Thursday, January 13, 2005

Mark Rothko says:

“It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”



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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Yet another man-made disaster

If anyone is still unconvinced that the animal/death industry brings destruction wherever it exists, I suggest you check out the article below:



“Tsunamis, Mangroves and the Market Economy”
by Devinder Sharma
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Sharma0111.htm

Since the 1980s, the Asian seacoast region has been plundered by the large industrialized shrimp firms that brought environmentally-unfriendly aquaculture to its sea shores. Shrimp cultivation, rising to over 8 billion tonnes a year in the year 2000, had already played havoc with the fragile eco-systems. The “rape-and-run” industry, as the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) once termed it, was largely funded by the World Bank. Nearly 72 per cent of the shrimp farming is confined to Asia.

The expansion of shrimp farming was at the cost of tropical mangroves—amongst the world’s most important ecosystems. Each acre of mangrove forest destroyed results in an estimated 676 pounds loss in marine harvest. Mangrove swamps have been nature’s protection for the coastal regions from the large waves.

More on mangroves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove


P.S. Go vegan…

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BTW, (unrelated to the above post) here are two good sites to bookmark:
http://purepolemics.blogdrive.com
http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Helen Keller says:

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all: the apathy of human beings.”



“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”


For a perspective on Helen Keller that goes beyond platitudes about “overcoming obstacles,” check out these links:
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Kell171.shtml
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/1682/sw168220.htm

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