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May 17, 2013
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trippylectures:

A banned TED talk from Graham Hancock where he talks about ayahuasca and how we are being kept from evolving our consciousness by the powers that be and the collective dream-state they have instilled in the masses that manifests itself as the phobia of mind expansion. MUST WATCH

Yes indeed a MUST SEE video. Psychedelics imho don’t cause false or fake experiences, they open doors of perception into another reality - the one we cannot normally see.  But that is only the catalyst in this story.  My fav quote: 

… everybody realizes that a promise of a society over monopolistically based on this state of consciousness has proved hollow.   And that this model is no longer working.  That it is broken in every sense of a way that the model can be broken.  And urgently we need to find something to replace it.   The vast problems of global pollution resulted from the single minded pursuit of profit.  The horrors of nuclear proliferation.  The spectre of hunger that millions go to bed every night starving - that we can’t even solve this problem despite our alert problem solving state of consciousness.  And look what’s happening in the Amazon the lungs of our planet this precious home of biodiversity.  The old growth forest being cut down and being replace with soya bean farms so that we can feed cattle so that we can eat hamburgers… only a truly insane global state of consciousness would allow such an abomination to occur. 

Wow! My kinda guy right there!  His story is about consciousness changing in a deeply and profound way and I agree 100% that is what has to happen in order to save our world.  

TED - big FAIL on censoring this and yes you did censor it.  And yes, you are right, your excuses for that were clumsy at best.  

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May 13, 2013
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“Call your subject home,” Borneo tribe appeals to the Norwegian King

5/13/2013

Penan tribesmen from Sarawak appeal to the Norwegian King to protect them from a Norwegian hydropower executive - Sarawak Energy CEO, Torstein Dale Sjøtveit, pushes forward plans to flood the Borneo rainforest

OSLO, Norway / BARAM, Sarawak, Malaysia, May 13, 2013 —/WORLD-WIRE/— 600 Penan tribesmen of Sarawak, Malaysia, are turning to the Norwegian King for help in their struggle to defend their rainforests. The Penan are appealing to King Harald V to call one of his subjects home to Norway. 

Norwegian national, Torstein Dale Sjøtveit, is the CEO of Sarawak Energy, a company that is planning to flood the Penan’s traditional rainforests with several highly controversial hydropower dams.

“If Mr. Sjøtveit wishes to build hydro-dams, let him do it in Norway, or wherever he is welcome. But he has no right to come from Norway to Sarawak and destroy our lives and our rainforests”, write the Penan in their appeal to the Norwegian monarch. The letter has been signed by the heads of eight villages and over 600 tribesmen from Sarawak’s Baram region. 

The Penan also accuse Mr. Sjøtveit of being complicit in the corruption of the Sarawak state government under Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. “Sarawak Energy is owned by the state of Sarawak but without Mr. Sjøtveit’s knowledge, our corrupt state government would not be able to build the dams that are set to destroy our forests, our livelihoods and our communities.” 

Taib Mahmud’s family businesses have received several contracts linked to the state’s dam plans.

The planned Baram Dam would not only flood a number of Penan villages but would displace up to 20,000 natives and submerge 400km2 of rainforest and farmland. In 2012, a number of native communities from the Baram region wrote to Mr. Dale Sjøtveit to express their concerns but their appeal went unheeded.

The Penan, who have been living in the Borneo rainforest for centuries as hunter-gatherers, have been sidelined by Malaysia’s controversial development policies.

