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.

I ADORE THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL

THE TIGER AND THE SNOW

I had never seen this movie. But it was on the fantastic TV channel, The Sundance Channel, today. With subtitles. I especially liked Tom Waits singing You Can Never Hold Back Spring and the poetry of the movie. Some great art - this movie.

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The Opening Scene of the movie
Tom Waits sings You Can Never Hold Back Spring from his Orphans CD.
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Tom Waits was great in the Terry Gilliam movie
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

After creating LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, the Oscar-winning comedy set during the Holocaust, actor/filmmaker Roberto Benigni takes on a no-less-audacious project: a romantic comedy set during the opening days of the Iraq War. Benigni plays a madcap poetry professor hopelessly infatuated with an elegant writer (Nicoletta Braschi). When he learns his beloved is wounded and lying near death in a Baghdad hospital, our hero impersonates a doctor and is soon dodging bullets and bombshells to win her heart. "Winsome, charming and irresistibly romantic" -Salon.

The Sundance Channel schedule - airing The Tiger and The Snow

Tuesday, October 5 11:15 AM

Tuesday, October 5 4:20 PM

Monday, October 11 11:00 AM

Monday, October 11 2:50 PM

Tuesday, October 12 6:25 AM

Thursday, October 21 10:35 AM

Thursday, October 21 3:30 PM

Sunday, October 31 1:30 PM

Cast and Crew

Director	Roberto Benigni
Screenwriter	Roberto Benigni
Screenwriter	Vincenzo Cerami
Cinematographer	Fabio Cianchetti
Editor	Massimo Fiocchi
Composer	Nicola Piovani
Actor	Roberto Benigni
Actor	Nicoletta Braschi
Actor	Tom Waits

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The Tiger and The Snow
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THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL INTRODUCED ME TO MELODY GARDOT

I love discovering and I discovered this today, while I was trying to learn my way around my new televsion's remote control. The show I saw - Live at Abbey Road - was "on demand". I found Melody Gardot by accident.

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Melody Gardot sings Who Will Comfort Me?

Live at Abbey Road 2009

Melody and two other bands were on the show. This particular song was the best part of the show for me. The arrangement is fantastic. I dream of singing with this much relaxation. Uploaded by Nonosinthemix

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The current President of Sudan, Omar al Bashir,
will win the election April 11 -13, 2010.
If rounding up, torturing, killing those who speak out against him
proves anything, it will be that.

Sign the Petition:
Sudan sham 2010

United States, stop supporting the sham April 2010 elections in Sudan. In a climate of violent political intimidation and with millions disenfranchised in camps, there cannot be credible elections in Sudan. Our support gives the Government of al-Bashir, indicted on war crimes and crimes against humanity, legitimacy it does not deserve. It is a waste of American taxpayer money, and non-credible elections will fuel violence and divisions in a country that is already on the brink.

Obama Administration, engage at the highest level in bringing lasting peace, protection, and justice to Sudan, now!

Standing with Darfur

If you want peace, work for justice
إذا كنت تريد السلام ، أعمل من أجل العدالة

StopGenocideNow.org

Tweet this button to read: @JimLangevin Call for a Intelligence Committee special hearing re: #Sudan policy review and demand pressures and consequences #SudanSham

GENOCIDE WILL only STOP WITH US - Our leaders have taught us this

Contact links:

President Obama:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
or for organizations at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/organizations

Secretary of State Clinton:
http://contact-us.state.gov/cgi-bin/state.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

State Department Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/EngageStateDept

Ambassador Susan Rice:
http://archive.usun.state.gov/Issues/Contact2.html

Vice President Biden:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
or for organizations at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/organizations

And at http://sudansham2010.org/page3/page3.html
do the tweets but replace any reference to Senate Resolution 404
with something important like "Gration has got to go"
in words of your choosing.

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Sudan's Darfur and "A Deal with a Devil"

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

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by Mohamed Yahya, Damanga

www.realcourage.org/2010/03/a-deal-with-a-devil/

We are saddened by the so-called Doha Peace Negotiations that were signed in Qatar last week between Al-Bashir of the Sudan Government and other groups. This included Dr. Khalil Ibrahim from the JEM- Justice and Equality movement and Dr. Tigani Sessi from the smaller LJM- Liberation Justice Movement.

This was a very controversial agreement that completely neglected the concerns of the majority of Darfuri people. JEM and LJM should have rejected any deal with the ICC Indicted war criminal Omar Al-Bashir. Al-Bashir's arrest warrant was announced by the prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo on March 4, 2009.

The Darfuri people can't accept such deals with a government that has slaughtered more than 450,000 innocent civilians in Darfur alone from 2003 to date. This is a Sudanese government that has not respected its own people or any agreement made before - from South Sudan to Darfur and Beja at the Eastern Sudan.

