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Oil Follies in the Arctic
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Controversial Salazar 'Moratorium' on Gulf Drilling Was Only Verbal
http://act.commondreams.org/go/790?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=30

Congressional Oversight of MMS Needed to Ensure Proper BP Atlantis Investigation
http://act.commondreams.org/go/791?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=32

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Why Do We Distance Ourselves from the Oil Disaster?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/792?akid=68.124981.lopMUT&t=34

Latest Attempt to Stop Oil Gusher
http://act.commondreams.org/go/800?akid=69.124981.EP03W9&t=16

Trusting the Scorpion: BP, the Legacy of Republican Hypocrisy and Democratic Cowardice
http://act.commondreams.org/go/802?akid=69.124981.EP03W9&t=20

BP CEO Supports a Boycott?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/806?akid=69.124981.EP03W9&t=28

Center for Biological Diversity Response to President Obama’s Gulf Disaster Speech: Temporary Suspension of Arctic Drilling Positive Step, But Permanent Protection of Arctic, Other Offshore Areas Needed
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Firing of MMS Head Is Damage Control, Not Real Reform
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Live Coverage from BP's Oil Volcano
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After Long Argument, BP Official Made Fatal Decision on Drilling Rig

Erika Bolstad, Joseph Goodman and Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers: "Company executives and top drill hands on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig argued for hours about how to proceed before a BP official made the decision to remove heavy drilling fluid from the well and replace it with lighter weight seawater that was unable to prevent gas from surging to the surface and exploding."

http://www.truthout.org/after-long-argument-bp-official-made-fatal-decision-drilling-rig59875



How BP Will Make Out Like Bandits From Its Massive, Still Gushing Oil Disaster

Zach Carter, AlterNet: "You've got to hand it to BP. After witnessing the Great Financial Crash of 2008, it seemed like it would be decades before any corporation could eclipse Wall Street's reckless rush to place its own short-term profits ahead of the public interest. But the epic drilling disaster off the Louisiana coast demonstrates that many of the problems that wrecked Wall Street are deeply embedded in other sectors of the American economy."

http://www.truthout.org/zach-carter-how-bp-will-make-out-like-bandits-its-massive-still-gushing-oil-disaster59853



BPing the Arctic? Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?

Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch: "Bear with me. I'll get to the oil. But first you have to understand where I've been and where you undoubtedly won't go, but Shell's drilling rigs surely will - unless someone stops them. Over the last decade, I've come to know Arctic Alaska about as intimately as a photographer can."

http://www.truthout.org/bping-arctic-will-obama-administration-allow-shell-oil-do-arctic-waters-what-bp-did-gulf59841



BP: Obama's Do-Nothing "Root Causes" Commission

Max Ajl, Truthout: "Obama had this frozen, robotic expression on his face when he announced that he'd put his signature on the executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. He looked a bit like he'd been replaced with an animatronic doll, one programmed to speak very eloquently and say precisely nothing. Obama's commission is supposed to carry out a six-month investigation into the reasons underlying the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons offshore drilling rig. Securely informed and enlightened by such knowledge, the United States will be able to 'prevent and mitigate the impact of any spills that result from offshore drilling.'"

http://www.truthout.org/bp-oil-spill-ecosystem-slowly-being-murdered59903



Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Corporate Greed

Dave Lindorff, Truthout: "Even as BP's blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, and the fragile wetlands along the Gulf begin to get coated with crude, which is also headed into the Gulf Stream for a trip past the Everglades and on up the East Coast, the company is demanding that Canada lift its tight rules for drilling in the icy Beaufort Sea portion of the Arctic Ocean."

http://www.truthout.org/screw-environment-bp-and-audacity-corporate-greed59864



This Modern Life

Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow focuses on the hypocrisy of politics in regulating corporations such as BP.

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Permanent destruction of Louisiana marshland
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/852.html



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Die Staatsverschuldung liegt bei 90 Prozent des BIP.
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By Mary Zerkel

What is $1 trillion really worth? - What is $1 trillion worth? NPP explains it this way: if you made a million dollars a year, it would take you a million years to earn $1 trillion.

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National Priorities Project: Crossing the $1 Trillion Cost Of War Line
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Falling off the $1 trillion cliff

AlterNet
by Robert Greenwald

05/29/10

We fell off an ugly cliff this Sunday. At 10 a.m. on May 30, all of those little cost of war counters that have been furiously spinning away on countless websites crossed the $1 trillion mark. No alarm sounded. No bell rang. But, on the day before Memorial Day, the cost of the wars in cold, hard cash followed the human cost of the Afghanistan war into a new order of magnitude...

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OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

05/24/10

There won’t be any reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the corrupt, government-sponsored mortgage giants that even Obama administration officials admit were at the ‘core’ of ‘what went wrong’ in the financial crisis. The ‘Obama Administration says Fannie, Freddie reform’ is ‘too hard,’ reports the Washington Examiner...

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Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

05/25/10

The worst deficit on the east side of the Atlantic is not in Greece. It’s in England. And the worst household debt is not in Spain; it’s in England too. Not surprisingly, the pound is falling. This week, speculators are betting against sterling at a record level. And the US dollar can’t be too far behind...

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Education of a Speculator
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey50.1.html



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The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade

05/24/10

The separation of power between the States and their federal government is the most important component of the federal system of government established by the Constitution because ALL of the powers granted to the federal government flow from this principle. Constitutionally, NONE of the powers delegated to the federal government can be invoked to change or circumvent this separation of power because the delegated powers come after the separation of power...

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Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

05/25/10

In his high school yearbook photo, President Barack Obama sports a white leisure suit and a Travolta-esque collar whose wingspan could put a bystander’s eye out. Hey, it was 1979. Maybe that explains the rest of young Barry’s yearbook page, with its ’still life’ featuring a pack of rolling papers and a shout-out to the ‘Choom gang.’ (’Chooming’ is Hawaiian slang for smoking pot.) Far be it from me to condemn our president for harmless (and amusing) youthful indiscretions. As his predecessor put it, ‘When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.’ But Obama’s older now, and he’s responsible for administering our nation’s drug policy...

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Im Nahen und Mittleren Osten sollen amerikanische Special Forces verstärkt Operationen vorbereiten.

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