Idiot Washington Post Calls for War With Iran to Save America’s Economy
As many writers have documented, the corporate media is always pro-war. See this.And so Washington Post hack David Broder's op-ed arguing that war with Iran will save America's economy is not all that surprising.Of course, China and Russia might not ...
Bank of England Head Mervyn King Proposes Eliminating Fractional Reserve Banking
Mervyn King - the governor of the Bank of England - has proposed abolishing fractional reserve banking.As the BBC noted last week:Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has tonight made a big intervention into the debate on banking reform. ...
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Louisiana oyster industry struggles to cope with oil spill, coastal restoration efforts
Louisiana oyster industry struggles to cope with oil spill, coastal restoration efforts By Chris Kirkham Times-Picayune Original Article After five years and four hurricanes, 2010 ...
Oil Industry Watchdogs: BP’s Other Major Production Platform in Gulf Is a “Ticking Time Bomb”
Oil Industry Watchdogs: BP’s Other Major Production Platform in Gulf Is a “Ticking Time Bomb” Mother Jones magazine has one of the strongest arguments to date for re-installing a moratorium on deep-water o...
Frontline, ProPublica Examine BP’s Dismal Safety Record and Gulf Oil Spill
Frontline, ProPublica Examine BP’s Dismal Safety Record and Gulf Oil Spill You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Checking the cement job at BP’s well
Checking the cement job at BP’s well Editorial Staff Times-Picayune Original Article Probes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill have already found num...
Cementing, Mainstay of Oil Drilling, Is Prone to Failure
Cementing, Mainstay of Oil Drilling, Is Prone to Failure By Russell Gold & Ben Casselman WSJ Original Article Cementing, a crucial step in drilling safely for oil or natural gas, i...
The payments have shut off, denials are going up, and we have no communication and no answers.
The payments have shut off, denials are going up, and we have no communication and no answers. Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon on claims process
Gulf oil spill claims complaints rise as payments slow
Gulf oil spill claims complaints rise as payments slow By Dan Murtaugh Press-Register Original Article MOBILE, Ala. – After a flurry of large payouts in late September and early ...
Michael Hudson: Debt Grows Exponentially, While the Economy Only Grows In An S-Curve
Michael Hudson is a highly-regarded economist. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments as well as the United Nations Institute for Trai...
War: A Desire for More Cows
Sometimes foreign languages can make things clear.For example, the word for "war" in the ancient Sanskrit language (dating to 1200 BC) literally means:A desire for more cows.Simple. Your neighbor has more cows than you have, you want to take his resour...
Mountains of Uncertainty Surround New NOAA, FDA Seafood Testing
Mountains of Uncertainty Surround New NOAA, FDA Seafood Testing It must come as quite a surprise to more casual BP spill observers that NOAA and the FDA are proudly announcing a test for detecting dispersant in seafood – ...
Latest Claims Facility Reversal Is Good News: Victims May Receive Interim Payments Over Next Three Years and Still Retain Legal Rights
Latest Claims Facility Reversal Is Good News: Victims May Receive Interim Payments Over Next Three Years and Still Retain Legal Rights In a region desperately grasping for some financial clarity, the Gulf Coast Claims Facil...
Gulf oil spill: fish safety test unveiled
Gulf oil spill: fish safety test unveiled LA Times Original Article While government investigators, BP and Halliburton argue over the integrity of the well cement used last April in t...
Judge orders test on Halliburton cement in BP well
Judge orders test on Halliburton cement in BP well Associated Press Original Article NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge is ordering tests to be performed as soon as possible on cement Ha...
Tests showed unstable cement in gulf oil well before explosion
Tests showed unstable cement in gulf oil well before explosion By Steven Mufson Washington Post Original Article A cement mixture intended to temporarily seal BP’s Macondo ex...
Fraud Caused the 1930s Depression and the Current Financial Crisis
Robert Shiller - one of the top housing experts in the United States - says that the mortgage fraud is a lot like the fraud which occurred during the Great Depression. As Fortune notes:Shiller said the danger of foreclosuregate -- the scandal in whic...
Feinberg says oil spill claimants can get interim payments and still sue BP
Feinberg says oil spill claimants can get interim payments and still sue BP Associated Press Original Article TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Independent claims administrator Ken Feinberg sa...
The Founding Fathers’ Vision of Prosperity Has Been Destroyed
Paintings by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com.The Founding Fathers not only fought for liberty and justice, they also fought for a sound economy and freedom from the tyranny of big banks:"[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the Engli...
