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Are
GM Crops Killing The
Humble
Bumble Bees? by
Gunther Latsch
"If
the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man
would only have four years of life left. No
more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no
more animals, no more man." Albert Einstein. “And
no more profits”. Fraser Clark.
WHEN
DID U LAST HEAR A BEE BUZZING AROUND? A
mysterious decimation of bee populations
has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the U.S.
is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions.
The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.
Walter
Haefeker sits on the board of directors of the German
Beekeepers Association (DBIB) and is
vice president of the European
Professional Beekeepers Association.
He warns that "the very
existence of beekeeping is at stake."
The
problem, he says, has a number of causes: 1
is the varroa mite
- introduced from Asia. 2
is the widespread practice in agriculture of spraying wildflowers
with herbicides and practicing monoculture.
3
is the controversial & growing use of genetic
engineering in agriculture. Mysterious
events in recent months have suddenly made Einstein's
apocalyptic vision seem all the more
topical. For unknown reasons, bee populations throughout Germany are
disappearing -- something that is so far only harming beekeepers.
But
the situation is different in the United States, where bees are dying
in such dramatic numbers that the economic consequences could soon be
dire. No one knows what is causing the bees to perish, but some
experts believe that the large-scale use of genetically modified
plants in the US could be a factor. >>
r u ready? expect to hear this soon: “no connection has yet
been proved”. geddit?
Felix
Kriechbaum, an official with a regional beekeepers' association in
Bavaria, recently reported a decline of almost 12%
in local bee populations. When "bee
populations disappear without a trace,"
says Kriechbaum, it is difficult to investigate the causes, because
"most bees don't die in the
beehive." There are many
diseases that can cause bees to lose their sense of orientation so
they can no longer find their way back to their hives.
Almost
simultaneously, Manfred Hederer, the president of the German
Beekeepers Association, reported a
25% drop
in bee populations throughout Germany. In isolated cases, he says,
declines of up to 80%
have been reported. He speculates that "a
particular toxin, some agent with which we are not familiar," is
killing the bees. >>
let’s call it the Blind Corporate Greed Toxin ok?
Politicians,
until now, have shown little concern for such warnings. Although
apiarists have been given a chance to make their case -- for example
in the run-up to the German cabinet's approval of a genetic
engineering policy document by Minister of Agriculture Horst Seehofer
in February -- their complaints are still largely ignored.
Even
when beekeepers actually go to court, as they recently did in a joint
effort with the German chapter of the organic farming organization
Demeter International
and other groups to oppose the use of genetically modified corn
plants, they can only dream of the sort of media attention
environmental organisations like Greenpeace attract with their
protests at test sites.
But
that could soon change. Since
last November, the US has seen a decline in bee populations so
dramatic that it eclipses all previous incidences of mass mortality.
Beekeepers on the east coast complain that they have lost more
than 70% of their stock since late
last year, while the west coast has seen a decline of up
to 60%.
In
an article in the business section of the New
York Times in February, experts at
Cornell University calculated the damage US agriculture would suffer
if bees died out and estimated the value bees generate -- by
pollinating fruit and vegetable plants, almond trees and animal feed
like clover -- more than $14 billion. >>
think how many iraqis they coulda bommed with that!!! "Colony
Collapse Disorder" (CCD) That’s
what scientists call the mysterious phenomenon, and it’s fast
turning into a national catastrophe
of sorts. A number of universities and government agencies have
formed a "CCD Working Group"
to search for causes, but have so far come up empty-handed. But,
like Dennis van Engelsdorp, an apiarist with the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, they are
already referring to the problem as a potential "AIDS
For The Bee Industry."
One
thing is certain: Millions of bees have simply vanished.
In most cases, all that's left in the hives are the doomed
offspring. But dead bees are nowhere to be found -- neither in nor
anywhere close to the hives. Diana Cox-Foster, a member of the CCD
Working Group, says researchers were
"extremely
alarmed," adding
that the crisis "has the
potential to devastate the US beekeeping industry."
It
is particularly worrisome, she said, that the bees' death is
accompanied by a set of symptoms "which
does not seem to match anything in the literature." In
many cases, scientists have found that the few surviving bees found
in the hives show evidence of almost all known bee viruses, some with
5 or 6 different infections at the same time, and also infested with
fungi -- a
sign, experts say, that the
insects' immune system may have collapsed.
