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Civil Rights, Environment, War on Terror
October 30
National Lawyers Guild Opposes Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
The Act could define as a terrorist act any activity causing a business classified as an “animal enterprise” to suffer a profit loss—even if such financial decline is caused by peaceful protests, boycotts, media campaigns or leafleting.
Source: National Lawyers GuildCate Jenkins, an EPA biochemist, sent a letter to the New York congressional delegation, alleging that the inconsistent official reports about inhalant alkalinity were part of an intentional cover up by government scientists and officials.
Source: The Raw StoryOctober 24
Global ecosystems ‘face collapse’
Terrestrial species declined by 31% between 1970-2003. “At this level of ecological deficit, exhaustion of ecological assets and large-scale ecosystem collapse become increasingly likely.”
Source: BBC NewsA former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked when she opened her mail and discovered three computer discs with an anonymous letter saying the discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be used to alter the votes cast through Maryland’s new electronic voting machines.
Source: ABC NewsDisaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat.
Source: Yahoo!