EARTH SPEAKS OUT
And it’s all NEW and VEGAN ….
Hey! What about us Broccolli?
YOU WERE MADE BY HUMANS, YO FOE!
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▶ Dear Future Generations: Sorry – Prince Ea – YouTube
via ▶ Dear Future Generations: Sorry – Prince Ea – YouTube.
This is the most powerful message of the year!
This Blind Man And His Armless Friend Are Saving An Entire Village In China
Now this is what I call being human, people! Now get busy and help someone out today! And tomorrow too …..
via This Blind Man And His Armless Friend Are Saving An Entire Village In China.
Are SLAVES FISHING FOR YOUR FOOD? IT’S TIME TO HUMAN UP!
via AP Investigation: Slavery Taints Global Supply of Seafood.
Thai and Burmese fishing boat workers sit inside a cell at the compound of a fishing company in Benjina, Indonesia. The imprisoned men were considered slaves who might run away. They said they lived on a few bites of rice and curry a day in a space barely big enough to lie down, stuck until the next trawler forces them back to sea. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
It’s time to claim responsibility – You’ve seen this and read it so now you are responsible to find out WHERE your fish came from and who was FORCED to get it for you – as as SLAVE – and if this is the case – Boycott ANY STORE in America or anywhere else in the world buying this crap from cruel monsters over in Indonesia,
No one should be a slave – not an human, an animal – no one. And this is just sickening and unacceptable.
It’s time for human beings to stand up for the rights of others and protect them.
As we care for our least – This is the mark of our evolution in humanity.
If you want to take action – write or call these scum bags and tell them to stop supporting this sort of debauchery.
Thai and Burmese fishing boat workers sit inside a cell at the compound of a fishing company in Benjina, Indonesia. The imprisoned men were considered slaves who might run away. They said they lived on a few bites of rice and curry a day in a space barely big enough to lie down, stuck until the next trawler forces them back to sea. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
BENJINA, Indonesia (AP) — The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Just a few yards away, other workers loaded cargo ships with slave-caught seafood that clouds the supply networks of major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores in the United States.
Here, in the Indonesian island village of Benjina and the surrounding waters, hundreds of trapped men represent one of the most desperate links criss-crossing between companies and countries in the seafood industry. This intricate web of connections separates the fish we eat from the men who catch it, and obscures a brutal truth: Your seafood may come from slaves.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Associated Press notified the International Organization for Migration about men in this story, who were then moved out of Benjina by police for their safety. Hundreds of slaves remain on the island, and five other men were in the cage this week.
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The men The Associated Press spoke to on Benjina were mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, one of the poorest countries in the world. They were brought to Indonesia through Thailand and forced to fish. Their catch was shipped back to Thailand, and then entered the global commerce stream.
Tainted fish can wind up in the supply chains of some of America’s major grocery stores, such as Kroger, Albertsons and Safeway; the nation’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart; and the biggest food distributor, Sysco. It can find its way into the supply chains of some of the most popular brands of canned pet food, including Fancy Feast, Meow Mix and Iams. It can turn up as calamari at fine dining restaurants, as imitation crab in a California sushi roll or as packages of frozen snapper relabeled with store brands that land on our dinner tables.
In a year-long investigation, the AP interviewed more than 40 current and former slaves in Benjina. The AP documented the journey of a single large shipment of slave-caught seafood from the Indonesian village, including squid, snapper, grouper and shrimp, and tracked it by satellite to a gritty Thai harbor. Upon its arrival, AP journalists followed trucks that loaded and drove the seafood over four nights to dozens of factories, cold storage plants and the country’s biggest fish market.
Some fishermen, risking their lives, begged the reporters for help.
“I want to go home. We all do,” one Burmese slave called out over the side of his boat, a cry repeated by many men. “Our parents haven’t heard from us for a long time, I’m sure they think we are dead.”
