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The Fungus Among Us Has Competition:
But if fungus wins, it loses.
(c) 11 Nov 2000  urls will be linked in the future

abstract: That in the race of "Survival of the Fittest" bacteria
and fungus evolve faster than humans.  Still they want to survive
and do learn what it is to survive.  If we believe it is a fight to the
finish, will we go the way of the dinosaurs. I wonder
Will the very mindset kill us?

    https://thepiedpiper.tripod.com/philo0001.htm
Something that I have been attempting to do is to
see if plagues have had more impact on civilization
than philosophy,  religion or anything else.

If so, it seems that microbes evolve very fast and that
the Earth has a diversity (of microbes) that has not been taken into
account.  How has this pasted us by?  Because microbacteria was not
thought to matter when balanced out by the fact of financial, economics.
The problem is that they financed a philosophy that is outdated.
The ideas of Ortes, Malthus, Lenin, Hitler, Marx, Mao, Mussolini
and followers like Bush are based on man being omnipotent,
and we are not..

Some microbes survive by killing higher life forms like Humans
and when they run out of food they go dormant.

     Thomas Gold
     The Deep Hot Bioshpere
     http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/

     The Theory of Unlimited Oil
     One Heretic Predicts More Oil to Be Drilled in the Ground
     By Kevin Newman
     March 16
     http://more.abcnews.go.com/onair/closerlook/wnt_000316_cl_oilheretic_feature.html
Consider, water (H2O) is being used to get these (H)ydrocarbons out of the ground.
What does the bacteria that seems to make oil do with the (H)ydrogen part of water
and does it release the oxygen part?

So, do we ever reclaim the water, from the oil reservoir(s)?

They have found that the Earth had more oxygen during some
of the dinosaur ages, so could microbe plagues be tied to how the
dinosaurs died out?

     Dinosaur Breath     by John G. Cramer
     http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw27.html

Has the fact that in nature there are some natural things that -
keep other things from replicating be what has kept a world wide
plague from happening?  What is happening in the ocean right
now.

     Science News       Jan 30, 1999
     http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/5_155/54031959/p1/article.jhtml
        Sea Sickness.(pollution, algae blooms, and climate change affect coral
        reefs and other marine organisms)
        Author/s: Janet Raloff
     https://thepiedpiper.tripod.com/CNS1.htm#_Oil_–_Thomas

This next link shows that these items do not break down easily, so
what happens if the very plants make poisons?  Hemlock anyone?
Enjoy your next glass of water, and purification may not do it.
     May 7 2000   BRITAIN
     http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/07/stinwenws03011.html
     Anti-depressants get into water system
     Roger Dobson

     - Toxic Mercury Found in New England Rain and Snow
      WASHINGTON, DC, September 19, 2000 (ENS) - Rain and snow falling on the New
     England states has been found to contain levels of mercury that far exceed
     what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers safe for people,
     aquatic life and wildlife in surface waters, concludes a new report
     released today by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
     http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep2000/2000L-09-19-16.html

If you do an experiment:
put a stalk of celery in a glass of water with red food dye,
in a few days you will see the dye as it travels up the plant.

Plants express items through their stomata
items like oxygen, and  poisons like pesticides, and herbicides.
To make a plant that is poison like nettles are means that the poison
will eventually get into the water supply.  How?  The chemicals sprayed
on plants are already showing up in rain water at concentrations that
would make the water unsuitable to sell as drinking water.

 This link shows that rain water is contaminated
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/environment_-_current_issues.html+rain+water+switzerland&hl=en
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/environment_-_current_issues.html

It seems as if some perfumes are already so loaded with chemicals
that the flower expressed, that they are as toxic as if you were using
the chemical straight from the bottle.  The substitutes for these perfumes
are about as bad, especially when made from petrochemicals.

The alternatives:  use of biochips to measure pollution,
but not in humans, because these things are DNA based and
if they get a virus or fungus will we know?
     https://thepiedpiper.tripod.com/CNS1.htm#_Biochips

Why shouldn't we use biochips or nanites in humans?
Because we still have not gotten past this point on thinking
that survival is because of multiple insemination.

    http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsS/spermwars_baker.html
     Sixty percent are sleek, racing sperm or
               "egg-getters." Then there are blockers, which have
               coiled tails, a big head or numerous heads, or are
               bent or fat -- their job is to block the new guy's
               sperm. Then there are killer sperm, which have
               pointy and poisonous heads that bite enemy
               sperm in the vulnerable side of the head. It is an
               obstacle race, moving always to a higher level of
               danger and the ultimate reward.

Instead of this I hypothesis that the very sperm are the first
line of defense.  The vagina is acidic and the seminal fluid is
alkaline.  Both sets of sexual organs have natural bacterial balance
that keeps them healthy.

A male produces many sperm and it seem possible that some of these
sperm have fungus or pathogens that have attached to the sperm's DNA,
 it also seems as if there are sperm that attempt to kill these.  This
means that one man can have sperm that have many different DNA codes.

