Germany鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court ruled on July 21 that the Verfassungsschutz 鈥 Germany鈥檚 domestic spy agency 鈥 had a right to spy on the left-wing party Die Linke.
Bodo Ramelow, Die Linke鈥檚 leader in the eastern state of Thuringia and others were appealing against the agency spying on them. The justification for the spying are claims Die Linke contained 鈥渁nti-constitutional鈥 elements because of its origins in the former East German state.
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The global carbon market, which trades 鈥減ollution rights鈥 to encourage industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions, grew in 2009. Far from signaling a success, this reflects a huge increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation.
鈥淲hat the hell did we do to deserve this?鈥, BP CEO Tony Hayward asked fellow executives in the company鈥檚 London office, days after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the April 29 New York Times said.
Eleven workers died in the explosion that has generated the US鈥檚 worst ever environmental disaster.
BP finally managed to place a cap over the well on July 15, although its status remains tenuous. Associated Press reported seepage detected from the cap on July 21.
Myth: Public opinion on abortion is deeply divided
Australians support access to abortion 鈥 for three decades, opinion polls have consistently shown that most Australians support women鈥檚 right to choose and believe that forcing a woman to have an unwanted child is worse than allowing abortion.
Myth: The charges against the Cairns couple relate to drug importation or the fact they didn鈥檛 see a doctor.
On July 17, the Adelaide-based Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN SA) hosted a forum in Port Augusta detailing the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan recently launched by Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE).
October 12 is the trial date set for a young Cairns couple charged with procuring an abortion.
According to Dr Caroline de Costa in a book released this month, Never Ever Again 鈥hy Australian Abortion Law Needs Reform, no woman has previously been charged with procuring her own abortion since the 1899 criminal code was first decreed in Queensland.
De Costa believes this could be the first trial of its kind in Australia鈥檚 history.
Over-fishing threatens caviar
鈥淟overs of fine food face a shortage of Beluga caviar that may last more than a decade. Eurasian states are discussing a ban on catching sturgeon in the Caspian Sea.
鈥淥ver-fishing has reduced the population of the fish that produces the delicacy by 90 per cent.
鈥淚t has pushed the price up nearly sevenfold to $14,340 per kilogram, or $1434 for enough to make a sandwich.
鈥淭he Caspian Sea is home to four-fifths of the sturgeon bearing the most sought after varieties of caviar ...
In an effort to mitigate the global outrage that followed its May 31 attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, Israel has, ever so slightly, eased its blockade on Gaza. However minimal, this step has only been taken because of the pressure applied to Israel by the international grassroots protest movement.
The Gaza aid missions have aimed to alert the world to the criminality of the blockade. In this, they have succeeded 鈥 though the price has been heavy: Nine killed (mostly with shots directly to the head and neck) and 700 others violently abducted, detained and abused.
The US Senate passed the much-ballyhooed financial reform bill this week to applause from an increasingly thin crowd of Obama administration supporters. Most focused on the 鈥渟omething is better than nothing鈥 features of the bill. But this could barely disguise the fact that the new regulations will do little to curb the activities of the mega-financial institutions at the centre of the economic crisis that ensued in 2008.
Thousands of republicans from across Ireland gathered on July 20 in Sallins, County Kildare, to honour Theobald Wolfe Tone, known as 鈥渢he father of Irish republicanism鈥. Tone led an uprising against British rule and for an Irish republic in 1798. When it was defeated, Tone was sentenced to death.
On July 15, 25 Justice Ride participants returned from their trip across Queensland to Alice Springs for the Defending Indigenous Rights convergence over July 6-9.
The trip to Alice Springs took four days each way, so there was plenty of time for us to get to know each other, discuss local Aboriginal rights campaigns, such as those against black deaths in custody, and take in Australia鈥檚 beautiful and ancient landscape.
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