any day

 Any day 

above ground 

is a good day.

absolute zero

"ET Mirage"

Helena Christensen, Italian Vogue

by Peter Lindbergh 1990

three aliens
 

pulp fiction

Koch Group On The EPA: 'At Least The CIA Isn't Torturing Americans' | ThinkProgress

The American Energy Alliance is testing out a new tactic for fighting the Environmental Protection Agency: comparing the agency’s proposed regulations to torture tactics committed against terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

In a short blog post and comic posted Friday, the pro-fossil fuel non-profit said the EPA’s proposed limits on smog-forming pollutants and carbon dioxide were comparable to tactics outlined in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recently released report investigating the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In one instance, the group implied the EPA’s attempts to reduce pollution were even worse than torture, claiming the regulations would kill American jobs, raise energy costs, and “crush” small businesses.


Koch Group On The EPA: 'At Least The CIA Isn't Torturing Americans' | ThinkProgress

"Whether it’s the costliest regulation in history or the coal-killing power plant rules (that Obama’s law professor says raise “constitutional questions”), it’s clear that the CIA isn’t the only government agency engaged in torture. At least the CIA isn’t torturing Americans."
- The American Energy Alliance
Founded in May, 2008, The American Energy Alliance (“AEA”) is a not-for-profit organization that engages in grassroots public policy advocacy and debate concerning energy and environmental policies.

massive attack

Immortal: watch full film here

wind fire

Edward Steichen

Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction l February 28-March 1, 2015 at The New York Academy of Medicine

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Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction l February 28-March 1, 2015 at The New York Academy of Medicine

A unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading experts in disarmament, political science, existential risk, anthropology, medicine, nuclear weapons and other nuclear issues will be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on Feb 28- March 1, 2015. The public is welcome.

A project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation

  

Watch this space for information on how to register in advance. Registering in advance will include complimentary lunch.

  

The Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction. 

Russia and the U.S. possess 94% of the 16,400 nuclear weapons in the global nuclear arsenal. The U.S. maintains its first strike winnable nuclear war policy, and both countries have raised their nuclear arsenals to a higher state of alert because of the situation in the Ukraine. Furthermore it has just been announced that the administration has plans to replace every nuclear warhead and their delivery systems via ship, submarine, missile and plane, at a cost of one trillion dollars over the next thirty years.

This symposium to be held by The Helen Caldicott Foundation will address the following issues: 

1. What are the human and technological factors that could precipitate a nuclear war between Russia and the U.S., how many times have we come close to nuclear war and how long will our luck hold?
2.  What are the ongoing technological and financial developments relevant to the nuclear weapons arsenals of the US and Russia?
3. What problems are associated with lateral proliferation of nuclear weapons via strenuous corporate marketing of nuclear technology?
4. What are the medical and environmental consequences of either a small or large scale nuclear war?
5. What are the underlying philosophical, political, and ideological dynamics that have brought life on earth to the brink of extinction?
6. How can we assess this situation from an anthropological perspective?
7. What is the pathology within the present political situation that could lead us to extinction?
8. How can this nuclear pathology be cured? 

MORE: Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction l February 28-March 1, 2015 at The New York Academy of Medicine

no idea

What is the difference between

an "asshole" and a "REAL ASSHOLE" ?

The "asshole" knows he's an "asshole",

the "REAL ASSHOLE" has no idea !

David Adair

wild ride

Frank Frazetta

Painting with Fire

money talks

the creator's glory

Should guilty seek asylum here, 

Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin. 

Should a sinner make his way to this mansion, 

All his past sins are to be washed away. 

The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs; 

And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes. 

In this world this edifice has been made; 

To display thereby the creator's glory.

singing to god

Passport to Magonia

Leroy Kansas, April 19, 1897. Alexander Hamilton was awakened at 1030 P.M. by a noise among the cattle and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated cigar shaped object, about 100 meters long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 meters above ground. They approached within 50 meters of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a searchlight. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." They spoke a language no witness could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable, it was found butchered in a field the next day. (passport to magonia) (a strange harvest) (ufo cow abduction)

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W A N D E R E R S

The Art of Rock Balancing

Gravity Glue

Balancing The Stones

How To Be A Man

alone

we are born alone...

we live alone...

and we die alone...

what have we if not each other ?

FUCK EVIL !

Nuclear power's dark future | The Japan Times

Nuclear power constitutes the world’s most subsidy-fattened energy industry, yet it faces an increasingly uncertain future. The global nuclear power industry has enjoyed growing state subsidies over the years, even as it generates the most dangerous wastes whose safe disposal saddles future generations.

Despite the fat subsidies, new developments are highlighting the nuclear power industry’s growing travails. For example, France — the “poster child” of atomic power — is rethinking its love affair with nuclear energy. Its parliament voted last month to cut the country’s nuclear-generating capacity by a third by 2025 and focus instead on renewable sources by emulating neighboring countries like Germany and Spain.

As nuclear power becomes increasingly uneconomical at home because of skyrocketing costs, the U.S. and France are aggressively pushing exports, not just to India and China, but also to “nuclear newcomers,” such as the cash-laden oil sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf. Such exports raise new challenges related to freshwater resources, nuclear safety and nuclear-weapons proliferation.

Still, the bulk of the reactors under construction or planned worldwide are in just four countries — China, Russia, South Korea and India...

more: Nuclear power’s dark future | The Japan Times

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What's the environmental impact of modern war? | Environment | The Guardian

Ban Ki-moon has called on nations to do more to protect the environment from the destruction of war, but even in times of peace our militaries have a huge impact on natural resources

read: What's the environmental impact of modern war? | Environment | The Guardian

all the way

Happy Thanksgiving Day

Some 21,000 children die every day around the world.

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily

preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes

a place for your mind

Federal Judge Blocks Review Of Alaska Mine's Impact On Salmon | ThinkProgress

‘King Salmon’, United States, Alaska, Naknek, Bristol Bay, 2013. 

CREDIT: FLICKR/ CHRIS FORD

A federal judge has dealt a procedural blow to the EPA’s efforts to protect a remote part of Alaska from the impacts of what could be the largest copper and cold mine in North America. On Monday, Judge H. Russel Holland of the U.S. District Court of Alaska issued a preliminary injunction in favor the Pebble Mine’s efforts to block the EPA, thus preventing the EPA from taking further steps in its Clean Water Act (CWA) review process. Under section 404(c) of the CWA, the EPA has the authority to veto projects in the interest of protecting important rivers and wetlands. Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, where the mine would be located is the most productive wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world, and native tribes and environmentalists want the mine halted.

The EPA initiated the 404(c) process to stop the mine earlier this year, alleging the Pebble Mine would have significant and irreversible negative impacts on the Bristol Bay watershed. According to the EPA, it has used this authority sparingly, and typically with major projects that could have “significant impacts on some of America’s most ecologically valuable waters...”

more: Federal Judge Blocks Review Of Alaska Mine's Impact On Salmon | ThinkProgress

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