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We feel the system is being clogged up and it needs to give some priority for fishermen.

 

We feel the system is being clogged up and it needs to give some priority for fishermen. Tom Costanza, Catholic Charities' director of justice and peace

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Poll: Coastal Alabamians fear oil spill caused permanent damage to Gulf

 

Poll: Coastal Alabamians fear oil spill caused permanent damage to Gulf By Casandra Andrews Press-Register Original Article MOBILE, Alabama — A poll conducted in southern Mob...

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Oil cleanup continues in Plaquemines Parish

 

Oil cleanup continues in Plaquemines Parish Oil hasn’t flowed from BP’s Macondo well in almost three months, but cleanup efforts continue in area parishes. Crews in Plaquemines Parish collected more than 37,000 ...

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Get Some Money from BP? A Scammer Might Be Right Behind You

 

Get Some Money from BP? A Scammer Might Be Right Behind You By Joanna Chung Wall Street Journal Original Article Where there are big piles of money, scam artists are often not far ...

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AP Enterprise: BP stations consider other brands

 

AP Enterprise: BP stations consider other brands By Harry R. Weber Associated Press Original Article NEW ORLEANS — Oil has stopped spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but BP rem...

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Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg passes $1 billion mark

 

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg passes $1 billion mark By David Hammer Times-Picayune Original Article Independent oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg ...

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Nearly Half of All Americans Believe "The Federal Government Poses An Immediate Threat To The Rights And Freedoms Of Ordinary Citizens"

 

Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com.A new Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans view the government as too powerful and obtrusive.The poll found:59% of Americans now believe the federal government has too much power46% believe "the...

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United We Strike Radio Marathon – Join Us, Support Unity!

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The Intel Hub Join us Friday, October 15th on the United We Strike Radio Marathon. The Intel Hub Radio is happy to announce that our show  will be involved with the marathon. Guests and Hosts include Bill Still, Mike Rivero Matt Smith, Chris Geo, Adrian Salbuchi and many more. Hosts and guests from around the [...]

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UFO Sightings in New York As Crowds of People Stare Into The Sky. Confirmed by Multiple News Networks

The Intel Hub We normally wouldn’t cover a set of UFO sightings but seeing as a retired NORAD officer claimed that their would be an alien invasion today this seemed very important to document. Stay tuned for updates as they come in. It is very possible that this is a beta test for some sort [...]

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What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?

 

You've heard the name "MERS" mentioned in relation to the foreclosure problems in the residential real estate market.But what is MERS?It is the company created and owned by all of the big banks to process title to property in the U.S. Approximately 60...

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Oil Remains at Fort Morgan (VIDEO)

 

Oil Remains at Fort Morgan (VIDEO) By Debbie Williams WKRG Original Article “I hope we haven’t messed up something for a long time,” says Calvin King from Staplet...

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Scientists find dead zone in Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana, Mississippi coast

 

Scientists find dead zone in Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana, Mississippi coast By Chris Kirkham Times-Picayune Original Article The sprawling band of lifeless ocean water known as ...

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BP mum on future plans in Gulf after lifting of offshore drilling moratorium

 

BP mum on future plans in Gulf after lifting of offshore drilling moratorium Associated Press Original Article NEW YORK — BP won’t say whether it will seek new permits to dril...

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Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese

Editors Note: As the big banks continue their push to control our food supply, occurrences like this will become more and more common. People who stand up to the FDA and their Monsanto thugs are basically considered terrorists. Without Food Freedom we have no freedom! Our health should not be put in the hands of [...]

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The After-the-Fed Solutions Debate Begins: Greenbackers vs. Goldbugs

Eric Blair Activist Post The battle to expose the Federal Reserve has been long and arduous. It finally appears that after nearly 100 years of absolute economic control and near complete debasement of the dollar, the Fed’s reign may be coming to an end. Its eventual demise is certain according to Black Swan author Nassim [...]

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BP Is Paying “Independent” Claims Czar Ken Feinberg $850,000 a Month For What Many Call Sub-Par Performance

 

BP Is Paying “Independent” Claims Czar Ken Feinberg $850,000 a Month For What Many Call Sub-Par Performance Somebody was bound to get the scoop on what BP is paying Kenneth Feinberg, since it’s been months...

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Lax Oil Industry Regulation Is “No Surprise” But the Extent of the Lapses Is Becoming a Big Concern

 

Lax Oil Industry Regulation Is “No Surprise” But the Extent of the Lapses Is Becoming a Big Concern Just as we lament the departure of national media from the BP Oil Spill story, along comes the Wall Street Jour...

