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Loading ...Now that Rand supposedly got rid of NSA recording phone calls although other parts coming up don’t know if he’ll be active. Maybe they can ” secretly ” get rid of chemtrails next. Since its something we can see if they are or not ” so far anyways” that might take awhile.
I’m not sure who to hat tip this to…ipso (cause this his groove), scruff, RNO, wank, BG…I’m so confused…
Thanks for posting it. That new growth looks very substantial to me. Certainly nothing to be ashamed of. It has been many years now since I’ve seen our stand so I imagine with thinning etc it has become a small forest rather than a substantial trial. Occasionally we would get a weevil that would destroy that new growth, but only occasionally and only the odd tree. Seems it was root collar weevil but maybe not since they normally only attack close to the roots. Just too many years in the past for me to remember accurately now. When whatever weevil it was that attacked, it killed the new growth and the tree would then sometimes form several tops creating a bushy effect from previous growth but I think might have also ruined the tree for future timber.
Dollars to donuts, he is peeing on that bush after his Viagra wore off.
Chemtrails had a day off…
A lot of things coming to a head. If this turns out to be a tumultuous year it won’t surprise me.
Cheers
If nothing else, it will be interesting to see how it all plays out this year!
Jim Willie: “The dollar will not survive the year.”
http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-us-dollar-will-not-survive-2015/
I saw some blue sky today.
or did they gobble someone price fishing? Maybe the fisherman didn’t expect that they’d come and get him. munch.
Or someone reloading a bear position?
Nice to see either way
Just pure dumb luck – guess I had an angel on my shoulder …. just two weeks before he did that , I got nervous because my former employer’s 401K plan was put in the hands of a bank which made moving from one fund to another very tedious . I decided to roll over the 401K into a self directed IRA , and being a long time goldbug , put a lot of that into AEM , and other HUI miners . I was also an Apple fan at the time and I think I was buying APPL for around $7 a share ( pre-split ) later that year . Then I got disgusted with APPL insider politics and sold . BIG mistake !
But the miners did well for me for several years . Now poorer but maybe wiser – stayed in the PM’s too long , then bought the dips ( read : caught lots of falling knives and lost fingers ).
Still hold too many juniors , but one day ………..
I found serenity and peace this morning by observing this spring’s leader growth on my planted Sitka spruce. Maybe not as spectacular as the leader growth you could achieve on your spruce provenances in the Skeena/Telkwa drainages, but respectable spring growth nonetheless. 
Monsanto GMOs Defeated by Oregon Organic Farmers as Federal Judge Upholds Seed Ban
A coalition of Oregon organic farmers has beaten Monsanto—the corporate agriculture giant—in a landmark federal lawsuit that will make national waves by the way that their rural county banned the use of genetically modified seeds.
On Friday, Mark D. Clarke, a federal magistrate judge, dismissed a legal challenge brought by commercial farmers who use Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa seeds. The non-organic farms sought to overturn a 2014 ordinance passed by Jackson County voters that banned the use of such seed stock, claiming that the anti-GMO ordinance violated their right to farm.
However Judge Clarke concluded that exactly the opposite was the case. He held that the county’s no-GMO seed ordinance could take effect next week, citing earlier state legislation that protected commercial farms—in this case organic farmers—from harm from other commercial enterprises, such as the commercial farms whose GMO-laced alfalfa pollen gets carried by the wind and can’t be stopped from tainting organic crops.
“Farmers have always been able to bring claims against other farmers for practices that cause actionable damage to their commercial agriculture products,” Clarke wrote. “The Ordinance, by contrast, is enacted pursuant to section 30.935 [of state law], and serves to prevent such damage before it happens.”
The victory by Our Family Farms Coalition is notable in many regards. To start, Jackson County passed its ordinance before agribusiness giants successfully lobbied the Oregon legislature to pass a law banning counties from adopting this form of anti-GMO seed law. In contrast to many other anti-GMO campaigns across the country, Jackson County didn’t focus on requiring food labels to identify GMO ingredients—which federal courts repeatedly have thrown out as violating a food maker’s commercial speech rights. Instead, activists focused on barring the use of GMO seeds in the county, affecting only a few farms, as a way to ensure that crops and seeds produced on many more organic farms were not sullied.
“your niece’s daughter”
Nice to have practical skills!
Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue”…
Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world.
It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption is undermining science.
The editor in chief of Lancet, Richard Horton, wrote last month:
Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity [i.e. pervasiveness within the scientific culture] of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale. We reject important confirmations. Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster reductive metrics, such as high-impact publication. National assessment procedures, such as the Research Excellence Framework, incentivise bad practices. And individual scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally veers close to misconduct.
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Part of the problem is that no-one is incentivised to be right.
Similarly, the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, wrote in 2009:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
In her must-read essay, Dr. Angell skewers drug companies, university medical departments, and medical groups which set the criteria for diagnosis and treatment as being rotten with corruption and conflicts of interest.
And we’ve previously documented that the government sometimes uses raw power to cover up corruption in the medical and scientific fields.
Postscript: Corruption is not limited to the medical or scientific fields. Instead, corruption has become systemic throughout every profession … and is so pervasive that it is destroying the very fabric of America.
That’s always true about being out of city exceptaybe stupid autocorrect mean except for education which is important esp for girls but the boys too or could get in trouble they seem to be lacking in many of those areas. Good thing is they will keep food in the freezer. My nieces daughter about 11 last year baged her first buck. Now that’s a bit of meat in the freezer.
Well I’d make sure it isn’t that one and don’t like the sound of that. Just what if you were still going at that time and something started going wrong. The older you get the harder it is sometimes on things like your heart. Think I’m gonna look for bone supplements now.
…..but does it mean that all the wildlife has gone up in smoke?? Close to it I think!!
It’s a case of man plans and God smiles. Is anything man does good?? I’m beginning to wonder. I believe the hip replacement surgery done here, if I live so long (lol), is metal with a nylon or plastic cup between the metal ball and socket, with an expectation of it lasting at least 15-20 years. That’ll do me unless I have to wait 15-20 years before my surgery comes. LOL!!! ;o(
