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- Feministing's Jessica Valenti has generated a whirlwind with her op ed in Sunday's Washington Post called, bluntly, The Fake Feminism of Sarah Palin. But nowhere in her diatribe nor in the thoughtful responses is an understanding of why Palin's ambiguous feminism speaks so strongly to her female base of conservative Christian supporters.
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- "Delays in sealing oil pipe fan doubts over BP's survival." Jail time before fire sale buyout time. And what is that foppish BP CEO doing prancing around the U.S. He should be on the terrorist watch list.
- Jim Hightower: FEISTY GRANNIES STAND UP FOR PEACE
- BP share plunge wipes billions off UK pension funds: Spill crisis deepens as U.S. starts criminal probe
- 'My resurrection day': Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard to start new church in Colorado Springs. It's going to be called a methachurch.
- What If Chicago Loses Its Gun Case?
- Obama Will Vow to Repeal Some Tax Breaks for Oil Companies. Let's See if He Again Speaks Loudly and Carries or a Small Stick or Gets the Message That America Has Had Enough of Corporatist Control of D.C., Including the White House.
- ABC Exposes Underwater Oil Plumes
- Hallelujah! It's About Time! U.S. begins criminal investigation into oil spill, says Attorney General Holder. Maybe Eric is reading BuzzFlash.
- Radioactive Fish Found in Vermont
- Standing before the country’s power brokers and tribal elite Wednesday morning, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was about 10 minutes into his nationally televised appeal for peace when the Taliban responded with a rocket that slammed into a nearby hillside.
- "Party switchers take note: U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith, the Alabama Democrat who turned Republican in an effort to stay alive in Alabama's fifth Congressional district, lost in the primary Tuesday night to a county commissioner."
- Global Corporations Now Eclipse the Power of Sovereign States: We are at Their Mercy -- Mark Karlin for BuzzFlash, Editor's Blog
- Former Shell Oil Chief, Engineer: Supertankers Could Save the Gulf, So Why Won't BP Listen? They are up to no good and have figured out some way to profit from this catastrophe.
- Arizona's New Laws: An Attempt to Secure Cheap Labor?
- No U.S. Catholic leader has been prosecuted for the church’s child sex scandals. But officials are weighing obstruction and perjury charges against Cardinal Roger Mahony—and studying emails showing Mahony discussing with his lawyers ways to avoid giving law enforcement the names of abusive priests. Philip Shenon reports.
- Ominous signs emerged last week that a threat to undermine an economic recovery is afoot, and that threat has particularly severe consequences for America's 15 million unemployed
- Glenn Beck, Protector of Families, Picks on the President’s Children -- BuzzFlash's Turn Off FOX News Analysis by Jeffrey Joseph
- SEC Files Lawsuit Against Diebold, Then Settles for $25m, Pursues Fraud by Three Diebold Executives. Credit to Brad Friedman.
- Police Chiefs and law enforcement officials across the country are condemning the AZ law out of concern for public safety. Instead of working on real solutions to the immigration crisis, this law just diverts the limited resources of local law enforcement from the primary responsibility of providing protection and promoting public safety in the community.
- Revenge of the Zombies: Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and the Return of Dark Times
- We Are 'Not Afraid': Student Immigrants Inspired by Civil Rights-Era
- Jan Brewer’s Big Oops: “Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany”…not.
- Obama's campaigns donations from BP employees, not company or BP's PAC
- Rebecca Sive: For, these "Gulf Stream waters" and wetlands BP has ruined are America's, as Charlie Melancon said Thursday, talking between his tears. And you, Mr. President, you are America's ward committeeman, you said so yourself. So, please, please, Mr. President, get rid of BP's garbage, and, please, please, don't give them any garbage cans, so they can stay in this ward: They don't belong here.
