WorldNetDaily: U.N. leader: Darfur slaughter triggered by global warming

WorldNetDaily: U.N. leader: Darfur slaughter triggered by global warming:
"U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blames the ethnic and religious violence in Darfur on global warming and insists more conflicts of this kind are coming because of climate change.

'The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,' Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column."

Whether an ecological crisis is to blame or not in Dafur, as the Earth warms, there will conflicts developing over the control of natural resources, especially water and food.

Deep Sea News : Munitions Dumping at Sea

Deep Sea News : Munitions Dumping at Sea: "It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. 'The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.' "

Wow, I don't even know what to say about this. Don't we already have enough environmental issues going on? They mention later in the text how hundreds of dolphins washed up on shore, dead, with burns similar to the ones created by mustard-gas.

AlterNet: Environment: Colony Collapse: Do Massive Bee Die-Offs Mean an End to Our Food System as We Know it?

AlterNet: Environment: Colony Collapse: Do Massive Bee Die-Offs Mean an End to Our Food System as We Know it?: "What is so serious is not only that the bees themselves are dying off without a smoking gun present, but that most people have no idea of the role they play in the food supply at large. Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of America's crops, and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees."

This is quite a disturbing phenomenon. In this article they mainly discuss the hives of commercial beekeepers, but this is also happening in the natural bee world. We could have serious problems if this trend does not change. Are our environmental practices to blame, or, possibly, our genetically engineered crops?

AlterNet: Environment: Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé for Your Bottled Water

AlterNet: Environment: Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé for Your Bottled Water:

"Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry."


The deal mentioned in the article has Nestle buying the water for .000087 cents a gallon. When it leaves the store shelf, the price is 10.32 dollars a gallon. We are letting the corporations control and profit from a huge chunk of our water supply, that sounds like a great idea. To top it off, it is because it is trendy to buy your water. The more expensive it is, the better it must taste.