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Planeta Entries

24 de Mayo, 2008

Breathe With Me

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AND NOW, a word from our sponsor....

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16 de Mayo, 2008

The Gold Rush (Daily)

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12 de Mayo, 2008

Earthquake in China

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IT IS GETTING HARD not to mention dispiriting to keep track of the horrific natural disasters unfolding around the world. Over 900 students buried alive in China, at last estimate. Updates are claiming 9000 dead. 7.8 earthquake....

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5 de Mayo, 2008

Cyclone Toll Rising

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TALK ABOUT people who did not live to see this day. Wow. This is horrible. The death toll from the devastating cyclone in Myanmar over the weekend escalated to nearly 4000 people on Monday, with thousands of others still missing and at least one entire village wiped out, state television...

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4 de Abril, 2008

A Community Garden [Let's Have Nexus 6]

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AND THE ANSWER for the human race and our oldest friend, the Planet Earth, is the re-centering the collective emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health of human beings—no, we must take it further, to plant/environmental and animal (including human) health rather than this gross heirarchical defect that takes the...

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25 de Febrero, 2008

Cute Sea Lion Begs for Votes

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THERE ARE MANY POSTS I almost make, many I mean to make, and a few that I actually say I will make, but don't get around to. One of the latter category was when a friend of mine (one I made when I first visited Oregon in 2002-ish, let's...

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7 de Febrero, 2008

Tornados

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HUNDREDS INJURED and at this time, 55 dead. Tornados in Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi have taken the lives and homes of many. ATKINS, Ark. — Residents in five Southern states rose Wednesday to widespread clusters of destruction caused by an unusually ferocious winter tornado system. At least...

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17 de Diciembre, 2007

La Migra Trying to Start War With México

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SAN DIEGO - The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico. The counteroffensive has...

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16 de Diciembre, 2007

Aurora Dairy Sucks Teat of Greed

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Some of the nation's largest retailers and grocery chains sold milk labeled "organic" that was not truly organic, recently filed lawsuits allege. The federal complaints focus on the sale of milk from Boulder, Colo.-based Aurora Organic Dairy, which recently agreed to change its practices after the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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15 de Diciembre, 2007

Carcinogen Found in LA Drinking Water

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two reservoirs that supply drinking water to parts of the city have been shut down and will be drained after a rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power...

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

The Story of Stuff

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THIS 20 MINUTE SHORT is fantastic. It will make you cry, it will make you sick, well, hell. It's just a great time. For the whole familia. Seriosly, important message and education on the many hidden costs of material consumption, delivered by an eco-hero in a fun, dreadful, animated...

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5 de Diciembre, 2007

Stormin' Oregon

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GRACIAS for the inquiries, but I'm safe and sound. The storm in Oregon is a bit North and West of where I am by a couple hours. The coast is underwater in many places, but again, I am not on the coast. In this Age of Storm, these coasts...

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Bangladesh Cyclone Kills Thousands

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CYCLONE IN BANGLADESH kills thousands. UPATE Sun 17:24 PST: 2200 confirmed deaths, over 10,000 feared dead. Rescuers struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of survivors trapped in isolated towns along Bangladesh's ravaged coast on Saturday, as the official death toll from Tropical Cyclone Sidr passed 1,700. The Category 4...

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16 de Noviembre, 2007

They're Always Thinking of Us

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I AM DUTY-BOUND to report that although it's true that Zahara, one of Brad and Angelina Jolie's adopted children, has been removed by adoption from her home land of Ethiopia, now her parents have provided something almost as good. An island in Dubai shaped just like Ethiopia! Brad Pitt and...

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14 de Noviembre, 2007

7.7 Quake Shakes Northern Chile

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A powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale ripped through northern Chile today, causing panic, power outages and some structural damage, and closing down, at least temporarily, some of the country’s copper mines, according to news reports. The earthquake was centered in Chile’s Atacama desert, 780 miles north...

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

Dole + Dow. Another lovesick couple.

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Nicaraguan field hands win lawsuit alleging that a pesticide used to boost banana production made them sterile. A Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded $3.2 million to six Nicaraguan farmworkers who had sued Dole Food Co. Inc., arguing they had been rendered sterile some three decades ago by the...

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9 de Noviembre, 2007

Katrinita, Part 3.

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VILLAHERMOSA, MEXICO — Holding her pale, 18-month-old grandson in her arms in Tabasco's flooded state capital, Marisela Aceituno wondered whether the infant's vomiting and diarrhea was a sign of the dreaded C word. Cholera. "Everything I give him he throws up," Aceituno said as she stroked Christopher's curly brown...

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58,000 Gallons

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(11-08) 17:30 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Heavy-duty bunker fuel oil has washed up on beaches throughout the San Francisco and Marin coastlines all day, leaving purplish sheens on the water, ugly black blobs in the sand, and hundreds of injured or dead birds. Some 9,500 gallons of oil have been...

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7 de Noviembre, 2007

Thirsty Earth Swallows Humans

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IN JUAN DE GRIJALVA, 25 reported missing, more than 500 injured. In Chiapas, eleven thousand injured, five thousand homes destroyed. Thirty humans killed by just one wave. Droughts now so severe, gente don't have agua enough to brush their teeth. Yet all around, the earth drowns....

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6 de Noviembre, 2007

Tragedy and Hope en México

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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AFP) — At least 16 people were missing and feared dead Tuesday after a mudslide struck a village in flood-hit southern Mexico, amid reports of rampant looting. Heavy rain over the past days triggered a "severe" landslide that sent part of a hill in the southern state...

