Ogm-gmo-1090223 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
iraq (Photo credit: The U.S. Army)
Swallow's Nest (Crimea) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Sarych headland near Foros, Ukraine. Українська: Ласпинская бухта и мыс Сарыч. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Crimean Khanate around 1600 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Matt Simmons said the sea bed was
cracked. A few months later he was dead. Plenty of people who live in
the Gulf area have continually raised their voices to brings people’s
awareness to the fact that the Gulf was absolutely not “back to normal”.
It’s all been propaganda. The real surprise here is that the coast
guard is admitting it
Researchers Rule Out Continued Leak as Source of Oil Sheens Found Near Deepwater Horizon Spill Site
A chemical analysis indicates that the source of oil sheens recently found floating at the ocean's surface near the site of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill is pockets of oil trapped within the wreckage of the sunken rig, according to a report published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The WAR HAWKS want to go to war with RUSSIA in order to b ring DEMOCRACY to the Ukraine [read get them hooked up to debt with the IMF and World Bank] . and our own country is falling apart... how dumb are we.. pretty damned stupid.
Canada has joined, ,all the countries involved in attacking Russia all linked to a conservative agenda.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_European_Conservatives_and_Reformists
the link above explains why Harper didn't want Liberals or NDP GOING TO UKRAINE, NEW PRESIDENT IN UKRAINE IS EVANGELIST CONSERVATIVE,
Researchers Rule Out Continued Leak as Source of Oil Sheens Found Near Deepwater Horizon Spill Site
A chemical analysis indicates that the source of oil sheens recently found floating at the ocean's surface near the site of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill is pockets of oil trapped within the wreckage of the sunken rig, according to a report published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
July 25, 2013
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AFRICOM
Goes to War on the Sly: U. S. Officials Talk Candidly (Just Not to
Reporters) about Bases, Winning Hearts and Minds, and the “War” in...
pacificfreepress.com|By Tom Engelhardt
Washington
is pressing the Israeli regime to attack Syrian troops in a bid to
hinder their offensives against CIA-trained insurgents in the Golan
Heights.
en.alalam.ir
The WAR HAWKS want to go to war with RUSSIA in order to b ring DEMOCRACY to the Ukraine [read get them hooked up to debt with the IMF and World Bank] . and our own country is falling apart... how dumb are we.. pretty damned stupid.
Thom
Hartmann agrees with French economist Thomas Piketty: Capitalism is not
an economic system that produces a middle class. In fact, if left to
its own devices, capitalism tends towards vast levels of inequality and
monopoly.
Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it's a choice we need to make again in this generation.
Truthout|By The Daily Take
The
pro-Israeli government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is
making diplomatic and military preparations for military intervention in
Syria, leaked documents show. Canada’s National Defe...
Global Research (Centre for Research on Globalization)
Canada has joined, ,all the countries involved in attacking Russia all linked to a conservative agenda.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_European_Conservatives_and_Reformists
the link above explains why Harper didn't want Liberals or NDP GOING TO UKRAINE, NEW PRESIDENT IN UKRAINE IS EVANGELIST CONSERVATIVE,
There
has been no shortage of questionable actions by Mayor Michael Fougere
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welcome slavery. its the future agenda.
Unions provide a needed check on corporate power!
"If
a poor person without means comes into a court room, the judge doesn't
want to hear anything that the defense attorney has to say for that
person."
Living in America has taught Matt Taibbi that we as a society have "a profound hatred of the weak and the poor." That's one claim the former...
The Huffington Post|By Emily Tess Katz
"While
law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and
animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming
of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free
to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling
regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real
threat."
Read the latest column by Amy Goodman.
Read the latest column by Amy Goodman.
"Another U.S. shooting spree has refocused attention on violent, right-wing extremists....
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Sex
is like duct tape or chewed gum? What?! Here are the most absurd things
America teaches kids about sex thanks to the Christian right.
According to America's moral scolds, sex is like used chocolate, backwash and duct tape.