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Drilling moratorium lifted, questions remain on when work will resume

 

Drilling moratorium lifted, questions remain on when work will resume By Jonathan Tilove Times-Picayune Original Article WASHINGTON – The Obama administration lifted the moratori...

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Vaccine Damages Are No One’s Illusion

IMVA Dr. Mark Sircus India has seen three vaccine disasters in 2010, resulting in four deaths after the measles vaccine and six deaths after the HPV vaccine, so is it any wonder that the citizens of India are wary of having the H1N1 vaccine? The Indian public is not alone in refusing the vaccine, as [...]

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Obama to lift drilling moratorium, sources say

 

Obama to lift drilling moratorium, sources say CNN Original Article The Obama administration today will lift the deepwater drilling moratorium that was put in place in the wake of the...

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Oil still in coastal Terrebonne marshes (VIDEO)

 

Oil still in coastal Terrebonne marshes (VIDEO) By Bill Capo/Action Report WWL-TV Original Article TERREBONNE, La. – The flock of pelicans taking flight along the shore of Lake R...

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Falling property values could hurt Baldwin County schools, governments

 

Falling property values could hurt Baldwin County schools, governments By Dan Murtaugh Press-Register Original Article Baldwin County schools and local governments, already trying ...

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As Spill Coverage Fades, People Remain Hungry for Information

 

As Spill Coverage Fades, People Remain Hungry for Information Reporter Jay Reeves and his Associated Press colleagues have an important story that went viral this holiday weekend with a telling headline we knew we’d s...

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After oil spill, Alabama, Mississippi landowners paid to create artificial marshes

 

After oil spill, Alabama, Mississippi landowners paid to create artificial marshes By George Altman Press-Register Original Article WASHINGTON — Alabama and Mississippi are payin...

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CONFIRMED: Court Did Rely on Oath Keeper Association to Take Baby

Stewart Rhodes OathKeepers There has been some confusion about this case, leading some commentators to believe that the reference to John Irish’s “association” with Oath Keepers was in some other document, rather than in the affidavit relied on by the Court’s Order.  Alex Jones’ site, in an effort to protect the privacy of the family, [...]

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CONFIRMED: Court Did Rely on Oath Keeper Association to Take Baby

Stewart Rhodes OathKeepers There has been some confusion about this case, leading some commentators to believe that the reference to John Irish’s “association” with Oath Keepers was in some other document, rather than in the affidavit relied on by the Court’s Order.  Alex Jones’ site, in an effort to protect the privacy of the family, [...]

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There’s Money in That Old Quilt; Then and Now, The Difference in American Leadership

Spending Cuts Are Meaningless Without Transparency Into The Shadow U.S. Government Run By The Federal Reserve

The Intel Hub By J. Speer-Williams “No thief will ever guess that we have $10,000 sewn into Grandma’s old quilt,” said Mrs. Donner to her three girls and husband, after dinner, one cold night, while in their warm and comfortable living room. In early 1846, the wealthy Illinois family of George and Tamsen Donner, with [...]

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420 banks demand 1-world currency

By Jerome Corsi WND The Institute of International Finance, a group that represents 420 of the world’s largest banks and finance houses, has issued yet another call for a one-world global currency, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports. “A core group of the world’s leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding,” Charles [...]

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Foreclosure-Gate

The Economic Collapse Blog If you work in the mortgage industry or for a title insurer, you might not want to make any plans for the next six months.  Foreclosure-Gate is about to explode.  It is being alleged that many prominent mortgage lenders have been using materially flawed paperwork to evict homeowners.  Apparently officials at quite a [...]

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Debunking The DOJ’s Hit Piece, Part 3: Assault on The Second Amendment

Richard Anatone Activist Post (NOTE: In light of recent events with CPS taking the newborn child away from a couple merely because the father was affiliated with Oath Keepers, which the affidavit incorrectly labels a militia, it is all the more clear that the Second Amendment is the target of the Ruling Class.  It is [...]

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Inspectors Rarely Surprised Oil Rigs

 

Inspectors Rarely Surprised Oil Rigs By Russell Gold WSJ Original Article Surprise inspections of deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico dwindled to about three a year over ...

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White House Blocked Oil Spill Figures

 

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BP paid Feinberg $2.5M

 

BP paid Feinberg $2.5M NY Post Original Article Kenneth Feinberg and his law firm have been paid more than $2.5 million in 3½ months to administer the $20 billion fund set up by BP P...

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Panhandle Tourism Officials Blame Losses On Spill

 

Panhandle Tourism Officials Blame Losses On Spill Associated Press Original Article Compared with August 2009, tax revenue from short-term rentals declined 27 percent in Walton County...

