Protests at McCain appearance in Santa Barbara

Click here to see the protest on land.
Click here to see the protest at sea.
Probably was a bad idea to speak about off-shore drilling in the Santa Barbara area.

Algae powered car works

One teacher and a bunch of high school students did it, aren’t there a few green-minded business folks interested in running with this?  Read the article and click through to see the pictures:
David Levine, a second-year teacher placed in Chicago through the Teach For America program, faced a common problem: how to get students to [...]

Obama vows to crack down on oil speculation

By Caren Bohan CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama offered new steps on Sunday to crack down on speculation in oil markets, saying his plan would help rein in runaway fuel costs. A jump in gasoline prices above…
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Senators Biden and Graham discuss energy and off-shore drilling

Senators Graham and Biden discuss off-shore drilling and energy crisis on Meet the Press:

SEN. BIDEN: No short-term consequence of additional leases, period, 10 years minimum. Two, better to invest in windmills offshore, alternative energy offshore, give those people a break. And three, the change is called an election.

Saudi Arabia to increase oil supply, Saudi opinion, and the Iraq Security Agreement

By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, June 23, 2008
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 22 — Saudi Arabia on Sunday promised to increase oil production as needed while Western countries agreed to improve the transparency and regulation of financial markets, signaling a readiness from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations to make concessions and work together to tackle [...]

Big Oil Companies Gain No Bid Contracts in Iraq

Oil Companies Negotiating with Iraq with no-bid contracts

From the New York Times:
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American [...]

Oil Executives Get Raises While Consumers Struggle to Survive

From Business Week:
Oil executives’ pay is rising at the same time consumers are spending more on everything from gasoline to food, and movie tickets to airline fares. A new study has found that median compensation for the 12 CEOs at the largest U.S.-based oil companies, increased by more than four times the rate of that [...]

Oil - Haven’t we been here before?

Didn’t we do this in the 70’s?
Again with high gas prices and proposed little supply. The oil companies again playing games and the Corporate-backing Congressmembers speaking for them. So they want to open all sources of off-shore drilling:

WASHINGTON — With gasoline prices soaring past the $4-a-gallon mark, Congress is again wrestling with proposals [...]

Get out to protest John McCain

This has been posted on AfterDowningStreet.org
Click on the link to find where John McCain will be appearing and go hold out some signs telling him we won’t take the Bush Administration’s or his nonsense any longer.  No more war, occupation, torture, not another dime… none of it.

Ralph Nader Talks about U.S. Corporate Fascism

Ralph Nader continued his tour of the West Coast recently in Oakland, CA. Nader declared that the United States is running under a corporate fascist economic system. “We’re living in a country whose democracy is beyond the breaking point. The extent of corporate control has developed into corporate fascism,”Nader said.
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U.S. Troops in Iraq Suffer Bloodiest Week of 2008

Clearly there is no possible Bush-Cheney-McCain spin that the surge is working. The surge was a mistake.  Our troops need to be brought home before more unnecessary loss of life.   It looks like matters are getting worse despite our paying insurgents to not fire on our troops.   Whatever could the Bush Administration say at [...]