October, 2018
All life is Sacred
October 31, 2018 ·
All life is Sacred Fr. Shay Cullen 3 November 2018 Unless we take as stand for life death will overwhelm us. That is the challenge that greets every one of us that has seen someone that we cared and loved pass from this life. It is the memory of that person that draws us back to the […]
Read More...‘Land dispute’ sparks massacre of 9 in Philippines
October 31, 2018 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Bacolod City for www.ucanews.com
Gunmen massacred nine farm workers, including three women and two teenagers, on a central Philippine sugarcane farm on Oct. 20, sparking outrage across the country. Initial police investigation revealed that the killings and the subsequent burning of some of the victims were caused by a “land dispute.” A group of 14 farm workers arrived on […]
Read More...Abused Indonesian migrant worker becomes rights fighter
October 31, 2018 · By Ryan Dagur, Jakarta for international.la-croix.com
Erwiana Sulistyaningsih is pictured with her parents during her graduation ceremony at the Jesuit-run Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta on Sept. 8, 2018. (Photo supplied) When she graduated from a vocational high school in the Indonesian province of East Java back in 2010, all Erwiana Sulistyaningsih wanted was to work and raise money to fund her university studies. She knew her impoverished parents in Ngawi, […]
Read More...9 sugar farmers killed: Land dispute eyed in Negros Occidental massacre
October 31, 2018 · By RAYMOND AFRICA AND GERARD NAVAL for www.malaya.com.ph
NINE sugar farmers were killed by unidentified, heavily-armed men as they were resting in makeshift tents in an agricultural farm in Hacienda Nene in Negros Occidental on Saturday night. The fatalities were members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) which said three other farmers were wounded in the incident in Hacienda Nene in […]
Read More...Weed killer found in more breakfast cereals, snack bars, study shows
October 29, 2018 · By Meira Gebel, Detroit Free Press for www.usatoday.com
DETROIT – A cancer-linked herbicide has been found in more than two dozen popular breakfast cereals and snack bars according to a new report released Wednesday. Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, was found in 26 of the 28 products the Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested, in levels “higher than what EWG scientists consider protective of children’s health.” An earlier […]
Read More...The Guardian view on vanishing insects: a silent threat
October 29, 2018 · By www.theguardian.com
One of the classic moments in the Simpsons comes when the venal TV anchorman Kent Brockman sees on his screen an ant crawling across a lens and assumes at once that this is not a negligible terrestrial arthropod but a giant alien descending from space that will become one of “our new insect overlords”, a […]
Read More...The Guardian view on the march for a people’s vote: a step forward
October 29, 2018 · By www.theguardian.com
If participation in a march counted as membership of a political party, the party opposed to Brexit is now probably the largest in Britain, and on some counts larger than the Labour and Conservative parties combined. 700,000 people demonstrated for a referendum on the final terms of any Brexit deal; the Conservatives claim 125,000 and Labour 540,000 […]
Read More...Honey bees are dying. A popular weed killer might be to blame, study says
October 29, 2018 · By Ashley May, USA TODAY for www.usatoday.com
Weed killer might be hurting honey bee populations around the world, according to a new study. Glyphosate is leaving honey bees more susceptible to infection and death, University of Texas at Austin researchers say in a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Glyphosate, a herbicide, is the controversial active […]
Read More...New ‘Trojan horse’ antibiotic promising
October 29, 2018 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
Scientists say they have engineered a new antibiotic that appears promising in early clinical trials. The drug, made by Shionogi Inc, acts like the Trojan horse in Greek legend to trick bacteria into allowing it to enter. Trials on 448 people with a kidney or urinary tract infection suggested the drug was as effective as […]
Read More...Former Met police chief urges rethink on cannabis
October 26, 2018 · By Mattha Busby for www.theguardian.com
The former Metropolitan police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe has urged the government to review the evidence that justifies the ongoing criminalisation of cannabis use after a host of leading clinical bodies called for changes. Lord Hogan-Howe, who has always supported tough laws on cannabis, said that if he was home secretary he would hold an “urgent commission of […]
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