CORPORATE GREED

A corporation is a legal entity that has no heart and no head. So forget about conscience. The shareholders of BP are the rats fleeing the sinking ship, taking what they can before the corporation is called to task. The governments should freeze all assets of BP and disallow trading of their stocks, so that the true criminals, (shareholders who were there to claim the profits) can be made to pay.

There's far more to this and

There's far more to this and I have an excellent article on the total mixup of ownerships, etc. involving all kinds of nations, licencing, governments and corporations, but, unfortunately the 3,000 letter clause doesn't permit my forwarding it.

Ed Deak. .

hmmm...not sure about "hyperbole"

It is easy enough, I suppose, to blame the 'accident' in the Gulf on 'corporate greed', but like Rex, I don't believe this goes far enough. That BP acted to minimize it's costs and forego safety is now a matter of record, but how does one explain the actions of the rig crew? The ignoring of the so-called 'red flags' is, I think, indicative of a state of mind in western culture; a weariness on the part of employees and experts and professionals alike to challenge the culture of profits at any cost.

What might constitute 'better style', Dr Alexander, would take many more words than I care to write at this particular moment, but let me try to sum it up for you in a few phrases. Say,for starters, that human life is sancrosanct, and companies that violate safety codes and regulations are taken out of business, permanently. That the precautionary principle, in risky matters such as drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico,(and many other resource extraction issues)is key, not the amount of money to be made. That oceans, and pelicans, as just two examples, cannot yet be created, or recreated, by human ingenuity, and they are both priceless, and something that belongs to all of us, not just those who want to exploit one resource.
I find this catastrophe very indicative of western culture's myopia on the true value, as opposed to the price of things. Were it not so, we would simply legislate rogue corporations out of business, or if neccesary, imprison their executives.We are all complicit to some degree in this 'accident'... Now myself, I'd be fine with a loincloth but that is hardly the alternative I would imagine. Quite simply, the alternative is simply a world where money is not the highest order good.

There's far more to this,

There's far more to this, but, unfortunately the 3,000 letter clause doesn't permit my posting it.

" Symptom of a

" Symptom of a civilization's lifestyle " ? That's an oxymoron. The origins of corporations go back to Medieval Ages when Corporations were set up for the betterment of their immediate community; once the projects were completed, the corporations were dismantled. What a joke our society has become !

The Wolves are in a Feeding Frenzy!

Anadarko, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Conoco are all blaming BP for this Mess. That's why the $20B penalty against BP. The injured Wolf is being attacked by the rest of the Wolf Pack. After BP is dead, the rest of the Wolves will share in the BP Carcass, greedily dividing the Spoils amongst themselves. Obama and the corrupt gang of US politicians, both Republican & Democrat, loyal servants of Big Oil, have agreed to sacrifice BP, on the alter of the Oil God, to preserve and enhance their Energy Hegemony. More talk by Obama on phony "Clean Energy" non-solutions - the usual Oil & Gas Bait-And-Switch Scam, the Oilies, know very well they will never win in the Energy Game on their own Merits, so they resort to funding Lackey's exemplified by OilbertaRedTory, to present idiotic, hopeless pipe-dreams, while attacking the only Green Energy Alternative - which is of course Nuclear Power.

So Obama is just playing Big Oil's game, touting Clean Energy, that hasn't done ZIP in Germany, Denmark or Spain after 100's of billions of dollars in expenditure. In the Words of Exxon CEO, Rex Tillerson "...the age of fossil fuels would last 100 years because there is no alternative...". What he actually meant is: We will make sure that their is no alternative, by promoting Wacky Renewable Energy Scams, while blocking all Viable Alternatives to Oil.

No accident that the Slimeballs at BP, have been big promoters of Wind & Solar Energy, Biofuels, Hydrogen, CCS:

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9024973&contentId=7046901

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/downloads/A/ALL_UK_heathrow_ADS.pdf

And here again is BP touting and OWNING Wind Farms:

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9024973&contentId=7062289

British Petroleum dumps an unprecedented $500 million to University of California for the Biofuel Research Scam:

http://www.stopbp-berkeley.org/

Again, BP touting all the SCAMS, H2, Biofuels, CCS, Solar & Wind:

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9025016&contentId=7047542

BP caused the present Iran crisis by instigating the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, after he tried to socialize the Iranian Oil Industry. BP had him replaced by the brutal Shah, precipitating the dangerous Iranian Crisis that exists to this day: See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

One run-of-the-mill Nuclear Power plant, over it’s lifetime, will produce double the Energy of the entire Tiber Oilfield, that the DeepWater Horizon was drilling into.

