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Margot’s News Picks for the week of May 22–28, 2010

 

HOT GLOBAL ISSUES

Oil spreading much farther than thought; Obama returns to Gulf Coast

 
The Greenpeace senior campaigner Lindsey Allen walks through a patch of oil from the Deepwater Horizon on the breakwater in the mouth of the Mississippi river where it meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana
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Is It Raining Oil In Florida? This Is Just The Beginning
Oil is semi–volatile, which means that it can evaporate into the air and create a heavy vapor that stays near the ground – – in the human breathing zone. When winds whip up oily sea water, the spray contains tiny droplets – – basically a fume – – of oil, which are small enough to be inhaled deep into the lungs. We know that's happening in the Gulf Coast, because people are reporting a heavy oily smell in the air. Already my colleagues in Louisiana are reporting that people in the coastal community of Venice, Louisiana are suffering from nausea, vomiting, headaches, and difficulty breathing.
The following eyewitness account came to our attention yesterday.
 
Gulf Oil Leak
‘Top Kill’ Fails to Plug Leak; BP Readies Next Approach

 
 

Gulf Oil Spill: This is the Modis May 28 pictures

 
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The United States and Cuba, close neighbors but ideological foes, are talking about the potential risks from a huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill that forecasters say could be carried to Cuban shores by strong ocean currents.

  
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Middle East/Asia

 

Afghanistan: Reading between the lines ~ By Eric Walberg

 

Andy WorthingtonMay 25, 2010 – On Friday, the Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. delivered a genuinely disturbing ruling (PDF) regarding prisoners in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which has turned the clock back to the darkest days of the Bush administration, before prisoners seized in the "War on Terror" had any recourse to justice if they claimed they had been seized by mistake…
 

Covert US Military Strategy on Iran
"The Obama administration insists that for the moment, it is committed to penalizing Iran for its nuclear activities only with diplomatic and economic sanctions. Nevertheless, the Pentagon has to draw up detailed war plans to be prepared in advance, in the event that President Obama ever authorizes a strike’.

 

The Current Intrigue over the Sinking of a South Korean Warship in March, Part 2
For the apparent sinking of a S. Korean warship by a torpedo from a N. Korean submarine, S. Korea suspended all trade with the North. New military exercises (w/ the U.S.) were announced and the South would no longer allow N. Korean vessels to cross its maritime boundaries. China is being pressed by Sec'y of State Clinton to join the chorus and condemn the N. Koreans. Are we trying to provoke Kim and the North into a hot war?

 

  Canada

Africa

Somalia: Pirates or protectors?.

Markets/Economics

The banal evil of predatory capitalism

 

Double Dip Fears Over Worldwide Credit Stress

The global credit system is flashing the most serious warning signals in almost a year on triple fears of a Spanish banking crisis, escalating political risk in Asia, and a second leg to the US housing slump.

 

The Last Hold Out: Senator Blanche Lincoln Against 13 Bankers

 
Weekly Jobless Claims Jump By 25,000

Business

 
Congress looked serious about finance reform – until America’s biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyists.


U.S.

 

BP bused in 100s of temp workers for Obama visit, state official says

 

U.S. police chiefs say Arizona immigration law will increase crime

 

100,000 teachers nationwide face layoffs

 

  

Science/Environment 

 

California Throws Away Enough Food to Fill 35 Stadiums Per Year

“keep this story in mind next time you hear that nonsense from people like bill gates insisting we need gm crops to feed a hungry world.”

from sfgate: Farmers, restaurants and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of edible food each year at a time when a growing number of Californians struggle to put food on the table.

 

The world's oil reserves have been exaggerated by up to a third, according to Sir David King, the Government's former chief scientist, who has warned of shortages and price spikes within years.

 

 
 

 

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Naomi Klein: ‘A Strange Corporate Oil State’
 
Convention USA: Confronting Unconstitutional Inaction by Congress
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The Only True Race Is The Human Race
 
Dairy Factory Farm Abuse in Ohio ~
Many of us have seen the videotapes about the Willet dairy farm cruelty in Locke, New York. Not surprisingly, this cruelty happens almost anywhere in the US because of our cruel factory farming system. I got this e-mail to day from Mercy for Animals showing dairy farm cruelty to cows and calves in Ohio. I also saw the footage on the local noon time news. I hope it will be picked up by the evening national news as well.
 
Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election
 

En Passant

 

Jewish Values Paying on Time1, Part 3

 

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There is a much bigger leak 5-6 miles away

 

What’s Behind BP’s Logo?

 

James Carville Begs Obama ‘To Take Control’ Of The Oil Spill!

 

Their cure will kill us! Michel Chossudovsky on State of Financial Emergency

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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: Philippe Cousteau Tours the Wetlands, Oil Refineries (Photos and Video)

 

New Satellite Close–up Pictures of Gulf Oil Spill 

 

Here are the two latest postings on Thomas Paine’s Corner.

 

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Too Pig to Fail

 

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