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Attached pictures:

Picture 1: Rainforest waterfall in Sarawak’s Upper Baram region

Picture 2: Penan family from Upper Baram, Sarawak

Picture 3: Giant tree in Sarawak’s last intact rainforests in Upper Baram

Picture 4: The Penan signed their letter to the Norwegian King with their thumbprints  [not shown]

(All pictures by Bruno Manser Fund)

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April 04, 2013
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Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil CompaniesEcuador is planning to auction off three million of the country’s 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports. The report comes as oil pollution forced neighboring Peru to declare an environmental state of emergency in its northern Amazon rainforest. Ecuador owed China more than $7 billion — more than a tenth of its GDP — as of last summer. This made my stomach clench.  This is really horrible news.  Truly horrible.   The forest cannot ask for help, but perhaps the seven indigenous groups can - we need to support them with everything we can… “The seven indigenous groups who live on the land are not happy, especially because last year a court ruled that governments must obtain “free, prior, and informed consent” from native groups before approving oil activities on their indigenous land. “They have not consulted us, and we’re here to tell the big investors that they don’t have our permission to exploit our land,” Narcisa Mashienta, a leader of Ecuador’s Shuar people, said in a report.”   If anyone see any petition or actions on this, please submit here!  Thanks 

Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies

Ecuador is planning to auction off three million of the country’s 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports.

The report comes as oil pollution forced neighboring Peru to declare an environmental state of emergency in its northern Amazon rainforest.

Ecuador owed China more than $7 billion — more than a tenth of its GDP — as of last summer.



This made my stomach clench.  This is really horrible news.  Truly horrible.   The forest cannot ask for help, but perhaps the seven indigenous groups can - we need to support them with everything we can…

“The seven indigenous groups who live on the land are not happy, especially because last year a court ruled that governments must obtain “free, prior, and informed consent” from native groups before approving oil activities on their indigenous land.

“They have not consulted us, and we’re here to tell the big investors that they don’t have our permission to exploit our land,” Narcisa Mashienta, a leader of Ecuador’s Shuar people, said in a report.”

 

If anyone see any petition or actions on this, please submit here!  Thanks 

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December 22, 2011
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"This is not just about one battle in one corner of the Amazon. This is about drawing a line in the sand for indigenous people and rainforests everywhere. It’s about rejecting a bankrupt development model and about ensuring that indigenous peoples’ choices for their lands and their future are honored and respected.”
- Bill Twist, CEO of The Pachamama Alliance"

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Defend The Amazon | The Pachamama Alliance

Looking for a year end donation spot so you can get some tax benefits?   Well, even if you aren’t, perhaps consider this.

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November 15, 2011
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Check out this photo album on the deforestation of the Amazon.  Did you know that “Spectacular new species are being discovered in the Amazon rainforest at a rate of one every three days”?

Check out this photo album on the deforestation of the Amazon. 

Did you know that “Spectacular new species are being discovered in the Amazon rainforest at a rate of one every three days”?

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July 07, 2011
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Of all the despicable things I thought possible going on around the Amazonian Rainforrest,  using an extremely powerful chemical agent on the forest would’ve never crossed not even the darkest region of my conscious. It’s indeed petrifying what the human mind can conjure up for profit. Agent Orange is the chemical in question, and is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War. Read more: http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/agent-orange-amazon-forest-314354/#ixzz1RQdIty8i Want to see what Agent Orange does to humans other than the photo above which shows the effects on human skin?  Check here.  By the way, isn’t Agent Orange made by Monsanto?

Of all the despicable things I thought possible going on around the Amazonian Rainforrest,  using an extremely powerful chemical agent on the forest would’ve never crossed not even the darkest region of my conscious. It’s indeed petrifying what the human mind can conjure up for profit.

Agent Orange is the chemical in question, and is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War.



Read more: http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/agent-orange-amazon-forest-314354/#ixzz1RQdIty8i

Want to see what Agent Orange does to humans other than the photo above which shows the effects on human skin?  Check here.  By the way, isn’t Agent Orange made by Monsanto?

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June 01, 2011
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NASA Map Reveals Massive Carbon Storage of Tropical Forests

NASA Map Reveals Massive Carbon Storage of Tropical Forests

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September 08, 2010
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Peru’s Rainforest Highway Triggers Surge in Deforestation Using technology for carbon mapping.  Find ‘em and bust ‘em!

Peru’s Rainforest Highway Triggers Surge in Deforestation

Using technology for carbon mapping.  Find ‘em and bust ‘em!

(Source: photos.mongabay.com)

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