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Senior Scientist: “The rich diversity of species in the Gulf” may be replaced with only “JELLYFISH and BACTERIA”

 

Panel says BP oil spill threatens Gulf’s resources, Gainesville Sun, September 14, 2010

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Independent scientists researching site of BP blowout with two-man submersible — To “see what is REALLY there”

 

Greenpeace’s Gulf investigation continues, looks at effects of BP oil spill on aquatic . . . → Read More: Independent scientists researching site of BP blowout with two-man submersible — To “see what is REALLY there”

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41 YEARS AFTER NEW ENGLAND SPILL: Sampling shows oil 3 to 8 inches below ground — Experts say crude now “PERMANENTLY threatens” affected areas in Gulf

 

Gulf oil spill: After it hit beaches, where did it go?, Christian Science . . . → Read More: 41 YEARS AFTER NEW ENGLAND SPILL: Sampling shows oil 3 to 8 inches below ground — Experts say crude now “PERMANENTLY threatens” affected areas in Gulf

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Ingesting “WATER samples” from Gulf “caused a toxic effect” on marine life — “SOMETHING IS IN THERE” says USF researcher

 

Much work remains on tracking spilled Gulf oil, NOAA chief says, McClatchy, September . . . → Read More: Ingesting “WATER samples” from Gulf “caused a toxic effect” on marine life — “SOMETHING IS IN THERE” says USF researcher

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Pulling the Plug on Vessels of Opportunity

 

Well, that didn’t take long. Only days after BP spill claims czar Kenneth Feinberg announced that payments to Vessels of Opportunity (VOO) workers might not count against their claims settlements, the oil giant has announced the program will end. Just like that. Abrupt to say the least, but I’m sure the timing is pure coincidence. It’s…

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BP Ending Vessel of Opportunity Program In 3 Gulf States

 

Mobile, Alabama – BP is ending the program that hired coastal boats to scout for oil in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi during the Gulf of Mexico spill.(...)Read the rest of BP Ending Vessel of Opportunity Program In 3 Gulf States (102 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by…

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NOAA: Goal is to ‘clean’ beaches so they have 10,000 ppm (1 percent) or less of oil

 

Gulf oil spill: After it hit beaches, where did it go?, Christian Science . . . → Read More: NOAA: Goal is to ‘clean’ beaches so they have 10,000 ppm (1 percent) or less of oil

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Ron Paul: The Second American Revolution Has Begun

Ron Paul The Second American Revolution Has Began

Ron Paul Tells CNN's Anderson Cooper the Second American Revolution has begun saying that present day America is in a revolutionary end of an age like the one that occurred right before the downfall of the Soviet system.

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Garbage truck cameras give new meaning to trash TV

By Laura Baziuk Postmedia News Officials in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley plan to use camera-equipped garbage trucks to film what gets dumped in order to make sure people are recycling properly. Since the introduction last year of a three-bin system, providing garbage, recycling and yard waste bins, waste contamination has become a big problem, said Peter [...]

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NOT a Valdez Flashback — Happening NOW: Workers pressure washing rocks along Alabama jetty with hot water

 

Workers clean oil from Perdido Pass jetties, Press-Register, September 10, 2010:

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BlueBeam? Retired NORAD Officer’s New Book Predicts a Tentative Worldwide UFO Display in October

A newly-published book by a retired NORAD officer predicts October 13, 2010 as the tentative date for a fleet of extraterrestrial vehicles to hover for hours over the earth’s principal cities. Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in [...]

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Paper: Oil seeping into ground risks DRINKING WATER degradation for coastal areas — Buried crude “WILL BE THERE FOR ALL TIME”

 

Gulf oil spill: After it hit beaches, where did it go?, Christian Science . . . → Read More: Report: Crude seeping into ground risks DRINKING WATER degradation for coastal areas — Buried oil “WILL BE THERE FOR ALL TIME”

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Oil still washing up on beaches

 

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Large tar balls are continuing to wash up along Pensacola Beach, even though oil has stopped flowing from BP’s blown out Deep water Horizon well.(...)Read the rest of Oil still washing up on beaches (48 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed…

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Group Demands Investigation into DHS, Long History of Labeling Americans as Terrorists

The Intel Hub DHS has a long history of labeling legitimate activists as potential terrorists. What kind of country is America without freedom of speech? Recently, gas drilling activists, angry about tap water that has the ability to be lit on fire, were targeted as potential terrorists. More and more government agencies are working for [...]

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Initial federal court hearing in BP oil spill is this afternoon

 

The outline of oil spill litigation, which opens this afternoon in federal court in New Orleans, is beginning to take shape.(...)Read the rest of Initial federal court hearing in BP oil spill is this afternoon (740 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

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BP Gulf Oil Spill To Blame For Multiple Massive Fish Kills In Louisiana?

Massive Fish Kill Blankets Louisiana Bayou

While Federal Government officials blame multiple massive fish kills in Louisiana on low oxygen levels the official story doesn't add up and local officials are demanding real testing saying the BP Gulf Oil Spill may be to blame.

