Morality is the template of a mans soulhe applies that same template in all situations, large and small.
John McCain's Sweet Ride | MetaFilter If Romney's oppo team didn't spot McCain's Paxson connection, ... entourage on Hervé Villechaize's 727 while doing a CIA rendition of a ...
www.metafilter.com/69443/John-McCains-Sweet-Ride - Cached - Similar Å8; 2. McCain Lobbyist's Plane Flew Saudi Royals After 9/11 Feb 27, 2008 ... Stunning evidence of CIA and US govt involvement in drug trafficking world-wide.110 min. .... flown by air contractors known to be involved in CIA renditions .... In several different ways, Paxson Communications and Jack ...
The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War and How It May Lead to World WarNow that we have an understanding of how the Global Banking Intelligence Complex ran operations through BCCI, lets look at how some of BCCIs key players kept operating after the bank was finally shut down. As discussed in the last chapter, during the 1980s and early 90s, the CIA worked in partnership with BCCI in what was, at the time, the agencys largest covert operation ever, pumping an estimated $10 billion into funding the Afghan Mujahideen. Through this operation, Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda network was formed. Bin Laden had accounts in BCCI and ran CIA/BCCI-funded camps. "
Ultimately, the truth that the well was flowing tens of thousands of barrels per day eventually became public. However, to this day, BP has never disclosed their estimate of flowrate, and the government let them get away with shutting in, and eventually killing the well without first measuring the flow. Because of this fact, BP will certainly dispute the government's estimates of flowrate when it comes time to calculate the per-barrel fines and other liabilities.
Keep Comin. And the fact that you're NOT on Meds and think Everything's Hunky Dory puts you well into the Sheeple Class. 8D
Its becoming painfully clear that the federal government, having been swallowed whole by the corporate-financial sector, and is incapable of even a shred of preparation for the impending economic/oil shocks. The myopic short-term-profit prime directive of the corporations is now being defended wholly and at all costs by both Democrats and Republicans alike to the exclusion of even the most basic protections for the bemused and hapless citizenry. "
Bob Cavnar:
" So, six months after the largest environmental catastrophe in the history of the United States, we are poised to go back into the deepwater, doing the same thing we were doing before the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon, with the same equipment, same rigs, and same systems. Once again, politics has trumped saving human lives and the environment, and here we are, doing too little, too soon. "
Good thing Oil's not ABIOTIC. And a Good thing we can't do anything but die w/o it.
Humans aren't god's greatest creation. We're the Fucking Asteroid.
How about some more Zanax America? Maybe soem Percosets? With some OxyContin thrown in for good measure.
See, Here's how it works. With the Epic Fail, 'your' gov't will form a ring around the affected area. TRIAGE it. Then Bring in the MSM to tell you that ALL of this is UNDER CONTROL.
While not allowing ANY independent analysis (See USSR/Chernobyl).
Then once the Crisis has 'bottomed out', shutting down ANY and ALL feeds to the Epic Fail Zone.
At the same time broadcasting that there's nothin gto see here. Everything is now fine. Move along.
" The well was officially killed and cemented on Sept. 19; under extreme political pressure from the upcoming fall elections, as well as from Gulf Coast politicians and businesses, the Secretary of Interior relented and lifted the government ban on deepwater drilling on Oct. 11, justifying the move by just adding yet another layer of new certifications, but no tangible improvements to safety. The new drilling rules requires no redesign of blowout preventers or control systems, merely mandate third party certifications that they are "... capable of cutting any drill pipe... ," knowing full well that no blowout preventer can actually do that."
The US DOES NOT Evacuate. Ever. You will die where you stand. That's the take away.
You are on your own unless you know a multi millionaire. Then you get a bonus!!!! YEAH.
The well was officially killed and cemented on Sept. 19; under extreme political pressure from the upcoming fall elections, as well as from Gulf Coast politicians and businesses, the Secretary of Interior relented and lifted the government ban on deepwater drilling on Oct. 11, justifying the move by just adding yet another layer of new certifications, but no tangible improvements to safety. The new drilling rules requires no redesign of blowout preventers or control systems, merely mandate third party certifications that they are "... capable of cutting any drill pipe... ," knowing full well that no blowout preventer can actually do that.
The Fact that there's not one post on the 6 month Calamity of the USbp Ecocide here at LF.
"To: Badeye (#4)
still off your meds, huh?
Go for that Black Jack. Fuck AA, BE. You know you want to.
8D
"Prudent, risk-based peak-oil preparations -- or even the vaguest scent that something profound and systemic might be terribly wrong with our civilization -- is just bad for the short-term bottom line. Its a no-go. Obama doesnt do THAT sort of change. You silly goose -- you thought he did? No, no, no. We cant let reality be the enemy of the profitable. A suitable epitaph?
So, alas, there will be no strategic open-pollinated seed reserves; no extended electrical outage emergency plans; no equitable petroleum shortage rationing plans; no appropriate technology dissemination plans; no national community-gardening & local food-shed programs; no basic emergency survival skills programs; no permaculture-skills education programs; no emergency water-shortage plans; no community resiliency action plans; no conventional-rail refurbishing initiatives; no draft-animal breeding programs; no push to ramp up development of perennial polyculture; no push to re-establish local manufacturing of basic necessities. No nothing. Zippo."
The new drilling rules requires no redesign of blowout preventers or control systems, merely mandate third party certifications that they are "... capable of cutting any drill pipe... ," knowing full well that no blowout preventer can actually do that."
I suppose one chilling sequence drawn from recent history may suffice here: a dark, fetid New Orleans Superdome, chaotically packed with thousands of forgotten refugees; food and water supplies dwindling; Our well-rested Commander-in-Chief decides it might be a good time to fly to Washington to begin work with a task force that will coordinate the work of 14 federal agencies involved in the relief effort.; a two-year old sleeps in puddle of urine on concrete Superdome floor. (Re-live all the adventures of Brownie & Co. at thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline)
So are you still with us Brownie? Cause well need ya like crazy. And pretty soon! How many FEMA trailers I mean full FEMA strategic oil reserves -- ya got lined up down there? And are all the various sports stadiums set to accept the hordes of post-peak refugees? Good, good! And Dr. Chu are you standing by with your Nobel-Prize-brand, energy-miracle wand? Get ready to deploy. And you, Santa Clause, etc. "