Nationalize

The lawlessness at the top in politics and business appears limitless, corruption rules. Obama is a wolf in sheep's clothing. We are the sheep. Would anyone other than a corrupt person still support Obama? I hope not.

so much for the demoncrats being any better than the rethugs.....

Don't waste time, NATIONALIZE BEFORE THEY FLEE THE COUNTRY!!!

Obama appointed Salazar so why point the finger solely at him?

This is just another example demonstrating Obama is in the hands of corporatists and is another anti environmental president. Obama talks a good game, but as the facts pour in on his agenda we discover that his talk is light years away from his actions.

Had enough?

Too little, too late. There will soon be no life in the Gulf to protect, even though the charade of concern will enrich a bunch of lawyers.

I don't understand why those who voted for the Manchurian candidate say he’s changed. A rigged election process that excluded other candidates. A discussion that centered around the word CHANGE & HOPE. A candidate elect who’s first act was to put the criminals who perpetrated the housing fraud on the american public in control of the economy and now the government.

The Center for Biological Diversity and all such organizations and efforts may be merely scratching at the dungeon walls, but it's arguably worth doing. There are more 'good' people than bad, and eventually the majority does rule.

I guess there is not enough grounds to sue on the lack a an Enviromental Study Paper for the rigs.

As Salazar's own inspector general told him was required for oil rigs.

Salazar is also purposely destroying the Mustang herds by removing them from their set aside sancturies and inhumanely penning them. Leaving herds of less than one hundred members which are not viable in the long term, even though the sanctuaries are over 100,000 acres.

USA rule by ghouls!!

But..are regulations and Government not the enemy? Isnt it true that the less Government interference the better?

The market should dictate what happens here...all will be fine if Industry just allowed to police itself!

-"and more than 300 drilling operations without permits required by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act "

No warrants for wire-tapping, no criminal charges for torture, no impeachment for high crimes, no wmd, no looking back...no permits.

Sorry, what is the problem, again?

We need to quit blaming individuals and change the way we get energy.

Permits and regulations aren't going to stop accidents, might slow them down.

It only takes one.

The whole picture is the problem.

Why are we fighting the terrorists over 'there' when the real terrorists are RIGHT HERE?

Salazar seems to be continuing actions undertaken by BushCo's MMS and Interior Dept., so why wern't they sued previously?

As I've stated before and often, the whole regulatory artiface of the federal government must be removed from the executive branch, which is why it's so damn corrupted. And while we're at it, lets get rid of the Executive comepletely and return to a modified form of our first constitution--The Articles of Confederation.

This is what the teary eyed, deluded American people asked for!

This never would have happened with someone like Ralph Nader in the White House. We'd be out of the Middle East, making amends. We'd be putting money into fast trains, jobs, education, environmental enhancement programs and industry regulation, banks would be tightly regulated ......

Sorry Democrats and Nader bashers, but had Americans been critical thinkers, immune to TV ads, blatant brainwashing of their already corporately cleansed minds, they would have seen this coming, as many of us did. They would have been thankful to have a candidate such as Mr. Nader .... but that's not how it works in Amerika.

Americans prefer fakery. They despise underdogs. The Democratic Party psyop drones know all about how to use that particular psychological phenomenon, so when the Democrats collectively went after Mr. Nader, bringing his credibility and morals into question, most progressives went along with it like attack dogs. It was vicious. As a staunch Nader supporter, I received similar treatment.

The PTB know us far better than we know ourselves. For them, convincing Americans to go against their own interests is a cake walk. Something to think about.

"Whenever we compromised, we lost." The Arch Druid, David Brower

but don't even think about protesting without the required permit.

Well, again, it's no surprise that "Kenny Boy" Salazar circumvented the safeguards to the environment to give permits to the his pals in the oil business. After all, Opensecrets.org reports that Salazar received more than $323,000 from the Energy and Natural Resources sector during his career as a Colorado politician.

I expect the nearly $2.8 million that his boss, Barry received during the presidential election might have had some influence as well.

Yep, Amerikkka has the best politicians money can buy! My question is why didn't the plaintiffs in this proposed lawsuit include Barry, other federal regulators and the oil companies? These creeps are as culpable as Salazar is.

Wikipedia has an interesting entry for Mr. Salazar that I think helps reveal how people like him get into positions of power. For example, he actively supported Lieberman against Lamont, and had a very mixed environmental record during his Colorado politics. I would call it "opportunist."

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I don't think it's appropriate to blame the victims, the American people.
Salazar plainly violated the law, not voters. None of those laws would be in place if it weren't were a superhuman grass root effort.
Our politicians are so corrupt that we don't even get a dime in royalties for the money these companies are allowed to make by price gouging and monopolistic business practices.
Obama lied through his teeth during his presidential campaign. Once in power, neither he nor his minions pay the slightest bit of attention to the people that elected him.
The corporate news is doing a pretty good job of protecting Obama's ass. After all, he works for their advertisers. Most people aren't hearing the real story.
The decision to drill in such high risk environment was made in a corporate board room, not on the streets of New Orleans or San Francisco.
There are protests all over the country this week but do you think CNN is going to report it?
Three cheers for The Center for Bioglogical Diversity. Now if we just had a real justice system, all would be well.

