In the U.S. of America, we are experiencing a fascist takeover. Just the twenty or so Executive Orders that have been signed by our new Commander-In-Chief will leave us with difficulty and trauma for generations. If we removed the President today, it would take more than ten years to undo the damage already done in less than a single moon! The assault on every aspect of society amounts to nothing less than terrorism. The children, the elders, working people and those who have been caught by our social safety nets are all under attack. The most heinous crime against humanity is that the decisions being made are ALL based on fallacies. The lies of the right-wing media have festered for so long in our current President's mind that he has become delusional.
It is too difficult to list all of the damage done, to ugly to even want to look at it carefully. My stomach is turning over just trying to fathom how horribly wrong each and every action has been. Our system, which used to have checks and balances is so completely owned by the oligarchs and their Teathuglican operatives that Congress is emboldened as well, throwing their 1/3 of the power, granted to them by the Constitution, into eviscerating our nation as well. Bills that would have been laughed out of committee during the last Congress are being touted as noble and necessary by the current crop of "representatives".
When you have an ignorant and spiteful person at the wheel, addled by whatever drugs he is on, obsessed with keeping the pedal to the metal, and put him in charge of the vehicle of state, that has bald tires and has not had the oil checked for nearly a decade, bad things are definitely going to happen. The "conservatives" have worked so hard over the past eight years to cede no ground, to ignore every attempt to improve the lives of the American people, as well as enrich and enhance the standing of their donor class, that it has become that they no longer feel the need to even act like they care about the vast majority of our citizens.
These days, it is not unusual to wake up to find that several bad dreams have come true overnight.
This week, for instance, the first illegal raid on foreign soil took place under our new placeholder in the White House. It has come out since then that he was not even in the Situation Room when the attack was being discussed. I can only gather that he felt it was beneath him to attend. Obama had been briefed about the planned attack months ago and had refused to sign authorization based on lack of information. Lack of information is normally a bad thing in military exploits. Not in the New World Order! A 72.1 million dollar piece of equipment (one of over two hundred made) had to be scuttled, which is the nice way of saying destroyed purposefully on foreign soil because we got in over our heads...sixteen innocents were killed, including six children, one a U.S. citizen, two Navy Seals, who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution were killed and fourteen "hostiles" were killed as well, making them martyrs for generations to come. More damage to our nation and our ability to practice diplomacy around the world in one fire fight than would have been tolerated under any other President, yet the media is virtually silent on the matter because of all the other mistakes that are being made under this President's watch.
Things have been so bad, that lists have begun of pseudonyms for the "spray tan Cheeto head" so that no one has to type the four letter word that is his actual name! Disappearing someone's name from the internet seems to be the most appropriate punishment for a pathological narcissist. I have described his brain, if there is one, as being like a tampon that is selectively absorptive and only sucks up lies, fear and hate, oh and accolades, even if he has spoken them of himself.
If I wrote a post on each and every major misstep he has made, including his apparent lack of knowledge about the Constitution, which he has sworn to support and defend, well, it would take me until after Solstice. I just did a rough count and at seven per moon, yeah, it would take until after Father's Day writing my normal seven posts per moon! On Inauguration Day, he crossed the bar as the oldest person to ever be sworn into a first term and he had the lowest approval rating since there has been polling, when he took the oath. (44%) When your President has an approval rating in the forties...before he has done a single thing, except raise his hand to swear...it is a difficult position to be in.
I continue to make char. Each cubic centimeter, (just a hair larger than a pencil eraser) when powdered has as much surface area as a soccer field! Let that blow your mind, or think about it like this...each handful has fourteen acres of surface area...Char holds six times it's weight in water and can easily hold more when a thriving biome exists upon much of that surface area. Soil microbes use the char for shelter, worms can eat pieces smaller than 2mm and they pass through, becoming enriched with worm castings. Perhaps, as the Earth pushes past four hundred ppm of carbon, this method also helps sequester atmospheric carbon, which has been transformed into trees and woody plant material, once vitrified (charred) these elaborate carbon structures remain in soils for thousands of years (with proper soil husbandry). I have seen very well-funded research that tries to say that large amounts of char wash away, but when properly prepared and not only applied but worked into the top layer of soil, char is pretty much stable, especially if the area stays mulched. This small amount of char might only enhance a flower pot of soil, but it can do it virtually forever. Char acts like a molecular sponge, holding nutrients, moisture and stabilizes soil conditions like no other material. Since the billions of organisms who can flourish on the char, their cell walls are holding moisture in as well.
To put this in perspective, research has shown that the equivalent biomass in microbes, on healthy soil equals about the weight of a cow and her calf. I have written abut this before, but if you make your soil healthier than the research had to make their calculations from, well, that puts you off the charts as far as fertility goes, because the waste products of those organisms are what plants like to consume best, it is what they have evolved to do. Scientists have estimated that it takes nature ten-
thousand years to make an inch of soil (on average) I have made ten inches in a decade, but only recently had char to use. The biggest benefit of this material is that it is very light, however this can also be a pitfall. Transporting it, especially by fossil fuels, makes little sense. It is best made where it is to be used and as close to the source of raw materials is also best. If you have a fire pit near your garden, that is perfect placement. Making char whenever there is clean sawdust to be had, to prevent having to pulverize it and using local available wood to fire the process probably has the lowest cost and the highest value. Once you start to use fossil energy to make it, it probably offsets the good you are doing by sequestering the carbon in the first place! Doubling local food production is crucial and is always a good investment. Transforming char to biochar takes time, is a labor of love when done properly, and looks to the uninitiated as a sort of ritualistic witchcraft, and it is.
