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The World Is Dying—And So Are You
At the heart of the modern age is a core of grief.
At some level, we're aware that something terrible is happening, that we humans are laying waste to our natural inheritance. A great sorrow arises as we witness the changes in the atmosphere, the waste of resources and the consequent pollution, the ongoing deforestation and destruction of fisheries, the rapidly spreading deserts, and the mass extinction of species.
All these changes signal a turning point in human history, and the outlook is not particularly bright. The anger, irritability, frustration and intolerance that increasingly pervades our common life are symptoms associated with grief. The pervasive sense of helplessness and numbness that surrounds us, and the frantic search for meaning and questioning of religion and philosophy of life, are likewise often seen among those who must deal with overwhelming sorrow.
Grief is a natural reaction to calamity, and the stages of grief are visible in our reaction to the rapid decline of the natural world. There are a number of steps that people go though in the grief process. The first stage is often denial: ''This can't really be happening,'' a feeling common among millions of Americans. Eighty percent of American adults say they are concerned about the environment, and there is some awareness of the gravity of our situation, yet a widespread awareness has yet to be felt in practical terms. We know the facts, but we're ignoring them in the interests of emotional survival.
The second stage of grief is often anger. We go into the ''I'll fight it'' mode. Many environmental thinkers and activists put a lot of grief energyinto constructive work. That energy is a factor in the undeniable successes of environmentalism, yet it is a sign of suffering, and is probably a constraint on the intellectual vitality of the movement.
The third stage in the grief process is often despair. We feel that ''no matter what I do, it's still happening.'' Because the planetary future seems so grim, it's likely that many Americans have despaired, turning away from the quest for a meaningful solution.
The final stage of the grieving process, for those who can achieve it, often brings a more hopeful state of acceptance, even serenity. When we emerge from the bottom of despair, we may find the inner strength for a peaceful accommodation to reality. We can continue to take positive actions, but we are no longer in denial, rage or despair.
Even if we face the consequences of our assault on the natural environment, we may still find that the problems are too big, that there's not much we can do. Yet those of us who feel this sorrow cannot forever deny it, without suffering inexplicable disturbances in our own lives. It's necessary toface our fear and our pain, and to go through the process of grieving, because the alternative is a sorrow deeper still: the loss of meaning. To live authentically in this time, we must allow ourselves to feel the magnitude of our human predicament.

Procession of the Damned: Mass Bird and Fish Deaths Turning Up Everywhere

Birds and Fish are now Dying all Around the World

First they (the authorities) claimed it was the cold who was killing the birds and the fish but now it’s happening all around the world, in hot places too. So it’s not the cold who’s killing these animals. It’s not pollution either, such as poisoned water or something in the air because it would have been detected bImage by bogdog Dan via Flickry now and besides it’s happening everywhere in the world. It’s simply not possible that the entire world suddenly poisoned itself. So what’s really happening here?

Dead birds in Sweden killed by 'external blows'

Thousands of dead fish wash up on SC beach

Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/01/06/2735681/thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-up.html#ixzz1AJdaZGDJ

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Top US Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week.

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According to this report, John P. Wheeler III, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. from 2005-2008, when he became the Special Assistant to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Logistics and Environment, was found brutally murdered and dumped in a landfill.
Wheeler’s military career included writing one of the most important manuals on the effectiveness of biological and chemical weapons which led to his being hired in 2009 as a consultant to the Mitre Corporation, whose aviation system development department, the GRU reports, is at the forefront of creating the computer command and control systems used by the US Air Force in their fleet of aerial spraying planes.

Image via WikipediaThese aerial spraying planes, this report continues, are based at the Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas that over the past few months have been involved with ‘test dispersants’ of poisonous gasses in the Afghanistan War Theater using chemical weapons stocks obtained from Iraq and held at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, also located in Arkansas.
Important to note about the Pine Bluff Arsenal, which calls itself “America’s Arsenal”, is that it is one of the World’s most specialized munitions and chemical-biological defense products and services bases which Russia had previously accused of not fully reporting the chemical agents removed from Iraq, between 2003 and 2008, and taken to the US for testing and subsequent destruction.
According to this report, the US relocated from Iraq to the Pine Bluff Arsenal an estimated 63,000 metric tonnes of the poisonous gas Phosgene that is described as one of the most feared chemical weapons ever used due to its ability to literally cause the lungs and respiratory system to explode.

