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Automation is inevitable. This appears to have the awesome benefit of minimising the use of chemicals to grow our food. Figures like 90% less or a twenty times reduction are impressive. Some concern about what old or new formulations this may expose us to. But a reduction in use on this scale is still amazing. Plus if it removes the stranglehold of the likes of monsanto or bayer it could be fantastic.
Neonicotinoid use has increased rapidly in recent years, with a global shift toward insecticide applications as seed coatings rather than aerial spraying. While the use of seed coatings can lessen the amount of overspray and drift, the near universal and prophylactic use of neonicotinoid seed coatings on major agricultural crops has led to widespread detections in the environment (pollen, soil, water, honey). Pollinators and aquatic insects appear to be especially susceptible to the effects of neonicotinoids with current research suggesting that chronic sublethal effects are more prevalent than acute toxicity. Meanwhile, evidence of clear and consistent yield benefits from the use of neonicotinoids remains elusive for most crops. Future decisions on neonicotinoid use will benefit from weighing crop yield benefits versus environmental impacts to nontarget organisms and considering whether there are more environmentally benign alternatives.
Interesting research about the effects of these neonics that are being discussed currently in Europe
What can we learn about ourselves from the things we ask online? Seth StephensâDavidowitz analysed anonymous Google search data, uncovering disturbing truths about our desires, beliefs and prejudices
A little old but I only just stumbled across this.
I am not a fan of intrusion but this data is anonymised to a point.
That they could track people changing addresses illustrates how invasive this technology still is.
But what an incredible tool to deliver data like this for the first time ever.
How we can create checks and balances so it isnât abused is beyond me.
I am also acutely aware how marketing and political campaigning will be influenced by certain words or phrases now and in the future. A little scary if the will of the people will soon be totally mallable by this kind of in real time analysis.
Australians must decide whether they continue to support coal or whether the future is renewable. Without a doubt, Malcolm Turnbull will be left on the losing side
Interesting watching this develop still.
Seems there is now only one Australian bank in the running to support the plan and there is some form of online protest to pressure them into rejecting investment.
Seems so crazy that the government is so intent on funding this huge mine when the world is moving away and ratifying the climate change agreement and the very nations we are supposedly going to sell it to are slowing down their imports of foreign coal.
This article is another I stockpiled so more recently we have also seen the acceptance of the Tesla battery offer.
Hopefully new technologies will just make things like the carmichael project obsolete before they gain any more traction.
Philip Morris International is using its vast resources against efforts to reduce smoking. Internal company documents reveal details of the secretive operation.
Article also contains link to their searchable database of leaked doccuments.
Personally I am not unapposed to people smoking.
People know it is addicitve and is likely to kill them but I still think that tabacco should be treated like every other drug.
And that is; be available to those over the age of twenty one, taxed and the revenue to targeted at public health initiatives, be banned from any promotional or marketing material and banned from consumption where food is sold.
I remember when it was banned from venues in the UK and suddenly you could smell the sweat and the spilt beer which was not appealing but I can also appreciate how non-smokers would prefer a smoke free social environment so I am in two minds about them social smoking areas.
A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.
I thought this was pretty interesting.
The agreements that tie these farmers to licenced repairs and software patches seem to make life pretty difficult when they require problems to be resolved quickly.
Makes me think a little about what I think will ultimately kill the iphone wher the lack of sharing and the quest to dominate the market will potentially cause their products and base to unravel as they look for better options that work at the individual level.
If you canât access your own music because apple has erased your unique remix is on par with not being able to harvest a field because a patch needs to be authorised by someone who is two days drive away. Different needs, different levels of severity but in each instance you are stuck dude to the proprietary copyright legislation on the device you are using. In the instance of farming though it seems that all liability from using the product, in this case the software loaded into the tractor, has been shrugged off by John Deere as well. So potentially the farmers really can be left in the shit if a catastrophic faliure takes palce at the wrong moment.
Unless you break it and risk becoming a criminal or another product can free you from its constraints.
