1492 pandemic continues to 2020: 100 million killed by invasive species from africa asia europe.... and their zoonotic diseases
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Sardines for Victory in the War for your Mind
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Germans, universities, health
50% dead. Study Medicine. Plague is coming
The trend of recent research is pointing to a figure more like 45–50% of the European population dying during a four-year period. There is a fair amount of geographic variation.
The most widely accepted estimate for the Middle East, including Iraq, Iran and Syria, during this time, is for a death rate of about a third.
See also: Black Death Jewish persecutions
Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death or Danse Macabre, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.
Renewed religious fervor and fanaticism bloomed in the wake of the Black Death. Some Europeans targeted "various groups such as Jews, friars, foreigners, beggars, pilgrims",[61]lepers[61][62] and Romani, thinking that they were to blame for the crisis. Lepers, and other individuals with skin diseases such as acne or psoriasis, were singled out and exterminated throughout Europe.
Because 14th-century healers were at a loss to explain the cause, Europeans turned to astrological forces, earthquakes, and the poisoning of wells by Jews as possible reasons for the plague's emergence.[33]
Recurrence
Main article: Second plague pandemic
The Great Plague of London, in 1665, killed up to 100,000 people
The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 17th centuries.
In England, in the absence of census figures, historians propose a range of preincident population figures from as high as 7 million to as low as 4 million in 1300,[69] and a postincident population figure as low as 2 million.[70] By the end of 1350, the Black Death subsided, but it never really died out in England. Over the next few hundred years, further outbreaks occurred in 1361–62, 1369, 1379–83, 1389–93, and throughout the first half of the 15th century.[71] An outbreak in 1471 took as much as 10–15% of the population, while the death rate of the plague of 1479–80 could have been as high as 20%.[72] The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636, and ended with the Great Plague of London in 1665.[73]
Plague Riot in Moscow in 1771: During the course of the city's plague, between 50 and 100 thousand people died, 1⁄6 to 1⁄3 of its population.
In 1466, perhaps 40,000 people died of the plague in Paris.
In the first half of the 17th century, a plague claimed some 1.7 million victims in Italy, or about 14% of the population.
Worldwide distribution of plague-infected animals 1998
The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world.[92] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850.[93] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30 to 50 thousand inhabitants to it in 1620–21, and again in 1654–57, 1665, 1691, and 1740–42.[94] Plague remained a major event in Ottomansociety until the second quarter of the 19th century. Between 1701 and 1750, thirty-seven larger and smaller epidemics were recorded in Constantinople, and an additional thirty-one between 1751 and 1800.[95] Baghdad has suffered severely from visitations of the plague, and sometimes two-thirds of its population has been wiped out.[96]
Third plague pandemic
Main article: Third plague pandemic
The Third plague pandemic (1855–1859) started in China in the middle of the 19th century, spreading to all inhabited continents and killing 10 million people in India alone.[97] Twelve plague outbreaks in Australia in 1900–25 resulted in well over 1,000 deaths, chiefly in Sydney. This led to the establishment of a Public Health Department there which undertook some leading-edge research on plague transmission from rat fleas to humans via the bacillus Yersinia pestis.[98]
The first North American plague epidemic was the San Francisco plague of 1900–04, followed by another outbreak in 1907–08.
Friday, November 27, 2015
States of Freedom. Live free or Die NH
Is biometrics the future of secure payments?
Biometrics is not needed for security in my new system.
Banks should not collect biometric data.
http://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/11/23/biometrics-future-secure-payments/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wls-newsletter-271115
Thursday, November 26, 2015
2 dead girls. Social problems in the low population areas
Harvard UCB Mich: ELITE UNIVERSITIES LOSING THEIR COMPETITIVE EDGE
Full pdf at National Bureau of Economic Research link:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w12245.pdf
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades.
We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s;
this effect weakened in the 1980s and
disappeared in the 1990s.
We decompose this university fixed effect and find that its decline is due to the reduced importance of physical access to productive research colleagues.
We also find that salaries increased the most where the estimated externality dropped the most, consistent with the hypothesis that the de-localization of this externality makes it more difficult for universities to appropriate any rent.
