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BP Gulf Oil Spill`s Walking Dead

"And I think the media now has to...tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf." - Hugh Kaufman, senior EPA analyst, admits millions have been poisoned in the Gulf states.

(CHICAGO) - A biochemical bomb went off in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010--as dangerous and destructive as a nuclear blast.

Many Gulf Spill Cleanup Efforts Ineffective and Harming, not Helping Birds

New Report and Recommendations Issued Today by American Bird Conservancy.

(WASHINGTON D..C.) - A new report shows how some of BP’s oil spill cleanup efforts are actually causing harm to birds and their habitats rather than helping them, that cleanup vessels are inadequate and operating in the wrong locations, and that deployed boom has failed to protect some important bird colonies from oil.

Thunderstorms Are a Deadly, Destructive Force, Warns IBHS

“Thunderstorms do not receive as much notoriety as hurricanes or the other perils of Mother Nature, but they are a force to be reckoned with” - Julie Rochman, IBHS president and CEO

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Insurers and homeowners are keeping a close watch on the Atlantic Basin for hurricane activity this summer.

New Technology and Blind Ambition Places Sightless Drivers Behind Wheel

National Federation of the Blind to Debut Car That Can Be Driven Independently by the Blind at Rolex 24; NFB, Virginia Tech, and Grand-Am Form Historic Partnership to Advance Innovative Technology

(DAYTONA BEACH) - The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and other agencies, demonstrated the first street vehicle equipped with technology allowing a blind person to drive independently.

It is scheduled to be demonstrated to the public as part of the pre-race activities at the 2011 Rolex 24 At Daytona.

EU Times Reports California Notified of Gulf Evacuation Plans

Even if you don't live in one of the Gulf Coast states, this one story you want to closely follow.

(SOMERDALE, N.J.) - This story gets worst day by day. Wayne Madsen, the investigative reporter, has a new for-subscribers report out.

Gulf Oil Spill Story Revised Months After Publication

For Gulf coast residents, I hope that FEMA or some other government agency, in fact, has plans to evacuate those individuals with respiratory problems, if there’s a need to burn crude oil in Tampa Bay.

(TAMPA, Fla.) - Writing a news story on the Gulf oil spill can cause a reporter to lose sleep, even when the news story is not “Breaking News.”

`Almost All of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Workers are Dead`

Oil Worker life spans and dangerous times in a world of BP and greed.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It is the last thing most of us expected to hear: nearly every single worker from the Exxon Valdez oil spill Disaster is now dead.

We're talking about a lot of people. I personally became an oil spill volunteer at the time here in Oregon, though I never got my hands very dirty, so to speak.

FEMA Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Area In Place?

FEMA has plans for the evacuation of the Tampa Bay area, according to the Hernando County Political Buzz Examiner.

(TAMPA, Fla.) - FEMA has plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay, according to a report by Maryann Tobin in the Hernando County Political Buzz Examiner.

Tobin has been a freelance writer for more than twenty years, writing for local publications in New York and Florida.

Schneiders Guilty!!!

"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom -- Justice is what comes out of a courtroom" (Clarence Darrow, Lawyer and Writer)

(WICHITA, Kansas) - A federal jury today found a Kansas former doctor and his nurse wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died.

Florida Could be in Serious Danger of Methane Gas Explosion

Expert says this could be the beginning of a catastrophe; information people should know.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Richard C Hoagland gave an interview on Coast to Coast a couple of days ago; it has been uploaded to YouTube and is available below in two parts.

The pressure at the depth of the gulf well is 100,000 pounds per square inch. If you believe the experts, there are few answers but there are ideas that might be able to arrest the situation.