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NOV.13-19: CRUDE: film of Oil,Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Justice

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 04:12
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11/13/2009 11:00

KFAI Radio 90.3fm Mpls 106.7 fm St.Paul
all shows live-streaming and archived for 2 weeks after broadcast at :
http://www.kfai.org/catalyst

> FRIDAY, Nov. 13, 11am, tune in to KFAI's  "CATALYST:politics &
> culture""for a conversation with director JOE BERLINGER as he talks
> about CRUDE the film he was "dragged kicking and screaing" into
> making. Going into the rainforest of Ecuador, see the environemntal

Obama is a sociopath, but, it's nothing personal

Submitted by Ann Garrison on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 16:36
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Obama is a sociopath, but that shouldn’t shock.  He’s a U.S. President, and Commander-in-Chief of the largest, most lethal arsenal in history, which could destroy the world many times over, and, which has a budget many times the size of the next 10 national military budgets combined. 

More at Examiner.com, http://tinyurl.com/yz725tm

Oil for blood; T. Boone Pickens

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 07:34
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Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has reversed the anti-war complaint "No blood for oil,"  He's upset that U.S. energy companies aren't getting enough oil for American blood----and U.S. taxpayer dollars.  He complains that it's going to China instead.

Dakota oil pipeline fight goes to courts to block tar-sands fuels

Submitted by H. Stone on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 08:13
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Expect a long afternoon Tuesday when the state Public Utilities Commission tries to sift through the competing claims and objections between Dakota Rural Action and lawyers for TransCanada over the company’s proposed XL crude-oil pipeline. The issue before the commissioners Tuesday is whether to give DRA more time to submit pre-filed testimony.

Obama, Ghana, and African oil

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 18:25
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West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea.

The West African Gulf of Guinea is not only oil rich, but also the corridor for transporting West African oil to the rest of the world. Controlling the Gulf of Guinea is a principal goal of AFRICOM,  the U.S. Africa Command.

School closures loom, as California donates its oil and gas to the cash rich oil industry

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 10:55
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Offshore oil driling rig.

California is the only state in the U.S. that donates its oil and natural gas reserves to the private oil and gas industry, untaxed. Were it a nation, it would be the only nation in the world to do so. And it has continued to, even as schools close and the State of California threatens to close its doors.

Cross post.  Full text at Examiner.com.

Obama in Cairo: no conciliatory words about oil and gas reserves

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 17:16
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Palestine's Gaza Strip

Cross post from Examiner.com, http://www.examiner.com/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d7-Gaza

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