Their catch mixes in with other fish at numerous sites in Thailand, including processing plants. U.S. Customs records show that several of those Thai factories ship to America. They also ship to Europe and Asia, but the AP traced shipments to the U.S., where trade records are public.
Workers in Benjina, Indonesia, load fish onto a cargo ship bound for Thailand. Seafood caught by slaves mixes in with other fish at a number of sites in Thailand, including processing plants. U.S. Customs records show that several of those Thai factories ship to the United States. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
The major corporations identified by AP declined interviews but issued statements that strongly condemned labor abuses; many described their work with human rights groups to hold subcontractors accountable.
National Fisheries Institute spokesman Gavin Gibbons, speaking on behalf of 300 U.S. seafood firms that make up 75 percent of the industry, said his members are troubled by the findings.
“It’s not only disturbing, it’s disheartening because our companies have zero tolerance for labor abuses,” he said. “These type of things flourish in the shadows.”
The slaves interviewed by the AP described 20- to 22-hour shifts and unclean drinking water. Almost all said they were kicked, beaten or whipped with toxic stingray tails if they complained or tried to rest. They were paid little or nothing.
Runaway Hlaing Min said many died at sea.
“If Americans and Europeans are eating this fish, they should remember us. There must be a mountain of bones under the sea,” he said. “The bones of the people could be an island, it’s that many.”
The small harbor in the village is occupied by Pusaka Benjina Resources, whose five-story office compound includes the cage with the slaves. The company is the only fishing operation on Benjina officially registered in Indonesia, and is listed as the owner of more than 90 trawlers. However, the captains are Thai, and the Indonesian government is reviewing to see if the boats are really Thai-owned. Pusaka Benjina did not respond to phone calls and a letter, and did not speak to a reporter who waited for two hours in the company’s Jakarta office.
At the Benjina port, the AP interviewed slaves from a dozen fishing vessels offloading their catch into a large refrigerated cargo ship, the Silver Sea Line.
The ship belonged to the Silver Sea Reefer Co., which is registered in Thailand and has at least nine refrigerated cargo boats. The company said it is not involved with the fishermen.
Workers in Benjina, Indonesia, load fish onto a cargo ship bound for Thailand. Seafood caught by slaves mixes in with other fish at a number of sites in Thailand, including processing plants. U.S. Customs records show that several of those Thai factories ship to the United States. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
“We only carry the shipment and we are hired in general by clients,” said company owner Panya Luangsomboon. “We’re separated from the fishing boats.”
The AP followed that ship, using satellite tracking over 15 days to Samut Sakhon, Thailand, and journalists watched as workers packed the seafood over four nights onto more than 150 trucks, following deliveries to factories around the city.
Inside those plants, representatives told AP journalists that they sold seafood to other Thai processors and distributors. U.S. Customs bills of lading identify specific shipments from those plants to American firms, including well-known brand names.
For example, one truck bore the name and bird logo of Kingfisher Holdings Ltd., which supplies frozen and canned seafood around the world. Another truck went to Mahachai Marine Foods Co., a cold storage business that also supplies Kingfisher, according to Kawin Ngernanek, whose family runs it.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes,” said Kawin, who also serves as spokesman for the Thai Overseas Fisheries Association. “Kingfisher buys several types of products.”
When later asked about abusive labor practices, Kawin was not available. Instead, Mahachai Marine Foods manager Narongdet Prasertsri responded: “I have no idea about it at all.” Kingfisher did not answer repeated requests for comment.
Every month, Kingfisher and its subsidiary KF Foods Ltd. sends about 100 metric tons of seafood from Thailand to America, according to U.S. Customs records. These shipments have gone to Stavis Seafoods, a Boston-based Sysco supplier, and other distributors.
“The truth is, these are the kind of things that keep you up at night,” said CEO Richard Stavis, who grandfather started the company. He said his business visits international processors, requires notarized certification of legal practices and uses third-party audits.
“There are companies like ours that care and are working as hard as they can,” he said.
