12 October - Online Warriors

What We Don’t Know About the Middle East

The romantics and the naive celebrate the outbreak of “democracy” in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and the potential to spread to Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan and maybe Iran. If this was a Hollywood movie that might be a reasonable point of view, but something else is going on.

 FOCUS: Twitter Defeats Perry

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‎'One of the delights of Twitter, I am rapidly discovering, is that it relieves you of the obligation to think for yourself. You fire up your home page, and there they are: rolling news plus a handy collection of ready-made conclusions about practically everything.' John Cassidy, The New Yorker

 

Toxic chemicals in Texas fire threaten communities

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A fast-moving, "out of control" fire erupted at the Magnablend Chemical Company in Waxahachie, Texas, this afternoon. The fire has forced the evacuation of at least one elementary school in this Dallas suburb, and the nearby Navarro College, accordin…

This is not the first time that the TCEQ under Rick Perry has engaged in whitewashing reports or scientific malpractice. As KHOU-TV's Mark Greenblatt has extensively documented, agency staff — at the behest of the governor's appointees — was deliberately lowballing radiation levels measured in drinking water to help local utilities avoid federal regulation.

Texas Agency Censored Rice Scientist

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While Rick Perry's appointees at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality accuse the EPA of engaging in

Rocky Kistner is in the running for HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers in Green!

As Rocky told the Huffington Post team – in recognizing him, they also recognize the work of countless gulf coast citizens and activists who continue to dedicated a tremendous amount of time to the ongoing health, environmental, and economic threats facing Gulf communities.

Who Is The Ultimate Green Game Changer?

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HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under the radar, are changing how we look at the world and the way we live in it. We salute them for their willingness to take risks and question the status q...

Researchers from the Natural Resources Defence Council (NDRC) said the FDA seriously underestimated the cancer risk from contaminants that can accumulate in seafood when the agency allowed commercial fishing to resume in the Gulf of Mexico - where the leak occurred 41 miles (66km) off the Louisiana coast - after the disaster. The study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that by using flawed assumptions and outdated risk assessment methods, the FDA allowed contamination up to 10,000 times the level deemed safe, and failed to identify risks for pregnant women and children.

FDA allowed unsafe seafood after BP spill

 

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AMERICA'S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed unsafe levels of contaminants in seafood after the BP oil spill in 2010, according to a study cited by FOXNews.com.

 

Life On The Gulf After BP - Some Still Suffer With Health Issues | Louisiana Environmental Action.

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It has been over fourteen months since the Deepwater Horizon sank releasing BP's oil into the Gulf of Mexico and coastal residents who feel that their...

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Go Michelle! Kudos for refusing to back down! Gulf Shores officials approved a permit to allow a rally during the 2011 festival Saturday by a group protesting BP actions following the oil spill.

 

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Three other dolphins have washed up in Alabama in the past week, including a pregnant female on Dauphin Island and a mother and calf pair on Hollingers Island in Mobile Bay. "We should be seeing one (death) a month at this time of year," said Ruth Carmichael, a Dauphin Island Sea Lab scientist tasked with responding to reports of dead dolphins. "We’re getting one or more a week. It’s just never slowed down."

By all accounts, those two critically important federal responses were blunders* of epic proportions, leaving the people of the Gulf Coast to fend for themselves in the most dire of situations. Though we picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and forged on, we will never forget that Washington turned its back on us when we needed it most.

 * When is 'blunder' a suspect diagnosis ?

Government’s Role in the Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History: “The Big Fix” Premieres Oct. 14 at New Orl

 

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Faith in the federal government has died on the Gulf Coast – or more accurately, it was killed. The trust between Gulf citizen and government was battered by

 

Eco groups horrified as BP plans for huge ‘worst-case’ spill off Shetland - Environment - Scotsman.c

 

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BP faces fierce backlash from green groups over new oil well

 

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BP's plan for a controversial deep-water oil well off Shetland should be halted by the Government, four of Britain's biggest green groups said last night.

 

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‎"They don't have an oil spill response plan worth spitting on." Mr Harawira says New Zealanders weren't stupid and they would very quickly make the link between the Rena disaster and the horror story that was averted thanks to a group of dedicated people stopping the survey and deep-sea drilling program that govt had agreed to with Petrobas.

Mana slams Govt oil spill response | Voxy.co.nz

 

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‎"If that's how government handles a little oil spill, then thank God, Greenpeace and Te Whanau a Apanui for stopping Petrobras from getting a deep-sea oil permit in the Raukumara" said Mana leader and Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira, of Government's inability to stem the loss of more than

 

 

Compromise reached on BP protest at Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores

 

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GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Activists and Gulf Shores officials reached an agreement Tuesday to allow the Alabama Oil Spill Aftermath Coalition to hold a peaceful protest against BP during the National Shrimp Festival on Saturday, representatives of both sides said.

Help Improve the White House's Gulf Restoration Strategy | Gulf Restoration Network

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The Gulf Restoration Network unites and empowers people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf of Mexico region. As the BP oil drilling disaster continues to impact the region, you can help by taking action today.

( I immediately think of Iraqi 'restoration'....and New Orleans....and Alaska.  What part of problems past the capacity of established 'conventional' medical expertise and remediation don't people get ?   Besides - it isn't as if  the goal of  the business of 'medicine' was designed to enrich lives instead of make a profit. 

Or have you seen Single Payer 'Insurance' in your neighbourhood ? I sure can find stories they're trying to 'privatize' 'healthcare' here in Canada while the food supply is based on an inherently polluting and poisoning unsustainable infrastructure...imported these days....supposedly to deliver sustenance.  

