the weather is warm, but it's sending me shivers

for lack of better words..."Lacking solid"..thx Jafar.

MGMT - kids

I like MGMT. I saw the first version to their song kids and it was alright. This one's a lot better though :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad-tgbtbCEM&feature=PlayList&p=4C473B0B86E7A6C7

i love this guy...

msn piss off!!

While I'm in class I decide to sign into msn because I'm on break and I need to entertain myself some how. I do my normal thing but I MUST update msn or I can't log in. Fine I do this but I don't check mark anything. Now I can't get onto the internet. Google won't load with my firefox. Of course this window was open before, so I can write on here. But this is honestly very very frustrating!!!

Paul on the street car

Minamata

W. Eugene Smith
Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath
Minamata, 1972



The Minamata Incident

"The benefits of a diet rich in fish outweigh risks of mercury poisoning, say researchers who studied the children of mothers exposed to methyl mercury during pregnancy. The researchers are calling for action from policy makers. Methyl mercury bioaccumulates in fish and is a neurotoxin, causing schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disease. The worst known incident of widespread mercury poisoning was seen in Minamata Bay, Japan. Those most affected were unborn children of women who were pregnant at the time of the poisoning

This photo, by William Eugene Smith, shows 'an outwardly healthy mother bathing her foetal-poisoned 16 year old daughter, Tomoko Uemura, physically crippled since birth due to environmental industrial mercury poisoning in the local Minamata, Japan, water supply'. www.hamline.edu/personal/amurphy01/ es110/eswebsite/Projects Spring03/ebarker/Minamata%20Web%20Page.htm

684 people suffered mercury poisoning, 115 died from this terrible incident."

This article was taken from:
http://www.recycleworld.co.uk/RW-MercuryFacts.htm

Agent Orange

Some pictures were taken from:
http://www.jonathantaylor.net/

This is article was taken from:

http://isiria.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/brutal-daily-reality-agent-orange-continues-to-poison-vietnam-and-the-us-remains-apathetic-to-the-plight-of-the-people-affected/

Brutal daily reality: agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam and the US remains apathetic to the plight of the people affected


By Cohn, Marjorie
Marjorie Cohn’s ZSpace Page

From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the American Academy of Medicine as a teratogen (causes birth defects).

Between 2.5 and 4.8 million people were exposed to Agent Orange. 1.4 billion hectares of land and forest – approximately 12 percent of the land area of Vietnam – were sprayed.

The Vietnamese who were exposed to the chemical have suffered from cancer, liver damage, pulmonary and heart diseases, defects to reproductive capacity, and skin and nervous disorders. Children and grandchildren of those exposed have severe physical deformities, mental and physical disabilities, diseases, and shortened life spans. The forests and jungles in large parts of southern Vietnam have been devastated and denuded. They may never grow back and if they do, it will take 50 to 200 years to regenerate. Animals that inhabited the forests and jungles have become extinct, disrupting the communities that depended on them. The rivers and underground water in some areas have also been contaminated. Erosion and desertification will change the environment, contributing to the warming of the planet and dislocation of crop and animal life.

The U.S. government and the chemical companies knew that Agent Orange, when produced rapidly at high temperatures, would contain large quantities of Dioxin. Nevertheless, the chemical companies continued to produce it in this manner. The U.S. government and the chemical companies also knew that the Bionetics Study, commissioned by the government in 1963, showed that even low levels of Dioxin produced significant deformities in unborn offspring of laboratory animals. But they suppressed that study and continued to spray Vietnam with Agent Orange. It wasn’t until the study was leaked in 1969 that the spraying of Agent Orange was discontinued.

U.S. soldiers who served in Vietnam have experienced similar illnesses. After they sued the chemical companies, including Dow and Monsanto, that manufactured and sold Agent Orange to the government, the case settled out of court for $180 million which gave few plaintiffs more than a few thousand dollars each. Later the U.S. veterans won a legislative victory for compensation for exposure to Agent Orange. They receive $1.52 billion per year in benefits.

