Town Hall Meeting Held By Congressman Pete Stark On June 26, 2010

It's CONDESCENDING politicians like this that need to GO!!! You have to listen to the PATRONIZING response he gives TAXPAYERS in his district who are ASKING LIGITIMATE QUESTIONS and who have LIGITIMATE CONCERNS!!! This congressman has clearly forgotten that he WORKS for the people in his district! NO MORE FREE RIDES for these politicians. YOU ARE FIRED!

Irony Alert: IRS Fails Government Audit. Found A Few BILLION-DOLLAR ERRORS!!! Wow! Just WOW! :/

Unbelievable how many BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars has been WASTED. That money could have been used for sooo many other urgent things that really really need to be addressed in our country.

Yahoo News

Irony alert: IRS fails government audit

written by John Cook

Wednesday June 30, 2010 at 3:18pm ET

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 IRS made a variety of accounting errors last year that "could adversely affect the reliability of its financial statements" and result in "duplicate or erroneous refunds." Among the mistakes were a "failure to record the receipt of a taxpayer’s $3 million payment" and an $8 billion discrepancy between two accounting systems tracking how much money taxpayers owe. The audit also found a $5.1 billion "unexplained variance" between the total amount the agency took in last year and the amount its detailed tax files said it took in.

But what's a few billion here or there, right?

In truth, the shortcomings are all relatively minor infractions given the size of the IRS, and don't materially affect its performance of its duties. And you'll find similar lapses in virtually any close examination of a huge bureaucracy.

But it's still good to know that the IRS had to go through it, if only so it can empathize with the American taxpayer.

OMG!!! The EPA Until Now HAS NOT Independently Verified The TOXICITY TESTING Done By The Manufacturers!!! WTH?! ABSOLUTE MUST READ...

ProPublica

EPA’s Initial Testing Finds Dispersants Roughly Equal, But Raises Questions

written by Marian Wang

Wednesday June 30, 2010 at 1:49pm

After ordering BP last month to find and switch to a less toxic chemical dispersant than Corexit — which BP has sprayed in record quantities into the Gulf of Mexico -- the EPA announced today that based on initial testing, all eight dispersants the agency is studying “are roughly equal in toxicity.”

So far, however, the dispersants have been tested only on their own — not in combination with oil, which some scientists believe is more toxic than either oil or dispersant alone.

These are not the first toxicity tests conducted on these dispersants: according to an EPA fact sheet released today, the manufacturers “already tested both the toxicity and the effectiveness of each of these dispersants.” In a conference call today, Paul Anais, the EPA's assistant administrator for research and development, said the toxicology tests are “an important part of the listing criteria” for a product to be placed on the National Contingency Plan Product Schedule — the EPA’s list of authorized dispersants.

Here’s the kicker, though: The toxicity tests are part of the listing criteria only in the sense that they must be done and the paperwork must be filed with the EPA. But there’s no maximum toxicity for products to be included on the EPA’s list. That means the 14 products, once deemed to be above a certain threshold of effectiveness, could be placed on the list as long as toxicity tests were done and the paperwork was complete, regardless of what the toxicity tests found. (To be applied to an oil spill, however, a product that is authorized must still be approved by the federal on-scene coordinators and regional response teams.)

The EPA has chosen eight of the 14 products to test now, based on three criteria: toxicity, quantities available for the spill, and immediate availability for testing. Note that first criterion. But until now, the agency has not independently verified the toxicity testing done by the manufacturers. It started doing so only about a month into the BP disaster, by which time hundreds of thousands of gallons had already been applied. More than 1.5 million gallons have been applied in the Gulf to date.

When I asked Anais about the lack of a toxicity limit for placement on the EPA’s authorized list (an issue I first heard about from Richard Denison, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund), he acknowledged that BP’s disaster in the Gulf has “raised important questions about how these previous existing regulations may need to be re-examined and revisited.”

More testing will be conducted, he said, to look at the oil and dispersant combination before any decisions are made.

Whales, Whaling, And Humanity! Wow! I Just Came Across This EXCELLENT PIECE!!! Absolute Must Read To Understand... ♥♥♥

Psychology Today

Whales, Whaling, and Humanity ...a litmus test for the evolution and maturity of humankind.

written by Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., has written scientific papers and lay articles on animal behavior, humane education, and animal research.

Tuesday June 29, 2010

In Morocco this week, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) decided to uphold its international moratorium on commercial whaling. That decision just might be a litmus test for the evolution and maturity of humankind. Lifting the ban would have been a symbolic reminder that we remain mired in a way of thinking that sees other sentient animals merely as resources for humans to treat as we please-a recapitulation of an arcane might-makes-right mindset that justified colonialism and slavery, the subjugation of women, and the denial of civil rights. If we've come anywhere since the moratorium was enacted, the ban will be upheld.

I say "symbolic," because even with the ban on whaling still in place, whales continue to be harpooned at sea. Ever since the moratorium was passed in 1986, Japan, Norway and Iceland have flouted it. As if to rub brine in that wound, Japan has used the IWC's lame "scientific whaling" loophole, claiming that the fifteen hundred or so whales it slaughters each year-including species on the verge of extinction-are vital for better understanding them. This would be laughable if the results weren't so tragic. It's like saying we need to starve people to find out why they need food.

But I'm not arguing that we should save whales because they're endangered. If that were the only basis for protecting a species, then a strong case could be made for large-scale culling of the swollen human population. Heaven forbid, and rightly so!

So why should we protect whales? (Actually, they don't need anything from us, so the question is more accurately: Why should we leave them alone?) Numerous arguments can be made for and against our letting whales be. But there is only one fact that really matters: whales are sentient. We shouldn't harm or kill whales because it causes them pain and suffering, and because their lives matter to them.

Doubters may cry out for evidence. Okay. Cetaceans (members of the whale and dolphin family) have culture, as reflected by distinct behaviors and communication dialects between populations. They plan, and have devised food, such as corralling fishes in a circular veil of bubble rings, or ambushing them onto a shoreline. Whales can be virtuous, such as the babysitting behavior of sperm whale "nannies" who watch over youngsters while mothers dive deep to forage, or the well-documented rescues of beached whales and drowning humans by dolphins.

