tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-647499776145925652024-02-18T22:57:31.075-05:00FRACKED"Those with the gold make the rules"Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-75583103985346609432013-01-25T12:59:00.000-05:002013-01-25T12:59:01.877-05:00REFRACKED: eXtinction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I was born,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nature was already dying.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>At the age of five,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Only half of the wetlands in the US remained.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I was only ten,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Almost half of the world's forests had been destroyed.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I was twenty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The world's oceans had over 400 dead zones</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Where no life could be supported.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I turned twenty six,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tens of billions of pollenating insects had died worldwide.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am forty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Half of the Amazon Rainforest will be eliminated.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am fifty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lions will be extinct in the wild.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am sixty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Many of the world's glaciers will have disappeared.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am seventy,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ninety five percent of the world's coral reefs will have died off.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am eighty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Two billion people will not have access to clean water.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am ninety,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nine billion people will live on the planet,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It would take three entire Earths to sustain them,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We will not even have one.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I leave this Earth,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Nature I knew and loved,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Will be gone.</b></span><br />
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<b><i>Carl Sagan</i></b></div>
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Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-44192499952308851152012-12-15T23:36:00.000-05:002012-12-16T05:47:24.638-05:00IN YOUR HANDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-30991866660038276602012-12-02T13:22:00.000-05:002012-12-02T13:42:50.998-05:00DE-ICED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>it has changed me as a person."</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>there must be something I can do</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>to help my grandkids."</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>John Rember</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"There's no one to hear</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>You might as well scream</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>They never woke up</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"If Mitt Romney is elected president, expect drilling for fossil fuels to explode. The Republican challenger has promised to <em style="font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">double</em> the number of drilling permits issued for federal lands. And that boom would go unregulated: Romney has blasted the current administration's "effort to crimp natural gas by federal regulation of the very technology that produces it."</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Seems to me that he once fell asleep </i></b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Flying at higher platitudes in the thin upper air of his own mind last week, Republican candidate Mitt Romney remarked apropos of airplane travel: "[T]he windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous." </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "It turned out that Mitt meant the remark as a gag. But it sheds some light on the hazard of trying to be funny by saying the opposite of what you mean, and also on the essential character of Mr. Romney who, to put it as plainly and directly as possible, is the sort of person commonly described as "an asshole." Hence, the thought that must be flashing through many people's minds these days when Romney's off-kilter, square-jawed, grinning visage floats over the nearest flat-screen: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Who would vote for that asshole...</i>?</span> Being given to more baroque taxonomy, myself, I would be satisfied in calling Mr. Romney an empty vessel in a vacant room in an abandoned property in a forsaken land, and leave it at that." </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>James Kunstler </i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>For our love is true</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>God bless our love</i></b></span><br />
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</div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-90919449956962204812012-07-07T11:18:00.001-04:002012-07-07T11:27:47.779-04:00SONGS AGAINST FRACKING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>I don't want your millions, Mister,<br />I don't want your diamond ring.<br />All I want is the right to live, Mister,</i></b></span><br />
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</div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-25591950138469824702012-07-04T12:28:00.000-04:002012-07-04T12:28:02.468-04:00FOURTHWISE<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Unfortunately, the environmental and health concerns about fracking that Truthland’s protagonist, Shelly Depue, determined to be “unfounded” after her trip have become a reality on her own property. In March, after a DePue neighbor outside Montrose, PA reported sludgy water and an “erupting” water well that was also determined to have unusually high methane levels, the Scranton Times-Tribune investigated and found that Tulsa, OK-based drilling company WPX Energy had been cited for environmental violations on multiple nearby wells in 2011, including on the Depues’ property, which they had leased to WPX (then Williams Production Appalachia) in July 2010. The violations were for “defective casing or cement … meant to protect aquifers [which contain drinking water] from gas and other fluids.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">BE SEEING YOU</span></b></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-40153018272390535502012-03-28T11:29:00.000-04:002012-03-28T11:29:05.229-04:00WE FRACKED UP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh20FrZkuddrGFdfNcwp_4NpSKJ580gHbIC9PGxrXeCi2oMAoqO9ibb8JvpgW4a-ShxvQw8MB-Km-5yTA3oYtOuVql2PWAsGboWTwMzUcJ8QxzeLYRxbxKUh-b7z80xTDUko_g_vbsssw/s1600/zena_holloway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh20FrZkuddrGFdfNcwp_4NpSKJ580gHbIC9PGxrXeCi2oMAoqO9ibb8JvpgW4a-ShxvQw8MB-Km-5yTA3oYtOuVql2PWAsGboWTwMzUcJ8QxzeLYRxbxKUh-b7z80xTDUko_g_vbsssw/s640/zena_holloway.