No Value in Any Influenza Vaccine: Cochrane Collaboration Study

A remarkable study published in the Cochrane Library found no evidence of benefit for influenza vaccinations and also noted that the vast majority of trials were inadequate. The authors stated that the only ones showing benefit were industry-funded. They also pointed out that the industry-funded studies were more likely to be published in the most prestigious journals…and one more thing: They found cases of severe harm caused by the vaccines, in spite of inadequate reporting of adverse effects.
The study, “Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults”, is damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry and its minions, the drug testing industry and the medical system that relies on them.
In the usual manner of understatement, the authors concluded:
The results of this review seem to discourage the utilisation of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure. As healthy adults have a low risk of complications due to respiratory disease, the use of the vaccine may be only advised as an individual protection measure against symptoms in specific cases.

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if Americans knew - What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation.

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Scalia: 14th Amendment Doesn't Protect Against Gender Discrimination

In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both?
Yes, yes. Sorry, to tell you that ... But, you know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, that's fine. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society. Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

From Digby at Hullabaloo, attention to what kind of intellect exactly is Scalia:

Apparently, some folks are genuinely shocked that a Supreme Court justice could so profoundly misread the crystal clear words of the Constitution. I don't see why. Scalia doesn't understand the Declaration of Independence either.

Scalia isn't a stupid fella. He's just a bigot. A bigot with a lifetime appointment to make decisions about the rights and lives of people against whom he holds deeply entrenched bigotry. In a decent country, there would be outrage about that unambiguous injustice sitting square in the middle of the Supreme Court. But in this country, it barely gets noticed. After all, there's no explicit right to fairness for marginalized people in the Constitution. As Justice Antonin Scalia will happily tell you.

As to legal sufficiency of his argument, from Marcia Greenberger and the National Women's Law Center:
"In these comments, Justice Scalia says if Congress wants to protect laws that prohibit sex discrimination, that's up to them," she said. "But what if they want to pass laws that discriminate? Then he says that there's nothing the court will do to protect women from government-sanctioned discrimination against them. And that's a pretty shocking position to take in 2011. It's especially shocking in light of the decades of precedents and the numbers of justices who have agreed that there is protection in the 14th Amendment against sex discrimination, and struck down many, many laws in many, many areas on the basis of that protection."
Greenberger added that under Scalia's doctrine, women could be legally barred from juries, paid less by the government, receive fewer benefits in the armed forces, and be excluded from state-run schools -- all things that have happened in the past, before their rights to equal protection were enforced.
Joan Walsh at Salon.com makes a fascinating observation and connection to prior Scalia positions:
What's most preposterous is that Scalia was part of the most shameful and flagrantly political use – it was abuse, really -- of the 14th Amendment in Supreme Court history, when he joined the majority in the Bush vs. Gore decision and stopped the Florida recount, brazenly using "equal protection" as one of the cornerstones.
I just finished reading Giants, and a good portion of the book deals with the coming into being of the 14th Amendment. The battle over whether it would extend to or exclude women was fierce and real but in the end, as we know, only black men were explicitly given the right to vote. And that's in part where this idea that it doesn't extend to women -- or anyone else for that matter beyond that -- comes from.
As I see it, the real problem for conservative women, especially those who recall why they fought the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have been a separate amendment specifically to prohibit discrimination against women, is that they relied on the 14th Amendment's application to gender discrimination as the reason why the ERA was unnecessary. If you forget how that argument goes, refresh your memory with this clip from The West Wing.
So the question now is, if you're a conservative woman who always believed that the 14th Amendment protected you, but now Scalia, the first or second most conservative of the Supreme Court justices says, well, no, it doesn't, what do you do?
That's a blog post waiting to be written by a conservative woman who is pro-woman's rights.

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Hungary, Ireland and others snatch retirement accounts is California next?

Image via WikipediaThe avalanche of failing governments in Europe has left many legislators with no choice but to seize European taxpayer savings and pension accounts to cover the governments’ bills.
The seizure of pension accounts is easily accomplished in Europe as the state organizes and is in charge of said accounts.
The extended recession has left many countries no choice but to get ‘creative’ with their bookkeeping to continue services or face possible riots like Greece.
Take Hungary, last month they made a deal with its citizens, either hand over all their savings to the government or lose all their state pension money. Adding insult to injury, citizens must still pay into those defunct accounts.
According to Christian Science Monitor, “The government wants to gain control over $14 billion of individual retirement accounts.”