"Are you f.....g happy now"

One of the Rig engineers yelling into his phone when the blowout hit the surface.
Check the Wikipedia article on "DeepWater".
So this is a symptom of a disease and we can not even treat the symptom.
Let alone the concequences
Monitor just went
"Flat Line"

Here is the quote from Wiki

The explosion was followed by a fire that engulfed the platform. According to an unnamed witness, Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell, an employee of Transocean, was speaking to someone in Houston, Texas when the fire started, and was heard screaming, "Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen."

This whole thing reeks of intent

…and now Cap n’ Trade just might come back to life after loosing steam from that phony climate change

BP’s CEO sold stock not long before disaster
http://www.examiner.com/x-34929-Manhattan-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m6d5-BREAKING-BP-CEO-sold-shares-of-the-company-stock-weeks-before-Gulf-disaster

Goldman Sachs sold 44% of BP stocks not long before the disaster
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/month-oil-spill-goldman-sachs-sold-250-million-bp-stock/

Goldman Sachs shorted Gulf of Mexico
http://www.examiner.com/x-8199-Breakthrough-Energy-Examiner~y2010m5d5-No-joke-Goldman-Sachs-shorted-Gulf-of-Mexico

Halliburton bought out Boots & Coots not long before the disaster, a company known for putting out some of the world's largest oil and gas fires. Halliburton was also doing the final cement sealing of the well hours before it blew

BP skipped critical testing hours before the explosion and Obama was the biggest recipient of BP cash for his campaign

BP is merely being wielded like one of many weapons covertly used to take down the US. Corporations are used like covert weapons. If someone attacks you with a bat (a weapon) you're gonna press charges against the person who hit you with the bat. You’re not gonna press charges against the bat. But what if a person attacks you with a corporation, are you gonna press charges against the person or the corporation (the covert weapon)?

Let's take the example in the Gulf: If some persons or some nation were to us a nuke (a weapon) in the gulf of Mexico to wipe out most of the life and livelihoods in the Gulf, the people of the US are not going to blame the nuke (the weapon) but they're gonna hunt down the persons or the nation responsible for using a nuke to destroy the Gulf. But if some persons or some nation were to use a corporation (a covert weapon) in the Gulf of Mexico to wipe out most of the life and livelihoods in the Gulf, the people of the US are NOT going to hunt down the persons or nation responsible for using a corporation to destroy the Gulf but they’re gonna charge the corporation (the covert weapon) while the real culprits get away. The culprits are NOT the executives of the corporation (CEO, chairman, incompetent employees etc… who are part of the weapon) but the majority shareholders of the corporation who WEILD the corporation (covert WMD) are the true culprits.

They know that the "smoole peephole" are too dumb and "smoole" like "da poor little birdies in da oil..." They know the "smoole peephole" will blame BP because they are so "smoole" that they think BP are "da big peephole" while the really "big peephole" (the royal families and Rothschilds) get away. Hehehehe… stupid “smoole peephole”

Leaked Emails About Gulf Of Mexico Shorts 1 Day Before Disaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aw-tVGgE50&feature=player_embedded

The culprits are not the

The culprits are not the executives, or the politicians, but the economists who are leading the world down the garden path into self destruction.

This oil spill is going to jack up the GDP of Louisiana and the US.

In the past rulers and emperors haven't taken a step until their priests sacrificed some white goats, or read the appropriate scriptures giving them permission to conquer and murder.

Today governments make no decisions or take any steps until their economists, the Priesthood of the Money God, give them to go ahead, after consulting the stock and money markets.

Ed Deak.

Ed

The world is on "the garden path into self destruction" anyhow and it has absolutely nothing to do with economists. It's called over population and short of forced sterilization there is absolutely nothing you or your economic theories can do about it.