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>photo by Zena Halloway</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>My first grandchild is due in August.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>My heart is torn.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"We Screwed Up:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A Letter of Apology </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>To My Granddaughter"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Maddie,</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I address this letter to you, but please share it with Jack, Tasiah, and other <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">grandchildren who are yet unborn</span>. Also, with your children and theirs. My unconditional love for my children and grandchildren convinces me that, if I could live long enough to embrace my great-grandchildren, I would love them as deeply as I love you.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On behalf of my generation of grandparents to all of you, I want to apologize.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sorry we used up all the oil. It took a million years for those layers of carbon goo to form under the Earth's crust and we used up most of it in a geological instant. No doubt there will be some left and perhaps you can get around the fact that what remains is already distant, dirty, and dangerous, but the low-hanging fruit will be long-gone by the time you are my age. We took it all.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's no excuse, really. We are gas-hogs, plain and simple. We got hooked on faster-bigger-more and charged right over the carrying capacity of the planet. Oil made it possible.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Machines are our slaves and coal, oil, and gas are their food. They helped us grow so much of our own food that we could overpopulate the Earth. We could ship stuff and travel all over the globe, and still have enough fuel left to drive home alone in trucks in time to watch Monday Night Football.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rocket fuel, fertilizer, baby bottles, lawn chairs: we made everything and anything out of oil and could never get enough of it. We could have conserved more for you to use in your lifetime. Instead, we demonstrated the self-restraint of crack addicts. It's been great having all that oil to play with and we built our entire world around that. Living without it will be tough. Sorry.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope we develop clean, renewable energy sources soon, or that you and your generation figure out how to do that quickly. In the meantime, sorry about the climate. We just didn't realize our addiction to carbon would come with monster storms, epic droughts, Biblical floods, wildfire infernos, rising seas, migration, starvation, pestilence, civil war, failed states, police states, and resource wars.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure Henry Ford didn't see that coming when he figured out how to mass-produce automobiles and sell them to Everyman. I know my parents didn't see the downside of using so much gas and coal. The all-electric house and a car in the driveway was their American Dream. For my generation, owning a car became a birthright. Today, it would be hard for most of us to live without a car. I have no idea what you'll do to get around or how you will heat your home. Oops!</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also pigged out on most of the fertile soil, the forests and their timber, and the oceans that teemed with fish before we scraped the seabed raw, dumped our poisonous wastes in the water, and turned it acid and barren. Hey, that ocean was an awesome place and it's too bad you can't know it like we did. There were bright coral reefs, vibrant runs of red salmon, ribbons of birds embroidering the shores, graceful shells, the solace and majesty of the wild sea...</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...But then I never saw the vast herds of bison that roamed the American heartland, so I know it is hard to miss something you only saw in pictures. We took lots of photos.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought we were pretty smart because we walked a man on the moon. Our technology is indeed amazing. I was raised without computers, smart phones, and the World Wide Web, so I appreciate how our engineering prowess has enhanced our lives, but I also know it has a downside.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was a kid we worried that the Cold War would go nuclear. And it wasn't until a river caught fire near Cleveland that we realized fouling your own nest isn't so smart after all. Well, you know about the rest -- the coal-fired power plants, acid rain, the hole in the ozone...</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were plenty of signs we took a wrong turn but we kept on going. Dumb, stubborn, blind: Who knows why we couldn't stop? Greed maybe -- powerful corporations we couldn't overcome. It won't matter much to you who is to blame. You'll be too busy coping in the diminished world we bequeath you.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One set of problems we pass on to you is not altogether our fault. It was handed down to us by our parents' generation so hammered by cataclysmic world wars and economic hardship that they armed themselves to the teeth and saw enemies everywhere. Their paranoia was understandable, but they passed their fears on to us and we should have seen through them. I have lived through four major American wars in my 62 years, and by now defense and homeland security are powerful industries with a stranglehold on Congress and the economy. We knew that was a lousy deal, but trauma and terror darkened our imaginations and distorted our priorities. And, like you, we needed jobs.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry we spent your inheritance on all that cheap bling and, especially, all those weapons of mass destruction. That was crazy and wasteful. I can't explain it. I guess we've been confused for a long time now.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and sorry about the confusion. We called it advertising and it seemed like it would be easy enough to control. When I was a kid, commercials merely interrupted entertainment. Don't know when the lines all blurred and the buy, buy, buy message became so ubiquitous and all-consuming. It just got outta hand and we couldn't stop it, even when we realized we hated it and that it was taking us over. We turned away from one another, tuned in, and got lost.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm betting you can still download this note, copy it, share it, bust it up and remake it, and that you do so while plugged into some sort of electrical device you can't live without -- so maybe you don't think that an apology for technology is needed and, if that's the case, an apology is especially relevant. The tools we gave you are fine, but the apps are mostly bogus. We made an industry of silly distraction. When our spirits hungered, we fed them clay that filled but did not nourish them. If you still don't know the difference, blame us because we started it.