Transocean (oil spill) execs given "best year of safety" bonuses

This report is really eye-opening. Geithner ignored suggestions and recommendations every time. This report is a wee bit longer but, like the last report, I have posted the link to read the whole thing. Hopefully this won't be double spaced. This month, SIGTARP released a report, “Treasury Continues Approving Excessive Pay for the Top Executives at Bailed-Out Companies,” which reviewed the process and decisions of Treasury’s Office of the Special Master for TARP ...

WASHINGTON -- It's getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations. The new tactic is raising the anxiety level – and risks – for corporate honchos at drug companies, medical device manufacturers, nursing home chains and other major health care enterprises that deal with Medicare and Medicaid. Previously, if a company got caught, its lawy ...

White liberal hypocrisy on race is so delightful for conservatives. White conservatives are always on defense against charges of hating President Obama because he is black; suppressing minority voters and indifference to the difficulty minorities have living everyday with the legacy of slavery and a culture filled with stereotypes of black inferiority. This week white conservatives can take a break, step out of the dock and make way for white liberals. I know from personal experience at N ...

This is an email forward I received today. I searched and found another related article, see the link at bottom. ***** Email Forward ***** First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week! I'm an engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to m ...

I never saw James Carville so furious and I don't blame him. This is oil spill is absolutely unforgiveable. The marshlands are being destroyed and probably the whole fishing industry for a few years, if not more than decades. I was reading other reports yesterday and I always read the poster's comments. Some say stop depending on oil and depend on nuclear, solar, and wind. That's easier said than done. Solar and wind are expensive and not a guarantee for northern climates. N ...

Dear MoveOn member, We struggled with whether or not to share this photo, taken of a bird on the beach at East Grand Terre Island, LA on Thursday. It's hard to look at. But we have to face where our addiction to oil has taken us—and this photo brings that home: (Click here if you can't see the image) The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is heartbreaking—but if an image like this can do anything, it can sear into our minds the fact that we need a real plan to get ...

As you know, there has been a "move your money" movement and the OWS occupation of Wall Street. Big banks, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have recently reported a big drop in profits. The smaller regional banks are doing okay. (Yes, there are some like Citibank where things are getting better, but they really had no other direction to go as they had already bottomed out). I just want to congratulate the 99% for making a difference on Wall Street and in Wisconsin.& ...

Different statements made by goverment officials, TV commentators, etc. Very interesting. If you click on the meters or the links below the meters, you can read why this site has rated the statements as they did. http://www.politifact.com/subjects/oil-spill/ ...

their pocketbooks. June 10, 2010 Dear Friend, I am a fourth-generation shrimper from the Gulf of Mexico and today I was arrested and charged with unlawful conduct for pouring oil on myself at a Senate Energy Committee. I was protesting Senator Lisa Murkowski's refusal to make BP pay for the disaster that is devastating shrimping communities across the Gulf Coast. Just imagine this: BP can get away with pouring millions of gallons of oil in our seas and I get arrested f ...

Here we go again. Sorry, but doesn't he realize we're broke yet? WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law. In a policy shift critics see as political, the Health and Human Services department has decided to award quality bonuses to hundreds of Medicare Advantage plans rated merely average. The $6.7 ...

Obama, Democrats blast Republican move; Salazar says regulators were lax msnbc.com news services updated 3:45 p.m. PT, Tues., May 18, 2010 // WASHINGTON - As an Obama administration official acknowledged lax regulation prior to the Gulf oil spill, Senate Democrats on Tuesday were foiled in their bid to dramatically lift a cap on oil companies' economic liability for spills. President Barack Obama said he was disappointed that the proposal had stalled in the U.S. Senate, and blas ...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/boehner-government--ie-taxpayers--should-help-pay-for-oil-spill.php?ref=fpa ...

At least he is trying to help. interesting article, especially the part where he says his machine has been tied up in beaurocratic red tape--what a shock that is. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20.../14457956.html ...

By Agence France-PresseMonday, January 11th, 2010 -- 11:06 pm Major US banks are gearing up to announce annual bonuses for top executives while bracing for a political firestorm over compensation practices that critics say fueled the global financial crisis. A number of multimillion-dollar bonus payments are likely, even though most of the payouts are likely to be in the form of stock, with restrictions aimed at discouraging excessive risk-taking at many banks. With announcements expected in ...

