GASLAND, THE MOVIE - MUST BE SEEN - IGNORANCE WILL NOT SAVE YOUR LIFE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WILL IT

I saw Gasland today on HBO tv network. It can be watched anytime as it is "on demand" at the present time. EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IT. The movie states that fracking for natural gas is not just in the USA, but if not already on its way to a town near you in Europe, it is being considered. In the United Sates of America we can thank former Vice President Dick Cheney for leading the way to lifting any regulations that might have protected our water and land from pollution, as stated in the movie Gasland. These are terrorist acts being done by people in corporations. We have a right to clean water, air and land. We should not be being killed by our government lifting protective regulations on our environment, which is what happened under the former President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's administration. When the movie is over, don't miss the long list of interviewees who refused to speak with the movie's creator, Josh Fox. It shouldn't surprise you that the people in corporate USA who wouldn't speak to the movie's creator are the ones ripping the "heart and health" out of our country's land, as well as killing the people whose water is now unusable due to contamination. Devaluation of their property is another residual effect. Would you like to buy their property once the chemicals have ruined their immediate environment?

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This world belongs to all of us and until we decide that we will not be run off our land by the likes of Dick Cheney and the greed of human beings behind the corporate logos, we are at their merciless mercy and live at our own lack of actions' peril.
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About the film

"The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."

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GASLAND will be broadcast on HBO through 2012. To host a public screening in your community please click here. The DVD is on sale.

Drilling locations of fractioning and waterways in the USA at (click on "map")~ gaslandthemovie
PLEASE, when at this link for the USA map click on the east coast over Virginia and West Virginia....you'll know it is the correct one when you see the House of Representatives chamber in the picture. Click on it again to play it, after you click on it to select it....and watch this clip from the Gasland movie. I found this part of the movie very enlightening....it explains how none of the bills to protect us from harm happening can be used to hold corporations accountable because all regulations were lifted for fracking.

ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 2005

Bill Summary & Status - 109th Congress (2005 - 2006) - H.R.6 ...

Take-action

On the website gasland the movie this can be found:

Gasland is going a long way in spreading public awareness about gas drilling and the risks it poses on human and environmental health. Nationwide response to the film has been overwhelmingly positive. The Oil and Gas Industry's response: not so enthusiastic.

"Energy-In-Depth" is a PR Firm/Lobbying Group funded by the American Petroleum Institute. They are putting a misleading spin on information in Gasland to soothe and silence public curiosity about gas drilling.

The work of Energy-In-Depth lacks journalistic credibility and educated opinion. It's nothing short of an attack on truth. For public interest, we’ve prepared a response to their self-serving claims on gas drilling. Click here to learn more and pass along to friends.

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Other methods of retrieving energy that contaminates our water and land is called Mountaintop Removal

See my previous posts on Mountaintop Removal

When Wrong Is Taken As Right
This is how I begin this post ~
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money."

Ignorance is not bliss. It is just ignorance. And it can be deadly. Just ask the people in this story.

WE ARE THE STEWARDS OF THE PLANET. IT IS NOT OUR RIGHT TO STRIP THE LAND OF ITS NATURAL INTEGRITY AND BEAUTY. PRESIDENT BUSH HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT HE HAS NO UNDERSTANDING OF THIS. I FIND THIS MAN TO HAVE MISREPRESENTED US AND HAS NOT ONLY DISGRACED HIMSELF, BUT US, AS UNITED STATES CITIZENS. WE SHOULD BE STANDING UP TO HIM.
Other Mountaintop Removal posts ~
On election day Bush announced ...(DID YOU HEAR THE ANNOUNCEMENT?) LEASING UTAH WILDERNESS FOR OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION

Coal dust and black water no big deal...Right?

Contact elected politicians:
Keep drilling toxins out of our water

Contact your U.S. Senator - Contact information

Contact your U.S. Representative - Contact information

Contact President Obama
1-202-456-1111
or
whitehouse.gov

The following text is from the movie, Gasland's website, January 22, 2011:

TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT THE FRAC ACT
We need your help to pass the FRAC Act - twin bills in the Senate (S 1215) and House (HR 2766) that remove the exemption to the Safe Drinking Water Act for fracking and call for the disclosure and monitoring of the chemicals used in the process. Contacting your elected officials is critical to its passage.

