So says a lying government. Yup, everything's all right, yes, everything's fine. Well, then you can have the seafood lunch unless Jesus can cure the fish of contamination. 

EPA suspends BP from new federal contracts

Heck, while we are down there let's go for a swim:

 "2 missing, 4 critically burned in Gulf of Mexico oil platform fire" by Michael Kunzelman  |  Associated Press, November 17, 2012

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the coast....

 I've been told everything is back to normal so WTF?

The images were eerily similar to the massive oil spill that killed 11 workers and took months to bring under control. It came a day after BP agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 spill and pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties.

But there are a few important differences with the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and began one of the nation’s biggest environmental disasters: Friday’s fire was put out within hours, rather than burning for more than a day and causing the rig to collapse and sink.

Also, the rig that caught fire Friday is a production platform in shallow water, rather than an exploratory drilling rig looking for new oil on the seafloor almost a mile deep.

Still, the accident was a vivid reminder of the dangerous business of offshore drilling and the risk it poses to the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem and shoreline.

 A sheen of oil about a half-mile long and 200 yards wide was reported on the gulf surface, but officials believe it came from residual oil on the platform....

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"Officials said no oil was leaking from the charred platform, a relief for Gulf Coast residents still weary two years after the BP oil spill illustrated the risk offshore drilling poses to the region’s ecosystem and economy."

 They don't really expect us to believe them anymore do they? Just saying it because they have to say it, right?

Coast Guard finds body near burned Gulf oil rig

 Just wondering why the search link said the search was called off when it wasn't, but that's me (sigh).  

Crews continue search for missing oil worker 

Worker burned in Gulf oil platform fire dies

At least no oil is leaking. 

Anyone up for a bus tour? 

"Katrina victims want tour bus operators out of Lower Ninth Ward" by Stacey Plaisance  |  Associated Press, October 05, 2012

NEW ORLEANS — Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city’s Lower Ninth Ward, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed a wall of water that pushed homes off foundations and stranded residents on rooftops when the levees failed.

 Getting any ideas, New York and New Jersey?

About 9 million people visit New Orleans each year, mostly to see its stately homes along oak-lined avenues, dine at its renowned restaurants, and take in the jazz and ribaldry of Bourbon Street.

But Katrina’s devastation in August 2005 unleashed an unexpected cottage tourism industry, drawing a daily parade of rubbernecking tourists for a close-up look at the city’s hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward.

Worried that a flood of tour buses and vans would interfere with clean-up efforts, the City Council approved an ordinance in 2006 banning them from crossing the prominent Industrial Canal entering the neighborhood that received Katrina’s fury.

Now, tour operators are crying foul, saying the ordinance had been thinly enforced until recently.

They contend that a business bringing them and the city tourist dollars is being hurt.

‘‘I can’t afford to keep paying tickets,’’ said David Lee Ducote, owner of Southern Style Tours.

As the Lower Ninth Ward slowly rebuilds — vacant lots still attest to where homes once stood — visitor interest has also been piqued by housing built by actor Brad Pitt and his Make It Right foundation.

Councilman Ernest Charbonnet, who represents the neighborhood, said residents complain that the tour vehicles block streets and damage roads. They also are weary of being gawked at.

Charbonnet said city officials didn’t enforce the ordinance unless someone filed a formal complaint, an infrequent occurrence as a daily parade of buses, vans, and shuttles packed with camera-wielding tourists trouped by the Pitt houses and the home of rock ‘n roll legend Fats Domino.

That changed in recent weeks when complaints prompted officials to stop and fine operators.

‘‘We’re fed up and tired of them coming through the neighborhood like we’re some sideshow,’’ said Vanessa Gueringer, a lifelong resident....

 The first bolded comment describes my feelings towards my increasing pile of unread Globes, which is why I always check the second. 

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 Related: New Orleans Back to Normal

 Whatever you say, Globe. 

Also see: New Orleans US attorney resigns amid scandal

Corruption and deceit in the U.S. attorney's office? Surely you jest! 


Colonial Louisiana records shed new light on US history




Related: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews

Jewish Involvement in Black Slave Trade to the Americas

 I hope that sheds some light on that history, readers.  Not what you were taught in school, is it?