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You know I think it is time for somebody in the Obama administration to get a handle on what is happening in the Gulf. I expected this kind of crap with Bush, but NOT in 2010!
This has been going on since before the 1950s when it got much worse. The Coast Guard always worked for the oil industry. Here is who else works for them, our legislators, a huge number of our presidents, the CIA, the military, and more. The oil companies are the reason for a large number of the wars we have been in. The military was used to change the leadership to pro-oil in countries so the oil companies would be allowed in. Why do you think the Coast Guard went on TV right away and made an announcement that there was no oil leak. Why do you think we were not told the truth about the scope of the problem right away? The G.W.Bush administration just increased the control of our country by the oil industry and others. GHWB is one of the architects of this, he spent decades in the CIA helping the oil industry get control of our country.
May want to seriously check into the charges that BO never attended Columbia and was on the CIA payroll for at least 2 years.
Both parties serve the same masters. As Richard Celente says, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, bullets, bombs and banks (including black gold). Anyone who is not totally cynical is not listening.
So, the Gambinos are the liberals and the Corleones are the conservatives, or is it the other way around? Can't remember.
Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[37] and president of the journal in his second year.
When CBS moved Couric to the evening news anchor desk, they removed any lingering doubts about the death of American journalism, and Couric has demonstrated once again that, like Generalissimo Franco, it's still mucho dead.
When I saw this earlier today, my jaw dropped.
"Katie - the Coast Guard and BP's amateur security have gone rogue. They threatened to arrest us on a public beach if we didn't obey rules made up by BP and leave."
"What about the wildlife? Did you get me some good shots of dead turtles or oily birds? People love those ya' know - really breaks their hearts. They're good for my ratings, too."
While oily birds and dead turtles sadden me, Katie, what really and truly breaks my heart is seeing you reconfirm again and again that journalism in America is so mindlessly feckin' dead. I'm not going to even guess what the biggest scandal of this week will be, the competition is staggering. But seeing a main stream news anchor fail to even acknowledge that she was just informed on-air by one of her network's reporters that the USCG is operating under the command of a foreign corporation alongside its amateur security personnel to give that corporation's arbitrary rules the force of law over US citizens will certainly be in the top few - even this week.
My late FIL, a former journalism professor at UCLA, is spinning in his grave. They gutted his department the last year he was there and he never got over it. He ran several small town papers, taught at Tulane during the Civil Rights movement (was nearly tarred and feathered for his pro civil rights stance) and truly represented the Walter Cronkite method of investigative reporting. He saw tabloid and gonzo journalism being created as time went on; where the reporter puts him or herself into the news instead of just reporting it. I know a lot of folks love Hunter Thompson, but he started this crap and it has only gotten worse.
Well, if they let people on oiled beaches, then it would be "Holy crap! This stuff is toxic! Why on earth aren't you taking proper precautions to protect people?"
Why is probably why they don't want people on the beach, but that isn't sensational enough to feed the 24 hour news cycle. Gotta make a story every minute.
i agree its shocking how badly this has been handled.... is as if bush is still here!
ReplyDeleteIf it was the CG then heads will roll. The CG Commandant is a NO NONSENSE Admiral.
ReplyDeleteHere is a good local Pensacola, FL resource for gusher info:
http://www.pnj.com/section/NEWS10
This has been going on since before the 1950s when it got much worse. The Coast Guard always worked for the oil industry. Here is who else works for them, our legislators, a huge number of our presidents, the CIA, the military, and more. The oil companies are the reason for a large number of the wars we have been in. The military was used to change the leadership to pro-oil in countries so the oil companies would be allowed in. Why do you think the Coast Guard went on TV right away and made an announcement that there was no oil leak. Why do you think we were not told the truth about the scope of the problem right away? The G.W.Bush administration just increased the control of our country by the oil industry and others. GHWB is one of the architects of this, he spent decades in the CIA helping the oil industry get control of our country.
ReplyDeleteMay want to seriously check into the charges that BO never attended Columbia and was on the CIA payroll for at least 2 years.
ReplyDeleteBoth parties serve the same masters. As Richard Celente says, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, bullets, bombs and banks (including black gold). Anyone who is not totally cynical is not listening.
So, the Gambinos are the liberals and the Corleones are the conservatives, or is it the other way around? Can't remember.
@5:53
ReplyDeleteObama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[37] and president of the journal in his second year.
When CBS moved Couric to the evening news anchor desk, they removed any lingering doubts about the death of American journalism, and Couric has demonstrated once again that, like Generalissimo Franco, it's still mucho dead.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw this earlier today, my jaw dropped.
"Katie - the Coast Guard and BP's amateur security have gone rogue. They threatened to arrest us on a public beach if we didn't obey rules made up by BP and leave."
"What about the wildlife? Did you get me some good shots of dead turtles or oily birds? People love those ya' know - really breaks their hearts. They're good for my ratings, too."
While oily birds and dead turtles sadden me, Katie, what really and truly breaks my heart is seeing you reconfirm again and again that journalism in America is so mindlessly feckin' dead. I'm not going to even guess what the biggest scandal of this week will be, the competition is staggering. But seeing a main stream news anchor fail to even acknowledge that she was just informed on-air by one of her network's reporters that the USCG is operating under the command of a foreign corporation alongside its amateur security personnel to give that corporation's arbitrary rules the force of law over US citizens will certainly be in the top few - even this week.
Welcome to the United States of British Petroleum
ReplyDeleteMy late FIL, a former journalism professor at UCLA, is spinning in his grave. They gutted his department the last year he was there and he never got over it. He ran several small town papers, taught at Tulane during the Civil Rights movement (was nearly tarred and feathered for his pro civil rights stance) and truly represented the Walter Cronkite method of investigative reporting.
ReplyDeleteHe saw tabloid and gonzo journalism being created as time went on; where the reporter puts him or herself into the news instead of just reporting it. I know a lot of folks love Hunter Thompson, but he started this crap and it has only gotten worse.
Well, if they let people on oiled beaches, then it would be "Holy crap! This stuff is toxic! Why on earth aren't you taking proper precautions to protect people?"
ReplyDeleteWhy is probably why they don't want people on the beach, but that isn't sensational enough to feed the 24 hour news cycle. Gotta make a story every minute.
Maybe if the journalists "grew a set", and allowed themselves to be arrested, it would draw more attention to this?
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