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Thursday, October 20, 2016
This Indian Tribe Is Fighting For Our Country’s Clean Water And No One Is Reporting It
The Lakhóta and Sioux people are part of a conglomerate of seven Native American Sioux tribes which are indigenous of the Great Plains of North America. To them, the land if sacred, the Earth is our Mother and serving Her is a duty.
And right now, the mainstream media is disturbingly silent about how they fighting a pipeline from being built beneath the Missouri, Mississippi, and Big Sioux rivers that would most certainly pollute the environment, most concerning of all, the water.
The federal government recently decided it would be okay to build the billiondollar Dakota Access Pipeline, which will transport crude oil for 1200 miles from North Dakota to Illinois. Only problem is, one significant spill of this stuff will destroy one of the primary clean water sources in the country, farming land and environment. It's not just idiotic, it is highly unethical. As a result, the Lakhóta and Sioux people are taking a stand.
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| Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II (in orange shirt) was one of more than a dozen people arrested while protesting. (Photo credit: Courtesy Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) The standoff has, as many who have engaged in peaceful protests against power before will tell you, led to arrest and intimidation. These people simply want to protect our natural water supply from being potentially contaminated and what happens, they get ignored by the media and arrested by the government. Please help spread this story, they are out there fighting for us all. The least we could do is help them gain support online. |
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Upcoming Guest Artists for September 13
We are delighted to announce that we have an array of talented artists gracing us with their presence this coming September. If you would like more information on dates and appointments, please contact Allstar Tattoo on 061 409 439 or email the shop at allstarink@gmail.com. Please find below the list if guest artists who will be appearing in our fine establishment and links to their work:
Oliver Peck
Jesse Gordon
Dean Williams
Chad Koeplinger
Chris Nunez
Beau Brady
Forrest Cavacco
Mina Aoki
Matt Beckerich
Shane Wilcox
Monday, April 4, 2016
Iceland Finally Confirms 9 Top Bankers To Be Jailed For 46 Years
Iceland has just found 9 of its top bankers guilty of crimes associated with the 2008 economic crash, jailing them for a total of 46 years.
Iceland’s Supreme Court has just announced a guilty verdict for 9 bankers involved in the Kaupthing market manipulation case, which was part of the international financial crisis in 2008 that led to the economic crash. The long court trial had has been running since April last year.
YNW reports;
Kaupthing was a big international bank headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. It expanded internationally for years, but collapsed in 2008 under huge debts, crippling the small nation’s economy.
By demanding that bankers be subject to the same laws as the rest of society, Iceland opted for a very different strategy in the wake of the financial crisis to rest of Europe and the US, where banks were fined nominal amounts, and directors and chief executives escaped punishment altogether.
While the US and UK governments provided bail outs and government stakes for their big banks with tax-payers’ money – essentially giving bankers the green light to continue behaving in the same way – Iceland adopted a different approach, declaring it would let the banks go bust, weed out and punish the criminal element at the top of the banks, and protect the savings of the people.
Former director of the bank, Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, who was found guilty and jailed last year, was also given a six-month extension to his sentence on Thursday.
According to Iceland Monitor, the bankers are found guilty of crimes relating to deceitfully financing share purchases – the bank lent money for the purchase of the shares while using its own shares as collateral for the loans.
They are also found guilty of creating a misleading demand for Kaupthing shares by means of deception and pretence.
These guilty verdicts are just the latest in Iceland’s unprecedented clampdown since the economic crash. Authorities have been pursuing bank bosses, chief executives, civil servants and corporate looters for crimes ranging from insider trading to fraud, money laundering, misleading markets, breach of duties and lying to officials.
Meanwhile the economy that collapsed so spectacularly has rebounded after letting its banks go bust, imposing capital controls and protecting its own citizens rather than the elite bank bosses responsible for the mess.
This determination to hold people to account for actions that caused intense financial misery contrasts strongly with the U.K., the rest of Europe and the US. Yes, fines were imposed on the 20 biggest banks for transgressions such as market manipulation, money-laundering and mis-selling mortgages, but these costs fall on shareholders and, by hampering the banks’ ability to lend, they also punish the rest of society.
Meanwhile the guilty senior bankers, thanks to government bail outs, carry on making enormous profits and collecting their obscene bonuses as though nothing happened.
Last year, the International Monetary Fund declared that Iceland had achieved economic recovery “without compromising its welfare model” or unduly punishing its citizens for crimes committed by its bankers.
Iceland is right to jail it’s bankers – and the US and Europe is wrong to merely slap a few wrists and give the green light to future outrages. You can learn about all the details of how exactly the international banksters robbed the global economy in the documentary below;
Monday, March 14, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Maybe Its Time To Swap Burgers For Bugs
Edible insects are great alternatives to conventional sources of meat as they’re cheap, plentiful and excellent sources of protein and fat, as well as vitamins and minerals.
Why eat insects?
Food demand is accelerating, and agricultural productivity cannot keep up. By 2050 global demand is set to double to 40 giga-calories per day, and much of this increase will be due to demand for meat.
The livestock industry is notoriously resource-hungry, consuming a third of all crops and requiring 70% of agricultural land. It also accounts for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, through production, transport and animal digestive gas.
It is against this backdrop that edible insects offer an exciting alternative. They are extremely efficient at turning feed into meat and can be farmed at a very high density. This means that their embodied energy is low—a tenth of that of beef cattle—and that at high volumes they are very cost efficient. Taking their nutritional benefits into consideration as well, it is easy to understand why the UN, the EU, and the Dutch government are some of the major players investigating the potential of edible insects.
Top Edible Insects
Top insects protein providers are the grasshoppers known as chapulines in Mexico that have a protein content of up to 77.13%. Grasshoppers are a common snack in Mexico. grasshoppers are usually eaten with guacamole and tortillas.
We can also list the Mopane worms have 31 to 77 mg of iron per 100 grams. Black soldier flies maggots contain 42% protein.
In many countries, eating insects doesn’t raise eyebrows. Insects are a major source of food in many countries including Japan, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Australia, Uganda, Botswana, Peru, Venezuela and Mexico.
The list of 2000 edible insect species worldwide, Enjoy : http://bit.ly/17DWQWG
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