MARABA, Brazil — Poor workers in Brazil’s Amazon cut a key road through the vast forest Thursday to protest insecurity in the wake of recent murders of activists trying to preserve the region from illegal ranchers and loggers. Around 200 members of the Landless Worker Movement barred the Transamazonica highway…
At bottom: Former Cheney firm Halliburton made repairs to sunken rig, is now ‘assisting with the investigation’; Bill Maher Tweet suggests all “drill, baby, drill assholes” should help clean mess While there’s not yet any indication as to what caused the disasterous explosion that sunk a British Petrolium drilling platform…