May 2010
4 posts
Oil companies have a rich history of U.S.... →
Today, Markey and other critics complain that these policies have cost the U.S. Treasury tens of billions in lost revenue, and led to a reckless search for oil in fragile environments like the deep floor of the Gulf of Mexico. He and others say the unfolding catastrophe at the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded April 20 in a disaster that killed 11, can be directly linked to oil-friendly...
LAPD Interceding in Illegal Downtown Protest... →
This is how it’s done folks. Nobody is getting hurt, just a little inconvenience and LAPD’s finest trying to figure out how to unsnarl the situation.
There is no such thing as an “illegal” protest. Tagging protest as illegal separates protests into boxes - that which is approved by the very forces that are being protested, and thus have become sanitized and de-toothed of...
Christian right leader George Rekers takes... →
headphonesnotrequired:
That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy’s client and, as it happens, one of America’s most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.
Reached by New...