Space Angel – A Fractal Print by iggymak

Space Angel by iggymak
See other (and no doubt more conventional) Angel Posters

 

Oh, dear, here he goes again…

One of two I made the other day. Finally got around to posting at the store today.

I keep doing that lately, not finishing things. It’s troubling. Probably a side effect of the decades long depression.

One issue is naming the things. Stared at this one a long time. I think it looks something like a winged entity. In general.

As angels have a bit wider market than winged entities, I chose that. Not at all sure it was a good idea.

Space mainly because it looks extra sporty on black, which, being a spacey sort, is my default canvas color when creating all these lovely non-sellers.

And describing them… well… that’s another thing.

Might very well change the name if someone comes up with something good, but it’s growing on me. And if I can move myself to do it. We’ll see how ‘angel’ flies.

Anyway,

Peace.

A North Korean Public Execution

Decided to continue my infrequent series and have another peek inside the insidious hell hole known as North Korea, or, DPRK. Yeah, I’m a bit obsessed with the place. Why? I don’t know. The unprecedented cruelty is a part of it. The fact that no other power does anything about it except feed their army at our expense is a part of it.

Looked in my forlornly full drafts folder and dug this out from last October, when I tried to shut it out of my mind for a while.

Readers need to understand that this sort of thing goes on all the time there. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination a rare event that would spur big time coverage in the news, as it would anywhere else. The fact that they don’t actually have news is neither here nor there. Just understand that this is very much just another day in the life of a North Korean. And the people have to watch… or else.

Just like they had to cry over the death of the head bastard, oops, excuse me, Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. Out in public? You cry.

The unfortunate thing is, the situation is not going to get any better. It’s just not. That can be assured as the Great Successor, the fat little 27 year old psychotic twerp Kim Jong-un, son of the Dearly Departed, said it would not. Directly.

Uploaded by tohkondanzi on Mar 10, 2009

The blurry film – apparently from a hidden camera – appeared to show one man being shot in Yuson town near the border with China on March 2, 2005. The condemned faced the firing squad shortly after a brief trial in which a judge found him guilty of trying to cross into China and smuggle others there.
Three gunmen each fired one shot at the prisoner who was tied to a pole.

Another female defendant was sentenced to10 years of labor camp.

The video was carried out of North Korea by several defectors. It was filmed by unnamed residents of the Stalinist state.

It decided to publicize the tape after determining witness accounts of the executions matched the images captured on film, the statement said.

A Seoul-based group called the Commission to Help North Korean Refugees said last month that North Korea had executed 70 defectors who were captured in China and sent home to discourage its citizens from fleeing the country.

The number of people fleeing North Korea decreased drastically following the executions, the group said.

A trickle of defectors from the communist North has swelled into a steady flow in recent years as more attempt to flee hunger and political repression in their homeland. Nearly 1,900 North Koreans defected to the South last year, an increase of almost 50 percent from the year before.

More than 100,000 North Koreans are living or hiding in China, the Commission to Help North Korean Refugees has estimated.

I can hardly imagine the balls whoever managed to film this had. Because if caught, they’d have hauled his or her ass right up there to that little spot – right then and there – and the show would have gone on.

Peace.

Clandestine Camping

Reblogged from Bigfatfurrytexan:

This guy… Is heart wrenching to hear.  How many of you could this be, if you lost your job next week?  How many of you are just 1 paycheck away from being homeless or destitute?  Often people think that Unemployment Benefits are a safety net, but this is not always true.  For example, commission only jobs do not have this safety net. Just take a few moment to consider yourself in this mans shoes.  And then remember that feeling when you are dealing with someone who is having a hard time.

UFO Song – Christopher Brown

Uploaded by bbrown5690 on Dec 27, 2008

Singer songwriter Christopher Brown performs UFO Song at The Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling, NY. 07/25/08

For more info: cbonline.net

Wa hey, my good lads and lassies, I found a bit of Forteana in musical form… dig this wonderful piece of folk Americana about aliens and a little trip in a UFO.

