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It should not then be surprising that companies like Chevron are extending their magnanimous offer of "crop water" in the form of fracking waste chemicals - for a price, of course.
If one didn't know any better, it almost appears that we are systematically being undercut and sickened to death (she said sarcastically). After all, we already use our own baked sewage sludge to fertilize non-organic crops. And no, the treatment does not stop heavy metals, hundreds of chemicals, drug residues and stomach virus that reside on or within the plants. That's why the name "biosolids" was picked for the practice.
Care2 reports that Big Oil has farmers over a barrel, so to speak. To the tune of of 21 million gallons of waste water per day — sold to Kern County for farming for $30 per acre-foot, and potentially damaging the end product - our food. Untreated, untested. They are getting rich, while normally they'd be required to pay for disposal.
© FOX 2 NOWPolice found a missing Illinois college student’s sports car in the lot of a Missouri trucking school before discovering his dead body about 400 yards away, authorities say.
Michael Gordon, a 24-year-old St. Louis resident, was arrested on Tuesday and was being held in a county jail on $1 million bond, Florissant Police Department spokesman Tim Fagen told a news conference late on Wednesday.
The body of Taylor Clark, a civil engineering student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, according to his Twitter page, was found at the truck driver training center where Gordon worked.
Comment: Take caution when buying and selling of personal goods no matter where one advertises. Meet in a well lit and busy parking area and best to never go alone! There are predators answering ads just for the opportunity to do harm. What a tragic loss of lives.
© Tony Gutierrez
No one protested when Pamela Geller's cartoon contest attracted about 200 people to suburban Dallas Sunday, even though some Muslims in Texas were already feeling aggrieved and fearful over growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the state.
Comment: It's not just Texas, either. Anti-Muslim hate crimes are sky-rocketing due to the "War on Terror" propaganda that equates all Muslims with terrorists and fuels a massive military and security industry.
Then, two men with attack rifles drove in from Arizona and opened fire on officers guarding the conference center in Garland. Both were shot dead, an officer was shot in the leg, and from the other side of the world, the Islamic State group made an unproven claim of responsibility.
Comment: The FBI is reaching out to their community for recruitment and monitoring, and though it's understandable the Muslim community would want to present as peaceful an appearance as possible, the Terrorism Industry has no intention of playing nice. See:
- FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
- The Sting: How the FBI created a terrorist
- Inside the FBI's terror factory: Manufacturing the War on Terror
© AFP 2015/ Vasily Maximov
Consumer prices were up 60.9% higher in April from the year before, Ukraine's state statistics agency wrote on its website. There was 14% inflation in the first four months of 2015 alone.
The dramatic increase was largely due to a rise in energy prices: according to the agency, the cost of natural gas rose by more than five times in April, more than doubling total utility costs for households. Food prices increased by 4.4%, slowing from 15.6% in March.
Comment: Too bad those key IMF reforms in Ukraine's government don't translate into kicking the neo-Nazis out. While Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, with 70% of working-age men fleeing to find jobs elsewhere, and neo-Nazi battalions growing at a rapid rate, the Donetsk Republic (that pesky 'eastern conflict') has nationalized its bank for the good of its people. And still the problems are pinned on Russia.
© Twitter / LeonidZaverukha: Young neo-Nazi and psychopathic darling of the Ukrainian media.
"As part of the investigation of criminal proceedings over an attack on a gas station and the killings of law enforcement officers on the night of May 4 in Kiev, another suspect has been arrested: a 19-year-old resident of Vinnitsa," a statement on the website of the Kiev prosecutor's office reads.
The statement added that Zaverukha has been detained under the criminal code article for an "attempt on the life of an officer of the law."
Comment: History repeats:
Today, the deliberate inversion of historical fact by Western media and officials is so widespread that it is subverting the very foundation of historical reasoning. The principal aim of these distortions of public perception is the conquest of our minds, and corruption of our ability to separate truth from lies, all for the purpose of deluding people into accepting servitude and atrocities.
Restoration of Historical Truth: Russia Won World War II
It's unlikely that police officers would turn on each other during a trial, due to the loyalty that typically runs through departments, David A. Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor and an expert on racial profiling, told The New York Times.That's been true for a long time, but as the number of people who have this sort of experience mount....
Jurors are often "inclined to give [police officers] the benefit of the doubt," according to The Times, because behavior "such as beating or even shooting another person" is assumed to be part of a cop's job.
"It's always difficult to get a guilty verdict against a police officer except in the worst and strongest cases," Harris told The Times. "A police officer comes into a courtroom not just presumed to be innocent, but presumed to be the good guy."
Comment: That day can't come soon enough.
The Kiev regime had ostentatiously cut off pensions and other social benefits it owed to residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. Kiev regime boss Poroshenko formally promised at the Minsk 2 accords to resume these payments, but so far has failed to do so. But now the DPR has stepped in to make the payments for April, using the nationalized bank branches formerly controlled by the oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Shown are pensioners and others lining up at a branch across from the Donetsk National University to get their checks.
