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I was nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Thank you Fauxcroft.WordPress.com!

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  1. Which part of the globe do you come from and what made you start your blog?….I’m from Vancouver Canada, I started in the winter of 2015 because I was at an inspiring (creative) turnpoint in my life living in a homeless shelter downtown; blogging definitely helped keep me sane / and on track.
  2. A special message which you received that holds special place for you?…. The message of Buddhism and The Dharma. Peace.
  3. Your favorite Movies?… Oh god… I won’t even go there. As a kid I was very much obsessed with Hook and Stargate. I’ll just leave it there.
  4. Things about friends/siblings you love and annoy?… How much I love them is a burden in itself ha ha… Uh… Lateness and teasing. 😛
  5. Qualities you love about yourself ?… I’m working on me. Always. If I fall, Ill always get back up and lovingly help anyone to do the same. I am also somewhat of a social butterfly; a people person.
  6. Your motive in life ?… Loving life and living in the present moment; whatever the day may bring! My girlfriend, my parents and my friends are definitely huge motivators to stay on he right track.
  7. Craziness you would like to do in life that you were not able to do ?… Ummm to have transitioned at a much younger age. Peruse art more seriously… does that count? Probably not… Something crazy? Spend more time A LOT more time doing hip hop!
  8. Your birthday? (so that I can wish you :p)… June 26 1988 Year of the Dragon.
  9. What does your name mean?… Nina is a russian name meaning:”Dreamer”.
  10. Any topic which I should write as my next post?… Ummm you should keep writing poetry. You’re a talented dude. Right a poem about growing. Please check out his work at:  www.fauxcroft.wordpress.com

 

The Bloggers I Nominate are as follows:

It Is What It Is https://hrexach.wordpress.com/

HerStorm https://herstorm.wordpress.com

IvyWillow https://ivywillowblog.wordpress.com

Isaac Unleashed https://isaacunleasehed.wordpress.com

My Questions:

1. Who are you?

2.What type of music is generally heard coming from your residence?

2.Where would you most desire to live in the world and why?

3. What are some of your ambitions / goals in the blogging sphere ?

4. If you could eradicate one world problem what would it be?

5. If you could go back in time and change something you did; what would it be?

6. Where does your inspiration come from?

7. What calms you down when life gets insane?

8. Who were your biggest role models growing up?

9. Where are you from, and where are you now?

10. If you could pass a new law in your country; what would it be?

 

The Rules:

 

  1. Thank the person who nominated you
  2. Answer the questions asked to you
  3. Nominate other bloggers
  4. Write the same amount of questions for other nominated bloggers
  5. Notify the bloggers you have nominated——————–
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The Benefits of Graffiti — Street Art

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The benefits of graffiti Many people see graffiti as a social ill that contributes negatively to a city and society. Graffiti is seen similar to pollution and garbage; as a overwhelming sign of city blight and poverty. While there is certainly an argument to made against graffiti and in most situations displaying graffiti on public […]

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Northern Monopoly / On the Concrete – Nina

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How could I feel ; Its all so real ; Pain;

Embeds my brain. And. How could that…

Be. They’re;

Piling up the dead bodies.

In Bulletproof hotel lobbies

Insites where a nurse shoot-up-your-down properly

Northern monopoly

Its flooded. In an open air drug market;

Remarkable profit; Sub tropicals chronic

Users, abusers, thugged out losers.

Breathe…. She…

Breathed her last breath in the alleyway;

She ran away as a kid

And…

It sad to say… The streets a trap;

Praying on the weakest.. Link

We brinked;

The highest H.I.V. rate

I write rhymes…Cause I survived…

And. Time Flies…

On the concrete.

 

 

-Nina

Activism, News

I got an email today / Animal cruelty… BLOOD FARMS

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It sounds almost too twisted to be true: across Argentina and Uruguay, horse blood farms are raising horses so their blood can be extracted and sold for profit to pharmaceutical companies.

The horrendous industry is driven by demand from veterinary pharmaceutical companies like MSD Animal Health (Merck Animal Health in the US and Canada) that use the blood to extract a hormone called PMSG.

It’s unacceptable for a company that specializes in animal health to depend on the torture and exploitation of horses for its products. If hundreds of thousands of us around the world speak up and join the people who are already fighting this animal cruelty in South America and Europe, we can get MSD to stop their business with the torture-hormone.

Sign the petition to tell MSD to stop profiting from animal torture and cut ties with blood farms immediately.

Blood farm conditions are as bad as you’d imagine. Workers routinely take 10 litres of blood in a single extraction, a volume that can lead to hypovolemic shock, anaemia or even death. And because mares produce the valuable hormone only during early pregnancy, they are forced into repeated pregnancies and abortions. Finally, they are shipped off to slaughter when they become too weak or old to become pregnant.

In a cruelly ironic cycle of animal exploitation, the precious hormone PMSG obtained from pregnant mare blood is used by the pork industry to promote unnatural rates of reproduction among pigs.

A recent investigation by the German NGO Animal Welfare Foundation and their partners in Uruguay and the US exposed the links between American and European corporations like MSD and the blood farms. Now that we know that MSD is profiting from animal torture, we need to let them know that we’re on to them.

To sign petition go to this link… https://actions.sumofus.org/a/merck-horse-blood/