And what clearer demonstration that a whale values her life can there be than a display of gratitude for our having spared it? When a female humpback whale was cut free from crab trap ropes in which she'd become entangled in December 2005, she didn't just swim away. She methodically approached and nuzzled each diver.

Sentience is the bedrock of ethics. Moral systems exist because others have interests. Chief amongst those interests are the desire to stay alive and the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Can we really doubt that a whale's pain is comparable to our own? Is there any question that it hurts a whale, a lot, to have a harpoon pierce deep into his or her body and explode there? Can we deny that such a creature-who can live more than 200 years-wants to live and doesn't want to die in agony? Is there really a case to be made that a gustatory luxury or a bit of profit for a few members of one species (ours) justifies torture and genocide of another?

Our marvelous brains, hands and technology certainly give us the power to do with others as we please. But this doesn't give us license to run roughshod across the earth. Not any more. Might-makes-right is a primitive credo and a moral failure. Humanity has already shown it can make enormous moral strides forward in our treatment of other humans. It's time to apply the same principle to all sentient beings. Morocco is as good a starting point as any.

Need A Good Hearty Laugh? These Political Cartoons Should Do The Trick... ;)

As Europe Laments Welfare State, U.S. Turns To It. EXCELLENT PIECE!!! Great Read...

USA Today

As Europe laments welfare state, U.S. turns to it

written by Michael D. Tanner

June 26, 2010

As President Obama meets this weekend with the leaders of the G-20 nations in Toronto, it is increasingly apparent that the United States and the European countries are headed in diametrically opposite directions.

The Obama administration has been racing to transform the U.S. into a copy of the European social-welfare system, while at the same time those countries are being forced to come to grips with the failure of that welfare state. Greece, Hungry and Portugal have received the most news media attention as their growing debt has threatened the viability of the euro. But all across the European Union, countries are discovering that they can no longer afford the massive cost of providing cradle-to-grave government benefits.

•France: The poster-child for euro-socialism is facing a national debt of 1.49 trillion euro, about 77% of its GDP. That doesn't count the unfunded liabilities of the country's state pension system, which may exceed 200% of GDP by themselves. Reforming the French welfare system has long been seen as politically impossible, but the fiscal facts have forced the French government to finally propose an increase in the retirement age. The French government is also selling off government-owned land and other property. And the French health care system has gradually been increasing co-payments and other forms of consumer cost-sharing.

•Germany: Every working person in Germany shoulders 43,000 euro ($53,000) in debt. In response, the German government has announced plans to cut more than 80 billion euro in government spending, nearly 3% of GDP, over the next four years. It has already announced 3 billion euro in cuts in this year's budget, including a reduction in unemployment benefits. The retirement age will be raised from 65 to 67 by 2029. Government universities, previously free, have begun charging tuition.

•Great Britain: England's national debt is a staggering 90,000 pounds ($133,000) per household. The new government of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has already announced more than 6 billion pounds in budget cuts. It plans to raise the retirement age under its Social Security system and abolish payments to parents of newborn children. The government also aims to implement U.S.-style welfare reform, including a work requirement for those receiving benefits.

•Italy: Even the notoriously dysfunctional Italian government has been forced to come to terms with a national debt larger than its entire GDP. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has proposed more than 30 billion euro in budget cuts over the next two years, including a billion-euro cut to its national health care system, and a crackdown on fraudulent disability payments. Berlusconi also called for a three-year pay freeze for all government workers.

•Spain: Facing the country's worst economic crisis in decades, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodiguez-Zapatero has slashed government spending by 15 million euro. Payments to the parents of newborn children were ended, and disability payments cut. The Spanish government also has proposed hiking the retirement age for men from 65 to 67.

These countries are discovering a basic economic truth: eventually you run out of Peters with which to pay Paul.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is well down the road toward a European level of government spending and debt. Already, the U.S. national debt tops $72,000 per household. The Congressional Budget Office projects the debt will equal 90% of our GDP by 2020. That would be higher than any of the countries mentioned above except Italy — and we are closing in on that mark quickly.

Last year, U.S. federal spending topped 24.7% of gross domestic product — nearly a quarter of every dollar earned in this country. As the full force of entitlement programs kicks in, the federal government will consume more than 40% of GDP by the middle of the century. And the trajectory of government spending is projected to keep rising beyond 2050, eventually hitting an unfathomable 80% of GDP, according to the CBO.

Kicking and screaming, Europe is realizing the folly of the welfare state and taking the first small steps to return to fiscal sanity. Alas, Congress seems more inclined to repeat Europe's mistakes than to learn from them.

More Than 90 Banks Miss May TARP Payments!!! Oh Yeah Sure Our Economy Is Doing FANTASTIC! [/sarcasm]

ABC News/Money

More Than 90 Banks Miss May TARP Payments

written by Joe Rauch

June 16, 2010

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - More than 90 U.S. banks and thrifts missed making a May 17 payment to the U.S. government under its main bank bailout program, signaling a rising number of lenders are struggling to meet their obligations.

The statistics, compiled by SNL Financial LC from U.S. Treasury data, showed 91 banks and thrifts skipped the May dividend payment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. It was the first missed payment for 23 of the banks; for the others, it was at least their second miss.

The number of banks missing their TARP payments rose for the third straight quarter. In February, 74 banks deferred their payments; 55 deferred last November.

SNL Financial's analysis found 20 banks have missed four or more payments since the program began in 2008, while eight banks have missed five payments.

Under the TARP program, the U.S. Treasury invested in preferred shares issued banks looking for funds. The banks were to make regular dividend payments to the Treasury, and have the right to repurchase the shares at some point in the future.

While many of the largest U.S. banks easily repaid billions in TARP aid, more than 600 smaller banks still hold $130 billion from the program, created at the height of the financial crisis.

In some cases, small banks are renegotiating the repayment terms.

