Sunday, July 15, 2018



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José Andrés and World Central Kitchen Are Feeding ... - Eater

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Jun 11, 2018 - The chef arrived with his nonprofit World Central Kitchen last week to ... of evacuees and emergency responders following the Fuego volcano ...

World Central Kitchen Activates #ChefsForHawaii

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May 21, 2018 - Following the major eruption of the Kilauea volcano, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, World Central Kitchen has activated ...

ChefsForGuatemala Activates After Fuego Volcano - World Central ...

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Jun 10, 2018 - Just four days after arriving in Guatemala following the eruption of Fuego Volcano, Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen team have ...

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World Central Kitchen is changing the world through the eyes of a chef. As chefs, our ... Fuego Volcano. #ChefsForGuatemala Activates After Fuego Volcano ...

José Andrés is feeding thousands in Guatemala after volcano eruption ...

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Jun 14, 2018 - He's feeding thousands in Guatemala after the volcano eruption ... traveled toGuatemala four days after the eruption of Fuego volcano, to feed the masses. ... Andrés founded the nonprofit World Central Kitchen after the ...

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World Central Kitchen, Washington, District of Columbia. ... ramped up operations to feed thousands of victims of the Fuego Volcano from 18 distribution points.

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World Central Kitchen, Washington, District of Columbia. ... Jason's fundraiser for World Central Kitchen for Guatemala ..... delivering, and serving thousands of nutritious meals to those who have been displaced by the #FuegoVolcano.

Chef José Andrés: "Me ha impactado la generosidad de los ...

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Jun 11, 2018 - En 2010 fundó la organización World Central Kitchen (WCK) ... días en Guatemaladespués del desastre causado por el Volcán de Fuego?

HUNGER PAINS | Two local chefs join World Central Kitchen after ...

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Jul 3, 2018 - The World Central Kitchen is providing relief efforts in Guatemala and .... Verde regional cuisine but not the national dishes of the Fuego region.
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Monday, July 9, 2018

Pope's Misconceptions about conception and science history Tony Ryals,Einstein,Galileo,Aristotle,,Liebig,four elements,atoms.phosphates,earth orbit

Pope's Misconceptions about conception and science history Tony Ryals,Einstein,Galileo,Aristotle,,Liebig,four elements,atoms.phosphates,earth orbit


https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326685.html

Pope's Misconceptions about conception and science history

Tony Ryals | 29.10.2005 05:40 | Culture | Ecology | Gender
The pope's apparent ignorance of science history and modern agricultural technology obscures from his vision the disastrous effects of his policy of unchecked population growth on future generations who will find "no food on the table" nor the resources with which to grow it. This ignorance also shows that the pope has no more expertise in the fields of agricultural science, population planning, or resoure management than the pope in Galileo's time did in the area of astronomy. 

Pope John Paul II may be gone but Pope Benedict XVI maintains a tradition of ignorance and human materialism that has no justification even in a literal interpretation of the Bible and only insures perpetual human ignorance and misery.

And this statement goes double for the fundamentalist protestants such as America's Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and their ilk, who have promoted human ignorance, hatred, and greed everyday of their worthless lives.



Pope's Stances Lack Scientific Basis
by Tony Ryals
The Daily Californian September 22, 1987

On Nov. 10, 1979, a meeting was held in Rome by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in honor of the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein. The meeting marked the first time in the history of the church, since the formation of its own science academy, that any pope had presided over such a session.

This meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences may well be more memorable for Pope John Paul II's statements regarding science, Galileo, and the church than for the honoring of the centenary of the birth of Einstein himself.

In discussing the case of Galileo and the church, Pope John Paul II addressed the academy as follows:

"Mr.President, you said very rightly that Galileo and Einstein each characterized an era. The greatness of Galileo is recognized by all, as is that of Einstein, but while today we honor the latter before the College of Cardinals in the apostolic palace, the former had to suffer much - we cannot deny it - from men and orgainzations within the church. The Vatican Council has recognized and deplored unwarranted interferences..."

