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Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor: "New research suggests that huge plumes of oil might be spread at all levels of the water column, showing how much scientists don't yet know about the complex Gulf oil spill."

https://www.truthout.org/gulf-oil-spill-real-disaster-might-be-lurking-beneath-surface59548



BP Stands for Bad Petroleum

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if the costs exceed the $75 million liability cap under federal law. BP responded Sunday saying its public statements are 'absolutely consistent' with the Administration's request."

https://www.truthout.org/bp-stands-bad-petroleum59559

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Guess how much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico

Steven Wereley of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, estimates that the well is losing 70,000 barrels of oil a day. That's equivalent to an Exxon Valdez disaster every four days, and more than 10 times the 5000 barrels a day estimated by BP.

https://snipurl.com/wfi9k



Submerged oil plumes suggest gulf spill is worse than BP claims

Ocean scientists in the Gulf of Mexico have found giant plumes of oil coagulating at up to 1,300 metres below the surface, raising fears that the BP oil spill may be larger than thought - and that it might create huge "dead zones".

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/16/gulf-oil-spill-bp



Air tests from the Louisiana coast reveal human health threats from the oil disaster

The media coverage of the BP oil disaster to date has focused largely on the threats to wildlife, but the latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher.

https://snipurl.com/wfiaq


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Center for Public Integrity (CPI): BP Cited for Worst OSHA Safety Violations Among U.S. Refiners

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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "'A disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants has been established with the adoption of an immigration law that may allow for police action targeting individuals on the basis of their perceived ethnic origin,' UN human rights experts said."

https://www.truthout.org/arizonas-war-immigrants59522



New Arizona Bills Continue Targeting of Minority Groups, Critics Say

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Arizona has banned the school district from offering any courses that are designed for students primarily of a certain race, as well as courses that 'promote the overthrow of the US government ... or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals' - at the risk of losing up to ten percent of their funding. The state has also told schools state-wide that teachers with 'heavy' or 'ungrammatical' accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes."

https://www.truthout.org/new-arizona-bills-continue-targeting-minority-groups-critics-say59535



ACLU Fights Restrictive, Unconstitutional Arizona Law in Court

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of civil rights groups are tackling Arizona's restrictive immigration law head-on; they filed a class action lawsuit Monday to challenge the new law, which requires police to demand 'papers' from people suspected of being in the United States without proper documentation."

https://www.truthout.org/aclu-fights-restrictive-unconstitutional-arizona-law-court59655



Arizona's New Laws: An Attempt to Secure Cheap Labor?

Paul Ortiz, Truthout: "In the debate surrounding Arizona's laws targeting immigrants and ethnic studies, we've heard very little mention of capitalism and its place in American politics. Senate Bill 1070 is an insurance policy for capitalism, a way to ensure that the cheap labor that serves the foundation of the new economy remains cheap forever. House Bill 2281 is part of a package deal."

https://www.truthout.org/arizonas-new-laws-a-pathway-cheap-labor60041

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ACLU and Civil Rights Groups File Legal Challenge to Arizona Racial Profiling Law
https://act.commondreams.org/go/657?akid=59.124981.HG8OGR&t=32

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA): May 29: March Against Hate in Arizona
https://act.commondreams.org/go/824?akid=70.124981.tBfIgp&t=30

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Economic power: Avoid Arizona and boycott BP

Nolan Chart
by Joel S. Hirschhorn

05/16/10

Money is power. Each of us has it to varying degrees. Our challenge is to use our spending to advance worthy goals. Right now we see economic power being used against the state of Arizona because of the awful legislation recently passed that makes it all too easy for police there to seek proof of citizenship from virtually anyone they choose. Many groups and government entities have already cancelled conferences and other activities in Arizona, sending state and business leaders into a frizzy. They deserve to suffer as do the vast majority of Arizona citizens that supported the legislation. Every American that professes love and respect for the Constitution should avoid spending their tourism and other kinds of spending in Arizona...

https://www.nolanchart.com/article7709.html



Law & Order: Arizona

J. Neil Schulman @ Rational Review
by J. Neil Schulman

05/20/10

Do you notice that I keep saying ‘federal regulations’ rather than law? There is very little actual law involved in determining who is and is not in the country legally. It’s largely a complex maze of bureaucratic regulations designed to sanction federal law-enforcement and Homeland Security officials to bully anyone they want to by threatening to throw them or someone they love out of the country. And a lot of these regulations — and the new Arizona law — operate on the hostage system. By threatening third parties law-enforcement officials can use perfectly legal extortion as a tactic for nullifying any rights or legal protections written down in what’s supposed to be the real law of the land, the Constitution of the United States...

https://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2010/05/law-order-arizona/


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Obama’s Crude Awakening: Offshore Oil Drilling Is Ecologically Devastating and Must End

By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal https://www.climateark.org/ - a project of Ecological Internet

May 15, 2010

U.S. oil addiction is killing American and global ecology. An international wake-up call must be delivered to both the administration and Congress, to focus more effort upon reducing the demand for oil. The risks and costs of offshore oil exploration far outweigh their benefits, and the U.S. would be better off focusing upon promoting alternative energy sources. Will virtually every remaining intact ecosystem be razed to access every last bit of oil before we transition to lower energy use, a low carbon economy and renewable energy?