I had not heard of Christopher Brown till just a few minutes ago (I don’t get out much) when this song was played by Bob Sherman on his Woody’s Children radio show on WFUV-FM. 90.7MHz in the NY Metro area or live(ish) streaming on the interwebs.

I’m glad I was tuned in!

This big grin came over my face and the thought formed instantly that I had to find this on the Tube and share it with my fellow wacky Forteans and all those would-be fellow wacky Forteans the whole world over.

Peace, eh?

Electro Fused Ranjha – Mukhtar Sahota and Lakhwinder Wadali

Uploaded by im4347 on Apr 16, 2007

Album – Unpredictable
Music – Mukhtar Sahota
Vocals – Lakhwinder Wadali
Internalmusic UK
www.internalmusic.co.uk

Nice.

And as one astute Tuber notes in the comments, whenever these two get together, it’s a “Deadly combination.”

No arguing that.

Peace.

Terence McKenna’s “Meltdown” – On The Global Financial Crisis.

A few days ago, the uploader of this video sent me Part 1 of this documentary. I finally got around to watching it and found it to be most excellent.

It is a production of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in 4 parts and made in 2010. Terence McKenna directed it for a series called DocZone.

The film’s scope is rather complete, as you’d expect. It contains much in depth coverage of many of the critical events before, during and after the global economic disaster of 2008. Many interviews of those who have been deeply affected along with high level government types and media people from all over the world as well as authors of note are presented. Quite a lot of seriously dirty laundry is exposed.

Chock a block with tons of interesting footage, too… Tent cities in California; political snippets; scenes shot inside the “boss-nappings” in France, yet more scenes of the guilty; some shockingly profound stupidity in Spain that is so hard to believe – and then more of it in Dubai – and of course those riots erupting all over the place.

I like it. Do watch. Took me a couple of days to fit it in but it was worth it.

And now…

Meltdown – The Global Financial Crisis

Part 1

Part2

Part 3

Part 3

Uploaded by peoplestandupca on Jan 13, 2012

http://www.peoplestandup.ca

by Terence McKenna’s voice that this is from “DocZone,” a CBC.ca series.

The credit crunch

The global financial crisis (GFC) or global economic crisis is commonly believed to have begun in July 2007 with the credit crunch, when a loss of confidence by US investors in the value of sub-prime mortgages caused a liquidity crisis. This, in turn, resulted in the US Federal Bank injecting a large amount of capital into financial markets. By September 2008, the crisis had worsened as stock markets around the globe crashed and became highly volatile. Consumer confidence hit rock bottom as everyone tightened their belts in fear of what could lie ahead.

The sub-prime crisis and housing bubble

The housing market in the United States suffered greatly as many home owners who had taken out sub-prime loans found they were unable to meet their mortgage repayments. As the value of homes plummeted, the borrowers found themselves with negative equity. With a large number of borrowers defaulting on loans, banks were faced with a situation where the repossessed house and land was worth less on today’s market than the bank had loaned out originally. The banks had a liquidity crisis on their hands, and giving and obtaining loans became increasingly difficult as the fallout from the sub-prime lending bubble burst. This is commonly referred to as the credit crunch.

Although the housing collapse in the United States is commonly referred to as the trigger for the global financial crisis, some experts who have examined the events over the past few years, and indeed even politicians in the United States, may believe that the financial system was needed better regulation to discourage unscrupulous lending.

The global financial crisis enters a new phase

The collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 14, 2008 marked the beginning of a new phase in the global financial crisis. Governments around the world struggled to rescue giant financial institutions as the fallout from the housing and stock market collapse worsened. Many financial institutions continued to face serious liquidity issues. The Australian government announced the first of it’s stimulus packages aimed to jump-start the slowing economy.