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And sorry about the chemicals. I mean the ones you were born with in your blood and bones that stay there -- even though we don't know what they'll do to you). Who thought that the fire retardant that kept smokers from igniting their pillows and children's clothes from bursting into flames would end up in umbilical cords and infants?</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It just seemed like better living through chemistry at the time. Same with all the other chemicals you carry. We learned to accept cancer and I guess you will, too. I'm sure there will be better treatments for that in your lifetime than we have today. If you can afford them, that is. Turning healthcare over to predatory corporations was another bad move.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all, our chemical obsession was pretty reckless and we got into that same old pattern: just couldn't give up all the neat stuff. Oh, we tried. We took the lead out of gasoline and banned DDT, but mostly we did too little, too late. I hope you've done better. Maybe it will help your generation to run out of oil, since so many of the toxic chemicals came from that. Anyway, we didn't see it coming and we could have, should have. Our bad.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are so many other things I wish I could change for you. We leave behind a noisy world. Silence is rare today, and unless some future catastrophe has left your numbers greatly diminished, your machines stilled, and your streets ghostly empty, it is likely that the last remnants of tranquility will be gone by the time you are my age.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how about all those species, the abundant and wondrous creatures that are fading away forever as I write these words? I never saw a polar bear and I guess you can live without that, too, but when I think of the peep and chirp of frogs at night, the hum of bees busy on a flower bed, the trill of birds at dawn, and so many other splendorous pleasures that you may no longer have, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">I ache with regret</span>. We should have done more to keep the planet whole and well, but we couldn't get clear of the old ways of seeing, the ingrained habits, the way we hobble one another's choices so that the best intentions never get realized.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mostly I'm sorry about taking all the good water. When I was a child I could kneel down and drink from a brook or spring wherever we camped and played. We could still hike up to glaciers and ski down snow-capped mountains.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clean, crisp, cold, fresh water is life's most precious taste. A life-giving gift, all water is holy. I repeat: holy. We treated it, instead, as if it were merely useful. We wasted and tainted it and, again in a geological moment, sucked up aquifers that had taken 10,000 years to gather below ground. In my lifetime, glaciers are melting away, wells are running dry, dust storms are blowing, and rivers like the mighty Colorado are running dry before they reach the sea. I hate to think of what will be left for you. Sorry. So very, very sorry.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there's a boatload of other trouble we're leaving you that I haven't covered here. My purpose is not to offer a complete catalog of our follies and atrocities, but to do what we taught your parents to do when they were as little as you are today.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you make a mistake, we told them, admit it, and then do better. If you do something wrong, own up and say you are sorry. After that, you can work on making amends.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am trying to see a way out of the hardship and turmoil we are making for you. As I work to stop the madness, I will be mindful of how much harder your struggles will be as you deal with the challenges we leave you to face.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best I can do to help you through the overheated future we are making is to love you now. I cannot change the past and my struggle to make a healthier future for you is uncertain, but today I can teach you, encourage you, and help you be as strong and smart and confident as you can be, so that whatever the future holds, whatever crises you face, you are as ready as possible. We will learn to laugh together, too, because love and laughter can pull you through the toughest times.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know a better world is possible. We create that better world by reaching out to one another, listening, learning, and speaking from our hearts, face to face, neighbor to neighbor, one community after another, openly, inclusively, bravely. Democracy is not a gift to be practiced only when permitted. We empower ourselves. Our salvation is found in each other, together.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Across America this morning and all around the world, our better angels call to us, imploring us to rise up and be as resilient as our beloved, beautiful children and grandchildren, whose future we make today. We can do better. I promise.</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your grandfather,</span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.467em !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chip Ward</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>My Thanks to Chip</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"Our better angels call to us,</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Imploring us to Rise Up...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Our salvation is found in each other,</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Together"</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>UNCONDITIONAL LOVE</i></b></span></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-53341308066050840992012-03-27T11:41:00.000-04:002012-03-27T11:41:44.497-04:00FRACKING & MARCELLUS THUNDERCLOUDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjFQt22jJTaXbODcWacQvwaY-Fy2_m4bokUCmNEuy-BG6YDZrqQwDpfdTbv0Rho-_tIn0A64yW44rr7f3vLvL9jST_TCRqlQCBT7WOoNRK3-r-FimgPrcUYDUXknDNqmii3B2UP0fjw/s1600/thunderclouds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjFQt22jJTaXbODcWacQvwaY-Fy2_m4bokUCmNEuy-BG6YDZrqQwDpfdTbv0Rho-_tIn0A64yW44rr7f3vLvL9jST_TCRqlQCBT7WOoNRK3-r-FimgPrcUYDUXknDNqmii3B2UP0fjw/s400/thunderclouds.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"Orion‘s search for a more truthful relationship </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>between humans and the natural world </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>occasionally calls for the expression of outrage.