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By Mike Lux

I am always puzzled by how people who claim to be followers of the Jesus I read about in the Bible can be political conservatives.

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Every terrorist incident provides fresh opportunities for tyranny.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenwald/greenwald64.html



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The Other Foreclosure Menace
http://act.commondreams.org/go/686?akid=62.124981.UMpHSH&t=14

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One in Ten Mortgage Borrowers Will Lose Their Home To The Bank

New Observations is forecasting that a minimum of one in ten homes with a mortgage today will be lost to foreclosure in the next two years and that this loss represents a staggering five-million-unit addition to inventory-for-sale.

http://blog.ml-implode.com/2010/05/one-in-ten-mortgage-borrowers-will-lose-their-home-to-the-bank/


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Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: "Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of Tough Oil, a time of ever increasing reliance on problematic, hard-to-reach energy sources. Make no mistake: we're entering the danger zone. And brace yourself, the fate of the planet could be at stake."

http://www.truthout.org/michael-t-klare-a-new-oil-rush-endangers-gulf-mexico-and-planet59639



Gulf Oil Spill May Be 19 Times Bigger Than Originally Thought

Renee Schoof and Lauren French, McClatchy Newspapers: "The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day of crude oil may be spewing from the leaking wellhead, 19 times the previous estimate, an engineering professor told Congress Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/gulf-oil-spill-may-be-19-times-bigger-than-originally-thought59681

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Africa's Oil Spills Are Far From U.S. Media Glare
http://act.commondreams.org/go/681?akid=62.124981.UMpHSH&t=4

BP Withholds Oil Spill Facts and Government Lets It
http://act.commondreams.org/go/685?akid=62.124981.UMpHSH&t=12

Kucinich: Our Survival Depends Upon Reconciliation With, Not Exploitation of, the Natural World
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/19-4

EPA to BP: Dispersant We OK'd Actually Too Toxic
http://act.commondreams.org/go/700?akid=64.124981.jWkO2I&t=2

Nightmare Scene of Oil Unfolding in Wetlands
http://act.commondreams.org/go/702?akid=64.124981.jWkO2I&t=6

Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response Failing to Protect People
http://act.commondreams.org/go/714?akid=64.124981.jWkO2I&t=30

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First heavy oil hits wetlands as Purdue researcher pegs spill rate at 95,000 barrels a day
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9607/

US failure to study Gulf Disaster a symptom of corporatocracy
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9610/

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Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit

By Amy Goodman

Twenty-nine miners died in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. Eleven workers died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which is owned by Transocean, working under contract for BP. There are state laws that govern manslaughter as well, and special language given for maritime deaths. So why aren't the executives of these companies behind bars?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25489.htm



Oil spill to reach Florida in 6 days: ESA

Scientists at European Space Agency (ESA) say satellite images show that the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is finding its way to Florida.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126995&sectionid=3510203



Coast Guard: Despite BP efforts, Gulf oil spill is getting worse

The Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, said that despite the siphoning, the spilled oil is spreading and now stretches from western Louisiana to Florida's Key West. The extent of the spill was straining even the substantial resources deployed for one of the worst ecological disasters in recent history, he said.

http://snipurl.com/wjdrm



BP told feds it could handle oil spill 60 times larger than Deepwater Horizon

In its 2009 exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well, BP PLC states that the company could handle a spill involving as much as 12.6 million gallons of oil per day, a number 60 times higher than its current estimate of the ongoing Gulf disaster.

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_told_feds_it_could_handle_o.html



Gulf oil spill videos

This video, shows the previously unseen second leak just above the Deepwater Horizon's dysfunctional blowout preventer. No efforts have been made to stop this leak.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/18/94387/gulf-oil-spill-videos-see-all.html


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Chris Hume, Truthout: "America's fossil fuel fetish continues - in spite of horrendous crimes against the earth. Travel into the belly of West Virginia, and get a front row seat in the fight against one of the worst environmental atrocities of all: Mountaintop Removal Coal Extraction."

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Greg Guma, Truthout: "It was a fairy-tale premise: Once upon a time, a charismatic prince appeared magically and gave an inspiring, instantly famous speech. Four years later, he was leading the most powerful kingdom in the world from the brink of disaster."

http://www.truthout.org/obama-myths-and-realities59514

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President should nominate justices who respect the Constitution

Liberty For All
by Brian Irving

05/18/10

The bitter battles now routine for every U.S. Supreme Court nomination go beyond the issue of the qualifications or political views of the specific nominee. They expose a more fundamental problem with the federal government: the legislative and executive branches simply refuse to take the Constitution seriously...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4332



Time to save the middle class

In These Times
by US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

05/18/10

Now is the time for President Barack Obama and Congress to take the bold steps necessary to reverse our economic decline and to strengthen and expand the struggling middle class. As part of this effort, we need to pass a strong financial reform bill and a robust jobs bill that puts Americans back to work at decent-paying jobs. We must never forget that this economic crisis was caused by the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of a handful of executives on Wall Street. If we are going to get the economy back on track, we have to fundamentally change the way Wall Street does business. Wall Street must invest in the job-creating productive economy instead of engaging in the casino-style risk-taking that led to the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history...