While the DPR was not faced with a privatized central bank such as the United States and other nations due to the fact that DPR is a breakaway bloc and a new nation separated from the Kiev central bank, it was nonetheless host to a number of larger banking institutions that not only parasitized the people of DPR and Ukraine but also did nothing to improve the infrastructure of these areas or the living standards of the people there.
Emerging out of the stage of mere bands of militias and governing committees, the Donetsk People's Republic is now in the process of putting together a formal government. Its plans to nationalize banks that have parasitized Ukraine for years have no doubt drawn the ire of not only the oligarchs that own those banks but the Anglo-American banking cartel that essentially owns the United States and NATO countries and who are bent on world hegemony and submission to their will.
An oil train derailed and caught fire early Wednesday in a rural area of central North Dakota, prompting the evacuation of a nearby town where about three dozen people live.
No injuries were reported in the accident, which happened near Heimdal, about 115 miles northeast of Bismarck. The residents who left were staying with family and friends, Wells County Emergency Manager Tammy Roehrich said.
Ten tanker cars on the BNSF Railway train caught fire, creating thick black smoke, state Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong said.
"The engine and cars that aren't burning have been decoupled and moved to safety," she said.
Firefighters from four area communities responded to the fire, Fong said. Regional Hazmat units from Grand Forks and Devil's Lake are also on scene, CBS affiliate KXMB reports.
The Federal Railroad Administration sent a 10-person team to investigate the derailment.
It was unclear how many cars were part of the train or how many derailed. There was no immediate word on the cause of the wreck or on the source of the oil the train was carrying. A spokeswoman for BNSF did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
No injuries were reported in the accident, which happened near Heimdal, about 115 miles northeast of Bismarck. The residents who left were staying with family and friends, Wells County Emergency Manager Tammy Roehrich said.
The latest on the train derailment. Click here for details http://t.co/CkwQuCMbGq pic.twitter.com/jnGh5kQluy
— KX News - Bismarck (@KXMB) May 6, 2015"The engine and cars that aren't burning have been decoupled and moved to safety," she said.
Firefighters from four area communities responded to the fire, Fong said. Regional Hazmat units from Grand Forks and Devil's Lake are also on scene, CBS affiliate KXMB reports.
The Federal Railroad Administration sent a 10-person team to investigate the derailment.
It was unclear how many cars were part of the train or how many derailed. There was no immediate word on the cause of the wreck or on the source of the oil the train was carrying. A spokeswoman for BNSF did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
Comment: Not just in North America, but around the world. The symbolism seems pretty clear:
- Train full of hazardous materials derails near Mississippi mobile home park
- Yet again: Six cars of oil crude in Colorado
- Symbolic? Freight train carrying oil products derails, engine catches fire in central Ukraine
- Another fatal train derailment: At least 20 people killed, over 160 injured as Moscow Metro carriages derail in rush hour
- Train in Alabama oil spill was carrying 2.7 million gallons of crude
- Yet again: Another crude oil train derails and catches fire
- Massive fire breaks out after fuel tanks derail in southern Russia
- Dozens killed in train crash in Congo
An accident Tuesday took two lives on an oil platform in the Campeche Sound in the Gulf of Mexico, the second time in five weeks that Mexico's offshore oil industry has been rocked by a lethal accident.
The state oil giant, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said emergency boats evacuated 101 workers from the Troll Solution rig after "a failure of one of its legs" caused a partial collapse.
By midafternoon, photos posted to Twitter showed the rig listing heavily, partially underwater and leaving an oil slick. Pemex said it was not in danger of sinking. The magnitude of the oil leak was not clear.
Pemex did not give nationalities for the two fatalities but said both were employees of the rig's owner, Typhoon Offshore, a subsidiary of Mexico's Grupo Salinas, a conglomerate with interests in banking, retail, media and telecommunications. The subsidiary owns only the single rig, built in 2010 in China.
In its own statement, Typhoon said 10 employees had been treated for injuries.
The incident raised new questions about the safety of Mexico's offshore drilling industry at a time that Pemex is seeking international investment for the first time since the oil industry was nationalized in 1938.
The state oil giant, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said emergency boats evacuated 101 workers from the Troll Solution rig after "a failure of one of its legs" caused a partial collapse.
By midafternoon, photos posted to Twitter showed the rig listing heavily, partially underwater and leaving an oil slick. Pemex said it was not in danger of sinking. The magnitude of the oil leak was not clear.
Two killed and 10 injured in #OilRig accident in the #GulfOfMexico http://t.co/VmP57Oh08a
— El Universal English (@Univ_inenglish) May 5, 2015In its own statement, Typhoon said 10 employees had been treated for injuries.
The incident raised new questions about the safety of Mexico's offshore drilling industry at a time that Pemex is seeking international investment for the first time since the oil industry was nationalized in 1938.
Comment: More strange industrial accidents. Pemex seem particularly vulnerable to them.
Comment: It's bad enough that the fracking poses serious risks to those who live near drilling areas, as it has been found to contaminate groundwater supplies, to be responsible for earthquakes, and produces numerous health hazards. Now everyone will be unwitting guineas pigs as residues of these chemicals will no doubt be in our produce.