Midwest Banc Holdings Inc , for example, agreed to swap $84.8 million in preferred shares issued under the TARP program in 2008 for $15.5 million in common shares. That would have meant an 80 percent loss for the government -- and the U.S. taxpayer -- on the initial investment. [ID:nN03108978] But the swap was contingent on the bank raising more private capital, which it failed to do. Regulators seized the bank in May.

The next quarterly TARP payments to the U.S. Treasury are due by August 16.

Asia And Russia Set To Play Key Role In New World Order! They're NOT Even Hiding Or Denying It Anymore!!!

The global elitist are not hiding or denying the New World Order anymore. GREAT, I can start wearing my tin-foil hat out in public now that it's becoming fashionable!!! L☺L! I knew it would come into style eventually.... ;) I know it's not a laughing matter. In fact, this news is actually surreal. Asian countries and Russia are seeing an opportunity for growth and advancement and are strategically grabbing it with both hands. Meanwhile our very own government is enabling our economic demise!!! Sad, just sad... :/

I have come across more and more articles from around the world openly referencing "The New World Order". Certain key figures and a select few media outlets are now starting to include that term regularly. I think like a subliminal message... slowly easing it into our vocabulary. Then BAM! It's done and nobody was the wiser.

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The Hindu

Asian economies set for key role in new world order

written by C.R.L. Narasimhan

Monday June 28, 2010

Asian economies, led by China and India, are in the forefront of a global recovery. According to international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, these economies will not only make up for the stuttering growth in the developed economies but also play a key role in a future world order that will be well supported by a more robust and stable economic and financial framework.

In a speech delivered recently in Singapore*, IMF Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara discussed the current global economic outlook and the policy challenges facing Asia. Highlights of the speech are given here.

Even though the worst economic crisis in 60 years has abated, shock waves are still being felt. The continuing European debt crisis has brought substantial volatility to the financial markets. There are three important messages from the recent experiences: (a) No country or region stands alone in today's global economy. (b) Policies and institutions must evolve with the global economy. (c) Global growth depends on a collaborative policy across countries and regions.

The lessons learnt from the crisis need to be used to forge a better balanced and more inclusive global economy in the future. Asia is well positioned to assume the leadership role, set the standards of policies, performance and collaboration in the years ahead.

Policymakers everywhere face two sets of challenges: (a) Framing policies that support global recovery and achieve a more sustainable and balanced growth path. (b) Finding ways of strengthening the international monetary system to reduce the risks of another crisis.

Uneven growth

Growth is uneven across regions and even within regions. In the developed world, growth is fragile and beset with uncertainties. The U.S. has fared better than Europe where a number of countries face problems of public finance.

The outlook is better for many emerging and developing economies. Asia is leading the way. Its growth has rebounded swiftly and output in many cases is well above pre-crisis levels.

For the first time, Asia's contribution to global recovery is outstripping that of others. But unlike before, domestic consumption, particularly household con- sumption, rather than exports, is reinforcing Asian growth. Also, instead of the slow return of capital inflows that was the norm in the past, there has been a surge. The IMF sees this as a vindication of sound economic policies pursued by many Asian countries.

Buoyed by strong recoveries in China and India, Asia is expected to post a 7 per cent growth but the pace of recovery will vary across the region.

Downside risks

The global outlook remains unusually uncertain and downside risks have increased significantly. first, many advanced economies have either run out of fiscal space for continued policy support or nearing the limit. Such financial vulnerabilities pose a threat to the global economy.

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Bloomberg Financial News

Russia Will Lead Effort to Found `New World Economic Order,' Medvedev Says

written by Lyubov Pronina and Lucian Kim

June 18, 2010

Russia will help lead efforts to recast the global economic hierarchy as the world emerges from the financial crisis, President Dmitry Medvedev said.

“We really live at a unique time, and we should use it to build a modern, prosperous and strong Russia, a Russia that will be a co-founder of the new world economic order,” Medvedev said at the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum today.

Russia will use tax incentives and other free-market economic policies to turn the country into a destination for innovators from around the world, Medvedev told an audience including Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.

Medvedev, in the third year of his presidency, is promoting modernization to transform Russia from an oil-and-gas economy into a magnet for high technology. Its reliance on natural resources exacerbated the steepest contraction among major emerging markets last year, when the economy shrank a record 7.9 percent.

The government will abolish taxes on capital gains from long-term direct investments starting next year, seeking to lure funds to reduce the economy’s energy dependence and subdue speculative capital, Medvedev said.

‘Critical’

“Such investments are critically important for modernizing the national economy and we are ready to create institutions to facilitate such investments,” he said. The government will create an investment fund within a year to help draw “strategic investors” by raising 3 rubles of private capital for each 1 ruble of state money.

“We understand that international competition is the decisive stimulus for our modernization,” the president said. “Russia should become an attractive country to which people from the whole world will come in search of their dreams.”

Foreign direct investment slipped an annual 17.6 percent to $2.6 billion in the first quarter.

Russia will cut the number of so-called “strategic enterprises,” which are restricted for foreign investors, to 41 from 208, Medvedev said.

Medvedev in March asked billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, owner of holding company Renova Group, to oversee efforts to create a Russian version of Silicon Valley in the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo, where tax breaks and other incentives will be offered to lure investment to spur innovation and production of high-technology products. Cisco Systems Inc. and Nokia Oyj plan to join the project.

Moscow ‘Hub’

Citigroup’s Pandit backed Medvedev’s plans announced last year to create a financial center in the capital.

“It’s a real opportunity to turn Moscow into a hub,” Pandit said in St. Petersburg today.

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Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul Afghanistan! Afghan Officials And Their Associates Are Sending Billions Of Diverted U.S. Aid And Logistics Dollars And Drug Money To Financial Safe Havens Abroad. So Sad... :/

The Wall Street Journal

Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul

written by Matthew Rosenberg

Friday June 25, 2010

KABUL—More than $3 billion in cash has been openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years, a sum so large that U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad.

The cash—packed into suitcases, piled onto pallets and loaded into airplanes—is declared and legal to move. But U.S. and Afghan officials say they are targeting the flows in major anticorruption and drug trafficking investigations because of their size relative to Afghanistan's small economy and the murkiness of their origins.

