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HOT GLOBAL ISSUES

BP faces huge tab, has deep pockets.  Oil giant generates tens of billions in cash, sitting on vast oil reserves

 

BP False Flag Halliburton bought an oil cleanup company days before BP explosion. A BP report refers to tampering with well sealing equipment. (False Flag ) Important people sold BP shares just before the explosion.

 

U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan


Gulf Oil Disaster: A Trillion Dollar Corporate Crime.

BP oil spill 2010: The politics behind the global disaster

 

The BP Disaster That Could Kill Millions.

 

Gulf Oil Showing Radiation In New Test Gasses May Be Radioactive, Too

 

BP’s Largest Shareholder Says Spill Good for the Economy

 

First Dead Whale Found

 


BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal’s Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard. Along Gulf Coast, Governors Ask, ‘Who’s In Charge?’.

   WORLD NEWS

Top Stories

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism
 
On Thursday afternoon, 28-year-old inventor, Tyson Larson was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in the roof and blew out the back doors to a Simi Valley building of the family member's company, Realm Industries, which was seeking to develop his water fuel technology.
 
 

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Today’s Top 10

 

Middle East/Asia

 

Bangladesh: 77m people poisoned by arsenic in drinking water.

 

Violence Up Sharply in Afghanistan

 

Expert Available to Discuss Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan
University of Vermont political scientist and expert on Kyrgyzstan is available for interview about the ethnic violence there and new reports that the Kyrgyz army may be involved.

 

  Canada

Public will finally see Dziekanski report

 

Calgary boy to be returned to Canada

 

New Brunswick news

 

  Americas

 

Africa

US aid official’s killers escape Sudan jail: police

 

Shell to cease offshore drilling in Nigeria

Markets/Economics

 

Nearly One Million U.S. Workers Cut Off Unemployment Benefits

 

Nevada Posts Nation’s Biggest Jobless Rate.

 

George Soros: We Are Just Entering ‘Act 2’ Of The Crisis, And We’re Totally Screwed.

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The financial raid against the middle class – 9 of the 10 largest occupations in the U.S. have median wages between $8 per hour and $14per hour. The middle class is inheriting a new serfdom drowning in mountains of debt. The new two income trap.

Business

BP faces huge tab, has deep pockets
Oil giant generates tens of billions in cash, sitting on vast oil reserves

 

Congressional Oil Holdings
Nearly 30 members of congressional committees overseeing oil and gas companies held personal assets in the industry totaling $9 million to $14.5 million late last year. That included up to nearly $1 million in the three companies at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil–drilling disaster.

This interactive graphic provides a breakdown of oil and gas stock owned by House and Senate lawmakers on committees conducting hearings into the Gulf oil spill.

 

Spanish government debunks study cited by GOP . . . Spanish renewable energy policy . . . has generated important benefits in environmental terms; has created net jobs, has created and improved a powerful industrial fabric, helping the rise of leading companies, at a national level and at an international one, with great export and innovation capacity. . .

 

Out-of-work job applicants told unemployed need not apply.


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U.S.

 

California On Verge of System Failure

 

Reporter recounts seeing Utah’s firing squad execution

 

WeAreChangeLA Organizer Faces Terrorism Charge

 

Transcript and video of President Obama’s Oval Office speech on BP oil spill (raw video)

 

Science/Environment 

 

High Pressure, High Temperature Wells: A Common Phenomenon in the Oil Industry

 

North America faces years of toxic oil rain from BP oil spill chemical dispersants.

 

Who Died & Made BP the Queen of Mexico?

 

China’s Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
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On the Gulf Coast, DANGEROUS LEVELS OF BENZENE IN THE AIR

 

Scientist Takes Comprehensive Look at Human Impacts on Ocean Chemistry

Officials Worried About the Gulf Clean-Up Materials Sent to Their Landfills.

 

More Science

 

Health

 

Vitamin D Not Just For the Bones

 

New Complication Seen in Stem Cell Therapy
Following stem cell therapy, an adult patient experienced a new and previously unrecognized complication, which required removal of one of the kidneys, according to a case report appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).

 

  

 

Op–Ed
 
Gulf Oil Spill & Biblical Prophecy Is There a Connection?
 
Grow Up Or Die, But How? The article is a commentary on Clinton Callahan’s latest book ‘Directing The Power of Conscious Feelings’, which offers a treasure trove of tools for inner transition and preparing emotionally and spiritually for a challenging future. ~ by Carolyn Baker

 

 

Just prior to the 9/11 attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market.

 

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  En Passant

 

 
By Rosally Saltsman – There’s a point at which we have to stop striving to be super–human or experience super fidelity and super thrills before we lose our ability to perceive subtlety

 

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Seattle City Attorney blasts police Thursday over altercation with cop who punches teenager. …statement from Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes that was issued on Thursday afternoon.…

 

Distribution of US Wealth ~ nothing to see here

 

Rachel Maddow Blasts BP COO Doug Suttles: ‘Not Even Remotely Believable’ Answers In Interview (VIDEO) ~ Len Hart via Leonard Rynearson

 

HUMOR

Too Pig to Fail

 

LETTERS/INTERVIEWS

 

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