By Stephen Lendman Even America’s major media can’t duck a crime this grave – attacking and slaughtering up to 20 Gaza Freedom Flotilla activists and injuring dozens more. New York Times writer Isabel Kershner headlined “At Least 10 Killed as Israel Intercepts Aid Flotilla, saying: “The Israeli Navy raided a flotilla carrying thousands of tons …
Monthly Archive: May 2010
May 31
Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made “a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico” one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water. The new revelations came to light …
May 31
The Last Secret of the Moai
Image Credit Flickr User Individuo The impassive monoliths of Easter Island have for many years flummoxed and baffled archaeologists. The theory had for many years gone that out of all these magnificent moai, those inland had simply been abandoned by the tracks. Image Credit Flickr User Robert Nyman Some suggested they were possibly too heavy …
May 31
Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oil drilling before explosion
n 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, …
May 31
Death toll from Gaza aid attack hits 20
The death toll from the Israeli navy’s takeover of a Gaza aid convoy has risen to 20 while Israel carefully censors reports on the casualties from the attack. Gaza Freedom Flotilla came under fire early on Monday by Israeli navy forces in international waters more than 150km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza. The …
May 31
Update: Initial reports – 10-16 people killed, 30-60 injured in Israeli attack on freedom flotilla
Follow #flotilla on twitter for the latest updates. Update (12:45 am 5/31/10): Haaretz is reporting: “At least 10 activists killed as Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla.” Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros just tweeted that Israeli Army Radio is saying “between 10-14 people killed on flotilla.” These reports are all unconfirmed. We have a …
May 30
Energy expert: Nuking oil leak ‘only thing we can do’
BP ‘totally in charge of the news’ about oil leak, energy expert says As the latest effort to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico meets with failure, the idea of nuking the immediate area to seal the oil underground is gaining steam among some energy experts and researchers. One prominent energy expert …
May 30
Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America
A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total …
May 30
What was Halliburton’s role in US oil spill?
By David Usborne in New York reuters Tim Probert, Halliburton’s president of global business, appears before the Senate ‘); } else { document.write(‘ ‘); } // ]]> Shares in Halliburton, the world’s second-largest energy services company once headed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, slid in trading on Friday, in part because of the new …
May 30
YOUNGSTERS DYING FROM BLOOD CLOTS
IN PAIN: Billie-Jo, 19, had three clots in her leg HUNDREDS of young people are dying from blood clots every year, shocking new figures reveal. Deep vein thrombosis, a condition usually associated with the elderly, overweight and inactive, has claimed more than 1,000 lives among the under-40s in four years. The Government figures, obtained through …
May 30
Politico Bombshell: ‘Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash’
Politico Wednesday published a bombshell headline, “Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash.” “While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the …
May 30
Experts warn of future volcanic eruptions and possible flight disruption
Since the start of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption there has been much speculation about an eruption of its larger neighbour, Katla. In a report published today, experts from the newly formed UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction warn that with the high frequency of eruptions of Katla, an eruption in the short term is a …
May 30
Agenda 21 Alert: Science and Sewage
By Cassandra Anderson – Morph City Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control, using the environment as the excuse for that control. The 3 major tools that are used are : • Global warming • Water Shortages • Endangered Species Act In the case of the California Delta, man …
May 30
BP’s ‘top kill’ fails to stop Gulf oil leak
NEW ORLEANS – In a demoralizing setback, BP engineers said Saturday that the “top kill” effort to stem the flow of oil gushing from a well a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico had failed and that after consultation with government officials they had decided to move on to another strategy. BP …
May 29
Latest climate climbdown: the Royal Society reviews its statements on global warming
The Royal Society is to issue an official guide on climate change to better reflect the uncertainties around the science The most prestigious group of scientists in the country was forced to act after fellows complained that doubts over man made global warming were not being communicated to the public. In particular they were unhappy …
May 29
Ankara threatens reprisals if Israel halts flotilla for Gaza
Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara sets sail The Turkish government sent a secret message to Jerusalem Monday, May 24, threatening reprisals if the Israeli Navy prevents the “Freedom Flotilla” of nine boats from reaching the Gaza Strip on May 27 for the avowed objects of breaking Israel’s blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory and delivering humanitarian aid. debkafile’s …
May 29
Israel vows to halt flotilla aiming to break blockade
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem Israeli warships were yesterday on full alert in the Mediterranean to prevent an eight-vessel flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and an estimated 10,000 tons of humanitarian supplies reaching the coast of Gaza. Naval vessels were expected to confront the flotilla of cargo and passenger ships later today with the …
May 29
Group Supremacy P2
May 29
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi – Life in Iraq Under U.S. Occupation
shortages; lack of electricity; potable water; tanks rolling through the streets night and day; gunfire and explosions. Iraqi health care in shambles. 200 bodies turn up daily in the Baghdad morgue. For Iraqis, it’s 9/11 every day. Socialism 2007 conference Chicago, June 16, 2007 www.socialistworker.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard
May 29
Third Giant Underwater Oil Plume Discovered
The New York Times reported on May 15th: Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be …
May 29
Big volcanic eruptions in Guatemala, Ecuador
GUATEMALA CITY – Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America on Friday, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over major cities. Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano started erupting lava and rocks Thursday afternoon, blanketing the country’s capital with ash and forcing the closure of …
May 29
La. scientist locates another vast oil plume in the gulf
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer A day after scientists reported finding a huge “plume” of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. James H. Cowan Jr., …
May 29
America’s “War On Terror” Morphs into a Diabolical Assault on Civil Rights
DARPA’s “Deep Learning” by Tom Burghardt Global Research, May 28, 2010 Antifascist Calling… – 2010-05-23 As America’s War On Terror morphs into an endless assault on civil and human rights, the technophilic fantasies of our masters, and the corporations whom they lovingly serve, even amidst the doom and gloom of capitalism’s global economic collapse, have taken …
May 29
Israel must sign NPT, 189 countries say
The final statement of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference has called for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East. The 28-page document, which was agreed upon on Friday by all 189 NPT signatories after a month-long round of talks at UN Headquarters in New York, called for a conference to …
May 28
Gas build-up threatens North Sea oil rig
Workers evacuated as Norwegian engineers pump cement into offshore well to prevent explosion as Deepwater crisis highlights environmental dangers of drilling Boats tackle the blaze on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico which exploded on 21 April. Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features Ninety oil workers have been evacuated from a North Sea rig …
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