The first law of economic thermodynamics or is that thermodynamic economics, should read that unlimited expansion is impossible unless you are the universe. Sooner or later things are going to implode. Ya might as well live for the present. Let the future look after itself. That's all anyone else has ever done or can do.

Mind you white goats have been known to work in the past, for sure or we wouldn't keep using them.

Overpopulation plus

Overpopulation plus unlimited "growth", advised by economists, are kind of incompatible, aren't they ?

The First Law of Thermodynamics, my 1991 correct definition of economic efficiency is based on, also says that we can neither create, or destroy anything, only convert resources into other forms and ultimately into garbage, pollution and global warming. Now add overpopulation to the mess, caused by economic theories.

According to economists, physical laws don't apply
to economics, quoting Einstein, who was deadly wrong on this point, and we can "grow" and "consume" indefinitely, because the only things that count are monetary figures and manipulations.

The law of physical efficiency is based on making things with the least physical, resource and energy inputs.

So called "economic efficiency", our theories and government policies are based, denmands "The biggest monetary profits for the smallest monetary inputs"

In other words, it is a goddamn fraud that destroys the Earth and humanity, but our governments are following in blindly.

My economic efficiency, copyrighted in 1991 says:

"The real or physical costs of a product, or service, are constant. An efficient product contains physically efficient, or ideal amounts of energy and matter, regardless of numerical or monetary considerations. Monetary cost efficiency can not exist outside the concepts of physical, or ecological efficiency and becomes a cost transfer on other sectors. Therefore, it is not efficiency, but temporary convenience.

Nothing can be made "cheaper" than the limits of physical efficiency of "no waste". Fiduciary money is a concept, not a reality, and can not overrule the laws of physical, or ecological efficiency. Somebody, something, sometime, somewhere must pay the full costs"

As we can witness it in the present, in spades, 19 years later.

Ed Deak.

Symptom Of Civilization's Style?

I see more than one reader has taken exception to that comment in the article...

They are obviously in denial as to what effect their participation in consumerism and industrialization has on the planet and where that all is taking us -- i.e. right over the cliff of total collapse.

John Cozy just wrote a great piece titled 'The Collapsing Western Way of Life' He makes this point so well.

It's a short piece:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19782

Too Scary

Man, oh, man. Talk about nightmare material. This is all just getting to scary. I have trouble imaging any kind of light at the end of this deep dark tunnel.

This just seems to fit all too easily into some kind of chthonic end-times scenario: The great kickoff to oblivion.

Thank oil barons; thank you parasitical shareholders and all money launderers, horders, and greed beasts everywhere. Your damned game cock has come home to roost at last.

Sheesh

1. to scary = too scary
2. trouble imaging = imagining (though I guess imaging works too)
3. Thank oil barons = Thank you oil barons

The oil barons are only part

The oil barons are only part of the picture. Look up the power Cargill, Monsanto, et al, have over the world's food supplies, destroying farmers and stealing the forcibly urbanized public blind.

Just a couple of the endless number of studies on the subject.

Canadian ranching has been destroyed by the multinational that controls the feedlots, with no young generation to take over.

In the name of "economic efficiency" and "free trade" of course.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pirm/ctrlfood.htm

http://www.alternet.org/story/82632/

Ed Deak.

"Look up the power Cargill, Monsanto..."

Again... the intentional focusing on the weapons.... while the few owners who wield these weapons remain in the shadows... Their are many covert weapons that the same small elitists group own, who lurk in the shadows while hiding in plain view: the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Agri, military industrial complex, the education (brainwashing) systems etc.. ... as well as the weapons of disinformation and propaganda through mass media, the phony left/right paradigm, puppet political parties (like NDP, Liberals, Conservatives) who say absolutely nothing while the Premier meets overseas with their ruling masters... these are all weapons wielded by the same elite private group of inbreeds who hide in plain view. One of the biggest of them has her face stamped on every coin and printed on every $20 bill…. Talk about hiding in plain view.

So what if you take out Cargill, Monsanto, Baxter, BP… these are just weapons like swords. They’ll just pick up another weapon or merge the weapon with another or change its name like Blackwater to Xe….

