Blitz: I See Something And I’m Saying Something [THIS ARTICLE TOTALLY, TOTALLY RULES]
HuffPo: Gov’t sues BP for Gulf oil spill: US Justice Dept files lawsuit against nine companies involved in disaster (finally! … but Halliburton isn’t mentioned as one of the companies … hmmm …)
USA Today: U.S. House approve billions for wars without debate
The Ecologist: US plans to sue BP will ‘not prevent future ecocide’
"Drill Baby" - Jason Clay Lewis
PubRecord.Org: BP’s watchdog / ombudsman failed to act on whistleblowers’ concerns, employees say
RawMaterialsEcon: Gulf of Mexico dying, Atlantic Ocean next (“The government and industry appear in bed to protect their mutual vested interests. No one is looking out for you. … No one is looking out for the inhabitants of the planet as a whole. Just one grossly destructive system in place, relentlessly grinding towards eliminating the very possibility of its own existence while mindlessly seeking its own gratifications and sucking everyone into its insatiable maw.”)
BP Slick: Will Alabama beaches never be the same? (VIDEO)
Dangers of plastic addiction revealed in new documentary –
OilSpillAction: A guide to the many inquiries into the BP oil spill (AUDIO) (pretty dang comprehensive)
Jerry Cope: The Crime of the Century – What BP and the US government don’t want you to know, part I (this is from August but I didn’t catch it til now – it’s scary how much things have not changed since then)
Wealth Daily: Obama’s Halliburton
now that's what i'd call "oil wrestling"
WWLTV: Almost no oil recovered from sand berms (another idea brought to you by grabby Jindal, the self-promoting oyster-killer)
NOLA.com: Gov. Bobby Jindal could build castles in the sand
USA Today: Oil-spill panel calls Jindal’s sand berms a $220M waste (We coulda used some of that money deploying hair boom for Matter of Trust to the ladies in the bayous who wanted them to protect their own oyster beds…)
YouTube: BP tells EPA to “stuff it” over the use of Corexit
Creative Loafing: Are Gulf Coast residents consuming more oil spill-related toxins, and how safe is dispersant for consumption? ( … the latter being a question tantamount to: “How much gasoline is safe to mix into my oatmeal?”)
Treehugger: FDA underestimating Gulf residents’ carcinogen exposure from eating seafood
NOLA.com: Vietnamese-American fishers fight for oil spill claim approval (“Of the 16,858 claimants who have applied for loss of subsistence, only one so far has been accepted, according to Gulf Coast Claims Facility statistics. That claimant received $3,000.” … and they used to haul in at least $3,000 worth of shrimp a week … if you were in that situation, how would you live? What would you eat? … can we call this a ‘slow genocide’ yet?)
used to be catch and release - now it's catch and grease
WDSU NOLA: Waveland man ID’d as Miss. plane crash fatality (here’s another suspicious plane crash, the third or fourth since the spill, this time a computer programmer for the U.S. Geological Survey. Of course it may be weird windshears caused by the Gulf of Mexico being DEAD)
NWF.org: Giant ships invade Mississippi Gulf Coast island
Humid Beings: Our Own Worst Enemy (real estate systems crash in NOLA – who did it? – stalling the economy further. a million little papercuts…)
MotherEarthNews: How much energy does it take to get our energy? – renewable energy
Rolling Stone: Bernie Sanders puts Barack Obama to shame –
“this tax deal, frankly and unequivocally, is the result of a relatively small group of already-filthy rich people successfully lobbying an even smaller group of morally spineless politicians to shift an ever-bigger share of society’s burdens to the lower and (what’s left of the) middle classes. This is people who already have lots of shit just demanding more shit, for the sheer rotten sake of it.”
Ron Paul: Austrian & Keynesian theories vs. mathematical facts
YouTube: New Rules – you and the IRS this January
YouTube: You don’t have to pay Federal income tax? –
Ron Paul: End the Fed by allowing competing currencies
*****Wait, what? Did you say $12.3 TRILLION tax dollars were thrown around in secrecy by unelected bankers… and Congress didn’t know any of the details?*****
Yes. The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. The original copy of the Constitution spontaneously burst into flames. The ghost of Tom Paine went running, stark raving mad screaming through the halls of Congress.