But when the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange sued the chemical companies in federal court, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein dismissed the lawsuit, concluding that Agent Orange did not constitute a poison weapon prohibited by the Hague Convention of 1907. Weinstein had reportedly told the chemical companies when they settled the U.S. veterans’ suit that their liability was over and he was making good on his promise. His dismissal was affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The chemical companies admitted in their filing in the Supreme Court that the harm alleged by the victims was foreseeable although not intended. How can something that is foreseeable be unintended?

On May 15 and 16 of this year, the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Conscience in Support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange convened in Paris and heard testimony from 27 victims, witnesses and scientific experts. Seven people from three continents served as judges of the Tribunal, which was sponsored by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL).

Testimony given by the witnesses showed the following:

Mai Giang Vu, a member of the Army of South Vietnam, carried barrels of the chemicals on his back. His two sons could not walk or function normally, their limbs gradually “curled up” and they could only crawl. They died at the ages of 23 and 25.

Pham The Minh, whose parents also served in the South Vietnamese Army, showed the Tribunal his severely deformed, crooked, skinny legs; he has great difficulty walking, as well as digestive and pulmonary diseases.

To Nga Tran is a French Vietnamese who worked as a journalist during the spraying. Her daughter weighed 6.6 pounds at the age of three months. Her skin began shredding and she could not bear to have skin contact or simple demonstrations of love. She died at 17 months, weighing 6.6 pounds. Ms. To described a woman who gave birth to a “ball” with no human form. Many children are born without brains; others make inhuman sounds.

Rosemarie Hohn Mizo is the widow of George Mizo, who served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1967. He slept on contaminated ground and consumed food and drink that were also contaminated. George refused to serve after he was wounded for the third time; he was court-martialed and sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge. George helped found the Friendship Village where Vietnamese victims live in a supportive environment. He died from conditions related to his exposure to Agent Orange.

Georges Doussin, co-founder of the Friendship Village, visited a dormitory where he saw 50 highly deformed “monsters,” who produced inhuman sounds. One man whose parent had been exposed to Agent Orange had four toes on each foot. Doussin said Agent Orange creates “total anarchy in evolution.”

Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, from Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), sees many children born without arms and/or legs, without heads or faces, and without a brain chamber. According to the World Health Organization, only 1 – 4 parts per trillion (PPT) of Dioxin in breast milk can cause severe deformities in fetuses and even death. But up to 1450 PPT are found in maternal milk in Vietnam.

Dr. Jeanne Stellman, who wrote the seminal article about Agent Orange in the magazine Nature, testified that “this is the largest unstudied environmental disaster in the world (except for natural disasters).”

Dr. Jean Grassman, from Brooklyn College at City University of New York, testified that Dioxin is a potent cellular disregulator which alters a variety of pathways to disrupt many systems. Children, she said, are very sensitive to Dioxin; the intrauterine or post natal exposure to Dioxin may result in altered immune, neurobehavioral, and hormonal functioning. Women pass their exposure to their children both in utero and through the excretion of Dioxin in breast milk.

Many ecosystems have been destroyed and Dioxin continues to poison Vietnam, especially in the several “hot spots.”

Chemist Dr. Pierre Vermeulin testified that it was estimated that $1 billion would be required to restore one hectare of land in Vietnam. The cost of caring for the victims, many of whom need 24-hour care, is enormous.

In 1973, President Richard Nixon promised $3.25 billion in reconstruction aid to Vietnam “without any preconditions.” That aid was never granted.

There are only 11 Friendship Villages in Vietnam; 1000 are needed to care for the child victims of Agent Orange.

Last week, the Bureau of the IADL, meeting in Hanoi, presented President Nguyen Minh Triet of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with the final decision of the Tribunal. The judges found the U.S. government and the chemical companies guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ecocide during the illegal U.S. war of aggression in Vietnam. We recommended that the Agent Orange Commission be established in Vietnam to assess the damages suffered by the people and destruction of the environment, and that the U.S. government and the chemical companies provide compensation for the damage and destruction.

I told the President that it always struck me that even as U.S. bombs were dropping on the people of Vietnam, they always distinguished between the American government and the American people. The President responded, “We fought the forces of aggression but we always reserved our love for the people of America . . . because we knew they always supported us.”

An estimated 3 million Vietnamese people were killed in the war, which also claimed 58,000 American lives. For many other Vietnamese and U.S. veterans and their families, the war continues to take its toll.