The U.S. government proposed a $700 billion rescue plan, which subsequently failed to pass because some members of US Congress objected to the use of such a massive amount of taxpayer money being spent to bail out Wall Street investment bankers who some people may have believed could be one of the causes of the global financial crisis.

By September and October of 2008, people began investing heavily in gold, bonds and US dollar or Euro currency as it was seen as a safer alternative to the ailing housing or stock market.

In January of 2009 US President Obama proposed federal spending of around $1 trillion in an attempt to improve the state of the financial crisis. The Australian government also proposed another stimulus package, pledging to give cash handouts to tax payers, and spend more money on longer-term infrastructure projects. Australia’s response to the global financial crisis – the first stimulus package
Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered their first budget in response to the global financial crisis, with the main objective being to fight inflation – a major problem in the local economy at the time.

Australia’s response to the global financial crisis – the first stimulus package

Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered their first budget in response to the global financial crisis, with the main objective being to fight inflation – a major problem in the local economy at the time.

In October 2008 the Rudd government announced that it would guarantee bank deposits. With the economy facing a recession, an economic stimulus package worth $10.4 billion was announced. This included payments to seniors, carers and families. The payment were made in December 2008, just in time for Christmas spending, and retailers predominantly reported strong sales. The first home buyer’s grant was doubled to $14,000 for existing homes, and tripled to $21,000 for new homes.

The automotive industry was also given a helping hand, as several major lenders had withdrawn from the market completely, leaving banks to fill the gaps in lending.

The crisis continues – a second stimulus package is announced

A second, even larger economic stimulus package was announced by the Australian government in February 2009. $47 billion was allocated to help boost the economy:

• As Seen On: Disclose.tv

Wow!

Just remember, though, as stated at the end… we are far from being out of hot water.

Psychopaths run amok. We pay.

Peace.

Sadness.

Well, I am really depressed now.

Feel stupid, even.

I just now learned that WP.com had indeed added the ability to do a blackout here on the 18th.

They had put it in Settings.

I never look at Settings, as they are, well, set.

Idiot.

I am really very sad that I had not seen that option as this, in my mind, at least, is my main site.

I’d done it to all my other sites… and one I run for friends. Sigh. Very sad.

I wonder if that’s why I have lost 151 subscribers.

: (

Stop Web Censorship! We MUST!

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Google has a petition linked from their search page, plus there are many more. Please help.

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Learn More:

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And…

I wish this site could be on strike,
but WordPress.com does not afford access to allow it.

Sad about that.

Flesh

 

My friend Michele found this image on Facebook today and shared it.

Glad she did.

I like it.

Powerful, don’t you think?

And I do believe it is rather appropriate for today.

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Please watch…

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Uploaded by area51media on Jan 15, 2007

The Complete 1963 Speech During The March On Washington, DC, USA.

Tranquillityite, A Moon Mineral – Found In Western Australia!

Not so Fortean, but very interesting, nonetheless…

A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists say. Image Credit: Birger Rasmussen

Wow! Unexpected, eh?

A remarkable find indeed… on January 5th, 2012 it was reported here on PhysOrg.com in a piece by Bob Yirka and then reported here by Universe Today in a piece by Tammy Plotner on January 7th, 2012.

From Universe Today:

When it comes to our natural human curiosity, we want to know if there’s something new out there… something we haven’t discovered yet. That’s why when lunar rock samples were returned, geologists were thrilled to find very specific minerals – armalcolite, pyroxferroite and tranquillityite – which belonged only to our Moon. However, over the years the first two were found here on Earth and tranquillityite was disclosed in specific meteorites. Named for Tranquility Base, site of the first Moon landing, tranquillityite was supposed to be the final hold-out… the last lunar unique mineral… until now.

Birger Rasmussen, paleontologist with Curtin University in Perth, and colleagues report in their Geology paper that they’ve uncovered tranquillityite in several remote locations in Western Australia. While the samples are incredibly small, about the width of a human hair and merely microns in length, their composition is undeniable. What’s more, tranquillityite may be a lot more common here on Earth than previously thought.

