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Vincent L. Guarisco's Blog – June 2010 Archive (50)

The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil catastrophe could destroy a major U.S. city

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

6/26/2010



(NaturalNews) It's hurricane season in the Atlantic, and that means Mother Nature could be whipping up fierce storms and sending them charging into the Gulf Coast any day now. In a normal hurricane season, that's bad enough all by itself... remember Katrina? But now there's something even more worrisome in the recipe: There's oil in the…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 29, 2010 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Kagan "Similar to Bush on Executive Power"

Monday, June 28, 2010



Kagan "Similar to Bush on Executive Power"



FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@law.uiuc.edu

Professor of law at the University of Illinois, Boyle is author of "Tackling America's Toughest Questions." The Los Angles Times on Sunday wrote that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's "most audacious move [while Dean at Harvard Law School] was to recruit Jack Goldsmith, a lawyer who had served in the George W. Bush Justice Department and helped craft anti-terrorism… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 28, 2010 at 10:43am — No Comments

Kucinich Introduces Right to Know Legislation; Bills Create Regulatory Framework for Genetically Engineered Organisms

WASHINGTON - June 24 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time advocate of family farmers and organic foods, today introduced H.R. 5577, The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act, as well as supporting legislation that will provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all Genetically Engineered (GE) plants, animals, bacteria, and other organisms.



"To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 25, 2010 at 3:43am — 8 Comments

These Empty Spaces

by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

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(Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t)

My purpose in this life is to chronicle the events of our…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 24, 2010 at 6:36pm — 6 Comments

From Great Man to Great Screwup: Behind the McChrystal Uproar

by: Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

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(Photo: US Army; Edited: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 23, 2010 at 6:47pm — No Comments

The Runaway General

Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House

by Michael Hastings

June 22, 2010 by Rolling Stone

How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 23, 2010 at 4:34am — 3 Comments

GULF OIL DISASTER / DESTINATION EUROPE

June 22, 2010
Miles…
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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 23, 2010 at 4:20am — No Comments

Peterson's "Rigged" Drive to Cut Social Security

WASHINGTON - June 22 -

BARBARA KENNELLY, PAMELA TAINTER CAUSEY

Kennelly is president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security; Causey is communications director for the group, which has written several pieces that critique the Peterson Foundation including "Ahhh ... the Good Old Days ... Debtor's Prisons and…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 23, 2010 at 3:43am — 1 Comment

Judge Who Ruled Against Offshore Drilling Moratorium Invests in Oil Industry

June 22, 2010 by Think Progress

Today, Judge Martin Feldman, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, sided with a drilling company which had argued that the Obama administration’s…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 23, 2010 at 3:37am — No Comments

Who Wins, Who Loses if Israel Ends Its Gaza Siege?

By Tony Karon

Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010



Israel's announcement that it will end its prohibition on a wide variety of

civilian goods entering Gaza marks the collapse of the Israeli strategy to

topple the territory's Hamas rulers through "economic warfare." The

Islamists who rule the tiny coastal strip will count the announcement as a

victory simply because they survived the siege. So will Turkey, which backed

the activist flotilla whose challenge…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 23, 2010 at 3:20am — No Comments

Supreme Court Affirms Ban on Aiding Groups Tied to Terror

Filed at 11:19 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars ''material support'' to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.

The court ruled 6-3 Monday that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 21, 2010 at 2:25pm — No Comments

New Photos: Suffering Dolphins in Barataria Bay

June 20, 2010

By Georgianne Nienaber

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Jerry Moran Dorsal Fin Encrusted with Oil in Barataria Bay



Toxic poisons…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 21, 2010 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Historic Victory at Oakland Port – Israeli Ship Blocked from Unloading

June 21, 2010

In a historic action and unprecedented action today, over 800 labor and community activists blocked the gates of the Oakland docks in the early morning hours, prompting longshore workers to refuse to cross the picketlines where they were scheduled to unload an Israeli ship.

From 5:30 am to 9:30 am, a militant and spirited protest was…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 21, 2010 at 1:57pm — 1 Comment

Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world

By Naomi Klein



June 19, 2010



Obama cannot order pelicans not to die (no matter whose ass he kicks). And no amount of money not BP's $20bn, not $100bn can replace aculture that's lost its roots.' flickr image by kbaird





Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a high school gymnasium on a… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 20, 2010 at 12:54pm — No Comments

More flotillas for Gaza, Lebanese army joins Hizballah war alert



DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 19, 2010, 9:56 PM (GMT+02:00)

Officers of Hizballah's Iranian-trained marine arm and surface rocket units were sighted Saturday, June 19, going in an out of the small Lebanese Navy's bases in Beirut and Juniya.…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 20, 2010 at 4:35am — 1 Comment

Eleven US warships, one Israeli vessel transit Suez Canal to Persian Gulf

I don't like the sound of this. . .

~Vince



DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 19, 2010, 7:54 PM (GMT+02:00)



An armada of 11 US warships and one Israeli vessel passed through the Suez Canal Friday June 18 on their way to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, debkafile reports exclusively from its military sources. The fleet, the first of this composition to navigate the Suez Canal, is led by the USS Harry Truman carrier and its Strike Group of 60 fighter-bombers and 6,000 seamen and… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 20, 2010 at 4:07am — No Comments

Kick Ass or Buy Gas? How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP’s Disaster Through the Pentagon

by Nick Turse

June 18, 2010 by TomDispatch.com



Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -- and Barack Obama says they ought to be. But there's one aspect of the BP story that most of those angry residents of the Gulf states aren't aware of. And the president hasn't had a…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 19, 2010 at 5:06am — No Comments

Obama, BP and the Gulf Oil Disaster

by: Max Ajl, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

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President Barack Obama. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: NASA/Paul E. Alers,…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 19, 2010 at 4:53am — No Comments

Is Using Dispersants on the BP Gulf Oil Spill Fighting Pollution with Pollution?

It remains unclear what impact chemical dispersants will have on sea life--and only the massive, uncontrolled experiment being run in the Gulf of Mexico will tell

by David Biello

June 18, 2010 by Scientific America

Roughly five million liters of dispersants…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 19, 2010 at 4:43am — No Comments

Carbon Tax Is NOT Exclusively a "liberal" Nostrum

first off, let me clear the air about this topic - Although I do support clean energy, I do NOT support cap and trade or a carbon tax. However, remember this well - this is not exclusively a "liberal" nostrum.



Economist Martin Feldstein, once President Ronald Reagan’s chief economic advisor, has been advocating a carbon tax for nearly 20 years.



In 2007 N. Gregory Mankiw, former chief economic adviser to President George W. Bush, threw his weight behind the idea, saying… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on June 18, 2010 at 4:26pm — No Comments

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