Peace and human rights are not mutually exclusive choices. We know that real peace begins with respecting our human rights, respecting justice, and respecting human dignity. The process for peace will begin with justice and human rights for the Darfuri people.

We strongly believe that no peace was honored before, especially when made with splintered rebel groups, and when the main core demands of the Darfuri people were not addressed.
• Both parties deliberately ignored even mentioning justice and the accountability in their negotiation agenda.
• They ignored the disarmament of the marauding Janjaweed militias, who are the allies of Al-Bashir government in Darfur.
• They failed to address the replacement of those settled in the villages of the IDP's and refugees.
• Moreover, they failed to recognize that security and ceasefire agreements were never honored by the Al-Bashir government.

Al-Bashir took advantage of the Doha meetings and ordered his Janjaweed and Sudan Popular Defense Army-to attack the "Jabel Marra" area by airplanes and tanks with massive campaign and destroyed more than 36 villages within a week. This resulted in more than 400 causalities, and over 100,000 displaced from the whole Jabel Marra area.

Despite all of this destruction, Al-Bashir has been allowed to continue violating the Darfuri people's human rights of free expressions, movement, assembly, and life itself. The people of Darfur are targeted inside and outside their homes and forced to register to vote for Al-Bashir even by using their food distribution cards. Otherwise, no food or aid is allowed. All kinds of Intimidation and brutal harassment are used against Al-Bashir's opponents.

It is immoral that the whole civilized world leaders are watching this shameful scenario of "honoring the criminals" of the Sudanese government beginning with Doha peace negotiations that seek to legitimize Omar Al-Bashir, who is a man worse than Hitler and Saddam Hussein, coming to power in a fake democracy.

It is also terribly sad to see the U.S. government and the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, General Scott Gration, giving support to Al-Bashir and his rogue NIF-National Islamic Front regime that hosted Osama Bin Laden in the Capitol Khartoum in early 1990's for almost five years. This is the same Sudanese government that has terrorized its own people, as well as hosted international terrorists.

It is unfortunate to see the Obama administration, United Nations, African Union, Arab Leagues, European Union, and the Islamic world to come together this time to support this genocidal regime, when they never came together before to support the victims of Darfur. Where has such world unity been to restore justice and human rights in Sudan for a lasting peace? Darfur has largely been abandoned, while the Darfuri people's human rights have been taken away. Too many have accepted a policy to "let Darfur die."

The most shocking phenomena was that even those leaders, such as Dr. Khalil in JEM and Dr. Tigani Sessi of LJM, have shown a lack of leadership because of their power ambitions, their narrow visions of the people's needs, and their unwillingness to prioritize human rights and justice for all of the Sudanese people. At the Doha peace negotiations, these leaders have acted in their own interests, regardless of what the ultimate results will be. Their focus has instead been their personal selfish goals wrapped by tribal circles and political Ideological agendas.

Dr. Khalil was known as a former Mujahedeen leader who fought against our own Christians in South Sudan, inspired at that time by Dr. Hassan El-Turabi. This was before he was being kicked out of power by Al-Bashir, which was the main reason for Dr. Khalil to escape Khartoum to form JEM. It is an issue of personal vindication for him, rather than Darfur cause for him. Both Al-Bashir and Dr. Khalil are old friends and Students of El-Turabi, so they are simply" two faces for one coin" of NIF/NCP.

In addition, Dr. Tigani Sessi of LJM has not been engaged in actively defending Darfur since he left Sudan over 20 years. He has not been popular even with his own FUR Tribe. He was only imposed and recommended by the Sudan government to lead a small group of the LJM at the Doha negotiations. He was engaged because he is willing to listen to the genocidal regime of Al-Bashir and could easily used to pass their agenda through him against the people of Darfur. He has not demonstrated strength and hasn't fought with the rebels anywhere.

This peace is nothing more than a ceremony as many have said. The people of Darfur can't afford another war, but that will be imminent. The new coalition of the National Islamic Front will turn the war against their own people of Darfur.

A "Darfur versus Darfur" war is on the horizon. The Khartoum Arab government will claim to steer clear of such a war, while they also fuel the upcoming phase of the war between the SLA- Abdulwahid faction and other possible alliances from those Darfuri rebels rejected the deal in Qatar. "Slaves against slaves" will be the Al-Bashir government's policy of divide and rule.

The future may also see other possible wars with the same new Islamic alliances against Southern Sudan, even if the South secedes due to the referendum that is scheduled for 2011. There's no guarantee for any lasting peace in Sudan since this NCP/NIF remains in power in the country.

