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wynsurfer
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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mac, Thanks for the fishin blues link! I saw Taj Mahal when I was 17, 44 years ago. I will never forget it. What a great artist. God bless |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 15938 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Slinky--one of the most dynamic performers ever. You are most welcome, good music deserves listeners. Pathetic posts deserve silence. For the life of me, I don't think that NW understands either the environment in general, or the battles over wind generation. |
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nw30

Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6477 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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peeuno, yeah, maybe you're right, that eagle should get killed by a wind mill, after all he killed Bambi, what was I thinking. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 15938 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:49 am Post subject: |
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NW--you are just pathetic. Trolling on a site about DDT, and arguing--apparently from a Breitbart link--that enviros are killing eagles. Too bad you didn't show any discipline, or bother to read any articles other than the right wing slam. Here's the rest of the story. The take permit that was issued allowed 5 eagles over five years. In exchange for mitigation to existing PG & E transformers that are now killing substantially more eagles than that. The wildlife agencies, which are not pushovers, believe it will result in a greater overall survival of eagles.
You are comparing that to DDT, which represented an existential threat to more than just eagles. Is it that you don't understand math, or that you don't care? |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 15938 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Time to revive this thread:
Quote: | Researchers at Dundee University have discovered a new compound which could treat malaria while protecting people from the disease and preventing its spread, all in a single dose.
The compound, DDD107498, was developed by the university's Drug Discovery Unit and the Medicines for Malaria Venture.
Scientists said the "exciting" new drug could work well against parasites resistant to current treatments.
Details of the discovery have been published in the journal Nature.
The World Health Organisation reported 200 million clinical cases of malaria in 2013, with 584,000 people dying from the mosquito-borne disease, most of them pregnant women or children under five.
Concerns have been growing about strains of malaria which are resistant to current treatments, which have already appeared on the border between Myanmar and India. |
It seems that investing in drug research, not Monsanto, is the best way to save lives. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 15938 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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After mrgybe attacked my technical background, I poked around some of his claims about DDT. I then asked myself why this theme had recurred, and who was behind it. Earlier I posted the link to Steven Milloy, whose web site presents virtually the same material used by mrgybe. Milloy is described as having close ties to oil and tobacco companies and is a Fox news regular.
Gybe denies that there are efforts to seed fake news about chemicals and global warming into the media, or at least argues that we don’t know how much is spent. That is not an accident. If you look a little deeper into the recent promotion of DDT, you find a spurt of activity starting about 2000, backed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Africa Fighting Malaria. The latter sounds like a group out of Africa—but it is a lobbying NGO out of DC. The big names (it only spends money on staff salaries) are Richard Tren and Roger Bate. Bate is an economist for the American Enterprise Institute with deep ties to EXXON and big tobacco. Perhaps he has an alias and posts on social media?
Tren seems to run in the same circles, see Source Watch https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Tren
Perhaps he windsurfs?
The objective of these groups, according to environmental groups who have supported use of DDT for malaria control, is to discredit government science in general and particularly related to pesticides. In that light, it makes more sense that mrgybe started his screed with a frontal attack on environmentalists, pesticide regulation, and the first head of EPA. Whether he is part of team fake news, or just a dupe, he is here to amplify their lies.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/26/comment.oil |
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