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Snow Storm Traps Dolphins - The Taiji Three
Japan - After almost 24 hours since being pulled from the water, three Pacific White Sided Dolphins are clinging to life onboard a truck that is now trapped in a blizzard.
Since the start of the dolphin hunting season, members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been closely reporting on the brutal slaughter and capture of wild dolphins at the infamous Cove in Taiji.
Yesterday the three dolphins were lifted from sea pens where they were being held. They were sedated, packed with ice into wooden crates, and loaded into the back of a truck by handlers from the infamous Dolphin Base, international exporter of dolphins from Taiji.
Sea Shepherd activists followed the truck, expecting it to deliver the dolphins to Osaka Airport for transit abroad. Instead, the truck with its live cargo continued north. In a snowstorm, it hit a guardrail stopping it in its tracks.
News broke of the incident after details spread across the social networking site Facebook, promoting thousands into contacting Japanese embassies worldwide to report the incident and request assistance.
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Canadian authorities have launched an animal cruelty investigation after a dog was discovered encased inside a block of ice on a man's front lawn.
The dead dog was discovered by the homeowner on January 15 - and he has told authorities he did not know the black border collie and has no idea how the block of ice came to arrive on his property.
Marcie Moriarty, a spokeswoman from the British Columbia animal protection society, said: 'It's a bizarre and very upsetting case.
'Inside the block of ice, which looks to have been made from a large rubber bin, was the frozen corpse of a medium-sized black dog.'
Miss Moriaty told the Vancouver Sun that initial investigations suggested the animal was dead before it was placed in the ice.
'That's the only salvation,' she said. 'It had puncture wounds consistent with being in a dog fight.
'I thought I'd seen everything but when I opened the file I was blown away. It's so disturbing. Anyone who would do something so sick, I'm concerned if they have other animals in their custody.'
The Dawnson's Creek houseowner discovered the dead animal on January 15. He does not have any pets and is completely baffled why the dog was left on his lawn.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350940/Dog-entombed-ice-dumped-mans-lawn.html#ixzz1CECL3NzPCanadian authorities have launched an animal cruelty investigation after a dog was... more
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It's easy to say, "Oh, poor bear," now and go about our business, but when we're all looking for a snack and there aren't any to be had, we'll remember this.It's easy to say, "Oh, poor bear," now and go about our business, but... more
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Another great thing freezing video, this time it's a bubble icing over. freaky/awesomesAnother great thing freezing video, this time it's a bubble icing over.... more
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Drone aircraft are patrolling U.S. Cities
April 26, 2010 in News
Public Intelligence
Public Intelligence has received several messages from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department requesting the removal of a Law Enforcement Sensitive document which was published on March 25, 2010 regarding Nevada’s “Silver Shield” infrastructure protection program. The document, which is from November 2007, reveals that Las Vegas Police are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and systems to patrol the city and deliver aerial imagery during incidents or special events. Though isolated reports of domestic UAV use do exist, there has not been widespread coverage of the growing use of unmanned aircraft systems over U.S. cities. In March 2006, Declan McCullagh of CNET News reported that police agencies around the country were looking at the use of UAVs for all sorts of purposes, including everything from border patrol to domestic surveillance. In an article titled “Drone aircraft may prowl U.S. skies” McCullagh writes:
In a scene that could have been inspired by the movie “Minority Report,” one North Carolina county is using a UAV equipped with low-light and infrared cameras to keep watch on its citizens. The aircraft has been dispatched to monitor gatherings of motorcycle riders at the Gaston County fairgrounds from just a few hundred feet in the air--close enough to identify faces--and many more uses, such as the aerial detection of marijuana fields, are planned. That raises not just privacy concerns, but also safety concerns because of the possibility of collisions with commercial and general aviation aircraft.
In early January 2010, KPRC News Houston reported on the Houston Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security deploying UAVs for surveillance purposes:
The document released by Public Intelligence corroborates these previous reports, indicating that as early as November 2007, Nevada law enforcement officials were discussing plans to implement the use of UAVs for aerial surveillance during special events and during incident response. Given the character of earlier reports concerning the use of UAVs in other states, it is reasonable to assume that the usage of these unmanned systems is likely be widespread throughout the U.S. The document also indicates that the UAVs feed into a system that is integrated with the local fusion center, along with various systems for recording and geo-mapping “Suspicious Activity Reports” which may be filed by businesses and “critical infrastructure” throughout the state.
