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BP guilty of criminal misconduct, negligence in gulf oil spill - Video
Oil company BP has agreed to plead guilty to misconduct and negligence charges and pay a record $4.5-billion fine in connection with the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters.
PermalinkArgentine Judge Freezes Chevron Assets To Pay $19 Billion Ecuador Fine
Link: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15797
Adrian Elcuj Miranda, a judge in Buenos Aires, has ordered the seizure of Chevron’s assets in Argentina, to force the company to pay a $19 billion penalty for polluting the Amazon in Ecuador. The plaintiffs are seeking similar legal action in Brazil, Canada, Colombia and other countries.
Two Thirds of Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay Underground to Stabilize Climate
Link: http://ecowatch.org/2012/fossil-fuel-underground-stabilize-climate/
Two thirds of all proven fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook 2012 report released today. “The IEA’s conclusion reflects sound science. CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are destabilizing our climate. We cannot burn fuels like coal and oil indefinitely without paying the price in the form of climate instability, droughts, heat waves and superstorms.
Great Lakes Plastic Concentration "Higher Than Anywhere in the World"
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/02-8
Plastic pollutes the Great Lakes in concentrations higher than any other body of water on Earth, concluded a recent study conducted by the State University of New York.
SHOCK: 72 Hours After Grid-Down: Starvation, Supply Shortages, Food Lines, No Clean Water, No Gas, Transportation Standstill *Independent Reports, Pics, Video*
A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems to always be available, few ever consider the worst case scenario.
Shocking Poll - More than Two-Thirds of Republican Voters Believe in Demonic Possession
And less than half think humans are responsible for climate change. Less than one week away from the election, a terrifying new poll reveals that more than two-thirds of registered Republican voters believe that people can be possessed by demons.
The Battle Against Big Energy's Rush to Ruin Our Planet
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/01-1
The energy industry tries to sell us 'ethical oil', 'clean coal' and 'natural gas', but this extreme weather is mobilising people to act. Extreme killer superstorms, historic drought, vanishing sea ice, an increase in ocean acidity by 30%, the hottest decade on record and mega forest fires have increasingly become our new reality.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein arrested in Texas - Video
Link: http://rt.com/usa/news/jill-stein-arrested-texas-694/
Jill Stein, a presidential candidate from the Green Party, has been arrested in Texas while attempting to resupply protesters camping out in trees to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, according to anti-pipeline activists. The Tar Sands Blockade activists said she was released soon after being taken to the Wood County jail in Quitman, TX.
Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/21-0
No matter how good your next meal tastes, it's likely it made society ill. A new analysis by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN) draws a disturbing connection between pesticides in our food system and serious health problems among women and children. The report reviews empirical research linking agricultural chemicals to birth defects, neurological disorders, childhood cancers and reproductive problems.
Scenes of 'Dust Bowl Days' Return As Oklahoma Storm Causes Highway Pileup - Video
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/19
Year of high temps and record drought portends climate future for once fertile croplands. Dramatic video footage and eye witness accounts from Oklahoma on Thursday tell the story of a scene right out of the Depression-era 'Dust Bowl days' as a massive wind-swept cloud of 'reddish-brown' dirt made visibility impossible on a stretch of Interstate-35 between Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo.
Fracking Poisoning Families at Alarming Rate: Report
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/19-2
"We use water for nothing other than flushing the commode," said Janet McIntyre referring to the now toxic levels of water on her land, which neighbors a fracking site. McIntyre said her entire family, including their pets, suffered from a wide array of health problems including projectile vomiting and skin rashes, indicative of other families' symptoms in the areas surveyed. Other symptoms include sinus, respiratory, fatigue, and mood problems.
These Pictures May Give You Nightmares About The Canada Oil Sands
Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-destructive-canada-oil-sands-2012-10
Canada's economic boom depends on tearing up 54,000 square-mile of pristine Alberta wilderness. Development of the world's third largest oil supply is proceeding rapidly. It already represents a $3.5 billion annual paycheck to the Canadian government and 75,000 immediate jobs.
World food prices near crisis levels
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/04/world-food-price-rise
World food prices rose in September and are moving nearer to levels reached during the 2008 food crisis.The United Nations food agency reported on Thursday that the worst drought in more than 50 years in the United States had sent corn and soybean prices to record highs over the summer, and, coupled with drought in Russia and other Black Sea exporting countries, raised fears of a renewed crisis.
Is The End of Monsanto Near? Prop 37 Succeeding as Nations Ban GMO Crops
Link: http://www.infowars.com/is-the-end-of-monsanto-near-prop-37-succeeding-as-nations-ban-gmo-crops/
Is the end of Monsanto within reach? It has certainly been a rough couple of weeks for the mega corporation as the real dangers surrounding GMOs are being brought to the attention of consumers on a global scale like never before.
