10:19 AM
I'm having trouble waking up. It feels like I'm going to be lazy and restless at the same time. How I'll manage to do that I'll never guess, but that's what it feels like.
The sun is out and it looks nice.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
11:54 AM
Scary!!!
"More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar.
None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth - and maybe the universe.
Scientists say that is very unlikely - though they have done some checking just to make sure.
The world's physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.
But Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a "strangelet" that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called "strange matter." Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act.
Although it sounds bizarre, the case touches on a serious issue that has bothered scholars and scientists in recent years - namely how to estimate the risk of new groundbreaking experiments and who gets to decide whether or not to go ahead.
The lawsuit, filed March 21 in U.S. District Court in Honolulu, seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting CERN from proceeding with the accelerator until it has produced a safety report and an environmental assessment. It names the U.S. Department of Energy, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the National Science Foundation and CERN as defendants.
According to a spokesman for the Justice Department, which is representing the Department of Energy, a scheduling meeting has been set for June 16.
Why should CERN, an organization of European nations based in Switzerland, even show up in a Hawaiian courtroom?
In an interview, Wagner said, "I don't know if they're going to show up." CERN would have to voluntarily submit to the court's jurisdiction, he said, adding that he and Sancho could have sued in France or Switzerland, but to save expenses they had added CERN to the docket here. He claimed that a restraining order on Fermilab and the Energy Department, which helps to supply and maintain the accelerator's massive superconducting magnets, would shut down the project anyway.
James Gillies, head of communications at CERN, said the laboratory as of yet had no comment on the suit. "It's hard to see how a district court in Hawaii has jurisdiction over an intergovernmental organization in Europe," Gillies said.
"There is nothing new to suggest that the LHC is unsafe," he said, adding that its safety had been confirmed by two reports, with a third on the way, and would be the subject of a discussion during an open house at the lab on April 6.
"Scientifically, we're not hiding away," he said.
But Wagner is not mollified. "They've got a lot of propaganda saying it's safe," he said in an interview, "but basically it's propaganda."
In an e-mail message, Wagner called the CERN safety review "fundamentally flawed" and said it had been initiated too late. The review process violates the European Commission's standards for adhering to the "Precautionary Principle," he wrote, "and has not been done by 'arms length' scientists."
Physicists in and out of CERN say a variety of studies, including an official CERN report in 2003, have concluded there is no problem. But just to be sure, last year the anonymous Safety Assessment Group was set up to do the review again.
"The possibility that a black hole eats up the Earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots," said Michelangelo Mangano, a CERN theorist who said he was part of the group. The others prefer to remain anonymous, Mangano said, for various reasons. Their report was due in January.
This is not the first time around for Wagner. He filed similar suits in 1999 and 2000 to prevent the Brookhaven National Laboratory from operating the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. That suit was dismissed in 2001. The collider, which smashes together gold ions in the hopes of creating what is called a "quark-gluon plasma," has been operating without incident since 2000.
Wagner, who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii, studied physics and did cosmic ray research at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a doctorate in law from what is now known as the University of Northern California in Sacramento. He subsequently worked as a radiation safety officer for the Veterans Administration.
Sancho, who describes himself as an author and researcher on time theory, lives in Spain, probably in Barcelona, Wagner said.
Doomsday fears have a long, if not distinguished, pedigree in the history of physics. At Los Alamos before the first nuclear bomb was tested, Emil Konopinski was given the job of calculating whether or not the explosion would set the atmosphere on fire.
Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist whose work helped fuel the speculation about black holes at the collider, pointed out in a paper last year that black holes would not be produced at the collider after all, although other effects of so-called quantum gravity might appear.
As part of the safety assessment report, Mangano and Steve Giddings of the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been working intensely for the last few months on a paper exploring the possibilities of black holes. They think there are no problems but are reluctant to talk about their findings until they have been reviewed, Mangano said."
10:45 PM
Went running around looking for houses. I was very uncomfortable on the back of the scoot; the wind was tearing right through my hoodie, so I wasn't having too much fun. Did look at some great houses though.
Still reeling over the fun I had at the Makigami Koichi show. I feel bad...I flaked on Kanoko today, but I actually didn't promise anything, so I guess that makes it all better, right?
Scary!!!
"More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar.
None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth - and maybe the universe.
Scientists say that is very unlikely - though they have done some checking just to make sure.
The world's physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.
But Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a "strangelet" that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called "strange matter." Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act.
Although it sounds bizarre, the case touches on a serious issue that has bothered scholars and scientists in recent years - namely how to estimate the risk of new groundbreaking experiments and who gets to decide whether or not to go ahead.
The lawsuit, filed March 21 in U.S. District Court in Honolulu, seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting CERN from proceeding with the accelerator until it has produced a safety report and an environmental assessment. It names the U.S. Department of Energy, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the National Science Foundation and CERN as defendants.
According to a spokesman for the Justice Department, which is representing the Department of Energy, a scheduling meeting has been set for June 16.
Why should CERN, an organization of European nations based in Switzerland, even show up in a Hawaiian courtroom?
In an interview, Wagner said, "I don't know if they're going to show up." CERN would have to voluntarily submit to the court's jurisdiction, he said, adding that he and Sancho could have sued in France or Switzerland, but to save expenses they had added CERN to the docket here. He claimed that a restraining order on Fermilab and the Energy Department, which helps to supply and maintain the accelerator's massive superconducting magnets, would shut down the project anyway.
James Gillies, head of communications at CERN, said the laboratory as of yet had no comment on the suit. "It's hard to see how a district court in Hawaii has jurisdiction over an intergovernmental organization in Europe," Gillies said.
"There is nothing new to suggest that the LHC is unsafe," he said, adding that its safety had been confirmed by two reports, with a third on the way, and would be the subject of a discussion during an open house at the lab on April 6.
"Scientifically, we're not hiding away," he said.
But Wagner is not mollified. "They've got a lot of propaganda saying it's safe," he said in an interview, "but basically it's propaganda."
In an e-mail message, Wagner called the CERN safety review "fundamentally flawed" and said it had been initiated too late. The review process violates the European Commission's standards for adhering to the "Precautionary Principle," he wrote, "and has not been done by 'arms length' scientists."
Physicists in and out of CERN say a variety of studies, including an official CERN report in 2003, have concluded there is no problem. But just to be sure, last year the anonymous Safety Assessment Group was set up to do the review again.
"The possibility that a black hole eats up the Earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots," said Michelangelo Mangano, a CERN theorist who said he was part of the group. The others prefer to remain anonymous, Mangano said, for various reasons. Their report was due in January.
This is not the first time around for Wagner. He filed similar suits in 1999 and 2000 to prevent the Brookhaven National Laboratory from operating the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. That suit was dismissed in 2001. The collider, which smashes together gold ions in the hopes of creating what is called a "quark-gluon plasma," has been operating without incident since 2000.
Wagner, who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii, studied physics and did cosmic ray research at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a doctorate in law from what is now known as the University of Northern California in Sacramento. He subsequently worked as a radiation safety officer for the Veterans Administration.
Sancho, who describes himself as an author and researcher on time theory, lives in Spain, probably in Barcelona, Wagner said.
Doomsday fears have a long, if not distinguished, pedigree in the history of physics. At Los Alamos before the first nuclear bomb was tested, Emil Konopinski was given the job of calculating whether or not the explosion would set the atmosphere on fire.
Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist whose work helped fuel the speculation about black holes at the collider, pointed out in a paper last year that black holes would not be produced at the collider after all, although other effects of so-called quantum gravity might appear.
As part of the safety assessment report, Mangano and Steve Giddings of the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been working intensely for the last few months on a paper exploring the possibilities of black holes. They think there are no problems but are reluctant to talk about their findings until they have been reviewed, Mangano said."
10:45 PM
Went running around looking for houses. I was very uncomfortable on the back of the scoot; the wind was tearing right through my hoodie, so I wasn't having too much fun. Did look at some great houses though.
Still reeling over the fun I had at the Makigami Koichi show. I feel bad...I flaked on Kanoko today, but I actually didn't promise anything, so I guess that makes it all better, right?
Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:57 AM
Wow!!!!!
"The voice of an unknown woman singing in a lamp-lit Paris laboratory nearly 150 years ago came to life Friday amid the crackles and buzz of a historic breakthrough recording made 17 years before Edison invented the phonograph.
"It's ghostly. It's magic," audio historian David Giovannoni said of the sounds that filled a Stanford recital hall. "This voice is a young woman trying to come into the 21st century to sing for us.
"
Giovannoni played the sound again for a loudly applauding audience of 150 scientists, musicologists, audiophiles and phonograph collectors who had come to hear the long-ago French soprano singing "Au Clair de la Lune" in warbling tones restored by physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The music had been transformed from barely visible waves originally etched on soot-blackened paper by a Parisian typesetter named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Created on April 9, 1860, it is the first known recording of any sound.
Monsieur Scott, as the French would call him, had invented what he named the "phonautograph," but he never thought that his faint tracings of sound waves could ever be transformed into sound, Giovannoni said.
Instead, he said, Scott meant to preserve in graphic form the great music and "declamations" of the day in a form that could be read like writing far into the future.
Modern acoustic science, however, can do much more.
Two physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earl Cornell and Carl Haber, who develop computer algorithms for analyzing acoustics of all types, took Scott's waveform copies that Giovannoni brought back from Paris only this month and converted them into sound.
In the world of acoustics, the 10-second recording is historic, and the 42nd annual conference at Stanford's music center of an obscure organization called the Association for Recorded Sound Collections was certainly the appropriate venue to present it to an audience.
"Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit," was all that was audible. In English, the words mean "by the light of the moon, Pierrot replied ..."
Other unrecognizable words were almost certainly there, but they were drowned in the noise of the primitive sound waves that were etched on paper and covered with lampblack from a flickering oil lamp in whatever served as Scott's laboratory.
Scott was a librarian and the author of a book on stenography, but Giovannoni called him "the tinkerer, the dreamer, the kook," all said with deep respect for the first person to think of sound as something that could actually be looked at - "like writing," Giovannoni said.
When Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Giovannoni said, he already knew about the phonautograph. But he went further by picking up sounds directly and replicating them.
