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The Yahoo search portal provides information to Chinese authorities that helped identify and prosecute several journalists and pro-democracy writers in china…
The NUJ regards Yahoo!’s actions as a completely unacceptable endorsement of the Chinese authorities. As a result, the NUJ will be cancelling all Yahoo!-operated services and advising all members to boycott Yahoo! until the company changes its irresponsible and unethical policy.
Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ. [4th Aug 08]
Filed under: ACTIVIST, CENSORSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNET | Leave a Comment
Tags: boycott, CHINA, collaborators, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, HUMAN RIGHTS, journalists, yahoo
How to: Be Green, Live Green, Buy Green, Think Green: help is at hand – this will save you loads of time when you want green answers or are trying to find anything green – get with the green program – get into the green zone!
GREENMAVEN – The green search engine
Continue reading ‘●Found! – A plethora of green stuff: a green search engine’
Filed under: ACTIVISM, HEALTH, PEACE, VISION | Leave a Comment
Tags: GREEN, ORGANIC, search engine, sustainable
The continuing loss of between 50% and 90% of hive colonies seems a terrifying scenario to me – if fruit and vegetables flowers are not pollinated then they don’t make their fruit and seeds. I’m wondering why there isn’t more noise being made about this. At a push we can live without cars but not fruit and vegetables.
Einstein mentioned that if our insects get wiped out we will also be wiped out as we are totally dependent on them fertilizing the things we eat.
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Image by adrians_art
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) among honey bee populations in the United States has resulted in the loss of between 50% and 90% of hive colonies….
Filed under: HEALTH, ORGANIC, PHOTO, SCIENCE | 1 Comment
Tags: bees, CCD, global dimming, pollinators, SUSTAINABILITY
Always look at where you want to end up if you get into a skid, NOT what you are trying to miss hitting
I read this years ago in Anthony Robbins’ book, Unlimited Power.
If you look at a lamp post/tree or traffic light when you are driving and get into a skid, you will hit it, because your eyes and arms are wired up to take you towards what ever you are looking at! A life [& lamp] saving tip – thanx Mr Robbins – yr bloody marvellous!
Do you have any life saving tips to share?
Photo by Ray Byrne (flickr).
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Tags: LAMP POSTS, safety, SKIDDING, SURVIVAL, TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Why do you think that the anger and rage levels are souring around us?
Maybe they aren’t where you live – do tell where you are!
I caught an excellent program on BBC radio yesterday – Health Check – all about anger – and there is a booklet that you can download in a flash to give input on what to do when we are about to loose it!
“…Popular surveys reveal that we are all getting angrier, whether from road rage, work rage or trolley rage in supermarkets.
Continue reading ‘●ARE YOU A GRUMPY OLD SOD AT TIMES? HELP IS AT HAND – ANGER MANAGEMENT PODCAST’
Filed under: BBC, HEALTH, RADIO, SCIENCE, TOXIC, UPDATE | Leave a Comment
Tags: ANGER, ANGER MANAGEMENT, BBC, BBC RADIO, METAL HEALTH, PODCAST, RAGE, SELF HELP
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all people live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die …………………… Nelson Mandela 20th April 1964
Extract from Nelson Mandela’s statement given at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial – if convicted he would have got the death penalty
Photo by albra – Paul Mannix?
Nelson Mandela’s prison cell at the maximum security prison on Robben Island.
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Filed under: AFRICA, BBC, HUMAN RIGHTS, LINKS, PEACE, VISION, WORLD | 1 Comment
Tags: BBC, nelson mandela, SOUTH AFRICA
There are 1.5 billion people who use the internet and 600 million have outdated browsers – so says an IT super geek who has done the research. [BBC world radio science/technology program I heard last night]
Almost half the online population is at risk because users have not installed security updates to their browsers, says a study.
The Swiss Institute of Technology, Google and IBM conducted the study and found 600 million users had not updated their browsers.
“Failure to apply patches promptly or missing them entirely is a recipe for disaster,” the report said.
Cyber criminals are frequently using websites to attack users, it added….
MORE>
BBC World Radio. 8 July 2008.
Photo* by Jari
Browser Download links
LINK – Opera 9.15
LINK – Firefox
Browser Market Share*- Internet Explorer 78% – Firefox 16% – Safari 3% – Opera 1%
*Source: Swiss Institute of Technology
LINK – BBC World Radio
* The photo is of a hard drive [multi level] and the head that reads it – it is an object of beauty – it’s bloody marvellous how it all works!
We all have a truly awesome machine at our fingertips.
Bless all you IT gals and boys, that have made it possible for us to do what we do on our PC’s and the internet!
