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‘This isn’t a spill. This isn’t a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse’, said Kerry St. Pe, the former head of the Louisiana oil spill response team. The Gulf spill is really a river of oil flowing out of the bottom of the Gulf according to the New Orleans Times–Picayune.
France and Germany, while publicly urging Greece to make harsh public spending cuts, bullied its government to confirm billions of euros in arms deals, a leading Euro–MP alleged Friday.
Before the Bell
Anti–settlement petition signed by Bernard Henri–Lévy and others causes division in Jewish community
Is China’s Recovery a Fraud?
Combined with a real estate collapse, the Chinese miracle will reveal itself to be another debt–induced fraud. This will be another step towards the Greater Depression. The investment implications are that worldwide stock markets are likely to retest their 2009 lows by the end of 2010.
Africa
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.
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Manipulation, not error, behind market plunge
Zubi Diamond, author of the Wizards of Wall Street, says, "What happened in the market on Thursday is a typical example of pure market manipulation" by unregulated hedge fund short sellers.
A Trillion for Europe, With Doubts Attached
By LANDON THOMAS Jr. and JACK EWING
As Asian markets fell on Tuesday, some analysts challenged the wisdom of the rescue package’s main component, a promise of new loans to bail out European economies.
The ‘fat finger’ that supposedly triggered a scary U.S. market selloff on Thursday is likely just a myth.
KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.
~ It’s Time for an Open Alternative
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SB1070 -- The Joe Arpaio Racial Profiling Protection Act 
The new Arizona anti–immigrant law isn’t about what you think. It’s even worse…
The front page photo in Sunday’s N.Y. Times showed thousands demonstrating in Los Angeles and over 70 other locations nationwide. They were far larger than originally anticipated as the new Arizona law was the rallying cry ‘transforming them into something akin to a civil rights movement with a national profile’. This is a national problem requiring a federal solution. Arizona’s law is the siren call for Congress to act.
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Latest Environment News
We have spent the last thirty years dismantling the role of government in society, and the effects have been profound. And profoundly destructive.
Our Entire Economy is Built on Fraud
At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn’t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history. This is their story.
En Passant
Tiger Woods hires divorce lawyer in bid for joint child custody: Reports
Tiger Woods and his wife Elin sit courtside at an NBA playoff game in Orlando, Fla., last June. ...
Quote of the Day:
"Her open-mindedness may disappoint some who want a sure liberal vote on almost every issue. Her pragmatism may disappoint those who believe that mechanical logic can decide all cases. And her progressive personal values will not endear her to the hard right. But that is exactly the combination the president was seeking."
WALTER DELLINGER, an acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration who is close to Elena Kagan, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
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Oil reaches Yucatan Peninsula
*After(if ever) this oil eruption stops--
it will take a thousand years
for the Gulf of Mexico to recover.
BritainsGotTalent09 – May 07, 2010 – Season 4 Ep. 4 – Britain’s Got Talent: 80–year-old Janey Cutler has been told she has a wonderful singing voice, and her friends have been egging her on to enter the competition as she’s got nothing to lose. Can we find yet another good singer on the Glasgow stage? See more at http://itv.com/talent
A Moment In Time
Lens readers from around the globe submitted photographs taken at 15:00 U.T.C., Sunday, May 2. to capture a global moment in time. 
Arlen Specter US Senator from Pennsylvania wrote the Warren Report, the official inquiry into President John Kennedy’s death, that said Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone shot the President in Dallas Texas 22 November 1963.
ABC 7 I–Team Investigates: Organic Foods
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