Chana Dhansak (Vegetarian)

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Tetra Pak Products Are Far From Sustainable

How Tetra Pak wants you to see their products:


Reality:

Treehugger: In What World Can You Call Tetra Pak Green? - Lloyd Alter:

…When they do recycle Tetra Paks (which is rare, on their own website they admit that worldwide, only 18% of them are), what do they turn it into? In North America: toilet paper.

If you can get it recycled. Only 20% of America has access to recycling facilities for Tetra Pak, the rest goes into landfill.

Who goes to the trouble of separating the tetra pak and dealing with it? You do. As Philip Fleischer wrote many years ago:


By supporting recycling programs, governments are subsidizing companies like Tetra-Pak, whom they relieve of part of the cost of packaging disposal. This hidden subsidy penalizes bottlers who offer a refund and refill their bottles. Although selling products in refillable bottles uses energy and material more efficiently, it is made to appear more expensive because all the costs are visible. Refillables do not get hidden subsidies through blue box programs or tax supports for landfill.

BitchMedia | Lady Business: Ten Things That Would Be Good To Know At & After Graduation

Ten Things That Would Be Good To Know At & After Graduation - J.Victoria Sanders:

1. You’re probably going to suck at first. That’s how most things are until you master them. Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours. It will feel like 100,000. That’s normal.

2. Acquaintances are not the same as friends. It’s rare to make genuine friendships at work, no matter what the sitcoms and movies suggest. You might have one or two, but you’re not there to be popular, you’re there to show off your skills. If you make friends, that’s icing.

3. Ignore snide remarks. ”I have sweaters older than you” = A real thing I heard on the job as a twenty-something. I cried, but not at my desk. I was kind! I was smart! I was important! Some of your co-workers will look at you and see their misspent youth. Not your problem.They’re just mad because they can’t stay up all night and work like a boss all day like you can. This is something that you will also lose the ability to do, so enjoy life while you can stay up past 10 without yawning.

4. People are not quite right in their twenties. There’s this whole bridge to adulthood thing that makes life a little unbearable. It is normal to not know who you are or what your Purpose In Life is. You will find it or it will find you.

5. Find a mentor or two. They don’t have to be women, and they don’t have to be alive. I have several mentors that have kept me sane and from being utterly broken by life on dozens of occasions. In my free time, when I’m not walking my dog or gardening, I hunt for mentors. They’ve been down the road you want to walk, they have a wealth of experience. In Annie Leibovitz’ book, At Work, she writes about photography: “You learn as you work, and you certainly can ask for advice.” That’s true for everything.

6. Don’t date in the office. What? I know. Hot. Right there. Where you spend all your waking hours. Down GIRL! (And by date, I mean whatever it is you think I mean by date.) Certainly, there are all kinds of excuses you can make to say why this is wrongheaded. I know a lot of couples who met at the office. Don’t crap where you sleep. It rarely ends well.

7. Ask for what you want. Like my imaginary honey Ryan suggests above, asking for a raise or a promotion is something that you should totally do. Lois Frankel gives great advice about this, as does Austin-based career coach Ann Daly. It’s scary, but scared money don’t make none. In other words, the worst that could happen is that your boss will say no to whatever you’re asking for.

8. Try to forget ‘What I Thought I’d Be Doing’ and enjoy the ride. Aim to enjoy where you are. Everyone has to start somewhere.

9. Save Money. I used to have a really silly relationship with money, shaped by growing up without much. Interviewing wise people over the years has underscored for me the importance of having a stash saved in the event that I need to leave a toxic or untenable situation and regroup.

10. Win. I used to hate attention and I would unconsciously sabotage myself, thinking that if I won all the time, people would hate me for it. Specifically, “boys club” women and intimidated men. It turns out winning is sexy. It also makes you happy and confident, which gives your skin a healthy glow. Go for it.

