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Strong 6.9 earthquake hits Mexico: USGS
Oct 22nd
MEXICO CITY: A powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the coast of Mexico”s Baja California peninsula, experts from the US Geological Survey said.
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Loading ...Up to 1,000 feared dead as landslide buries homes in Mexico
Sep 29th
OAXACA: Up to 1,000 people were feared dead after a hillside collapsed early Tuesday in southern Mexico, burying up to 300 homes, a local official said. A 200-meter (220-yard) strip of hillside collapsed above a group of some 100 to 300 homes in the waterlogged state of Oaxaca, the state”s governor Ulises Ruiz said. He feared “between 500 and 600 people, they”re talking about up to 1,000,” may be dead in the disaster, Ruiz told local television station Televisa
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BP Seeks to Add Capacity to Recover Leaking Gulf Oil as Capture-Rate Rises
Sep 27th
By Jim Polson June 8 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc has proposed expanding itscapacity to recover oil from the leaking Gulf of Mexico well,Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said. Adding two vessels to BP’s current plan would allow forredundancy should one of the two systems break down, Allen saidtoday at a press conference in Washington.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Halliburton profit beats forecasts
Sep 23rd
NEW YORK | Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:44am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Halliburton Co (HAL.N) reported an 83 percent jump in second-quarter profit on Monday, on strong U.S. onshore drilling, but a ban on deepwater activity in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to hurt full year results.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Widening Gulf between Oil and Security
Sep 20th
By Jan Barry The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s drilling platform that exploded and killed 11 workers fouled key fishing areas, befouled wildlife and relentlessly threatened to ruin the region’s beaches and tourism industry. But perhaps the biggest shock was the out-of-control oil plume’s jolt to Americans’ sense of national security. Facing one of the worse environmental disasters in American history, federal officials were stumped as to how to use the armed forces to protect a vital coastal region — except as emergency clean up crews.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BP shares rise after crude leak stopped
Sep 12th
HOUSTON | Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:24pm EDT HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S.-listed shares of BP Plc (BP.L) (BP.N) jumped 7.6 percent on Thursday after a company executive said no oil was leaking from its blown-out well into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since late April. HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S.-listed
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...First Look: R-Rated Puppet Movie ‘We R Animals’
Sep 8th
The Swedes are quickly becoming my favorite filmmakers (sorry Mexico). From gorgeous horror movies like Let The Right One In to gripping mystery/thrillers like The Millennium Trilogy , every time I turn around somebody is putting a wonderful new film from the land of Sweden in front of my face. (Of course this has everything to do with me coming late than party, Sweden has been making wonderful films for years – see: Lasse Hallström.) If you know me well, you know I love puppets
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Andrea Lyon: Prohibition and Civil Unrest
Sep 2nd
We read of it nearly every day: Mexico appears to be imploding. Murders, assassinations of local politicians, kidnappings.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Daniel Altschuler: Grassroots Efforts for Immigration Reform: Voices from Michigan, New York, and Colorado
Sep 2nd
Over the past several years, grassroots groups across the country have held mass marches, lobbied government officials and used civil disobedience to call for reform of the nation’s immigration system. As part of a continuing series of interviews on the prospects of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) and the pro-CIR movement, I interviewed grassroots leaders from Michigan, New York and Colorado to explore the strategies of–and challenges faced by–groups in different parts of the country: ⢠Ponsella Hardaway is the Executive Director of Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength ( MOSES ) in Michigan, a member of the Gamaliel Foundation’s organizing network
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dr. Walter Crinnion: Protecting the Health of Those in the Gulf
Sep 1st
For most Americans, the Gulf Oil Spill is something that we have been following in the news and have been complaining or praying about with our coworkers and friends.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Winners And Losers
Aug 27th
The Gulf oil spill is a bonanza for some and a bust for others.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Grocer Urges Gulf Coast Shrimp On Customers — Buyer Beware?
Aug 27th
Apparently, the Harris Teeter grocery store chain has something called the “Fresh Catch Club,” and yesterday, its members received an email, flagged by Sarabeth Guthberg at 1115.org , that read, in part: This week’s Fresh Catch feature item is fresh wild caught 13-17ct Head-On Gulf White Shrimp, harvested from the crystal clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Frank Dwyer: Citizens, Unite!
Aug 23rd
La Familia runs Mexico. Wonder how
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gulf Oil Spill: New Guidelines Could Rule Out Many Oil Claims
Aug 22nd
MIAMI — A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho that had to switch seafood suppliers. A hardware store on the Mississippi coast may be left out, too
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Questions Mount About White House’s Overly Rosy Report On Oil Spill
Aug 20th
Two congressmen on Thursday questioned why the Obama administration made a major announcement about what happened to the oil in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month without the science to back it up . Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ed Markey demanded that NOAA surrender the data and algorithms behind its increasingly controversial estimate, so that independent scientists could assess the credibility of its conclusion that the vast majority of the oil BP spilled in the Gulf is gone, At a subcommittee hearing he chaired, Markey said the report was premature, has led to false confidence, and could be flat wrong
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tea Party Activists Rally Along Arizona-Mexico Border To Protest Illegal Immigration
Aug 16th
HEREFORD, Ariz. — Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The group was gathered about 70 miles west of Nogales on a private ranch where 15-foot steel posts are set closely together to prevent people from crossing the border.
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