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Standing armies lead inevitably to tyranny.
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Harold Koh's endorsement of the legality of Obama's drone war
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9600/

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The poetry of death

CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd

05/11/10

In this regard, as in almost every aspect of the Terror War, ‘continuity’ has been the hallmark of the Obama Administration. But we would do the progressive, forward-looking president a grave disservice if we were to imply that this dynamic, historic figure has confined himself to mere continuity. No, in field after field of governmental endeavor, Barack Obama has striven mightily not just to uphold the many authoritarian and militarist innovations of the Bush Administration, but to expand them — increasing their scope and depth, codifying, normalizing and making permanent many practices which his predecessors had enshrouded with ambiguity, deception and deliberate murk. Bush and Cheney were afflicted with a vestigial embarrassment at the howling illegality and constitutional subversion of many of their Terror War policies, and seemed to fear these acts would provoke some kind of public outcry or political controversy — or even prosecution — should they be made too explicit. But our cool, savvy and thoroughly post-postmodern president carries none of that dead lumber from our long-vanished past...

http://counterpunch.org/floyd05112010.html



Droning on

Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

05/11/10

The United States is the only country in the world that openly admits to having the technological resources to launch pilotless drones armed with missiles that can then strike and destroy targets on the ground. The use of armed drones against terrorist targets began under President George W. Bush but greatly accelerated under President Barack Obama. There was roughly one drone attack [per week] in the border area of Afghanistan-Pakistan in 2009 and the tempo has increased this year...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=841


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Will the Gulf Disaster provoke a 'global extinction wave'?
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Since Spill, Feds Have Given 27 Waivers to Oil Companies in Gulf

Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers: "Since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded on April 20, the Obama administration has granted oil and gas companies at least 27 exemptions from doing in-depth environmental studies of oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico."

http://www.truthout.org/since-spill-feds-have-given-27-waivers-oil-companies-gulf59343



You Drill, You Spill

Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: "Sobering, is it not, to realize that the possible survival of a huge oil company, of several billion shrimp, assorted species of fish and birds, not to mention avoidance of a near lethal lurch in the fortunes of Louisiana's fishing and ocean rec industries and the future of offshore drilling along the Atlantic coast could depend on a feat as tricky as rolling a condom on the end of a string onto the p... of a man at street level by remote control from the top of the Empire State building."

http://www.truthout.org/alexander-cockburn-you-drill-you-spill59318

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'Dome' Failure Portends Disaster; There's No Plan B
http://act.commondreams.org/go/548?akid=53.124981.qhE2Fd&t=2

Environmental Groups: Offshore Arctic Drilling Still Scheduled in Less Than 60 Days
http://act.commondreams.org/go/562?akid=53.124981.qhE2Fd&t=30

Center for Biological Diversity: Ignoring Gulf Catastrophe, Graham Calls for More Offshore Oil Drilling
http://act.commondreams.org/go/565?akid=53.124981.qhE2Fd&t=36

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Sex, Lies and Oil Spills

For eight years, George Bush's presidency infected the oil industry's oversight agency, the Minerals Management Service, with a septic culture of corruption from which it has yet to recover.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/564163



Million gallons of oil a day gush into Gulf of Mexico

Interviews with surviving Deepwater Horizon rig workers show how explosions led to what may be the world's worst oil spill.

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From Information Clearing House

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Stop Shell Oil's offshore drilling plans in the Arctic
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/arctic_oil

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The three causes of BP’s oil disaster

Salon
by Joseph Romm

05/10/10

We now know with pretty high confidence the three main, interrelated, underlying causes of the BP’s oil disaster: Hubris, recklessness, and arrogance. So the metaphor is as much Goldman Sachs as that other great maritime disaster — the Titanic. And if BP turns out to be guilty of malfeasance, too — violating its federal permit — as the NYT suggested — then you’d have the Four Horseman of Oilpocalypse...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Crime Pays for BP
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BP's History of Safety Violations Was 'Red Flag,' Shareholder Says:

BP's Board of Directors ignored crucial safety issues, cut corners, violated U.S. law and spent millions lobbying Congress to fight regulations for the sake of making a buck, according to the federal derivative complaint.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/05/10/27128.htm

From Information Clearing House



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WELT ONLINE

Mai 2010, 04:00 Uhr

Nach dem Kurz-Crash an der Wall Street wird die Kritik am voll automatisierten Hochfrequenz-Handel lauter. Ein falscher Algorithmus kann ...

