Gulf Oil Disaster (G.O.D.) - Day 37

It's funny how this Global Oil Disaster is beginning to look like 9/11 more and more each day. After 9/11, we had the government declaring the air was safe to breathe without respirators. So the first responders and volunteers quit using respirators. But as it turned out the government agency (the EPA) was LYING. What a surprise huh?

Now the Gulf Oil Disaster is taking on a similar look. Fishermen involved in the cleanup attempt are falling ill. The foreign corporation British Petroleum had their employees preventing fishermen from wearing respirators. Read this article below from Democracy Now:

BP Reportedly Preventing Fishermen from Wearing Respirators

Even worse, President Obama had a press conference and LIED to the public by saying the federal government is in charge of this operation. Obviously, that was a blatant LIE. Quit lying Mr. President. Just stop it. Stop LYING. Quit telling LIES to protect this British Corporation. No more LIES.

Another anti-gay Republican outed with his RentBoy.com gay male escort in tow.

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick

Fire on the Deepwater Horizon, April 25, 2010

Credit: U.S. Coast Guard, Treehugger.com

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 24 it was found that the wellhead was damaged and was leaking oil into the Gulf. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry has described it as "a very serious spill," leaking as many as 5,000 barrels of oil a day, or 210,000 gallons into the Gulf. Such a significant spill poses a serious threat to wildlife, affecting as many as 400 species all along the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Source: Wikipedia

Coffee Party - New York City - March 13, 2010

The thinking person's answer to the Tea Party met today all over the country. I attended a local Coffee Party in Midtown Manhattan just across the street from the Fox Channel's Headquarters. Needless to say, no one from Fox was there. However, there were TV cameras from a Korean TV station as well as CBS News. There were also reporters from the Guardian and the BBC.


The Coffee Party is a budding group and as such, it's important to know the background of the founders and where they're getting their money. Among other things, the founder used to work for the New York Times for 7 years. This might help explain the recent article published in the New York Times about here. You can see more at this link...


The meeting was short, fast paced, and to the point. It's basic purpose was 2-fold:
1 - To impress upon people a civility pledge to keep namecalling and personal insults out of this process. It's pointless and disrespectful.


2 - To gather in small groups and put forth your group's political priorities.


Our group was titled, "Put democracy back in our democracy"


Our priorites:
1 - Amend The Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood
2 - Corporate Campaign Finance Reform (made easier by the amendment above)
3 - Corporate Health Insurance Reform
4 - Corporate Media Reform
5 - Corporate Voting Machine Reform
6 - Corporate Big Bank Reform (namely Goldman Sachs)
7 - Reform the Corporate Military-Industrial Complex


After we met, our group (and the 5 other small groups) gave a brief summary of our topics. CBS News cameras were there to cover this. However, the CBS camera man turned off the camera when I started talking about Corporate Media Reform. (which simply indicates the urgent need for media reform!)


If you haven't heard of the Coffee Party, visit the web site. There are another round of get togethers in 2 weeks.

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