U.S. Military Enforces Attacks On Haitian Unions
May Day Mayhem: Tear gas fired at Athens rally as pay cut protests rage on
Greece told to "sacrifice" by cutting education, health care, and social programs...while their government continues huge military spending...SOUND FAMILIAR???
The mass media and politicians won't say this: LIBERALS WERE RIGHT ABOUT OFFSHORE DRILLING !!!!!!!
Shannyn Moore interviews Greg Palast about the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Hit "play" below:
[Thursday, June 26, 2008] Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And now they won't have to. The Supreme Court today cut Exxon's liability by 90% to half a billion. It's so cheap, it's like a permit to spill. Exxon knew this would happen...
Greg Palast June 25, 2008: Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill
"Gail, Please! Stick your hand in it!" The petite Eskimo-Chugach woman gave me that you-dumb-ass-white-boy look. "Gail, Gail. STICK YOUR GOODDAMN HAND IN IT!" She stuck it in, under the gravel of the beach at Sleepy Bay, her village's fishing ground. Gail's hand came up dripping with black, sickening goo. It could make you vomit. Oil from the Exxon Valdez.
Greg Palast March 23, 2009: Stick Your Damn Hand In It- 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie
The disaster this week at a BP oil rig has drilled away any credibility British Petroleum tried to manufacture during their "Beyond Petroleum" greenwashing campaign. The disaster is already being called worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident.
...says a native Eskimo about the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
SPILL, BABY, SPILL - Oil rigs are gambling with the environment:
Palin's 'Drill Baby Drill' Vs. Oil Spill
I made up this "DRILL, BABY, DRILL" immediately when the spill first happened...I never get any credit!!!
Bill Kristol of FOX "news" speaks for Big Oil, just like the Bush administration:
May Day pro-Immigration rallies expect MILLIONS!!! David Frum pushes a National ID card (Big Brother) in this clip. I am AGAINST a National ID card, and YOU should be against it, too!!!
Confederacy Struggling To Ban Bestiality:
Guess what? WE were in NYC yesterday when this happened, can you believe it???
WE were in NYC yesterday when this happened, can you believe it???
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You got to experience the false flag first hand!
How do we:
Distract them from the gulf oil spill,
Distract them from the Arizona anti-immigrant fiasco,
Ooo Ooo - I got it. Lets park a car in NYC, put a gas can, propane cylinder and some fireworks in it and make it smoke then send in the bomb squad and declare a terrorist attack!
Mission accomplished!
Yes, we took the car into NYC...bad idea! We knew it. The worst traffic in the world, I'm insane for doing it. We were wondering why the NYC traffic was worse than normal (normal = the worst traffic in the world). Try turning left onto Canal St. I'm never doing it again. It was impossible. Lights let less than 1 car per green light.
ReplyDeleteLet me put it to you this way: THERE ARE NO RULES IN NYC TRAFFIC! The cops were at corners directing traffic, lights are meaningless. Gridlock: we got stuck in the middle of intersections many time. No one even cares.
We went to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, they were awesome.
ReplyDeleteBUT...driving through NYC was a bad idea. I should really get an award for doing it.
I should've filmed driving through NYC. We didn't know about this bomb scare thing, that has to be why it was worse than normal NYC traffic. It takes hours to drive a few blocks. Unreal.
ReplyDeleteAnd get this: the ONLY way home, the entire road was shut down. Newark Ave - shut down, the entire main artery, I never saw an entire important road shut down in my life! So we got screwed. It took us about 6 hours to get home, we got lost, we kept circling around in Jersey City. There is no way clean in and out of NYC.
ReplyDeleteOn the way in: The Holland Tunnel - It took us literally an hour to get through the Holland Tunnel. If there were ZERO cars there, it would take 5 minutes to drive through it, to put it in perspective.
I've driven in NYC many times, and I've never seen it this bad, it was the worst ever. No one should have a car in NYC. There should be a ban on cars. It's really impossible to drive around, if you call it driving. We were joking, that we could've ordered food, waited for it, and walked back into our car...while we were actually driving on the street!!!
This bomb thingy: we were probably just blocks from where it happened, maybe even a block or two. We drove right through Chinatown. On the way back from Brooklyn, we actually stopped in Chinatown and ate.
NO ONE drives in NYC, I should seriously get an award...or maybe the "DOPE" award, what a dope for driving through NYC.
ReplyDeleteWhen you walk through NYC, people whisper things at you when you pass them without looking at you: "ROLEX...ROLEX...ROLEX..." Some things I didn't even know what they were saying.
It would be interesting to grab a camera and just walk through NYC with it rolling and see all the crazy things. It's insane.
Oil Spill Points to Rig Fail-Safe as Utter Failure
ReplyDeleteAOL News (April 30) -- With efforts to battle the massive Gulf Coast oil slick now demanding precedence, the question of who or what is to blame for the spill itself remains murky. One fact, however, is starkly clear: The piece of offshore-rig equipment designed to be "a drilling operation's last line of defense" against leaks failed miserably.
When an oil rig has an uncontrolled oil pressure buildup -- like the one thought to have set off the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig last week -- a device called a blowout preventer (BOP) is supposed to deliver a hydraulic-powered "guillotine"-like slice to the drill pipe, crimping and sealing it off.
BOPs are mandated on all U.S. offshore oil rigs and are supposed to undergo regular inspection. Several studies have shown them to be increasingly reliable; however, they are not flawless.
