Much like the JNF’s weaponization of environmentalism to erase Palestinian lands, Israel is now weaponizing conservationism by unleashing wild boars on Palestinian rural communities, wreaking havoc on Palestinian nature, animals, and people. Source Views: 0
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‘NYT’ coverage of happy boars of Haifa is just another way to ignore settlers’ crimes
On April 9, 2021 The New York Times published a half tongue-in-cheek, half serious article titled “Where Boars Hog the Streets” by Patrick Kingsley. It opens with a photo of a large mama boar crossing a Haifa street with eight baby boars and a waiting driver laughing. This is not a laughing manner on so […]
Sweden’s wild boars have ‘extremely high’ radiation levels 31 years after Chernobyl
Hunters in Gavle, a city in the north of Sweden, have been warned of “extremely high” levels of radiation in boars this week. “This is the highest level we’ve ever measured,” environmental consultant Ulf Frykman told SVT, after testing an animal in Tarnsjo with radiation levels of 16,000 becquerel per kilogram (Bq/kg). The Chernobyl nuclear […]
Rampaging Wild Boars Kill 3 ISIS Terrorists In Iraq
According to Iraqi News, the trio of militants were killed on Sunday night after an altercation with the wild beasts in southern Kirkuk. Quoting local sources, The Times reports that the boars also injured a further five militants in the bitterly contested area. Local Ubaid tribal chief and supervisor of anti-IS (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL) […]
New Martian Gravity Map Shows Strange Interior In Mars
A team of researchers have finally completed a highly detailed “gravity map” of Mars. According to GeoBeats News: NASA has spent years sending spacecraft and rovers to Mars in an effort to unlock some of the planet’s mysteries, and those efforts have paid off in a number of ways. Among them is the recent completion […]
The FBI Now Has The Largest Biometric Database In The World. Will It Lead To More Surveillance?
Nearly a decade ago, fueled by fears of another 9/11-style attack, the FBI signed a $1 billion contract with military behemoth Lockheed Martin to develop and launch the unit, dubbed Next Generation Identification (NGI). The FBI began with a small pilot program in 2011. In late 2014, the facial recognition program finally became […]
US Government Declaring All Out War on Tiny House Living
Isaac Davis, StaffWaking Times Freedom in the United States today is a moving target, and when the government catches wind of an innovation that makes life easier and more affordable for ordinary people, it always steps in to take control. Take, for example, the growing effort to outlaw offgrid living in the […]