But this week it was Scott's truly historic recordings of sound waves on his phonautograph that captured attention around the world.
The voice singing about Pierrot is believed to be Scott's own daughter. The year after it was recorded, Scott turned over the blackened sheet of paper to the French Academy of Sciences, Giovannoni said.
It wasn't his first attempt at recording the waveforms of sound. In 1857, records show, Scott had made tracings of what he called "the human voice at a distance" and deposited them with the French patent office.
Cornell and Haber also have transformed those tracings into sound, but, although a human voice can be heard either talking or singing a garbled note here and there, it mostly consists of three or four seconds of pops and scratches.
The two Berkeley physicists were helped in recovering the "Pierrot" voice immeasurably, Cornell said, by the fact that Scott had recorded the sound waves together with waveforms from a tuning fork vibrating at a constant frequency of the musical note A above middle C. That enabled the scientists to compensate for the fact that Scott's device - like Edison's first phonographs much later - was hand-cranked and wobbly.
They have been analyzing sound waves from old recordings for the Library of Congress for several years, and Cornell said in an interview that for colleagues at UC Berkeley's genetics department, he has even turned genetic changes in the eye color of fruit flies into waveforms and then into sounds.
Giovannoni has a small company called AudiGraphics and for years was a Grammy-winning expert with National Public Radio. His principal colleagues for this effort are Patrick Feaster, a folklorist and historian at Indiana University, and Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, owners of Archeophone Records and specialists in antique sound recordings."
11:32 PM
Makigami Koichi was an incredible show. I met some very nice folks, the Koto player is going to play with WWFH on the 11th.....it was a great time, and it was such a charming little place. There is a good chance that I'll get to do some shows there next month!
Wow!!!!!
"The voice of an unknown woman singing in a lamp-lit Paris laboratory nearly 150 years ago came to life Friday amid the crackles and buzz of a historic breakthrough recording made 17 years before Edison invented the phonograph.
"It's ghostly. It's magic," audio historian David Giovannoni said of the sounds that filled a Stanford recital hall. "This voice is a young woman trying to come into the 21st century to sing for us.
"
Giovannoni played the sound again for a loudly applauding audience of 150 scientists, musicologists, audiophiles and phonograph collectors who had come to hear the long-ago French soprano singing "Au Clair de la Lune" in warbling tones restored by physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The music had been transformed from barely visible waves originally etched on soot-blackened paper by a Parisian typesetter named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Created on April 9, 1860, it is the first known recording of any sound.
Monsieur Scott, as the French would call him, had invented what he named the "phonautograph," but he never thought that his faint tracings of sound waves could ever be transformed into sound, Giovannoni said.
Instead, he said, Scott meant to preserve in graphic form the great music and "declamations" of the day in a form that could be read like writing far into the future.
Modern acoustic science, however, can do much more.
Two physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earl Cornell and Carl Haber, who develop computer algorithms for analyzing acoustics of all types, took Scott's waveform copies that Giovannoni brought back from Paris only this month and converted them into sound.
In the world of acoustics, the 10-second recording is historic, and the 42nd annual conference at Stanford's music center of an obscure organization called the Association for Recorded Sound Collections was certainly the appropriate venue to present it to an audience.
"Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit," was all that was audible. In English, the words mean "by the light of the moon, Pierrot replied ..."
Other unrecognizable words were almost certainly there, but they were drowned in the noise of the primitive sound waves that were etched on paper and covered with lampblack from a flickering oil lamp in whatever served as Scott's laboratory.
Scott was a librarian and the author of a book on stenography, but Giovannoni called him "the tinkerer, the dreamer, the kook," all said with deep respect for the first person to think of sound as something that could actually be looked at - "like writing," Giovannoni said.
When Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Giovannoni said, he already knew about the phonautograph. But he went further by picking up sounds directly and replicating them.
But this week it was Scott's truly historic recordings of sound waves on his phonautograph that captured attention around the world.
The voice singing about Pierrot is believed to be Scott's own daughter. The year after it was recorded, Scott turned over the blackened sheet of paper to the French Academy of Sciences, Giovannoni said.
It wasn't his first attempt at recording the waveforms of sound. In 1857, records show, Scott had made tracings of what he called "the human voice at a distance" and deposited them with the French patent office.
Cornell and Haber also have transformed those tracings into sound, but, although a human voice can be heard either talking or singing a garbled note here and there, it mostly consists of three or four seconds of pops and scratches.
The two Berkeley physicists were helped in recovering the "Pierrot" voice immeasurably, Cornell said, by the fact that Scott had recorded the sound waves together with waveforms from a tuning fork vibrating at a constant frequency of the musical note A above middle C. That enabled the scientists to compensate for the fact that Scott's device - like Edison's first phonographs much later - was hand-cranked and wobbly.
They have been analyzing sound waves from old recordings for the Library of Congress for several years, and Cornell said in an interview that for colleagues at UC Berkeley's genetics department, he has even turned genetic changes in the eye color of fruit flies into waveforms and then into sounds.
Giovannoni has a small company called AudiGraphics and for years was a Grammy-winning expert with National Public Radio. His principal colleagues for this effort are Patrick Feaster, a folklorist and historian at Indiana University, and Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, owners of Archeophone Records and specialists in antique sound recordings."
11:32 PM
Makigami Koichi was an incredible show. I met some very nice folks, the Koto player is going to play with WWFH on the 11th.....it was a great time, and it was such a charming little place. There is a good chance that I'll get to do some shows there next month!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
6:06 PM
I think the Mah Jongg game that I play on line was deliberately set up to prevent winners. I used to beat my other one all the time...
11:20 PM
Here is the response to my answers from Jack...
"This was a brilliant response to my enquiries, insightful, personal and above all inspiring.
Where other artists I asked we're all too quick to give me a quickly written, bereft of punctuation and rather boring response. You took the time to write a concise, enjoyable and intelligent piece of writing that was both a joy to receive and read.
Im sure it will contiunally aid my current project, futher development and future artistic career.
Thankyou very much, I hope appreciate how you have helped me, your a good chap Jimmy, that I am certain of!
Thanks again!
Jack"
Pretty cool....
I think the Mah Jongg game that I play on line was deliberately set up to prevent winners. I used to beat my other one all the time...
11:20 PM
Here is the response to my answers from Jack...
"This was a brilliant response to my enquiries, insightful, personal and above all inspiring.
Where other artists I asked we're all too quick to give me a quickly written, bereft of punctuation and rather boring response. You took the time to write a concise, enjoyable and intelligent piece of writing that was both a joy to receive and read.
Im sure it will contiunally aid my current project, futher development and future artistic career.
Thankyou very much, I hope appreciate how you have helped me, your a good chap Jimmy, that I am certain of!
Thanks again!
Jack"
Pretty cool....
Monday, March 24, 2008
12:32 AM
I get pissed off....E is less than sympathetic to the fact that I'm really diabetic. I ask that certain things don't come in the house, but they do anyway. And I like to eat them just like a normal person, even as a comfort food. Then I'm told I've no one to blame but myself. So it turns into a vicious circle that I'm frankly getting tired of.
1:01 AM
This is kind of cute....
"Ten Commandments for Avoiding
Negative Scenes with Diabetic Loved Ones"
by Richard Rubin
Thou shalt not act like a Police person.
Thou shalt not ignore diabetes.
Thou shalt not lead your loved one in the paths of temptation.
Thou shalt not criticise when your loved one succumbs to temptation.
Thou shalt not talk about your loved one's diabetes in public unless invited to do so.
Thou shalt offer support and comfort, especially when things aren't going well with the diabetes.
Thou shalt have the patience of a Saint when your loved one is acutely hypo- or hyperglycaemic.
Thou shalt deal constructively with your own natural fears and resentments.
Thou shalt be especially sensitive in public situations.
Thou shalt find out what works and do it.
9:39 AM
It's foggy and cool this morning. Kind of a nice break from the sun and heat. Hopefully it won't last too long though.
11:34 PM
Had a lovely day at the Japanese Tea Garden. I'm looking forward to going back. Next time I need to bring my camera.
I get pissed off....E is less than sympathetic to the fact that I'm really diabetic. I ask that certain things don't come in the house, but they do anyway. And I like to eat them just like a normal person, even as a comfort food. Then I'm told I've no one to blame but myself. So it turns into a vicious circle that I'm frankly getting tired of.
1:01 AM
This is kind of cute....
"Ten Commandments for Avoiding
Negative Scenes with Diabetic Loved Ones"
by Richard Rubin
Thou shalt not act like a Police person.
Thou shalt not ignore diabetes.
Thou shalt not lead your loved one in the paths of temptation.
Thou shalt not criticise when your loved one succumbs to temptation.
Thou shalt not talk about your loved one's diabetes in public unless invited to do so.
Thou shalt offer support and comfort, especially when things aren't going well with the diabetes.
Thou shalt have the patience of a Saint when your loved one is acutely hypo- or hyperglycaemic.
Thou shalt deal constructively with your own natural fears and resentments.
Thou shalt be especially sensitive in public situations.
Thou shalt find out what works and do it.
9:39 AM
It's foggy and cool this morning. Kind of a nice break from the sun and heat. Hopefully it won't last too long though.
11:34 PM
Had a lovely day at the Japanese Tea Garden. I'm looking forward to going back. Next time I need to bring my camera.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
8:51 AM
So many of my heroes are dying...
"Tech Visionary Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90
The science fiction writer and inventor forecast technology in place today.
Science fiction writer, inventor, scuba diver, and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at his home on the island nation of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
Clarke was best known in popular culture as the author of the story that inspired Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," but his greatest contribution to technology is creating the conceptual framework for geostationary satellites -- machines that would remain in the same spot above the earth and act as relay stations for signals from the ground, covering a wide area. He published a paper about the concept in 1945, which was ultimately realized two decades later. The orbit into which geostationary satellites are placed is now known as the Clarke Orbit.
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation confirmed Clarke's death on its Web site Tuesday. He died of respiratory problems, according to media reports.
Born in England in 1917, Clarke served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, working on radar defense systems. He ultimately achieved the rank of flight lieutenant. He then went on to earn degrees in mathematics and physics from King's College.
