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Wolf Medicine: Native American Flute - Blues Mama Original

Song of the Pharaohs

Native American wisdom

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

"The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey; so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly; so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up: he is a relative to the wings of the air"

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

Beauty and ugliness are everywhere - even in some of the same things. To some a wide open prairie is empty and colorless - but to others it is uncluttered simplicity - the way life itself ought to look. Physical appeal is high on some lists, but nu tso se dv na, which is cherokee comfort, lasts longer. Whatever is in our hearts is in our sight. To love something or someone makes us see the beauty of it - not the wrong. It is to our advantage to be gentle in our observations - to see and cultivate the best in who we are and in those around us. We love quiet; we suffer the mouse to play; when the woods are rustled by the wind, we fear not.......





Rose of Jericho


"A resurrection plant is any plant with the habit of reviving after seeming to be dead or, conversely, of seeming to revive when being in fact dead."

Found in arid areas in the Negev and Sahara Desert, as well as regions of Egypt, Israel, Persia, Jordan and Pakistan, this ancient species of everlasting plants is known as the Resurrection flower because it can go without water for years, losing 98% of its water content and then be rejuvenated within 24 hours. It is famed for its hygroscopic properties, which cause it to curl up into a tight ball when water is scarce, then unfold when in contact with water after years of being dead. The Rose of Jericho has been said to have mystical properties and to bring peace, harmony and abundance.

True gems

Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you.Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge.If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.Images are nearer reality than cold definitions.Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error.what you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it. ? It is better not to know and to know that one does not know.Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.

Music is

Music is...

"...transmissions of recorded heart and spirit essence in sound signals that mix with our own experiences triggering an emotive response"

Peace

There is not a single instance in history where hate has brought joy to human beings. Hate destroys those who hold it in their mind and bodies. If humanity released all hate, fear and resentment, then no dictator could ever rise and we would have Peace on Earth. Peace on Earth can only occur through Peace within each of us.

Cosmic tides

Beautiful and absolutely breathtaking,

  

      

Deuces

Here's to all the girls who used to be his number one.The ones who made it through that bitter break up, dried your own tears, & moved on with your life, only to have him walk back in it months later like nothing ever happened. Those of you who cried on the first day you talked again because you knew exactly where this phone call was going.Here's to the ones that took him back, hoping that maybe this time, he was different, hoping that maybe people really do change. We listened to our friends tell us that we were stupid for even thinking about giving him another chance, & even snuck around to see him for while. We went through the great stage with no fights all over again. We started this out thinking it would be just friends, & ended up falling in love with him again. We wanted nothing more in the world than to hear him tell us he loved us too, that even though things were bad in the past, they would be different this time. And when we finally heard it, it was like we were dreaming. This is for us. Here's to the ones who believed what he said. Here's for the tears cried and dried all over again. We wanted so desperately to believe that he was really busy. We trained ourselves to believe the lies because we wanted to believe we had found the one for us. We learned to settle for someone who didn't treat us the way we should be treated. Here's for the ones who did their hair and make up & put on their prettiest earrings. The ones who never believed it when people told us there might be someone else. We just couldn't believe that he could do this to us again. This is for those great girls who loved him more than words can say, & took him back no matter what happened last time because they couldn't bear to look back on their lives one day & wonder "what if". This is for the girls that stayed up all night long listening to him whine about an ex girlfriend who cheated on him, & cried during the entire conversation. The ones who hoped he would realize that he deserved better, that he deserved us. When he said that he loved you, but he was in love with her, he didn't mean it. This is for the ones that held on to something that was never there to begin with. Here's to the girls who couldn't cry to their friends because of how stupid they felt. The ones who held it all in when things came crumbling to pieces again.The ones that could just tell that they had made a mistake ever allowing him into their hearts & their dreams again. We knew that we deserved better the entire time......We just wanted the one that we loved like that. Here's for the ones that finally realized that he never gave a crap about them. Here's for the time that he broke your heart again. This is for those days spent trying to hold back the tears, & the tears that turned into anger, then disappointment. Here's for us girls who finally realized that we deserve better. This is for those confusing days, when you miss him & want nothing more than to hear his voice, or feel his arms around your waist. Stay strong and remember that relationships are like broken glass; sometimes it's better to leave it alone rather than try to put the pieces back together & get hurt. Remember the times you cried & how long it took you to even be able to look at another guy like that. When 'your song' comes on the radio, turn the station. When the day comes that he realizes what a mistake he made & tries calling, turn your phone off. When he tries coming to your house, don't answer the door. Think of the broken promises, and the lies, the manipulation & the tears, the wasted moments and staying up all night wondering where the crap he was.One day you'll find a guy who's worth all the tears, but he won't make you cry. You may think that you'll never care about someone like you did that guy that you always ran back to, but you will. It's going to hurt like crap, & it's going to need time to heal, but the point is, it will heal. This is for those girls who fell back in love with their ex, only to get hurt all over again. So girls, get over him. He's not worth it, one bit. He's not worth your time or your tears. You loved him. You love him, alot. I know, You can't see yourself with anyone but him, I get that. I've been there. Why should you spend all your time sitting at home, bawling your eyes out and wondering where he is and who he's with. Do you honestly think he's thinking about you? No. Sure it hurts that he's out there falling in and out of 'love' with other girls. You'll see him with one of his new girlfriends, and he'll hold her a little closer and squeeze her hand a little tighter because he knows your watching, and he knows it's killing you.Don't let him get to you because that's exactly what he wants.So what if he doesn't talk to you, do you honestly want to be friends with an asshole like him anyways?All he's gonna do is talk about his new girlfriend just to try and make you jealous. Just screw him and his girlfriend. He'll be sorry, trust me. When he finally sees you with some other guy other than him, with that huge grin on your face and your boyfriend holding you close, he'll realize how happy you are. And how happy your boyfriend is because he has you, the girl of his dreams. He'll realize the huge mistake he made when he let you go, when he decided to choose her over you. When he decided he just didn't love you the same. Trust me, he will be sorry. . show him your better than him and you don't need him. Prove to him that he just made the biggest mistake of his life, and you never really needed him.




