DoomsdaysCW

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

I splurged on a new-to-me used camera. I decided to go back to using a digital camera, rather than my smartphone one. As someone who stuck to film SLR cameras for years, I've finally found a digital one that has an nice optical lens without paying an arm and a leg. I'm looking forward to taking decent nature pics again. Speaking of which, some pics of the calm before the storm...
#Bloomscrolling #Photography #Flowers #Nature

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to NewZealand

Thousands of #eels die mysteriously in #NewZealand

"'We noticed some algae build-up, which generally is due to the stream water warming up,' said Hona Edwards, a member of a local guardian group that monitors the stream.

"'Then the biggest percentage of the stream was observed to range from very limited to no water flow. When there’s no flow, the dissolved oxygen reduces, and the toxins build up in the waterway,' he said.

"Such algal blooms occur when conditions such as warm water temperatures and low water volumes are coupled with nutrient flows from agricultural use and toxic #pollutants from human activities.

"While mass deaths of freshwater fish are known to occasionally take place across the world, a study of lakes in #Minnesota and #Wisconsin in the United States found that such incidents have increased globally in the past decade."

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/thousands-of-eels-die-mysteriously-in-new-zealand/ar-BB1kRSEo

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to environment

As #BaltimoreBridge cleanup begins, fear of #environmental #contamination looms

Responders have currently found ‘no immediate threat’, but 14 of at least 56 containers carrying #contaminants were destroyed

by Dharna Noor in Baltimore
Sat 30 Mar 2024

"In the meantime, more containers could fall into the water, including ones the NTSB says contain corrosive chemicals and #Lithium-ion batteries – materials that could leak #toxic #HeavyMetals into the water. And as long as the ship remains in the water, the possibility of the ship’s fuel container rupturing remains."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/baltimore-bridge-collapse-environment-hazard

#Environment #Baltimore #WaterIsLife

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to Palestine

#Lakota Youths Raising Voices for #Palestine -- 'Our Liberation is Linked'

By International Indigenous Youth Council, Oglala Lakota Chapter via #CensoredNews, March 29, 2024

"In a world plagued by injustices and oppression, the youth of the #OglalaLakotaNation raise their voices in support for Palestine. As descendants of a people who have faced centuries of systemic violence and displacement, we intimately understand the pain and suffering inflicted by colonialism and genocide.
Just as our ancestors fought to preserve our way of life and sovereignty, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people as they resist occupation and defend their right to self-determination. The parallels between our struggles are undeniable, rooted in a shared history of dispossession, displacement, and cultural erasure.
The ongoing atrocities committed against the Palestinian people, including the recent escalation of violence and displacement in #Gaza, serve as a reminder of the urgent need for global solidarity and action. We refuse to remain silent in the face of oppression and injustice.

"Together, we raise our voices to condemn the brutal acts of violence and state-sanctioned discrimination perpetrated by the Israeli government. We demand an end to the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and the immediate cessation of all forms of violence against civilians.

"As Oglala youth, we recognize that our liberation is intricately linked to the liberation of all oppressed peoples around the world. By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we reaffirm our commitment to justice, equality, and human rights for all.

"Let us unite in our struggle against #colonialism, #imperialism, and #genocide. Together, we can create a world where every individual and community can thrive in freedom and dignity."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/lakota-youths-raising-voices-for.html

#OglalaSupportsPalestine #Solidarity #EndGenocide #JusticeForAll #FreePalestine #SettlerSaturday

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to gardening

One of the fun gardening experiments I've indulged in this year involves seeing what dried beans / seeds -- that I love to eat -- will sprout! So far, organic popcorn, dried green Edame soy beans, and lentils have sprouted! And all of them are a few years old!
#HomeGardening #Gardening #Seedbanks #Homesteading

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to random

Hmmmm.... "The rain can help dillute sewage." Um, #dilution does not eliminate the problem!

Raw sewage spills into England rivers and seas doubles in 2023

By Esme Stallard and Jonah Fisher, March 27, 2024

"The UK has combined sewage systems which mean rain and sewage share the same pipes, so if there is too much rain sewage treatment works can be overwhelmed. Sewage is spilled into waterways to prevent the system backing up.

