No surprise from someone who drinks bleach. Probably washes with roundup. It is what it is.
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they should have mailed atrazine to Trump, not ricin
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Trump and the GOP will go beyond not helping people poisoned by atrazine, they will mock the ones who are deformed the way they mock injured military personnel and veterans.
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Once again “In God’ We Trust” rules over ethics, morality, conscience, science, and even plain and simple common sense.
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We need to start thinking that we are temporary caretakers of so called personal property. The land beneath us is sacred earth that is in one’s possession but a fraction of a second of time. It is incumbent that we treat this earth beneath us with respect and pass it along in healthy condition to others to live on, to eat from, and to grow on.
Poisons on so called personal property flow into the earth’s waters, into the air above the earth, into the soil itself and into the food we grow and eat. These toxins enter our bodies and enter the animals and the crops we eat. These toxins may accumulate and cause illness and death.
The EPA is only as good as the people that are in control at any time. At present it is corrupted.
A vote for Trump is a vote for death.
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Great post Earthbound …as you have said that is the understanding that we must put in place.
We are being asked by life to be care takers of the land, air and water and each other .
The basic life principle of sustainability has been interpreted as individual ownership. We have built a mental construct around how to do this that plays itself out as a social convention that we call ownership.
Everything belongs to life not Individual beings or what we call corporations.
We are asked by life to Express the basic Life Principle of sustainability but not to declare we own anything .This is completely dysfunctional, and we see the results of this now in our world. And have fone for 3 millennia.
Ownership has nothing to do with ultimate reality, it’s a temporary fiction an invention of the mind.Its based on fallacies we hold about life .
A great book on understanding this is
The New Revelations.
It’s a planet changer.
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But we are all part of the divine, this idea of separation is what’s killing us .
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Whether oats, wheat, peanuts, sougham, potatoes, barley, chickpeas; Bt or stacked traits maize, soya… dessicated with lethal herbicides or hundreds of thousands, gavaged radium-tainted fracking brine, in their water food or schmutz in our air. Our media, politicians and courts simply do not CARE. We’re being shown THAT all now? Yes, our affluent Liberal friends, who crushed any chance of rectification of regulatory capture need to stop projecting onto our victims, trying to wish-think it all away? Trump is just their most recent distraction. The boogie man gets worse each time.
~https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/09/civil-war-what-civil-war.html (gotta love Yves’ commentariate?)
~https://mobile.twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1307444039134871555
~https://sirota.substack.com/p/the-good-news-america-is-not-dead (special place in HELL for Madeleine Albright)
~https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-annual-death-count-rose-112-to-65-712-11600447043
~http://normanfinkelstein.com/2020/09/18/evil-incarnate/
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They are using wallabies to test for damage. Feeding females water contaminated with this poison. (And godzillla knows what else.)
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Wonderful post !
" A vote for Trump is a vote for DEATH" cannot be said better .
The only permanent solution to saving the planet from human destruction is that humans realize that not only are we 100 %
dependent on nature and the planet for EVERYTHING but that we ARE nature.
We are not separate from Nature , we ARE nature ,
Chemically and spiritually .
Humans are a product of NATURAL chemical interactions that occurred millions of years ago culminating in what we now call Humans . Without those natural interactions we would not exist and without the basics of Oxygen , water and soil for food we would perish in a matter of minutes or days .
Yes we must also have laws that protect from polluters but as you can see there are ways around those laws via unscrupulous idiots .
The only lasting protection we can supply to the planet is to realize we are nature and then it becomes personal , as most do not want to bring harm to themselves .
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The problem with many of those chemicals is that they do not STAY on personal property. Yet another confirmation that we are all, all intimately connected.
The damn stuff should not be available, period!
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The repub party is a terrorist organization.
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We need a total transformation of the agriculture and food system. That includes complete overhauls of the Dept of Ag, EPA, and FDA. The whole approach has to shift to regenerative.
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Environmental Protection protecting what and who?
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Is Trump just pure evil?
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Too many poisons will be the down fall of the human race. Peace
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Did you forget the “/s”…?
But just in case you didn’t - nothing used on your “property” stay’s on your “property”. All that the capitalist concept of “property” represents is a piece of paper in your county courthouse files. “Property” does NOT include all the vital free flows of life, water, air, and biochemistry that go onto and off of your “property” and so it is proper to pass laws preventing the “property owner” from harming those ecological flows. There is also a temporal social component - laws are appropriate that prevent you from doing something to your “property” that renders it harmful or unusable to future generations.
If you want to call it “socialism” go ahead. The concept of “ownership” of land is a tenuous one only dating back a few hundred years.
If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder! , my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to remove a man’s mind, will, and personality, is the power of life and death, and that it makes a man a slave. It is murder. Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery! , without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?
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No. “The Democrats are just as bad”…
/s
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So important, and thank you for bringing in that essential concept, we people of the Earth have much in common and most strive for a healthy sustainable life, to do the best with what we have, and to leave something wonderful for our children and their children. Yes, we are all nature and have commonality with all life.
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Yes, that is pretty much the plan.
“ 50% More Atrazine to Be Allowed in U.S. Waterways"
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency reapproved ingredients pesticide products/atrazine-propazine-and-simazine-proposed-interim-decisions the pesticide atrazine today, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned across much of the world that castrates frogs and is linked to birth defects and cancer in people.
Today’s approval eliminates longstanding safeguards for children’s health and allows 50% more atrazine to end up in U.S. waterways.
“Use of this extremely dangerous pesticide should be banned, not expanded,” said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “This disgusting decision directly endangers the health of millions of Americans.”
Due to its well-documented health risks, atrazine has been banned or is being phased out in more than 35 countries. But it remains the second-most used pesticide in the United States.
In allowing the continued use of atrazine, the EPA discarded safety precautions mandated under the Food Quality Protection Act that protect young children from pesticide exposures. In doing so the agency is ignoring multiple independent epidemiologic studies finding that developing embryos and young children are at a high risk of harm from this pesticide.
From:
~https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/09/18/epa-scraps-protections-children-pesticide-linked-birth-defects-cancer
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