....I heard mommy and daddy paid for your tour??

 I want to eat better, feel better, and stop supporting cruelty.

A criminal, greedy, nation-less corporation

 A criminal, greedy, nation-less corporation with a long criminal Rap-Sheet: clearly illustrating deliberate negligence, murder of its workers, people, plunder of nations natural resources, polluting dozen or so areas all around the world and orchestrating political turmoil, and phony revolutions, including the 1953 dismantling of Dr. Mossadegh's democratically elected government of Iran / Persia and the return of the ousted King back to Iran.

That is right; the answer is the British Petroleum, known asBP, the biggest criminal nation-less corporation in the world.

We MUST NOT forget and must not allow this historic disastrous and impossible to clean of millions of tons of oil spill ever to be forgotten.

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Dead Coral Found Near Site of Oil Spill

A survey of the seafloor near BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has turned up dead        and dying coral reefs that were probably damaged by the oil spill, The coral sites lie seven miles southwest of the well, at a depth of about 4,500 feet, in an area where large plumes of dispersed oil were discovered drifting through the deep ocean last spring in the weeks after the spill. The large areas of darkened coral and other damaged marine organisms were almost certainly dying from exposure to toxic substances, scientists said.The corals were discovered  by scientists aboard a National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration research vessel using a submersible robot equipped with cameras and sampling tools. The discovery of the dead corals offers the strongest evidence so far that oil from the BP well may have harmed marine life in the deep ocean, a concern raised by many biologists soon after the April 20 blowout that caused the spill. At an estimated nearly five million barrels, it was the largest offshore oil spill in the nation’s history.A brownish substance covered many of the dead or dying reefs but was probably dead tissue and sediment, not oil, Dr. Fisher said.Oil seeps naturally from the seafloor throughout the Gulf of Mexico, but that was unlikely to have caused such a severe coral die-off. Coral sites in shallower waters farther from the well have not suffered visible damage, scientists say, but they are still studying these reefs for signs of less acute long-term effects.

Tomorrow never comes until its too late...

Didn't yo mama ever teach you to stop making those faces 

or your face would stay that way?

Well, she was telling the TRUTH.

How delightful

R.I.P - Ari Up

R.I.P.to one of the pioneers of the 90s punk riot grrrl movement.

