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Please sign this petition against gm rice!

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:50:52 GMT

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
April 2009


This Earth Day, we launched two things. The first, our Inspiring Action video, made it to the top of the viral video charts and drove 70,000 visits to our Climate Activist page. Thanks to you. The second, a petition demanding our world leaders attend the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen has further to go - all the way to the summit itself at the end of this year. Have you asked your leaders to put our future and our planet first? Ask them to lead on the climate Susan Sarandon is giving you another reason to believe The challenges of adapting our way of life to the realities of climate change seem daunting, don't they? Let Susan Sarandon give you another Reason to Believe in our second of three videos calling for an Energy [R]evolution. There is plenty more Susan to come - we will be launching the third video next month! Double your rice So far 50,000 of you have said no to genetically modified rice ending up on your dinner plates. We would like to have double the number of names on the petition before next month, when a key decision could be made that will affect rice dishes everywhere. Take a second to stand up for your rice. Last, but not least: Greenpeace Australia Pacific's Send a whale site has been nominated for a Webby Award in the People's Voices category. Register and vote for the whales here - voting ends on April 30th! Did somebody forward this message to you? Then SIGN UP HERE


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Get your whore stained hands off!

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:11:48 GMT

GE Rice

Stand up for your rice! Sign the petition

Dear friends,

The world's most important staple food is under threat and we need your help urgently.

Sign the petition

Rice is daily food for half of the global population. It has been grown around the world for over 10,000 years and is cultivated in 113 countries. For millions of people rice is not just a food - it's a way of life.

Bayer, the German chemical giant, has created a genetically engineered (GE) variety of rice that will put our health, our agriculture and our biodiversity at risk.

The European Union (EU) will soon decide whether or not Bayer's GE rice can end up on European dinner plates. But this will not only affect Europeans. If the EU approves the import of Bayer's GE rice, farmers in the US and elsewhere may soon start planting the manipulated crop.

Stopping GE rice is not just about consumer choice or the environment - it's a lot bigger than that. It's a matter of global food security, human rights and survival.

You can tell the EU to keep Bayer's hands off your rice - sign the petition.

Thanks for your help saving the world's most important food. Please send this onto your friends today - we don't have much time before the decision is made.

With best wishes
Jan, Natalia, Lisa and everyone on the rice team at Greenpeace

P.S Ecological farming is the safest solution to the food crisis and looming climate change disasters. By signing the petition you're adding your voice in support of global sustainability in the face of climate change.

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Vampire films from Sweden Woot!

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:56:05 GMT

They're bloody marvellous

Swedish vampires and Spanish ghouls are coming to a cinema near you. Mark Kermode welcomes the genre's escape from Hollywood

Lina Leandersson as Eli in 'Let the Right One In'. Photograph: Everett/Rex Feature

It's official. America, with its naff, slasher remakes (Texas Chainsaw, Prom Night, Friday the 13th) and dreary "torture porn" (Hostel, Saw) is no longer the home of horror cinema. Nor is Japan, whose lank-haired ghouls terrified the world in Ringu and The Grudge and their English language remakes. Even South Korea is yesterday's news.

Let The Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In)
Release: 2008
Country: Rest of the world
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 114 mins
Directors: Tomas Alfredson, Tomas Alfredsson
Cast: Henrik Dahl, Kare Hedebrant, Karin Bergquist, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Peter Carlberg
More on this film

The chilliest place on Earth is now Sweden thanks to Let the Right One In, a masterfully atmospheric reinvention of the die-hard vampire flick. Centring on the suburban torments of a bullied young boy and his enigmatic new friend, the film has already won plaudits worldwide. Yet director Tomas Alfredson insists that his native country has precious little horror heritage.

"There hasn't been any tradition of Swedish horror. I think I saw Dracula and Frankenstein on television as a child. But I try not to study other films because there are too many people just 'blue-printing' movies. I looked more to music, literature or painting for inspiration, particularly the beautiful work of Hans Holbein. The expressions he finds in faces are very creepy."

What about vampirism? Does that have the same cultural cachet in Sweden as in Britain, whose streets Dracula once roamed? "Not in my experience. I am uneducated about vampirism and the traditions behind it, although John Ajvide Lindqvist, who wrote the novel, researched everything. And it's true that the Swedish suburbs are perfect for a vampire story - it's a scary place with 20 hours of darkness a day in January.

