Get used to it, baby: if there were an easier available place to find new oil than a mile beneath the sea, they'd be drilling there.

The drawing of parallels between industrial accidents is a dubious armchair sport, but here the parallels are just piling up and are becoming too hard to ignore.

wdef writes "The BBC reports that a Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a spaceship. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalymkia, made his claim in a television interview.

Greek president Carolos Papoulias today urged his country to step back from "the brink of an abyss" following the deaths of three bank workers yesterday during protests against the government's new harsh austerity measures.

PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana - BP dispatched a giant domelike structure to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on a high-stakes mission aiming to limit the damage from what is becoming an environmental catastrophe.

Democracy Now! Thursday, May 6, 2010