Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Strange days indeed
Most peculiar momma
ROLL
"John loved and prayed for the human race.
Please pray the same for him."
Yoko
Birthday Post - HERE
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
BILL McKIBBEN ON GRITtv
Growing Global Movements
Bill McKibben talks with Laura Flanders
"The problem's not arguments,
the problem's power."
"The oil companies and the fossil fuel industry are
enormously powerful. This is the most profitable
enterprise humans have ever conducted."
"We need a real movement now to beat it."
"The reason that we have this runaway climate change is simple: the fossil fuel industry is allowed to treat the atmosphere as an open sore into which they get to dump their waste for free. The waste is carbon dioxide. Because they get to dump it for free they're insanely profitable and they're taking a small percentage of that profit and using it to corrupt the political system to allow the privelige to continue."
"I'm right now really pleased with this
growing global movement."
growing global movement."
350.org - HERE
300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds
Post Carbon Institute
ALL HANDS ON DECK
Monday, December 6, 2010
REALLY FRACKING HOT
Radioactivity and Shale Gas:
Some Like It Hot?
December 1, 2010 by David Lewis - HERE
"The shale deposits that have the US gas industry so excited were studied after WWII by the Atomic Energy Commission and declared to be the largest uranium resource in the US."
"It is in the interest of the gas industry and those scouring the US for new places for them to drill to ignore or minimize the existence of uranium."
“'RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS
Organic-rich shales have higher radioactivity responses than typical shales because the organic matter tends to concentrate uranium ions that otherwise would be scattered throughout the sediment.... ...higher-than normal gamma-ray response also equates to gas-production potential. The correlation might not be 100 percent, but it is very high. This is a very important concept for those looking to produce shale gas. Many companies would look for places where the entire formation is thick, but they should actually be looking for where it is most rich in organic matter.'”
"In other words, companies are being advised to look for shale that is the most radioactive if they want to find shale with the most gas."
"The shale formations they want to find gas in can have as much as 250 ppm U238. If they have that much they are 80 times as radioactive as “normal average”, good old red blooded American conventional gas."
"80 times the radioactivity of normal average gas is going to expose consumers to 1,200 times the radiation dose they’d get if they lived right next door to an operating nuclear reactor."
MORE:
ProPublica - HERE
James Northrup - HERE
Bradford Today - HERE
AND MORE:
Investigation Finds Radiation in Texas Drinking Water
Texas Observer - HERE
Saturday, December 4, 2010
RUN STRAIGHT DOWN
I CAN SEE IT WITH MY EYES CLOSED
(4-Aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene
Dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether
2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin, carbon disulfide)
(Dibromochloropane, chlorinated
benzenes, 2-Nitropropane, pentachlorophenol,
Benzotrichloride, strontium chromate
1, 2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane)
I went walking in the wasted city
Started thinking about entropy
Smelled the wind from the ruined river
Went home to watch TV
And it's worse when I try to remember
When I think about then and now
I'd rather see it on the news at eleven
Sit back, and watch it run straight down
Run straight down
Run straight down
I can see it with my eyes closed
Run straight down
We've been living in the shadows all our lives
Where it's stand in line and don't look back
and don't look left and don't look right
So we hide our eyes and wonder who'll survive
Waiting for the night...
Fluorocarbons in the ozone layer
First the water and the wildlife go
Pretty soon there's not a creature stirring
'Cept the robots at the dynamo
And it's worse when I try to remember
When I think about then and now
I'd rather see it on the news at eleven
Sit back, and watch it run straight down
Run straight down
Run straight down
I can see it with my eyes closed
Run straight down
Warren Zevon
1947 - 2003
Thursday, December 2, 2010
NOTHING BUT FLOWERS
YOU GOT IT, YOU GOT IT
The Talking Heads
AND AS THINGS FELL APART
NOBODY PAID MUCH ATTENTION
YOU GOT IT, YOU GOT IT
dammit
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
FRACKING HELL
Outstanding Investigative Report From
EcologistTV - United Kingdom
"The Ecologist discovered that
Fracking is a high risk process
that threatens to both
destroy the environment and wreck lives."
"...that's just insane."
Lou Allstadt - former VP of Mobil
"Maybe not such a good idea."
James Northrup - former gas industry planning manager
"Not only do we have a technology that has exceeded
our regulatory capacity, we have a government
saying something ahead of the technology."
our regulatory capacity, we have a government
saying something ahead of the technology."
Dr Anthony Ingraffea - Cornell University
"You have to understand,
the majority of people here think it's wonderful."
the majority of people here think it's wonderful."
Ralph Kisberg - Responsible Drilling Alliance
SEE ALSO:
Europe's scramble for gas sees controversial
hydraulic fracturing cross the Atlantic
hydraulic fracturing cross the Atlantic
Ecologist Story - HERE
Great site - Please check it out
TOTAL GLOBAL
TOTAL GLOBAL
UNEMPLOYED GET FRACKED
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS EXPIRE
ABC News - Here
No More Help
EVERY $1
spent on federal unemployment benefits
LEADS TO $2
in economic activity
US Labor Department Study
They Call Us the Working Class
THIS IS A DISGRACE
To Republicans in Congress:
Bugger Off
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