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A dairy cow made the tough choice to hide one of her...

uglyuglyugly:

A dairy cow made the tough choice to hide one of her calves after giving birth to twins. By Holly Cheever, DVM, reprinted from Action for Animals I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heartbreaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients called me one day with a puzzling mystery: his Brown Swiss cow, having delivered her fifth calf naturally on pasture the night before, brought the new baby to the barn and was put into the milking line, while her calf was once again removed from her. Her udder, though, was completely empty, and remained so for several days. As a new mother, she would normally be producing close to one hundred pounds (12.5 gallons) of milk daily; yet, despite the fact that she was glowing with health, her udder remained empty. She went out to pasture every morning after the first milking, returned for milking in the evening, and again was let out to pasture for the night — this was back in the days when cattle were permitted a modicum of pleasure and natural behaviors in their lives — but never was her udder swollen with the large quantities of milk that are the hallmark of a recently-calved cow. I was called to check this mystery cow two times during the first week after her delivery and could find no solution to this puzzle. Finally, on the eleventh day post calving, the farmer called me with the solution: he had followed the cow out to her pasture after her morning milking, and discovered the cause: she had delivered twins, and in a bovine’s “Sophie’s Choice,” she had brought one to the farmer and kept one hidden in the woods at the edge of her pasture, so that every day and every night, she stayed with her baby — the first she had been able to nurture FINALLY—and her calf nursed her dry with gusto. Though I pleaded for the farmer to keep her and her bull calf together, she lost this baby, too—off to the hell of the veal crate. Think for a moment of the complex reasoning this mama exhibited: first, she had memory — memory of her four previous losses, in which bringing her new calf to the barn resulted in her never seeing him/her again (heartbreaking for any mammalian mother). Second, she could formulate and then execute a plan: if bringing a calf to the farmer meant that she would inevitably lose him/her, then she would keep her calf hidden, as deer do, by keeping her baby in the woods lying still till she returned. Third — and I do not know what to make of this myself — instead of hiding both, which would have aroused the farmer’s suspicion (pregnant cow leaves the barn in the evening, unpregnant cow comes back the next morning without offspring), she gave him one and kept one herself. I cannot tell you how she knew to do this—it would seem more likely that a desperate mother would hide both. All I know is this: there is a lot more going on behind those beautiful eyes than we humans have ever given them credit for, and as a mother who was able to nurse all four of my babies and did not have to suffer the agonies of losing my beloved offspring, I feel her pain.

