Feds Gave ‘Energy Assistance’ Money to Dead People
The Government Accounting Office has uncovered massive fraud in a federal program designed to help low-income Americans pay for heating and air conditioning — including payments to 725 imprisoned convicts.
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program serves 8.3 million U.S. households. But the GAO found that the program paid $116 million to applicants who used 11,000 dead people’s Social Security numbers, as well as to the convicts and to 1,100 well-paid government workers who were not eligible for benefits. Continue reading “Feds Gave ‘Energy Assistance’ Money to Dead People” »
BP says there are no signs of leakage from its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, a day after the flow was stopped for the first time since April.
No oil has escaped from the new cap sealing the well and there was no sign of any breach under the sea floor, BP executive Kent Wells said.
Well, if you watched the debate between Democratic candidates, you found out that Mr. John Dougherty will be aggressive, Ms. Cathy Eden will be exact, and Mr. Randy Parraz will be a good union leader and Mr. Rodney Glassman is the proud Vice-Mayor of a sanctuary city. They will all get us out of the war even though they are running for Senator and not Commander-in-Chief. Frank Camacho hosted the debate. Oh, yeah. And they also know all Arizonans don’t like SB-1070. Yet, one of them mentioned the 70% approval rating.
All of them carefully stayed away from the subject of Obamacare, but you can expect the Republicans to be asked about it. They, also, carefully avoided telling you that they are going to push to pass cap-and-trade to fight the evils of global warming, or climate change, or weather re-enhancement, or whatever they are calling it these days.
Last November there was a world-wide outcry when a trove of emails were released suggesting some of the world’s leading climate scientists engaged in professional misconduct, data manipulation and jiggering of both the scientific literature and climatic data to paint what scientist Keith Briffa called “a nice, tidy story” of climate history. The scandal became known as Climategate.
Now a supposedly independent review of the evidence says, in effect, “nothing to see here.” Last week “The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review,” commissioned and paid for by the University of East Anglia, exonerated the University of East Anglia. The review committee was chaired by Sir Muir Russell, former vice chancellor at the University of Glasgow.
Mr. Russell took pains to present his committee, which consisted of four other academics, as independent. He told the Times of London that “Given the nature of the allegations it is right that someone who has no links to either the university or the climate science community looks at the evidence and makes recommendations based on what they find.”
A recent video by a high level BP contractor reveals that BP is not interested in cleaning up the oil in the gulf. This apparent whistleblower provides evidence that the government and oil companies are trying to force “cap-and-trade” onto Americans to further destroy the economy.
Cap-and-trade, which only affects and hurts the poor, is an unspoken campaign promise that you will probably receive no matter which major candidate you elect. The only chance to stop it is to elect real Americans to offices replacing incumbents.
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Texas’ Joe Barton apology. Well, Clinton apologized to the Japanese and Obama apologizes for the United States and bows everywhere he goes. Why haven’t we apologized to the north Koreans? Or the Chinese because we haven’t shipped all of our jobs over there?
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor / June 30, 2010
With Hurricane Alex churning through the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday and this year’s hurricane season forecasted to be an active one, scientists are worried about how the Gulf Coast will fare from the potential wallop it could take.
Right now, scientists are predicting that this hurricane season, which officially began on June 1, could be as intense as or worse than in 2005 (the most active Atlantic season ever recorded and the year Hurricane Katrina struck).
This stormy weather has the potential to not only wreak the normal havoc on coastal areas, toppling trees and flooding inland areas, but could worsen the already devastating impact of the BP oil spill on the Gulf, spreading tar balls over a much wider area, as well as across not-yet-hit marshes, according to Ping Wang in the Department of Geology at the University of South Florida. Already, Alex has pushed oil from the spill onto Gulf coast beaches, with some tar balls as large as apples, according to news reports.
