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CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ARTICLES / GREEN STUFF
ELECTION 2008: WASTING YOUR VOTE?
There's a concept among voters that if the candidate you really prefer has no apparent chance of winning, then it's a waste of your vote to check the box for that candidate. To address this issue, we've been forced to break out our light sabers. See our article,
Wasting Your Vote
— The Voters' Choice in 2008: Darth Vader, The Emperor, or Luke Skywalker.
TURNING GREEN OVER THE ELECTION
Do you think our politicians should do better at addressing air and water pollution, chemicals in household products, and the need for clean energy? Then you might want to check out our
environmental voting guide
and our article
Why Vote Green?
...
DUMBO MUMBO-JUMBO
We don't hear that much about environmental issues on the news these days, but when we do hear it, it's sometimes hard to separate the info from the spin-fo. To help you decipher the code words, Grinning Planet presents an update of our
Environmental Doublespeak
article.
MEDIA-OCRITY
When it comes to politics, democracy, and the many other challenges of our lives, media play a central role. But, unfortunately, their value is usually negative, leaving us uninformed at best and propagandized at worst. What ever happened to true investigative journalism? Why has the press stopped doing it's job of counterbalancing those in power? Why is "media concentration" a death sentence for informative local TV, radio, and newspaper coverage? How does mainstream media send inappropriate social signals to our children and adolescents? There are lots of great books on these topics, and we have collected them on our recently upgraded
Media Books list.
TUNE IN ... EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER — “BLACK MOON”
An excellent and uncharacteristically activist song from ELP. As for the album of the same name, it's one of the few times a formerly great rock band put out something new that really was "sort of like their old stuff." LYRICS SNIPPET: We never learn—
Even deserts burn,
And all politicians lie.
They won't do nothin'
'Til we reach high noon...
Black Moon...
SERIOUS AND (CLEAN) FUNNY MULTIMEDIA -- ANIMATIONS, VIDEO, AUDIO, MORE ...
WAY SERIOUS
RUPPERT-O-RAMA
Former LA police investigator Mike Ruppert has spent much of the last decade trying to alert us all to the dangers of peak oil and the dangerous criminal behavior exhibited by The Powers That Be. Those of us who have taken heed of his reports and predictions and have changed our lives to be more prepared for troubled times ahead are in his debt. If you are not yet familiar with Ruppert, below are some links to his current work and "greatest hits."
-- Some excellent material from the 2004-2005 timeframe — all very interesting to re-experience, given what we now know about the housing bubble, how money works, peak oil, geopolitics, and 9/11. Ruppert's timelines are a little off, but he nails the trends and underlying machinations:
[1] From The Wilderness (archive of old articles)
[2] Crossing The Rubicon (book)
[3] The Truth and Lies of 9/11 (GoogleVideo)
[4] interview with Els Cooperrider (GPM audio)
MONEY FUNNY
FUNNY BAILOUT BUFFET
Humor does not stop just because our elected leaders are selling us down the river. Here at GP, we're gonna laugh all the way to the poorhouse. Join in the grunting and guffawing with a few funny 'net clips.
$1,000,000,000,000 Bailout
-- A faux, deadpan-humor White House press conference on the bailout....from Funny Ordie.
The Dark Bailout
-- A strangely clever mix of clips from The Dark Knight Batman film and President Bush describing his bailout plan... from Spike.
The Daily Show
-- An edgy but funny rant that blasts just about everybody associated with passing the bailout.
The Colbert Report
-- More edgy, more funny: "Vladimir Putin's just jealous because America is winning the economic meltdown race."
JUST PLAIN FUNNY
BUSHISMS VIDEO REVIEW
Well, love him or hate him, he'll be gone soon—barring a total usurpation of constitutional authority—and we will all be deprived of the grand gaffes and gargantuan goofs that gush from his grinning gob. The next president is almost certain to bring a decline in entertainment (and embarrassment) value, so enjoy him while you can ... with this 1-minute review of some of Bush Jr.'s worst public speaking flubs. At Google Video. Go there
CLIMATE TIME MACHINE
This very cool interactive tool lets you visualize Arctic ice melt, global CO2 emissions, and global temperatures over various timeframes. You can also see estimates of coastal inundation for various sea level rise amounts—all just by moving the slide control back and forth. Excellent! And scary! From NASA. Go there
DRILL, BABY, DRILL!
A wild-eyed poke at the oil-drilling frenzy currently in vogue among our Washington officials. (Somehow they failed to get the memo that we can't drill our way out of our oil-addiction problem.) Funny stuff from animator Mark Fiore. Go there
HOW TO PRETEND YOU CARE ABOUT THE ELECTION
This video short features a man who is supposedly an actor pretending to be a political analyst offering phony tips on how you can fake political acumen—perfect for our faux democratic electoral system! Funny stuff from The Onion. Go there
"Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary."
— Evan Esar
"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."
— Robert Orben
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
There's a concept among voters that if the candidate you really prefer has no apparent chance of winning, then it's a waste of your vote to check the box for that candidate. To address this issue, we've been forced to break out our light sabers. See our article,
Do you think our politicians should do better at addressing air and water pollution, chemicals in household products, and the need for clean energy? Then you might want to check out our
We don't hear that much about environmental issues on the news these days, but when we do hear it, it's sometimes hard to separate the info from the spin-fo. To help you decipher the code words, Grinning Planet presents an update of our
When it comes to politics, democracy, and the many other challenges of our lives, media play a central role. But, unfortunately, their value is usually negative, leaving us uninformed at best and propagandized at worst. What ever happened to true investigative journalism? Why has the press stopped doing it's job of counterbalancing those in power? Why is "media concentration" a death sentence for informative local TV, radio, and newspaper coverage? How does mainstream media send inappropriate social signals to our children and adolescents? There are lots of great books on these topics, and we have collected them on our recently upgraded
An excellent and uncharacteristically activist song from ELP. As for the album of the same name, it's one of the few times a formerly great rock band put out something new that really was "sort of like their old stuff."