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EXPLICIT: “Brown SH*T leaking out of his ears for 4 months”, legs have holes the size of pencils — Dispersant blamed (VIDEO)

 

Spill into Washington, Kindra Arnesen, September 5, 2010:

Rally in Washington D.C.

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Crack in the Armor: Feinberg Finally Urges Businesses to Seek Help From Lawyers With Experience in Large Damage Cases

 

Mr. Feinberg, the $20 billion fund administrator, has reversed his position on lawyer involvement in the claims process. Up to this point, the claims czar had discouraged victims from seeking legal counsel, saying there was no need to do so. Well, he’s changed his tune, as unpaid claims pile up – some 30-odd thousand –…

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I am increasingly of the view as I go forward with this program that the lawyers around this country can play a very valuable role.

 

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Developing – Natural Gas Odor Prompts San Bruno CA School Evacuation

San Bruno Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion Aftermath

Developing - Evacuations Underway after Natural Gas Odor Detected Blocks from Last Week’s San Bruno Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion that killed at least 4 and injured at least 66 people.

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Officials “increasingly worried about sea life kills” happening in oil-affected waters (VIDEO)

 

More testing needed to determine cause of death of thousands of fish, WWL, . . . → Read More: Officials “increasingly worried about sea life kills” happening in oil-affected waters (VIDEO)

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New ruling on claims for spill damage

 

Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, told Florida hotel and restaurant owners he will not impose a “proximity” requirement on those seeking payments for lost business.(...)Read the rest of New ruling on claims for spill damage (182 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post…

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Claims Czar Admits He’s “Under-Delivered” But Will Anything Change?

 

It’s not often you get the literal and figurative at exactly the same time, but that’s what happened when claims czar Kenneth Feinberg addressed several hundred people in Orange Beach, Ala., yesterday (Sept. 15). It’s one thing to say “this process is becoming a joke,” but it’s entirely another when it (literally) turns into a…

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The "National Security" Apparatus Has Been Hijacked to Serve the Needs of Big Business

 

As I noted yesterday:Claims of "national security" are ... used to keep basic financial information - such as who got bailout money - secret. That might not bode for particularly warm and friendly treatment for someone persistently demanding the r...

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Feinberg announces more generous claims process for Florida tourism industry

 

Since he took over the oil spill claims process in August, Kenneth Feinberg has faced criticism from Florida officials who fear the state’s tourism industry wouldn’t be compensated for many of its losses.(...)Read the rest of Feinberg announces more generous claims process for Florida tourism industry (532 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment…

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Rethinking the Process for BP Spill Claims

 

HOUMA, La. — Two months ago, Kenneth R. Feinberg barnstormed the gulf states and visited towns like this one to pledge that once he took over a $20 billion BP fund to compensate people affected by the oil spill, things would change. (...)Read the rest of Rethinking the Process for BP Spill Claims (1,119 words) ©…

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Feinberg Promises Quicker Claims Process (VIDEO)

 

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama – “How could you have blown this so badly?” “Blown what so badly? Blown what so badly?” says Kenneth Feinberg. “First of all, in three weeks I’ve processed 16 thousand claims and185 million dollars has gone out the door. I’ve blown nothing.”(...)Read the rest of Feinberg Promises Quicker Claims Process (VIDEO) (324 words) ©…

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BP Claims Czar Visits FL Atty. Gen. (VIDEO)

 

Thousands of Floridians are still scraping by, waiting on money from BP to make up for the business they lost to the BP oil spill. State officials say the man in charge of a 20 billion dollar fund set up to pay claims is dragging his feet.(...)Read the rest of BP Claims Czar Visits FL…

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Conservation groups unveil plan to restore Gulf oyster reefs, marshes (VIDEO)

 

An ambitious habitat-restoration plan for Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound announced Tuesday would establish 100 miles of oyster reefs and 1,000 acres of marsh wetlands and grass beds over the next five years.(...)Read the rest of Conservation groups unveil plan to restore Gulf oyster reefs, marshes (VIDEO) (475 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No…

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BP ends Vessels of Opportunity program

 

MOBILE, Ala. – The Mobile Incident Command Post for BP PLC announced Wednesday it is ending the Vessels of Opportunity program in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, spokesman Justin Saia said today.(...)Read the rest of BP ends Vessels of Opportunity program (178 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: * Oil spill…

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Orwellian DoubleThink: Illness is Health

Orwellian DoubleThink Series, part 4 By Activist Post The primary duty of the regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring public health in our Orwellian world apparently is to guarantee that we are laced with toxic contaminants and additives.  Whether it is physical or mental health, it has become clear that federal agencies, and even our local municipalities, are [...]

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Blackwater’s Black Ops: Sought to Become Monsanto’s “Intel Arm”

By Jeremy Scahill The Nation Over the  past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, [...]

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Ga. firefighter dead from flesh-eating disease

Associated Press AUGUSTA — A Bryan County volunteer firefighter infected with the so-called flesh-eating disease during a training accident has died. Bryan County Emergency Services Director Jim Anderson identifies the man as Terrell Nielsen. Department officials say he hurt his left arm on June 22 while training and soon began experiencing severe pain, nausea and [...]