- Don't Forget, Thom Hartmann Exclusively Reviews Books for BuzzFlash.com. Read the Reviews and Buy Them by Clicking Here. Put Some Progressive Books on the Bestseller Lists. BuzzFlash is Tired of Seeing Glenn Beck and His Likes Up There, With Liberal Books Generally Far Behind.
- Police Chiefs and law enforcement officials across the country are condemning the AZ law out of concern for public safety. Instead of working on real solutions to the immigration crisis, this law just diverts the limited resources of local law enforcement from the primary responsibility of providing protection and promoting public safety in the community.
- The Rift Between Teachers and Democrats Widens -- Shamus Cooke for BuzzFlash
- U.N. official: U.S. should end CIA drone attacks in Pakistan
- 10 ways cities and towns can kick the offshore-oil habit
- Avatar -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review of the Month, Exclusively for BuzzFlash. For May.
- Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster
- Six Things to Do About the BP Gulf Disaster
- Does the Tea Party Really Know What it's About? -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash "What would it take for real patriots to engage in a battle of wits instead of propaganda and endless turf wars? What if suddenly Tea Partiers and political grandstanders finally grasped that government isn’t our enemy but that we have allowed it to be corrupted by congressional hucksters and a corporate colossus that undermine our basic legislative structure and threaten our way of life?"
- Has Mark Kirk, Illinois GOP Congressman Who is Seeking Obama's Senate Seat, Been Outed as a Typical Hypocritical Gay Republican Who Engages in Homophobia? It Appears That Way.
- Heavy oil washes ashore in Alabama
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- The corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is shaping up to be a political circus.
- Impeach Obama, Slug That He Is, the Right Wing Crazies Argue. Here's How They See Their Pathological World. -- PM Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash -- ""
- CREW AND GREENPEACE SEEK VIDEO FEEDS AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS RELATED TO GULF OIL SPILL
- Tina Dupuy: While the Oil Gushes
- Abbot and Costello BPA/White House Department: Latest effort to contain Gulf oil spill stalls when saw gets stuck in pipe
- New Internet Overcharging Scheme is Further Evidence of Need for Meaningful Competition in Wireless Market
- The World Cup of Economic and Military Warfare -- Joshua Brollier and Kathy Kelly for BuzzFlash
- Ex-Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer arrested
- Clown in Context: Alexander Zaitchik got paid to watch Glenn Beck—so you don’t have to. The book is available in the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace.
- Is The Army Forcing Out a Gitmo Whistleblower?
- "Considering how peppy and alert the Israelis have proven to be regarding the dangerous peace activists, perhaps we ought to hire them to intercept the oil spill off the Gulf Coast."
- Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf Coast following oil spill
- Lone Star Cheesehead Versus The Lesser Of Two Medievals. The Texas State Board of Education is a lot like the weather. Everyone talks about it, nobody does anything about it.
- UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in England
- Illinois GOP Congressional Candidate Admits to Error on Navy Award -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash
- “There is one thing I will not let be forgotten in this incident: In addition to the extensive costs being borne by our environment and by communities along the Gulf Coast, the initial explosion and fire also took the lives of 11 rig workers. Eleven innocent lives lost,” Holder said. “We will prosecute to the full extent any violations of the law.” Earlier Tuesday, President Barack Obama warned that the federal government would prosecute anyone found to have violated the law in connection with the spill.
- Responding to Military Sexual Trauma: A Long Way to Go
- I was 'Tasered' by Israelis, says Australian Herald photographer
- Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill. Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment.
- Houston Chronicle: "One of the most disturbing aspects of British Petroleum's handling of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent continuing oil spill is the company's ham-handed attempts to restrict media coverage. BP officials seem to be more adept at cutting off information flows than oil leaks."
- Deep Underwater, Oil Threatens Reefs. BP CEO, Execs, and Stockholders Get Away With the Crime of the New Decade. Start Drive to Have Unions, Universities, Pension Funds, and States Divest in BP Stock.
