Introduction The following are documents relating to oil spills, cleanups, and different R&D efforts by the military, government and private organizations. The hope is that scientists, researchers, investigators, clean-up crews, BP, or whomever else can use this as a research resource. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to leak. Named the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, its source was a sea-floor oil gusher resulting from the 20 April…
Author: John Greenewald
Backgroud Excerpt from the August, 1974, CIA report, entitled: Potential Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production, and Climate. Full document is available below. “The widespread crop shortfalls in 1972 and the energy and fertilizer crunches in ’73 and ’74 have raised anew the basic question of whether the production of food can keep pace with demand over the next few decades. Concern about the capability of many of the poorer countries to provide for their growing population is widespread and rising. Major international conferences planned for the second half of this year–i.e., the World Population Conference in August and the World Food Conference in November– will focus…
According to Wikipedia: HealthCare.gov is a health insurance exchange website operated under the United States federal government under the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, often known as ‘Obamacare’), designed to serve the residents of the thirty-six U.S. states that opted not to create their own state exchanges. The exchange facilitates the sale of private health insurance plans to residents of the United States and offers subsidies to those who earn less than four times the federal poverty line. The website also assists those persons who are eligible to sign up for Medicaid, and has a…
The Ebola virus is a highly infectious and deadly disease that first emerged in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus causes a severe illness that can lead to internal and external bleeding, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as blood, vomit, or feces, of an infected person or animal. Over the years, there have been several outbreaks of the Ebola virus in various countries in Africa. The largest and most severe outbreak occurred in West Africa in 2014, which affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The outbreak…
The House Oversight Committee requested information from the Federal Election Commission in 2009, regarding the ACORN voter fraud scandal. According to their letter to Rep. Darrell Issa: On behalf of the Federal Election Commission, this letter is in response to your letter of August 11,2009, requesting information, opinions and analysis from the Commission. The below is what they sent to the committee: House Oversight Committee Request to the Federal Election Commission for campaign data concerning ACORN and related organizations [465 Pages, 31.39MB]