A Minnesota judge on Tuesday dismissed all charges against five water protectors arrested last year for protesting Canadian oil giant Enbridge’s plans for its tar sands pipeline to cross the the state’s Shell River in several places.
Opponents of Line 3 on Tuesday welcomed a Minnesota judge’s dismissal of all charges against five water protectors arrested last year for protesting plans to have the tar sands pipeline cross the Shell River in several places.
Framed as a replacement project by Canadian oil giant Enbridge, the new pipeline runs partly along a different route and roughly doubled the capacity of the initial Line 3. It began operating last month after years of construction and Indigenous-led protests.
Enbridge is paying $11M, more than $2M of which will go to the state. https://t.co/dvK5G5u3I3
Minnesota District Judge Doug Clark on Monday dismissed the cases of Cheryl Barnds, Mary Klein, Kelly Maracle, Trish Weber and Barbara With “on grounds that the state had failed to demonstrate probable cause to sustain all charges,” according to Honor the Earth and the legal groups representing the water protectors.
“In doing so, Judge Clark did not reach the Shell River defendants’ treaty-based claims.”
The Idea (Nick Heath) and In Defence of Anarchist Communism represent an important step forward in making the distinctive tradition of anarchist communism more widely known. The authors will be joining forces to discuss their books and answer questions at a book launch on Saturday November 19th, starting at 2 pm at the May Day Rooms in London. The event is sponsored by Housmans Bookshop who will be holding at stall. To register for this free event see: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anarchist-communism-launch-of-two-landmark-books-tickets-458200960407 .
Remember, for example, when Western officials, including US President Joe Biden, were saying that the jab would prevent infection and transmission – Or when the US government spent the better part of two decades repeating that the US was winning in Afghanistan – Or how about the claim that the US wasn’t directly involved in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine
A little-known agency inside the US Department of Homeland Security is on a mighty slippery censorship slope
Partially-censored meeting minutes of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee advising the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security, have been obtained by The Intercept.
** Though the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) shuttered its controversial Disinformation Governance Board, a strategic document reveals the underlying work is ongoing.
** DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
** Facebook created a special portal for DHS and government partners to report disinformation directly.
The documents reveal attempts to conflate the need to protect American “critical infrastructure” from what the committee repeatedly describes as threats of “disinformation” – or rather, “mis-, dis-, and mal-information (MDM).”
The meeting notes describe telecommunications infrastructure (which would include the internet) and public healthcare infrastructure as in need of protection from wrong-speak.
In essence, it keeps up the work of the short-lived and controversial Disinformation Governance Board, which earned the unenviable nickname of the ‘Ministry of Truth’.
The cost of living crisis has hit millions of people hard, with latest reports indicating that 8 million in the UK are struggling to pay their bills, and food prices reaching the highest they’ve been in 40 years. Amid this dire economic climate, the experiences of sex workers have been largely overlooked – but a new campaign aims to change that.
The Hookers Against Hardship campaign comes from a coalition of sex worker collectives across the UK, demanding government action and public support to tackle poverty among sex workers during the current cost of living crisis. Made up of Britain’s major sex worker-led organisations – including SWARM, the English Collective of Prostitutes, Scot-pep, United Sex Workers, Bristol Sex Workers’ Collective and Decrim Now – the campaign draws attention to the ways sex workers are being affected by the crisis, and situates their demands…
Despite inspiring millions of youth to resist galloping Planet Destruction, Greta Thunberg is one of the most reviled and ridiculed people on the internet. One line of hate speech by rabid rightwing boys accuses her of supporting the Orwellian ‘Great Reset’. But now she has condemned the Cop27 Egypt farce and returned to her activist anarcha/ feminist roots
Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg has turned her attention to the political arena, calling for the downfall of capitalism, which she claimed, backed with thousands of peer reviewed research studies, is responsible for climate change.
The 19-year-old climate campaigner launched her book – ‘The Climate Book’ – in London on Sunday night, telling the audience that the world is “never going back to normal again.”
She argued that global warming can only be solved by a “system-wide transformation,” according to a write-up of the event by the Telegraph.
The capitalist system, Thunberg continued, is “defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
“If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting,” she added, before calling the extraction of fossil fuels “racist.”
As some of Thunberg’s critics pointed out online, global living standards have broadly risen under capitalism. Also that carbon emissions have fallen slightly from their incredible peak in the capitalist USA since the turn of the millennium, due largely to farming out dirty industries..
Greta replied to these critics on Wednesday, stating that she is not advocating for a return to “socialism, liberalism, communism, conservatism, centrism, you name it,” which she said “have all failed.”
Thunberg, who has previously been criticized for failing to offer solutions to the problems she outlines, quite rightly did not say what kind of system she would replace capitalism with. It’s not up to her to lay out a power grabbing alternative like the Great Reset globalists
The Fridays For Future, 350.org, Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion and many other Climate protection movements are advocating and creating horizontally organised economic projects which many see as seeds of Post Capitalist society, when Capitalism collapses. Greta Thunberg rightly refuses to which is ‘correct’.
Shooting to fame after she organized a series of school walk-outs in her native Sweden in 2018, Thunberg has since delivered her dramatic predictions of ecological armageddon to lawmakers across the Western world, to UN summits, and to the World Economic Forum’s yearly gatherings at Davos, Switzerland.
WEF founder Klaus Schwab is also an advocate of radically restructuring the global order under total elite control, a vision he calls “the Great Reset.”
Despite spending several years on the globalist circuit, Thunberg will skip the UN COP27 climate conference in Egypt next week, telling her audience that she now views the summit as a “scam” and an example of “greenwashing” – an attempt by politicians to falsely portray themselves as environmentally friendly.
On October 25, BBC News published an absolutely shocking exclusive report revealing that residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolaev (which current officials in Kiev insist should be spelt as “Mykolaiv,” in English) had been without clean drinking water for six months, due to attacks on a pipeline supplying the city.
“Evidence collected” by the British state broadcaster pointed to this being “a deliberate act by Russian forces” intended to cause mass dehydration and death among the local population.
Strangely though, despite all the sound and fury and finger-pointing, the BBC stopped short of condemning the alleged action as an outright war crime, simply noting that “destroying resources vital for civilian life is widely regarded as a violation of international humanitarian law.”
This reluctance seems rather strange, given that the Beeb appears to offer an open-and-shut case, including “satellite imagery and data” showing the pipeline “was deliberately destroyed while under Russian control,” and bold declarations from esteemed military experts that it was a calculated act by Moscow.
The reasons for the BBC’s hesitancy soon become very clear, though. A key part of its case against Russia is that “two separate points on the same pipeline” were “damaged in ways that are consistent with sabotage.” Photos of this damage are provided in the article, at least one being an “exclusive” that was “given” to BBC journalists by unidentified people while in Nikolaev.
How tumult over a draft EPA report on fracking-related water contamination has given Wyoming a pass on fixing groundwater polluted by traditional gas drilling.
Note: This story originally appeared in the Living with Oil and Gas project which features “stories of people whose lives are impacted by oil and gas development.” The situation has yet to be resolved, leaving several Pavillion, Wyoming, families without drinking water. Currently, another freshwater pollution disaster looms as the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has moved to exempt the freshwater Madison Aquifer from protected status in order to allow Aethon Energy to inject millions of gallons of untreated wastewater from the Moneta Divide oil and gas field into it.
Sue Spencer, a hydrogeologist based in Laramie, Wyoming, looks down from a sandy bluff on a two-football-field-sized swath of cleared land that designates a capped natural gas well. Two men in unmarked blue coveralls and…
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