Oil Spill Coverage in Orange Beach, Alabama!

Video: Local TV station WVUA has been down in Orange Beach covering preparations for the potential damage to the Alabama coasts threatened by the oil spill. This reporter is at Zeke's Marina, home to the largest charter fishing fleet on the Gulf Coast where boats are docked due to fear of "oily" fish from consumers!

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Beware, Be Ready, the True Crash Appears Before Us (Gerald Celente & Alex Jones making sense)

A follow-up from I.O's Celente posting of Friday, 5/7/2010Since this is a public video with Celente's own quotes, I have lifted it directly from his site, Trends & Forecasts. Alex Jones knows what he is talking about, too, concerning this. Please heed. Get right with God. Get out of debt. Get your assets productive and/or liquid. Get ready for survival amidst economic devastation. This is unnecessary and is the corrupt practice of the most powerful money interests of the western world. And the solution they present, with Barack Obama front and center, is more of the global Marxofascist problem. The...

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Ben Lichtenstein’s breathless order-taking

Capturing the moment listen to the player, it's amazing to hear a floor trader call the handles on trades.

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Texas Leads the Way: Business Leaders Once Again Rate Texas the Best State for Business

The Lone Star State stands alone as America’s best state in which to do business. That’s how more than 600 CEOs across America rate Texas. Chief Executive Magazine polled a total of 651 corporate CEOs, who, for the fifth year in a row, gave Texas top honors for the state’s openness to business, our reasonable regulatory environment, the level of taxation, quality of our workforce and living environment. “Texas’ unrivaled success over the past several years is no accident,” said Republican Party of Texas Chairman Cathie Adams. “Texans are can-do people who maximize our freedoms to pursue the American dream....

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STOCK MARKET WEBINAR LEADER GOES NUTS DURING THE CRASH!

Video of a Cramer wannabe eventually yelling: "Whoa, look at that....even Cramer doesn't know what to think....cancel all orders, cancel all orders!"

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Broader U-6 Unemployment Rate Increases to 17.1% in April

The U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.9% in April, the first increase in three months, but the government’s broader measure of unemployment ticked up for the third month in a row, rising 0.2 percentage point to 17.1%. The comprehensive gauge of labor underutilization, known as the “U-6″ for its data classification by the Labor Department, accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can’t find full-time jobs. Though the rate is still 0.3 percentage point below its high of 17.4% in October, its continuing divergence from the official number (the “U-3″ unemployment measure) indicates the job market...

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Texas on top for Business once again

Thank the Fiscal Conservative climate set by the States' Elected Republicans From Eric Dondero: Number one again. The Lone Star State has just been rated as "America's best state in which to do business." And my homestate scored that distinction far above all others. The Republican Party of Texas reports:The Lone Star State stands alone as America’s best state in which to do business. That’s how more than 600 CEOs across America rate Texas. Chief Executive Magazine polled a total of 651 corporate CEOs, who, for the fifth year in a row, gave Texas top honors for the state’s openness...

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DID ‘MAD MONEY’ HOST JIM CRAMER SAVE THE MARKETS?

If you missed it, here's the instant-classic video of Erin Burnett and Jim Cramer going nuts together as the Dow collapsed and then rebounds.

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"Some people roam the earth for home; Rhode Island's It for Me."

by Rhode Island's official state song, written by Charlie Hall

This Day In History

the Pill: oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA; it all began with hormones from an inedible Mexican yam (1960)