Fmr. EPA Investigator Scott West: US Has Told BP "It Can Do Whatever It Wants and Won’t Be Held Accountable"
BDBB FLASHBACK: Saturday, December 13, 2008 - Bush's Subversion of the EPA & FDA (& Interior Dept)
George Bush: Do Ya Miss Me Yet???
McClatchey: BP's Low estimate (5,000 barrels a day...in reality it's 95,000 to 120,000) of oil spill's size could save BP millions in court
The British oil company BP has been forced to admit the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is far larger than the company initially said. On Thursday, BP said it’s now capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day from the leaking pipe—the same amount it had previously said was leaking every day. BP has declined to estimate how much oil is still escaping, but scientists say BP is siphoning just a fraction of the total leak. Independent scientists say the leak could be as large as 95,000 barrels of oil per day. We speak to Alaskan marine biologist Rick Steiner, who has been spending time in the Gulf region.
BP Acknowledges Oil Spill Is Larger Than Previous Estimates
PLUNDER: A CRIME STORY
A two-part investigative series called "Silencing the Whistleblowers" reports that when fraud investigators working with big banks tried to warn their superiors of shady practices, they were not only ignored, but frequently harassed, demoted or even fired.
TheBigMoney: Silencing the Whistleblowers
"Silencing the Whistleblowers": How Will Financial Reform Prevent Another Crash If Banks Subvert Their Warning Systems?
Embedded Business Press Misses the Story of the Century
“Journalists have become embedded - embedded in elite structures, in the culture of Wall Street.” - Dean Starkman, Editor, "The Audit", Columbia Journalism Review
How Could 9,000 Business Reporters Blow It?
Embedded Business Press Misses Story of the Century
The Giant Banks, Federal Reserve and Treasury Have All Blackmailed America
Dennis Kucinich on the first Wall St. Bailout of $700 Billion by Bush/Paulson, Paulson was the former director of Goldman-Sachs:
George Carlin Talks War And American Politics
I always loved this song, from the 1986: Crowded House - Hey Now, Don't Dream It's Over
Dan: Excellent, excellent post.
ReplyDeleteHe must have been up all night researching this thread.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Welcome, my little pretties!!!
ReplyDeleteChicken costumes banned at Nevada polling places after Lowden's chicken quip
ReplyDeletehttp://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-us-odd-voting-chicken-costumes,0,5896390.story
Len Hart: There is NO left wing in America. Of the two right wing parties, one is 'less bad'! American politics is like a one legged man! We never get anywhere! There is no debate! Just pundity, labels and what passes for wise-ass comments. I'm fed up with it.
ReplyDeleteNaomi Wolf:
http://radiodujour.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/naomi-wolf-learned-that-both-parties-are-the-enemy/
... my little pretties,....
ReplyDeleteWell thank you,.. you botanical (avatar) bitch,..
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U.S. Attorney Threatens Taitz Over Unpaid $20,000 Fine
ReplyDeleteJustin Elliott | May 21, 2010, 10:54AM
Orly Taitz
The strong arm of the law is after Orly Taitz.
In a letter the Birther attorney says she received May 17, a Georgia U.S. Attorney demands that she pay a $20,000 fine -- imposed by a frustrated judge in October after Taitz made repeated frivolous filings -- or else the U.S. will "pursue enforced collection action against you."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/us_attorney_pursues_taitz_over_unpaid_20000_fine.php#_login#comment-3938877
Video of BP gusher,.. live,..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
The Big Picture: Why Is It So Hard to Stop the Oil Gusher, and Why Was Such Extreme Deepwater Drilling Allowed in the First Place?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/big-picture-why-was-deepwater-drilling.html
As you know, I have no idea what I'm going to write each and every day. Sometimes something's really interesting, and I do go a little extra. I type fast and have a good memory. Thank god for that!!! Probably working with computers for 25 years helps. I can probably put out a lot, due to all those things I mentioned above.
ReplyDeleteWhat I really do, is on youtube I have subscribed to some great sites. When you so this, you can click on "subscriptions" and it gives you the latest newest 100 videos (I wish it was more) from these sites you subscribed to. This gives me quick ideas of what to post. I have some "go to" websites I look at for ideas. Sometimes I get on kicks. For example: if I happen to be into afterdowningstreet.org for some reason, I'll get my ideas from there...or I'll get on a kick about some other site...or a brand new site I've found.