In Genetic Engineering they arbitrary choose a sperm and an egg,
what could code into the human DNA?  Plants seems to have ways of
protecting their DNA as well - Yet what happens when they just
arbitrary shoot foreign DNA into the plant, especially if they
are using a virus to do it with?

As the link below shows - some of these ideas have been around
for a long time, yet there are still some American Biology courses
that teach "Bacteria only reproduces by cloning" when it was known
in 1958 that bacteria also reproduces by sexual recombination.
     JOSHUA LEDERBERG
     http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1958c.html+Lederberg+nobel&hl=en
     http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1958c.html
     1958 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
     for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination
     and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.

Genetic Modification needs to be reassessed because
many of these people think that man is omnipotent,
they do not think that microorganisms are a viable variable
yet it seems as if microorganisms have a higher survival index
than man might.

In the race of survival of the fittest
antibiotic resistant bacteria is already taking humans out
of the race.  How many more pathogens will we bring into being?
How many more will global warming release to go after us?

Extra Citations that ask:
about world trade.

This link shows that multinationals can have the same status as a family farm
in Canada.  If the person is not a citizen of Canada, does not intend to live in Canada,
is just running the farm as some type of money maker, is this supporting the country?
Who is making "Canada's Laws"?  Who is advocating removing
barriers to trade that will allow  another country to make laws in your country?
  Maclean’s Online   June 12, 2000   Cover
            When Water Kills
           http://www.macleans.ca/pub-doc/2000/06/12/Cover/35699.shtml
            The dangerous consequences of factory farming are being felt all across the country
            BY ANDREW NIKIFORUK
            Long after the dead have been buried in Walkerton, Ont., rural Canadians
            who rely on groundwater will continue to feel and smell the impact of a
            largely unreported revolution: the growth of factory farms.

        http://www.agriculturelaw.com/archive/august.htm
     News Archive August 1999
    Canadian Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief says the
    United States will be "on the same side" with the 15 nations
    of the Cairns Group in the fight against subsidies at the
    Seattle, WA, World Trade Organization talks in November.
 

PRESENTATION TO TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT CONSULTATIONS OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
           http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/wto-brief-jul99.html
            Thursday July 8th, 1999                      Ottawa, Canada
            EXAMINING CANADA=S PRIORITY INTERESTS AT THE WTO/FTAA
            NEGOTIATIONS: OR, HOW NOT TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL
            PROTECTION
            Trading Away Public Health

The World Trade Organization Obstacles To Effective Toxics Controls
                               http://www.earthjustice.org/work/Toxicstext.html
            Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
                             November 1999
            Introduction
            The World Trade Organization (WTO) has one over-arching goal—removing
            barriers to trade. Despite having no environmental or public
            health expertise or mandate, the WTO has reached out to establish rules and
            issue decisions declaring environmental and health measures to be
            unfair trade barriers. More and more, the WTO is emerging as the entity with
            the greatest power to determine whether we can maintain effective
            standards that promote food safety and protect public health and the
            environment.

RESEARCH
Is Pollution Causing Cancer in Beluga Whales?
                                The Scientist 14[19]:19, Oct. 2, 2000  --
           http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2000/oct/research_001002.html
            Endangered population gets attention, but complications abound
            By Myrna E. Watanabe
            The St. Lawrence River is so polluted, the New York State Department of
            Environmental Conservation warns people who fish the river off New York's
            shores not to eat any American eel, channel catfish, carp, Chinook salmon,
            lake trout over 25 inches in length, or brown trout over 20 inches in length.

DISEASES AND CAUSES OF DEATH OF BELUGA FROM THE SAINT-LAWRENCE ESTUARY, QUEBEC, CANADA
           http://www.medvet.umontreal.ca/services/beluga/beluga_homepage.html
            Bacteria, virus, parasites, and cancer are the most frequent causes of death
            and diseases of beluga whales living in the St Lawrence Estuary. The tissues
            of these cetaceans are contaminated with high levels of industrial
            contaminants known to be carcinogenic and/or immunosuppressive in every
            animal species where they have been tested.
True hermaphroditism in a St. Lawrence beluga whale (Delphinapterus  leucas).

Leahy Unveils Comprehensive Agriculture Antitrust Bill ...
                               http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200004/000412.html
            Bill Responds To Growing Market Clout Of Large Agribusinesses, Would
            Likely Reign In Powerful Dairy Conglomerate, Suiza Foods, That Has Been
            Taking Over New England Market
            April 12, 2000
            The new bill, the "Farmers and Ranchers Fair Competition Act of 2000" would,
            for the first time ever, update competition laws to take into account the unique
            circumstances of family farmers trying to win fair prices for their products.
            Leahy believes that current antitrust law works well for situations with a few
            producers -- such as factories -- supplying manufactured products to millions
            of consumers. But when millions of producers with very similar products want
            to sell their products to a
            handful of giant agribusiness buyers, antitrust laws become meaningless.

The 18-member Cairns Group includes Argentina, Australia,
Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,  Colombia, Costa Rica, Fiji,
Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay,
the Philippines, Thailand, South Africa, and Uruguay.

Laura Lee Lanning~Shipton  11 Nov 2000
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