STREET STYLE: Australian Fashion Week
“Proving that neon hues are the definitive palette for spring, Australian Fashion Week was aglow with bright blues, pinks, and citrusy greens.” — Vogue
The Lonely Island (you know, Andy Samberg and crew) have a new album coming out soon. Know how I know? They released a new music video on Saturday. The track is titled “I Just Had Sex”. It doesn’t have the sneaky naughtiness of “Jizz in My Pants” and doesn’t quite match the over-the-top-ness of…
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The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600,000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.
It was brought to my attention that there is a petition we all can sign to help support these indigenous people and the Amazon. Please take a second to check it out below or comparable petitions that are available. Thank you.
http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam
For years, public employee unions automatically deducted portions of pubic employee wages, and then sent a sizable chunk of this to the politicians they bargained with. That’s right—the unions gave money to the people sitting on the opposite side of the bargaining table. Yeah, it…
(Source: Washington Post)
