My Cousin Wants Me To Turn Off Fox News

My Dear Cousin,
Thanks for your latest email, asking me to turn off Fox TV News. I don't really need to turn off Fox, because I don't watch ANY television news anymore, no not ever. Almost everything on television so is filled with violent propaganda, hatred and fear mongering, I gave it all up years ago for the sake of my mental health. I still read a national newspaper every day, the local weekly, and some stuff I find on the internet. Recently, I get more and more news from friends posting on Facebook. Most reliably, it is from people, like you, my dear cousin, that I find out the truth of what is happening in our world today.

I think it's great all the time you spend trying to raise awareness about what is really going on in our country. We all need to express our selves freely and remember that is one of the most basic human rights that makes America great and special, even today. In Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Iraq, Iran and lots of other countries across the globe, we would be arrested and quietly shot for expressing our views against the ruling powers. Not to mention just for being women with ideas!

Unfortunately, since the era of Ronald Reagan (I like to think of him as the Great Deceiver) our media has become more and controlled by corporations, and a "news" diet of constant lies have become the main menu for most Americans. The Bush administration's FCC removed the last barriers to keeping our media unbiased when they removed the restrictions on owning two or more of the same kind of medium (like a tv station and a newspaper.) Not many noticed these changes, but a few of us knew what it meant. So now FOX TV owner Rupert Murdoch controls a vast portion of our media, and not unlike R.W. Hearst, he sells the right to create content to the biggest power and the highest bidder. And now just watch out for Google, for they want to own our internet as well, and be able to control who has free access to any information, just like with television and print media.

Sadly, it doesn't stop with the media, not by a long shot. The multi-national, corporate control of American life extends from the US Congress, to the Judiciary, the Presidency, the military, the market place, and to every corner of this vast and beautiful land. Even the Unites States Coast Guard now works for BP, selling blatant lies as official NOAA science reports and hiding the millions of dead birds and mammals in dumpsters in Mexico to minimize the liability cost for the most massive destruction of earth's ecosystems since we dropped the atomic bombs on the Japanese.

HEY BP, ya'll cleaned that dang oil up right fast, didn't ya? Most of it just plain just 'evaporated', didn't it?
And how about some nice, tasty Corexit 9500 sauce with that Gulf coast shrimp PoBoy, Mr. President?

HEY AMERICA, I am really pissed! I'm sick and tired of seeing our beautiful land destroyed for the profit of a greedy few who care nothing about who they rape and rob. I'm sick of us people just sitting around doing nothing and thinking the government will solve our problems or protect us from the threats of modern life. I'm sick of voting for men who always break their promises and my "HOPE" filled heart, while they murder their own integrity to feed the endless hunger of the endless war machine. Will anyone really speak out for peace? Will anyone ever stop these constant wars against all creation and life on earth? Will you?

More than anything, I am sick to death of the constant, ever flowing lie that there just isn't enough food and shelter for every person on this planet. WHO ARE THEY FOOLING? How can we sit here and stuff more fat in our fat American faces while bony, terrified children still lie starving and thirsty among the dusty piles of concrete rubble in what remains of Haiti? What are we waiting for? Why don't we just send them our extra food? WHY NOT?

Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by the horror of it all, I forget the most simple truth. The answers, of course, can only come from within our own hearts. The solutions are all between us, just you and me. We know we should be kind and helpful to each other, so we do. We know it's wrong to steal from our friends and neighbors, so we don't. We tell each other the painful truth that must be spoken, even when it hurts and makes us cry out in fear and disappointment. And when times get really hard, we will share every bit of of food and comfort we have with each other, and all those around us in need. We will feed the children and shelter the homeless and care for the sick and old and down trodden folks because that is who we really are, people who care for each other, no matter what. And that is what the great teachers have always taught, no matter where you go.

I believe in you and I believe in me. Together we can find a way out of the horrible, disgraceful mess our country has become. If only more folks would unplug those damn machines, and come outside to join us, "by the river side, here beside the rising tide." The Peace is already here, and the breeze is blowing sweetly, a singing in my ear.

With all my love, your cousin

US must take control from BP now!

