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As a Bostonian, even I find this disturbing.

Interesting aside: Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. Bayou Lee thinks that’s why he doesn’t come across as “handled” like much of the rest of the media.

Edward James Olmos (yep.. Captain Admiral Adama), is in Louisiana trying to figure out what’s going on.

Sadly it sounds like “not much”.

Louisiana residents filed a suit on June 17th claiming that the Nalco dispersant, Corexit, is actually four times more toxic than the oil itself.

Nalco appears to be part of the Blackstone Group, Apollo Management, and — big surprise — Goldman Sachs. Lucky for them it’s a bull market for environmental disaster.

The Huffington Post is doing a good job of keeping on top of the Kill Switch. The kill switch concept was originally part of the Bush2-era Project for a New American Century where they called for increased control over space and cyberspace. Which is essentially increased control over the flow of information and populations.

A cyber kill switch would be a prerequisite for any kind of martial law declaration.

The attempt at a top kill appears to have failed as experts predicted:

It would also appear that the live feed is actually a considerably more mild leak — more palatable, I suppose. A fake. Like the cleanup workers BP had bussed in for the president.

Enough is enough. Boycott BP.

John Perkins, reformed Economic Hitman, just posted this animation from Studio Joho to his Twitter feed. It’s brilliant.

And yet very little talk of gold on this continent…

With the new version of Cygwin, SSH suddenly doesn’t seem to phone $HOME anymore.  Which is usually going to be set to something like c:\Users\<username>.  In general Cygwin is supposed to look at $HOME first and then use alternative home settings, such as /etc/passwd.

The quick fix is to make sure the relevant entry in /etc/passwd matches what you have in $HOME.