Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security LOLITA C. BALDOR GuardianUK Saturday June 19 2010 Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday. As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly... »
Archive for June 19th, 2010
BP oil spill caused by ‘negligence or misconduct’, says drilling partner
Anadarko says BP should foot entire bill for cleanup as new estimates show spill could last for up to four more years David Batty and Suzanne Goldenberg Guardian.co.uk Saturday 19 June 2010 BP has come under further pressure after one of its partners said the oil giant should foot the entire bill for the... »
The euro’s inevitable failure will be horrendous for all of us
The single currency is a disaster, but the cost of its life support will devastate Europe’s economies By Charles Moore TelegraphUK 18 Jun 2010 On my desk as I write are two banknotes – £20 sterling and 20 euros. On the former is a picture of the Bank of England, the signature of Andrew... »
Marine Center Director: “Never seen anything like this”; 10 whale sharks only 23 miles southwest of Sarasota
FloridaOilSpillLaw.com June 19th, 2010 World’s largest fish heads toward Southwest Florida coast to flee from oil MOTE concerned oil spill is affecting shark patterns, Tampa Bay News 9, June 19, 2010: Mote Marine Laboratory scientists are concerned the oil spill is affecting the patterns of whale sharks. On Friday, ten whale sharks gathered about... »
Oil-eating bacteria don’t work in low oxygen water, dead zones
FloridaOilSpillLaw.com June 19th, 2010 Gulf oil full of methane, adding new concerns, Associated Press, June 18, 2010: It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem. The oil... »
Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2010: The global system’s four single points of failure
LEAP20/20.eu Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if the media only timidly begin to interpret the historic upheavals which unfold before our own eyes. For LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2010 will thus correspond to a... »
Progressives Want “Direct Action” and a Disarmed Public
Paul Craig Roberts Infowars.com June 19, 2010 Progressive William Rivers Pitt has lost patience with the Obama regime and with British Petroleum (Enough of This Crap, June 15, Truthout). To break through the news blackout that BP maintains over the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill, he wants a hundred thousand Americans to “just... »
The Gulf Gusher & the NWO Agenda
“It’s clear where they’re heading: forced evacuation to FEMA camps of millions of Gulf residents. In this way the NWO will be grabbing an opportunity to unleash martial law on a grand scale in the Southeastern USA, so that we’ll all get used to it, like we got used to airport security and torture.”... »
North America faces years of toxic oil rain from BP oil spill chemical dispersants
Maryann Tobin Examiner.com When you pour more than a million gallons of toxic chemical dispersants on top of an oil spill, it doesn’t just disappear. In this case, it moves to the atmosphere, where it will travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles from the site of the BP oil spill, in the form... »
California on ‘verge of system failure’
Golden State, like many others, is nearly bankrupt and desperately needs a bailout Barrie McKenna Globe and Mail Arnella Sims has seen a lot in her 34 years as a Los Angeles County court reporter, but nothing like this. Case files piling up by the thousands, phones ringing off the hook, forced midweek courthouse... »