Gulf oil spill could mark a turning point for Obama
Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes
06/08/10
When President Bush clambered up on a pile of rubble after 9/11, seized a bullhorn, put his arm around a firefighter, and rallied the nation, it was a crowning moment of his presidency. When he ill-advisedly flew over the Katrina disaster of 2005 and appeared disconnected with the agony of New Orleans, it was, in the view of many historians, the beginning of his presidency’s decline. President Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil disaster could be a similar turning point. Despite his uneasy press conference and statements proclaiming he is in charge, despite visits to the scene to talk with officials rather than distraught commercial fishermen, his demeanor has come across as clinical rather than inspirational. Even such well-wishers as Louisiana Democratic guru James Carville and former presidential adviser David Gergen have wrung their hands over his seeming disconnectedness...
http://tinyurl.com/28rg9hl
Tapping the well of freedom
Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray
When the Deepwater Horizon first started gushing oil, many considered the incident an example of private enterprise having no regard for the environment. However, it is becoming clear that government was involved from the start, is in charge now (as President Obama himself tells us), and cannot do much about the problem. So is there any way to address this?
http://cei.org/articles/2010/06/07/tapping-well-freedom
How’s all that progressive regulatory stuff workin’ out
for ya?
Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
06/08/10
Total damages from a spill like Deepwater Horizon, if not enough to liquidate all the assets of a company like BP, would probably eat up enough of their ongoing revenue stream for many years to amount to a corporate death sentence. The resulting market pressures to maintain robust liability insurance would be intense, and the economic incentives for insurers to impose effective safety regimes would be overwhelming. But look at the other side of the scale. How’s the much-vaunted regulatory state actually been performing? BP management deliberately skimped on safety measures, neglected maintenance on multiple levels of failsafe mechanisms because they cut into profits, and slept (and snorted crystal meth) with government inspectors...
http://c4ss.org/content/2826
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Devastation As Toxic Filth Spreads
You Can Smell The Oil From A Helicopter And Birds Are Frying!
By MSNBC
Video Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25661.htm
Is Obama BP's Poodle?
By Shamus Cooke
In a sane world, BP's executives would be facing severe criminal charges, and the billions of profits they've earned in the last year would be confiscated to pay for the cleanup.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25668.htm
Has the Oil Spill Created a 'Doomsday Effect' for the Gulf?
By Keith Olbermann
Oil and gas expert Robert Cavnar talks about the possibility of an "underground blowout" occurring beneath the ocean as a result of the oil spill.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25670.htm
Talk of Second Oil Spill in Gulf Grows Louder
Fueled by several reports that the Ocean Saratoga rig, operated by Diamond Offshore, is leaking into the Gulf.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37575052
Two More Gulf Spills?
Satillite images and photographs from the region indicate that there may be two other offshore drilling units leaking oil into the ocean.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/06/two-more-gulf-spills/57847/
Another Senate Charade
By Matt Taibbi
This is a classic example of how the Senate works. If the public understood better how rigged this game is, and how few issues are actually left to an honest vote in the legislature, I'm pretty sure the pitchfork factor would be twice even what it is now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25980.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Grotesque errors mar BP's 'spill plan'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9715/
BP & US blocking reporters from covering Gulf Disaster
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9718/
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Live Coverage from BP's Oil Volcano
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/05/27-1
Missing the Real Drama of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/09-6
Hands Across the Sand: Americans to Join Hands in Largest Gathering Against Offshore Oil Drilling in History
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-5
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Amendment Would Repeal Big Oil Tax Breaks
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-2
Greenpeace Energy Blueprint Shows How Existing Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Will Revolutionize a Broken Energy Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-12
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The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arrogance About the Environment ... Can We Change?
