January 2012
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The Last #Taboo: How Jobs Cause #Poverty →
“Sooner or later, if we want a decent society-by which I don’t mean a society glutted with commodities or one maintained in precarious equilibrium by overbuying and forced premature obsolescence-we are going to have to come face to face with the problem of work.” — Harvey Swados
WHILE OTHERS DON’T?
To have food and the other things that we need to stay alive,...
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#Pesticides blamed for #bee decline #CCD →
By Jonathan Owen, Sunday 29 January 2012, via @greenroofsuk
Compelling new evidence from the US government’s top bee expert that modern pesticides may be a major cause of collapsing bee populations led to calls yesterday for the chemicals to be banned.
A study published in the current issue of the German science journal Naturwissenschaften, reveals how bees given minute doses...
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Accumulating 'microplastic' threat to shores →
By Mark Kinver, 27 January 2012, via ri_science
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned.
Researchers traced the “microplastic” back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed.
Earlier research showed plastic smaller...
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Five most bizarre concepts promoting sustainable... →
Sonia Renthlei, Jan 27 2012, via @elvinjijo and @Kaostricks
The drive to find sustainable means of transportation has never been so urgent than at present. The sheer number of cars on the road has caused traffic jams in all urban cities around the world to the point that traffic snarls have become the norm. Besides this, air pollution has reached alarming levels, posing health hazard to...
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Bacterial disguise evades vaccine
Some bacteria can evade efforts to vaccinate against them by wearing a new disguise, researchers say.
A study, published in Nature Genetics, tracked how pneumococcus bacteria responded to the introduction of a vaccine in the US in 2000.
Doctors said the evasion would make some vaccines less successful in the long term.
An updated pneumococcus vaccine is already in use.
Vaccines train the...
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Centralized power hurts environment, empower...
Monday, January 30, 2012 To those wary of corporate power, Halliburton — a multinational oil field services provider — has become a sort of caricature, rivaled only by Monsanto in epitomizing shameless boardroom gluttony. Until 2007, Halliburton owned Kellogg Brown & Root, a company that specializes in a ridiculously cartoonish array of malicious enterprises, from...
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Reminder: The Organic Elite Surrenders To...
February 3, 2011 - Ronnie responds to reader comments with a new article (submitted but not yet published here at Huffington Post): Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto’s Minions “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” — Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of a 12-year battle...
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MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN ACTION: Jan. 27...
Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 18:35 Special to HuntingtonNews.Net CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Chevron Americas Products, Houston, Texas, was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $65,921,150 for aviation fuel. Other location of performance is Mississippi. Using service is Defense Logistics Agency Energy. There were four...
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Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as... →
By Brooke Adison on December 27, 2011
Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault...
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#UK More badgers and fewer hedgehogs. Coincidence?... →
Michael McCarthy | Thursday 19 January 2012
In the wild, animal numbers naturally fluctuate. The marsh fritillary butterfly, for example, can virtually vanish from some of its colonies in certain years, only to be present two or three years later in numbers that are overwhelming (this is caused by cycles of parasite infestation, and something similar happens with red grouse).
Generally,...
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Sea Shepherd: Galapagos Judge Suspended Over Fer... →
Last week, local and national Ecuadorian news widely informed about the suspension of the Galapagos judge in charge of the case known as the Fer Mary. This industrial fishing vessel was caught last July inside the Galapagos Marine Reserve with more than 350 dead sharks. The case made headlines throughout the year, not only for the illegal capture of protected species in a marine reserve, but...
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11 Threats to Marine Environment You Must Know |... →
Do you care enough for the oceans? Or is it just a trending topic you like to hear about?
The fact remains that consistent increase in the level of pollutants has degraded marine ecosystem to levels of irreparable damage.
Steps are being taken to mitigate the effects of marine pollution but still there is a long way to go.
It is extremely necessary to generate awareness among people towards ...
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Petition to Ban Disposable Plastic Bags | Sign the... →
Plastic bags are responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 marine animals every year. Learn more… A meeting of the Environment Protection and Heritage Council held in April 2008, failed to reach a national agreement for Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea on banning single use plastic carrier bags. The Federal and State Environment Ministers involved had already made a ...
