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The Rebirth of Regulation

Robert Reich: "What do oil giant BP, the mining company Massey Energy and Goldman Sachs have in common? They're all big firms involved in massive plunder. BP's oil spill is already one of the biggest and most damaging in American history. Massey's mine disaster, claiming the lives of 29 miners, is one of the worst in recent history. Goldman's alleged fraud is but a part of the largest financial meltdown in 75 years."

https://www.truthout.org/robert-reich-the-rebirth-regulation59146

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Sparks Calls for $10bn Levy on BP and Drilling Ban
https://act.commondreams.org/go/473?akid=49.124981.Q4cTEe&t=2

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The real cause of 'spill' is American addiction to oil
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9572/

Experts predicting catastrophic disaster reaching beyond Gulf of Mexico
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9573/

Loop Current will pick up slick 'sooner rather than later,' oceanographer predicts
https://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9575/



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National Review
by Robert Lowry Clinton

05/03/10

Many Americans are puzzled and angry about the judicial assault on religion, morality, and common sense that has been going on for the past few decades. People wonder, for example, how the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of religion as well as separation of church and state) could possibly require the expulsion of religion from public life, or outlaw prayers at high-school football games and graduation ceremonies. To answer questions like these, one must understand how federal judges got the power to make such controversial political decisions in the first place, and how the judges used that power to bludgeon the American citizenry into believing that their power was legitimate...

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The Libertarian Enterprise
by Jim Davidson

05/02/10

Ask why are these wars? They benefit those who supply them. Ask, what of the children slaughtered? They aren’t important to those who supply the wars. The people who make the profits from the multi-trillion-dollar war effort do not care about the children who are slaughtered, at all...

https://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle568-20100502-03.html


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Im April soll US-Präsident der CIA die Eliminierung des Predigers und US-Bürgers Al-Awlaki befohlen haben.

https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32558/1.html



Sind gezielte Tötungen mit Drohnen Selbstverteidigung oder Mord?

Der Tötungsbefehl des US-Präsidenten für einen islamistischen Prediger in Jemen, der US-Bürger ist, führt zu Diskussionen über rechtliche Grundlagen.

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Current Timeline to Shut Down Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Three Months

Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor: "Federal officials gave a sobering appraisal of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Sunday, with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar saying 'ultimate relief' was 90 days away. Federal officials speaking about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Sunday morning appeared to be steeling the Louisiana coast - and the nation - for consequences that could be 'catastrophic.'"

https://www.truthout.org/current-timeline-shut-down-gulf-mexico-oil-spill-three-months59096



The Ten Worst Man-Made Environmental Disasters

Maura O'Connor, GlobalPost: "The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now about the size of Puerto Rico. It's already reached the marshes of Louisiana. Oil-covered wildlife are starting to show up along the shores. Shrimp, fish and oyster harvest areas have been closed. Residents of Mississippi and Alabama are just waiting for the oil to hit."

https://www.truthout.org/the-ten-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters59123



Halliburton Under Scrutiny for Possible Role in Oil Disaster and More ...

Halliburton potentially liable for oil explosion in the Gulf; authorities continue search for those responsible in attempted New York car bombing; Greek Bailout Package approved.

https://www.truthout.org/new-breif-halliburton-under-scrutiny-possible-role-oil-disaster-and-more59108



Things Fall Apart

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "'Things fall apart,' William Butler Yeats wrote. 'The center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.' He could have been talking about us, about this past week in America, about what happens when madness, greed and fear combine and conspire to show us what it looks like when the gates of Hell crack open."

https://www.truthout.org/things-fall-apart59152



Ongoing Safety Violations at BP's Refineries Endanger Employees' Lives

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "BP Plc's troubles are not just limited to its Gulf of Mexico operations, where a deadly blast aboard a drilling rig two weeks ago ruptured an oil well 5,000 feet below the sea's surface and triggered a massive oil leak that is now the size of a small country."

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Schwarzenegger flips on drilling

Politico

05/03/10

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday reversed his support for offshore drilling in the wake of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Speaking at a press conference in Sacramento, Schwarzenegger said his mind was changed over the weekend while watching media reports of the spill. … The term-limited Republican governor had previous proposed that the state expand drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara in part to help fill the state’s gaping budget deficit...