Our results shed some light on the potential effects of the internet revolution on knowledge-based industries.
During the internet boom in the 1990s the possibility that traditional teaching would be replaced with Web-based classrooms was considered a sufficiently serious threat that most major universities devised an "internet strategy".
Ten years later, much of this debate has subsided and traditional classroom teaching is expected to continue its dominance in the foreseeable future.
Surprisingly, a similar debate has not taken place about how the internet could modify the other production process taking place in universities: namely, research.
A compelling case can be made that the internet and the concomitant decline in communication costs have changed the localized nature of research interaction.
While collaboration across universities was common before the advent of the internet, local interaction was very important.
Communication at a distance was costly, both from a monetary and a technical point of view. Large datasets, for instance, were hard to move from computer to computer, and it was extremely tedious to share regression results at a distance. All this, of course, has changed. How did these changes modify the nature of the production of academic research? Did local interaction become less important? If so, how does this decline affect the value added of elite universities and hence their competitive edge? These questions are important not only for academia but also for all knowledge-based production.
How has the internet, for instance, modified the competitive advantage of Silicon Valley in the software industry?
This paper attempts to answer these questions by examining research productivity in top economics and finance departments over the last three decades. Using the academic setting has several advantages. Individual output is measurable (number of pages published in academic journals), and it is possible, while labor intensive, to trace who is where over a long period. These conditions allow us to determine whether location plays a role in individual productivity in a knowledge-based industry. We do so by tracing people's moves across universities.
We find that in the 1970s, residence in an elite university had a sizeable impact on individual productivity. During that time, a random economic faculty member moving from a non-top 25 university to Harvard would see her productivity increase by 2.1 American Economic Review (AER) impact-equivalent pages per year, which is tantamount to almost doubling her research productivity. In the 1990s this effect all but disappeared.
And the disappearance is not just a Harvard phenomenon.
Of the top 25 economics departments studied, 17 (5) had a significantly positive (negative) impact on productivity in the 1970s.
By the 1990s only 2 (9) had a significantly positive (negative) effect.
The corresponding numbers for finance are 16 (3) and 4 (7).
These results do not seem to stem from endogenous selection inherent in location decisions. We carefully consider four selection stories -- quasi-retirement, non- promotion, complementarities, and tournaments. The patterns of post-move changes in productivity do not support any of these selection stories. Nevertheless, we formally address possible selection bias in faculty moves by estimating a two-stage selection model. We use a logit model to estimate the probability of moving as a function of age, and a conditional logit model to estimate the probability of being at each location (given a move) as a function of the desirability of each location for individual faculty. The desirability is captured by the distance to the individual's origin (defined as the location of the alma mater undergraduate university), and the relative productivity difference to incumbent faculty. Using the predicted unconditional probability of being at a location as an instrument for the university indicators, the results remain materially the same.
The declining university effects on productivity over the last three decades may not be necessarily due to advances in information technology. A simpler explanation is that other universities are catching up, in terms of quality of the faculty, to the top academic universities. Our data tell a different story; the difference in average individual faculty productivity between the top 25 universities and the rest has increased (not decreased) in the last three decades.
Another possible explanation is that a sudden shift in the production frontier created a first mover advantage in the 1970s, which slowly eroded in the subsequent two decades. While this explanation is plausible for finance, which really took off as a separate field in the 1960s, this cannot be true for economics because it was a well- established discipline four decades ago.
Rejecting these alternatives, we test some implications of the internet-based explanation. The most direct implication is that the externality of having better research colleagues declined over the sample period. Indeed, this is what we find. We measure colleagues' quality with their average past productivity. In the 1970s, faculty who work with better colleagues are more productive, consistent with Laband and Tollison (2000). This effect diminishes in the 1980s and vanishes in the 1990s. In contrast, the role of cultural norms in a department, as measured by the percentage of non-productive colleagues in a department, retains a persistent negative effect on the university's impact on individual productivity.