Officials believe some of the cash, if not most, is siphoned from Western aid projects and U.S., European and NATO contracts to provide security, supplies and reconstruction work for coalition forces in Afghanistan. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization spent about $14 billion here last year alone. Profits reaped from the opium trade are also a part of the money flow, as is cash earned by the Taliban from drugs and extortion, officials say.

The amount declared as it leaves the airport is vast in a nation where the gross domestic product last year totaled $13.5 billion. More declared cash flies out of Kabul each year than the Afghan government collects in tax and customs revenue nationwide. "It's not like they grow money on trees here," said a U.S. official investigating corruption and Taliban financing. "A lot of this looks like our tax dollars being stolen. And opium, of course."

Most of the funds passing through the airport are being moved by often-secretive outfits called "hawalas," private money transfer businesses with roots in the Muslim world stretching back centuries, officials say.

The officials believe hawala customers who have sent millions of dollars of their money abroad include high-ranking officials and their associates in President Hamid Karzai's administration, including Vice President Mohammed Fahim, and one of the president's brothers, Mahmood Karzai, an influential businessmen.

Where they allegedly get the money is one of the questions under investigation.

Vice President Fahim, responded through his brother, A.H. Fahim, a businessman, who denied the allegations. "My brother? He doesn't know anything about money," Mr. Fahim said.

Mahmood Karzai said in an interview he has engaged in only legitimate businesses and has never transferred large sums of cash from the country.

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Burned Alive - Help Stop BP from Torching Endangered Sea Turtles That Has Been APPROVED By Our Federal Government!

Burned Alive - Help Stop BP from Torching Endangered Sea Turtles

Please SIGN PETITION to stop this madness

Center for Biological Diversity

More than 150,000 Call on BP and Federal Officials to Stop Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive

Press Release: June 28, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO— More than 150,000 people today called on BP to stop burning alive endangered sea turtles in the chaotic clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. They also called on the federal government to put an immediate end to this gruesome practice. CREDO Action and the Center for Biological Diversity will deliver petitions with more than 150,000 signatures to those overseeing the cleanup and urge BP to stop blocking efforts to rescue sea turtles from such a horrific death.

“The worst environmental disaster in U.S. history gets grimmer and grimmer,” said Center Oceans Program Director Miyoko Sakashita. “Hundreds of species in the Gulf are being killed or harmed by the toxic oil, but the plight of the Kemp’s ridley is particularly heartbreaking since it had been poised to become an endangered species success story. Now, once again, the species is moving toward extinction.”

A boat captain who had been leading efforts to rescue the sea turtles reported that BP blocked his crews from entering the areas where the animals were trapped, effectively shutting down the rescue operation and condemning the ancient creatures to being burned alive.

BP is using “controlled burns” in an attempt to contain the spill. Boats create a corral of oil by dragging together fire-resistant booms and then lighting the enclosed "burn box" on fire. If turtles are not removed from the area before the fire is lit, they are burned alive. The same Sargassum seaweed mats that are collecting oil also draw sea turtles, which use them for food and shelter. Unfortunately, that leaves turtles, particularly young ones, vulnerable to being oiled and burned.

Anyone responsible for killing the endangered turtles is liable for criminal penalties that could include prison and civil fines of up to $25,000 per violation. “As a result, BP perversely has a financial incentive to allow the endangered turtles to burn rather than allow them to be rescued from the burn boxes before the containment fires are lit,” says Becky Bond, political director of CREDO Action. “Blocking the rescue of these ancient creatures is tragically indicative of the clean-up response as whole.”

Background

As of today, at least 429 sea turtles have been found dead in the Gulf, and many more have likely been hurt or killed but not found. The Kemp’s ridley had been driven toward extinction by egg poaching and fisheries bycatch, particularly in trawls and gill nets. While some egg poaching still exists, it has been significantly reduced.

In addition to the Kemp’s ridley, four other endangered sea turtles are found in the Gulf of Mexico: green, loggerhead, hawksbill and leatherback sea turtles. They rely on areas throughout the Gulf of Mexico for nesting, reproduction, feeding and migration.

Of the five species of sea turtles present in the Gulf, Kemp’s ridleys rely most extensively on this area. They nest on the beaches, feed in shallow waters and migrate throughout the Gulf.

Other species in the Gulf include the extremely threatened Atlantic bluefin tuna, which gather in the area to breed this time of year, and sperm whales, which inhabit deepwater areas in the northern Gulf. Seabirds, sharks, whales and other marine mammals are also at risk from the oil, while fisheries and other businesses will suffer ill effects for years to come.

Please SIGN PETITION to stop this madness

G4tv: BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife ~ Absolute MUST WATCH VIDEOs!

Video Game - E3 2010 - AOTS Exclusive

Game Reviews - E3 2010 - AOTS Exclusive

My friend wrote, "When a VIDEO GAMES TV CHANNEL does a better job than the MSM at covering the oil spill, you know the MSM is UTTER BS." I AGREE!!!

G4tv

BP Gulf Oil Spill Devastation

written by Moye Ishimoto

June 23, 2010 at 11:00am

PART 1: The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a growing problem that is devastating an area that was just only getting itself back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina. Kevin Pereira ventured south to talk to the victims of the oil spill and how we can help.

PART 2: Kevin Pereira's special report on the devastating BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues with his look at the oil's impact on the fragile wildlife. He learns about the techniques used to clean up the oil and save the affected birds.

AU 60 Minutes BP Oil Spill Video, 13 June 2010, Removed by BP Demand Part 1 Top And 2 Bottom

San Francisco Gate

Australian 60 Minutes show that BP demanded taken down

written by Yobie Benjamine

Another riveting documentary... This time from the Australian "60 Minutes" show. The Australian show which is very much in the tradition of its US counterpart is a hard hitting eye opener into the BP volcanic oil gusher disaster. After watching the 2-part documentary, you'll see why BP went out all the way to demand the take down, suppression and distribution of the television mini-documentary.

Please pass the link along. BP should know that attempts at censorship and media suppression will only increase the public's curiosity and viral nature of the information.

