Category Archives: weather

Earthships rising…

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..ha ha.    Sorry, couldn’t avoid the pun.  But, yeah, they’ve raised about another $16,000 towards the goal of $68k for the Malawi construction.

Woot!

You may note that they also have projects in other places--Haiti being one.  They are also close to goal with this one, too.

Here’s to sustainability and artsy fartsy creativity, too. 🙂

 

All things ALEC

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Center for Media and Democracy has several links up on ALEC:

(most of these are from the week prior to the 40th birthday bash in Chicago)

They long for the bygone era.

ALEC agenda.

More *cough* scholarship funds for those poor, poor legislators…

I, for one, would like to know the reasons that Larry Summers, a hedge fund manager, would be the optimal choice for Federal Reserve.  WTH?

Pissed off at how much you’re taxed….well, how does this grab ya?  You at least expect your taxes to go towards useful things like roads, police, fire, schools….but, no, it is going to subsidize these folks.

This is the latest–the treatment of the protestors by Chicago P.D.  A note in the comments section said that over 900 people were arrested.

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On to other things–

Pandora’s lunchbox. Basically, like Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride tells GAPS patients….nothing processed is good for you–avoid it like the plague.  Try to eat more raw than cooked food.  Cooking destroys the enzymes in food–enzymes are used in all processes in your body.  This includes digestion of proteins and other nutrients so that your body can utilize them.  It won’t do your body any good if it lacks the enzymes to digest the nutrients.

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Lastly, there’s nanotechnology everywhere.  Is anybody regulating it? Well, yes and no.  The FDA is regulating silver nanoparticals, but you know the FDA on the nanotechnology as a whole….throw it out there and hope nobody notices.  Be sure to click on the links for Grist’s take (I knew there was a reason that I felt like I had sludge in my gut after eating M&M’s); also the link for Purdue’s report on the fish; and  the effect on DNA.  Yep.

 

Fukushima gets much worse

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The water is being contaminated...and they have no effing clue how to stop it.  Why is this kind of thing always an after-thought?  Why are companies allowed to build nuclear reactors (or do fracking or deep well oil drilling)  when they haven’t the slightest idea how to deal with emergencies like this?

Tell me, when your aquifer is contaminated with radioactive waste….where do you go for water?  Where?

Folks, if you don’t have clean water to drink, you die.  Three days is the longest one can go without water.  Three days.

Four things you should know about Fukushima.

Being misled by media here.

And here.  See…it’s all in your head.  It’s all in your head.  It’s all in your head.

This one isn’t quite as bad as the rest, but still has false reassurances.

From the last link:

Fukushima isn’t there yet. So far, most of the material in the core, including the longest-lived isotopes, seems to have stayed there. Far less material entered the atmosphere (only 10 percent of what was released by Chernobyl), and most of that drifted over uninhabited areas of the Pacific.

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Aren’t fairy tales nice?  /snark

I would like them to define “uninhabited areas”….because I’m pretty sure if the living beings in the ocean were given a voice, they would be shouting that they’re pretty damn sure they’re living in the radioactive water.  Good Grief, we human beings can be so dense sometimes….

Liberal media, where are you? **edited

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Diane Ravitch has a link up to a daily kos piece on the non-coverage of issues Americans care about…

**edited to add this link.

Forty Years of ALEC

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They’re protesting ALEC in Chicago as I type…the tweets are keeping tabs on what is going on.  Badass Teachers Association is there.  Others have reported rough treatment by Chicago Police.

https://twitter.com/aaroncynic/status/365556308516151297/photo/1

Chicago Teachers Union

 

Biotech food launches new website

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Propaganda...gotta love it. Not.   Ninety-three percent of Americans want GMO labeling…why isn’t Congress doing what the American people want??  I mean, they keep stating “the American people want…” so they must be concerned with honoring our wishes….right?   /just a little sarcasm there, folks

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One really has to wonder if the folks at the FDA have too much time on their hands or have completely lost their minds when you read stories like this. 

I think we should all live in bubbles so there is no way that we could ever, ever, ever come in contact with salmonella or any other bad bug.  /snark

I want eggs by free range chickens, but I can’t always get them.    It makes sense that the nutrition is better with free range eggs–look at the variety in their diet.  Clearly, the FDA is infiltrated with Big Ag  corporations that want to squeeze out the organic farmer.

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Speaking of organic food–I am starting to see the fruits of my labor with the heirloom tomato, Cosmonaut Volkov.  I had one the other night with mayonnaise on it…and OMG, it was delicious!  It tasted like tomatoes used to taste like before the hybridized the taste out of them!  Oh, wow, it was just like they tasted back in the 60s.  I kid you not.

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More on the GMO war–of course, it always comes down to who is funding  it.   Gah, the “NO” list reads like a list of defense contractors.

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Organic food sales are increasing.  People are waking up to the poison in their food.  Good for them.

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Michael Pollan and Mark Hertsgaard on how sustainable farming practices can help with climate change.

PR Watch

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…has a few links up:

ALEC anniversary being celebrated in Chicago.  A few folks thought they’d drop by….

MOVIE SCREENING: On Wednesday, August 7, at 6 p.m. Common Cause, the Center for Media and Democracy, and others will host a screening of the Bill Moyers documentary the “United States of ALEC” followed by a panel discussion. The screening will be held at the University Center, 525 South State Street in Chicago.

RALLY: At noon on Thursday, August 8, a coalition of groups, spearheaded by the Chicago Federation of Labor, is calling on people to gather outside the ALEC conference at the Palmer House Hotel, located at 17 East Monroe Street for a march and rally. You can tell them you are coming here.

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ALEC, Big Oil, and Big Ag…

 

ALEC and low wages…

 

Public Television pulls funding for documentary on the Kochs…because the Kochs are million dollar contributors.   Selling their soul doesn’t come cheap, you know…

 

 

Limbaugh and Hannity being cut by Cumulus

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Well, now.  Didn’t expect they would do it.  I seriously thought that Limbaugh was entrenched and nothing short of him murdering someone would they cut the strings.  I’m happy that they are cutting off the hate-filled blather.   Who are they going to get now to bang the drum for the rightwingers…?

I just hope they aren’t replaced with more hate-filled blather by someone even worse than Limbaugh and Hannity.