The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (H.R. 2766), (S. 1215)—was introduced to both houses of the the United States Congress on June 9, 2009, and aims to repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act. It would require the energy industry to disclose the chemicals it mixes with the water and sand it pumps underground in the hydraulic fracturing process (also known as fracking), information that has largely been protected as trade secrets. Controversy surrounds the practice of hydraulic fracturing as a threat to drinking water supplies.[1] The gas industry opposes the legislation.[2]

The House bill was introduced by representatives Diana DeGette, D-Colo., Maurice Hinchey D-N.Y., and Jared Polis, D-Colo. The Senate version was introduced by senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

GREAT SHOW ~ WE ARE ONE with PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA

We Are One Celebration
at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
January 18, 2009

Bruce Springsteen performing The Rising

Beyonce sings America the Beautiful

Barack and Michelle Obama January 18, 2009

Jill and Joe Biden
Barack and Michelle Obama

Forrest Whittaker, Jamie Foxx and will.i.am

Sheryl Crow and Mary J. Blige

Bruce Springsteen arriving

Martin Luther King, III

Link to We Are One web page:
www.hbo.com/weareone

Webcast of We Are One
Available in USA and territories only

Encore on HBO at 11:30 p.m EST in USA
according to the HBO website

Our Call to Service January 19, 2009

Find and event to Volunteer on January 19, 2009

IF YOU CAN DREAM AND NOT MAKE DREAMS YOUR MASTER...IF YOU CAN BEAR TO HEAR THE TRUTH YOU'VE SPOKEN, IF YOU CAN WALK WITH CROWDS AND KEEP YOUR VIRTUE..

...YOURS IS THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING THAT'S IN IT...
Rudyard Kipling's total If poem is below

This is my If poem:

If
Two letters that hold the substance in it of what can be

If ballots are given to all who have registered to vote
If shady blocking of voters from voting don't upset justice
If every vote is counted
If every entitled voter votes
If only we demand that truth not be surrendered to
apathy and
what we believe
to be out of our control
If we find ourselves ready to stand and not let our government govern us senseless

If we become the people we thought we were
IF we stop accepting torture for the way the US deals with torture
If we decide that we can only have national security
IF we bring back justice as our compass

IF enough of us show up and take back our country
from the jaws of
a government that would rather we don't want to know
what they have done,
the depths that we've fallen

Take back our country
from the jaws of an administration that has made laws
to assure them of impunity
exempt from our wrath

If we only could be men and women of subtance
and not the idiots who fill heads with entertainment instead of news and history

If we only could find the path we're on is leading us to a bridge too far
from where we would never dream to be.

Above is written by Sandra Hammel
Any copying of this poem must be credited to Sandra Hammel, Human Rights Activist


Here are some of the explanations for the Fall of Rome:

• Decay
  
• Financial Problems
  
• The Dole and Barbarians
  
• Economic, Military, Gradual
  
• Christianity
  
• Vandals and Religious Controversy
  
• Division of the Empire
  
• Lead
  
• Hoarding and Deficit

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Source: www.swarthmore.edu

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Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis and Queen Latifa as Governor Sarah Palin, Senator Joe Biden and Gwen Ifill in VP Debate skit
"Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri"
Transcript of the SNL October 4, 2008 VP Debate Skit

My next post will include a great discussion with Bill Maher, Garry Shandling, Christiane Amanpour from October 3, 2008 Real Time show on HBO.

OBAMA - BIDEN 2008
Help Out

This is from www.barackobama.com:

We're right in the middle of a very narrow voting window that could make the difference in this election. And we have to act fast.

Ohio voters have until this Monday, October 6th, to register and vote early... all in one step. This is an extraordinary opportunity to get the votes we need to win Ohio.

And since Ohio is a key battleground state -- and played a pivotal role in the last presidential contest -- winning in Ohio could help us secure a national victory.

So what can you do to help Barack win in Ohio? You can help us Get Out The Vote -- and tip the balance in this election -- right from your own living room.

Get a list of potential Ohio supporters and their phone numbers right now. Give them a call and make sure they vote early for Barack.

BILL MAHER AND JOHN McCAIN

Bill Maher goes further than some may feel comfortable with. But sometimes he just is too funny not to laugh.
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Bob Woodward on Real Time with Bill Maher
October 3, 2008

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Real Time Opening Monologue October 3, 2008
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Bill Maher New Rules October 3, 2008
Great guest discussion with Garry Shandling Alec Baldwin and Christiane Amanpour - if you get a chance to see one of the many repeats of this episode in the coming week it is one of the best discussions, especially Garry Shandling.

There are free podcasts to be downloaded at
www.hbo.com/billmaher

Watch the Overtime replay with Bill Maher, Alec Baldwin and Garry Shandling
Overtime: 10/3/08

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John McCain Speaks and Contradicts Himself

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John McCain Speaks about keeping his word
Above two videos uploaded by Xviv8448vivX

CONGOLESE WOMEN WHO ARE FULL OF GRACE AND RAPED BY MANKIND

HBO airs The Greatest Silence

I watched this excellent HBO documentary tonight. I wrote about it before We Are Given Love to Give It. It will air repeatedly. Please see it. As sad and demoralizing as it is, it is also a tribute to the women who show the rest of us their strength, humanity and grace. Also, there are some heroes in the film who are men. The women are speaking out when it would be the "normal" thing to curl up and die. So, we must listen. It takes a mature person to watch this story and get out of it what will benefit these people and the rest of us who are only mere parts of humanity. But it is the "mere parts" that make the whole. And we so need to be whole.

I took the text below from the HBO page on this documentary. Tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. you have the opportunity to be on a conference call with the filmmaker and others who can tell you what you can do to be part of the solution. There is a link for this call below.


Shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this documentary feature explores the shocking plight of women and girls caught in the sexual crossfire as this giant African nation enters its second decade of internal conflict. Since 1998, a brutal war has ravaged the DRC, killing over 4 million people. Over the same time, tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers - both from foreign militias and the Congolese army that is supposed to protect them. Emmy®-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, herself a survivor of gang rape, travels deep inside the DRC to understand what is happening and why. Her resultant film features interviews with survivors, activists, peacekeepers, physicians and, most chillingly, two groups of rapists who are soldiers of the Congolese Army. Above all, it highlights first-person accounts of dozens of rape survivors, who recount their stories with pulverizing honesty and immediacy. Heart-wrenching in its portrayal of the grotesque realities of life in Congo, the film also provides inspiring examples of resiliency, courage and grace, while serving as a call to action for anyone with a conscience.

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo is a shocking exposé of a decade-old epidemic of kidnapping, rape and torture of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often carried out with impunity by gangs of armed militias, these atrocities leave survivors traumatized and isolated - shunned by society and their families, and suffering lifelong health effects, including HIV.

But perhaps the greatest tragedy, and danger, is that victims almost all remain silent about what they have suffered, too afraid and ashamed to speak out. As a result, the world is largely ignorant of their horrific plight and of the political conditions that allow it to continue.

Encompassing interviews with victims young and old, self-confessed rapists, activists, U.N. Peacekeepers, and woefully under-funded local law-enforcement officials, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo documents Lisa F. Jackson's journeys to the war zones of eastern Congo to find survivors willing to bear witness to their experiences and break that silence. It is a film at once political and profoundly personal for Jackson, who was gang-raped by three men in Washington, D.C. at age 25. As evidence of her commitment to the film and the stories of these women, Jackson traveled alone to the DRC and performed all production functions (producer, director, DP, sound) while there.

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo challenges audiences to wonder what dark forces are at work in a world that has tolerated such atrocities without offering victims either solace or justice. Greed seems to be one factor; criminal groups appear to be fanning the flames of civil war to perpetuate instability in the region while they plunder eastern Congo's natural riches of diamonds, gold and coltan (a metal used in cellphones and laptops). As many of the interviewees attest, systematic rape is an effective way to destroy the fabric of society. Yet those in power, as well as powerful nations like the U.S., are doing little to prevent this outrage. "Is there something about sexual violence that makes us all turn away?" asks Jackson. "In what inhuman context does rape become intentional, programmatic, a weapon of choice? Where are the voices of the women themselves? If they tell their stories, will others listen?"

Lisa F. Jackson has been involved in documentary filmmaking for over 30 years. Her work has earned her numerous accolades including two Emmy® Awards

Schedule

	Wed 4/9 08:00 PM			HBO2 - EAST
	Fri 4/11 01:40 AM			HBO - EAST
	Fri 4/11 01:40 AM			HBO LATINO - EAST
	Mon 4/14 10:30 PM			HBO - EAST
	Mon 4/14 10:30 PM			HBO LATINO - EAST
	Wed 4/23 12:35 AM			HBO - EAST
	Wed 4/23 12:35 AM			HBO LATINO - EAST
	Mon 4/28 11:15 PM			HBO SIGNATURE - EAST
	Tue 4/29 02:10 AM			HBO - EAST
	Tue 4/29 02:10 AM			HBO LATINO - EAST
	Wed 5/7 10:15 PM			HBO2 - EAST
	Tue 5/13 11:40 PM			HBO2 - EAST
	Thu 5/22 03:25 AM			HBO SIGNATURE - EAST
	Fri 5/30 01:05 AM			HBO2 - EAST

Starting April 9, the documentary will be available On Demand.

You can see clips on the HBO website of this documentary film. The Greatest Silence

Join activists and viewers across the country to watch the HBO premier of The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, a shocking exposé of a decade-old epidemic of kidnapping, rape and torture of women and girls in the civil war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ENOUGH, HBO and our partners have teamed up to coordinate and organize home screenings across the U.S. to view and discuss the film together. Screening the film is a great, informal way to gather friends, family, co-workers, students and neighbors to foster discussion around an important issue. Download ENOUGH's Congo card to learn more about the current situation in eastern Congo.

Join a Call with filmmaker, Lisa F. Jackson; ENOUGH Co-Chair, John Prendergast; and Director of Public Policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund, Kiersten Stewart, the day after the film, April 9th at 9:30 p.m. After you have had a day to reflect on the film, this chat will give you the opportunity to hear from the filmmaker and discover practical ways that you can end violence against women in the DRC. Sign up here to participate in the call on April 9th.

Enough Project

Women for Women International

Coming to HBO Nanking
This gripping historical documentary brings to life the many voices who tried to make sense of one of the lesser-known tragedies of World War II: Japan's brutal 1937 invasion of China's then-capital city, known as "the rape of Nanking." Premieres Tuesday, April 29 at 7pm on CINEMAX.

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