Oil spill threatens total destruction
An ominous report by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources warned of the impending disaster resulting from the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, calling it the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history, the European Union Times reported.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128113§ionid=3510203
From Information Clearing House
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Fouling the Gulf and much more
Reason
by Steve Chapman
05/27/10
Every crisis is an opportunity for someone. The giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one for both Democrats and Republicans, who are shaping the same facts to fit very different narratives. Democrats see it as an example of the dangers of petroleum addiction and unchecked capitalism. Republicans think it shows the administration is proving both its excessively cozy relationship with Big Oil and its chronic ineptitude. But they may both miss the larger vein of popular sentiment that this mammoth catastrophe taps. It’s one of a series of horrifying, infuriating, and preventable debacles that has served to spread disillusionment and disgust with important institutions...
http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/27/fouling-the-gulf-and-much-more
The buck, and the oil, stops with BP alone
Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III
05/30/10
As the oil flows in the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s ruptured well, so does the BS from Obama’s White House in Washington. Using the privately-created crisis as an excuse for government involvement and political grandstanding, Obama was recently quoted by CNN as saying: ”BP is the responsible party for this disaster,’ he said. ‘But as I said yesterday and as I repeated in the meeting we just left, I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis. I’m the president, and the buck stops with me.” Well, the first portion of Obama’s statement is obvious and true enough. But what is he alluding to in what follows? That he just accepted an offer of employment from British Petroleum? Hardly: He’s doing what all government bureaucrats do all the time — arrogating power over areas where they have no legitimate authority, namely, the lives and property of others...
http://c4ss.org/content/2588
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Chapman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alex+R.+Knight
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128113§ionid=3510203
From Information Clearing House
--------
Fouling the Gulf and much more
Reason
by Steve Chapman
05/27/10
Every crisis is an opportunity for someone. The giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is one for both Democrats and Republicans, who are shaping the same facts to fit very different narratives. Democrats see it as an example of the dangers of petroleum addiction and unchecked capitalism. Republicans think it shows the administration is proving both its excessively cozy relationship with Big Oil and its chronic ineptitude. But they may both miss the larger vein of popular sentiment that this mammoth catastrophe taps. It’s one of a series of horrifying, infuriating, and preventable debacles that has served to spread disillusionment and disgust with important institutions...
http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/27/fouling-the-gulf-and-much-more
The buck, and the oil, stops with BP alone
Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III
05/30/10
As the oil flows in the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s ruptured well, so does the BS from Obama’s White House in Washington. Using the privately-created crisis as an excuse for government involvement and political grandstanding, Obama was recently quoted by CNN as saying: ”BP is the responsible party for this disaster,’ he said. ‘But as I said yesterday and as I repeated in the meeting we just left, I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis. I’m the president, and the buck stops with me.” Well, the first portion of Obama’s statement is obvious and true enough. But what is he alluding to in what follows? That he just accepted an offer of employment from British Petroleum? Hardly: He’s doing what all government bureaucrats do all the time — arrogating power over areas where they have no legitimate authority, namely, the lives and property of others...
http://c4ss.org/content/2588
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=capitalism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Chapman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alex+R.+Knight
rudkla - 31. Mai, 09:20
