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Mother Jones
by Kate Sheppard

05/20/10

With the Gulf spill now one month in, some lawmakers and environmentalists are starting to question why BP is still in charge of the containment and clean-up effort. The company’s attempts to cut off the spill have failed. The chemicals BP is spreading in the Gulf might be creating entirely new problems. And independent estimates of the spill indicate that the company is grossly underestimating the size of the disaster. So why is BP still running the show? The government has launched an unprecedented response. But when it comes to crucial issues of control and decision-making, it seems like the oil giant is still in the driver’s seat...

https://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/05/why-bp-still-running-show


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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BP's damage control is spiralling

MarketWatch

It's not just his British accent that brings "Monty Python's Flying Circus" to mind. It's the absurd feat of attempting to inspire confidence while BP's ...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bps-damage-control-is-spiralling-2010-05-21?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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Low Estimate of Oil Spill's Size Could Save BP Millions in Court
https://act.commondreams.org/go/718?akid=65.124981.Nd70Je&t=2

Government Workers Tasked With Gulf Oil Industry Oversight Accepted Gifts
https://act.commondreams.org/go/756?akid=67.124981.ZsknL3&t=2



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Have we crossed the point of no return?

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Philipp Bagus

A specter is haunting the world, and especially Europe: the specter of a sovereign insolvency. The acute sovereign-debt crisis is largely the result of government interventions in response to the financial crisis. As Austrian business-cycle theory explains, the credit expansion of the fractional-reserve-banking system had caused an unsustainable boom...

https://mises.org/daily/4352


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Child Asks Michelle Obama if Her Mother Will Be Deported

Video

Michelle Obama fielded an awkward question on the immigration debate on Wednesday. It came from a worried young girl who seemed to say that her mother is an illegal immigrant.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25511.htm

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Respect Immigrants, Deport BP

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D, Truthout: "My family and I joined tens of thousands in the streets of Phoenix this weekend to march against SB 1070 and for the human rights of immigrants in America. The crowd was ethnically diverse, filled with righteous indignation, creatively colorful and utterly without the fear that has plagued them for years. It was a remarkable demonstration at a critical time and I am more convinced than ever of the basic decency and common humanity of those being demonized by some factions as criminals and undesirables."

https://www.truthout.org/respect-immigrants-deport-bp60113



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Audio of incident between Canadian citizen and US immigration officer.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25495.htm

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Immigration and Liberty
https://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams34.html

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Protesters Demand Problem Solving, Not Demonization

Sarah Lazare, Truthout: "Vietnam War-era veteran and member of the Phoenix Veterans for Peace chapter, David Winkler, was one of 50,000 people who converged in Phoenix on May 29th to protest Arizona Senate Bill 1070. 'In Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as on the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. is attempting to use the military to solve social problems,' he said. 'Immigration is not a military problem, and it should not be dealt with by the military."'

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Um Menschenrechte wieder für Gefangene in den Konfliktgebieten oder in Guantanamo zu achten, wird von der US-Regierung der Krieg mit den Kampfdrohnen ausgeweitet.

https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147661



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By Peter Dale Scott

Plans drafted by a secret committee, including corporation heads not in the government, have provided rules that allegedly override public law and the separation of powers that is at the heart of the Constitution.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25499.htm



Confiscating Your Property

By John Stossel

This reverses a centuries-old safeguard in Anglo-American law against arbitrary government power.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25497.htm



Most Americans Endorse Terrorist Expatriation Act

By Angus Reid Global Monitor

A large proportion of people in the United States would support a proposed law that would strip all Americans with links to terrorist organizations of their U.S. citizenship, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 77 per cent of respondents approve of the bill currently being discussed in Congress.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25504.htm



TSA's Program to Spot Terrorists a $200M Sham?

By Armen Keteyian

CBS News has learned that the program is failing to catch terrorists. It's never even caught one.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25503.htm

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Supplanting the US Constitution: War, national emergency and “continuity of government”

LewRockwell.Com
by Peter Dale Scott

The National Emergencies Act, one of the post-Watergate reforms that Vice-President Cheney so abhorred, specifies that: ‘Not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, and not later than the end of each six-month period thereafter that such emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a vote on a joint resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be terminated’ (50 U.S.C. 1622, 2002). Yet in nine years Congress has not once met to discuss the State of Emergency declared by George W. Bush in response to 9/11, a State of Emergency that remains in effect today. Appeals to the Congress to meet its responsibilities to review COG have fallen on deaf ears.” (05/22/10)

https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd3.1.1.html


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By Jeff Stein

People upset about the CIA's involvement in domestic interrogations might be surprised to learn that the spy agency's most explosive growth in recent years has been right here in the USA -- not in the back alleys of Karachi or in the mountains of Afghanistan.

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