Approximately one year after his Pontifical Academy of Science speech on Galileo, the pope, in criticizing what he termed "artificial" methods birth control, made a notable statement on modern agriculture, simultaneously. The pope stated:

"There are attacks on fecundity itself with means that human and Christian ethics must consider illicit... Instead of increasing the amount of bread on the table of a hungry humanity as a modern means of production can do today, there are thoughts of diminishing the number of those at the table through methods that are contrary to honesty. This is not worthy of civilization."

Now that the pope has pardoned Galileo for telling the church that the earth is in orbit around the sun, it is time to tell the pope that the other half of Aristotle's church-approved cosmology has also come unglued. The "Four Element" concept (earth, air, fire and water) was the other half of the Aristotelian Earth-centered universe adopted by St.Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century.

Although the Renaissance astronomers successfully challenged Aristotle's and the church's geocentric universe several centuries later, atoms still had not been discovered. For this reason the Four Elements remained intact and unchallenged long after the death of Galileo in 1642.

The discovery of atoms in the last couple of centuries has totally transformed our concept of elements. The former "elements", earth and air, are both composed of a variety of elements. We now know that even the ancient element "water" can be further divided into the elements of hydrogen and oxygen. And the element "fire" is now understood to be a form of radiation.

Justus Von Liebig, the 19th century father of agricultural chemistry, and other pioneering chemists did to Aristotle's Four Elements what the Renaissance astronomers did to Aristotle's concept of the Earth as the center of the universe - they overturned it!

Liebig first pointed out the for plants to utilize carbon dioxide in the air for growth, they must have adequate amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in their soil. Unfortunately, in popularizing the N,P,K concept of modern chemical agriculture, Liebig paved the way for overreliance upon energy-intensive fossil fuel consumption in the mining of phosphorus and potassium as well as in industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers.

We now know that for every orbit of the Earth around the sun - one year - the pope, each member of the Catholic Church, and everyone else on the planet consumes in their food and excretes from their bodies approximately two pounds of phosphorus and various quantities of nitrogen, calcium, potassium, iron, and other trace elements. All these elements generally go unrecycled, often into rivers and oceans or even municipal dumps, further enriching fertilizer industries (who will sell the farmers more for a price) at the expense of the Earth's non-renewable mineral nutrient resources.

When the remaining fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, are exhausted, only bacteria and blue-green algae utilizing phosphorus, potassium, and trace elements in "soil-culture" and "aqua-culture" will be likely candidates to fix atmospheric nitrogen for agricultural fertilization.

Both the trade of grains and the direct trade of phosphates speed the depletion of our limited reserves of phosphate rock in the United States, which comes mainly from mining operations in Florida. Deposits in Idaho are also being mined, at present, and Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum has eyed public land near Ojai, Calif. to strip-mine for phosphates.

We should realize the need to conserve our dwindling reserves of phosphates for future generations. The United States not long ago was a net exporter of petroleum, but now we are importers. The same situation could occur with phosphates if we refuse to learn from the past. Some researchers have suggested that we may become dependent upon yet a new OPEC (or Organization of Phosphate Exporting Countries), such as Morocco, with its relatively large rock phosphate reserves.

The U.S. General Accounting Office estimates that our reserves of phosphorus will be depleted some time in the next century. This will inevitably lead to a food and population crisis that will make our oil crisis seem minor by comparison.

The pope's apparent ignorance of science history and modern agricultural technology obscures from his vision the disastrous effects of his policy of unchecked population growth on future generations who will find "no food on the table" nor the resources with which to grow it. This ignorance also shows that the pope has no more expertise in the fields of agricultural science, population planning, or resoure management than the pope in Galileo's time did in the area of astronomy.

The nutrients that subsidize the life of the pope, and everyone on the planet, are a finite resource. Unless the pope realizes the seriousness of the linear flow of elements through himself and the rest of humanity, he shall be partly responsible for contributing to the collapse of modern agriculture.

To sum up, Pope John Paul II is as confused about the movement of atoms as the pope of Galileo's time was about the movement of the Earth and celestial bodies. Based upon the rate of depletion of chemical fertilizers, the present pope does not have 300 years to re-evaluate his view on modern agriculture and birth control. The question still remains as to why the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has not made this disastrous movement of atoms clear to the pope. 