The TRUTH wants to be free.

60 Minutes Special On The BP Oil Spill ~ VERY TELLING!

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60 Minutes Oil Spill

By Jerry Reth Filed in US News on May 18, 2010

60 Minutes Oil Spill – 60 minutes recently held a special that dealt with the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the potential consequences that the spill could have on wildlife and other populations in the area. They also covered the political aspect behind the spill, and how the spill should be dealt with along with how the spill could affect American politics in the forseeable future. The special also featured a survivor from the Deep Horizon rig explosion named Mike Williams. A number of different incident’ took place, and things went wrong leading to the rig explosion. There were a number of procedures for how to deal with the problems that were happening, but those procedures were not followed by the crew on the Deep Horizon.

Williams only had a life jacket at his disposal when he decided to jump ten stories from the top of the rig as it burned out of control. He described the incident with the blowout preventer that happened in the days leading up to the disaster. He said that the deck of the rig had several pieces fall off of it. He went on to say that both BP and Deep Horizon were aware that the problems were present, and did nothing to prevent the issue.

On the day of the accident, there was also a reported disagreement between the Transocean manager and a BP employee about how they should go about finishing the well. The BP employee thought that they could save some time and money because they were already overbudget at the time.

How Would You Introduce Jesus?

Wow! Steve Harvey you ROCK! This message is Simply AMAZING! ♥

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10 Happiness and Joy Quotes to Brighten Your Day!!!

10 Happiness and Joy Quotes to Brighten Your Day!!!

by Various Extra-Ordinary People

1. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. ~ by Ella Wheeler Cox
   
   
2. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~ by Denis Waitley
   
   
3. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~ by C.P. Snow
   
   
4. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. ~ by Edith Wharton
   
   
5. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ~ by Leo Buscaglia
   
   
6. The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. ~ by Thich Nhat Hanh
   
   
7. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ~ BY Kahlil Gibran
   
   
8. A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~ by Hugh Sidey
   
   
9. Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. ~ by Unknown Author
   
   
10. The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy. ~ by Unknown Author

BONUS

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ by Mother Teresa

BONUS BONUS

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ by Mohandas K. Ghandi

Time Gets Better with Age... I Love What They Wrote! Now These Are Words Of Wisdom That Comes From Life's Experience...

Time Gets Better with Age
Compliments of Basic Jokes

I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sings "Silent Night".
Age 5

I've learned that our dog doesn't want to eat my broccoli either.
Age 7

I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back.
Age 9

I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up again.
Age 12

I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up.
Age 14

I've learned that although it's hard to admit it, I'm secretly glad my parents are strict with me.
Age 15

I've learned that silent company is often more healing than words of advice.
Age 24

I've learned that brushing my child's hair is one of life's great pleasures.
Age 26

I've learned that wherever I go, the world's worst drivers have followed me there.
Age 29

I've learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
Age 30

I've learned that there are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Age 42

I've learned that you can make some one's day by simply sending them a little note.
Age 44

I've learned that the greater a person's sense of guilt, the greater his or her need to cast blame on others.
Age 46

I've learned that children and grandparents are natural allies.
Age 47

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Age 48

I've learned that singing "Amazing Grace" can lift my spirits for hours.
Age 49

I've learned that motel mattresses are better on the side away from the phone.
Age 50

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Age 51

I've learned that keeping a vegetable garden is worth a medicine cabinet full of pills.
Age 52

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you miss them terribly after they die.
Age 53

I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Age 58

I've learned that if you want to do something positive for your children, work to improve your marriage.
Age 61

I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
Age 62

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
Age 64

I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you focus on your family, the needs of others, your work, meeting new people, and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you.
Age 65

I've learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
Age 66

I've learned that everyone can use a prayer.
Age 72

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Age 82

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Age 90

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Age 92

"Live, Laugh, Love" A Poem By Jill Eisnaugle ~ May This Poem Touch Your Heart And Inspire You To Embrace Life With Childlike Innocence And Joy!

Live, Laugh, Love
By Jill Eisnaugle

May every dream be yours to keep
May every joy be near
May every hour without sleep
Be one of warmth and cheer
May every beat within your heart
Be blessed with much to give
So, your path is a work of art
Each day that you shall live.

May every smile upon your face
And every childish grin
Be filled with memories to embrace
As if you’re young again
May each sunrise bring cause to view
Life’s humor for its pleasure
So, each path you choose to pursue
Yields laughter beyond measure.

May every vision in your eyes
Be for those you hold dear
May you know only brilliant skies
Where shooting stars appear
And with each shooting star, I pray
Your hopes are heard, above
So, every path to come your way
Is paved in lasting love.

"To Laugh" A Poem By Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Laugh
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and love much;
to win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children;
to earn the approbation of honest critics

and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;

to find the best in others;
to give of one's self;
to leave the world a bit better;
whether by a healthy child;
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm
and sung with exultation;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived -
this is to have succeeded.

Life Is Too Short... My Friend Just Sent This To Me. Had To Share With You! ♥ Much LOVE ♥

"Life is too short to wake up with regrets. ♥ So love the people who treat you right. ♥ Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be...... worth it." ~ Unknown

Happy Friday Night Song! My Favorite Of His To Shake Off The Day! Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf And Just ENJOY YOURSELF!

I will always LOVE you Michael Jackson!!!

You have been immortalized through your music and vids!