"It works out that on average last year there were 1,271 spills a day across England, compared to 825 in 2022.

Contained within the spills is human waste, wet wipes and sanitary products, which can pose a serious risk to the local wildlife, swimmers and others who use UK waterways.

"The rain can help to dilute the sewage but academics warn there is still a risk to the local environment and anyone swimming in these bodies of water."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68665335

#WaterIsLife

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to random

“This River is Our Relative” — a new #Penobscot documentary, coming soon!

Sunlight Media Collective February 2, 2024

"'This River is Our Relative' is an upcoming Sunlight Media Collective documentary about the #PenobscotNation’s intrinsic connection to and tireless environmental stewardship of the #PenobscotRiver. The story is told through the voices of 24 Penobscots, who share a story of historical, physical, and spiritual connection to place; of cultural identity and survival. Their narratives are interwoven with a traditional #Wabanaki story about how The People and #Glouskap defeated a greedy monster frog, #Aklebemu, who was hoarding all the water. This story parallels both historical and present day #environmental concerns, and is also the Clan origin story for Penobscots. 'You can point to any aspect of our culture from a riverine perspective,' says Penobscot Cultural Dept. Director James E. Francis, Sr.

"'It is our responsibility to care for that River, for all of us,' explains Penobscot #activist and filmmaker #DawnNeptuneAdams. Despite many obstacles including ongoing territorial theft and a rapidly increasing number of pollutants, the Penobscot Nation and its people continue to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the health of their beloved Relative, the Penobscot River. 'I always come back to the water because that’s where I belong. It’s my Relative,' explains Penobscot Elder Kathy Paul, 'and I want to stay and support that Relative.'"

Link to trailer:
https://vimeo.com/758792376

Source:
https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/this-river-is-our-relative-a-new-penobscot-documentary-coming-soon/

#WaterIsLife #FirstNations #RiverKeepers

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to environment

How Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ Awakened the World to Environmental Peril
Carson's 1962 bestseller first warned the public about the devastating effects of chemical pesticides—and started a revolution

By: Cate Lineberry
April 22, 2022

"Carson had resisted writing the book for years because of these anticipated attacks from the chemical companies as well as public officials who had accepted their false claims. 'It was a David versus Goliath sort of saga,' says Lear. 'She was uncovering industrial misdeeds and, in the course of that, bringing down powerful men who had been entrusted by the public and shown to be unworthy of that trust.'"

https://www.history.com/news/rachel-carson-silent-spring-impact-environmental-movement

#BigChemical #SilentSpring #RachelCarson #Corporatocracy #EnvironmentalMovement #Environment

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to acab

#MortonCountySheriff's Letter to President-Elect #Trump Accused #WaterProtectors of Bogus Crimes

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, March 24, 2024

BISMARCK, North Dakota -- "The Morton County Sheriff's Department sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump which accused #StandingRock water protectors of crimes that there was no evidence of -- crimes water protectors were never charged with. The letter urges Trump to stop the protest of the #DakotaAccessPipeline."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/morton-county-sheriffs-letter-to.html

#WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #ACAB #NativeAmericanActivists #StandWithStandingRock
#HonorTheTreaties #Lakota #SupportIndependentJournalism #IndigenousNews

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to KindActions

Quick update on #CensoredNews fundraiser -- as of Noon, Saturday, March 23, it is up to $275 ($400 needed for a computer replacement). Please consider donating even if #BrendaNorrell makes her goal -- she could use financial support to keep doing what she does!

