Uh-ohh…

Transocen is grasping at straws. It will be a sad day for the concept of Government when a private behemoth like Transocean can operate offshore and thumb its nose at investigators. I say, if the U.S. Chemical Safety Board does not have jurisdiction in the probe, find out who does and send them over, with waterboards if necessary.

Enough!

Make.
Them.
Pay.

Use my name if you want to.

Enough!

Make.
Them.
Pay.

Use my name if you want to.

See, the government hates the freedom we oil companies have. And us oil companies need that freedom to peacefully co-exist in our natural environment, because that freedom helps us drill for oil. Now the way to fight the freedom hating government is to keep it out of our business. Just like you kill a fire by cutting off it’s oxygen, you kill the investigation by cutting off information. Now folks, it will take a little time but with our insider contacts working in Washington, I can safely say the fire is going to be put out. Then we can get back to our business without looking over our back in case the government is watching. And who knows, in 20 years maybe there will be another big spill, even bigger than the last one. But by that time people will have forgotten about this last one and we’ll do the same thing and get ahead of the government investigations and deal with it the same way we did this one. We got a handle on it.

Last week, the board demanded that the testing of the failed blowout preventer stop until Transocean and Cameron International are removed from any hands-on role in the examination.

What business does Transocean and Cameron have being at the testing site? How is that different from letting criminals loose so they can manipulate evidence at the crime scene?

Not only is Transocean refusing to cooperate with the investigation but according to the author of an eighty-five hundred story in the Sunday edition of The New York Times who was interviewed on DemocracyNow this morning, David Barstow, “Transocean has made a really remarkable argument lately. They have argued that this blowout preventer simply wasn’t capable of preventing this blowout. Well, that’s a remarkable thing, because the blowout preventer is the key safety device for all of these rigs out there in the Gulf of Mexico. And if they’re sitting on top of blowout preventers that are not, as the industry has long portrayed, the kind of ultimate fail-safe device, then this is something that I think would be a major issue for regulators at the Interior Department who are trying to think about how do we go forward with deepwater drilling in a way that doesn’t result in another one of these, you know, next year or the year after.”

DemocracyNow interview:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/30/deepwater_horizons_final_hours_the_explosion

New York Times story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us/26spill.html?scp=2&sq=David%20Barstow&st=cse

The board will do two things about it:
1) Nothing
2) Like it.

The board will do two things about it:
1) Nothing
2) Like it.

Those companies are just looking out for the interests of the stockholders, you know people like you and me and congressmen who take the bribes legal contributions. They have a fiduciary responsibility to make sure the investigation turns out just right and goes away. We all value the bottom line health of our generous corporate entities and want the trust the stockholders place in them to continue.

Those companies are just looking out for the interests of the stockholders, you know people like you and me and congressmen who take the bribes legal contributions. They have a fiduciary responsibility to make sure the investigation turns out just right and goes away. We all value the bottom line health of our generous corporate entities and want the trust the stockholders place in them to continue.

I tend to stop reading stories when I see “according to government estimates” about the amount of oil that leaked. How many objective, unaffiliated academics have to come out and say different before their estimates are cited as often as those trying to cover up how much leaked?

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Well, man, if they refuse to cooperate, waterboard the crap outta ‘em. If it works for the “terrorists” and Bradly Manning, it can work for these over-paid mobsters too.

DemocracyNow! had a great segment on this today, in case you wanna look it up. It wasn’t too long.

All you oil companies have to do is buy yourselves some Teabaggers. Explain to them how discriminated you are and how unfair it is to you and all, I’m before you know, they’ll be bombing federal buildings demanding that you be left alone.

I see this as no different than investigations of Israeli war crimes, Israel refusing to cooperate and then turning around and accusing the investigatory body of being “anti-semitic” and bias. They’re all a cut of the same cloth.

Just because a BOP is not functional is no reason to stop oil drilling in the Gulf. The GOP told us that when Obama issued his moratorium. If the GOP says something, all that’s required is compliance. So, that’s what Obama did. He killed the moratorium and oil drilling resumed – BOPs or no BOPs.

snark off

Don’t worry! It is in the hands of lawyers now.
We must trust in their integrity and honor.

I know this will make me sound like an unpatriotic terrorist, but if the fiduciary responsibility to stockholders does supercede the rule of law, does that not present a moral dilemna for those who invest in US companies?

