“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.”
Hero.
The Big Switch
If you’re in the UK and you don’t like how much you’re paying for your electricity and gas then click the link above… 38 degrees have teamed up with Which? to hold a reverse auction with the energy suppliers.
Lavernock Nuclear Bunker, a set on Flickr.
Via Flickr:A nuclear bunker from the Cold War at Lavernock Point, Wales.
Boys’ Village First Visit, a set on Flickr.
Via Flickr:The Boys’ Village in St Athan is an old holiday camp which has gone to ruin over the past few years. This first visit was cut short due to a film crew also being there and asking us to leave, but there was the chance to get a few shots.
Two Gay Men Arrested In Russia For Holding A Sign That Read “Homosexuality Is Normal”
For the first time, police in St. Petersburg, Russia, have made arrests on the strength of a new law banning the dissemination of information on homo-, bi- and transsexuality. Two men were arrested in the city center on Thursday after holding up a sign reading “Homosexuality Is Normal,” according to the newswire Interfax.
Russia’s second-largest city passed the controversial law on Feb. 29. The two men now face a possible maximum fine of 500,000 rubles (€12,800/$17,000). The maximum penalty is more than the average annual income in Russia.
The law bans films, music videos, books and newspapers that contain homosexual content as well as the rainbow flag, which is a common symbol of gay pride. And the ban may soon no longer be limited to just St. Petersburg and other cities in Russia. At the end of March, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party introduced a bill in the country’s parliament, the Duma, which would impose the ban at the national level.
“We are trying to protect our society from homosexual propaganda,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Russian radio three weeks ago.
What century are we living in? Seriously now.
(Source: politics-war, via occupyallstreets)
"Real wealth includes healthful food; fertile land; pure water; clean air; caring relationships; healthy, happy children; quality education and health care; fulfilling opportunities for service; peace; and time for meditation and spiritual reflection. These are among the many forms of real wealth to which we properly expect a sound economy to contribute. Wall Street has so corrupted our language, however, that it is difficult even to express the crucial distinction between money (a facilitator of economic activity), and real wealth (the purpose of economic activity)."
— David Korten (via azspot)
(via enlighteningnews)
