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Engine failure, loss of directional control, disaster. One of the longest bridges on this flat earth sank this morning, when a fully loaded, 1,000 meter? Inch? Foot? long cargo ship lost power, and took out just one support structure. Questions that...
by agnostic
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 09:54 AM PDT
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First, he apologized for the temperature in the Rose Garden. Then, after touting vaccines which do not as yet exist, and going against the advice of Doctors Fauci & Birx, he urged states to reopen. Verging on incoherence (as usual), he praised the...
by Cameron J Williams
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on Fri May 15, 2020 at 01:36 PM PDT
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The Port of Savannah is the subject of a NY Times article focusing on how management by government coupled with planned investment in infrastructure is creating a boom — and putting Savannah in position to grow even more. Patricia Cohen and Natalie...
by xaxnar
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on Sat May 19, 2018 at 10:49 AM PDT
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With the sale of its interests this May, Royal Dutch Shell made Saudi Arabia the sole owner of the largest refinery of gasoline in North America. Saudi Arabia now controls the massive Port Arthur Texas refinery and all of its assets. Saudi Arabia now...
by JohnRay
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on Tue Jul 04, 2017 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Cross-posted from Truthout .
by E Johnston
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on Fri Feb 27, 2015 at 05:00 AM PST
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The latest updates on the Washington State elections show some surprising turnarounds in the vote count. The elections have have attracted national and international attention on several ...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Wed Nov 13, 2013 at 09:20 PM PST
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Charleston, SC climaxed a month of resistance to Walmart’s globalization of poverty agenda when the gears of commerce slammed to a stop at the Port of Charleston on Dec. 20. A picket of ...
by wjhamilton29464
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on Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 08:41 AM PST
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This concludes, I think, my excerption of the stellar activists' presentations to the Oakland City Council on February 7, 2012 in response to a proposed resolution designed to restrict public ...
by hannah
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on Fri Feb 10, 2012 at 08:46 AM PST
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That the proposal to pass a resolution dedicating the City of Oakland to protect the port from any disruption finally failed has been widely reported in the media. Some have even claimed that the ...
by hannah
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on Thu Feb 09, 2012 at 03:32 PM PST
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If you're hoping for pictures of the police teargassing protesters, you won't find it here--I headed home after the successful Port of Oakland occupation and missed all the "fun."
Instead, what ...
by Simian
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on Thu Nov 03, 2011 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Thoughts, like ships, sail in and out of port. This blog is a place to enter the harbor, hitch to a buoy, and mingle with the progressives in this port. Spirit Compass harbors at this cove.
by Spirit Compass
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on Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 07:20 AM PDT
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Along with the blazing hot sun here along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the debate over whether to fund lower income housing or to fund the repair and expansion of the local port has been heating up ...
by Ana Maria
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on Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 04:53 AM PDT
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me, right now...? this:
*2005 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz-Cabernet*
The 2005 Koonunga Hill Shiraz ...
by voila
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on Tue May 06, 2008 at 06:20 PM PDT
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This is just a quick summary of a couple of articles in the April 1, 2008 Times Union out of Albany, NY. As oil prices shoot higher and corn/ethanol gets ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 05:17 PM PDT
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This is a copy of an injunction that was delivered at the Port of Tacoma on March 11, 2007.
In an act of civil disobedience, 15 activists crossed a police barricade and delivered the following:
by robolywa
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on Sun Mar 18, 2007 at 02:56 PM PDT
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by torndown
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on Sun Jun 04, 2006 at 03:34 PM PDT
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by a gnostic
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on Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 12:29 PM PST
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by itsenbay
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on Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:49 AM PST
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by jaylassiter
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on Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 09:12 AM PST
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by mdbiscan
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on Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 10:21 AM PST
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