Having been interested in astronomy as a young boy, he served as the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. In 1948 he wrote the story "The Sentinel," which would eventually form the basis for the "2001" film. He moved to Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) in 1956, in part to pursue his interests in underwater exploration. He founded his own scuba diving school there.
Clarke suffered from post-polio syndrome in later life, and was confined to a wheelchair.
Celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 2007, Clarke wished for peace in Sri Lanka, for mankind to break its fossil fuel habit, and for the discovery of extraterrestrial beings.
Clarke married in the 1950s and later divorced. He had no children"
11:19 PM
Worked on the perspective parts of my new painting. It looks good but I was getting burned by the whole process.
So many of my heroes are dying...
"Tech Visionary Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90
The science fiction writer and inventor forecast technology in place today.
Science fiction writer, inventor, scuba diver, and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at his home on the island nation of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
Clarke was best known in popular culture as the author of the story that inspired Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," but his greatest contribution to technology is creating the conceptual framework for geostationary satellites -- machines that would remain in the same spot above the earth and act as relay stations for signals from the ground, covering a wide area. He published a paper about the concept in 1945, which was ultimately realized two decades later. The orbit into which geostationary satellites are placed is now known as the Clarke Orbit.
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation confirmed Clarke's death on its Web site Tuesday. He died of respiratory problems, according to media reports.
Born in England in 1917, Clarke served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, working on radar defense systems. He ultimately achieved the rank of flight lieutenant. He then went on to earn degrees in mathematics and physics from King's College.
Having been interested in astronomy as a young boy, he served as the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. In 1948 he wrote the story "The Sentinel," which would eventually form the basis for the "2001" film. He moved to Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) in 1956, in part to pursue his interests in underwater exploration. He founded his own scuba diving school there.
Clarke suffered from post-polio syndrome in later life, and was confined to a wheelchair.
Celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 2007, Clarke wished for peace in Sri Lanka, for mankind to break its fossil fuel habit, and for the discovery of extraterrestrial beings.
Clarke married in the 1950s and later divorced. He had no children"
11:19 PM
Worked on the perspective parts of my new painting. It looks good but I was getting burned by the whole process.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:07 AM
Had a weird dream about the upcoming noise fest, eating peanuts, etc. I can still feel the texture of the peanuts in my mouth. It's a little bit gross.
8:16 PM
!?!?!?!?!?!
Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced
by Rami Nagel (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer. This application is not a one time event, but will continue every 1-3 months for as long as five years. The pesticide to be sprayed is not designed to harm the light brown apple moth's who it is designed for, but merely to confuse its mating habits. While harmless to moths, the pesticide has been documented to harm humans.
Side effects range from vomiting and flu like systems, to male and female reproductive cycle disruption. One child nearly died from the exposure, and some people have developed asthma from being exposed to this chemical concoction. It is cause for alarm that a chemical being labeled as harmless and "safe" even in minute doses, causes severe health effects in some people. The government is racing to cover up and hide the dangerous health effects so that they can continue their aerial spray plans this summer. Your attention and action on this subject is needed in the most important way.
On January 24th, 2008, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Chuck Conner announced the availability of $74.5 million in emergency funding to combat the light brown apple moth (LBAM) infestation in California (1). President Bush's recent budget proposal sent to Congress sets aside $330 Million to eradicate plant pests, like the Light Brown Apple Moth. With crime, prison crowding, pollution, poverty, budget problems and the like, why should the government go through the effort to try to control the reproductive habits of a moth? While most people say the answer is money, a far more sinister plan seems to be at hand. It is unprecedented to design a long term plan to spray chemicals on people, which are untested for safety. This plan violates a myriad of state, federal and international laws.
On February 13th, 2008, the CDFA and USDA, in conjunction, announced their action plan for aerial spraying untested poison on people. This is from the CDFA Press Release "Aerial treatments are expected to begin June 1 in the infested areas of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, with subsequent aerial treatments expected to begin August 1 in San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, Oakland, Piedmont, Emeryville, Albany, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Tiburon and Belvedere. The treatments in these areas are designed to be reapplied at 30- to 90-day intervals while the moths are active." (4)
In late 2007, there were 643 documented health complaints (www.1hope.org/SPRAYCOMPLES.PDF) from the aerial spray program conducted in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Keep in mind that this documentation is a mere fraction of the real health effects, as no legitimate effort was made to inform even doctors on how to recognize pesticide poisoning. Many doctors also refused to report suspected pesticide poisoning as required by law, and in order for a report to get officially filed, many times the patient had to insist upon it. These health injuries are not being honored in any way, because if they are honored, this sick chemical spray will be seen for what it is. It is a poison to many humans and likely to many other animals as well. I have a difficult time swallowing that a chemical compound designed to disrupt a moth's mating cycle can accidentally create reproductive health problems.
There are many who believe that this spray is not directed at the moth population which the government says is the goal of the spray, but rather that it is directed at humans. There is a growing body of evidence to support this claim, considering that the moth itself does not cause any crop damage. It is similar to the government deciding that we must eradicate all the ants, because ants cause millions of dollars of damage. Like ants, the light brown apple moth is a harmless pest. Another strange observation is the name of the mating disruption chemical Checkmate. In order to pull off the deployment of this biological chemical, a hoax, or reason for aerial spraying had to be created. That reason is called the Light Brown Apple Moth infestation. The second requirement to pull off releasing a massive chemical cloud of disease, is to trick people into believing it is safe. This whole aerial spray program depends on the belief that the chemicals to be sprayed are safe.
Since the chemicals planned to be deployed have never been sprayed over cities before, and are even being developed as I write, and thus have not been proven safe for humans, this is by the facts a large scale experiment. The question people should ask is, "why?" While it may be just coincidence, a recent article displays this headline: “Top-secret Livermore anti-germ lab opens.” (2) This same lab, has routinely exploded thousands of pounds of lethal, chemically toxic, and radioactive Depleted Uranium in the greater San Francisco Bay area’s air for the past fifty years (3).
When people hear about this aerial spray, many people experience a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. This is truly a sickening action. The government is willfully breaking countless laws in order to combat a stupid leaf rolling moth that curls up into the leaves of some plants and that doesn't cause any crop damage. It has not caused crop damage or embargo's in Hawaii over the past 100 years, so why would it cause damage in California?
No ounce of sanity can explain why the government must insist on violating countless laws to spray people with never before tested chemicals, except as to realize a deadly game is being played.
Unlike the horrible malathion spraying over 20 years ago, which was a one-time ordeal with chemicals that evaporate, this spraying is a time release microscopic device, which will be continuously applied, short of the winter months, for up to five years. Even five years of spraying will at best reduce slightly the moth population, as pest control experts explain that mating disruption technology is used as a small part of an overall pest management plan. Pretty much any pest control expert, except for those on the government take, will tell you that the light brown apple moth cannot be eradicated, and that even if it could, the mating disruption technology is not the best means to do it. Since aerial spraying is to be the sole method of controlling the light brown apple moth in many locations, then even after many years of spraying, the moth will still be alive. It is not sane to spray people with chemicals. That begs attention, there is not any hard evidence that the spray even works at all. In fact on the EPA's own website, there's an article about pheromones released from microcapsules, it states: "The studies show that only a small proportion of the microcapsules actually release any pheromone." (5)
This is now clear and reprehensible evidence of State and Federal Governments attempting to commit a large scale crime against the American people. Let us forget about supposed terrorists for a second whose propagandized images are placed on the television, and lets pay attention to this biological attack planned on our fellow neighbors. The presence of a minuscule pest, is no excuse to douse millions with chemicals. There are NO CROPS IN CITIES! So why are they going to spray cities?
This is a Cover-Up
The LBAM infestation is a monumental hoax designed as a cover for an operation of devious goals to expose people to dangerous chemicals over several years.
Following is a link to a recently published proposal of spray boundaries, the yellow lines indicating the proposed spray zones (www.hopefortruth.com/lbam_2008.jpg) . More than two million people who live in these and other targeted cities are scheduled to be exposed this summer to chemicals that that have never been tested on humans or animals before. Let me repeat: the government of the United States is conducting a human biological experiment, on a massive scale, breaking State, Federal and International laws. Children, pregnant women, and the sick and elderly will be most as risk to this increased exposure to long lasting chemicals. Chemicals which are newly designed, chemicals which have not been proven safe. Just like the reproductive health effects reported from the spray, it is important to realize that a large team of "experts" working on this project do not mistakenly douse people with chemicals. This is done on purpose, with a purpose.
Does it make sense to douse over two million people with literally hundreds of billions of microscopic balls of volatile chemicals over an extended period of time to try to limit the mating habits of a few thousand moths? Is it legal to do this? Is it ethical? Is it moral? Yet rather than halting the spray plans to investigate the damage it has done to many people, the spray plans continue to grow exponentially.
To see this insanity clearly, let's examine the moth population. In San Francisco County, 3,501 moths total have been trapped and killed over an eight month period. The entire city of San Francisco, whose population is 744,041, is in the proposed spray boundaries. About 744,000 people are to be exposed to 'never tested safe for humans, microencapsulated pheromones' for several years. This is really a needle in the haystack approach to pest control. Keep in mind, each moth found is a moth that has been trapped and exterminated (6). In Alameda County, 431 months have been found in the past 8 months out of 2,327 traps. The moth population in Alameda County is thus sparse at best. Just look out your window. Imagine how many insects are in the tree, the yard, or the local park. I have seen more than 431 ants crawl into my kitchen on a rainy day. So in a giant area of 141 square miles, and the tens or hundreds of millions of insects in that zone, to try to eradicate a few hundred moths by just spraying chemicals everywhere is both ludicrous and unsafe.
When I learned that Santa Cruz, my previous hometown was to be aerially sprayed, I was in a state of shock. This was followed by a long period of disbelief.
Apparently the CDFA or the USDA, or both, decided that the previous chemical formulas used, Checkmate LBAM-F and Checkmate OLR-F were not good enough, which really points to the fact that the past two aerial sprays in Monterey, and the one in Santa Cruz County, were a waste of time and money. Not to mention the tragedy of the many severe health reactions experienced by thousands of people from chemical exposure. It doesn't matter to those in charge at the CDFA, EPA, or USDA, if a new chemical is needed to be used, because the goal is not to stop the moth, the moth cannot be stopped, it can only be controlled. This is known. The goal may be to coat people with a toxic mesh of disease causing microcapsules.
