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Gulf Oil Spill: Vast Majority of Pollution Could Lurk Below Surface for Months or Years

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21

by Dan Froomkin

As little as 1/60th of the oil belching from a blown-out deep-sea BP
well could be making it all the way up to the surface of the Gulf of
Mexico right away, judging from the results of a field test of a similar
scenario conducte

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Is The World Falling Apart?

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

If you have to pose the question in today's title, then you have also gone a long way toward answering it. When I say "the world" I am referring to the global economy in the short-term (within 1 year). I don't doubt "the world" is falling apart in the long-term, but that will takes years (oil price shocks) or decades (dead oceans) to unfold.

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What caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster?

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

The blowout and oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by a flawed well plan that did not include enough cement between the 7-inch production casing and t

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Journalists at Johnston Press to vote again on strike action

Syndicated from Libcom on Fri, 2010-05-21

Journalists at the Johnston Press Group are to be balloted again on industrial action after their management used a technicality to block a strike on May 19 by the NUJ.

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'Culture Integral to Agriculture'

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21

by Sabina Zaccaro

ROME - Biodiversity in agriculture is about culture.

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1000 Vietnamese garment workers walk out

Syndicated from Libcom on Fri, 2010-05-21

Workers at a Hong Kong-owned clothing factory in Hanoi initiated a wildcat strike on Tuesday 18 May over below-minimum wages and other breaches in labor law.

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Singularity > Climate Change > Peak Oil > Financial Crisis

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

While lying awake late at night worrying about what kind of world my children will inherit, I find it helpful to come up with schemas for the most obvious and inevitable of the large societal problems. It makes them seem slightly more manageable to place them in order of importance, or time.

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Lebanon set for June general strike

Syndicated from Libcom on Fri, 2010-05-21

Unions are to launch a general strike in Lebanon on June 17 against regressive taxes by the government.

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Saudi Arabia: 500 workers from Egypt, Syria and Turkey go on strike in Mecca

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Fri, 2010-05-21

DUBAI - Hundreds of workers building a project at the holiest Islamic site in Mecca went on a rare strike on Sunday demanding unpaid wages, but cal...

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Germans Approve Euro Rescue Plan

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21

Germany's parliament has approved the country's contribution to a 750bn euro ($938bn, £651bn) rescue deal for the eurozone.

The German contribution is key to the plan, and would amount to up to 148bn euros.

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Border Officials Seek to Expand Texas Drone's Range

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21

by Tim Eaton

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said Thursday that border officials have broadened their request to fly an unmanned aircraft in Texas to allow the drone to cruise along the Gulf of Mexico as well as the Rio Grande.

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Low Estimate of Oil Spill's Size Could Save BP Millions in Court

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21

by Marisa Taylor, Renee Schoof and Erika Bolstad

WASHINGTON - BP's estimate that only 5,000
barrels of oil are leaking daily from a well in the Gulf of Mexico,
which the Obama administration hasn't disputed, could save the company
millions of dollars in damages when

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U.S. Senate Approves Sweeping Wall St. Reform Bill

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-05-21

by Kevin Drawbaugh and Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping Wall Street reform bill on Thursday night, capping months of wrangling over the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s.

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Democracy Now! 2010-05-21 Friday

Syndicated from Democracy Now! on Fri, 2010-05-21
Democracy Now! 2010-05-21 Friday

Headlines for May 21, 2010

Audio From 1998: Rep.
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ODAC Newsletter - May 21

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-05-21

Oil prices fell below $70/barrel this week before recovering slightly.

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