Author: Drake Toulouse

Social Worker, writer, photographer.
British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Gulf Coast, Headlines, Macondo Well, Oil Spill

“Breathtakingly Inept” BP leaves oil on the seafloor

Bill Reilly, co-chair of the Presidential Commission to investigate the oil spill, released prepared remarks to be given at an oil and gas conference conference in New Orleans writing “There is virtual consensus among all the sophisticated observers of this debacle that three of the leading players in the industry made a series of missteps, miscalculations and miscommunications that were breathtakingly inept and largely preventable.” Oh … Continue reading “Breathtakingly Inept” BP leaves oil on the seafloor

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British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Control the Information, Disenfranchised, Gulf Coast, Macondo Well, Oil Spill, Supression of Science

EPA and NOAA Ignoring Gulf Coast Questions

In a disappointing but effective article by Aljazeera, Gulf Coast residents and scientists discuss their trials with the EPA and the NOAA in which they continually try to get the attention of the two agencies to address their ongoing health questions about the toxicity of the oil and the dispersants many believe continue to be used in the Gulf. Time after time the EPA and … Continue reading EPA and NOAA Ignoring Gulf Coast Questions

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Barack Obama, Class War, Disenfranchised, Homeland Security, TSA

In other news…DHS comes to WalMart and Obama responds to the GOP: “Thank you sir, may I have another”

On the heels of the TSA’s porn booths and sexual molestation of airplane passengers comes Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security readying the rollout of their latest brainchild, the “If you see something, say something” campaign. Her video image will soon be coming to you in over 600 Walmart stores, Amtrak trains and hotels nationwide, urging the citizens of America to report any … Continue reading In other news…DHS comes to WalMart and Obama responds to the GOP: “Thank you sir, may I have another”

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British Petroleum, Control the Information, Gulf Coast, Macondo Well, Oil Spill

Saving Time, Cutting Costs, Destroying Lives…a simple document

Many discussions have been held regarding British Petroleum’s corporate climate, the cost cutting, the record of safety, the notion that this corporation did or did not balance the drive for profit above all else, and it will be debated for a long time to come. The National Oil Spill Commission spent a lot of time and money trying to determine what BP, Transocean and Halliburton … Continue reading Saving Time, Cutting Costs, Destroying Lives…a simple document

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Class War, Disenfranchised, New Orleans, New Orleans Saints, NFL

For today…60 minutes…

Last night, I drove round my city, going to hospitals, talking to people who were thinking about suicide or who had just tried it. I spoke on the phone to people who had attempted the day before or who couldn’t remember anything they did last week. I spoke in the jargon of mental health symptoms…ideas of reference, lack of appetite, flattened affect, abnormal sleep patterns, … Continue reading For today…60 minutes…

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And now a word from our sponsors, British Petroleum, Control the Information, Gulf Coast, LIVE YOUR LIFE, Music, Oil Spill

And now a word from our sponsors…BP PLC Version

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Apocalypse, Barack Obama, British Petroleum, Class War, Control the Information, Democracy, Disenfranchised, FCC, Google is Evil, Gulf Coast, Homeland Security, Net Neutrality, Oil Spill, Supression of Science, Telecoms, Verizon is Evil

The Head, It Spins…

In a quick perusal of the news this morning…and yesterday for that matter, I felt like a boxer taking punch after punch…and I gotta say it, I’m aggravated and disappointed, yet at the same time, more comfortable and secure in the correctness of my views that the government doesn’t care about anything but corporations and what they believe they can get away with, the problem with wilileaks … Continue reading The Head, It Spins…

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