[11] Issues of executions, murders and mass graves will be examined in subsequent articles
[12] Anne Rolfes, Shell Games: Divide and Conquer the Diamond Community, The Concerned Citizens of Norco (LA) and Communities for a Better Environment, (circa 2001, 2002).
[15] “The American pitcher plants,” Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 34: 110–125; and “The Gulf Coast pitcher plant bogs,” American Scientist, 70: 260–267.
[16] Holiday, M.C., and B.K. O’Bannon (2000). Fisheries of the United States, 1999. Current Fisheries Statistics No. 9900. Silver Spring, Md.: National Marine Fisheries Service.
Georgianne Nienaber is a writer, author, and investigative journalist. She lives in the world. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, SCOOP New Zealand, Glide Magazine, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Friends of the Congo, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction exposé of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and recently spent six weeks in Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction. She is currently developing a documentary on the Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE.
Great perspective on and synthesis of all the diverse strands of destruction impacting the Gulf. The author has trained her mind to look at events across the broad spectrum of time, history and systemic political/social movements. About a billion people should read this article.
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Mac McKinney (49 articles, 83 quicklinks, 201 diaries, 1213 comments)
on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 10:21:56 AM
Brilliantly conceived and executed, yet it will pass unnoticed. It would seem that most of the people, not only in America but world wide, have chosen to ignore our lemming-like race to destruction. I would conjecture that we deserve the coming extinction for such an attitude.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 12:23:46 PM
My first political action was in 1961, and I have seen almost endless ennui and disinterest since becoming politically aware. I think Im entitled to a little mourning now and again, just as I am passing the torch to the younger folk.......In the words of George Bernard Shaw, sort of, Im seeking the dissatisfied man.......from whom all change stems.
Now where the heck is that rocking chair?
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 3:41:40 PM
Went to a Ban the Bomb demonstration in DC, Organised by the American Humanists ,mostly because, if the truth be told, there were older women going! It changed my life.
( Not because of the older women)....hee
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 7:00:12 AM
Medal of Freedom Award. You are now an official member of our family.
I don't know if you know of Charlie Smith. I can't imagine you haven't heard of or run across him doing the work you are, but regardless, Charlie use to be a lobbyist for the petroleum industry in Louisiana and now he lobbies for the arts and environmental groups - he got sane. Recently he was single-handedly responsible for stopping Shell Oil from putting a pipeline in the Gulf that would have destroyed a great deal of the fisheries. He said to me that in his 38 years of lobbying it was the first time he witnessed an oil company have to back down from anything. I'll send you his email, I'm sure he'd be happy to help.
It is a paradox that one of, if not the most freedom loving places to live is also the one place where the powers that be have set-up shop to systematically destroy said freedom. After all the Arcadian people settled here in the remote swamplands to avoid the persecution of government. And for 200-odd years succeeded in doing so while developing a unique and varied culture. One of the hall-marks of living here is the mistrust people have ingrained in them of government and now big business.
Your articles are like a laser beam into the corruption of said businesses and government policies that are taking what is a Nation Treasure and turning into a polluted playground of exploitation.
Keep it up - I got more medals.
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 50 diaries, 2017 comments)
on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 3:59:52 PM
I truly fell in love with everything Louisiana while working down there on this. I have a deep regard for the Acadian people for the same reasons you mention. Something happened to me internally while there and I have a deep desire to move down..we will see. That being said, it was hard and lonely working parts of the job solo. Family and more help sounds good. Merry Christmas and bless the new year.
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Georgianne Nienaber (145 articles, 46 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 337 comments)
on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 4:13:37 PM
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