Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Okay, I don’t think its too soon to start really freakin out about the disaster unfolding in the Gulf right now. There have been rumors on the internets for at least a couple of weeks that the situation is a hell of a lot worse. Instead of just …
Dr. Seuss reaches out from the grave for his take on the BP‘s Oilmaggedon, as captured by this mention of his book, The Lorax, by the School Library Journal: Celebrate the Lorax Project Student Earth Day 03/09/2009 Long before saving the Earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss spoke about this issue through his book The Lorax (Random, 1971), which …
Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is, if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
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Palin lying through her teeth about oil company campaign contributions I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Bob Cesca nails it: […] A major corporation, not unlike General Motors or Bank of America or WellPoint, failed to properly outfit one of its deep-water oil drilling platforms with the proper failsafe mechanisms and a chain reaction of death …