Off The Wall

~ by The Great Michael Jackson

When The World Is On Your Shoulder

Gotta Straighten Up Your Act And Boogie Down

If You Can't Hang With The Feeling

Then There Ain't No Room For You This Part Of Town

'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day

Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf

And Just Enjoy Yourself

Groove, Let The Madness In The Music Get To You

Life Ain't So Bad At All

If You Live It Off The Wall

Life Ain't So Bad At All

(Live Life Off The Wall)

Live Your Life Off The Wall

(Live It Off The Wall)

You Can Shout Out All You Want To

'Cause There Ain't No Sin In Folks All Getting Loud

If You Take The Chance And Do It

Then There Ain't No One Who's Gonna Put You Down

'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day

Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf

And Just Enjoy Yourself

C'mon And Groove,

And Let The Madness In The Music Get To You

Life Ain't So Bad At All

If You Live It Off The Wall

Life Ain't So Bad At All

(Live Life Off The Wall)

Live Your Life Off The Wall

(Live It Off The Wall)

Do What You Want To Do

There Ain't No Rules It's Up To You

(Ain't No Rules It's All Up To You)

It's Time To Come Alive

And Party On Right Through The Night

(All Right)

Gotta Hide Your Inhibitions

Gotta Let That Fool Loose Deep Inside Your Soul

Want To See An Exhibition

Better Do It Now Before You Get To Old

'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day

Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf

And Just Enjoy Yourself

C'mon And Groove (Yeah)

Let The Madness In The Music Get To You

Life Ain't So Bad At All If You Live It Off The Wall

Life Ain't So Bad At All

(Live Life Off The Wall)

Live Your Life Off The Wall

(Live It Off The Wall)

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf

And Just Enjoy Yourself

C'mon And Groove (Yeah)

Let The Madness In The Music Get To You

Life Ain't So Bad At All If You Live It Off The Wall

Life Ain't So Bad At All

(Live Life Off The Wall)

Live Your Life Off The Wall (Live It Off The Wall)

More Classic Cartoons To Put A SMILE On Your Face!!!

It's been a few months since I've shared these classic cartoons with you. I was inspired by my last post on PaGAGnini. Enjoy! ♥

Classic Cartoon Intermission! We Could ALL Use Some Levity Right Now! HEY FIGARO!

PaGAGnini... Classical Music In The Key Of Comedy!

I absolutely LOVE this group PaGAGnini!!! I have just watched several video's of their performances and I'm feeling totally giddy!!! THIS IS GREAT ENTERTAINMENT! Enjoy! :)

Classical Music In The Key Of Comedy

[source: Flixxy]

'Pagagnini' bring to life some of the most treasured musical pieces in the key of comedy.

The virtuoso violinist Ara Malikian along with three more musicians not only perform some of the greatest compositions of geniuses at the level of Mozart, Pachelbel, Chopin and of course, Paganini, but also involve popular genres such as rock or folk.

The musicians play, dance, jump, laugh, cry, interact and with the audience converting the show into an original comedy where the violin and the cello transform themselves spontaneously into new and original instruments.

Overcoming Fear Of What Others Think Of You...

That is PURE FREEDOM!!! letting go of caring what other people think of you. :) Disconnect from caring what other people think! EXCELLENT 2 minute MESSAGE given by David Icke!!!

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

 ~ by Mahatma Ghandi

Fear Of Enlightenment by Alan Watts

This is a great 9 minute message! Enjoy... ♥

Rock The Boat ~ Yes, Pun Is Intended... Enjoy!!! :)

I still love this song!!! It always puts me in a good mood. I hope it does the same for you. Enjoy!!! CLASSIC... ♥

Rock the Boat ~ by Hues Corporation

So I'd like to know where, you got the notion

said I'd like to know where, you got the notion

to rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby

rock the boat, don't tip the boat over

rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby

rock the boat-t-t-t-t

Ever since our voyage of love began

your touch has thrilled me like the rush of the wind

and your arms have held me safe from a rolling sea

there's always been a quiet place to harbor you and me

Our love is like a ship on the ocean

we've been sailing with a cargo full of, love and devotion

So I'd like to know where, you got the notion

said I'd like to know where, you got the notion

To rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby

rock the boat, don't tip the boat over

rock the boat, don't rock the boat baby

rock the boat-t-t-t-t

Up to now we sailed through every storm

and I've always had your tender lips to keep me warm

oh I need to have the strength that flows from you

don't let me drift away my dear, when love can see me through

Our love is like a ship ...

Oiled Dolphin Found Near Ft. Pickens, Florida!!! :*(

PLEASE STOP THIS MADNESS!!!

FOX10tv Florida

Oiled dolphin found near Ft. Pickens

written by Christina Leavenworth

Thursday June 24, 2010, 10:34am CDT

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla (WALA) - The tide isn't just washing the oil over the beach. Wildlife is starting to feel the impact as well. An oiled dolphin was found beached on the shore.

"It had beached itself. Its sides were covered in a quarter inch of oil. We started splashing water, scraped oil off it sides and off its eyes," said Christy Travis, who found the dolphin.

Help came immediately from the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge , a non-profit organization, and they were able to stabilize the young female. Sadly, she died shortly after. What's worse, is she may not be the last.

"It was very sad, it would make you cry. It was crying. There was pod of dolphins just off surf and they were jumping out of water and they were making noise," said Travis.

This is the first report of a dolphin found covered in oil on the Florida coastline.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist walked the beaches Wednesday morning as the oil washed in.

"To have something like that on such a beautiful place, breaks your heart." said Crist. "This is the worst, no question. I haven't seen it like this anywhere else, never this kind of stuff."

The beach is no longer packed with tourists, instead BP crews are everywhere. They are working by hand, slowly bagging up everything they can.

It Was President Obama Who Sent The US Airforce To SPRAY THE CHEMICAL DISPERSEMENTS On Oil Slicks!!! President Obama Claims To Be SAVING NATURE!!! Oil Spill Bill On BP!

o-m-g!!!! I'm just now finding out that it was President Obama who instructed the U.S. AIR FORCE to spray the TOXIC CHEMICAL DISPERSEMENTS on the oil slicks!!!! *#*^%(#$%^!@^&*@(#%&*!!! Then he has the NERVE to say the TOXIC CHEMICAL SPRAY will SAVE NATURE?!?! WTF!!!

This is INSANE! and all the while I've been pissed off at the EPA for allowing BP to use TOXIC dispersements and it's been President Obama who gave the orders all along!!! If he was willing to take charge of this TOXIC CHEMICAL spraying and then bill BP later... WHY oh WHY didn't President Obama ACCEPT the help from the dozen or so INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES WITH EXPERIENCE in cleaning up an oil mess like this and then BILL BP LATER like this?!?!?! That would have been the LOGICAL, most EFFICIENT and HUMANE thing to do!!!

