Below is a letter to the Editor of the Inish Times, Buncrana, Wednesday, Sept 7 2016. Indeed we in Buncrana Together are baffled too, especially since we have on many occasions brought up this issue here and on social media. For example see this article on trihalomethanes in Inishowen.
Tell the Government not to authorise Bayer's bee-harming insecticide
Eoin Dubsky of SumOfUs is calling on the people of Ireland to tell the Government not to authorise Bayer's new bee-harming flupyradifurone insecticide. Mr Dubsky said more than 20,000 have already signed their petition asking the Government not to authorise this insecticide.
"France took an unprecedented step to protect bees this summer by passing a total ban on bee-killing neonics. But a new harmful insecticide is being shoved into EU states and it could prove just as toxic as neonics.
Developed by Bayer, “flupyradifurone” is a chemical cousin to the neonics linked to the mass die-off of bees in Europe and beyond. And experts say it’s not just bees that are at risk. Research shows that the insecticide could have adverse effects on “the whole suite of life,” according to Lori Ann Burd of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Since Brussels gave the insecticide the green light last year, it’s being assessed for approval light here in Ireland. In order to protect our bees from further devastation, we need to make sure Ireland keeps flupyradifurone out.
Bayer is once again threatening creatures responsible for pollinating a third of all our crops. Which means its bee-harming insecticides really put our entire food system at risk.
Together, we’ve made massive progress in our fight to protect bees from Bayer and other pesticide producers. From getting Home Depot and Lowe’s to remove neonics from their shelves, to pushing the French government to enact a complete ban on neonics, our people power is coming through.
But Bayer’s latest insecticide could be just as devastating to bee populations as the neonics we’ve rallied against. We won’t let our government authorise another bee-harming pesticide. Let’s make our voices heard once again, before it’s too late.
Tell the Government of Ireland not to authorise Bayer's bee-harming flupyradifurone insecticide."
Full article and petition click on photo opposite
Justice In Focus: 9/11 | 2016 - A Weekend Symposium in NYC
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
To mark the anniversary of 9/11, 15 years after what could be described as the most significant event this century when 2996 people died and over 6000 were injured in attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, the brave men and women of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, NY State Legislative Action Project for 9/11 Justice, 9/11 Consensus Panel, 9/11 Truth Action Project held a weekend symposium beginning September 10 in New York, NY.
These attacks served as the pretext for the 'Global War on Terrorism'. This warcontinues to the present day. It has caused the deaths of millions of people, the destruction of countries and sovereign governments and the displacement of millions of people. It has has been the catalystfor the introduction of the worst draconian legislation everin America itself but also worldwide.
Justice In Focus:9/11 - Introduction click image
The symposium which was held in the Great Hall of Cooper Union , New York City was livestreamed worldwide and nearer at hand was covered by BBC4. This significant event was unfortunately and possibly diplomatically ignored by our very own RTE and media in Ireland.
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The conference featured keynote addresses from renowned legal figures, academics, leading architects and engineers, family members of the victims, and featured presentations by movement leaders and researchers, and day-long evidentiary hearings on the forensics evidence and eyewitness testimony at World Trade Center’s destruction, which will be conducted by a panel of esteemed lawyers.
Daniel Sheehan warns 9/11 Justice In Focus symposium attendees of the difficulties getting justice in our politicised Federal Courts after 50 years' experience. September 10, 2016. 45 min video by Joe Friendly.
" I've lived this for 50 years, We have been in Washington for 20 years. We have been on the inside of these things for a very long time. I'm telling you this is one major hill that you are talking about climbing. But we have climbed a few in the past, all of us together and the fact of the matter is that this may well be the biggest hill ever to climb because the type of theories that are being implied by some of this evidence that is being developed are so extraordinary that they qualify as one of these types of crimes that shake the very foundations of the legal order itself." Daniel Sheehan
For full information on this event see http://www.ae911truth.org/