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Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill of 2010
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Felicitations pour vos livres et prise de pensée Affiché, le jeudi 17 juin, 2010 9:51 pm Félicitations pour vos livres et prise de
pensée. Je vous écoutais sur une chaine alternative; nous
parlions de la crise financière, de la bourse et des marchés
financiers. Comme recherchiste dans ce domaine depuis quelques années,
je peux vous confirmer que vous avez absolument raison; que ce soit dans le
domaine financier, médico-pharmaceutique, militaire, etc. Il y a
vraiment une stratégie mondiale pour rendre les pays et les
populations sous une gouverne mondiale de l'élite; avec un peu de
discernement, on le voit. Je pense que les contrôleurs auront du mal
à tenir toutes ces choses cachées; l'éveil mondial devrait
l'emporter; et un peu comme vous je fais ce que je peux pour informer la
population à partir de mes activités. Jean-Claude New
More Information Posted, Friday, June 18, 2010 12:13 pm I just read your article: “The 2010 Bush-Cheney
Gulf Coast Oil Spill”. I have collected more information that is relevent,
and will paste it here. More Dirty Details From My BP
Mole: Fed up! Louisiana
Gov. Bobby Jindal orders Guard to build barrier. Cerberus: Guarding the Gates of Hell - Dynecorp,
Pegasus, BP, Goldman Sachs - Gulf Oil Disaster Planned? The ties
that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP
adviser Freedom destroyed Who's next? THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew. THEN THEY CAME for me, and by that time no one was
left to speak up." Dan New
Negligence Posted, Friday, June 18, 2010 4:13 pm Thanks again for a very detailed and focused article
on an aspect of the longrunning implementation of 'Le Defi Americain' (ou
Anglo-Americain). I'd only suggest not using the term 'spill', as this
was a corruption of the source orifice. Moreover, 'spill' implies an
accidental occurrence, not a predictable result of intentional, cost-cutting
negligence by public-be-damned corpocratic mandarins. I've asked some of my countrymen what they presume
the official US-Govt and commercial Fox-News reactions would have been had
this 'accident' been perpetrated by France's Total “sauf que les
batards sont des anglais de BP”. The melodrama of the $20-billion escrow is at once
absurd, written in sand, and pathetic. Not only is the present-value of cash
costs to BP a small fraction of $20-billion, the actual damages -- still
mounting -- may well exceed $20-trillion. Anything less than the immediate arrest and
indictment of culpable BP execs and US officials AND the nationalization of
all BP and affiliate assets in all jurisdictions under de jure or de facto US
control would impugn the credibility any US effort to assert sovereignty over
its coast or protect the pecuniary and nonpecuniary interests of its
citizens. Actually, as the term 'gunboat diplomacy' originated
with England's official protection of English opium dealers in Manchu China,
the US should do what it much earlier failed to do under the oft-ignored
Monroe Doctrine -- e.g., seize such offshore English colonies as Bermuda,
Turks & Caicos, Caymans, Anguilla, Tortola-VirginGorda-Annegada-etc, and
Montserrat. If that doesn't do it, we could move on to the socalled British
Antarctic Territory -- and beyond. Of course the US would never deal so harshly with
England, as it began to serve as England's powerful useful idiot sometime
after the 3rd US Republic was established after conclusion in 1865 of the War
For Federal Supremacy. This perverse, corporatist-inspired subservience escalated
after such antipopulist disasters as the 1913 RATification of the 16th and
17th (Taft) Amendments to the US Constitution, 1913 enactment by Congress of
the Federal Reserve Act, and 1917 entry into England's war with its (literal)
German cousins -- reprised officially in 1941, but substantively a year
earlier through an insidious, point-blank, fish-in-a-barrel attack 03 July
1940 by Churchill (Le Plus Grand Batard) on Free French Navy ships grouped
off Algeria after the June 14 fall of Paris. When the USA, and England by extension, achieved
nuclear supremacy, they gained the ability to pressure, extort, and abuse the
rest of the world with near impunity. THIS FACT UNDERLIES CURRENT
GEOPOLITICS. And MidEast oil is among the primary foci of the
Anglo-American corpocracy. The English brought in the first Mideast oil well in
1908 in Iran, a country in which they and Russia had long competed for
influence. The English invaded Iran in 1901 and bypassed the central