If I see something that's REALLY good, I will do a little extra research, like today's. And a lot of posts, I recall other posts I've done in the past, so I look for them in "search" on my blog. That's why sometimes you see "flashback".
If I see something on TV that's really good, I'll immediately post it as a draft so I don't forget it. If I'm pissed about something, I'll rant about it. All these things and ideas are melded together in the draft, and set for 3am. If I miss the 3am, I do all of the above...BUT REALLY QUICK!!! LOL!!! I also often update my post throughout the day, if I think it has something to do with that day's post, or else I'll add it to the next day's "draft".
Everyday, I wonder why I do this, but I can't stop doing it!!! The latest ideas, I'm getting from FaceBook. I use the same strategy: I "friend" people who post a lot of interesting things, like Len Hart the Existentialist Cowboy for example, and this only made it easier because I now have MORE ideas.
If something's really important or really interesting, I spend more time, go more in depth, and put in more research. I'm good at researching things.
And, of course, I steal YOUR ideas when you comment here AND GIVE YOU NO CREDIT OR ATTRIBUTION!!!
MOO HOO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I've collected many playlists which I repeat. And I repeat some really important, timeless articles.
I could never understand why most, if not all, blog DON'T repeat important stories. They let it "roll off" and never to be seen again. I can't understand that. Keep repeating something really important!!! Out of site, out of mind!!!
I have HTML for the code which I keep up in another window in EXCEL, to put up the pictures, the mouse-click articles, etc...
I don't know if that's the way EVERYONE does it, but that's the way I do it!!! I think of little things to streamline it here and there, to make it easier and faster. I like to put "like" things near each other. Like, if there's 2 oil spill articles, I'm not going to put one at the top, one at the bottom, and a Beatles video in between! So, there IS some order to everything!!!
Sometimes I will write rants or comments along with things.
The reason I do this, probably is if I depended on the "news" on TV, or radio, or the newspapers...I wouldn't know SHIT about what's really going on!!!
I like to interact with other people on the internet, if I agree OR disagree with them. The great thing about the internet is interaction. TV is one-way communication AT you. So is the newspaper. So is the radio. The internet is PARTICIPATORY 2-way news, interaction with others, etc...
At 95,000 bbl/day, Deepsea Horizon already "spilled" 11 times Exxon Valdez to date....
ReplyDeleteThe latest video footage of the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico show that oil is escaping at the rate of 95,000 barrels — 4 million gallons — a day, nearly 20 times greater than the 5,000 barrel a day estimate BP and government scientists have been citing for nearly three weeks, an engineering professor told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
The figure of 5,000 barrels a day or 210,000 gallons that BP and the federal government have been using for weeks is based on satellite observations of the surface. But NASA’s best satellite-based instruments can’t see deep into the waters of the Gulf, where much of the oil from the gusher 5,000 feet below the surface seems to be floating.
Federal officials testified in hearings on Tuesday that they were putting together a crack team to get to the bottom of big the spill really is. That effort comes a month after the April 20 explosion that triggered the unprecedented oil spill in deep waters of the United States. Experts say knowing that amount is crucial for efforts to cap the broken wellhead and to monitor and clean up the oil.
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/19/94467/engineer-oil-spill-videos-show.html#ixzz0omahqQiu
Oil threatens pelicans on a Louisiana island.
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http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2010/05/oil_threatens_pelicans_4.html
Hey BD:
ReplyDeleteDon't miss this article. Interesting that they describe free will and critical thought as "a failure"
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/
CEO of BP,..
ReplyDelete"I think this is clearly a major reputational issue for BP," Hayward said in Port Fourchon in southern Louisiana, contradicting earlier statements in which he said the environmental impact would be "very, very modest."
"It's clear that the defense of the shoreline, at this point, has not been successful," Hayward said.
"I feel devastated by that, absolutely gutted. What I can tell you is that we are here for the long haul. We are going to clean every drop of oil off the shore."
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/bp-hatches-top-kill-bid-plug-leak/