Slaves from Myanmar lean over the deck of their fishing trawler at the port in Benjina, Indonesia. “I want to go home. We all do,” one man called out in Burmese, a cry repeated by others. “Our parents haven’t heard from us for a long time. I’m sure they think we are dead.” (AP Photo/APTN)
A similar pattern repeats itself with other companies and shipments.
The AP followed another truck to Niwat Co., where part owner Prasert Luangsomboon said the company sells to Thai Union Manufacturing. Weeks later, when confronted about forced labor in their supply chain, Niwat referred several requests for comment to Luangsomboon, who could not be reached for further comment.
Thai Union Manufacturing Co. is a subsidiary of Thai Union Frozen Products PCL., Thailand’s largest seafood corporation, with $3.5 billion in annual sales. This parent company, known simply as Thai Union, owns Chicken of the Sea and is buying Bumble Bee, although the AP did not observe any tuna fisheries.
Thai Union says its direct clients include Wal-Mart – (How SHOCKING!) , and ships thousands of cans of cat food to the U.S. every month, including household brands like Fancy Feast, Meow Mix and Iams. These end up on shelves of major grocery chains, such as Kroger, Safeway and Albertsons, as well as pet stores. Again, however, it’s impossible to tell if a particular can of cat food might have slave-caught seafood.
Treehouse Apartment Building The Way It Should Be!
via Mega-Treehouse is an Entire Apartment Building.
25 Verde is just amazing folks and I think you’ll agree. I can only say that #YourtMutha is quite pleased with this new apartment building that was recently erected in Turnin, Italy.
Let’s just say it; The Italians have a certain class that America could do well to imitate here. Talk about bringing the green to the gate. This stunning apartment building boasts 150 Mature Trees and another 40 down in the courtyard.
The 63 Unit Complex creates a unique way a living that cools down the place in the summer and keeps clean fresh air circulating at all times. Tree can do that, you know? It’s an amazing thing that EARTH created on her – and I’d say it’s a grand little miracle myself.
And if this apartment building isn’t enough to inspire you to go green check out these gorgeous little tree houses. Earth knows I’d do anything to live in one of these beauties!
Enjoy, pass it on and peace out!
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This building even harvests and collects rainwater and uses it to feed the plants and trees that garnish it. It’s an eco friendly dream come true and Earth and her personal dummy (that would be me) have never been so proud of the human race! You’ve really done it this time, folks. Now keep these coming. We only need about 1/2 Billion more and we should be good to go.
EARTH RECOMMENDS BAMBOO TOILET PAPER FOR YOUR BUTTOCKS!
via EARTH RECOMMENDS BAMBOO TOILET PAPER FOR YOUR BUTTOCKS! – YouTube.
Earth’s personal dummy is reporting LIVE on toilet paper this morning so get the recycled stuff or get bamboo toilet paper, because after all the fracking we’ve done to #yourmutha why shouldn’t your butt be sore too?
Sell Your Crap, Pay Off Your Debt, And Do What You Love! This Makes It All Possible! | The Mind Unleashed
This article is so perfect and genius! You must click to see it’s entirety. It’s amazing!
I am ready to move in.
POVERTY IN AMERICA AND THE SCUM WHO PREY ON OUR CHILDREN!
Brentin Mock has written something here that cries out for action. Humans, it’s time to shape up or ship out.
Please read this article that outlines an environmental conundrum for the human race in America.
What a 20-year biomass battle tells us about environmental justice policy | Grist.
For me and my dummy the answer is quite simple. You put love in the middle, you do the RIGHT thing – You take care of these kids – you make sure they’re safe and make sure they get a fair chance at life on ME. They were born in America and they don’t deserve to be raised in filth like Flint.
#YourMutha needs the humans with the big brains to start working together to come up with plans for more civilized societies. In the United States of America there are kids being raised in conditions that are so deplorable it’s negligent manslaughter for anyone in America to stand by and do nothing.
