Tag: environment
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#Shocker: Corporate Polluters Are Almost Never Prosecuted For Their Crimes
from grist.org: If you committed a crime in full view of a police officer, you could expect to be arrested — particularly if you persisted in your criminality after being told to cut it out, and if your crime were hurting the people around you. But the same is not true for those other “people” who inhabit…
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Environmental Activists Murders ‘Have Soared Dramatically’
from ibtimes.co.uk: More than 900 environmental activists have been slain in 35 countries over the past decade with very few of their murderers ever likely to be brought to justice, a survey by London-based Global Witness group reported. Global Witness, which reports on links between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses, said the death toll has…
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Fourth Anniversary of Gulf Oil Spill: Wildlife Is Still Suffering from Toxic Cover Up
BP and the Government Decided to Temporarily Hide the Oil by Sinking It with Toxic Chemicals … The Gulf Ecosystem Is Now Paying the Price from washingtonsblog.com: As we noted at the time, and on the first (and here), second and third anniversaries of BP’s Gulf oil spill, BP and the government made the spill…
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New Zealand Ranks First In Environmental, Social Progress
from theguardian.com: New Zealand has come first in a global index that ranks countries by social and environmental performance rather than economic output in a drive to make social progress a priority for politicians and businesses. The Social Progress Index (SPI), published on Thursday, rates 132 countries on more than 50 indicators, including health, sanitation,…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger accused of profiting from deforestation
from independent.co.uk: Arnold Schwarzenegger is facing allegations that a £204bn investment fund that he once held a stake in is a major investor in 20 of the most well-known companies involved in the logging of the world’s rainforests. The Terminator actor reinvented himself as the state of California’s most environmentalist governor during his time in…
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Legalize Illegal Drugs to Save the Rain Forests
from guardianlv.com: The trafficking of illegal drugs is causing deforestation in Central America to occur at an increased rate, according to a report published today in Science, whose authors suggest that reforming current U.S. drug policy and perhaps legalizing illegal drugs could help save the rain forests.
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Freedom Industries, Company in West Virginia Spill, Files for Bankruptcy
One week after W. Va. toxic spill, new owner of Freedom Industries puts firm in bankruptcy* from nytimes.com: Freedom Industries, the West Virginia company whose chemical spill last week tainted the drinking water of more than 300,000 residents in and around Charleston, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday… News reports stated that Freedom Industries…
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New World Next Week: Episode178 – ICC Vs. UK, CFR + The Fed, WV WTF
https://archive.org/download/20140116NewWorldNextWeek178/20140116_NewWorldNextWeek178-b.mp4 Download MP4 NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode178 – ICC Vs. UK, CFR + The Fed, WV WTF Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Devastating Dossier on ‘Abuse’ by UK Forces…
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Vanishing lake in Bosnia is work of devil say terrified villagers
from dailystar.co.uk: The lake drained overnight earlier this year in the hamlet of Sancia. And inexplicably the hole has grown deeper and wider by the day. It now resembles a yawning chasma and none of the locals can determine how deep it actually goes down. Local media say an underground river is to blame for…
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Agenda 21 Land Seizures in US up 100-fold in 10 years
from foodfreedomgroup.com: Coast to Coast AM host George Noory interviews Reid Lance Rosenthal (starting at about 5:30, lasts about 70 mins.), author of Land for Love and Money. A rancher, realtor, and author, Rosenthal talks about Agenda 21 anti-private property edicts, and government encroachment on freedoms. Agenda 21 got its start at a conference of…
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New World Next Week: Bomb Plots, Money Memes, Environmental Editing – April 25, 2013
DOWNLOAD MP3 – NewWorldNextWeek.com: Bomb Plots, Money Memes, Environmental Editing (This is a special audio-only version of ‘New World Next Week’ as James Corbett’s wife went into labor soon after taping. It is unnumbered and will not be made into a video. Thank you.) Welcome to the New World Next Week – the video series…
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New Govt Mandated Lightbulbs A Major Health Hazard
from brasschecktv.com: Remember when the Congress decided to outlaw normal US-made light bulbs in favor of mercury-containing “green” ones made only in China? If dropped and broken, these bulbs require someone in a hazmat suit to clean up. Well, apparently, that’s not all. They cast a light that contributes to skin cancer.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode130 – Polish Plane Crash, GeoUNgineering, Internet Surveillance
Story #1: Poland Denies Explosives Found on Wreck of Crashed Jet // Story #2: Ocean Fertilization Experiment to Make Waves at UN Meeting // Story #3: Police Need ‘New’ Internet Surveillance Tools, Say Chiefs
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Monsanto’s Roundup, Glyphosate Linked to Parkinson’s and more
from naturalsociety.com: We already know the links between herbicides and sterility in men, birth defects, mental illness, obesity and possibly cancer—but now we have something new to add to the nasty effects of pesticides list — Parkinson’s disease and similar neurodegenerative conditions. New research, published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, indicates a connection between…
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World’s Biggest Geoengineering Experiment ‘Violates’ UN Rules
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal.