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British Petroleum, Control the Information, Escrow Account, Gulf Coast, Ken Feinberg

The GCCF audit cometh, good, but I’d feel better if…

Well, it’s about time…Ken Feinberg and the GCCF will undergo an independent audit by the end of the year. US Attorney General Eric Holder  announced the audit in a letter sent yesterday to Feinberg which reveals the two men held a closed door meeting on July 7th. Apparently at this meeting, Holder told Feinberg of the complaints he heard from claimants while in Mobile, which … Continue reading The GCCF audit cometh, good, but I’d feel better if…

Drake ToulouseJuly 21, 2011July 21, 20111 Comment
British Petroleum, Control the Information, Disenfranchised, Escrow Account, Gulf Coast, Ken Feinberg

Ken Feinberg defines “risk” and “leadership”…

In some recent promotional items for the University of Pennsylvania – Wharton’s 2011 Leadership Conference, Ken Feinberg lets us all know about the risks of leadership, and he says: “You have to define risk with each situation. When I pay a fisherman, I find a payment that ends their concern, but what is the likely risk that the Gulf is safe? Have I factored into … Continue reading Ken Feinberg defines “risk” and “leadership”…

Drake ToulouseJune 29, 2011June 29, 20111 Comment
Blogs, British Petroleum, Control the Information, Escrow Account, Gulf Coast, Ken Feinberg, Macondo Well, Oil Spill

The GCCF Statistics…What Ken’s editorial doesn’t report…

Ken Feinberg has been getting a lot of flack from people in the Gulf Coast regarding his claims process. The accusations are flying a mile a minute, some of them coming from various members of Congress, the Justice Department and the Attorneys General of Alabama and Mississippi. Apparently having had enough of this, Feinberg wrote an editorial in last Sunday’s Press Register, where he took … Continue reading The GCCF Statistics…What Ken’s editorial doesn’t report…

Drake ToulouseMay 4, 2011May 4, 201110 Comments
Barack Obama, British Petroleum, Control the Information, Disenfranchised, Escrow Account, Gulf Coast, Ken Feinberg, Oil Spill

And the Attorneys General continue the attack on Feinberg and the GCCF…

Where Barack Obama and the vast majority of Congress remain mute, the Attorneys General across the Gulf Coast continue to call it like they see it, and they see Feinberg and the GCCF putting the screws to the Gulf Coast, at the behest of British Petroleum who has been screwing them all along: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wrote, in his second legal brief on … Continue reading And the Attorneys General continue the attack on Feinberg and the GCCF…

Drake ToulouseApril 13, 2011April 13, 20112 Comments
British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Control the Information, Disenfranchised, Escrow Account, Gulf Coast, Ken Feinberg, Oil Spill

Feinberg fights back? An answer to his answer to the Strange letter…

So, as I commented two days ago, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange fired off an angry letter to Ken Feinberg, the BP paid administrator of BP’s compensation fund outlining several objections he had with the process, chief among them being the snail’s pace and meager size of the payments, the lack of transparency in the process, and the stress this is causing to the citizens of his state. Mr. Strange demanded … Continue reading Feinberg fights back? An answer to his answer to the Strange letter…

Drake ToulouseMarch 25, 2011March 25, 2011Leave a comment
British Petroleum, Control the Information, Escrow Account, Ken Feinberg, Oil Spill

Here come the Attorneys General…but where’s Obama?

The Attorney General of Alabama, Luther Strange wrote a letter to Ken Feinberg about his concerns with the GCCF and the payment of claims, highlighting many of the problems with the process that have been highlighted here and on several other websites. Among his concerns: 1. Of all the claims reportedly paid, 98.9 % are the quick pay claims, claims that require no processing and … Continue reading Here come the Attorneys General…but where’s Obama?

Drake ToulouseMarch 23, 2011March 23, 20113 Comments

By putting ourselves below everyone, we're building in a defense mechanism. Protecting against real engagement. By imagining that no one wants us, that all others are so different from us, we're privileging our own point of view.

Charles Yu

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flowerpot from a high window.

William Burroughs

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have the chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Aldous Huxley

Have a nice day...

- Drake
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