(Rense) – Perhaps the British Petroleum/Nalco event was the wakeup call we needed in order to look more closely at untouchable corporations that began running the whole world 100 years ago. This is a paper about corporate communism, which is otherwise known as “monopolies” that are now rampant in the US. Monopolies always engage in conspiracy, and their first goal is to conspire to eliminate their competition and choices, establish control over prices and the masses by an elite few. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – Because of torrential rains lasting several days Pakistan is facing one of the worst predicaments in human and material terms for the last 80 years. The damage inflicted is stunning. About 22 million people are affected by the floods. Many infrastructures have been unable to withstand the onslaught of rain. Roads and harbours can no longer be used. Millions of people have had to leave their houses, and the UN estimates that there are 5 million left homeless. Makeshift refugee camps have been set up, and some 1 million people already live there in disgraceful sanitary conditions. The south of the country, and more particularly the province of Snidh, has been badly shaken by this catastrophe. Economic losses amount to billions with the farming industry severely hit, large tracts of farmland having been destroyed. Read the rest of this entry »

This column was initially released last December. Without a doubt, this has been one of my most requested columns. So, in response to the large number of readers who have asked me to re-release this column, I do so today. And in doing so, I have added some new material to the original column.

One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic–or at the very least, challenging–days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of work, losing one’s home, facing life-threatening medical conditions without any prospect of medical insurance, several families being forced to live in one house due to homes being foreclosed, etc., catastrophic. Read the rest of this entry »

(UCAR) – Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast – Read More Here

(NewsHerald) – Pensacola closes marina as oil breaches bay – Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence – Read More Here

(MarketOrcale) – BP Oil Disaster Could Hit Europe Via the Powerful Gulf Stream Current – Read More Here

(TPM) – Boehner: Government–i.e. Taxpayers–Should Help Pay For Oil Spill – Read More Here

(RawStory) – Human rights group: BP discouraging crews from using respirators

BP’s logic seems to be that if the oil cleanup doesn’t look dangerous then it must not be. The oil company has told workers not to wear respirators because it’s bad for public relations, according to one human rights group. Read More Here

(FloridaOilSpillLaw) – Governor: National Guard staging for “effort to evacuate” communities impacted by oil spill – Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Video: Black Waves Hitting The Beach

A short video of new, heavy oil hitting the state beach on Grand Isle. The number of oiled birds is on the rise, and Bottle-nosed Dolphins are swimming through the oil View Video Here

(BeforeItsNews) – Red Alert! “Rumor Possible” Troops ‘Invade’ Grand Isle Louisiana – First Step in Coastal Evacuation? – Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – John Boehner Shows His True Colors: American People Will Pay for BP Clean-up

House Minority leader and corporate bankster stooge John Boehner said he thinks taxpayers should help pick up the tab for the clean up. “I think the people responsible in the oil spill — BP and the federal government — should take full responsibility for what’s happening there,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference, according to TPM Muckraker (emphasis added). Read More Here

(Rense) – Vatican Official Tied To BP, Goldman Sachs

‘News unfolding from the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has linked media censorship to investment bankers at Goldman Sachs (GS) stewarding the Vatican’s wealth, and increasing evidence that the explosion was intended. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill? – Read More Here

(Rense) – Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment

It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.

What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf

What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration. Read More Here

(Rense) – Gulf Oil Blowout ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With – F. William Engdahl

How The BP Catastrophe May Devastate Europe Read More Here

(Rense) – Toxic Gas Concentrations Said Coming From The Blowout

Note – These figures and this information remains unconfirmed but comes from several different sources and is worth considering. It is hoped that independent citizens will gather air samples and send them to labs…probably foreign labs are best…to get them analyzed.

Toxic and carcinogenic gasses being released from the BP wellhead area into the gulf and into the atmosphere: Read More Here

May 11, 2010 – Audio Download Here

A BP insider, providing information to OpEdNEws.com, reports that scientists and engineers, fearing the worst, have envisioned a worst case scenario,
“It could very well be that the entire Gulf and the East coast of Florida could become dead zones, with no aquatic life at all.” Read More Here

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(PressTV) – BP dome fails to stop oil leak

British Petroleum (BP) has failed in its first attempt to contain oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico with a metal box as crystallized gas fills the structure. Read More Here

(McClatchyDC) – Video: Since spill, feds have given 27 waivers to oil companies in gulf

Since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded on April 20, the Obama administration has granted oil and gas companies at least 27 exemptions from doing in-depth environmental studies of oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. Video Link Here

Video: Southern Boys Show US Government How to Clean Up Oil With Hay! – Video Link Here

(MediaConsortium) – Weekly Mulch: Slick of Oil Industry Cash Gummed up Regulatory Works

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is worse than anyone thought, and the crisis will likely go on for months. British Petroleum (BP) is tripping over itself to say it’ll cover the costs of the clean-up, yet before the spill, the company spent its time and money pushing back against government regulation and safety measures. Read More Here

(Spiegel) – Expert Recommends Killing Oil-Soaked Birds

A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds’ sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up.