Several treaties the United States has ratified require an effective remedy for violations of human rights. It is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam. Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims.

Our government must know that it cannot continue to use weapons that target and harm civilians. Indeed, the U.S. military is using depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will poison those countries for incalculable decades.

Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild, served as a judge on the International Peoples’ Tribunal of Conscience in Support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange. She is a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and co-author of “Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent.”

Why would you get this tattooed??

If you know me, you know that I love piercings and tattoos and that I am a very open minded person. If you didn't know that, now you do. Everyone can and will do what they want, but why would you get this tattooed?? Maybe as a joke, or maybe because you're in love with your computer? Either way it's cool that this person got the tattoo, but the question that I would like answered is why?

Eye Ball Tattoo Wow....

This man had the white of his eye balls tattooed blue. The links are articles.


http://www.absoluterandom.com/worlds-first-eyeball-tattoo/
http://baxterking.com/?p=1036

Fall has arrived

Picture Me Perfect Studio

This photo was taken at a photo studio that a friend of mine just opened. The studio is called Picture Me Perfect.

a girl with Kaleidoscope eyes

hands and hearts of different colours

maybe a lip ring?

different sets

a helping hand

I am le tired

..I think I might have just stopped.

A blog post I found

http://socialmange.blogspot.com/2009/06/your-dog-isnt-pit-bull-get-out-of-jail.html

Monday, June 15, 2009
Your dog isn't a "pit bull"? "Get out of jail free" card for you!

A dog leaps its fence and attacks another dog, probably crushing its trachea (meaning that the attacking dog went for the throat). It will apparently cost the victim dog's owners $4,500 to save their dog.

Were the words "savage", "bloodthirsty" or any of the usual tripe used in the media report?
Nope.
The attacking dog wasn't a "pit bull".

Was the attacking dog shot on sight?
Was its owner charged?
Nope.
The attacking dog wasn't a "pit bull".

Were Toronto Police right to say it wasn't their problem?
Nope, IMHO.
As I understand it, the Toronto Police have authority under the Provincial Offences Act and by extension the Ontario Dog Owners' Liability Act to charge the owner of an attacking dog.

McSquinty's Fib Ontario created two classes of citizens.

If you own a dog that's a "pit bull" (despite the fact that no such thing exists), your dog may be killed and you may be charged. Even just on sight. Without doing anything wrong. Just because of the way your dog looks.

If your dog isn't a "pit bull", you can get away with your animal murdering another, apparently without repercussions.

Megan Fox.....

Yup I am another person that thinks Angelina Jolie is hot. I cannot ignore the striking resemblance Megan Fox has taken to Angelina Jolie. They both have a number of tattoos and are very attractive however one is more physically fake than the other. I know it's kind of lame to talk about this stuff and I do not really care about this sort of stuff (celeb b.s.) but I think it's important that people don't compare themselves to the "beautiful" people on t.v. or in the movies. Usually there is something done to them, and they can also do minor things to themselves and some entertainers get paid to look good, which makes it pretty much their job to work out (and look good). Megan Fox is a fox now, but was just cute in 2004.

This is a direct quote taken from: http://www.injectable-filler.com/has-megan-fox-had-restylane

Megan Fox’s stunning attendance haw not be all her own, with aesthetical surgery experts claiming the actress appears to hit had boob improvement surgery, a countenance employ and lip-plumping injections. According to the In Touch inform (it should be noted that they hit not aerated Megan Fox), Dr. Kevin Tehrani, scrutiny administrator of Aristocrat Plastic Surgery, speculates, “Her bunk and modify lips materialize fuller. It looks same she had Restylane or Juvéderm injections.”

New royalty facial impressible doc Dr. saint Romo believes she underwent rhinoplasty, too: “The denture of her countenance is thinner and the counsel is more refined.”

As for her newborn curves, Dr. Theodore Diktaban, a impressible doc at Sadick Dermatology, thinks she had her breasts augmented.

“The well-defined isometric of an implant is apparent,” he says. “She was belike an A prize and became a super B.”

Megan has admitted to pain from baritone honour in the past, which haw vindicate her confidence-boosting surgery.
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So here is Megan Fox in 2004 vs. now.



and just her in 2004: