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Truthout: Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well

Saturday 24 July 2010

Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well
Sara Kennedy, McClatchy Newspapers: "Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well - the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as 'plumes' and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday."
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For Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone, a Terror Topping
Ray McGovern, Truthout: "A recent expose in The Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative 'self-licking ice cream cone' - a process that offers few if any benefits, while perpetuating its own existence - then the 'war on terror' is definitely for you!"
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Winslow Myers | Best Practices
Winslow Myers, Truthout: "When I was working as a teacher, I loved the phrase 'best practices.' It suggested pooled wisdom, a collective weeding out of the more effective from the less effective, a distillation of the authentic out of a world of potential baloney. It implied disinterested cooperation to figure out what really does work when we're trying to help children learn. Any collection of best practices would synergize with each other in a perfect storm of competency."
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'Soul Of A Citizen': Village Politics - Rebuilding Engaged Communities
Paul Rogat Loeb, Truthout: "How do we respond to a political landscape where Meg Whitman can spend $80 million on her primary candidacy alone? Or where, aided by the ghastly Citizen's United Supreme Court decision, right-wing groups are pledging over $200 million for the November elections. On-the-ground activism is key; ordinary citizens reaching out to knock on doors, make phone calls, talk to friends, neighbors and coworkers, spread the word through social media, and do everything possible to convince undecided voters and get reluctant supporters to the polls. That's what so many of us did during 2006 and 2008, helping tip the balance in race after race."
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Senate Democrats Forced to Accept Much Slimmer Energy Bill
Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor: "Without enough votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been forced to abandon a comprehensive energy bill. Gone is any tough climate provision. Will the House buy it?"
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Afghanistan: US Steps Up Prisoner Releases
Jean MacKenzie, Global Post: "Zahir Daud says he is not angry with the Americans who took 32 months of his life. The only time the slim, dark-eyed former literature teacher showed a trace of bitterness is when he is asked how many children he had. 'Five,' he said. 'The youngest, a boy, was only 5 months old when they arrested me. I have not seen him since.'"
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Bogus 'Obama Mom' Grants Lure Students
Sharona Coutts, ProPublica: "After being laid off from her job as a high school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, Nicole Massey decided to go back to college. For months, she scoured the Web for ways to fund her tuition, while supporting her 10-year-old son, Tyler. So when ads turned up in Massey's inbox claiming that President Barack Obama had created special college grants and scholarships for single mothers, her hopes soared."
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Temperatures Hit Record Highs Globally. El Nino or Global Warming?
Pete Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor: "The first half of 2010 was the hottest six-month period recorded globally with temperatures around the globe 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit above averages."
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Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives: Efficient Killing, Profits and Human Rights
Ramzy Baroud, Truthout: "The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and children were killed following the latest US attacks on an alleged al-Qaeda hideout in Yemen. Initially, there were attempts to bury the story, and Yemen officially denied that civilians were killed as a result of the December 17 attack on al-Majala in southern Yemen. However, it has been simply impossible to conceal what is now considered the largest loss of life in one single US attack in the country."
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Rachel Maddow | BP May Be Trying to Hire Scientists to Protect Against Their Potential Future Testimony (Video)
Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show: "Something just happened in the BP oil disaster that can really only be explained using a scene from season five of 'The Sopranos.'"
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A Prisoner's Wife
Janan Abdu, Truthout: "I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, 'One day, they'll come for you.' As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms, he'd begun to organize an awareness-raising campaign to push back against the security services' harassment of our community, the Palestinian citizens of Israel."
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