{"id":8869,"date":"2023-11-02T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T03:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2023-11-02T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T03:59:07","slug":"rewind-the-earth-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8869","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: The Earth Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This repost isn&#8217;t from 2003-2009 but it is very appropriate given the latest turmoil in the Middle East. We originally posted it to honor Earth Day but we feel it covers the deadly conflicts that constantly seem to erupt in that region as well. The Middle East: it could very well lead to the death of the Earth. Way to go, humans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo-toon is from our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"April 22, 2012 (opens in a new tab)\">April 22, 2012<\/a><\/strong> post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EarthMiddleEastWar.jpg\" alt=\"The Earth comments that humans will be the death of it\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EarthMiddleEastWar.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EarthMiddleEastWar-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>The space station astronauts took this rare photo of the Earth commenting on the latest violent conflict to erupt in the Middle East. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: The Earth Speaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1,1715,35],"tags":[74,495,492,420,93,496,98,106,498,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}