I’m sure it sounds “quaint,” but I am not ashamed to admit that that is a concern.

When you have that much power, you apparently do not answer to any authority. Good grief this is terrible.

From the DemocracyNow! piece.

“On Wednesday, Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, said it won’t honor subpoenas issued by investigators with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.”

Why should they comply with a subpoena? If Karl Rove can just blow off a subpoena, why can’t they?

Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he influenced the prosecution of a former Democratic governor of Alabama.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25622771/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

From the DemocracyNow! piece.

“On Wednesday, Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, said it won’t honor subpoenas issued by investigators with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.”

Why should they comply with a subpoena? If Karl Rove can just blow off a subpoena, why can’t they?

Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he influenced the prosecution of a former Democratic governor of Alabama.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25622771/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

how many environmental criminals has the uscsb put in jail so far?…transocean, like others have nothing to fear…!

how many environmental criminals has the uscsb put in jail so far?…transocean, like others have nothing to fear…!

Ken Salazar, on the lifting of the moratorium in October.

“There will always be risks associated with deep-water drilling,” Salazar said. “We have reached a point where we have significantly reduced those risks.”

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-12/us/drilling.moratorium_1_deep-water-drilling-drilling-rig-oil-drilling?_s=PM:US

But Transocean is arguing that this blowout preventer simply wasn’t capable of preventing this (kind of) blowout.

So WTF is Salazar’s point?

Ken Salazar, on the lifting of the moratorium in October.

“There will always be risks associated with deep-water drilling,” Salazar said. “We have reached a point where we have significantly reduced those risks.”

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-12/us/drilling.moratorium_1_deep-water-drilling-drilling-rig-oil-drilling?_s=PM:US

But Transocean is arguing that this blowout preventer simply wasn’t capable of preventing this (kind of) blowout.

So WTF is Salazar’s point?

It was a good piece. Didn’t I tell ya?

Does that mean that the peace activists now can refuse that FBI grand jury subpoena? And, never mind an answer, I know it to well.

Uh, haven’t you got the memo? Peace activists are terrorists. They won’t be issued subpoenas, they will be held without being charged at offshore black sites.

Just ask PA Governor Ed Rendell who is casing elderly Quakers.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/pa-homeland-security-monitored-tweets/#

It was interesting that there were two references to the Titanic in the democracynow piece. Besides the enormous physical sizes of the Titanic and Deepwater Horizon, the other element they held in common was the arrogance of the crews. Because both were “state of the art” contraptions, the perceptions were that they were invincible, and so the due diligence that should have been place was not.

Then we are indeed screwed.

Johnny, I actually agree with you for a change. Happy New Year.

Same to you, man. Feliz Año Nuevo!

Yup, just like how everyone lies to congress and they don’t do shit !

In amerikkka only the Pee-ons are ever held accountable

eric holder is not much better than alberto “speedy” gonzales F~ing useless as tits on a bull.

If your big and have alot of money and politically connected, you can do what you want when you want. Before it was behind the scenes, now they show utter contempt of the whole process. Americans will eventually realize how much they care about you.

If your big and have alot of money and politically connected, you can do what you want when you want. Before it was behind the scenes, now they show utter contempt of the whole process. Americans will eventually realize how much they care about you.

If your big and have alot of money and politically connected, you can do what you want when you want. Before it was behind the scenes, now they show utter contempt of the whole process. Americans will eventually realize how much they care about you.

Then why not forcefully bring the actual people to court. Should they resist…

When the King’s Power was challenged by his “corporations” he would issue a quo warranto and the company would cease to exists and therefore no standing in court.

Simple extend the court case out as long as possible in order to leave any liabilities on a defunded shell compny, when it finally loses in court it will already be as near to bankrupt as possible, with only a ton of staff wage debts, making the government look bad when the foreclose on workers jobs and wages.
A criminally corrupt corporation running in a manner to be expected.

