John Ward: "THE SATURDAY ESSAY: What else are they manipulating?"
Answer: FOOD PRICESToo much food costing too much money is killing people Sector by sector, the truth is at last trickling out: ICAP, Libor, Gold, Currency values, oil…..none of them are natural...
View ArticleBill Oddie (naturalist): HSBC funding ecological destruction in Borneo
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View ArticleRidley the GM supporter vs. Ridley the green farmer?
Running with the hare, or the hound?Guy Adams' article yesterday, "The Frankenfood Conspiracy", details the tactics used by the Big Three companies behind genetically modified food.As with so many...
View ArticleMoney is Pouring into Farmland Investments in Africa - But Can They be...
As the average age of populations in western countries continues to creep slowly upwards, institutional investors such as pension funds are increasingly seeking investments that throw off a steady...
View ArticleDoes Monsanto engage in cyber warfare against its critics?
An article by Marianne Falck, Hans Leyendecker and Sylvia Miebrich published in Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitungon 13th July 2013 asks the question. Translation here:...
View ArticleBee deaths linked to pesticides - new study
"Pesticide exposure and pathogens may interact to have strong negative effects on managed honey bee colonies... We collected pollen from bee hives in seven major crops to determine 1) what types of...
View ArticleUpdate on bee deaths
According to Michael Snyder, about a third of US bees were wiped out this year. He goes on to discuss suspected causes and give a long list of important crops that require insect pollination.All...
View ArticleCities - greener and safer than the countryside?
We tend to think of cities as dirty and dangerous, but both these perceptions may need qualification. In a book published earlier this year, William Meyers argues that although high-density population...
View ArticleFukushima radiation: "Don't buy Pacific fish"
One of John Ward's scientific correspondents tells him:"I would also advise your Sloggers, not to buy fish products, salmon, tuna, sushi from the Pacific: as the Caesium plume spreads, the chances of...
View ArticleThe bacterial threat to civilisation
Archdruid Report writer John Michael Greer highlights another major threat to our way of life - the evolution of bacteria (emphases and paragraphing mine):"In the case of the spread of antibiotic...
View ArticleBritain's food security: the future challenge
Land area needed to feed a family of four. Graphic: Dave Llorens (2011)According to this Wikipedia article, for each square kilometre of arable land Russia has 117 people to feed, the US has 179, and...
View ArticleOil, gas and Syria
Mike Shedlock repeats his strong suspicion that the impending incursion into Syria is to do with oil. He illustrates this with a German map of the Transarabian Pipeline which also appears on...
View ArticleAll most offsetting – land developers and nature conservation
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson posted a cheery piece on biodiversity offsetting on the BusinessGreen website this week[1].It’s a masterclass in positive propaganda - teachers, get your students to...
View ArticleArctic freeze, Greenland melt
David Rose writes again in the Mail on Sunday, reporting a 60% increase in North Polar ice cover. Ha ha! That's one in the eye for all you global warming experts, etc.On the other hand, Professor Jason...
View ArticleHoney traps
I like honey, so I tend to notice honey-related stories and it is surprising how much skulduggery there is in the world of honey. Takethese comments from the head of a Derbyshire supplier. "The honey...
View ArticleDavy Jones' garbage
Look beneath your lid some morning,See those things you didn't quite consumeThe world's a can forYour fresh garbage . . .Spirit - Fresh Garbage[1][2] I loved that song when I first heard it in 1968, on...
View ArticleTime to ease the Green Belt a couple of notches?
Professor Paul Cheshire thinks so; I beg to differ, but not because I'm a rich Nimby. Doubtless the Professor knows vastly more than I do, but the debate is taking place on a new site called The...
View ArticleMoney vs. reality
I've just listened to James Howard Kunstler's latest podcast[1], an interview with "ecological economist" Eric Zencey, whose book “The Other Road To Serfdom”[2]came out late last year. I give below a...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: David Rose believes in global warming
David Rose's latest spread in the Mail on Sunday (print edition) begins with a sub-heading revealing the UN IPCC's "astonishing new admission" that, as the inch-high type of the two-page-straddling...
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