The BP “Cleanup”

Apparently, Mac McClelland over at Mother Jones has a mole inside BP’s cleanup operation, and what he has to say about BP’s efforts down there is pretty grim and disturbing. Some highlights: – the workers on Elmer’s Island don’t wear respirators because BP and OSHA have deemed them unnecessary – the only type of air-monitoring [...]

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The World’s True Oil Spill Calamity

WHILE YOU WERE IGNORING: As we pontificate and hem and haw about the Gulf of Mexico oil “disaster”, there is a recurring, ongoing, and seemingly never-ending oil disaster in Nigeria that no one gives two shits about. Food sources and livelihoods are being quietly destroyed, but it’s Africa so who cares. Read this: [New York [...]

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Of Course We Care About The People

Hey! Good news for the roughly 900,000 unemployed and millions who rely on Medicare and Medicaid benefits out there. Today, the Senate voted against the $140 billion provision that would keep up Medicare payments to doctors, provide states money for Medicaid, and extend unemployment insurance. They couldn’t justify the cost as an “emergency” worthy enough [...]

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HIV-Prevention Female Birth Control In First Field Test

Excellent news. For the first time, trials are beginning for a type of birth control that would allow women to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS, without the need for their partner’s knowledge or consent – a terribly important caveat for far too many women in awful situations all over the world. The new birth [...]

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Why Hasn’t Barack Obama Dived To The Sea Floor To Tie BP’s Leaking Pipes Into A Knot, To Save The Ducks?

HE’S THE PRESIDENT, IT’S HIS JOB!!!! “A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.” Why hasn’t Barack Obama appeared in front [...]

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