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youranonnews: COME TOGETHER TO STOP CISPA! WHAT IS CISPA? The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representatives Mike Rogers (D-MI) and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) in late 2011. It amends the National Security Act of 1947 to allow private companies and US government intelligence agencies to share information regarding perceived cyber threats. WHAT IS WRONG WITH CISPA? 1. CISPA’s language, particularly in reference to how it defines “cyber threat” is far too broad.  The vague definition of a “cyber threat” is so vague that it may potentially allow the bill to encompass a far more broad range of actors than initially contemplated by its authors. A critical term in the bill, “cyber threat” is defined therein as: …information directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to a system of network of a government or private entity, including information pertaining to the protection of a system or network from — (A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. Under this overly broad, vague definition, whistleblowers and leakers such as Wikileaks, tech blogs with the latest rumours and gossip from companies, news and media sites, security researchers, torrent sites (including our beloved Pirate Bay), and of course, yours truly,Anonymous, would all be ripe targets under this bill. Additionally, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes, CISPA’s broad definition of “cybersecurity” is so vague as to leave open the door “to censor any speech that a company believes would ‘degrade the network.’” Going one step further, the bill’s inclusion of “intellectual property” no doubt means that both private companies and the federal government will likely be granted “new powers to monitor and censor communications for copyright infringement.” (Full EFF letter here) 2. CISPA demonstrates a complete disregard for reasonable expectations of privacy protection and essential liberties.  As laid out, CISPA allows a large, nearly unchecked quantity of any and all information on a target to be shared between private companies and government agencies. The bill’s text states, “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a self-protected entity may, for cybersecurity purposes…share such cyber threat information with any other entity, including the Federal Government.” Why is this problematic? As it stands, CISPA’s text allows for a slippery slope of information and data that could be shared amongst private companies and the federal government without any regard to a target’s personal privacy protections. Such information could very well include account names and passwords, histories, message content, and other information not currently available to agencies under current federal wiretap laws. In a position letter addressed to Congress on 17 April 2012, CISPA critics point out: CISPA  creates  an  exception  to  all  privacy  laws  to  permit  companies  to  share  our   information  with  each  other  and  with  the  government  in  the  name  of  cybersecurity.   Although  a  carefully-­‐crafted  information  sharing  program  that  strictly  limits  the   information  to  be  shared  and  includes  robust  privacy  safeguards  could  be  an   effective  approach  to  cybersecurity,  CISPA  lacks  such  protections  for  individual   rights.    CISPA’s  ‘information  sharing’  regime  allows  the  transfer  of  vast  amounts  of   data,  including  sensitive  information  like  internet  use  history  or  the  content  of   emails,  to  any  agency  in  the  government  including  military  and  intelligence  agencies   like  the  National  Security  Agency  or  the  Department  of  Defense  Cyber   Command.  3. The broad language in CISPA provides for an uncertain future and a slippery slope of cybersecurity warrantless wiretapping.  Of particular concern is the word “notwithstanding,” which is a dangerously broad word and would allow CISPA to apply far beyond even the intentions of its authors. It is clear the word was purposefully included (and kept throughout rewrites) by the bill’s authors to allow CISPA to supersede and trump all existing federal and state civil and criminal laws. The fact that the sponsors and authors of CISPA claim that they have no intention to use the overly broad language of the bill to obtain unprecedented amounts of information on citizens should be of little comfort to a concerned onlooker. As it stands, if CISPA passes in Congress and is signed into law by the President, its broad language WILL be law and will be available for use by agencies and companies as desired. Why should our only protection against rampant cyber-spying be us trusting them NOT to take CISPA over the line of acceptable data collection? WOW, CISPA SUCKS! HOW CAN I HELP STOP IT? Below are some various ways that YOU can get involved in the online and real world struggles against CISPA. It will take all of us to stop this bill, but we did it before with SOPA, PIPA, and hopefully ACTA, and we’re confident that it can be done again with CISPA. The voice of the People WILL be heard loud and clear, and you can help. Your voice matters. It’s time to stand up for your rights because, in the end, who else will? Internet, unite! Educate a Congressman about the Internet and pitfalls of CISPA - here Call a Congressman directly about the bill - here Email a Congressman directly about the bill - here Sign and pass around online petitions - here || here || here Spread awareness. Tweet, blog and post about CISPA. Use the hashtags #StopCISPA and #CISPA so everyone can follow. Change your profile picture to an anti-CISPA image or add a STOP CISPA banner. Tweet to CISPA’s proponents, @HouseIntelComm and @RepMikeRogers and let them know about the pitfalls of CISPA. Let CISPA’s sponsor, Rep. MikeRogers, know how much his bill fails - here Check out Fight For The Future’s #CongressTMI movement in regard to CISPA - here Join the Twitter Campaign and Contact a Representative about CISPA - here Protest. Organise in front of Congress and let them know what happens when they try to govern the Internet and strip our liberties in the name of national security. If you organise an IRL protest, please contact us @YourAnonNews so we can facilitate spreading the word on it and helping boost attendance. I WANT TO LEARN EVEN MORE ABOUT CISPA! TELL ME MORE! Ok…clearly you like reading and knowing the issues thoroughly. Below are some more helpful resources that you can check out to get an even BETTER understanding of CISPA and how it will affect the world of tomorrow should it pass and become law. Full text of CISPA, including recent rewrites and Amendments - here Full list of CISPA co-sponsors - here Full list of companies and groups that explicitly support CISPA - here INFOGRAPHIC on CISPA - here Center for Democracy & Technology’s CISPA Resource Page - here Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Statement on CISPA and its Intellectual Property Implications  Video news report from RT, ‘CISPA is a US cyber-security loophole’ - watch CNET In-Depth: Even an attempted rewrite of CISPA failed to safeguard civil liberties and privacy - read CISPA is pushed by a for-profit cyber-spying lobby that stands to profit immensely from the bill becoming law in the US - read Why CISPA Sucks - read A brilliant series of TechDirt articles on CISPA shed some light on the bill and point out exactly where its flaws are found -CISPA is a Really Bad Bill, and Here’s Why - read Did Congress Really Not Pay Attention to What Happened with SOPA? CISPA Ignorance is Astounding - read Forget SOPA, You Should Be Worried About This Cybersecurity Bill - read NOTE: Even Obama seems to dislike CISPA — On 17 April 2012, the White House issued a statement criticising CISPA for lacking strong privacy protections and failing to set forth basic security standards.
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COME TOGETHER TO STOP CISPA!

