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I don't like Jason Leopold. He's too sloppy. He's too charming to try to make up for his avidity to call stuff that is not proof "proof" and it fucking well works on too many people.
But I love Peter B and I love BB2, so I am going to listen to this interview about the latest disaster distraction out of love, but I'm not going to let it take up acres of my brain while Rockefellers and Rothschilds and friends keep eating us alive. We should be at the throats of our local Democratic-Fascist Party leaders right this very now—IN PERSON—about this national workers ID shit. Or we should be in New York with the people rousing rabble over the death grip of Wall Street, scaring the living snot out of all those smug suits. OR AT TEA PARTIES, HELPING TO RAISE THE LEVEL OF CONVERSATION, OF PROTEST, GETTING THIS SHIT OVER WITH.
But no.
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ReplyDeleteThis spill is a MAJOR fck-up. This was a deep water project, 5000 feet below the surface and probably 30,000 feet below the ocean floor. The well blew because the of the high pressure essentially blowing all the safety valves right up to the rig. The rig blew, flipped over and sank. If the rig is resting on top of the hole they won't be able to shut it off for months , if at all.
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I am sick at heart about it, Doug. I just don't think we should be spending time on it. Just as Smithfield Foods was shielded from taking the rap for the thousands of deaths from swine flu related pneumonia in Mexico, and the resulting international bullshit, BP isn't going to be driven out of business by this. The lawsuits will probably end up like the Valdez suits.
ReplyDeleteUntil we change the power structure, we're just freaking to keep on freaking until we're dead.
And, Jason, I guess it was wise of you to remove that "comment", but it seems to be right along in the same vein as your investigative reporting. So hotly going after everything that makes you angry, not being able to look before you leap, and then having to play all sweet to try to keep the good people whose trust you trampled. I don't really see the relative value in "Exposing Dana Houle". Honestly, what kind of service to humanity is that in the scheme of things?
Well , in a month you just might have the army to get the job done. The entire east coast will be laid to waste.
ReplyDeleteI'm betting people learned from Katrina , when they try to round 'em up this time , they won't go willingly.
I too have been wondering how they are going to use this to herd out the undesirables, but this might have gotten too big for that.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if they screw it up even more, though, it will rouse the slumbering masses. If turning the Gulf into a slough on top of everything else won't do it, the worker ID crap will probably be a breeze.
The worry is that it will get swept up in the gulf stream and take out the entire east coast!
ReplyDeleteYes. I know. And maybe I'm confused, but I think the gulf stream doesn't go to the East Coast, but rather out into the Atlantic and swooping up toward Scotland.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to sound callous. I'd rather have died than it happen. I'm trying to tell everyone that we HAVE to stop wringing our hands and trying to memorize the nuances when what would be EFFECTIVE is to make it so this shit can't happen anymore. If you love the planet, if you love the critters, if you love your fellow man, you gotta REALLY leap up for EFFECTIVENESS!
We can't stay pinned to our jobs and homes and no money. We have to REALLY go out there and make it stop. Every fucking oil rig on earth should be GONE and wells capped so as to be impervious even to an asteroid. At every moment in the last thirty years we could have been up and on it, and the pressure for SANE people to be up and on it has been triple-plus intense over the last ten years, but....
I KEEP SCREAMING AND SCREAMING THESE PEOPLE MUST BE FORCED BUT NOBODY IS LISTENING.
It's as though everyone thinks I say this stuff because I like to sound like a hardass and talk endlessly about all this SHIT they're shoveling on us!
If you will take a month off work, I'll take a month off paying my bills and we can drive to DC and start in making a racket NOBODY will be able to ignore.
No. I'm wrong. The Gulf Stream hugs the east coast way more closely than I had in my head. Still. Disaster, disaster, disaster... freak, freak, freak... UNTIL we change the power structure.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty bad, but it's got a LOONG way to go before we have to think about the Gulf Stream carrying it away... AND this is crude, not refined, so some of it is going to sink... which also sucks planets, but is better than it spreading everywhere.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me they should light her up if it starts getting to where the current can carry it off. As it is, it looks to ME as though all those fuckers who confiscated that prime real estate for casinos after Katrina are going to have some fucking STANKY resorts for their efforts. Darn.
Unless, the NYT is lyin' about the extent of it, that is....
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