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Showing posts with label BP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BP. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

THIS is news .... THIS is not.

Check out the front page of CNN. THIS is news.

BOSTON BOMBINGS: AFTERMATH
 
Katherine Russell learned through news reports that the father of her 2-year-old daughter was suspected in the Boston attack, her lawyer said.
FULL STORY
 
THIS is CNN's top story. An entire volume of information about a single bombing, a horrible event that killed three people.
 
But THIS is not anywhere to be found on CNN:
 
"What BP Doesn’t Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill"
 
"The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was even worse than BP wanted us to know."
 
This article is about the crimes of BP, which even after killing eleven people once, and fifteen people just a few years ago, is NOT news on CNN. 
 
 
And experts believe they will do it again!
 
 
Even so, it is NOT news on CNN.
 
BP is, in the opinion of this humble criminologist, a serial mass murderer. That is, they kill people over a long period of time like a serial killer. And they kill lots of people at once like a mass murderer. Thus they are a serial mass murderer.
 
Yet, that is not enough to make the news. Not when there is a young bomber who killed three people.
 
So, stay afraid. Just make sure you are afraid of the things least likely to kill you and not afraid of the things that are most likely to kill you.
 
 

Thursday, November 29, 2012

BP in the news ...


If you ask a criminologist about BP, he or she might describe the company as a mass murderer (someone who kills more than one person at one time). Or he or she might characterize BP as a serial killer (someone who kills more than one person over a long period of time).

I'd call them a serial mass murderer, since they've killed more than one person at one time, more than once over a long period of time.

Someone like that ought to be in the news. Here's the latest on BP:





  1. White House stops new BP contracts

    The Daily Advertiser-3 hours ago
    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration put a temporary stop to new federal contracts with British oil company BP on Wednesday, citing ...

  2. BP suspended from new government contracts

    USA TODAY-18 hours ago
    U.S. Coast Guard fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the BP operated off shore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, in the Gulf of ...
  3. Abu Dhabi's Taqa Buys BP North Sea Assets for $1.1 Billion

    Bloomberg-Nov 28, 2012
    Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. (TAQA) bought stakes in North Sea fields for $1.1 billion from BP Plc (BP/), the energy producer that's disposing ...
  4. 3 BP employees arraigned on Gulf oil spill charges

    Businessweek-14 hours ago
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two BP rig supervisors and a former BP executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from ...
  5. EPA suspends BP from new federal contracts in wake of oil spill

    Washington Post-13 hours ago
    The Environmental Protection Agency has suspended BP from bidding on any new federal contracts, including drilling leases, as a result of the ...
  6. US bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal

    Reuters-13 hours ago
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government banned BP Plc on ... BP and its affiliates are barred from new federal contracts until they ...
  7. BP shut out of US contracts: Feds cite deadly blast, poor response

    Los Angeles Times-by Michael Muskal-18 hours ago
    BP, which has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with the nation's worst offshore oil spill, was suspended from new ...
  8. 3 from BP plead not guilty in connection with gulf oil disaster

    Los Angeles Times-by Michael Muskal-13 hours ago
    Two BP employees and a former executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a variety of charges, including manslaughter and concealing ...
    But there is also this piece of news!

    Energy stocks end higher, BP shares rise

    MarketWatch-50 minutes ago
    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks turned higher Wednesday, tracking the broader market and as U.S.-listed shares of BP PLC ...
     So apparently it is not stopping the company from making money. Serial mass murder for profit?

Monday, February 21, 2011

The story has completely left the news, but ...

BP is still killing things!

Nothing is better.

From the article:

"Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

"That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012."

Gee, I wonder who we should trust. A BP czar???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers

Thursday, January 13, 2011

You've already forgotten about BP haven't you?


Because it's barely in the news.

But nothing in the Gulf of Mexico is better.

And BP marches on, unimpeded by law enforcement or government interference.

Luckily we have media organizations like Truth-out that still think this is an important story.


http://www.truth-out.org/the-tragic-state-gulf-mexico-sampling-reveals-oil-and-dispersants-mississippi-coast66726

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Final report: They're all to blame for BP disaster

The final government report of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico finds that not only BP is to blame:

From the article: "A key chapter from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill's final report shows the panel is pulling no punches in assigning blame for last April's oil rig explosion. That blast killed 11 workers, seriously injured others and created the largest oil spill ever in American waters.

When William Reilly became the co-chairman of the commission, he expected to uncover a story about one bad actor: BP. Instead, he found that Halliburton and Transocean were deeply implicated."

The shocking conclusion: "Given that both of these companies plus BP are active in virtually every ocean, I have concluded reluctantly that we have a systemwide problem that is going to require a systemwide solution," he says.

That's right, a systemic problem, meaning it could happen again. Anywhere.

And yet, management of these corporations--the people found to be at fault in the report--receive no consequences. No prison time. No jail time. Nothing.

(let's not forget that they killed 11 people in one day).

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Speaking of the death penalty

BP.

With a green sun logo.

With a "Beyond Petroleum" marketing campaign.

And with a long history of killing its own employees and polluting the environment for massive profits.

Looks like BP will survive its latest debacle in the Gulf of Mexico after all.

If anyone deserves the death penalty, it is this company.

http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/12/30/1893247/oil-spills-costs-wont-sink-bp.html

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

What Makes a Person Most Wanted???

Apparently if you kill one or two people.

America's Most Wanted will feature a local case regarding a murder and missing person.

One wonders why they don't look for the people who kill dozens at a time, like say, BP's executives? Or those who run the Massey Mining Company. Or ...

http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/story/Seven_Devils_murder_subject_on_%27America%27s_Most_Wanted%27_id_004342