The chemicals that were sprayed, and that are planned on being sprayed, have not undergone thorough safety evaluations. And they won't undergo such evaluations in a legitimate way, because if they did, they would prove only one thing - that these chemicals are potentially deadly.
The chemicals planned to be sprayed will no doubt be similar to the ones used in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties in 2007. They are a plastic encapsulated microtechnology, a microscopic plastic dust. The reported microcapsule size of the aerial mating disrupter is as small as 10 microns and averages 25-35 microns in size for an undeployed moth spray. For comparison, a human hair is approximately 70 microns in thickness. The size of these chemical containing plastic balls comes suspiciously close to micro-sized particles that are used to evade the body's defensive systems for biological weapons, those are reported to be 3-4 microns in size. Miniature particles between 2.5-10 microns in size, especially from pesticides, are known to cause both short term and long term health effects, including decreased overall life span.
A University of California at Davis report confirmed that some unsprayed and undegraded microcapsules are indeed 10 microns in size. The small particle size explains the severe reactions, that I, along with countless others have had when being exposed to minute dosages of the chemical. Minute dosages of chemicals designed for moth's, advertised as harmless, do not accidentally make people sick. In other words, the people who designed these chemicals and manufactured them had to have an intimate understanding of what each chemical does, and how they react with each other. So, too, should the EPA have this understanding. It is not unreasonable to assume that a chemical designed to stop moths, that is being sprayed on humans, would have such drastic health effects, but it does. The only conclusion is that this is intentional in the design. Imagine someone designing a "safe" car. If this "safe" car had no brakes, then nobody would assume that the car accidentally had no brakes. Likewise, chemicals designed for moths, in minuscule doses, cannot accidentally harm people. It is more than just chance.
Again, nobody in the public as of yet knows how small the degraded microcapsules are, or how this will effect people in the short and long term, because no such testing exists. Once sprayed, these microscopic balls can easily enter deep into the mouth, eyes, skin and lungs. Even after 90 days and several rains, some people in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties are still experiencing symptoms of spray poisoning. When they leave the counties, their symptoms many times abate. This aerial program is a real sword through the heart of democracy and decency. The government has really gone too far and it must be stopped now.
I must inform you that through a freedom of information request, a local newspaper has learned that the CDFA has hired media spin doctor extraordinaire Porter Novelli at the tune of almost $500,000 tax payer dollars to convince the public that it is okay for the state to dump chemicals all over them, their gardens, their pets, and their neighbors. The state of California is in a budget crisis, and this is one example that explains why. Here the state is using tax payer dollars to lie to and mislead the public, to try to convince the public that the state should be spending millions of dollars of resources on polluting the air, sea, and land with chemicals that the public in general does not want or need. Since a majority of spray funding is coming from the federal arm, know that your tax paying dollars are going to a government sponsored large scale crime.
Originally, the USDA announced that the moth might cause $100 million in crop damage if allowed to multiply. Then they keep expanding their figures to create false reasons to justify this unethical chemical assault. The most recent estimate of LBAM damage is $160 million to $640 million just in California. Mind you this moth has a hard time finding its way into crop fields and seems for some very bizarre reason to live only in cities. The estimate of this level of crop damage is absurd. The figures used to estimate the damage came from one particular year in Australia and have little meaning in California, as the climate is different. Even if this $160 million crop loss did come true, one has to consider that $90 million has now been ear marked to contain the moth, primarily the funds are for aerial spraying chemicals on cities which contain people, and not crops like apples, oranges and grapes. One expert estimates that if the CDFA stays on this track, by the time the aerial treatment is complete after five years, close to $500 million will be spent on aerial eradication. With little to no impact on the apple moth population.
The pheromone being used, (E)-11-Tetradecen-l-y Acetate is identical to pheromone's which many native moths and perhaps other species also contain. So this spray will effect other non-target species. The pheromone only represents between 10-20% of the ingredients of the aerial spray.
Now, organizations like the Breast Cancer Fund, Center For Environmental Health, Calpirg, and the Sierra Club are issuing statements opposed to aerial spraying.
What to Expect Next
The CDFA, USDA, and EPA will do anything and everything to convince, lie, cajole and get people to agree with the plan to spray chemicals. The facts of this situation are irrelevant to those in charge because the goal is to spray people, not to operate under the laws of this constitutional government of checks and balances. They are going to go to meetings, pretend it is safe, have doctors testify it is safe, pretend to listen to the public, ignore any health complaints, and try to lull people into complacency on the matter. They have even gone as far as promising an environmental review, which will contain a giant pile of documents again to try to prove that it is okay to spray people with chemicals. The CDFA will continue to find more moth finds, and create more fake evidence of how much harm the moth will do. They will get more money from Mr. Bush's pesticide funds and continue to enlarge their aerial spray program. Strangely the moth will continue to spread, finding its way into other cities, and in the coming years, cities like Los Angeles and San Diego will be targeted.
Knowing that the government is actively lying, hiding evidence, manipulating the public, and that they are spraying chemicals illegally on people should be enough evidence to convict these felons under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws.
Freeing Yourself From the Government's Pro Spray Propaganda
These 643 health injury reports represent a fraction of the real injuries. The actual spray has surely caused thousands to be poisoned from this biochemical formulation. See my related article (www.naturalnews.com/022434.html) . Despite these reports which include 330 official illness claims filed with the CDFA, the CDFA states the following lies on their website, “Pheromones are extremely safe” and “Public safety is the primary concern.” The statement that pheromones are safe is a misleading distorted truth. Sure, pheromones can be safe when used responsibly, for example a benign moth sticky trap in an apple orchard (away from people) that contains pheromones to attract the moths. But when you create a microscopic biodegradable ball of volatile chemicals, and then place within it a synthetic moth pheromone, which itself is described as an explosive chemical, you have more of a drug which can interact and create changes within the human body, than a pesticide. Furthermore, no thorough investigation has been done of these 330 official illness complaints, and some of these people have not yet recovered. And a further investigation won't be done, because a legitimate investigation would find that the spray made people sick, and thus, the aerial spray program would be halted.
One must realize that any documentation regarding the safety of pheromones reported is from non-aerial applications, such as a moth sticky trap that is scented with pheromones and stuck on a tree, or a pheromone laced twist tie applied to apple orchards or vineyards. These safety assertions also do not relate to the aerial method of application. A sticky trap laced with pheromones is a different entity than a microscopic ball that can easily enter the body and then biodegrade and release chemicals within the body. Part of the less dangerous aspect to pheromone laced traps is the fact that the pheromone is so volatile that it rapidly evaporates, so the chemical won't travel too far. The microcapsules are the opposite, they are designed to stick around in the air for months. They are infinitely more dangerous than sticky traps, and you cannot really compare them. It's like saying that a tank is the same as a motorcycle because they are both vehicles. Microcapsulated pheromones are a different beast than pheremone laced moth traps.
The newly designed chemicals, which are scheduled for June and August deployment will not have their ingredients disclosed to the public. We do not even know what this stuff is? How can the government say the chemicals are safe, and then hide the ingredients from scrutiny? If these chemicals are so safe why not tell us honestly what they are? Clearly the intention of the CDFA, USDA, and EPA, is to cover up the real nature of this biochemical assault. They are trying to hide what they do from the public’s eye. They do not want you to know the truth. The truth is people get sick. Not everybody gets sick from the moth spray, but many people do. Its effects can be strong and violent. The truth is, the US Government is a vehicle being used to poison us.
The CDFA reports that they want their newest moth weapon deployed this summer, to be even longer lasting, which to me means that the microcapsules will be even more dangerous, possibly indefinitely sticking in the environment, and irritating people’s sensitive ducts and glands; much like allergies from pollen. In each aerial application, spray planes are contracted through Dynamic Aviation (www.dynamicaviation.com/home.htm) , which has other specialties beyond aerial application of pesticides. They also do “Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.” The spraying is conducted at a height of between 500-800 feet and residents in the sprayed area report feeling like they are in a war zone. Once in contact with residential neighborhoods, parks, and playgrounds, the balls slowly disintegrate over time. The hope is that during this time, they release pheromones and limit the moth's mating patterns. Again, this is a whimsical hope because no legitimate studies exist proving this new technology is effective at either releasing pheromones, or at stopping the moth's mating habits.
Typically a drug takes many years for the Food and Drug Administration to approve for safety for humans. Under an emergency declaration, the EPA can exclude new chemicals from rigorous testing. The catch to this exception is that these laws were designed for agricultural emergencies and are being violently misused because they are planning on spraying large urban populations and not agricultural zones. These laws cannot lawfully apply to cities. Among other things, we have legal control and authority of our bodies, and our properties. We can say "No" to the spray, and if necessary, defend ourselves from this highly toxic assault. The EPA and USDA have flagrantly crossed legal and ethical boundaries by applying laws designed for agricultural fields to densely inhabited city centers.
Further, consider that the testing of these chemicals is not done to make sure that it is safe for humans, as the safety is merely an untested assumption. As an example, it took several months after the first aerial spray of Monterey County for the CDFA to pay the University of California Davis to see if the Checkmate formula was toxic to certain very small ocean insects. It took several months for this first test of the Checkmate formula to be conducted. This test only happened after the chemical was sprayed on well over two hundred thousand people. The testing being conducted in New Zealand is not to ensure safety for humans, but to see if the mating habits of the moths are disrupted. This spraying is illegally approved by the EPA because Congress passed legislation to legally prevent the EPA from conducting human experiments. “EPA's rules make it clear that all pregnant women, all nursing women, and all children are excluded from all studies involving intentional exposure that are intended for submission under the pesticide laws.” (www.epa.gov/oppfead1/guidance/human-test.htm) If the EPA cannot test pesticides on pregnant women, nursing women, and children, then under what jurisdiction and authority can they simply endorse and approve the exposure of pregnant women, nursing women and children with untested pesticides?
