It’s been flowing nonstop out of cracks in the ground. It’s smelly, currently covers 10 square miles and is 20 feet deep in some places. No one knows how to stop it.

A drilling company, “the politically connected” Lapindo Brantas, has taken responsibility for it, but won’t say why. Police are investigating. Some say the company is dumping the toxic water into a river without treating it first. Compounding the problems, the weight of retaining ponds for the slime are causing new flows.

Sounds like a bad horror movie, doesn’t it?

PS The same thing happened here in L.A. in February (on a vastly reduced scale.) A drilling company had been pumping hot water into the ground to force oil out, and instead got ooze. Manhole covers popped off, and a building was dislodged from its foundation.

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It’s not just Lieberman anymore

(Still think there’s a difference between the two?)

P.S.

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Payments ranged from $15,000 to almost $175,000. Two have already been been fired. The payments came from the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting who runs Radio and TV Marti.

But you can’t listen to Marti in the US, it’s illegal.

Their programming cannot be broadcast within the United States because of anti-propaganda laws.

The Miami Herald broke the story.

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Violence skyrockets under U.S.-backed UN occupation

This being the very same occupation that was supposed to, y’know, end the mayhem while restoring democracy. Except that Haiti already had a democracy. Then the US invaded, overthrew the government, and presided over (and caused) a huge increase in violence. A familiar tale indeed.

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