Flying Lotus + Adult Swim - Zodiac Shit

Flying Lotus - MmmHmm music video (taken from Cosmogramma)

President Kennedy on why Wikileak matters

Orion Correlation Theory

“The Orion Correlation Theory is a hypothesis in pyramidology. Its central claim is that there is a correlation between the location of the 3 largest pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex and the three middle stars of the constellation Orion, and that this correlation was intended as such by the builders of the pyramids. The stars of Orion were associated with Osiris, the sun-god of rebirth and afterlife, by the ancient Egyptians. Depending on the version of the theory, additional pyramids can be included to complete the picture of the Orion constellation, and the Nile river can be included to match with the Milky Way galaxy..”

Battle within

An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me…It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too.”

rubish

I just don't understand why everything is classified in categories or groups. There are so many different hypothesis and ways of thinking/figuring stuff out I dunno what to think or believe a anymore, the possibilities are endless. What is right and wrong?  I don't even know the answer. Society is categorized into sheep and the free thinkers. The mainstream and even socialism is a weapon for pure destruction. Capitalism is cruel and its the devils wet dream to the fullest. Just to watch and see what people do to themselves just to fit in and be accepted  is painful.. and its all for what?? We look for life in the image of life. We see an image and want to portray it because its is easier to relate to an image then anything else. We seek comfort into becoming that image. Bing insecure is one of the worst feelings ever created, and the damage it has done has left many scars. I would never change myself and I am quite content with who I am. I am happy in my own skin and would not change it for anyone of anything. I could never turn into a "Plastic". Yuck. I find girls that have had multiple surgeries done to themselves feel the need to talk the most crap because they are now secure with who they are and can back it up. But it must suck to spend all that money just to look good. To bad it wasn't natural beauty. Must suck to spend thousands of dollars just to be accepted. 

I think politics and anarchy are an evil combination when they are thrown together.. I seen so many good people go to shame from being so into it. It could really ruin and destroy a person as a whole. I have so many friends that are perfect examples and seen what they have turned into and become from it. Politics is the root to all evil and as long as its around there is no hope for our world. Violence will not solve and does not solve anything and it never will. There is nothing wrong with freedom or wanting to be free, to live like that is possible but you as a person have to make that happen. Such anger and aggression will not solve any issue, it never has. As I read the newspaper or websites on the internet all the violence in this world that goes on do to hear say and politics is ridiculous. Everyone yearns for truth and wants truth, and I strongly believe we should have the right to know specially if we are part of this world. I was reading up on Wikileaks and could not believe the thousands of info leaks they let out! Makes me wonder what else our so called government is hiding from us that WE do not KNOW. There is a secret world within this bourgeoisie world you just have to create it.

yikes.

I find it rather funny the extents people go to because of their insecurities and jealousy..I dunno if its intimidation or what? I use to support a friend of mine with certain activities they participated in and every time I came around I seem to be center of attention. These people were so uninviting and so unaccepting I was quite mortified. The funny part is I don't even know why... I didn't even know any of them really to begin with. Even though we were all there in support of a good cause it sure did not matter at all. The dirty looks and snide comments sure did not fail. I come to realize certain people stay within their own groups and do not let any outsiders in for whatever reason, apparently kindness gets you absolutely no where with people like this. Its quite disturbing especially when you do not know them personally. For someone to have so much hatred towards someone they don't know or never met before or even had a convo with is quite disgusting. People that are not comfortable in their own skin are not ready to deal with the circumstances of life. Failure is a great fear, but not an option for me.

The ones that are about peace are always the ones to destroy it.

Dangers of Society

"When one trusts her companions and the world around to provide, if not what she thinks she needs, at least something equally weird and wonderful, she too can be gentle and generous. If she feels threatened by them, she grows defensive and aggressive, strikes out blindly, becomes possessed by resentment and cruelty. Vengeance becomes her greatest motivation, more powerful than any other desire: anything to take revenge upon this world."

Alive in the land of dead

There is no universal moral code that should dictate human behavior. There is no such thing as good or evil, there is no universal standard of right or wrong. Our values and morals come from us and belong to us, whether we like it or not; so we should claim them proudly for ourselves, as our own creations, rather then seeking some external justification for them.

