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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

27 September - The Picture on Facebook

English: Structure of the Amazon Military Comm...English: Structure of the Amazon Military Command or "Comando Militar da Amazônia" (CMA) of the Brazilian Army (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Flooded forest in the Amazon basin, c...English: Flooded forest in the Amazon basin, close to the meeting of the Rio Negro and Rio Amazon at Manaus, Brazil. This was taken in Feburary when the river flooding is seasonally low. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Generation Alpha's photo.
Films For Action
Check out the link. They have over 700 videos indexed on the website and over 300 documentaries. Reason #5494 that you never need watch TV again. 
 
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International Rivers
More than 200 dams threaten the Amazon basin, and even more are planned in government inventories. Today we released a new version of our Dams in Amazônia online database to help researchers track and warn about these destructive projects. Access it today! http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/7682
Dams Database Shows More Than 200 Dams Threatening the Amazon
www.internationalrivers.org
Two years ago, we developed a cutting-edge online database called “Dams in Amazônia” together with Fundación Proteger of Argentina and ECOA, Brazil, to track 

Nurse Rise ~ Nurses for Safe Water



Living Downstream and Sandra in New York City, Saturday, October 20! "She asks one of the essential questions of our age: How much proof is necessary to treat industrial contamination of air, soil and streams as human rights issues? This is a powerful and compelling film about a woman whose brilliance is surpassed only by her honesty and grit."
Mountainfilm in New York: October 19-21, 2012
www.mountainfilm.org
Featuring a selection of Mountainfilm festival favorites and most popular guests. Presented by Mountainfilm in

SHOULD the UNITED STATES be FRACKED
to SUPPLY FOREIGN NATIONS with NATURAL GAS

"...Finally consider this: If the U.S. does export shale gas, it will be supplying countries like France that have already banned fracking because it’s too da
ngerous.

Is the U.S. on its way to becoming an energy extraction colony for other nations?

Are we the new Third World?"

http://ecowatch.org/2012/u-s-export-natural-gas/#comment-34859
 
Nurses for Safe Water shared a link via Vestal Residents for Safe Energy.
Monday
Stunning!: "In findings that will intensify opposition to the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, some 47 per cent of respondents in the "new shale" states of Pennsylvania and New York, who have rented out their land, said they wouldn't repeat the experience."
Landowners turn against leasing for 'fracking'
www.independent.co.uk
Nearly half of the landowners who have leased their ground to shale gas developers in the north-east of America regret doing it, despite 
 
The Big Secret? Fracking Fluids
By Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
PHYSICIANS for Social Responsibiliity

In 2008, Cathy Behr, a Colorado emergency room nurse at Durango Mercy Regional Medical Center was working the day shift when a gas driller work...See More
Photo: The Big Secret? Fracking Fluids By Walter Tsou, MD, MPH PHYSICIANS for Social Responsibiliity In 2008, Cathy Behr, a Colorado emergency room nurse at Durango Mercy Regional Medical Center was working the day shift when a gas driller worker, Clinton Marshall, arrived complaining of nausea and headaches. Marshall had spilled “fracturing fluid” on his clothes and boots and the smell apparently was overpowering and sufficiently strong that they evacuated the emergency room. Cathy Behr, without protection, had meanwhile spent just ten minutes tending to Mr. Marshall. A few days after this ER visit, Behr appeared jaundiced and began vomiting fluid and having difficulty breathing. Behr’s husband took her back to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with multiple organ failure, including liver failure, respiratory distress and erratic blood counts. She was admitted to the ICU with the presumptive diagnosis of poisoning from an unknown chemical. The chemical was and is still considered to be a proprietary formula by the producer, Halliburton, a gas industry leader. It was later revealed to be a product with the trade name, Zetaflow. Halliburton noted that Zetaflow increases gas production by 30% and threatened that it would pull its secret sauce out of Colorado if it was forced to reveal what was in it ...In a world where we insist on evidence-based medicine, we prohibit this when it comes to gas drilling chemicals. Is it any wonder that political apologists believe that fracking is safe? Or that many health professionals believe that fracking is unsafe? http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-health-policy-institute/responses/the-big-secret-fracking-fluids.html
 Promised Land Official Trailer [HD]: Matt Damon, John Krasinski & Frances McDormandwww.youtube.com