And the role of the disinfo and propaganda weapon, the mass media is to get the public to focus on the weapons or get the public (the victims) to blame themselves because they use oil. You can see this in almost every above commentary…. : Ya it’s our fault… theirs too many of us “useless eaters” (consumers) … we should all be forcefully sterilized...these comments come directly from the blueprints and mouths of these elitists inbreeds who are committing these crimes against humanity…. the true enemies of all mankind..

Take away the religious or

Take away the religious or pseudo religious scriptural justification and legalization of the power of the rulers, whether they claim to represent the wishes of God, or the prophets of nazi, communist or capitalist etc. ideologies, and they become powerless.

I've been fighting against the fraudulent neoclassical market economic theory for the past 25 years, because it has become the power base of the biggest crime wave in human history, since it was forced on the world by the universities and the "prestigious conservative economic think tanks", like the Fraser Inst. about 35-40 years ago.

The whole thing is a fraud to set up global rule for a power elite, yet all our politicians and parties are kowtowing to its prophets and executioners.

There aren't supposed to be any power elites in democracies.

Ed Deak.

Just after Barton apologized to BP

"Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse' spoke in the US Senate not only on the corruption MMS, but in regulatory agencies in general.

An "example of corporate resources available to influence elections puts it into perspective:

The Republican appointees on the Supreme Court just overturned decades of precedent and 100 years of practice to give these big corporations freedom to spend unlimited funds in our American elections.

Put it to scale. Consider $23 billion of pure profits just in one quarter by big oil, and compare: The Obama and McCain campaigns together spent about $1 billion in the last election. Do the math. For 5 percent of one quarter's profits, big oil could outspend both American Presidential campaigns. That may be some politician's idea of a happy day because that is who they work to please, but it is wrong and it needs to be stopped."

"Put it to scale. Consider $23 billion of pure profits just in one quarter by big oil, and compare: The Obama and McCain campaigns together spent about $1 billion in the last election. Do the math. For 5 percent of one quarter's profits, big oil could outspend both American Presidential campaigns. That may be some politician's idea of a happy day because that is who they work to please, but it is wrong and it needs to be stopped."

"He then looks at how deeply that influence is nestled into our agencies right now:"
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/karoli/sheldon-whitehouse

Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment

Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment

From some scary and scared folks
the URL from Rense.com.is essential if not frightening reading.

http://www.rense.com/general91/oilor.htm

You probably will not be surprised to learn that the situation is much worse than the mainstream media are reporting. We have a geyser of lies from BP and the WH.
Some friends have kept track of the situation. One is a retired troubleshooter for big oil and another is a very bright physicist who is working with other scientists to develop some strategies for coping with the spill.
It now appears that degradation of the sea floor and well casing may soon allow the pressure of the effluent to spit out whatever is still blocking the flow (probably pieces of the casing) and push the blowout preventer aside. If that happens there will be a dramatic increase in the flow.
BP has quietly advanced the completion date for a relief well to Christmas. It is not clear that a relief well will actually be able to stop the spill. The relief well has to intercept the bore of the wild well at a place where the casing has integrity, and no one knows whether that place might be or even if it exists.
By August enough oil may have been released to pose a serious threat to life in the Atlantic Ocean. There is no way to keep it out of deep currents that will carry it everywhere.
Today someone posted a disturbing forecast on rense.com.
http://rense.com/general91/oilor.htm

I sent it to the physicist, hoping he would say it was exaggeraged. He replied:
"I read Rense.com also.
"I already sent the article out to our "group" for their opinion. Two of the best geologists and oil-well experts in the country are in our little klatsch. It was their opinion that no BOP in existence would have contained the overpressure. From day one I was arguing that the pipes were being eroded. I think the quoted pressures are off by a factor of 10, but even 7000 psi is nothing to sneeze at. Remember my worry of "fracking" and steam formation? Now people can get it from both ends of the horse. Yes I believe the website is quite credible.
"Let me scare you even more. Fracking can proceed to where many of the so-called oil wells are joined, since there is only one really big deposit underlying the entire GoM shelf. Yep, all the way to your neck of the woods. All the platforms are really sucking teats from a single sow. A chain reaction is possible, eroding all the walls, going down to as far as Venezuela as a worst-case scenario. And remember, that South American deposit extends all the way, nearly to the Antarctic. The Falklands war was over possession of the oil. Estimates of several trillion barrels of oil can be let loose.

