by Philip Dorling The Australian federal government has outsourced law enforcement surveillance of environmental and other protest groups, with a key monitoring service operating from an inconspicuous Melbourne apartment block. A private intelligence company, the National Open Source Intelligence Centre, works under […]
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The Dirty Secret of World Trade: One Super Container Ship SO2 Greater Than 50 million Cars
By Bluehawk | Sourced from DailyKos I was over looking longingly at an electric three wheeler kit when this artical popped up in the side bar. Sulphur Pollution of 15 Massive Container Ships Equal to That of 730 Million Cars Coral reefs […]
Continue readingShocking News: FDA Poisons Tens of Millions of Birds in killing spree known as Operation Blackbird!
cross posted from Earth Issues.com It’s absolutely shocking news: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has publicly admitted it is responsible for the mass poisoning of tens of millions of birds over the last several years. It’s all part of the USDA’s program called “Bye […]
Continue readingLone Grey Wolf Wanders into California, First Since 1924
By BETTINA BOXALL / The Montreal Gazette A GPS colLlar plots the journey of the lone grey wolf, loping over mountains, through forests and across highways. The young male left his pack in northeastern Oregon in early September, setting out to find […]
Continue readingExperts Say Drilling Causes Earthquakes in Ohio
By Thomas J. Sheeran, Cross Posted from StarTribune CLEVELAND — A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist […]
Continue readingProtests over U.S. based Newmont mine resume in Peru
About 1,000 people marched in the Andean city of Cajamarca against the gold mine proposed by the U.S. miner and its Peruvian partner, Buenaventura. The government says the largest mining investment ever in Peru would generate thousands of jobs, but opponents of […]
Continue readingTunisian Environmentalist Protest For Endangered Species
by Sana Ajmi / Tunisia Live On December 30, a number of environmental groups held a protest in front of Tunisia’s Qatari Embassy. These organizations have called upon the new government, and various civil society groups, to halt the hunting of Tunisia’s endangered species practiced primarily by wealthy citzens […]
Continue readingYellowstone Wolves Help Trees Rebound
by Matthew Brown Gray Wolf BILLINGS,Mont. — Scientists say in a new study that the return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park by curbing foraging elk herds that prevented new aspen, willow and […]
Continue readingObama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill on New Year’s Eve
by Michael McAuliff Indefinite military detention of Americans became the law of the land Saturday, as President Barack Obama signed a defense bill that codified that authority, even as he said he would not use it. The National Defense Authorization Act states […]
Continue readingOccupy Retakes Zuccotti Park As Cops Distracted by New Year’s Eve in New York
Hundreds of anti-wall street protesters have made use of the massive police presence in Times Square on New Year’s Eve to retake their former campsite at Zuccotti Park in New York. The demonstrators took some of the metal barricades that surrounded the […]
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