Archive for the ‘oil’ tag
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s talk about old ladies, Jiu-Jitsu, and war crimes
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Citizen Radio talks old ladies, Jiu-Jitsu, war crimes, Goldman Sachs’ asshole CEO, and the awesome decision by students at Harvard.
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Meet France’s new president, Palestinian hunger strikes, McChrystal teaches ‘off the record’ Yale course
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Meet François Hollande, France’s new socialist president, who is anti-austerity (good!) but also anti-BDS (bad!), Palestinian hunger strikes, North Carolina votes on the anti-gay marriage Amendment 1 today, Chuck Todd’s daily stupid comment, Stanley McChrystal teaches an ‘off the record‘ Yale course, and revisiting the BP disaster two years later.
Due to Jamie’s travelling, CR will return with a new episode Friday.
Remember, kids: politics is weird. And creepy.
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State Dept’s cozy relationship with Keystone lobbyist, #OWS confuses establishment media
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State Department’s cozy relationship with a Keystone lobbyist, Occupy Wall Street confuses establishment media, Chris Christie (surprise!) isn’t running, Georgia prepares to kill another potentially innocent man, Alabama’s new immigration law alienates Hispanic community, Michigan Republicans prepares to push another crazy anti-union bill through the legislature.
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Keystone pipeline to export oil from U.S., American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie on MLK’s legacy
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The Keystone “game over for the climate” pipeline will actually EXPORT oil from the U.S., David Cameron’s secret cell set up an oil deal for Libya’s rebels that benefited a firm which the head of the cell, Alan Duncan, used to consult, and the firms also happens to donate to the Conservative party.
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Special announcement 1: Australia! Come out to support the BDS cause:
Melbourne protest, 5:30pm Friday 9 September. Meet at the State Library of Victoria.
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Perth protest 1pm Saturday 17 September. Meet at Murray Street Mall.
Special announcement 2: Unite Against Fascism, together with United East End and other community organisations, is calling a national demonstration against the racist English Defence League on Saturday 3 September.
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NYPD infiltrates Muslim communities, 100+ arrested protesting pipeline, Jamie’s cape
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More than 100 people arrested protesting the Keystone pipeline in DC, NYPD infiltrates Muslim communities, sometimes out-of-state, Jamie’s cape, FOX News’ audience is confused by facts.
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Iceland is badass, U.S. tries to rebrand Arab Spring, protests MSM missed
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While Greece, Spain, and Portugal are being told to shut up and take their medicine, Citizen Radio discusses how one country, Iceland, fought back against austerity…and won. Also, the U.S. seeks to rebrand the Arab Spring, CR answers some of your mail, and then discusses some of the protests (immigration, tar sands) the MSM failed to cover.
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Surprise! Libya has a bunch of oil. Also, “shadow Internet,” sexism in comedies
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Surprise! Libya has a bunch of oil that Libyans wanted to nationalize before NATO invaded the country. Glenn Greenwald doesn’t think that’s a coincidence. Also, the US government is setting up a shadow internet to ostensibly aid dissidents. Allison expresses her concerns. Then, Citizen Radio discusses the awesome film Bridesmaids and the refreshing fact that the film was written by women. The government’s case against NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake collapses, the NIH classifies a top Koch pollutant as a carcinogen…after David Koch steps down from its board, and Sir Don Lemon confronts Rick Santoram on his abysmal lgbt record.
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At least Tony got his life back
Meanwhile, down there…
More than eight months after an oil rig explosion launched the biggest oil disaster in U.S. history, Louisiana officials say they’re still finding thick layers of oil along parts of the state’s coastline.
“Every day, this shoreline is moving inland,” lessening flood protection for residents, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said.
On Friday, Robert Barham, secretary of Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, joined Nungesser on a tour of portion of Louisiana’s coastline still heavily oiled by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a statement from the wildlife and fisheries department.
“It has been eight months since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and five months since the well was capped. While workers along the coast dedicated themselves to cleaning up our shores there is still so much to be done,” Barham said in the statement.
During a walking tour of an area called Bay Jimmy, Nungesser said oil can be seen from a distance.
“When the tide is out … you can see thick oil onto the water for 30, 40 feet out,” the parish president said. “There’s been no mechanism to clean that up thus far.”
At one point on Friday, Nungesser began cursing at U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Dan Lauer.
“It seems like the federal agencies and the Coast Guard is there protecting BP. You guys ought to be as angry as me, that we don’t have more people out here doing this,” Nungesser said.
How silly. If there really was some kind of collusion between the government and BP, the Coast Guard would have been working like the oil company’s hired goons, or something.
Lauer said officials are trying to determine the best way to rid the oil while considering long-term effects of cleanup techniques.
Right. Because the highly toxic Corexit stuff attracted all of that pesky negative attention. I guess BP’s backup plan for dumping millions of gallons of poisonous chemicals into the ocean in order to sink the oil is to let the rest of it sit on the coastline more than eight months after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Oh well. What matters is Tony Hayward is snuggled on one of his yachts somewhere, and he’s happy. Keep drillin’, baby!
Citizen Radio: Halliburton and BP’s criminal culpability, Andrew Breitbart’s ABC gig, Jamie finds out he’s dyslexic
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In this episode…
It turns out Halliburton and BP were aware that the cement used in the Deeepwater Horizon’s oil rig was deeply flawed. Allison argues that this makes the companies criminally culpable for the deaths of the 11 rig workers, who the media appears to have completely forgotten about.
Also in BP news, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary, Robert Barham, says the oil and Corexit used in the Gulf could “linger for as long as 300 years.” There are also reports of a new oil plume, which makes it difficult to buy the narrative that the oil miraculously disappeared.
ABC has hired notorious conman Andrew Breitbart to participate in their election night coverage.
Meanwhile, Jamie has discovered he may be dyslexic, which explains so, so much.
Citizen Radio answers more of your Listener Mail! Questions and comments this week include feedback about transexual sensitivity, going home to see Republican asshole relatives for the holidays, and how to cope when working for The Man
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Revisiting an overlooked WTF moment
I posted this the other day on Twitter, but really didn’t give the story the WTF?!? treatment it so clearly deserves. In fact, it took someone re-tweeting the story with the prelude “HOLY FUCKING SHIT” to remind me just how horrible it really is.
A massive fish kill has been reported in Louisiana – right around where the BP oil spill happened. The photos coming in of the dead fish are truly amazing (in the worst possible way).
