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Palestinians Reject The Blame For Israeli Wildfires

December 2, 2016 By Danny Quest 2 Comments

Tempers flared in Israel as leaders such as the Security Minister Gilad Erdan call for the homes of “politically motivated arsonists to be demolished.”

This promoted the idea that the wildfires in Israel, which began on November 22nd and spread to over 600 locations from as far south as the Dead Sea area north to Nahariya, were started by Arab terrorists. Calling the fires “a new type of terrorism,” many of Israel’s nationalists are getting on board with the idea that Arab terrorists started the wildfires, although Israeli police are withholding information regarding the specific allegations against more than half of the suspected arsonists it is currently holding.

According to the police, 23 people are currently under arrest in relation to the fires; an additional seven have been released. The police released basic details regarding only 10 of them, all allegedly involved in minor fires and not in the larger blazes like those outside Jerusalem, Zichron Ya’akov or Haifa.

Tempers flared in Israel as leaders such as the Security Minister Gilad Erdan call for the homes of “politically motivated arsonists to be demolished.”

This promoted the idea that the wildfires in Israel, which began on November 22nd and spread to over 600 locations from as far south as the Dead Sea area north to Nahariya, were started by Arab terrorists. Calling the fires “a new type of terrorism,” many of Israel’s nationalists are getting on board with the idea that Arab terrorists started the wildfires, although Israeli police are withholding information regarding the specific allegations against more than half of the suspected arsonists it is currently holding.

According to the police, 23 people are currently under arrest in relation to the fires; an additional seven have been released. The police released basic details regarding only 10 of them, all allegedly involved in minor fires and not in the larger blazes like those outside Jerusalem, Zichron Ya’akov or Haifa.

In these cases, the circumstances raise questions over the suspected political motivation ascribed to the accused arsonists. For example, a Nazareth resident whose arrest has been extended is suspected of arson in his own Arab-majority city. In another case, two suspects are accused of starting a brush fire between Sajur and Beit Jann, both of which are almost entirely Arab communities.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Climate change, drought, Israel, Palestine, Wildfires

The Sea Isn’t Made For Fish And The Water’s Not For Drinking

June 4, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier’s Fracked Earth News collects the top global climate change and energy news, including:

__The Aral Sea, fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers, was Earth’s 4th largest inland body of water. Then Russia built primitive irrigation canals so people could grow cotton, requiring forced labor. Water levels have plummeted; there are now two much smaller bodies of water, a wrecked ecology and much misery.

__Ooopsie. Kinder-Morgan proposing two pipelines in Georgia. The Palmetto Pipeline will conduct 167,000 gallons of refined oil/day from South Carolina, through Georgia and on into Florida. Apparently nobody noticed the pipeline is supposed to run through GA House majority leader Jon Burns’ land and land owned by “media tycoon, William S. Morris, III, who owns newspapers in Augusta, Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla.”

__Headline: “Great Barrier Reef spared ‘in danger’ listing—for now” should read: “Australia spared having the Great Barrier Reef entered into the World Heritage danger list—for now.” Threat of placing it on that list led Australia to abandon planned dumping of dredged material near the reef and to cut back development of more ports to export coal.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Climate change, drought, fracking, mining, water

Your Dinner Vs. The Planet: The High Cost Of Meat

February 11, 2015 By Farhaanah Ali 3 Comments

Is it necessary for humans to eat meat at the scale we currently do?

Taking note of the sheer number of vegetarian and vegan diets practised everyday it is clear we do not need meat, even if we enjoy eating it. D’Silva, in her journal, written in 2000 for Compassion in World Farming Trust, wrote that cutting out “the costly inefficient factory farmed animal ‘protein converter’” would increase the amount protein we can get straight from the source. This would mean more people could be fed on less food, a positive step in reducing world hunger.

There are a number of potential health issues that may arise with the over-consumption of meat every day and for every meal; obesity has already become a big issue in America, and Europe is catching up. Nierenberg wrote in 2003 that eating meat every day is a more recent phenomenon — until the industrialisation of the process, meat was generally only eaten on special occasions and, even then, largely by the rich.

Filed Under: Environment, Health & Lifestyle Tagged With: agriculture, American Legislative Exchange Council, Asia, climate, Climate change, Compassion in World Farming Trust, confined animal feeding operation, cows, Danielle Nierenberg, diet, drought, England, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, farming, food, Gasland, Global Food Security, goats, greenhouse gas, health, industrial agriculture, Jonathan A. Foley, Joyce D’Silva, land, land grabs, land use, local food, locavore, Maiak factory, meat, methane, nitrous oxide, pollution, ranching, sheep, sustainability, UK, United Kingdom, vegetarianism, water

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