Archive for the 'pollution' Category
Thank You Kindra Arnesen for Exposing BP’s Lies
Via Susie:
What BP is claiming is that if fishermen choose not to talk part in the oil spill cleanup, BP will consider that as potential income declined and deduct it from their claims.
In other words, if you didn’t want to risk your health and expose yourself to their toxic waste, you’re going to suffer financially [...]
Amateur Flyover Video: BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales
Around the 6:33 mark, the narrator/filmer, John Wathen, comes to a pod of 36 dolphins stranded in oil, “struggling just to breathe”. Another 18 are discovered later, and then A GODDMAN FUCKING SPERM WHALE TRAPPED IN OIL UP TO ITS GODDAMN BLOWHOLE. “Across his back we could see red patches of crude as if [...]
Read More..>>When You’ve Lost Hitler, You’ve Really Messed UP
I never get tired of these re-dubbed Hitler videos.
Read More..>>“Ponies and Balloons”
Via Susie Madrak:
I was invited the following week to go behind “enemy lines.” They gave me, of all people, security clearance to go into the base of operations meetings in Venice, Louisiana eight days in. Open door invitation to sit like a fly on the wall. Can you believe it? It’s really going on. They [...]
Read More..>>Deepwater Horizon CYA
A friend of mine from high school who will go unnamed has been forwarding me the daily PR releases from BP and from Deepwater Horizon, the rig that exploded and is pouring millions of gallons of crude oil into our waters. The PRs are as hilarious as they are infuriating as they are sad.
I’m [...]
BP: Fun With Screen Shots
Just a quick update to the post below: using If It Was My Home, I sited the oil spill in Kent, where Royal Asshole Tony Hayward makes his home. Then I zoomed out to get a fuller view:
As you can see, most of southern England is destroyed, including the English Channel. Belgium’s coastline [...]
Read More..>>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..>>Deep Thought
Why do the people on my teevee keep calling the Gulf Coast Oil Chernobyl a “spill”?
“Spill” isn’t the right word at all: it’s not even a case of minimizing the disaster, like calling a sucking a chest wound a paper cut, although that is also true.
An “oil spill” at least as most people define it [...]
EPA Steps Up Standards on Smog
While I criticize the Obama admisnitration when I think they deserve it, this is welcome news, and a real progressive priority:
Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.
Costs of compliance could [...]
Public Response to Public Smears
Minor Threat, Seein’ Red
The guys who run the blog Butt Head Ass Hat Rump Roast took it upon themselves to say some really shitty things about me because I objected to something one of their writers wrote about my friend, Susie Madrak.
As if parroting PUMA nonsense back in the day wasn’t enough of a drag [...]
