ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Microplastics worse for crabs and other marine life than previously thought: Enter through gills Posted: 18 Jul 2014 08:56 AM PDT The tiny plastic particles polluting our seas are not only orally ingested by marine creatures, but also enter their systems through their gills, …
James Robertson Newsletter No. 46 – The business-as-usual world of today shows symptoms of “madness”
James Robertson Newsletter No. 46 – April 2014 The full Newsletter can also be viewed at www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm. CONTENTS A New Website Item 1. Introduction 2. Work – In Industrial Civilisation and After 3. Corporations Must Experience Austerity 4. Glimpses of a Possible Future 5. Money: Signs of Progress 6. …
Banking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins
Banking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com March 29, 2014 “As things stand, the banks are the permanent government of the country, whichever party is in power.” – Lord Skidelsky, House of Lords, UK Parliament, 31 March 2011) On …
Better Markets: New Fed rules will protect U.S. taxpayers and the global financial system.
banks to comply with the same capital standards as U.S. global financial system. While the EU criticized the Fed for a rule that will impact a few large European banks, the wall street Journal argued that the vote “could be a race to the top of the regulatory tree,” with the …
California Dries Up as Brown Pushes $15 Billion Tunnel
California’s worsening drought is raising the stakes for a $15 billion plan endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown to build two 30-mile (48-kilometer) water tunnels under an ecologically sensitive river delta east of San Francisco Bay. The tunnels, each as wide as a two-lane interstate highway, would ship water more reliably …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries Posted: 03 Dec 2013 04:11 PM PST Geoscientists have revealed new discoveries about Earth’s development, following a major international expedition that recovered the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean. Antarctic fjords are …
Following Tradition: Top Examples of Indigenous Knowledge Preserving Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services
UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Following Tradition: Top Examples of Indigenous Knowledge Preserving Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services IPBES experts cite importance of ‘co-production’ of information with indigenous people With the planet losing species 100 to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Super-Typhoon Haiyan lashes the Philippines
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Super-Typhoon Haiyan lashes the Philippines Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:18 AM PST Super-Typhoon Haiyan was lashing the central and southern philippines on Nov. 7 bringing maximum sustained winds of a Category 5 hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center website indicates that a Category 5 …
Homeland Security set for next Wall St collapse
By Ellen Brown Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup. An article in the Associated Press in February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. According to an op-ed in Forbes, that’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war …
Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com October 7, 2013 Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup. An article in the Associated Press in February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. According to an op-ed …