Focus Forward Films: Short Films:Big Ideas.... one of them...
Saturday, June 02, 2012
The Deadly and Costly Realities of Mountaintop Removal « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement
The Deadly and Costly Realities of Mountaintop Removal « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement
The Spruce No. 1 permit is one of the first examples of steps that the EPA has taken to STOP irresponsible mining practices which were ignored during the Bush Administration. People from all over Appalachia have lobbied the EPA for these protections for the past 15 years. During the Bush Administration the oversight of mountaintop removal permits was non-existent. The Bush Administration sent word to W.Va state Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Stephanie Timmermyer to get these permits pushed through as quickly as possible, In George Bush’s words “We need this coal, our homeland security depends on it.” The coal industry was allowed to do as they please during the 8 years of the Bush Administration.
Then in 2009, in steps the Obama administration’s EPA trying to fix the problems that the Bush administration created and then ignored. One of the biggest problems was the lack of enforcement of current regulations on mountaintop removal operation in Appalachia. The coal industry was allowed to run out of control in our mountains and depopulate many of our local communities during this rush to get the coal. In response to this insurgence by the coal industry, impacted community members organized to stop the attack of this industry on us in our homes. The EPA heard from us often and we appreciate that they are listening to the science. We have organized meetings with the impacted community members so that the representatives within the government agencies can see and hear the people’s pleas. Still, most of these decision makers walked away thinking that there is some sort of balance to be found in blowing up the mountains over our homes and shoving them into our streams. In reality the fact is mountaintop removal is killing people. These facts are out and available to anyone who wants to see them.
You solve the deficit - It's a Game!
AMAZING!!?!!!
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.comBudget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.
Related Article | Behind The Times’s Deficit Project | Printable PDF Version | Follow-Up: 7,000 Ways to Fix the Deficit | Room for Debate
Related Article | Behind The Times’s Deficit Project | Printable PDF Version | Follow-Up: 7,000 Ways to Fix the Deficit | Room for Debate
You solved the deficit!
« Clear Choices and Start Over NYT Budget Puzzle: You Fix The Budget - You solve the deficit!Friday, June 01, 2012
Eight Songs for the Restless, the Gypsies, the Wild Things (& Me). | elephant journal
Eight Songs for the Restless, the Gypsies, the Wild Things (& Me). | elephant journal
Eight Songs for the Restless, the Gypsies, the Wild Things (& Me).
I woke up restless yesterday.
And went to bed restless tonight.
In the in-between (and hopefully the again soon) I kept dreaming of far away places, and handmade boats; of soft, strange sounding languages that would roll around awkwardly in my mouth; of throwing a few sundresses and my cowgirl boots in a bag, and running away to live with gypsies and tinkers and dancing until the sky turns to ink.
When you are filled with wanderlust, restless, gypsy-hearted, tossing and turning—sometimes a song can be your boat:
1. When I grow up, I want to be a wild bird and fly away to wherever this is:
2. There are no words for this. Only made up ones in a language I used to whisper to my toys. I don’t remember it. I think they speak it in Iceland.
3. If you aren’t listening to First Aid Kit, please. Get to it.
4. “I don’t think about you anymore (but I don’t think about you anyless).”
5. Some songs, like twinkling fairy lights or far away fireflies, add a little bit of magic to your tossing and turning.
6. They said they made it up. I heard it means “Oh, Infinite Nakedness.” Either way (or both ways) Om Nashi Me.
7. The moon plays the ocean like a violin…
8. Wake up to the sound of your fleeting heart:
And if you’re still wild and restless, start and the top and listen again and again until it’s time to fly away (or time to hit your pillow and sail away to sleep).
Medical Marijuana States Add Number 17, Connecticut
Medical Marijuana States Add Number 17, Connecticut
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy on Friday signed a bill permitting the medical use of marijuana statewide, making Connecticut the 17th state to enact such a law.
A month ago, the Connecticut Senate voted 21 to 13 in favor of HB 5389, the Palliative Use of Marijuana Act. The legislation, which allows for the limited use and distribution of cannabis as medicine, comes after federal officials ramped up enforcement actions against state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries last fall, with scores of raids primarily in California.
Columbus was Jewish on a mission ....
Was Columbus secretly a Jew? -- Secret History -- Sott.net: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/245962-Was-Columbus-secretly-a-Jew-
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Stop calling them "Narcs", "Sociopaths", "Borderlines" - They are Psychopaths -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net
Stop calling them "Narcs", "Sociopaths", "Borderlines" - They are Psychopaths -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/246107-Stop-calling-them-Narcs-Sociopaths-Borderlines-They-are-Psychopaths
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Uncertainty Principle (Werner Heisenberg) *not new news*
Uncertainty Principle (Werner Heisenberg)
sorry , got lost....must have been uncertain...
sorry , got lost....must have been uncertain...
Mo‘ynaq – Graveyard of Ships in the Desert ~ Kuriositas
Mo‘ynaq – Graveyard of Ships in the Desert ~ Kuriositas
You have to wonder if the punishment on the rest of the world has to be as harsh before we sit up and take notice of what we are doing to our environment. After all, if you call Earth Planet A, then one thing is for sure – there is certainly no Planet B. We just don't seem to have figured that out yet.
and many other things on Kuriositas.com!!!
You have to wonder if the punishment on the rest of the world has to be as harsh before we sit up and take notice of what we are doing to our environment. After all, if you call Earth Planet A, then one thing is for sure – there is certainly no Planet B. We just don't seem to have figured that out yet.
and many other things on Kuriositas.com!!!