Chip Ward, AlterNet: "We dreamed we were living in a fabulous mansion but are waking up in a greasy gutter. The ecological and economic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico makes our most infamous oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, look miniscule by comparison. This time we have fouled our nest on an epic scale."
http://www.truthout.org/the-bp-disaster-marks-end-age-arrogance-about-environment-can-we-change60304
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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by John Hughes
06/08/10
When President Bush clambered up on a pile of rubble after 9/11, seized a bullhorn, put his arm around a firefighter, and rallied the nation, it was a crowning moment of his presidency. When he ill-advisedly flew over the Katrina disaster of 2005 and appeared disconnected with the agony of New Orleans, it was, in the view of many historians, the beginning of his presidency’s decline. President Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil disaster could be a similar turning point. Despite his uneasy press conference and statements proclaiming he is in charge, despite visits to the scene to talk with officials rather than distraught commercial fishermen, his demeanor has come across as clinical rather than inspirational. Even such well-wishers as Louisiana Democratic guru James Carville and former presidential adviser David Gergen have wrung their hands over his seeming disconnectedness...
http://tinyurl.com/28rg9hl
Tapping the well of freedom
Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray
When the Deepwater Horizon first started gushing oil, many considered the incident an example of private enterprise having no regard for the environment. However, it is becoming clear that government was involved from the start, is in charge now (as President Obama himself tells us), and cannot do much about the problem. So is there any way to address this?
http://cei.org/articles/2010/06/07/tapping-well-freedom
How’s all that progressive regulatory stuff workin’ out
for ya?
Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
06/08/10
Total damages from a spill like Deepwater Horizon, if not enough to liquidate all the assets of a company like BP, would probably eat up enough of their ongoing revenue stream for many years to amount to a corporate death sentence. The resulting market pressures to maintain robust liability insurance would be intense, and the economic incentives for insurers to impose effective safety regimes would be overwhelming. But look at the other side of the scale. How’s the much-vaunted regulatory state actually been performing? BP management deliberately skimped on safety measures, neglected maintenance on multiple levels of failsafe mechanisms because they cut into profits, and slept (and snorted crystal meth) with government inspectors...
http://c4ss.org/content/2826
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Devastation As Toxic Filth Spreads
You Can Smell The Oil From A Helicopter And Birds Are Frying!
By MSNBC
Video Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25661.htm
Is Obama BP's Poodle?
By Shamus Cooke
In a sane world, BP's executives would be facing severe criminal charges, and the billions of profits they've earned in the last year would be confiscated to pay for the cleanup.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25668.htm
Has the Oil Spill Created a 'Doomsday Effect' for the Gulf?
By Keith Olbermann
Oil and gas expert Robert Cavnar talks about the possibility of an "underground blowout" occurring beneath the ocean as a result of the oil spill.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25670.htm
Talk of Second Oil Spill in Gulf Grows Louder
Fueled by several reports that the Ocean Saratoga rig, operated by Diamond Offshore, is leaking into the Gulf.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37575052
Two More Gulf Spills?
Satillite images and photographs from the region indicate that there may be two other offshore drilling units leaking oil into the ocean.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/06/two-more-gulf-spills/57847/
Another Senate Charade
By Matt Taibbi
This is a classic example of how the Senate works. If the public understood better how rigged this game is, and how few issues are actually left to an honest vote in the legislature, I'm pretty sure the pitchfork factor would be twice even what it is now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25980.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Grotesque errors mar BP's 'spill plan'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9715/
BP & US blocking reporters from covering Gulf Disaster
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9718/
--------
Live Coverage from BP's Oil Volcano
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/05/27-1
Missing the Real Drama of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/09-6
Hands Across the Sand: Americans to Join Hands in Largest Gathering Against Offshore Oil Drilling in History
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-5
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Amendment Would Repeal Big Oil Tax Breaks
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-2
Greenpeace Energy Blueprint Shows How Existing Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Will Revolutionize a Broken Energy Economy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-12
--------
The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arrogance About the Environment ... Can We Change?
Chip Ward, AlterNet: "We dreamed we were living in a fabulous mansion but are waking up in a greasy gutter. The ecological and economic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico makes our most infamous oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, look miniscule by comparison. This time we have fouled our nest on an epic scale."
http://www.truthout.org/the-bp-disaster-marks-end-age-arrogance-about-environment-can-we-change60304
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
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rudkla - 9. Jun, 11:52