Freedom is to be found only in the sensation of acting of self (creation) the realization through "nothing is true everything is permitted".The revolutionary finds freedom in the experience of totally transforming society. The moral is that a situation where all meaning is is already attributed, freedom is irrelevant, for all your possible actions are already determined. Freedom is to be found. In new spaces, in new moments when fresh elements come into play. The problem with all this is that the exercise of total freedom is bound to conflict with your own desires.

I surrender..

I strongly believe that it's better to lose your pride to the one you love than to lose the one you love because of pride.We spend too much time looking for the right person to love & finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.When you truly care for someone,you don't look for faults,you don't look for answers,& you don't look for mistakes.Instead, you fight the mistakes,you accept the faults,& you overlook the excuses.To me loving someone is putting everything else in the world that makes them happy before you & giving yourself completely in the process.Life is full of risks why not take them allowing yourself to love someone unconditionally.To give love unconditionally requires that you close your eyes,see with your heart,touch with your soul & trust with your life." You can't fail if you don't give up. Another important point to remember is that the root of selfishness is fear. Fear is what motivates you to protect yourself. That is why a selfish person is constantly in self–preservation mode. The way to get rid of selfishness is to get rid of fear. Perfected love casts out fear. Fear is dangerous. It opens the door for the Enemy to come in and wreck havoc in your life. It also produces negative forces like offense, strife and unforgiveness. However, love empowers you to the point that you will be slow to take offense and quick to forgive. Keep in mind that when you fail to develop in love, you fail to develop in character, which means you perpetuate a lifestyle of selfishness. The Serenity Prayer: "God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, & Wisdom to know the difference." This is a bleeding heart & an exhausted tongue laying it out there..dripping with brutal truth & honesty: Sometimes the people you hold so dearly in this life are the ones that you hurt the most..life is too short to keep loved ones away..(love will tear us apart) to hold grudges, to judge someone by their looks, or age..as humans we are interesting creatures, we are the only ones with the capacity to love someone genuinely, the willingness to put someone else before ourselves, & the commitment it takes to truly be with someone, but sadly we also possess an innate propensity to betray & hurt the people most important to us..we turn our backs on our friends..sometimes our own family..even our lovers..we say things we don't mean, & we do things we don't mean to do..with so much going on at times..it's often hard to find the right way, the right things to say, the right way of doing things, but the only thing we can do to get by is seize each & every day. We can't keep turning our backs on what we should truly cherish in this life, because there truly is absolutely nothing worth regretting...& certainly nothing worth going over the deep end for. Even when we find ourselves in hell..we must breathe, we must take the time to let the dust settle, & we must accept the events that transpire..(hold still) no matter how bad the sting, how hard the fall, or how severe the pain..there's always a way & a reason to carry on in a harsh world like today..friends & family are all you have. They are all you can count on. Cherish them. There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and nobody knows; and we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it." In this big game that we play, life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve, it's what you take.  Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Gem

I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. I have learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back. I have learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. I have learned that it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. I have learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you'd better know something. I have learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. I have learned that you can keep going long after you think you can't. I have learned that there are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it. I have learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time. I have learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up. I have learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. I have learned that true friendship continues to grow. Same goes for true love. I have learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. I have learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated. I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that. I have learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief. I have learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. I have learned that sometimes when my friends fight, I'm forced to choose sides even when I don't want to. I have learned that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do. I have learned that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change. I have learned that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever. I have learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. I have learned that no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life. I have learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help. I have learned that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being. I have learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon. I have learned that it's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people's feelings and standing up for what you believe.

PETA´s Vegetarian Starter Kit

One of the best kit's ever. Not only do I feel better, but also a lot healthier =]


PETA´s Vegetarian Starter Kit
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Zombie takeover

No, the title of this post isn't ripped from the headlines of the Weekly World News. It happened in real life (or, rather, undeath), just a stone's throw from PETA headquarters. This weekend, among the 1,700 participants and activists representing ZETZ—Zombies for the Ethical Treatment of Zombies—were several PETA folks in the first-ever "Survive Norfolk"—essentially a massive game of tag in which the living try to avoid being "zombified" by the living dead—to explain why going vegan is a no-brainer (sorry), and to hand out some "flesh-free recipes" (aka our vegan starter kits).