The
scientists are also surprised that bees and other insects usually
leave the abandoned hives untouched. Nearby bee populations or
parasites would normally raid the honey and pollen stores of colonies
that have died for other reasons, such as excessive winter cold.
"This suggests
that there is something toxic in the colony itself which is repelling
them," says Cox-Foster. Genetically
Modified Morality, eh Mortality Walter
Haefeker, the German beekeeping official, speculates that the fact
that genetically modified, insect-resistant plants are now used in
40% of cornfields in the U.S. could be playing a role. The figure is
much lower in Germany -- only 0.06% -- and most of that occurs in the
eastern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg.
Haefeker recently sent a researcher at the CCD
Working Group some data from a bee
study that he has long felt shows a possible connection between
genetic engineering and diseases in bees.
The
study in question is a small research project conducted at the
University of Jena from 2001 to 2004. The researchers examined the
effects on bees of pollen from a genetically modified maize variant
called "Bt Corn".
A gene from a soil bacterium had been inserted into the
corn to enable the plant to produce an agent that is toxic to insect
pests. The study concluded that there was
no evidence of a "toxic effect
of Bt corn on healthy honeybee populations." But
when, by sheer chance, the bees used in the experiments were infested
with a parasite, something eerie happened. According to the Jena
study, "a
significantly stronger decline in the number of bees"
occurred among the insects which had been fed a highly concentrated
Bt poison feed.
According
to Professor Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, the director of the study, the
bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered
the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees
to allow the parasites to gain entry --
or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."
Of
course, the concentration of the toxin was 10 times higher in the
experiments than in normal Bt corn pollen. In addition, the bee feed
was administered over a relatively lengthy six-week period.
Kaatz
wanted to continue studying the phenomenon but lacked the necessary
funding. "Those who have the money
are not interested in this sort of research," he
says. >>
did they tell him to buzz off, or just not answer his messages YOU
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Tumours The
Natural Way By
mimicking Nature's way of distinguishing
one type of cell from another,
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists now report they can more
effectively seek out and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy
ones. In
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recognised and killed only those cells
displaying high levels of receptors
known as integrins.
These molecules, which tend to bedeck the surfaces of cancer cells
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contrast, an established tumour-homing
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doxorubicin destroyed cells even when they expressed very little
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indicating this strategy
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new catalyst that can split carbon
dioxide gas could allow us to use
carbon
from the atmosphere as a fuel source
in a similar way to plants. [NewScientist.com
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greatest holocaust ever perpetrated on any people by another in human
history - the slave trade.
it makes me deeply ashamed to be a member of the human species, and
i do NOT think that much, besides outward behaviour/’thinking’,
has changed. a line spoken by an old african in some documentary
rings in my ears: “it was very
uncivilised behaviour.” am quite
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good people, thank
you for many years of sending UP! to me. however,
i have not gotten it for some months (help!), and today i went to
youniversity.com and found that the writing in the latest UP! is
fresher than ever. i
often read or try to read your take on 2 things i would like to lump
together as the same thing and that is the big bang and black holes.
Since you seem interested in discussing these things, my two cents
worth would be to say that big bangs are local phenomena, galactic in
size. You can see it if you look at the different types of star
systems... there are all stages of this occurring at all times. If
you can conceive of different densities occurring side by side and
overlapping then you can see different "universes" or what
has been referred to as different densities colliding or interacting.
The image i've been shown is that of a glass of water with ice
in it. Same material; different densities, interacting to a
degree and separate to a degree. Another image i can think of
is a waterfall, it's a river as well as a waterfall. From an
abstract perspective of single planes it is quite an anomaly if you
had no concept of the 3rd dimension. The other detail is that
of course big bangs oscillate between expansion and contraction, like
a yo-yo in space, like a wave, like your breath, like a hindu god
creating universes and destroying them with hir breath. i'm not
sure where the problem is understanding this. Please help me;
where are people stuck? Yes,
and thank you for considering my take on this!!!! Best
from 5 degrees north, mark
laplume, nottingham, uk. >>
hi mark i been having tekkie probs galore and so i may have taken a
load of time getting back to you on this but i just read it this
minute ... and LOVED it. the reason u haven't been getting the
UP! is again tekkie probs - which i still haven't finally solved.
