Showing posts with label Crete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crete. Show all posts

Monday, November 16, 2009

High Speed Penetration

Such is the penetration of internet services in Europe that even this small village on Crete - counting just 400 inhabitants and from which I view the world - has high speed broadband access to the World Wild Web.

In the background, Mt. Malaxa, to the right (invisible) a bay and a port - and further on an airport - to the left (invisible) the White Mountains (Greek: Lefka Ori).

Photograph: Copyright © CCRCC [click on image to enlarge]

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Fruits and vegetables from China? No thanks!

Fuji apples, small tomatoes, broccoletti and strawberries saturated with various poisons and grown under acid rain are on our tables. Food products “Made in China” are now invading us.

Entire plantations of products are cultivated on terrain contaminated by DDT and irrigated with water from basins poisoned by toxic industrial waste and by the water from urban sewage disposals. The plants are treated on a regular basis with phosphate-based pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers, which are both highly carcinogenic, rather than risk any imperfections in the harvest.
Lead, mercury and other poisonous substances go directly form the plants to the stomach. They are then deposited in our internal organs, causing permanent damage.
Together with the Chinese apples and vegetables, they are selling us cancer.
--- Text and Image from UnMade in China
Equally interesting is this: the website which posts this text - and other critical information about China - is often attacked (electronically) and made unreachable. Do you wonder by who? I don't.

--- A note to people on Crete
Beware! The most perfectly big and clean looking cloves of garlic in shops here on the island often are - check the labels where you can - from China!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Think about it ...



Young girl in meditation
on the remains of an ancient temple for a Greek Goddess

Location: Aptera, Chania, Crete, Greece
Photograph: Copyright @ 2007, CCRCC