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>The more we learn about a gas-drilling practice </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>called hydraulic fracturing—or “fracking”—the more we see it </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>as </i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>a zenith of violence and disconnect, </i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>impulses that seem to be gathering on the horizon... </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>like thunder clouds."</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Orion</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Here, on top of the Marcellus Shale, along the border between Pennsylvania and New York—where we are surrounded by land leased to the gas industry; where we live in fear that our water will be ruined, our mortgages called in, our teenage children killed in fiery wrecks with 18-wheelers hauling toxic fracking waste on our rural, icy back roads; where we cash out our vacation days to board predawn buses to rallies and public hearings; where we fundraise, donate, testify, phone bank, lobby, submit public comments, sign up for trainings in nonviolent civil disobedience; where our children ask if we will be arrested, if we will have to move, if we will die, and what will happen to the bats, the honeybees, the black bears, the grapevines, the apple orchards, the cows’ milk; where we have learned all about casing failures, blow-outs, gas flares, clear-cuts, legal exemptions, the benzene content of production fluid, the radioactive content of drill cuttings; where people suddenly start sobbing in church and no one needs to ask why—here in the crosshairs..."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Sandra Steingraber </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"No right way is easy. . . .</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>We must risk our lives to save them."</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>John Muir, Sierra Club’s founder</i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Dear Sierra Club,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I’m through with you."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>---</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"The Sierra Club had taken money, gobs of it, from an industry that we in the grassroots have been in the fight of our lives to oppose. The largest, most venerable environmental organization in the United States secretly aligned with the very company that seeks to occupy our land, turn it inside out, blow it apart, fill it with poison. All for the goal of extracting a powerful heat-trapping gas, methane, that plays a significant role in climate change.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Climate change: identified by The Lancet as the number-one global health problem of the 21st century. Children, according to the World Health Organization, are among its primary victims."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>---</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"The path to salvation lies in reparations—not in accepting praise for overcoming the urge to commit the same crime twice. So shutter your doors. Cash out your assets. Don a backpack and hike through the gaslands of America. Along the way, bear witness. Apologize. Offer compensation to the people who have no drinkable water and can’t sell their homes. Whose farm ponds bubble with methane. Whose kids have nosebleeds and mysterious rashes. Write big checks to the people who are putting their bodies on the line in the fight to ban fracking, and to the grassroots groups that are organizing them."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">"Finally, go to Washington and say </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">what the Sierra Club should have said in 2007... </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>Fracking is not a bridge to the future. </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>It is a plank on which we walk </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>blindfolded at the point of a sword. </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>There is no right way to do it. </i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><i>And the pirates are not our friends."</i></span></b></span></div><div><br />
</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>The Orion Blog</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Breaking Up with the Sierra Club</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>March 23, 2012, by Sandra Steingraber</i></b></span></div></div><div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>FULL LETTER - <u><a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/newsfrom187/entry/6799/">HERE</a></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Great Thanks to Sandra Steingraber...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>I can think of no one more dedicated to protecting our children.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>I can think of nothing more important than that.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Please read all Sandra's previoius writings in Orion:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/contributor/50/">HERE</a></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Oh, a storm is threat'ning</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>My very life today...</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>It's just a shot away...</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>IT'S JUST A SHOT AWAY...</i></b></span></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-12884769986138735222012-03-24T21:47:00.063-04:002012-03-25T05:34:52.690-04:00POST-FRACKED: DOG AUGURY<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8695p5h5Amgpmc88sSal0aP9ldDZeBp-UIpEoNlM04opvm7H0Vk7Xm8SfL0HinSld_t2FP7xmompB59AyBpOko64ygKhV01TwVsErLzPhyphenhyphennkFvqmys_74-1UKvRed6Ea3k-4xQKHe-w/s1600/dog+augury+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8695p5h5Amgpmc88sSal0aP9ldDZeBp-UIpEoNlM04opvm7H0Vk7Xm8SfL0HinSld_t2FP7xmompB59AyBpOko64ygKhV01TwVsErLzPhyphenhyphennkFvqmys_74-1UKvRed6Ea3k-4xQKHe-w/s400/dog+augury+1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Throughout human history, </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>the apostles of purity, </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>those who have claimed </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>to possess a total explanation,</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>have wrought havoc</i> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>among mere mixed-up human beings."</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Salmon Rushdie</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> With Ate by his side come hot from hell, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> That this foul deed shall smell above the earth </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> With carrion men, groaning for burial."