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Deep Water Royalty Relief Act in 1995, provided new incentives designed to encourage oil companies to start drilling in deepwater.
Effects of a chemical dispersant and crude oil on breeding ducks
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n35188n8p0tk6422
Israeli MP - Soldiers Started Shooting Before Boarding Flotillas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHwVQTnyvk&playnext_from=TL&videos=HNCyo91FFVA&feature=sub
Gaza Flotilla: Can Israel be Brought to the International Criminal Court?
http://humanrightsdoctorate.blogspot.com/2010/06/gaza-flotilla-can-israel-be-brought-to.html
Not in My Jewish Name.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Not-in-My-Jewish-Name-by-Rob-Kall-100601-960.html
I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated.There are a few million Jews in the US. They're a powerful voting bloc and they tend to vote liberal-- about 75-80 percent. An awful lot of them are very unhappy today. AIPAC IS Bad for Israel, but it is also bad for the Jewish people. Israel's crimes against humanity have done more to increase anti-Semitism in recent years than any other cause.
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, (more...)
What's an Anti-Semite? A self-hater?
http://open.salon.com/blog/tampsa/2010/06/01/whats_an_anti-semite_a_self-hater
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel had "no other choice" but to stop the flotilla of ships which tried to break the Gaza blockade on Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10219391.stm
( Very good. Now we know the extent of realization that they have infringed on NATO-protected shipping. None. Are they right ? )
Living in the 51st State (of Denial)
http://www.truthout.org/tom-engelhardt-living-51st-state-denial60029
Without a peep, the Senate just approved another round of “emergency war spending” to the tune of tens of billions of dollars to cover Afghanistan and Iraq. Our inability to focus on the American way of war has been striking recently.
My new book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, which will be out in a couple of weeks.
If you want to understand why two presidents as different as Barack Obama and George W. Bush have so often ended up in policy agreement, then make sure to get Andrew Bacevich’s new book, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. It explains how the Washington consensus on foreign policy formed, and just why its fundamental assumptions and options remain so narrow -- and so militarized. If you want to understand just where so much of your money is really going, then check out Chalmers Johnson’s successor volume to his Blowback Trilogy, Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope.
You have grown increasingly used to an American world in which a war-fighting state armed with increasingly oppressive powers offers you a national security version of “safety,” directed by Fear Inc. and based on waning liberties. You seem to me deeply affected by, but detached from, all of this.
In many ways, given our situation, your response seems reasonable enough. The problem is: if you simply duck and go about your lives as best you can, what can this country hope for?
Unfortunately, your disconnect is, I suspect, made more severe because your lives are encased in what I would call a grid of exterminationism. It was in my youth, of course, that the world became exterminable, thanks to nuclear weapons. Today -- with other threats, especially global warming and resource scarcity, joining those doomsday weapons in what feels like a fatal brew -- how could you not feel despair, whether fully recognized or not? How could you not have the urge to avoid looking toward the horizon, toward a future too grim to think about? If you can’t imagine a future, however, you probably can’t form a movement to change anything.
When the first deep-water oil spill happened in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969, Americans were shocked and there were actual protests. In the streets.
You’ve been robbed of the sense that you could matter -- outside your own small world and your individual life. It’s the worst sort of thievery. Worse than that, it’s a lie.
Pushback Network Ready For U.S. Social Forum
http://www.swop.net
MADAGASCAR: A financial crisis on the hoof
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89330
Drought lay at the heart of this local recession, and the consecutive years of scant rain had pushed families beyond their ability to cope. By the end of April 2010 the government projected that a record 65 communes in the south would face hunger in the coming months - surpassing the 45 of the previous year – and some 866,000 Malagasy would probably need assistance by June 2010.
"Food prices are increasing beyond the purchasing power of the population, reducing their access to food.
UN WARNS OF FURTHER HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN HAITI
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASHU-85ZT6W?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P"
The danger posed by hurricanes to the already vulnerable populations left homeless by the quake is considerable.
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