Archive for the 'collapse' Category
If It Was My Home
Enter your zip code for a frightening look at the oil spill.
I’ve been entering Royal Asshole Tony Hayward’s hometown of Kent, England. It makes me feel a little better to imagine his family covered in gloopy globs of oil so big they look like Satan himself took a diarrhea shit on the beach.
By the way, [...]
President George W. Obama: A Gulf Coast Tragedy
George W. Bush, 2005:
On Sunday, everyone was waiting for Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 storm, to directly hit New orleans. At the last minute, the hurricane veered east, degrading to a Category 4, and smashing into the Gulf Coast, just east of downtown New Orleans.
While everybody else was waiting and worrying the President was eating [...]
BP CEO Tony Hayward is a DOUCHEBAG.
“I’m devastated.” FUCK YOU, Tony. FUCK YOU. IT’S BEEN 35 FUCKING DAYS.
Read More..>>BP Gives $25 Million to Gulf Coast States to Promote Tourism (After BP Destroys Tourist Attractions)
So sad, so hilarious:
BP is today announcing grants to each of the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana to help their Governors promote tourism around the shores of the Gulf of Mexico over the coming months.
This is part of our ongoing commitment to help mitigate the economic impact of the oil spill.
BP is providing [...]
IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A MONTH
It has been more than a month since BP’s oil rig exploded and started an underwater volcano of oil. Ever since then, it has been a daily disaster, and no one seems to really be noticing.
On Sunday, a new eruption of oil began. When will the government take control away from BP, a foreign [...]
Don’t Shit Where You Eat
First press play:
Then open this in a different window, for the soundtrack effect.
Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom.
But scientists and environmental groups are raising [...]
Amateur Video of the Gulf Show Full Scale of Disaster. Thanks, BP. Thanks a Lot.
BP has been desperately trying to downplay the sheer scale of the disaster, and the media has helped by not showing the complete picture. I think everyone’s noticed the way the story has slowly disappeared from the headlines, but the gusher has not stopped flowing: indeed, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of barrels [...]
Read More..>>Luck Runs out
BP, unsurprisingly, was unable to cap the damaged oil well that is gushing anywhere from 5,000-200,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
My personal belief, and I would love to be wrong, is that they won’t be able to fix it. The oil drilling business is always risky, always a gamble; [...]
Game Over
What follows is my personal opinion.
I think the gusher in the Gulf is a lot worse than anyone in industry or government wants to admit. BP is clearly panicking, flailing to contain the damage they said “was unlikely, or virtually impossible… to occur.
As I’ve said before, the fact that the media, the government, and [...]
An Answer for Matt Miller
matt Miller wants to know how we can rescue capitalism from Wall Street:
At what point does the ubiquity of the undeserving rich become so corrosive in a democracy that it sparks a backlash that wrongly discredits capitalism altogether?
That’s my question for Bob Rubin and Charles Prince, both formerly of Citigroup, when they testify before the [...]
