June 2010
“An updated estimate issued last week by a government-led team put the leak at...”
– -BP Blames Government, Government Blames BP
Yep, it is high time BP gets the boot, and the government takes control of this situation. We let them drive, because it is their oil rig. They should have the technology to prevent and stop things like this from happening, but apparently not. It’s crazy...
“The BP Oil Spill: a different perspective. http://bit.ly/bd40VN @pcousteau ...”
– elephantjournal
May 2010
Here's what the Obama administration needs to do...
selva:
inothernews:
Nationalize BP’s assets in the Gulf and take over the capping effort. What the fuck are they going to do? We’re not the fucking Falkland Islands. Why are we letting these pompous wankers control the cleanup efforts? Why does BP get to mount a “social media” campaign and control media access to cleanup sites and why the FUCK is Doug Suttle giving daily briefings on BP’S...
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Dying For Your iPad: Chinese Factory Workers... →
selva:
aatombomb:danielextra:
M.I.C Gadget reports on an investigative piece from China’s Southern Weekly on Foxconn, a tech factory in Shenzhen, China, that manufactures iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple, and has experienced a nine suicide attempts within six months. And what’s behind the suicides? According to Liu Zhi Yi, the amateur reporter who got himself hired to uncover the working...
Australia Potter: The Right Brain vs. Left Brain... →
invaderxan:
Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
Left brain functions:
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
...
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The National School Lunch Program hasn’t been updated for years, and schools are struggling to meet the demand for fresh, local food. The Senate has introduced a bill with new funding for healthier food, stronger nutrition standards, and grants for linking schools to local farms — but it’s been stalled by Senate leadership, and may be...
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“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
– Bill Hicks (via unicorn-guts) (via hollowpoints) (via buddhabrot)
“An acute sense of betrayal comes readily to people who believed they had...”
– Noam Chomsky
Email from Alan Grayson D-Fla ~ We Beat the Fed
The Senate just voted, 96-0, to audit the Federal Reserve. Soon, we will know what the Federal Reserve did with the trillions of dollars that it handed out during the financial crisis.
A few months ago, such a vote would have been unthinkable. One senior Treasury official claimed he would fight to stop an audit ‘at all costs’. Senator Chris Dodd predicted that an audit would spell...
Documents reveal AT&T, Verizon, others, thought... →
Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally requested by Congress, show what the bill’s critics predicted, and what its champions dreaded: many large companies are examining a course that was heretofore unthinkable, dumping the health care coverage they provide to their workers in exchange for paying penalty fees to the government.
AT&T revealed that it spends $2.4...
“In forgiveness, lies the stoppage of the wheel of karma. In forgiveness is the...”
– David Wilcock 