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  • BP beyond the oil spill, business as usual? - May 25

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-05-25

    -Reflections on an Oil Spill: A New Orleans Native Speaks Out
    -Fishgrease: DKos Booming School
    -Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response Failing to Protect People
    -Screw the Environment: BP and the Audacity of Corporate Greed

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  • Oil Follies in the Arctic

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-05-25
    by Tom Engelhardt

    Sometimes the future is filled with surprises.  On other occasions,
    it can be painfully predictable.  In the case of drilling for oil in the
    extreme reaches of America's Arctic seas, the latter is the case.  BP's
    catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, growing worse by the ho

  • Government Workers Tasked With Gulf Oil Industry Oversight Accepted Gifts

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-05-25

    WASHINGTON, DC - Staffers in the the Lake
    Charles, Louisiana district office of the Minerals Management Service
    accepted sport event tickets, lunches, and other gifts from oil and gas
    production companies and used government computers to vi

  • Eyeing the Difficult Path To a Sustainable Future

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-05-25

    In an interview with Yale Environment 360 senior editor Fen Montaigne, Orr talked about the current battle over climate and energy legislation, President Obama’s missed opportunity to use his “bully pulpit” to educate the public about global warming, and what he calls the right wing’s “unconscionable misuse” of the airwaves to spread lies and misinformation about climate ch

  • Out of the shelter and into the streets

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Tue, 2010-05-25
    New coalition will fight for affordable housing

    When Halifax’s volunteer-run Out of the Cold Shelter opened in late November, organizers knew it was not a solution to the growing housing crisis in Halifax.&nb

  • Report: C.I.A. Considered Manufacturing Propaganda Saddam Was Gay

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Tue, 2010-05-25

    <p>As the Iraq Operations Group of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) was planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, agents &quot;kicked aroun...

  • The U.S. Exports More Corn Ethanol

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-05-25

    In the past twelve months, ethanol exports from the United States have increased from 4 million gallons in March of '09 to 46 million gallons in March of this year to places like U

  • Housing Activists Reclaim Olympic Village

    Syndicated from Dominion Paper on Tue, 2010-05-25
  • Reportback: Kenney confronted in Vancouver again!

    Syndicated from No One is Illegal - Vancouver on Tue, 2010-05-25

    On May 14, 2010 an emergency protest was called by the War Resisters Campaign and No One Is Illegal to confront Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Kenney was trying to sell his new heinous refugee reform bill as part of a hand-picked immigration roundtable. Approximately 25-30 people surrounded the two entrances to the Citizenship and Immigration [...]

  • Fed-up Aboriginal Community Demanding Clean Up

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Tue, 2010-05-25
    Members of the Pictou Landing First Nation say health problems due to polluted water plague their community

    When Cheryl Maloney’s son was only nine months old, a doctor told her that if she didn’t move

  • Downtowners frustrated

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Tue, 2010-05-25
    Belleville, Ontario coop looked down on for having a diverse clientele

    Posted By W. BRICE MCVICAR THE INTELLIGENCER

    Posted 6 days ago

  • Senate Showdown Over EPA Climate Rules Scheduled for June 10

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-05-25
    by Ben Geman

    The Senate is slated to vote June 10 on Sen. Murkowski's
    resolution to strip EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gases.

  • White House Reaches Deal on Gays in US Military

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-05-25

    The White House, the Pentagon and Democratic legislators have agreed on a path to allow gays to serve openly in the US military.

    Legislation will be sent to Congress repealing the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

  • (en) Polad, Murder, Riots in Warsaw

    Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Tue, 2010-05-25

    32 people were arrested during riots following the police murder of a 36-year-old Nigerian
    man, Max, in Warsaw on Saturday. 25 of these people are being charged with assaulting a
    police officer. ---- Below is a description of events.

  • Garden beds

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2010-05-25

    Most people don’t live in the country, so maybe you live in a flat (apartment) with a balcony, maybe in a narrow row house, maybe you have only thin or contaminated soil, or only asphalt –