- Roger Shuler: With yesterday's announcement of a criminal investigation into the BP oil spill, the Obama administration showed that it finally is starting to get tough on certain matters of justice. But perhaps more importantly, the statement from Attorney General Eric Holder shows the administration's "look forward, not backwards" stance on other justice issues makes no moral, ethical, or political sense.
- When the CIA Overthrew Iran for British Petroleum
- Mayor Bloomberg Eliminates Teacher Raises to Save Jobs
- Dems Thwart GOP Plan To Kill Science Jobs Bill With Porn Provision. Whatever!
- Rising Cleanup Costs and Numerous Lawsuits Rattle BP’s Investors. Jolly Good. Keep Driving the Stock Down. One Thing Toxic Corporations Understand is a Stock Value Spiraling Down.
- After Throwing Shoes at Bush, Where Is al-Zaidi Now? -- David Swanson for BuzzFlash
- With the current catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, it appears that the chicken has come home to roost. Our government does not police but has always enabled and abetted these out of control corporations.
- Arizona soon could join 14 other states and legalize medical marijuana. With more than 250,000 signatures, a ballot question to authorize use of the drug for medical purposes on Tuesday became the first to qualify for the state’s November ballot.
- Paul Farrell: Commentary: Obama backs status quo, helping Wall Street skim hundreds of billions
- States find road and bridge money hard to come by
- Vietnam Redux: Taliban Attacks Shake Afghan Peace Gathering
- Scary: The FBI appears to be ready for a chemical, biological or radiological terrorist attack, but the rest of the Justice Department "is not prepared," according to a blistering audit released Tuesday.
- Michele Bachmann Votes Against the Troops
- Fisherman who fell ill during oil spill clean-up alleges BP tried to cover-up evidence.
- Oil Is About To Visit the Alabama Coast
- Oil Spill Could Hit Florida Beaches by Mid-Week
- Senator Bernie Sanders: Make VP Pay
- "Assumptions Go Asunder as Gores Split"
- Dingbat Crazy: Anti-government critic Bachmann chides Obama for not ‘commandeering’ boats to deal with the oil spill.
- Safety Rules Don’t Keep Up With Biotech Industry
- To rule Big Oil, we need Big Government, Donna Brazile
- Undersea Oil Pipelines Vulnerable to Hurricanes. Thanks for Building Them, and Then Letting Us Find Out.
- Normon Solomon: Israel and Harman in Tandem: From High Seas to Airwaves
- Signs from the Permanent Downsized Economy Front: H.P. Will Cut 9,000 Jobs as It Streamlines Its Data Centers
- Pensacola Residents Forced to Protect Themselves Against Oil Spill Because BP is Missing in Non-Action
- It Seems "Birds of a Feather" Do "Flock Together" and the Cuckoo's Nest Attracts All the Cuckoos! -- Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute
- AP: "Wrong intelligence, wrong guns, wrong tactics. Israel's military acknowledged big mistakes on Tuesday during the bungled boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in which elite troops killed nine international activists. Though Israelis rallied to their conscripts in the face of foreign fury, the domestic recrimination -- with "Foul-up" and "Fiasco" dominating newspaper headlines -- betrayed an erosion of confidence recalling the setbacks of the 2006 Lebanon war."
- Corporations Wanted Personhood: The Supreme Court Gave it to Them. So Treat BP and Corps Like People Who Commit Crimes. -- Mark Karlin for BuzzFlash, Editor's Blog
- The rift between Israel and Turkey makes it difficult for the White House to make progress on Iran’s nuclear program and peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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- Haaretz: "We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege, which is itself becoming Israel's Vietnam."
- Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa.
- BP stock tumbles as feds announce oil-spill probes. Tumble away.
- Rep. Edward Markey on Monday challenged the assertion by oil giant BP's chief executive that no underwater oil plumes have formed because of the Gulf of Mexico spill. It's about time Obama sense the fierce urgency of now and kick the CEO of BP's Butt from the Gulf to Paducah.
