WikiLeaks. If you are at all informed, you’ve probably heard of the site. Maybe you have no idea what they do, or you do, and you just aren’t interested. Well, if you believe like me that the First Amendment was first for a reason, you should be interested. Credo Action is circulating a petition to save the site from what is tantamount to official oppression. See below the text of the email they are asking me to send to you, my dear reader. Continue reading
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Deepwater Horizon: If you aren’t pissed, you aren’t paying attention
4 JunKilled Transocean oil worker was fiercely concerned about BP safety standards
Jason Anderson of Texas made extensive plans for his family in the weeks before the Deepwater Horizon accident. He was preparing in case of his death, according to his wife, because he was that worried about the safety of the rig.
“They were getting pressure from someplace higher up to do things that maybe weren’t exactly the way Jason thought that they should be,” [Jason’s wife] said. “It was a safety issue.”
“Jason’s father told us Jason was concerned that BP, which controlled the rig, kept wanting to stray from procedures to finish the well faster, which Jason considered unsafe,” [NBC’s Lisa] Myers reported.
I said it before
It’s time we remember the dead, and start to discuss the value of human life. The ecological damage is terrible, but so is the blatant disregard for the life of those roughnecks.
The more I hear about how this rig was [mis-]managed, the more I believe that it is time for the corporate death penalty. What do you think?
Finallly, the MSM remembers that people died on the Deepwater Horizon
25 MayToday, the Houston Chronicle covered, above the fold on page 1, the fact that people died on Deepwater Horizon. From that article:
THE 11 WHO DIED
• Adam Weise, Texas
• Jason Anderson, Texas
• Dale Burkeen, Mississippi
• Donald Clark, Louisiana
• Roy Kemp, Louisiana
• Stephen Curtis, Louisiana
• Gordon Jones, Louisiana
• Karl Kleppinger, Mississippi
• Blair Manuel, Louisiana
• Dewey Revette, Mississippi
• Shane Roshto, Mississippi
Deepwater Horizon, BP, and Halliburton
1 MayWhat, you haven’t heard that Halliburton is involved in the massive oil spill currently despoiling Gulf fishing and shrimping, and threatening your favorite Florida beaches and the Keys4? Then read on. Continue reading
Socialized risk, privatized profit
29 AprAll too often these days, big corporations have taken the profit when things go well, and counted on the government to bail them out when things go wrong. Recently we have seen huge bailouts of big banks and U.S. automakers. The automakers got huge loans, and at least GM has paid theirs back. I’m OK with using the resources of the Federal government to help out when there is an appropriate social need to meet, such as saving the jobs of all those auto workers. But I cannot accept bailing out corporations without expecting repayment.
Which brings me back to what prompted me to post on this topic today. The headline reads:
So BP wants DOD to help solve their problem. Continue reading
An Aging Trans Woman 