It is a miracle that a lifeless carbon latticework can be treated and prepared just-so, to be ripe and ready for the addition of microbes and that the microbes, once introduced to this prepared environment thrive. Just like with humans, you would not want to eat a diet lacking in life affirming minerals, and neither do the microbes, so we add mineral sources for them to feed upon. The char can hold nitrogen particularly well and if raw char is used, nitrogen deficiency can be a problem, so we introduce organic, local sources of that macro-nutrient. Most people have seen a Petri dish, but we don't need to see the microbes who inhabit char, it is just assuring to know they are there.
These SEM images show some of the microscopic texture inherent in sterile char. Charmasters learn to balance nutrients, moisture, minerals and air in just the right proportion so that microbes flourish, this powerful synergy leads to lasting fertility and much more balanced soil ecosystems. although I have seen people grow massive healthy plants on pure biochar, even the application rate of a kilo per cubic yard of soil, about two pounds per cubic yard is enough to double biomass production. For classes and/or further consulting on your char making experience, contact me through ECO-Tours of Wisconsin Inc. 1445 Porlier street, Green Bay, WI 54301 USA or call (nine-twenty) double eight four - triple two four.
It is too difficult to list all of the damage done, to ugly to even want to look at it carefully. My stomach is turning over just trying to fathom how horribly wrong each and every action has been. Our system, which used to have checks and balances is so completely owned by the oligarchs and their Teathuglican operatives that Congress is emboldened as well, throwing their 1/3 of the power, granted to them by the Constitution, into eviscerating our nation as well. Bills that would have been laughed out of committee during the last Congress are being touted as noble and necessary by the current crop of "representatives".
When you have an ignorant and spiteful person at the wheel, addled by whatever drugs he is on, obsessed with keeping the pedal to the metal, and put him in charge of the vehicle of state, that has bald tires and has not had the oil checked for nearly a decade, bad things are definitely going to happen. The "conservatives" have worked so hard over the past eight years to cede no ground, to ignore every attempt to improve the lives of the American people, as well as enrich and enhance the standing of their donor class, that it has become that they no longer feel the need to even act like they care about the vast majority of our citizens.
These days, it is not unusual to wake up to find that several bad dreams have come true overnight.
This week, for instance, the first illegal raid on foreign soil took place under our new placeholder in the White House. It has come out since then that he was not even in the Situation Room when the attack was being discussed. I can only gather that he felt it was beneath him to attend. Obama had been briefed about the planned attack months ago and had refused to sign authorization based on lack of information. Lack of information is normally a bad thing in military exploits. Not in the New World Order! A 72.1 million dollar piece of equipment (one of over two hundred made) had to be scuttled, which is the nice way of saying destroyed purposefully on foreign soil because we got in over our heads...sixteen innocents were killed, including six children, one a U.S. citizen, two Navy Seals, who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution were killed and fourteen "hostiles" were killed as well, making them martyrs for generations to come. More damage to our nation and our ability to practice diplomacy around the world in one fire fight than would have been tolerated under any other President, yet the media is virtually silent on the matter because of all the other mistakes that are being made under this President's watch.
Things have been so bad, that lists have begun of pseudonyms for the "spray tan Cheeto head" so that no one has to type the four letter word that is his actual name! Disappearing someone's name from the internet seems to be the most appropriate punishment for a pathological narcissist. I have described his brain, if there is one, as being like a tampon that is selectively absorptive and only sucks up lies, fear and hate, oh and accolades, even if he has spoken them of himself.
If I wrote a post on each and every major misstep he has made, including his apparent lack of knowledge about the Constitution, which he has sworn to support and defend, well, it would take me until after Solstice. I just did a rough count and at seven per moon, yeah, it would take until after Father's Day writing my normal seven posts per moon! On Inauguration Day, he crossed the bar as the oldest person to ever be sworn into a first term and he had the lowest approval rating since there has been polling, when he took the oath. (44%) When your President has an approval rating in the forties...before he has done a single thing, except raise his hand to swear...it is a difficult position to be in.
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| As Insurance, I make char. Wherever I have used it at the rate of one kilo per cubic yard, I have doubled production. this material is an ancient miracle and we needs as many people as possible learning how and why we make it! |
To put this in perspective, research has shown that the equivalent biomass in microbes, on healthy soil equals about the weight of a cow and her calf. I have written abut this before, but if you make your soil healthier than the research had to make their calculations from, well, that puts you off the charts as far as fertility goes, because the waste products of those organisms are what plants like to consume best, it is what they have evolved to do. Scientists have estimated that it takes nature ten-
thousand years to make an inch of soil (on average) I have made ten inches in a decade, but only recently had char to use. The biggest benefit of this material is that it is very light, however this can also be a pitfall. Transporting it, especially by fossil fuels, makes little sense. It is best made where it is to be used and as close to the source of raw materials is also best. If you have a fire pit near your garden, that is perfect placement. Making char whenever there is clean sawdust to be had, to prevent having to pulverize it and using local available wood to fire the process probably has the lowest cost and the highest value. Once you start to use fossil energy to make it, it probably offsets the good you are doing by sequestering the carbon in the first place! Doubling local food production is crucial and is always a good investment. Transforming char to biochar takes time, is a labor of love when done properly, and looks to the uninitiated as a sort of ritualistic witchcraft, and it is.
It is a miracle that a lifeless carbon latticework can be treated and prepared just-so, to be ripe and ready for the addition of microbes and that the microbes, once introduced to this prepared environment thrive. Just like with humans, you would not want to eat a diet lacking in life affirming minerals, and neither do the microbes, so we add mineral sources for them to feed upon. The char can hold nitrogen particularly well and if raw char is used, nitrogen deficiency can be a problem, so we introduce organic, local sources of that macro-nutrient. Most people have seen a Petri dish, but we don't need to see the microbes who inhabit char, it is just assuring to know they are there.
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