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36707.html



Nobody knows the trouble we’ll see

Huffington Post
by James Moore

05/03/10

We might be powerless. The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop the tragedy. Chances are quite good we have no true sense of the dire nature of the situation. The facts that have been ascertained, however, lead to a dark scenario...

https://tinyurl.com/32mqvrh



Obamalaise

Liberty Unbound
by Gary Jason

05/10

An ocean of ink has been devoted to the surprising election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and especially Massachusetts. There is so much angst in the country that even the exceptionally obtuse Obama has become aware of it. To use a term rendered infamous by the feckless Jimmy Carter, we are experiencing a national malaise. But what Obama fails to comprehend is that at the root of the current national malaise is Obama himself. In this, as in many other ways, Obama uncannily resembles Carter, who projected his own defects of thought and action onto the nation, generating the anxiety and distrust he was purporting to heal. We can rightly call the national mood ‘Obamalaise,’ because it arises not just from Obama’s agenda but from his character...

https://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=510



Shutting down free speech

The American Spectator
by Mark Hyman

05/03/10

Popular speech and political dissent have proved troublesome to President Barack Obama since the very beginning of his term in office. The Obama Administration began waging war on the minority of media outlets that did not worship at his altar immediately after he was sworn in...

https://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/03/shutting-down-free-speech


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A former Democratic congressman from Ohio who served seven years in prison on racketeering and bribery charges is hoping to reclaim his old seat in the House of Representatives.

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The stunning figure was reported last week by the Army Times, citing officials in the US Veterans Affairs Department.

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Suicide by Regressivism

By David Michael Green

Sometimes bad things happen to countries, and people suffer. Other times, people suffer because countries are stupid and bring bad things upon themselves.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25361.htm



The Subprime Conspiracy: Was There A Plan to Blow Up The Economy?

By Mike Whitney

Many people now believe that the financial crisis was not an accident. They think that the Bush administration and the Fed knew what Wall Street was up to and provided their support. This isn't as far fetched as it sounds.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25367.htm



Elitism and Empathy in American Presidents: Who Cares for the Suffering Children

By William Cox

Earning millions of dollars a year from salaries, bonuses, investments and fraud, the individuals and their families who control major financial institutions, foundations and corporations are the new royalty and, like the kings and queens of old, they have little care or concern for anyone other than themselves, their own, and their profits.

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"You'll Pry My Car out of my Cold-Dead Hands"

By Cindy Sheehan

You know one of the major reasons we are addicted to war in this country is because we are addicted to petroleum. Our cars are precious (Freudian?) extensions of ourselves and their use is encouraged by the relative cheapness of gas-the average price for a gallon of gas is about 50 cents lower than a gallon of milk.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25372.htm



Out of Sight, Out of Mind: We Make Excuses for the Clear Injustices of Our Age

By Julian Baggini

We know slavery was an abhorrence, and that sexism and racism are wrong. Does that make our society more ethical? Not at all.

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Even One of These Little Ones...

By Sheila Samples

Do you ever wonder what Jesus would say about the sadistic cesspool that is swirling throughout the Catholic dysfunctional structure at tsunami speed?

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defpro

Electronic warfare is "any military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the ...

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Salon
by John R. Talbot

05/01/10

Commercial banks, by law, have to hold a certain percentage of their deposits as cash at the Federal Reserve. From January 1959 until August 2008, the total of these reserves held by the commercial banks at the Fed grew from $11.1 billion to $46.2 billion. At no time during this almost 50-year period did the total bank reserves held at the Fed exceed the minimum required by law by more than $2 billion. But since August 2008, these bank reserves held at the Fed have exploded to more than $1.2 trillion (as of March 2010), even though only $65.6 billion was required to be deposited by law. … What is going on here? Why would commercial banks hold $1 trillion more than they legally had to in reserves at the Fed, earning only 0.25 percent interest per year, and why would the Fed buy more than $1 trillion of mortgage securities of undisclosed quality in the marketplace?

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US deficit spending and why governments CAN go broke

Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

04/30/10

The private sector is de-leveraging … as near as we can tell. Private businesses cut their payrolls. They trimmed expenses. They protected their profit margins — generally. But the public sector figures it has a different role to play … a countercyclical role. While the private sector eases off, the public sector puts the pedal to the metal. That’s been the story for the last year and a half. The government pays more. Hires more. And floats deeper in the water. Walter Wriston once commented that the ‘government can’t go broke.’ But that just shows you why the banking sector is in such trouble; Wriston ran Citibank …

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The Tea Party and big spending on war

AntiWar.Com
by Charles V. Pena

04/30/10

[E]ven though the various Tea Party groups pay lip service to ‘Constitutionally limited government’ and copies of the Constitution are often handed out at Tea Party rallies, they seem to have forgotten (or never read) Article 1, Section 8 that gives Congress the power to declare war. Otherwise, they would at least bother to point out that both Afghanistan and Iraq are unconstitutional (as has been every U.S. military intervention overseas since World War 2). Constitutionality aside, the cost of military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan is hardly trivial. The National Priorities Project’s Cost of War counter is currently (as this is written) at $987 billion-plus for both wars (remember when former White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey opined that the Iraq conflict would cost $100 billion to $200 billion and then Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld later called his estimate ‘baloney?’)

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