Rasmussen told the Sydney Morning Herald, “This was essentially the last mineral which was sort of uniquely lunar that had been found in the 70s from these samples returned from the Apollo mission.The mineral has since been found exclusively in returned lunar samples and lunar meteorites, with no terrestrial counterpart. We have now identified tranquillityite in six sites from Western Australia.”

This would seem to lend a pretty large helping of support for the theory that the Moon was created from the Earth’s material as a result of a major collision with something quite large soon after the Earth itself had formed and was apparently still cooling.

Quite plausible that both the Earth and Moon formed from a large singular blob of protoplanetary material.

I doubt this will affect the “Moon as a spaceship” guys.* “They just covered the titanium skin with Earth dirt, so yeah!” Hehehe. Interesting that it really does seem to have a titanium skin … but… I digress…

I’m just imagining now the scale of improbability in finding such tiny samples of pretty much anything. I find it very nearly as fascinating as the fact that they found this stuff that was previously presumed alien to our world. Very nearly. How would you get a clue as to where to look? Seriously. Look for concentrations of similar material to which it’s encased in on the Moon, perhaps? I wonder how they found the other two minerals… and if those samples were equally tiny.

Further along in the articles it is noted that Rasmussen thinks Tranquillityite took so long to find because people aren’t looking hard enough. Well… he is right in that, of course, but still it just floors me.

Just imagine what we might find if we spent the hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars spent every hour of every day on “defense” (read: killing, profiteering, etc), and spent it instead on science and discovering more about this rock we live on. We know more about the Moon than we do our own oceans. I think that is a tragic thing.

Maybe that will in time change.

Peace.

* Don’t know if I should say this, but I was at one point leaning in that direction, truth be told, but not so much now, as reason stepped in. I am still as fascinated with our Moon as ever and note that it really is just tops in weirdness.

The Bubble – A Fractal Print by iggymak

The Bubble by iggymak
You can Sell my art for free at zazzle.

 

This piece is a nice example of the sort of thing I’ve been creating lately.

Just in case you were wondering what I do when I’m not here. Were you?

Well, anyway, making fractal flames is one. Not sure why they are called flames, exactly… and haven’t really felt a burning need to find out.

They’re big fun when they “work.”

Fractals are inherently natural, just look around… and perhaps there is some sort of ingrained mental connection going on deep within the cranium, because they seem to please in a way that is more felt than anything else… for me at least… it’s hard to describe. It’s just… different. And a trifle strange, I guess.

I wish the picture were bigger… although you can zoom in pretty closely at the site.

Hope you enjoy it.

Peace.

Rain – Eric Johnson – by Mauro Samuel

While I try and come up with something nicely Fortean to write about, here’s 4 minutes of peaceful listening for you as my buddy Mauro plays Eric Johnson’s Rain.

Enjoy…

And may I wish upon you all a very Happy New Year!

LLAP!

Uploaded by MauroPavanelli on Jan 2, 2012

Recorded with:
Ibanez RG, with Dimarzio Air Norton and Tone Zone pickups.
Boss Me 70
Fender Mustang II Amp (Twin Reverb setup)

Frank Kelly’s Christmas Countdown

This piece, my friends, is truly a wonderful thing…

Enjoy… and Merry Christmas!

Uploaded by TRWolf on Dec 22, 2009

Frank Kelly’s Christmas Countdown.

A simple slideshow to accompany the hilarious take on the Twelve Days of Christmas by Frank Kelly.

I don’t think you can buy this song anywhere anymore, but I’m making no money from this little vid, so no copyright infringements are meant.

Oh, pity the poor mother… as for the partridge, well…

 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas… may your Holidays be wonderful… in every way!

Peace and Love!

