THE WORLD FRIENDLY HUMANITARIAN PEACE AND ECOLOGY MOVEMENT.

The world's longest‐running military occupation and genocide is still on going, and it is taking place right now in West Papua, Indonesia. This area is home the world's second-largest rainforest and a civilization that dates back 50,000 years. But now the West Papuan people and their lands are all in danger of becoming extinct.

We cannot sit back and watch this happen any longer. We must speak up! Sign the petition now.

More than 500,000 people have already been killed in the West Papua genocide, and there's no sign the pace will slow down. Already this month, more than 135 people — including 79 children and youths — have been arrested for peaceful protests. The Indonesian police tortured many of them. Last year alone, the Indonesian police rounded up more than 8,000 children and adults illegally.

The Free West Papua Campaign has started a Care2 petition demanding that the UN intervene immediately, before more lives are senselessly lost. Thousands of people from West Papua have literally risked their lives to sign it, in the hopes that their voice will reach the UN.

In just a few weeks, dedicated human rights supporters are going to swim 69 kilometers across Lake Geneva to bring this petition straight to the United Nations headquarters. Let's make sure that when they arrive in Geneva, they have the support of tens of thousands of people from around the world!

Don't let the world close its eyes to this horror. Demand an end to the occupation and genocide now!

Thank you for all that you do,

Miranda B.
The Care2 Petitions Team

Tesla goes Vegan and leather free...Yippee!

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Tesla is Ditching Leather in Their Cars – Here’s Why This is More Than Just a Win for Vegans

Michelle Neff

July 24, 2017

Ever since debuting their first automobile in 2008, Tesla has become a leader in making eco-friendly cars. Now a household name, Tesla has soldupwards of 186,000 electric cars as of December 2016, and the figure keeps on growing as people are looking for ways to minimize their impact on the environment.

And now Tesla has once again proved they are leaders in the technology field by ditching leather seats in favor of 100 percent vegan leather seats, allowing for an even opportunity to minimize one’s carbon footprint when purchasing a car.

All mention of leather has been removed from Tesla’s website and all upgraded interiors are now referred to with Tesla’s “premium” designation, which is applied to the original rollout of vegan seats made of a new synthetic material. The alternative leather has seen overwhelmingly positive feedback from consumers!

People are increasingly becoming aware of the environmental issues associated with animal agriculture. This destructive industry currently occupies over half of the world’s arable land resources, uses the majority of our freshwater stores, and drives more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector combined. Plus, industrialized animal agriculture also causes rampant air and water pollution, land degradation, deforestation and is pushing countless species to the brink of extinction.

But when it comes to the leather industry, the connection between its environmental impact usually isn’t made. The leather industry is also among the major causes of deforestation (as it is closely tied to the meat industry), water pollution, and other threats to the environment.

Once the hide or skin has been harvested from the slaughtered animal, there is a three-stage process it must undergo to become leather. The remaining flesh is scraped away and the hairs removed, after which the skin is treated (tanned) to ensure it doesn’t decompose. The skin is then thinned, re-tanned, lubricated, and, if required, dyed. This process uses several chemicals and toxins including ammonia; cyanide-based dyes, formaldehyde; and lead. Some of these products are carcinogenic, and all are environmental pollutants, which end up released into the air, ground, and water supply. These processes are especially polluting in countries where environmental regulations aren’t enforced.

As people learn the truth about the brutal and unsustainable leather industry, many companies are creating innovative alternatives to animal products. For instance, Green Banana Paper, a startup from Kosrae in Micronesia, created a cruelty-free leather made of banana fiber and another startup, Mycoworks, is making a leather from mushrooms. Pineapple is also getting in on the cruelty-free leather fun!

And now technology giant Tesla is paving the way for a more sustainable future. While buying a Telsa may not be within everyone’s budget, this move may inspire other manufacturers to switch to 100 percent vegan leather interiors. With a mission statement to “accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy,” Tesla’s move to vegan leather seats is a huge win for animals, as well as our planet.

