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Mohawks Become First Tribe to Take Down a Federal Dam in New York

White Wolf Pack
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC

A century after the first commercial dam was built on the St. Regis River, blocking the spawning runs of salmon and sturgeon, the stream once central to the traditional culture of New York's Mohawk Tribe is flowing freely once again.

The removal of the 11-foot-high Hogansburg Dam this fall is the latest in the tribe's decades-long struggle to restore territory defiled by industrial pollution, beginning in the 1980s with PCBs and heavy metals from nearby General Motors, Alcoa and Reynolds Metal plants, a cleanup under federal oversight that's nearly complete.

The St. Regis River project is the first removal of an operating hydroelectric dam in New York state and the nation's first decommissioning of a federally licensed dam by a Native American tribe, federal officials say. Paired with the recent fight of North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux they feared could threaten their water supply, the dam's removal underscores longstanding concern over the health of tribal lands.

"We look at this not only as reclaiming the resources and our land, but also taking back this scar on our landscape that's a constant reminder of those days of exploitation," said Tony David, water resources manager for the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, which the Mohawks call Akwesasne.

Cancer warning label on Roundup clears hurdles in California

Sustainable Pulse
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:26 UTC

California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday.

California would be the first U.S. state to order such labeling if it carries out the proposal.

Monsanto had sued the nation's leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an international health organization based in France.

Monsanto attorney Trenton Norris argued in court Friday that the labels would have immediate financial consequences for the company. He said many consumers would see the labels and stop buying Roundup.

"It will absolutely be used in ways that will harm Monsanto," he said.

After the hearing, the firm said in a statement that it will challenge the tentative ruling.

11 people dead, 3,000 evacuated as wildfires engulf Chilean countryside, foul play suspected (VIDEO)

RT
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:01 UTC

Chile's firefighters are battling to contain 60 infernos in what has been described by the country's president as the worst outbreak of wildfires in the history of the state. Eleven people have died, including five firefighters.

Fires continue to rage in 10 regions stretching almost the entire length of the country, leading to a state of emergency being declared.

An update posted by the Minister of the Interior and Public Security on Sunday says almost 3,000 people have been evacuated while 1,061 homes have been destroyed by the fires.

According to Chile's National Forestry Corporation (CONAF), which manages the country's forestland, 375,347 hectares of land have been affected by the wildfires which began to spread more than a week ago.

Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein being sued again; promised victim entry into fashion school in exchange for sex

Martin Gould
Daily Mail
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:02 UTC

Disgraced Wall Street mogul Jeffrey Epstein is being accused by a woman of luring her into his elaborate sex trafficking enterprise under the ruse he would use his wealth and connections to get her into college.

She has slapped him a federal lawsuit in US District Court in New York demanding damages for forcing her to perform sex acts on him, according to documents filed Thursday and obtained by DailyMail.com.

Using the alias 'Jane Doe 43,' the woman filed a federal lawsuit against Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff and Natalya Malyshev.

She describes then 64-year-old Epstein - then 50 - as a billionaire who usesd his wealth to commit illegal sex crimes in violation of the law and accuses him of having a compulsive sexual preference for young girls as young as 13 and as 'old' as 25.

Comment: Further reading on this slimeball and his high-ranking friends:

Project Duterte: Philippines' war on drugs - Brutal regime or 'necessary clean-up'? (Documentary)

RT
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:10 UTC

Thousands have been killed in the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte unleashed his war on drugs and crime. Street murders without trial, vigilantes joining death squads, cramped jails and destroyed lives: RT's documentary unit combed the streets of the Philippines to hear the voices of both victim and executioner.

Human rights activists working in the Philippines told RT that they are seeing "an alarming increase" in the number of recorded deaths, with widespread allegations of extra judicial killings. The country's capital Manila is frequently awash with bodies - killed by death squads or vigilantes, as well as other special groups who ruthlessly seeking to eradicate the drug threat. Many of the murder victims have distinctive signs such as "pusher" left on their dead bodies.

Texas mosque destroyed in blaze, cause of fire unknown

RT
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:16 UTC

An investigation is underway after a Texas mosque was devastated by a fire on Saturday. With the cause of the blaze still unknown, authorities in Victoria are appealing to the public to not draw hasty conclusions.

The Islamic Center of Victoria was reported to be on fire at around 2 am and was engulfed in flames when emergency services attended the scene, according to the Victoria Advocate.

Firefighters battled the intense flames for four hours before managing to extinguish the flames. No injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but the Victoria Fire Marshal's Office has launched an investigation assisted by the State Fire Marshal's Office and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

A real Nasty Woman: Women's March speaker kidnapped, raped & tortured man to death

Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:43 UTC

Donna Hylton

When the speakers at the Women's March in Washington DC last week said they were "nasty women," they weren't kidding.

One speaker at the march, Donna Hylton, is a convicted felon who took part in the kidnapping, torturing, sodomizing and murder of an old man.

From The Daily Caller:

Hylton, along with three men and three other women, kidnapped 62-year-old real-estate broker Thomas Vigliarolo and held him for ransom, before eventually killing him. As noted in a 1995 Psychology Today article, when asked about forcibly sodomizing the victim with a three foot steel pole, one of Hylton's accomplices replied: "He was a homo anyway."