I'll admit, zombies are pretty scary, but not nearly as horrifying as what meat does to animals, our health, and the planet. So listen to your favorite zombie jam while you sign our pledge to opt out of flesh-eating. Or try this outfit in your own parade or when you go out trick-or-treating:

Army Plans to Cut Up and Kill Animals

Update: Government officials in Oberpfalz have denied on ethical grounds the U.S. Army's second application for a permit to conduct trauma training exercises. Previously, an Army contractor withdrew its application for trauma training after facing intense public opposition, and last month an application from Deployment Medicine International, another Army trauma training contractor, was denied by officials in the German state of Thüringen. Animals 4, Army 0.

Joined by a prehistoric pal (who apparently speaks English), members of PETA Germany gathered outside a U.S. Army facility in Heidelberg to protest the Army's proposed plans to torment and kill animals in cruel and archaic trauma training exercises in Oberpfalz, Bavaria.

This marks the third time since May that the U.S. Army and private contractors have applied for permits to cut up and kill animals for trauma training in Germany. The first application was withdrawn because of overwhelming public opposition to the project. A subsequent application was denied because officials determined that the animal laboratories would violate Germany's animal protection law, which requires the use of non-animal methods when they are available—and there are PLENTY available! The German Armed Forces has written to PETA, stating, "[T]he armed forces do no animal tests for training purposes. For training exercises the soldiers learn with really good models and the doctors don't need animal experiments."

You can help make sure that US legislation that has been introduced to gradually replace the horrific use of animals in military training with modern, sophisticated non-animal methods, such as high-tech human patient simulators gets passed into law by writing to your Congressional representative. Politely point out that such exercises—in which pigs and goats are stabbed, mutilated, and killed—are incredibly cruel, inferior to modern alternatives, and should be replaced with medical training methods that save animals and better prepare soldiers to treat casualties on the battlefield.. 

Six-Month-Old McD's Burger Won't Decompose

         

Apparently—unlike the cows who are killed to make them—McDonald's burgers can live to a ripe old age. In April, New York City–based artist and photographer Sally Davies bought a Happy Meal and left the contents sitting out in her kitchen as an experiment. Six months later, the burger looks much the same as it did on the day it was slapped together. Says Davies, "The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock" and "the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it." Hmm … if even mold won't eat McDonald's food, no one else should, either. Oodles of 100 percent natural, biodegradable, and cruelty-free veggie burgers are available to make our taste buds and animals happy.

Written by Lindsay Pollard-Post

One

I am Love

I am Power

I am Wisdom

I am all that I am.

We Are Here

Unseen and odorless, microscopic particles of air pollution

Plastic Leaches Deadly Chemicals in the Oceans, Seas and Lakes - Killing the Oceans, Seas and Lakes - Killing US!!!

Unseen and odorless, microscopic particles of air pollution wafting over seas and across continents kill some 380,000 people each year, according to a new study.

August 20, 2009 -- Amidst waves and wildlife in the world's oceans, billions of pounds of Styrofoam, water bottles, fishing wire and other plastic products float in endless circles.


This bobbing pollution is more than just an eyesore or a choking hazard for birds. According to a new study, plastic in the oceans can decompose in as little as a year, leaching chemical compounds into the water that may harm the health of animals and possibly even people.


"Most people in the world believe that this plastic is indestructible for a very long time," said Katsuhiko Saido, a chemist at Nihon University in Chiba, Japan. He spoke this week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.


"We are now concerned that plastic pollution is caused by invisible materials," Saido said through an interpreter. "This will have a great effect on marine life."


Patterns in ocean currents create conglomerations of swirling trash that have received a burst of attention recently. The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for one, is a mound of waste, mostly plastic, that's about twice the size of Texas. It lies some 1,000 miles off the west coast between California and Hawaii.
In Japan, Saido said, up to 150,000 tons of plastic wash on shore each year. Much of it is Styrofoam, a type of polystyrene plastic.


In their lab, Saido and colleagues used a new chemical technique to simulate the decomposition of polystyrene plastic in the oceans at 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit). The process produced some potentially toxic chemicals, including bisphenol A (BPA) and PS oligomer



"Evan at 30 degrees Celsius, it decomposes," said Saido's colleague Yoichi Kodera, who also spoke at the conference. "In natural conditions, the tide comes in and sunlight heats the plastics," he said, which should only enhance degradation.

When the scientists analyzed samples of ocean water from the United States, Japan, India, Europe and elsewhere, they found traces of these and other plastic degradation byproducts, including styrene monomer (SM), styrene dimer (SD) and styrene trimer (ST) -- none of which are found normally in nature.
"Dr. Saido's study means that marine plastic debris could be the dominant source of degradation products, such as styrenes and BPA in remote coasts and the open ocean," said Hideshige Takada, of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In urban areas, he said, there are other potential sources of these chemicals.

Previous experiments have shown that, when heated in the microwave or under other conditions, plastics leach BPA and other compouds, said John Meeker, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. So, it's not surprising that the same thing might happen in the ocean.
Still, he added, scientists don't yet know how degradation of plastic in the oceans might affect the health of animals or people. PS oligomer and BPA have both produced hormone-disrupting effects and reproductive problems at low levels in animals, but the possible effect on humans is still controversial.
"At this point, we're likely to have more intense exposures in our own homes and daily lives than from ocean water," Meeker said. "If this type of thing could happen in landfills and rivers and places that are closer to our drinking water, there could be an issue of human exposure."

An Alliance of Sensible Concerned Citizens, Advocates of Reason, Rational And Common Sense

U.S. Military pays $400 per gallon for fuel, while over 50 million Americans are unemployed, losing their homes and going hungry

• Ever since the discovery of fossil fuel (OIL) in Persia / Iran and generally in the Persian Gulf and all other OIL reach territories the U.S. Government and Military have been murdering innocent women and children to take control and conquer these countries and soon after handing over the control to the many Nation-Less corporations, such as nation-less banks, construction, oil refineries, and many other criminal, greedy, nation-less, war-mongering and war-profiteering vultures; to so-called develop and extract the natural gas and oil fields.
• Now the nation-less corporate criminals are after the Afghanistan's few trillion dollars worth of precious metals under the banner of democracy.
• Preciously the reason why U.S. Government and Military have built and maintaining over 850 military bases all around the world specifically to dominate and protect the interest of the nation-less corporate criminals

With insurgents increasingly attacking the American fuel supply convoys that lumber across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, the military is pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels.

Last week, a Marine company from California arrived in the rugged outback of Helmand Province bearing novel equipment: portable solar panels that fold up into boxes; energy-conserving lights; solar tent shields that provide shade and electricity; solar chargers for computers and communications equipment.
The 150 Marines of Company I, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, will be the first to take renewable technology into a battle zone, where the new equipment will replace diesel and kerosene-based fuels that would ordinarily generate power to run their encampment.


Even as Congress has struggled unsuccessfully to pass an energy bill and many states have put renewable energy on hold because of the recession, the military this year has pushed rapidly forward. After a decade of waging wars in remote corners of the globe where fuel is not readily available, senior commanders have come to see overdependence on fossil fuel as a big liability, and renewable technologies — which have become more reliable and less expensive over the past few years — as providing a potential answer. These new types of renewable energy now account for only a small percentage of the power used by the armed forces, but military leaders plan to rapidly expand their use over the next decade.


In Iraq and Afghanistan, the huge truck convoys that haul fuel to bases have been sitting ducks for enemy fighters — in the latest attack, oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan were set on fire in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, early Monday. In Iraq and Afghanistan, one Army study found, for every 24 fuel convoys that set out, one soldier or civilian engaged in fuel transport was killed. In the past three months, six Marines have been wounded guarding fuel runs in Afghanistan.


“There are a lot of profound reasons for doing this, but for us at the core it’s practical,” said Ray Mabus, the Navy secretary and a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who has said he wants 50 percent of the power for the Navy and Marines to come from renewable energy sources by 2020. That figure includes energy for bases as well as fuel for cars and ships.