Click here to visit Tesla’s website and learn more about their awesome vegan leather. As potentially the first automobile manufacturer to offer vegan interiors, please be sure to let Tesla know you fully support this innovative move away from animal products!

All image source: Leilani Münter/Facebook

3 Reasons You Should Avoid Leather in Your Home (And What to Buy and Use Instead)July 23, 2017In "Life Monster"

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I AM THEREFORE I THINK.

Philosophically speaking...

I AM THEREFORE I THINK....Joseph Raglione...philosopher..

I am a complex assembly of sub atomic particles cohesively attracted to each other to form specific purpose molecules and cells and organs which work together to form a living environmentally activated and thinking human being.

My body is composed of electrically activated chemicals sensitive to heat and sound and light as well as to: pressure and smell and taste. I am a Bio-Battery wrapped in a flexible shell of skin and I produce on average 98.6 F. degrees of heat. My brain is activated by both interior and exterior stimuli which travel along pathways of highly sensitive nerve cells. My brain also reproduces in miniature, copies of what it sees and feels and archives that stimuli within it's molecular memory bank. Later, it will match incoming stimuli with it's interior memories and decide what physical action or emotion is an appropriate response for the new stimuli. Choosing what is best is not strictly isolated to human beings. Many animals and birds and insects have the capacity of choosing what is best for them.

My brain connects people and.places and things in a continual association of ideas archived and linked with the emotions of : like, love, fear or hate.
My brain remembers by comparing and activating interior synapse copies of exterior stimuli with the accompanying emotion.

I invite world scientists to add or subtract and verify all the information mentioned above in order to create a universally accepted and clear picture of how I think! :) Signed: Joseph Raglione...philosopher.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

BrilliantCorina Marinescu on catching speeding stars.

Corina Marinescu

UNIVERSE

20h

Catching speeding stars

This animation reveals the evolution of stars in our Galaxy over the past million+ years.

It starts from the positions of stars in the sky 1 035 000 years ago, which were calculated using data from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution, or TGAS, one of the products of the first Gaia data release. The video follows the evolution of stellar positions until the present day, ending with a view of the sky as measured by Gaia between 2014 and 2015.

Highlighted in yellow are the trajectories of six special stars: these are hypervelocity stars, moving through the Galaxy at several hundred of km/s. While it might not be apparent from the video, which shows the motions of stars as projected on the sky, they are moving through space much faster than the galactic average.

Scientists spotted these speeding stars from the TGAS data set of two million stars with the help of an artificial neural network – software that mimics a human brain – and they are looking forward to finding many more in future Gaia data releases.

These stars owe their high speeds to past interactions with the supermassive black hole that sits at the centre of the Milky Way and, with a mass of four million Suns, governs the orbits of stars in its vicinity. Having travelled great distances through the Galaxy, they provide crucial information about the gravitational field of the Milky Way from the centre to its outskirts.

One of the six stars (labelled 1 at the end of the video) seems to be speeding so fast, at over 500 km/s, that it is no longer bound by the gravity of the Galaxy and will eventually leave. The other five stars are somewhat slower (over 400 km/s for the stars labelled 2, 3, 4 and 6, and 360 km/s for the star labelled 5) and are still bound to the Galaxy.

These slightly slower stars are perhaps even more fascinating, as scientists are eager to learn what slowed them down – the invisible dark matter that is thought to pervade the Milky Way might also have played a role.

The stars are plotted in Galactic coordinates and using a rectangular projection: in this, the plane of the Milky Way stands out as the horizontal band with greater density of stars. The stripes visible in the final frames reflect the way Gaia scans the sky and the preliminary nature of the first data release; these artefacts are gradually washed out in the video as stars move across the sky.

Source and further reading:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Artificial_brain_helps_Gaia_catch_speeding_stars

Credit:

ESA/Gaia/DPAC

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What catches my eye in this is the cluster of stars travelling in a group in the bottom left of the animation. Like they are going on a celestial family vacation, or chased by something

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