Growing Plastic

[Kritters]

I had a rare moment away from my computer in favor of a magazine. Popular Science. An article entitled "Growing Plastic" was in it and I'm glad I read it, so it all worked out.

I couldn't find it on the net, so here is just the basic deal:

"Researchers from Metabolix, a bio-technology firm in Mass. think they've found a way to do just that, growing biodegradable plastic within the leaves of genetically engineered switchgrass.

The breakthrough hinges on tweaking bacterial genes to ramp up the chemical synthesis of a non-toxic, naturally occurring compound called polyhydoroxybutyrate, which can serve as a green substitute for petroleum based products."

hmmm...using bacteria to grow plastic. Hey why not? Let's find a bacterium to grow gold while we're at it.

Kritts

[carla]

Nothing surprising me anymore Kritts. You can guarantee we are told about things decades after they were doing it.God knows how far they have gone.

Remember the Goats producing spiderwebs that were stronger than steel.

Mixing spiders & goats produces `silk milk` stronger than steel | Checkbiotech Home


And they are injecting pigs with Jelly fish DNA to make them glow in the dark.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

[carla]

I will slip this in here Kritts because I don't want to start another Argy -bargy .

YouTube - Ron Paul: Israel Created Hamas!

[Kritters]

Carls,

Love your use of the language.

I went to bed at around 9 only to wake up a few minutes ago. I needed to research palpitations and found magnesium is something I need more of.

So then I decided to check out the latest here. Sure enough, my Carls came to my rescue with foremost recurrent thoughts. Love ya girlygirl.

I love Ron Paul. If I weren't sure he would have been assassinated if he had even a hopeful amount of votes in the election, I would have voted for him. I still, of course, worry about Obama. But we'll see if that's something I have to worry about after he starts the job.

Here's something my friend sent today:

Op-Ed Contributor

What You Don't Know About Gaza
By RASHID KHALIDI

NEARLY everything you've been led to believe about Gaza is wrong.
Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the
conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about
Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip.

THE GAZANS Most of the people living in Gaza are not there by choice.
The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140
square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns
and villages outside Gaza like Ashkelon and Beersheba. They were
driven to Gaza by the Israeli Army in 1948.

THE OCCUPATION The Gazans have lived under Israeli occupation since
the20Six-Day War in 1967. Israel is still widely considered to be an
occupying power, even though it removed its troops and settlers from
the strip in 2005. Israel still controls access to the area, imports
and exports, and the movement of people in and out. Israel has control
over Gaza's air space and sea coast, and its forces enter the area at
will. As the occupying power, Israel has the responsibility under the
Fourth Geneva Convention to see to the welfare of the civilian
population of the Gaza Strip.

THE BLOCKADE Israel's blockade of the strip, with the support of the
United States and the European Union, has grown increasingly stringent
since Hamas won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in
January 2006. Fuel, electricity, imports, exports and the movement of
people in and out of the Strip have been slowly choked off, leading to
life-threatening problems of sanitation, health, water supply
and 20 transportation.

The blockade has subjected many to unemployment, penury and
malnutrition. This amounts to the collective punishment - with the
tacit support of the United States - of a civilian population for
exercising its democratic rights.

THE CEASE-FIRE Lifting the blockade, along with a cessation of rocket
fire, was one of the key terms of the June cease-fire between Israel
and Hamas. This accord led to a reduction in rockets fired from Gaza
from hundreds in May and June to a total of less than 20 in t he
subsequent four months (according to Israeli government figures). The
cease-fire broke down when Israeli forces launched major air and
ground attacks in early November; six Hamas operatives were reported
killed.

WAR CRIMES The targeting of civilians, whether by Hamas or by Israel,
is potentially a war crime. Every human life is precious. But the
n umbers speak for themselves: Nearly 700 Palestinians, most of them
civilians, have been killed since the conflict broke out at the end of
last year. In contrast, there have been around a dozen Israelis
killed, many of them soldiers. Negotiation is a much more effective
way to deal with rockets and other forms of violence. This might have
been able to happen had Israel fulfilled the terms of the June
cease-fire and lifted its blockade of the Gaza Strip.

This war on the people of Gaza isn't really about rocke ts. Nor is it
about "restoring Israel's deterrence," as the Israeli press might have
you believe. Far more revealing are the words of Moshe Yaalon, then
the Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff, in 2002: "The Palestinians
must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their
consciousness that they are a defeated people."

Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at Columbia, is the author
of the forthcoming "Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance
in the Middle East."


love, Kritts

[brat789]

And don't forget the human gene they were inserting in rice for kids with diarrhea! Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein was ahead of its time...when you mess with nature nothing good comes of it!

[Kritters]

Hey Brat~

Welcome and look forward to more or what you have to say.

Kritts

[posey]

Kritters,

Your article is very interesting. Here is why I say that:

First: I am a Christian and the following are my beliefs. I am in no way trying to aggravate anyone and their beliefs or non-belief.

I've mentioned in other posts about a Bible Study via DVD by a Theologian who attended Moody Bible Institute. I began it in the Spring of 2008. I've been through it but still go over it almost every day. The theologian is Dr. David L. Constable.

I bought the DVD first for the OT and then for the NT. The DVDs don't have every Book of the OT and NT but quite a few. Of the Books of the OT and NT that are on them, he explains every verse of every chapter of each Book. THis was something I really wanted because I have always had trouble with comprehension; having to read things over and over. I'd forget what I just read!!, be it newspaper, short story test in school, etc. Plus, as most know, the Bible can be difficult to understand. However, after listening to the studies which begin with Genisis, it has made a tremendous difference in understanding the Books in the Bible I have to read on my own due to not being on DVDs.

Anyway, one of the things I have learned as a Christian is that the stage is being set for what is to take place in the future. I have learned so much about past history of the world, both Political and Faith from the OT and NT, but the Book of Revelations, which Dr. Constable explains verse by verse, is a clear picture of why, what, and the future, ever since day 1 in Genesis.

For anyone who may think that "M" is a plague from God, it is not. The final Judgements and the 7 year Tribulation will not take place until after the Rapture. That is a comforting thought. "M" and others are more likely man-made plaques from Narcicistic people who want Power, Money, Notariety (sp), you know what I mean:

a "BIG BIG" name

narcissism (när´ssizm),
n. a personality disorder in which a person is so self-absorbed that the needs and feelings of others do not matter.
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Narcicistic - definition of Narcicistic in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.