Something to think about.....

“Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?”And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

Hypocrisy USA

Cult of the Dead Fish

Can Deep Green Resistance bridge the gap between two political prisoners in Utah?

The eco-resistance movement is in the midst of a growth spurt. Cases like that of Tim DeChristopher, known as Utah’s Bidder 70, represent a significant change in the battlefield between ecology and industrialism; they whisper to the potential of a broad, massive civil disobedience movement. One that might embrace tactics which have thus far been relegated to the fringes of environmentalism in the US, with the exception of a few instances, like the Redwood campaign in northern California in the 90s, or perhaps the anti-nuke fights of the 70s and 80s.

I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me

You can take my freedom, but you can’t have my submission.

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

H.P. Lovecraft

Just a Word.....

'Terrorist' is just a word, one I wish I'd never heard

When it's used to vilify, without the need to question why

Only fools would swift condemn, that which has not befallen them

Until you know what lies behind, the actions of a tortured mind

Thank your God for sparing you, the suffering others have lived through

Where are the cries of just demand, for Arabs driven from their land?

Blame the victim, turn the cheek, praise the bully, kick the weak!

Mock the man who truth does speak

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, greed, corruption, torture, lies!

Blair invasion, sly persuasion, annihilation, massacred nation

Keep on running, karma's coming!

Money talks, truth walks, oil spills, greed kills

Tide is turning, London's burning!

Bombs will fall and blood will flow, as sure as my own name I know

Until corrupt dictators go, brutal, rotten, to the core

Their day has come, they rule no more

Show me the man who will not fight, to save his child, his home, his right!

You can call him what you like, you're not in his sorry plight

Cowards stay and Martyrs go, I know not where, but this I know

Speak your truth and stand your ground, fight your corner

When all around, point the finger, purse the lips, pin the label, 'Terrorist'!

Just a word, but one that sticks, even when the cap don't fit

But for the grace of God go I, remember that, before you cry

False accusation, names of shame, at those who may not be to blame,

Their crime, refused to play the game, of meek acceptance, dumbing down,

Your life, your choice; Warrior / Clown

-Mhara Costello

The problem is not the chain of command but the chain of obedience!

NIO

Hello you fuckers, you assholes, you social rejects...

Feelin' a bit Hardcore this mornin'.....

Code Green - Final Act

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It may not be fun, But it sure as hell won't be boring.....

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Something to think about.....

"And if your heart isn’t broken by the knowledge of what they are doing to the world we love, then I feel sorry for you. Maybe you’re no longer alive. But if the death of the planet we love makes you cry, then take those tears and turn them into action."

Rod Coronado

I bet it is pretty hard to pick up girls if you have the Black Death.

This sounds like a good idea..........

Scientists have reconstructed the genetic code of the germ responsible for the Black Death, an infection carried by fleas that led to the deaths of around 50 million Europeans.

Activist Post

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I have posted this before, but it needs to be heard again.

The Canary Effect

The grim legacy of America's treatment of its native peoples is explored in detail in this documentary. Filmmakers Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman take the perspective that if one is to define "genocide" as the a deliberate effort by a government to exterminate a people, then the United States is clearly guilty of the crime given their actions against America's indigenous population over the past 300 years. Davey and Thunder Woman back up their argument with footage detailing the economic marginalization of American Indians, the consistent violation of legal agreements reached with native tribes, the mismanagement and consistent neglect of Indian reservations, the brutalization of Native Americans as they were segregated onto flinty soil and forced to live under substandard conditions, and the refusal of the mass media to report stories of suicide and Columbine-style school shootings among reservation youth.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor.....

is the mind of the oppressed.....

Crazy? Once I was crazy. They locked me in a room to die. Die? I don't want to die. All the mice will get me. Mice? I hate mice. They drive me crazy.

Crazy? Once I was crazy.......

Proposed Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon Region

Today GOP lawmakers led by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced legislation that would open one million acres of public lands forming Grand Canyon National Park’s watershed to new uranium mining. The bill would overturn an existing moratorium on new mining and mining claims.

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Columbus Day

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Whack-A-Murdoch

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Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit....

How do you spell "holiday"? S-H-I-T.

Anasazi Basketmaker-papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch symposium

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Ninety seven skeletons were taken from the cave.
Many of the men showed evidence of having been killed
as spear points where found between the ribs and arrowhead
points in the back bones. One case where the hip bones were
pinned together with a huge obsidian spear point shows
no small amount of force was used to bury a point of that
size in two inches of bone- crushed heads were quite common-
one case the face was mashed in and the skull contained
an Atlatal point that had been fired in under the chin
or below as the point sticks out the top of the head-
The Mummy cut-in-two was sewn together with human hair string.
After this had gotten to a museum an Atlatal point fell out of it......

Something to think about.....

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

— George Bernard Shaw

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service

Knife Lake: Rewriting prehistory

Recent archaeological finds near northern Minnesota’s Knife Lake may rewrite the current theories on how long human beings have lived not only in Minnesota, but much of North America.

Past Horizons

THE POLITICS OF EXTINCTION

Remain a parasite OR become an Earth Warrior. Serve your Mother and prosper OR serve civilization and besmear yourself with the filth and guilt of ecocide.

—Captain Paul Watson

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The problem nowadays is stupidity. Why don't we just take the safety labels off everything and see what happens?

Three Mile Island: The Controversy Continues

On March 28, 1979, a cooling circuit pump in the non-nuclear section of Three Mile Island's second station (TMI-2) malfunctioned, causing the reactor's primary coolant to heat and internal pressure to rise. Within seconds, the automated response mechanism thrust control rods into the reactor and shut down the core. An escape valve opened to release pressure but failed to close properly. Control room operators only saw that a "close" command was sent to the relief valve, but nothing displayed the valve's actual position.[1] With the valve open, coolant escaped through the pressurizer, sending misinformation to operators that there was too much pressure in the coolant system. Operators then shut down the water pumps to relieve the "pressure......."

Survive a Mace Attack

So you're worried about being Maced? Forewarned is forearmed, and here's what you need to know if you anticipate being on the receiving end of a spray canister.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906

" We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it... We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope."

The A.L.F. is Watching and There's No Place To Hide.....

The Colorado River: Running Near Empty

In this video,Pete McBride, a Colorado native, documents how increasing water demands have transformed the river that is the lifeblood for an arid Southwest.

Watch the Video Here

Grand Canyon River Archeology

Between 2006 and 2009, the National Park Service (NPS) and the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) completed the largest excavation and research project in Grand Canyon National Park in nearly 40 years. Nine sites along the Colorado River at the Canyon bottom were investigated, revealing important stories about the lives of prehistoric peoples who made the Grand Canyon their home.

Take the Virtual Tour

Of the thousands of archaeological sites known at Grand Canyon National Park, few have been excavated and many are at risk from the elements, visitor impact, and sediment depletion caused by the operation of Glen Canyon Dam.

Something to think about.....

“There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part. You have to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Mario Savio

Defensive or just for the view?

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem.....

first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.

Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining

During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams. Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social impacts of this practice and examines the long-term effects on the region’s forests and waterways.

At a time when the Obama administration is reviewing mining permit applications throughout West Virginia and three other states, this video offers a first-hand look at mountaintop removal and what is at stake for Appalachia’s environment and its people.

Watch the movie here Yale Environment 360

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Occupy Wall Street

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel Fine....

Something to think about....

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

– Edward Abbey