Gulf oil spill: Hearings on BP disaster canceled as witnesses say they won’t show July 20, 2010 None of the five witnesses called to testify will appear at Wednesday’s hearing of the U.S. Coast Guard-Interior Department probe into what caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to explode. U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Hung Nguyen said the [...]
Outrage Builds Over Extermination of Hundreds of Geese from Major City Park in New York The NYC govt. and the USDA quietly captured 250-400 Prospect Park geese and carted them off to gas them, needless deaths that won’t prevent plane crashes. By Deanna Zandt, AlterNet Posted on July 16, 2010, Printed on July 16, 2010 [...]
Coast Guard Senior Chief Andrew Jaeger, right, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Tomas Kaselionis ignite oil that’s been collected inside a U-shaped length of fireproof boom — a “burn box” — in the Gulf of Mexico. (Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times / July 9, 2010) Wearing purple fireproof gloves, George Ross leaned over the side [...]
Day 81 of the Gulf Cataclysm, over 86,237,600 and climbing gallons into Gulf. Caroline Casey talks with LaTosha Brown; Alabama native and Director of the Gulf Coast Fund for Ecological Health and Community Renewal, a community-led social justice philanthropy in the Gulf South region. For the past five years, she has served as a founding [...]
June 30, 2010
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Oil-threatened estuary is key to life in the gulf Shrimp, crab, oysters, gators, birds, snakes, people – all have ties to Louisiana’s Barataria Bay. The Bald Cypress Swamp of Barataria Preserve, which is more biologically diverse than the Everglades and serves as a nursery and breeding ground for the gulf’s shrimp, crab, oyster and fish. [...]
Gulf oil spill figures may be double earlier estimates Richard Simon, Betina Boxall and Margot Roosevelt June 11, 2010 Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles Government scientists said Thursday that as many as 40,000 barrels of oil have been flowing daily from the blown-out BP well, doubling earlier estimates and greatly expanding the scope of [...]
The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon, Dark of Oil Regime, Lifeboat Movement Goes Live Caroline Casey_Michael Ruppert 061010 Caroline welcomes appropriately dire long-time prognosticator of peak oil industrial collapse, fellow presenter at Harmony Festival, Mike Ruppert. Critique and encouragement to build life-boats. “Localize or Die.” http://www.collapsenet.com/ …the most rousing romp through dire information I [...]
BP Oilpocalypse Creates Underwater Nightmare from our friends at Good Morning America
D.C. Douglas may have lost his gig as a voice over announcer on Geico commercials, but he’s found another use for his time and talent … making a tongue-in-cheek PSA warning people, “don’t drunk dial FreedomWorks.” Douglas, also known as Lance Baxter, made headlines when he left a nasty message for the conservative organization which [...]
Gulf oil spill: Senators disagree over liability limits May 16, 2010 | 2:20 pm Senate leaders disagreed Sunday on how hard the government should press oil companies to pay for oil spills such as BP’s well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, endorsed [...]
Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick – Worse Than BP Admits Video is from Alabama resident John Wathen as a volunteer pilot flew him over the area where the oil rig sank. Officials have stopped guessing at the amount of oil leaking although some speculate it may be closer to 1 million gallons per day. [...]
The Visionary Activist – All Oil is Spilled – Gulf Coast Cataclysm: Convening the Council of Reverent Ingenuity to animate our cultural leadership response to the Gulf Coast obscene oil cataclysm Caroline Casey welcomes Dune Lankard, Atabaskan Eyak from Copper River Delta in Alaska, conservation economies derived from long-term unresolved impacts of Exxon Valdez disaster. [...]
A 1 minute meme on derivative art. >> a must see in full screen<< less then 3 minutes All Creative Work Is Derivative, by Nina Paley Message: All Creative Work is Derivative. Why: Copyright control extends not just to verbatim copies, but to “derivative works.” This has led to censorship on a grand scale. For example, [...]
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