BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]
Texas Judge Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional?
There’s a storm brewing in Texas, it appears, over a recent ruling by a state district court judge in Houston on a murder trial. Justice Kevin Fine, a Democrat, made a pre-trial ruling in Texas court that the death penalty was unconstitutional under Texas law. Although his position appears to be not in accordance with the wording of the […]
Avatar is Real: Indigenous Peoples are Being Displaced by Wars and Corporations
Indigenous peoples in the Americas and Africa are being displaced by wars and corporations, in order to extract the natural resources found in their territories. If you haven’t seeing Avatar, you are missing out on a good movie. The film excels in creativity, imagination, excitement, plot and an amazing technical work. The result is overwhelmingly […]
The American Foreign Policy Shell Game: Free Trade It Is Not
While most Americans have been caught up since the election of Barack Obama with the increasingly downward spiraling economy, and Mr. Obama’s solutions, which haven’t been solutions at all merely attempts to supposedly bulk up Wall Street and the “global” economy at the American public’s expense, as a former 45 year Arizona resident who is […]
Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia
"Teachers retire, and become students." – Amos Oz Did you see the cloud shaped like a cashbox over Big Indian last Friday? A Letter Dear Local Explorer: A recent study at Stanford shows that speaking to your swimming pool keeps it cleaner! Even as little as one minute of […]
22 Hell’s Angels Arrested In Spain
The police of Spain known as the Guardia Civil in conjunction with Barcelona’s los Mossos d’Esquadra arrested approximately 22 alleged members of the Hell’s Angels Motorcyle Club on Tuesday. Two of those detained were from the Italian branch of the club. The arrests took place in Valencia, Barcelona, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid, Malaga, Alicante and Murcia. […]
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