Australian Greens spokesperson assisting on Defence - Senator Scott Ludlam. 23 July 2013.
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says the US bombing of the Great Barrier Reef has sparked two peace protestors to enter the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area today to disrupt the Talisman Sabre training exercises.
The West Paupan Freedom Flotilla sets out on the first leg of its epic journey from Lake Eyre to
the warm waters of Merauke, West Papua on July 16, 2013.
People from across Australia supporting their West Papuan brothers and sisters will meet Uncle
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna (Lake Eyre) Elder and peacemaker, at the shores of Lake Eyre in South
Australia on July 20 to collect the ceremonial water to take on their journey to West Papua.
The arrival of West Papuan asylum seekers to Australia's shores over a decade ago meant that the
June 2013, with now 4 years of military coup regime in Honduras.....
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
News Shorts from June 2013 – the mining bomb / model cities becoming more for real / etc
Mining – a bomb waiting to explode. Mining law and environmental destruction including of protected areas
For a short time my first documentary, Anima Mundi - Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the the Gaia theory, is available to watch for free at Culture Unplugged, an online film festival. Anima Mundi is signed with a US distributor who has ripped me off, thus I have allowed the film to be shown free in their licensed territories by the festival. Click the link to watch: www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/11753/Anima-Mundi Please vote for Anima Mundi.
Honduras coup update May 2013........
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
Almost 4 years into the coup, Honduras' war against farmers continue, with at least seven organised farmers assassinated in May 2013..
Political persecution in May 2013
Summary of known political killings this May 2013 in Honduras:
2 farmers in El Achiote, Aguan, Humberto MartĂnez and CelĂn Ochoa were murdered by hitmen on 5/5/13
Los Laureles farmers coop president of MUCA, José Omar Pérez Menjivar, was assassinated by palm oil hitmen on 11/5/13
Investigating claims of near-term extinction for humans. Clips from Guy McPherson, John D. Cox, Dr. David Archer. Interview w. John Michael Greer. Analysis of predictions by Malcolm Light of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG). Radio Ecoshock 130605 1 hour.
Download/listen here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130605_Show_LoFi.mp3
ARE WE THE LAST GENERATION?
PRESS RELEASE - for immediate release
United Natures - a United Nations of all species
Directed by Peter Charles Downey
Release June 1st 2013.
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
Honduras Coup Update, April 2013
News of Political Persecution in April 2013
Summary of Political Assassinations in April 2013 – 4 farmers and a human rights volunteer
Three farmers of Dos Bocas community in Santa Rosa de Aguan: Wilfredo Cartagena Castillo (28), Edwin Geovanni Rivera Castillo (18) and Wilmer Rivera Castillo (15) were murdered by hitmen in their own home on 3/4/13.
Also at Dos Bocas, hitmen murdered farmers’ leader Alfronzo Vasquez Bonilla in his home on 21/4/13.
A small group including Bill Gates, worried climate scientists, some nuclear weapons boys, and multinational oil companies want to "save" the climate with geoengineering. They are talking about a "shield" which would dampen the sun, leading to whiter skies, instead of blue.
Maybe we will get so desperate we'll beg them to do it? Then we can just keep on burning good old Australian coal!
Australian author Clive Hamilton tells all. Audio interview from Radio Ecoshock 25 minutes.
While much scientific and public attention has focussed on the many species endangered or on the brink of extinction like Carnaby's cockatoo, the impacts of climate change on species biodiversity are much larger. A landmark study looking at nearly 50,000 common species with widespread ranges has determined that half of these animals and two thirds of the examined plant species will lose more than half their range in the next 70 years, by 2080, if nothing is done to slow down the rate of global warming through cutting carbon emissions. We are truly in the middle of a biodiversity crisis with habitat loss and climate change causing the 6th mass extinction
