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• Hello, Is That Erin Brockovich?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Atta boys. The Kings County Board has given the big thumbs up to expanding the largest toxic-waste dump in the West despite the fact the area has had an alarming increase in birth defects and infant deaths. Come on people you know there is no evidence to link the facility to mutantcy! Get this, in 2007 (when the last ...
  6 days ago

• Hello, Is That Erin Brockovich?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Atta boys. The Kings County Board has given the big thumbs up to expanding the largest toxic-waste dump in the West despite the fact the area has had an alarming increase in birth defects and infant deaths. Come on people you know there is no evidence to link the facility to mutantcy! Get this, in 2007 (when the last ...
  6 days ago

• Trafigura: Rights group - attempt to defraud victims of the Trafigura toxic waste dump disaster must be stopped

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 147
  Amnesty International (AI) - An attempt to defraud victims of the Trafigura toxic waste dump disaster out of $45 million must be stopped, Amnesty International said today in an open letter.An organization known as the National Coordination of Toxic Waste Victims of Côte dIvoire (CNVDT-CI) is falsely claiming to ...
  1 week ago

• Trafigura: Is Trafiguras exemption legal? Government lawyer disagrees

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 147
  Voice of America - The BBC has apologized to a commodities-trading firm, Trafigura, for saying the company caused deaths and injuries in Ivory Coast through the dumping of toxic waste.In a statement read in a London court Thursday, the British broadcaster said it withdraws the allegation that the waste caused deaths, ...
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• Wild Dogs Turn Green After Eating Toxic Waste

  
  Life within me — Authority: 138
  It’s bizarre, to say the least: a pack of wild dogs in Russia, which previously had reddish fur, are suddenly emerald green after supposedly consuming toxic waste that had been dumped in the area. Photos and video show the animals, thought to be former guard dogs, sporting green-tinged fur. From NineMSN.com : ...
  1 week ago

• When dogs camouflage green…?

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 448
  Some stray dogs on the outer reaches of Yekaterinburg city have turned green. Well, they are not mimicking the octopuses we told you about yesterday . Instead, it’s the consumption of a suspected toxic waste dumped by some local residents or a factory that has made them develop the chameleon like mannerism. ...
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• Inconvenient Truth

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  OK, no need to panic people but if you see a friggin green dog on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg don’t pat it. Now I am not saying this for a fact, but evidently there is a pack of  wild dogs in Russia that are glowing bright green after having scavenged around in some places they shouldn’t. Hmm, like a friggin ...
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• Freedom of Speech: Trafigura, the BBC and Carter-Ruck The Silencers

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 147
  Wikileaks reports that the BBC appear to have deleted a news article on the toxic-waste dumping of commodities giant Trafigura.Trafigura and their lawyers Carter Ruck had been pursuing an ongoing libel case against the BBC over a news story from on the case that aired in May 2009.In the story "Dirty Tricks and Toxic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trafigura Silence The BBC

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  No need for alarm people, it’s only the Ivory coast! It seems the BBC quickly removed a news story about the dumping of toxic waste in the African country after realizing it was a big friggin commodity giant behind it. Oh, and the fact they threatened to sue. Hmm, the story which stated “It is the biggest toxic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Libel: The Silencers - Britains infamous libel laws under increasing scrutiny

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 147
  Britains infamous libel laws are coming under increasing scrutiny following yet another high profile "gag".Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent for The Guardian reports in article entitledTiger Woods uses English law to injunct new revelations, "Tiger Woods has won an injunction banning the English media from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Libel: Petition to change libel laws in wake of Carter-Ruck/Trafigura affair

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 147
  “Probo Koala” dumped 500 tonnes of toxic wastes, belonging to the Dutch commodity trading company Trafigura, at sites around the city of Abidjan, the West African nation’s largest city.According to official estimates, 15 people died, 69 people were hospitalized and over 100,000 others, complaining of nausea and ...
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• The First Rule Of Chuck E. Cheese Is ‘You Do Not Talk About Chuck E. Cheese…’

  
  A Bowl of Stupid — Authority: 112
  From the 8 December edition of the Chicago Tribune comes this gloriously ironic story, talking about how Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatres have become the new Fight Club. From the story:in the past few years Chuck E. Cheeses has developed a reputation as a sort of impromptu fight club, a place where fisticuffs break ...
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• The Longwave Group On Why The Fed Must Be Abolished

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 737
  THE LONGWAVE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CYCLE - WINTER WARNING, December 7, 2009 Who’s In Charge? – The Regulators Big Brother is alive and living in Washington, D.C. but he is not well.   A malaise of weaknesses and failures, unearthed during the recent credit crisis, continues to permeate through various ...
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• Human Rights: Carter-Ruck - Toxic Silence

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 147
  "Legal advice to the Speakers Office has further compunded fears for free speech in the Commons" The Guardian.Caroline Davies of The Guardian has an excellent article about the attempt by London lawyers Carter-Ruck to stifle reporting of Trafigura and the Ivory Coast toxic waste scandal. The article focuses on ...
  3 weeks ago

• World Science Forum: Preventing future Bhopals

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 630
  A quarter century after the disaster at Bhopal, toxic chemicals continue to threaten lives in the developing world. Chemical spills poison Chinese rivers. Toxic waste sickens people in West Africa. What can be done to safeguard the public in developing countries? What role can consumers and investors in the developed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rallies, meets to mark 25 years of Bhopal gas leak

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Bhopal, Dec 1 (IANS) Meetings, rallies, demonstrations and conferences will mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster which killed over 3,500 people instantly and maimed several thousands for life on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984.A torch rally will be taken out to the Union Carbide factory on Wednesday by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy demand arrest of Warren Anderson

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Bhopal, Nov 29(ANI): The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy staged a protest in Bhopal on Sunday and burned effigies of Warren Anderson, Chairman of the Union Carbide when the disaster took place in 1984, demanding his arrest. With a few days to go for the 25 anniversary of the gas tragedy, the victims [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy launch weeklong protest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Bhopal, Nov.28 (ANI): Ahead of 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, survivors of the tragedy have launched a week-long protest to vent their ire against the inaction of the State government to remove the toxic waste from the vicinity of Union Carbide’s plant where the gas leak took place.The survivors of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Court allows government to open Union Carbide factory to public

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Bhopal, Nov 25 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court Wednesday permitted the state government to open the defunct Union Carbide factory here to the public, 25 years after the lethal gas release from it killed and maimed for life thousands of people on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.The government had moved ...
  4 weeks ago

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