Better than Nixon saying (as Vice President) "you won't have Dick Nixon around anymore" Of course he lied. Later he said "I am not a crook!" Again, he perjured. 53251
Tag: Deepwater Horizon
Another FOX brainwash session
They're reporting the mine collapse in China as being a failure of the Communist economic system, and just not pointing out that it's CAPITALIST deregulation that caused it, just like the mine collapses in New Zealand, Chile, Peru, West Virginia.... and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf Oil spill Massive Petroleum Hemorrhage were caused by the POP principle. Profits Over People. The difference is that in China the Death Penalty applies to murder by Corporation. The CEO of the Chinese mine is likely to become an unwilling organ donor. Don L Blankenship, the Retired CEO of Massey Energy, who created 29 job openings with one (predictable AND predicted) reaction to defiance of existing regulations, will continue to be a multi-millionaire and will continue to donate to Right Wing Causes like, loosening regulations even further... so he can KILL more miners, Oil workers, factory workers, construction workers, farm workers, unlike himself REAL workers, and feast on the proceeds of their life and death. Those who like myself are merely crippled by their policies will be discarded, jailed, treated as psychotics and criminals and, if the plans of Blankenship and his allies, and their political appointees, to buy the entire governance
Sea Shepherd flyover sneaks banned footage of active neglect at BP oil spill
If there's no containing what will soon be the largest oil spill ever, who can blame BP for sitting out the cleanup and ordering the coast guard to keep everyone from seeing? When Hurricane Alex had BP's protectors distracted, Sea Shepherd environmental actionists got aerial footage of the unimagined devastation and the perps still loitering about. 18630
Forget worrying if gulf spill is Obama’s Katrina. Obama is America’s Katrina.
President Obama let America know at a press conference today that he OWNS this Katrina. BP's failure is his failure. BP's lie is now superseded by a minimalization of his own. More bad news about attempts to halt it, nevermind, the Federal Government's in charge. What does it mean to say the buck stops here if all you're really doing is stopping it? We've got a president playing the bag man on this environmental catastrophe, just as he's taking responsibility for Bush's foreign policy and Wall Street's theft. Instead of pursuing our interests, he's taking the fall. Except he's in the position to say "so sue me." 17515
Vulcanic and biomass eco-terrorism?
What of suspicions that the BP Macondo Well blowout was an act of ECO TERRORISM? What curious timing that Iceland is dealt full weight of world banking crime and retaliates with a natural resources blowout! Well, where Eyjafjallajokull blew its top could be coincidental, but these calamities of escalating proportion may not be Acts of God. Perhaps this is veritable wanton destruction wrought by an environmental zealot speaking with the gravity of an enraged planet. Doom and gloomers can foretell of oceans polluted beyond recognition and skies rendered opaque and impassible; I'm with BP defender who say this denoument was inevitable; Earth daring us to stare into our eleventh hour, Mother of all Jihadists.
Now the US Coast Guard will know you know how oil cleanup is f-cking done
As icky sneaky toxic crude permeates Louisiana marches, now experts tell us the eco-stain won't ever come out. No really. The oil assault has been mounting steadily, BP poised dutifully with "booms" and it isn't working. Exasperated oil spill cleanup professionals are not a bit surprised, one has even released a video throwing down expletives as much for humor as heartbreak. Accusations go beyond BP, calling the US Coast Guard head a "shameless piece of shit, and so's President Obama if he can't see that." --But brightly, it's all in the delivery. 17204
Easy for Hume to say: Show me the oil
Brit Hume can say that, can't he? --confident that skeptical viewers can't produce the evidence because it's hogtied by dispersants at the bottom of the sea, for now, as effectively as a state witness in cement shoes. Actually, voluminous plumes of them, with countless victims suspended about them deprived of atmosphere. Anything incriminating that has reached the beach is kept from view by BP thugs, intimidating the gulf communities with the menace of Blackwater after Katrina. 17191
Obama wants his Katrina kept on QT
President Obama rationalizes not prosecuting his Bush predecessors because he wants to look forward not back. Who knew that he meant "back" to the future as well? The Obama administration has get-out-of-jail-free cards for Goldman Sachs et al, and they're already fouling the evidence that could be used against BP. It serves BP's interest to pretend their Gulf spill is spewing only five thousand barrels a day. Now even the government is pretending everyone is too busy with the cleanup to measure exactly. It can't be for want of a lesser-decimal soundbite, experts have the blowout pinned at a similar-syllable'd four million gallons per day. 17071
Why does media minimize the oil spill?
