Press**Watch: War gusher!

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Thu, 05/20/2010 - 12:00am
BP Gulf disaster, economic crash, mideast failures--distract the public with another war?

Theresa Mitchell with the "news you're not supposed to know:"  There's trouble in the pipeline.  New analysis of the BP gusher video shows that the Gulf of Mexico is being poisoned at the rate of four million gallons of sludge per day, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that the crap will be circulating around Florida.  Meanwhile the Afghan War and the occupation of Iraq are going south fast, and the patches on the economy that supposedly stopped the progress of the new Great Depression are pulling apart.  To Washington planners, this can only mean one thing:  it's time to start a new war.  The War on Terror isn't doing the job of distracting people well enough, because the most the corporate-owned media can come up with is the Shoe Bomber and the Butt Bomber and the occasional berserker.  Even the big story of the Several Scary Not-White Guys Who Thought About Bombing The Sears Tower After The FBI Bought Them Boots –well, it turned out not to be so big.  Fortunately there are the old favorites, North Korea and Iran, to scare people with. More also on Theresa's Blog:  http://kboo.fm/node/21598 

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