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" But the fourth largest company in the world wasn't always called BP. It used to be owned by the British Government (remember the navy armada in need of oil). It was named the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company when the CIA teamed up with the British because the Western style Iranian leader Mossadeq wanted to nationalize Britain's 100% owned and run giant oil concession in Iran, and the West would have none of that. So Eisenhower authorized "Operation Ajax," and the Shah of Iran was placed in power -- ruling with an iron fist and the dreaded SAVAK, all the time fully backed by the U.S. -- leading to the radical theocratic revolution that we still confront today. All the time BP, which formally adopted its current name in 1954, was there.
...For over a century, whenever American and British GIs have died for oil, whenever pollution and toxicity have been let loose to ravage our shores, whenever residents have died of cancer caused by the oil refining process and spills, whenever Congress and White Houses have loosened regulations to allow reckless and massively damaging behavior, BP was there, along with their American counterparts: companies so large that they are above the law and governmental control."
6.02.2010
US launches BP spill criminal probe
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" "If our laws were broken leading to this death and destruction, my solemn pledge is that we will bring those responsible to justice on behalf of the victims of this catastrophe and the people of the Gulf region," Obama said on Tuesday.
Obama also promised to change oil-drilling laws, if necessary, to prevent similar disasters from happening, saying "if the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, the laws must change"."
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Note: Do the laws really have to change or do people have to start doing their jobs? Eric Holder knows torture is illegal but he hasn't brought anyone go justice. As far as the Gulf oil slick - the fish are already dead. Stupid. Nothing has changed since they screwed up the Gulf of Mexico - nothing. The idiots in the government who have positions that supposedly gave them the authority to prevent this mess either didn't really have the authority or didn't do their jobs. Time to fire them and replace them with more cowardly venal people. After all, we ARE talking about US government employees.
" "If our laws were broken leading to this death and destruction, my solemn pledge is that we will bring those responsible to justice on behalf of the victims of this catastrophe and the people of the Gulf region," Obama said on Tuesday.
Obama also promised to change oil-drilling laws, if necessary, to prevent similar disasters from happening, saying "if the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, the laws must change"."
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Note: Do the laws really have to change or do people have to start doing their jobs? Eric Holder knows torture is illegal but he hasn't brought anyone go justice. As far as the Gulf oil slick - the fish are already dead. Stupid. Nothing has changed since they screwed up the Gulf of Mexico - nothing. The idiots in the government who have positions that supposedly gave them the authority to prevent this mess either didn't really have the authority or didn't do their jobs. Time to fire them and replace them with more cowardly venal people. After all, we ARE talking about US government employees.
6.01.2010
Gulf Oil Blog
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"That changed today: we saw oil in the deepwater. We sampled a station about a mile south of our previous stations (you can get our position and our ship track on www.marinetraffic.com, just look for the R/V Walton Smith in the Gulf of Mexico sector) and we saw the most intense CDOM signals that we’ve seen so far. The Pelican cruise sampled near here three weeks ago but the CDOM signals we are seeing now are much stronger."
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Note: I haven't heard why they won't sink a ship into the hole. During a mine disaster in Pennsylvania years ago the authorities dropped railroad boxcars into a mine hole that broke into a river or some water body - can't remember - but somehow they must have got the thing stopped.
"That changed today: we saw oil in the deepwater. We sampled a station about a mile south of our previous stations (you can get our position and our ship track on www.marinetraffic.com, just look for the R/V Walton Smith in the Gulf of Mexico sector) and we saw the most intense CDOM signals that we’ve seen so far. The Pelican cruise sampled near here three weeks ago but the CDOM signals we are seeing now are much stronger."
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Note: I haven't heard why they won't sink a ship into the hole. During a mine disaster in Pennsylvania years ago the authorities dropped railroad boxcars into a mine hole that broke into a river or some water body - can't remember - but somehow they must have got the thing stopped.
