MAHA Moms Turn Against Capt. Bonespurs After He Orders Production Of More Environmental Toxins

  

John Phillips, Barbadian biochemist who linked glyphosate to cancers back in 2014.

The PR playbook to make poisons, and  toxic crap look good enough to stuff in food was first exposed over 27 years ago, e.g.

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | PR Watch

Who'da thought Donnie Bonespurs would pick up on it, like he has going back to mining coal, to try to make America cancerous again?  This after we learned of an executive order trump issued Wednesday to increase domestic production of glyphosate — a widely used weedkiller and carcinogen that has been the target of thousands of lawsuits, including one brought by RFK Jr. 

 The crass move stunned and infuriated the activists called MAHA Moms (after RFK Jr's Make America Healthy Again movement) who have now turned on Donnie Dotard. This after they abandoned the Democratic Party in droves in 2024 to vote for Trump - after he "promised" to remove environmental toxins.

As a NY Times piece yesterday put it:

"It now threatens to turn the brief MAHA mom-Trump marriage into a divorce."

Ah yes, and yet another demographic learns too late they were played. Bamboozled into voting a felon and traitor back into office  - and unchecked power - as it turns out. Just like millions of Hispanics, youth voters, blacks and suburbanites who really believed Trump had become their salvation in the truth and affordability quest.  

But the Dotard glyphosate E.O. really should be the last straw and not just for the MAHA moms but everyone in the nation.  Indeed, in a 2014 blog post:

  http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2014/03/alzheimers-epidemic-fro-eating-gmo.html

I quoted my friend and Bajan biochemist John Phillips:

"Among other toxins and other health-disrupting contaminants, GMO foods contain glyphosate, a horrifically destructive chemical that saps nutrients from foods and quite literally makes them toxic to consume."

Adding from a 2016 Food & Water Watch Bulletin:

"GMO ingredients are hidden in 70 percent of processed food in this country. This is only a 'best guess'  because no one knows for sure as they are not labeled. Also, very little is known of the long term effects of what GMOs can do to your health because they've not been properly tested. But what facts we do have are alarming, i.e. real lab rats fed GMOs with glyphosate suffer kidney and liver damage, cancerous  tumors and premature death.

Independent testing on an array of popular American food products by the San Francisco-based Anresco lab has since found many samples contained residue levels of the weed killer glyphosate far in excess of safe thresholds.

This led the nonprofit organization behind the testing to call for corporate and regulatory action to address consumer safety concerns. (Though the FDA routinely tests foods for other pesticide residues, it never tested for glyphosate until this year. The testing for glyphosate residues was recently suspended, however, under the orders of resident Trumpies committed to deregulation, i.e. removal of citizen protections.

To conduct its tests Anresco Lab  used liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), a method widely considered by the scientific community and regulators as the most reliable for analyzing glyphosate residues.  The findings were shocking and as Mr. Phillips told me in an email, ought to "scare the socks off any American that consumes them".  Mainly because of possible liver and kidney issues, including cancers.

The Anresco Lab tests were done on 29 foods commonly found on grocery store shelves. Excess glyphosate residues were found in General Mills’ Cheerios at 1,125.3 parts per billion (ppb), in Kashi soft-baked oatmeal dark chocolate cookies at 275.57 ppb, and in Ritz Crackers at 270.24 ppb, according to the report. Different levels were found in Kellogg’s Special K cereal, Triscuit Crackers (a Janice favorite) and several other products.

The nonprofit behind the report noted that concerns about glyphosate comes as research shows that Roundup can cause liver and kidney damage in rats at only 0.05 ppb, and additional studies have found that levels as low as 10 ppb can have toxic effects on the livers of fish. The groups criticized U.S. regulators for setting an acceptable daily intake (ADI) at for glyphosate at much higher levels than other countries consider safe. The United States has set the ADI for glyphosate at 1.75 milligrams per kilogram of bodyweight per day (mg/kg/bw/day) while the European Union has set it at 0.3 mg per kg/ bw/day.

Question: Why is the European threshold nearly SIX times lower than that set by the U.S.? Well, because European states care more about the health, welfare of their citizens!  Thus they are more likely to adhere to the  precautionary principle  so that it is not anti-GMO activists who must prove the toxicity of the suspect culprit food, but rather the GMO producers (like Monsanto) to prove their products are safe.

