INTERESTING: Red Plastic Can Boost Yields

Monday, February 28, 2022

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/covering-crops-in-red-plastic-can-boost-yields-up-to-37-percent/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=24-02-2022

Covering Crops in Red Plastic Can Boost Yields Up to 37 Percent
By  Andy Corbley – Feb 22, 202

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For centuries, humans have used greenhouses to help plants grow outside of tolerable conditions. Now, as it turns out, it might be much better if instead of greenhouses, we built redhouses.

The red spectrum of light stimulates the leaves of plants to produce more chlorophyll, and an Australian ag-startup is wielding this basic science to create thick red films to cover existing greenhouses in order to boost plant production beyond what either the sun, or greenhouses are capable of.

Luminescent-Light Emitting Agriculture Films, or “LLEAF” was founded by scientists from a partnership between the Universities of New South Wales and Western Sydney.

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I wonder if this can be done at scale?

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RANT: Seems like the Totalitarians are taking control

Sunday, February 27, 2022

https://cafehayek.com/2022/02/some-covid-links-392.html

Some Covid Links
by DON BOUDREAUX on FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Taube wonders if Canadian democracy will survive strongman Justin Trudeau’s authoritarianism. A slice:

At the same time, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada would be expanded to monitor funds raised by the Freedom Convoy through GoFundMe and cryptocurrency. Banks would also be able to freeze accounts of people suspected of contributing to this protest, without a court order. This has caused both average citizens and business owners embarrassment and potential harm to their livelihoods.

While some Canadians supported Ottawa’s decision out of frustration with the protests and blockades of border crossings like the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, others were furious. Mr. Trudeau was criticized for abandoning civil liberties, free speech and the right to protest. He’s been called a “tyrant,” “totalitarian” and “dictator.” The Canadian Civil Liberties Association took the prime minister and his government to court last week. Left-leaning newspapers like the Toronto Star have condemned him.

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This freezing the assets of contributors has exposed how fragile control of one’s own assets is!

Coming to the USA soon.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Somewhere In Heaven There’s A Black And White Dog Taking Care Of Seven Golden Lab Puppies

Sunday, February 27, 2022

https://www.boredpanda.com/wholesome-animals-uplifting-pics/?utm_source=3587019_0_0_0&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=WebPush

Feel good positive stories 37 5bcec4ff28186 700 61f963d1cf5d4 700

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Something in the picture touched my heart.

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EVLYNN: 26 February is my suckiest day.

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Sadness
is the daily diet.
Gladness
is the state sought.
Madness
is try to understand.
Happiness
is at the end of the road.

26 February is my suckiest day.

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer.

Life is not all babies and birthday parties.

“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399

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TINFOILHAT: Did an engineer pinpoint where MH370 went down?

Saturday, February 26, 2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10532455/MH370-missing-Malaysian-Airlines-plane-Experts-bombshell-theory.html

Will MH370 FINALLY be found? Expert claims he knows EXACTLY where the doomed plane is as he drops bombshell theory the pilot ‘was being followed’ – and families claim it was NOT an accident

  • MH370 vanished shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014 
  • Despite an extensive international search effort, the wreckage is yet to be found
  • British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey believes it’s 1933km west of Perth
  • He analysed disturbances in radio frequencies to pinpoint its ill-fated final path 
  • In light of his findings, victim’s families believe the crash was an act of murder 

By TITA SMITH FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 20 February 2022 | UPDATED: 02:52 EST, 21 February 2022

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An aerospace expert believes he has finally discovered the resting place of ill-fated flight MH370 using sophisticated radio wave technology, as he claims the pilot’s ‘strange’ course suggests he was ‘being followed’.

The Malaysian Airlines flight carrying 239 people, including six Australians, vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.  

Despite an extensive four-year $200million international search effort spanning more than 120,000sqm, the Boeing 777’s wreckage is yet to be found, with devastated families claiming the crash was not an accident. 

But British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey believes MH370 hit the ocean 1,933 km due west of Perth, and lies 4,000m under the water, along a line known as the ‘seventh arc’.

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There is a great list of all the possible “theories” at the end of the article.

I’d really like for these families to have “closure”.  And, there is a mystery to be “solved”.

Who knows what the real story is UNTIL we find the plane.  It may not give the answer but may be it will.

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MEME: Preditor

Friday, February 25, 2022

Preditor

For some reason, I think this is funny, true, and great job advice.

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HEALTH: Pandemic or plandemic — is the jab the best way to reduce risk?