http://tinyurl.com/2fuvf56



Obama and the myth of the public opinion excuse

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

05/18/10

Presidents often insist on polices which public opinion rejects. Bush continued and even escalated in Iraq when large majorities opposed the war, and Obama has done the same in Afghanistan (with less pervasive though, at least at times, substantial majoritarian opposition). Obama fought for passage of a health care reform bill in the face of overwhelming public sentiment against it, and he favored the Wall Street bailout under the same circumstances. Obama has strongly condemned, and threatened to take action against, the Arizona immigration law despite widespread public support for it. Clearly, when a President believes a policy is sufficiently important, he’ll insist on it (often successfully) despite public opposition; conversely, when he genuinely opposes a policy, he’ll reject it despite public sentiment in favor. That, I believe, is called leadership. … if Presidents do nothing more than slavishly follow public opinion, then what difference do elections make? If majority sentiment dictates policy outcomes, then who cares who does the implementing?

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Fact vs. Fiction on Today’s Economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galland7.1.1.html

Science in the Age of Obama
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/oil-spill-scientist-fired.html



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Zach Carter, AlterNet: "New York University economist Nouriel Roubini is the author of, most recently, 'Crisis Economics: A Crash Course In The Future Of Finance.' He is considered one of the most prominent and respected economists in the world. When both Wall Street bankers and Bush administration policymakers were insisting that everything was just fine, Roubini was warning about the most dire financial crisis since the Great Depression. In 2007, the financial elite laughed him off, but Roubini was vindicated by the crash of 2008."

http://www.truthout.org/nouriel-roubini-how-break-up-banks-stop-massive-bonuses-and-rein-wall-street-greed59617



Rage Against the Machine

Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "It's morning in America, and the nativists are getting restless. Often cited amidst the moderate chagrin over rightwing rampaging in recent weeks is the dubious proposition that these factions are openly rebelling against 'business as usual' in US politics. While social movement activities in general are worthwhile, we ought to distinguish between those that actually challenge power and those that are supported by it. In the case of the Tea Party and their ilk, we are witnessing a unique posture whereby people are raging against the system even as they epitomize it."

http://www.truthout.org/rage-agin-machine59581



White Wealth and Black Debt Shot Up in "Growth" Years

Kai Wright, ColorLines: "The wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has grown by fourfold over the course of Generation X's lifetime, exploding to $95,000, a study released today found. And the debt burden among African American families has nearly doubled."

http://www.truthout.org/white-wealth-and-black-debt-shot-up-growth-years59601



Ordinary Workers Would Be Fired in a Second If They Screwed Up Anywhere Nearly as Bad as the Bankers Have

Dean Baker, Alternet: "The world is suffering from the worst downturn since the Great Depression. The crisis has left tens of millions unemployed in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere. The huge baby boomer generation in the United States, now on the edge of retirement, has seen much of its wealth destroyed with the collapse of the housing bubble."

http://www.truthout.org/ordinary-workers-would-be-fired-a-second-if-they-screwed-up-anywhere-nearly-bad-bankers-have59992

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Govt employee tells the truth
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/848.html

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Credit Storm in Europe; Politics on Capital Hill

By Mike Whitney

Wall Street has won this round. The window for real reform has closed, and now it's "business as usual" until the next catastrophe.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25553.htm



The Cult of Subprime Central Bankers

By Dean Baker

People don't need economists to tell them that times are bad. However, what the public may not recognize is that the same people who caused this disaster are still calling the shots.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25554.htm



Cooking The Books?

Banks Trim Debt, Obscuring Risks

By MICHAEL RAPOPORT And TOM MCGINTY

The practice, known as end-of-quarter "window dressing" on Wall Street, suggests that the banks are carrying more risk most of the time than their investors or customers can easily see.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25555.htm



US money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus

The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.

http://tinyurl.com/36ttfj3



The War is Making You Poor

Next year's budget allocates $159,000,000,000 to "contingency operations," to perpetuate the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. That's enough money to eliminate federal income taxes for the first $35,000 of every American's income each year, and beyond that, leave over $15 billion that would cut the deficit.

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Both parties packing pork into war-funding bill

The bill has grown into a nearly $200 billion grab bag of unfinished business that includes $1 billion for summer-jobs programs, $1.5 billion in aid to farmers who had crops damaged and $4.6 billion to settle two long-running lawsuits against the government, one by black farmers claiming discrimination and one by American Indians over the government's management of their land.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011952818_warcost26.html


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Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier, Truthout: "On May 12, the day after a US drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan's North Waziristan, two men from the area agreed to tell us their perspective as eyewitnesses of previous drone strikes. One is a journalist, Safdar Dawar, general secretary of the Tribal Union of Journalists. Journalists are operating under very difficult circumstances in the area, pressured by both militant groups and the Pakistani government."

http://www.truthout.org/drones-and-democracy59686

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"A Bomb is a Bomb is a Bomb"

When Will the Real Terrorists Stand Up?

By Saul Landau

I propose President Obama end the war against terrorism and admit the phrase means "Muslims should scare you!".

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