If you don't believe me, I found the federal government website titled, The White House Blog: The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill. If you want to read the day to day details of what our federal government has been doing since the Deep Horizon rig exploded please click HERE. It sounds like they're doing alot when reading. YEAH A WHOLE LOT OF INEFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT and WASTE and DESTRUCTION!

Here is a little snipit from the government website:

Tuesday, April April 27: Controlled Burn Plans Are Approved by WH. Plans for a controlled burn of contained oil were approved late at night for the following day. Burns of this type are heavily dependent on weather conditions.

Wednesday May 5: Successful Controlled Burn. Favorable weather conditions allowed responders to conduct a successful controlled burn operation. As part of a coordinated response that combines tactics deployed above water, below water, offshore, and close to coastal areas, controlled burns efficiently remove oil from the open water in AN EFFORT to PROTECT shoreline and wildlife.

Wednesday May 5: Aerial Dispersant Spray Missions. Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) aircraft flew four missions—dispensing the same dispersant chemical being used by BP and THE FEDERAL RESPONDERS (US AIRFORCE). These systems are capable of covering up to 250 acres per flight.

OMG! I BLAME OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE environmental ecological DESTRUCTION ON OUR GULF COAST!!! I'm only half way down the page and their RESPONSIBLE for EVERYTHING!!!!!!! Everything in Our OCEAN is dying because of what they are doing!!! Not to mention everything that lives off the ocean is dying because of their STUPIDITY!!!

Kindra Arnesen Venice LA Local Speaks At The Gulf Emergency Summit Held On June 19, 2010!

ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH VIDEO!!! Now you can hear the TRUTH about the "cleanup" process in the Gulf and on the marshlands. Please make this video viral. The people along our Gulf coast need our help to get the TRUTH OUT!

Get the inside behind the scenes information from a local who has lived there her entire life and comes from a family of fisherman and husband is a fisherman in Louisiana!

Death By Fire In The Gulf: So-called Burn Boxes Are Torching Oil From The Water's Surface At The Sacrifice Of Turtles, Crabs, Sea Slugs And Other Sea Life!

Way to go EPA and U.S. Coast Guard!!! Hmm... isn't President Obama your boss and he is giving you the okay to approve this b.s.?!?! ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION agency my ass!!! U.S. COAST GUARD? Really, more like BP Guard!!! Because you are most certainly NOT PROTECTING / GUARDING the U.S. COAST!!!

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U.S. Regulators = What are they good for??? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!

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The Los Angeles Times

Death by fire in the gulf

written by Kim Murphy

June 17, 2010

Reporting from the Gulf of Mexico — Here on the open ocean, 12 miles from ground zero of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the gulf is hovering between life and death.

The large strands of sargassum seaweed atop the ocean are normally noisy with birds and thick with crustaceans, small fish and sea turtles. But now this is a silent panorama, heavy with the smell of oil.

There are no birds. The seaweed is soaked in rust-colored crude and chemical dispersant. It is devoid of life except for the occasional juvenile sea turtle, speckled with oil and clinging to the only habitat it knows. Thick ribbons of oil spread out through the sea like the strips in egg flower soup, gorgeous and deadly.

A few dead fish float in the water, though dolphin-fish, tuna, flying fish and the occasional shark can still be seen swimming near the surface, threading their way through the wavy, sometimes iridescent gobs of crude.

"This is devastating. I mean literally, it's terrible. All this should be pretty much blue water, and — look at it. It just looks bad," said Kevin Aderhold, a longtime charter fishing captain who has been taking a team of researchers deep into the gulf every day to rescue oil-soaked sea turtles.

"When this first happened, a lot of us were like, they'll cap that thing and we'll be out fishing again. Now reality's set in. Look around you. This is long-term. This'll be here for-ev-er."

And then it gets worse. When the weather is calm and the sea is placid, ships trailing fireproof booms corral the black oil, the coated seaweed and whatever may be caught in it, and torch it into hundred-foot flames, sending plumes of smoke skyward in ebony mushrooms. This patch of unmarked ocean gets designated over the radio as "the burn box."

Wildlife researchers operating here, in the regions closest to the spill, are witnesses to a disquieting choice: Protecting shorebirds, delicate marshes and prime tourist beaches along the coast by stopping the oil before it moves ashore has meant the largely unseen sacrifice of some wildlife out at sea, poisoned with chemical dispersants and sometimes boiled by the burning of spilled oil on the water's surface.

"It reflects the conventional wisdom of oil spills: If they just keep the oil out at sea, the harm will be minimal. And I disagree with that completely," said Blair Witherington, a research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who has been part of the sea turtle rescue mission.

By unhappy coincidence, the same convergences of ocean currents that create long mats of sargassum — nurturing countless crabs, slugs and surface fish that are crucial food for turtles, birds and larger fish — also coalesce the oil, creating islands of death sometimes 30 miles long.

"Most of the Gulf of Mexico is a desert. Nothing out there to live on. It's all concentrated in these oases," Witherington said.

"Ordinarily, the sargassum is a nice, golden color. You shake it, and all kinds of life comes out: shrimp, crabs, worms, sea slugs. The place is really just bursting with life. It's the base of the food chain. And these areas we're seeing here by comparison are quite dead," he said.

"It's amazing. We'll see flying fish, and they'll land in this stuff and just get stuck."

Please click HERE to read the entire article...

Journalists Threatened With Arrest By BP Contractors Accompanied By U.S. Coast Guards For Trying To Film BP's Oil Mess!

This is soooo fricken WRONG!!! The U.S. Coast Guard is acting as BP's body guard preventing the media or any camera crews from DOCUMENTING the ecological destruction of marine LIFE!!! Why is President Obama who oversee's our Federal Regulatory agencies (ie: EPA and U.S. Coast Guard) ALLOWING them to give BP FREE REIGN over the situation!?!?!

I've taken the following from the YouTube video description:

Emerging reports are raising the question of just how much of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill journalists are able to document.