u r not the only one, indeed i think most readers haven't been
getting it since i went broadband 5 weeks ago. anyway
i LOVE what u say and, indeed, it's because of insights like yours
(from i presume a non 'scientist') that i cover this stuff.
stealing it back from the 'scientists' (paid) to real Scientists
(people like us who are naturally curious & intelligent &
somewhat thorough). i
get your idea of adjacent or even overlapping/intermingling density
dimensions and hadn't quite spotted this before. i knew kinda
that the youniverse isn't some long endless stretch of empty space
but i hadn't quite seen what u imply. in other words it might
not take a million light years to get to another dimension, it's more
likely to require a lateral move. that has felt obvious to me
for a LONG time :) on
the big bang as breath yes, i've seen that. a crucial point,
however, and why it MATTERS, is that if u think it's all an accident
and for no reason then this has a fundamentally alienating effect on
one's whole life - and more western people today see themselves as
kinda sensitive brainless slugs accidentally alive and going nowhere
by definition. sounds like psychopathy to me, cosmic
psychopathy if u like. sorry this response is such a rush and
unthought through but i got many other emails i can now get round
to. CPR:
Mouth-to-Mouth Not Much Help For
adults who suddenly collapse, CPR is more effective if rescuers focus
on chest compression over mouth-to-mouth ventilation. By
interrupting lifesaving chest compressions, mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation may do more harm than good. UP! Giant
Pool of Water Ice
at Mars' South Pole Mars
has enough water ice at its south pole to blanket the entire planet
in more than 30 feet of water
if everything thawed out. Astronomers
have solid evidence that billions of years ago water flowed over
the Martian surface. And recently, evidence has pointed to a
warming trend as Mars emerges from an "Ice
Age”. [Space.com
March 15, 2007] >>
and i continue to be utterly flabbergasted at how wrong well paid
scientists got it for so long! UP! Is
The Universe Actually A Fractal
-
if it’s not a holgram? Written
across the sky is a secret, a hidden blueprint detailing the original
design of the universe itself. The
spread of matter throughout space follows a pattern laid out at the
beginning of time and scaled up to incredible proportions by nearly
14 billion years of cosmic expansion. Today that pattern is
gradually being decoded by analysing maps of the distribution of the
stars. What has been uncovered could shake modern cosmology to its
foundations.
New
Scientist, Mar. 9, 2007 UP! london FRI
MARCH 30 FUTURE OF
ALTERNATIVE CLUBBING SYMPOSIUM @
Synergy I'm talking to some of
the greatest organisers in the history of Alternative Clubbing and
Alternative venues and I feel
humbled.
I am going to briefly
re-clarify the general format and content of the FUTURE
OF ALTERNATIVE CLUBBING SYMPOSIUM. Note that I am not going
to go into detail about every topic I will bring up as we need to be
somewhat spontaneous. This will be a flowing discussion not an
academic series of presentations.
FORMAT:
Basically I am going to bring up a series of themes and topics and
then call on people on the panel to elaborate. The following are
possible themes I will bring up but I might surprise you. They are
not necessarily in the order I will bring them up on the nite, except
for VISION/HISTORY which will definitely
be first. QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE will come after each theme is
explored, but they must ask a question on that specific theme. Note:
When I ask what sort of problems may have emerged within a certain
theme or topic, I don't mean that the scenario was only negative and
please feel free to elaborate on the positive aspect(s) of things
which I'm sure was the majority experience(s). CONTENT: 1) VISION/HISTORICAL
CONTEXT: The first theme will definitely be VISION
but within that context I would hope that you will give the audience
a brief HISTORICAL overview of what was
going on at the time, in the club scene and counterculture, to spur
on that VISION. Jeff
Dexter in particular (whom I will start off
with) will hopefully fill us in on the Sixties context (UFO,
TECHNICOLOUR DREAM, MIDDLE
EARTH etc) before he describes his VISON
for the ROUNDHOUSE. PERSONAL
MINDSET is very welcome and important within this VISION
context. How were you feeling at the time you decided to start or be
part of the club(s) we will be talking about. I might specify
certain clubs for you to focus on. For example, I would expect
Fraser
(Clark) to talk in detail about
MEGATRIPOLIS.