"Other that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

_

Fiat Lux

You should have opened and closed those paragraphs with quotes. Otherwise, it looks like it was you who sent something along and received those comments in reply.

Thanks and I agree. In any

Thanks and I agree.

In any case, I hate to rub it in, but this whole mess is my 1991 "Principle for the application of physical efficiency to economics " at work.

Unfortunately, something like this was bound to happen sooner or later, and in this case BP officials tried to be more "cost efficient" by saving 10 hours of work.

The question now is, will humanity every wake up and start questioning the fraudulent economic theories forced on us ?

Ed Deak.

Peak Oil?

Well if those sources posted by Fiat Lux (Ed Deak) are correct, as well as other doomsday sources I checked out then the world is gonna learn the hard way about abiotic oil and the "peak oil" scam when the entire east coast is drowning in oil for the next 30 years.

I strongly suspect that they already have a way to stop this because they sure are doing their best to hinder the cleanup process... I mean Kevin Costner? Hollywood to the rescue? .... give me a break. This seems purely for the consumption of the gullible public… the “smoole peephole”.

Actually, Costner's machine looks good

"In testimony before the House of Representatives' Science and Technology committee, Ocean Therapy Solutions partner Kevin Costner told the panel about the challenges he faced bringing the technology into industrial use, including his own personal investment of over $20 million developing the technology. He urged committee members to legislate that oil rigs be required to have mitigation equipment onsite. ”We've legislated life preservers. We legislated fire extinguishers,” Costner said. ”We legislated lifeboats and first aid kits. It seems logical that as long as the oil industry profits from the sea, they have the legal obligation to protect it, except when they find themselves fighting for life and limb.”

Just one of the company's V20 machines can clean up to 210,000 gallons of oily water per day. There are 3 V20 centrifuge machines currently operational in the Gulf. Ten more should become operational within weeks. ”Once production at our factory in Nevada ramps up in July, OTS will be able to produce 10 machines a month,” said Pat Smith, Chief Operating Officer for OTS. ”We are currently ramping up production of new machines with a goal toward deploying the machines along the entire coast,” he said. "
http://www.ots.org/news10062010.php

The warm Gulf water contains bacteria that break down oil from natural seepages and if they stop using Corexit, the water would clear up in about 2 years.
Oil-eating Microbes Give Clue To Ancient Energy Source
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080909204546.htm
For over 100 years scientists have known that microbes such as bacteria can use hydrocarbons like oil and gas as nutrients. But this process usually requires supplies of oxygen to work at room temperature. "Scientists were always fascinated by the microbes that do this because hydrocarbons are so unreactive," said Dr Widdel. "But it is even more surprising to find an increasing number of microbes that can digest hydrocarbons without needing oxygen."*

*"The striking diversity of micro-organisms that can break down hydrocarbons may reflect the early appearance of these compounds as nutrients for microbes in Earth's history; Bacteria and archaea living with hydrocarbons therefore may have appeared early in the evolution of life," said Dr. Widdel.*

*These bacteria and archaea thrive in the hidden underworld of mud and sediments. You can find them in sunken patches of oil under the sea, in oil and gas seeping out underground, and maybe even in oil reservoirs. Their product, hydrogen sulphide, may nourish an unusual world of simple animal life around such seeps via special symbiotic bacteria.*

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100520/sc_mcclatchy/3511491_1

My mood is greatly improved by the news that there is a good way to get the oil out of the water and that natural process will take care of the rest.
Now they just have to clear up the corruption. That looks to be a much longer and harder job.

Never felt so good to be wrong

I hope the Costner machines will be enough. They should have been using every proven cleaning technology available over a month ago. They've already successfully used oil-eating microbes in the Gulf and in the marshes years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhLu-5w_66A

YCSTS

What do you have against wolves?
http://www.northernlightswildlife.com/
Surely you were thinking of rats, dingos, sharks.......

The real culprit...

... is not BP, not the US Government, not the engineers who didn't resist authority.

The real culprit is us.

If you use petroleum products, you are culpable.

De-consume! Grow food! Walk to work! Work at home! Don't buy anything packaged in plastic! Make less money! Get rid of your car! STARVE THE BEAST!