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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, March 14, 2011

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Mar 9, 2011

We are running out of chemicals

Did you know there will soon be gaps in the Periodic Table? I say gaps, it’s not so much gaps as greyed out boxes where an element has become so scarce that our using it will no longer be a technological option. I’ve written about materials security before but the issue was raised by The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, which is currently in the middle of an inquiry into strategically important metals.

According to the Chemistry World blog as part of that inquiry, David Willetts MP was summoned to give evidence. When asked to clarify what he was referring to when he talked about ‘rare earths’, the minister brandished a copy of this article from Chemistry World. Of course, he didn’t mean only rare earths as chemists know them, but rare elements.
The article to which he referred is by Emma Davies and highlighted a periodic table showing which metals and non-metals are endangered elemental species. The original version of that PT can be seen here. Many of the elements will remain relatively abundant, among them silicon, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and iron. But, some are on the seriously endangered list including helium, germanium, hafnium, neodymium.
The Chemistry Innovation page gives some examples of elements that may become increasingly scarce over the next few decades:

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Science,History,Knowledge


Is human history true or 'modelled' to belief?

Friday, 4. March, 13:01 Forbidden Archaeology - the Mysterious Origins of Man

Shamanic Sound Healing - an Introduction

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Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami

 

Buzzflash

Scott Walker Will "Open the State up to a Corporate Asset-grab Not Seen Since the Robber Barons"

Madness in Madtown

The Dream Team in Madison: Unions, Progressives and Young People Jubilantly Celebrate Democracy, 100,000 Strong

 

Koch Brothers Increased Wealth by $9 Billion Last Year As They Fund Laws to Make Working Class Poore
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Scott Walker Would Rather a Woman Die Than Have an Abortion That Could Save Her: It's True | BuzzFla
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WI Senate GOP Leader Admits Goal Is To Hurt Obama in 2012 | BuzzFlash.org
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A Liberal Finally Ends a Love Affair With Obama | BuzzFlash.org
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Scott Walker Even Lies About the Cost of Democracy | BuzzFlash.org
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Wisconsin is Not Your Father’s “Culture Wars” - It’s a Right Wing “Cultural Revolution” | BuzzFlash
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Says Walker is Lying About an Electoral Mandate to End Collective Bargain
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What Do Wisconsin Protesters Have in Common with Iraqis? | BuzzFlash.org
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Examiner.com - Toronto

We are the military children of the Canadian Armed Forces


In the Collective Society, the concept and belief system is “team” and citizens strive to maintain goals together.  In an Individualist Society, it is more or less, “every man for himself”, however.  Canada, like Europe, follows the Collective Society Belief System.  In fact, you can hear this in our Canadian military children’s voice(s) in their individual interviews with Deborah Ellis, author of Off to War: some excerpts, of which, have been utilized. They think team, problem solving and resolution:
....They also think collectively in that they are concerned about the “cultural norms” in Afghanistan being particularly zeroed in on gender differences and the oppression of females in the Afghanistan society.


(  I hear echoes of  'We Are the Borg, Resistance is Futile' in this - and dad flew in the RCAF...in wartime Battle of Britain.  I had a few years of Army Cadets myself.  The predominant feature I expect they will find in the sandbox is extreme poverty, chronic starvation and misery. And you solve this with a gun ?  Oh...the cemetery.)

Mental Health risks for the military wife

“Researchers studied 250,000 Army wives. Two-thirds of the women in the study had spouses that had been deployed between 2003 and 2006. More than 36 percent of women with deployed husbands had at least one mental health diagnosis. That risk factor was compared to the 30.5 percent of wives with spouses not deployed who had mental health issues.”


Being a mother in the military, be it a wife, solider, or mother of a military soldier indeed carries with it its psychological and psychosocial stressors.

PRESS Core

UN ordered depopulation of 3 billion people by food malnutrition has started.

