You can lie to me,
I won’t die from it,
Lies and corruption is everything we see,
We don’t take your shit,
We shall continue to be,
We don’t Lay down,
We won’t LIE down,
To your level,
We will live on,
Free on this earth,
You will never own our souls,
We are stronger
We have soul with girth,
Continue to LIE down on us,
We will never LIE down!
By: Missy D
I fucking love James Franco
That’s James Franco? In the picture? Woah
Makes me wish Franco would drag more.
Another Shell Oil Spill Pollutes Bayelsa Communities; The Company Tries To Conceal The Leakage
Less than two weeks after the Bonga oil spill from Shell operations polluted the Atlantic ocean and the Nigerian coastline, another spill has been reported at the company’s Nembe creek crude pipeline.
SaharaReporters checks revealed that the spill occurred almost simultaneously with the Bonga spill as the firm shut in some 70,000 barrels per day crude production in addition to production loss on 200,000 barrels from Bonga.
Shell concealed the spill as attention was on the Bonga spill, which the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) described as the worst environmental pollution in a decade.
A NOAA satellite image off Nigeria’s coastline shows the new Shell oil spill covering a 356-square-mile patch of ocean.
“Nigeria Oil Spill Raises Concerns About New Drilling Technology
By Deepwater Horizon mega-disaster benchmarks, it’s not so big — but it might be in the Exxon Valdez ballpark, and underscores the risks of a new deepwater oil-gathering technique that’s coming soon to the Gulf of Mexico.
“The significance here is the technology they’re using,” said John Amos of the environmental watchdog group Skytruth. “It’s a whole new source of potentially major oil spills.”
The spill occurred Dec. 20 at Shell’s Bonga deepwater facility, prompting an immediate temporary closure of the oil field. Shell estimated that up to 40,000 barrels of oil — about 7 million gallons, compared to 11 million gallons for the Exxon Valdez — leaked.
Unlike the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which involved the blowout of a wellhead 5,000 feet deep, the Bonga spill occurred at the surface during transfer of crude oil between ships. It was relatively easy to fix, which at first glance might seem reassuring.
“It is important to stress that this was not a well control incident of any sort,” said Shell Nigeria chairman Mutiu Sunmonu in a statement. But Amos says the spill is still troubling.
Oil in the Bonga deepwater field is collected by a method known as floating production storage and offloading, or FPSO, in which crude oil is piped to floating, mobile tanks, usually converted supertankers, rather than fixed platforms. Shuttle tankers collect oil from the FPSO and carry it to market.”
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Two people were killed and 10 others injured in the incident in the town of Bima on the island of Sumbawa, east of Bali.
The confrontation occurred on Saturday when nearly 1,000 villagers refused to end a week-long blockade of a local port.
Police were ordered to fire directly into the crowd.
Later they can be seen dragging and beating one of the injured protesters.
The group was trying to block the construction of a gold mine, owned by Indonesia’s PT Sumber Mineral Nusantara and Australian company Arc Exploration.
The company said in its June quarterly report that no exploration work was possible in the quarter because of protests.
Villagers fear the project will destroy their land, threaten forests and drain water supplies.
The two men killed are believed to have been students.
Police allege the demonstrators were armed with knives and Molotov cocktails.
The authorities say they were forced to open fire after demonstrators burned down dozens of government buildings and a police station.
Nearly 50 protesters were arrested.
The protest is the latest in a series of incidents in Indonesia as locals fight for land rights and workers push for a greater share of profits.
Wednesday 7 December 2011, 2:50PM In a meeting held yesterday in Jakarta with Djoko Suyanto, the Coordinating Minister for Law, Politics and Security, Amnesty International urged the Indonesian government to integrate human rights in their efforts to address the situation in Papua.
By Amnesty International
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The Indonesian government has the duty and the right to maintain public order, but it must ensure that any restrictions to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are no more than is permitted under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the Indonesian government has ratified.
At least 90 people are currently detained in prison in Papua and Maluku for peaceful pro-independence activities. Filep Karma, a Papuan prisoner of conscience, is currently serving a 15-year sentence in Abepura, Papua province.
The Indonesian government should free all those who are detained in Papua and Maluku for peacefully expressing their views, including through raising or waving the prohibited pro-independence flags, and distinguish between peaceful and violent political activists.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has recently initiated discussions with Papuan activists and established a special task force to enhance economic development in the resource-rich but under-developed region.
Amnesty International called on the government to implement the full provisions of the 2001 Special Autonomy Law, in particular, by establishing a human rights court and a truth and reconciliation commission.
The Coordinating Minister expressed the government’s commitment to ensure accountability for human rights violations committed by security forces but Amnesty International criticised the use of lenient administrative penalties or closed-door trials in response to human rights violations involving members of the security forces.
Amnesty International also expressed concerns about ongoing attacks against human rights defenders and journalists as well as the lack of independent and impartial monitoring of the human rights situation in Papua. The organisation called on the Minister to allow international observers, non-governmental organisations and journalists unrestricted and ongoing access to the provinces of Papua and Maluku.
The meeting was proposed by President Yudhoyono during a Cabinet meeting in late October in response to Amnesty International’s concerns about human rights violations surrounding the Third Papuan Congress in Abepura, Papua on 19 October 2011, where at least three people were killed and hundreds arbitrarily arrested and ill-treated by Indonesia security forces.
Amnesty International takes no position whatsoever on the political status of any province of Indonesia, including calls for independence. However the organisation believes that the right to freedom of expression includes the right to peacefully advocate referendums, independence or any other political solutions that do not involve incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.
