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Smoke and CO2 - How to Spin Global Warming
ANP: On the Organized Effort to Cast Doubt on Climate Change.
Recently, it was reported that the rate of carbon dioxide emission during the last seven years exceeded even the IPCC's worst-case scenario. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have offered their support to global warming legislation in the past, but climate legislation continues to stall, as it has for more than a decade. Why? In large part, because of an expensive, prolonged propaganda campaign waged by producers of big oil. And what did they look to for inspiration? Big tobacco.
This story is aired in conjunction with the publication of the Center for Public Integrity's report, Global Warming: Heated Denials, The Organized Effort to Cast Doubt on Climate Change.
( http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/731/ ) ANP: On the Organized Effort to Cast Doubt on Climate Change. ... more -
Global warming heats up RNC
ANP: The Republican Party Platform cautions people to be skeptical of the theory of global warming.
American News Project: Presidential candidate John McCain thinks that global warming is created, in part, by humans, but his running mate, Sarah Palin, disagrees. Indeed the Republican Party Platform cautions people to be skeptical of the theory of global warming. ANP spoke with delegates at the Republican National Convention about their thoughts on climate change. ANP: The Republican Party Platform cautions people to be skeptical of the theory of global warming. ... more -
Denial and Delusion
This evening, NBC interrupted its Olympics coverage of women’s gymnastics for an interview with President Bush. Last week, Bush gave a speech and expressed “deep concerns” with China’s “detention of political dissidents, human-rights advocates and religious activists.” Costas brought up this speech and asked about “America’s own problems.” Bush denied that America has any problems:
COSTAS: This past week, you restated America’s fundamental differences with China. But given China’s growing strength, and America’s own problems, realistically, how much leverage does the U.S. have here?
BUSH: First of all, I don’t see America having problems. I see America as a nation that is a world leader that has got great values.
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Apparently, the indefinite detention of prisoners, a $490 billion deficit, and a credit crisis aren’t problems.
originally posted on Think Progress This evening, NBC interrupted its Olympics coverage of women’s gymnastics for an interview with President Bush. Last week, Bush gave a... more -
Denial is Not Just a River in Africa
The 10 most unappealing attributes of human behavior.
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Music row ended in violence
Manchester Evening News
A MAN could have died when a row over loud music exploded into violence.
Michael Smith, 44, was rushed to hospital with a fractured skull and severe brain damage after he was punched, kicked and stamped on.
He was in intensive care for 12 days and doctors believed that even if he survived the attack he would be left with significant mental problems.
But, miraculously, Mr Smith, has made good progress but still suffers from memory loss and needs ongoing psychotherapy. Manchester Evening News A MAN could have died when a row over loud music exploded into violence. ... more -
Quiet, Please! How Noise Pollution Could Send You to the Hospital
Neurosis, hysteria, stress, nausea, and high blood pressure -- just a few of the health problems linked to noise.
A leaf blower, snow blower, lawn mower and two huge dogs -- Peter D'Epiro can describe in excruciating detail how his neighbor's lawn equipment and pets ruined summer afternoons and dinner parties for him and his wife for more than a decade in Ridgewood, New Jersey. But he'd rather not. "I can barely think about that situation without rushing for the Valium or the IV gin drip," he says.
With rising emotion, D'Epiro recalls how the neighbor began "warming up his rider mower, converting our idyllic backyard -- birds, squirrels, crabgrass -- into the sonic equivalent of La Guardia or Heathrow. Yes, he had a large yard, but the job could have been accomplished in 30 minutes, whereas he took, oh, say, six or seven hours on Saturday, often followed by another half-dozen on Sunday." D'Epiro goes on to describe how he and his wife, usually mild-mannered, exceedingly polite people, were reduced to screaming, fist-shaking and cursing in the face of these acoustic offenses.
