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"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 10 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: I Am A Veteran And I'm Taking Tomorrow... 'Veterans Day'... Off... Here's Why [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 9:56 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] |
There are children being orphaned, maimed or killed every day, in our name, with our tax dollars; there are soldiers and civilians dying or being maimed for life in order to generate profits for the most odious imperialistic corporate war machine ever, again in our name. How long are we going to let this go on? Until it is too late, until this destructive machine destroys all of us and the planet to boot?Here are some similar thoughts put to music... while waiting.
Wikileaks has revealed the documented horror of U.S. war-making, beyond what any of us imagined. It's time veterans and others express our resistance directly and powerfully by putting ourselves on the line, once again--honestly, courageously and without one drop of apology for doing so. It is not we who are the murderers, torturers or pillagers of the earth.
Profit and power-hungry warmongers are destroying everything we hold dear and sacred.
In the early thirties, WW1 vets descended on Washington, D.C, (Historic Footage @ Youtube, 2:39 minutes) to demand their promised bonuses, it being the depths of the Depression. General Douglas MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower disregarded President Herbert Hoover's order and burned their encampment down and drove the vets out of town at bayonet point.
We are today's bonus marchers, and we've come to claim our bonus--PEACE. [In Full]
The Obama administration has decided to walk away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the Afghanistan war in an effort to de-emphasize the president's pledge that he would begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011, administration and military officials said Tuesday.Razer Quips:
[More @ The Seattle Times]
Could it be considered reasonable to believe the US economy would collapse without the Defense Sector? After all, that was most likely the LARGEST part of Obama's recent trade deal with India, touting thousands of jobs for... wait for it... Boeing, a U.S. dual-use (snicker...) military/civilian aerospace company, with hooks into America's treasury based on the continuance of the aforementioned wars.,
BUT ONE THING IS KNOWN BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT:"Amid hearings on the cause of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, government scientists, academics, and those most affected by the Gulf oil spill are at odds over the extent of its effects."By Mark Guarino, Staff writer / November 9, 2010
New Orleans - The well responsible for the Gulf oil spill was permanently sealed on Sept. 19. Since then, little else regarding an event many consider the worst environmental disaster in American history has been so categorical.
The presidential commission investigating the accident is searching for what caused the explosion, but is not yet assessing blame. Government scientists are offering relatively positive observations about state of the Gulf, which are being vociferously questioned by some independent scientists and fishermen. The government also differs with oil industry economists on how much the now-ended moratorium on deep-water drilling hurt the Gulf economy.
The effects of the spill are so complex that they may not be fully known for years. But they are emerging.
What is known about the cause?
Investigators know that a huge bubble of flammable methane gas escaped the well and ignited after shooting up the drill pipe, past several seals that were meant to suppress it. How and why the gas escaped is one focus of the presidential commission looking into the accident and its implications for offshore drilling.
The commission's final report is due Jan. 12. A second report, by the US Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, will be available March 27.
So far, the three companies involved – Transocean (owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig), BP (holder of the lease for the well), and Halliburton (a contractor) – are engaged in a mutual blame game.
A BP report published in September suggests... [In Full @ Christian Science Monitor]
Complacency at BP, as well as at Transocean Ltd and Halliburton, led to serious missteps prior to the rig explosion that unleashed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the summer, said Commission co-chair Bill Reilly, in comments more critical than Monday's Commission statements that rig workers did not place cost cutting over safety.Razer Adds: "This is what happens when the 'foxes guard the hen house'".
"BP, Halliburton and Transocean are major respected companies operating throughout the Gulf and the evidence is they are in need of top-to-bottom reform," Reilly, a former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said at the start of the second session of commission's two-day meeting on the root causes of the spill this week.
Both Reilly and his commission co-chair Bob Graham sought to clarify comments made Monday by the commission's chief counsel that workers for the companies did not cut corners on safety to save money. [In Full @ Reuters]
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