evryone watched the 60minutes video right? The one where it was revealed they used a faulty Blowout preventer, faked the pressure (integrity) tests, and skipped safety procedures when they filled the hole w/ seawater.

I understand that it's not absolutely PROVEN they did those things, but we have eyewitness testimony that explains the situation with clarity.

Yet the corporate media seems to ignore ^that shit. I consider it fact. Am I wrong?

http://news.videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-1
http://news.videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-2

evryone watched the 60minutes video right? The one where it was revealed they used a faulty Blowout preventer, faked the pressure (integrity) tests, and skipped safety procedures when they filled the hole w/ seawater.

I understand that it's not absolutely PROVEN they did those things, but we have eyewitness testimony that explains the situation with clarity.

Yet the corporate media seems to ignore ^that shit. I consider it fact. Am I wrong?

http://news.videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-1
http://news.videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-2

@blankfist, even Ken Salazar admitted that the Dept. of the Interior was lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities. Just doing a simple Google search yielded these articles, among many, many others:

- Lax Oil Industry Oversight? That's an Understatement

- Legal Briefing: Federal Agency Sued for Lax Oversight in BP Spill

- As administration official admits lax oversight, scientists watching where Gulf oil spill headed next

I'm certainly not blaming it all on the federal government (even though most of my right wing co-workers are already saying its somehow Obama's fault). The majority of guilt lays with BP, Halliburton, and Transocean. But if our government is going to do a half-assed job of monitoring these operations, then it has to shoulder some of the blame too.

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For some reason this video won't play for me. It just plays the advert and then nothing. My Canadian IP maybe?

[Based on comments above]
I think the idea of preventing people from photographing the coastline of this disaster is absolutely unenforceable. I feel bad for the people working for coast guard, just trying to do their jobs as best as they can, based on what they are told to do by superiors.

There's a good 60 minutes report on here about who should be accountable for this mess:
http://videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-2

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proof?
ok..lets use the same anecdotal evidence you used from the very SAME interview.
http://videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-1
part 2.
http://videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-2
notice anything that may ADD to what you posted?
would you like me to post the senate hearings from c-span while those companies involved all try to pass the buck?
would you like me to also post the comparisons of regulations comparing the countries in the north atlantic with the USA?
or the fines over the past ten years levied against haliburton for similar malfeasance?
would you like me to spoon feed this to you?


listen man.
you want to believe this was all just a small random quirky accident that nothing or nobody could have stopped..well,that is your choice.
but dont come to the table with that flimsy flaccid thing you call an argument,because it is small,wimpy and weak.
the next time you want to spout off do a bit of leg work so you dont get tagged in the nose.
you have a right to your opinion but not to your own facts.
and the fact is:BP used political influence to avoid having to keep safety standards by having regulations thrown out the window.the result of this was 11 dead and whole communities and eco-systems wasted.
so you call this a random freak accident.
well..sure.you are correct..
BUT if BP had been forced to be inspected every month and haliburton had to keep strict production values.
FOUR failsafes would have never failed.
at least not all of them at the same time.
and then...using your anecdotal premise...look at how the BP manager dealt with the destroyed rubber.
so you are right about the freakishness of the events but EACH one was due to malfeasance on BP's part.
why?
greed and profit.

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