Pope Poem or Pope's Misconceptions About Conception and Science History



Pope Poem
or
The Pope's Misconceptions About Conception and Science History in a Rhyme

We have a Pope named John Paul,
Who thinks he knows it all,
So you might as well talk to a wall,
He just pardoned Galileo 300 years too late,
To save him from his unjust fate,
To catch him the Church used both the Bible and Aristotle as bait,
Both the Bible and Aristotelian logic,
Said the Earth doesn't move and you'd better not knock it,
With this dogma as logic,
The Church had Galileo's fate in its pocket,
And now our Pope John Paul,
Has decided to forgive Galileo after all,
300 years too late,
To save him from his Catholic fate,
Oh but there's more and the truth can't wait,
If it isn't enough that this man wants your soul,
He even wants to determine your birth control,
He says modern agriculture will save an overpopulating humanity,
And he hides from the truth behind his intellectual vanity,
Science knows modern agriculture will never save humanity,
Long after they buried Saint Thomas Aquinas,
We still haven't put his Aristotelian world view behind us,
His 13th century translations of ancient Aristotle,
Once again trap the Pope in an intellectual bottle,
Galileo told the Church the Earth moves around the sun,
But there was other work he'd never begun,
Although the Renaissance increased European intelligence,
Galileo and his Pope still lived in the world of Aristotle's Four Elements,
Earth, Air, Water, and Fire,
Were the only elements Aquinas' world would require,
But now centuries later,
The number of known elements has grown much greater,
The elements of Earth are more than one,
And the element Fire is really radiation from the sun,
The elements of Earth are becoming depleted,
And more and more fertilizer is needed,
Our population continues to grow,
While our soil's phosphates are getting real low,
If the Pope can't even make wine out of water,
It’s unlikely he'll ever save modern agriculture,
Though some of life's elements abound in the air,
You can’t produce food when your earth is bare,
If we lived in the world of Aquinas' Four Elements,
We might even think the Pope's statements had relevance,
But in our world of a hundred and more elements,
The Pope's incorrect statements don't make any sense,
As is demonstrated in El Salvador,
Overpopulation causes most pain to the poor,
Though the Pope says modern agriculture will lay food on their table,
The world's poor have no reason to believe that it's able,
For each orbit of the Earth around the Sun,
Half a kilo of soil phosphates is consumed by everyone,
And this isn't even counting erosion,
In only a few decades our mined Florida phosphates,
Will be depleted,
While Aquinas' Four Element mistake goes unheeded,
It's hard to say what birth control method the Pope approves of,
Nor is it certain that it really improves love,
But we know what Mr. Reagan's are,
We know what Mr. Bush's are,
We suspect what Mr. Clinton's are,
Their birth control is Third World War.


