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DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Researchers have detected swine flu in elephant seals off the Central California coast, saying it was the first time a human pandemic strain has been found in marine mammals.

However, none of the animals showed clinical signs of the illness.

A University of California, Davis study found the seals contracted the H1N1 virus in 2010, as the pandemic caused by the virus was winding down in humans, the Contra Costa Times (http://bit.ly/16keoIU ) reported Wednesday.

The influenza virus commonly crosses species barriers, and it wasn’t the first time a marine mammal has been found to carry a human strain, UC Davis professor Tracey Goldstein told the newspaper. However, until now researchers had never found a human pandemic strain in marine mammals,..

In Full, AP via Salon

Cross Posted from anarchistnews.org

Thu, 05/02/2013 – 21:04 — Anonymous (not verified)

Late at night on May Day we sabotaged a rail line in Central Oregon to interrupt the flow of commodities. Capital depends more than ever on the metropolis, the constant flow of commodities, services, capital, information, and any interruption of that flow is a small victory. We took this action in solidarity with all those facing investigation, imprisonment, and repression in the Northwest… [More @ EF! Newswire]

divineirony:

abaldwin360:

It sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it’s not.

The reasoning for this bill makes it sound even more like something that is parody - it’s an anti-agenda 21 bill, the right seems to think agenda 21 is a conspiracy to undermine property rights and american sovereignty.

Never mind the fact that implementation of agenda 21 is completely voluntary and non-binding …

Bill No. 2366 would ban all state and municipal funds for anything related to “sustainable development,” which it defines as: “development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come.”

HAR Matey!.THIS is Agenda21:

“We came to Henningsvaer. We saw the Skarbakk. We sank the bastard.”

(and:)

“Norway announced an increased quota of Minke whales so we decided to increase our quota of sunken whalers.”

(via questionall)

For no particular reason at this time and in this place

“They may be authorities, (but) they’re not leaders.” ~~Edward Abbey

Ahhhh. LA, Where people DRIVE to an environmental gathering. Yeah yeah. I know. They left you no choice You didn’t build the city Blah Blah.

MAYBE everyone ought to get on THAT as a issue. Forced into the psychological and social isolation of increasingly less viable automobile transportation. Nevermind just turn on the radio and let the same interests that forced you into cars advertise at you and fill your minds with garbage while U wait to go to (typically) jobs that produce nothing useful whatsoever for humanity.

You got a long way to go folks, and cars WILL NOT get you there Rallies WILL NOT DO THE JOB.

But THIS will.

earthsolidarityfront:

Join us in Los Angeles this SUNDAY, February 17, 2013, as we crash yet another neo-liberal permitted march & rally for climate justice, a solidarity action called out by bill mckibben and 350.org.

This event needs a huge anti-neoliberal, anti-colonialism contingent. Let’s not sugar coat or dance around the issue any more. The planet depends on the fall of capitalism. Let’s crash this liberal action and have our radical voices be heard. We are in solidarity with the earth, not with the bureaucratically provided slow and gradual solutions that prolong the power of a for-profit bipartisan dictatorship!

organize with your local anti-capitalist caucus and join the action!

website: http://www.wilderutopia.com/politics/forward-on-climate-february-17th-rally-in-dc-and-los-angeles/

facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/545359235484063/

My reply to the event promoter who responded to my critique regarding parking for the rally as if ANYONE should be driving to an environmental rally:

I was at the first Earth Day rally in New York… and you know, not only has nothing changed, it’s gotten worse.

The cars used to visibly pollute but when their cycle was finished (in the case of my IH TravelAll, 50 years later) the whole thing was turned into a 2 ton recyclable steel cube.

Now we have cars that LOOK like they don’t pollute yet still ABSOLUTELY DO… invisibly, Formaldehyde, and Benzine… more. Even when they’re simply sitting still… Because they exist at all., and when the life cycle of the car is done (surely NOT 50 years), there’s nothing recyclable at all except plastic one can make faux lumber for park benches of, and toxic materials like lithium from E-Car batteries, and un-reusable metals like the Aluminum-Magnesium alloy used in modern engine blocks that EXPLODES if any attempt is made to re-smelt it.

It’s been Zero Sum since the first Earth Day, and the Earth IS beginning to Zero in on us and everyone still gets together for “Feel Goods” like they actually do one damn thing.

Bill Moyer’s beliefs notwithstanding…

Have you seen this?
“Pissed Off Scientists: Earth Is Fucked, Commence Resistance Now” (Slate)

Rallies and resistance… The ONLY thing they have in common is they both start with the letter “R”.

(via revolta20now)