AlterNet
Who are the Koch Brothers and What do They Want?:
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited amount of money to influence the political process. The results of that decision are clear. In the coming months and years the Koch brothers and other extraordinarily wealthy families will spend billions of dollars to elect right-wing candidates to the Senate, the House, governors' mansions and the presidency of the United States. These billionaires already own much of our economy. That, apparently, is not enough. Now, they want to own the United States government as well.
Continue reading here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/who-are-the-koch-brothers_b_5165995.html
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited amount of money to influence the political process. The results of that decision are clear. In the coming months and years the Koch brothers and other extraordinarily wealthy families will spend billions of dollars to elect right-wing candidates to the Senate, the House, governors' mansions and the presidency of the United States. These billionaires already own much of our economy. That, apparently, is not enough. Now, they want to own the United States government as well.
Continue reading here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/who-are-the-koch-brothers_b_5165995.html
Oklahoma wants to make it more expensive for people to use renewable energy like solar and wind.
Given the climate crisis, why in the world would Oklahoma do this?
http://on.msnbc.com/1hQ3YGw
( It's a fake crisis - just like wind is a technology which has a huge resistance to large generators and their vibration/consistancy/reliability/fire hazard problems )
Given the climate crisis, why in the world would Oklahoma do this?
http://on.msnbc.com/1hQ3YGw
( It's a fake crisis - just like wind is a technology which has a huge resistance to large generators and their vibration/consistancy/reliability/fire hazard problems )
To
prevent a catastrophe, the IPCC is urging greater use of renewable
energy. Oklahoma, however, is moving in a very different direction.
msnbc
Oklahoma
Will Charge Customers Who Install Their Own Solar Panels -Oklahoma
residents who produce their own energy through solar panels or small
wind turbines on their property will now be charged an additional fee,
the result of a new bill passed by the state legislature and expected to
be signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin (R).
Oklahoma
residents who produce their own energy through solar panels or small
wind turbines on their property will now be charged an additional fee.
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A
California deputy accidentally shot himself while trying to kill a dog
that he said was threatening his life on Wednesday, but video captured
by a...
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More than 360 crashes recorded on local stretch of
QEII Hwy. this winter
Posted April. 17,2014
The recorded numbers are down for the stretch of the QEII Highway from 11A just north of Red Deer to the Didsbury overpass, from Dec. 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014. As well as the four-month period in 2011-2012. Reported from Paul Everest, Mountain View Gazette here:
QEII Hwy. this winter
Posted April. 17,2014
The recorded numbers are down for the stretch of the QEII Highway from 11A just north of Red Deer to the Didsbury overpass, from Dec. 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014. As well as the four-month period in 2011-2012. Reported from Paul Everest, Mountain View Gazette here:
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"Putin didn't have to annex Crimea the same way Bush/Blair didn't have to invade Iraq and Afghanistan"
Um, no, this is a deeply false equivalence. I always thought the people here knew a good deal about military issues; I guess this is just a lapse.
The history of US/Russia relations since the fall of the USSR have been about military encirclement and American ambitions to use antimissiles, sited as close to Russia as possible, to gain an overwhelming first strike advantage. Hence the ongoing project to get every available country near Russia's borders into NATO and get them to agree to missiles stationed pointed at Russia.
I don't think the technology can really work reliably especially when the opponent is aware of the problem and using countermeasures. But from the Russian point of view, a US successfully self-deceiving is almost as bad as a US that can genuinely launch an unanswerable first strike--either would feel free to dictate terms to Russia on any political/economic issue, without fearing Russian capabilities. Blocking any Russian capability to project force beyond its borders and constricting its ability to use submarines as hard-to-counter nuclear platforms is part of this game as well.
This brings us to Ukraine, site of a recent quasi-popular change of government, aided by large sums of American money. Ukraine is right next to Russia. The folks who have installed themselves in government, without elections, have made quite a few noises about joining NATO and turfing the Russian naval base. Some of them are violent and unpredictable fascists. Most of them seem to be taking American money and are clearly strongly influence by the United States. The naval base is, as has been pointed out many times in all this, Russia's only warm-water base--that is, it represents their only access to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It's incredibly bloody important to them.