The TPP: A Quiet Coup for the Investor Class
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/25-4
The Obama administration's trade negotiators are quietly selling out workers and the environment in a massive Bush-style trade agreement. It would be a relief to report with any certainty that the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a massive proposed free-trade zone spanning the Pacific Ocean and all four hemispheres—are definitely empowering corporations to the detriment of workers, the environment, and sovereignty throughout the region. Unfortunately, the secretive and opaque character of the negotiations has made it difficult to report much of anything about them.
Bill McKibben at Fighting Bob Fest 2012 - Video
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/21-10
"Some people here may have predicted that if you elected Scott Walker governor, Wisconsin would go to hell in a handbasket, but I doubt you meant that so literally,” he joked. Then he got serious. “Unless we act really quickly,” he said, “it’s going to get much, much, much, much, much, much worse.” If we keep on our current path, he warned, “the world will break.”
Monsanto, Pesticide Companies Contribute Another $5.5 Million to Kill GMO Labeling Initiative
The following is being released by the California Right to Know campaign: Monsanto just gave an additional $2.89 million to defeat Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered foods in California. Monsanto’s total contribution against Proposition 37 now stands at $7.1 million, according to campaign finance disclosure records filed with the California Secretary of State.
Fluoride sold as pesticide; Chinese factories export to U.S. cities for water fluoridation - Video
Link: http://youtu.be/1X0a8xSL8s4
Fluoride warning! Much of the fluoride dumped into U.S. water is imported from chemical factories in China. Those factories warn that fluoride is TOXIC to human health. Fluoride is sold as a PESTICIDE, a nuclear industry chemical and more. SCARY information! Learn the truth about fluoride.
Japan Professor: Use of nuclear energy is a crime against humanity — We have to think of this equally as the use of nuclear weapons - Video
Interview with Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima University professor, Historian. Wikipedia of Yuki Tanaka: History Professor at Hiroshima University. Wrote extensively about forced prostitution under the Japanese Empire, as well as in Japan under the US military rule. Also wrote about laws of warfare.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses the West of destroying Iran's rain clouds
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the West of deliberately destroying rain clouds headed for Iran in a concerted effort to plunge the country into a damaging drought. The Iranian president made the assertions in a speech on Monday addressing the problems caused b
Global help urged to avert reactor 4 pool fire, U.S. expert appalled by Tepco's attitude over 'sleeping dragon' risk
Link: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120908f1.html
The risk of a fire starting in reactor 4's spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima No. 1 plant continues to alarm scientists and government officials around the world, prompting a leading U.S. nuclear expert to urge Japan to tap global expertise to avert a catastrophe.
Coming Food Crisis Play into Global Elite’s Demand for Population Stabilization
Since 2010, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization have stated that the rise in food prices is directly correlated to the 80 million people being added to the world’s population annually. This fact, according to the globalists at the UN, is beginning to “tax both the skills of farmers and the limits of the earth’s land and water resources.” Added to this problem are the 3 million people who are “moving up the food chain” eating more than their share in gluttonous nations like the United States and China.
Mysterious Mass Animal Deaths Plague Lake Erie
Link: http://www.globalanimal.org/2012/09/06/mysterious-mass-animal-deaths-plague-lake-erie/81165/
Residents along Lake Erie were woken up by a smell that was similar to a septic tank backing up yesterday, when tens of thousands of dead fish and sea gulls washed ashore. The scene is reminiscent of earlier this month when thousands of dead fish washed up along the Texas shore, and when birds seemed to fall dead from the sky in Arkansas in 2011.
Strange hum keeping West Seattle awake - Video
Link: http://www.king5.com/news/Strange-hum-keeping-West-Seattle-awake-168713766.html
Julie Schickling stood out on her porch in West Seattle just after midnight because she couldn't explain what she was hearing. So she recorded the sound (listen here on West Seattle Blog).
Capitalising on Natural Disasters in Guatemala
Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/capitalising-on-natural-disasters-in-guatemala/
The destruction is the result of landslides caused by heavy rains on the unstable, bare hillsides. The underlying cause, deforestation, is not addressed. Instead, the road is destroyed and rebuilt, over and over again.
Arctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/02-3
As the northern summer draws to a close, two milestones have been reached in the Arctic Ocean — record-low sea ice extent, and an even more dramatic new low in Arctic sea ice volume. This extreme melting offers dramatic evidence, many scientists say, that the region’s sea ice has passed a tipping point and that sometime in the next decade or two the North Pole will be largely ice-free in summer.
Pledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sandra Steingraber Issues a Call for Action and a Warning to the Gas Industry
I choose to belong to a vision of an unfractured New York that turns its back on 19th century thinking and death-dealing fossil fuels and leads the world in the creation of a clean energy economy.
