It seems intuitive that forests would provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms. Yet, in one of the longest-running studies of tropical wildlife populations in the world, Stanford researchers found that over 18 years, smaller farms with varying crop types – interspersed with patches or ribbons of forest – sustain many forest-dependent bird populations…

Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity

The Intercept: Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too On September 11, 2023, The Intercept posted Seth Stern’s article “Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too“. The first paragraph is included below and the entire article can be read on The Intercept‘s website. THE DISTURBING INDICTMENT of 61 people who protested the Georgia police training facility commonly referred…

The Intercept: Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too

By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | September 13, 2023 Britain’s schools are not just out for summer. Autumn too, apparently. Hundreds of schools across England are being forced to close because they are in danger of falling down on the heads of children. That issue alone says a lot about the decrepit condition of Britain […]

Decrepit Britain… Schools Collapsing and Challenger Tanks Blown to Smithereens

Los expertos revelan que nuestro planeta ha superado seis de los nueve límites planetarios debido, en parte, a las actividades del ser humano. Un grupo de 29 científicos de ochos países ha advertido que la Tierra está fuera del “espacio operativo seguro” para la humanidad, según un artículo publicado este miércoles en la revista Science Advances. […]

La Tierra está fuera del «espacio operativo seguro» para la humanidad, alertan los científicos

Who is responsible?.. ‘We can be 100% sure that the derelict state of Derna Wadi’s 2 dams would have been unthinkable if Gadaffi’s rich and ‘water savvy’ Libya had not been totally destroyed by the terrorist NATO war machine…‘

At least 5,300 people reported dead and 10,000 are missing.

from thefreeonline on 13th Aug 2023 by news4jax / صحيفة المرصد الليبية / anonhq / apnews / Home

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on September 12, 2023 ©  AP / Jamal Alkomaty

Massive flash flooding brought on by a fierce Mediterranean storm that wrecked dams and swept whole neighborhoods into the sea as it lashed Libya on Monday has left at least 5,300 people dead, according to the latest government estimate.

دانيال يضرب مدن شمال شرق ليبيا و سيول جارفة ميديكان المتوسط 2023#Daniel pic.twitter.com/wTdy0iHt8I

— الطقس weather (رتويت) لاخبار و امطار و سيول و ربيع (@attaqsvb) September 10, 2023

Libya faces catastrophic flooding death toll

State-run media outlet LANA reported on Tuesday that the divided country’s eastern government, based in Tobruk, announced the updated death toll through its interior ministry and pegged the number of people still missing at 10,000. As many as 6,000 people are reportedly unaccounted for in the coastal city of Derna in northeastern Libya alone.

The storm caused two dams to collapse, sending a wall of water rushing through a wadi toward Derna, which had already been inundated with rain. Many of the city’s buildings, including entire neighborhoods, were washed away. Derna has a population of about 125,000.

The worst flooding from Storm Daniel was in the port city of Derna (population 90,000), where the failures of the nearby Derna and Abu Mansur dams, both about 50 years old, allowed a wall of water to rip through the heart of town along the Wadi Derna, which is a dry riverbed during much of the year.

Lack of maintenance of the Derna-area dams further raised the risk of this week’s catastrophe. As reported by Sky News, research published last year by civil engineer Abdelwanees A R Ashoor (Omar al Mukhtar University) warned that the city’s naturally flood-prone landscape would lead to disaster if the local dams were not properly maintained citing five floods since 1942.

His paper called for immediate steps to ensure regular maintenance of the dams and added: “If a huge flood happens the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city.”

Before NATO destroyed the Libyan state in 2011 it was a rich and successful country, and had just completed the third of 5 stages of the amazing Great Man-Made River Project, Gaddafi’s prestigious project to green the country.

“The network of concrete pipes, which each have a diameter of 4 meters each, stretch more than 3500 kilometers. These pipes are hidden beneath the wilderness of the desert to stop vaporization of the water. There are more than 1000 wells, countless sections of concrete pipes, and 250 million cubic meters of excavation. “

NATO carpet bombed Libya and financed and armed jihadi groups to destroy Gadaffi’s dreams and try to steal the oil, reducing the country to penury and ending construction and maintenance.

Who is responsible for the massive death toll?.. We can be 100% sure that the derelict state of Derna Wadi’s 2 dams would have been unthinkable if Gadaffi’s rich and ‘water savvy’ Libya had not been totally destroyed by the terrorist NATO war machine.

The first dam is about 12km upstream from the city where two river valleys converge, and footage has shown it has been completely destroyed.

After breaching the first dam, the floodwater continued downstream along the canyon, sweeping away roads, bridges and buildings, and the second, smashing into and through the city, tearing down whole apartment blocks and washing them into the sea.

“Bodies are lying everywhere – in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings,” civil aviation minister Hichem Abu Chkiouat told Reuters on Tuesday. “I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared. Many, many buildings have collapsed.”

