Chevron-Texaco STOPS large NiMH battery production!!!!

Want an electric car using one of, or some say, THE best batteries – NiMh (nickel-metal hydride)?

SORRY corporate GREED and MANIPULATION won’t allow you!

After hearing this at last months Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association I just had to double check the FACTS!!!

READY FOR THIS… ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#Public_availability
Even if Toyota wanted to continue production of the RAV4 EV, it was unlikely because the EV-95 battery was no longer available. WHY? Because Chevron had inherited control of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH EV-95 battery when it merged with Texaco (BIG OIL), which had purchased them from General Motors. …the production line for the large NiMH batteries was closed down and dismantled. This case was settled in the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and not publicized due to a GAG ORDER placed on all parties involved. Only smaller NiMH batteries, INCAPABLE of powering an electric vehicle or plugging in, are currently allowed by Chevron-Texaco.

I was told recently that the CEO of Whole Foods is vegan. I found it difficult to believe since it seemed contrary to their sales of many
non-vegan products. A recent article/interview helped me better understand.

Below is just a small excerpt from the January 4, 2010 New Yorker article by Nick Paumgarten

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/04/100104fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all#ixzz0cjSYgcmv

“Mackey has on several occasions acted on criticisms. At a shareholder
meeting in 2003, animal-rights activists staged a protest over duck,
which led him to examine the meat business more closely. This inspired
his vegan conversion, and persuaded him to overhaul the
meat-procurement process. Some criticize Whole Foods for selling meat
at all. A few years ago, Mackey told Grist, a Seattle environmental
magazine, “Sure, I wish Whole Foods didn’t sell animal products, but
the fact of the matter is that the population of vegetarians in
America is like 5 percent, and vegans are like 25 or 30 percent of the
vegetarians. So if we were to become a vegan store, we’d go out of
business, we’d cease to exist. And that wouldn’t be good for the
animals, for our customers, our employees, our stockholders, or
anybody else. If I were to take Whole Foods in this direction I would
be removed as CEO.”

A grocer, typically, wants to hide what goes on in back. A grocery
store is a theatrical production, designed to dazzle the customer, and
to disguise the artifice and hard work behind the scenes. Over the
years, grocers have helped keep their customers happily ignorant of
the food’s origins—of the horrors of the slaughterhouse, the miseries
of the onion fields, and the absurdities contained in a can of soda or
a bag of chips. Our interface with the food chain ended with the stock
boy and his sticker gun in Aisle 6.

Whole Foods sought to change that. It began to sell information and
narrative, along with the food. It told stories about where the food
came from, putting up displays by the seafood counter with photographs
and descriptions of the real fishermen who had caught it all—a genre
that Michael Pollan, in “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” called “supermarket
pastoral.”"

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“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Still having some of my curiosity in tact from my childhood and still willing to question (beliefs, authority…) I have always been shocked when people make this statement. So, finally I did a little research and was VERY surprised by results.

1) Have you been told this phrase?

2) Do you use this phrase?

3) Is it literally True or False?

4) How many people has it been attributed to and who said it first?

5) What does it imply about succeeding through repetition?

Email me and I will send you my research notes. (NOTE: this is not a email list solicitation trick and you will not be placed on some buy my products/services list!)

Depending on the response I may post my research results here.

Is the environment (physical, mental, social…) most important? Or is repetition most important because it trains our neuropathways. Or maybe it’s the correct and accurate information?

Is it none of the above? All three? More?

No conspiracy facts or theories… just three simple facts that expose the: old, selfish, myopic and ignorant business models that are now dying of their own accord because a growing number of the public chose to empower themselves to seek out the full facts and live by the TRUTH!

1) Education in Disease Mismanagement: Medical school curriculum rarely includes: skills for generating health, inspiring and influencing patients into healthy habits, teaching health habits, improving immune systems… Instead it is focused primarily on diagnosis and treatment with a high percentage focusing on “cutting, burning, and poisoning“

2) “Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun”: The typical medical student is LESS healthy when they leave medical school then when they entered.

3) It’s just Business… old school style: The majority of the doctors employers (hospital, clinics…) are a actually businesses and just like most businesses they NEED new and repeat customers to survive and grow. If they where to focus on really getting their patients (clients) and community healthy they would be quickly out of business!

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About Brigitte, and GenerationInstantGratificaton.com:

I completely agree with Max’s reply: “Holy shit that is the best thing I have ever read. I am speechless. I have read a great deal about race in my day but never something quite as pointed and enlightened as this. I hope her voice is heard wide and far. We need it. In every community.”

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