Adani Group is facing growing pressure to reveal which company in its complex corporate web has applied for a $1 billion subsided loan from the Australian Government, amid fears money could be shifted to a tax haven and investors may have been misled.
This is all so wrong in so many ways.
Tax avoidance, corruption and environmental investigations, contribution to climate change, rising sea levels and ocean acidifcation, local effects on groundwater extraction and contamination and all leading to potentially countless deaths caused by these exasperated circumstances. Potentially now with any loan money disappearing and never being repaid. Much like any investment in what is likey to become a huge stranded asset.
Watchdog investigates claim that secretive unit worked with Indian police to obtain campaignersâ passwords
Spying on protesters and abuse of powers.
More to come as the new legislation makes its way through unless some action from Europe makes all this stuff illegal.
But then with Brexit all that might get taken on the table as the fascists try to scrap our human rights.
That was up from $1.6 billion the last cycle.
Going back a little again as I link to the backlogue of articles Iâve collected as I travel.
Just shows how disastrous the Citizens United decision was now that all this money can pour in practically unregulated to impact on democracy.
Women and girls from low income households in parts of Aberdeen will be offered free sanitary products.
Maybe Scotland will become one of the first nations to not tax women simply because they get a period.
Finally someone talking sense on an issue of great importance that even our political elected representatives seem ignorant about.
Lobby Planet, our new guide to corporate lobbying in Brussels, is out now!
Lobbying uncovered, or at least the authorised version of bribery.
Direct download link is available from the page this links to.
To me it seems totally crazy that this can still happen within politics in the 21st Century.
Itâs great that organisations like Corporate Europe Observatory are releasing investigative reports like this for the publicâs attention.
Nearly half (46%) of all experts sitting on the scientific panels of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) still are in a direct and/ or indirect financial conflict of interest situation with the agribusiness and food industries, Corporate Europe Observatory's new report âRecruitment Errorsâ shows. EFSA's Management Board is to adopt new independence rules on 21 June 2017, but the draft policy is not sufficient despite repeated criticism from the European Parliament. The report concludes with recommendations for improvements.
Corruption and vested interests within the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
I wonder how this compares across our other elected representatives in government and regulatory bodies?
Scott Ritter takes on White House Syria attack claims.
Another excellent piece that questions the false narrative being peddled by the media and their front organisation the white hemets.
I think this white helmet organisation should be investigated and maybe criminal charges brought against it for spreading blatant lies and fabrication of evidence.
There were other articles that expose the funding this group get and the end goal of regime change is obviously something that has been sanctioned at the top level of various governments.
Running with this narrative both governments and the media are complicit.
On top of the exploitation of this tragedy it is pretty low to paint the Syrian and Russian governments in such a light when they gave us pre-warning through the usual channels to minimise any casualties to our own personel.
What a fucked up supposed civilisation we live in.
Why 8 June, 2017 is a date after which streets should be named.
One can hope that we have come through to realise the power of the fascist press is decaying.
One too can hope that the politicians who may have held a moral standing if they werenât cowering in fear of the media backlash can now stand up tall and strong and speak their mind.
We know labour didnât win a majority but Corbyn won the largest swing seen since the war pretty much and in the face of all the fake news and negative press being churned out my murdoch and his fascist cronies.
It would be good to live in hope instead of fear for a change.
Companies that want to reach the market increasingly have no choice but to ride Amazon's rails.
Makes me wonder why noone has stepped in to dismantle the murdoch empire or those of similar titains like the koch brothers.
People used to worry when tescos in the UK earnt 1 in 7 pounds the public spent. Amazonâs 1 in 2 dollars is a lot more worrying. Pretty freaky the dominance one company can amass.
I used to love amazon until I understood about their tax avoidance and I havenât been back since.
So not only are they corrupting the entire market they are withlding societyâs dues to cover all the infrastructureand public services they reap these benefits from.
President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack.
Some sense in the middle of all the fake news being portrayed by the MSM as fact.
Scary connotations though if bombing campaigns can be launched sans evidence after the UN destroyed the entire Syrian stockpile of gas after the first supposed attack; which again had no concrete evidence to back it up.