Distractions hampered Deepwater Horizon safety monitoring, contractor says
Distractions hampered Deepwater Horizon safety monitoring, contractor says Associated Press Original Article Workers had difficulty monitoring key data during a critical time in the f...
FBI Sends Bomb-Sniffing Dogs To Peaceful Protest Against State Kidnapping of Newborn
The Intel Hub Imagine the horror felt by Stephanie Janvrin and Johnathon Irish when their newborn baby was kidnapped with the help of the very people that they had trusted with the birth of their child. Apparently if a parent has an affiliation with the Oath Keepers it gives the the state the authority to [...]
There is Only One Way Out of the Foreclosure Crisis
We're the fish.The giant "too big to fail" banks are the bird. They've got their talons in the American consumer and the economy.The only way out for us - the fish - is if someone "shoots" the bird ... or at least captures it and removes its talons ...
BP Is Teaching Kids The Correlation Between Corexit and Klondike Bars
The Intel Hub BP and the federal government are working together to brainwash our kids into believing that Corexit is perfectly safe and the gulf is recovering right on schedule. They literally are teaching our school children that Corexit is in numerous items that we eat and poses absolutely no problem. As we reported days [...]
Why Is Unemployment Rising?
Today's unemployment numbers are bad. See this and this.Why is unemployment rising?Because the government is doing everything wrong.Here are two essays I wrote - the first last month, and the second last year - explaining. Government Policy Caused Ame...
Oil Dispersants Report (VIDEO)
Oil Dispersants Report (VIDEO) By Dan Thomas WEAR-TV Original Article A commission investigating the B-P oil spill says the Obama Administration misrepresented findings about the B...
BP Considered Quitting Gulf Well Days Before Blast (VIDEO)
BP Considered Quitting Gulf Well Days Before Blast (VIDEO) Bloomberg Original Article David Hart, an analyst at Westhouse Securities, talks about the outlook for BP Plc after the comp...
Feinberg to Reveal His BP Spill Pay in ‘Matter of Days’ (VIDEO)
Feinberg to Reveal His BP Spill Pay in ‘Matter of Days’ (VIDEO) Bloomberg Original Article Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) – Kenneth Feinberg, who is responsible for compensating vic...
Independent Research Continues to Find Fault with Government Response to Spill
Independent Research Continues to Find Fault with Government Response to Spill Heads should roll in the wake of the revelation that members of the Obama Administration blocked attempts by scientists to release worst-case es...
The concern I’ve got is this continuing belief in Washington that…we’re not smart enough to handle the truth…. It’s sickening.
The concern I’ve got is this continuing belief in Washington that…we’re not smart enough to handle the truth…. It’s sickening. Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon on White House withholding spil...
Local says BP is ‘killing everything;’ biologist, boat captain beg to differ (VIDEO)
Local says BP is ‘killing everything;’ biologist, boat captain beg to differ (VIDEO) By Matt Algarin Destin Log Original Article After spending most of last week knee-deep ...
Amazing Footage of Unexplained Crevice in Michigan
The Intel Hub As we reported yesterday, an unexplained crevice appeared in Menominee Township, Michigan. New footage has surfaced that gives us a much clearer picture of this mysterious event. Apparently the locals are shocked that they have not been contacted by any government officials. Despite receiving multiple calls from concerned residents, federal officials have [...]
Who Agrees With The Oil Spill Commission? (VIDEO)
Who Agrees With The Oil Spill Commission? (VIDEO) By Steve Alexander WKRG Original Article The White House is fighting its image after allegations it prevented government scientist...
BP engineer defends decision to reject oil well safety advice
BP engineer defends decision to reject oil well safety advice By David Hammer Times-Picayune Original Article A top engineer for BP’s doomed Macondo oil well made several con...
Oil spill probe: BP’s account of key devices challenged by technician
Oil spill probe: BP’s account of key devices challenged by technician Associated Press Original Article METAIRIE, La. — A technician on Thursday challenged BP’s claim about ...
Oil Spill Researchers: All For One and One For All…Except NOAA
Oil Spill Researchers: All For One and One For All…Except NOAA It’s a challenge not to say “about time!” but down in St. Pete, Florida, this week more than 100 oil spill researchers, including some w...
Oyster harvester trying to find his footing 5 months after Gulf oil spill (VIDEO)
Oyster harvester trying to find his footing 5 months after Gulf oil spill (VIDEO) By Chris Kirkham Times-Picayune Original Article For more than 70 days this summer, Bernard Picone...