Thursday, February 24, 2022

https://abnormalreturns.com/2022/02/19/coronavirus-links-a-modifiable-health-risk/

“The pandemic’s greatest source of danger has transformed from a pathogen into a behavior. Choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID is, right now, a modifiable health risk on par with smoking, which kills more than 400,000 people each year in the United States.” (Mazer) https://buff.ly/3ByPebqti

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I’m not sure that we have to accept that the jab is the best defense. India has show that a cheap concoction of vitamins and stuff does great. And a diluted peroxide lavage is another tactic to be used.

Sigh. I think the “parasite class of humans” (i.e., Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats, “scientist with agendas”, “celebrities”, the corporate press, Big Pharma, Big Tech) is leading “We, The Sheeple” down the path to perdition.

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INNOVATION: A “Farmers’ Market” is an example of a new business model

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

https://modernfarmer.com/2022/02/new-lebanon-farmers-market/

This Market Stepped Up to Feed a Town With No Grocery Store
FEB 13, 2022
Robin Catalano 

  • In upstate New York, New Lebanon Farmers’ Market is filling a need and honing a model for others to follow.

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When Josh Young took over management of the decade-old New Lebanon Farmers Market (NLFM) in rural upstate New York in 2020, he needed to think creatively to mitigate the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He didn’t anticipate those efforts would result in a new hybrid market model that would garner a major grant from the USDA, and serve as a fresh-fare blueprint for food deserts.

Like many Northeastern towns that prospered during the Industrial Era, New Lebanon declined when the passenger rail shuttered in the 1950s. The town’s only grocery store closed more than a dozen years ago. Residents had resigned themselves to the 10-plus-mile haul for shopping.

As the coronavirus rocked the supply chain, Josh Young, a freelance software engineer, and his sister, Eleanor Young, who runs a butchery and sausage-making business, took the NLFM virtual, with online ordering and weekly pickup and deliveries. It was an immediate hit. 

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The Youngs are confident the New Lebanon Farmers Market can serve as a model for food deserts across the country. “Anyone can do this,” says Josh. “You can start small, and grow it a little bit every week. The next person to bootstrap an effort like ours will be able to point to us as an example in order to solicit capital for an even larger market.”

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Now I am not keen on the term “food deserts”, but I’d like to patronize their NLFM.  I find that “food” today doesn’t taste the same as when I was a kid.  I remember the rolls from the bakery more like what Ben Franklin described than the “hockey pucks” we buy today. 

I’ve read posts after posts in the survivalist sites about how crops are “poorer” in nutritional value from Big Ag than home grown “victory gardens”.

Maybe our taste buds are detecting that and telling our primal brain to forage elsewhere.

Sigh!

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RANT: cablewifi down

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Argh

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INTERESTING: Never underestimate “Mother Nature”!

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-wildlife-a-new-tundra-engineered-by-beavers

A new tundra, engineered by beavers
Once nonexistent in northwest Alaska, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming tundra.
Kylie Mohr Feb. 17, 2022

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Selawik, about 80 miles to the east, is a beaver hotspot, too, and some are upset that the animals are blocking hunting access by boat. “Elders said to start getting rid of the beavers, but nobody listened, and now it’s overpopulated,” said Ralph Ramoth Jr. (Inupiaq), a subsistence hunter who also works for the local airport and his town’s road, water and sewer department. Lodges up to 15 feet tall make navigating sloughs to hunt moose on the periphery challenging. “You can’t even go some places now with a boat, because it’s dammed up,” Ramoth said. Sometimes he tries to chip away at beavers’ handiwork, with little success. “If you tear up part of a dam or a beaver igloo, they’ll come right back and fix it up again,” he said. “They’re just busy beavers.” 

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Nature abhors a vacuum?  Of course, the critters are going to expand and fill up any suitable range. And, there’s not a lot us humans can do. 

Aren’t we sort of like those beavers and expanding our “range” across the globe and eventurally the known universe?

Don’t some “greenies” view humans as the scourge of Mother Earth?

I’d be willing to be if that class of human parasites called Gooferment didn’t keep us down and monopolize “space travel” by force, humans would all ready be living on all the planets of “our” solar system.  And be pushing the boundaries of space exploration to the far away stars.

Watch out aliens — if there are such — I think there’s a good chance there are — we coming for you.  It’s our “manifest destiny”.

“Be fruitful and multiply is NOT just a Bible verse.  It’s in our DNA.

Ad Astra.  

As well as a bunch of other mottos — ad astra per aspera, etc. etc.  And my personal favorite — ad astra per alas porci!

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