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Category Archives: whistleblowers
Albany Pro-Fracking Rally
“Advocates” of the poisonous fracking practice were bused into Albany, NY.
In the book, Not in Our Backyards! by Nicholas Freudenberg (1984), the author notes the long history of corporate owners pitting unions (workers) against environmentalists. Some union members saw the environmentalists as elitists. They feared job loss if the company picked up and moved their jobs to another area or another country that would be more “friendly”. This fear was not unfounded, as many companies did just that. The threat was very real.
From this article, that blackmail is still at work–forcing people to choose having income or taking a risk with theirs and their family’s health. It’s only after a tragedy occurs that they realize they gained a little at first, but lost their precious health or livestock or poisoned their land or water forever.
Artists Against Fracking website here. Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon beg Gov. Cuomo not to rush into allowing fracking.
Oh, and let’s not forget the resulting earthquakes linked to fracking…nobody seems to want to address that issue.
Here’s a good article from Bloomberg summarizing it.
It is stunning that energy companies who violate the rules over and over again, and again, are allowed to continue. Why?
Oh, and this just adds to the total picture of unethical behavior and lack of accountability. And this stuff has been going on since the beginning of the oil industry—so why isn’t something done to correct it?
Koch lawsuit
An former executive of the Koch’s has filed suit against William Koch. I wonder if Kochs can buy their way out of this one?
Stay tuned….
Vandana Shiva
More from the organic farmers’s group–this article on Vandana Shiva, an intelligent, feminist activist who is a delight to watch whenever she appears on DN! She doesn’t back down and she has sound arguments to all the corporate-speak.
From the article:
Why do you refer to the term seed slavery?
In another time, some people thought it was alright to own other people as slaves. In our times some corporations think it is alright to own life on earth through patents and intellectual property rights (IPR). Patents are granted for inventions, and life is not an invention. These IPR monopolies on seeds are also creating a new bondage and dependency for farmers who are getting trapped in debt to pay royalties. This is why 270,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide.
Word.
Be sure to click on the Puztai link. Wow. This falls under “if you have nothing to hide…” then why are you trying to quash this information and silence a scientist who made such a discovery…?
Not that this is news…
Okay, we know there’s a problem. What I want is a solution. Accountability. Somebody going to jail over civil rights violations.
This is a good start…
Aung San Suu Kyi accept the Peace Prize
“When the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to me they were recognising that the oppressed and the isolated in Burma were also a part of the world; they were recognising the oneness of humanity … The Nobel peace prize opened up a door in my heart.”
Manning defense not getting 250,000 pages of documents
I’m glad to see Bradley Manning has a good lawyer that is willing to go toe-to-toe. Good for him.
If you read the comments section, there’s a poster who mentions that one can take the flag lapel pins and turn them upside down…as a symbol that the country is in distress.
…hmm…I recently inherited one from my mother’s collection… ::idea starts to roll around in head::
Protests against chemicals
The stroller brigade went to DC to protest the non-transparency of chemicals on our health and the environment. Link to info here.
Glad to see it. I am dumbfounded on a daily basis at the apathy by those around me to the onslaught of toxins and how much damage they are doing not only to us but the environment.
People will tell me they’re taking x amount of prescription drugs, while drinking cokes, eating junk food, etc., while their bodies are already being assaulted. One resident of the building came outside, saying he wanted to “get some fresh air”….while dragging on a cigarette…
…I had to stifle myself to keep from cracking up laughing…
It’s just mindboggling how they don’t see any connection between how poorly they feel and the chemical soup we’re in.
I’ve noticed a change in people’s behavior when they saturate the skies with chemtrails…is anybody investigating that?
Here is a link exploring that. There aren’t a lot of credible sources out there on this issue–but just from my personal observation, I think they are affecting people’s health. Mercury poisoning makes one much, much more sensitive to toxins–car exhaust, perfumes, chemical cleaners, electro-magnetic fields (at one point, I couldn’t talk on a cell phone without getting a migraine the next day)etc.–and when they spray this junk in the air, I have a reaction to it.
One link I read said that the chemtrails contain aluminum and barium–those two metals are hazardous to one’s health–so I went looking for more info on it and found this.
I’m afraid that it will be like the onslaught of diseases after introduction of chemicals–mainly cancer that takes many years to manifest. I can say, as a canary in the coal mine, my reaction is a warning of how it is affecting folks who are not mercury toxic…
Magnifying glass
Well, now it’s even easier for spying on and shooting innocent people. Coming to FW in October…can’t wait. (The city was on Fire Friday–three deadly shootings over night with a state police officer shooting someone dead.)
More from the NATO summit–Iraq Veterans Against the War give back their medals. Good for them. It’s not easy for them, I’m sure, as it is hard for anyone in this society to speak out against war–with the media promoting war as patriotic (all you protestors are just dirty commie hippies) and the use of media by the Defense Dept to promote it, as well.
Here’s a good clip from PRWatch on FakeNews.
And, lastly, is this. Talk about turning the technology around…