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As Predicted, BP Tries to Pretend New Leak is a ‘Natural Seepage’

Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in National News
Tags: BP, Bruce Bullock, environment, Gasmiinder, Gulf oil spill, limited liability, media, MMS, Newspeak, propaganda, ROVs, seepage, US, Washington's Blog

The Feds are reporting seepage from the capped BP oil well that exploded three months ago and has gushed tens of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The heroic publisher of Washington’s Blog refutes the claim of ‘natural seepage’ from the oil giant’s Newspeak damage controllers, as he rationally predicted they would.

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Evening Briefing—17th June 2010

Posted: 17 June 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, banking, Bashar Assad, Big Brother, Birmingham, border fence, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, Chicago Police, China, Darian Worden, DHS, domestic surveillance, drones, Egypt, Ehud Barak, eminent domain, EU, Federal Reserve, G20, Gaza, Gaza blockade, global bank tax, gold, Guantanamo Bay, Hamas, Hinde Capital, human rights, ICC, Illinois, immigration, Israel, Jacob Hornberger, Joe Barton, Jon Burge, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, Lebanon, Lockheed MArtin, Marc Lynch, media, Mexico, Middle East, military industrial complex, Obama Administration, police brutality, property rights, propganda, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, secret prisons, settlements, Somali refugees, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Taliban, TARP, Tony Hayward, torutre, UK, UN, UN Secret Detention Report, unemployment, USD, Uzbek refugees, war crimes, Washington's Blog, West Bank

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SHOCKER: Washington BP Apologist Financed by Big Oil

Posted: 17 June 2010 by Sayyid in National News, Political Science
Tags: BP Gulf oil spill, campaign contributions, corporatism, corruption, David WEigel, Gus Lubin, Joe Barton, representative democracy, Republicans, tea party movement, US, Washington's Blog

The systemic flaw of representative democracy.

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Russia and Iran OFFICIALLY Talking of Dumping U.S. Dollar

Posted: 18 October 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political Science
Tags: banking, China, corporatism, dollar hegemony, economy, fascism, fiat money, FOREX, Iran, law, liberty, market-anarchism, Newspeak, oil trade, petrodollar, renminbi, Robert Fisk, rouble, Russia, US, US dollar, Vladimir Putin, Washington's Blog, yuan

Russia’s prime minister says it and China ‘is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings’, Ria Novosti reports.

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