Meanwhile, Monsanto has said repeatedly that there are no legitimate safety concerns regarding glyphosate when it is used as intended, and that toxicological studies in animals have demonstrated that glyphosate does not cause cancer, birth defects, DNA damage, nervous system effects etc.  But let us make it clear here that a multinational corporation can say anything for PR sake.  That does not meet the standard of proof.

Glyphosate was under particular scrutiny as recently as 2018 because a year earlier the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified it as a probable human carcinogen. Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide and is the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.’s branded Roundup.  The trick mastered by the GMO crop producers has been to make them "Roundup ready" so that the pesticide and now its glyphosate component are integrated into the very crops and hence the cereals from which they are obtained.  Further, these GMO crops can also be additionally treated, sprayed with the offending chemical  making them even more toxic to humans.

Beyond the usual GMO offenders (corn, soybeans, sugar beets, canola) we also know glyphosate is sprayed on many conventional crops such as wheat, oats and barley. In all glyphosate is used in some form on nearly 70 food crops, and all of them with levels far in excess of what the EU allows for its own citizens.

 As John asked me recently: "Why do you think so many colo-rectal cancers are now occurring in younger adults?"  

He didn't wait for me to reply before answering: "Because they're stuffing themselves with processed foods full of glyphosates!"

Other points John wished to have pointed out for emphasis: 

 

·         Independent research links glyphosate to cancer (sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and it has been deemed a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s team of international cancer experts. The childhood cancer rate is steadily rising and experts say that they don’t know why. Why are they not taking a closer look at these facts?

• Research also indicates that glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor, which disrupts hormones and leads to reproductive problems, early onset puberty, obesity, diabetes, and some cancers. When it comes to endocrine disruptors, very small exposures are the most damaging, so “the dose makes the poison” mantra does not apply! 

*  Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum antibiotic killing the good bacteria in your gut. Poor gut health is linked to inflammation and a whole host of diseases. As GMOs laced with glyphosate are commonly fed to farm animals, this could very well be contributing to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.  It binds with vital nutrients in the soil (like iron, calcium, manganese, zinc) and prevents plants for taking them up. Glyphosate is thereby making food less nutritious.

 
As Mr. Phillips put it at the time: Tell your readers they consume these foods at their own risk. If they don't wish to get kidney or liver cancer - such as struck down your youngest brother -  they had best avoid them. NO matter what the FDA, the EPA or your government says.   

Of course, his message applies with 100 times the force now that Trump has issued his executive order to increase food-based cancers with glyphosate.

See Also:

        Brane Space: The Cancer Industrial Complex: The Biggest Conflict of Interest in Medical History

Practical Astronomy Focus: Concave (Spherical) Mirrors and The Reflecting Telescope

 

                                                   Basic reflecting telescope with 4 1/4" mirror

                 Basic approaches & options for making one's own reflector

                                          Harry Bayley Observatory 14" reflector telescope

The telescope most often used in more advanced amateur astronomy is the reflector - which uses a spherical mirror for its objective.  The principle is simple: parallel rays of light, i.e. from a star, fall upon the curved surface of the spherical (concave) mirror which is coated with silver or aluminum to make it highly reflecting. Each ray of light is then reflected according to the law of reflection. If the mirror has the correct concave shape, all the rays are reflected back through the same point - the focus of the mirror. 

This will be slightly different for the Newtonian reflector (top 2 images) and the Schmidt-Cassegrain type- which is used at the Harry Bayley Observatory (bottom two images above).  A diagram showing the difference in the reflected light paths is shown below:

Note from the diagrams the Newtonian reflector uses a plane mirror to merge incoming rays to a focus, while the Cassegrain telescope uses a plan0-convex mirror. In either case the image of the object appears at the focus.

In more detail, the light acted upon by any spherical mirror will conform to the laws of geometrical optics as shown in the diagram below:

The following points apply:

 i) any light ray which passes through the center of curvature (C) of a spherical mirror en route to the mirror surface, will be reflected back upon itself; 

ii) all light rays which approach the mirror in paths parallel to the optical axis are reflected through a common point on the optical axis known as the principal focus; 

iii) any light ray which passes through the focal point on its way to the mirror will be reflected parallel to the principal axis.

The basic law for image formation is:  1/s  + 1/s’ = 1/f.

Since the radius of curvature R = 2f, this can also be written as:

1/s  + 1/s’ = 2 /R

Which is called “the Mirror equation.”

