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Satellite view of the Chinese fishing fleet crossing the Pacific ocean to the coast of Peru, June - September 2021. Data: NASA. Video: AP News

September 27, 2021

Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep – “It really is like the Wild West. Nobody is responsible for enforcement out there.”

By Joshua Goodman 24 September 2021 ABOARD THE OCEAN WARRIOR in the eastern Pacific Ocean (AP) – It’s 3 a.m., and after five days plying through the high seas, the Ocean Warrior is surrounded by an atoll of blazing lights that overtakes the nighttime sky. “Welcome to the party!” says third officer Filippo Marini as […]

A boy looks at the bodies of more than 1400 Atlantic White-Sided dolphins slaughtered on the Skálabotnur beach in the Danish Faroe Islands on 12 September 2021. Photo: Sea Shepherd

September 14, 2021

More than 1,400 dolphins slaughtered in one day in Faroe Islands – “Possibly the largest single hunt of cetaceans ever recorded worldwide”

By Joshua Nevett 14 September 2021 (BBC News) – The practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in what was believed to be a record catch. The pod of white-sided dolphins was driven into the largest fjord in the North Atlantic […]

Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) capacity, 2010-2020. Twenty years ago, the fossil fuel industry told you that by today, CCS would capture 5,000 million tons of CO2 per year. Today, the world can barely capture 10. Which is so far off target you can’t even see it on this graph. And when you remember that our global emissions are 36 BILLION tonnes each year, even if it had met its target, it would contribute approximately FUCK ALL. Data: IEA. Graphic: The Juice Media

September 3, 2021

Honest Government Ad: Carbon Capture and Storage – “CCS is a complex mining process whereby fossil fuel companies inject donations into the arseholes of politicians to delay climate action”

1 September 2021 (The Juice Media) – Hello, I’m from the Australien Government with an important announcement as we enter the next stage of the climate crisis: MASSIVE FIRES, MASSIVE FLOODS, MASSIVE BULLSHIT. As things fall apart and calls grow for us to urgently reduce our emissions we’ve come up with a PR campaign – […]

Package of ivermectin paste for deworming horses. One dose treats a horse with a body weight up to 1,250 pounds. In August 2021, poison centers across unvaccinated America saw huge increases in poisoning calls for ivermectin. Photo: Tractor Supply Company / Med-Pharmex

August 26, 2021

Texas sees 550 percent spike in poison calls for horse and cow dewormer, despite FDA warning – “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

By William Joy 25 August 2021 BURLESON, Texas (WFAA) – Inside 731 Farm Store in Burleson, Matt Meredith has taped up a warning from the FDA about ivermectin. “Not for human consumption. It says it on the bottle,” Meredith said. “It’s for deworming cattle, deworming horses.” Many people have started taking it to treat or […]

Flood gates on Trump’s border wall blown open by monsoon rains near San Bernardino Ranch in Arizona on 16 July 2021. Much of the West is suffering through a deep megadrought, but the monsoon rains that have swept across parts of the Southwest this summer have doused the southern half of Arizona with record-setting rains. Douglas has seen nearly double its average monsoon season rainfall so far, including a blast that came through on Monday and unleashed flooding on the Arizona-Sonora border. The National Weather Service data shows 2.15 inches (5.5 centimeters) of rain fell, which in turn funneled into washes and drove flooding. Photo: Fernando Sobrazo

August 22, 2021

Trump’s border wall torn apart by Arizona monsoon rains – “It’s not often that an ecologist can actually put a time stamp on the day that the evolutionary history of an area was sealed off”

By Brian Kahn 22 August 2021 (Gizmodo) – It turns out ignoring bedrock environmental laws may not have been the best choice for a multibillion-dollar construction project. Photos show former President Donald Trump’s border wall in deep disrepair after summer monsoon rains literally blew floodgates off their hinges. The damage took place near San Bernardino Ranch, a […]

“Insert Human Sacrifice” Copyright © 2021 James P. Galasyn. Historical image of Moloch is from the Mary Evans Picture Library.

August 7, 2021

Moloch: first of the new technogenic viruses

7 August 2021 (Desdemona Despair) – The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus is widely understood to be the most recent virus to have jumped the species barrier to humans[1]. In this post, I propose the idea that COVID-19 is the first virus to jump the platform barrier also, from natural biology to human technology. COVID-19 exists now […]

Map of the U.S. showing the Covid risk levels and vaccination percentages, per county, 4 August 2021. The counties with the lowest vaccination rates hanve the highest infection rates. The highest Covid risk levels are in Louisiana and Florida. Graphic: Covid Act Now

August 4, 2021

Graph of the Day: U.S. Covid vaccination rates and risk levels by county, 4 August 2021

4 August 2021 (Desdemona Despair) – Republican election strategy became clearer today, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis blamed exponential increases in Covid infection rates on immigrants at the Southern border, deflecting blame from the unvaccinated populations in Florida and other Republican-controlled states. This ridiculous idea is easily tested by examining the spatial distribution of case […]

Screenshot from “Honest Government: Ad Hotel Quarantine and Vaccines” by The Juice Media, 30 July 2021. Shown are headlines describing how experts are calling for urgent action on Covid hotel quarantine in Australia. Photo: The Juice Media

August 2, 2021

Honest Government Ad: Hotel Quarantine and Vaccines in Australia – “You can eat a bag of dicks”

30 July 2021 (The Juice Media) – Hello, I’m from the Australien Government. Many of you are wondering, how did we manage to go from Zero Covid and being the envy of the world to being an experiment in what happens when the Delta variant rips through an unvaccinated population? Well, it wasn’t easy – […]

Daily hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Florida, 1 August 2021. On Sunday, Florida broke a previous record for the most COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S., just one day after the state registered its highest single-day COVID-19 case number. Graphic: Covid Act Now

August 1, 2021

Florida breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations, a day after reporting most new cases – Dr. Fauci says more “pain and suffering” ahead as Delta variant burns through unvaccinated population

By Natalie Colarossi 1 August 2021 (Newsweek) – Florida on Sunday broke a previous record for the most COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S., just one day after the state registered its highest single-day COVID-19 case number. Florida now has 10,207 people hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus cases, a number that surpasses a previous record the state […]

Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Florida, is a key figure in the “Disinformation Dozen” spreading anti-vaccine messaging. Photo: Mercola

July 31, 2021

The Disinformation Dozen: 12 people are the source for 65 percent of anti-vaccine propaganda – “In full view of the public on the internet is a small group of individuals who do not have relevant medical expertise and have their own pockets to line”

By Sheera Frenkel 24 July 2021 SAN FRANCISCO (The New York Times) – The article that appeared online on 9 February 2021 began with a seemingly innocuous question about the legal definition of vaccines. Then over its next 3,400 words, it declared coronavirus vaccines were “a medical fraud” and said the injections did not prevent infections, provide immunity, […]