Indications are that the “top kill” is not working. Surprise surprise. Meanwhile, just watch this astounding piece from Rachel Maddow. It tells you pretty much all you need to know about the oil industry.
Profoundly depressing. Kudos to Maddow for digging this out.
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One wonders whether we’re going to have to wait — and wait a long time — for campaign finance reform before we can undo the regulatory capture that has seized almost every part of our government.
Just you.
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p>Everyone SHOULD be outraged over BP’s total screwover of our country, of the Gulf coast, and of the f-ing planet.
The oil companies got off very lightly in her piece. If you really want to hear them take it on the chin talk to people whose entire way of life — not just livelihood — was destroyed in Alaska, or Ecuadorians whose children were damned to birth defects by Chevron.
i do enjoy the interviewing and reportage from maddow but i have to agree that her sarcasm and smarminess makes me change the channel. why try to be like olbermann, do your own thing.
form so frequently wins out over content.
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p>Not for me. Maddow’s content tends to be solid and BP and the Department of the Interior are deserving of sarcasm — if not disapproval.
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It doesn’t take a lot of investigative journalism to discover that, rather than being a “one-in-a-million” event as claimed by oil & gas drilling apologists, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster is just one of many.
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p>Just a simple google search on “offshore oil rig disasters” provides a link to a United Kingdom website:
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p>http://www.oilrigdisasters.co.uk/
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p>who lists multiple instances of major off-shore oil rig disasters. This UK site sources its data from NOAA.
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p>http://response.restoration.no…
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p>Apparently, Rachel is the only person in network journalism that knows how to use a web search engine.
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p>[I remember well the 1979 IXTOC 1 well blowout. It ruined the Galveston Island beaches I spent my senior week between finals and graduation. As I recall, a major owner of IXTOC was the Republican Governor of Texas. He was personally sued by the Democratic Atty General of Texas. … Good Times!]
if you dug down a few inches. I remember that from the mid-nineties.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Brown that she could beat him!
A while back she took Brown to task for setting her up as kind of a strawman opponent in his fundraising letters. It was even rumored that John Walsh had contacted her via a direct “tweet” that was meant only for the recipient but ended up being public. She said at the time she was not interested, but I for one will forgive her if she were to change her mind.
This is the weekly joke review thread, right? Right…?
but that fallacy that there is nothing better as a solution to energy. They have it, they have had it for 60 or more years, they won’t release it because that fact would lead people to question the leadership of the world.
The fat cats, the billionarire fat cats who operate in 167 countries and are packing for Bilderberg in Spain as I write this. They have to control the situation so they alone can stay atop the food chain.