BP Oil Spill: White House Not Candid On Amount Or Fate Of The Oil
According to a commission appointed by the Obama administration, the White House blocked efforts by independent scientists to give an accurate estimate on how bad the oil spill really was in terms of the amount of oil released in the Gulf of Mexico, and on how much of the oil is actually “gone”. In a […]
Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility
By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a […]
Sacred Rites Or Selfish Rights
The first is a failure of memory and imagination. We do not remember that up until very recently virtually all of humanity were locavores (and without particular hardship or ill effects). Because we cannot remember, we cannot imagine.
Gas Pipe Killer Inferno: A Symbol Of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
Last Thursday, in San Bruno California, at about 6:15 PM a 30-inch high pressure natural gas pipeline, belonging to the private utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co., ruptured. The pipe rupture created a firestorm that killed at least four people, left scored injured, completely destroyed 37 homes and badly damaged 8 others. This tragedy […]
Is Hurricane Earl Dumping BP Oil Spill Tar Balls On The Beaches Of Nantucket?
In the last few days a few eye witnesses spotted several tar balls, of different sizes, on and off the beaches of Nantucket. The tar balls were of various sizes, some were a couple feet in diameter. According to two eye witnesses, who contacted The News Junkie Post, some of them were floating in the […]