When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested. "This is BP's rules, it's not ours," someone aboard the boat said. Coast Guard officials told CBS that they're looking into it. As the Coast Guard is a branch of the Armed Forces, it brings into question how closely the government and BP are working together to keep details of the disaster in the dark

Obama Administration Keeps Promise On Whale Conservation At International Talks!

President Obama is an EGOTISTAL SOB!!! He should have NEVER RENEGGED ON HIS PROMISE to begin with. Now that the world has BEGGED (petitioned) him to reverse his decision to lift the whaling ban, the emperor has granted us our request!!!

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The Huffington Post

Obama Administration Keeps Promise on Whale Conservation at International Talks

written by Philip Radford.Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

Thursday June 24, 2010 at 09:35am

You would be hard pressed to find a director of an environmental group who is more critical than yours truly regarding the gap between President Obama's visionary campaign messages and his actual leadership on environmental issues.

But I must say that I was impressed when I heard the U.S. government's position against commercial whaling and any trade of whale products at the International Whaling Commission. While the nations that gathered failed to come to an agreement that could help save whales -- largely because countries like Japan refuse to stop slaughtering whales -- the President and his team stood their ground in the end.

While campaigning for president, Obama promised Greenpeace that under his leadership, the United States would work to strengthen the international moratorium on commercial whaling. He declared that "allowing Japan to continue commercial whaling is unacceptable."

That promise came under question this year when we received confirmation that the President was supporting a proposal that would have lifted the 24-year ban on commercial whaling. In response, 1.5 million people signed petitions urging the White House to stand up for whales and President Obama, to his credit, listened. The US statement at the IWC meeting reaffirmed the government's support for whale conservation:

"First and foremost, the United States continues to support the commercial whaling moratorium. We strongly oppose lethal scientific whaling -- we strongly believe it unnecessary for modern whale conservation and management. In particular, the United States is concerned by whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, and by the increased international trade and black market trade in whale meat and whale products."

This year, the best we could do was keep the IWC from rolling back protections for whales. Next year, the IWC needs to get serious and close the loopholes that have allowed Japan, Iceland, and Norway to flaunt the moratorium and keep slaughtering whales. As I write this, four Japanese whaling ships are currently navigating the Northwestern Pacific, planning to kill 260 whales by the end of August.

For over thirty years, Greenpeace has been an outspoken opponent of commercial whaling, taking action to stop the harpooners in their home countries, at sea and in the political arena of IWC meetings and our commitment to bringing about its end in all of our oceans remains. Hopefully by this time next year, we'll be in a position to get the IWC to actually do something positive, instead of having to work like mad just to keep them from moving backwards. Today, the United States stayed true to Obama's promise to Americans. Today, I feel that hope about the President and our chances to stop whaling that so many felt when President Obama first called on America to share his hope for a better future for our children and grandchildren.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu In 2007: BP Is Going To Help Us Save the World!!! What Was He Smoking? Could It Be The Sweet Aroma Of $500 Million From BP?!

This is who President Obama chose for our Secretary of Energy!!! I'm telling you they're ALL IN CAHOOTS!!! It's maddening to watch our federal government aiding and abetting BP's crime against Marine LIFE!!!

When I first heard that The EPA approved BP's use of TOXIC DISPERSEMENTS, I honestly could not believe it. The EPA approved BP to use TOXIC dispersements. I was seriously in shock when I heard that news. That makes the clean up much harder and makes the environmental situation seriously worse! But not only that, to use TOXIC anything should have raised significant RED FLAGS to our U.S. Federal government aka the EPA. Why do they even bother calling themselves ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION agency?!?!?!

I have taken the following from the EPA website. Please click HERE to read the entire report:

The EPA and the U.S. Coast Guard have authorized BP to use dispersants underwater, at the source of the Deepwater Horizon leak. Subsea dispersant application has been in use since May 15, 2010. While BP pursues the use of subsurface dispersants, the federal government reviews its effectiveness and impact on the environment daily; EPA specifically monitors the water and air for dispersant and its potential impacts through a rigorous monitoring program. Below is EPA's directive to BP, including the monitoring plan that the company must adhere to in order to ensure the protection of the environment. The Federal Government reserves the right to discontinue the use of this dispersant method if negative impacts on the environment outweigh the benefits, and the Coast Guard’s Federal On-Scene Coordinator has the authority to make daily decisions regarding any request by BP to adjust the use of dispersant.

HOW STUPID!!!! Are they INSANE!!! My gosh I really want to slap some SENSE into our government (ie; The WH and EPA and the coast guard) for ALLOWING this and NOT considering the environmental and human health negative consequences!!! They may claim they are, but anybody in their RIGHT MIND would NEVER have allowed this to begin with. It's actions like this that have been pissing me off! BP could NOT be doing this without our federal governments permission!!!

Then to make matters worse the EPA and coast guard approved BP to BURN the oil surface!!! Again how STUPID! Now we're finding out that BP doesn't care that they are BURNING sea turtles and any other kind of marinelife that has been caught in the oil mess!!! But have you heard a PEEP from the EPA or coast guard?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Nothing.

President Obama COULD HAVE had the problem solved within a matter of weeks, but he immediately REFUSED THE HELP of  THIRTEEN international entities that had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion! All he had to do was WAIVE the Jones Act!!!

Then on June 18, 2010 ABC News reports,

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore. "The Coast Guard came and shut them down," Jindal said. "You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, 'Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.'" The governor said he didn't have the authority to overrule the Coast Guard's decision, though he said he tried to reach the White House to raise his concerns.

And lastly to nail my point about President Obama IMPOTENCE in handling the Gulf Coast crisis... The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 gives the President of the United States complete responsibility for immediate action in cleaning up an oil spill. OPA, among other things, amended Section 311 of the federal Clean Water Act. Section 311 now provides in part that:

(A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States), the President shall direct all Federal, State, and private actions to REMOVE THE DISCHARGE or to MITIGATE or prevent the threat of the discharge.

(B) In carrying out this paragraph, the President may, without regard to any other provision of law governing contracting procedures or employment of personnel by the Federal Government (i) remove or arrange for the removal of the discharge, or mitigate or prevent the substantial threat of the discharge; and (ii) remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available.