We find that during the same period co-authorship at a distance rises steadily perhaps due to the reduced importance of physical proximity. Among all articles published in the top 41 journals written by scholars residing at a top 25 school, the percentage of co-authored papers with colleagues in a non-elite school has nearly doubled, from about 32% in the beginning of the 1970s to 61% by 2004, suggesting that it has become much easier for authors at non-elite universities to access scholars at elite universities.
The de-localization of the externality produced by more productive researchers has important implications in academia. First, it makes the position of leading universities less stable. While in the 1970s it was difficult for less prestigious universities to compete on an equal footing with top institutions, which were able to offer to new recruits the positive externality associated with productive colleagues, this is not true anymore. De- localization of production externalities renders faculty more mobile, making it easier for a new place to attract away the most talented researchers with higher salary. And this is the second important effect. When this externality was localized, universities could more easily appropriate the rents.
Today, with the universal access to knowledge, faculty should be able to capture more of the benefits from the externalities. We find evidence consistent with this prediction in the average salaries at different institutions: Between the 1970s and the 1990s, faculty salaries have increased the most at universities where the estimated externality drops the most.
These results have important implications outside of academia as well. Traditionally, physical access to the firm was important for knowledge-based production. If – as the faculty productivity data seem to show – improvements in communication technology have made low-cost access at a distance possible for production purposes, then firms have lost a powerful instrument to regulate and control the accumulation and utilization of knowledge. Appropriating the return to investment in research and development will become more difficult and firms' boundaries will become fuzzier.
The implications extend far beyond what we document here. A firm's inability to contain externalities inside the firm may shift the foci of migration to a more dispersed paradigm and may extend the role of outsourcing well beyond what we experience today. Governments may be compelled to react to the changing meaning of proximity and of firm boundaries through regulatory changes on matters concerning labor, competition, and industry.
Sioux Gold. Rent due Native Americans
Prior to the Gold Rush, the Black Hills were used by Native Americans (primarily bands of Sioux but others also ranged through the area).
Prospectors found gold in 1874 near present-day Custer, South Dakota, but the deposit turned out to be small. The large placer gold deposits of Deadwood Gulch were discovered in November 1875, and in 1876, thousands of gold-seekers flocked to the new town of Deadwood, although it was still within Indian land.
Initially, the United States Army "struggled" to keep miners out of the region. In December 1874, for example, a group of miners led by John Gordon from Sioux City, Iowa, managed to evade Army patrols and reached the Black Hills, where they spent three months before the Army decided to eject them. Such evictions, however, increased political pressure on the Grant Administration to secure the Black Hills from the Lakota.
In May 1875, Sioux delegations headed by Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, and Lone Horn traveled to Washington, D.C. in an eleventh-hour attempt to persuade President Ulysses S. Grant to honor existing treaties and stem the flow of miners into their territories. They met with Grant, Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Edward Smith. The US leaders said that the Congress wanted to pay the tribes $25,000 for the land and have them relocate to Indian Territory (in present-day Oklahoma). The delegates refused to sign a new treaty with these stipulations. Spotted Tail said, "You speak of another country, but it is not my country; it does not concern me, and I want nothing to do with it. I was not born there ... If it is such a good country, you ought to send the white men now in our country there and let us alone."[8] Although the chiefs were unsuccessful in finding a peaceful solution, they did not join Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in the warfare that followed.
That fall, a US commission was sent to each of the Indian agencies to hold councils with the Lakota. They hoped to gain the people's approval and thereby bring pressure on the Lakota leaders to sign a new treaty. The government's attempt to secure the Black Hills failed. While the Black Hills were at the center of the growing crisis, Lakota resentment was growing over expanding US interests in other portions of Lakota territory. For instance, the government proposed that the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad would cross through the last of the great buffalo hunting grounds. In addition, the US Army had carried out several devastating attacks on Cheyenne camps before 1876.
The fight was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake). The U.S. 7th Cavalry, including the Custer Battalion, a force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat. Five of the 7th Cavalry's twelve companies were annihilated; Custer was killed, as were two of his brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law. The total U.S. casualty count, including scouts, was 268 dead and 55 injured.
Public response to the Great Sioux War varied at the time. The battle, and Custer's actions in particular, have been studied extensively by historians.