The official trailer for 'Promised Land' starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski and Frances McDormand. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RtyEVzoOIk&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1
This Is What Democracy Looks Like shared Alma Hasse's photo.
Tuesday
A perfect example of the lack of concern for safety on the part of the fracking industry. This locking cage is supposed to be OVER the wellhead, not sitting next to it. From southern Idaho, and verified for real, since friends of mine were standing there looking at it and taking photos of the unguarded wellhead.
Here's a photo that was taken at 5:30 p.m. on September 22nd. We gave Hamilton Field tours to the folks with Wild Idaho Rising Tide and Occupy Spokane. The yellow "cage" is SUPPOSED to cover the well head. It's also supposed to be LOCKED (f
or security reasons). EVERY well head we looked at - five of them - were uncaged! SOMETHING IS GOING ON. This is why I sent the email to Eric Wilson with the Idaho Department of Lands (see post below)! I haven't heard back yet, but will post as soon as I do.
Photo: Here's a photo that was taken at 5:30 p.m. on September 22nd. We gave Hamilton Field tours to the folks with Wild Idaho Rising Tide and Occupy Spokane. The yellow "cage" is SUPPOSED to cover the well head. It's also supposed to be LOCKED (for security reasons). EVERY well head we looked at - five of them - were uncaged! SOMETHING IS GOING ON. This is why I sent the email to Eric Wilson with the Idaho Department of Lands (see post below)! I haven't heard back yet, but will post as soon as I do.

MORE PROOF OF HARPER's BAD JUDGEMENT .....

WHY THE PIPELINES CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO BE BUILT !
Photo: MORE PROOF OF HARPER's BAD JUDGEMENT ..... WHY THE PIPELINES CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO BE BUILT !
 
 
Right on.
Photo
 
 
Directory of anti-fracking groups worldwide
bridgendgreens.wordpress.com
Not comprehensive – but still quite an impressive list. The video from Australia gives a glimpse of what South Wales will look like when the frackers get in their stride. AUSTRALIA: Why Tara...
 
PUBLIC HEALTH:
First Hand Fracking Zone Reports:
"We're Sick, We're Sick, We're Sick"
Please share this 5 minute video with Nursing Colleagues. For non Nurses, please share it with your own Heathcare Professionals, & then join us in working to prevent/resolve this public health crisis.
http://taskohio.org/2012/07/26/the-woodlands-by-rich-waters-butler-county-pa/
 
Photo: PUBLIC HEALTH: First Hand Fracking Zone Reports: "We're Sick, We're Sick, We're Sick" Please share this 5 minute video with Nursing Colleagues. For non Nurses, please share it with your own Heathcare Professionals, & then join us in working to prevent/resolve this public health crisis. http://taskohio.org/2012/07/26/the-woodlands-by-rich-waters-butler-county-pa/


Photo: Texas -Not So Easy Breathing for the Children- VOC's & Fracking Exposure Asthma Rates Go UP "•In Texas, which had about 93,000 natural-gas wells in 2011, up from around 58,000 a dozen years ago, a hospital system in six counties with some of the heaviest drilling, including the Barnett Shale region, found that "children in the community ages 6-9 are three times more likely to have asthma than the average for that age group in the State of Texas." According to Baylor University, in 2009, childhood asthma rates in the Tarrant County area of the Barnett were more than double the national average, prompting a new study to evaluate asthma and pollution sources...& (a Colorado study) reminds us that chronic exposure to ozone, prevalent at gas production sites, can lead to asthma and pulmonary diseases, particularly in children and the aged... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-gallay/gas-industry-spin-cant-co_b_1392676.html


