Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial. For Collecting Rainwater on His Property. (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) – A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Ore., says he plans to appeal his conviction in Jackson County (Ore.) Circuit Court on nine misdemeanor charges under a 1925 law for having what state water managers called “three illegal reservoirs” on his property – and for filling the reservoirs with rainwater and snow runoff. “The government is bullying,” Harrington told CNSNews.com in an interview Thursday. Aurora Shooting - We’ve Seen This Before.
Ottawa shrugs off UN warning on hunger and nutrition. The UN’s right-to-food envoy is raising the alarm about hunger and poor diets in Canada, but the federal government says he’s wasting his breath.
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, has just wrapped up an official 11-day investigation into food security in Canada. He has concluded that Canada is flouting its international human-rights obligations by ignoring hunger within its own borders, even as 800,000 households here don’t have the wherewithal to ensure they can put proper food on the table. “What I’ve seen in Canada is a system that presents barriers for the poor to access nutritious diets and that tolerates increased inequalities between rich and poor, and aboriginal (and) non-aboriginal peoples,” Mr. De Schutter said. He said he was particularly concerned about the large number of people living on social assistance who see their income drained away by housing, and can’t afford to provide an adequate diet for their families.
Mr. Mr. What Happened to Canada? What happened to Canada?
It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. An Open Letter to the World on the Governmental Destruction of the Environment in Canada « Deciphering Science. Dear Everyone, My name is Naomi.
I am Canadian. I worked for Environment Canada, our federal environmental department, for several years before our current Conservative leadership (under Stephen Harper) began decimating environmentalism in Canada. I, along with thousands and thousands of federal science employees lost any hope of future work. Their attitude towards the environment is ‘avoid research that contradicts the economic growth, particularly of the oil sands’.
Every day in Canada, new information about their vendetta on science and the environment becomes quietly public and keeps piling up. B.C. legislation would redefine framework on first nations projects. The B.C. government is prepared to roll out proposed legislation on Thursday to define the ground rules for the construction of major economic projects on federal reserve lands – including a proposed liquefied natural gas plant that is key to Premier Christy Clark’s job plan.
The law would establish a regulatory framework to ensure provincial laws are followed on major first nations’ projects. It is expected to address specific projects including the Haisla First Nation’s joint venture with LNG Partners of Texas. Ms. Clark is bullish on LNG – natural gas that has been cooled to liquid form – as a potential new industry in B.C., and the Haisla are on track to be at the forefront.
But the legislation also offers the first concrete evidence of Ms. I fear for a social explosion: Greeks can't take any more punishment. Helena Smith, who has reported from Athens for more than 20 years, says the country is on the edge of a precipice Despair has enveloped Greece. This weekend the bankrupt nation, for that is what it is, began negotiating the latest act of a drama that many fear will end in catastrophe – financially, socially and politically. In an electric atmosphere, with thousands demonstrating outside parliament, MPs began debating the arduous terms of a €130bn (£110bn) rescue package that the interim prime minister, Lucas Papademos, insists is the only way left to avert economic collapse.
"A disorderly default," he said, referring to the 20 March deadline that Greece faces of repaying €14.5bn in maturing debt, "would plunge our country in a disastrous adventure. It would create conditions of uncontrolled economic chaos and social explosion. " Celente - The Good, Really Bad And Very Ugly. KINGSTON, NY, 11 January 2012 - Are you ready for a 2012 that will be "Good" for the well-prepared, really "Bad" for wishful thinkers, and very "Ugly" for the see-nothings and do-nothings those with their heads in the sand who blindly trust their leaders?
A few weeks ago we sent you a recap of the Trends Journal's "Top Trends 2011" forecasts. There is very little in today's headline news that was not in last year's Trends Journal forecasts. The newly released Top 12 Trends 2012 cuts through the hype, confusion and political baloney. The rise of Totalitarianism in Canada: A Time to Act « thebishopsviews. Dear Friends:
