Sand Wars: The Sands are Running Out!

It's time to draw a line in the sand because we've had our collective heads buried in this loose material consisting of rock or mineral grains for far too long. The impact of this elementary particle on our lives is second to only air and water. I had no idea!

Yes, I knew that sand is melted and transformed into glass, that it's crucial to the computer industry, and, of course, to the sabbaticals we take to rest and recreate, but I had no idea that it's the foundation of our modern development, our infrastructure, our way of life. From highways and habitats--reinforced concrete is two-thirds sand-- to cleaning products to cosmetics to food and wine to you name it, sand is at the core.

The construction of one average house takes 200 tons of sand; hospital takes 3,000 tons of sand; each km of highway takes 30,000 tons of sand, and construction of a nuclear plant requires 12 million tons of sand. That's a hell of a lot of sand! This kind of demand has created the never spoken of sand wars, sand mafias, and most important of all, to environmental damage the likes of which we've never seen.

No, the following documentary has absolutely nothing to do with "flat earth". So please do not disregard if you are not a "flat earther"; it's far too important. Having said that, I am very grateful to him for uploading this all important documentary.

So Watch! and then follow it up by reading Sand Wars: True Crimes Against Nature at Clint Richardson's Reality Blog and discover that the situation is much worse than even this documentary depicts.

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Exposing REDD: The Agenda to Privatize Nature.

REDD+ claims to be a climate and deforestation solution, a pillar of the so-called "Green Economy."  In reality REDD+ constitutes a worldwide land grab and giant carbon offset scam to profit northern industrialized nations.  

The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+ And For Life  claim the "green economy" is:

“ ….. nothing more than capitalism of nature; a perverse attempt by corporations, extractive industries and governments to cash in on Creation by privatizing, commodifying, and selling off the Sacred and all forms of life and the sky, including the air we breathe, the water we drink and all the genes, plants, traditional seeds, trees, animals, fish, biological and cultural diversity, ecosystems and traditional knowledge that make life on Earth possible and enjoyable.

“ ….. Under the green economy, even the rain, the beauty of a waterfall or a honey bee’s pollen will be reduced to a barcode price tag and sold to the highest bidder. At the same time, the green economy promotes and greenwashes environmentally and socially devastating extractive industries like logging, mining and oil drilling as “sustainable development.

Watch the video below to get the real story of REDD, the deceptive climate ‘solution’ being proposed in California and being implemented within the UN climate negotiations and the World Bank. It sounds good on paper, but the reality is that REDD enforces the global colonization of Mother Earth; allows the polluting industry to expand its toxic emissions creating local toxic hotspots in faraway places; and creates a stolen future for Indigenous peoples, local forest dependent communities, communities living next door to a fossil fuel polluting industry, and a stolen future for the environment and all life.

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Nurture allows what nature endows.

Check out the Born This Way Blog.

A photo/essay project for gay adults (of all genders) to submit childhood pictures and stories (roughly ages 2 to 12), reflecting memories and early beginnings of their innate LGBTQ selves. Nurture allows what nature endows. And it's their nature, their truth!

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Bill Gates, the Billionaires and Apocalyptic Philanthropy

In lieu of the bizarre weather we've experienced as of late, it may be of some interest to know that the United States government is conducting, at the very least, 66 geoengineering, and weather modification experiments in the western states, as well as in  Mexico and Canada according to NOAA.   However, "most are not listed due to their experimental nature, military classification, university experiments, and failures to notify NOAA by various states, counties, cities, weather modification companies, and private individuals and corporations who may all modifying your weather".

For instance, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG E) is conducting a weather modification program in Plymouth County, California, where they are enhancing the snow in one of the regions.  How do they enhance the snow?  Well, the electric company seeds the clouds, using chemicals such as acetone, silver iodide, etc.  That has created snow in the area...so much snow, in fact,  that it has inconvenienced and cost the community money to plow themselves out.  Not only that, the health effects are starting to show up, leaving many in the community, very ill. Because, what seeds the clouds, eventually falls to earth. 

That's not all. There is the ripple effect. The communities nearby are suffering from drought, low water levels, rationing, low crop yields, etc. Even small-scale weather modification that promotes rain or snow in one area, will always occur at the detriment of another area.  Nevertheless, many of these programs are not small -- they are massive, such as the one based out of Idaho, a state that's 83,000 square miles, but the specific program is  modifying 178,000 square miles!

