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YouTube – Gulf Oil Spill-Gutsy Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks [Video]
I just ran across this utube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfypUzx1tI and it looks like there may be abundant fish and wild life that can be saved if these microbes will just be used. And it may be a way to clean up an eco system. Please share this with your friends and govt. officials. I just ran across this youtube and it looks like there may be abundant fish and wild life that can be saved if these microbes will just be used. And it may be a way to clean up an eco system. Please share this with your friends and govt. officials. bill altmillerPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 31, 2010
Building What? How SCADs Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight: The 9/11 “Official Story” and the Collapse of WTC Building Seven
A 'conspiracy' story which will not pass away.mbPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 31, 2010
The enemy is at home [Video]
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 31, 2010China’s property market Home truths The Economist
"China’s economic boom can survive a property bust"Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 31, 2010
BP withholds oil spill facts — and government lets it | McClatchy
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 31, 2010NYT Op-Eds (2)
"Less than a year into a weak recovery from the worst slump since World War II, there is a dangerous urge to stop helping the jobless and start inflicting pain" (Krugman); "Measuring the emotional toll of a freewheeling market for sperm and eggs" (Douthat)Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, May 31, 2010
NYT (5): International Affairs
ISRAEL ATTACKS GAZA-BOUND FLOTILLA, KILLING 10; As China stays on fence re N. Korea, U.S. will aid S. Korean navy; Small leftist party causes waves in Okinawa; and Int'l Court may make "aggression' a crime.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, May 31, 2010
NYT (3): National News
WILL OIL LEAK UNTIL AUGUST?; Park land is often first victim of economy; and in Memphis, economy causes blacks to lose years of gains.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, May 31, 2010
Nets Slung Around Chinese Electronics Factories to Deter Suicidal Employees
this is reported in the Sydney Morning Herald ..Protesters have made a traditional Chinese funeral offering to the dead at the headquarters of Foxconn, the makers of Apple's iPad, after the 11th suicide attempt - nine of them successful - at the company's factories so far this year ... The spate of suicides at Foxconn has highlighted concerns over working conditions inside the giant Longhua factory, where 300,000 workers assemble goods for clients including Apple, Sony, Nintendo, Dell and Nokia .. Nets were also being hung around buildings to deter suicidal employeesyou can't make this shit up .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, May 31, 2010
The ghosts of forgotten battles: King Philip’s War and other little-known conflicts offer us an important lesson
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, May 31, 2010This Memorial Day, honoring a military that’s in isolation
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, May 31, 201010 Things We Must Remember on Memorial Day
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, May 31, 2010Dick Cheney’s Song of America
He is not the only one, just the Darth Vader.Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010
t r u t h o u t | Defense Spending the Top Priority, Critics Fear
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010 U.S. Defence Spending Far Outpaces Rest of the World  - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010 Is the U.S. Government Planning War to Quell the Tide of Economic Unrest?  - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010Plugging Oil Leak Won’t Stop Political Fallout – Newsweek
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010t r u t h o u t | Chevron Has Five Activists Arrested and Bars Entry to Global Victims at Annual Shareholders’ Meeting [Video]
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010t r u t h o u t | Ordinary Workers Would Be Fired in a Second If They Screwed Up Anywhere Nearly as Bad as the Bankers Have
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010Dennis Hopper, Hollywood Rebel, Dies At 74 : NPR [Video]
A friend has left us. RIPPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010
Oil spill’s scope threatens Gulf’s endangered marine life | McClatchy
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, May 30, 2010NYT Op-Eds (5)
"The president’s credibility as a champion of reformed, competent government is held hostage by video from the gulf" (RICH); "President Obama’s next task? Shaping the public reaction to the gulf spill so that we can use it to generate the will to break our addiction to oil" (FRIEDMAN); "President Obama is still learning to emote, five weeks into the heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico" (DOWD); "A hunt for a drug lord shows the link between liberty and violence" (Guest Op-Ed); "Dear Wall Street: here’s a plan to shape financial reform to your advantage" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, May 30, 2010
NYT (8): National News
AS 50,000 MARCH IN AZ, BREWER TRIES TO REIN IN AG; Ohio as gauge for midterms; Salt industry fights regs; How YouTube is planning to get you to watch more; a book on Obama's first year; a book on "national security, the media, and the rule of law"; a memoir by a Muslim woman who survived radical Islam; and a new translation of The Second Sex.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, May 30, 2010
NYT (5): International Affairs
DRONE OPERATORS FAULTED FOR DEATH OF AFGHAN CIVILIANS; Malawi president pardons gay couple; In Czech Republic, right gains, but left wins; "Can a Jew who reaches out to Muslims be the next Dutch PM?"; and agit-pop by way of Sri Lanka.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, May 30, 2010
