NALCO, the "dispersant" company:
Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico - NALCO chemical dispersant profits.
Government Collusion with BP to Block Information Flow Means We Need an Independent Commission to Handle Spill Response
The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser
BD: does anyone in their right mind believe in 2010 we cannot stop this oil spill??? I don't!!! How have they been plugging drill holes from rigs all these decades? How do they do it now? The first thing the Russians said was to blow a bomb off and cave it in. Do you think we can't at least do that all this time???
Ripple effects of the BP oil spill (IN PICTURES)
#1) Councilman Jay LaFont of Grand Isle, Louisiana:
"As long as you have something to look forward to, a little glimmer of hope, you can move on. But this just drained everything out of us."
30 Shocking Quotes About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill That Reveal The Soul-Crushing Horror This Disaster Is Causing
Thom asks the Chairmen of the Socialist Party - Do card carrying socialists love Obama? PLUS...Thom argues if BP should be nationalized because of ruining the U.S.
(this is what PROGRESSIVE talk radio looks like)
Afghan war overtakes Vietnam to become the longest conflict in U.S. history
On the 7th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, eight people were arrested in front of the White House protesting the continuing crimes
Hey Sheeple: why are we in Afghanistan??? We're spending $2.5 Billion tax dollars a week on these never ending wars!!!
Shut up, you critics of Israel, you terrorists, you anti-Semites!
After the Israeli military raided the Gaza aid flotilla and killed nine of the activists on board, they detained almost everyone else—700 activists and journalists—hauled them to the Israeli port of Ashdod, and kept them largely out of communication with family, press and lawyers for days. The Israeli government confiscated every recording and communication device it could find—devices containing almost all the recorded evidence of the raid. The Israelis selected, edited and released footage they wanted the world to see. We speak to two veteran reporters who were covering the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald.
Framing the Narrative: Israeli Commandos Seize Videotape and Equipment from Journalists After Deadly Raid
Activist journalists aboard the aid boat IN THEIR OWN WORDS what really happened...NOT what the Israeli occupied U.S. media is telling you:
Democrats RUSH to defend Israel, wouldn't it be nice if they RUSHED to defend US against BP??? For Christ's sake, the Democrats below are defending Israeli commandos forcefully boarding a humanitarian aid ship to Gaza, and murdering activists at point blank range based on lists and photos they had with them with the intent to murder them...INCLUDING A 19 YEAR OLD U.S. CITIZEN!!! Turkey rushed to defend THEIR citizens that were murdered by the Israelis...OUR government didn't say SHIT about Israelis murdering an American citizen!!! Here are the Democrats rushing to defend Israel on behalf of BOTH parties of the Israeli occupied U.S. government:
Keiser Report №50: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Testing, testing
ReplyDeleteYup - still doing it this morning - had to enter fake email to get my name right - except my blue bear icon is attached to my real email so now it doesn't show up!
ReplyDeleteAnd it doesn't link my blog unless I type that in too!
Why should I have to join Disqus, Yahoo or friggin Twitter to comment?
BB2
Let me know if anyone has trouble commenting today.
ReplyDeleteHouse Dems Rush To Defend Israel! pt.1
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1GSXDlmM8&playnext_from=TL&videos=uu_RKauznp8
Oh - so my icon is gone now too?
ReplyDeleteDan - you're icon shows up - mine isn't - I'm putting my real email - it should show
ReplyDeleteAre you joined to disqus and signed in to them?
ReplyDeleteIt's still doing the same crap for me - not joined, not signed in - see my comments above
If it would just remember me like it used to do this would be bearable, as is it sucks!
ReplyDeleteHave to get started working - see you around noon - 3 O'clock for you
ReplyDeleteBB2
I see your icons.
ReplyDeleteSo, is this the problem:
IF YOU DON'T JOIN DISCUS, YOU MUST FILL OUT AN INTERIM SCREEN THAT MAKES YOU PUT YOUR EMAIL & NAME IN
Is that the exact problem? If I contact Discus again?????????????
So, is this the problem:
ReplyDeleteIF YOU DON'T JOIN DISCUS, YOU MUST FILL OUT AN INTERIM SCREEN THAT MAKES YOU PUT YOUR EMAIL & NAME IN
Is that the exact problem? If I contact Discus again?????????????
I don't know this, because (of course) I'm a member.
So, could you shortly and exactly spell out what is wrong so I could send it to Discus???
Also, it seems that you're saying they changed something and it didn't used to do this. Am I correct in saying that??????????
I have a ticket in at Discus.
ReplyDeleteI said:
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Here, clearly, is the problem, told to me by frequent commenters:
People on my blog make many comments. Discus used to remember them and they simply had to post comments galore. NOW...they get an interim screen FOR EVERY COMMENT that asks them their email and name...AN EXTRA STEP FOR EVERY COMMENT THEY POST...and this did not previously happen. This started happening a day or two ago.