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Go-Kart Ice Racing at Jackson Optimist Sports Arena
Jackson, Michigan USA
January 2, 2011
Watch for the #8 kart as the "Gods of Sod" race team takes the win.Go-Kart Ice Racing at Jackson Optimist Sports Arena
Jackson, Michigan USA
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White bears and seals are back on the ice packs and will only have to fear the Orcinus orca, as fantasy fur is a must at CHANEL for next season.White bears and seals are back on the ice packs and will only have to fear the Orcinus... more
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A man in Colorado Springs Thursday had his video camera rolling as vehicle after vehicle slid on an icy road and crashed into each other, piling up on the side of the road.A man in Colorado Springs Thursday had his video camera rolling as vehicle after... more
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Two icebound deer were rescued Friday in dramatic fashion, one with the draft of a low-hovering helicopter, the second by a man who went onto the ice and forced the animal to shore, with the help of a second man.Two icebound deer were rescued Friday in dramatic fashion, one with the draft of a... more
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This week, freezing temperatures and lots of snow wreacked havoc across Europe, stranding many holiday travelers. But on the other side of the Atlantic, some equally unusual weather has kept parts of Hudson Bay from freezing over, causing the growth in Arctic sea ice to come to a halt. To find out whether these two events might be related, we talked to Mark Serreze, head of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The two weather events are linked by a mass of unusually high pressure air that is sitting over central Greenland, Serreze said. A cyclonic rotation has formed around that high pressure area, and the southward rotation pulls air out of the Arctic and sends it heading towards Europe. Hence, the freezing temperatures.
On the other side of Greenland, the rotation is pulling warmer air out of the south—the normally frigid Baffin Island is experiencing temperatures above freezing, a rarity in December. This has left large areas of Hudson Bay and the Davis Strait, which are normally frozen over, with limited areas of sea ice. The end result is that the trajectory of sea ice growth has taken a sudden dip.
It's very interesting," Serreze said. "It's essentially been flat, maybe it's gone down a little bit." He made it clear that this had been seen before, so it wasn't unprecedented to have a December pause. He also noted that this wasn't an instrument error; although the NSIDC relies on a satellite sensor called SSM/I, other satellites are seeing the same thing. Nevertheless, the change has left us with the lowest ice levels at this date since they've been recorded by satellite.
Serreze said that, in the global sense, this situation is similar to the strong North Atlantic Oscillation event that brought cold temperatures to Europe last winter. And this sort of local weather event mostly redistributes the air, so it doesn't have a huge impact on global temperatures. Europe had already started to cool off in November, and that turned out to be the warmest November on the instrument record.
But Serreze pointed out two ways that the current weather might be connected with long-term trends in the Arctic. The intense high pressure over Greenland is associated with a strong low pressure area a bit northeast of Iceland. That will tend to pull ice out of the Arctic, and may contribute to the ongoing decline of thicker, multi-year ice. The thinner ice that's replacing it is more prone to melting rapidly in the summer.
There's also a chance that the loss of sea ice is feeding back into the system. Serreze said that the research community was beginning to suspect that the lack of sea ice allows the oceans to pump heat into the atmosphere in the Arctic in a way that could impact local weather, including the North Atlantic Oscillation. He described the idea as "very much in its infancy," but said that it's something the community was looking into seriously. If it turns out to be right, the frigid winters Europe has experienced these past two years might become the norm.This week, freezing temperatures and lots of snow wreacked havoc across Europe,... more
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Frozen water sprayed from a lake in the US state of Ohio has transformed a lighthouse into something more like an ice sculpture.
The Cleveland building was almost unrecognisable as ice built up and covered it entirely.
Unusually cold weather has pounded the eastern half of the United States - pushing temperatures well below normal.
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
As a floundering Congress repeatedly impedes the passage of widely supported immigration measures like the DREAM Act, reform advocates are refocusing their efforts and calling on President Barack Obama to declare a moratorium on deportations.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), whose impassioned support of immigrant rights landed him in jail earlier this year, is at the forefront of that charge, reports Braden Goyette at Campus Progress. Joining a chorus of immigration reform groups, Gutierrez is asking for moratorium: “The President will tell us we need Republican votes in order to pass legislation, and he’s correct,” Gutierrez told a raucous crowd of New York immigrants last month. “But let me tell you something. With the executive stroke of that pen, he can stop the deportation and the destruction of our families.”
The deportation dragnet
The administration’s amped up efforts to detain and deport greater numbers of undocumented immigrants is understandably contentious among immigrant rights advocates. As Goyette notes, at least 6.6 million mixed-status families stand to be directly affected by increased immigration enforcement, and nearly 100,000 citizen children have already seen their parents—lawful permanent residents—deported by the government.