"But for me, Let the Right One In is very much about the anger that this tormented boy is carrying. He's not able to do anything with it. He can't talk to his parents because he's shy and he's afraid of them interfering: he cannot talk to his teachers: he has no friends. So for him, the vampire in the story is the body of all this anger. I had similar experiences as a boy and that moved me when I read the book, the feeling of wanting revenge without having the ability to get it."

The international acclaim which has greeted Let the Right One In (and prompted its inevitable forthcoming English-language remake) follows a string of inventive European chillers putting Hollywood to shame. From Spain (via Mexico), there's been Guillermo del Toro's poetic fables The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, alongside JA Bayona's heartbreakingly creepy The Orphanage and Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's "reality terror" [Rec], ploddingly remade in the US as Quarantine

Meanwhile, the Gallic new wave, kick-started by the gruelling Switchblade Romance, continues with the current endurance-testing French/Canadian release Martyrs. Even the UK is flexing its horror muscles thanks to such edgy indie endeavours as Hush, from former Radio One DJ turned promising film-maker Mark Tonderai, while Norway's Dead Snow and Finland's Sauna have both been sold internationally.

"I heard there was some horrific stuff coming from Finland," agrees Alfredson. "And [Danish director] Lars von Trier has just made a horror film [Antichrist] which I think will be at Cannes. So who knows - maybe it is a trend. But I don't even know if Let the Right One In is a horror film. I just want to make films that make people laugh and cry.

Poetry... havent written any on here in ages so I thought I would beautify this space...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:05:23 GMT

Crushed

I wish you would be here to share,

To live and to love,

But you’re calling is not of these parts.

My arms ache, my heart aches in its desolate brokenness.

My soul torn asunder,

No lightning is paired with this thunder!

Alone in my quagmire of solitude,

My love,

My life,

My sweet taste of paradise,

Snatched away on a whirlwind of destruction,

Desolation,

Yet a change I call mutation.

I feel ripped to my core,

My entire being shattered like a mirror struck with a pick!

So many feelings course through my body,

Yearning, Sadness, Alone, Loneliness, Hurt,

Pain, Questioning, Indifference, Anger,

Self-Hatred, Failure, Abandonment,

Precipitous nakedness of the heart,

CRUSHED!

Amnesty International

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:52:19 GMT

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Green Peace!

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:00:42 GMT

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
March 2009


A Good Deal for our Climate, Made in Copenhagen We have just over eight months until the UN Climate Negotiations will begin in Copenhagen, and during these eight months decisions will be made that will affect the likelihood of a good deal for our climate coming out of those negotiations. Right now there are two things you can do to affect those decisions: 1. EU leaders must learn to share Sharing is one of the first lessons we're taught as children, and it is what EU leaders will need to do in order to ensure a good deal for our climate. They must share responsibility for the EU's emissions and the cost of funding developing nations so that they can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. In short, they need to bail out our planet. The Polish Prime Minister is not quite ready to share in the responsibilities and costs of funding climate action. Ask him not to block a deal that can help save our planet from climate change. 2. IT to the rescue! You can transform the leaders of the IT industry, the CEOs of companies like Cisco, Fujitsu, Google, HP, IBM, Nokia and Microsoft, into climate superheroes! These IT climate leaders will use their influence for the good of the planet, they will lobby for a strong climate deal, they will cut their own emissions, and priortize green technology! They just need a little encouragement, from you, to transform into the climate leaders we need them to be. The Revolution is Recruiting Greenpeace called for revolution on a global scale back in October, and the Energy [R]evolution continues to gain recruits, from the USA where it launched on March 11, to India in the next few weeks, and soon revolution will be coming to Russia and Chile. The Energy [R]evolution has also managed to recruit actress Susan Sarandon, who lends her voice to the first of three 'Reasons to Believe' videos. If Turtles could talk ... They would say 'Thank you' to the 103,000 of you who sent e-mails to the construction company hired by Tata, and told them you prefer a nesting ground for sea turtles rather than a big, ugly port. To keep up the pressure, you can send a message directly to Mr. Ratan Tata's desk and tell him to stop the destructive port. Simply click here to join this 100% crowdsourced campaign.

Hecticness sucks balls

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:38:33 GMT

Define Friend. Define Humanity. Define Relationship. Define Life. Define yourself.

Why should there be a definition at all? Nothing matters. Humanity does not matter as long as thier is greed and a money based economy rather than a resource based one. Humanity will always suffer and fail at the cost of the dollar. We are in debt when we receive money that is created from nothing.