- Israel Faces New Pressure on Gaza After Raid on Flotilla
- A 21-year old American student at Cooper Union lost an eye after getting hit in the face with a tear gas projectile fired by an Israeli soldier during a demonstration at a crowded checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank yesterday. Emily Henochowicz (here's her blog) was part of a group protesting the deaths of at least nine pro-Palestinian activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
- ABC's Stephanopoulos Reports Erroneously on Rightwing Criminal O'Keefe's Latest Video Scam
- San Diego Anti-Gay Religious Zealots Launch Judicial Crusade -- Lawrence S. Wittner for BuzzFlash
- "Progressives also need to keep an eye on the special commission Obama named to recommend ways to cut the federal deficit. Democrats need to take a stand against cutting social programs for the middle class and lower-income groups. Allowing tax rates to return to the Clinton-era levels, when the budget actually was balanced, would be a good start."
- Israel Faces Pressure on Gaza After Raid. Kidnapping and Killing People in International Waters as the IDF Did is Certainly Worthy of Investigation.
- Obama's Senate Seat: While GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk is desperately trying to blame the ongoing controversy over the embellishment of his military record on Democratic rival Alexi Giannoulias, the truth is he brought this on himself.
- Another Partisan GOP 5-4 Decison, This Time Weakening Miranda Rights. Criminal suspects must explicitly invoke their right to remain silent to force police to stop questioning, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
- Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade
- Have We Entered a Parallel Universe: "Feds meet with film director Cameron on oil spill"
- Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Louisiana Native Americans' Way of Life
- Israel begins releasing flotilla activists as aid allegedly reaches Gaza. Like where was all the military hardware the Israelis claim they were after.
- Tainted Chinese Drywall Concerns Went Unreported for Two Years
- Egypt Opens Border With Gaza Strip to Allow Humanitarian Aid
- Storm blows a 200ft hole in Guatemala City, swallowing a building
- SHADOW CONGRESS: More Than 170 Former Lawmakers Ply The Corridors Of Power As Lobbyists
- Will Bunch: Rand Paul chose Kremlin-backed, 9/11-conspiracy website over "Meet the Press"
- Jerusalem Post:'Next time we'll use more force' We are in favor of the existence of the State of Israel, but they do not have the right to commit international piracy. They are an invading force when they invade a ship on the high seas, sort of like Somali Pirates. This is not a way to protect the State of Israel; it is a way for Netanyahu to drive it off a cliff.
- Naomi Klein speaks at Gaza Freedom Flotilla protest in Toronto
- IDF Detaining and Holding Flotilla Volunteers in Prison in Ashdod. This is Violation of International Law, a PR Disaster for Israel, and Support of a Siege of Gaza that is Unconscionable. Israel Should Protect Itself. This is Not Protection, it is Netanyahu Playing Bush/Cheney Style Politics with the Israeli Public and Alienating His Strongest Islamic Ally, Turkey. Pure Deranged Right Wing Politics.
- Paul Doesn’t Want Citizenship for Children of Undocumented Immigrants -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash
- Future Pope Refused to Deny Ecclesiastical Status to Priest Who Admitted to Frequent Molesting -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash
- Six reasons not to trust BP. Only Six?
- Can We Live with the Bomb? -- Lawrence S. Wittner for BuzzFlash
- China Won’t Point Finger at Ally in Submarine Attack -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash
- "Mike Mullen: Oil Industry Has Better Technology For BP Oil Spill Response." Barack Obama: The Let the Corporations Rule the World President. Why Even Elect a Government?
- The Reagan "Revolution" Blowback: NY governor planning for mass state worker layoff
- World's 'number one frog' faces extinction from New Zealand government
- A Religious Rightist's Silver Bullet for the Economy
- Gone but Not Forgotten: Pharma Influence at Psychiatric Association Meeting -- Martha Rosenberg for BuzzFlash for BuzzFlash
- Glenn Greenwald: What does Israel fear from media coverage because it is refusing access to the volunteers for humanitarian aid to Gaza whom it kidnapped?
