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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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…
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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…
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Thursday 24 June 2010
by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
(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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Wednesday 23 June 2010
by: Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
(Photo: US Army; Edited: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)…
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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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June 22, 2010
Miles…
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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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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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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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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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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June 20, 2010
By Georgianne Nienaber
Jerry Moran Dorsal Fin Encrusted with Oil in Barataria Bay
Toxic poisons…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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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Friday 18 June 2010
by: Max Ajl, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
President Barack Obama. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: NASA/Paul E. Alers,…
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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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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…
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