It was Jindal who, on June 2nd, sent an urgent letter to President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar regarding his grave concerns at the time of the administration’s decision to place a moratorium on deepwater drilling.
The lead paragraph in that letter made it very clear how Jindal’s concern is not with the ongoing catastrophic loss of ecosystems, or even the fisherpersons of his state, but with placating big oil.
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Biden was impressed with what he saw.
“I don’t think the American people have any idea” how many resources are being used to fight the spill, he said.
Butler, on the other hand, along with most folks in southern Louisiana, is not as impressed. He’s been flying people, nearly every day since the disaster began in April, over the affected areas. He begins telling me about what he is seeing.
“It’s not as bad as they show it on TV,” Butler says, “It’s worse. Much worse.”
He looks outside the window at storm clouds forming to our south, then looks back at me.
“There’s no end in sight,” he says sternly, looking deep into my eyes.
Butler Aviation does most of its business as a taxi service, ferrying people around the Gulf coast region, and their business, like that of most businesses in Louisiana now, is down. Way down.
And Butler Aviation is not alone in feeling the pinch. The US Small Business Administration is turning down
70 percent of Louisiana companies that are applying for Gulf oil disaster relief loans.
Toxic Rain Killing Vegetation in Houston Texas- video
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1280990490
How diet soda causes weight gain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpoAtwVyzZI&feature=player_embedded
Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/genetically-modified-truths-cartoon
The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations
How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
Millions Against Monsanto
- USDA: No Environmental Impact Study Needed to Deregulate Genetically Modified Corn
- UCLA Researchers Develop Genetically Modified E. coli Bacteria For More Efficient Ethanol Production
- Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon)
Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/google-verizon-deal-the-e_b_671617.html
This Google-Verizon deal, this industry-captured FCC, and the way this is playing out is akin to the largest banks and the largest hedge funds writing the regulatory policy on derivative trading without any oversight or input from the public, and having it rubber stamped by the SEC. It's like BP and Halliburton ironing out the rules for offshore oil drilling with no public input, and having MMS sign off. Stop what you're doing and
tell them you're not letting the Internet go the way of Big Oil and Big Banks. The future of the Internet, and your access to information depends on it.
Israel intensifies West Bank Palestinian home demolitions
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-intensifies-west-bank-palestinian-home-demolitions-2010-07-21
Amnesty International has today called on the Israeli authorities to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and other buildings in the West Bank, after a further 74 were destroyed in the Jordan Valley earlier this week.
"These recent demolitions intensify concerns that this is part of a government strategy to remove the Palestinian population from the parts of the West Bank known as Area C, over which Israel has complete control in terms of planning and construction."
Pakistan Flood: HAARP Used in Pakistan?
For those out there not familiar with HAARP, SURA, Eiscat, and some of the other electromagnetic facilities that are on earth, you really should research the patents that the developers have made and what their purposes are for.
Method And Apparatus For Altering A Region In The Earth’s Atmosphere,
Ionosphere, And/Or Magnetosphere
Method For Producing A Shell Of Relativistic Particles At An Altitude
Above The Earth’s Surface
Method And Apparatus For Creating An Artificial Electron Cyclotron
Heating Region Of Plasma
Power Beaming System
Power Beaming System With Printer Circuit Radiating Elements
Having Resonating Cavities
Folded Cross Grid Dipole Antenna Element
Lightweight Focusing Reflector For Space
Artificial Ionospheric Mirror Composed Of A Plasma Layer
Which Can Be Tilted
Creation Of Artificial Ionization Clouds Above The Earth
High Resolution Directional Gamma Ray Detector
Defense System For Discriminating Between Objects In Space
Nuclear-Sized Explosions Without Radiation
The designer of Haarp’s son speaks candidly about his father’s invention and what its intended purpose was. Although some of this is dramatized, it definitely tells an adequate tale. Jim Phelps was the inventor and also the whistle blower of its capabilities.http://www.youtube.com/v/uZOt29NR0FY
Here is an article written by JIM PHELPS
http://www.lightwatcher.com/chemtrai…Chemtrails.pdf
Here’s another PDF file that you have to download and save:
http://www.pdfone.com/keyword/haarp-project.html
This article was put together by DR. Nick Begick
http://www.haarp.net/
And, William Cohen, ex-secretary of the DOD, made a specific statement about electromagnetic weapons that could be used for weather
terrorism.
