The images from the protests in Cairo, Egypt today are stunning. See this, this and this.President Mubarak’s family has already fled the country.As Raw Story notes:Demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers…
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Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression?
December 29th, 2010 |
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The following experts have – at some point during the last 2 years – said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression:Fed Chairman Ben BernankeFormer Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan (and see this and this)Former Fed Chairman Paul Volc…
Obama pardons Thanksgiving turkeys ‘Apple’ and ‘Cider’
November 25th, 2010 |
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US President Barack Obama has pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys ”Apple” and ”Cider”, but the two won’t be making the traditional trip to Disney Land. “Now, for the record, let me say that it feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this November,†the Christian Science Monitor quoted Obama as saying, referring to the beating [...]
Is Unemployment as Bad as During the Great Depression?
October 25th, 2010 |
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It is difficult to compare current unemployment with that during the Great Depression. In the Depression, unemployment numbers weren’t tracked very consistently, and the U-3 and U-6 statistics we use today weren’t used back then. And statistical “ad…
What’s Going On In The Gulf?
September 17th, 2010 |
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BP and the government decided that millions of gallons of dispersants should be dumped into the Gulf to sink and hide the oil.They succeeded in sinking it. As ABC, CBS and NPR note, huge quantities of oil are blanketing the ocean floor, killing virtu…
BP Is Hiding Dead Animals to Avoid Fine of $50,000 Per Dead Animal (and the Bad Publicity)
August 12th, 2010 |
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BP has been trying to hide dead birds and other sealife.Fox News reports that BP is trying to keep animal carcasses away from public view:Local Gulf Coast residents and those monitoring turtles say that BP is removing carcasses at night to hide them fr…
Wyclef Jeanâ€s uncle to run for president of Haiti
July 28th, 2010 |
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Singer Wyclef Jean”s uncle, Raymond Joseph— who is Haiti”s ambassador to the US—has said that he will run for president of Haiti this autumn. Joseph has said that he will formally announce his candidacy next week, hinting that he would be campaigning alongside his immensely popular nephew— the hip-hop singer. But he didn’t spill any [...]
Children’s advocate says decision not to extradite Polanski “disturbingâ€
July 13th, 2010 |
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A leading advocate for missing and exploited children has criticized the decision of a Swiss judge not to extradite director Roman Polanski to the US, saying that the move is “disturbingâ€. Polanski, 76, who has been sentenced in a 1977 child sex case, will not be extradited, and he has been released from house arrest [...]
Should We Nuke the Oil Well?
July 2nd, 2010 |
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CBS News, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Reuters and Fox (and see this) have all asked whether BP should nuke its leaking oil well.Indeed, some high-level Russian nuclear scientists and oil industry experts have suggested such an approach to …
Oil Might Keep Leaking for Months After Relief Wells are Drilled
June 5th, 2010 |
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Many technical experts have said that the first attempts to complete the relief well in August could miss entirely on the first try, as it is difficult to intersect the blown-out well at the precise location and angle needed.As PBS notes:Several expert…
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Estimates that 4 Million Gallons of Oil are Leaking Every Day
May 19th, 2010 |
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As I wrote on May 2nd: The Gulf oil spill is much worse than originally believed. As the Christian Science Monitor writes: It’s now likely that the actual amount of the oil spill dwarfs the Coast Guard’s figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gall…
Dispersants Might Be INCREASING Damage From Gulf Oil Spill
May 16th, 2010 |
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Everyone knows that the dispersants being dumped into the Gulf oil are toxic. As I wrote Friday:Highly toxic dispersants have been used to try to break up the oil. See this and this. Not only are dispersants being released underwater, but the air f…
Scientists are Finding Enormous Oil Plumes in the Deep Waters of the Gulf … Including One as Large as 10 Miles Long, 3 Miles Wide and 300 Feet Thick
May 16th, 2010 |
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As bad as the photos of the oil on the water in Gulf are, the size of the oil spill cannot be understood until you consider what is under the surface.As the Christian Science Monitor notes:The oil that can be seen from the surface is apparently just a …
Oil Spill: Here’s the Inside Scoop
May 2nd, 2010 |
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The Gulf oil spill is much worse than originally believed.As the Christian Science Monitor writes:It’s now likely that the actual amount of the oil spill dwarfs the Coast Guard’s figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day.
Independent scientis…
Oil Spill Much Worse Than We’ve Been Told: “Official Estimates for the Flow of Oil … May be Just a Drop in the Bucket”
May 2nd, 2010 |
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As a story in the Christian Science Monitor shows, the Gulf oil spill is much worse than we’ve been told: It’s now likely that the actual amount of the oil spill dwarfs the Coast Guard’s figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day.Independent sc…
Iceland Volcano: The Big Picture
April 19th, 2010 |
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Yes the Iceland volcano – called Eyjafjallajökull – is dramatic, but it is mainly an inconvenience.But as the Christian Science Monitor notes:Every time in recorded history that Eyjafjallajökull volcano has erupted, the much larger Katla volcano has …
“Croatia should apologize for WW2 genocide”
April 5th, 2010 |
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Former Canadian Ambassador in Belgrade James Bisset says that before joining the EU, Croatia should apologize for WW2 crimes. Croatia’s accession, Bisset writes in an opinion piece published in Boston’s Christian Science Monitor, has been pushed along “by traditional ally Germany, and by the United States”.