Archive for July, 2010

FloridaOilSpillLaw.com July 29th, 2010 Press briefing and teleconference to provide operational update on ongoing Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response efforts, Adm. Thad Allen, National Incident Commander, Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 1:45 p.m. EDT: Rush Transcript Summary ALLEN: Bonnie washes boom into “very sensitive marsh areas” ———————————————————————————————————————————– Share on Facebook »

FloridaOilSpillLaw.com July 29th, 2010 Press briefing and teleconference to provide operational update on ongoing Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response efforts, Adm. Thad Allen, National Incident Commander, Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 1:45 p.m. EDT: More containment talk… ———————————————————————————————————————————– Share on Facebook »

100 days after the spill began, American journalist Michael Grunwald exposes an over-hyped catastrophe By Jack Bremer TheFirstPost.com JULY 30, 2010 The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico created “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced” according to Barack Obama. True or false? One hundred days after the explosion on the... »

by Tom Engelhardt and Andrew Bacevich LewRockwell.com If you ever needed convincing that the world of American “national security” is well along the road to profligate lunacy, read the striking three-part “Top Secret America” series by Dana Priest and William Arkin that the Washington Post published last week. When it comes to the expansion... »

by Martin Masse LewRockwell.com It’s interesting to note that the first general census in North America was conducted in New France in 1665 by the then-intendant of the colony, Jean Talon (who has a big street and a metro station named after him in Montreal). Talon had been sent to North America by Louis... »

by Shawn Ritenour LewRockwell.com The President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released its most recent quarterly report on the effects of President Obama’s stimulus plan. Not surprisingly, the CEA praises this monumental Keynesian scheme, crediting the stimulus for saving or creating 3.6 million jobs and increasing the amount of private funds invested in... »

By Chuck Baldwin July 30, 2010 NewsWithViews.com Faithful readers of this column are very familiar with my call to locate a modern-day “Black Regiment.” The Black Regiment was a moniker affixed to those patriot preachers of colonial America who thundered forth the message of liberty and freedom, and without whose leadership our War for... »

By Dr. Laurie Roth July 30, 2010 NewsWithViews.com Please let me get this off my chest! Governor Jan Brewer and the citizens of Arizona don’t hate poor people, illegal aliens, or the law! They had been desperately waiting for the federal law, immigration law to actually be enforced regarding their state but it hasn’t... »

NetworkWorld.com 07/27/10 Radio-frequency I.D. (RFID) tags are a convenient way to track items and cut costs for companies. But this technology is increasingly being used to track other things, like security badges — or even people — giving it the potential to cause a horrific erosion of privacy. Tracking people with smart tags, their... »

By PETE YOST APNews.com WASHINGTON (AP) – Under fire from civil liberties groups, the FBI is defending domestic surveillance guidelines that critics fear could unfairly target innocent Muslims in terrorism and other criminal investigations. “It’s quite an invasive data collection system,” said Farhana Khera, executive director of the nonprofit group Muslim Advocates. “It’s based... »