The Federal Reserve was secretly throwing around our money in unprecedented fashion, and it wasn’t just to the usual suspects like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, etc.; it was to the entire Global Banking Cartel. To central banks throughout the world: Australia, Denmark, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, England… To the Fed’s foreign primary dealers like Credit Suisse (Switzerland), Deutsche Bank (Germany), Royal Bank of Scotland (U.K.), Barclays (U.K.), BNP Paribas (France)… All their Ponzi players were “gifted.” All the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations got their cut.
Talk about the ransacking and burning of Rome! Sayonara American middle class … This was a hostile world takeover orchestrated through economic attacks by a very small group of unelected global bankers. They paralyzed the system, then were given the power to recreate it according to their own desires. No free market, no democracy of any kind. All done in secrecy. In the process, they gave themselves all-time record-breaking bonuses and impoverished tens of millions of people – they have put into motion a system that will inevitably collapse again and utterly destroy the very existence of what is left of an economic middle class.
That is not hyperbole. That is what happened.
RepublicanRedefined: Want to see what pork your senator or Congressman requested for 2011?
by Skem One
Bruce Fein: Slouching Towards Tyranny –
The state of civil liberties and national security in the United States is alarming.
In the American Empire, the former are routinely crippled or lacerated in the false name of the latter. Trust in government plunges. Dangers are magnified manifold to wound constitutionally venerated freedoms. International terrorist suspects who have never attempted to kill an American are treated as existential threats to U.S sovereignty. Predator drones employed off the battlefield in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen are spawning more enemies than are killed. Habeas corpus is suspended. Military commissions denuded of due process and which combine judge, jury, and prosecutor in a single branch of government are substituted for independent civilian courts. Time-honored privacy rights are trampled. Torture or first cousin enhanced interrogation techniques are endorsed. Congressman Peter King (R. N.Y.), slated for the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee, insists that prosecutions of alleged international terrorists in civilian courts are intolerable because guilty verdicts are not guaranteed. The worst violations are dared by few, willed by more, but tolerated by virtually all.
The nation needs a new birth of freedom dedicated to the proposition that the life of a vassal or serf — even in absolute safety — is not worth living.
Independent UK: $52bn of American aid and still Afghans are dying of starvation
tinfoil hat party – BP New evidence - this reminds me of Mel Gibson’s “Conspiracy Theory” movie where it ends up the wingnut is actually the only one who knows the truth
NOLA.com: Our abusive relationship with Big Oil (excellent op-ed insight)
WSJ.com: Aging oil rigs expose Gulf to accidents (yeah we needta fix these and take the scrap away from the ones which are dead … maybe that’s what the Cajun Navy could do for $$$ since the Gangster Party took away their livelihoods …)
NWF.org: Are red crabs the latest victims of the Gulf oil disaster? (“they’re not defending their turf” … “Just 12 miles from the Deepwater Horizon well head, red crabs are being displaced by a deepwater, grey shelled giant isopod called Bathynomus giganteus.“)
Scientists alarmed by worldwide spread of ‘black anoxic zones which belch up dead sea life’
SocialistWorker: Who is the EPA protecting?
Lightningnews – gulfoilspill.blogspot.com – another links collector
Joanne Doroshow: Why I care about BP’s legal accountability (interesting parallels with Bhopal and Three Mile Island)
WSBT: Enbridge, MI oil spill victims allege ‘coverup’ of real cleanup progress; forum held in Battle Creek (yet another example of a company that could’ve covered its ass by asking for Matter of Trust’s help in deploying hair booms to the people … but they didn’t)
Who wants crab legs? Fish oil caplets fo' ya' joints? Cat food made from seafood? Sushi? ... Where's it coming from?