Noise brings out the worst in human beings -- noisy people have been injured and even killed by their neighbors -- but neighbors are just one source of noise in a world that's increasingly cacophonous. Neighborhoods can turn into battlegrounds when clubs, restaurants, automobile sound systems and parties are acoustically unrestrained. The roadway clamor made by cars and trucks, the oppressive roar of low-flying aircraft, the rumble of commuter trains and the screeching of subway cars compound the challenges of daily life in the city or suburbs. Construction work generates lots of noise, and lots of noise complaints to civil authorities. Indoor sources include ventilation systems, office machines, home appliances, TVs and computer games.
Noise isn't just a nuisance; it's positively bad for us.
To read the whole story By Ursula Sautter and Mary Desmond Pinkowish;
http://www.alternet.org/story/91463/ Neurosis, hysteria, stress, nausea, and high blood pressure -- just a few of the health problems linked to noise. ... more -
Complaint of Loud Music Triggers Assault
A Des Moines man was seriously injured early Sunday after complaining about loud music.
Shane Lee Freeman, 24, was taken by fire department medics to Mercy Medical Center. Police said his face was swollen and he may have broken bones in his face and jaw. Freeman told police that a red Chrysler New Yorker with a white top was being driven up and down the 2700 block of Cleveland Avenue early Sunday morning with the stereo system blaring. It went on for about an hour, he said.
Freeman said he finally approached the vehicle. A front seat passenger reached out of the car with a bat and hit Freeman on the left side of his face, according to a police report. The car sped away.
No arrests immediately were reported.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?... A Des Moines man was seriously injured early Sunday after complaining about loud music. ... more -
The Color of Your Window
That is the Color of the Air that you and me are breathing here in San Francisco.
I am not sure if some of you remember of this movie I filmed a month ago! Here is the link.
http://current.com/items/88918494_san_francisco_air_qua...
Here it is again the build up of pollution since then.
Since I filmed that movie, I washed the windows twice and did not bother to film it.
This time I wait patiently a month and 1/2 to film it again. Here is the result.
But what is the point. The point it is that we do not see the air we breathe and for that we are not that active to take action. People that make noise with their vehicles are also 4 times committing human health and environmental violations everyday out there. These are the repeater offenders leaving their mark in our windows. That is the Color of the Air that you and me are breathing here in San Francisco. ... more -
american robots..
i was sitting in the living room with my mom watching american idol for the first time since ruben won and noticed something was different....as i watched the crowd and the performances of the entertainers their movements started to become unhuman...as i started to question this feeling images of robots popped in my head...placed in rows in the crowd programed to simulate an audience...i noticed the hand claps never faltering to land right in front of each other...now i know that its the music thats suppose to be keeping the hands in rhythm but LOOK close and they begin to all look the same wherever they are whether in the air or around the waist its the same...and performances just look too staged too me...everything about that show just seems robotic...check this out for a feel of how far they show we have come http://youtube.com/watch?v=9vwZ5FQEUFg...http://youtube... s, http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C5sc8b3xM&feature=rela... these videos were added in 2006 we and technology is growing ever faster...COMMENT i was sitting in the living room with my mom watching american idol for the first time since ruben won and noticed something was diffe... more
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Global Warming - 18.7 Sec. to Save the Earth
What legacy do you want to leave in the future to your children?
It is time to separate polluters from non-polluters and seize the power from polluters where it is applicable.
http://www.climateprotect.org
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Science And Spirit - The Noisy Epidemic
" http://www.science-spirit.org/newdirections.php?article...
The Noisy Epidemic
by Elizabeth Svaboda
The amount of noise in every day life is increasing in America, and medical studies-and police reports-are showing that it can take away our sleep, make us angry and violent, and stop children from learning. One man takes up the anti-noise cause.
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Doctor Hagler's frustration set him thinking about the impact of excessive noise on the world around him.
"Now we know secondhand noise is as bad for us as secondhand smoke."
Excessive noise can adversely affect happiness and productivity even if listeners don't end up in mental hospitals. Arline Bronzaft, a professor emeritus of psychology at Lehman College, helps field 350,000 noise-related complaints per year as chair of the noise committee of New York City's Council on the Environment.