These kids in Flint MI are not just someone else’s kids – they are the children of America. It’s our duty as Americans and more importantly as human beings to make sure no child in this country is ever raised in such deplorable conditions.
Yes, it’s hard to control how kids are raised halfway across the world, but here in our own backyards there are kids going to elementary schools not even a mile away from a biomass energy plant.
Forcing kids to go to school next to a place that is emitting toxic waste on a massive level is condemning every child in the school to death. This is insanity and it must be stopped. HELP THE KIDS OF FLINT! And urge the EPA to HUMAN UP and start doing the right thing.
A Transgender 9-Year-Old's Mom Made A Touching Video To Explain His Transition – BuzzFeed News
via A Transgender 9-Year-Old’s Mom Made A Touching Video To Explain His Transition – BuzzFeed News.
This is a beautiful story, folks. Regardless the skeptic, I am sure the video will leave you in tears.
Or perhaps my personal dummy is overly emotional this afternoon. Sniffle. Sniffle.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/mom-supports-transgender-child#.rs9ll2rZXg
A Transgender 9-Year-Old’s Mom Made A Touching Video To Explain His Transition
“The only thing that has changed for us is the pronouns.” Renée Fabish asks her friends and family to show 9-year-old Milla acceptance and support.
posted on Feb. 12, 2015, at 2:09 p.m.
Now this is a great story, Ema! Thanks for sharing the real stuff.
Milla is 9 years old and lives with his mother, father, and older sister in Brisbane, Australia.
Milla, his family, and his doctors have made the decision the he should begin transitioning into a male. To help her family and friends understand, Renée made a touching video.
In it, she says:
Hello my friends and family. … I’d love you to watch this slideshow I put together. … It explains some major changes that are underway for Milla and our family. Milla needs our support now more than ever!
She begins by explaining Milla’s evolution.
Around the age of 2, Milla started referring to himself as a “boy-girl,” his mother said.
“Everyone told us it was just a phase. They’d say, ‘She’s just a tomboy, she’ll grow out of it.’”
“One day Milla came to me in tears asking if there was any medicine I could buy to turn her into a boy.”
“She started making comments like, ‘Why was I born like this?,’ ‘I want to be a boy — not just look like one.’”
MR. MOON MOVIE REVIEWS! He’s out of control!
This weeks picks at the box office!
DISCLAIMER: Mrs. Mother, #YourMutha and Planet Earth deny any association with Mr Moon and his opinions. In fact, we believe he’s just a moody little man with an inferiority complex trying to get attention. Just because he doesn’t like a movie doesn’t mean #YourMutha doesn’t like it. And just because #MrMoon says it’s good …. well .. just look at his taste in movies, people! “Nightcrawler?”
Really now? I mean like a thriller as much as the next one, but why can’t James Cameron just come out with Avatar II already? It’s just killing me!
MR MOON MOVIE REVIEWS – FURY
Earth’s personal dummy’s laptop is dead!
It’s time to mourn people. My laptop has died. It’s not just my laptop it’s Earth’s laptop. It might’ve been the Katy Perry video I made that killed it. It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever done if not the worst. Yes and I thought Katy Perry was bad but the video I made was badder, baby.
And now Earth’s computer is dead. I’m arranging for the funeral for this weekend which is also my son’s birthday so there will be balloons.
Yes, this means that Earth’s personal dummy needs to get another laptop.
Its time to sell a lot of shirts …. since she only gets two dollars on every shirt she sells … Zazzle takes the rest!
Those terrible greedy Zazzlers.
Oh, what is to become of me? My only place I ever put solutions was on my computer. Now my place for solutions has turned into a screaming banshee with red squares. Holy Christmas Candy! The ding dang computer has gone Minecraft on itself! That’s exactly what it looks like! I just figured it out. The ridiculous computer looks like Minecraft!
I’m going to turn it on and take a picture of it so I can show you.
Holy handstands Batman! it’s all better!
Now that’s what I call a miracle!
