The selfie...a new way of communicating our connectedness. Even a dog 🙂
I found more pics here.
(although I hope those colors are not toxic…can’t help worrying about that stuff.)
Here’s a page explaining what happens at the festival….a celebration of good over evil.
City Jackdaw has a sobering post up on a young Polish Catholic girl, Czesława Kwoka, that perished at the German prison camp.
I wanted to re-post in memory of her, too. And the other children. And the gypsies.
Be sure to click on the link to her biography.
It’s important to note that these are the poor. The wealthy could flee the country until the war was over.
Where’s my spoon? /snark
Magnetic Wheaties. The press refused to publish this because they didn’t think it was real. Anyone want to test their own Wheaties and dispute it?
Here’s another paper on heavy metals content in foods.
Arsenic in food. The discussion is in defense of reports of arsenic in organic foods. What the news reports got wrong was that heavy metals are present in conventionally grown foods, too. It’s not a fault of growing them organically…but it is a fault of our toxic environment—which we are all responsible for promoting.
Another link here.
While there is a set legal limit for the amount of arsenic in water, that’s not the case for food. In previous weeks, researchers also detected high levels of arsenic in apple and grape juices. “All of these arsenic studies come back to the fact that there are multiple exposures, with the levels varying from product to product and batch to batch,” says Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food & Water Watch, a consumer safety organization. “We need to figure out some regulatory limit.”
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Arsenic in rice has been discussed on the mercury support group–obviously, we’re concerned about putting more poison in our bodies. It’s frustrating as hell because even if you eat organic, you’re still at risk of heavy metals by the soil contamination.
Someone said in a reply on one of the sites I visited: you’re pretty much going to get exposed by anything you eat…nothing is safe.
But I would not give up organic food. Conventionally grown food is less nutritious, besides polluting the environment even more–it doesn’t make sense on that point alone.
Finally, here’s a disturbing video produced by Environmental Working Group on toxic chemicals in babies’ blood.
I looked up the Kids Safe Chemicals Act of 2008…and I’ll give you three guesses how it turned out. Yep.
But, wait! There’s yet another bill introduced with link to co-sponsors…here’s where it stands.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ] Bill Author
Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY] Bill Author
Again, no mention on the toxins’ effects on the animals and birds. Mercury has been found in birds on land and sea birds. It’s also been found in marine mammals.
**edited to correct wording.
Diane Ravitch posted a link to this biting piece. Apparently, Rhee knew when it comes to her failed education mandates, she was going to get schooled by Diane.
And yet…she is still telling the American public she knows whats best for their children.
The crisis in Syria...what, where, and how to intervene? And why is it always the United States expected to expend the troops, finances, and risk to intervene? Where is the global community?
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has a post up on a book about the Idle No More movement with stories and poems and such. I haven’t read it, but would love to have a copy of what sounds like a wonderful historical book. She notes that the royalties will benefit the indigenous youth.
This reminds me a lot of the German structure houses around my area. They used small stones and cement, I believe, to build not only the houses, but fences, too. And they’re still standing–a testament to the skills of the previous generations. I like the fact he used all natural materials, too. 🙂
This week’s photos are of Manitoba. Love the architecture in #29…
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