Nobel Peace Prize Winner President cuts the social programs, increases the funding for military to buy weapons!

Nobel Peace Prize Winner President cuts the social programs, increases the funding for military to buy weapons!

Our dear President, who is also the winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2009, is cutting down the funding on social programs like social services and education (200 of those), but increasing military funding. He is announcing $3.7 trillion proposal to build the nuclear power plants ! 




Well does it affect us ? Heck ya, democracynow.org states "  It also calls for cutting $300 million from community development block grants and limiting an expansion of the Pell grant program for low-income college students." 


Ah, well, he won the most prestigious peace prize, I guess, he knows what he is doing. For more info click on http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/15/obamas_37_trillion_budget_calls_for

What's Happening at the Gulf ? Where the oil "spilled ."

A boat cuts through surface oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead ,
Photo by National Geographic

Well, first it's not a "spill" although everyone calls it - "Gulf Oil Spill." It is a major leak caused by breaking of insecure materials that was used by Halliburton, a gigantic corporation where Dick Cheney became the CEO in 1995.

Now, there's no news about the oil leak. Everyone's eyes is in Egypt. Many of us have even forgotten about the tragedy that happened in April 2010 and lasted for three months!

In order to disperse the oil, government and BP used a massive amount 800,000 gallons (3,028,000 litres) of chemical dispersants. This cause to disperse the oil, but has alsoe created more ecological problems that we are unaware of .

The National Geographic writes (Jan 27, 2011) :

No one knew how effectively the dispersants would work. But a new analysis shows the dispersants lingered for months pretty much right where they were put—trapped in subsurface plumes of oil and gas....
For the study, scientists tracked a key component of dispersant called dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS) as the spill's deepwater plume of oil, natural gas, and dispersant moved southwesterly through the Gulf.

Some 640,000 pounds (290,000 kilograms) of DOSS was injected between April and July, a huge number made all the more daunting because the chemical comprises only ten percent of the total dispersant volume..

BP has committed to "clean up" beaches. For more info click : http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=40&contentId=7061813

We'll see what really BP is doing and what is it hiding. What do you think ?

Homeless

I made this video a while ago, I wanted to share this which is a short story about a homeless woman Tomma, who lives in the park across the street from where I live.


Tethys

Something About "Act of War,"- the overthrow of Hawaiian Nation

snap of Act of War. courtesy itvs.org

I saw Act of War two times. And, the second time I watched it, I learnt more about what "really happened" when the U.S. took over (or lets say stole) the Hawaiian Islands.


Act of War is a documentary made in 1993 that tells the story of Hawaiian people, missionary visits to the island who brought diseases with them, the decline of native Hawaiian population, commencement of sugar plantation that brought a large immigrant population, the internal politics of the business-men, and missionaries and finally overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii in illegal way. 


The documentary is full of historical photos, interviews with Hawaiian historians and scholars with reenactment. 


One particular scene that I noted was a Hawaiian woman, dressed in Hawaiian attire said with loud voice "We are not Americans, We are not Americans, We are not Americans! We will die.. but never become American." Her voice had resentment and anger. After watching this documentary, I feel that Hawaiians (I don't know how many) are still angry with the United States, they still want their land back and want to get rid of immigrants.


Now, after a century, I don't know how Hawaiians can get justice. I understand they have been cheated, betrayed and did not get justice, but the question is "What now ?" How can Hawaiians get justice at this time ? Or is there another way that we all can make the mistake (crime) less painful ?


What are you ideas? What do you think we need to do ? or do we just let it go and "everything is ok ?"