Articles

The year is almost over so we’re going to spend its final few hours looking back at the biggest news events in the file-sharing world during 2012. Which TorrentFreak articles were read the most, which received the most comments, and what were the biggest file-sharing news stories of the year?

Source: TorrentFreak’s Top File-Sharing News Articles of 2012

Raising Resistance – Global Day of Action re-cap

Letter to Industry and Government with Warning About Trespassing on Wet’suwet’en Territory Today Unist’ot’en allies are rising up in cities across North America, and around the world, to deliver a message to industry and government warning them…

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Road to new biotech development in Florida stopped

Last month, activists with the Everglades Earth First! group joined forces with residents of Limestone Creek, a historic Black community, near the city of Jupiter. This week the alliance succeeded in defeating a plan related to Scripps Biotech in Palm …

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Earth First! Journalist popped at Tar Sands Blockade

[Yeah, that's right. We EF! Journalistas occasionally escape the doldrums of office life and get out to the woods to raise some hell. The following is a first hand account, re-posted from TarSandsBlockade.org] One Blockader’s Story (Day 25) Monda…

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Large Predators Moving to the City: Urban Coyotes on the Rise

The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s human population will be living in towns and cities. Many new Urbanites have long, furry muzzles, piercing, yel…

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Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming and Meme-based Communication Growing numbers of observers contend that the dominant public role of our time has shifted from citizen to consumer. Indeed, respondents in polls typically cite entertainment, shopping, and other consumer activities as their top free time preferences. Commercial media and public entertainment venues offer environments carefully constructed to avoid politics [...]

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Florida’s Largest, Rarest Bat Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection

Florida bonneted bat…so adorable, right? Once Common in South Florida; Fewer Than 300 Believed Left in Wild ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Florida bonneted bat, th…

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Filthy War Machine: US Military Industrial Complex, World’s Worst Polluter

The United States Military, the Pentagon. Most fossil fuel burned, most greenhouse gases released, biggest source of Mercury released into the environment, biggest source of radiological (Uranium, Plutonium) releases and the biggest amount of HAZMAT ma…

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Deforestation in the Amazon Decreasing Rainfall

New research on the way air carries moisture confirms that deforestation has a major effect on tropical rainfall. A team from the University of Leeds and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology found that over large regions of the tropics air that …

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Codex Alimentarius Endangers Health Freedom, Creates Global Nutricide

Health freedom activists have been warning about the dangers of Codex Alimentarius for years, revealing the strict universal food codes to be population control under the guise of consumer protection. In this video, Dr. Rima Laibow explains the details…

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Stanford University Researchers in the Pocket of Big Biotech

Scientists Tied to Tobacco Industry Propaganda, and Funding from Monsanto, Turn Attention to Organic Food From the Cornucopia Institute: Cornucopia, Wisconsin – A recent study by Stanford University researchers made international headlines when it …

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Canaries in the Mineshaft – Miner Strikes Worldwide, Art, and the Environment

Punk art surrealist Winston Smith, who named him­self after the indelible pro­tag­o­nist of Orwell’s 1984, was once quoted (referring to a popular idiom), “You could say that artists are the canaries in the mineshaft. We see things before o…

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Datacide Twelve Out October 20th – Talks & Party at Subversiv, Berlin & more


The 12th issue of datacide will be out in print on October 20th! We will present and celebrate it in the space of Subversiv e.V., Brunnenstrasse 7, Berlin-Mitte (U8 Rosenthaler Platz) starting at 4pm with talks and discussions, there will be a food break and we will party all night with Xanopticon Split Horizon Dimentia [...]

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Villagers Sue Diamond Firms for Pollution in Zimbabwe

Report by Caiphas Chimhete, original story from The Standard The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) and villagers living along Save River are seeking a court order to bar three diamond mining companies in Marange district from polluting wate…

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Mining Will Hit Tiger Habitats

by Rashme Sehgal, from Asian Age Conservationists warn that indiscriminate coal block allocation will destroy tiger habitats of central India. Geological Information System analysis whereby Coal India Ltd maps were juxtaposed against satellite images o…

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Extinction Explosion

Teetering on the dire precipice between existence and annihilation, time is running out for the Royal Bengal tiger, the Great White shark, and Victorian koalas. There are reports that species in Brazil’s coastal rainforest are disappearing faster…

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Alarming Biodiversity Collapse in Protected Forests

{from Mother Jones} In the science journal Nature this week, a piece was co-authored by more than 200 scientists from around the world—a veritable who’s-who of researchers from the world of tropical forest ecology. The gist of the paper is alar…

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State of Oregon Owns Rainwater, Criminalizes Permaculture

Oregon Criminalizes Permaculture; Claims State Ownership Over All Rainwater – Ponds and Swales Restricted – Jail Time for Violators July 29 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor naturalnews.com There’s nothing more…

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