Peace, please

We could all benefit from dusting off this track and listening to a needle sweep the trough of its timeless grooves.
Fortunately there's nothing dusty about Yoko Ono's remixes of the celebrated peace anthem "Give Peace a Chance." Electronic, tribal and world beats steadily shuttle messages of peace and nonviolence through mixed genres of the 21st century. Even though the last four decades hastened a march toward relevant technological, musical and social advancements, a violent context of war and greed still permeate our social consciousness -- and uncannily at that.
The most recent release of Ono's tracks approach the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Ono's first recording. "Give Peace a Chance" is, again, well timed and needed.
You could be blessed with such youth as to have never heard the original live. Or you did and you remember the passion of the peace movement. Prepare to transcend to 1969, when hopeful young minds wished for a life without violence.
Producers include Tommie Sunshine, Morel, Mike Cruz, DJ Dan, CSS (Brazil), Karsh Kale (India), DJ Tszpun (China), Kimbar (Russia), Death in Vegas’ Richard Fearless (England), DJ Meme (Brazil), Blow Up (Italy), Alex Santer (Greece), and Findo Gask (Scotland).
Take them all for a spin. The updated rhythms and underlying wisdom allows you to wander into a familiar state of mind that stumbles upon a message of peace for the first time. It's novel again. Hopeful again. Possible.

Give it a chance: http://imaginepeace.com/news/archives/5496

THE NATIONAL PARKS: My Parks

"Voyage confirms plastic pollution"

The BBC's environment reporter Judith Burns writes in the Aug. 27,
2009 online edition that yes, the great Pacific trash vortex is real.
It's too late when this debris is polluting out water. We need to stop
it before it gets there.

"Scientists have confirmed that there are millions of tonnes of
plastic floating in an area of ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre."

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8225125.stm