A Transocean consultant was on site with the blowout preventer to do any such maintenance as necessary to prevent such a moral dilemma as you mentioned. This is one way in which Transocean management provides a buffer to insulate the stockholder from the details of daily operations.

the FIREMEN KNOW….. 1) 4inch hose.. 2) 750 POUNDS of PRESSURE..
3) 1200 GALLONS a MINUTE… BP PIPE 4) 26 INCHES ( = 10-4 INCH HOSES)
5) 3000+ POUNDS of PRESSURE………MILLIONS of GALLONS a DAY of OIL…

BYE..BYE GULF

Bingo

Bingo

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Oh, yessir, I did. The telescreen on my bedroom wall told me.

This is what should have taken place:

The Oil Pollution Act Provides for the Federalization of the BP Oil Spill

http://donovanlawgroup.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-oil-pollution-act-provides-for-the-federalization-of-the-bp-oil-spill/

Simply stated, Section 4201 of OPA 90 provides President Obama with three options:
(1) perform cleanup immediately (“federalize” the spill);
(2) monitor the response efforts of the spiller; or
(3) direct the spiller’s cleanup activities.

We all knew that it would disintegrate into a jurisdictional matter, is it a mobile vessel or a stationary unit? We have these discussions in the Starship enterprise frequently while life below suffers at our radiation after burn. They continue for light years.

me too…

Gung hay fat choy
Sun nien fai lok

This is fuckingbullshit.

This is fuckingbullshit.

Transocean knows that no one will dare to enforce the subpoenas. America is Pro Business! Which means businesses know they will never, ever be held accountable to any laws, ever. And even more, they will be rewarded for their crimes with lucrative no-bid contracts!

Remember, if someone says they are ‘pro-business’ that automatically means that they are staunchly anti citizen! What’s good for business is bad for people, what’s good for people interferes with profits of business!

Pro-Business = Anti-American

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Then you take their company, arrest the entire board and a large portion of the rest of management and charge them with everything from environmental destruction to littering

It will prove a lesson to other criminal organizations

But I seriously doubt that Obama or the Dems have the will to take these kinds of necessary steps to curb the abuses. Corporations should fear arrest around every corner for misbehavior, it’s the only way to ensure they behave ethically

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Then its up to “we the people” to force them into cooperation …isn’t it…?

Nationalize them, bust them up, sell the guts to the highest bidder, and help reduce the deficit in the process. Oh, I forgot, we have a “socialist” President.

“Transocean knows that no one will dare to enforce the subpoenas. America is Pro Business!”

Indeed, CR, but it’s even worse, isn’t it?

Wasn’t it BP that in Scotland secured the release of a terrorist bomber who brought down the plane in Lockerbee so they could get oil deals with Libya? A mass murderer released on humanitarian grounds over a terminal illness that vanished after he received a hero’s welcome in Libya?

And they tell us they’re fighting a war on terror??

America might be pro business, but it would seem that governments on both sides of the Atlantic are owned lock, stock and barrel by the oil industry.

‘We the People’ specifically includes artificial entities known as corporations, so I’d say that what you suggest is highly unlikely to happen. I think you mean, “We the *Human People*’, or perhaps, ‘We the Natural People’…problem there being that traders among us in the SCOTUS gave up the power for us to do so over the last 100-120 years.

Ah, to be a Corporate Citizen in America! Free to dip into -and even exhaust- the common good, yet accountable to no one. And the humans that actually make the decisions and those that give the artificial entities direction via holding of stock by law are not liable beyond their investment.

Corporations are the biggest gun in the class war. Religion is a close second.

All we have is one vote each at the local level, and the partial ability to decide where we spend our pittance.

Oh, and pitchforks.

Nothing is going to be done to BP, Transocean, or Cameron / perhaps some low level scapegoats will be tried – but no one of any importance will spend a day in jail or prison.

I’m sure they’d all be in jail if the Bush/Cheney cabal was still in power. You must be ‘Trippin.

If Turd-Blossom from Texas doesn’t have to honor a supeana from our Government why would some Corporation have to honor them? The Corporations are equal as citizens and therefore able to thumb their noses at our government also.

That is why we need to have the GOP back in power. They wold take care of this quickly

Everyone thought these companies would be responsible, caring, and reasonable. What is happening now? This question should be asked of the “corporate apologists” in both houses of congress. (I cannot use capital letters when referencing the government, they need to earn my respect again)

Everyone thought these companies would be responsible, caring, and reasonable. What is happening now? This question should be asked of the “corporate apologists” in both houses of congress. (I cannot use capital letters when referencing the government, they need to earn my respect again)

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