Six Months After the Spill, Oil and Money in the Gulf
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BP to pay $20 million for seafood inspections, marketing
BP to pay $20 million for seafood inspections, marketing Destin Log Original Article TALLAHASSEE – Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson announce...
Slow Claims Processing Shuts Down Auto Shop (VIDEO)
Slow Claims Processing Shuts Down Auto Shop (VIDEO) WEAR-TV Original Article DESTIN – One month ago today, the man in charge of oil spill claims promised quicker and bigger payments...
How Did the Banks Get Away With Pledging Mortgages to Multiple Buyers?
I've repeatedly documented that mortgages were pledged multiple times to different buyers. See this, this and this.In response, some people (including one of the country's top bankruptcy lawyers) have told me they don't buy it.Specifically, they a...
Environmental group says oil is still out there in the Gulf
Environmental group says oil is still out there in the Gulf Associated Press Original Article NEW ORLEANS – Greenpeace says it disagrees with official statements that say most of th...
Federal investigative panel gets 60-day extension until March to issue Gulf oil spill report
Federal investigative panel gets 60-day extension until March to issue Gulf oil spill report By Harry R. Weber Associated Press Original Article MIAMI – A federal panel investiga...
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War "Based On a Series of Lies"
In his recently published memoir, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior," General Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, called the Iraq war "unnecessary" and said that the Bush team w...
BP is continuing to point the finger at everyone but themselves. Since this disaster began, BP has stood for ‘Blame Passed.’
BP is continuing to point the finger at everyone but themselves. Since this disaster began, BP has stood for ‘Blame Passed.’ U.S. Rep. Ed Markey hammers BP CEO Dudley for blaming media for stoking spill fear...
BP CEO slams media, rivals for stoking spill fears
BP CEO slams media, rivals for stoking spill fears Reuters Original Article LONDON (Reuters) – BP’s new chief executive said its rivals and the media had helped cause a climat...
NEWS ALERT: Feds Are Allowing BP to Leave Oil on Gulf Beaches
NEWS ALERT: Feds Are Allowing BP to Leave Oil on Gulf Beaches Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, a “plan” has surfaced to intentionally abandon oil-cleaning efforts on some beaches that are c...
Clearly, there appears to be vast volumes of oil present on the seafloor.
Clearly, there appears to be vast volumes of oil present on the seafloor. Kevin Yeager, assistant professor of marine sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
More Injuries Reported for BP Oil Spill Wildlife Cleanup Workers (FULL EVALUATION)
More Injuries Reported for BP Oil Spill Wildlife Cleanup Workers (FULL EVALUATION) Environmental Protection Online Original Article In June and July 2010, the National Institute for O...
BP’s Dudley Defends Spill Response
BP’s Dudley Defends Spill Response By James Herron WSJ Original Article LONDON—BP PLC’s new Chief Executive Bob Dudley on Monday launched a robust defense of his comp...
Cleanup plan allows oil from Gulf spill to be left behind
Cleanup plan allows oil from Gulf spill to be left behind By Ben Raines Press-Register Original Article Anyone hoping for total removal of all the oil deposited on beaches and mars...
NEWS ALERT: More Independent Scientists Report “Vast Volumes of Oil Present on Seafloor”; Independent Research AGAIN Directly Contradicts NOAA/Coast Guard Findings
NEWS ALERT: More Independent Scientists Report “Vast Volumes of Oil Present on Seafloor”; Independent Research AGAIN Directly Contradicts NOAA/Coast Guard Findings Well, it seems we’ve got yet another nati...
Is Unemployment as Bad as During the Great Depression?
It is difficult to compare current unemployment with that during the Great Depression. In the Depression, unemployment numbers weren't tracked very consistently, and the U-3 and U-6 statistics we use today weren't used back then. And statistical "ad...
Research teams find oil on bottom of Gulf
Research teams find oil on bottom of Gulf By Rick Jervis USA Today Original Article NEW ORLEANS — Scientists who were aboard two research vessels studying the Gulf of Mexico oil ...
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Confirmed Fish Kill on Grand Isle; “Overpowering Stench of Death and Decay” Coming From BP “Death Mounds”
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Confirmed Fish Kill on Grand Isle; “Overpowering Stench of Death and Decay” Coming From BP “Death Mounds” On the ground with New Orleans photographer Jerry Moran. FROM JERRY: All of...
