Wednesday 11 January 2012
Il Papa speaking in doomsday code in 2012
CODE:
TRANSLATION:
Gay marriage = Armageddon.
Oi, Bennie! A gay couple saying “I do” is not about to stop babies being born by the millions, cause ethnic genocide or result in mass extinction of the human species.
Labels:
discrimination,
religion
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Whale Wars 2012: Sea Shepherd alleges Japanese whaler Yushin Maru 3 has entered Australian territorial waters
The Sydney Morning Herald
Whalers chase activist ship into Australian waters: Sea Shepherd
9 January 2012
Whalers chase activist ship into Australian waters: Sea Shepherd
9 January 2012
Sea Shepherd Organisation on 9 January 2012:
* Macquarie Island: a Tasmanian State Reserve managed by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.
UPDATE
From The Age online 11 January 2012:
Labels:
Australia-Japan relations,
whales
Kyodo News states three protesters aboard the Shonan Maru 2 to be transferred to Australian custody
Headline in Kyodo News online on 9 January 2012:
ABC News reports on 10 January:
Could it possibly be that the Government of Japan, besides objecting to the boarding of its own coast guard-manned ship, the Shonan Maru 2, was also less than impressed with the fact that this ship had decided to leave the whaling fleet as it approached the Antarctic killing grounds and come so close to mainland Australia in order to harass the MY Steve Irwin?
UPDATE:
According to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun on 9 January 2012:
Attorney General Nicola Roxon said she hoped a deal could be reached with Japanese authorities to release the three.
"We are representing our views most strongly that they should be released promptly and returned to Australian soil," Roxon said.
In addition, the attorney general also said the ministry patrol ship, which is providing security to the whaling vessels, is not welcome in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.
"The ship, people need to remember, is not directly involved in whaling activities, but it is clearly providing a support role, and that may give us some other options if it was trying to come into our territorial waters," she said.
Labels:
Australia-Japan relations,
whales
Monsanto & Co. begins 2012 in court - again
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Several hundred Nitro area residents gathered Tuesday at the Charleston Marriott as attorneys attempted to forge a mediation in a class action lawsuit against the former Monsanto Company.
Representatives of the West Virginia Supreme Court mass litigation department and the attorney's law firms would not allow media access to any of the plaintiffs, saying those settlement discussions were confidential.
The case is scheduled to begin trial Jan. 3 in Putnam Circuit Court before specially-appointed Circuit Judge Derek Swope. If a settlement is not approved before then, jury selection is expected to begin next week and the trial is predicted to take up to six months.
The mass-litigation mediation involving 193 cases of alleged personal injury and wrongful death is being presided over by Circuit Judges Booker T. Stephens of McDowell County and Circuit Judge Alan D. Moats of Taylor County…..
The Charleston Gazette, 3 January 2012:
As jury selection began Tuesday in the class-action lawsuit seeking medical monitoring for those who may have been exposed to hazardous chemicals produced at Monsanto's former Nitro plant, the judge expanded a gag order on the lawyers prohibiting comments to the media.
"No lawyer is to discuss anything about the case," said Mercer County Circuit Court Judge Derek Swope. "If asked, you are to have no comment, end of story."
Swope's comments came after Monsanto lawyers filed a motion Tuesday asking him to hold lead plaintiff attorney Stuart Calwell in contempt of court for comments he made concerning the case to the Gazette and other local media outlets.
The judge did not immediately rule on the motion, but indicated he would hear arguments and rule later.
Swope was appointed to hear the case after Putnam Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and retired at the end of the year…….
Background
Court rejects Monsanto’s attempt to hide behind government contractor defence, 28 September 2011.
* This post is part of North Coast Voices' effort to keep Monsanto's blog monitor (affectionately known as Mr. Monsanto) in long-term employment.
Labels:
environment,
law,
multinationals,
pollution,
safety,
USA
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