Capitalism is to balme for all the shit in the world all institutions that are in place are in place to keep us enslaved. I am not a slave I will not bow down to the imperial marching tune of the dollar. Institutes have guided humanitys outlook upon itself and its values it has kept us seperate, it has fuelled hatred, it has no place in our society anymore. Politicians arent needed, Capitalism is not needed, Banks are not needed. Technology and resources are needed they are the new wealth that can be shared by all so that third world is no longer raped and pillaged by ours but trades equally with us. This will eradicate greed, the notion of self and selfishness, the notion of religion and the notion of differences, we are all human, we all shit, we all bleed red. We are the same.

Save humanity, save the earth and save yourself. http://www.thevenusproject.com. http://www.amnestyinternational.org/ and http://www.greenpeace.com/

http://www.zeitgeist.com/

Make a difference and a stand change from within and change others

As tourettes would say "Stand up stand the fuck up!"

Leaving Singapore....

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:02:06 GMT

This adventure has been awesome. Sadly I have to return to the penal colony from which I came. It is so overtaxed. over paid, over fed and everything is way too expensive back home in comparison to other countries. Sabah was my personal fave and I am already making plans to come back to Sabah and Singapore as I have unfinished business in both. Never say Hi to a whore it gives her licence to attach herself like a limpet to your left arm not good!

I will send my diary up here when I get a chance to type it all up I will add some photos and the few movies I took till then goodnight my people.

Been a very long time

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:26:01 GMT

It has been forever since I last wrote on this page I think I will come back and write here more often as now that it is linked to facebook it seems appropriate to use it in this fashion. Since my last entry I am now single again the love of my life decided that we wernt walking together anymore she said it was the right person at the wrong time. That she felt trapped by being engaged to me. I gave her her hearts desire which alas wasnt me anymore and away she flew. I loved her with all that I had and I love her still I want her to be my best friend I guess time will tell though. She is already dating someone else I know him he is an ok guy. I am not surprised that she has moved on within four months after our engagement broke off. To her it was over long before then. I know we both love each other still and it is a thing that will last. Her ambitions and career are her main focal point she wants to be part of something great its her desire. I was part of something great and that was my only desire. I am not sure but I think she is in love with the first buzz and feeling of being in love and when that fades it is x amount of time till she gets bored and goes on. She is a long term serial monogamist, god bless her lil silky g-banger. For me at the moment it is my last day in Kuala Lumpur before I fly out to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah Malaysia. I have spent a most memorable week here. I have one week in KK before I return to Singapore for another week (Which will be spent in the wonderful company of Sarah and Evan). Then back to boring old Wagga town via Darwin and Sydney. For my next trip I am thinking of saving up all year and heading to Ireland. I have no idea when I will be bothered coming back to Australia after that the world is my playground so lets play!

I don't mind being single at the moment although due to working 60hrs/wk average I don't get to go out or do anything other than some medieval fighting on the weekend. Looks like I may have to resort to internet dating. Which is a shame because there maybe someone in Wagga. I just dont have the time so it would be rather unfair on anyone that came into my life at the moment.

Love and peace to all this year of the golden ox.

Oh mAN!

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:59:23 GMT

I am sick as a dog today I have some throat infection thingy that is lumpy and if it doesnt clear up by monday I will have to have an ultrasound on it. My life since last i wrote has been quite good. I have been out on a bucks night (not my one) with a vibrating blow up doll, been out with Aaron, Rachel my beloved and Tommy on a wild week indeed which invovled fish bowl maguritas, a stint at a death metal gig with pints for $3.80 and an all nighter at my place with curry soup a bbq and copious amounts of vodka, rum, bourbon and scotch.

My lovely lady now makes prosthetics in the amputated limb sector and also in latex scars which is so very cool. I am currently saving up to move into a real house instead of the flat that we currently reside in. Work has been okay although I have blown out the heat regen twice on pasteuriser 2 and the homogeniser. All part of the learning process I guess MAKE SURE ALL THE TAPS ARE OPEN people!!!

I finally finished my sword and it is a thing of beauty with a skull inlaid with red winking fake ruby eyes for a pommel and fake bronze painted cross tree (all made from cast aluminium). I am now working on my armour which has arrived and am padding it up so hopefully it will be ready before the next bash

Anyway I have to run now got mexicana for dinner see you all round cheezel headed mump freaks!