Professors Black and Wray Confirm that Bear Pledged the Same Mortgage to Multiple Buyers
I have repeatedly pointed out that mortgages were pledged to multiple buyers at the same time. See this and this.Today, in another must-read piece, economics professors William Black and L. Randall Wray confirm:Several banks would go after the same ...
Riki Ott: ‘People Now Dropping Dead’ In the Gulf
The Intel Hub By Shepard Ambellas On the sixth month anniversary of the oil disaster in the gulf, we are still seeing a total media blackout. According to Riki Ott “The people that did evacuate (the gulf) are glad they did” And for good reason.” The people particularly in Grand Isle have been poisoned by [...]
Should BP’s Money Go Where the Oil Didn’t?
Should BP’s Money Go Where the Oil Didn’t? By David Segal New York Times Original Article ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. – In late April, a week after the BP oil spill began, Keith Ove...
Are the Entrepreneurs Long Gone?
The Intel Hub By J. Speer-Williams Like swans of legend, our once esteemed American entrepreneurs sing their final, beautiful Swan Song before they just fade away, thus tearing open the heart of our country. Our unsung entrepreneurial heroes of America are no longer part of the national discourse, even though they were the ones who [...]
I’ve never seen algae that looked orange, that was sticky, smelled like oil and that stuck to the boat and had to be cleaned off with solvent.
I’ve never seen algae that looked orange, that was sticky, smelled like oil and that stuck to the boat and had to be cleaned off with solvent. Gulf boat captain reputing Coast Guard claim that expanse of oil sight...
Interest Turns Away, But Gulf Coast Still Suffers
Interest Turns Away, But Gulf Coast Still Suffers Neal Conan NPR Original Article Six months ago, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, few rea...
Environmentalists sue to reinstate drilling ban
Environmentalists sue to reinstate drilling ban Houma Today Original Article HOUMA — An environmental group has filed a lawsuit seeking to reinstate the federal deepwater drilling b...
No Evidence Gulf Oil Spill Killed Fish, Says NOAA
No Evidence Gulf Oil Spill Killed Fish, Says NOAA By Fred Lucas CNS News Original Article (CNSNews.com) – There is no evidence the Deep Water Horizon oil spill killed any fish, a...
California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May Be Time For Everyone To Leave The State Of California For Good
The Economic Collapse Blog Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a seemingly endless parade of pop songs about how great life was in California, and millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to the land of sandy beaches and golden sunshine. But now all of that has changed. Today, millions of Californians are [...]
Zionist Patsy Adam Gadahn Calls For Terror Attacks In Multiple Cities
Editors Note: Adam Gadahn, the grandson of former Anti-Defamation League board member Carl K. Pearlman, is a complete patsy, trained by rogue elements of the Mossad to help further the fraudulent war on terror. The ADL was caught spying on the United States in 1993 and openly works for the interests of Zionist Israel. Sadly, [...]
Lawsuit Alleges that MERS Owes California a Potential $60-120 Billion in Unpaid Land-Recording Fees
Former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani notes:In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country - for much of its history - has relied upon to determine legal ownership status of land titleholders.Not only ...
Gulf Oil Spill: Mission Accomplished or Ongoing Crisis?
The corporate media has almost entirely stopped covering the Gulf oil spill.Many have tried to say that the effects of the spill are not nearly as bad as feared, and that everything is pretty much cleaned up and back to normal.But today, it is widely b...
NEWS ALERT: “Massive Stretches” of Oil Near Marshes Directly Contradicts Coast Guard Report
NEWS ALERT: “Massive Stretches” of Oil Near Marshes Directly Contradicts Coast Guard Report The Times-Picayune is reporting that “miles-long strands” of oil have been spotted near Mississippi River m...
Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf of Mexico
Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf of Mexico By Bob Marshall Times-Picayune Original Article Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP ...
NEWS ALERT: New Test Results Confirm Presence of Corexit 9500A in Mississippi Sound
NEWS ALERT: New Test Results Confirm Presence of Corexit 9500A in Mississippi Sound The results are in – and they’re disturbing. The water samples our research team took on August 10, 2010 from Mississippi Sound con...
Federal Government Intimidates More Independent Researchers
Federal Government Intimidates More Independent Researchers In many cases, you can give the federal government the benefit of the doubt and decide its actions are primarily just wrong-headed, rather than intentionally damag...