"Having to put up with boom cars and loud mufflers every day can make you a little crazy," Ron Czapala says. "There's an increasing number of people becoming violent as a result of excessive noise." "http://www.science-spirit.org/newdirections.php?article_id=733" The Noisy Epidemic by Elizabeth Svaboda ... more -
Studying The Energy That Surrounds You
Sensorial Sciences helping people to improve their quality of life by understanding the toxic energy that surrounds them.
Helping healthy and disable individuals to understand the real reality behind sound energy. The vehicle manufactories industry and it engineers lobbied the Government giving decibels measurements that are bias and not appropriate for human life or living. It is time for them to correct that!
Many times I wrote that you can not assess an acoustic noise event from traffic based on decibels alone. Who understands decibels? Not the general population and there is where they fool you! To assess an event of noise use these items I am going to layout bellow:
1. Source of Noise
2. Type of Noise
3. Range of Noise
4. Decibels
5. Frequency
6. Landscape Architecture
7. The human factor
Please, tell Congress and our Local Government that you are tired of lies and you want the true about correcting the decibels that is appropriate for humans not a machine.
Here is the question to Engineers:
- How far a sound wave from the source of the noise emission is reaching out at the spectrum landscape? I know you can calculate that "range" in meters or feet and I am sure you know that --these items described above are the most important ones to assess an acoustic event, not decibels alone. Sensorial Sciences helping people to improve their quality of life by understanding the toxic energy that surrounds them. ... more -
Mods on Scooters
The hipster world of Vespas, mopeds and scooters and the fashion and music that inspires it.
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San Francisco loves you.
"San Francisco moved a step closer Wednesday to imposing the country's most stringent green building codes, regulations that would require new large commercial buildings and residential high-rises to contain such environmentally friendly features as solar power, nontoxic paints and plumbing fixtures that decrease water usage."
now if we can just do something about those oil-spilling barges in the bay. "San Francisco moved a step closer Wednesday to imposing the country's most stringent green building codes, regulations that... more -
Operation - Disarming San Francisco MTA-Muni
Is the door knob too high for you to reach? That is not your imagination playing tricks on you, probably it is!
Since 2001, The San Francisco MTA-Muni introduced the New fleet of Electric Buses on Union Street, San Francisco, California. Bus routes number 45 and 41. These buses in addition of being mechanically and technologically loud than the previous version, emits 3 types of offensive and intrusive noise signals trespassing inhabitants property lines. These signals are:
1. Beep signals that goes beyond property lines.
2. Voice signals that goes beyond property lines.
3. Sharp shooting whistles signals that goes beyond property lines.
-It is a mechanically acoustic cruel, mean and invasive system promoted by wrongful transportation lobbyists that transformed the interior of our living spaces in a bus stop, says many of San Franciscan's inhabitants, not releasing their names because of fear of retaliation.
-It seems that the City got out from one pollution mistake to fall into another one. You will going to hear and see attempts of lobbying and justification for this acoustic invasion, but none of them justify this unethical behavior or unlawful manners for acoustic pollution and trespassing of inhabitants property lines.
One of their justification is that the system is for orienting the blind and partially deaf in the City consequently assuming that everyone in the City is elderly, blind, partially blind or partially deaf.
- Nothing can justify acoustic trespassing even in the assumption that one possesses a physical disability, says an acoustic activist by the nickname "stopnoise." In the same token I might need money but I am not going to trespass and rob a bank to get it. I am also not going to brake into people house and steal their possessions and harm them physically in the process just because I am in need of it. Acoustic trespassing is not different from any other types and forms of trespassing in our society. Trespass is trespass no matter how you want to wrongfully justify it.
As Doctor Hagler, author of an acoustic publication in the Medical Journal, answering to a comment from a less acoustic concerned individual.
Dear Mr. Diaz:
I fear you have missed the point.
I am a retired physician with an interest in the public health effects of
noise pollution. Those of us in Noise Free America and other groups are not
opposed to people's choices in music. We are not concerned with rap or hip hop vs Vivaldi. We are opposed to the ceaseless and unwanted noise that washes over us at times, places and at volumes over which we have no control. We are opposed to noise over which others seem not to exercise control, restraint, or, consideration. We are opposed to noise because it is unhealthy. And this is not something to be sneezed at or trivialized.
