Source: kelsiumAs many of you know, our friend Rosa Sparks is having a real shit time of it lately. The most recent in a long string of personal upheavals is that the house where she and her daughter live was just robbed, and many of their personal belongings were taken. Rosa is about to start…
Coming full circle!
Apparently Lad has decided he dislikes me now, or something.
Question myself, or my choice in friends?
Think I’m going to go with the latter. I’m pretty sure I did not go through an entire overhaul of my personality in the last three weeks. Except for the constant complaining :P
(Seriously you guys would tell me if I’d suddenly become horrible, right? Or just stop following at least)
Alexander McQueen - “SAVAGE BEAUTY” {Exhibition} #3
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I am so full of feeeeeelings! I got some really good news last night, and I can’t talk about it because its not about me and I promised to let them deal with it themselves and one of them sometimes reads my tumblr so. Have to keep my mouth shut. But aaaaaah best news in months, though it’s probably going to mean a bit of a loss for me. Which does make me a bit sad.
But I love the people involved, so I’m so happy at the same time.
FEELINGS.
Environmental protests are becoming one of the biggest forms of social unrest in China – latest protests took place on Thursday over plans to build a petrochemical plant in the city of Anning.
May 17, 2013The refinery, if it goes ahead, will process more than 10 million tonnes of crude oil a year and 500,000 tons of the industrial chemical paraxylene (PX). China is the world’s largest producer of PX which is used in the process of manufacturing plastic bottles and other products and is carcinogenic. According to some media reports, up to 2,500 people took to the streets today and the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that arrests had been made.
The newspaper quoted a 24-year-old protester saying “I hope this can be a good beginning for a dialogue between citizens and the government on major decisions”. The protest was one of the top trending topics on Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo and photos were posted of protesters wearing masks and waving banners.
This latest protest in Kunming is the second large protest in a week over environmental concerns about industrial manufacturing. Earlier this week up to a thousand people took to the streets in the Songjiang district of Shanghai against plans for a lithium battery factory amid concerns about water and air pollution. According to media reports, residents of the area marched peacefully chanting and holding signs saying “no factory here”. Yesterday, state media reported that the plant, which was to built by Hefei Guoxuan High-tech Power Energy Co Ltd, would not go ahead due to the public pressure.
“Everybody is texting the news, and there are plans for a celebration,” a resident named Zhu was quoted by the China Daily newspaper and said that local people had viewed the plant as a safety hazard. We are delighted with the company’s decision because we love Songjiang and we want a safe and clean environment,” she said.
The Chinese public are becoming increasing concerned about the state of their local environment and up to 80% believe that environmental protection should be a higher priority than economic development, according to a new survey. The survey, carried out by the Public Opinion Research Centre in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, measured the public’s attitudes towards environmental protection and how they rate the government’s performance.
Such protests appear to be often tolerated by the authorities and, like the Shanghai protests, are sometimes successful in their goals. Last October, a week-long series of protests in Ningbo in eastern China by thousands of residents was sucessful in stopping work on an oil and petrochemical complex. The frequency of protests is rising as China’s increasingly affluent and middle-class society becomes more aware of environmental issues. The number of environmental protests rose by 120% from 2010 to 2011, according to Yang Chaofei, the vice-chairman of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
Yang a told a lecture organized by the Standing Committee of the National’s People’s Congress on the social impact of environmental problems that the number of environmental ‘mass incidents’ has grown an average of 29% annually from 1996 to 2011. He said that the number of incidents which involve concerns about dangerous chemicals and heavy metal pollution have risen since 2010.
The results of the new survey indicate that the number of such incidents is not likely to decrease any time soon. Nearly half of those surveyed said the government should spend more on environmental protection and over 60% of residents said government information about environmental protection is not transparent. And in a clear sign that the Chinese public is not going to let their voices go unheard, 78% of those surveyed said that they will participate in protests if pollution facilities are planned near their homes.
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no idea how to rotate this. I’m off to Geo’s birthday dinner and might be a tad underdressed? I have no idea. I’m bailing on the clubbing portion of the night in any case.
With Yoyo gone to France I have no-one to ask for their opinion!
The last couple weeks have done little for my self-esteem :( very indecisive so I’m bothering you lot :)
Watching GoT, finding this season far more interesting.
Except for a few things:
-the usual unnecessary sexualization
-seeing Theon get tortured by Ramsay Snow - it’s not at all described in the books ( *Spoiler alert* it takes a while to realise that Ramsay’s servant Reek is actually Theon. Bit by bit we figure out what Ramsay did to him, but it is not this explicit.)
-This whole nonsense with Talisa replacing Jeyne. Ughhhhhhh.
At least the Jamie/Brienne, Daenerys, and Sansa/Tyrion story lines are respected so far.
A prominent Japanese politician has described as “necessary” the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said the “comfort women” gave soldiers putting their lives at risk a chance “to rest”.
See BBC for article
This is unacceptable
What the actual fuck??
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Feeling slightly pleased with myself because I actually cooked breakfast, for once. I usually live off muesli or granola in the mornings but I quit drinking milk and have yet to find an acceptable substitute (I can’t stand soy milk, unfortunately) so I need to find a new easy breakfast. I hate cooking in the mornings though. Halp.