BBC News: Deadly blast on Mexican oil pipeline – at least 22 dead
YouTube: Ductos de PEMEX explotan en San Martin Texmelucan
Guardian UK: WikiLeaks cables – BP suffered blowout on Azerbaijan gas platform
Guardian UK: WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord —
Perhaps the most audacious appeal for funds revealed in the cables is from Saudi Arabia, the world’s second biggest oil producer and one of the 25 richest countries in the world. A secret cable sent on 12 February records a meeting between US embassy officials and lead climate change negotiator Mohammad al-Sabban. “The kingdom will need time to diversify its economy away from petroleum, [Sabban] said, noting a US commitment to help Saudi Arabia with its economic diversification efforts would ‘take the pressure off climate change negotiations’.”
Salon: The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention (F**CKING READ THIS. And watch the WikiLeaks documentary. Collateral murder, Daniel Ellsberg … hmmm, who’s threatened?)
YouTube: Veterans for Peace – White House civil disobedience to end war
NY Daily News: GOP Senator calls cops on 9/11 responders
Intercontinental cry: Gunshot wounds and evictions – taking advantage of the WikiLeaks whiteout (yeesh, take a look at all the real-life Avatar battles taking place all over the planet)
the Niger Delta, for example
RawStory: UN considers panel of governments to set policies for policing the Internet
The National: Deep in the ocean, Internet networks hang by a thread
The American Conservative: The Conservative case for WikiLeaks –
Decentralizing government power, limiting it, and challenging it was the Founders’ intent and these have always been core conservative principles. Conservatives should prefer an explosion of whistleblower groups like WikiLeaks to a federal government powerful enough to take them down. Government officials who now attack WikLleaks don’t fear national endangerment, they fear personal embarrassment.
Gov’t Rag: WikiLeaks reveals to world that EPA allowed the killing of honeybees
Wellness Uncovered – Beekeeper who leaked EPA documents – ‘I don’t think we can survive this winter’
Monsanto’s GMO corn linked to organ failure, study reveals
Oliver Stone’s South of the Border theatrical trailer —
Bush told me the best way to revitalize the economy is war. And that the United States had grown stronger with war. Those were his exact words. – Nestor Kirchner, ex-President of Argentina
An open letter to the Left establishment (boo yaa)
DNAInfo: Washington Square Village residents brace for NYU’s cleanup of heating oil spill
BusinessInsider: T. Boone Pickens made out like a bandit buying oil stocks after the spill
Stuart Smith: BP shares rally after announcing asset sale
PNJ: Editorial – Drilling risk getting worse (the risk of catastrophic failure is one in 43. ONE IN FORTY THREE.)
Maya Sugarman - "Big Oil in Little Richmond"
HuffPo: Another nail in the coffin of offshore drilling safety reform
Crisis-capitalists are massacring us and our environment petrochemically. They have deployed propaganda—mass media deception—to camouflage their real intentions and vast destruction.
The air we breathe, food we eat, and water we drink, has been polluted to deliver profitable diseases and depopulation, simulating a “scorched earth policy” of war.
Citizen’s arrests, grand jury investigations, criminal indictments, and war crimes prosecutions are urgently needed, yet forbidden.
Generalized fear, depression, fatigue, and apathy is incapacitating our defenses, aiding the adversaries, and predisposing us to diseases and early deaths.
Sen. Bernie Sanders – The Billionaires want more, more, more
HuffPo: Wall Street set for best two years ever, thanks to bailout
Citizens for Tax Justice: Compromise tax cut tilts heavily in favor of the well-off
RawStory: Regulators exist to ‘serve the banks,’ next House finance chairman declares (yeah. and he didn’t mean ‘… and I’m here to change that’ — he meant ‘that’s the way it oughta be.’ And that’s bad. Get ready for the Gangster Party to overturn all semblance of progress on financial reform)
Robert Weissman: Big profits, bigger crimes
FoxNews: Celebrity supporters of Julian Assange Misguided, Critics Say (this must be what it feels like to be Chinese and read their state-sponsored “journalism” propaganda, except in America, the State and the Corporations are one and the same)
YouTube: Study says FOX news viewers most misinformed
HuffPo: Fox News boss ordered staffers to cast doubt on climate change science
Bloomberg: 2010′s world gone wild – quakes, floods, blizzards
we broke the heater
Express.co.uk: Weather – 35,000 deaths fear in new Arctic blizzards (“Experts predict a dramatic increase in cold-related fatalities as we suffer the bitterest winter in a century, causing 12 deaths every hour.”)