People are going to start leaving my blog, or I'm going to have to dump Discus!!!!!!!!!!
I already dumped Haloscan for Discus. Please fix this fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(is this correct?????????)
I WILL dump Discus, if this continues.
If only Blogger would fix that you can't click on a posted link. Why is that? That's insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAre we having the same comment arguments over and over and over?????? wtf???????? Can't they come up with a good commenting system?
ReplyDeleteRemember Haloscan drove 99 nuts because they experimented with her blog? Then they started charging $$$?
Remember Splashcast, how we got fucked by them????????
Expose NALCO ownership and influence:
ReplyDeleteBombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/53862#comment-205644
ReplyDeleteplunger: do you have any problems commenting like BB2 does????????
ReplyDeleteDo you get an extra screen asking your name/email, every time you post a comment???
RIGGING THE RULES AGAINST UNIONS
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jimhightower.com//node/7168
Yes the changed it - I will get a screen shot of the new form and send it to you.
ReplyDeleteYou used to be able to sign in as a Guest and it would then remember you - you could enter your name how you wanted it - you only had to click on "Guest" and it would post your comment.
Now you have to fill it out every single time you comment. Plus it won't let you set your name - it automatically creates your name from your email address.
You can fake it out by entering a fictitious email address. (Since you can enter whatever you want as the email address, what is the point of requiring you to do it?)
I now see my icons - I guess it takes a while for them to show up. (You have to enter your true email address for them to appear)
Pretty much sums it up - plus we can't create our own name!
ReplyDeleteThink about the oil spill: when things are working properly, they simply plug the hole and move on. So, you're telling me, in 2010 we cannot stop this oil spill? I don't buy it.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, if ONE (1) rig has enough oil to cover the Gulf of Mexico, go up the east coast, and towards Europe...WE NEVER EVER EVER HAD ANY GAS/OIL SHORTAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just sent a screenshot to your blogger - gmail address
ReplyDeleteJust trust us,.. deregulation will unleash the magic hand of free market capitalism.
ReplyDelete... or is it magic finger,...
http://unrepentantoldhippie.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/flip-the-bird.jpg
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/06/09/fioretrust.DTL
It just required that I sign in to post.
ReplyDeleteAgain I had to sign in to post.
ReplyDeleteYou need to sign in every time now.
ReplyDeleteYup. It blows.
ReplyDeletePerfectly Scathing:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/03-9
I think I'm going to change the comment system. For the owner (me), it doesn't suck. Apparently, it sucks for everyone BUT the owner.
ReplyDeleteI contacted Discus and told them this. I bet it does no good.
ReplyDeleteHaloscan charges now, but it's only a little. BUT...since they started charging, I bet they're just like Discus.
Maybe I'll go with blogger comments, even though you can't post a link you could click on.
Is that insane??? That blogger doesn't let you post a link? You actually have to cut/paste the link and open a new window, paste it in, and hit "go". Is that ridiculous in 2010?
Time For A Corporate Death Penalty (to go along with their corporate personhood):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/time-corporate-death-penalty
BB2, can you try this???
ReplyDeleteHow to enable comment links on blogger
http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/enable-comment-links-blogger/
It isn't automatic - you have to enter the html code:
ReplyDelete[a href=]"your website url"]your text[/a] substitute the less than and more than characters for the brackets.
[a href=]"http://bigdanblogger.blogspot.com/l"]Big Dan's Big Blog[/a]
I'm sure if you register with disqus they make work for you. But who wants to register at another place that may be traking you and that puts cookies on your machine?
ReplyDeleteScrew that!
Ain't it sweet anony!
ReplyDeleteOf course it looks like if you are a twit it can be automatic!
I use this with firefox - highlight the text then 2 clicks of the button and you have a link:
ReplyDeletehttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/128/
It takes a minute to set it up - you have to tell it which coding to use, after that a right click on highlighted text brings up a drop down menu to make your link - (I see you have something else for me to try down below - I'M GOING IN!)
Well, according to that, people still have to sign in to Open/ID to be able to post links.
ReplyDeleteDisqus also gives the option to join Open/ID along with twitter and Yahoo IDs. I assume if you join disqus or the others it will remember you and allow you to assign your own name.
When I was growing up a "twit" was a very derogatory name - now it's all the rave!
BB2
So now it is no longer taking fake email addresses - at least the last half fake - I'll try the first part next - still won't let me choose my name!
ReplyDeleteBB2
Never mind - still take fake email addresses - the last time I wrote "I'm.tired.of.this" the ' is what made it not work
ReplyDeleteI chose Blogger's crappy commenting system because it was the LEAST soul-sucking mode available.