“Fossil fuel is the No. 1 thing we import to Afghanistan,” Mr. Mabus said, “and guarding that fuel is keeping the troops from doing what they were sent there to do, to fight or engage local people.”
He and other experts also said that greater reliance on renewable energy improved national security, because fossil fuels often came from unstable regions and scarce supplies were a potential source of international conflict.


Fossil fuel accounts for 30 to 80 percent of the load in convoys into Afghanistan, bringing costs as well as risk. While the military buys gas for just over $1 a gallon, getting that gallon to some forward operating bases costs $400.


“We had a couple of tenuous supply lines across Pakistan that are costing us a heck of a lot, and they’re very dangerous,” said Gen. James T. Conway, the commandant of the Marine Corps.
Col. Robert Charette Jr., director of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office, said he was “cautiously optimistic” that Company I’s equipment would prove reliable and durable enough for military use, and that other Marine companies would be adopting renewable technology in the coming months, although there would probably always be a need to import fuel for some purposes.


While setting national energy policy requires Congressional debates, military leaders can simply order the adoption of renewable energy. And the military has the buying power to create products and markets. That, in turn, may make renewable energy more practical and affordable for everyday uses, experts say.
Last year, the Navy introduced its first hybrid vessel, a Wasp class amphibious assault ship called the U.S.S. Makin Island, which at speeds under 10 knots runs on electricity rather than on fossil fuel, a shift resulting in greater efficiency that saved 900,000 gallons of fuel on its maiden voyage from Mississippi to San Diego, compared with a conventional ship its size, the Navy said.


The Air Force will have its entire fleet certified to fly on biofuels by 2011 and has already flown test flights using a 50-50 mix of plant-based biofuel and jet fuel; the Navy took its first delivery of fuel made from algae this summer. Biofuels can in theory be produced wherever the raw materials, like plants, are available, and could ultimately be made near battlefields.


Concerns about the military’s dependence on fossil fuels in far-flung battlefields began in 2006 in Iraq, where Richard Zilmer, then a major general and the top American commander in western Iraq, sent an urgent cable to Washington suggesting that renewable technology could prevent loss of life. That request catalyzed new research, but the pressure for immediate results magnified as the military shifted its focus to Afghanistan, a country with little available native fossil fuel and scarce electricity outside cities.


Fuel destined for American troops in landlocked Afghanistan is shipped to Karachi, Pakistan, where it is loaded on convoys of 50 to 70 vehicles for transport to central bases. Smaller convoys branch out to the forward lines. The Marines’ new goal is to make the more peripheral sites sustain themselves with the kind of renewable technology carried by Company I, since solar electricity can be generated right on the battlefield.


There are similar tactical advantages to using renewable fuel for planes and building hybrid ships. “Every time you cut a ship away from the need to visit an oiler — a fuel supply ship — you create an advantage,” said Mr. Mabus, noting that the Navy had pioneered previous energy transformations in the United States, from sail power to coal power in the 19th century, as well as from coal to oil and oil to nuclear power in the 20th century.


The cost calculation is also favorable. The renewable technology that will power Company I costs about $50,000 to $70,000; a single diesel generator costs several thousand dollars. But when it costs hundreds of dollars to get each gallon of traditional fuel to base camps in Afghanistan, the investment is quickly defrayed.
Because the military has moved into renewable energy so rapidly, much of the technology currently being used is commercially available or has been adapted for the battlefield from readily available civilian models.


This spring, the military invited commercial manufacturers to demonstrate products that might be useful on the battlefield. A small number were selected for further testing. The goal was to see, for example, if cooling systems could handle the 120 degree temperatures often seen in current war zones or if embedded solar panels would make tents more visible to enemy radar.


This summer, renewable technologies proved capable of powering computers, residences and most equipment for more than a week at a test base in the Mojave Desert — though not enough to operate the most sophisticated surveillance systems.


Much more is in the testing stages: one experimental cooling system uses a pipe burrowed into the cool earth eight feet underground that vents into tents; a solar fan on the tent roof evacuates the hot air and draws cool air from underground. The Marines are exploring solar-powered water purification systems and looking into the possibility of building a small-scale, truck-based biofuel plant that could transform local crops — like illegal poppies — into fuel.


“If the Navy comes knocking, they will build it,” Mr. Mabus said. “The price will come down and the infrastructure will be created.”