Sunday, July 8, 2018

Political And Science Rhymes Author's Introduction



 http://politicalandsciencerhymes.blogspot.com/2011/09/authors-introduction.html

Author's Introduction

Author's Introduction

The following poems, or rhymes, are a slowly growing collection that started with "Ode to the Psychomolecular Code" in 1980.
The "Pope's misconceptions about conception and science history" was written as an essay in 1983 and sent to all U.S. "Pontifical Academy of
Science" members at that time. Some are Nobel Prize winners and should be ashamed to lend their credibility to the Pope's science scam. To my
knowledge, I was the first to write an essay (or rhyme) on the church's fourth element connection and the fertilizer consumption per earth orbit dilemma.
"The Pope's misconceptions..." was published as an editorial in the Berkeley Daily Californian shortly after the pope visited San Francisco on September 17, 1987. This visit coincided with the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, which supposedly guarantees free speech and separation of church and state. Unfortunately, church and state united on that day and freedom of speech was suspended.
All other poems herein, with the exception of "Santa Cruz, California", were written between 1993 to 1997, in Mexico and Guatemala.
Just as an artist draws portraits that do not always please the subject, the wordsmith describes his or her subjects with words that are not always
flattering to the subject. If this is the case, I beg pardon and in lieu of normal freedom of speech, I invoke poetic license, or poetic justice. My medium uses words in the same manner political cartoonists use caricatures.
About the Essays:
Within a week of the publication of "Humpty Dumpty Syndrome," Dr. K.V. Thimann, with his lawyer, demanded an apology from the weekly, Santa Cruz Express, and myself. The paper yielded to the legal threat and refused to allow my further researched defense to be published.
Approximately two years later, Dr. Thimann was interviewed on University of California, Santa Cruz radio station (KZSC) and asked my question, "Where did the idea first arise to use 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, so-called Agent Orange, in chemical and biological warfare?" Thimann replied, "... it may have arisen out of our work in Cuba. It was tropical and all and we published our papers from there." (This was in pre-Castro years when Harvard had a botanical garden in Cuba).
While Dr. Thimann was not the only academic defending indiscriminate use of these chlorinated hydrocarbons at home and abroad, he was a walking advertisement for them for much of his academic career. So called scientists, blinded by the lure of technology, run the risk of not seeing some of the more profound truths of science.
It is paradoxical that since the time of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring no one until recently suspected chlorinated hydrocarbons of being dangerous hormones, (prompting growth in reptiles, mammals etc.)Yet, that is precisely what 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T were being used for in the first place, on trees of Vietnam and other forests.
"Flush it back to the Farm" was published 20 years ago in Seriatim Journal of Ecotopia. It is basically a condensation of over 100 pages I had
written previously for a "food self-sufficiency" contest held by a magazine called Mother Earth News. After sending off my poem I was pleasantly
surprised to learn that a Dr. Howard Odum of University of Florida, Gainesville would be a judge. Coincidentally, the first page of my entree was a critique of Dr. Odum's energy modeling which showed solar energy captured by agriculture, but ignored the soil nutrients essential to plant growth and photosynthesis. In the end the contest was won by a sort of hog farm in Arkansas, (obviously not a viable alternative for Jews, Moslems or vegetarians). And a grad student of Dr. Howard Odum, received
academic credit for judging in Dr. Odum's place.
After traveling to Gainesville Florida, exactly when Three Mile Island was making headlines and almost melting down, I bought a stencil of Dr.
Odum's energy flow symbols. Back in California I added a nutrient flow symbol and showed an "agro-ecosystem" ' or plants, drawing elements from the air and also from soil, whose nutrient elements, particularly phosphate, must be replaced by mining operations (in Florida) for agricultural plants to absorb solar energy. In other words, I brought Dr. Howard Odum's model up to date with Dr. Liebig of the 1830's who said that for plants to grow and fix C02 (and solar energy) from the air they needed a minimum
of nutrients in their soil, (Liebig's law of the n-tinimum). This was then sent to Agro-ecosystems of the Netherlands-which always used Dr. Howard T. Odum's model as a standard. But lacking academic clout my modification was ignored. Confirming in my mind that the European academics can be at least as biased as our own, regarding good ol’ boy academic attitudes.
If I were to add anything in retrospect it would be to mention and emphasize the demise of the Catholic-Aristotelian "fifth-element" at the hands of Johannes Kepler and Galileo. Although they proved that the sun, planets and stars did not all revolve around the earth (particularly Kepler) and
that Venus had phases like the moon (Galileo's telescope observation), which demolished the catholic-Aristotelian "fifth element" - atoms were still not discovered until much later.
Although Galileo may have been chastised not only for advocating a belief in the earth's orbit, but also a belief in atoms (Re: Pietro Redondi's book Galileo:Heretic) - atoms had still not been discovered in their life-times. So only in recent times have we been able to quantify specific atoms that travel through the pope and everyone's bodies per year, or earth orbit, and to replace those atoms, lost from soil and our bodies, through mining operations.
And finally, gentle reader, if after reading my essay, "The pope's stance lacks scientific basis". or the "pope poem" and you know of another author(previous to 1983), who covered this subject, let me know. I will be glad to pass the torch of heretic-in-chief to him or her.