Senators await Kagan papers from Clinton library
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"Kagan has never been a judge and has left little paper trail during her academic career. But there's much unknown about her tenure as a lawyer in the Clinton White House and as part of Bill Clinton's Domestic Policy Council. Hearings begin June 28 in the Senate Judiciary Committee."
"Kagan has never been a judge and has left little paper trail during her academic career. But there's much unknown about her tenure as a lawyer in the Clinton White House and as part of Bill Clinton's Domestic Policy Council. Hearings begin June 28 in the Senate Judiciary Committee."
America's Complicity in Evil
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" No one in the world will believe that Israel attacked ships in international waters carrying Israeli citizens, a Nobel Laureate, elected politicians, and noted humanitarians bringing medicines and building materials to Palestinians in Gaza, who have been living in the rubble of their homes without repairs or medicines since January 2009, without first clearing the crime with its American protector. Without America's protection, Israel, a totally artificial state, could not exist."
" No one in the world will believe that Israel attacked ships in international waters carrying Israeli citizens, a Nobel Laureate, elected politicians, and noted humanitarians bringing medicines and building materials to Palestinians in Gaza, who have been living in the rubble of their homes without repairs or medicines since January 2009, without first clearing the crime with its American protector. Without America's protection, Israel, a totally artificial state, could not exist."
Israel should lead investigation into attack on Gaza flotilla, says US
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" The United States has blocked demands at the UN security council for an international inquiry into Israel's assault on the Turkish ship carrying aid to Gaza that left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead.
A compromise statement instead calls for an impartial investigation which Washington indicated could be carried out by Israel.
...The US representative at the security council discussions, Alejandro Wolff, indicated that Washington would be satisfied with Israel investigating itself when he called for it to undertake a credible investigation."
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Note: Predictably one-sided. Don't look to America for leadership here - the tools in Washington remain firmly in the grip of their puppetmasters from Israel. There are so many countries being dis-respected by Israel that for the life of me I can't understand why a coalition of power has not already been formed and prepared for war if need be.
Of what use are the military forces of these nations if they cannot be employed now to fight force with force?
If the countries involved cannot defend their citizens from Israel - or will not defend their citizens from the actions of Israel: Of what use are they?
" The United States has blocked demands at the UN security council for an international inquiry into Israel's assault on the Turkish ship carrying aid to Gaza that left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead.
A compromise statement instead calls for an impartial investigation which Washington indicated could be carried out by Israel.
...The US representative at the security council discussions, Alejandro Wolff, indicated that Washington would be satisfied with Israel investigating itself when he called for it to undertake a credible investigation."
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Note: Predictably one-sided. Don't look to America for leadership here - the tools in Washington remain firmly in the grip of their puppetmasters from Israel. There are so many countries being dis-respected by Israel that for the life of me I can't understand why a coalition of power has not already been formed and prepared for war if need be.
Of what use are the military forces of these nations if they cannot be employed now to fight force with force?
If the countries involved cannot defend their citizens from Israel - or will not defend their citizens from the actions of Israel: Of what use are they?
Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf
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" "One oil rig goes down and we're going to be rolling in dough," Mr. Tourre wrote in one email. "Suck it, fishies and birdies!""
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Note: Thanks to a commenter - this is fishy indeed.
" "One oil rig goes down and we're going to be rolling in dough," Mr. Tourre wrote in one email. "Suck it, fishies and birdies!""
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Note: Thanks to a commenter - this is fishy indeed.
Video: '20 people threw me from deck'
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""We knew they were peace activists," he said. "Though they wanted to break the Gaza blockade, we thought we'd encounter passive resistance, perhaps verbal resistance – we didn't expect this. Everyone wanted to kill us. We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
R said that some 75% of the people in the vessel resisted violently, "each one with a knife in his hand.""
""We knew they were peace activists," he said. "Though they wanted to break the Gaza blockade, we thought we'd encounter passive resistance, perhaps verbal resistance – we didn't expect this. Everyone wanted to kill us. We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
R said that some 75% of the people in the vessel resisted violently, "each one with a knife in his hand.""
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