In short, the US in Iraq and many other places attacks based on made up security concerns, when nobody is actually threatening their security in any militarily relevant way. Russia in Crimea and indeed Ukraine as a whole has very real and pressing security concerns, in that the US seems to have been pressing in a concerted fashion for two decades now to hammer nails one by one into a coffin for Russia, and Ukraine and Crimea represent some prominent nails among the last few. A potentially radioactive coffin. Dismissing any actions Putin takes as silly muscle-flexing is a huge mistake, a major misinterpretation of the situation.
And that's just the realpolitik. It would appear that Putin did not in fact annex Crimea; to the contrary, Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join up with him. I suppose he could have said "no", but I don't see why that would be a morally superior course of action. For that matter, it would have been so mind-bogglingly unpopular that the Russian parliament might well have passed a bill letting them in anyway, and then boy would he have looked stupid at home.
Purple library guy said..
The game is a product of the existence of nation-states with hierarchy (in our case, capitalist hierarchy). Until "the revolution comes", it's the only game in town, its outcomes are deadly, and for those on the receiving end of aggression it's play or die.
Given which, it's foolish to denounce Putin. He's not grabbing Crimea because he's a macho crazy posturer. He's grabbing Crimea because it's his only move.
Sure it would be nice if the Great Game would go away. This could happen, if and only if we ever create a classless, egalitarian society of some sort. But that doesn't cause your post to make sense. It has nothing to do with Putin's personality, and little even to do with the things he does to generate political popularity. Much as the continuing adventures of Obama show that it was never really about Dubya's yee-haw cowboy Mission Accomplished personality.
So why are state lawmakers still fighting to keep it on the books?
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Insect Population Dwindling in Louisiana Marshlands Four Years After BP Blowout
Hooper-Bui's first peer-reviewed reports should be available by this summer, but she has been sharing her observations with interested parties all along. She hopes her work will be utilized by those who have to deal with future spills and by those making policy decisions that involve the oil industry as well as locals who are still dealing directly with the aftermath of this disaster.Since there are fewer insects and spiders for birds and fish to eat, she is seeing a decrease in other species' success.
“This is what happens when the ecosystem seems to be disrupted,”....only does oil remain in the marsh in Plaquemines Parish, it is still emitting volatile aromatics. Preliminary results indicate the volatiles naphthalene and methylnaphthalene remain in the oil contaminated parts of the marsh, and could be responsible for the dramatic decline in insect population. Naphthalene is an insecticide
When the marsh's sediment is exposed and the temperature gets above 85 degrees Fahrenheit, the oil is being biologically degraded, the oil is releasing volatiles and is killing the insects.”
A report released by The National Wildlife Federation before the fourth anniversary of the BP disaster deals with 14 species higher up in the food chain than insects. On dolphins, the report cites the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report that states, “NOAA researchers found strong evidence that the ill health of the dolphins in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay was related to oil exposure.”And on tuna, “20% of larval fish could have been exposed to oil, with a potential reduction in future populations of about 4%. For a species already in peril, reductions in reproductive success and lower populations can be major impediments to recovery.”
The report goes on to cite a study co-authored by John Incardona, research toxicologist at NOAA. From the NWF report:
“A more recent study shows that a chemical in oil from the spill can cause irregular heartbeats in bluefin and yellowfin tuna that can lead to heart attacks, or even death. The effects are believed to be particularly problematic for fish embryos and larvae, as heartbeat changes could affect development of other organs. The researchers suggest that other vertebrate species in the Gulf of Mexico could have been similarly affected.”
To anyone who thinks the oil isn't still out there, Hooper-Bui says, “Come out here and I'll show you. It wasn't cleaned up.”
Confirmed: Fresh BP oil from Deepwater Horizon site still polluting the Gulf
Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site? Oct 19 2012
Oil identified as coming from the Macondo well, site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 100 gallons per day. The Coast Guard is investigating.
According to the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the agency tasked with regulating offshore drilling, the US has to date issued 89 permits this year, more than all the permits issued (76) in 2009, one year before the disaster. The agency’s website reports that 32 permits were issued in 2010 and 38 in 2011.