This Is What Democracy Looks Like shared Sharon Springs Against Hydrofracking's photo.
Yesterday
The price tag is just too high for something we could do much more safely and sanely with anaerobic digestion.
Here's a new study put out by Environment Maryland. It's a long PDF but the executive summary sums it up-these statistics alone give reason enough to ban fracking everywhere!
http://www.environmentmaryland.org/sites/environment/files/reports/The%20Costs%20of%20Fracking.pdf
 
Photo: Here's a new study put out by Environment Maryland. It's a long PDF but the executive summary sums it up-these statistics alone give reason enough to ban fracking everywhere! http://www.environmentmaryland.org/sites/environment/files/reports/The%20Costs%20of%20Fracking.pdf

This Is What Democracy Looks Like shared Occupy Canada's photo.
Yesterday
Ecocide, in action and in planning. Sucks doesn't begin to cover it, and all for the wealth and benefit of the few.
Why is our Earth being fracked, our groundwater contaminated, the tar sands being boiled, the prairies polluted? It's not for our use, not for our good. It's for multi-national corporations to peddle to the rest of the world. 范
Photo: Why is our Earth being fracked, our groundwater contaminated, the tar sands being boiled, the prairies polluted? It's not for our use, not for our good. It's for multi-national corporations to peddle to the rest of the world. 范


Real Coastal Warriors
With the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits to oil development, the crude hunt would leave mainland Alaska and head offshore into the treacherous Arctic Ocean. It was the mid-2000s, and then-President George W. Bush’s administration was selling leases for oil exploration far off Alaska’s northern shores. Read more here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/arctic-ocean-vs-anwr-hard-earned-quest-drill-icy-abyss
ickening.
Photo: via Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company

France will push for GM ban if cancer threat confirmed
phys.org
France will seek an immediate EU ban on imports of a genetically-modified corn made by Monsanto if a study linking it to cancer in rats is deemed credible, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday.
 
 
Inspiration Farm Academy shared a link.
Yesterday
For anyone who has not heard Brian Kerkvliet's thoughts on resilience, this video is a great place to start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA0QYkYAjDE&list=PLA2wDF-E-OHDVVpB0j101APo8POr_yfdT&index=1&feature=plpp_video
What Does Resilience Mean to You? - Brian Kerkvliet
www.youtube.com
Brian Kerkvliet of Inspiration Farm describes what a resilient farm will look like in the 21st century. More Stories at:
 
"There are 27 million slaves in the world today: That's more than double the number of people taken from Africa during the entire transatlantic slave trade. A hundred and fifty years ago, an
average agricultural slave cost over three times the average yearly wage of an American worker, about US$50,000 in today's money. Yet now, entire families can be enslaved for generations over a debt as small as $18. Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world."

Slavery Still Exists
www.theatlantic.com
Photographs of human trafficking and enslavement around the world


These are the two protesters who were tortured by police, egged on by Transcanada officials. The two protesters said having pepper spray sprayed on the open wounds the police had created on their arms inside the lock-down set-up was excruci
ating, but by encouraging each other and sticking together they got through it without begging mercy. Where are the troops? If this is not invasion of American soil, I don't know what is. If we want to declare war on those who are terrorizing America, Trans-Canada should be at the top of the list.


BREAKING: Shanon and Benjamin, two Texas-born blockaders, have locked themselves to Keystone XL machinery and effectively shut down construction at the site! Their actions are in defense of their eight friends just over 300 yards away maint
aining their vigil in the trees.

Click LIKE and SHARE to stand with Shanon and Benjamin as they defend Texas and their friends from this toxic pipeline.

 More photos and live updates on our blog: http://tarsandsblockade.org/tree-sit-day2/

Photo: BREAKING: Shanon and Benjamin, two Texas-born blockaders, have locked themselves to Keystone XL machinery and effectively shut down construction at the site! Their actions are in defense of their eight friends just over 300 yards away maintaining their vigil in the trees. Click LIKE and SHARE to stand with Shanon and Benjamin as they defend Texas and their friends from this toxic pipeline. More photos and live updates on our blog: http://tarsandsblockade.org/tree-sit-day2/
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