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Coast Guard Criticizes its Own Lack of Preparation before BP Oil Spill and White House Interference After
The U.S. Coast Guard was not prepared and struggled with its crisis communications during last year’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an internal review of the agency’s performance.
The report concluded that Coast Guard... read more
Homeland Security Dept. Warns that U.S. is Unprepared for Nuclear Emergency
The federal agency charged with ensuring the nation’s security against disasters admitted last year in a confidential report that the United States is ill-prepared to deal with a significant release of radiation.
Coming on the heels of Japan... read more
Supreme Court Majority Rules DA is not Responsible for His Prosecutors’ Misdeeds
After spending 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, John Thompson sued the district attorney in Louisiana whose office was responsible for concealing evidence from his defense that would have proved he was innocent all along. He wo... read more
Massey Coal Executives Escape Prosecution for Mine Deaths
One year after the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that killed 29 workers, none of mine owner Massey Energy’s executives have faced criminal prosecution. But this only follows a long history of Massey breaking the law and staying out of jail.
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Obama and Holder Falsely Blame Congress for Not Trying 9/11 Conspirators in U.S.
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. say they want the criminal trials of terrorism suspects to take place in federal court, but that Congress has forced them to use military tribunals.
Not so.
The funding restrict... read more
25 Hedge Fund Managers Make as Much Money as 1,150,000 Average Americans
Here is one more example that the gap between the super-wealthy in the United States and the rest of Americans is growing wider and wider.
A group of 25 hedge fund executives in 2010 managed to earn a combined $22.1 billion—an amount equivalen... read more
3 Transocean Employees Refuse to Testify in Probe of Gulf Oil Rig Disaster
Three employees of Transocean, owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, have refused to cooperate with a federal investigation into last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, ... read more
Bank Salaries Untouched by Financial Crisis…and Don’t Worry about CEOs of Fannie and Freddie
It turns out that going into banking during the last decade really paid off (literally), regardless of the effects that the financial crisis and the succeeding Great Recession had on the rest of the economy.
Average compensation for bank emp... read more
Federal Reserve Finally Reveals Which Banks Took Emergency Loans at Height of Crisis
No wonder the Federal Reserve fought so hard to keep secret the names of banks that were bailed out during the height of the financial crisis of 2008. The biggest recipients were foreign—not American—institutions that benefited from hundreds of ... read more
Pentagon Networks Threatened by Cyber Attack…The Dangers of Outsourcing Security
Information systems at the Department of Defense may be vulnerable to cyber attacks now that a company it relies on for password-protected networks was itself a victim of hackers.
RSA, maker of the widely sold SecurID authentication system t... read more
Indian Point Nuclear Plant Accused of Violating Safety Rules
Picking up where the previous state attorney general—current Governor Andrew Cuomo—left off, New York AG Eric Schneiderman is going after Indian Point, one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants, arguing that its attempts to avoid fire safety... read more
Real Anchor Babies…From China, Not Mexico
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution gives automatic citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Immigrants arriving in the United States to give birth so their children will automatically become American citizens are not ... read more
Supreme Court Prepares to Hear Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Case
A huge sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, now a decade old, will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court today, as the retail giant tries to minimize the number of employees involved in the civil case.
Plaintiffs first filed their c... read more
General Electric Doesn’t Pay Taxes; Why Should You?
With unemployment still high and governments at all levels slashing services, it’s shocking to realize that the nation’s largest corporation, General Electric, paid zero taxes in the United States last year.
GE earned $5.1 billion in profits... read more
U.S. Life Expectancy Hits Record High
Americans are living longer than ever, according to new figures from the federal government. The National Vital Statistics System determined that the average life expectancy at birth in 2009 was 78.2 years, the highest rate on record. Numerous f... read more
The Dangers of the Oldest U.S. Nuclear Reactor
In the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, attention in the United States has turned to the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey, home of the country’s oldest reactor.
Oyster Creek features a GE Mark I Boiling Water reactor which is identica... read more