How many more children do we need to see poisoned by these indefensible government actions until we wake up and say, enough! How many more of our friends, relatives and neighbors do we need to see develop chronic health conditions due to exposure to aerially sprayed chemicals until we take effective action to stop this insanity? How much longer are we going to allow the government that is created for the people, to represent the people, to break its own laws and poison its own people and then disregard any reported health concerns?
I call for the arrest and trial of the appropriate employees in the CDFA, EPA, and USDA, for conspiring to poison people of the State of California, for lying and deceiving the public, and for polluting our environment.
Here's How I Suggest You Take Action:
* Share this information with your friends and neighbors.
* Ask your California representative to support the following bills -
1) AB 2765, (Huffman) sets new limits on the emergency powers of the Department of Agriculture.
2) AB 2763 would enact the Invasive Pest Planning Act of 2008, by Assemblymember John Laird.
3) AB 2764 (Hancock) will prohibit the Secretary of Food and Agriculture from approving the
application of a pesticide in an urban area, unless the Governor has proclaimed a state of
emergency.
4) AB 2760 (Leno) would require the completion of an EIR before any pesticide could be applied in
an urban area.
Also, State Senator Carole Migden plans to file for a moratorium on aerial spraying.
* Don't be fooled when the CDFA says that the “pheromone” is safe. I have been poisoned myself by these microcapsules, and so has my family, it is a terrible feeling. Ask for test results to show it is safe for humans, you'll see they have none.
* Demand accountability. Ask your local California representative why they are continuing to allow the state to spray chemicals on people, even though the state has laws, like the state constitutional right to personal safety, and legislative laws such as the California Environmental Quality Act, meant to prevent such actions. Your state representative can amend or modify the LBAM law that went into affect that gave the CDFA the unanimous green light to eradicate the apple moth. Surely your representative does not support aerial spraying? Each county has to have their local agricultural commissioner or someone to that effect to sign a permit to allow the state to spray. Stop these people from signing the permit!
* State and Federal representatives can also design an independent committee to come up with non-biased recommendations. The CDFA created such a working group, but they strangely seem to believe that aerial spraying people to stop moths from mating is a good idea.
* Gather your local city council members' support. Use local resources to conduct research, and file lawsuits against the state.
* Ideally the city attorneys and mayors should file legal suits against CDFA, the EPA and the USDA for polluting the air and water, for violating State and Federal laws, and for planning to create large scale poisoning.
* Contact your US Senate and House Representatives, and ask them to stop or at least investigate federal funding from the USDA for the aerial spray program. Federal officials can also declassify this tiny moth from a class A pest. Ask them to strengthen protections so that populations cannot be aerially sprayed unless there is a grave and immediate danger to public health.
* Additional Note: If the aerial spray does occur, take samples. Put a turkey baster-sized aluminum tray in your back yard. Put the tray out on the night prior to the aerial spray, and another on the night of the aerial spray. Seal each tray well. Each city should organize its own tests of the chemicals, including tests for biological agents, contaminants, radioactive substances, and a microscope analysis to see how big the microcapsules are, and to see if the microcapsules contain miniature microcapsules. Analysis ideally should also include a detailed chemical profile of the substance sprayed, since the government won't tell us what it is.
Finally, the way I see it, it is a crime to poison children and our fellow people who live in California. Just because the people who are polluting and poisoning the air with chemicals work for the government, should not make them immune to criminal liability and prosecution. Unfortunately, no city officials, yet, have the decency and standards to attack this matter for what it is, a crime. Crimes require criminal investigations, and criminal charges.
People can be alarmed, and if cities take equitable action, we do not need to be afraid. For example, we pay taxes so we can have a fire and police department to protect ourselves from crimes. Why not use the police force to protect residents from government sponsored crimes? Many of the actions of the CDFA fall under the category of illegal activities. The police force are the people on the local level, given the right and authority to protect people from crimes.
The media creates a false fear about some hypothetical terrorist releasing chemical weapons in the United States. Meanwhile, the US government is doing something very similar, releasing potentially deadly chemicals on its population, for no good reason.
I pray for grace for everyone, so that people in the proposed spray zones remain safe from harm, and that those who are inspired to take action to stop this be inspired to act effectively, with humility, strength and compassion.
Take Action
In Santa Cruz and Monterey, local residents have started the California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS). This alliance is developing evidence and documentation to stop the aerial spraying for the Light Brown Apple Moth. Just because this alliance is formed, does not mean the moth spray will be stopped. Each area needs to form their own groups, and work together to defeat the real pest, State and Federal governments who are performing illegal operations.
Important websites were you can learn more and take action include:
(www.lbamspray.com) – On the right hand column of this website is a portal to CASS. You can find many ways to participate and help the cause. Also this contains the most relevant information. In the CASS section of the site, there are resources and people you can contact.
(www.hopefortruth.com) – My LBAM site.
(www.1hope.org/chkmate.htm) – Lots of documentation and recent news postings.
(www.dontspraycalifornia.org)- Related website against pesticide spraying.
For those who are taking community action, two generous people have volunteered to provide further resources:
Roy Upton, California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS)
831-461-6317, herbal@got.net
Bonnie Keet, California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS)
bonnie619@yahoo.com
When Governor Schwarzenegger says he supports the health and welfare of children, he is lying to you. Governor Schwarzenegger supports biochemical spraying which has been documented to cause life-threatening harm to some children.
Call Governor Schwarzenegger and tell him what you think of his policies.
Voice: (916) 445-2841 2841 (press #1, #5, #0)
Fax: (916) 445-4633
Alert Senator Diane Feinstein
San Fransisco Office - (415) 393-0707
Alert Senator Barbara Boxer
San Fransisco Office - (415) 403-0100
Alert Democracy Now!
They want to hear our stories, (http://www.democracynow.org/contact?to=1)
As a final addendum, many people have written to me about mosquito fogging, about chemtrails, and about large scale chemical sprayings which occur in the United States unmonitored in more rural areas. While my article does not address these concerns, those concerns are valid. The government cannot ethically, legally, or morally expose, or allow for the exposure of people needlessly to chemicals. There are volumes of evidence about how chemicals in our food, water and air can cause short and long term health effects. Your concern about chemical exposure is vital. Listen to it!
References:
1. ((www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/...)
2. ((http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c...)
3. ((http://www.mytown.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=1221...)
4. ((www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Pre...)
5. ((http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/19...)
6. ((www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_p...)
Had a weird dream about the upcoming noise fest, eating peanuts, etc. I can still feel the texture of the peanuts in my mouth. It's a little bit gross.
8:16 PM
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Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced
by Rami Nagel (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer. This application is not a one time event, but will continue every 1-3 months for as long as five years. The pesticide to be sprayed is not designed to harm the light brown apple moth's who it is designed for, but merely to confuse its mating habits. While harmless to moths, the pesticide has been documented to harm humans.
Side effects range from vomiting and flu like systems, to male and female reproductive cycle disruption. One child nearly died from the exposure, and some people have developed asthma from being exposed to this chemical concoction. It is cause for alarm that a chemical being labeled as harmless and "safe" even in minute doses, causes severe health effects in some people. The government is racing to cover up and hide the dangerous health effects so that they can continue their aerial spray plans this summer. Your attention and action on this subject is needed in the most important way.
On January 24th, 2008, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Chuck Conner announced the availability of $74.5 million in emergency funding to combat the light brown apple moth (LBAM) infestation in California (1). President Bush's recent budget proposal sent to Congress sets aside $330 Million to eradicate plant pests, like the Light Brown Apple Moth. With crime, prison crowding, pollution, poverty, budget problems and the like, why should the government go through the effort to try to control the reproductive habits of a moth? While most people say the answer is money, a far more sinister plan seems to be at hand. It is unprecedented to design a long term plan to spray chemicals on people, which are untested for safety. This plan violates a myriad of state, federal and international laws.
On February 13th, 2008, the CDFA and USDA, in conjunction, announced their action plan for aerial spraying untested poison on people. This is from the CDFA Press Release "Aerial treatments are expected to begin June 1 in the infested areas of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, with subsequent aerial treatments expected to begin August 1 in San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, Oakland, Piedmont, Emeryville, Albany, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Tiburon and Belvedere. The treatments in these areas are designed to be reapplied at 30- to 90-day intervals while the moths are active." (4)
In late 2007, there were 643 documented health complaints (www.1hope.org/SPRAYCOMPLES.PDF) from the aerial spray program conducted in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Keep in mind that this documentation is a mere fraction of the real health effects, as no legitimate effort was made to inform even doctors on how to recognize pesticide poisoning. Many doctors also refused to report suspected pesticide poisoning as required by law, and in order for a report to get officially filed, many times the patient had to insist upon it. These health injuries are not being honored in any way, because if they are honored, this sick chemical spray will be seen for what it is. It is a poison to many humans and likely to many other animals as well. I have a difficult time swallowing that a chemical compound designed to disrupt a moth's mating cycle can accidentally create reproductive health problems.
There are many who believe that this spray is not directed at the moth population which the government says is the goal of the spray, but rather that it is directed at humans. There is a growing body of evidence to support this claim, considering that the moth itself does not cause any crop damage. It is similar to the government deciding that we must eradicate all the ants, because ants cause millions of dollars of damage. Like ants, the light brown apple moth is a harmless pest. Another strange observation is the name of the mating disruption chemical Checkmate. In order to pull off the deployment of this biological chemical, a hoax, or reason for aerial spraying had to be created. That reason is called the Light Brown Apple Moth infestation. The second requirement to pull off releasing a massive chemical cloud of disease, is to trick people into believing it is safe. This whole aerial spray program depends on the belief that the chemicals to be sprayed are safe.
Since the chemicals planned to be deployed have never been sprayed over cities before, and are even being developed as I write, and thus have not been proven safe for humans, this is by the facts a large scale experiment. The question people should ask is, "why?" While it may be just coincidence, a recent article displays this headline: “Top-secret Livermore anti-germ lab opens.” (2) This same lab, has routinely exploded thousands of pounds of lethal, chemically toxic, and radioactive Depleted Uranium in the greater San Francisco Bay area’s air for the past fifty years (3).