To make matters worse, individuals are being deported without demonstrable regard for clean records, mitigating circumstances or even legal residency, in spite of the administration’s assurances to the contrary. Alina Das, a fellow at NYU’s immigration law clinic who was interviewed by Goyette, sums it up this way:
“Once you’re in the system it often does not matter if you’ve lived here since childhood, if you worked and paid taxes your entire life, if you gave back to the community and served in the military. The laws are so draconian that immigration judges are not able to consider these factors in many cases.”
ICE under fire for netting innocents
The legal system’s rigidity is further exacerbated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s questionable practices, which have resulted in the unlawful detention and deportations of scores of immigrants. The consequences of ICE’s overreliance on local law enforcement and its apparently indiscriminate tagging of undocumented immigrants are making headlines and raising prominent eyebrows.
The Filipino Express, via New America Media, reports that immigration courts are rejecting 31 percent of deportation cases filed by ICE—a six-point increase since 2009. In larger cities, the rejection rate is as high as 70 percent, suggesting that ICE is increasingly detaining and processing people who have just cause to remain in the country.
ICE’s credibility on the matter has deteriorated so much that last week a federal judge ordered the agency to release previously withheld documents related to a controversial enforcement program called Secure Communities, which has netted a number of non-criminal immigrants, including domestic violence victims. Several localities have tried to opt out of participating in the contentious program—including Santa Clara and San Francisco Counties in California, Arlington, Va., and Washington D.C.—but ICE has waffled on allowing them to do so. The documents ordered for release should shed light on the issue.
ColorLines’ Seth Freed Wessler reports that last week’s ruling was the second of its kind made against ICE:
In July, a federal court ordered the release of all government documents related to Secure Communities, following a public information request by Uncover the Truth, a coalition of civil rights and immigrant rights groups. The government released only some documents, which revealed that the program had resulted in the deportation of tens of thousands of non-citizens with no criminal convictions at all, or with convictions for low-level things like traffic violations.
The dark side of detention
The indiscriminate roundup of undocumented immigrants can have grave consequences—particularly when the immigration enforcement system is overly outsourced and over capacity.
While we’ve highlighted several cases of detention centers run amok in the past, Forrest Wilder at the Texas Observer has been following the case of a particularly horrifying incident at the Reeves County Detention Center near Pecos, Texas.
Two years ago, when the facility’s remarkably poor conditions provoked immigrant detainees to demand a meeting with the Mexican consulate, 1,200 detainees rioted and commandeered the facility, costing more than $1 million in damages. The impetus: The arguably preventable death of Jesus Manuel Galindo, a 32-year-old epileptic Mexican citizen who had lived in the United States since he was 13 and was locked up for “illegal re-entry” into the country:
Galindo’s death set off a huge riot at the Reeves County Detention Center, the world’s largest privately-run prison. It was the first of two riots in protest of poor conditions, especially medical care that the prisoners claimed was literally killing people. At the time of his death from an epileptic seizure, Galindo had been locked up in the prison’s administrative segregation unit for a month, possibly as punishment for his persistent medical complaints.
Wilder further reports that, last week, the ACLU and two El Paso attorneys filed suit against officials and administrators of the ill-reputed facility, stating that “the utter disregard shown by RCDC prison and medical staff to Galindo’s repeated, beseeching, well-founded expressions of fear for his own personal safety bordered on sadistic.”
Galindo’s case is not unique among immigrant detainees in the United States. Immigrant detainees suffer myriad abuses and injustices while their cases are processed and the administration’s increasing emphasis on enforcement only exacerbates the problem.
With the DREAM Act stuck in sentatorial limbo, the dire circumstances of hundreds of thousands of immigrants should compel President Obama to take action where Congress will not.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about immigration by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Diaspora for a complete list of articles on immigration issues, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, and health care issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Pulseby Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger
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Darn Global warming anyway.
CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports it snowed in Louisville, Ky. The wind chill in Nashville will hit minus five degrees Monday night. In Raleigh, N.C., zero. In Atlanta the real feel will be two above zero. And in Miami — yes, Miami — the wind chill is dropping to a frigid 25 degrees.
In Indiana traction was hard to come by. Drifts as high as six feet caused major traffic delays and put lives at risk. More than 70 motorists were stuck for hours Monday in biting temperatures on snow-covered highways in northwest Indiana as strong winds hampered snow plow drivers' efforts to free them. By Monday afternoon, most had been rescued safely, but a few were still trapped by drifts.;cbsCarousel
Darn Global warming anyway.
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