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Tags: BBC, browsers, computer, INTERNET, IT, PC, WARNING
Freedom of speech – Isn’t that part of their bill of rights?
Click on images to see book titles – many are childrens books!
Image + Explanation by Eric Wirick – DML East Branch @ flickr AND when you hold yr curser over the image you can see what the titles of the books are
LINK – super large size image
● Beat this for a banned book and newspapers list!
14,499 [South Africa 1950 - 1994]
Source: Beacon for Freedom – THE site for ALL known banned books and newspapers since 443 BC – A truly magnificent site – thanks to the Norwegian people paying for it
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” [Who will watch the watchers?] – Decimus Junius Juvenalis.(1/2 AD)
Some quotes on the Beacon for Freedom site:
“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” -Heinrich Heine. German poet (1797-1856).
“In Algeria, from May 1993 until the end of 1995, 58 editors, journalists and media workers were systematically executed.”
“It’s dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” -Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire. French philosopher and writer (1694-1778)
“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.” -African proverb
“You have not converted a person because you have silenced them.” -John Morley
“In 213 BC the Ch’in emperor Shih Huang-ti ordered the first recorded burning of books on the grounds that the books allegedly contained nothing but idle speculation and only excited people to criticize the government.”
“In 213 BC in China, all Confucian books were burned save one copy of each which was kept in the Chinese State Library.”
“The term “bowdlerize” means to expurgate literature; it comes from the English family Bowdler, that pioneered the commercial cutting – really rewriting – of literature.”
LINK – full list of South African Banned books & newspapers
On Beacon For Freedom of Expression’s web site
The last entry on the banned list:
14,499 `Ipi tombi`-South Africa September 4, 1981, December 18, 1981 Banned
LINK – What is censorship? @ wikipedia – excellent!
LINK – Video – Excellent images of old drawings of book burning – contributed by Nyprogressive [You Tube][alleges that "Sarah Palin Has Book Burning Morality"]
ABC TV investigates Sarah Palin’s book censorship – From: Jewelreds [You Tube]
LINK – World list of banned books
Around the world list off banned books [some] @ Wikipedia
· www.bannedmagazine.com, the journal of censorship and secrecy
· List of books challenged in Canada
· Minneapolis Public Library: Banned Books Week
· The most frequently banned books in the early 1990s
· HarperCollins books that have been challenged
· Judy Blume talks about censorship
· Original stories by censored writers
· Fahrenheit 451 Banned Book Blog: comprehensive list of links
· Banned cartoons
· Timeline of banned books in the United States
· Links related to Banned Books Week and book burning
· The Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books
[I just added this to the Wikipedia list of external links - found thanks to Google]
Beacon For Freedom of Expression’s list [55, 000] of 14,499 South African banned books and newspapers 1950 – 1994
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Filed under: BOOKS, CENSORSHIP, UPDATE | 6 Comments
Tags: aparthied, banned books, BOOKS, burning books, CENSORSHIP, library, sarah palin, SOUTH AFRICA
The Alexander Technique a method of personal education which involves self awareness and releasing muscular tension. This excessive tension
slowly accumulates over many years of stressful living and often starts in childhood and if left unchecked, can give rise later in life to common ailments
such as arthritis, neck and back pain, migraine, hypertension, sciatica, insomnia and even depression. Vast amounts of money are being spent on the treatment of these illnesses, to say nothing of the pain and discomfort that is felt by the patient, yet every year the number of patients carries on increasing.
With the right education, however, many people could be helped to understand the causes of their problems and be taught how they can help themselves, so that their aches and pains would diminish or are avoided altogether. The Alexander Technique can help us to become more aware of balance, posture and co-ordination while performing everyday actions. This brings into consciousness tensions throughout the body that have previously gone unnoticed and it is these which are very often the root cause of many common ailments….
read on LINK
photo by Beefus – Teaching A Young Sapling The Proper “Sunset Posture” (flickr)
Photo LINK
● I knew the pain in my neck had something to do with not knowing which position I needed to hold my head in. I was right!
I used to hold huge amounts of tension in my neck and shoulders. It was a complete revelation to me that I often am holding my shoulders up by at least 2 cm! The energy that I’m using just doing that isn’t sustainable!
I had heard of the Alexander technique [AT] way back in the 70’s, I recalled it had something to do with posture.
Late ’80’s I went for some lessons to sort out my head neck discomfort
It’s one of the best things I’ve done in taking care of my body, bad posture habits – which have caused me pain and it has taught me what to do as soon as I can sense anxiety and tension making me stiffen in my shoulders and neck
TRY THIS
Do NOT DO it – just THINK it - keeping your eyes open…..
