The Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana is currently under threat from a recent pipe line disaster that has spilled at least 18,000 gallons of deadly crude oil into the waters of the wildlife refuge. The pipeline, which is owned by the Chevron Pipeline Company and BP in a joint venture, has been leaking since yesterday and while teams are in place to attempt to fix the problem, the full extent of the damage is yet unknown and more oil could be leaked into the refuge before it is stopped.

It is believed that the pipeline may have been damaged by a collision with a pipe known as “spuds” which were being used to anchor a barge owned by the Exxon Mobile Company but this has not yet been confirmed. The Delta National Wildlife Refuge lies southwest of New Orleans and is home to several species of birds, plants, reptiles, and other animals in the wildlife area which are now at risk. The situation has several conservation groups worried as they monitor the situation.

Clashes between police and protesters have led to the deaths of four people in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, witnesses and medical officials say. Several thousand opposition supporters have been trying to storm the office of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev amid unrest over rising fuel prices and corruption. The clashes come a day after thousands of people stormed government offices in the north-west city of Talas. Russia and the US, which have military bases in Kyrgyzstan, appealed for calm. There are reports police fired into the crowds outside the President Bakiyev's offices after failing to disperse them with tear gas and stun grenades. Al Jazeera: Violent protests engulf Kyrgyzstan. NYT: Opposition Claims Control in Kyrgyzstan. Daily Mail: Kyrgyzstan President flees the state after bloody protests kill 40 and injure 400

"Any unilateral decision will release us from all of our commitments and will allow us also to make unilateral decisions," Lieberman said. "For example, imposing Israeli sovereignty on certain areas, cutting off all kinds of ties and transfers of money and a string of benefits and agreements put into place since the (peace) accords."

The following is excerpted verbatim from Wikileaks. It is an account of the murder of civilians by the U.S. military which has absolutely NO legitimate business in Iraq in the first place! Out of Iraq now! Round up and charge ALL U.S. personnel involved must be arrested, charged and detained until they can be tried for murder. Additionally, every U.S. government official involved in the U.S. government's conspiracy to attack and invade Iraq upon lies and deceptions should be arrested now and detained until they can be tried for capital war crimes including overt violations of U.S. Codes, Title 18, Section 2441, war crimes for which the penalty is death. Not only are the perps depicted in the act of committing murder, they lied about afterward. That's a crime in and of itself!

AntiWar: Just Another Atrocity: Mass murder as routine:

A morally corrupt country such as ours doesn’t succumb easily to attacks of conscience, and certainly a video – no matter of what – isn’t going to lead to a moral awakening. The corruption is too deep, the routine too ingrained: what it will take is an aneurysm, a sudden glitch in the system that leads to a breakdown, not a lack of will but a lack of means, e.g. national bankruptcy.

"I advise Mr. Obama to be careful. If he tries to follow in the footsteps of Mr. [George W.] Bush, the response of the nations will be the same crushing response they gave to Bush," President Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a crowd in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh. AWIP: Obama excludes Iran in ban on US nuke strikes. AntiWar: Administration Very Clear in Threatening to Nuke Iran.

"We can’t get this weakling out of the WH fast enough."

Meet Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy Company. Blankenship is also on the Board of Directors of the US Chamber of Commerce. In this speech above, he denies climate change, derisively refers to Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid, and others as "greeniacs", and calls them all crazy. Watch the speech, you'll see. In his mind, "the greeniacs are taking over the world."

Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker. I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home. ... [OK, ExPats and ImPats, is it really this bad?]

While authorities won't say exactly how many cameras are included, with 1,500 installed by emergency officials, 6,500 in city schools and many more at public and private facilities, nobody disputes an estimate of 10,000 and growing. Police Superintendent Jody Weis said he would like to add "covert" cameras, perhaps as small as matchboxes.

New York has plenty of cameras, but about half of the 4,300 installed along the city's subways don't work. Other cities haven't been able to link networks like Chicago. Baltimore, for example, doesn't integrate school cameras with its emergency system and it can't immediately send 911 dispatchers video from the camera nearest to a call like Chicago can.

The United States has fallen from the ranks of economically "free" countries, according to the conservative Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom World Rankings. America has slipped below 80 percent, into the category of "mostly free" this year -- just below Canada and above Denmark.

The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counter-terrorism officials said Tuesday.

[Editor's Comment:] What about due process in a court of law? And what about our Bill of Rights? -Does Mr. Obama consider the American Constitution to be nothing but a "goddamn piece of paper", like Bush did? Too, having issued his first fatwa he's no better than the Islamists that Israel has ordered him to go after.

Baton-wielding Egyptian police have broken up a pro-democracy demonstration in Cairo. Riot police beat and dragged protestors away from outside the upper house of Parliament, put them in trucks and took dozens away. Demonstrations are illegal under Egypt's stern "emergency laws", which have been in place for 30 years. The protesters were calling for a change to the constitution that they say would make elections more fair.

There has been a prolonged and concerted campaign to discredit anyone who is brave enough to speak out against the Zionist policies of Israel. The list of academics, lawyers, activists, politicians and private citizens who have been lambasted by Zionists for daring to speak out against Israel is absurdly long and is growing every day. It is becoming almost comical how one can predict the tag of "anti-Semite" being flung at anyone who dares even raise a minor point of concern over Israel's growing list of human rights abuses and breaches of international law. Colonel Desmond Travers is one such individual who has recently found himself subject to a flurry of completely unjustified attacks on his person simply because he has been brave enough to demand that Israel be held to account for its crimes in accordance with international law.

CEO flouted safety procedures Twenty-five miners were killed Monday in an explosion in the shafts of a West Virginia mine. As of writing, four miners remain trapped, their condition unknown. The deadly blast took place in the town of Montcoal at the Upper Big Branch mine, which is operated by Performance Coal Co., a subsidiary of coal giant Massey. Rescue operations were temporarily suspended late Monday night due to dangerous levels of methane and other poisonous gases. Holes are being sunk to pump out the explosive fumes in a bid to resume the search for the remaining four miners. Monday’s disaster at the Montcoal mines is the nation’s worst since a fire in a Utah mine killed 27 in 1984.