The European Union has adopted a regulation that will ban the construction of ordinary family houses, starting from 2020. Only the so-called passive houses will be allowed:
For example, page 33/71 of the PDF document above says that all new buildings have to be “nearly zero-energy buildings” by the end of 2020. It has to be true by the end of 2018 for all new buildings occupied by public authorities.
Americans believe strongly that the United States needs to change its dependency on fossil fuels, but they have mixed feelings about whether government policies should encourage use of alternative energy sources in their place.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 73% of Adults believe it is at least Somewhat Important for the country to change its dependency on fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil in the near future. This includes 42% who say it’s Very Important.
Just 23% say this change is Not Very or Not At All Important.
Forty-one percent (41%) say government policies should be enacted to discourage use of fossil fuels and encourage the use of alternative energy sources instead. But 36% don’t think that’s a good idea. Another 23% are not sure.
This is in contrast to the advise of Thomas Jefferson who wrote, “The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.” In our Capitalist tradition, the people “voted” for or against various products and prices by casting their ballot at the checkout stand. Continue reading “People favor policies to discourage fossil fuels, but don’t want to pay for it.” »
WASHINGTON – In the movies, they at least would have offered him a last cigarette and a blindfold ahead of facing the Congressional version of a firing squad.
But hapless BP Chief Executive Tony “I’d Like My Life Back” Hayward had no such luck Thursday as he became the juiciest corporate target for lawmakers since the Senate feasted on the arrogant whiz kids of Goldman Sachs earlier this spring.
In his prepared testimony for the hearing of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Hayward was contrite. But he also tried to convey that BP was not solely to blame for the Gulf oil rig blowout that killed 11 workers and triggered the worse environmental disaster in U.S. history.
“I fully grasp the terrible reality of the situation,” Hayward said, but “this is a complex accident caused by an unprecedented combination of failures.”
President Obama in his Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday night said BP is responsible not just for the environmental clean-up from the massive Gulf oil leak but also must “compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of [the] company’s recklessness.” He is expected to repeat that message in a meeting with top BP officials today.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Americans agree that the oil companies involved with the Gulf leak should be required to pay back everyone who lost income because of the oil spill, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 17% disagree, and 14% more are not sure. Continue reading “Americans agreeable that BP should pay.” »
At several critical points in his career, President Barack Obama has turned to his considerable oratorical skills to help salvage his image.
When Mr Obama’s campaign was beset with criticism over his relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the then-senator gave an eloquent and widely-lauded assessment the state of race relations in American society.
When his healthcare bill looked to be on life support, Mr Obama rallied support for it before a joint session of Congress.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Obama chose to address the BP oil spill crisis from the illustrious Oval Office, a location soaked in historical importance and shrouded in seriousness, where past presidents have spoken of wars, tragedies and struggles.
In what were his first Oval Office remarks, Mr Obama spoke of waging a war on an oil spill that is “assaulting our shores and our citizens.”
He was resolute, at times calm and at times impassioned, projecting both gravity and sobriety.
Why is BP being allowed to shut down First Amendment rights? Coast Guard states no rules in place to prevent media access.
One of the disturbing aspects of the BP oil spill is the clear violation of the First Amendment under threat of arrest.
In a CBS news video, Kelly Cobiella reported that she was turned away from filming the damage along the coast by a boat with two BP contractors and two Coast Guard officers. The Coast Guard was alleged to have said that it was BP rules, not ours.
According to The Huffington Post, Rob Wyman, the Lieutenant Commander of the USCG Deepwater Horizon Unified Command Joint Information Center has sent us a statement in response to this incident.
…Neither BP nor the U.S. Coast Guard, who are responding to the spill, have any rules in place that would prohibit media access to impacted areas and we were disappointed to hear of this incident.
The timing of the reporter incident are suspicious as several anomalies concerning the damaged oil rig are surfacing. Fishermen, contracted to assist in the clean up, are reporting sicknesses that they relate to the chemicals used by BP. RawStory.com reported Goldman Sacs sold large shares of BP stock in the days prior to the accident.
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