Belo Monte : judge halts destruction

Belo Monte Nao — judge halts work on genocidal dam

A judge in Brazil has ordered a halt to construction of a multi-billion-dollar dam project in the Amazon region.

Judge Carlos Castro Martins barred any work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river.

He ruled in favour of a fisheries group which argued that the Belo Monte dam would affect local fish stocks and could harm indigenous families who make a living from fishing.

The government says the dam is crucial to meeting growing energy needs. Judge Martins barred the Norte Energia company behind the project from “building a port, using explosives, installing dikes, building canals and any other infrastructure work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu river, thereby affecting local fish stocks”.

Legal battle

He said the building of canals and dikes could have negative repercussions for river communities living off small-scale fishing.The judge said building work currently underway on accommodation blocks for the project’s many workers could continue as it would not interfere with the flow of the river.

The consortium behind the project will appeal against the decision.

Now is the moment to escalate the campaign as this will probably be only a temporary victory

Climate Chaos: New monster Typhoon Nalgae to hit Luzon

The hotter seas, provoked by global warming are causing tropical storms to mushroom into giant typhoons. Luzon is to be hit twice in a week, threatening 38 million people

As Philippine was observing commemorations for the nearly 700 people killed during the 2009′s typhoon Ketsana, which dumped a month’s rainfall in just 12 hours, powerful typhoon Nesat smashed the country’s coastline. Nesat has killed some 31 people in the country; with winds gusting to 93 mph (150 kph) and rainfall above 100 mm, the country’s capital Manila was completely brought to standstill on September 26 with at least 111,000 people immediately evacuated from the Albay province. Nesat is the 17th tropical storm and the 8th typhoon of the current year. Nesat was a dangerous category-3 hurricane that is still active (September 28) and moving towards Vietnam and adjoining China now after devastating Philippines.

But now another “expected” monster is forming in the Pacific!There had been a total of 32 tropical depressions in the western Pacific ocean during the current year.

Updates regarding Typhoon Nalgae (also known as Quiel)

It is the 19th tropical storm of the current year, it is the 9th typhoon. Tropical storm Nalgae intensified into a category-1 hurricane and now 1, 195 km ENE of Manila. The storm has continued to move westwards. It is expected to further intensify into a category-2 hurricane due to favorable outflow and warm sea temperatures on late Friday/early Saturday, its affect will mostly start by Friday late or Saturday.

Latest: Nalgae is strengthening phenomenally due to temperatures of 30C in The Phillipine Sea. Some reports estimate it will strike Luzon as a Category 4 Hurricane, with winds to 250kph. Some predict it will then swerve North, sparing Vietnam, but threatening Hong Kong

YU55 asteroid to ‘near miss’ Earth, Nov.8th.

YU55 is a black 400 metre sphere

“Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years, according to NASA. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type will not happen again until 2028

The 1300-foot-wide (400 metres) asteroid, which is more than one and a half times the length of a soccer pitch, will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth on November 8, 2011.

Discovered on December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson, Arizona, 2005 YU55 is believed to be a very dark, nearly spherical object.

NASA says it will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. GMT) on Thursday 29 Sept 2011 to ‘reveal near-Earth asteroid findings ‘.

The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that the ESA is planning to fire an ‘impactor’ satellite into a ‘test’ asteroid in 2015 to see if the object’s trajectory can be altered.

In late June 2011, earth experienced one of its closest encounters with an asteroid in recent years. But as NASA indicated in the days ahead of the ‘cosmic close call’, the encounter was so close that Earth’s gravity sharply altered the asteroid’s trajectory and prevented the space rock from impacting the planet.

Tipnis Victoria! Marchers freed/ Highway Stopped!

Bolivia’s Evo Morales suspends Amazon road project

Protesters clash with police officers in La Paz, Bolivia on Monday

Allegations of police violence towards protesters triggered further protests in Bolivian cities

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Tipnis: Brutal Represión/gas,golpes,desaparecidos

Brutal e inhumana represión a la VIII Marcha Indígena

(Comisión de Comunicación de la Marcha).- Hoy 25 de septiembre a horas 16:30 se inició un operativo policial y/o militar de cerco sobre el campamento del puente San Miguel a 5 Km de Yucumo, donde estaban descansando alrededor de 800 marchistas, incluyendo más de dos centenares de niños y bebés.

Alrededor de las 17 horas empezó una despiadada gasificación contra la gente indefensa, lo que provocó una confusión total y por ese motivo empezaron a extraviarse y desaparecer muchos de los niños que estaban ahí acampados junto a sus madres.

Posteriormente efectivos de la policía procedieron a perseguir a la gente, a acorralarlos, golpearlos, quemando el campamento, gasificando mujeres embarazadas y deteniendo enseres personales de la prensa, obligaron a la gente a subir a camionetas para de esta manera, digna de la peor de las dictaduras, intervenir y acabar con la marcha.

Posteriormente estas personas fueron obligadas a subir a buses que en número de 8 partieron con dirección a Yucumo, obligados por el bloqueo de caminos que ya esta efectuándose en San Borja, donde la población salió a la calle enardecida una vez que circuló la noticia de la intervención a la marcha……..

SIGUE LEENDO AQUI http://isiborosecure.blogspot.com/2011/09/brutal-e-inhumana-represion-la-viii.html

noticia anterior aqui https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/tipnis-marcha-detenidocob-huelgasolidaridad-masiva/

LATEST/ULTIMA..VICTORY/ VICTORIA.. clic here/aquí https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/tipnis-victoria-marchers-freed-highway-stopped/

Tipnis:Marchers blocked/Solidarity strike/Sign to support.

Show your support for the Indigenous Peoples of TIPNIS! Avaaz.orghas sponsored a petition in support of the ongoing march to defend the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and

National Park (TIPNIS) in Bolivia. Poster from “Salvemos al Tipnis” on facebook

If you haven’t already signed the petition, please do so now! Visit: http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_tipnis

Since August 15, 2011, Indigenous Peoples from the TIPNIS have been marching against a new highway that the government of Bolivia wants to build through the protected territory.

So far, more than 1,500 people have joined the 375-mile journey from the eastern lowlands of Bolivia to La Paz–a number that’s growing by the day.

Sadly, President Evo Morales has responded to the march by labeling the protesters “enemies of the nation.” He is also trying to discredit the protesters by portraying them as being confused by NGOs. He even tried to denounce the march as another strategy of US imperialism.

As of late, this misleading rhetoric has turned into action. According to NACLA,

“The government has sent in 450 federal police for the stated purpose of avoiding a confrontation. Rather than guarantee the marchers’ safe passage, the police have prevented them from advancing and, according to news reports, have impeded their access to water, while the colonists have blocked delivery of other supplies. The colonists contend, and the government agrees, that some of the indigenous groups’ demands ‘violate their rights,’ and should be dropped before the march is allowed to proceed.”

At this point, there’s no telling what will happen next. Sufficed to say, the international community should be on alert for the worst possible outcome.

UPDATES
For news and updates on the situation, visit: IsiboroSécure, TIPNISResiste, SomosSur, Fundación Tierra, CIDOB, and CEJIS and Bolivian Thoughts.

You can also find updates on facebook: TIPNIS en Resistencia“, “Amigos del TIPNIS” and Salvemos al Tipnis.