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Shakespear,</i> <i>Julius Caesar</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Dogs of war and men of hate</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>With no cause, we don't discriminate</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Discovery is to be disowned</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Our currency is flesh and bone</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Hell opened up and put on sale</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Gather 'round and haggle</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>For hard cash, we will lie and deceive</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Even our masters don't know </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>the webs we weave</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b><i>Até...come hot from hell</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZJC72jMaJfwFOMHgPvmcxkcp84wEbYZ1djYVjKj3IIpvYkRpS-RklcPgKEAwaeRiNBweCUvBntZBQsY1stSjx8n1K9keRyiUAZMgN8dDFpYayToXullkVlo0YWixSLG30z_g4WdM2A/s1600/Ate+coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZJC72jMaJfwFOMHgPvmcxkcp84wEbYZ1djYVjKj3IIpvYkRpS-RklcPgKEAwaeRiNBweCUvBntZBQsY1stSjx8n1K9keRyiUAZMgN8dDFpYayToXullkVlo0YWixSLG30z_g4WdM2A/s400/Ate+coin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;">Até</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Greek Goddess </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>of</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Evil and Misfortune</b></span></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-58928261912775540032012-03-20T17:24:00.002-04:002012-03-21T09:22:40.910-04:00THE GATED & THE FRACKED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsMryx9W_axqbpDMvwkmzd3bbBlCOkgODDl2jKsgAlf6vV9QM821zDRxV8UC_eQLJKzLS_elouEn07CGg_QeqIWhAN6nEHF8B6ge7Fnpimoal9BVK_1DQgB7ye1u8g3o2gZ1YCgs3Bg/s1600/gate+in+snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsMryx9W_axqbpDMvwkmzd3bbBlCOkgODDl2jKsgAlf6vV9QM821zDRxV8UC_eQLJKzLS_elouEn07CGg_QeqIWhAN6nEHF8B6ge7Fnpimoal9BVK_1DQgB7ye1u8g3o2gZ1YCgs3Bg/s400/gate+in+snow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"The gated individual,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>scholar, artist, media pundit and celebrity - </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>walled off </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>from growing impoverished populations - </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>are also cut loose from any ethical mooring </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>or sense of social responsibility."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Gated Intellectuals and Ignorance in Political Life</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>by Henry Giroux in Truthout</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">READ IT - <u><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/gated-intellectuals-and-ignorance-political-life/1332178712">HERE</a></u></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"A group of right-wing extremists in the United States would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of a market society."</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Neoliberalism or market fundamentalism as it is called in some quarters and its army of supporters cloak their interests in an appeal to "common sense," while <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">doing everything possible to deny climate change, massive inequalities, a political system hijacked by big money and corporations, the militarization of everyday life and the corruption of civic culture by a consumerist and celebrity-driven advertising machine. ...this deceptive strategy does more. It also substitutes shared responsibilities for a culture of diminishment, punishment and cruelty. The social is now a site of combat, infused with a live-for-oneself mentality and a space where a responsibility toward others is now gleefully replaced by an ardent, narrow and inflexible responsibility only for oneself</span>."</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"The gated intellectuals, pursuing their flight from social responsibility, become obsessed with the privatization of everything. And not content to remain supine intellectuals in the service of corporate hacks, they also willingly, if not joyfully, wage war against what is viewed as the ferocious advance of civil society, public values and the social."</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"The gated intellectual works hard to make thinking an act of stupidity, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">turn lies into truths</span>, build a moat around oppositional ideas so they cannot be accessed and destroy those institutions and social protections that serve the common good. Gated intellectuals and the institutions that support them believe in societies that stop questioning themselves, engage in a history of forgetting and celebrate the progressive "decomposition and crumbling of social bonds and communal cohesion."</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Gated intellectuals do not work with ideas, but sound bites. They don't engage in debates; they simply spew off positions in which unsubstantiated opinion and sustained argument collapse into each other."</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"The gated mentality of market fundamentalism has walled off, if not disappeared, those spaces where dialogue, critical reason and the values and practices of social responsibility can be engaged. The armies of anti-public intellectuals, who appear daily on television, radio talk shows, and other platforms, work hard to create <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">a fortress of indifference and manufactured stupidity</span>."</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Instead of the gated intellectual, there is a dire need for public intellectuals in the academy, art world, business sphere, media, and other cultural apparatuses to move from negation to hope." </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"If gated intellectuals defend the privileged, isolated, removed and individualized interests of those who decry the social and view communal responsibility as a pathology, then public intellectuals must ensure their work and actions embody a democratic ideal through reclaiming all those sites of possibility in which dialogue is guaranteed, power is democratized and public values trump sordid private interests. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Democracy must be embraced not merely as a mode of governance, but more importantly, as Bill Moyers points out, as a means of dignifying people so they can become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.</span>"</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">And the Angels that warned me...</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="308" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gc67C94wSx0" width="410"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">"so i wish i was under a tree</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">far away from society</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">where the only truth in me</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">is the soothing sound of my own entity</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">while my other voice is free</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">it expresses words of plea</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">to return to a stable form of reality</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">but i'm inside of that tree</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">that tree is inside of another tree</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">the perplexity is infinity</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">so i will just chill with a spliff"</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Nothing left to do...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pkav67NoEMr_6gOC57_1w8ixZvpO176NIedTZIReHL8VSZAMQjz372FaqHUBKwPblNRnhU7pzoctv9s2o8hEalNpPPIvHtI66dKy7a8KJOnMEvs8yt3dIv0-oTCAbsTVSGU_fxy89w/s1600/wolf+track.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pkav67NoEMr_6gOC57_1w8ixZvpO176NIedTZIReHL8VSZAMQjz372FaqHUBKwPblNRnhU7pzoctv9s2o8hEalNpPPIvHtI66dKy7a8KJOnMEvs8yt3dIv0-oTCAbsTVSGU_fxy89w/s400/wolf+track.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>I am one man...</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Waiting, out in the cold</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>OPEN YOUR EYES</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Things are in the saddle...</i></b></span></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-22455863715993761562012-03-17T08:32:00.001-04:002012-03-17T08:34:09.750-04:00THE FRACKING LAYER PLOY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNV7aKNNLobWWQnV1YrgJs2YzHvhoCl9Zp5R_12DtM_QtwTOjzEPf2dnCMf0qjPIuIj6JpshIU5SjImjQOT5NoPwD4_2eXEMZdmwL7a4VGJP3HR64L168WJdLWGoWb46w6sBnNbgXEaA/s1600/Pandora's+Box+-+Serban+Rosca.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNV7aKNNLobWWQnV1YrgJs2YzHvhoCl9Zp5R_12DtM_QtwTOjzEPf2dnCMf0qjPIuIj6JpshIU5SjImjQOT5NoPwD4_2eXEMZdmwL7a4VGJP3HR64L168WJdLWGoWb46w6sBnNbgXEaA/s400/Pandora's+Box+-+Serban+Rosca.gif" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Pandora's Box - <i>Serban Rosca</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"The oil industry is muscling through </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>pro-drilling legislation by tying it </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>to appealing tax cuts and education bills."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"The situation is harrowing."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><b>The Fracking Trade-Offs</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">David Sirota in Salon</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">READ IT -</span> <u><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/03/16/the_fracking_trade_offs/">HERE</a></u></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"Of all the political tactics used to protect business interests, none is as powerful as the layer ploy — the one in which an ugly corporate giveaway is hidden one layer beneath something popular. It’s the oldest trick in the book: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Offer up Mom and apple pie, and few are likely to notice the noxious serving plate."</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>"As the industry’s “drill, baby, drill!” mantra butts up against more science-based opposition, be on the lookout for this same layer ploy in every state. It’s at once enticing and deceptive — but when that platter of Mom and apple pie is inevitably served up, try to remember what the dish is made of."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Words are failing us...</i></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Adjectives are failing us...</i></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"...raging, disgusting, dishonest, lying, vile, foul, putrefying, stinking, loathsome, hateful, detestable, reprehensible, abhorrent, awful, heinous, odious, vile, low, mean, abject, shameful, ignominious, shabby, ignoble, disreputable, discreditable, destructive, nasty, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, obnoxious, odious, unsavory, repulsive, distasteful, nauseating, sickening, monstrous, evil, iniquitous, depraved, debased, reprehensible, godawful, lousy, scurvy, wicked, contemptible, nefarious, despicable, deplorable, debased -- another hundred or thousand -- you could line up and digest together into a peristalsa toward the asshole to convey the level of assholery the guy represents. I admit it: I don't have the words... </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>They, and those like them, are the scum that floats to the top of a pond of scum and gets scum on it."</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Syd Schwab</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>WAKE UP</b></span></div></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-66239180330793185582012-03-16T15:32:00.000-04:002012-03-16T15:32:06.838-04:00NATURAL BORN FRACKERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrn_nXuQ1h-yoB4iZMFC5reuDQ9mkemCQdPOz4KWGy9gGxvGKuilzlgnQCjgpM0iIFA8cSe0fo38J427krCxusMMOsTzzyDR8NEtkTkrioOuKRYoSHC3F2lDGEOTTggDzzoOWbU5wUIQ/s1600/natural+born+drillers+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrn_nXuQ1h-yoB4iZMFC5reuDQ9mkemCQdPOz4KWGy9gGxvGKuilzlgnQCjgpM0iIFA8cSe0fo38J427krCxusMMOsTzzyDR8NEtkTkrioOuKRYoSHC3F2lDGEOTTggDzzoOWbU5wUIQ/s400/natural+born+drillers+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Why the hyrdrocarbon boom?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FRACKING.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Natural Born Drillers</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Paul Krugman in the New York Times</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">READ IT -</span> <u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/krugman-natural-born-drillers.html?_r=1&emc=eta1">HERE</a></u></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><b>"To be a modern Republican in good standing, you have to believe — <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">or pretend to believe</span> — in two miracle cures for whatever ails the economy: more tax cuts for the rich and more drilling for oil."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">"More and more, Republicans are telling us that gasoline would be cheap and jobs plentiful if only we would stop protecting the environment and let energy companies do whatever they want."</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">"...tells readers that America as a whole could have a jobs boom, just like North Dakota, if only the environmentalists would get out of the way."</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">"The reality is that far from being hobbled by eco-freaks, the energy industry has been given a largely free hand to expand domestic oil and gas production, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">never mind the environment.</span>"</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">"The comparable-sized (to North Dakota) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">fracking boom in Pennsylvania has had hardly any effect on the state’s overall employment picture</span>, because, in the end, not that many jobs are involved."</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">"Why, then, are Republicans pretending otherwise? Part of the answer is that the party is rewarding its benefactors: the oil and gas industry doesn’t create many jobs, but it does spend a lot of money on lobbying and campaign contributions." </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">"And intellectual bankruptcy, I’m sorry to say, </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">is a problem that no amount </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of drilling and fracking can solve."