"How long before they are treating humans in the same manner?" I thought
they already were, considering the lack of compassion, the numbers each
of us have for ID and the complete lack of respect if one is not
wealthy, have shingles over their doors or, what? just like to kill
things???
I start to believe this "displacement" some people show to all that is
around them must come from the aliens who landed here 20,000 years ago
or so. They are either completely insane or come from a totally
different race of beings.
D.
On 15/08/2012 8:35 AM, Ray Harrell wrote:
People make fun of thinking like this but ask the English what
happened to their hedgerows and the wildlife as a result of mega
farming with the advent of the European market. Cherokees call each of
these life forms, "nations," while the mechanical, economic world
calls them species. How long before they are treating humans in the
same manner? One should remember that the nameless white masks also
cover hearts that have lost and now rage in the wild (as William Blake
put it so long ago). It happened here in Blake's day and today, the
people who came here are experiencing both the repressed rage (guilt)
for their empire and the fear of reprisal as their Empire comes home
to roost and the "English" are not "white" but people of color.
Disrespect is disrespect whether animal or plant. It begins in small
things and ends in human waves. Each nation is a system. The one
that is most holistic and organic is the one that is native to this
world and has evolved through millions of years of success. The
banking system is no more than a pimple on the buttocks of the
world. We return to Freud's perception about poor toilet training
as the beginning of the problem. The race from nature and the
revenge of the Tiger.
REH
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August 14, 2012
*Mountain Mint Broke My Heart*
*By MARIELLE ANZELONE*
YOU can't help whom you fall for. Sometimes you can't help what you
fall for, either. It was a wildflower that did it for me.
With its scruffy demeanor and inconspicuously small blossoms, Torrey's
mountain mint is not much to look at. Yet seeing it is rare. This
species is globally imperiled, known to exist in fewer than 20
locations in the entire world --- all in the central and eastern
United States, and all dwindling. One is on Staten Island in New York
City.
In 2003 a relatively small cluster of Torrey's mountain mint was found
along a forested roadside in a sleepy part of southern Staten Island.
Local naturalists cheered this discovery of a wildflower that had not
been recorded in the five boroughs since 1897. The news was less
welcome to the city agency and developer that planned to raze the
woodland habitat and build a strip mall in its place. Located near the
street, the plant itself would survive the bulldozer, but it would be
isolated as its surroundings changed from pastoral to paved.
I was in the middle of the ensuing melee
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/nyregion/neighborhood-report-charleston-for-proposed-development-tiny-but-formidable-foe.html>.
At the time, I was the plant ecologist for the city's Department of
Parks and Recreation. I spent the spring and summer of 2004 immersing
myself in the disputed 42-acre forest, which also turned out to be
home to an additional 13 plant species that were rare in New York
State. Glacially deposited sandy soils supported rose pink and sweet
everlasting. A copse of trembling aspens overlooked gray birch and
bracken fern. Prickly needles of shrubby pines intermingled with all
manner of oaks. I was in botanical heaven.
But I was also in contentious political waters. The borough president
didn't help matters by offering his own solution: "I need a plant in
my office. Put it in a jar and bring it to me, and I will water it
every day."
When found in other places, Torrey's mountain mint is not an
inconvenience but an inspiration for conservation efforts. In New York
State, near the Connecticut border, one population of mountain mint
lives in a 144-acre grassland, preserved in perpetuity. Our mountain
mint was given no such considerations. Local conservation groups sued
New York City to stop the destruction, citing an incomplete
environmental review. The court did not dispute that the ecological
assessment was lacking, but development was allowed to proceed because
the brief statute of limitations had run out.
As construction approached, I said goodbye to what would be lost:
sweeps of meadow beauty, partridge pea and blue-eyed grass. Spicebush
swallowtails and other winged wildlife could flee to neighboring
woodlands, at least. But what of the ants? I imagined them buried
beneath the macadam, entombed in their underground chambers like an
insect Pompeii.
A little over a year later, I made a trip, required by my job, to the
new shopping complex. With a heavy heart I dutifully cut back
encroaching vines and gathered garbage from the sad, fenced-in strip
that now enclosed the mountain mint. Looking over the empty parking
lot, I imagined I could still see the old American chestnut tree that
once bore fruit. Over there was the shallow pool brimming with sedges
and sphagnum mosses. Just beyond was the thicket of sassafras and
lowbush blueberry shrubs. These visions soon faded, leaving me
standing among the big-box stores.
Environmentalists come to cities and see only loss and degradation.
Developers come to cities and see construction opportunities. In
Torrey's mountain mint, I saw hope. In the face of impossible odds,
this plant graced New Yorkers with its presence. It challenged us to
redefine what a city could be. In the face of that gift, we let a
poorly planned development displace a landscape replete with
biological riches.
Today, surrounded by strip malls and cheaply built housing, that once
quiet Staten Island road is bustling with traffic. In this
environment, Torrey's mountain mint's days in New York City are surely
numbered. For now, the wildflower is blooming. At least, that is what
colleagues tell me. I cannot bear to revisit the site. At some point,
every conservation biologist is bound to have her heart broken. This
is how it happened to me.
/Mariellé Anzelone <http://marielleanzelone.squarespace.com/>, an
urban conservation biologist, is the executive director of NYC
Wildflower Week <http://nycwildflowerweek.org/>./
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *D & N
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:52 AM
*To:* Keith Hudson; RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION
*Subject:* Re: [Futurework] Scarey
And how the banksters play.
D.
On 14/08/2012 10:34 PM, Keith Hudson wrote:
It certainly is scarey. From west to east across northern and
middle Europe neo-nazi groups are growing in all countries, their
nastiness in almost direct proportion to how left-wing (and thus
how open to illegal immigration) their governments have been in
the last 30/40 years or so (think Norway and Breivik).
The only two exceptions are at the extremities -- Russia and
Northern Ireland. In both Moscow and Belfast you will walk all day
without seeing a single black face, whether Indian, Middle-Eastern
or African. In Russia, its extreme neo-nazi party is thus not
aimed at the non-existent immigrants but at its own government
(though for the same underlying reason -- insufficient jobs for
the young). In Northern Ireland there is no neo-nazi party because
it has two nasty parties already which hate each other. The one,
the Protestant Orange Order, essentially dates back a century to
Lloyd George's stupid decision to divide the island of Ireland
into two parts. The other, the Irish Republican Army (and its
present-day successor, the Real IRA), dates back half a century or
so, to around Bloody Sunday, 1972, when (to quote Wikipedia) ". .
. 26 unarmed civil-rights
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/Civil_rights_movement#Civil_rights_movement_in_Northern_Ireland>
protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British
Army <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/British_Army>. Thirteen
males, seven of whom were teenagers, died immediately or soon
after, while the death of another man four-and-a-half months later
was attributed to the injuries he received on that day." (The
politicians on both sides are just beginning to work together in a
ramshackle form of NI devolved government, but the 12ft high steel
walls between some Protestant and Catholic areas of Londonderry
still remain.)
Because Western governments have well-nigh destroyed the bank-note
monetary system (and banks continued the job in the financial
sector), and because politicians of both the left and the right
haven't the least idea how to mend the 2007/8 break in the
200-years old Great Consumer Goods Chain then we (in Western
Europe) can only expect more trouble. As I write, riots are going
on in Paris which are reminiscent of the three-day looting and
arson of 12 months ago in London. Madrid is only just getting over
a bout of it last week.
Keith
At 14:14 14/08/2012, Mike G wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_mid#/video/world/2012/08/13/german-neo
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nazi-group.cnn
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