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#StopSOPA #StopPIPA and while we're at it...
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“I suspect the real purpose of this bill [NDAA] is to thwart internal, domestic...”
– Chris Hedges,
Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
(via cultureofresistance)
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Obama sued over indefinite detention and torture... →
anonymissexpress:
17 January, 2012 | Tweeted by @SICKC_RDS
In the past, journalist Chris Hedges has worked for NPR, The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor. In his latest endeavor, however, he is teaming up with an unlikely pair: a couple of attorneys that will help him take on the president.
US President Barack Obama is the target of a suit filed by Pulitzer Prize-winner...
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Black farmers rally with Occupy Memphis →
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association is showing its solidarity with Occupy Memphis.
At a Monday rally, association president Thomas Burrell spoke to the protesters about the suffering of poor black farmers, who were discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for decades, The Commercial Appeal reported (http://bit.ly/wsLFHT). A...
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“…And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to Hell, if we don’t use...”
– Martin Luther King
Memphis, March 18, 1968
(via cultureofresistance)
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UCB Milk Sampling Results #SanFrancisco #US →
anonymissexpress:
Results for milk samples obtained from a Bay Area organic dairy where the farmers are encouraged to feed their cows local grass. We have detected I-131, Cs-134, and Cs-137 and are tracking their levels.
Read results on the Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering website
Note Anonymiss Express: Cesium levels higher than half a year ago, and above EPA limit
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“The corporations who love this bill are the commercial publishers who profit...”
– Elsevier Evil (via saboma)
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Loggers 'burned #Amazon tribe girl alive'... →
anonymissexpress:
By Raf Sanchez | 10 Jan 2012 | via @newfiemedia
Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land, reports claimed on Tuesday night.
The child was said to have wandered away from her village, where around 60 members of the Awá...
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Expedition Siberia 2004 →
[…]
´´Are you married? I can see you have a ring on your finger?´´ Nasha asks, when she returns inside again. And, as usual, if I have any children and if Johan is my son. ´´Yes, happily married´´ I answered and continued to tell the same story as usual. That of how we discovered in Magadan, that Titti had a heart problem, which would make it impossible for her to handle extreme cold...
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Petition to Ban Bee Death-Linked Pesticides... →
Sami Grover | January 16, 2012
BotheredByBees/CC BY 2.0
When I posted on new research linking neonicotinoid pesticides to bee deaths, I noted that bee numbers improved after bans on these insecticides in France and Germany. I also noted that an entire supermarket chain had banned neonicotinoid use on its own-brand produce.
So there’s clear evidence that we can indeed move beyond the use...
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#Monsanto’s GM crop debate reopens #AgentOrange... →
Activists are unhappy that a company that profited once by maiming Vietnamese civilians is allowed to profit again in the country
No biotech company has yet got the official green light for selling genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but it does not assuage the fears that Vietnam could end up with another tragic legacy from a company that once caused many deaths in the country,...
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#Monsanto #Roundup slowly poisoning animals and... →
Posted by ARC on Monday, January 16, 2012
Report from Victoria Schwarzfuss
Monsanto’s Roundup products are the most-used herbicides worldwide. The products contain the active ingredient glyphosate which radically affects the metabolism of plants and prevents the synthesis of essential amino acids. It is a systemic poison that affects almost all green plants: the time it takes a plant to...
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Operation Red Light
People of the world,As you have probably noticed in the last weeks, Anonymous as well as Anonymiss have set new goals. This movement of rebirth and regeneration is more in tune with reality and changes happening in the world. Meditating and playing online while forgetting about the mundane is not very survival adaptive. Flowers need fertiliser. In #occupyredlightdistrict we allow time for...
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#WikiLeaks: More Evidence of #Monsanto's Bullying... →
Written by Bob Adelmann | Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:00 | Tweeted by @BABYDIABOLICAL
The latest revelations from WikiLeaks confirm Monsanto’s continuing efforts to influence governments worldwide to rule in its favor and punish those who won’t.
A cable written in 2007 and released recently by WikiLeaks confirmed the company’s important influence at the very highest levels of the U.S. ...
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