Headlines - Sunday June 27

Stress relief right here.

 

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According to officials with the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry, Israeli forces have seized seven oxygen machines bound for hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The machines were donated by the Norwegian Development Agency.

 

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Closing Gitmo was only a priority during Obama's campaign.

 

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Soon millions of birds will descend on the Gulf Coast, following the Mississippi Flyway from arctic Canada and Alaska and the Boreal forests and prairies of all of North America. And millions will die.

 

 

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Herbert: Worse Than A Nightmare.

 

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Suzanne Goldenberg: BP Accused of Killing Endangered Sea Turtles in Cleanup Operation

 

Environmentalists press Obama administration to put a halt to BP's 'burn fields' to dispose of oil from the Gulf spill

 

This is a holocaust against nature

 

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Smaller gummint needs to protect jobs!

 

Poor Teabaggers and their cognitive dissonance...

A new poll contradicts the widely held belief that the the tea party movement is opposed to government action to help the economy. It shows that self-described Tea Party supporters are very much in favor of government action to revitalize America's manufacturing base.

Seventy-four percent of self-described Tea Party Supporters would support a "national manufacturing strategy to make sure that economic, tax, labor, and trade policies in this country work together to help support manufacturing in the United States," according to the poll, put out by the Mellman Group and the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Likewise, 56 percent of self-described Tea Party Supporters "favor a tariff on products imported from other countries that are cheaper because they came from a country that does not have to comply with any climate change regulations in the country where the products were made."

Actually, this might prove very interesting - as TP notes, it will fascinating to see if the astroturf organizations responsible for whipping the Tea Partiers into their current frenzy would pull their money if the "grassroots" stand by these actual populist and pro-labor numbers.

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The General: Naked Sisters Stealing Cars.

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Code Name: Macondo Prospect.

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The Total Failure of Bipartisanship.

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Seed of Destruction: Nuclear 'Pits'.

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Funny, most are a lot more worried about the "destruction" of the environment because of BP, not the destruction of BP itself. But not Prime Minister David Cameron. 

 

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"It's like this. If we kill them in the name of our religion

or political ideology, we're 'Freedom Fighters'. But if they

kill us in the name of their religion or political ideology,

they're 'Terrorists'. Got that?"

 

 

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No such thing as surgical strike. Civilian casualty count in 3,2 ... A US missile strike has killed four suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials say. They said the missile, fired by an unmanned drone, had destroyed a house near Miranshah in North Waziristan. The house had been used by the group of regional Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a security official told the BBC. He said two more militants had been injured in the attack. The US does not generally confirm missile attacks by drones."

 

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BBC: Oil giant Syncrude Canada has been found guilty of causing the deaths of 1,600 ducks that landed in a toxic settling pond in northern Alberta.

 

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BP 'reporter' files report flying over Gulf, 'forgets' to mention oil spill below.

 

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Very Realistic Simulation!

MoJo

There's just one facility in the world where scientists and emergency responders can run full-scale oil spill response tests and research. It's housed at US Naval Weapons Station Earle in Leonardo, New Jersey. But when Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) tried to arrange a visit to the facility earlier this week, he learned that the facility is presently inoperable. Why? The tank researchers use to simulate spills has sprung a leak.

Oy...

 

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Even his fellow Palestinians referred to him as

the Eternal Optimist.

 

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Gail Collins proclaims "The Age of Nancy".

 

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                       "Omigod, I'm so full of shit I'm turning brown!"

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"American forces in Afghanistan, who already face roadside bombs and insurgent attacks, may be dealing with an environmental enemy as well -- toxic sand that can damage their brains, according to a recent Navy study. ... In a presentation at a neurotoxicology conference in Portland, Ore., earlier this month, Palur G. Gunasekar, a senior scientist with the Navy Environmental Health Effects Laboratory, said that dust kicked up in sandstorms contains manganese and other metals. "The sand is a risk factor for inducing neurotoxicity," Gunasekar said. Compounds that are neurotoxic are those that damage the nervous system or the brain."

 

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Now I know the dumbness doesn't just come from soundbites

 

Sarah Palin's controvercial speech at Cal State - Stanislaus has come and gone, and she will be martyring herself on the cross of the "librul lamestream media" (tm) starting in 3...2...1...after an open mic picked up journalists who were granted permission to cover the event talking derisively about the levels of incoherence that she achieved. They were mocking her in front of an open mic even before her last "God Bless America!" had finished echoing through the room.

Palin's entire appearance was controversial. Raising money for California State University-Stanislaus, she reportedly charged a $75,000 speaker's fee and asked for another $18,000 or so in expenses, including first class plane travel for her entourage and luxury accommodations. Although CSU is a public university, its leaders didn't disclose Palin's demands -- saying a private foundation was raising the funds, and was thus exempt from public disclosure laws - and we only know about them because intrepid student journalists found the contract in a dumpster.

In her speech Friday night, the vengeful Palin trashed the students as "dumpster divers" with her trademark meanness: "Students who spent their valuable, precious time diving through dumpsters before this event in order to silence someone ... what a wasted resource," she told the crowd. "A suggestion for those Dumpster divers: Instead of trying to tell people to sit down and shut up ... spend some time telling people like our president to finally stand up."

Of course, it is easy to taunt intrepid student journalists who got the story and in so doing embarrassed you when you can have them barred from covering the event, which is exactly what Sister Sarah did. Classy. Open live mic remarks here.

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The Failed States of America

How do you define national failure? An economic crisis that lacks only political will to solve? A major political party deliberating sabotaging the nation to get back into power? Wasting trillions of dollars on losing wars that endanger national security? A media that deliberately traffics in lies? A corporate plutocracy murdering people and destroying whole ocean ecosystems with impunity?

If you did, America would fair fare even worse on the Failed State Index than it already does. Keep reading: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/06/failed-states.html

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We can't even get Japan to stop whaling, and now we're going to have to try to get them to give up Maguro sushi?

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Bushbama embraces killer drones with communication problems.