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BP needs a new logo
Mary Shaw
I used to think that BP was rare among oil companies, because its ads expressed a concern for the environment, and the company was allegedly also working on alternative energy sources. I believed the PR and fell for the green-and-sunny-looking logo. After all, BP's website talks about how the company is invested in the development of wind, solar, and hydrogen energy, biofuels, and carbon capture and storage.
But then my bubble burst.
Too Big to Exist - Big Oil
There is no viable solution insight for the out of control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The stunning failure of British Petroleum (BP) raises the question - are these oil giants too big to exist? Are they too dangerous to function in our presence? BP has four permanent deep water structures and 28 boreholes operating at a water depth of greater than 5000 feet in the Gulf of Mexico. What's next?
British Petroleum (BP) had the resources to drill the well but lacked the planning and ability to deal with its failure. The oil giant's performance inspired ridicule by Jon Stewart in a recent Daily Show comment ("There will be blame"). The White House was not amused, however. Nobel Prize winning physicist and Secretary of the Energy, Steven Chu, is now in Houston with a team of cutting edge scientists tasked with mentoring BP and devising a viable solution as the oil giant continues to falter.
Big oil, government long secreted license to kill
Edited excerpt by Carolyn Bennett
Apropos this latest human and environmental catastrophe caused by a long train of deliberate failures in U.S. constitutional governance - failure to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure liberty for this and future generations - Charlotte Dennett's reporting on the context of oil seems ripe for thought. Dennett wrote "The war on terror and the great game for oil: how the media missed the context" chapter in Kristina Borjesson's edited collection Into the Buzzsaw: Leading journalists expose the myth of a free press.
The Panic is On!
by Keith Johnson
"What this Country is coming to I sure would like to know, If we don't do something bye and bye, The rich will live and the poor will die, Doggone, I mean the panic is on!" - Song from the Great Depression
As the Great Depression of the 1930’s was getting underway, President Herbert Hoover refused to acknowledge it. In the weeks following the events of Black Tuesday, Hoover called the economy "fundamentally sound.” Months later, he still insisted that the strength of the American economy was “unimpaired.” However, by 1931 he could no longer hide the truth. With the economy in shambles, Hoover was forced to declare that America was indeed in a ‘depression’. He chose the word ‘depression’ because he believed it to somewhat innocuous and far less provocative than terms like ‘panics’ or ‘crises’ that had previously been used to refer to significant economic downturns.
Mark of the Beast: Obama’s latest Monsanto pick, Elena Kagan
By Rady Ananda
First, we spit out our coffee over President Obama’s appointments of former Monsanto goon Michael Taylor as Food Safety [sic] Czar and ‘biotech governor of the year’ Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture. Then we choked on our grits when he made Monsanto lobbyist, Islam Siddiqui, the US Ag Trade Representative. Now, the real food movement has completely lost its appetite with Obama’s nomination of Monsanto defender, Elena Kagan, to the US Supreme Court.
In December 2009, in her capacity as Solicitor General, Kagan intervened in the first case on which SCOTUS will rule involving genetically modified crops, Monsanto v Geertson Seed. She defended Monsanto’s fight to contaminate the environment with its GM alfalfa, not the American people’s right to safe feed and a protected environment.
World nations fail planet species - UN Reports
Re-reporting, editing by Carolyn Bennett
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development enters a two-year cycle focusing on the sustainable use and management of resources. This year's session began May 3 and ends on today. The 2011 session after reviewing this year's focus on issues, problems, challenges, and possible solutions will look at concrete policy recommendations. Leading into the May 3-14 session, the commission issued reports of alarming concerns for biodiversity loss, interference with the nitrogen cycle, and climate change. The reports said 24 countries currently exceed their "biocapacity" contrasted with no countries exceeding their "biocapacity" in 1960.
Imprisoning Children for Life
by Stephen Lendman
The University of San Francisco School of Law Center for Law and Global Justice and the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic, in association with the Berkeley-based Human Rights Advocates, work for global abolition of juvenile life without parole (LWOP) sentencing, calling it inappropriate for children and illegal.
In November 2007, they published a report titled, "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison," making their case, saying:
-- children given LWOP are "condemned to die in prison;"
-- dispensed in adult courts, they ignore the "less(er) culpability of juvenile offenders; their ineptness at navigating the criminal justice system; their potential for rehabilitation, reintegration into society," and known child development principles "established through national standards and international human rights law;"
Animals (Wolves), Indigenous People (Indians) and TP (Toilet Paper)
By Robert Singer
To get a break from my “lucrative” Internet writing career I watch the western channel.
I especially like Gene Autry, Cheyenne and Maverick.
No matter how hard the screenwriters try they haven’t convinced me Indians are the savages.
Assuming you have watched a western or two in your time get this image fixed in your mind: A cowboy walking down a muddy street wearing his six guns, chaps and boots with spurs to torment his faithful horse. He dismounts and ties his horse to a rickety hitching post and enters a hastily built wooden shack for a swig of whisky.
Now think about the American Indian, an indigenous people and their campground… here is a picture to remind you.
Who were the savages?
UK hung parliament latest: Netanyahu will be pleased. Now we’re an upper-class coalition “fagging” for Israel
Stuart Littlewood
Conservative leader David "I'm-a-Zionist" Cameron didn't win the election but has managed to seize power by slipping between the sheets with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. This distasteful union should give them enough votes to survive in Parliament for the five years they have set themselves.
The glamour-boy duo, Cameron and Clegg, come from similar privileged backgrounds – top public schools and “Oxbridge”. Cameron is a product of Eton, the infamous Bullingdon Club and Oxford, Clegg arrived via Westminster and Cambridge.
Cameron, of course, is the boss of the coalition. Clegg is merely Deputy Prime Minister, a post usually regarded as a non-job. “Birds of a feather: Cameron hires a new fag,” quipped one blogger.
For those unfamiliar with the peculiar practices of the English public school (public here meaning expensively private for the upper-class), “fagging” is where junior boys do menial tasks and act as a general dogsbody for senior boys such as lazy prefects eager to practice their bullying techniques and hone their cruel streak in preparation for later life.
I stand by Palestine forever
Kourosh Ziabari
In a recent interview which I conducted with the brave Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff, he told me that he has never seen a nation to be as strong and powerful as the Palestinian nation.
I admire his statement. He is right in his position to say that the Palestinians are one of the strongest nations of the world. Palestinians are not well-off and sumptuous as the people of northern Europe, their annual GDP does not equate with that of Canada and France, they're not equipped with the state-of-the-art productions of technology, they don't have the capability to send all of their children to school to help them realize their dream of becoming useful and valuable individuals for the society, they don't live in edifices and penthouses and they don't earn $30,000 a year; however, they've achieved such sublime zeniths that takes hundreds of years for the other nations to accomplish.
Over the past 60 years, they've been under the incessant and unrelenting fire of a racist regime which is controlled by the people who don't understand anything of logic and reason. They've paid a high cost to preserve their values and morals against this chauvinistic regime.
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