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As the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff moves forward, interim President Michel Temer and his newly appointed ministers are attempting to put a stop to the protection of indigenous lands. Continue reading “Brazil Coup: Indians protest Law to “Undo” Land rights Progress by”
by Aimée Lutkin from Jezebel with thanks
Burying beetles mate by choosing a decaying animal carcass to fornicate next to, then laying their larvae in its rotting flesh. Hot!
After the passion dies away, beetles are much like humans: it’s time to take care of the kids, and inevitably, the sex life tapers off. Scientists at the University of Ulm in Germany have been studying how these co-parents make it work., and behavioral ecologist Sandra Steige says, “It is quite surprising… and somehow intriguing.” Continue reading “Lady Beetles make ‘Anti-Aphrodisiac’ to Keep Dude Beetles Focused on Raising the Kids”
from Ma’an News by Richard Edmondson
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Newly-appointed Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman Thursday issued an order to suspend the return of all Palestinian bodies killed during suspected attacks in response to a shooting in Tel Aviv on Wednesday that left four Israelis killed and an additional six injured.
Israel extends detention of Palestinian clown Circus performer set to be held for another six months without trial or charge under administrative detention.
According to Israeli news agency Haaretz, the ultra-right defense minister issued the order following a security cabinet meeting to discuss government responses to Wednesday’s attack. Continue reading “Israel Intends to Keep Bodies of Victims.. and Do Whatever with Them”
Judge Georgy Serebryanikov sentenced 31-year-old local resident Elizaveta Tsvetkova to a year of corrective labor for disseminating leaflets criticizing the police, reports Caucasian Knot. As published on the court’s website, the verdict stipulates that fifteen percent of Tsvetkova’s wages will be docked by the state for a year. The activist has also been charged 6,000 rubles in court costs.
Serebryanikov found the defendant guilty under Criminal Code Article 281.2 (incitement of hatred or enmity toward the social group “police officers”), which stipulates a maximum punishment of four years in a penal colony.
During closing arguments on May 16, Taganrog Deputy Chief Prosecutor Vadim Dikaryov asked that Tsetkova be sentenced to one year in a work-release colony. Serebryanikov thus imposed a lighter sentence than was requested by the prosecution.
The activist, however, pleaded not guilty. During her closing statement, on May 27, she stressed she had protested the illegal actions of law enforcement officers. She reminded Judge Serebryanikov of high-profile criminal cases against policemen, including the cases of Major Denis Yevsyukov and the Dalny police station in Kazan. Continue reading “Russian anarchist Svetlana Tsvetkova gets one year ‘corrective labor’ for leaflet about police”
“Leonard Peltier is making an appeal for executive clemency to the Obama administration having already served 40 years of his sentence and being in poor health. He is a great asset rather than a threat to society. I urge people to join me in petitioning President Obama for clemency before the end of his term. I hope so much that this elder statesman for the Earth will be allowed to return home to his loved ones.”
-Marius Mason
For more info: International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
by Dr Robin Russell-Jones from the ecologist with thanks
We have been unofficially informed that the CCC has accepted our data on fugitive emissions of methane – and that shale gas is twice as bad as coal from a climate change perspective. In other words fracking is likely to be banned.
Fracking has aroused huge controversy in the UK, mainly in England, as there are moratoriums on fracking in Scotland and Wales.
There is very little public support for fracking and virtually no local support with anti-fracking groups springing up wherever fracking companies apply for permission to drill. Continue reading “The Methane Bomb: New Proof that Frack Gas is Twice as Bad as Coal for Climate”
By Arina TSUKANOVA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 11.06.2016
The 13th report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine between 16 November 2015 and 15 February 2016, when the Minsk Agreements were in force, has come as a shock to Kiev.
According to the UN, more than three million people live in the areas directly affected by the conflict. The exact number of people who have left Ukraine-controlled territory is still unknown, although rough estimates range from 800,000 to 1,000,000 people. The Ukrainian government has estimated that more than a million people have left southeast Ukraine for Russia, Belarus and Europe. This figure does not match that of the Russian federal migration service, however: in 2015, around four million Ukrainians crossed the border, with nearly 2.6 million settling in Russia…
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