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"Steroid Banking" in Zeiten des Untergangs: Zu viel Moral, zu wenig Gekko - die "Ninja"-Generation, Massenvernichtungswaffen und Oliver Stones "Wall Street"-Fortsetzung in Cannes.

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Neue Greenpeace-Tests: Diesel aus Urwaldzerstörung

Deutsche Dieselfahrer kaufen mit jeder Tankfüllung auch Agrosprit aus Importen ein.

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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "Even as headlines and broadcast news are dominated by BP's fire-ravaged, sunken offshore rig and the ruptured well gushing a reported 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, there's another important story involving Big Oil and pollution - one that shatters not only the environment but the essential First Amendment right of journalists to tell truth and shame the devil."

https://www.truthout.org/chevrons-crude-attempt-suppress-free-speech59512



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by Michael LeMieux

My father would tell me as a child – “Tell me WHO your friends are and I will tell you WHAT you are.” The meaning of this is based upon the age old adage “Birds of a feather flock together.” Because we most often associate with those to whom we feel comfortable and, quite often, are most like ourselves, with similar beliefs, likes and dislikes; a man can be judged by whom he chooses to associate himself with. And so it is with Politics, especially with politics!.......

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The Crisis Route to the New World Order

by Deanna Spingola

David Rockefeller said, “All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” In the Project for a New American Century document Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century we find the.........

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Obama Promises a New World Order at Military Academy Graduation

by NWV News

On Saturday, President Barack Obama took center stage during graduation ceremonies for the U.S. Military Academy's Class of 2010 and preached his message for the creation of a new "international order" to about 1,000 new officers. President Obama pledged to shape a new, international order based on global cooperation and partnerships that address not just military, but also economic and environmental challenges.........

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Zwar wird mit den transgenen Pflanzen ein Schädling bekämpft, nach einer Studie chinesischer Wissenschaftler gedeiht dafür aber ein anderer - mit Folgen für viele Pflanzenarten.

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Mit dem Hin und Her in NRW schon allein im Hinblick auf Gespräche mit Grünen und SPD zerlegt sich die angeschlagene Partei weiter.

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Nach Goldman Sachs und Morgan Stanley ist neben anderen Banken auch die Deutsche Bank ins Visier geraten.

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Zerstört die Deutsche Bank Stadtteile von Milwaukee?

Bürgerkomitee erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen Ackermanns Bank.
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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "President Obama will not get the United States out of Iraq in his first term. If he wins a second term, it is highly unlikely he will get us out of Iraq before he finally leaves office."

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the funds, which would be spent over a decade, were needed to "rebuild and sustain America's aging nuclear stockpile."

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Thinking Rots the Mind
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Obama Dresses Down the Military, but What's Changed?

William J. Astore, Truthout: "Is Obama the reincarnation of Harry 'the buck stops here' Truman? Has he brought rebellious generals to heel? Evidence suggests otherwise. First, under Obama the U.S. military has gotten everything it could've possibly wanted, and more: rising defense budgets, more soldiers and Marines added to the ranks, and virtually uncontested control over American foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere."

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350 Blackwater personnel are residing in the city along with unspecified number of US marines and spies of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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The President ignored Sun Tzu's timeless wisdom, when he approved McChrystal's fatally flawed plan, despite the cabled warnings of retired Army general Karl Eikenberry, his ambassador to Afghanistan.

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Afghan private security firms fuelling corruption, warns British commander

Private security companies are operating in a "culture of impunity" that is encouraging lawlessness and corruption, Britain's most senior commander in southern Afghanistan warned today.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/13/afghanistan-private-security-firms


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Progressive Democrats of America (PDA): Protests Nationwide Oppose $33 Billion to Escalate Afghan War

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Tunnel darkens for Obama’s Afghan War

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

05/17/10

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in London Saturday as US generals express doubts that they are having any success in fighting the Taliban. The US and NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen Stanley McChrystal, who was boasting of military progress only three months ago, confessed last week that ‘nobody is winning.’ His only claim now is that the Taliban have lost momentum compared to last year. Karzai’s reception in London and Washington highlights the political dilemma of the US and UK in Afghanistan since both have more or less openly denounced the corruption of his regime and the mass fraud at the polls by which he was re-elected last year...

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said in a faxed statement that ten "innocent people" were killed in the Surkh Rod village of Saydan, and that he "strongly condemned" the operation.

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Afghan protest turns violent

One Afghan protester has been killed in eastern part of the country as thousands of people were protesting against the killing of 11 civilians by US-led troops.

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(And Learned to Love It)

By Gordon Arnaut

Right now, the US Congress is holding hearings about bank wrongdoing. It is very entertaining kabuki theatre, but nothing will change. The Goldman chief (thief?) and his cohorts may take a bit of a grilling, but behind the scenes his bagmen are funnelling millions of dollars into the campaign trunks of every representative, senator (or likely hopeful) in the land.

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Two Americas

By Cindy Sheehan

The America that I belong to buys into the Myth that we don't deserve to have healthy food, education, health care, a warm and non-leaking roof over our heads, without living as debt slaves, because we don't belong in the privileged "elite" class.

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Right Wing Talking Points

By Brian J. Foley

Socialist Puppet? Christ fed multitudes with bread and fish, for free (Mark 6:30-44). This giveaway reveals likely support for welfare programs. And where did this low wage earner obtain all this food? From powerful friends to whom he may be beholden if confirmed as a Justice?

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