After the Civil War, Custer was dispatched to the west to fight in the American Indian Wars and appointed lieutenant colonel of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment where he and all his men were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 fighting against a coalition of Native American tribes. The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand." Custer and his men were defeated so decisively at the Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.
As for the Black Hills, the Commission structured an arrangement in which the Sioux would cede the land to United States or the government would cease to supply rations to the reservations.
renounce wealth. Return Gold to Native Americans
"We renounce forever the appearance and the substance of wealth, especially in symbols made of precious metals,"
The bishops' all but forgotten pledge, known as the Pact of the Catacombs, has gained new resonance with Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor.
.. most of us learned about it by word of mouth," he says.
By signing the Pact of the Catacombs, the bishops pledged "to try to live according to the ordinary manner of our people in all that concerns housing, food, means of transport."
"We renounce forever the appearance and the substance of wealth, especially in clothing ... and symbols made of precious metals,"
Within a few months, some 500 bishops had signed the pact.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Bees from South Dakota Big Sioux River north of where my grandparents were born
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Get Rich, Smart and Healthy Berkeley People's Park Telegraph Avenue
Monday, November 16, 2015
Berkeley Islam: Zaytuna college vs UCB Near East Studies
Zaytuna College is housed in Berkeley's Baptist Seminary of the West on Dwight Way.
The college, which is charging annual fees of $11,000, has its genesis in the Zaytuna Institute, an Islamic seminary founded by Shaykh Hamza in Hayward in 1996.
Speaking about the motivation for launching the college, Dr Bazian: "The Muslim community in the United States is growing. As such, it is increasingly needing an institution of higher learning."
The Bay Area has a significant Muslim community. Zaytuna College estimates 300,000 to 500,000 Muslims live in the region, and that there are more than 50 mosques and dozens of organizations that "reflect the greater Bay Area's characteristics of tolerance and activism".
On its website, Zaytuna describes Berkeley as "a center for American intellectual and spiritual life" and speaks of being able to take advantage of the area's "long tradition of political and social justice activism", as well as the city's "abundant cultural attractions".
the new college has already received wide media coverage. Reza Aslan suggested its launch could be "the next Muslim controversy". California Magazine looks at how the arrival of the college signals an increased interest in Islamic studies generally.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Re: #1 Journalism University of Missouri: "Craig B Hulet 11 4 15" - Learn what is actually going on, IT IS WORTH YOUR TIME !
Be a professional, get training.
Be a 1% producer, not a 99% consumer.
Sheeple consume news oblivious to what they are consuming.
The "grass" "news" is put out there for them to consume.
They don't know how news is put together, how it is manipulating them, just that they like to consume it.
Shepherds produce the news, run the media.
Hulet and other talking heads are pawns in the game run by the media.
It takes good training to understand how and why this is done.
I wrote a long series of emails on this 10 years ago.
As I told the hot Jew girl living upstairs when I was a college Junior that news was a waste of time for most people who cannot impact anything and that people should concentrate on getting a good education so they will be in a better position to control at least some small piece of what is going on. No use to fret over what you can do nothing about.
I would recommend avoiding all news media until you can be productive in a profession that has some control over what is happening in some sector of the economy.
For media wannabes Missouri is a great choice. For Finance New York City is a great choice. For politics, Washington DC is a good choice. For health San Francisco is a great choice. For TV movies music Hollywood Los Angeles is a great choice. For SHTF EMP CME electronics cyber Illinois Purdue Michigan is a great choice. For any field you need to go to reasonably ranked university, starting with a bachelors degree. Much knowledge does not filter down to the lower ranked universities. Nowadays there is no excuse for not being educated because the university system has huge resources so that somebody who really wants to learn can find a pathway to the needed knowledge and skills. The harder classes almost always have lots of vacancies. Sheeple take easy classes at easy colleges and don't learn much.
Plus everybody needs basic training on how to avoid deflation of health and wealth. That requires some college level classes in science and business -- more than what is required for a bachelors degree.
Older people can do brain work better if they exercise enough to grow their brain. They have better work habits and less distractions.