Nutrition ? What's that ? )

Shrimp Company Lays Off Employees, Blames BP

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INDEPENDENCE, La. -- The largest employer in Independence, La., says it is forced to lay off employees because there's no money coming from BP's $20 billion compensation fund. Tuesday, September 27, 2011.

Tennille Tracy has this story on WSJ.com today saying the prospect of liability for contractors has the industry in a tizzy. U.S. regulators are set to hand out punishments in the Deepwater Horizon case as soon as this week, following a months-long investigation by the Interior Department and Coast Guard.

Contractors in a Tizzy Over Possible Liability

 

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Can contractors for BP be held liable for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Thats the latest question in the legal fallout from last years gargantuan spill in the Gulf.

Time to take oil in Gulf seriously (editorial)

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It's unthinkable, given the impact of last year's oil spill, that BP and federal agencies wouldn't make the matter their top priority.

“Basically they sprayed too many chemicals on the beach,” he said. “The white shrimp are born on the beach and the inside of the beach. There's no way they're going to live.”

Fishermen bemoan poor catches

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DULAC — Around this time of year, when Linward Dupre and his son Nick trawl the waters of lower Terrebonne, they normally fill their boat with thousands of pounds of smaller white shrimp.

Coming up Empty: Shrimp Catches Are Down 99 Percent in Areas Hard Hit by Gulf Oil Spill | Stuart H..

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This year's white shrimp season off the coast of Louisiana looks like a bust, despite the fact that state fishery experts had predicted a bumper crop. But that

“Across the Gulf Coast, oil continues to wash ashore along beaches and wetlands,” the Waterkeeper Alliance report said. “Local and state economies and household budgets are still suffering, and health impacts, potentially from exposure to the mixture of crude oil and toxic dispersant, are being reported.”

Environmental groups: Oil spill's effects persist

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A coalition of Gulf Coast environmental groups said in a report released today that last year's oil spill is still a "developing disaster," as they called for government officials to reinstate a moratorium on new deepwater drilling and rethink claims that Gulf of Mexico seafood is safe to eat.

225	Historian Wayne Flynt on HB56: 'The meanest, most hateful thing I've ever read' (Talbot)
134	Southwest Alabama industries losing migrant workers because of immigration law
78	President, No. 2 official, at Bishop State have doctorates from unaccredited schools
61	Reader comment: Trickle-down consequences of immigration law will affect state, taxpayer purses
56	Reader comment: We make choices every day that contribute to need for undocumented workers

Bombshell: State Department Outsourced Tar Sands Pipeline Environmental Impact Study to ‘Major’ Tra

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The Game was Rigged: Entire Environmental Impact Statement Should Be Invalidated The State Department assigned an important environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to a company with financial ties to the pipeline operator, flouting the intent of a federal law meant to ensure ...

Tar Sands Protesters; CO2 Emissions, Clean Water and American Blood | Bridge The Gulf Project

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In Washington today, hundreds of people from all walks of life packed a State Department hearing at the massive Ronald Reagan office building, ready for one last-ditch effort to fend off the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

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Gulf Coast social justice leaders reflect on the execution of Troy Davis, latest post by Derek Rankins

We who believe in freedom cannot rest

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We who believe in freedom CANNOT REST!! The loss of Troy Davis is a living testimony that we must continue the conversation about the Justice System; From the ways people enter, the inhuman conditions that PEOPLE go through while they are in jail, and the way people exit and re-enter society. Let's ...

new contributor Gina Womack on how parents of incarcerated children see the juvenile justice system in LA: http://bridgethegulfproject.org/node/463

A Failing System Reminiscent of Tallulah | Bridge The Gulf Project

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Efforts to reform Louisiana’s juvenile justice system are failing, according to a new report based on the testimonies of families whose children are incarcerated in that system.

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Good stuff from our friends at Bayou Grace...

Call to Action: What You Can Do to Save Our Gulf Coast!

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On July 21, 2011, a bipartisan coalition of Gulf Senators introduced the RESTORE the Gulf Coast Act, S. 1400. This critical bill would ensure that 80 percent of the penalties paid under the Cle...

Over 200 billion gallons of water blanketed New Orleans alone during Hurricane Katrina. This dwarfs the amount of oil released in the Deepwater Horizon spill. An enormous amount of crude oil could be caught up within a hurricane and subsequently "dumped" ashore at landfall. This would be more likely than the firecane (and still a quite devastating) scenario, with crude oil blanketing sections of the impacted areas after it reaches shore.

( Corexit 'Storm Surge' anyone ? )

When hurricanes catch fire

 

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It sounds like a Syfy movie or the next Michael Bay summer blockbuster. An oil spill covers the Gulf of Mexico at the same time that a tropical gathers strength in the Bahamas.

Florida Fish Die As Chamber Panders

 

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It’s ironic that, on the very day the Florida Chamber announces it wants to fight limits on sewage, fertilizer and manure pollution, there’s a m...

Thailand Flood-SONY,CANON,HONDA Factory etc be sank \japanese Media TV,Newspaper!!

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Thai govt issues evacuation order in Ayutthaya

The government has ordered people in another industrial estate and its vicinity in central Thailand to evacuate, due to possible flooding from a nearby river.

About 150 companies operate in the Hi-tech Industrial Estate in the city of Ayutthaya, about 100 kilometers north of Bangkok. 70 percent of them are Japanese firms, including plants affiliated to Canon and Sony.

In the city 2 other industrial estates are already several meters underwater amid the country's worst flooding in half a century. Honda Motor and other Japanese companies have suspended their operations.

 

Facebook Can Track Web Browsing Without Cookies

 

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‎'That Facebook keeps this data on file for 90 days (before it's discarded or made anonymous) is a legitimate privacy concern and it could certainly be useful in the event US intelligence services desires to build a profile of a particular user's web browsing.' DJ Pangburn, Death and Taxes Magazine