A robotic submarine attempts to activate a shutoff device known as a blowout preventer (BOP) to close off the flow of oil at the Deepwater Horizon well head.
Cameron International, formerly known as Cooper Cameron, is the worldwide leader in providing BOPs to offshore rigs, according to industry website RigZone. The Houston oil and gas systems company has been recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for creating the first blowout preventer of its kind, all the way back in 1922.
More recently, Cameron won a $230 million-plus contract to provide Chevron with subsea-development safety equipment. The hefty deal underscores Cameron's generally rosy financial picture: Its earnings rose 5 percent in the first quarter of this year.
More blah-blah from the company at the end:
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/oil-spill-debacle-points-to-rig-blowout-preventer-as-utter-failure/19461009
Opps,.. photo of the blowout preventer valve that was to shut of the flow of escaping oil from the damaged rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BigDan, I know what you went through.....out of the over 100 times we've been to New York City (it may be more than that by now with the frequency we have been going there lately) there was only one time (in the early eighties) that I drove a car (a rented one at that)...that was when I was in my early 20s and not very experienced. But when I realized that it was a dumb idea, from that point on we took the bus for the other 99 times....now you see why we take the bus there! As I get older I do not need that sort of stress and aggravation...I pay the bus company to take that stress for me...and it is actually less money when you consider the high cost of tolls, gas and all-day parking!!!! You have to be INSANE to even THINK ABOUT DRIVING THERE!!!!! And Canal Street? You actually drove your car through that traffic? I have walked the entire Canal Street/Chinatown/Little Italy area many, many times, and I marvel at the bumper to bumper insane traffic, always saying to my wife that people who own a car there must have mental problems!!!!!....why and how you did that I must hear from you first hand!!!!!! By far the busiest city in the whole world!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of pictures from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, I'll have to upload them.
ReplyDeleteDrumbo's comments: he's good, I don't know if it's him or not. He always tells me after a 24 hour period, that's his rules. He won't tell me less than 24 hours...but always tells me. I was gone all day yesterday. NYC is something else.
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Still,.. beat the poop out of him - for us.
ReplyDeleteThe latest word on the electric AMG SLS “Gullwing” has Mercedes offering the car in 2013 and giving it enough power to leave a whole lot of cars in its dust.
ReplyDeleteMercedes already confirmed it’s building an electric Gullwing, but the timeline had it reaching production in 2015. Now AMG managing director Volker Mornhinweg says the electric supercar will be here two years sooner. He’s driven the prototypes — he didn’t say how many there are — and promises the car will be as exciting as the Mercedes AMG SLS it’s based on.
“I can tell you that it is an amazing kind of experience,” he told Australia’s GoAuto.com.
That’s exactly what you’d expect him to say, of course. But the numbers coming out of Germany suggest the electric Gullwing will be a sweet ride. The plan calls for four motors with a combined output of 400 kilowatts (536 horsepower) and 649 pound-feet of torque. The all-wheel drive electric car will wear the same sexy bodywork as the conventional SLS (pictured), which has a 571-horsepower V8 that produces 479 pound-feet of torque.
“We can take (out) a combustion engine and transaxle and make no changes to the body, and we can put in two motors with the gearbox in the rear, two motors and the gearbox in the front and we can take the center console as a battery place – it looks like a T and it is perfect,” he said.
The gasoline model’s double-wishbone front suspension is tossed in favor of a pushrod-actuated system using coilovers. The car is said to have excellent handling because the electric motors can vary the power going to each wheel.
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http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/04/electric-mercedes-gullwing-2013/#ixzz0molfOxZ5
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Papantonio on the Ed Show explains how the BP Gulf of Mexico catastrophe happened,..
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Right-Wing Extremist Arizona New Law Endangers More Than Just Arizona
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Rove introduced the "permanent campaign" theory to US politics.
The August 13, 2007 article Why Are These Men Laughing? states ""There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus," says John Dilulio
head of W's White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. "What you've got is everything -- and I mean everything -- being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."
In a seven-page letter sent a few weeks after our first conversation, Dilulio, who still considers himself a passionate supporter of the president, offers a detailed account and critique of the time he spent in the Bush White House.
"I heard many, many staff discussions but not three meaningful, substantive policy discussions," Dilulio, writes."
That is what the GOP is. It is easy for them to be the party of no as long as they think they will gain politically, because that is their only concern. They don't care about the bottom 99%'s lack of health care and have no concern about the possibility of racial profiling in Arizona as a result of its new legislation. What does this do for the credibility of the US? Totalitarian regimes force people to carry their papers at all times—not the US. Suppose a cop asks the wrong carload of people for their papers and a physical altercation occurs? This Arizona immigration bill is clearly unconstitutional, but if the GOP can make sure their rich cronies get a little something extra and see if the item fires up its base then the GOP is happy and for them that amounts to substantive policy discussions.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2945962/rightwing_extremist_arizona_new_law.html?cat=9
How To Spread the Truth About Health Care Reform
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BP Enjoys Lobbying Strength, Close Ties to Lawmakers as Federal Investigation Looms
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4409 -- Arrested over Arizona's Real I.D. Paper's Please SB1070 bill
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4409 -- Pearce grants Amnesty to Law Enforcement
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Attempt to resuscitate ? Sure looks like it.
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Squirrels friend has died but another squirrel chases off the crows looking for road kill.
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