http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE  - Astonishing. I have long thought animals were very conscious beings. Most people who have hung around cats or dogs know this. And we hear that dolphins are very smart. But I had no idea just how smart animals are. The understanding of perspective and proportionality is incredible. The flower painted at the end is great too. Why do we keep animals in prisons called zoos?

Elephant Paints Portrait Check out this video on YouTube in which an elephant paints its own 'self portrait.'

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The above YouTube video was linked from the "Coast to Coast AM" radio show home page:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com




Slow down Global Warming! Save the rain forests. Stop the extinction of the great apes and the whales!



 

Most of the world's problems could be solved by lowering the Earth's population over time. One child per woman would achieve this. Nations with high population density (as in China, India, South Korea, Japan, Belgium, Holland, Germany, England) are experiencing severe problems.

In the meantime the citizens of most nations would do better, and be happier, if they had universal single-payer healthcare, and if economies were made livable and sustainable via graduated taxation and lower overall taxes.

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Cheap renewable energy: Wiki. News. Solar: Cheap photovoltaic solar power is here now, when compared to the true cost of fossil fuels (with costs of subsidies, acid rain, pollution, healthcare, global warming). See world chart.

$720 million daily cost of Iraq War. Casualties.

Click the above image for more info, and for simple code that you can cut and paste into the HTML of your website. See also this detailed counter explanation. 
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The November Coalition has put these charts below in the public domain.
http://www.november.org/graphs
http://gallery.marihemp.com/charts

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Cheers,
eco mann,
Cannabis Action:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction
Global Marijuana March:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March
WeedWiki - a Wikia wiki:
http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March_2008
Charts:
http://gallery.marihemp.com/charts


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