ReplyDeleteBB2, you can make it call you by your right name if you delete the stuff in the name field and put in what you want.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100610/ap_on_re_us/us_found_on_facebook
ReplyDeleteThat post was from 2007, Dan, and a lot has changed since then. And it's not anywhere near as aggravating and intrusive to use as this shit.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't work for me - tried that a bunch of times - it always used the first portion of whatever email address I entered.
ReplyDeleteI'll try it again now - maybe they fixed it?
Nope - still reverts to the first part of my email address - makes it look like I can't spell blue!
ReplyDeleteState Trooper shoots neighbor's cat with his service revolver because he was scared of the kitten.
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http://blogs.catster.com/the-cats-meow-a-cat-and-kitten-blog/hair-trigger-trooper-shoots-trapped-kitten-to-death-loses-job/2010/06/09/
BP and their whores in the corporate media have been lying since day one about the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf. First of all there are three leaks, not one, at the Deepwater Horizon site. Secondly, satellite imagery shows that are two other leaks at different sites. Thirdly, the damages will go far beyond fouled beaches and dead marine life. There are nuclear and coal-fired power plants that rely on clean Gulf water for cooling. There are also desalinization plants that use reverse osmosis to convert seawater into drinking for residents in Florida and other Gulf states. If oil clogs these intakes, then the economic damages will be far beyond anything people have been told. For more information, check out this article:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m6d9-Satellite-imagery-shows-up-to-three-oil-leaks-in-Gulf-FL-power-and-water-supplies-may-be-at-risk
New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into Gulf
ReplyDeleteSource: THe New York Times
A government panel on Thursday doubled its estimate of the amount of oil that had gushed for weeks from the out-of-control BP well even before the latest attempt to cap it.
The new calculation suggested that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days.
This assessment, based on measurements taken before BP cut the riser pipe of the leaking well on June 3 to cap some of the flow, showed that approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been gushing into the Gulf each day. That is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day.
Scientists say the flow rate could actually be greater now because they believe that cutting the riser to position the cap pipe may have only increased the flow of the oil and gas mixture. The same governmental panel said that it would be another few days until it would be able to estimate the current flow rate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/11spill.html?hp
Well,.. at least you weren't referred to as a - twat, that's one consolation.
ReplyDeleteDo women "TWATTER"?????????
ReplyDeleteI am now searching for a new comments system.
ReplyDeleteA nasty domino effect in play with this BP oil gusher.
ReplyDeleteFlorida residents, however, may be more concerned with this report from Wayne Madsen, another Washington DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. In a piece picked up by the web site, Global Research, Madsen writes:
...Emergency planning sources in Florida have informed [me] that the state faces severe fresh water shortages and power blackouts if the thick crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster clogs sea water intakes at the largest seawater desalinization plant in the United States - the Tampa Bay Seawater Desalinization Plant at Apollo Beach.
The plant, which uses seawater reverse osmosis to turn seawater into 16 to 19 million gallons of drinking water daily for residents of the Tampa Bay area, faces the threat of filtration membranes becoming clogged if oil from the Gulf of Mexico enters its intake pipes. Such an event would render the plant unable to process seawater, resulting in a major fresh water shortage for Tampa Bay.
Similarly, oil clogging the water cooling intakes at the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant on the Gulf of Mexico coast, some 80 miles north of Tampa, could force the shutdown of the Unit 3 pressurized water nuclear reactor. Such an event would result in power shutdowns in the Florida areas served by the power plant.*
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19575
John Boehner Thinks Taxpayers Should Bail Out BP?
ReplyDeleteDoes that sound insane to you in this environment in which the congress is refusing to extend unemployment benefits? Me too. But John Boehner is actually pushing it:
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Congressional Democrats and the White House are toying with different ways to force BP to cover the costs of damages from the Gulf oil spill. But they face stiff opposition from industry…and it seems leading Republicans. In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner backed Tom Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce, in saying taxpayers should help pick up the tab.
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“I think the people responsible in the oil spill–BP and the federal government–should take full responsibility for what’s happening there,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference this morning.
On Friday, Donohue made clear that he opposes efforts to stick BP, a member of the Chamber, with the bill. “It is generally not the practice of this country to change the laws after the game,” he said. “Everybody is going to contribute to this clean up. We are all going to have to do it. We are going to have to get the money from the government and from the companies and we will figure out a way to do that.”
One very clever thing about this is the fact that they are framing this spill as being the equal fault of BP and the Federal government, which means it’s all the fault of an oil company and the Democrats.
The article says that Democrats will jump all over this, and one would certainly hope so. Unfortunately, I would bet some big money that quite a few Dems will join in and give it some bipartisan cover. Mary Landrieu certainly will.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/10/gop-leader-john-boehner-thinks-taxpayers-should-bail-out-bp/
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Okay,.. this is what you see each and every time you click to post a comment now. Never used to be like this before,.. that you had to fill it in all the time/every comment.
Sample of form you must fill out to post a comment now.
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