Reforesting the world: the Australian farmer with 240m trees to his name
Through the cacophony of the UN’s global climate talks, an Australian farmer is quietly spreading his plan to reforest the world.
Over more than 30 years in west Africa, Tony Rinaudo has regenerated more than 6m hectares – an area nearly as large as Tasmania. His farmer-managed natural regeneration technique is responsible for 240m trees regrowing across that parched continent.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/14/reforesting-world-australian-farmer-240m-trees
Vaccine Facts
Data you need to know…
Study links HVP vaccine to historically high infertility rates
“I just wanted to see if there was an issue,” says DeLong. “I certainly didn’t expect to find such a strong association.” Approximately 60% of women who did not receive the HPV vaccine had been pregnant at least once compared to just 35% of women who had had an HPV shot had ever conceived. For married women, the gap was also about 25%: 75% who did not receive the shot were found to have conceived, while only 50% who received the vaccine had ever been pregnant. “Results suggest that females who received the HPV shot were less likely to have ever been pregnant than women in the same age group who did not receive the shot,” the study says. It concludes, as all studies like this do, that the data points to an association, not causation, between the new vaccine and reduced fertility but that further study is warranted.
CDC whistleblower case to resurface in 2019?
Representative-elect Mark Green (R) (Tennessee) (twitter and twitter news) pledges to investigate claims that the CDC is fraudulently managing the vaccine-damage data they collect. This story is a developing.
In light of this development, I am re-posting this article of mine from July 2015. July 2015 was seemingly the last time a Congressman took a stance on this issue — and did so on the House floor — in order to get claims of fraud into the Congressional record.
Let’s take a walk down memory lane…
Bombshell: CDC destroyed vaccine documents
July 2015
“…the [CDC] co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the [MMR vaccine] study. The remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room and reviewed and went through all the hard copy documents that we had thought we should discard and put them in a huge garbage can.” (William Thompson, CDC researcher)
On July 29, 2015, US Congressman Bill Posey made his last stand on the floor of the House. Granted five minutes to speak, he laid bare the lying of the CDC in a now-famous 2004 study that exonerated the MMR vaccine and claimed it had no connection to autism.
“No connection to autism” was the lie.
Congressman Posey read a statement from long-time CDC researcher William Thompson, one of the authors of the 2004 Pediatrics study designed to determine, once and for all, whether the Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine could cause autism.
Thompson saw and participated in violating the protocol of the study. He was there. He helped his co-authors destroy documents that would have shown an MMR-autism link.
You can see a transcript of Congressman Posey’s remarks here (on the ageofautism.com website), which includes his reading of a statement from whistleblower Thompson.
Posey pleads with his colleagues for a Congressional investigation.
Of note: two of the CDC researchers on the infamous 2004 study, who according to Thompson, destroyed vital documents, are Coleen Boyle and Frank DeStefano. They are both high-ranking executives at the CDC in the area of vaccine safety.
This calls into question every single CDC study, under their tenure, that claims vaccines are safe.
CDC whistleblower Thompson’s statement, which Posey read on the House floor, includes this bombshell:
“However, because I [Thompson] assumed it [destroying the documents] was illegal and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hard copies of all documents in my office and I retained all associated computer files. I believe we intentionally withheld controversial findings from the final draft of the Pediatrics paper.”
Thompson has the smoking-gun documents. So does Congressman Posey. I believe others do as well.
https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/jon-rappoport/cdc-whistleblower-case-to-resurface-in-2019/
https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/jon-rappoport/cdc-whistleblower-case-to-resurface-in-2019/
The Time Is Now
A Good Newsletter from Peace Action!
Dear Tom,
We did it!
Yesterday, the Senate made history by voting 56-41 to pass S.J.Res. 54, legislation directing President Trump to end U.S. support for the catastrophic war in Yemen. But really, it’s you who made history.
Take a moment to think about how many times you’ve contacted your members of Congress, how many times you’ve contributed to the peace movement, how many times you’ve talked to friends about the importance of this issue. Without your tenacious activism — your determination to get Congress to take action to end U.S. support for the war — this vote would never have happened, let alone succeeded.