If an object is very far from the concave mirror, say effectively at infinity (s = ¥) then we have a situation peculiar to that for reflecting astronomical telescopes:

                                                          

For the case depicted here: 

1/f = 1/s  + 1/s’ Þ 1/s =  1/ ¥  =  0  and s’ =  R/2

Numerically, the distance s for an image corresponds to 1 degree in the sky and is given by the equation:  s = 0.01744f  

 Where f is the focal length of the mirror. The scale of an image can then be computed from the above formula.

Example:  What is the image size of the Moon in the Mt. Palomar reflecting telescope? (Focal length 660 inches).

Solution:

Using:    s = 0.01744f

In normal application this applies to an image corresponding to  1 ^o  in the sky.

Then for f= 660 in. we get s = 0.01744 (660 in.) =  11. 5 inches per degree.

But the Moon subtends  1/2 ^o  so that the resulting image scale for the Palomar reflector would be 1/2 what it is for one degree in the sky, or:

½ (11.5/ deg) = 5.75 in/ deg

Suggested Problems:

1) A small object lies 4 cm to the left of the vertex of a concave mirror who radius of curvature is 12 cm. Find the magnification of the image.  Include a basic sketch to show the relation of the image to the object position relative to the mirror.

2) What would be the size of the image of the Moon produced by the 14-inch (356 mm) Harry Bayley Observatory Cassegrain telescope? (Focal length = 154 inches)  What would be the radius of curvature R for the telescope mirror?

3) Repeat the above computations for a 6-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope with a focal length of 48 inches.

Water "Bankruptcy" - A Real And Growing Crisis For The World

 

The ‘State of the World’ report (2000, pp. 46-47), warned that ever increasing water deficits will likely spark “water wars” by 2025 - with more than 500 million people in a condition of water deprivation. We now know from the data, that estimate was too conservative by far. We have reached a planet wide state of water bankruptcy.  

This condition is here now and means that many regions will no longer be able to bounce back from frequent water shortages. Roughly 4 billion people - or just under half the global population - already live with severe water scarcity for at least one month a year.  That means inadequate water to meet all their needs, whether washing themselves or their clothes, cooking their food, or simply staying hydrated. 

Even in the so-called developed world, and especially here in the mountain west, water shortages are affecting lives - whether in terms of extended drought, or the fires triggered. Right now, my niece Vanessa and her hubby are in a fire danger warning with wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour and humidity at record lows (3%).  Similar conditions are evident throughout Colorado and the usual snowpack is down to a minimum. 

 Beyond Colorado and the U.S. many more people - from equatorial Africa, to Europe to southwest Asia are seeing the ongoing consequences of water deficits, including: dry reservoirs, crop failures, sinking cities, water rationing, dust storms and frequent wildfires.

 Meanwhile, the wildfire dangers are so great in Colorado now that everyone on the Front Range is advised to have a 'go bag' packed and ready to grab at a moment's notice. That bag (mine is a Sierra backpack) will include: basic clothing, important docs (passports, IDs, etc.), meds, medical insurance and credit cards, as well as assorted jump drives containing precious photos, books in e-form as well as correspondence and coming blog post material.

We here in the Springs, like citizens of other states, are at the mercy of drought because it affects the Colorado River where water demand has outstripped the supply. Much of this outstripping has occurred since the state's fracking craze - which consumed vast amounts of fresh water in order to get at shale oil. In much the same way AI data centers are now consuming millions of acre feet of water to feed the energy beast of AI demand. As that energy demand grows the rate of water deprivation will accelerate with water bankruptcy.

Let's be clear water bankruptcy isn't just a metaphor for water deficits. It is in fact a chronic condition that develops when a city or country uses more water than it can reliably replace.  This is especially when aquifers and wetlands' replenishment become hard to reverse. It goes without saying such areas need to think long and hard before allowing the presence of bitcoin factories or AI data centers.

A new study by the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health has concluded the world has now gone beyond temporary water crises. That means many natural water systems are no longer able to return to their historical conditions. These systems have now descended to a state of failure, or water bankruptcy. In other words the water resources that support life display an 'overdrawn account'.

In financial bankruptcy, the initial warning signs are usually manageable: late payments, borrowing money using credit cards and selling things on eBay - often precious things. Then the spiral of debt tightens and the threat of delinquency rises. Water bankruptcy manifests in an analogous way, and in similar stages.

At first we pull a little more water out of the ground during dry years.to do what we regard as necessary tasks - say for fracking. Then we use bigger pumps and deeper wells to try and get more and more - until the water account dries up.