 

Jaan – Mukhtar Sahota and Lakhwinder Wadali

 

Uploaded by im4347 on May 11, 2007

Album – Unpredictable
Music – Mukhtar Sahota
Vocals – Lakhwinder Wadali
Label – Internalmusic UK
www.internalmusic.co.uk

This has always struck me as being so sad for poor Mukhtar.

Wish I knew what the words mean.

Sigh.

“He taught us how to look at things.”

Sorry I missed posting on the day of the death of Kim Jong-il. Just couldn’t come up with much to say. And… I still can’t.

We are not supposed to celebrate the death of a man, but this man has created horror beyond imagining, the ongoing deaths of millions of his own people and the most bizarre country on earth… the entirety of it is, quite literally, a prison. The “Hermit Kingdom,” they call it… for good reason.

To lighten the load a bit, the following is a little bit of humor. The first two images are from the Kim Jong-il Looking At Things website, which is where the title is derived from, obviously. I like it not only for the not-so-subtle humor regarding this unimaginably despicable man’s mental makeup, but also because, to me, it makes as a result a nice mockery of the ridiculous claims made throughout his rule by the propaganda department that he was responsible for every good thing that’s ever happened. A few of those claims can be found compiled in this post at al-Jazeera.

- lunacy -

looking at the kitchen cabinet

- transition -

looking at kim jong-un

The next two are from the brand new website (made within hours of the announcement of the Dear Leader’s death), Kim Jong-un Looking At Things.

Seems a good representation of the future,
a future  that I feel does not bode well for the people of North Korea.

looking at his new general
(Kim Jong-un, youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il,
listens to an official speaking during a parade in Pyongyang)

- creepy -

looking at YOU

I don’t like the look in this kid’s eyes. Like father, like son, as they say. Not a lot is known of him, but he is usually portrayed as a nutcase. Quite likely. Some quietly hope that his Swiss boarding school education will soften any ruthlessness. I doubt that. Some say that since he was catapulted overnight from civilian to 4 star general, the military will not play nicely with him. I doubt that, too.

Because in the North Korean culture, just like his father and grandfather, this kid is now God.

All we can do is…

Pray for the people of North Korea.

Peace.

In the Skies – Peter Green

It’s time once again for a little musical interlude, this one from my hero, Mister Peter Green…

Sit back, relax and enjoy!

Uploaded by squarepyramid99 on Dec 6, 2007

The title track from the excellent album that relaunched the career of the ex-leader of Fleetwood Mac. Magic.

I will forever remain so very glad that Peter was able to fight through the decades-long trauma that was the result of whatever those sick, twisted, evil German bastards, whoever they were, (and they had seriously better pray that I never find out), inflicted upon this great man on those fateful nights way back when.

He survived the horror and brings to us once again the genius that thrives within him.

Why anyone would want to destroy a young man of such rarefied talent will always be incomprehensible to me. Pure evil usually is that, I guess. We can only imagine the wonderful blues that could have filled that eternity of years.

Thank God they failed… Peter’s still with us! And I, for one, am grateful. As if you couldn’t tell.

If anything, his music has become even more beautiful, lyrical and serene.

Thanks be to the cosmos!

Well, I seem to getting all repetitive, so…

Peace to you.

Define Necessity.

It is my feeling that this composite photograph perfectly illustrates exactly what is wrong with the United States. Very likely other places, too, but I cannot say that with certainty, for I live here… and for here… that thought is what comes to my mind.

On the left, we see the result of political and corporate greed, as well as the result of our foreign “aid” programs. We see human beings. Human beings with the look of hunger, the look of desperation, hopelessness and despair.

On the right, we also see the result of political and corporate greed. Just at the opposite end of greed’s spectrum. We see zombies. We see debt slaves. We see utter fools. The look of desperation is there, too, desperation of a different sort.

Look at them. Clamoring about like gerbils on crack, spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on cheap Chinese crap that will be thrown away as useless detritus within the year when it falls apart. Awful.

