“we did not come to celebrate, we came to continue this revolution”
(Source: ideoclast, via heartmindawakening)
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Remember the BP oil spill? The Corexit that BP used to “disperse” the oil can make it tougher for microbes to digest the oil. And, added bonus, it can get sucked up by human skin.
COREXIT was used even though EPA-approved alternatives showed to be far less toxic and, in some cases, nearly twice as effective. COREXIT 9527 was replaced by COREXIT 9500 after the former was deemed unacceptably toxic but only after extensive use. According to BP 1,800,000 gallons of COREXIT went into the Gulf of Mexico but the validity of those numbers is in question.
Propylene glycol, one of its ingredients, increases the body’s chemical absorption through the skin. Which is probably the cause of the effect that you see in the pictures.
The safety data sheets for Corexit also warn of possible kidney, nervous system, and intestinal problems. Here you can find the Medical Safety Data Sheets for both versions.
This dirty mess is far from being over.
(via anti-propaganda)
Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.
Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.
The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire.
Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes | The Raw Story
Read the rest at the link. It’s really worth it.
(via redlightpolitics)
(via anti-propaganda)
“Researchers from the British Geological Survey and University College London have for the first time mapped the aquifers, or groundwater, across the continent and the amount they hold.
‘The largest groundwater volumes are found in the large sedimentary aquifers in the North African countries Libya, Algeria, Egypt and Sudan,’ the scientists said in their paper.
They estimate that reserves of groundwater across the continent are 100 times the amount found on its surface, or 0.66 million cubic kilometres.”
An appreciation post for the Palestinian youth : From Clashes Outside Ofer Prison Marking 64 Years Of Nakba on May 15, 2012.
(photos by Ahmed Mesleh -Majdi Mohammed , ABBAS MOMANI/AFP - REUTERS/Darren Whiteside - REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - Bernat Armangue )
(via anti-propaganda)
Italian doctors implanted the smallest artificial heart ever — just half the size of an AA battery! — into a 16-month-old boy with an incredibly rare condition.
The tiny experimental device … made it possible for the infant to survive for 13 days before receiving a permanent organ donation. The device was developed by New York’s Dr. Robert Jarvik, best known for the famous adult artificial heart he pioneered more than a quarter-century ago.
The device is not yet approved for human testing, and was only used because the baby’s condition was so rare and desperate, Jarvik said.
(via thedailyfeed)