I have always been astonished in important seminars, meetings, classes, trade shows that almost nobody shows up. The top 1% run the economy and government because nobody else does anything. Only a few percent even notice what is going on. This was called apathy back in the 1960s. The rich 1% win because of apathy of the 99% poor sheeple. Evil can easily triumph if good men do nothing. Those with good intentions and functioning brain should sell everything, move into their SUV and drive to where they can do their best work.
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Ron wrote:
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> Having worked as a licensed professional investigator I prefer obtaining information from honest sources preferably first hand accounts who are oriented 3x and not from those "producing the news."
Saturday, November 14, 2015
neighbors at war
Fight terrorists bury $$$$ avoid camgrounds
Empty campgrounds everywhere - crowds come in the summer when it is hot and humid.
Friday, November 13, 2015
SHTF by NYU Professor Martin Blaser microbes
*Starred Review* You share your body with a vast population of microorganisms. Ten trillion human cells coexist with 100 trillion bacterial cells. The human microbiome—an elaborate ecology of microbes on us and within us—plays a major role in health, especially immunity and metabolism. But this collection of mostly pacifistic and beneficial species of bacteria that coevolved with human beings is increasingly endangered—by excessive use of antibiotics in humans and farm animals, overutilization of antiseptics and sanitizers, and the rising rate of cesarean sections. Blaser, an infectious-disease expert and researcher at NYU, is convinced that the swelling number of people with obesity, asthma, and esophageal reflux is a consequence of disrupting the microbiome. He warns that even short-term use of unnecessary antibiotics in children can have long-term implications. Antibiotics have been available for almost 70 years and have saved countless lives. Surprisingly, however, around 70 percent of antibiotics in use are allotted to livestock to promote growth and fatten them up. Human microecology is complex, even paradoxical: the bacteria Helicobacter pylori can make folks ill (ulcers and stomach cancer) and keep them well (protection against GERD, asthma, and esophageal cancer). Blaser's Missing Microbes is a masterful work of preventive health and superb science writing. --Tony MiksanekA critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expertTracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research while revealing the damage that overuse of antibiotics is doing to our health: contributing to the rise of obesity, asthma, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. InMissing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now, this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances―antibiotics―threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences. Taking us into both the lab and deep into the fields where these troubling effects can be witnessed firsthand, Blaser not only provides cutting edge evidence for the adverse effects of antibiotics, he tells us what we can do to avoid even more catastrophic health problems in the future."The weight of evidence behind Dr. Blaser's cautions about antibiotics is overwhelming." ―The New York Times
"Unlike some books on medicine and microbes, Dr. Blaser's doesn't stir up fears of exotic diseases or pandemic 'superbugs' resistant to all known drugs. He focuses on a simpler but more profound concern: the damage that modern life inflicts on the vast number of microbes that all of us, even healthy people, carry inside us at all times." ―The Wall Street Journal
"Missing Microbes presents a surprisingly clear perspective on a complex problem." ―Philadelphia Inquirer
"In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat of antibiotic overuse goes far beyond resistant infections." ―Nature
"Readable and challenging, Missing Microbes provides a stimulus with which to probe existing dogma." ―Science
"Blaser presents a sensible plan for reclaiming our microbial balance and avoiding calamity both as a society...and on an individual level." ―Discover
"Missing Microbes blazes a new trail." ―The Huffington Post
"An engrossing examination of the relatively unheralded yet dominant form of life on Earth." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Blaser's Missing Microbes is a masterful work of preventative health and superb science writing." ―Booklist (starred review)
"Credit Blaser for displaying the wonders and importance of a vast underworld we are jeopardizing but cannot live without." ―Kirkus
"Missing Microbes adds a new frontier towards understanding vastly underappreciated key contributions of the human microbiome to health and human disease. As a world leader in defining the microbiome, Dr. Blaser explains how disturbing its natural balance is affecting common conditions such as obesity and diabetes, long thought of as primarily nutrition and lifestyle related problems. Blaser's carefully and convincingly written book outlines new dimensions that need to be considered in fighting a number of common diseases and in promoting health and well-being." ―Richard Deckelbaum, Director, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University