No thoughts roiling around in their vacuous ether of giving some of their wealth to the people on the left. No. Oh, maybe a very few will if they get some plea in the mail, (none of which would likely end up in the left side’s bellies anyway); but that episode will be quickly forgotten.

They’ve been trained, you see, trained all their lives, to be consumers, passive yet eager to please slaves, trained to live their lives toiling for the sole purpose of enriching the producers of their desired objects. It’s like a religion. So perhaps it is not entirely their fault, but at the same time, perhaps it is their fault that they have so little compassion for anything outside of their little pleasure bubble. It is a tragedy. And so it goes as well for the entirety of the socioeconomic system created to support it.

Creepy.

This, I posit, is what is wrong.

One Big Cricket!

Rather large, this cricket, eh? … Or, this weta, to be precise.

This thing weighs more than a sparrow, three times more than a mouse… and eats carrots, whole ones I bet.

While not exactly cryptozoology as wetas are already well known, it was not, it seems, known that they get this big.

This story has been all over the net and I am willing to bet that you have seen this story in the last few days. Sorry if you have, this is for those who have not clapped eyes on this ginormous bugger. I saw it a couple of days ago and naturally am just getting a round tuit here.

I do dig large critters of any stripe, (my good friend Willy will surely attest to my twisted fear of stepping out of my time machine (Oh, Jeez, I wasn’t supposed to mention that thing) only to come face to face with a 9-foot eurypterid… (they had those back then, you know)… frikken shivers, man…) crickets included, so here we go…

From the Daily Mail:

A nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect on a remote New Zealand island – and got it to eat a carrot out of his hand.

Mark Moffett’s find is the world’s biggest insect in terms of weight, which at 71g is heavier than a sparrow and three times that of a mouse.

The 53-year-old former park ranger discovered the giant weta up a tree and his real life Bug’s Bunny has now been declared the largest ever found.

He came across the cricket-like creature, which has a wing span of seven inches, after two days of searching on a tiny island.

The creepy crawly is only found on Little Barrier Island, in New Zealand, although there are 70 other types of smaller weta found throughout the country.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2068547/Weta-insect-Heaviest-world-weighs-3-times-mouse.html#ixzz1fbl7A9ak

Just look at this thing! Fantastic!

You can learn even more about this fella by reading this discussion thread. I wonder if it is omnivorous… yeesh… nah, couldn’t be…

Peace.

Okay, I could not resist adding this… from the inimitable davespanners…

This is bad news for snowmen everywhere

Watch A Bunch Of Dogs Experience Sunlight And Grass For The First Time.

Beagle Freedom Project – Second Rescue – June 8, 2011

Please note that watching this video will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, having tissues handy is recommended for many… reading the information that follows, however, will likely get you feeling depressed and angry. But you should do it anyway.

Uploaded by BeagleFreedomProject on Jun 14, 2011

Our second rescue from beagles who have lived their entire lives inside a research laboratory. These beagles have known nothing except the confines of metal cages. They have known no soft human touch, no warm bed, no companionship, no love. They have never been outside or sniffed a tree or grass.

Finally, after years of being poked and prodded, these beagles are FREE! ARME got the call that a facility was willing to release them to us after they had been used in several tests. We picked them up on June 8th and now they are all in loving foster homes, and one has already been adopted. If you are interested in adopting any of these special beagles, please email us at: shannon@beaglefreedomproject.org.

If you cannot adopt, but would like to help, ARME is a non-profit organization and we rely on your donations to continue this work. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation. You can donate here: http://www.beaglefreedomproject.org/donate.php

PLEASE DO NOT BUY PRODUCTS TESTED ON ANIMALS! You can see their faces now….. buy only products that have the cruelty-free symbol.