As we said yesterday in our statement to press on the vote: “this vote is a testament to the power of political activism, and a reminder that we must continue the struggle for a just and responsible foreign policy, because that struggle makes a difference.”
We’ve already heard from folks involved in the negotiations in Sweden between the warring parties in Yemen that this congressional action is making a difference in those negotiations. Yesterday, the parties agreed to a ceasefire in and around the key port city of Hodeidah, through which most of the humanitarian aid coming into Yemen makes port. Thanks to your activism, the Saudi-led coalition is starting to see the writing on the wall: that the U.S. will no longer support the bombing and starvation of Yemeni civilians. That in turn is incentivizing the coalition to negotiate in good faith to finally end the war.
Through a different lens, we also see this vote impacting the broader struggle to get Congress to reclaim its authority over war, which has important implications for almost all of the work we do. As our statement yesterday put it: “Beyond its significance for the people of Yemen, by successfully invoking the War Powers Act, this vote also heralds the beginning of the end of Congress’ abdication of its war powers after nearly two decades of endless war with no meaningful oversight from Congress.”
To be sure, our struggle is not over. While the Senate finally stepped up to pass this vital legislation, House Republican leadership moved to block a vote in the House earlier this week, making it unlikely that the House will take up the issue this year. But we’re already working with our allies in the House to make sure the incoming Democratic leadership makes this a top priority when a Democratic House takes control in January. The bottom line is, if the Trump administration does not act to end the unconstitutional U.S. role in Yemen, we’ll make sure the incoming Congress moves to force its hand next year.
But even if this legislation doesn’t become law, pressure from Congress—made possible by pressure from grassroots activists like you—is changing the calculus of the Trump administration and of Saudi Arabia for the better, and that change is saving lives in Yemen and accelerating an end to the war. In other words, the Peace Movement is winning!
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being a part of this movement. In the coming days, weeks and months, we’ll ask you to stay involved, to contribute, to keep telling your members of Congress what’s what.
For now, pat yourself on the back and enjoy this moment, because this is a victory worth celebrating!
Humbly for peace,
Jon Rainwater
Executive Director
Peace Action
Work For The Dole
I cannot speak to the intent as I cannot read the minds of legislators.
What I can state with certainty is that the effort is wrong headed. Sane, capable peoplewant to work. Getting something for nothing is a criminal level of exchange and turns the receiver into a criminal.
When one does not want to or is not capable of working, being forced to work is not much fun. The person who cannot work needs to have his willingness to work rehabilitated by having him confess the things he did wrong for which he is now withholding his effort. Only then will he be able to work and feel conmfortable about it.
The Tragedy of a Dead Dolphin
What you do makes a difference. For some, the difference between life and death.
This Dolphin was found on the big beach yesterday. He died of starvation due to the water bottle seal that caught on his snout.
When you go to the beach, throw the trash in the trash. Don’t leave it in the sand.
Photo: Kaio Nunes / Institute Institute
At present I do a 20 minute walk, morning and night. Most days I pick up 10-20 bits of trash. My highest ever was 154 pieces on one trip.
For the sake of the wildlife, I invite you to join me and make trash collection part of your daily routine.
A new scam doing the rounds
There’s either a new scam doing the rounds or one of my jokes has offended one of my “mates” right royally!
Hello
I host a forum in the deep web, I perform all sorts of services – basically it is demolition to property and injury. Basically, all but the homicide. Often main reasons are unrequited love or competition at workplace. This week he contacted me and set me the task of splashing sourness in your face. Default practice – quickly, hurts, for life. Without too much fuss. I get receive only after finishing the work. Therefore, now I propose you send money to me to be inactive, I offer this to almost all the victims. If I do not receive money from you, then my person will fulfill the order. If you transfer me money, besides to my inactivity, I will provide you the information that I have about the client. After finishing the mission, I often waist the performer, so I have an option, to get $2000 from you for info about the customer and my inaction, or to get $ 4000 from the customer, but with a high probability of waisting the performer.
I’m getting paid in BTC, its my Bitcoin address – 1C4Yj8BbRAWmttuN8JEoWzmgfX9a7TawRa
The summary I told above.
36 hours to transfer.