eldavojohn writes "In the ongoing BP debacle, the Obama administration imposed a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling and a halt to 33 exploratory wells going into the Gulf of Mexico.

In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and squatter Katharine Hibbert sympathises with alternative living but also wants clear thinking.

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - In the largest
citizen enforcement action ever taken under the Clean Water Act, the
Center for Biological Diversity is suing BP and Transocean Ltd., for
illegally spilling more than 100 million gallons of oil and other
pollutants

<p>The rich grew richer last year, even as the world endured the worst recession in decades.</p>
<h1>World's rich got richer amid '09 recession ...

East New Orleans is lush and crumbling.

In the Whitechapel area on Sunday 20th June. ---- A controversial few weeks on the streets
of Whitechapel culminated on Sunday with a complete no-show by the EDL (not surprising
given that their âleadershipâ had spent the last week urging their members not to attend
Sunday after the cancellation of the UK-IC conference at the Troxy).

Detroit was not an accidental choice for the U.S. Social Forum (USSF).