“Kill, don’t clean,” is the recommendation of a German animal biologist, who this week said that massive efforts to clean oil-soaked birds in Gulf of Mexico won’t do much to stop a near certain and painful death for the creatures Read More Here

(Guardian) – Chevron wins access to film-maker’s Amazon pollution footage

Crude, released last year, focuses on the 17-year legal battle between Chevron and 30,000 Ecuadorians who say their land, rivers, wells, livestock and own bodies were poisoned by decades of reckless oil drilling in the rainforest. Read More Here

(AP) – Oil spill may endanger human health, officials say

With a huge and unpredictable oil slick drifting in the Gulf of Mexico, state and federal authorities are preparing to deal with a variety of hazards to human health if and when the full brunt of the toxic mess washes ashore. Read More Here

(GreenPeace) – BP working hard to keep the damage hidden – Read More Here

(Guardian) – Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.

The decline of the country’s estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – We are not going to go into the lured details regarding residential and commercial real estate, but we are going to give you some highlights. We began telling subscribers to sell real estate in June of 2005, long before anyone else. We picked the top just as we did in September 1988 at the top. Read More Here

After a week in Kinshasa talking about war in Congo, it was time to see it, or at least visit its epicenter in the East. This is where rape is used as a weapon of war, where rebel groups challenge government forces militarily and occupy territory. 1.8 million people have been displaced causing a major humanitarian crisis; territory seems to change hands regularly and, as they say, tension is high. Read the rest of this entry »

(Truthout) – Now-frequent dust storms are just one sign of the man-made damage that has taken the country from Middle East breadbasket to dust bowl, they say. Read the rest of this entry »

Discovery Communications, the mega-entertainment corporation, will air a show at the end of this month called “The Colony.” According to the Discovery Channel website, the show “is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild” after a global catastrophe, specifically a worldwide viral pandemic scheduled to strike this autumn. Read the rest of this entry »

(Aljazeera) – About 1,400 people are dying every week in a camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the country’s civil war, a British newspaper reports. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – The head of the World Bank has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheaval. Read the rest of this entry »

As we edge toward world government, it pays to recall the Illuminati’s last great social experiment, Soviet Communism, which Juri Lina describes as a “social catastrophe.” Read the rest of this entry »

As we edge toward world government, it pays to recall the Illuminati’s last great social experiment, Soviet Communism, which Juri Lina describes as a “social catastrophe.” Read the rest of this entry »

In Chapter 5, the authors present a timeline figure representing “plausible history.” In 2009, according to the figure, influenza will kill 30 million people. “A similar influenza pandemic occurred in the past,” a footnote explains, making a reference to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919, described as “one of the worst human catastrophes on record. Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama has been criticized for warning of economic catastrophe but Glenn Becks prediction is far more dire. Beck says the military is preparing for a revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

The state of California was yesterday set to fire 20,000 public employees as it teetered on the brink of a total financial collapse. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama’s cap on executive pay for bailout recipients yesterday overshadowed his comments about the stimulus bill, which deserve greater scrutiny.

“A failure to act, and act now [on the bill], will turn crisis into a catastrophe,” Obama said, sounding a lot more like his predecessor than the candidate of hope and change. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama’s cap on executive pay for bailout recipients yesterday overshadowed his comments about the stimulus bill, which deserve greater scrutiny.

“A failure to act, and act now [on the bill], will turn crisis into a catastrophe,” Obama said, sounding a lot more like his predecessor than the candidate of hope and change. Read the rest of this entry »

Before all the Xmas BS gets in the way, an end-of-year essay of sorts is in order, especially so given the bumpy ride capitalism has bestowed on us this past twelve months. And the portents for 2009 look to be even worse as capitalism, desperate to shed over-valued assets, descends into the abyss.

Look at it this way: after the Crash of ‘29 and the launch of the New Deal, it took some six years to engineer the outbreak of WWII, the surefire way of literally burning up surplus capital in awesome quantities.

And if history has any lessons for us, some equivalent global conflagration is now in order. However, is this possible under these new circumstances and over what timescale can such a capitalist catastrophe be engineered? Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. Read the rest of this entry »

After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the U.S. Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened.

Senators loaded the economic rescue bill with tax breaks and other sweeteners before passing it by a wide margin, 74-25, a month before the presidential and congressional elections. Read the rest of this entry »

The Biggest Bailout in US History Read the rest of this entry »

Denouement (n) — The unraveling of a plot; a catastrophe….

From Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

There is something supernally appropriate to the fact that, in order to find the most suitable definition for just right word to describe the ongoing crisis of the financial system, we have to refer to a dictionary published in 1913.

We are now into the second year of the unraveling of the world financial system. It could be described as the Great Denouement (or final act) of a plot that began in 1913, when Congress created the Federal Reserve System, aka the Focus of Evil in the Modern World. So far the effects of the unraveling have had minimal impact on the larger economy.

This is about to change. Read the rest of this entry »

You know things are bad when Yahoo.com, the most trafficked website in the world and usually a purveyor of mindless celebrity gossip, cooking tips and dating advice, features a top story about how Americans could lose their bank deposits following the collapse of Lehman Brother. Read the rest of this entry »

A failure of U.S. mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be a catastrophe for the global financial system, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China’s central bank. Read the rest of this entry »