"In a world that turns to antibiotics for every infection of the ear, sinuses, or skin, Dr. Blaser makes even the most nervous parent think twice about giving her child these ubiquitous drugs. Dr. Blaser contends that the excessive use of antibiotics--especially in children--is at the root of our most serious emerging modern maladies, from asthma and food allergies to obesity and certain cancers. He walks us through the science behind his theories and examines the duality of microbes, both as essential agents of good health and perpetrators of sickness. At a time when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is campaigning for more judicious use of antibiotics, Dr. Blaser delivers a thoughtful, well-written and compelling case for why doctors need to be more cautious about prescribing these medications and why consumers should consider alternatives before taking them." ―Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH, Commissioner of Health, New York
"Dr. Blaser's credibility as a world class scientist and physician makes this exploration of our body's microbial world particularly provocative. Missing Microbeswill make you rethink some fundamental ideas about infection. Blaser's gift is to write clearly and to take the reader on a fascinating journey through the paradoxes and insights about the teeming world within us." ―Abraham Verghese MD, author of Cutting for Stone
"I have often wondered why kids today seem to have such a high incidence of asthma, ear infections, allergies, reflux esophagitis and so many other conditions that I rarely saw growing up. This mystery has been solved by the pioneering work of Dr. Marty Blaser and is communicated brilliantly in Missing Microbes. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of this book to your own health, the health of your children and grandchildren and to the health of our country. Missing Microbes is truly a must read." ―Arthur Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet
"We live today in a world of modern plagues, defined by the alarming rise of asthma, diabetes, obesity, food allergies, and metabolic disorders. This is no accident, argues Dr. Blaser, the renowned medical researcher: the common link being the destruction of vital bacteria through the overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics.Missing Microbes is science writing at its very best--crisply argued and beautifully written, with stunning insights about the human microbiome and workable solutions to an urgent global crisis." ―David M. Oshinsky, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story
"Why is it that you are fat, your son has asthma, and your 13-year-old daughter is six feet tall? Dr. Blaser says your bodies are missing vital, beneficial bacteria and I guarantee that after reading this book you will agree. Take a pass on the antibiotics and read Missing Microbes." ―Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations
About the Author
Dr. Martin Blaser has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for over 30 years. He is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at NYU. He founded the Bellevue Literary Review and has been written about in newspapers including The New Yorker, Nature, The New York Times,The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. His more than 100 media appearances include The Today Show, GMA, NPR, the BBC, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN. He lives in New York City.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
SUV for Survival. Library
Peace, Lothar
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
64 thunderbird. fight drugs, banks, terrorists, liberal government spending, ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
I cured arthritis
old versus new cars
Solar Ford Auto San Francisco Lifestyle Chronicle newspaper article
Don't be a dead sheeple Get rid of wifi iPad cell phones computers.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/cellphone-emf-wifi-health-risks-scientists-letter
Scores of Scientists Raise Alarm About the Long-Term Health Effects of Cellphones
Are government officials doing enough to protect us from the potential long-term health effects of wearable devices and cellphones? Maybe not.
A letter released today, signed by 195 scientists from 39 countries, calls on the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), and national governments to develop stricter controls on these and other products that create electromagnetic fields (EMF).
"Based on peer-reviewed, published research, we have serious concerns regarding the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to EMF generated by electric and wireless devices," reads the letter, whose signatories have collectively published more than 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on the subject.
"The various agencies setting safety standards have failed to impose sufficient guidelines to protect the general public, particularly children who are more vulnerable to the effects of EMF."
For decades, some scientists have questioned the safety of EMF, but their concerns take on a heightened significance in the age of ubiquitous wifi routers, the Internet of Things, and the advent of wearable technologies like the Apple Watch and Fitbit devices, which remain in close contact with the body for extended periods.
low-quality and industry-funded studies tended not to associate cellphone use with a heightened risk of tumors, while high-quality and foundation- or public-funded studies usually found the opposite result. "This is very much like studying tobacco back in the 1950s," he says. "The industry has co-opted many researchers."
In 2011, Moskowitz consulted for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors after it voted to pass the nation's first right-to-know cellphone ordinance.
The law would have forced retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels emitted by cell phones