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Environmentalists, Lawyers, And Fishermen Go After BP

Even though a 4-story, 100-ton metal box, also known as a “Coffer Dam,” has been placed on a gushing wellhead of crude deep in the Gulf of Mexico, the disaster here is far from over.

Countless gallons of crude has covered over 2000 miles of water and there is no guarantee that the Coffer Dam will stop the leak 100 percent, which means that more crude will spill into Gulf.

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California Cops Prepare To Waste More Money ‘Eradicating’ Pot

Local, state and federal law enforcement officers will gather May 10-13 in San Diego to begin “organizing” this year’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP), which has failed annually since 1983 to achieve its stated goal: reducing cannabis use and availability in California by “eradicating” illegal grow sites.

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Are California Drug Agents Targeting Hispanics?

A northern California drug enforcement team has been accused of singling out Hispanics and other minorities by pulling them over on Interstate 5 based on ethnicity. The allegations could put Shasta County squarely into the increasingly heated national debate about racial profiling.

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Investors Lose $1 Billion, Goldman Sachs Claims There Was No Crime

Goldman Sachs released a statement late on Friday, claiming that the charges of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are “completely unfounded in law” and that the multi-billionare investment firm “will vigorously contest them and defend the firm and its reputation.” The SEC charged Goldman Sachs on Friday with fraud in structuring and […]

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Behind The Anger Over Obama’s New NASA Plans

President Barack Obama’s cancellation of a key space program at NASA has angered not only space-enthusiasts and legendary astronauts, but leading the pack is also Lockheed Martin. Obama has increased NASA’s budget by $6 billion so that more funding can go to research and to improve operations of the International Space Station for the next […]

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