tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post3498359610980507606..comments2024-03-27T17:10:55.396-05:00Comments on Johnday's Blog: Common InterestsJohn Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-38762853527037565532020-11-18T20:04:48.938-06:002020-11-18T20:04:48.938-06:00Thanks Bob (Do I know you from college?) This push...Thanks Bob (Do I know you from college?) This pushes the timeline for spread in Europe to BEFORE the Wuhan games in October 2019.<br /><br />"A further SARS-CoV-2 antibodies test was carried out by the University of Siena for the same research titled “Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the pre-pandemic period in Italy”.<br />It showed that four cases dating back to the first week of October were positive for antibodies, meaning they had got infected in September, Giovanni Apolone, a co-author of the study, told Reuters."John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-9631962286456081372020-11-18T13:01:49.698-06:002020-11-18T13:01:49.698-06:00This new info on earlier than suspected CV19 infec...This new info on earlier than suspected CV19 infection in Italy also supports the Ft. Detrick accidental release in June 2019 hypothesis. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-timing/coronavirus-emerged-in-italy-earlier-than-thought-italian-study-shows-idUSKBN27V0KFBob Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00624159419426707134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-77054157379610441572020-04-29T08:28:11.056-05:002020-04-29T08:28:11.056-05:00Hi Wolfgang. I wrote a long, thoughtful reply abou...Hi Wolfgang. I wrote a long, thoughtful reply about food security and the weaponization of global food chains under Kissinger/Nixon/Earl Butz. Squirrels getting all my peaches and plums forever was part of it, too. Poof! It got lost when my internet connection went bad again.<br /> Part of our humanity is to grow our own food and to work with that process throught the seasons and years. I think it has made us what we are as a species, which is not bad. We're not bad critters, but we need to get our context right, not be wage-slaves or fear-slaves, but creative and harmonizing stewards of life.<br />I raised a sad little calf winter of 1972-1973, for Ag. class, barely broke even (Thanks Mr Butz!) and didn't eat mammals much after that.John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-56691315805727769432020-04-28T22:59:15.142-05:002020-04-28T22:59:15.142-05:00One last comment on food. If you want to change t...One last comment on food. If you want to change the way things are going, you can of course vote and hope for the best, but the most subversive thing you can possibly do is to grow your own food, hoping of course that this activity will not be criminalized where you live.Wolfgang Brinckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-38495381223875841952020-04-28T22:54:09.138-05:002020-04-28T22:54:09.138-05:00Another comment on food. Just read an interview so...Another comment on food. Just read an interview somewhere with Michael Hudson, economist. He informs us that the World Bank is one of the most evil things the US has produced. Its task is to use loans to force countries into producing agricultural product for export to the US instead of producing food for its own citizens. Not producing food for their own people forces them to import food for their people from the US. To make sure that the World Bank serfs don't grow food for themselves, the food that the US exports is subsidized to undercut any local competition. I'm not sure of the details, but I notice that down here in Mexico where we are the variety of produce that you can get in stores is rather limited and homogeneous. It appears to be the stuff that Mexico grows for export to the US.<br />The farmers around here still grow their own varieties of corn for themselves. The local varieties are called criollo, that is, creole, or native. <br />It appears that no matter where you live, if you want decent produce, you might just have to grow it yourself.Wolfgang Brinckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-64149985035913232972020-04-28T22:32:00.377-05:002020-04-28T22:32:00.377-05:00Enjoying the photos of your plantings. I've b...Enjoying the photos of your plantings. I've been clicking on the photos, enlarging them and scrolling around, trying to identify the various plants. I think I do pretty well. Gardening is a challenge until you figure out what works where you're at. You of course know that. I have a hard time learning that. I started out gardening in Wisconsin, then moved to California's Bay area with its postage stamp back yards where gardening was near impossible. Then moved to a friend's farm in the Central Valley where we tried to grow tomatoes, squash, melons and beans. The tomatoes worked and the squash. The melons were attacked by gophers and the beans were attacked by quails. When I killed my first gopher, I realized that vegetarianism is an illusion. The majority of animals are vegetarians and when we plant vegetables, we are in competition with our animal friends whom we have to deprive of their sustenance to feed ourselves on vegetables. <br />But I admire your obvious success in your gardening and you seem to have enough acreage to almost sustain yourself if you dry, freeze and can your excess production. <br />Right now, my wife and I are down in Mexico with limited gardening space, trying to learn how to grow plants in a new environment. we are south of the tropic of cancer, so theoretically, we can grown anything year round. Of course not everything will grow year round. It only rains during a third of the year without irrigation, there is only one crop possible, with irrigation you could potentially grow things year round. <br />Trees are also big on producing edibles. Not only are there fruit, but there are also various bean trees that produce edible stuff, like tamarind, parotas, guamuchiles, etc which are all on a seasonal schedule. They are of course on a once a year schedule and you have to get them in season or not at all. In any case, growing your own food is not a trivial matter, so I admire your success.<br />Wolfgang Brinckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com