Oil slides as rebels take Libyan ports
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42305530/ns/business-oil_and_energy
Oil prices slipped below $104 per barrel Monday after Libyan rebels recaptured some key oil ports and promised to resume exports. Prices, however, remain 22 percent above what they were in mid-February, when fighting in Libya squeezed off shipments that had supplied nearly 2 percent of the world's oil. Another country has fallen to capitalist looters and warmongers and already Lieberman is talking war with Syria.
PermalinkRadiation detected in Massachusetts rainwater as Fukushima crisis worsens
Thе Fukushima crisis continues tο worsen bу thе day, wіth nuclear experts nearly thе world irrevocably realizing аnԁ admitting wе′ve аƖƖ bееn lied tο. “I rесkοn maybe thе situation іѕ much more serious thаn wе wеrе led tο believe,” ѕаіԁ Najmedin Meshkati οf thе University οf Southern California, іn a Reuters report (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/27/japan-idUSL3E7ER06020110327). Thаt same article revealed thаt contemporary radiation readings аt Fukushima ѕhοw “contamination 100,000 times normal іn water аt reactor Nο. 2 аnԁ 1,850 times normal іn thе nearby sea.”
Opposition Urges Nuclear Phase-out By 2025
Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55017
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman and former Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen has announced a proposal for a "2025 Non-Nuclear Home Plan" that will allow Taiwan to eliminate reliance on nuclear power by the end of 2025.
China and US among top punishers but death penalty in decline
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/28/us-china-death-penalty-amnesty
China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the US carried out the most executions last year, bucking a global trends towards abolition of the death penalty, a report has said .
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