In April 1997, the then U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen publicly discussed the dangers of HAARP-like technology, saying “others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations… It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts.”
Here is information about a bill passed to seek technology for weather modification:
http://www.padrak.com/ine/HAARP97.html
Source: http://usahitman.com/?p=2014
6 Aug I was startled to note a 'Follower' at oldephartte(intraining) as I've neglected it the past few months. I did stumble onto this however ( although I had to take the headline and apply it to the search bar at Dad2059 )
Did the U.S. use H.A.A.R.P. against China ? June 7 2008
War in Eastasia
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/war_in_eastasia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IPS%2Flatest+%28The+Latest+from+the+Institute
+for+Policy+Studies%29
When we conduct military exercises on China's doorstep, and within range of a clearly unhappy North Korea, we might be unwittingly starting something that we neither want to nor are able to finish.
Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn
http://www.truth-out.org/chris-hedges-why-feds-fear-thinkers-like-howard-zinn61978
Zinn, who died in January at the age of 87, did not advocate violence or support the overthrow of the government, something he told FBI interrogators on several occasions. He was rather an example of how genuine intellectual thought is always subversive. It always challenges prevailing assumptions as well as political and economic structures. It is based on a fierce moral autonomy and personal courage and it is uniformly branded by the power elite as “political.” Zinn was a threat not because he was a violent revolutionary or a communist but because he was fearless and told the truth.
The cold, dead pages of the FBI file stretch from 1948 to 1974. At one point five agents are assigned to follow Zinn. The file exposes the absurdity, waste and pettiness of our national security state. And it seems to indicate that our security agencies prefer to hire those with mediocre or stunted intelligence, dubious morality and little common sense.
Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted
http://www.truth-out.org/tony-blair-must-be-prosecuted62042
Blair's memoirs will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now, consider Britain's Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenseless country, which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the "paramount war crime." This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide.
In addition, four million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes and a majority of children have descended into malnutrition and trauma. Cancer rates near the cities of Fallujah, Najaf and Basra (the latter "liberated" by the British) are now revealed as higher than those at Hiroshima. "UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003," the Defence Secretary Liam Fox told Parliament on 22 July. A range of toxic "anti-personnel" weapons, such as cluster bombs, were employed by British and American forces.
Such carnage was justified with lies that have been repeatedly exposed.
Also from
Truthout
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by: Henry Giroux and Grace Pollock, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
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by: Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t | Report
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by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
There may be more at stake for the U.S. government than the Afghan war logs.
Bradley Manning’s arrest came after he was turned in by an ex-hacker with whom he’d struck up an online friendship. In his chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo, Manning described leaking a database of 260,000 State Department diplomatic cables, and a classified Army event log from the war in Iraq covering 500,000 events from 2004 through 2009. WikiLeaks hasn’t published those purported leaks, and has denied receiving the diplomatic cables.
On Saturday, WikiLeaks published without comment a 1.4GB encrypted file named “insurance.” The file is more than 19 times the size of the Afghan war log.
In his chats, Manning did not mention leaking information from the war in Afghanistan.
Manning faces up to 52 years in prison under the current charges against him. Earlier this week, Republican congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan made news by arguing that Manning should be charged with treason and face the death penalty instead — an argument that is not supported by U.S. law. Supporters of Manning plan a rally at Quantico on Sunday.
Power shift
http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/3758
- Two US researchers have declared that solar electricity in their home state is now cheaper than next-generation nuclear power. Olivia Boyd looks at their study – and its global implications.
The Economic Tsunami
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2010/08/05/the-economic-tsunami
I will make this simple–the economy is in the shitter and the only light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of the oncoming train of more job losses.
America: The Grim Truth
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_60839.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+axisoflogic%2FAxisFeed+%28axisoflogic.com%29
Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.
And that’s just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You don’t even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you’ve never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States. You are required under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you’re from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United States that provides a steady stream of cannon fodder for the military.
If you call a life of surveillance, anxiety and ceaseless toil in the service of a government you didn’t elect “freedom,” then you and I have a very different idea of what that word means.
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