Case in point: frackers for the past 10 years - have been allowed to run amuck, drilling up to 50,000 frack wells across the state with each one consuming up to 5 million gallons each to enable hydraulic fracturing of the soil to release shale oil and natural gas.  Do the math and you will see that the total water lost to fracking actually exceeds the shortfall noted earlier by nearly 37 billion gallons! (Using a 4 million gallon per well average consumption) Note again, this is going on in an already arid state that has suffered over seven years of drought. So no surprise our water accounts are now overdrawn.   

The Global Bankruptcy Report, published on January 20, documents how widespread this degenerative process is becoming. Groundwater extraction alone has contributed to significant land subsidence over more than 2.3 million square miles including urban areas where close to 2 billion people live. When ground water is over pumped the underground structures  - which hold water like a sponge - can collapse. Once the pores become compacted they can't be refilled. 

In Mexico City land is sinking by 25 cm (10 ") per year. Jakarta, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City are among the high subsidence examples in Asia. Agriculture, so far, is among the world's largest water users.  It is responsible for nearly 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawal.  When a given region experiences water bankruptcy, farming becomes more difficult and more expensive. Farmers lose their farms, their work, political tensions rise and national security is threatened. Under the most severe conditions, mass migrations can be driven which creates tensions in other nations - which may have few or no resources to support them.

About 3 billion people - and nearly half of global food production - is now concentrated in areas where water storage is declining or unstable. More than 650,000 square miles of irrigated cropland are currently operating under high or very high scarcity.  

In sum, the water wars that The State of the World 2000 forecast may be just around the corner.

See Also:

Brane Space: "Toilet To Tap" Or "Direct Potable Re-use" - It May Not Be All Semantics For Your Drinking Water

And:

Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

And:

Brane Space: New Home Tracts Closed To City Water Access In The Springs? Yes, For Now - Given Limited Water Supply

And:

• Thanks to Frackers, We'll Soon Be Drinking Recycled Toilet Water...

And:

Lead Poisoning In Our Water Under Control? Not With Cables Leaking Lead All Over The Country

A May 1st "Major Speech" By Trump Revealing Alien Craft Are Real? Don't Make Me Laugh!

 

                      "And I hereby proclaim that UFOS and aliens are real!"

                            UFO captured by Navy pilots in 2004, released in 2017

              Discussion of recovered alien craft with Jerry in 1990

Rumors are afoot that Donald Trump once more wants to stoke his gigantic ego, this time by "a major speech about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and recovery of alien craft."  This according to a piece yesterday in Newsweek citing  claims from a UK ufologist published in The Daily Mail in early February suggesting “a major revelation may be imminent.”

Mark Christopher Lee, a British writer, filmmaker and ufologist, told the Daily Mail that the speech could take place on July 8, which would roughly coincide with the anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident,

 Though he added that it could be delivered sooner. Trump allies, meanwhile, had suggested just over a year ago that his administration could declassify information on extraterrestrial life. Of course, if true (which I somehow doubt) it would be the biggest revelation in American history - especially given it's been concealed for nearly 80 years. (Making me suspect Trump may just want to 'one up' Obama again, who revealed in a weekend podcast, i.e.

Obama clarifies views on aliens after saying 'they're real' | LBC

 he now believes aliens are real).

In a Monday email to Newsweek, Lee claimed:

 “A Washington insider I have known personally and conducted business with – has repeatedly affirmed that President Trump has prepared a historic speech acknowledging extraterrestrial visitation and the existence of recovered non-human materials and craft.”

Newsweek  quickly noted it had not verified Lee’s claims, and Lee himself did not reveal his source or provide evidence.  However, posting to social media platform X, Lee shared what he said was information from a “source inside the Trump administration.” According to Lee’s account, the unnamed Trump source said that Trump’s remarks would highlight multiple well-known incidents,  including the 2004 “Tic Tac encounter,” the 2015 USS Roosevelt “GoFast” and “Gimbal” incidents, and the 1947 Roswell event.  Adding:

“He will confirm that forensic analysis of recovered off-world vehicles and non-human biologics has established their extraterrestrial origin, marking the first official acknowledgment of this reality by any world leader.”

Per the unnamed source, Trump would also say that earlier administrations kept things secret because they were worried about national security, “technological uncertainty,” and feared how the public might react.  Lee's source again:

“President Trump will announce immediate steps toward declassification of related files, expanded scientific study through a new interagency task force, and international cooperation with allied nations. He will state, ‘This is not a threat—it is an opportunity to unite humanity in understanding our place in the universe."

