Gulf of Mexico Ecocide: a new leak, even bigger?
A new leak, even bigger? Now nuke it. And what, you might ask, is the backup to that? If it works we will celebrate, but really guys, what is the backup? I assume the so-called “relief well” now underway would also be destroyed by a nuke. If the “weapon” fails a new relief well would have to start from scratch, adding another 3-months of oil gushing from this, these or “x” number of holes. Like the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig, I feel like we are being pulled over the event-horizon into an ever-deeper, dark hole.
No good choices. Except, of course, BP stocks. (greenfloyd.)
Concerns white phosphorus used in Afghan battle
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| University students shout slogans against US and foreign troops during a demonstration following US air strikes in Farah province, in Kabul. (AFP/Massoud Hossaini) |
| Concerns white phosphorus used in Afghan battle |
| AP/Yahoo | May 10, 2009 | By JASON STRAZIUSO and RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writers |
| KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over “unusual” burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country’s top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used.
The American military denied using the incendiary in the battle in Farah province — which President Hamid Karzai has said killed 125 to 130 civilians — but left open the possibility that Taliban militants did. The U.S. says Taliban fighters have used |
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Is company cost-cutting company throat-slitting?
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| Is company cost-cutting company throat-slitting? |
| Reuters | May 6, 2009 | By James B. Kelleher and Jennifer Ablan – Analysis |
| CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – In recent weeks, a number of investors and economists have declared the recession all but over based on a handful of seemingly positive signs, including a flurry of better-than-expected earnings from U.S. companies.
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Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat
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| An internally displaced girl, fleeing military operations in Buner, holds her sister at a UNHCR camp (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) in Takht Bai , about 150 km (85 miles) north west of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad May 9, 2009. The struggle in the scenic northwestern Swat Valley, which has caused an exodus of refugees fleeing the violence, has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing Taliban insurgency that has alarmed the United States. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKIST |
| Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat |
| Reuters — AlertNet | May 09, 2009 | By Junaid Khan |
| MINGORA, Pakistan, May 9 (Reuters) – Pakistani helicopter gunships and warplanes hit Taliban positions in the militants’ Swat Valley stronghold on Saturday, while a curfew prevented civilians from fleeing the fighting.
The struggle in the northwestern valley 130 km (80 miles) from Islamabad has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing insurgency that has alarmed the West. |
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Report: Hackers broke into FAA air traffic control systems
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| Report: Hackers broke into FAA air traffic control systems |
| CNet | May 07, 2009 | by Elinor Mills |
| Hackers have broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration several times in recent years, according to an Inspector General report sent to the FAA this week.
In February, hackers compromised an FAA public-facing computer and used it to gain access to personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, on 48,000 current and former FAA employees, the report said. |
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David Simon, As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out
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| Gail Burton / AP Simon on the set of ‘The Wire’ in 2002. |
| David Simon, As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out |
| Democracy Now | May 07, 2009 | JUAN GONZALEZ, Amy Goodman |
| High-end journalism is dying in America. And unless a new economic model is achieved, it will not be reborn on the web or anywhere else. The internet is a marvelous tool, and clearly it is the information delivery system of our future. But thus far, it does not deliver much first-generation reporting. Instead, it leeches that reporting from mainstream news publications, whereupon aggregating websites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth. read more |
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Chinese antics have India fuming
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| Chinese antics have India fuming |
| Asia Times | May 5, 2009 | By Sudha Ramachandran |
| BANGALORE – China’s blocking of India’s application for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised hackles in Delhi, marking the first time Beijing has dragged a bilateral territorial dispute with India into a multilateral financial institution.
China asked for a postponement of an ADB board meeting on March 26-27, which was set to discuss the 2009-12 strategy for India. On the table was an Indian request for a US$2.9 billion loan approval. What appears to have got China’s goat |
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| Haruhiko Kuroda President and Chairperson, Board of Directors Haruhiko Kuroda is the President of ADB and the Chairperson of ADB’s Board of Directors. He was elected President by ADB’s Board of Governors in November 2004 and was reelected in November 2006 for a new five-year term. |
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Iraqi Forces: Rebuilt and Stronger, but Still Stumbling
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| Twelve members of the 1st Brigade died in April when a female suicide bomber attacked officers distributing food packages to the poor in Karada. At the brigade’s headquarters, a memorial was hung with portraits of seven of those killed, including the commander of the headquarters battalion and a medic who was revered by his colleagues.
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| Iraqi Forces: Rebuilt and Stronger, but Still Stumbling |
| New York Times | May 07, 2009 | By STEVEN LEE MYERS |
| BAGHDAD — Iraq’s security forces, despite significant improvements, remain hobbled by shortages of men and equipment, by bureaucracy, corruption, political interference and security breaches that have resulted in the deaths of dozens of Iraqi and American troops already this year, according to officials from both countries. read more |
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| Maj. Brian K. Wortinger, left, and Colonel Ayad Hamid Bahar Al-Utaibi, the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Iraqi National Police, on the roof of the battalion’s new headquarters in a former embassy building in Baghdad’s central Karada district. |
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Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations
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| Oil and gas in the Arctic are seen as ripe for exploitation by the Russian energy industry. Photograph: Hans Strand/ Hans Strand/Corbis |
| Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations |
| guardian.co.uk blog | May 03, 2009 | John Vidal in Tromsø, Norway |
| Environmentalists fear pollution risk as firms try to exploit ocean’s untapped oil and gas reserves read more |
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Wildfire Destroys Santa Barbara Homes
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May. 6: Flames glow as structures burn after sundown as a wildfire burns in Santa Barbara, Calif. |
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