It’s all better now. I can’t believe it it’s all better. The computer is working. It’s quit playing Minecraft on itself and ceased screaming. My Photoshop is still here, my Final Cut Pro is still here and I if all my memories are still here then we’re good to go!
I promise for as long as I live I will never produce another Katy Perry video.
Why does hospice have to be so depressing?
I know we’re all dying. I know. I know. But why do these places have to be so damn depressing and lacking in creativity?
How about adding some amazing landscape murals and a little creative lighting to transform death into something beautiful instead of this bleak STERILE environment that would depress even Mary Poppins?
I know I’d pay to die somewhere beautiful, serene and exceptional than some nursing home with 4 walls. How about you?
Here’s the DAY ROOM – to create an outdoor feeling –
And this is an idea for a Night ROOM … and if you’re going to put a flat screen in the room – why not include the BBC PLANETS collection along with 100’s of the videos revealing the most beautiful things in the universe. I mean if this is it – why not at least let these patients be surrounded by as much beauty as possible … I mean these days it can be right into their room – but who is doing this? Anyone? Anyone?
This is a recipe for a gentle departure with a relaxed and warm feeling that unites the patient back to their very beginning.
Why doesn’t someone create a business plan for these kinds of care facilities?
Hospice that matters.
Hospice with real guides to take you into the next realm- The way you want it.
Hospice with radical beauty, radical creativity … Videos walls revealing fantastic Photography and EARTH Art from all over the world.
How about Hospice with brilliant music and exposure to the most beautiful images in all history?
This story below is what inspired me to think of this. I sure hope there are people out there doing something like this. If you know of anyone, please post it here. I’d love to update this story with good news!
via 8 Signs That Mean Cancer Death Is Imminent.
I kissed a dog Katy Perry Spoof! Earth’s Dummy has had a complete break from reality!
via I kissed a dog Katy Perry Spoof – YouTube.
Yes, she lost reality in Griffith Park this weekend while frolicking in Travel Town. Now she’s resorted to making spoofs on Katy Perry and dog kissing!
At least her dog doesn’t French kiss. Actually, I think a tongue did sneak out there once and right up the ole’ nostril hole. You see, humans. This is the key to happiness!
Follow Jill Gatsby’s example. The next time you are feeling overwhelmed or under the weather … make a video like this with French Kissing dogs and babies. It’s a guarantee to turn anyone’s day around.
Now if we could just introduce Dog Kissing to the radicals in the Middle East … perhaps there could be peace.
AND NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS ….
http://www.laweekly.com/news/of-course-california-is-the-top-us-state-for-doggie-kisses-5374895
NOW WOULD RATHER HAVE ISIS AT YOUR DOOR OR HOOKWORM IN YOUR MOUTH?
I say more HOOKWORM and less WAR! Bring on the kissing! Perhaps you could give your dog a little mouth wash before you engage fully …. and buy the sport a little Sonicare Toothbrush while you’re at to keep those teeth fresh and clean!
Rush hour in the skies! OUT OF CONTROL, PEOPLE!
And Jupiter is off complaining about chem-trails! Look at this! I mean for real? When is too much, too much, humans? I mean my sky looks like the 405 Freeway at rush hour for crying out loud! I just want to know how Felix Baumgartner landed with out hitting one of these suckers!
Really? 5000 planes in the sky over the USA as we speak?
At any given moment there are an estimated 5,000 commercial airplanes in the skies over me all across the United States. If you go to Flightradar24 you can track flights on me all around the world, whether commercial airliners, private jets or military aircraft.
The website’s flight map is updated every couple of seconds. Using the map you can track a specific flight, mark out its route, the airport from which it departed and where it is supposed to land. You can even see its altitude and speed.
And all of this is neat and wonderful except for the fact that every single one of those planes is farting out toxic fumes all over ME!
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204838/Rush-hour-skies-Real-time-map-shows-plane-air-right-now.html#ixzz3R0DAcHJ2
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