April 22nd
Happy Earth Day!
We spent part of yesterday afternoon watching the 350.org’s Do The Math. It was being shown in Warwick, NY. Watch it. You can find it on 350.org. It was a nice drive over the mountain and into Warwick. I was tired by the time we got home.
Earlier I finished the two left hand pieces for two blocks of the new project and now will have to work on constructing the right sides. This is what they look like.
It was cold last night so we lit a fire in the wood stove and watched Call the Midwife and Bletchley Circle on PBS. Fun stuff.
The whine for the day…it is cold this morning and I am wrapped up in my shawl.
Have a good one!
Petitions
It's impossible to fight climate change while simultaneously investing in one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuels on the planet.
I took advantage of the final public comment period to speak out against the toxic Keystone XL tar sands project. It's really easy and only takes a few seconds and we need our voices to add up!
http://action.sierraclub.org/LastBestChance
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHts78c
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/standwithbernie
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?bjeIjab&v=23911
Recommended Reading
Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? - interesting article
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss
Texas Plant May Not Have Been Inspected in Years, Despite Risks
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/fertilizer-plant-safety-report-risks-texas
Why Is the Toxic Dispersant Used After BP's Gulf Disaster Still the Cleanup Agent of Choice in the US?
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/04/corexit-bp-oil-spill-cover-gulf-mexico-health-and-environment-risk
Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
http://www.alternet.org/environment/resource-shock-how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=2
Unbelievable! Bowles and Simpson Release New Deficit-Reduction Plan Based on Discredited Austerity Research - they are still drinking the kool-aide
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/unbelievable-bowles-and-simpson-release-new-deficit-reduction-plan-based?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=10
Robert Greenwald Exposes the War on Whistleblowers and the Rise of Our National Security State
http://www.alternet.org/culture/robert-greenwald-exposes-war-whistleblowers-and-rise-our-national-security-state?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=14
Koch Brothers Plan to Buy up Eight Major Newspapers - not a good idea
http://www.alternet.org/media/koch-brothers-plan-buy-eight-major-newspapers?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=16
How Boston Exposes America’s Dark Post-9/11 Bargain - we traded rights for "security," and didn't get either.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-boston-exposes-americas-dark-post-911-bargain?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=4
Sex manual offered to ultra-Orthodox Jews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22152700
Rare 19th Century pictures of India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22212009
Powys angler David Griffiths' 107kg fish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22249724
India PM: Country needs 'vast improvements' on women's safety - no shit Sherlock!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22241187
The difficulties of life as a Mexican mariachi in Los Angeles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22222562
Water wars: US states fight over Rio Grande River
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22171883
Second-Guessing George W. Bush
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/22/second-guessing-george-w-bush/
Shopper Guide To Pesticides in Produce
http://static.ewg.org/reports/2013/foodnews2013/docs/pdf/2013EWGPesticideGuide.pdf
Petitions that need your signature
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/amazon-kindle-e-book-return-policy-stop-allowing-refunds-on-e-books-after-e-books-have-been-read
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/veto_cispa/?referring_akid=a8234599.655732.Af5Ve3&source=auto-taf
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/six_strikes_2013/?rd=1&t=1&referring_akid=undefined
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6937
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8644
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-lines-in-cities?mailing_id=7341&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=913515
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=9962
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ten_strikes?akid=700.450896.5hVZPC&rd=1&t=1
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, poverty, energy, earthquakes, health, Exxon, oil spills, fish, people, Kochs, photography, books, music, food, pesticides, film
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how
We spent part of yesterday afternoon watching the 350.org’s Do The Math. It was being shown in Warwick, NY. Watch it. You can find it on 350.org. It was a nice drive over the mountain and into Warwick. I was tired by the time we got home.
Earlier I finished the two left hand pieces for two blocks of the new project and now will have to work on constructing the right sides. This is what they look like.
It was cold last night so we lit a fire in the wood stove and watched Call the Midwife and Bletchley Circle on PBS. Fun stuff.
The whine for the day…it is cold this morning and I am wrapped up in my shawl.
Have a good one!
Petitions
It's impossible to fight climate change while simultaneously investing in one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuels on the planet.
I took advantage of the final public comment period to speak out against the toxic Keystone XL tar sands project. It's really easy and only takes a few seconds and we need our voices to add up!
http://action.sierraclub.org/LastBestChance
Maddow features PCCC activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LANHts78c
Tell Congress Social Security is non-negotiable.
http://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/standwithbernie
And now a word about Monsanto and others like them. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all -- our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.
Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands -- where opposition is already growing -- to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s plans. Go sign the petition.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?bjeIjab&v=23911
Recommended Reading
Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? - interesting article
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss
Texas Plant May Not Have Been Inspected in Years, Despite Risks
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/fertilizer-plant-safety-report-risks-texas
Why Is the Toxic Dispersant Used After BP's Gulf Disaster Still the Cleanup Agent of Choice in the US?