Oil spill aftermath: Are consumers still loyal to Gulf shrimp? (VIDEO)
Oil spill aftermath: Are consumers still loyal to Gulf shrimp? (VIDEO) WLOX Original Article HATTIESBURG, MS (WLOX) – A team of University of Southern Mississippi business experts i...
NOAA reopens 7,000 more square miles for fishing in the Gulf (MAP)
NOAA reopens 7,000 more square miles for fishing in the Gulf (MAP) By Chris Kirkham Times-Picayune Original Article The federal government has reopened an additional 7,000 square m...
Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon, Sen. Richard Shelby discuss claims process
Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon, Sen. Richard Shelby discuss claims process By Guy Busby Press-Register Original Article ORANGE BEACH, Alabama – While more businesses are receivin...
Haiti: Outbreak 140 Dead Thousands Sick As Death Toll Rises
The Intel Hub By Shepard Ambellas There has been a major outbreak of Cholera in Haiti as confirmed by the BBC. The region has been bombarded by disaster since the powerful quake that claimed 250,000 lives this year. 1.5 million people have been rendered homeless and things have gotten worse. The scene in Haiti looks [...]
70% Of All Stock Market Trades Are Held for An Average of 11 SECONDS
The Fourteenth Banker writes today:In the stock market, program trading dominates volume. I heard recently that 70% of trade positions are held for an average of 11 seconds. He's correct.As the New York Times dealbook noted in May:These are short-term...
Genetically Modified Foods and the Monsanto Initiative
S. Paul Forrest Activist Post Deception, manipulation, propaganda and profit: These words have become the basis of the American corporate and political landscape without any seeming concern or guilt over their promulgation. One company in particular, which seems to be the iconographic example of this is Monsanto; or so go the claims today by the [...]
Christopher Whalen: Freddie and Fannie Helped to Create Epidemic of Mortgage Fraud
Chris Whalen (co-founder of Institutional Risk Analytics) knows a thing or two about banking and mortgages. Whalen has been hailed by Nouriel Roubini as one of the leading independent analysts of the U.S. banking system, and there are few people who...
We’re seeing the ripple effects of the oil spill and the cessation of fishing activities right through the economy.
We’re seeing the ripple effects of the oil spill and the cessation of fishing activities right through the economy. Director Iray Nabatoff, Community Center of St. Bernard, a charity helping spill victims ...
Just What BP Always Wanted: Confusing and Complicated Claims Process Causes Victims to Walk Away
Just What BP Always Wanted: Confusing and Complicated Claims Process Causes Victims to Walk Away We’ve seen plenty of flip-flops on BP damage claims: Real estate sales losses were not going to be covered, until they g...
Grand Isle beach clean-up continues, six months after oil spill began (VIDEO)
Grand Isle beach clean-up continues, six months after oil spill began (VIDEO) By Maya Rodriguez/Eyewitness News WWL-TV Original Article GRAND ISLE, La. – Six months after the sta...
Oil-spill claim deadline is approaching
Oil-spill claim deadline is approaching By Naomi King Houma Today Original Article HOUMA — The deadline is nearing for residents to obtain a new oil-spill claim number from the g...
Oil spill claims: Alabama Realtors get $7.5 million for lost business
Oil spill claims: Alabama Realtors get $7.5 million for lost business By Kathy Jumper Press-Register Original Article Alabama Realtors have received $7,511,516.53 from a fund set a...
Why the Terrorists are Winning and We’re Losing
Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com.Everyone knows that only Muslim-lovers and left-wing peaceniks want to stop the wars in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries, that terrorism is caused by Muslim ideology, and that we're fighting them "o...
Gulf Coast Charities Can’t Keep Up with Demand for Help
Gulf Coast Charities Can’t Keep Up with Demand for Help Perhaps the “Mission Accomplished” perception being pushed by our federal government and certain business boosters is relatively harmless – why not...
Alabama real estate claims information hard to come by
Alabama real estate claims information hard to come by By Dan Murtaugh Press-Register Original Article MOBILE, Ala. – More than two months after $15 million was set aside for Ala...
Judge: Drilling Safety Rules Improperly Issued
Judge: Drilling Safety Rules Improperly Issued Associated Press Original Article Tuesday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman says the rules imposed in a June 8 notice...