FMI - https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/08/donate-to-censored-news.html

#IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #MutualAid #LandBack #SettlerSaturday #MutualAid #Fundraiser #Donate #Activist #Reporting #NoDAPL #SaveThackerPass #SaveOakFlat #Activism #News #IndependentNews #HumanRights #IndigenousPeoples #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousAction #Fundraisers #UraniumMining

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to random

The Halluci Nation - Burn Your Village To The Ground (Neon Nativez Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNi__fnadTM

#FridayNightMusic #HalluciNation #LandBack #BurnItDown #FuckColonialism

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to music

Cry by #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees

"Cause all the dolphins and whales have gone
All good tidings and hopes have blown
All our nightmares are flying home
And it's too late to do anything but

Cry
Ohh, cry
Tears and stars collide, confide then die
Deep inside tears run dry
But I cry, cry and cry
Ohh, cry
Ohh, cry
Cry, cry, cry."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufJBbaeKc0

#FridayNightMusic #Environmentalism
#Music #Extinction #ClimateChange #Siouxsie

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to NativeAmerican

Boosting the signal for my friend #BrendaNorrell, who runs #CensoredNews. She's been reporting on #NativeAmerican and other #IndigenousPeoples' struggles since the 1990s, and bringing to light news of #IndigenousActivism and #DirectAction! She needs a new computer and is accepting donations through PayPal. Please donate if you can...!

Censored News: Reader-Supported News
Fundraiser for Computer

"Censored News is reader-supported news, with no ads, salaries, or revenues, and depends on reader donations to keep going. Donations help pay the cost of equipment, laptops and audio equipment, and expenses for live coverage.
New fundraising for a computer, March 2024.
Thank you, Brenda"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/08/donate-to-censored-news.html

#MutualAid #Donate #Activist #Reporting #NoDAPL #SaveThackerPass #SaveOakFlat #Activism #Activist #News #IndependentNews #HumanRights #ReaderSupportedNews

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to puns

Switching gears for a little #MarshMadness humor (not my photo).
#Puns #FrogAndToad #Humor

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to random

Sanders Rips 'Fiction' That There's Nothing US Can Do to End #Gaza Carnage

"Of course we have the leverage," said Sen. #BernieSanders. "We are funding the war."

by Jake Johnson
Mar 07, 2024

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-gaza-leverage

#SaveGaza #EndTheWar

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to wildlife

How #NoisePollution from humans is wreaking havoc on U.S. #wildlife

Nation Jul 18, 2017 2:20 PM EDT

"As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places. Human-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, entire #ecosystems and people. It reduces the ability to hear natural sounds, which can mean the difference between life and death for many animals, and degrade the calming effect that we feel when we spend time in wild places."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/noise-pollution-humans-wreaking-havoc-u-s-wildlife

#biodiversity #GorhamConnector #SaveSmilingHillFarm #SaveRedBrook #SaveTheForest #WorkingFarms #MaineTurnpikeAuthority #Sprawl #InducedDevelopment #GorhamSpur #Wetlands #Meadows #EnvironmentalImpact
#SaveTheWoods #Maine #GorhamMaine #ScarboroughMaine #WestbrookMaine #AnthropogenicNoise

DoomsdaysCW, 1 month ago to maine

I'm planning on submitting a summary of these studies as part of my arguments against the #GorhamConnector. I grew up near a 4-lane highway, and the vibrations and noise pollution were constant -- I hadn't realized how bad it was until I went back home a few years ago and camped in my old backyard -- and felt every speeding tractor trailer truck going by.

Evidence of the impact of noise pollution on biodiversity: a systematic map

By Romain Sordello, Ophélie Ratel, Frédérique Flamerie De Lachapelle, Clément Leger, Alexis Dambry & Sylvie Vanpeene

Environmental Evidence volume 9, Article number: 20 (2020)

"Ecological research now deals increasingly with the effects of #NoisePollution on #biodiversity. Indeed, many studies have shown the impacts of #AnthropogenicNoise and concluded that it is potentially a threat to the persistence of many species. The present work is a systematic map of the evidence of the impacts of all anthropogenic noises (industrial, urban, transportation, etc.) on biodiversity. This report describes the mapping process and the evidence base with summary figures and tables presenting the characteristics of the selected articles."

https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13750-020-00202-y

#SaveSmilingHillFarm #SaveRedBrook #SaveTheForest #WorkingFarms #MaineTurnpikeAuthority #Sprawl #InducedDevelopment #GorhamSpur
#Wetlands #Meadows #EnvironmentalImpact
#SaveTheWoods #Maine #GorhamMaine #ScarboroughMaine #WestbrookMaine #RapidTransit

DoomsdaysCW, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

From the birdsite:

@extremetemps

#LatinAmerica is boiling from #Mexico to #Argentina

"GUYANA 37.4 at Lethem hottest March day in #Guyana history set twice in few days

COSTA RICA Another brutal heat wave: 39.2 at San Mateo de Orotina [#CostaRica], 34.3C at the Juan Santamaria AP 920m asl monthly records

It's gonna get worse."

https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1769816487861096794

#GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeTemperatures

DoomsdaysCW, 2 months ago to acab

#StandingRock: FBI had up to 10 informants during the #resistance to DAPL

The FBI's special agent in charge, reveals in his lengthy deposition, his search for the motivation of Standing Rock #WaterProtectors to make their stand -- and he fails to find the most obvious -- The Protection of the Sacred

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 15, 2024

"In a new court case, the State of #NorthDakota claims it didn't have enough resources during the Standing Rock resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline, and wants the U.S. to pay up. The testimony reveals that the FBI had up to 10 informants, not just FBI informant Heath Harmon, in the camps.

"'Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the #StandingRockSioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the #DakotaAccessPipeline in 2016,' Alleen Brown reports today at Grist.

"'The new details about federal law enforcement surveillance of an #Indigenous #EnvironmentalMovement were released as part of a legal fight between North Dakota and the federal government over who should pay for policing the pipeline fight. Until now, the existence of only one other federal informant in the camps had been confirmed.'

"'The FBI also regularly sent agents wearing civilian clothing into the camps, one former agent told Grist in an interview. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, operated undercover narcotics officers out of the reservation’s Prairie Knights Casino, where many pipeline opponents rented rooms, according to one of the depositions."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/standing-rock-fbi-had-up-to-10.html

#ACAB #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #NativeAmericanActivists

DoomsdaysCW, 2 months ago to Denmark

#Indigenous women in #Greenland sue #Denmark over #InvoluntaryContraception in the 1960s and 1970s

By The Associated Press
Updated March 4, 2024 9:27 am

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — "A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly 43 million kroner ($6.3 million), their lawyer said Monday.

"The 143 #Inuit women say Danish health authorities violated their #HumanRights when they fitted them with the devices, commonly known as coils. Some of the women — including many who were teenagers at the time — were not aware of what happened or did not consent to the intervention.

"They each are demanding 300,000 kroner ($44,000), the women’s lawyer, Mads Pramming, told The Associated Press.

"The purpose was allegedly to limit population growth in Greenland by preventing pregnancies. The population on the Arctic island was rapidly increasing at the time because of better living conditions and better health care. The small T-shaped device, made from plastic and copper and fitted in the uterus, prevents sperm from fertilizing an egg.

"Danish authorities say as many as 4,500 women and girls — reportedly half of the fertile women in Greenland — received coil implants between the 1960s and mid-1970s.

"In September 2022, the governments of Denmark and Greenland launched an investigation into the program. The outcome of the probe is due next year.

"But Pramming said they won’t wait until then, and that the only option for the women is to seek justice through the court.

"'The oldest of us are over 80 years old, and therefore we cannot wait any longer,' one of the women, Naja Lyberth, told Greenland public broadcaster KNR. “As long as we live, we want to regain our self-respect and respect for our wombs.”

Read more:
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/greenland-forced-contraception-lawsuit-compensation-denmark-i67466

#IndigenousWomen #ForcedSterilization #NoConsent #HumanRightsViolations #FirstNations

ottaross, 2 months ago to random

Sadly heard yesterday that #KarlWallinger latterly of #WorldParty, died at 66. I play his stuff in my #SaturdayMorningGuitar set and enjoy it a lot.

I occasionally alter the words to his "Put the Message in a Box" to instead say "put the box onto your bike, ride your bike around the world" rather than using the original "car" and "drive." It communicates the song's positive message better for modern times.

DoomsdaysCW, 2 months ago to random

Vote as if your lives, your loved ones' lives, and your planet on it -- because this time, it does! We can't let the "Little Man Within" win again! Don't let #KarlWallinger's message die with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm6YuQdT8bQ
#Elections2024 #LittleManWithin #Fascism