Pat Robertson doesn't just say stupid things about women.  Take for instance this one on Haiti: 

     "It may be a blessing in disguise.... Something hapned a lpeong time ago in Haiti, and 
       people might not want to talk about it.  Haitians were originally under the heel of the
      French.  You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever.  And they got together and swore
      a pact to the devil.  they said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French.
      True story.  And so, the devil said, okay its a deal.  Ever since they have been cursed by 
      one thing or the other."--Pat Robertson on the earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 13, 2010
     

       People of power (and obviously this man has it, because many people give him a lot of money and he has his own television show so he can preach the "the word" to millions) who use that power unwisely (o.k, the obvious: abusively) appear to be in a majority of people who get airtime on television and radio.  Of course, this is just my opinion.

The Dirty Dozen

An apple a day probably won’t keep the doctor away anymore since it tops the list of The Environmental Working Group’s list of “Dirty Dozen” fruits and vegetables inundated with pesticides and fungicides this year.  Apples are also sprayed after picking to keep them looking good and shiny for a long period of time on the grocery shelf.  The other 11 in order from worst to not quite as bad—but it is suggested to stay away from them are:  2. Celery, 3. Cherry tomatoes,  4. Cucumbers,  5. Grapes, 6. Hot peppers, 7. Imported nectarines, 8. Peaches, 9. Potatoes and  10. Spinach 11. Strawberries, 12. Sweet bell peppers.  On their list also ran list are kale, collard greens and summer squash.

My last posting was about believing in our media.  Can this be believed?  What does the medical community say about all of this?  I challenge anyone reading this to work on their own media literacy regarding this post.  What are the fruits and vegetables on the good list?

Believing in the Media

The journalism culture is a political one which is not conducive to the problems of global warming.  The media remains mostly silent as articles published on this front remain few and far between.

A year ago, ExxonMobil spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on anti-climate action groups before the Copenhagen conference. This money was used to enable hired groups to to make a lot of noise about how taking action on climate control would cause massive job losses, among other detrimental issues.
According to the BBC ExxonMobil's campaign changed the minds of the British people who were polled before and after the the media blitz.  Before the blitz, 85 percent of the people polled believed that global warming was a fact.  After the disinformation blitz, the poll showed only 75 percent believed in global warming.
Recently a BBC poll showed only 26 percent think "climate change is happening at all.

Robert C. Koehler, in his article When We Grow Up We Will Fall in Love with Earth:

      " We have to begin thinking and organizing ourselves beyond the arbitrary     constraints of nations and beyond our current, resource-devouring economic system. We have to imagine a global culture that does’nt pit humanity against nature or itself, that transcends the diminished goal of individual or national dominance and sees success only as something measurable if there’ s a loser."

We, as people of the earth need to become media literate so we can sort through and discern for ourselves the real stories.  The stories about global warming are about a thing that is currently happening and its ramifications effect every living thing on our planet.  When we take everything we hear from the media without researching to find the whole picture, we remain ignorant and passive.