Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …
The World of the Cross • Terry Kruger Urantia is the sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million inhabited worlds… So why is BP allowed to continue to despoil our beautiful planet? A convicted corporate felon, for decades it has demonstrated a reckless disregard for all life, from the top of the food chain to the …
Big Brother embodied by Captain qua Admiral Kangaroo Allen Ever since an ancient, giant methane bubble traveling at the speed of sound sunk the Deepwater Horizon, an aircraft carrier sized oil drilling platform leased by BP, the transnational corporation has mounted a persistent campaign of coverup and denial. From deliberately underestimating the volume oil and gas unleashed by the explosion …
Wednesday’s CBS Evening News lead story featuring the BP oil disaster was sickening. Katie Couric‘s report included new video of a second leak site that adds brings the estimate of the total leakage by independent scientists to 95,000 barrels day, 19x the official BP-US government calculation (recall that it took over three weeks just to get the first 30 seconds …