- Undersea Oil Adrift in Gulf May Create Oxygen ‘Dead Zones’
- BP Hires Dick Cheney’s Press Secretary, Anne Womack-Kolton
- Fury follows Israel's deadly attack on aid flotilla, as Well it Should
- CONGRESS -- HOUSE APPROVES COSTLY WEAPONS PROGRAM THAT PENTAGON DOESN'T WANT, CUTS PROGRAMS FOR LAID OFF WORKERS
- Oil Spill Expected To Trigger Thousands Of Foreclosures Of Gulf Real Estate
- LA Times: BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill. A maneuver that includes severing a leaking pipe from the well may increase the flow as much as 20%. Seize the BP Assets and Prosecute the Guilty, And There are Plenty of Them.
- In da Bronx: Escaping to My High School Reunion but Not Escaping Our Economic Catastrophe -- Danny Schecter for BuzzFlash
- Ted Koppel's son, 40, found dead in NYC apartment
- Wow! Al and Tipper Gore separating after 40 years of marriage
- Full Responsibility -- What Does It Really Mean? -- Shirley Smith for BuzzFlash for BuzzFlash
- Obama orders more manpower to spill cleanup
- Haaretz: Here in Israel, we have still yet to learn the lesson: We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege. The siege itself is becoming Israel’s Vietnam.
- Poland: Teenage Pregnancies Soar as Church Looks the Other Way
- Gergen: Mr. President, take command
- BP Gulf Oil Spill: Attorney General Heads to Gulf Coast, BP Persues 7th Strategy to Stop Leak. Arrest the Rodeo Drive BP Keystone Cops and Let Someone Who Knows What They are Doing be Put in Charge. BP is Guilty of Crimes Against the Earth and All Living Things.
- A gap in unemployment insurance coverage has left many jobless workers without a safety net
- Reform Groups Slam "Militarization" of U.S.-Mexico Border
- Carville, Colombia and BP -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash
- Newsweek: Turkish Anger a Problem for Israel Ankara's new role as a regional leader is seen as crucial for any Mideast peace deal.
- Netenyahu's Right Wing PR Disaster: NYT, "Echoes of Raid on ‘Exodus’ Ship in 1947"
- Bob Herbert: Our Epic Foolishness
- TomDispatch: Engelhardt, Living in the 51st State (of Denial)
- When some of the nation's top evangelical leaders threw their weight behind immigration reform, liberal advocates were pleased to receive help from an unexpected ally. But immigration foes saw it as nothing less than treachery.
- Louisianan Becomes Face of Anger on Spill
- Robert Reich: 5 Reasons Obama Must Take Over BP
- Susie Madrak: A Modest Proposal: Why Not The Death Penalty For Egregious, Reckless and Widespread Corporate Pollution?
- BP Crime Scene: Scientists, environmentalists and local residents are beginning to reckon with the reality of a massive annihilation of sea creatures and wildlife.
- If 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil are gushing out of the damaged sea-floor well underneath where BP’s offshore oil rig used to perch, what can be done to offset this pollution immediately? Time is of the essence for the global ecosystem, not just for a part of the Gulf.
- Reforms Slow to Arrive at Drilling Agency; Obama Administration Did Little to Stop the "Cozy" Ties with the Oil Industry and Incestuous Behavior Between Mineral Management and the Oil Industry. So Says the New York Times.
- Christian Conservative Lawyers Say They're On A Mission From God To Unseat Judges
- Howard Zinn: "You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train." Obama Stands at Station Waving as the Train Goes By. -- Mark Karlin for BuzzFlash, Editor's Blog
- David Swanson: If a person could approach you on the street, gently caress your cheek, and walk away leaving you with the feeling of having been violently slapped and dowsed with a bucket of ice water, they would approximate Tom Engelhardt's writing, including that in his newest book "The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's."