When people hear about this aerial spray, many people experience a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. This is truly a sickening action. The government is willfully breaking countless laws in order to combat a stupid leaf rolling moth that curls up into the leaves of some plants and that doesn't cause any crop damage. It has not caused crop damage or embargo's in Hawaii over the past 100 years, so why would it cause damage in California?
No ounce of sanity can explain why the government must insist on violating countless laws to spray people with never before tested chemicals, except as to realize a deadly game is being played.
Unlike the horrible malathion spraying over 20 years ago, which was a one-time ordeal with chemicals that evaporate, this spraying is a time release microscopic device, which will be continuously applied, short of the winter months, for up to five years. Even five years of spraying will at best reduce slightly the moth population, as pest control experts explain that mating disruption technology is used as a small part of an overall pest management plan. Pretty much any pest control expert, except for those on the government take, will tell you that the light brown apple moth cannot be eradicated, and that even if it could, the mating disruption technology is not the best means to do it. Since aerial spraying is to be the sole method of controlling the light brown apple moth in many locations, then even after many years of spraying, the moth will still be alive. It is not sane to spray people with chemicals. That begs attention, there is not any hard evidence that the spray even works at all. In fact on the EPA's own website, there's an article about pheromones released from microcapsules, it states: "The studies show that only a small proportion of the microcapsules actually release any pheromone." (5)
This is now clear and reprehensible evidence of State and Federal Governments attempting to commit a large scale crime against the American people. Let us forget about supposed terrorists for a second whose propagandized images are placed on the television, and lets pay attention to this biological attack planned on our fellow neighbors. The presence of a minuscule pest, is no excuse to douse millions with chemicals. There are NO CROPS IN CITIES! So why are they going to spray cities?
This is a Cover-Up
The LBAM infestation is a monumental hoax designed as a cover for an operation of devious goals to expose people to dangerous chemicals over several years.
Following is a link to a recently published proposal of spray boundaries, the yellow lines indicating the proposed spray zones (www.hopefortruth.com/lbam_2008.jpg) . More than two million people who live in these and other targeted cities are scheduled to be exposed this summer to chemicals that that have never been tested on humans or animals before. Let me repeat: the government of the United States is conducting a human biological experiment, on a massive scale, breaking State, Federal and International laws. Children, pregnant women, and the sick and elderly will be most as risk to this increased exposure to long lasting chemicals. Chemicals which are newly designed, chemicals which have not been proven safe. Just like the reproductive health effects reported from the spray, it is important to realize that a large team of "experts" working on this project do not mistakenly douse people with chemicals. This is done on purpose, with a purpose.
Does it make sense to douse over two million people with literally hundreds of billions of microscopic balls of volatile chemicals over an extended period of time to try to limit the mating habits of a few thousand moths? Is it legal to do this? Is it ethical? Is it moral? Yet rather than halting the spray plans to investigate the damage it has done to many people, the spray plans continue to grow exponentially.
To see this insanity clearly, let's examine the moth population. In San Francisco County, 3,501 moths total have been trapped and killed over an eight month period. The entire city of San Francisco, whose population is 744,041, is in the proposed spray boundaries. About 744,000 people are to be exposed to 'never tested safe for humans, microencapsulated pheromones' for several years. This is really a needle in the haystack approach to pest control. Keep in mind, each moth found is a moth that has been trapped and exterminated (6). In Alameda County, 431 months have been found in the past 8 months out of 2,327 traps. The moth population in Alameda County is thus sparse at best. Just look out your window. Imagine how many insects are in the tree, the yard, or the local park. I have seen more than 431 ants crawl into my kitchen on a rainy day. So in a giant area of 141 square miles, and the tens or hundreds of millions of insects in that zone, to try to eradicate a few hundred moths by just spraying chemicals everywhere is both ludicrous and unsafe.
When I learned that Santa Cruz, my previous hometown was to be aerially sprayed, I was in a state of shock. This was followed by a long period of disbelief.
Apparently the CDFA or the USDA, or both, decided that the previous chemical formulas used, Checkmate LBAM-F and Checkmate OLR-F were not good enough, which really points to the fact that the past two aerial sprays in Monterey, and the one in Santa Cruz County, were a waste of time and money. Not to mention the tragedy of the many severe health reactions experienced by thousands of people from chemical exposure. It doesn't matter to those in charge at the CDFA, EPA, or USDA, if a new chemical is needed to be used, because the goal is not to stop the moth, the moth cannot be stopped, it can only be controlled. This is known. The goal may be to coat people with a toxic mesh of disease causing microcapsules.
The chemicals that were sprayed, and that are planned on being sprayed, have not undergone thorough safety evaluations. And they won't undergo such evaluations in a legitimate way, because if they did, they would prove only one thing - that these chemicals are potentially deadly.
The chemicals planned to be sprayed will no doubt be similar to the ones used in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties in 2007. They are a plastic encapsulated microtechnology, a microscopic plastic dust. The reported microcapsule size of the aerial mating disrupter is as small as 10 microns and averages 25-35 microns in size for an undeployed moth spray. For comparison, a human hair is approximately 70 microns in thickness. The size of these chemical containing plastic balls comes suspiciously close to micro-sized particles that are used to evade the body's defensive systems for biological weapons, those are reported to be 3-4 microns in size. Miniature particles between 2.5-10 microns in size, especially from pesticides, are known to cause both short term and long term health effects, including decreased overall life span.
A University of California at Davis report confirmed that some unsprayed and undegraded microcapsules are indeed 10 microns in size. The small particle size explains the severe reactions, that I, along with countless others have had when being exposed to minute dosages of the chemical. Minute dosages of chemicals designed for moth's, advertised as harmless, do not accidentally make people sick. In other words, the people who designed these chemicals and manufactured them had to have an intimate understanding of what each chemical does, and how they react with each other. So, too, should the EPA have this understanding. It is not unreasonable to assume that a chemical designed to stop moths, that is being sprayed on humans, would have such drastic health effects, but it does. The only conclusion is that this is intentional in the design. Imagine someone designing a "safe" car. If this "safe" car had no brakes, then nobody would assume that the car accidentally had no brakes. Likewise, chemicals designed for moths, in minuscule doses, cannot accidentally harm people. It is more than just chance.
Again, nobody in the public as of yet knows how small the degraded microcapsules are, or how this will effect people in the short and long term, because no such testing exists. Once sprayed, these microscopic balls can easily enter deep into the mouth, eyes, skin and lungs. Even after 90 days and several rains, some people in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties are still experiencing symptoms of spray poisoning. When they leave the counties, their symptoms many times abate. This aerial program is a real sword through the heart of democracy and decency. The government has really gone too far and it must be stopped now.
I must inform you that through a freedom of information request, a local newspaper has learned that the CDFA has hired media spin doctor extraordinaire Porter Novelli at the tune of almost $500,000 tax payer dollars to convince the public that it is okay for the state to dump chemicals all over them, their gardens, their pets, and their neighbors. The state of California is in a budget crisis, and this is one example that explains why. Here the state is using tax payer dollars to lie to and mislead the public, to try to convince the public that the state should be spending millions of dollars of resources on polluting the air, sea, and land with chemicals that the public in general does not want or need. Since a majority of spray funding is coming from the federal arm, know that your tax paying dollars are going to a government sponsored large scale crime.
Originally, the USDA announced that the moth might cause $100 million in crop damage if allowed to multiply. Then they keep expanding their figures to create false reasons to justify this unethical chemical assault. The most recent estimate of LBAM damage is $160 million to $640 million just in California. Mind you this moth has a hard time finding its way into crop fields and seems for some very bizarre reason to live only in cities. The estimate of this level of crop damage is absurd. The figures used to estimate the damage came from one particular year in Australia and have little meaning in California, as the climate is different. Even if this $160 million crop loss did come true, one has to consider that $90 million has now been ear marked to contain the moth, primarily the funds are for aerial spraying chemicals on cities which contain people, and not crops like apples, oranges and grapes. One expert estimates that if the CDFA stays on this track, by the time the aerial treatment is complete after five years, close to $500 million will be spent on aerial eradication. With little to no impact on the apple moth population.
The pheromone being used, (E)-11-Tetradecen-l-y Acetate is identical to pheromone's which many native moths and perhaps other species also contain. So this spray will effect other non-target species. The pheromone only represents between 10-20% of the ingredients of the aerial spray.
Now, organizations like the Breast Cancer Fund, Center For Environmental Health, Calpirg, and the Sierra Club are issuing statements opposed to aerial spraying.
What to Expect Next
The CDFA, USDA, and EPA will do anything and everything to convince, lie, cajole and get people to agree with the plan to spray chemicals. The facts of this situation are irrelevant to those in charge because the goal is to spray people, not to operate under the laws of this constitutional government of checks and balances. They are going to go to meetings, pretend it is safe, have doctors testify it is safe, pretend to listen to the public, ignore any health complaints, and try to lull people into complacency on the matter. They have even gone as far as promising an environmental review, which will contain a giant pile of documents again to try to prove that it is okay to spray people with chemicals. The CDFA will continue to find more moth finds, and create more fake evidence of how much harm the moth will do. They will get more money from Mr. Bush's pesticide funds and continue to enlarge their aerial spray program. Strangely the moth will continue to spread, finding its way into other cities, and in the coming years, cities like Los Angeles and San Diego will be targeted.
Knowing that the government is actively lying, hiding evidence, manipulating the public, and that they are spraying chemicals illegally on people should be enough evidence to convict these felons under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws.
Freeing Yourself From the Government's Pro Spray Propaganda
These 643 health injury reports represent a fraction of the real injuries. The actual spray has surely caused thousands to be poisoned from this biochemical formulation. See my related article (www.naturalnews.com/022434.html) . Despite these reports which include 330 official illness claims filed with the CDFA, the CDFA states the following lies on their website, “Pheromones are extremely safe” and “Public safety is the primary concern.” The statement that pheromones are safe is a misleading distorted truth. Sure, pheromones can be safe when used responsibly, for example a benign moth sticky trap in an apple orchard (away from people) that contains pheromones to attract the moths. But when you create a microscopic biodegradable ball of volatile chemicals, and then place within it a synthetic moth pheromone, which itself is described as an explosive chemical, you have more of a drug which can interact and create changes within the human body, than a pesticide. Furthermore, no thorough investigation has been done of these 330 official illness complaints, and some of these people have not yet recovered. And a further investigation won't be done, because a legitimate investigation would find that the spray made people sick, and thus, the aerial spray program would be halted.
