Banned Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster
The New York Times By Ian Urbina VENICE, La. — In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they became a symbol of the government’s inept response to that disaster: the 120,000 or so trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to people who had lost their homes. The trailers were discovered to have such high [...]
Hundreds In Shelters As Hurricane Alex Hits
Hurricane Alex has roared ashore in north-eastern Mexico flooding towns inland and forcing hundreds of people into shelters. The Category 2 hurricane has hampered efforts to control the massive BP oil spill of the Louisiana coast. Rain from the first-named storm of the 2010 Atlantic season has swamped beaches and streets while residents in the [...]
FEMA Workers Ran Up $247,100 in ‘Improper Purchases’ on Government Credit Cards
CNSNews.com Wednesday, June 30, 2010 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) – One employee used a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) credit card to buy $4,318 in “Happy Birthday” gift cards. Two other FEMA officials charged the cost of 360 golf umbrellas — $9,000 — to the taxpayers. Other FEMA officials used funds allocated for [...]
Irony alert: IRS fails government audit
Yahoo News John Cook Getting audited is such a hassle! Just ask the IRS. A new report from the Government Accountability Office inspected the tax agency’s financial statements from the 2009 fiscal year with the exacting thoroughness of, well, of an IRS auditor, and found a few billion-dollar errors. According to the report (PDF), the [...]
Gulf beaches hit as distant hurricane pushes oil
By MARY FOSTER and TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writers GRAND ISLE, La. – Rough seas generated by Hurricane Alex pushed more oil from the massive spill onto Gulf Coast beaches Wednesday as cleanup vessels were sidelined by the faraway storm’s ripple effects. The hurricane was churning coastal waters across the oil-affected region on the Gulf [...]
WND – PROOF! Private insurance targeted for annihilation
By Aaron Klein © 2010 WorldNetDaily A socialist organization with close ties to Barack Obama has outlined a plan to turn the president’s health-care legislation into a government-run system that will ultimately eliminate private insurance companies. Obama’s health-care bill “should create millions of new stakeholders in a health-care system governed by democratically established rules rather than by [...]
Dollar should be replaced as international standard, U.N. report says
Intel Hub – The banks have systematically destroyed the dollar in order order to create a new “international standard.” A standard where we will pay our taxes to private offshore banking cartels. TREASON! By Gabriella Casanas and Mick B. Krever, New York (CNN) — The dollar is an unreliable international currency and should be replaced [...]
NY police ‘beat up’ Iranian professor
Press TV A US-based Iranian university professor and senior political analyst, Kaveh Afrasiabi, says he has been brutally beaten up by police officers in New York. Speaking to IRNA on Tuesday, professor Afrasiabi explained about the unusual manner in which he was arrested, saying that he was handcuffed and sent to jail under the pretext [...]
Experts: Terrorists probing, planning for new aviation attacks
9News.com Jeffrey Wolf Deborah Sherman ASPEN – Despite billions of dollars spent on securing our nation’s airports since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, experts say terrorists are still testing and targeting aviation security because an attack could kill a lot of people, undermine public confidence and cause significant economic damage. “It remains an incredibly high target [...]
Kangaroos being poisoned by fluoride
Natural News by: David Gutierrez, (NaturalNews) Hundreds of kangaroos have been euthanized due to acute fluoride poisoning in the Australian state of Victoria, the country’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has announced. The poisonings appear to be occurring due to emissions of fluoride from the Alcoa aluminum smelter at Portland and the Austral Bricks factory at [...]