</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"></span>Never thought I'd feature a Krugman essay in this blog, but...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Don't you know?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You're going to Shock the Monkey</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Too much at stake</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>And the news is breaking</i></b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>BETTER WAKE UP</b></span></div></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-87825055823227800452012-03-12T10:04:00.000-04:002012-03-12T10:04:20.443-04:00GROUNDWATER ROCKS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfAwB2QIRY-1apUlQ3GGmyHZ5f9TtXBru_ET6giZoyFV0Fvt3tohpk98Je76yE51b2ZB0HDmLvLkuegAWsqg4KiiHRLNNJJrU-nknyup10euSyXvhgOABXi2J8_PqyS8TTxsfSaP2nA/s1600/Groundwater+Awareness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfAwB2QIRY-1apUlQ3GGmyHZ5f9TtXBru_ET6giZoyFV0Fvt3tohpk98Je76yE51b2ZB0HDmLvLkuegAWsqg4KiiHRLNNJJrU-nknyup10euSyXvhgOABXi2J8_PqyS8TTxsfSaP2nA/s400/Groundwater+Awareness.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Groundwater:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It's Fracking Important!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>"This year's National Groundwater Awareness Week </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>may be the most important in it's 13 year history."</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inquirer Ariticle -</span></b> <b><u><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/public_health/142230745.html">HERE</a></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">GET DOWN!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">GET WITH IT! </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">BE AWARE!</span></b></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-37874327053785377302012-03-10T09:50:00.002-05:002012-03-10T11:03:41.129-05:00FRACKING HOSED IN PA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiBaQFI6_UOUGZuL-QHjUCTcTALQOIozchzb_p2oBKOauM3BIzbLP2gcy21vbo1evivm83xk8miii_tYOasD4eeXYhznJu1R_jwTr_o6xXGIUnFl0SYB3zkD6oZrCap-saDmd6MhgMQ/s1600/youtakewhatyougetandlikeit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiBaQFI6_UOUGZuL-QHjUCTcTALQOIozchzb_p2oBKOauM3BIzbLP2gcy21vbo1evivm83xk8miii_tYOasD4eeXYhznJu1R_jwTr_o6xXGIUnFl0SYB3zkD6oZrCap-saDmd6MhgMQ/s400/youtakewhatyougetandlikeit.jpg" width="377" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“People of Pennsylvania have seen this before </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>from coal, from steel. </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This state is used to getting hosed.</span> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The people have to say, </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>‘We’re not going to be your playground.’”</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Cuomo and Corbett Ignore </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Health Concerns From Gas Fracking</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 23px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>"In the face of official calls for “future studies” of how high-volume hydro fracking might affect human health, states like Pennsylvania and New York have avoided these issues.</b></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>"In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett and the Republican political establishment have eagerly embraced fracking, touting its economic benefits and downplaying its possible health consequences. Corbett’s 52-member advisory panel on Marcellus Shale drilling has no members with health expertise, according to a recent analysis by professors at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health. (Neither do advisory panels on gas drilling for the state of Maryland and for the U.S. Secretary of Energy.)</b></div><div style="display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>"New York State, which is poised to allow high-volume hydro fracking of shale formations as soon as it completes its final rules, has rejected repeated calls for a thorough study of the health implications of fracking."</b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DC Bureau Article -</span> <u><a href="http://www.dcbureau.org/201203097069/natural-resources-news-service/cuomo-and-corbett-ignore-health-concerns-from-gas-fracking.html#more-7069">HERE</a></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Natural Gas Drilling Began...</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"...neighbors noticed that their well water began to smell. Then came the headaches, skin lesions, and diarrhea, in household after household. A two-year-old dog fell over dead."</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">“We’re talking about little children</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: 14px;"> that have nosebleeds, cats that fall off windowsills,”</span></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"Some experts are concerned that the chemical make-up of the witches brew used to force gas from rock is at the heart of these health problems."</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"...future studies should explore “all the ways people can be exposed, such as through air, water, soil, plants and animals.”</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"Typically, the subject animals suffered death or reproductive problems after drinking water from contaminated wells, ponds or streams. Humans suffered from burning of the eyes, nose and throat, headaches and dizziness, rashes, vomiting and diarrhea. In one case, a boy missed a year in school due to an illness that was attributed to poisoning from arsenic, a common ingredient in frackingflowback."</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"...drillers have been known to compensate owners for animal deaths or illnesses in exchange for their legally binding silence."</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"...seen patients complaining of nosebleeds, rashes, headaches and fatigue, among other symptoms."</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>"...many of the wealthier, more educated local residents who have health problems are suing gas companies. Generally, the poor who are sick – many of whom live within 1,000 feet of a compressor station or an open frack pond – are fending for themselves because state and local health officials seem overwhelmed."</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This is how an angel dies...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="238" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JaAWdljhD5o" width="410"></iframe><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Maybe I should cry for help...</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Maybe I should SAIL</i></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: white;">Words are failing us...failing me...