One must realize that any documentation regarding the safety of pheromones reported is from non-aerial applications, such as a moth sticky trap that is scented with pheromones and stuck on a tree, or a pheromone laced twist tie applied to apple orchards or vineyards. These safety assertions also do not relate to the aerial method of application. A sticky trap laced with pheromones is a different entity than a microscopic ball that can easily enter the body and then biodegrade and release chemicals within the body. Part of the less dangerous aspect to pheromone laced traps is the fact that the pheromone is so volatile that it rapidly evaporates, so the chemical won't travel too far. The microcapsules are the opposite, they are designed to stick around in the air for months. They are infinitely more dangerous than sticky traps, and you cannot really compare them. It's like saying that a tank is the same as a motorcycle because they are both vehicles. Microcapsulated pheromones are a different beast than pheremone laced moth traps.
The newly designed chemicals, which are scheduled for June and August deployment will not have their ingredients disclosed to the public. We do not even know what this stuff is? How can the government say the chemicals are safe, and then hide the ingredients from scrutiny? If these chemicals are so safe why not tell us honestly what they are? Clearly the intention of the CDFA, USDA, and EPA, is to cover up the real nature of this biochemical assault. They are trying to hide what they do from the public’s eye. They do not want you to know the truth. The truth is people get sick. Not everybody gets sick from the moth spray, but many people do. Its effects can be strong and violent. The truth is, the US Government is a vehicle being used to poison us.
The CDFA reports that they want their newest moth weapon deployed this summer, to be even longer lasting, which to me means that the microcapsules will be even more dangerous, possibly indefinitely sticking in the environment, and irritating people’s sensitive ducts and glands; much like allergies from pollen. In each aerial application, spray planes are contracted through Dynamic Aviation (www.dynamicaviation.com/home.htm) , which has other specialties beyond aerial application of pesticides. They also do “Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.” The spraying is conducted at a height of between 500-800 feet and residents in the sprayed area report feeling like they are in a war zone. Once in contact with residential neighborhoods, parks, and playgrounds, the balls slowly disintegrate over time. The hope is that during this time, they release pheromones and limit the moth's mating patterns. Again, this is a whimsical hope because no legitimate studies exist proving this new technology is effective at either releasing pheromones, or at stopping the moth's mating habits.
Typically a drug takes many years for the Food and Drug Administration to approve for safety for humans. Under an emergency declaration, the EPA can exclude new chemicals from rigorous testing. The catch to this exception is that these laws were designed for agricultural emergencies and are being violently misused because they are planning on spraying large urban populations and not agricultural zones. These laws cannot lawfully apply to cities. Among other things, we have legal control and authority of our bodies, and our properties. We can say "No" to the spray, and if necessary, defend ourselves from this highly toxic assault. The EPA and USDA have flagrantly crossed legal and ethical boundaries by applying laws designed for agricultural fields to densely inhabited city centers.
Further, consider that the testing of these chemicals is not done to make sure that it is safe for humans, as the safety is merely an untested assumption. As an example, it took several months after the first aerial spray of Monterey County for the CDFA to pay the University of California Davis to see if the Checkmate formula was toxic to certain very small ocean insects. It took several months for this first test of the Checkmate formula to be conducted. This test only happened after the chemical was sprayed on well over two hundred thousand people. The testing being conducted in New Zealand is not to ensure safety for humans, but to see if the mating habits of the moths are disrupted. This spraying is illegally approved by the EPA because Congress passed legislation to legally prevent the EPA from conducting human experiments. “EPA's rules make it clear that all pregnant women, all nursing women, and all children are excluded from all studies involving intentional exposure that are intended for submission under the pesticide laws.” (www.epa.gov/oppfead1/guidance/human-test.htm) If the EPA cannot test pesticides on pregnant women, nursing women, and children, then under what jurisdiction and authority can they simply endorse and approve the exposure of pregnant women, nursing women and children with untested pesticides?
How many more children do we need to see poisoned by these indefensible government actions until we wake up and say, enough! How many more of our friends, relatives and neighbors do we need to see develop chronic health conditions due to exposure to aerially sprayed chemicals until we take effective action to stop this insanity? How much longer are we going to allow the government that is created for the people, to represent the people, to break its own laws and poison its own people and then disregard any reported health concerns?
I call for the arrest and trial of the appropriate employees in the CDFA, EPA, and USDA, for conspiring to poison people of the State of California, for lying and deceiving the public, and for polluting our environment.
Here's How I Suggest You Take Action:
* Share this information with your friends and neighbors.
* Ask your California representative to support the following bills -
1) AB 2765, (Huffman) sets new limits on the emergency powers of the Department of Agriculture.
2) AB 2763 would enact the Invasive Pest Planning Act of 2008, by Assemblymember John Laird.
3) AB 2764 (Hancock) will prohibit the Secretary of Food and Agriculture from approving the
application of a pesticide in an urban area, unless the Governor has proclaimed a state of
emergency.
4) AB 2760 (Leno) would require the completion of an EIR before any pesticide could be applied in
an urban area.
Also, State Senator Carole Migden plans to file for a moratorium on aerial spraying.
* Don't be fooled when the CDFA says that the “pheromone” is safe. I have been poisoned myself by these microcapsules, and so has my family, it is a terrible feeling. Ask for test results to show it is safe for humans, you'll see they have none.
* Demand accountability. Ask your local California representative why they are continuing to allow the state to spray chemicals on people, even though the state has laws, like the state constitutional right to personal safety, and legislative laws such as the California Environmental Quality Act, meant to prevent such actions. Your state representative can amend or modify the LBAM law that went into affect that gave the CDFA the unanimous green light to eradicate the apple moth. Surely your representative does not support aerial spraying? Each county has to have their local agricultural commissioner or someone to that effect to sign a permit to allow the state to spray. Stop these people from signing the permit!
* State and Federal representatives can also design an independent committee to come up with non-biased recommendations. The CDFA created such a working group, but they strangely seem to believe that aerial spraying people to stop moths from mating is a good idea.
* Gather your local city council members' support. Use local resources to conduct research, and file lawsuits against the state.
* Ideally the city attorneys and mayors should file legal suits against CDFA, the EPA and the USDA for polluting the air and water, for violating State and Federal laws, and for planning to create large scale poisoning.
* Contact your US Senate and House Representatives, and ask them to stop or at least investigate federal funding from the USDA for the aerial spray program. Federal officials can also declassify this tiny moth from a class A pest. Ask them to strengthen protections so that populations cannot be aerially sprayed unless there is a grave and immediate danger to public health.
* Additional Note: If the aerial spray does occur, take samples. Put a turkey baster-sized aluminum tray in your back yard. Put the tray out on the night prior to the aerial spray, and another on the night of the aerial spray. Seal each tray well. Each city should organize its own tests of the chemicals, including tests for biological agents, contaminants, radioactive substances, and a microscope analysis to see how big the microcapsules are, and to see if the microcapsules contain miniature microcapsules. Analysis ideally should also include a detailed chemical profile of the substance sprayed, since the government won't tell us what it is.
Finally, the way I see it, it is a crime to poison children and our fellow people who live in California. Just because the people who are polluting and poisoning the air with chemicals work for the government, should not make them immune to criminal liability and prosecution. Unfortunately, no city officials, yet, have the decency and standards to attack this matter for what it is, a crime. Crimes require criminal investigations, and criminal charges.
People can be alarmed, and if cities take equitable action, we do not need to be afraid. For example, we pay taxes so we can have a fire and police department to protect ourselves from crimes. Why not use the police force to protect residents from government sponsored crimes? Many of the actions of the CDFA fall under the category of illegal activities. The police force are the people on the local level, given the right and authority to protect people from crimes.
The media creates a false fear about some hypothetical terrorist releasing chemical weapons in the United States. Meanwhile, the US government is doing something very similar, releasing potentially deadly chemicals on its population, for no good reason.
I pray for grace for everyone, so that people in the proposed spray zones remain safe from harm, and that those who are inspired to take action to stop this be inspired to act effectively, with humility, strength and compassion.
Take Action
In Santa Cruz and Monterey, local residents have started the California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS). This alliance is developing evidence and documentation to stop the aerial spraying for the Light Brown Apple Moth. Just because this alliance is formed, does not mean the moth spray will be stopped. Each area needs to form their own groups, and work together to defeat the real pest, State and Federal governments who are performing illegal operations.
Important websites were you can learn more and take action include:
(www.lbamspray.com) – On the right hand column of this website is a portal to CASS. You can find many ways to participate and help the cause. Also this contains the most relevant information. In the CASS section of the site, there are resources and people you can contact.
(www.hopefortruth.com) – My LBAM site.
(www.1hope.org/chkmate.htm) – Lots of documentation and recent news postings.
(www.dontspraycalifornia.org)- Related website against pesticide spraying.
For those who are taking community action, two generous people have volunteered to provide further resources:
Roy Upton, California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS)
831-461-6317, herbal@got.net
Bonnie Keet, California Alliance to Stop the Spray (CASS)
bonnie619@yahoo.com
When Governor Schwarzenegger says he supports the health and welfare of children, he is lying to you. Governor Schwarzenegger supports biochemical spraying which has been documented to cause life-threatening harm to some children.
Call Governor Schwarzenegger and tell him what you think of his policies.
Voice: (916) 445-2841 2841 (press #1, #5, #0)
Fax: (916) 445-4633
Alert Senator Diane Feinstein
San Fransisco Office - (415) 393-0707
Alert Senator Barbara Boxer
San Fransisco Office - (415) 403-0100
Alert Democracy Now!
