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        Climate-related threats to global food production include risks to grain, vegetable, and fruit crops, livestock, and fisheries.         Reduced yields . The productivity of crops and livestock, including milk yields, may decline because of high temperatures and drought-related stress. Increased irrigation . Regions of the world that now depend on rain-fed agriculture may require irrigation, bringing higher costs and conflict over access to water. Planting and harvesting changes . Shifting seasonal rainfall patterns and more severe precipitation events—and related flooding—may delay planting and harvesting. Decreased arability . Prime growing temperatures may shift to higher latitudes, where soil and nutrients may not be as suitable for producing crops, leaving lower-latitude areas less productive. More pests . Insect and plant pests may survive or even reproduce more often each year if cold winte...

     commondreams.org has summaries of a lot of sustainable food articles. They mostly deal with people returning to the land to live more like people did 100 years ago. They claim that traditional farming techniques can sequester CO2, improve the fertility of the soil and provide more nutritious food that tastes better as well as improve the yield of the land. It seems that this is satisfying way to live and provides meaning as well as helping others. It tends to reduce the need for external inputs (commercial fertilizer, pesticides, fossil fuels, etc.).    Sort of solves a lot of problems like providing meaningful work for lots of people. Still they do not directly deal with the amount of fossil fuel used to produce our food. John Steinhart in the 1970's at U of Wisconsin determined that the subsidy is about 10 to 1. That is 10 calories of fossil fuel for every 1 calorie of food produced. This number is mentioned at times by others, (but not...

    President Obama is set to deliver his Farewell Address on Tuesday. The address will be at the Chicago McCormick Place,  Close to Lake Michigan.    Tickets are free and thousand stood in line in brutal winter weather to get their ticket.    Some of the free tickets are offered for sale on many web sites. What a surprise.  

  The Russians are in it deeper than we ever suspected. The #BLM VIDEO  showing A Trump supporter being treat like a Gitmo detainee. Is An obvious Russian plot.  This level of enhanced interrogation is the result of years of KGB training and not the random acts of 4 south Chicago youth.   The video feed over face book was no rookie mistake but the fastest way to reach Russia's target audience.   Watch for more in the future as Putin knows no bounds in his quest for Fame and Fortune.

  For has scraped it's 1.6 billion dollar plat in Mexico. Instead it plans to invest 700,000.00 in a plant in Michigan. Ford sight new federal tax structure and other factors for the change of hart.   Ford said it would build new electric, hybrid and autonomous vehicles at the Flat Rock, Michigan plant and add 700 jobs.    "There was no quid pro quo because there was no negotiation" with Trump over the decision to cancel the plant, "This is a vote of confidence for President-Elect Trump and some of the policies he may be pursuing," Fields said.   Ford shares rose 3.3 percent to $12.54, up $0.41 a share, while the Mexican peso fell  to touch its weakest level in seven weeks. Source and additional details

Christine Todd Whitman former Bush EPA Head is todays establishment example. "To walk away from something where you have 97% of scientists saying this is occurring and people have an impact on it … it's gotten to the point where we've got to try to slow it down if we're going to survive it." "I worry terribly for the future of my family and families round the world because Mother Nature has never observed geopolitical boundaries and what one country does really does affect another country."   "We want to have power and be energy independent but the problem is doing it in a balanced way to protect health and the environment. But from Trump's view it doesn't seem to enter the equation." And she warned that his threat to scrap climate protection policies puts the world's future at risk. source for quotes.    BBC America.  

 Russia is to blame for every thing that goes wrong anymore. Hillary Clinton losses last fall blame the Russians. Vermont electric grid targeted by Russia.  And on and on.   Putin is out to do what is best for Russia and Putin. Shocker I know. It has always be this way and always will be.  Trump is exactly the same so what's the big deal? Trump has demonstrated a willingness to work with Putin. Exactly why is up for debate. The latest theory is Trump is playing Russia up in order counter China.  The get tuff with Putin/Russia crowd are playing world politics by the old rules. Trump uses his own rules. Will they work is any ones guess. Are Trumps rules likely to lead to nuclear Armageddon? Not likely at all. Putin has no desire to go down in a nuclear exchange with the US. Putin seeks power, wealth and fame not an advancement of a political ideology.   Christine Todd Whitman former EPA Head for Bush 41 Is scared to death of T...

   A Pennsylvania city is dishing it out to satellite TV dishes. Easton Pennsylvania's City Council passed a resolution requiring the removal of TV dishes with in 30 days after the service is disconnected.     The Express-Times of Easton reports that Councilman David O'Connell sponsored Wednesday night's measure because the leftover dishes are unsightly and could create a safety problem.      Penalties allow for a ticket of $25 for the first offense. That goes to $35 if not paid within 10 days. After 20 days, a citation can be filed in court.      The city said it won't be hard to enforce because it can be flagged every time they do a rental inspection or inspect a house or building up for sale.     Anthony Bourdain

   Details are thin but apparently a least 2 individual's have scaled the rafters in US Bank Stadium the home of Minnesota Vikings foot ball and hung a huge banner in protest of that oil pipe line and US Bank.

   Vivos  Indiana is a underground complex that was built during to the Cold War to withstand a near direct-hit from a 15 to 20 megaton nuclear bomb. The site has been purchased and upgraded by the Vivos  Corporation.      This are no the digs you see on the Prepper TV shows. This set up features a full gym, an infirmary, and two generators, a high-grade air filtration systems to filter all those nasty nuclear, biological, and chemical particulates out. It's even pet friendly. So bring the cat ,dog and the gold fish.  Meals are included, Sorry on alcohol. One of the feature dinner spreads includes a tomato and zucchini salad grown on site in the facility’s hydroponic garden, followed by a main course of  spaghetti topped with skillet fried steak “chunks.” Guests will then have an offering of turtle brownies for dessert.     Vivos Indiana is b...

   Both Echo and Google Home eavesdrop on you at all times, Wired reminds us. That’s also a required feature, so that they’re able to respond to your voice commands. However, the Echo and Google Home do not send data to servers until they’re activated by a hot word. So all the silly things you say around them shouldn’t be recorded.      The gadgets need an internet connection to send audio clips to servers so that Amazon and Google can process your requests. Without these elements, the assistants can’t understand and reply to you. It’s not just the box in your home. Now, if you’re looking to see what kind of recordings Amazon or Google have on you, you can do that. And you can even delete that data.           Don’t forget to check Wired’s full story, which also explains how Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana work.        Coffee the new fountain of youth.

 Just what is Bourdain trying to cook up and serve the Red States. At first reading it sounds reasonable "admit your biases  and seek compromise. " Not so fast, If Hillary had won by the same margins as Trump did would this be his private position let alone his public position? “The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we’re seeing now,” Bourdain said in an interview with Reason magazine . “I’ve spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America,” Bourdain continued. “There are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however differe...