This was first noticed at this site by The Old American, the poster I learned of it from, which happened here.
Gridrebel added this to the discussion:

If one were to go to the www.thevegetariansite.com… which is listed in the “companies that still test on animals” tab, you would find this:

Many manufacturers of personal care and household items still test their products on animals, despite the growing number of alternative methods for evaluating product safety. The following list contains all such companies known and their associated brand names. This list originally was compiled from two primary references (cited at the bottom of this page). In addition, it is updated as new information is made available to us. We cannot fully guarantee its accuracy, so please use the list accordingly–and do let us know if you can offer any further updates. You may wish to print out the list and take it along next time you go shopping! Please also note that all over-the-counter medicines and/or their ingredients are extensively tested on animals, as currently required by the FDA.

Alcon Labs Allergan, Inc. Answer Arm & Hammer ArmorAll Arrid Axe Aziza Bain de Soleil Ban Roll-on Banana Boat Bausch & Lomb Benckiser BenGay Biotherm Block Drug Co. Inc. Bounty Boyle-Midway Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Cacherel Cargill Carpet Fresh Carter-Wallace Chesebrough-Ponds Church & Dwight Clarion Clairol Clear Choice Clorox Commerce Drug Co. Consumer Value Stores Coppertone Coty Cover Girl Crest Dana Perfumes Dawn Del Laboratories Desitin Dial Corporation Diversey Dove Dow Brands Drackett Products Co. Drano EcoLab Eli Lilly & Co. El Sanofi Inc. Elizabeth Arden Erno Laszlo Faberge Fantastik Fendi Final Net Finesse First Response Flame Glow Garnier Giorgio Armani Givaudan-Roure Glade Glass Plus Helena Rubinstein Helene Curtis Industries Herbal Essences Huggies ISO Ivory Jhirmack Johnson & Johnson Johnson Products Co. Jovan Kaboom Keri Kimberly-Clark Corp Kiwi Brands Kleenex Lady’s Choice Lancaster Lancome Lava

Lever Brothers Lipton Listerine L’Oreal USA Lubriderm Lux Lysol Matrix Essentials Max Factor Maybelline Mead Mop & Glo Nair Naturelle Neutrogena Neutron Industries, Inc. Olean Orange Glo Oscar de la Renta OxiClean Pantene Parfums International Pearl Drops Pennex Pfizer, Inc. Pine-Sol Plax Playtex Corporation Pledge Polident Ponds Post-It Prestige Brands Prince Matchabelli Proctor & Gamble Co. Quintessence Raid Ralph Lauren Fragrances Reckitt Benckiser Redken Resolve Richardson-Vicks Sally Beauty Supply Sally Hansen Sanofi SC Johnson & Son Schering-Plough Scotch Scott Paper Co. Scrub Free Sensodyne Signal SmithKline Beecham Snobal SoftSheen S.O.S. Stanhome Inc. Sterling Drug Suave Sun Star Sunsilk TCB Naturals Tegrin 3M Tide Tilex Trojan Truvia Unilever Vaseline Vichy Vidal Sassoon Visine Vivid Warner-Lambert Westwood Pharmaceuticals White Shoulders Whitehall Laboratories Windex Woolite

Obviously, many many non-pharmaceutical companies in the above list. Lots of cosmetics though. Mop-n-glo????? Pledge?????? What else could they be testing in these products, since they HAVE BEEN TESTING those ingredients for years. The ingredients haven’t changed. If Triethanolamine for instance is dangerous, what difference does it make if it’s in one or a thousand products. Why keep testing the same products over and over again? Freakin disgusting!

That is quite an impressive and depressing list, wouldn’t you say? Damn. I find the note “as currently required by the FDA” not too reassuring. Despite the disclaimer regarding it’s complete accuracy, it is nonetheless comprehensive enough that it would appear on the surface to be rather difficult at best to avoid availing oneself of the products of at least some of these firms. This should not, however, prevent us all from trying our best at finding friendly products through research of course. Help in this matter is welcome, please post what you find as comments.

Remember… as Burgo1010 has informed us… “if it does not say on your shampoo, bleach, etc., “not tested on animals” then… it is.”

Peace.