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Not Waiting on BP to Help the Children of Plaquemines Parish

 

Not Waiting on BP to Help the Children of Plaquemines Parish As BP continues to abandon Gulf communities and the U.S. government tries to defend its disastrous “vast majority of oil is gone” moments, cash-strapp...

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The Emperor’s Spokesman Has No Clothes

As Gallup notes, trust in the corporate media is at an all-time low.Much of the loss of trust is due to the media's selling of Iraq war lies and covering up the severity of the financial crisis.Here are two essays I wrote - the first from a year ago, ...

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Is Iran Playing Geopolitical Chess with 9-11, and Winning?

Eric Blair Activist Post Let’s set up the geopolitical chess board for a moment.  Iran is rogue nation according to the Western world.  Which basically means that they sit on a sea of oil and don’t comply with the demands of the Western-based multinational oil firms.  Iran has also made strong alliances with America’s oil-thirsty [...]

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US Banks Fake Documents to Rush Foreclosures

Tom Eley Global Research Major US banks systematically faked documents in order to speed up foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, a mounting body of evidence shows. It appears likely that federal and state laws were broken in the process. The scandal speaks both to the dimensions of the social crisis and the criminality [...]

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Chemtrail Activity Stops Globally on 10/10/10?

The Intel Hub By The Avalon Round Table Reports are surfacing by the hundreds that today, Sunday, October 10, 2010 (10-10-10), that there is a complete stop of Chemtrail Activity Globally. The majority of these reports are video reports posted on YouTube. The nearly universal Blue Skies that people are so unaccustomed to seeing are [...]

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What’s Really Happening Down on the Gulf Coast? Gap Between What Local Residents Are Reporting and Accounts from Outside “Experts” Clouds Truth

 

What’s Really Happening Down on the Gulf Coast? Gap Between What Local Residents Are Reporting and Accounts from Outside “Experts” Clouds Truth The Destin Log newspaper out of Florida continues to do a hel...

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BP put profits over safety

 

BP put profits over safety Times-Picayune Editorial Page Staff Original Article In the months since the Macondo well blowout and the subsequent Gulf oil spill, BP executives have reje...

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America Moves On From Spill; Coast Feels Abandoned

 

America Moves On From Spill; Coast Feels Abandoned Associated Press Original Article The environmental and economic crisis doesn’t dominate news coverage like it did just a few ...

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Big Public Oil Spill Forum At Loyola University Today (Oct. 10)!

 

Big Public Oil Spill Forum At Loyola University Today (Oct. 10)! The Intel Hub Original Article Project Gulf Impact founders Matt Smith, Gavin Garrison, and Heather Rally will be spea...

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Forensic Testing of Failed Blowout Preventer: Delay, Delay, Delay

 

Forensic Testing of Failed Blowout Preventer: Delay, Delay, Delay Believe it or not, forensic testing of the blowout preventer that failed in the BP oil spill has not yet begun – and it’s been about a month now sinc...

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Legislative committee to address oil spill’s impact on seafood, environment

 

Legislative committee to address oil spill’s impact on seafood, environment By Cathy Hughes Times-Picayune Original Article The national news media may have moved on from reg...

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America’s Third World Economy

The Intel Hub Paul Craig Roberts For a number of years I reported on the monthly nonfarm payroll jobs data. The data did not support the praises economists were singing to the “New Economy.” The “New Economy” consisted, allegedly, of financial services, innovation, and high-tech services. This economy was taking the place of the old [...]

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Mobile health clinic coming to Plaquemines

 

Mobile health clinic coming to Plaquemines By Janet McConnaughey Associated Press Original Article NEW ORLEANS — A new mobile health clinic is bringing a pediatrician to lower Pl...

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Federal On Scene Coordinator Looks At Seafood Sampling (VIDEO)

 

Federal On Scene Coordinator Looks At Seafood Sampling (VIDEO) By Chad Petri WKRG Original Article Today we’re heading to an area about 12 miles into the gulf – it’s ...

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New oil spill claimants line up after money starts rolling in

 

New oil spill claimants line up after money starts rolling in By Dan Murtaugh Press-Register Original Article Thirty-five thousand new claimants applied for compensation from the G...

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Obama’s Environmental Czar Cuts and Runs from “Vast Majority of Oil Is Gone” Statement

 

Obama’s Environmental Czar Cuts and Runs from “Vast Majority of Oil Is Gone” Statement Ever wonder why “real” TV news doesn’t just play back what people said before they reversed themselv...

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