History is repeating itself again In Sudan and it could be for the worst. This is especially true for
Darfur and other marginalized areas that have never enjoyed any significant representation to share power or wealth in their own country since the independence of Sudan in January 1956 from United Kingdom.

This time, the worst form of colonialism will be from fascists and fundamentalists within Sudan itself. Mr. El-Turabi will have renewed influence with Dr. Khalil's arrival to Khartoum or Darfur. Mr. Sadiq al-Mahdi, the former Prime Minister and "Umma Party" leader that pulled out of the power in Al-Bashir's June 1989 coup, will also have renewed influence and power. Dr. Tigani Sessi, who signed on behalf of the LJM in Doha, will be back to Khartoum. It is very sad news for major Darfuri people who will never forget what Sadiq al-Mahdi and Tigani Sessi did to them while the Umma Party was in power. The Umma Party has created the first conflict in Darfur when It favored Arab tribes in Darfur against the black African tribes, and created special militias called in that time " Al-firs an." "Al-firs an" is an Arabic version of the term "the Knights" in English.

Weapons were provided by Sadiq al-Mahdi to arm this "Al-Firs an" militia, which started the attacks against the black farmers while they grow their crops These weapons came from the Umma defense minister and General Fadlalla Burma Nasser, who at that time was part of the Arab tribes. The Arab Firsan militia drove their animals into the farms and started shooting anyone who blocked their animals. It was the beginning of the Darfur war era during that time in the early 1980's .

Then the regional conflict was exacerbated by the war between Libya and Chad. Thousands of pro-Libya fighters (the so-called "Arab Gathering Forces," "Arab Islamic Army Corps," "Olad Salih Group") were allowed by the Sadiq al-Mahdi government at that time to use Darfur territory to attack Chad from East. This happened while Libyan troops were attacking Chad from Libyan borders with Chad. The war between Chad and Libya was known as the "Ouzo War," because both Libya and Chad claimed the Ouzo area belongs to its territory

After being defeated by Hussein Habry of Chad, these forces scattered in the area from Chad to Darfur and Central Africa looking for safe haven. This situation contributed to the disaster of extensive distribution of cheaply sold arms to Arab herders in the area; some Arab herders were given such weapons as free gifts as well. This helped to create the chaos in Darfur from that time, with the Umma Party playing a big role in that conflict.

When Al-Bashir came to the power by coup in 1989, he recruited these same elements, reorganized them, trained them, and paid them salaries, and provided them logistical support to use against the same black Darfuris from Massaleit, Fur, Dajo, Zagawa, Gimir Tama Bargo and other minorities.

Under Al-Bashir's rule, the only difference was that the militia's name of Al-Firsan was changed to "Janjaweed," and the renamed "Janjaweed" militia began using more sophisticated weapons and trucks, in addition to horses and camels.

Most Darfuris will never forget these grievances. They will never forget how Sadiq al-Mahdi of the Umma Party humiliated them in many ways during his two terms ruling Sudan in 1964 and 1986. Mr. Mahdi never made any development in Darfur; no schools, hospitals, or even wells for water were built in Darfur. He advised Darfuris to send their children to" Koranic Khalawas" instead of schools, to prevent them from learning about science and politics, so that would not have the chance to understand their human rights or develop the ambition to demand power for Darfuris.

This is the same mentality of all Arabs of the ruling parties in Sudan. It is their ultimate policy to keep the black African Sudanese -- from Darfur to South Sudan, Nuba Mountains, and the Beja of East -- as illiterate and marginalized so that it will be easier for them to rule over forever.

These tactics have not changed and have only become worse with the Al-Bashir government. They are all the same: NCP, Umma, DUP, Communist, Bathists, and the rest of Arab's current new parties. Sudan and Darfur doesn't need more Mahadis, Turabis, Communists, or Islamists.

Let the people of Darfur and the rest of those marginalized people in Sudan have justice first, then they will decide who they will choose to govern them. Flawed peace agreements have been beginning with Abuja in 2006 with Sudan and SLA splintered factions of Arkuwi Mennawi in Doha. Such flawed peace agreements choose a version of peace that ignores justice and ignores human rights. There is no lasting peace that does not begin with justice and human rights. The only ones who benefit from such flawed peace agreements are the Sudanese genocidal government that seeks to stay longer in power to kill more people and destabilize the entire region.

The US and the United Nations along with the international community must stop the Sudan government from committing more atrocities. We need to hold them all accountable, instead of promoting them. No peace will be without justice, and the only way for long lasting peace in Sudan would be through Justice.

Thank you.

Mohamed Yahya, Damaga

Mohamed Yahya, Executive Director of Damanga

– Damanga Web Site

– U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Web Site on Sudan

– Damanga Mission

– History of Damanga

– Mohamed Yahya Biographies (Damanga, USHMM)

– "The Meaning of Damanga"