Comment: Looking nice and saying words that make people feel good is apparently all it takes to become a feminist leader. Nevermind the darkness that lurks under the surface. There are even plans in the works to make a movie about her life.

More police impunity: California cops who shot knife-wielding homeless man 14 times cleared of charges

Nick Cahill
Courthouse News
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC

Robert Mann Sr., right, addresses community members and reporters Friday, Aug. 5th

The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office on Friday found the 2016 killing of a homeless black man by police was justified, and that two officers lawfully shot 18 times at the man after he wielded a knife and ignored their commands.

District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert said Joseph Mann, 51, rushed toward civilians and businesses and taunted pursuing officers before being shot and killed. The 12-page report clears officers John Tennis and Randy Lozoya and notes that Mann was armed with a knife and had methamphetamine in his system.

Schubert said the officers were "permitted to use deadly force to arrest" Mann on the morning of July 11, 2016.

"Considering how he was running, waving his knife around and refusing to surrender, there was a substantial risk that he would cause death or serious bodily injury to others if his apprehension was further delayed," the report states.

The police shooting sparked public outrage in October after the police department released dashboard-camera video depicting a Sacramento police officer saying "fuck this guy" moments before Mann's death. The department only released the video after being pressured by the Sacramento City Council and civil rights activists.

The video showed Mann dodging police and darting across a North Sacramento boulevard as officers appear to be trying to hit him with their police cruisers.

Comment: Excessive force: Dashcam shows mentally-ill man shot 14 times as he flees Sacramento police

City sues Purdue Pharma for pushing oxycontin and causing an opioid epidemic

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:33 UTC

A major pharmaceutical company that was exposed in 2016 for its complicity in wrecking countless lives is now facing a new kind of lawsuit. The city of Everett, Washington has filed suit against Purdue Pharma, claiming it ignored criminal trafficking of huge quantities of the drug OxyContin - in violation of federal law - and primarily caused an opioid epidemic.

According to the LA Times:

"In a complaint in state Superior Court, city lawyers accused Purdue of gross negligence, creating a public nuisance and other misconduct and said the company should pay costs of handling the opioid crisis — a figure that the mayor said could run to tens of millions of dollars — as well as punitive damages."

OxyContin, a patented form of oxycodone which hit the market in 1995, ushered in the era of opioid addiction and brought billions in profits to Purdue Pharma. Owned by the Sackler family, Purdue came to control nearly a third of the U.S. pain pill market through massive marketing and a campaign of deception against doctors and patients.

Purdue identified doctors around the country who were prescribing the most pain medications - even doctors it knew were acting recklessly - and targeted them with a marketing onslaught. It worked, and "from 1997 to 2002 prescriptions of OxyContin for non-cancer pain increased almost tenfold."

Comment: Big Pharma played a massive role in the rising opioid epidemic in the US. Their misdeeds should not go unchecked and they should be held accountable. However, they won't be held accountable. Why? Because they're Big Pharma.

Letter to the editor: 'My experience as a refugee in Germany'

Sott.net
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 19:00 UTC

Dear Sott Editors,

My name is Shareef, I'm a Syrian refugee, currently living in Munich, Germany.

I'm contacting you regarding your articles about refugees in Germany: 'Vanished: 130,000 refugees missing after German registration', and 'Refugee crisis in Germany - Nazis on the rise - 'Never again' is happening again'.

I've been living in Germany for over a year now, so let me state some facts about the refugee situation here.

Regarding the disappearance of refugees, a human-being cannot 'disappear' (say the laws of physics); what's truly happening is that refugees are fleeing out of Germany - people are going back from Greece to Turkey. Every day between 100 and 200 Syrian refugees are heading back this way. They are paying human traffickers (smugglers) between 200 and 400 Euros to safely deliver them back to Turkey. Even worse, some of them are going back to Syria through another transit country (normally Sudan or Iran) because there are no direct connections to Syria.

My personal experience: I entered Germany a year ago with a batch of 50 other Syrian refugees. Today, less than 20 of them remain in Germany, and yet nobody in Germany is addressing this problem because (in my opinion) Germany is trying to appear as a moral superpower for hosting refugees, so it's not a good publicity for its government to acknowledge that many (half?) of the refugees have already left.

Comment: The German government announced in December that 'a record 55,000' refugees had left the country in 2016, but this Sott.net reader's numbers seem a better fit for the hundreds of thousands of 'missing' refugees in Germany and elsewhere. In addition to being unwelcome in Europe, the situation in much of Syria has greatly improved thanks to Russian support to the Syrian government.

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Society's Child

Mohawks Become First Tribe to Take Down a Federal Dam in New York

Cancer warning label on Roundup clears hurdles in California

11 people dead, 3,000 evacuated as wildfires engulf Chilean countryside, foul play suspected (VIDEO)

Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein being sued again; promised victim entry into fashion school in exchange for sex

Project Duterte: Philippines' war on drugs - Brutal regime or 'necessary clean-up'? (Documentary)

Texas mosque destroyed in blaze, cause of fire unknown

A real Nasty Woman: Women's March speaker kidnapped, raped & tortured man to death

More police impunity: California cops who shot knife-wielding homeless man 14 times cleared of charges

City sues Purdue Pharma for pushing oxycontin and causing an opioid epidemic

Letter to the editor: 'My experience as a refugee in Germany'

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