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Soldiers talk about how they cover up murder with "DROP WEAPONS"
Another great video from ANP.
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The Blessings and the Problems of Earplugs
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eardrum
As you know, I am a former graduated EMT and I end up to learn this on the hard way. Last Year I caught an ear infection that woke me up very quickly! The blessing of earplugs is that will help you abate sometimes and for certain noise from 45% to 65% of the noise pollution on the surroundings perimeter. However here goes the down turn. Earplugs must be sanitized and cleaned at all times before you insert it in your ears and in addition you can not use it for long periods of time and I explain why!
1. The limited time of hours of use is because our body produce wax daily through the ears and if there are a build up of wax and it drops back into your Chochlea and Eustachian Tube; it has knowing to cause tinnitus or as we common refer to it; "ring of the ears"
2. The second point it is sanitation as I did mentioned before!
3. Third it does not block all noise. As an example, the Electrical Muni Bus whistles still coming through even with the plugs tucked in. It is even worse because as the sound still invading our bodies we have that tendency to push the plugs in causing some pain in and around the ear cartilage. http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eardrum ... more -
Stand Up For Your Rights, Proof It Works: FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data...
In this Washington Post article they state that this is the third time the FBI backed off. I know they are trying to protect the USA and are probably under White House orders, but enough is enough! Why can't the FBI stand up for our rights as well? They're there to protect and serve. Not protect and serve madmen that believe the Constitution is "...only a piece of paper." (there may have been an expletive there in that quote from a high ranking person in the white house, I have not researched the authenticity of that!)
What I'm saying is that the US Government should not be trying to find every which way to remove and step all over our rights. The police, the FBI, the CIA all should have the guts to say: Enough is enough, we will not destroy the Constitution, so play by the rules or go to jail! In this Washington Post article they state that this is the third time the FBI backed off. I know they are trying to protect the USA ... more -
What TV can do to help us reach the greatest number of people?
When TV was invented, the original inventors dreamed that from its invention, it would be happening a social and economic revolution and in the process greatly benefit education. If anyone got the time to read some history about the invention of the Television, here is a link.
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm
Television still holding the mass audience in the United States. This war was fabricated in part by Controlled Television Network Production! I do Thank Current Networks for the opportunity to express myself. However being part of it raise my feelings to make it better for people, for education and the environment. There are a lots of things that TV can do right now to refine its programming towards human education and development. Here is a little personal history. I guess many of you already know I love Radio. Not so long ago Radio was controlled and as they say democratically free. What that means? It means that people still controlling it but the musical programing was done by a popular voting system. My GOD, at some point it got so bad that I could not listen to it any longer. That means that some times the majority that is out there voting are not always into quality but into making wars. It become a daily shooting out game of destruction. I am not sure if that changed because I stopped listening to it. Now, just recently I had the opportunity to create a radio station to air something that is at least pleasant to ear it. Sure everything has its time and what is there is not everything but a little sample of Modern Rock and Roll.
So, what is the point here. The point is that the some majority are not always right and that we need help from our own Network to be able to reach that maximum audience numbers as possible with our Environmental News Release. I hope all you guys at the TVNEWS editorial board are willing to help us to do this. We do not want to settled to be only a Cyber Journal! We want to be Cyber Journal, TV, Internet, Magazine, Film, Theater and anything you can think about out there!
I personally have the goal to reach the biggest population ever with my human health environmental message! We got to change that wrong perception out there and there are a lots things Current TV Networks can do to help us out.
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Senate Bill Would Set Climate Policy Backwards
There's an important story in yesterday's edition of E&E (as always, $ub. req'd) about two alternatives to Lieberman-Warner that have recently been floated in the Senate. One comes from Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and the other -- not so much a bill as a "set of principles" -- from a coalition of the nation's biggest and dirtiest coal companies. Together they serve as an excellent primer on the conservative movement's latest approach to climate change.
What do they want?
1 No mandatory caps or a safety valve. Voinovich's bill ditches cap-and-trade entirely, at least for a three-year evaluation period. He and the coal companies would both institute a "safety valve," which would prevent the price of carbon from exceeding a specific threshold. (Policy-wise, that's about as bad as no cap at all.)
2 Incentives. When conservatives don't like incentives, they call them "pork." When they don't like the recipients of the incentives, they call them "welfare." On global warming, though, fossil interests see an historical chance to attach themselves more securely to the public teat, so "incentives" it is. Voinovich's bill is called the "Incentives-Based Alternative Climate Policy Act," and it amounts to a laundry list of handouts and tax breaks for individual industries and technologies (think nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration). This is "green conservatism" of the Gingrich variety: all carrots, no sticks.
3 Preemption of state efforts. Many state governments are not as sclerotic, polarized, and compromised as the feds. They present the real danger to Republicans' corporate sponsors. Remember states as "laboratories of democracy"? That's a notion conservative federalists love when they aren't in power. In power, they need control consolidated at the federal level, so fossil interests can do more targeted lobbying. If passed this would, at a stroke, eliminate the majority of good climate policy that's been passed in the U.S., in deference to much weaker policy.
4 Inaction pending Chinese and Indian policies. Conservatives claim that carbon caps in the U.S. will drive jobs and capital to developing countries unless those countries also implement caps. The practical effect of this would be to deprive us of our one truly powerful means of persuading China and India to act. There's an important story in yesterday's edition of E&E (as always, $ub. req'd) about two alternatives to Lieberman-Warner that h... more -
Don't be deceived, there's no such thing as 'clean coal'
Let's be real: "Clean coal" is a marketing slogan not a technological reality. Coal does currently provide us with a reliable source of electricity but at an astronomical price that is hidden from us consumers.
Maybe you pay for it with your child's asthma. Maybe you paid for it with your father's heart attack or your grandmother's stroke that took her speech away. Maybe you lost a baby to SIDS on a particularly bad air day.
Emissions from coal-fired power plants are a leading cause of smog, acid rain, global warming, air toxins - and premature deaths. The EPA estimates that over 30,000 Americans are dying prematurely each year due to emissions from power plants, the majority of which are coal-powered.
This doesn't even address the high mortality rates associated with the mining process.
Thus, coal kills more people annually than homicides (16,000 in 2000) or AIDS (14,000) and nearly as many as traffic accidents (42,000). So when coal industry advocates like Joe Lucas, vice president of communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal, and Bountiful resident Bruce Taylor, co-owner of the proposed coal plant in Sevier County, say "cleaner coal," what exactly do they mean?
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, a typical coal plant annually generates:
* 3.7 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2),
the primary human cause of global warming,
* 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2),
* 500 tons of small airborne particles, which can cause chronic bronchitis, aggravated asthma, and premature death,
* 10,200 tons of nitrogen oxide (NOx), equal to what would be emitted by half a million late-model cars. NOx leads to formation of ozone (smog) which inflames the lungs,
* 720 tons of carbon monoxide (CO), which causes headaches and places additional stress on people with heart disease,
* 220 tons of hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds (VOC), which form ozone,
* 170 pounds of mercury, an extremely potent neurotoxin; just 1/70th of a teaspoon deposited on a 25-acre lake can make the fish unsafe for human consumption. The Great Salt Lake is already heavily contaminated with mercury.
* 225 pounds of arsenic, which will cause cancer in one out of 100 people who regularly drink water containing 50 parts per billion,
* 114 pounds of lead, 4 pounds of cadmium, other toxic heavy metals, and trace amounts of uranium.
None of these numbers sounds "clean" to me. So, does coal advocate Lucas consider a "clean" coal plant to produce only 7,000 pounds of annual sulfur dioxide emissions instead of 10,000 pounds? Does he consider 2 million tons of carbon dioxide instead of 3.7 million tons to be "clean" or how about 120 pounds of mercury instead of 170 pounds? Does "clean" coal only cause 20,000 premature deaths annually as compared to 30,000?
The reality is coal is dirty and will likely remain so.
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