My daughter just spilled dark red nail polish on my carpet. Alcohol is helping get it out, but any other ideas?? Thanks.. ...

Obama not slow in his response to oil spill ...

Have a nice sunny day, Colorado. ...

This is one thing we have to look forward to. After it is all said and done, there will be 50 jobs out of the pipeline Trump wants to go forward with. The taxpayers who live where the oil spills happen will pay to have it cleaned up, not to mention how harmful it is to the animals and environment. Why would we want to go back to making fossil fuels are prime source of energy anyway? So we can make money! Lots of money! ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=au.pavWlxfZg&pos=11 ...

By Daniel TencerThursday, January 7th, 2010 -- 9:30 pm A lawsuit filed against investment bank Goldman Sachs by a shareholder alleges that the company spent more money on corporate bonuses than it earned in 2008. Shareholder Ken Brown's lawsuit is one of two suits filed against the company this week over its controversial decision to hand out billions of dollars in bonuses even after it was accused of playing a central role in the financial collapse of 2008 and receiving $10 billion in di ...

BP buys Google, Yahoo oil spill search terms By Hibah Yousuf, staff reporterJune 7, 2010: 6:37 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As BP continues to try to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy giant is also dealing with a public relations nightmare. That's why the company is snapping up search phrases like "oil spill" and "oil spill claims" on Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500). The strategy, says a company spokeswoman, aims to "assist those w ...

$23 billion could send 460,000 to Harvard, buy insurance for 1.7 million families" Here we go again! http://rawstory.com/2009/10/goldman-sachs-2009-bonuses-to-double-2008s-23-billion-could-buy-115-million-iphones-or-send-460000-to-harvard/ ...

By John ByrneMonday, April 19th, 2010 -- 8:55 am As if to put the icing on the cake, the investment bank Goldman Sachs is set to shell out another $5 billion in bonuses to employees. What's more, the bonuses are expected to cover the employees' work for just the first three months of the year, according to the UK Sunday Times. According to the report, bankers will receive remuneration of about $170,000 per person for the firm's 32,500 employees. Some traders are set to receive ...

The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse. By Jon Swaine and Robert WinnettPublished: 12:10AM BST 05 Jun 2010 Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster. Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4 million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family&rs ...

This is sooooo stoopid!!! What do they want the President to do? I guess the President needs to sit at his desk 24 hours/day. After all, he can only handle one catastrophe at a time. I think our President needs to move his office and staff to a boat and park it next to the gusher. Hopefully, that will make people happy. I guess Republicans have forgotten how many days Bush spent at his Texas ranch. Last week, it was an ad. This time, it's a statement from the GOP chairman. O ...

"A 2-year-old Kentucky girl was accidentally killed by her 5-year-old brother who fired a rifle he had been given as a gift, officials said Wednesday." Parents can be arrested for not reporting a missing child. It's not even legal to let your child drive a car without a permit. Yet, this sad, sad story is unfortunately way too common. We MUST start holding adults accountable for guns in the home. ...

Read this and thought it important enough to post. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31766160/ns/health-food_safety// ...

It's disgusting that someone who is healthy but lazy refuses to look for a job takes government handouts without feeling guilty. In fact, this guy is proud of himself. I don't care if you hate Fox News. You seriously need to watch this. This is something everyone should be disgusted with and it was a great report by Bret Baier. If you really care about waste and fraud, in our country, you will watch it. If not, then you don't care if the taxpayer gets ripped off by people l ...

enjoy! http://www.break.com/video/safety-cat-is-here-to-protect-you-2506040 ...

I have a friend who has had to move into a HUD apartment with her infant and toddler (husaband's whereabouts unknown, she's been unemployed for 2 years, is going to school full time now). All of the walls are stuccoed-over concrete and there are steep concrete stairs. There are no newel posts, just the walls (one shorter than the other) and an iron handrail...it reminds me of a fire escape stairwell in a large building or hospital. Anyway, I want to get her a s ...

Transocean (oil spill) execs given "best year of safety" bonuses

They apologized, but did they still give the bonuses? - Interesting

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