WHAT IS CISPA?

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representatives Mike Rogers (D-MI) and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) in late 2011. It amends the National Security Act of 1947 to allow private companies and US government intelligence agencies to share information regarding perceived cyber threats.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH CISPA?

1. CISPA’s language, particularly in reference to how it defines “cyber threat” is far too broad. 

The vague definition of a “cyber threat” is so vague that it may potentially allow the bill to encompass a far more broad range of actors than initially contemplated by its authors. A critical term in the bill, “cyber threat” is defined therein as:

…information directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to a system of network of a government or private entity, including information pertaining to the protection of a system or network from —

(A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or

(B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information.

Under this overly broad, vague definition, whistleblowers and leakers such as Wikileaks, tech blogs with the latest rumours and gossip from companies, news and media sites, security researchers, torrent sites (including our beloved Pirate Bay), and of course, yours truly,Anonymous, would all be ripe targets under this bill.

Additionally, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes, CISPA’s broad definition of “cybersecurity” is so vague as to leave open the door “to censor any speech that a company believes would ‘degrade the network.’” Going one step further, the bill’s inclusion of “intellectual property” no doubt means that both private companies and the federal government will likely be granted “new powers to monitor and censor communications for copyright infringement.” (Full EFF letter here)

2. CISPA demonstrates a complete disregard for reasonable expectations of privacy protection and essential liberties. 

As laid out, CISPA allows a large, nearly unchecked quantity of any and all information on a target to be shared between private companies and government agencies. The bill’s text states, “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a self-protected entity may, for cybersecurity purposes…share such cyber threat information with any other entity, including the Federal Government.”

Why is this problematic? As it stands, CISPA’s text allows for a slippery slope of information and data that could be shared amongst private companies and the federal government without any regard to a target’s personal privacy protections. Such information could very well include account names and passwords, histories, message content, and other information not currently available to agencies under current federal wiretap laws.

In a position letter addressed to Congress on 17 April 2012, CISPA critics point out:

CISPA  creates  an  exception  to  all  privacy  laws  to  permit  companies  to  share  our   information  with  each  other  and  with  the  government  in  the  name  of  cybersecurity.   Although  a  carefully-­‐crafted  information  sharing  program  that  strictly  limits  the   information  to  be  shared  and  includes  robust  privacy  safeguards  could  be  an   effective  approach  to  cybersecurity,  CISPA  lacks  such  protections  for  individual   rights.    CISPA’s  ‘information  sharing’  regime  allows  the  transfer  of  vast  amounts  of   data,  including  sensitive  information  like  internet  use  history  or  the  content  of   emails,  to  any  agency  in  the  government  including  military  and  intelligence  agencies   like  the  National  Security  Agency  or  the  Department  of  Defense  Cyber   Command. 

3. The broad language in CISPA provides for an uncertain future and a slippery slope of cybersecurity warrantless wiretapping. 

Of particular concern is the word “notwithstanding,” which is a dangerously broad word and would allow CISPA to apply far beyond even the intentions of its authors. It is clear the word was purposefully included (and kept throughout rewrites) by the bill’s authors to allow CISPA to supersede and trump all existing federal and state civil and criminal laws.

The fact that the sponsors and authors of CISPA claim that they have no intention to use the overly broad language of the bill to obtain unprecedented amounts of information on citizens should be of little comfort to a concerned onlooker. As it stands, if CISPA passes in Congress and is signed into law by the President, its broad language WILL be law and will be available for use by agencies and companies as desired. Why should our only protection against rampant cyber-spying be us trusting them NOT to take CISPA over the line of acceptable data collection?

WOW, CISPA SUCKS! HOW CAN I HELP STOP IT?

