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Gulf of Mexico worst Case Scenarios-- Listing the Players and Possible Terrorist or Nuke Tie-in ~ Gulf of Mexico worst Case Scenarios -- Coming Fast with Possible Terrorist Tie-in.

This is a horror story which will become so much worse, it will become the dominant news story for the forseeable future. It includes Haliburton, the release of unprecedented geologic forces and a potential world wide catastrophe, not only ecologically, but much more, especially if the river of oil spewing from the deepwater, hyperpressurized sea-floor opening reaches the gulf stream, which will quickly spread it all the way up the east coast and beyond, possibly even to Europe.
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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

 
 

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Non-contact Explosion Likely Sank Cheonan

 

 Canada
 
New Brunswick news

 Americas

 

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.

 

Chavez to join TWITTER...
...accuses US plane of 'electronic warfare'...

 

 

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.

 
 
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
 

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U.S.

 

Weekend Storms Dump 10 Inches on Memphis; Tornadoes, Hail Reported; Highways Turn Into Raging Rivers

 

Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election ~ Greg Palast

 
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

By Andrew Leonard

 

Florida gov. declares emergency for Panhandle coast

 

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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Op–Ed

This article is about the Obama administration’s policy toward Iran

 

This Is The Last Dance

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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Tea Partying Through History ~ from TomDispatch: Fraser and Freeman.
A strikingly overlooked aspect of the coverage of the Tea Party movement -- a must-read account of how Americans have Tea Partied through history and how such Tea Parties have changed politically from 1773 to late last night -- Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman, "History's Mad Hatters, The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism"
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