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/04/corexit-bp-oil-spill-cover-gulf-mexico-health-and-environment-risk
Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
http://www.alternet.org/environment/resource-shock-how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=2
Unbelievable! Bowles and Simpson Release New Deficit-Reduction Plan Based on Discredited Austerity Research - they are still drinking the kool-aide
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/unbelievable-bowles-and-simpson-release-new-deficit-reduction-plan-based?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=10
Robert Greenwald Exposes the War on Whistleblowers and the Rise of Our National Security State
http://www.alternet.org/culture/robert-greenwald-exposes-war-whistleblowers-and-rise-our-national-security-state?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=14
Koch Brothers Plan to Buy up Eight Major Newspapers - not a good idea
http://www.alternet.org/media/koch-brothers-plan-buy-eight-major-newspapers?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=16
How Boston Exposes America’s Dark Post-9/11 Bargain - we traded rights for "security," and didn't get either.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-boston-exposes-americas-dark-post-911-bargain?akid=10351.204376.AF4-SW&rd=1&src=newsletter828346&t=4
Sex manual offered to ultra-Orthodox Jews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22152700
Rare 19th Century pictures of India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22212009
Powys angler David Griffiths' 107kg fish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22249724
India PM: Country needs 'vast improvements' on women's safety - no shit Sherlock!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22241187
The difficulties of life as a Mexican mariachi in Los Angeles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22222562
Water wars: US states fight over Rio Grande River
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22171883
Second-Guessing George W. Bush
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/22/second-guessing-george-w-bush/
Shopper Guide To Pesticides in Produce
http://static.ewg.org/reports/2013/foodnews2013/docs/pdf/2013EWGPesticideGuide.pdf
Petitions that need your signature
Amazon is at it again! Please go sign this petition. It is not fair for those of us who make our living by writing. Authors are not libraries and while most of us enjoy the social side of writing we do this to pay our bills. If some one returns an ebook after reading it our royalties get reduced.
I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org. It's important. Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/amazon-kindle-e-book-return-policy-stop-allowing-refunds-on-e-books-after-e-books-have-been-read
North Dakota just passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country. It's just one of some 300 bills across the country designed to take away women's rights and access to health care -- and ultimately to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Don't let lawmakers get away with it, take action today:
http://ppaction.org/WakeUpCall
Click here to tell Obama to veto CISPA:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/veto_cispa/?referring_akid=a8234599.655732.Af5Ve3&source=auto-taf
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have all agreed to start spying on their users.
The US's largest Internet Service Providers are implementing a new "online infringement" plan to identify and punish, with virtually no due process, users suspected of downloading copyrighted content.
https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/six_strikes_2013/?rd=1&t=1&referring_akid=undefined
Remember CISPA? Well, it’s back - sign the petition
http://www.cispaisback.com/
Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic - sign it please
http://action.surfrider.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6937
Tell Congress to Dump Monsanto's Riders!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8644
Bury Power Lines in Cities and Towns, Prevent Long-Lasting Outages, Improve National Security
http://signon.org/sign/bury-power-lines-in-cities?mailing_id=7341&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=913515
Protect Global Internet Freedom - go sign the petition
http://protectinternetfreedom.net/
The Sierra Club has a variety of actions to be taken. Just follow the link.
Send the congress a letter here: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=9962
Do you really own the smartphone or computer you’re using to read this email?
If you sold your computer, would you be breaking the law? A federal court in New York says you would be.
It's unbelievable, but trademark and copyright holders really are trying to take away your right to sell things that you own. Please click here to fight back:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
The First-Sale Doctrine gives us the right to sell most property we own. But if the Supreme Court supports the lower court’s decision, we won't really “own” anything if it's from a different country. We expect them to issue a ruling later this year.
The President can urge the Court to side with consumers; then Congress will probably weigh in on the issue, no matter how the Court rules.
If we lose this fight, anybody who wants to resell foreign products, from Macbooks and iPhones to our clothing and textbooks, will have to ask copyright holders for permission first. And they'll have the right to deny it!
It's bad for so many reasons: It'll undermine Craigslist and Ebay, hurt the environment, increase incentives for manufacturers to move jobs off-shore, and effectively ban the traditional American yard sale. Just click here to email your lawmakers right away:
http://www.youvebeenowned.org/
There are two very bad internet bills that you need to be aware of. The first concerns making streaming content a felony. Read about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ten_strikes?akid=700.450896.5hVZPC&rd=1&t=1
and the second is the Protect-IP Act that gives the government power to censor search engines and browsers. Read more about it here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs
Both of the above pages have a petition to sign so please do so.
The non-existent tags
weather, knitting, gardening, global warming, environment, politics, Repugs, scumbags, quilting, petitions, CISPA, poverty, energy, earthquakes, health, Exxon, oil spills, fish, people, Kochs, photography, books, music, food, pesticides, film
Change the world one loan at a time - visit http://www.Kiva.org to find out how