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Gulf Oil Spill Effects On Wildlife - 0 views

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    Scientists to study impact of gulf oil spill on marine food webs. Shells from oysters, clams, and periwinkles hold clues about the ways and rates at which harmful compounds from the spill are being incorporated into the Gulf's marine food web. New reports are surfacing every day about the immediate impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf Coast wildlife, especially as the oil reaches the sensitive marshlands along the coast. But how will these communities be affected over time? (Source: Science Magazine)
Michael Haltman

Must see video: Obama, BP and the 2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico: Where has he been s... - 2 views

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    Where has Obama been, and what has he been doing since the 2010 Gulf oil spill began? Golf, parties, gym, basketball, etc. Everything you would expect from this President.
Michael Haltman

Watch live oil company executives getting crucified - 1 views

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    Watch the oil company executives get crucified by the Congress live on C-SPAN3 concerning the BP oil spill and the future of offshore drilling in the United States.
thinkahol *

Gulf Oil Spill Myths Debunked (PHOTOS) - 0 views

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    Since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig April 20 killed 11 oil rig workers, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to claim the lives of wildlife, like birds and sea turtles, compromise the fishing and tourism industries, and threaten the culture of the Gulf coast. That, and it's spawned an awful lot of misconceptions.
Michael Haltman

Will the BP oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico make that company disappear? - 0 views

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    BP bankruptcy: As the oil continues to flow and the environmental disaster continues to grow, it is a scenario that has to be given some credence.
thinkahol *

The BP Cover-Up | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing-but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.
Michael Haltman

Gallup daily tracking for BP oil spill: Obama, federal government and BP all get failin... - 1 views

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    The time for presidential rhetoric is over. It is time for some action. This performance makes Katrina look like a home run!
Michael Haltman

The BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico and the top kill (streaming live) - 2 views

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    Everything that you never wanted to know about a top kill.
thinkahol *

The BP/Government police state - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Federal and local agents conspire with BP to intimidate, impede and threaten journalists covering the oil spill
thinkahol *

Op-Ed Columnist - Don't Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Unlike his unflappable temperament, his lingering failings should and could be corrected. And they must be if his presidency is not just to rise above the 24/7 Spill-cam but to credibly seize the narrative that Americans have craved ever since he was elected during the most punishing economic downturn of our lifetime. We still want to believe that Obama is on our side, willing to fight those bad corporate actors who cut corners and gambled recklessly while regulators slept, Congress raked in contributions, and we got stuck with the wreckage and the bills. But his leadership style keeps sowing confusion about his loyalties, puncturing holes in the powerful tale he could tell.
Skeptical Debunker

Another Tough Break for Cheney Crowd | Talking Points Memo - 0 views

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    One of the things that never gets mentioned in the endless praise of military tribunals is that their actual record is really bad. And now comes word that Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan immigrant arrested last year for planning a bombing campaign in the US, began spilling the beans over the last month about the plot, his accomplices and more. Zazi is expected to plead guilty as part of a plea deal this afternoon in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Sana ulHaq

Rand Paul: Obama BP criticism 'un-American' - 0 views

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    Taking another unconventional stand, Kentucky's Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as anti-business and sounding "really un-American."
Sana ulHaq

Oil sheen reaches land as BP races to install containment dome - 0 views

shared by Sana ulHaq on 07 May 10 - Cached
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    AFP - The race to avert an oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico intensified Thursday with BP rushing to lower a dome to contain the spill, while sheen was confirmed on land for the first time.
thinkahol *

United States v. Dougherty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    United States v. Dougherty was a 1972 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in which the court ruled that members of the D.C. Nine, who had broken into Dow Chemical Company, vandalized office furniture and equipment, and spilled about a bloodlike substance, were not entitled to a new trial on the basis of the judge's failing to allow a jury nullification jury instruction. The Appeals Court ruled, by a 2-1 vote: " The fact that there is widespread existence of the jury's prerogative, and approval of its existence as a "necessary counter to casehardened judges and arbitrary prosecutors," does not establish as an imperative that the jury must be informed by the judge of that power. On the contrary, it is pragmatically useful to structure instructions in such wise that the jury must feel strongly about the values involved in the case, so strongly that it must itself identify the case as establishing a call of high conscience, and must independently initiate and undertake an act in contravention of the established instructions. This requirement of independent jury conception confines the happening of the lawless jury to the occasional instance that does not violate, and viewed as an exception may even enhance, the over-all normative effect of the rule of law. An explicit instruction to a jury conveys an implied approval that runs the risk of degrading the legal structure requisite for true freedom, for an ordered liberty that protects against anarchy as well as tyranny. " Nonetheless, the defendants were given a new trial on the grounds that they had been denied their right of self-representation.[1] The Circuit Judges' assumption that jurors know about their nullification prerogative has since been brought into question by other empirical evidence.[2] According to Irwin Horowitz, "Beyond the empirical issue, lack of nullification instructions maintains a deceit. After all, juries can nullify, but they know this fact only on a so
thinkahol *

Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning : NPR - 0 views

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    The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion. That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.
D. Wayne Moore

The Oil Spill In the Gulf of Mexico and Katrina Are Not the Same - 0 views

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    This article explains the difference between a natural disaster and a corporate mishap.
Michael Haltman

Commander-in-Chief, President Teleprompter or President Spock - 1 views

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    President Obama's Democrat base is beginning to understand what the rest of us already knew: He is an incompetent leader on many levels.
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