 Discussion of a possible major speech from Trump has been swirling on social platforms like X, along with a marked rise in Google search interest on the subject. (Paralleling 26 m views of Obama's recent podcast in which he changed his mind on the reality of UFOs.)

However, up to now, there is no hard evidence of a planned Trump UFO-alien speech, and no White House announcement has been forthcoming. As I noted earlier, the only reason I can see Dotard suddenly giving such a speech is to one up Obama in his recent podcast. Also, perhaps to try to boost his historically low approval ratings.  (Oh yeah, and to distract from the Epstein files, especially after the arrest of Prince Andrew.)

 Let us also bear in mind, as previously reported by Newsweek, Trump himself has expressed skepticism about the existence of UFOs in the past, telling comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan in 2024 he "had never been a believer.”  So riddle me this?  Why suddenly become one now?

A 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center found that almost two-thirds (65 percent) of Americans believe that intelligent life could exist on other planets.  But the real question is how many also believe such advanced life has already made it to our own planet? I warrant not that many, though the alarming UAP hearings that featured Tim Gallaudet and earlier Ret. Cmdr. David Fravor are certainly alarming that 'they' are here and having their way in our air space.

Hell, the late astronomer Carl Sagan  - once a debunker of the idea -  did finally come around to accepting the validity in a one-on-one with Northwestern University astronomer J. Allen Hynek, e.g.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76926

Since the blockbuster NY Times 2017 release of UAP accounts by military pilots (such as the Nimitz incidents), UFO-UAP related content has also seen a recent surge in popular culture, with extraterrestrial‑disclosure themes paralleling those featured in Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming movie Disclosure Day.

In a recent trailer for the movie, the director says in a voiceover, “People’s questions about what is not only going on in our skies, but is going on in our worlds and our realities has reached a critical mass of people’s complete fascination with ‘are we alone or are we not alone?’

“And if someone knows we’re not alone, why haven’t we been told?”

Well because it would upset the ‘applecart’ in terms of the dogmas- biblical teachings of many religions as well as strike at the fantasy of human sovereignty.  The latter reported in  a 2014 paper by Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall  in the Journal Political Theory.  E.g.

Sovereignty and the UFO - Alexander Wendt, Raymond Duvall, 2008

 Therein they note the phenomenon of the UFO tends to be rejected as real - by government sources, as well as the military and the media - because it comes up against the human concept of state sovereignty

In addition, the military powers that be don’t want pesky civilians knowing what they are doing with the recovered alien craft, devices.

As my late AF brother Jerry told me back in 1990 during an extended discussion: “It would be like the techniques of the Manhattan Project and A-bombs getting leaked back in the early 1940s.”

Meanwhile, Lee noted in a subsequent email to Newsweek:

“My source has now confirmed they will come forward publicly and hold a formal press conference on May 1, 2026, in Washington, D.C. This could generate substantial pressure and potentially bring full disclosure forward ahead of the original timeline.

“As a filmmaker and journalist with my own lifelong experiences in this field, I share this information responsibly and in good faith. The public deserves transparency on a topic that has been concealed for decades.”

The public does indeed deserve transparency on this issue, but call me a skeptic in terms of Dotard Trump delivering it without some grift or unknown advantage he wants to secure.  Like pumping up his current dismal approval rating. Stay tuned.

See Also: 

UFO intel documents stolen out of Russia reveal decade-long probes into alien encounters, abductions

• Excerpt:

• Landmark UFO documents smuggled out of Russia 30 years ago — and just publicly revealed — show the Soviets investigated thousands of reports of extraterrestrial craft and encounters with aliens.

• • And: 
  • WSJ: Pentagon Disinformation Fueled America's UFO Mythology? More Codswallop for Snookered Journalists...
  And: 

• Pentagon Brigadier General Doubles Down On Whitewash of UFOs, But The Facts Are Too Compelling To Bury...

And:

   Jerry's Further Revelations About Past UFO Files And The Role of FOIA Releases - In A 1990 Group Discussion In FLA

And:

Even if You Think Discussing Aliens Is Ridiculous, Just Hear Me Out     

How would contact with U.F.O.s and other civilizations change ours?

And:

Transient Optical Phenomena of the Atmosphere - a Case Study    

And:

• Are Laser Plasma Holographs Created By "Foreign Adveraries" Really The UFOs Reported By Navy Pilots?...