Graphic Illustration of the Effect of Quantitative Easing and Bailouts In An Environment Where Giant Banks Are Still Hiding Massive Debts
I've written a lot about why quantitative easing and bailouts won't work. See this, this and this.But sometimes images can illustrate what words can't quite convey:
Grayson Sends Letter to Geithner, FSOC Regulators on Foreclosure Fraud and Systemic Risk, Calls for Foreclosure Freeze
I'm passing on verbatim another excellent roundup on the foreclosure issue emailed to me by a friend on the Hill. He's much better informed on the issue than I am.Rep. Alan Grayson is sending the following letter to Secretary Geithner and the other me...
Feinberg Blames Victims for Shortcomings of Claims Process
Feinberg Blames Victims for Shortcomings of Claims Process Well, BP’s oft-mocked internal report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster suggested workers were to blame, and from that same playbook we see claims czar Kennet...
White House officials blocked early release of information on oil spill’s severity
White House officials blocked early release of information on oil spill’s severity By Ben Raines Press-Register Original Article Members of President Barack Obama’s adminis...
Was The Severity Of The Spill Covered Up? (VIDEO)
Was The Severity Of The Spill Covered Up? (VIDEO) By Steve Alexander WKRG Original Article Did people at the top try to cover up the severity of the oil crisis? A top Coast Guard o...
Obama administration blocked efforts to tell about oil spill worst-case scenario, panel says
Obama administration blocked efforts to tell about oil spill worst-case scenario, panel says Associated Press Original Article WASHINGTON – The Obama administration blocked efforts ...
Safety systems worker testifies she did not immediately sound alarms on Macondo rig despite dire warnings
Safety systems worker testifies she did not immediately sound alarms on Macondo rig despite dire warnings By David Hammer Times-Picayune Original Article In the final moments befor...
White House oil spill commission releases new reports
White House oil spill commission releases new reports By Bruce Alpert Times-Picayune Original Article WASHINGTON – Conflicts between federal and local officials over the distribu...
Feinberg Reverses Himself: Proximity to Spill Will Play No Role in Claims Payments
Feinberg Reverses Himself: Proximity to Spill Will Play No Role in Claims Payments You have to admit, at least Kenneth Feinberg is consistent in his, well, inconsistency. His pattern: Delay and deny claims until the politic...
Possible Staged Terror Attacks As Operation RailSAFE Set To Begin
The Intel Hub This is a very suspicious operation. Terror alerts have been issued in Europe and at the same time American officials are carrying out drills of the exact same nature? Staged terror is a documented fact and as the November elections draw closer we should be ever vigilant for a possible false flag [...]
Congressman Grayson: "Breaking and Entering Does Not Become Legal Just Because a Big Bank Does It. The Rule of Law Must Apply Equally to Everyone"
Congressman Alan Grayson's office sent me the following statement by the Congressman on the rampant foreclosure fraud, and the unlawful breaking and entering into people's homes by the banks:First we see systemic fraud in the foreclosure process. Now ...
Conyers and Kilpatrick Demand Lenders Extend Housing Foreclosure Moratorium to Michigan; No More Foreclosures Until Fraudulent Paperwork is Resolved
Sent to me by a friend on the Hill. PRESS RELEASE From the office of: Fourteenth District, Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. Chairman, Hous...
Gulf of Mexico oil spill called a continuing threat to Louisiana coast
Gulf of Mexico oil spill called a continuing threat to Louisiana coast By Mark Schleifstein Times-Picayune Original Article Construction of sand berms along 40 miles of Louisiana G...
Government Reopens More Gulf Waters to Fishing
Government Reopens More Gulf Waters to Fishing Associated Press Original Article The 2,927 square-mile area is located off eastern Louisiana, about 40 miles south of the BP well that ...
Deepwater Horizon oil spill brings highly competitive researchers together as one
Deepwater Horizon oil spill brings highly competitive researchers together as one By Emily Nipps St. Petersburg Times Original Article ST. PETE BEACH — Crowded into the ballroom ...
OUTRAGE: “60 Minutes” Fawns Over Feinberg and His Claims Process
OUTRAGE: “60 Minutes” Fawns Over Feinberg and His Claims Process The recent “60 Minutes” profile on Kenneth Feinberg must have been received with high-fives at some very high-priced public relations ...
