By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch 4 October 2011 SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) – Memo to the Super Rich, your high-paid lobbyists and your no-compromise political puppets whose sole mission is destroying the presidency: Yes, you are succeeding. You’re also killing the economy. Thanks to your self-destructive ideology, America is now in the second of […]
The following is excerpted from We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van Buren. Read an interview with Peter Van Buren about the book here. By Peter Van Buren 21 September 2011 Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary The reconstruction of Iraq was […]
BBC Speechless As Trader Alessio Rastani Tells Truth, Collapse Coming, Goldman Rules World UPDATE: Trader’s Goldman Sachs comments spark BBC hoax claims By John Plunkett, Tara Conlan and Oliver Laughland, www.guardian.co.uk 27 September 2011 He caused outrage with his comments on the global economic meltdown claiming “governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs […]
By Joe Romm 26 September 2011 This year just set the record for most Federal Emergency Management Agency declared disasters. And we’ve still got 3 months to go. It is strictly a coincidence, of course, that most of those disasters are climate related and climate scientists predicted that as we pour more heat-trapping gases into […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 September 2011 The Japanese government says it will abolish the “evacuation-ready” zone in 5 municipalities that lie between 20 to 30-kilometer radius from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on September 30, all at once. It may be construed as a declaration by the national government that it is now “safe” to return […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 26 September 2011, While the source of the oil bubbling up around the Deepwater Horizon site remains a mystery, a Louisiana State University scientist says further chemical analysis has confirmed that the oil originated in BP’s well, and not from other nearby sources, as federal officials have suggested. Federal officials said […]
By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins20 September 2011 BP Plc (BP) said it didn’t hide information about a possibly dangerous condition in the Macondo oil well before or after it blew out in April 2010, killing 11 people and triggering the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill. BP personnel determined that a sand layer […]
By Anna Haynes19 September 2011 See Tamino’s post for the excellent (34 min) interview & a discussion thereof. Here are my notes from watching: Marshall Institute was originally founded (by 3) to defend SDI (star wars) The idea of demanding equal time – Seitz learned it from tobacco industry They came from cold war rocketry […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 14 (AP) — A key federal report into what caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history was being readied for release as early as today amid revelations that BP made critical mistakes on the well and failed to tell its partners and the U.S. government when it realized it. An […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera9 September 2011 So says the government corporation Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 5 months after the leak of highly contaminated water was first discovered (in April) at the water intake for Reactor 2 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. So, instead of 4,700 terabecquerels of radioactive iodine and cesium as TEPCO announced back in […]