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Im Jahr 2009, so hat das Ludwig-Bölkow-Institut errechnet, hatten wir weltweit den Höhepunkt der Ölförderung erreicht. Jetzt geht die Förderrung zurück, aber die Nachfrage steigt, weil China und Indien, Brasilien und Mexiko und alle anderen Schwellenländer genau so leben wollen wie wir. Doch technischer Fortschritt hängt noch immer am Tropf des Öls. Deshalb kennt der Öl- und Benzinpreis künftig nur eine Richtung: nach oben! Es wird nie mehr billiges Öl oder Benzin geben.

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Öl gefährdet die Meeresumwelt weltweit

Nach dem Untergang der Ölplattform „Deepwater Horizon“ am 22. April vor der US-Küste von Louisiana droht dem Golf von Mexiko eine der größten Ölkatastrophen aller Zeiten.

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BP: Zeit zum "Saubermachen" - Ölnutzung: Viel Leid, viel Schmutz

GLOBAL 2000 erinnert mit einer Aktion an die ökologische Verantwortung des Öl-Unternehmens.

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Tabuzonen für Ölförderung auf See

Kein Öl aus der Arktis. WWF fordert politischen Richtungswechsel in der Offshore-Ölforderung. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741688851ms208

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Abschließen des Bohrlochs mit Stahlkuppel gescheitert

Seit Beginn der Ölkatastrophe hat die Obama-Regierung weitere Ausnahmen der Umweltprüfung für Tiefseebohrungen erteilt.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147585



Ölpest wirtschaftlich kein Problem für BP

BP, Transocean und Halliburton schieben sich gegenseitig die Schuld an der Katastrophe im Golf von Mexiko zu.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/147595



Ölpest: Fälschen von Sicherheitstests "üblich"

Über mangelhaft durchgeführte Tests werde seit Jahren großzügig hinweggesehen, mit Wissen der Behörden und BP, so der Vorwurf eines Informanten aus der Ölindustrie.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147615



Ölaustritt im Golf: Neue Schätzungen übertreffen Exxon-Valdez-Katastrophe

Nach dem gestern veröffentlichten BP-Video schätzen Experten, dass bis zu 11 Millionen Liter Öl täglich austreten könnten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/147623



Auf dem Weg nach Europa

Teil des Ölteppichs im Golf von Mexiko wird von den Meeresströmungen erfasst und in Richtung Golfstrom getrieben.

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John Lamperti, Truthout: "The Pentagon 'base budget' request for fiscal year 2011 (beginning on October 1) calls for about $549 billion, an increase of $18 billion over the appropriation for the current fiscal year. That's nowhere near the whole story. The administration is also requesting about $160 billion for 'Overseas Contingency Operations' (OCO) that goes to pay for wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. There's also $25 billion or more in military spending outside the 'Department of Defense,' much of that for nuclear weapons included in the Department of Energy's budget. (This $25 billion could be much larger, depending on what is included.)"

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Nancy Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they'd violated ground rules by publishing the name of a former Army interrogator who was a witness at a hearing there this week."

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At Guantanamo, Even Soldiers are Stripped of Their Legal Rights

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "In the habeas corpus petitions submitted by prisoners at Guantanamo, district court judges have, to date, ruled in 34 out of 47 cases that the government has failed to demonstrate that the men in question had any meaningful connection to either al-Qaeda or the Taliban."

http://www.truthout.org/guant%C3%A1namo-and-habeas-corpus-consigning-soldiers-oblivion59337

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ACLU and Other Rights Groups Send Letter Urging Pentagon to Lift Ban on Guantánamo Reporters

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