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Has US bloodlust at BP gone too far?
Guardian.Co.UK ^
| 06/10/2010
| Andrew Clark
Posted on 06/10/2010 6:22:32 AM PDT by txlurker
As each day goes by, the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico becomes more gruesome. Oil-drenched birds and turtles wash up along the shoreline, pristine beaches are polluted by balls of tar and an oily slick laps at Louisiana's ecologically fragile marshland. Understandably, Americans are livid. But has the bloodlust directed at BP gone too far?
Egged on by catch-all protest coalitions, a "seize BP" campaign is organising demonstrations in major cities calling on the US government to snatch the British company's US assets. A "boycott BP" action group advocates shunning BP service stations. Placards abound with slogans such as "God bless America go to hell BP" and "BP billionaire polluters". The wife and children of BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, are under police protection following threats.
Urged by political strategists to act more angrily, Barack Obama shed his uncharacteristic cool this week and declared that if it was up to him, BP's boss would be fired. The White House now wants BP to pay not only for cleaning up the Gulf, but also for the cost of jobs lost on 33 other oil rigs because of a government-imposed six-month moratorium on offshore drilling. And the US department of justice is threatening legal action to halt BP's dividend payouts to investors.
Anthony Weiner, a usually sensible Democratic congressman, declared: "Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum, they are not telling you the truth."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bp; oilspill
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To: LomanBill
The topic is BP and the current oil spill. Sorry if that doesn’t cover up your guilt about working for the Sub-Prime Pirates who took advantage of illegal aliens (and broke into your home). But, I dig your faux-compassion for illegals, while telling British pensioners (and Americans) to fugoff. Sounds like a move straight out of the Hugo Chavez playbook.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:59:28 AM PDT
by
10Ring
To: 10Ring
>>Now you're pretending to be offended
I wasn't offended by it at all. At that time, I hadn't read
Billington's
"Fire in the Minds of Men" - nor was I aware of Dostoyevsky's origination of the phrase in "The Possessed".
I believed in Dubya's expressed desire to spread freedom - and still do. That's why I took and published this photo...
...back in 2003, and why I would take and publish it again.
Today, however I have a less naive understanding of that revolutionary "Fire" - as well as
those who stoke and manipulate it and how they do so without
Government Of the People, By the People, and For the People necessarily foremost in their Fabian Socialist apparatchik collectivist minds.
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:10:23 AM PDT
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
It resembles a duck just as much as Castro and Chavez resemble the Founders. That is only is your confused little mind.
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:17:50 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: LomanBill
http://www.innercitypress.org/ameriquest.htmlTHE Inner City Press...why don't you post it as a thread and see how long it lasts?
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:23:14 AM PDT
by
10Ring
To: 10Ring
>>The topic is BP and the current oil spill.
The topic is international piracy, respect of international borders/law, and compensation for damages.
How's that Bailout thing working for your NyLon pals?
>>Sorry if that doesnt cover up your guilt
My consciense is clear. I, and others, did the best we could to plug systemic loopholes that were continualy, deliberately, being created and exploited in a corrupted corporate culture.
What would YOU have done?
>>while telling British pensioners (and Americans) to fugoff.
Too Big to Fail extortion, part deux? Give us bailout or ve burn down pension plans?
BOHICA!
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:26:18 AM PDT
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: Toddsterpatriot
[It resembles a duck just as much as Castro and Chavez resemble the Founders]
Did the sheeple of Animal Farm know the piggies would waddle into the farmhouse, eat all the milk and apples, and sleep in beds - wif sheets... when their revolution was begun, for them?
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:34:27 AM PDT
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
Who do you imagine came into your house and took something?
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:35:29 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: 10Ring
Jimmy Cayne could have sold his shares for $160 each. Instead, he colluded with JP Morgan to sell them at $10 each.
228
posted on
06/13/2010 10:55:00 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: LomanBill
Cool, another conspiracy theory about George W. Bush. His speechwriter may have actually referenced Dostoevsky, or maybe he just figured it sounded good. Internet kooks know the truth. Meanwhile, these same internet kooks still aren’t sure if Hugo Chavez was serious when he called Bush “the Devil” or if he was just kidding. And somehow, this all figures into the BP oil spill. Thanks for setting me straight.
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posted on
06/13/2010 10:58:04 AM PDT
by
10Ring
To: LomanBill
The topic is international piracy, respect of international borders/law, and compensation for damages. Another "I didn't read the article, but posted anyway" alert. So, you agree with Rep. Weiner, right?
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:03:36 AM PDT
by
10Ring
To: 10Ring
>>THE Inner City Press...
Attacking the messenger easier than refuting the allegations of fraud and corruption; or answering the question - what would YOU have done? That's just your disingenuous nature on display.
If the allegations were false and legally actionable - then why didn't ACCH's stable of pecuniary lawyers force a retraction?
Surely they know who "managed, among other areas, the corporation's fraud investigation, borrower complaints and repurchase departments" - just as they know who I am.
Evidently they know the truth.
Truths like the fabrication of FICO scores when the real ones weren't convenient for pirating "pensions".
Goldman Sachs, British Petroleum, and Ameriquest - proud NyLon pirates of the American Dream/pension plan.
Evidently The Wizard lured quite a few into using his faulty moral compass.....
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:05:12 AM PDT
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: Toddsterpatriot
That’s how sub-prime pirates do it: buy high and sell low. It’s how Bear managed to stay in business for for 80 years and make it through the great depression.
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:10:04 AM PDT
by
10Ring
To: 10Ring
>>So, you agree
I agree with George Bush Sr. who marshaled the international community to force international pirates into respecting other people’s sovereign borders and complying with international law.
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:15:21 AM PDT
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
Tell us which part of this statement you disagree with...and try to be specific:
"Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum, they are not telling you the truth."
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:22:23 AM PDT
by
10Ring
To: txlurker
I buy 100% of my gas at BP and will continue to do so. I wish I could buy even more to help offset this stupid boycott.
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:22:37 AM PDT
by
yellowhammer
(ABORT ObamaCare before the third trimester!!)
To: 10Ring
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posted on
06/13/2010 11:32:09 AM PDT
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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