Oops! Oil Crisis As 308,000 Barrels Go Missing, According to Audit How do you not notice when 308,000 barrels of oil go missing? That's the question government auditors were asking after they looked into the Department of Energy's management of oil received for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a critical program to assure energy stability in the U.S. in case of an oil crisis.
Bush warns against Syria, Iran fuelling violence in Iraq U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush warned Saturday against Syria and Iran's fuelling violence in Iraq. Bush made the warning while speaking to reporters after meetinghis top political and military commanders in Iraq at the U.S. military base of Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. [Does dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives in 10 minutes near Baghdad by the US constitute 'violence in Iraq?']
FBI Finds Blackwater Trucks Patched to Destroy Evidence Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting [leaving 17 Iraqi civilians dead] in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, according to people familiar with the government's investigation of the incident. The repairs sabotage essentially destroyed evidence that Justice Department investigators hoped to examine in a criminal case that has drawn worldwide attention.
Mysterious crowd suddenly stopped Bhutto's car, officer says Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it's admitted about the murder. A police officer who witnessed the assassination said that a mysterious crowd stopped Bhutto's car that day, moving her to emerge through the sunroof. And a document has surfaced in the Pakistani news media that contradicts the government's version of her death and contains details on the pistol and the suicide bomb used in the murder.
Bush warns against Syria, Iran fuelling violence in Iraq U.S. President [sic] George W. Bush warned Saturday against Syria and Iran's fuelling violence in Iraq. Bush made the warning while speaking to reporters after meetinghis top political and military commanders in Iraq at the U.S. military base of Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. [Does dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives in 10 minutes near Baghdad by the US constitute 'violence in Iraq?']
FBI Finds Blackwater Trucks Patched to Destroy Evidence Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting [leaving 17 Iraqi civilians dead] in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, according to people familiar with the government's investigation of the incident. The repairs sabotage essentially destroyed evidence that Justice Department investigators hoped to examine in a criminal case that has drawn worldwide attention.
Mysterious crowd suddenly stopped Bhutto's car, officer says Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it's admitted about the murder. A police officer who witnessed the assassination said that a mysterious crowd stopped Bhutto's car that day, moving her to emerge through the sunroof. And a document has surfaced in the Pakistani news media that contradicts the government's version of her death and contains details on the pistol and the suicide bomb used in the murder.
New Hampshire to Recount Ballots in Light of Controversy Both Republican and Democratic candidates have asked the state of New Hampshire to conduct a hand recount of all primary ballots statewide, citing internet rumors about vote discrepancies and voting machine fraud in the primary results. Democratic presidential nominee candidate Kucinich was the first to make headlines in calling for a statewide recount of the Democratic primary results in response to the internet fury around a post made by a woman named Lori Price that someone made online that compares votes counted by optical scan machines made by Diebold Election Systems (now re-named Premier Election Solutions) to votes counted by hand. Thanks to the reader below who wrote in to say that Price didn't create the site where the results appear.
The CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program --CITGO--There for the Community at Every Turn. (citgoheatingoil.com) As a socially responsible business, we operate as a privilege––not as a right––in the communities we serve. We are committed to being more than your friendly neighborhood gas station; and we strive to set positive examples within the energy industry and throughout the community at large by aligning ourselves with issues that affect both the social and economic aspects of society.
Cleveland Sues 21 Lenders Over Subprime Mortgages Cleveland is suing 21 of the nation’s largest banks and financial institutions, accusing them of knowingly plunging the city into a financial crisis by flooding the local housing market with subprime mortgage loans to people who could never repay.
States Rejecting "Abstinence-Only" Funding Federal --Government Has Spent Millions On Sex-'Ed' Approach, Now 15 States Not Interested. CBS News reports: The government has provided states a $1 billion during the past decade for abstinence-only programs. But many say it just doesn't work, and they point to the teen birth rate's first rise in 15 years as proof. A growing number of states are taking a stand and actually rejecting federal abstinence-only funds. New Mexico just became the 15th.
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