February 2012
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Activist Requests Her #FBI File, Learns What Color... →
Last year, a blogger, activist, and “amateur pornographer” named Furry Girl requested her FBI file on a lark. Last month, she got it and posted some of its highlights online.
Among other details, Furry Girl learned that she and a few others were followed for several days several years ago while they planned and participated in a small, legal protest. (She doesn’t specify what it was ...
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Overfishing threatens the survival of seabirds →
Feb. 28, 2012
From gannets to seagulls, puffins to penguins, all seabirds suffer the same drop in birth rates when the supply of fish drops to less than a third of maximum capacity. That’s the result from an international study (1) on the relationships between predators and prey in seven ecosystems around the world, published in the magazine Science and coordinated by Philippe Cury,...
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The nurturing of our nature reserves has a long... →
28 February 2012
The announcement of 12 new Nature Improvement Areas reflects a rare thing: the Government actually taking an expert report seriously and following it up. It is 18 months since a committee chaired by Sir John Lawton called for “a step change in wildlife conservation”. That was followed by a White Paper and a competition to nominate the first NIAs, which will be...
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Dow and Monsanto Join Forces to Poison America's... →
anonymissexpress:
23 February 2012, by Richard Schiffma, Photo: tpmartins, via @AdamfromNorway
In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation’s two leading producers of agrochemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the use of the herbicide 2,4-D, one half of the infamous defoliant Agent Orange, which was used by American forces to clear jungle during the...
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Obama administration wants to make (#GMO) life... →
h4x0r3d:
While activists have been pushing for years to have more oversight and more scientific analysis in the approval process for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), it looks like the Obama administration is moving in the other direction.
Michael Gregoire, a USDA deputy administrator, said today they are looking to streamline the approval process and cut the time it takes to ...
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Scientists at #Monsanto Speak Out
tonybaldwin:
Disclose.tv - Scientists inside MONSANTO speak the truth Video
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Police Chief Timoney, Meet Bahraini Mothers →
John Timoney is the controversial former Miami police chief well known for orchestrating brutal crackdowns on protests in Miami and Philadelphia- instances with rampant police abuse, violence, and blatant disregard for freedom of expression. It should be of great concern that the Kingdom of Bahrain has brought Timoney and John Yates, former assistant commissioner of Britain’s Metropolitan...
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Air pollutant emission limits exceeded in twelve... →
Twelve Member States exceeded one or more of the emission limits set by the EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive, according to recent official data for 2010 reported to the European Environment Agency (EEA). In some instances the limits were exceeded by significant amounts.
EEA
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How the CIA Operates the International Drug Trade... →
Wednesday, December 28, 2011, via @Kaviraj2
How the CIA Runs the Global Drug Trade and Manipulates American Drug Laws
What keeps the drug industry going is its huge profit margins. Processed cocaine is available in Colombia for $1500 dollars per kilo and sold on the streets of America for as much as $66,000 a kilo (retail). Heroin costs $2,600/kilo in Pakistan, but can be sold on the...
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WatchBy Brian Switek, February 21, 2012
One day, sometime around seven million years ago, a herd of bizarre, four-tusked elephants crossed the desert that stretched over what is now the United Arab Emirates. Thirteen of the behemoths plodded along together, perhaps moving towards one of the wide, slow rivers which nourished stands of trees in the otherwise the arid region. Sometime later, a...
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A History Of #US Secret Human Experimentation →
1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American...
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Guest Post: Going Off Grid - Montana Style! →
The concept of off-grid living is often encumbered by numerous false assumptions and associations. Many think that to delve into the lifestyle you must be either a grizzled anti-social mountain man, a pompous starry-eyed hippie, or, a criminal on the lam. The spectrum of characterizations range from “kooky” bunker building militia members to spoiled Al Gore worshipping vegan hipsters...
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Mobile marine reserves may end slaughter of... →
Steve Connor, 18 February 2012
The indiscriminate slaughter of vast numbers of turtles, sharks, albatrosses and other endangered marine animals that get unintentionally caught by fishermen as “by-catch” could be prevented by a radical proposal of mobile marine reserves, scientists said yesterday.
Protected areas of the ocean where commercial fishing is banned would work far better if they...