And where the Counterculture 'was at' at the time, plus where Fraser
was at. Then I might focus him on the WARP
EXPERIENCE
as that too was a seminal club. Again, first some HISTORICAL
context, and that will lead into your specific VISION
for your specific club or Alternative venue, for the clubbers
themselves and perhaps for you personally. 2) RELATIONSHIPS
WITH FELLOW ORGANISERS: This is a real touchy one and I
wouldn't expect it to be otherwise. Why did you choose the specific
people to work with whom you chose? Did you see yourself as being in
harmony with them? Did you know they had flaws before you got
involved with them or did you just see them with angelic lenses?
What were the good points when working with them? Which memorable
specific problems (if any) emerged with your working partners, what
was the nature of those problems, why did they evolve and - within
this context - how and when did you decide you couldn't work with
that person(s0 any more? Again some specific HISTORY
for the audience. Not too much and not too little. I want the
audience to know (and they and I want to know) what was going on in
the specific clubs in some detail including the actual splits
and battles but not to the point where it becomes a book :) I don't
mind if you get heated and passionate, but there’s no need for
nastiness when talking about this aspect of things. Obviously
certain organisers feel they were treated badly by other organisers
and I don't want to hide that from the audience; quite the opposite.
But remember you are in front of an audience who expect a certain
level of New Edge decorum. Finally I want to hear what lessons have
been learned in regard to working with other organisers. 3) MONEY:
Always an interesting one.
May overlap with the RELATIONSHIPS WITH FELLOW
ORGANISERS problems, but that overlap is to be expected. What
was your money situation like when you moved to start your club or
get involved? How did you raise the money? Within the club how did
you decide who got paid what (including yourself) and how did that
manifest itself? How did you decide how much dj's were paid? And
how much the audience was charged? What problems within
the club(s) you were/are involved with emerged over money issues and
how were you affected? How did you deal with and solve these
problems? 4) RELATIONSHIPS
WITH STAFF: How did you envision that initially and how did
that change if at all? How did you choose who ran a room or who
didn't run a room? What problems (if any) emerged from that
scenario? How did you choose who worked in several other jobs within
the club? How did you relate to those people? Did staff respect
you? Did staff resent you? What lessons did you learn within that
context. 5) RELATIONSHOP
WITH THE AUDIENCE: Prices, Drugs, Sex Specific Musical
Tastes, Blagging. General Treatment of Clubbers (including by
security) and the concept of LOVE come in within this theme. Did you
try and personally relate to the audience? What did they think of
you? How did you try and improve things for the clubbers? 6) RELATIONS
WITH SECURITY:.... A controversial topic to be sure. Use your
imagination 7) RELATIONSHIP
WITH PERFORMERS: My fave subject, specifically DJ's. Again,
how did you choose who was going to perform on the nite? How did you
relate to performers? What sort of problems emerged (if any). 8) RELATIONSHIP
TO COMMUNITY: Other clubs, the counterculture, the local
mainstream community..... how did you and your club relate to them? 9) CHANGES:
How has the Alternative Clubbing scene changed, and how have you and
your club(s) changed over the years within that context? What
general lessons have been learned by the whole scene, your club(s)
and you personally. Very
important theme. 10) THE
FUTURE OF CLUBBING: Which direction do you see the
Alternative Clubbing scene going in? Which direction do you WANT to
see the Alternative Clubbing scene travel in? Do you see a role for
yourself in that and if so what? That's it for the
moment folks remember these themes are not set in concrete. E-mail
me anything else you would like to see included. Again be concise
without ignoring things. And remember we are all
about LOVING one another even if seems impossible at times.
xxxxGoodJeff.
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- the masters of chill - not only one of the most prominent outdoor
chillout creators but also an established part of many Synergy
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stimulating journeys through the world of creativity - often with a
specific edge http://www.idspiral.org Small
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Unlike no one else the Small World Crew have mesmerized entire
audiences with their fine tuned array of deep and touching acoustic
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