The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have announced new steps to save the Monarch butterfly. The exquisite Monarch butterfly is extremely important for biodiversity, but sadly their numbers have been falling dramatically for 20 years due to changes in farming practices that have affected the availability of their main food source, milkweed. RT reports: The beautiful monarch butterfly, …[continue reading]
A few hours before the UK’s first air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq, the home secretary, Theresa May, warned the Tory party conference that IS could become the “world’s first truly terrorist state“. May said that IS could realise the “often-prophesied” threat of attacking western enemies with chemical and nuclear weapons. Interesting because, …[continue reading]
he environmental organization Greenpeace have released data that shows the Fukushima disaster in Japan continues to unleash deadly radiation that is hundreds of times higher than the public are being told. The amount of radioactive substances leaking into the sea is hundreds of times higher than before the disaster, according to the Greenpeace report. Rt.com reports: …[continue reading]
Germany’s largest public TV station, ZDF heute, stunned millions of viewers during a report from the ground in Syria after claiming the chemical attack in Douma was ‘staged’. Brave veteran reporter, Uli Gack, interviewed multiple eyewitnesses who all refuted Western reports of an April 7 chemical weapons attack. In a moment of refreshing honesty, …[continue reading]
A moon rock given to the Dutch prime minister by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 has turned out to be a fake. Curators at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered that the “lunar rock”, valued at £308,000, was in fact petrified wood. Xandra van Gelder, who …[continue reading]
THE US has dramatically stoked Middle East tensions by claiming it is “highly likely” that Iran is behind the “torpedo attack” on an American-linked oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman today. Both the Front Altair and the Panama-flagged Kokuka Courageous – which was reportedly bombed – burst into flames and were forced to evacuate …[continue reading]
The Government has been accused of making a “charade” of its climate change promises after it emerged it has spent more than €86m to date in buying itself out of international environmental targets. The Dáil’s public accounts committee outlined the situation after the National Treasury Management Agency confirmed the figures and said another €66.5m may …[continue reading]
FROM THE EMPIRE FILES On this day in 1898, the Philippines declared Independence from Spain – which was followed by a US invasion and occupation. Mark Twain opposed it. It was America’s first Vietnam. A report from the Empire Files. The U.S. Occupation (1898-1946) The first Philippine Republic was short-lived. Spain had lost a …[continue reading]
n activist who opposed genetically engineered mosquitoes has been found dead in the swimming pool of a Washington D.C. hotel, just hours before she was due to submit a petition with over 200,000 signatures to the EPA. Derrick Broze of Activist Post has investigated the story and spoken to a close friend of the victim, …[continue reading]
A jury delivered a shock guilty verdict on paedophile ring whistleblower, Melanie Shaw, yesterday, accused of starting a shed fire and throwing paint on a neighbour’s home in Nottingham, England. Observers watched with incredulity as Judge Michael Pert QC announced the news, resulting in a conviction of arson – reckless as to whether life was endangered, on February …[continue reading]