</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: white;">I am way beyond beside myself...</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: white;">This is all... way beyond everything</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuIi-ogZhUHtRJVutLVUZSIjBq0Hj9-rTPQY8vshfniE-DAf_abXfEJyC7Chd9-i9LBtnTiN1eDdcsR4uye6ksHic8CD5F1KiTn0BfhHk1Y6CV6Iux1qCSTXo_-8myy6bAM-FZYPFCQ/s1600/Wof+Watching+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuIi-ogZhUHtRJVutLVUZSIjBq0Hj9-rTPQY8vshfniE-DAf_abXfEJyC7Chd9-i9LBtnTiN1eDdcsR4uye6ksHic8CD5F1KiTn0BfhHk1Y6CV6Iux1qCSTXo_-8myy6bAM-FZYPFCQ/s400/Wof+Watching+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>watching...waiting...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>out in the cold</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>WE'RE TALKING ABOUT</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>LITTLE CHILDREN...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>WAKE UP</b></span></div></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-50646596184891221412012-03-01T20:41:00.002-05:002012-03-02T07:51:57.957-05:00THE BIG FRACKING BUBBLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0EoL-NWodCBIMVIf8EwkiHCS43i8dRsjxYMpJ1ipkKDnz72l-OHy6EFwIOu4fiQGiusMaok7hDjtA5Q7ZH8Rr90DHOmmtSFUlExgcG8TiJx_kquH3DPXYsr6f4xFJy5hNM25u73wdFw/s1600/RS+120301+fracking+bubble+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0EoL-NWodCBIMVIf8EwkiHCS43i8dRsjxYMpJ1ipkKDnz72l-OHy6EFwIOu4fiQGiusMaok7hDjtA5Q7ZH8Rr90DHOmmtSFUlExgcG8TiJx_kquH3DPXYsr6f4xFJy5hNM25u73wdFw/s400/RS+120301+fracking+bubble+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"We're the biggest frackers in the world."</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"We frack all the time...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>what's the big deal?"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Aubrey-Speak</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Awesome article by Jeff Goodell</u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Rolling Stone</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-big-fracking-bubble-the-scam-behind-the-gas-boom-20120301"><b>HERE</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"...at heart, he's driven by the same dream of endless extraction that has gripped oil barons and coal companies </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In the end, all his talk of energy independence </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>and a bigger, brighter future boils down to a single demand, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>as simple as it is disastrous:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>drill, baby, drill"</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Aubrey wants what they all want...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQmc8s8kvAXmTp4_W69o7YrFhbSX13edNzg5RJkGQ3ArkqusXGYq64AARz0vgxE1_aHY7Vzsm4akEGCmHWWRO1fAu6bLPdVRcPte81kRfPt5mJEyZq7ow32vJ3vlFFkx_Q9_5j8PQmA/s1600/more+more+more.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQmc8s8kvAXmTp4_W69o7YrFhbSX13edNzg5RJkGQ3ArkqusXGYq64AARz0vgxE1_aHY7Vzsm4akEGCmHWWRO1fAu6bLPdVRcPte81kRfPt5mJEyZq7ow32vJ3vlFFkx_Q9_5j8PQmA/s400/more+more+more.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Aubrey, we all know you're out there...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Can you feel the resistance?</b></span></div>Frackedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036711156062427265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64749977614592565.post-41593040733636964502012-02-27T15:11:00.001-05:002012-03-01T20:47:44.735-05:00THERE AND FRACKED AGAIN<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"THINGS ARE IN THE SADDLE...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>AND RIDE MANKIND"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>EVERY DAY IS A CARNIVAL, <i>EH?</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ARE YOU ENTERTAINED?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In order to arrive at what you do not know</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In order to possess what you do not possess</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You must go by the way of dispossession.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In order to arrive at what you are not</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You must go through the way in which you are not.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And what you do not know is the only thing you know.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And what you own is what you do not own.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And where you are is where you are not."</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>ts elliot</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Same age as my oldest daughter...</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I was born,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nature was already dying.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>At the age of five,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Only half of the wetlands in the US remained.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I was only ten,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Almost half of the world's forests had been destroyed.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I was twenty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The world's oceans had over 400 dead zones</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Where no life could be supported.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When I turned twenty six,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tens of billions of pollenating insects had died worldwide.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am forty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Half of the Amazon Rainforest will be eliminated.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am fifty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lions will be extinct in the wild.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am sixty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Many of the world's glaciers will have disappeared.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am seventy,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ninety five percent of the world's coral reefs will have died off.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am eighty,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Two billion people will not have access to clean water.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I am ninety,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Nine billion people will live on the planet,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It would take three entire Earths to sustain them,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We will not even have one.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>By the time I leave this Earth,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Nature I knew and loved,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Will be gone.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, </b></span></div>
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