Here's the thing. There are no laws governing weather modification.  Any uber-wealthy idiot, can hire any company it wants to conduct one, or many of these weather modification experiments, for any reason. Which brings us to Bill Gates, who is, in addition to vaccinating the world down to zero, funds all types of weather modification endeavors, such as, cloud whitening programs (adding finely milled salt into man-made clouds to make them brighter in order to reflect the sunlight away from the earth), hurricane modification, and several more precipitation enhancement, Solar Radiation Management (controlling sunlight before it reaches the planet), and water management programs just to name a few.

Texas is the # 1 weather modified state (followed by CA, CO, UT, WY) in the US, with its many associations: West Texas Weather Modification Association in San Angelo;  South Texas Weather Modification Association in San Antonio;  Southwest Rain Enhancement Association; the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District (Cloud seeding operations); Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA); Trans Pecos Weather Modification Association; Southern Ogallala Aquifer Rain (SOAR) Program, etc., which might explain Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has introduced a bill - every year since 2005 - that allows anyone to mitigate or modify your weather without public notification, consent, oversight or debate. The last one, U.S. Senate Bill S601, was not passed in 2010, thanks to Rosalind Peterson's successful lobbying efforts, but it is highly likely that Senator Hutchison will again introduce this bill in the Senate in 2011. This bill could also be added as an amendment to other legislation and passed. The implication for agriculture, watersheds, water supplies, and who will receive the benefits or the negative consequences are hidden from public view.

So, what's the motive, here? Well, profit and power, of course. Specifically, the untapped potential of water privatization - corporate control of water access. And, how do you make something profitable? Create scarcity.  Not to mention the global warming scheme that will result in a multi-trillion dollar industry. Then, there is the weaponization of weather. The U.S. Military has been involved in weather modification for half a century, and the extent to which they have progressed is still unknown.

"Water, thou hast no taste, no colour, no odour; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself ... Of the riches that exist in the world, thou art the rarest and also the most delicate thou so pure within the bowels of the earth!". - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Links:

U.S. NAVY 5-YEAR WARFARE TESTING PROGRAMS A NEW THREAT TO THE PACIFIC, GULF OF MEXICO and ATLANTIC MARINE MAMMALS

Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

Agricultural Defense Coalition

‘‘Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2009’’.

Weather Modification Operations in California October 1, 1969 - September 30, 1970

Privatization Tidal Wave IMF/World Bank Water Policies and the Price Paid by the Poor

Why Big Banks May Be Trying to Buy up Your Public Water System

World Bank Water Privatization Policies Benefit Corporations, Not Developing Countries

Weather Modification Laws in the USA

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Cool Interactive Health Map and Mapping Disease Hotspots

Health Map: Global disease alert map is really cool! It can be used like Google Map, and you can choose the map, satellite or hybrid view. To get to a part of the world, use one of the links at the top of the map to zoom in by content and/or region.


There are four separate menus that provide options for customization.


Below the map, you’ll see a slider that lets you display alerts by date range. You’ll also see a bar labeled “Heat Index,” that includes the spectrum from yellow to red.

* Marker color represents a composite score based on the recency of alerts, the number of disease outbreaks, and the number of sources providing information at a particular location. Our algorithm applies an exponential weighting, yielding increased heat (redness) for more recent outbreak news.

* The source of the alert is represented by an icon next to the alert headline.

* The square-shaped marker icon indicates a country-level marker, while state, province and local markers are round . We currently have administrative divisions and some major cities for USA, UK, Canada, China, India, Australia, Mexico and Russia, with more coming soon.







Use check boxes to select news feeds and different diseases. The third menu provides links that allow you to display alerts by country. The menu at the bottom offers links to the full text of the most recent alerts, displayed in a separate, smaller window.

HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.

Below is a world map highlighting hot spots for diseases passed from animals to humans.


Researchers say that areas in which humans and animals come in very close contact are a key grounds for emerging diseases. Above,
Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, SARS, HIV and avian influenza are on the rise around the world, researchers report in the journal Nature.

The team found that the developing world was a key ground for emerging diseases, especially in areas in which humans and animals are in very close contact.

"These maps show that the key threat to public health is where human population growth and wildlife diversity clash," says Peter Daszak, one of the authors of the report.

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