I am writing this desperate plea on behalf of the Ocean and all its inhabitants. The exploded oil well volcano in the Gulf of Mexico is a global disaster that crosses international lines and boundaries, crosses culture, race, gender, belief and species, impacting every thing living thing on planet earth. Every creature alive shares the common ancestral link and life line that is our blue water home. All creation on earth grows and flows with seas, as does the food chain that gives every creature life.

The drilling activities of BP in the Gulf of Mexico, their reckless, negligent and criminal actions that created the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and their incompetence to solve the gushing well, and their continuing pollution threatens to destroy our ocean ecosystems and our country's treasured coastlines and marine resources.

This epic environmental destruction caused by BP will make them infamous as the largest international polluter the world has ever known. BP will be remembered as the destroyer of entire marine ecosystems spanning the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. And for more than thirty days now, the disaster has continued to grow without a solution in sight. The growing damage will impact our way of life, our health and our economy.

The criminal activities of British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, and Halliburton must be stopped now.

President Obama must act now and order the US Coast Guard, EPA, NOOA, DEQ, and all available resources to take control of the disaster and protect our national resources. US authorities must immediately take control of the disaster site, find solutions to stop the flow, track the spill, execute effective clean up and containment operations, minimize damage where ever possible, and rescue, protect, and preserve every possible species of creatures and habitat. The delicate balance of our future's health depends upon what happens next. How will history remember this moment?

I urge you to take action on behalf of your planet and her oceans.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill is Epic Ocean Disaster

The scale of the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is being under reported by the US media and ignored by the US president and government leaders. And while the world does nothing but watch in horror, millions of barrels of oil spew from a oil volcano, made by the oil corporations, a mile below the surface of the sea, where no one can stem the flow of poison to marine life. The pressure is so great at these depths, no one will confirm the rate of the oil flow, but this is an epic event, a greater "accident" than the petroleum age has ever known, and the future of this tide of destruction is undeniably vast. And still no one can stop the flow of oil.

Please, please stop thinking of this epic disaster as a simple oil "spill." Your future life truly depends upon the vibrant life of the sea, the ocean from which all life grows out of and prospers with and feeds upon. Every single bit of life on earth came out of the endless sea. The food chain upon which every living creature depends, begins and ends with our oceans.

And every single part of those oceans is connected to every other part, and every bay, every channel, every estuary, inlet, cove, every drop of water on our planet earth finds its way back to the Mother Sea from which it came. And so it will be with this oil slick.

Dead oceans mean dead people, and already the deadly mistakes made by the BP corporate oil barons have killed of millions and millions of our fellow marine creatures and ruined life for hundreds of thousands of people; their work, their health and their land, all covered in an oil slick. The entire Gulf of Mexico may already be dead from this endless oil flowing underwater.

This is a global disaster and with toxic implications for everyone, everywhere. No life will exist without the life of the oceans.

But where are the solutions? Where are the scientists? Where is the leadership we need to stop this poison before it ruins our entire "blue planet"? Where is the president, the coast guard, the EPA? Where is the international response?

And while the pollution continues to flow, and the unanswered questions grow and grow. How long will the oil volcano continue to erupt in to the sea? Can it be stopped?

Why is so little being done to remove the oil? Where are the tankers that can suck it up? Why is BP using poisonous chemical dispersants that have no proven helpful effect? Where are the absorbent hair booms, instead of useless plastic booms that do nothing? Who's going to clean up all that oil on every beach the Atlantic ocean touches?

Who speaks for the creatures of wings, and fins and scales, all my relations?

How, oh how? will we explain this to the children, and the future's children, why their world was being spoiled with the red blood of crude poison spread across the oceans far?

Millions of year from now, when some new creatures have evolved on earth, and they uncover the fossilized remains, will they ask each other, 'who killed off all the humans?'

I urge all of you to contact your local and state officials. Stand up and speak out. Make them aware of the facts and ask how they will prepare to prevent contamination and what action will they take to protect your local watersheds from this ocean disaster that will have permanent, long term effects to our entire coastline.

And if the government officials will not act on behalf of prevention, it will be left to the common citizens to make every effort to protect their own watersheds from certain contamination by the massive wave of ocean pollution coming your way.

For the sake of all my relations, every blessed living thing, creatures of earth and fire and sky and sea and stars, we must take every action possible to lessen this disaster.

And I pray that the Ocean be healed and cleansed, and that somehow the sea creatures will survive.