Friday, May 14, 2010
‘ten times worse’
Obama wants higher oil company taxes, pledges $58 million for cleanup efforts. So this is why BP's release of video showing the Gulf oil gusher was mysteriously delayed. According to a scientific analysis of footage from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, National Public Radio is claiming the growing ecological disaster is actually ten times worse than previously estimated, saying the rushing torrent of oil pouring into the ocean is equivalent to one Exxon-Valdez spill every four days. That's more than 70,000 barrels a day -- when the U.S. Coast Guard had placed the figure at a seemingly modest 5,000 barrels a day.Link
America’s drug war failing on all fronts.
After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.Link
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