They want to hear our stories, (http://www.democracynow.org/contact?to=1)
As a final addendum, many people have written to me about mosquito fogging, about chemtrails, and about large scale chemical sprayings which occur in the United States unmonitored in more rural areas. While my article does not address these concerns, those concerns are valid. The government cannot ethically, legally, or morally expose, or allow for the exposure of people needlessly to chemicals. There are volumes of evidence about how chemicals in our food, water and air can cause short and long term health effects. Your concern about chemical exposure is vital. Listen to it!
References:
1. ((www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/...)
2. ((http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c...)
3. ((http://www.mytown.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=1221...)
4. ((www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Pre...)
5. ((http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/19...)
6. ((www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_p...)
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:47 AM
True???? Maybe...
"Your children will never know the tender ecstasies of love, they will only know hate. They will hate each other, themselves, and--most virulently of all--you, for giving them life. They will joyously and spontaneously develop strange new diseases, as well as more insidious ways of spreading them. They will only stay in school long enough to become addicted to powerful, mind-altering drugs, although by adolescence most will be thoroughly schooled in the arts of murder and sexual torture. They will kill and main people of all races, nationalities and religious creeds; people from all walks of life, prostitutes, accountants, cab-drivers, the homeless and destitute.
The worst of their homicidal venom, though, will be reserved for the white men in suits who ran everybody into the ground and destroyed all that was good in their souls. They will fuck them with power-tools then burn them as they bleed to death slowly from their mutilated genitalia. They will fasten them to the ground with iron spikes through their hands and feet so that rats can gnaw them to death at their own leisure. They will rip their eyes out before tossing them from the roofsof talll buildings. They will lay in wait and ambush them as they leave their luxury condominiums and gated communities, the places where they feel safest. What a surprise it will be when they find themselves handcuffed to the backs of pick-up trucks and dragged screaming for miles on end, until they beg to be shot! Their throats will be slit, their food contaminated with the vilest poisons.
Buildings will crumble, and entire city blocks will burst into flames at a mere glance from your children. The President of the World will go on television to declare a state of emergency, only for the entire globe to watch in horror as his eyes explode in their sockets and blood streams from his ears in huge, dark globules. Rivers, lakes and oceans will run red with blood, their surfaces dotted with human skulls. Birds will fall dead from the sky in droves as locusts swarm over what is left of the once-overcrowded metropolises. Terror and insanity will be etched deeply and permanently on the faces of those unfortunate enough to escape the bloody deluge.
And it won't be long before some lunatic somewhere comes up with the idea of money again, so the entire process will repeat itself all over again. And again. And again."
True???? Maybe...
"Your children will never know the tender ecstasies of love, they will only know hate. They will hate each other, themselves, and--most virulently of all--you, for giving them life. They will joyously and spontaneously develop strange new diseases, as well as more insidious ways of spreading them. They will only stay in school long enough to become addicted to powerful, mind-altering drugs, although by adolescence most will be thoroughly schooled in the arts of murder and sexual torture. They will kill and main people of all races, nationalities and religious creeds; people from all walks of life, prostitutes, accountants, cab-drivers, the homeless and destitute.
The worst of their homicidal venom, though, will be reserved for the white men in suits who ran everybody into the ground and destroyed all that was good in their souls. They will fuck them with power-tools then burn them as they bleed to death slowly from their mutilated genitalia. They will fasten them to the ground with iron spikes through their hands and feet so that rats can gnaw them to death at their own leisure. They will rip their eyes out before tossing them from the roofsof talll buildings. They will lay in wait and ambush them as they leave their luxury condominiums and gated communities, the places where they feel safest. What a surprise it will be when they find themselves handcuffed to the backs of pick-up trucks and dragged screaming for miles on end, until they beg to be shot! Their throats will be slit, their food contaminated with the vilest poisons.
Buildings will crumble, and entire city blocks will burst into flames at a mere glance from your children. The President of the World will go on television to declare a state of emergency, only for the entire globe to watch in horror as his eyes explode in their sockets and blood streams from his ears in huge, dark globules. Rivers, lakes and oceans will run red with blood, their surfaces dotted with human skulls. Birds will fall dead from the sky in droves as locusts swarm over what is left of the once-overcrowded metropolises. Terror and insanity will be etched deeply and permanently on the faces of those unfortunate enough to escape the bloody deluge.
And it won't be long before some lunatic somewhere comes up with the idea of money again, so the entire process will repeat itself all over again. And again. And again."
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
9:36 AM
Had a bad dream about the cats being discovered by the landlord. But the landlord was an Indian guy and the place where I lived was my mom's house. The man did some sort of ritual in the bathroom with his daughter and wife, and his wife started to cover her face with a plastic bag.
What will I be doing today? I've got a couple of paintings that I can finish but I may just start a new one.
Priscilla will be here tomorrow!
Had a bad dream about the cats being discovered by the landlord. But the landlord was an Indian guy and the place where I lived was my mom's house. The man did some sort of ritual in the bathroom with his daughter and wife, and his wife started to cover her face with a plastic bag.
What will I be doing today? I've got a couple of paintings that I can finish but I may just start a new one.
Priscilla will be here tomorrow!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
11:10 AM
Hooray daylight savings time....blah.
I'm alone for a little over a week starting this morning. Whatever shall I do to keep occupied?
2:39 PM
Dr Loo is wanting some loving, so she climbed up on my lap.
Spent an hour or two at Ocean Beach and it was very nice.
Getting ready to join Ploo on Haight/Ashbury.....yuck!
11:00 PM
So today ended up being pretty nice. Hung out with Ploo, had some good conversation, and drooled over the waitresses at the Thai restaurant. Good times.
Feeling a bit on the lonely side, but E did make it to Austin safe and sound.
Hooray daylight savings time....blah.
I'm alone for a little over a week starting this morning. Whatever shall I do to keep occupied?
2:39 PM
Dr Loo is wanting some loving, so she climbed up on my lap.
Spent an hour or two at Ocean Beach and it was very nice.
Getting ready to join Ploo on Haight/Ashbury.....yuck!
11:00 PM
So today ended up being pretty nice. Hung out with Ploo, had some good conversation, and drooled over the waitresses at the Thai restaurant. Good times.
Feeling a bit on the lonely side, but E did make it to Austin safe and sound.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
11:56 AM
Watching paint dry. Yay.
On a good note my old friend, the lovely Caitlin, has found me on line, so I'm very pleased about that.
2:55 PM
Tomorrow at SFMOMA will be "El Topo"!!! My God!
5:25 PM
"Mar 7 1988
Tubby transvestite actress Divine, who appeared in several John Waters films, dead from sleep apnea."
One of my favorite actresses!
11:11 PM
Eh........
Watching paint dry. Yay.
On a good note my old friend, the lovely Caitlin, has found me on line, so I'm very pleased about that.
2:55 PM
Tomorrow at SFMOMA will be "El Topo"!!! My God!
5:25 PM
"Mar 7 1988
Tubby transvestite actress Divine, who appeared in several John Waters films, dead from sleep apnea."
One of my favorite actresses!
11:11 PM
Eh........
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
11:35 PM
Managed to have a pretty busy and productive day. Joined Ploo for super-cheap chinese food, then came home and sarted a new painting, one that doesn't have a working title yet. Then continued researching escrima and doing a bit of practicing. I still feel really unconfident but I guess it's okay; I'm not competing with anyone other than myself. I miss the days of painting and practicing so I need to get the inertia started up again and do it daily.
Managed to have a pretty busy and productive day. Joined Ploo for super-cheap chinese food, then came home and sarted a new painting, one that doesn't have a working title yet. Then continued researching escrima and doing a bit of practicing. I still feel really unconfident but I guess it's okay; I'm not competing with anyone other than myself. I miss the days of painting and practicing so I need to get the inertia started up again and do it daily.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
6:49 PM
It's been a busy weekend....don't really feel like writing too much at the moment.
8:13 PM
In my inbox...
"Dear Mr. McCullough
I am a first year Illustration student currently studying at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham (I also post on deviantart as Judolynx). One of the requirements for my course is to compile a 'professional file', where we are asked to research a professional practitioner who authors their work.
I have been a big fan of your work for some time now. I admire your painting style very much - it includes the perfect balance of the grotesque, observed realism and abstraction/cartoonism that I am extremley interested in, aswell as being highly imaginative; your understanding of colour is phenomenal. I recentley used one of your pieces as an artistic reference in my personal research folder.
If your not too busy, would you be so good as to answer a few questions for me? It would be a great help and whole-heartedly appreciated.
How you got started in your career? How hard was it to work your way up to where you are now? Do you paint for pleasure as well as work? What sort of route did you take? Do you work from observation alot, or photographs? What medium of paint do you use? Do you sketch much? How often do you work? Where else is your work exhibited? What sort of clientele do you have? What market have you based yourself in (was it by choice or necessity)? Is your income steady or sporadic? Is it hard to find work at times? What aspirations do you have for the future?
Any other useful information or advice you feel might be helpful please do not hesitate to impart.
Yours Sincerely,
Jack Coltman"
This is a wonderful honor and it has made me very pleased.
It's been a busy weekend....don't really feel like writing too much at the moment.
8:13 PM
In my inbox...
"Dear Mr. McCullough
I am a first year Illustration student currently studying at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham (I also post on deviantart as Judolynx). One of the requirements for my course is to compile a 'professional file', where we are asked to research a professional practitioner who authors their work.
I have been a big fan of your work for some time now. I admire your painting style very much - it includes the perfect balance of the grotesque, observed realism and abstraction/cartoonism that I am extremley interested in, aswell as being highly imaginative; your understanding of colour is phenomenal. I recentley used one of your pieces as an artistic reference in my personal research folder.
If your not too busy, would you be so good as to answer a few questions for me? It would be a great help and whole-heartedly appreciated.
How you got started in your career? How hard was it to work your way up to where you are now? Do you paint for pleasure as well as work? What sort of route did you take? Do you work from observation alot, or photographs? What medium of paint do you use? Do you sketch much? How often do you work? Where else is your work exhibited? What sort of clientele do you have? What market have you based yourself in (was it by choice or necessity)? Is your income steady or sporadic? Is it hard to find work at times? What aspirations do you have for the future?
Any other useful information or advice you feel might be helpful please do not hesitate to impart.
Yours Sincerely,
Jack Coltman"
This is a wonderful honor and it has made me very pleased.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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