Tag: oil
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More Drivers Running Out Of Gas As They Accelerate Towards Econocrash
With gas prices pushing $4 a gallon, a lot of people are trying to stretch their dollar at the gas pump, but some of them are trying to stretch it a little too far. // Related Update: Wal-mart shoppers running out of money
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ground zero: collapsing of the term oil
please donate to clyde & check out the new ground zero tv! from clyde lewis: The recipe for an urban uprising has been shown on the nightly news. Take hunger and thirst and the rising cost to remove it; add outrageously high oil prices, unemployment, poverty and a recovery that has collapsed right in front…
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2/24 Newspurge: Never In My Wordland Could There Be Ways to Reveal
9/11 Updates: Timeline: museum puts 9/11 experience online* (drills, insider trading, stand down, warnings, prior knowledge, etc. not included) Timeline uses WTC5 photo as WTC7 & claims raging fire* Video: we are change interrupts bill maher again* Video: rumsfeld feigns dumb on building 7* Video: dentist poisoned to death before testifying against 9/11 hijackers* Biowars/Envirohealth:…
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gaddafi flees libya, gives 15-second ‘speech’ amid uprising
from raw replay: As his government increasingly fell out beneath him, 41-year Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi struggled to keep projecting an image of power. After a day of rumors about whether he was still in the country, he was said to be planning a major speech Monday, but then appeared on state television for approximately…
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matt simmons, cfr/oil insider & bp critic, dead of ‘heart attack’
matt simmons dead ‘of an apparent heart attack’ from zero hedge: CNBC notes the apparent cause of death of the recently popular BP skeptic, and founder of oil company Simmons & Co., was a heart attack. A conflicting report according to WLBZ cites the source of death as drowning. updates: author, peak oil advocate matt…
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Biowars/Envirohealth: Dark Marks & 100 Days of Oil
Video: Dark mark – 100 days of oil* Corexit sprayed by BP tops 1m gallons* BP caught exploiting cheap prison labor to clean up oil spill* BP hires prison labor to clean up spill while coastal residents struggle* BP CEO Hayward out; Russia job in works* BP plans deep-water drilling off Libya* US expert: China…
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Biowars/Envirohealth: Toxicity & Impurities
Watchdog says EPA covering up toxicity of dispersants // Watchdog says EPA covering up toxicity of dispersants’People are getting sick,’ worker says // Video: CFR’s Matt Simmons says “We have now killed the Gulf”
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biowars/envirohealth: oil spill, media spill, political spill
bp-owned alaska oil pipeline shut after spill from reuters: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil into backup containers, drastically cutting supply down the main artery between refineries and Alaska’s oilfields. The accident comes at a difficult time for BP – the largest…
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Biowars/Envirohealth: Drills, Spills & Bellyaches
Preparedness gaps in training for oil spill: Terror drills preceded Gulf Oil disaster // Obama still granting BP environmental study waivers // Eugenicist Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases // Israeli-american microbiologist, Joseph Moshe, linked to deadly fungus // Storage of newborns’ blood samples raises privacy concerns
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Gulf Oil Updates: The Poison Is Still Spilling
Spill hits Freemason Island as BP preps to lower giant funnel // Interior Dept gave Deepwater Horizon operators Safety Award in ’09 // Obama was top recipient of BP’s donations // Halliburton may be culprit in oil rig explosion // Was Rush right about a BP/Horizon terror attack?
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4/29 Newspurge: Let The Poison Spill
Homeland security probing blast that sank oil rig // Big Brother to track your medication compliance with electronic transmitters in pills // Proliferation experts worry bioattacks being ignored // Coca cultivation rises in Colombia ‘despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program’
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decider-in-chief bypasses congress, then visits his afghanisurge
obama bypasses senate process, filling 15 posts from nytimes: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocked last…
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Private Contractors Tied To Effort To Track & Kill Militants
Did a Pentagon official set up his own rogue intelligence operation in Afghanistan? And did he divert cash from an open-source cultural research program to do it? The top national security story of the day in today’s New York Times raises more questions than it answers.
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Biowars/Envirohealth Updates: Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex
Toyota’s safety problems dwarfed by Big Pharma’s body count // Glaxo Smith Kline deliberately hid evidence of Avandia harm, says Senate report // Ashland, Oregon clinic will offer drug-induced abortions // Just a drill: Hazardous materials response tested in Shelbyville, TN
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change: sources say obama to add 34,000 to afghanisurge
from cbsnews: After weeks of meetings with top-ranking officials, CBS News has learned that President Obama is expected to send a substantial amount of additional troops to Afghanistan… Sources tell CBS News that President Obama plans to completely or almost completely fill Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 new combat troops in Afghanistan. The U.S.…