YouTube: Middle East hit by strong winds and rain, sandstorms and even snow; most deaths in Egypt
Activist Post: Goldman Sachs – the pirates of poison in the Gulf
Daily Mail UK: Goldman Sachs pay out $111million in bonuses despite taking billions in bailout money
NPR: It’s all about me – but is narcissism a disorder?
WikiPedia: Economy of the United States
AtheismResource: Christian financial hypocrisy in politics
“Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.” - Luke 12:33
Time: Fixing Wall Street – Sheila Bair, Mary Schapiro and Elizabeth Warren for Person of the Year?
WashPo: Warren — she’s the watchdog consumers will thank
Tom Harkin: ‘Fireworks’ and shot at filibuster reform coming Jan. 5 (oooOOOooo. exciting!)
Queerty: Sarah Palin has no problem with daughter Willow calling Facebook kids ‘faggots’
Breitbart: White House – science of man-made life can proceed
YouTube: Conspiracy Theory with Gov. Jesse Ventura “9-11 Pentagon” episode
YouTube: Iran-Contra Coverup – documentary
YouTube: It Gets Better – A Message from the Sisters – Trevor Project
Genetically-engineered mosquitoes soon to be released in Malaysia
YouTube: Violent clashes erupt in Italy after Berlusconi survives no-confidence vote
YouTube: Democracy Now – Prisoner advocate Elaine Brown on Georgia prison strike (the biggest peaceful prison strike EVER in America is going on now, and being completely blacked out by the media.)
BlackAgendaReport: GA prison strike enters new phase, prisoners demand human rights, education, wages for work (“It’s simple. With one in twelve Georgia adults in jail or prison, parole or probation or other court and correctional supervision, prisoners are us.” … the most inspiring part of this story to me is that the Muslims, Chicanos, Aryans, and all the rest have blasted through their ego-driven barriers of self-definition in order to appeal to a larger sense of humanity, and despite all efforts by their oppressors to isolate, divide, and conquer them, they’re sticking together.)
YouTube: American prisoners treated like slaves?
YouTube: Doing Time, Doing Vipassana – Meditation in Indian Prisons (2000 documentary)
Genetic Heirloom: About inheritance, genetics, and nanoparticles (super neato blog)
ArticleSafari: Humans not as genetically identical as we thought
The National Museum of the American Indian: On the 120th Anniversary of Sitting Bull’s Death
Sitting Bull and family
The Daily Republic: They ride to remember the 38 who were hanged
YouTube: US Soldiers are waking up! War is a Racket
Press Action: The United States of War Criminals
Gawker Comment of the Day: An Angry Journalist Speaks!
Mises.org: The Art of Not Being Governed – Jeff Riggenbach
Physorg.com – ‘Space-time cloak’ to conceal events revealed in new study
Popsci: New report calls for creation of “space superfund” to clean up junk in low Earth orbit
currently tracked space debris in low Earth orbit - graphic by NASA
Daily Mail UK: Doctors stunned by conjoined twins who share same brain and thoughts
YouTube: The Global Awakening – Alex Jones speech from Santa Cruz, CA (2.5hrs!)
HuffPo: DOJ pursues clean water fines for BP, now Congress must ensure funds for Gulf restoration
NPR: I hate math! (Not after this, you won’t) – Krulwich wonders… (seriously! And a bonus for us right-brained freaks that they compare it to music)
LAWeekly: Captain Beefheart – The legendary 1980 profile by Lester Bangs (R.I.P.)
Science’s breakthrough of the year: The first quantum machine (!!!) *(NOTE: Not a DeLorean)
Swoon and Upper Playground release the “Walki’ print for the Konbi shelter project in Haiti … so buy a badass T-shirt and help Haiti help itself, yall