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3 de Noviembre, 2007

Mexico Floods, Tabasco Under Water

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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 3 — Mexicans were gripped Saturday by images of dramatic rescues from flooding in the southeastern state of Tabasco, where much of the state capital, Villahermosa, was underwater and the governor said that thousands of people waited on their rooftops for help to arrive. Newspapers and...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

The Important Parts

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FOR inspiration. Have a great time today. I mean that....

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28 de Octubre, 2007

Ex-Concert Pianist Murdered by Federal Kindness

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. It's not just a bar in Liberty, NY. It's supposedly what you and I are entitled to by the government. Isn't that sweet? Isn't it so understanding of the human condition? Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with...

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27 de Octubre, 2007

NY Times Insinuates SD Fires Are Migrant Ploy for More Work

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THREE QUOTES from a nytimes.com article on the Califas Wildfires. They occur in this order, not right next to one another: Some people have speculated, including on the Web, that immigrants might have set some of the fires, as has occurred with campfires lighted in fields. Yes. And Some People...

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25 de Octubre, 2007

Los Incendios

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SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL memories I have of the state in which I was born and lived for a few years of my youth are in San Diego. And while I've been hearing dire predictions of disasters such as the coast "breaking off and falling into the ocean"...

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Oil Rig Accident in the Gulf of Mexico

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MORE VIOLENCE centered around petroleum. This time it's not in Iraq. Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The collision of a Petroleos Mexicanos oil rig and a floating platform during a storm this week was the deadliest offshore accident in the Gulf of Mexico in 43 years, with at least 18...

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22 de Octubre, 2007

Califas Burning

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I TAKE IT PERSONALLY when Califas burns. And this is out of control. Esperando all my west coast amig@s are cool. Wrote a few of you. Ain't heard back. Hang tight. Or move it! Whatever's necessary. Get in touch....

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A Thread I Will Follow

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COULD BE WORSE for a video taken from mental shotlist to production to post to sound to scoring in a total of about 24 hours. 19 of those were today, editing and doing a very, very, very rudimentary sound design and scoring attempt. I've been at this since about six...

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9 de Octubre, 2007

Theater of Gold

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THE SKY, RIGHT NOW. Amazing. I can only guess this will be an incredible day....

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7 de Octubre, 2007

The Meat of the Problem

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MORE BEEF BAD NEWS: Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Cargill Inc., the largest U.S. agricultural company, recalled 844,812 pounds of ground beef patties over E. coli fears, days after a similar move felled the nation's biggest maker of frozen hamburgers. Closely held Cargill sold the frozen patties that might contain...

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22 de Septiembre, 2007

Download the Sky

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AS PROMISED, here are wallpaper downloads of shots taken while flying from coast to coast on my trip to (or from) NYC. They appear in lieu of any posts this morning, as it took me well over two hours to do this, and I wasn't really expecting that. Haven't...

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20 de Septiembre, 2007

Nezua Skywalker

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TAKING A BREAK from both the reactionary news cycle and my long, hard work hours, I bring you the Nezua Skywalker series. Just some shots I promised you when I got back from the NYC trip. Just some shots that really make you think twice about these ideas we have,...

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21 de Agosto, 2007

World Without Us

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MESSAGE: He (Wants You to Think He) Cares.

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MONTEBELLO, Quebec (AP) - President Bush, at a North American summit on Tuesday, offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were affected by Hurricane Dean. 'We stand ready to help,' said Bush, standing alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime...

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20 de Agosto, 2007

Hurricane Dean Approaches Yucatan

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DEAN APPROACHES MEXICO: CANCUN, Mexico (CNN) -- Hurricane Dean burgeoned into a Category 5 storm -- capable of inflicting catastrophic damage when it makes landfall early Tuesday. [...] A Category 5 storm is the most extreme level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the standard measurement for hurricanes. Such hurricanes can...

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19 de Agosto, 2007

One Peaceful Planet

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I GET MORE EXCITED by the thought of living not in fear of terrorists, but by the thought of a People who don't make decisions based on terror but on hope....

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17 de Agosto, 2007

Hand of Bush Continues Killing the Brown

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NEW ORLEANS—A crime wave is intensifying in this city already beset by a flagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina, and Hispanic immigrants helping to rebuild are common targets, according to police and to statistics released Thursday. Despite an infusion of money and manpower into the justice system, the number of...

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Earthquake in Peru Claims Over 500 Lives

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AND DESTROYS over ten thousand homes. Rescuers have been working through the night trying to find survivors of the devastating earthquake that hit Peru's central coast. They were given hope when a man was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed church in the town of Pisco, more than...

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9 de Julio, 2007

The Hottest ______ Ever!

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LOCAL NEWS is telling us that we here in Western Oregon are in a heat wave. Fire warnings. Triple digits. Thinking of going to the coast tomorrow. Normally, it's insanely windy and cold there, the frigid beach winds blasting an unrelenting series of sandy gales over your shivering, regret-ridden...

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4 de Julio, 2007

Our Mother

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OF COURSE WHEN I SAY "We are the earth" I don't really intend it in a new-agey, hippie sense, as one might imagine. I mean it in a simple, practical way. Or, if you like, a scientific way. After all, so much Science really seems to underline common sense. Once...

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3 de Julio, 2007

She, You, I, We

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7 de Abril, 2007

The Great Unprotected Planet

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WE'LL ENACT STRICT LAWS and lists to protect endangered bugs and animals even though species aren't known to last forever. Yet we'll—and when I say "we" I mean human beings—"soften" or deny or strongarm truth about the harm we are doing our world. Even when our very existence is...

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24 de Octubre, 2006

From the Earth

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SOMETIMES I THINK IN THIS WORLD LIKE A GARDEN, you and I are but weeds. You and I, and all our kind. Winding about happily and thoughtlessly choking the life from nature's most tender gifts. It's not that I want to think bad things about humankind. But too often,...

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