- Election-Year Politics Derail Bid to Save Teachers' Jobs
- Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Economic Gains
- Not Good at All: 10 Reported Killed as IDF Attacks Boats Headed to Gaza in International Waters. End the Siege of Gaza. This is a Violation of International Standards of Decency and Law. Message to Israel from a Jews: As Moses Said to Pharoah Equally Applies to the Gazans: "Let My People Go."
- 'Flotels' await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf
- Canada's top commander in Afghanistan, who was supposed to lead NATO's Kandahar offensive this summer, has been fired for allegedly having an affair with a female soldier on his staff.
- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel’s raid on ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was “state terrorism.”
- Ray McGovern: Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea
- "The Israeli military says Gaza militants have crossed the border into Israel and exchanged fire with troops. Israeli rescue services say two militants were killed." True or a PR diversion from the fiasco of attacking the humanitarian flotilla.
- Understatement of the Year: "White House Tries to Regroup as Criticism Mounts Over Leak." The White House Says "We're in Charge" of Failure. Just Great. And the Next BP (the Nefarious Company Really in Charge) Effort May Increase, Yes Increase, the Oil Gushing Out by 10%! We Hope the President is Enjoying His Barbecue. He's Like Someone Paralyzed by a Gaper's Block.
- Deadly Israeli Raid on Aid Flotilla Draws Condemnation, As It Should
- From the 1953 CIA Overthrow of Democracy in Iran, to the Iraq War, to the Gulf Criminal Catastrophe and Deaths, BP Was There -- Mark Karlin for BuzzFlash, Editor's Blog
- Will Agent Provocateurs be used to whip G8/G20 protesters into a frenzy in Toronto in June? Security authorities will neither confirm nor deny the tactic.
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- Voice of America: Israel Faces International Criticism for Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla
- One Thing You Can Count On from the Repuglicans, They Are Always "For It, Before They Are Against It"! -- Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute
- Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel and called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council as criticism and condemnations arose across Europe and the Arab world Monday over Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
- Elizabeth Edwards is working to prevent Rielle Hunter from becoming a stepmom to her two younger kids, Emma, 12, and Jack, 10, if she were to lose her battle with cancer
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- Protest Big Oil and Get Arrested; BP Pollutes the Earth with 100s of Millions of Gallons of Oil and It's Just a Statistic -- Mark Karlin for BuzzFlash, Editor's Blog
- Throw the Top BP Executives and Its Two SubContractors in Federal Prison Until the Gulf Well is Capped and Damages Paid -- Mark Karlin for BuzzFlash, Editor's Blog
- Vaughn Ward Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for Ripping on President Obama, Then Ripping off Senator Obama. "If you're a Palin-endorsed Republican, is there anyone worse to plagiarize than President Obama?" Hmm. Maybe Karl Marx or Keith Olbermann..?
- John Stossel Wins BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award for Tacking Even Closer to the KKK on Civil Rights Than Rand Paul Dared
- If we are going to regain our nation from the tyrannical and destructive grip of mega-corporations, more of us will need to get off our laptops and commit acts of civil disobedience; signing online petitions isn't going to change the pernicious oligarchical grip on America. We will need the courage and tenacity of the 7 Greenpeace protesters. We will need to match our actions with our words. 7 Greenpeace Protesters Against Offshore Drilling Treated Like Heinous Criminals for Protesting Against BP and Shell and Therefore Receive This Week's -- BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Rush Limbaugh: A Gaggle of One
- Desperate BP Looks to China For New Strategy: 'Bottom Kill
- These are Ironic Times
- BP Abandons Gulf Clean-Up, In Favor of 'Self-Service'
- Man “goes off half-cocked” at Lowe’s
- Did Gulf Oil Spill Finally Wake Up Tea Partiers to Corporate Abuse?