There is now abundant (and continually growing) evidence that noise is not
merely an annoyance. It is not something that even grouchy old men like you
don't need to tolerate. Among its many adverse effects, noise damages
hearing, disturbs communication, disrupts sleep, impairs cardiovascular function, interferes with teaching and learning, reduces productivity, harms relationships, provokes unwanted behaviors, and increases accidents. It is a major source of recurring and often unrecognized stress, which, itself, degrades the quality of life and adversely affects health.
Pollution is pollution, irrespective of the source or the way it enters the
body. The ear is as important a portal for pollution as the lung, stomach,
or eye. It is the role of government to protect citizens from all forms of
pollution, including noise pollution. Polluters should be the target of swift, consistent, and meaningful penalties. From my perspective, a $200.00 fine and points on one's license are lenient.
Louis Hagler, MD
Oakland, CA Is the door knob too high for you to reach? That is not your imagination playing tricks on you, probably it is! ... more -
Al Gore's Message To Climate Skeptics
I am so looking forward to seeing Mr. Gore's interview this Sunday night. I hope he gets to talk about The Alliance for Climate Protection's ad campaign scheduled to be launched next week, because I am hoping it brings a turning point in this country regarding the need to take action on climate change through awareness. And also, his response to the climate skeptics is right on target. Those centuries ago who claimed that the sun not the Earth was the center of the universe were treated with the same scorn and contempt as those scientists who have proven that we as humans are contributing to the affects of climate change. How fortunate for humanity that it did not place trust in those who thought the opposite or thought the world was flat.
I don't believe it is all about money either, though that is certainly a large part of it as many of those who dismiss the evidence of anthropogenic climate change in the skeptics movement have received money from oil and utility companies. I also think it is religious in nature (the will of God) opposing science, it is political, and it is also about the inability to take responsibility for one's actions.
None of those reasons however, should stand in the way of truth and that is exactly what those who refuse to see the evidence are doing: standing in the way of truth. Should we actually listen to the skeptics and decades from now after the glaciers have melted, after the water has begun to dwindle, after wars are fought for land, water, food and other resources with great loss to humanity and other species, will those who claimed this was all a hoax still believe that?
Let's hope we never have to find out. Let's hope we take action now to save not only the planet that is our only home but ourselves, a rare and precious species in a rare and precious universe too precious to bow to the whims of the few who simply wish to perpetrate lies to assuage their own wants over the needs of the whole.
Therefore, thank you Mr. Gore for being our Galileo.
<3 I am so looking forward to seeing Mr. Gore's interview this Sunday night. I hope he gets to talk about The Alliance for Climate P... more -
Ace Hardchester's Interesting People. Part One: The Failed Internet Celebrity...
I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Elliott, a failed internet celebrity, to discuss his plans to become world famous. It was an interesting encounter if only for the fact that he actually does think he is famous.
This is to be part one of a series in which I travel the country in search for unsung heroes: the brave failures, the unsung average people, who do not succeed in completing their dreams. These people deserve attention just as much as any Oscar winning film star, and for that, I have tracked them down.
If you know of any interesting people, please send me a message; I would love to talk to them.
Ace. I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Elliott, a failed internet celebrity, to discuss his plans to become world famous. It wa... more -
TOO KINKY
People are nuts. Allergic Reaction? And: can I ever feel as good sober as I did on Quaaludes?
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Denial Makes the World Go Round
"Everyone is in denial about something; just try denying it and watch friends make a list. For Freud, denial was a defense against external realities that threaten the ego, and many psychologists today would argue that it can be a protective defense in the face of unbearable news, like a cancer diagnosis."
Or:
Denial Makes the World Go Round
No it doesn't, what climate crisis, what war, what's wrong with the WTO, why equality, why no nukes, Etc.
Yeah, I guess without denial, we'd be screwed, or at least realize that we are. "Everyone is in denial about something; just try denying it and watch friends make a list. For Freud, denial was a defense agains... more -
Denial Makes the World Go Round
This article explores the broad spectrum of denial and how we use denial to form and sustain close relationships.
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