It's Eerie -- The Global Climate Disaster Is Happening Right Now... and Humanity Is Just Pretending It's Not Happening
We are going to pay a terrible price for this charade. There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.
Romney’s Dirtier, Deadlier Energy Future: Is There Another Way?
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27-4
Mitt Romney’s new energy platform calls for more fossil fuel production and less regulation. It’s a vision of an energy future that is dirtier and deadlier than an economy founded on a transition to renewable energy sources. And, despite the devastating droughts and massive wildfires of the last few months, it’s a plan that ignores the climate dangers associated with a drill-and-burn policy.
'A less polar pole': Arctic sea ice at record low
This visualization shows the extent of Arctic sea ice on Aug. 26, 2012, the smallest area in three decades of satellite records. The yellow line shows the average minimum summer ice coverage from 1979 to 2010. The amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has reached a record low in three decades of satellite data, scientists reported Tuesday, with one of them describing recent warm years there as creating a "less polar pole." The decline was expected to continue for at least several more days before cold weather sets in and creates new ice through fall and winter.
Uncorking the Lid on the Preparedness Test
Link: http://www.backdoorsurvival.com/index.php/2012/08/25/uncorking-the-lid-on-the-preparedness-test/
8. Do you know where the main gas shut-off valve to your house is located?
IF AN EMERGENCY LASTED FOR THREE DAYS ( 72 HOURS) BEFORE HELP WAS AVAILABLE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY:
17. Would you have sufficient food?
18. Would you have the means to cook food without gas and electricity?
19. Would you have sufficient water for drinking, cooking, and sanitary needs?
25. Do you have emergency cash on hand? (During emergencies banks and ATMs are closed)
28. Do you have a plan for toilet facilities if there is an extended water shortage?
Monsanto’s Top 7 Lies About GMO Labeling and Proposition 37
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/monsantos-top-7-lies-about-gmo-labeling.html
Due to the near future voting on November 6, 2012 for California’s Proposition 37, there has been a lot of heat going back and forth concerning GMO foods. Up until now, 10′s of million of dollars have been funneled into the opposing side of the bill, with biotechnology giant Monsanto dishing out a whopping $4.2 million alone. Monsanto has even recently published a page on their site titled ”Taking a Stand: Proposition 37, The California Labeling Proposal,” where the GMO giant attempts to logically explain why it is against GMO labeling.
Romney's New Energy Plan Would Doom Humanity
Link: http://www.alternet.org/environment/romneys-new-energy-plan-would-doom-humanity
Here's a frightening look at what a Romeny-Ryan ticket looks like for the environment and our future.
Widespread Drought And Water Shortages
Link: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-07-18/widespread-drought-and-water-shortages
The U.S. is experiencing its most widespread drought in more than fifty years. In its monthly report, the National Climatic Data Center reported more than half the country was in moderate to extreme drought at the end of June. Farmers are losing crops and pastures at alarming rates, especially in the nation’s corn and soybean belt. The Department of Agriculture declared a thousand counties in twenty-six states as natural disaster areas. Many fear the drought will get worse before it gets better. What this could mean for food costs, the nation’s water supplies and weather patterns across the globe.
US keeps importing fishery food from Japan even after 311
Link: http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/us-keeps-importing-fishery-food-from-japan-even-after-311/
Some of the east Asian countries are rejecting Japanese products to import, such as fishery products or dairy products. (cf. JP exports of dairy products dropped half since 311, HK Gov to conduct medical check for infants) However, US is still importing fishery products from Japan as before. In May, they measured cesium even from their local bluefin tuna. It seems like fish is easier to enter America than human beings. (cf. Cesium from tuna fished in west coast of America)
Biologist on Mutated Butterflies: Study is overwhelming in its implications for humans
Japan Researcher: Insects were believed to be very resistant to radiation — Irregularly developed eyes, malformed antennae, much smaller wings (PHOTO)
Spiking grain prices raise specter of global food crisis
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/food-a10.shtml
Global food prices rose 6.2 percent in July, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization reported Thursday. The FAO said it released its Food Price Index ahead of its regular publication schedule as a warning against the impact of such price rises.
U.S. drought drives up food prices worldwide
The drought that's drying up the Heartland isn't just an American problem. It's causing food prices to surge worldwide. And it could get worse.
Worldwide Demand for Water Outstrips Supply: Study
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/09
The world's oldest and largest acquifers, according to the study, have supplied civilization with water for agricultural and industrial use for thousands of years, but are now under threat from over-extraction and the underground reservoirs can no longer replenish themselves at a sustainable rate.
Chemical Apocalypse Causes Genetic Damage To Children
Link: http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/08/06/chemical-apocalypse-causes-genetic-damage-to-children/
“Red alert for humanity: Chemical damage can be inherited by offspring through unlimited generations”[1]
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