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THE DARK MIND OF BLACKWING BEAR
enter at your own risk...
PLEASE if anyone has any information on active lawsuits against Ocwen Financial (particularly related to mortgages) contact me ASAP.
Blasting has started on Coal River Mountain, adjacent to the Brushy Fork impoundment, which contains 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge Massey Energy is turning a potential wind farm that local residents have rallied around into a mountaintop removal wasteland. This blasting must stop immediately. Coal River Mountain could be the highest mountain ever brought down by mountaintop removal, and it would mean the destruction of over 6,600 acres of pristine Appalachian wilderness and the burial of more than 9 miles of streams via 18 valley fills.
This is an excellent area for a wind-powered energy system, which would stimulate the local economy instead of destroying it...
This is an excellent area for a wind-powered energy system, which would stimulate the local economy instead of destroying it...
WOOHOO! *happy dance*
I just found out Mollie Sugden (Mrs. Slocombe on ARE YOU BEING SERVED) is dead at 86.
Damn
Happy afterlife, m'lady.
Damn
Happy afterlife, m'lady.
...and we haven't gotten ANYWHERE. Still in the same quandaries, still suffering the same bigotry.
Rue Morgue Radio, easily.
Cambodian authorities evicted 20 families from their homes in Borei Keila—a community for families living with or affected by HIV/AIDS—forcing them to live on a small settlement 12 miles from the capital of Phnom Penh because officials plan to build new offices for the Ministry of Tourism, The Associated Press reports.
According to the article, the families complained about the community relocation plan for months, saying that they would lack basic services, have no means of income and lose access to medical treatment at the new location, which locals are calling the “AIDS Village.”
“It is tragic that the government has chosen to create a permanent AIDS colony where people will face great stigma and discrimination,” said Naly Pilorge, director of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. Pilorge joins advocates worldwide who call the evictions discriminatory.
HIV-negative people living in the Borei Keila community were evicted as well, but some have been resettled in apartments. However, the 20 other families evicted Thursday, June 18, did not have that option.
According to human rights group Amnesty International, about 23,000 Cambodians were evicted in 2008 and another 150,000 are at risk of losing their homes because of land disputes, land grabs and commercial development projects.
According to the article, the families complained about the community relocation plan for months, saying that they would lack basic services, have no means of income and lose access to medical treatment at the new location, which locals are calling the “AIDS Village.”
“It is tragic that the government has chosen to create a permanent AIDS colony where people will face great stigma and discrimination,” said Naly Pilorge, director of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. Pilorge joins advocates worldwide who call the evictions discriminatory.
HIV-negative people living in the Borei Keila community were evicted as well, but some have been resettled in apartments. However, the 20 other families evicted Thursday, June 18, did not have that option.
According to human rights group Amnesty International, about 23,000 Cambodians were evicted in 2008 and another 150,000 are at risk of losing their homes because of land disputes, land grabs and commercial development projects.
WOOHOO! Level UP!
10°=1□): Beyond the comprehension of the lower degrees. An Ipsissimus is free from limitations and necessity and lives in perfect balance with the manifest universe. Essentially, the highest mode of attainment. This grade corresponds to Kether on the Tree of Life.
10°=1□): Beyond the comprehension of the lower degrees. An Ipsissimus is free from limitations and necessity and lives in perfect balance with the manifest universe. Essentially, the highest mode of attainment. This grade corresponds to Kether on the Tree of Life.
A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar.
"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road," Gerrit Blank said in a newspaper account. Astronomers have analyzed the object and conclude it was indeed a natural object from space.
"When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road," Gerrit Blank said in a newspaper account. Astronomers have analyzed the object and conclude it was indeed a natural object from space.
When the white supremacist group VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled by … clowns!Unfortunately for [VNN] the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were.Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns. “White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, “ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled “Tight Shower!” and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.At this point several of the Nazi’s and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have a heart attack. Their beady eyes bulged, and the veins in their tiny narrow foreheads beat in rage. One last time they screamed “White Power!” The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. “Ohhhhh…” the women clowns said. “Now we understand…”, “WIFE POWER!” they lifted the letters up in the air, grabbed the nearest male clowns and lifted them in their arms and ran about merrily chanting “WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!”
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/03/clo
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/03/clo
Well, considering I don't really have a religion, just my own spiritual-path, I don't feel the need to. No dogma or tenants I disagree with.
Why am I "back in 4620"? I should be ecstatic, instead today has put me in a droll, depressed mood..
I'll make you a deal: give us socialized health-care that is available to EVERYONE at no cost, quit giving money to GM and use that money for social-services to help feed and house the poor and working-class (where it's REALLY needed), establish a much, much higher tax rate for the rich and NONE for the poor, and work hard to establish TRUE equality for all people (regardless of their religion, race, sexual orientation),.. then we'll talk about me giving YOU money.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM, President Barack Obama<info@barackobama.com> wrote:
> And just like before, I cannot do it without your support.
>
> Please donate whatever you can afford to support the campaign for real
> health care reform in 2009.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> President Barack Obama
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM, President Barack Obama<info@barackobama.com> wrote:
> And just like before, I cannot do it without your support.
>
> Please donate whatever you can afford to support the campaign for real
> health care reform in 2009.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> President Barack Obama
Octopus and squid can hear...
The discovery resolves a century-long debate over whether cephalopods, the group of sea creatures that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses, can hear sounds underwater.
Compared to fish, octopus and squid do not appear to hear particularly well.
But the fact they can hear raises the possibility that these intelligent animals may use sound to catch prey, communicate with one another or listen out for predators.
The question of whether cephalopods can perceive sound has been controversial since the early 20th Century. Some experiments suggested that blind octopus seemed able to locate the sounds produced by boats or by tapping on the outside of a tank.
But most cephalopods lack a gas-filled chamber, such as the swim bladders that fish can use to hear. That suggested they could not detect the pressure wave component of sound.
However, sensory physiologist Hong Young Yan of the Taiwan National Academy of Science in Taipei, Taiwan suspected that octopus and squid might use another organ called the statocyst to register sound.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne
The discovery resolves a century-long debate over whether cephalopods, the group of sea creatures that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses, can hear sounds underwater.
Compared to fish, octopus and squid do not appear to hear particularly well.
But the fact they can hear raises the possibility that these intelligent animals may use sound to catch prey, communicate with one another or listen out for predators.
The question of whether cephalopods can perceive sound has been controversial since the early 20th Century. Some experiments suggested that blind octopus seemed able to locate the sounds produced by boats or by tapping on the outside of a tank.
But most cephalopods lack a gas-filled chamber, such as the swim bladders that fish can use to hear. That suggested they could not detect the pressure wave component of sound.
However, sensory physiologist Hong Young Yan of the Taiwan National Academy of Science in Taipei, Taiwan suspected that octopus and squid might use another organ called the statocyst to register sound.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne