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Today as never before we need to comprehend the course, logic, and path of the process of history. Every day we need to make decisions that will affect future generations. It has become obvious that no single nation, confession, social class or even civilization can solve these problems on its own. We increasingly have to listen to one another: Europe and Asia, Christians and Muslims, White and Black peoples, citizens of modern democratic states and places where traditional society survives. The key is to understand one another correctly, avoid hasty conclusions, and acquire the true spirit of tolerance and respect toward those with different value systems, habits, and norms.
Moscou et Pékin sont bien timides !
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"The US and the UK are pushing for total war on all fronts" -- wouldn't it be more honest to separate the deranged antagonists from the rest of us...
I am always amused by people who claim to see the wider picture and then introduce a myopia all their own. While the sun is the only real source...
I hate it, but it's the right call. Doesn't mean someone shouldn't do something about it. It just means he mostly beat the clock on getting caught...
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Minute amounts of fipronil (0.004-0.005 micrograms per bee) kill honey bees. Effects on bees’ foraging have occurred at even lower exposures.
Fipronil is a relatively new insecticide. It is used in cockroach baits and gels, flea products for pets, ant baits and gels, termite control products, turf and golf course products, and agricultural products.
Symptoms of exposure to fipronil include headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness, and sometimes eye irritation and eye injury. In pets, poisoning symptoms include irritation, lethargy, incoordination, and convulsions.
In tests with laboratory animals, fipronil caused aggressive behavior, damaged kidneys, and “drastic alterations in thyroid function.” The fipronil-containing product Frontline caused changes in the levels of sex hormones.
The offspring of laboratory animals exposed to fipronil during pregnancy were smaller than those of unexposed mothers. They also took longer to mature sexually.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies fipronil as a carcinogen because exposure to fipronil caused benign and malignant thyroid tumors in laboratory animals. One of fipronil’s breakdown products is ten times more toxic than fipronil itself.
People can be exposed to fipronil when they pet an animal that has received a flea treatment. Fipronil persists for at least 56 days on pets.
Studies of fipronil contamination of water are limited, but it has been found in rivers near rice fields where it is used in Louisiana. It has also been found in an urban stream in Washington.
Fipronil is toxic to birds, lizards, fish, crawfish, shrimp, bees, and other animals. Minute concentrations (as low as five parts per trillion) have caused adverse effects.
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