government by buying a 20-year concession for $10,000 from the nonIranian
warlord that controlled that region. When England gained control of Iraq after WW-I,
English oil interests sought to drill there for oil. They were unsuccessful
until they partnered with US oil interests in a venture that created 'Gulf
Oil Corporation'. And now it is WE who are losing lives and other
resources fighting in Iraq (and elsewhere) out of the 1930s English playbook
on behalf of our oil barons and theirs, as well as for the successors to the
violent Haganah/Irgun radicals which England, the US, and Big Oil retain --
at great PUBLIC expense -- to serve as their oil patch 'guard dogs'. Sauve qui peut! John Answer by R.T: My purpose with this article was to show that this was a programmed “accident” in the sense that Bush-Cheney literally gave the U.S. Dept. of Interior to the oil companies. BP is half owned by British investors and half by
American investors and this is a company that was the main reason why Tony
Blair was so anxious to follow GWB in Iraq, i.e. to share in the oil spoils
of war. New
Petition Posted, Monday, June 21, 2010 5:30 pm I enjoyed the article "The 2010 Bush-Cheney
Gulf Coast Oil Spill." I have created a petition to try and put pressure on
the government to remove BP from control of the Gulf Oil disaster. Here is the direct link: Petition2congress
New
Responsibility Posted, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:24 pm I am very upset at the lack of urgency demonstrated
by the current administration in dealing with the cleanup. I do not deny that lack of oversight by this and
previous administrations led to the horrible explosion, loss of life and
environmental catastrophe being experienced in the Gulf. If we can't stop the oil until August, at least we
could use every means available in the cleanup effort. It seems apparent that
is not being done. That is what has angered and frustrated me and so many
Americans. I agree with you that "public decisions have
consequences that last a long time". I think that includes the
despoiling of the Gulf of Mexico. ...However, to continue blaming the past
administration for all that is wrong in our country and indeed our world is
unwarranted. It is time for the Obama administration and its supporters to
stop blaming the last administration and accept ownership of the many things
that are currently wrong in our country. They ARE currently responsible for the lame attempts
at cleaning up the mess created apparently due to BP's profit driven
shortcuts and the CURRENT administrations lack of oversight of all oil
drilling operations in our waters. The fact that several nations offered help in the
cleanup effort but were refused due to the Jones Act which in effect says
that any vessels used in such efforts must be made by American workers is an
obvious political move that was designed to please the American labor
movement at the expense of our environment! Sacrificing our beautiful Gulf coast for politics is
reprehensible ! I appreciate your considered opinions on this and
many other subjects but strongly disagree with you on this one. Bayrd Answer by R.T: Facts are facts and cannot be dismissed at will. My
purpose with the blog is to show that public decisions have consequences that
last a long time. The current administration has not shown much
leadership, besides talk and photo-ups, in this terrible crisis that
threatens to turn the Gulf of Mexico into an oil sewage. The Obama
administration is certainly responsible for that lack of response. You mention the Jones Act. A lot of politicians
stand behind that law. As you know, Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act is
what is known as the Jones Act. It was created in 1920. It deals with cabotage (i.e., coastal
shipping) and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports
be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by
U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S.
permanent residents. Therefore, this is a very old law. It only proves my
point that decisions made in the past have consequences today. However,
regarding the Jones Act, waivers of certain provisions of the act can be
granted in cases of national emergencies or in cases of strategic interest.
Why this has not been done in that case and in the case of the Hurricane
Katrina disaster, I don't know. The
general idea that polluting industries or financial industries can regulate
themselves is ludicrous, if not completely stupid. Politicians who subscribe
to that notion are either idiots or very corrupt. I hope that you don't
disagree with me about that. |