Taking their time while the environment suffers

The Associated Press reports this morning that "BP happy with new oil-leak effort, but no promises. Underpromising with hopes of overdelivering, BP said Sunday that it is making progress on what could prove its most effective effort yet to contain the Gulf oil leak, but cautioned that the verdict could be several days away. A new cap being placed atop the gusher is intended to provide a tight seal and might eventually allow the oil giant to capture all the crude leaking from the well for the first time since an April 20 oil rig explosion set off the environmental crisis. But several prior failed attempts to stop the leak have made BP PLC careful to keep expectations grounded."

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Taking Their Time As the Eco-System Dies

The Associated Press reported --"Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea." See the video.

In the news this Sunday morning is word that BP is making progress changing the cap on the gadget it is using to collect oil from its gushing well. It  removed the old cap to put a better cap in place and in the meanwhile oil is gushing unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to gush out hundreds of thousands of barrels of polluting and deadly, to sea and wildlife, crude, unchecked, for two days at least, while BP is putting the new cap in place. The new cap, BP says will make for a more efficient collection system.

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Japan keeps slaughtering whales. The Japanese slaughter about one thousand whales a year — primarily minke whales — as part of a government-sponsored and financed program that the Japanese government claims is for so-called scientific purposes. People concerned about this slaughter rightly call it for what it is -- commercial whaling, which has been banned worldwide since 1986. Japan is thumbing her nose at the world.

Today, Wednesday, Peter Bethune, an antiwhaling activist from New Zealand, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was convicted by a Japanese court of trespassing, vandalism, assault and obstructing Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic. His sentence was suspended, and is expected to be booted out of the country

Various groups confront the Japanese whaling fleet to interfere with the whale hunts. These confrontations have led to some violence.

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It is a wicked business to try to suffocate the truth. A most wicked business is when a private concern gets the assistance of government to put a choke hold on truth seekers. BP continues to try to hide, with the government's assistance, the extent of its damaged to the Gulf's ecosystem. and it has done dirty rotten thing elsewhere too. In Texas, at its oil BP refinery in Texas City, where an explosion allegedly caused by the negligence of BP management took the lives of fifteen people.

The Huffington Post reports that this past weekend, at the behest of a BP security official. a photographer from ProPublica was locked up behind bars for taking photos of a BP refinery.

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What day is this? Another day when BP's gushing, busted oil well is polluting the waters, shorelines and beaches of America.

In the news this morning the shocking report that BP has not been candid with regulators! Shocking! Shocking! Shocking! Shocking to whom? Federal regulators, the gullible.

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Fourth of July- it means independence, cookouts, and time at the beach. Unless you are living or vacationing along the Gulf coast this weekend. This year, many of the beaches that are used to seeing visitors flock to the sand like the migrating wildlife are as bare and lifeless as the excuses BP has stopped making for why the oil leak isn’t stopped yet. Instead of reveling families and the sounds of screaming children, the beaches are seeing cleanup workers and hearing the sounds of lonely footsteps on tarb-balled sand. As for BP, they are trying to shore up support for their own selves in the face of rumors that there are take-over bids circling like vultures.

Pensacola Beach is feeling the effects:

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Senate Republicans have gone home to party for the 4th of July. They've taken a whole week off from work. One of the last things they did was to filibuster the unemployment benefits extension; bill, which passed the House by a wide margin. The GOP Senators are leaving 1.3 million Americans hanging, the number may be 1.7 million by the end of the week. What does the GOP care, if those long term unemployed Americans go without? The GOP senators will have their backyard barbecues.

Press reports say the Democrats have called Republicans on their callousness: "I challenge you to look people in the eye and tell them that you voted no," said Representative John Lewis (D-GA). "Tell them as they swallow their pride that you don't care."

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Remember the Toyota Motor Corp?

BP kicked Toyota off America's S-List. The Shucks what the heck list Yeah!

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The Tropical Storm Alex is expected to be bumped back up to a hurricane, and is expected to delay the clean work on the BP oil spill in the US Gulf Coast. See the video.

BP has been claiming all along that it has the fool proof solution to stop the run-a-way gusher from its busted well -- drill a relief well, and then pump heavy mud through it into the leaking well. The New York Times (NYT) reports that the feds have asked BP THE Question -- The question I have been wanting to ask: What if that doesn't work, then what?

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I read a phrase today that got me thinking.  Feministing posted a link about "How girls are socialized to be music fans, not critics."  The article it links to is interesting and well worth reading, although it's on a different tangent than the one that came to my mind.


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