Become aware of your neck and think it free/loose/soft, feel it sitting at the top of your spine – become aware of yr shoulders and let them widen and your back lengthen – the small of yr back – the back of your knees – soft etc etc
did you feel yr shoulders drop as you thought your neck free or shoulders widen?
Alexander teachers have taken years to learn how to teach us about using our bodies correctly with out telling us how or what is correct. They never tell us that we are doing it “wrong” or “do it this way” or that
It’s a revolutionary way of teaching – they teach us to become aware of our bodies
I really hope you try it
It’s truly amazing………
[In putting the above together I noticed I was holding my shoulders up about 10 times! - and I wasn't even feeling anxious - maybe just a little - got loads of urgent things to attend to!]
My teacher Pat O, in Cape Town is just Brilliant! I owe her a big debt of gratitude.
Thanks to her I’ve discovered all kinds of strange things I do with my body with out being aware of them! Such as – when I talk – lying flat on my back, I’m nodding [tinny movements]. This is an unnecessary habit, which involves a whole lot of muscles [neck, eyes, brain!]. All that is required, is to move the jaw!
Each week’s session, I learn something or two new, which I immediately try to implement. With out Pat’s genius, patience and playfulness, I would never have become aware of my body/posture habits.
I love to learn so I can change the things that are infective and darn right energy consuming!
The inseparability of mind and body is indeed a profound thing.
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●Here are some links so you can find out more
LINK – BBC article on AT & 3 min video AT lesson with presenter
LINK – Research Aug ‘08 – results on back pain – AT comes top
LINK – diagram of back and neck muscles
South Africa
http://www.alexandertechnique.org.za
South Africa – Find a teacher in your area
http://www.alexandertechnique.org.za/teachers.htm
United Kingdom
http://www.alexander.ie/usefullinks.html
http://www.alexandertechniqueworldwide.com/
http://www.alexander-tech.org.uk/index_files/Page401.html
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Filed under: HAPPINESS, HEALTH, SELF HELP, SUSTAINABILITY, UPDATE | 1 Comment
Tags: BACK, Frederick M Alexander, HEALTH, NECK, pain, PHOTO, posture, shoulders
pic by Matt – [ wordpress - the big cheese ] his office and cat
You lucky bastard!
I can hardly type my fingers are so cold!
[Cape Town South Africa - A cold front from the Arctic or is it Antarctic?]
Displaced people from the xenophobia violence are still in tents.
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2 C STATS – READ ON – Continue reading ‘●WordPress’ May stats – posted by Matt from his office with cat & pool & laptop [not a mac]‘
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Tags: billion, bloggers, blogs, CAT, holyday, may, MILLIONS, NUMBERS, STATISTICS, the boss, WORDPRESS
A letter of protest to the Japanese Abassador, Akihiko Furuya, mustering indignation at the arrest of Japanese Greenpeace activists in outrageous circumstances.
If you’re up with whales and down with thuggish governments,
please feel free to send a fax to the embassy.
Continue reading ‘●TOKYO: Green Peace Activists Arrested For Exposing Whale Meat Smuggling Ring’
Filed under: ACTIVISM, ANIMAL RIGHTS, Animals, GREEN, HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, PHOTO, WORLD | Leave a Comment
Tags: Activists, Corruption, Green Peace, HUMAN RIGHTS, PETITION, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOS, POLITICS, Smuggling, Thugs, Wales, Whale Meat
Filed under: POLITICS, SATIRE, SOUTH AFRICA | 2 Comments
Tags: INSIGHT, POLITICS, SATIRE, SOUTH AFRICA
Filed under: AFRICA, CAPE TOWN, HOLDING CAMPS, HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE, POLITICS, REFUGEES, SOETWATER, SOUTH AFRICA, SUSTAINABILITY, TAC, XENOPHOBIA | Leave a Comment
Tags: CAMPS, CAPE TOWN, Du Noon, Ebrahim Rasool, Enforced Reintegration, Helen Zille, POLITICS, SOETWATER, SOUTH AFRICA, UNHCR, United Nations, Victims Of Violence, XENOPHOBIA
Filed under: AFRICA, CAPE TOWN, FOREIGNERS, HOLDING CAMPS, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMANITY, IMMIGRANTS, POLITICS, REFUGEES, SOETWATER, SOUTH AFRICA, TRAUMA, WORLD, XENOPHOBIA | Leave a Comment
Tags: CAPE TOWN, Democracy, HUMAN RIGHTS, XENOPHOBIA
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