Below are some various ways that YOU can get involved in the online and real world struggles against CISPA. It will take all of us to stop this bill, but we did it before with SOPA, PIPA, and hopefully ACTA, and we’re confident that it can be done again with CISPA. The voice of the People WILL be heard loud and clear, and you can help. Your voice matters. It’s time to stand up for your rights because, in the end, who else will? Internet, unite!

  • Educate a Congressman about the Internet and pitfalls of CISPA - here
  • Call a Congressman directly about the bill - here
  • Email a Congressman directly about the bill - here
  • Sign and pass around online petitions - here || here || here
  • Spread awareness. Tweet, blog and post about CISPA. Use the hashtags #StopCISPA and #CISPA so everyone can follow. Change your profile picture to an anti-CISPA image or add a STOP CISPA banner.
  • Tweet to CISPA’s proponents, @HouseIntelComm and @RepMikeRogers and let them know about the pitfalls of CISPA.
  • Let CISPA’s sponsor, Rep. MikeRogers, know how much his bill fails - here
  • Check out Fight For The Future’s #CongressTMI movement in regard to CISPA - here
  • Join the Twitter Campaign and Contact a Representative about CISPA - here
  • Protest. Organise in front of Congress and let them know what happens when they try to govern the Internet and strip our liberties in the name of national security. If you organise an IRL protest, please contact us @YourAnonNews so we can facilitate spreading the word on it and helping boost attendance.

I WANT TO LEARN EVEN MORE ABOUT CISPA! TELL ME MORE!

Ok…clearly you like reading and knowing the issues thoroughly. Below are some more helpful resources that you can check out to get an even BETTER understanding of CISPA and how it will affect the world of tomorrow should it pass and become law.

  • Full text of CISPA, including recent rewrites and Amendments - here
  • Full list of CISPA co-sponsors - here
  • Full list of companies and groups that explicitly support CISPA - here
  • INFOGRAPHIC on CISPA - here
  • Center for Democracy & Technology’s CISPA Resource Page - here
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Statement on CISPA and its Intellectual Property Implications 
  • Video news report from RT, ‘CISPA is a US cyber-security loophole’ - watch
  • CNET In-Depth: Even an attempted rewrite of CISPA failed to safeguard civil liberties and privacy - read
  • CISPA is pushed by a for-profit cyber-spying lobby that stands to profit immensely from the bill becoming law in the US - read
  • Why CISPA Sucks - read
  • A brilliant series of TechDirt articles on CISPA shed some light on the bill and point out exactly where its flaws are found -

    CISPA is a Really Bad Bill, and Here’s Why - read 

    Did Congress Really Not Pay Attention to What Happened with SOPA? CISPA Ignorance is Astounding - read 

    Forget SOPA, You Should Be Worried About This Cybersecurity Bill - read

NOTE: Even Obama seems to dislike CISPA — On 17 April 2012, the White House issued a statement criticising CISPA for lacking strong privacy protections and failing to set forth basic security standards.

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Obama Administration’s Justice Department Openly Cites Protesters As A Reason For Supporting Legal Strip Searches For Any Arrest

At oral argument, a lawyer for the Obama Justice Department told the Supreme Court that “[p]rotesters…who decide deliberately to get arrested… might be stopped by the police, they see the squad car behind them. They might have a gun or contraband in their car and think hey, I’m going to put that on my person, I just need to get it somewhere that is not going to be found during a patdown search, and then potentially they have the contraband with them.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/03/the_obama_doj_and_strip_searches/singleton/#comments

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Eddie Vedder - “Society”
Into The Wild soundtrack 

Oh, it’s a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all you won’t be free

Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…

When you want more than you have
You think you need…
And when you think more than you want
Your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Because when you have more than you think
You need more space

Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…

There’s those thinking, more-or-less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make, your level drops
Kinda like you’re starting from the top
You can’t do that…

Society, you’re a crazy breed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…

Society, have mercy on me
Hope you’re not angry if I disagree…
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me…

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Wonder Woman

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ilovecharts: How Does Your State Excel? 
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How Does Your State Excel? 

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rookiemag: zero-girl: why haven’t i bought blue lipstick yet amazing. -anna
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zero-girl:

why haven’t i bought blue lipstick yet

amazing.

-anna

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danceabletragedy:  March of the Forest by M. Vander
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 March of the Forest by M. Vander

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