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Vincent L. Guarisco's Blog – March 2012 Archive (14)

Explosion, Pollution, Massive Oil Spill Probable: North Sea Gas Leak

Issues with well were detected well before leak occured

March 29, 2012

Common Dreams.org


The French energy company Total boasted today that they have discovered the source of the natural gas leak, which is steadily casting a plume of natural gas into the air and a…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 29, 2012 at 10:46pm — 1 Comment

Let the Million Flowers Bloom

By William Rivers Pitt 

March 28, 2012

Occupy Wall Street Police watch as protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrate at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 29, 2012 at 11:47am — No Comments

400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon

Chernobyl An abandoned middle school, part of the contaminated area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Pripyat, Ukraine, March 17, 2011. The ghost town which once had a population of about 50,000 people, was given a few hours to evacuate in April 1986 as radiation streamed into populated areas after…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 25, 2012 at 3:07am — 1 Comment

Chevron Accused of 'Environmental Crime' in Brazil

Excerpt: "Federal prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday accused US oil giant Chevron and 17 executives of 'environmental crime' in connection with a major spill off southeastern Brazil last November."

An aerial view of oil that seeped off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, caused by a well drilled by Chevron, 11/18/11. (photo: Reuters/Rogerio Santana)

An aerial view of oil that seeped off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, caused by a well drilled by Chevron, 11/18/11. (photo: Reuters/Rogerio Santana)

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 23, 2012 at 1:29am — No Comments

Two for the Price of One: The 60 hour work week

By william czander

March 22, 2012

Article discusses the ever growing workweek for employees and how business school professors and business writers educated today's executives to think about employees as expendable resources to be used to maximize profits.

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When I was an undergraduate at CCNY in the late 1960s I had an opportunity to work with the late Professor John Neulinger who had a grant to study leisure and was writing a book on…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 22, 2012 at 12:33pm — 2 Comments

NYPD Riot Cops Remove Occupy Protesters from Union Square

Occupy Wall Street takes on NYPD, calls for end to harrassment, brutality, and surveillance

March 21, 2012 by Common Dreams


Following days of renewed activity after large 6-month anniversary rallies over the weekend, Occupy Wall Street is taking on the New York City Police Department head on by continuing to stage public…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 21, 2012 at 5:45pm — No Comments

Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians

by: Walter Brasch, Dissident Voice | News Analysis…


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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 18, 2012 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools

"Wear green on St. Patrick's Day or get pinched." That pretty much sums up the Irish American "curriculum" that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing. What is not…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 17, 2012 at 2:56pm — 9 Comments

Indonesia’s Lamongan volcano awakens from sleep after 114 years

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 16, 2012 at 1:05am — No Comments

Bradley Manning Two-Day Hearing Begins

'Sunlight is always the best disinfectant' says defense

March 15, 2012 by Common Dreams

 Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of leaking classified material to website Wikileaks, is appearing in court today, beginning a two day pre-trial motion hearing in Fort Meade, near Baltimore. During this hearing, military judge Col Denise Lind will announce the date of Manning's trial.…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 16, 2012 at 12:42am — No Comments

When the money runs out: cases of HIV, TB, and malaria explode in Greece, ‘health system near collapse’

March 15, 2012GREECEThe incidence of HIV/Aids among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250% in the first 10 months of 2011 compared with the same period the previous year, according to the head of Médecins sans Frontières Greece, while malaria is becoming endemic in the south for the first time since the rule of the colonels.…
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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 15, 2012 at 11:14pm — 2 Comments

Daniel Ellsberg Arrested Protesting the 'American Nuclear Doomsday Machine'

By Jane Ayers, Reader Supported News

March 7, 2012

Daniel Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, Fr. Louis Vitale, NAPF's David Krieger all arrested in civil disobedience at launching of missile test at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

n the wee hours of Saturday, February 25th, nuclear expert (and Pentagon Papers whistleblower) Daniel Ellsberg, along with David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 8, 2012 at 1:48am — No Comments

Poverty in America -- From Riches to Rags (Original Content)

 

 By Vincent Guarisco

 

March 6, 2012

 

Like a pebble dropped in a pond, everything we do affects the people in our lives, and their reactions in turn affect others. The choices we make will have far-reaching consequences. Each of us carries within us the…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 6, 2012 at 3:35pm — 9 Comments

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