Archive for the 'Florida' Category
Big Picture Gallery: Human Landscapes in South West Florida
October 2nd, 2010Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: A couple weeks ago, I was listening to a story by NPR’s Planet Money team about “Toxie” a toxic asset they had purchased to follow and help tell the story of the recent financial meltdown. One of the mortgages in Toxie was on a home bought for investment in […]
Bank of America Forecloses on Homeowner Who Paid Cash for Property
September 24th, 2010Via: Sun Sentinel: When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclosed on the house, even though Grodensky did not have a mortgage. Grodensky knew nothing about the foreclosure until July, when he learned that […]
Absurd Attempt to Prevent People from Seeing BP Oil on Beaches in Florida
September 19th, 2010Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
September 12th, 2010Full text below, just to make sure that this doesn’t go away somehow. Via: The New York Observer: Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque By Mark Ames September 10, 2010 | 2:36 p.m So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable lines, with […]
Florida Minister: September 11 Quran Burn Still Planned
September 8th, 2010The U.S. is murdering Muslim civilians, with all manner of weaponry, across several countries, but burning the Quran is going to piss some people off? Oh ok. And Petraeus and Clinton are mentioning this yokel… What’s going on here? Via: ABC News: The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday […]
Tests Find Sickened Family Has 50.3 PPM of Corexit’s 2-Butoxyethanol in Swimming Pool
August 30th, 2010? ? ? ? ? Via: Florida Oil Spill Law: “Our heads are still swimming,” stated Barbara Schebler of Homosassa, Florida, who received word last Friday that test results on the water from her family’s swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink […]
48 Foot Yacht, Worth $1 Million, Registered with/to[?] U.S. Government, Washes Ashore in Florida, Engine Running, Lights On, Nobody Aboard
August 26th, 2010Update: Stolen from Cancun? Via: AP: The owner of a 48-foot Mexican yacht that mysteriously ran ashore with no one onboard and its engines running said today he had reported it stolen from a Cancun marina days earlier. Arturo Millet Reyes said the yacht was taken from private marina on Saturday and that he reported […]
‘Buy and Bail’
August 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Harvey Collier, a mortgage broker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says he gets as many as 10 calls a month from people planning to default on their loans. The twist: They first want financing to buy another home. Real estate professionals call it “buy and bail,” acquiring a new house before the buyer’s credit […]
Goldman Sachs Involved with Despicable Bucket Shop Education Scams
August 9th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Carrianne Howard dreamed of designing video games, so she enrolled in a program at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a for-profit college part-owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Her bachelor’s degree in game art and design cost $70,000 in tuition and fees. After she graduated in December 2007, she found a job […]
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
August 4th, 2010Via: Cnet: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial […]