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Australian Mainstream News Reports Gulf Disaster Truth, Police State Action in the Gulf

The Intel Hub Wilma Subra, an environmental activist and patriot has documented thousands of cases of sick people in the Gulf. While the corporate news has continually refused to report the truth, people like Wilma and Project Gulf Impact have done everything in their power to document the horrors caused by the toxic combination of [...]

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Big Indian Brother? India Creates National Biometric ID System

GearLog Starting this month, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) will begin the long process of matching each of its billion-plus citizens with a unique ID number. The number will be tied to three pieces of biometric data: fingerprints of all 10 digits, iris scans of both eyes, and facial recognition software. The system [...]

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Lawsuit planned after protesters put on terror list

By Andrew Conte, Mike Wereschagin and Brad Bumsted PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW An activist who believes he was improperly included on a state terror threat list said this morning he is preparing a federal lawsuit. “When people’s civil rights are trampled it’s a federal issue,” said Gene Stilp of Harrisburg, who holds a Virginia law license but [...]

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Former FBI Special Agent Don Adams on The Intel Hub

September 15, 2010 The Intel Hub Radio with Special Guest Former FBI Special Agent Don Adams You can listen to the archive here Donald A. Adams became a Special Agent of the FBI on Sept. 10, 1962. He completed 14 weeks of training in Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va.  Upon completion of training, he returned [...]

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It is clear to me that I over-promised and under-delivered.

 

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Bill Gates Death Panels Tip of Iceberg

Paul Joseph Watson, Kurt Nimmo & Alex Jones Infowars.com Bill Gates’ advocacy for “death panels” has caused controversy amongst conservative commentators, but the real outrage behind the story has been completely overlooked – the fact that Gates is a hardcore eugenicist and has called for lowering the global population through vaccines which his foundation funds [...]

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Oil spill claims czar: ‘I over-promised and under-delivered’

 

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – Oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg promised several hundred people improvements in the speed, generosity and transparency of his program today, but offered few specific examples of actions he would take to accomplish those things.(...)Read the rest of Oil spill claims czar: ‘I over-promised and under-delivered’ (491 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com,…

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Outrage Over Cleanup Worker Health Impacts…And An Inexcusable Lack of Long-Term Monitoring

 

“Outrage” is a word that should be used sparingly when speaking of the BP oil spill and the response to it. When an enormously wealthy multinational corporation repeatedly low-balls oil-flow estimates, pumps 2 million gallons of toxic dispersant into the food chain, drags its feet on paying victim claims while throwing $100 million at PR,…

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Small chip to prevent a pandemic?

By Nicholas Stengade Shultz videnskab.dk **Note: The translation of this article is iffy at best but the information is very important. Researchers hope the technique can be used to prevent pandemics, namely infectious diseases that affect humans or animals over an extensive geographical area. In a few years you may need to be tested for [...]

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WTC Building 7 Press Conference on 9/11/2010

The Intel Hub By TheAvalonRoundTable There is no doubt that 9/11 Truth is gaining ground. During the 9/11 Weekend a large group of courageous Americans gathered at the site of Building 7, World Trade Center, New York. The Press Conference was covered by Gary Franchi of Restore The Republic, lonelantern on YouTube and Realityreport.tv Two [...]

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Secretive Executive Order Establishes ‘Big Brother’ Health Bureaucracy

By Eric Blair Activist Post On June 10th, 2010, amidst the chaotic 24-hour oil spill coverage, Barack Obama quietly signed an Executive Order that some claim lays the foundation for implementing Codex Alimentarius, which is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food [...]

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China Will Allow Credit Default Swaps, As Long As They Are Not Naked

 

I have repeatedly argued that naked credit default swaps should be banned."Naked credit default swaps" is the term coined to describe the situation where the buyer is not the referenced entity.The American government hasn't banned naked CDS. Instead...

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URGENT!!! Obama used oil spill to distract away from his dirty deed

 

URGENT!!! Obama used oil spill to distract away from his dirty deed

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Gulf Oil Refuses to Stay Hidden Underwater

 

BP and the government decided that millions of gallons of dispersants should be used on the Gulf oil spill to sink and hide the oil.They succeeded in sinking it. As ABC, CBS and NPR note, huge quantities of oil are blanketing the ocean floor, killing ...

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Kindra says “oil coming in all over the place”… “Fresh, new oil” is RED, LUMPY, and NOT DISPERSED — “Where is THAT coming from?”(VIDEO)

 

Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio with Kindra Arnesen, September 14, 2010:

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MUST SEE: “That’s NOT a tar ball, that’s A LAYER OF PETROLEUM” — “It’s in every bit of this water in Gulf Shores” (VIDEO)

 

West Beach Pass, Gulf Shores- BP Oil is underwater, James C. Fox, September . . . → Read More: MUST SEE: “That’s NOT a tar ball, that’s A LAYER OF PETROLEUM” — “It’s in every bit of this water in Gulf Shores” (VIDEO)

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The worst part is the empty promises. You fight and fight, thinking that help is just around the corner.

 

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