Invisible Empire
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." -Woodrow Wilson
Try?
INFO:
http://gatorinternational.com/
Click here to ask why they're not looking into solutions like this:
http://www.facebook.com/NOAA.Lubchenco?v=wall
It's Never Too Late To Start Over
FACT: Colonel Sanders didn't start his chicken business till he was 65 years old!INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders
CONTROVERSY:
http://www.tactileint.com/seasia/saigon/hosanders.html
Too Little Too Late
QUESTION: Why is there never enough money to oversee and inspect before a disaster, but somehow, the funds miraculously become available after the shit hits the fan? Now, inspectors and experts are everywhere. Too late, the harm's done. "We will keep our boot on their neck until the job gets done." says Secretary Salazar. Well, not exactly... Let's face the facts. It's the U.S. middle class that has the boot on their necks. We all know that BP isn't going to be paying for their cleanup. The U.S. taxpayer will eventually be responsible to pay in a million big and little ways over decades to come. Our government's energy strategy and human greed are bankrupting our country. And, as usual, the environment is destroyed and lives are lost; all for profit. If the onus of fiscal responsibility is going to be placed on the necks of the taxpayers, let's make sure we're going to get something in return.- e.l.f.
INFO:
http://earth-liberation-front.org/
UPDATE... Guess what?... BP lied... (big surprise right?):
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/061110/nat_651992936.shtml
"There are species out there that haven't been described, and they're going to disappear."*
*-Prosanta Chakrabarty, Louisiana State University fish biologist
INFO:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/ap_on_re_us/oil_spill_mysteries_of_the_deep
http://wcbstv.com/national/gulf.oil.spill.2.1735091.html
http://newsqueens.net/1790/for-the-spill-lover/
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20100604/e0315c71-836e-4cc8-9fd7-7054cf466a35
PICS!:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html
INFO:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/ap_on_re_us/oil_spill_mysteries_of_the_deep
http://wcbstv.com/national/gulf.oil.spill.2.1735091.html
http://newsqueens.net/1790/for-the-spill-lover/
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20100604/e0315c71-836e-4cc8-9fd7-7054cf466a35
PICS!:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html
Toys-For-Tots
"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."-Emma Goldman
Slick Moves
Aerial view of BP oil slick and clouds of smoke
INFO:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html
http://www.bpoilslick.blogspot.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/louisiana-oil-spill-2010_n_558287.html
http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/05/bp-gulf-oil-spill-how-big-is-it.html
http://bluewavenews.com/2010/05/08/oil-spill-underreporting-will-likely-save-bp-money/
Here Ya Go
"When Fascism comes to the United States, it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism."-Sinclair Lewis, 1948
Vatican Justice
The Catholic Church has spent two millennia demonizing human sexuality to a degree unmatched by any other institution, declaring the most basic, healthy, mature, and consensual behaviors taboo. Indeed, this organization still opposes the use of contraception: preferring, instead, that the poorest people on earth be blessed with the largest families and the shortest lives. As a consequence of this hallowed and incorrigible stupidity, the Church has condemned generations of decent people to shame and hypocrisy—or to Neolithic fecundity, poverty, and death by AIDS. Here, in this ghoulish machinery set to whirling through the ages by the opposing winds of shame and sadism, we mortals can finally glimpse how strangely perfect are the ways of the Lord.-Sam Harris
INFO:
http://www.project-reason.org/vatican_justice/
Dirty Pool
INFO:http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/04/30/the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-shown-in-graph/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill
http://www.grist.org/article/Spill-rate-lowballing-reflects-badly-on-government-cleanup-oversight
http://www.adn.com/2010/05/17/1281733/gulf-oil-may-spread-into-major.html
Agent de Changement
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. -Luis Bunuel
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
-David Hockney
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
-Wm. S. Burroughs
INFO:
http://affinityproject.org/groups/artandrevolution.html
(artwork by Henry Darger)
Starting Over
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the the world's only immortal animal. Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, however, can actually regenerate its entire body over and over again.
Researchers are studying the creature to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.
INFO:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/01/29/the-curious-case-of-the-immortal-jellyfish/
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