was first put on the menu 18
months ago, only one person has managed to eat "the baby".
"Only one man has finished it - Robert Pinto,"
said 43-year-old cafe owner Martin Smith, who said he had seen his business
boom since his mammoth breakfast hit the headlines a year ago. "We knew he
was coming because he called up and we booked him in. We just thought he was
another have-a-go hero. No-one else had even got halfway through."
Mr. Pinto, a competitive eater, finished his in 26 minutes.”
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for Keith
The secret
word is Lard
I THOUGH WE’D SETTLED THIS
But now the
proof is finally in…
"There has been a great deal of speculation over the years
and substantial evidence that an asteroid is likely what extinguished all
dinosaur life. Science could never prove what asteroid may have triggered the
extinction. One of the most likely candidates, the 9-mile-wide asteroid that
impacted Chicxulub, Mexico, was believed to have occurred 300,000 years
prior to the extinction. Now, however, European and American scientists have
re-tested debris from Chicxulub using state-of-the-art equipment and narrowed
the asteroid impact down to a period of 11,000 years, between 66.03 and 66.04
million years ago — almost simultaneous with the Cretaceous-Paleogene
extinction. The collision, which left behind a 180-kilometer (110-mile) crater,
released 420 zettajoules of energy — 100 teratonnes of TNT. The impact created
a huge dust cloud that blocked out the Sun, starting the extinction ball
rolling by killing off much of the world’s plants, and thus the herbivores soon
after. Due to high levels of oxygen in the Cretaceous atmosphere, the impact
may also have caused intense, global firestorms that killed off many other
species. Because the asteroid landed in the ocean, megatsunamis would’ve swept
the world’s coasts, too."