Until yesterday, how many barrels of oil per day had you been informed were fueling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill calamity? a) 1,000 b) 5,000 c) 50,000 d) 100,000 + Experts who aren't BP said the answer from the beginning was D. The media is only now warming the public to C, even as analysis qualify it's "at least" that, but BP is refuting revision of their original estimates saying now that it's impossible to calculate the rate of flow at such great depth. They're estimating the oil leak like a potential civil liability. Until a claim is made, appealed and/or settled, on the books it's nothing. The bigger question: why is the media standing between you and the ugly truth?
Seize BP put cleanup fund in escrow
Colorado Springs isn't big on anti-corporate indignation. We tried Wall Street rallies, stood beneath WaMu with posters crying JUMP YOU FUCKERS! but got no takers. Not much understanding of finance fraud in the provinces: our teabaggers are so used to heckling hippies, they forget which side of the class war they're on. So when ANSWER called on its grassroots to RALLY MAY 12 to SEIZE BP, we thought we better phone this one in. 16752
BP Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout
At up to 30 gallons per second, is it a spill, a leak, or a torrent? Of course "Oil Spill" no longer means substance fallen out, nor leak, amount escaped. It describes the mess that's left, and the Deepwater Horizon is still being downplayed as potentially worse than the Exxon Valdez, but nowhere near the biggest, in the other Gulf, during its 1990 namesake war, the deliberate draining of a pipeline. The second largest oil "spill" occurred just down our coast in 1979, and is referenced more descriptively as the IXTOC I Blowout. As the BP/Transocean well empties into the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn't our emergency response be better served to call this disaster a "blowout?" 16532
Transoceans 911
Something familiar about this image, oddly singular, behind the massive column of smoke a vanished structure, eleven oil rig workers missing, an unfathomable denouement and cover-up, this found tweet was inevitable. Not a Katrina raging against us, but a terrorist attack on man and nature coordinated by corporate indifference.
Gulf oil spill is SO Obama’s Katrina
Which parallel is not analogous? Off New Orleans, massive devastation to environment and human health, predictable failure of flawed technology, inadequate official response which broadens tragedy. Leaving BP to shoulder cleanup is like tasking arsonists to extinguish their fire. BP is responsible, but needn't be put in charge. Put every government resource into addressing this calamity, make oil industry write the checks. By any standards of a failed rescue, Obama's watch is proving as laggard as Bush's. 16414
Sky is falling you commerce Pollyanas
"If you talk about the sky falling too early, then people stop buying Louisiana oysters, blue crabs, and shrimp," says LSU environmental scientist. We're expected to believe the rate of the BP oil spill has only been deduced by hobbyists looking at foreign satellite images. At a possible 25,000 barrels a day, they calculate the Exxon Valdez benchmark has already been surpassed. The EPA has a site to crowdsource concern, while US space images are embargoed because damage control to consumer confidence is more important than protecting nature. Alas for those sardonic Gulf-is-half-empty types, the Deepwater Horizon oil missed the half already decimated by hypoxia.
Media disguise spill it’s 42 times larger
Confused about how much oil is spilling from BP's offshore Deepwater Horizon catastrophe? When British Petroleum was asked, there was no spill, then an admitted manageable leak which TV pundits assured would produce a "sheen." Viewers who thought they heard that the Coast Guard discovered the flow had become 42,000 gallons a day can be excused for their confusion when the accepted figure became 5,000. Because now the unit of measurement is barrels. The scale of the disaster suffered such an inflation that the PR currency had to be devalued. Never mind that gas is still priced by the gallon. BP officials insist the size of the spill is irrelevant, their damage mitigation will be unwavering. Let's hope their standard for what constitutes contamination is not devalued. 5,000 barrels, by the way equals 210,000 gallons.
Oil spill photos free of offending oil rig
The US Coast Guard has confirmed that an oil spill has indeed ensued after the Louisiana drilling platform explosion which claimed 11 lives. Suspicions now grow that Deepwater Horizon may have deliberately scuttled the damaged offshore rig yesterday lest images of the inevitable spill would depict the cause, reigniting the damning imagery that has long tarred oil industry efforts to pollute America's coasts with the hazardous rigs. Instead of seeing a platform atop a massive oil slick, the public will see a despoiled patch of undefined size and origin; lacking a structure from which viewers could derive the disaster's scale, or the felonious facility to damn for the deed.