Remember when Preznit Barry said he is not interested in looking back?? They must have a mighty big rug and a might big broom!

Barry to Kenny Boy: Maybe if we put a tall coffee table over it, people won't notice.

Kenny Boy to Barry: Yeah, they will walk around it. I'll just tell them I dropped the pot of coffee on the rug.

Barry to Kenny Boy: Yeah, that will work. We fooled them once. We can fool them again.

What a couple of corporate hookers! (no offense to prostitutes)

There is no way that there could be enough policing of corporations... There is no way that oil drilling, coal mining and ESPECIALLY NUCLEAR POWER could ever be safe. Humans make mistakes, humans are greedy dishonest. They don't even see their own vulnerability in these fralties. So, when the consequences are so absolutely overwhelmingly bad, let's just say no!!!!

No nuclear power
no more coal mining
no more oil drilling
oh, and
no marcelus(sp) shale drilling either.

One more thing. How about the polluting that's been done in the Nigerian Delta for three decades by Shell? How about the polluting that's been done in what is it, Equador by Chevron for decades?

Now, you're getting the picture america, Ha!

Obamageddon is now blaming his underlings for his own decisions.

This guy is a pure corporatist shill.

It is his responsibility to direct the agencies under his control. He is president. In reality his in nothing more than a resident of the White House taking orders from the front offices of the corporate ruling elite.

This is an election year, so now he wishes to look tough on corporate irresponsibility.

He, like the corporate heads of the oil companies, are pointing fingers at each other.

Obamageddon is sickening and pathetic.

Dirtbag Salazar should be prosecuted for ecocide at the Hague, just as Slobodan Milošević was indicted for war crimes and genocide.

The Pentagon is the largest consumer of oil in the USA.

As Obama's advisor and cabinet picks slowly leaked to the press after the election, it became apparent he was even worse than I anticipated. All the Clinton retreads and of course the Wall Street reps filled one slot after another. I kept thinking to myself - 'OK, he's a corporatist but no way he'll screw us with the relatively unimportant Interior pick. He'll throw a bone to the enviros and go green'.

Then I saw Salazar wearing that goofy cowboy hat, shaking O's hand in a photo op. Yep, ol' fossil fuel Ken then told us he was fixin' to wrangle them evil oil companies, pardner! It's bad enough being a sellout and phony, but does he have to look like a clown when doing so?

Well -

at least the CENTER for Biological Diversity remains alive.

A VOLCANO OF OIL ERUPTING

http://pesn.com/2010/05/13/9501651_a_volcano_of_oil_erupting/

excerpt:

"The fact that the spill has reached land clearly states that the size of the spill is probably well above 200,000 barrels per day. Yes, that's BARRELS, not gallons. There are 42 gallons per barrel.

What we are seeing now could be small compared to what may yet unfold if things break apart, as they can do under such circumstances. If this thing blew, it could be like the Yellowstone Caldera, except from below a mile of sea, with a 1/4-mile opening, with up to 150,000 psi of oil and natural gas behind it.

That would be an extinction event.

It is not likely to happen, but it is within the realm of possibilities.

That's the kind of stuff we're playing with here."

Salazar should be FIRED IMMEDIATELY!!!

Just another example of how the sheeple were bamboozeled when they voted for Obama thinking they were actually getting someone who was going to stand up against corporations like BP; instead we see the truth now. BP and its corporate brethren gets carte blanche to operate with impunity and void of any consequences to their actions to make obscene profits. One report suggest that BP has lost one days profit to date in the 'so called' clean up effort. So what then is their incentive to take this seriously? Drill another well?

This article compares to the 24 or 26 Mountain Top removal permits Obama has approved to date. Its all about giving the non sustainable energy lobby exactly what they want and fuck Mother Earth!

If the Center for Biological Diversity is going to sue Salazar for failing to enforce the mammal protection laws, then someone needs to sue several thousand federal officials hundreds of times over for all of the official contempt for the laws of the land over the past ten years in Washing-town.

The Center for Biological Diversity pursuing its lawsuit in a lawless environment may seem better than nothing. But it really only feeds the apathy of the 100 million junkies stoned on the petro-opiates, if they even bother to notice.

It would be far more effective for the Center for Biological Diversity to join with all progressive groups for a major showdown in Washing-town, something to send a wake-up call to the junkies, something they cannot ignore.

This lawsuit won't even get mainstream media coverage. Considering that Exxxon hasn't paid a penny in fines for the Valdez spill, this spill is already being buried and it's not even plugged.

I'd like to see an international campaign to boycott the USA, to extract some concessions on behalf of Cuba which is going to be devastated by this spill.