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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to attend the U.N. summit on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty this week.
Ahmadinejad blasts U.S. before visit
 
 
Tax On Oil May Help Pay For Cleanup
 
Drill, Baby, Drill -- or Whoops, Baby, Spill?
 
Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
 
Second drilling rig overturns in Louisiana
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Environmental Disaster: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill impacts bio–diversity the environment.
The ripple effects of last week’s offshore drilling rig explosion widened Monday as crude oil continued to spill into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of about a thousand barrels a day and oil company officials said it would take at least two to four weeks to get it under control.
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Two Gulf of Mexico drilling platforms have stopped natural gas production due to the giant oil spill, affecting 6.2 million cubic feet per day, the U.S. Minerals Management Service said on Saturday.
 
 

Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes’, Law Prof Says. The Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons ruled Tuesday that Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government has violated parliament’s core constitutional rights by refusing to obey a Common’s order to hand over all documents pertaining to the fate of Afghans captured by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).

 
 

Middle East/Asia

 

China says Houston police beat, injured diplomat...

China Remains Biggest U.S.-Debt Holder…

 

Non-contact Explosion Likely Sank Cheonan

 

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solidarity caravan travelling to the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala in the Triqui Region of Oaxaca has been attacked by UBISORT paramilitaries. Two are confirmed dead, with at least 15 injured and three missing.

 

 

Africa

 
Somali troops desert to insurgents 

30 Apr 30, 2010 – 4:31:31 AM Hundreds of Somali soldiers trained in a US-funded programme deserted the fragile government to join the Al–Qaida–inspired militants they are supposed to be fighting because of non payment.

 

Kenya seeks end to visa row after Dubai rulers expelled Kenya’s foreign minister is in Dubai to defuse a row after members of the Gulf state’s ruling family were deported as terror suspects.

 
 
Markets/Economics

Natural phenomena have laid bare the fact that the networks that power our economy are both fragile and really expensive to duplicate.

 

Business
 
World Bank and OECD say water is a finite resource that must be valued at a higher price in order to repair old supply systems and build new ones
 
Shipping, US coast at risk from huge oil slick
29 Apr 2010 ~ 18:32:52 GMT
Source: Reuters
(For a TAKE A LOOK on the spill, click [ID:nN29189680]) * Slick to hit U.S. Gulf coast on Friday * BP shares drop as investors fear cleanup liability * U.S. does not rule out pause in offshore ... 
 
Junking Greece May Be Beginning of End for Euro ~ Greece cheated its way into the single-currency club, lied about its deficit for years, and now brings the shame of becoming the first junk-rated member after losing investment-grade status at Standard & Poor’s this week. The bailout -- misguided, misconceived and muddleheaded -- makes less and less sense as the region's crisis of confidence worsens. (bloomberg.com)
 

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U.S.

 
The War, BP oil spill hits Gulf coast and You ~ It has also been revealed that the Obama administration had buckled before BP and oil industry pressure, failing to implement new safety and environmental regulations under consideration last fall.
 
More Than a Million in U.S. May Lose Jobless Benefits (Update2) – Bloomberg.com
 
Officials: 3 dead, 25 injured after tornadoes rip through Arkansas, destroy at least 3 homes
 
‘We are under attack by oil rig terrorists’ There are no coincidences: As news spread of a second oil rig overturning, conspiracy theories blossomed

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Florida gov. declares emergency for Panhandle coast

 

US Oil Slick Set Ablaze by Coastguard

 
Governor Signs Immigation Bill Into Law
 
US Coast Guard says finds new leak in undersea well
 
EVERYBODY PLEASE PUT THIS ON FEED AMBER ALERT!!! Edmonton, KY little girl, 3 yrs old picked up by man driving grey car, license plate: Quebec 72B 381. Put this as your status. It could save her. This kidnapping is recent so do it, 3 seconds will not kill you. If it were your child.…what would you want people to do?
 
 
 

Science/Environment

 

Wind’s latest problem: it . . . makes power too cheap

Bloomberg has a somewhat confusing article about the newest complaint about wind power, but the gist of it is that wind power is an issue for the industry because it brings their revenues down

The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems.

 

By Dave Lindorff
Uh-Oh: Hurricane Season and the BP Oil Rig Disaster

Nobody’s talking about the hurricane season, which is almost here, and about what a hurricane would do to the giant BP oil slick lying off the Louisiana coast.

 

A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope painstakingly built to scan the sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye crashed in the Australian outback Thursday, destroying the astronomy experiment and just missing nearby onlookers, according to Australian media reports.
 
 
 
Health
 
 

Remotely controlled procedure could conceivably be performed over the internet from anywhere in the world, given a reliable connection.

 
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Natural Health
Op–Ed
Presenting the latest terrific analysis by Michael Krieger of KAM LP, who joins Willem Buiter and everyone else left with a gram of prudence, in realizing that this is nothing more than the ‘last dance’.
 
May your ideas never die.
 
First, we received this very thoughtful response from Paul Bennett.
 
 
 
 
  
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Cleaners Paint Over Priceless Art An Australian council is rueing a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they painted over a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy.
 
 
 

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