BP Media Clampdown: No Photos Of Dead Animals, Please

BP moving ahead with offshore oil drilling in Arctic -



Wednesday, the U.S. government confirmed the drilling "pause" does not apply to BP's new project, called Liberty.



"The deep-water moratorium does not apply to this particular project."



http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/energy/5533-bp-plans-to-move-ahead-with-offshore-oil-drilling-in-arctic
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Gulf Oil Spill: Relief Wells Are Risky, Could Actually Make Spill Worse

BP moving ahead with offshore oil drilling in Arctic -



Wednesday, the U.S. government confirmed the drilling "pause" does not apply to BP's new project, called Liberty.



"The deep-water moratorium does not apply to this particular project."



http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/energy/5533-bp-plans-to-move-ahead-with-offshore-oil-drilling-in-arctic
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BP Media Clampdown: No Photos Of Dead Animals, Please

Blowouts in shallower depths are no safer, the gush of oil and gas no easier or faster to stop than in deeper waters.



The Ixtoc blowout in 1979 was shallow depth, as was the Australian blowout last year. Both gushed for months, uncontrollably, until relief wells were drilled. Relief wells take MONTHS to drill, and FYI: There are no relief wells on any of the thousands of wells in the Gulf of Mexico.



The only fixes that have ever worked to stop oil and gas from gushing are relief wells and bombs, and neither is guaranteed.
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Obama Calls For Rolling Back Oil Company Tax Breaks To Net Billions For Alternative Energy

The Ixtoc blowout in 1979 was shallow depth, as was the Australian blowout last year. Both gushed for months, uncontrollably, until relief wells were drilled. Relief wells take MONTHS to drill, and FYI: There are no relief wells on any of the thousands of wells in the Gulf of Mexico.



The only fixes that have ever worked to stop oil and gas from gushing are relief wells and bombs, and neither is guaranteed.
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Underwater Oil Plumes In Gulf EXPOSED By ABC News (VIDEO)

You do not know what you're talking about.



The Ixtoc blowout in 1979 was shallow depth, as was the Australian blowout last year.



The only fixes that have ever worked to stop oil and gas from gushing are relief wells and bombs, and neither is guaranteed.



Relief wells take MONTHS to drill, and FYI: There are no relief wells on any of the thousands of wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
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BP's Lobbying Clout: 27 Former Hill, White House Staffers Working For Oil Giant

Obama just approved new oil drilling in the Gulf off of Louisiana -



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_new_well
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Andrew Romanoff White House Job Offer: Colorado Democrat Allegedly Offered Position To Drop Senate Bid

We're not getting health care, financial reform, etc. -- We're getting oxymoron!c titles on bills, that don't deliver what the title of the bill claims.



We the People get to participate little enough in this democratic republic (the Constitution only guarantees our right to vote, and NOT to even have those votes counted), without a president of the US, his chief of staff, and a former president interfering with our right to decide who we want to represent us in our government.



I'm an old liberal Democrat, and Obama's deal with Specter p!ssed me off (as did his deal to let Lieberman caucus with Democrats did). I'm not a great fan of Joe Sestak's (he supports the continuation of these wars), but it's up to the Democratic voters of Pennsylvania (and now the Democratic voters of Colorado) to decide which Democrat they want representing them in the US Senate. It's outrageous that Obama and Rahm Emanuel (and Bill Clinton) would try to circumvent that.
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Gulf Oil Spill: Stuck Saw Stalls Latest Attempt To Plug Leak

Obama just approved new oil drilling in the Gulf off of Louisiana -



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_new_well
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

She does her homework and presents what is actually going on with an issue to her audience.

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More often than not, she does.



Healthcare is an example of a time she did not. MSNBC's on-air talent was under great pressure by the White House to stop holding Obama and Democrats to their pledge of a public option. Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, and everyone except Keith Olbermann (who was gone in the final weeks/months tending to his dying father) caved.



For her cooperation, Rachel got her 'get' -- An hour-long interview with Tim Geithner. Jonathan Alter, under contract with MSNBC and a lobbyist for Obama's bill early on, got access to insiders in the White House for his book (The Promise). Richard Wolffe, another MSNBC frequenter under contract got similar (but even more and better) access for his book (Obama himself suggested Wolffe write a book about him).



They say everyone has their price. What's yours?
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Gulf Oil Spill: Stuck Saw Stalls Latest Attempt To Plug Leak

Environmentalists provided solutions (wind, solar, hydrogen, conservation), but greed has overwhelmed rationality.



To tout nuclear is to be deaf, dvmb and blind to the fact that it's not safe or cheap.



To blame environmentalists for wild fires is to really be ig.nor.ant of healthy forest maintenance, that healthy forest maintenance has other requirements that greedy capitalists reject because their obscene profit-making comes from an unregulated growth & development pyramid scheme. Their way to wealth is always about MORE -- More people to buy more products which require using up more raw finite resources, manufactured and delivered with dirty energy that creates unhealthy toxic conditions for human beings and other living things.



The "splitting the difference"-decisionmaking that we see in Obama (and the Kerry-Lieberman-Graham-energy bill) doesn't solve problems. It only pushes the problem off, kicks the can down the road for a time. We're at the end of the road. We have to turn around, go back to the beginning, and make new HEALTHY, green and clean choices.
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Al Gore, Tipper Gore Split: Friends, Political Observers React With Shock

Back in the 1970s, before there was a computer in every lap, before computers were comprehensible, Gore tried to explain artificial intelligence & fiber-optic networks to his colleagues in Congress.



According to internet pioneers Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn: "As far back as the 1970s, Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth & the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship -- The Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing & communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters & other crises."



As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing & Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill") after hearing a report to Congress in 1988 by a group chaired by Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock & others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet). The bill was passed on December 9, 1991 & led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore referred
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

Neither you nor I know what research that he did on his own, what questions he asked (or how many, or even who he asked), or anything that went into his decision to increase the troop levels.



But if increasing the troop levels in Afghanistan is an example of the kind of decision that Obama makes after deep thought on experts' opinions and research, the only way that the decision made/makes sense is if the goal was actually just to stall and NOT make a decision about the US's goals in Afghanistan.



If you'll recall, too, Obama did what Obama has done in just about every situation: Cut the baby in half, give everybody a little something, making nobody happy and never actually solving the problem.
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

We have a president who is a calm and effective leader, who asks questions of his advisers

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How do you know this?



What "advisers"?



He has, for the most part, Bush's advisers and no liberals whatsoever. No one in his administration from the base of the Democratic Party that put him into office. 70% of the Democratic Party, unrepresented in the Obama administration.
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

President Obama strikes me as someone who will do allot of research on his own, ask allot of questions to the so called experts and his subordinates and in the end lead us in the right direction.

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Would you care to give us some examples where that has been true?



Do you have any evidence of his doing "allot of research on his own"? Or is this coming to you through visions?
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

You claim to be in Obama's presence, personally, on a daily basis?
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

As much as I like Rachel Maddow, she's not a journalist. She's also done her share of p!mping for this White House, compromising her own integrity and beliefs in order to get access inside this White House.
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

That's not the role of the White House press corps. They cover the president. They also haven't had much, if any, direct access to the president. They get his surrogates, spinners, who tell them what the president is doing, what he's feeling. Their job is not to be stenographers, but to ask questions, test the information that is coming out about policies and decisions and actions by the president in order to report it to the president's 'employers', We the People.
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White House Press Corps' Latest Obsession: Obama's Emotional State

Obama is a great thinker

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What makes you believe that?
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