While investigating the WHO and UN role in the biological weapons attack called the A-H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic of 2009, criminal intelligence (CI) agents from Canada and the US have stumbled upon a covert and sinister plan to kill off as many as 3 billion people by food malnutrition. The organization that is responsible for preparing for the murder of 3 billion people is called the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It was established in 1963 by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Their officially stated purpose is to develop international food standards to protect consumer health and to facilitate fair trading practices in foods. Today, there are 181 member governments including Canada. CI agents have uncovered the real purpose of this WHO / UN organization – to murder 3 billion people. How will they murder some 3 billion people?
It was Henry Kissinger, who in 1974 conceived the idea of the food genocide to control world population – less people to consume world resources – more for the rich nations (elites) to exploit the sources of the world to satisfy their greed. On December 10, 1974 the US National Security Council under Henry Kissinger prepared a classified study ‘National Security Study Memorandum 200 (Full text of NSSM 200 (governmental source – pdf file)) – which falsely claimed that the worldwide population growth poses a great threat to US national security interests.

UN trade agreements and WHO health moratoriums will forbid any country from selling and exporting any food to targeted regions for depopulation. Starvation of 3 billion people has already begun as the United States has been using its weapon of mass destruction called HAARP to control, alter and intensify the weather of the targeted nations.

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Frustrated Crowd To NY Fed Chief: 'I Can't Eat An iPad'
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New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley on Friday tried to calm people's nerves about rising food prices by reminding them that other products -- like iPads -- are getting cheaper. "Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs...
'The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies.

Chris Hedges | Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand
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Let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science and become a source of personal enrichment. Let unions wither under corporate assault. Let social services and public education be stripped of funding.

GORDON DUFF: ASSANGE ADMITS WIKILEAKS A FRAUD RUN BY PRESS FOR ISRAEL : Veterans Today
www.veteranstoday.com
Today, Julian Assange admitted that Wikileak material had been chosen by the press, not an independent organization after all. Wikileaks, in effect, admitted that it has always been a front for what Helen Thomas refers to as the Zionist controlled media. Assange, in a childish attempt at “spin” bl

Japan earthquake: eye-witness records tsunami destroying town in under 7 minutes
www.telegraph.co.uk
Amateur footage demonstrates the frightening speed with which Friday's tsunami destroyed the city of Kesennuma, Japan.

Cover Up Of Fukushima Chain Reaction Underway
www.infowars.com
All the nuclear reactors at the earthquake stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are under threat of melting down & exploding in a chain reaction that will signify the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster & send clouds of radioactive particles hurtling towards the United States–that’s the scale of the cri...

Greg Palast | Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants
www.truth-out.org
The fact that residents near the Japanese nuclear plants were not issued iodine pills to keep at the ready shows TEPCO doesn't care who lives and who dies, whether in Japan or the USA. The carcinogenic isotopes that are released at Fukushima are already floating to Seattle with effects we simply can...
In Lies We Trust - Full Movie.wmv
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Are we winning the wars officials say we must? Wars against cancer, AIDS and terrorism? Hollywood films and health officials herald happy endings, but family and friends everywhere are ill and getting sicker, fatter, more depressed, and broke popping pills and paying medical bills. Now officia

Alex Jones Exposed
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FTF Films: Conscious Orb of Light [Japan Tsunami 2011]
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Orbs, bright balls of light, have been amazing people around the world since they have been appearing in photographs. Orbs appear in a variety of different shapes, sizes and colors. Orbs have been captured outdoors, indoors, in churches, schools, businesses, homes, construction sites, burial grounds

DU = Depleted Uranium Poisoning = Gulf War Syndrome
internationalpeace.info
WARNING: This DU (depleted uranium) channel requires adult supervision and is VERY DISTURBING! In Iraq, parents stopped asking if it's a boy or a girl. They ask if it's normal.
The 10 Rules For Being Human.
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‎'The 10 Rules For Being Human' From The Book 'If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules.' By Cherie Carter-Scott Created By Lo (Enigmaress). Rule One - You will receive a body. Whether you love it or hate it, it's yours for life, so accept it. What counts is what's inside. Rule Two
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