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Can cold-water corals adapt to climate change? →
ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2012) — By absorbing about a third of human-made carbon dioxide (CO2), the ocean decelerates global warming. However, when dissolved in seawater, CO2 reacts to produce carbonic acid, causing seawater pH to decrease. It also diminishes the concentration of carbonate ions, thereby putting organisms forming their shells and skeletons from calcium carbonate at risk. Apart...
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New protected areas for dolphins declared →
Three new wildlife sanctuaries for Ganges River and Irrawaddy dolphins declared by the Government of Bangladesh.
Feb 16, Wildlife Conservation Society collaborative study with Bangladesh Forest Department helped pinpoint location of new protected areas. NEW YORK – The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins in the...
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The New Scramble for #Africa Threatens #Water... →
A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries that rely on imported grain are panicking. Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have descended on fertile plains across the African continent, acquiring huge tracts of land to produce wheat, rice and corn for consumption back home.
Some of...
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Climatic changes hit farming in coastal Orissa →
February 9, 2012, by Ramoo
Rise in temperature and sea level has made agriculture vulnerable as seawater is more often gushing into the paddy fields with saline water
Submitted on 02/06/2012 – 09:50:23 AM
Bhubaneswar: Agriculture across the coast of Orissa is now facing a situation of climate emergency, threatening food security in such areas where climate change has been a phenomenon.
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South African environment deteriorating - report →
Johannesburg - South Africa’s natural environment has, over the past 20 years, deteriorated nearly the fastest of most countries in the world, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday.
This was the finding of a group of scientists at the universities of Yale and Columbia, in the US, who measured the state of the environment in 132 countries, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.
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Global Search for 'lost' frogs yields few... →
Arlington, VA — A glimmer of hope, but much cause for concern. Those are the reactions from teams of scientists from around the world that have returned from an unprecedented search for 100 species of “lost” amphibians — frogs, salamanders, and caecilians that have not been seen in a decade or longer, and may now be extinct.
The Search for Lost Frogs, launched in August by...
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“The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of...”
– Terence McKenna (via terence-mckenna)
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#OccupyTheMachine - Engage! - #DGR #OWS #A99... →
h4x0r3d:
Occupy the Machine – Stop the 1%, Literally
Our Bodies Will Be Our Demand
Photo Credit: Not a DGR Action. Earth First and Rising Tide blockaded a gas-fired power plant construction site in Palm Beach County, Florida in 2008. http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/02/19/blockade-shuts-down-south-florida-power-plant-construction-27-arrested/
Click here to download this document as a...
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#Ethiopia's tribes cry for help →
A drive to become a world leading sugar producer threatens the livelihoods of thousands of people in rural areas.
By Dominic Brown Feb 16, 2012
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 people. Many live a simple existence, living in...
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Jonathan Deal - The Battle To Protect The Karoo... →
The Karoo is the largest ecosystem in South Africa and is home to a fascinating diversity of life, all having adapted to survive an unforgiving landscape. Natural gas exploration has now come to invade this magnificent land in order to exploit its natural resources. A moratorium has been placed on granting exploration licenses to major fuel companies, which allows them to use hydraulic...
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A Sea of Overfishing – When Will We Stop? →
February 12, 2012 | Written by Jacqueline
Overfishing is taking a toll on the ocean. For decades this has been an international issue and now it threatens the vitality of the Earth’s most valuable natural resource. Rosenblum and Cabra write about this issue in the NY Times article In Mackerel’s Plunder, Hints of Epic Fish Collapse, citing the jack mackerel as the latest victim in a sea of...
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Revealed: How fossil fuel reserves match UN... →
New figures calculate how much CO2 each country could emit in the future and asks how their fuel reserves affect their position at the UN climate negotiations.
More on Guardian
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“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap....”
– Alan Watts (via solitaryforager)
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Key Facts on Keystone XL | Tar Sands Action →
Energy Security: Tar Sand will not Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil
Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.
Keystone XL is an export pipeline. According to presentations to investors, Gulf Coast refiners plan to refine the cheap Canadian crude supplied by the pipeline into diesel and other...
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Renewables Helped France Avoid Freezing in the... →
In a startling development widely reported across Europe in the English-, French-, and German-language press, France imported electricity to meet peak demand during a brutal cold snap February 7, 2012.
And one of the countries France imported electricity from was Germany.
Post Fukushima, Germany closed two-fifths of its nuclear reactors and there were fears that Germany would not be able to...
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Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk →
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anticapitalist:
well then…
Fresh milk; I knew ya just cant trust them Amish folks.