State fights proposal to lump its BP oil spill litigation together with other suits
State fights proposal to lump its BP oil spill litigation together with other suits By Rebecca Mowbray Times-Picayune Original Article With administrator Ken Feinberg striving to s...
White House establishes Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
White House establishes Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Press-Register Staff Original Article President Barack Obama issued an executive order today establishing the Gulf ...
David Vitter introduced a bill capping BP’s liability at $150 million…. Vitter was caught bailing out BP.
David Vitter introduced a bill capping BP’s liability at $150 million…. Vitter was caught bailing out BP. Voiceover from "Charlie Melancon For U.S. Senate" campaign ad criticizing incumbent ...
IMF Calls for Huge New Round of Bank Bailouts
The IMF is calling for a huge new round of bank bailouts.As the Telegraph noted yesterday: Lenders across Europe and the US are facing a $4 trillion refinancing hurdle in the coming 24 months and many still need to recapitalise, the Washington-ba...
Kindra Arnesen Suffering From Gulf Disaster, “Natural Barrier of Our Skin is Gone”
The Intel Hub Alex Thomas We have heavily documented the sickness that has been caused by BP and their use of the toxic dispersant known as Corexit. We have produced photographs, eye witness accounts[See the June/July archives of our radio show], and multiple blood tests. The problem is that every time we receive more evidence [...]
5 Key Principles that Unite Populist Progressives and Tea-Party Libertarians
Human World Order Activist Post The establishment must do everything it can to suppress unity among the growing herd of angry citizens. However, victory for the people is within our grasp. In a dangerous scenario for the establishment, populists from the left and the right are increasingly finding common ground. A recent Mother Jones article [...]
This Is Starting To Get Very Real: Agricultural Commodity Prices Have Exploded And Now The Price Of Food Is Beginning To Rise Substantially In The United States And All Over The World
The American Dream By Michael Snyder Do you believe that you will always be able to run out to Wal-Mart or to the local supermarket and buy massive amounts of inexpensive food? If so, you might want to think again. During 2010, agricultural commodity prices have absolutely exploded. Nearly every single important agricultural commodity has [...]
Is America Under Attack … Or Are the Barbarians Inside the Gates?
Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com.ChinaCongress and American economists are blaming China for America's economic woes.But as I've previously pointed out, while China's weak Yuan policy is hurting the U.S. to some extent, America's econom...
Government Collusion in Human Medical Experiments No Longer Just a Conspiracy Theory
By Mike Adams Natural News It used to be that when you talked about Big Government conspiring with Big Pharma to use human beings as guinea pigs in bizarre medical experiments, people would look at you as if you were some kind of loon. “Oh, the American government would never do that,” they’d say, smug [...]
Florida complaints result in changes to BP claims process
Florida complaints result in changes to BP claims process St. Petersburg Times Original Article BP claims czar Kenneth Feinberg yielded to critics and announced today that geographic ...
BP Claims Czar: Proximity Has No Role In Payment
BP Claims Czar: Proximity Has No Role In Payment Associated Press Original Article Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who is overseeing the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, has faced complaints fr...
Contractor says BP interfered with critical efforts
Contractor says BP interfered with critical efforts Associated Press Original Article BP interfered with critical efforts to lower an undersea robot to try to close the device that fa...
Evacuation on doomed oil rig went well, Coast Guard official says at hearings
Evacuation on doomed oil rig went well, Coast Guard official says at hearings Associated Press Original Article The fact that more than 100 people escaped the Gulf of Mexico rig explo...
[T]here’s still so much oil…that if you run a motor over shallow water, you not only turn up globules of oil, you leave a long sheen in your wake.
[T]here’s still so much oil…that if you run a motor over shallow water, you not only turn up globules of oil, you leave a long sheen in your wake. Larry Reynolds, La. Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries, on oil in...
“BP Effect” Will Have an Impact on Federal Elections in the South
“BP Effect” Will Have an Impact on Federal Elections in the South Louisiana political mindsets can be confusing. Just look at the majority support for offshore drilling in the face of our worst peacetime environ...
Is the AP deliberately fear-mongering Europe terror threat to sell body scanners?
Activist Post It appears that the Associated Press is fear-mongering about recently heightened terror threats in Europe. They have turned one vague State Department warning into multiple headline stories, making it appear as though a terror threat is imminent. But the original report provides very flimsy information about a nonspecific threat apparently obtained from, “a [...]
