by: L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
After banning the herbicides clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam, three years ago, Europe is already beginning to see a resurgence in bee populations. All three of these herbicides are still being used in the USA, where honeybee populations continue to rapidly decline.
If the rest of the world doesn’t begin cutting back on herbicide use significantly, as Europe has already started to do, then pollination of important vegetable and herb crops will likely diminish by 33 percent or more in the coming decade.
This will directly influence agricultural economy, limiting the availability of a large assortment of healthy crops that were once made readily available through the tedious work of natural pollinators.
Nature’s best pest control mechanisms already coexist in the environment. By continuing to take wide scale chemical approaches to the annihilation of pests, we throw off the intricate balance that is needed to sustain healthy ecosystems for future agricultural abundance. Continue reading “Bees in Europe recover after pesticides restricted”
Source – geopolitics.co
– The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is not just meant to isolate China from global trade but to weaken what’s left of the protective trade barriers that nations are struggling to sustain.
It’s not only that republics have long been reduced covertly to corporation, they are also waging an open war on the minimum safety, health and environmental regulations which are still keeping the planet from complete devastation, and the population, from annihilating each other through economic starvation.
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The new trade negotiations – TTIP – sound dull. It combines the US and EU markets to make the process of fleecing the sheep simpler and cheaper for the wolves. Standard procedure, you may say – and you would be right.
But what is interesting is that any pretense at democracy has been dropped from the propaganda…
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For years, the government and the prefecture of Calais have been destroying living places. For years, people in Calais have been assaulted by police and fascists and have had their belongings destroyed . For years, people are forced to live in fear and insecurity because they are foreigners.
The jungle is a ghetto, created by the government following the evictions of squats and other jungles. People live there together in an autonomous way, in diversity and community, in sometimes filthy conditions, where violence and racism are always present. It would be easy to use the rhetoric of pity and victimisation that some associations like, just as easy as it would be to condemn the jungle for being dysfunctional. For better or worse, the jungle is a space where people can live , and now they have to fight for this space. Even if the jungle is precarious, it is still…
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This video says about itself:
Greece: Protesters rally against EU-Turkey refugee deal in Lesbos
26 March 2016
Protesters rallied in Mytilene port on the island of Lesbos on Saturday against the agreement between the EU and Turkey for the return of refugees.
Refugees, local residents and volunteers from NGOs marched in solidarity with refugees and to denounce the EU’s refugee policies and NATO’s involvement in tackling the refugee crisis.
Starting from the port, protesters marched through the city to stop by a Greek Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy building, where police were deployed to prevent any violent incidents. The protesters then marched back to the port.
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From Free Oso Blanco:
Please take sixty seconds of your day and email Hazelton USP at HAX/ExecAssistant@bop.gov We have not had success calling this facility but we have had responses by email. In your email, state you are checking in on Byron Chubbuck #07909051. He has not had any rec time in over TWO months. You know that he very much wants his rec time and that he would not turn it down (that is the early excuse – that he’s turning it down). Also express concerns over his mail, legal and personal, being mishandled.
Your tone can be professional or rude or sweet or whatever but please write to them. It really makes a difference. Also, you may want to cc: your email to the regional office in charge of Hazelton. That email address is mxro/execassistant@bop.gov
This is an ongoing campaign so if you are reading this…
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