فيديو > جانب من الدمار الذي لحق بالمباني المجاورة للوادي في #درنة. #ليبيا #المرصد pic.twitter.com/gwEWEpdL8y

— صحيفة المرصد الليبية (@ObservatoryLY) September 11, 2023

TALE OF A NEGLECTED CITY

In the aftermath of Gaddafi’s NATO orchestrated murder in 2011, Derna disintegrated into a hub for Islamist extremist groups, was bombarded by Egyptian airstrikes and later besieged by forces loyal to Hiftar. The city was taken by Hiftar’s forces in 2019 but he reportedly remained suspicious and refused investment.

Like other cities in the east of the country, it has not seen much rebuilding or investment since the revolution. Most of its modern infrastructure was constructed during the Gaddafi era, including the toppled Wadi Derna damS, built by a Yugoslav company in the mid 1970s.

Hospitals in Derna have reportedly been knocked out of commission, and their morgues are full. Dead bodies are left on sidewalks outside the morgues, Dr. Anas Barghathy, who is doing volunteer work in Derna, told CNN. “There are no firsthand emergency services,” he said. “People are working at the moment to collect the bodies.”

Türkiye’s government has dispatched humanitarian aid and search and rescue teams to Benghazi to help in the relief effort. Italy and France are among the European countries that have pledged assistance to Libya.

watch AP video here: https://apnews.com/f60ebb51e9754b41913006044d9ad99b

Thousands feared dead after storm in eastern Libya

The disaster came just three days after another North African country, Morocco, was hammered by an earthquake. The death toll there is over 2,900 and counting, making it the country’s deadliest earthquake since at least 1960.

Recovery efforts could be hindered by Libya’s divided chaos. The country has been split into two competing administrations since 2014, a division that occurred after the assassination of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi during a NATO-led terror invasion and bombing campaign in 2011.

Most aid may have to go via Tripoli, negotiating with the rival administration, backed by the Libyan parliament, operating from Tobruk.

Last week was the anniversary of the GREAT ISIS MASSACRE in Deir Ez Zor.. When will the US be kicked out, and what future for the anti-ISIS forces of the SDF/AANES coalition?

العربية(read in arabic) //from thefreeonline on 13th Aug 23 by Omar Abu Layla

August 5, 2014..Islamic State executes 700 people from Syrian al-Shaitat tribe

Justice for the victims of the al-Shaitat massacre is only just starting to emerge, and the international community must do its part.

The specter of the Islamic State continues to conjure up harrowing memories throughout their former areas of operation and control. In the Deir al-Zour province, for example, one memory of violence immediately comes to mind: the massacre carried out against the al-Shaitat tribe in eastern Deir al-Zour.

Every year on the ninth of August, the families of the victims commemorate the massacre, trying to draw the world’s attention to what happened nine years ago at the hands of Daesh

Nevertheless, in the towns of Abu Hamam, al-Kashkiyah and Gharanij—the scene of these deliberate attacks in 2014—there now exists hope for a better future at the economic, social, and security levels in spite of the trauma that continues to haunt its residents.

The al-Shaitat tribe—occupants of the town of Abu Hamam and the surrounding villages of al-Kashkiyah and al-Gharanij—are a sub-branch of the large al-Akidat tribe that extends deep into Iraq as well as Syria.

August 2014 Massacre And Media: ISIS And The massacre Of the Shaitat Tribe …

The arab al-Shaitat tribe made a name for themselves during the period of the Islamic State’s campaign, both in their singular act of resistance against Daesh in the early days of their operation in Syria and in the brutal reprisal Daesh enacted in response. 

Understanding the factors leading up to the massacre and the repercussions that still continue in the region are vital for understanding the legacy of Daesh in Syria, and in working to obtain justice for the victims and their families.

Continue reading “Daesh’s Forgotten Massacre in Deir al-Zour. -Al Shaitat tribe saved by Kurdish led SDF-.”

Every year WORSE… STOP these greedy bastards RACING to destroy Earth…

//from thefreeonline on 13th Sept 23 by e360.yale.edu

If the price of fossil fuels reflected their actual cost, carbon emissions would drop by 43 percent by 2030, and 1.6 million people yearly would be spared an early death from air pollution, the analysis found.

An analysis of policies in 170 countries found that explicit subsidies, such as price caps on fuel, accounted for 18 percent of this total. With Russia’s war on Ukraine roiling energy markets, many governments have placed limits on the price of fossil fuels, giving money back to consumers when prices exceeded those limits.

An All-Time High

The other 82 percent of fossil fuel subsidies were implicit. These included tax breaks for oil firms, but also the unpaid cost of climate change and air pollution as a result of burning fossil fuels.

Consumers do not pay directly for the damage caused by their use of fossil fuels. Overall, undercharging for these damages amounted to 60 percent of subsidies, the analysis found.

Analysts called for phasing out both explicit and implicit subsidies. That would mean eliminating price caps and tax breaks, and also imposing a tax on the consumption of fossil fuels to account for the damage inflicted by their use.

Higher prices, analysts said, would curb the use of fossil fuels, helping to cut pollution, stem climate change, and improve public health.

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A small part of the immense Fossil Fuel Subsidy PROFITS goes to financing and spreading insane CLIMATE DENIAL RELIGION, now flourishing online in the USA – a special insult to those of us who spent a generation campaigning against Climate and Ecocide denial by the US Govt and Corporations…. Now is the time for all Earth lovers to resist…HOWEVER WE CAN!