June 2010
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“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig... →
buchino:
When all else failed, if the crew of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig lost control of a well, if a dreaded blowout came, the blind shear ram’s two tough blades were poised to slice through the drill pipe, seal the well and save the day. Everything else could go wrong, just so long as “the pinchers” went right. All it took was one mighty stroke.
On the night of April 20, minutes after an...
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Before the Plague
Zahra: I’m sure protein is a myth and no one really needs to get any in their diet
steven.cloud: people can live on all sorts of diets
Zahra: that could be a kids book Zahra: help kids not feel bad for living off cold cereal and refusing real food
steven.cloud: nah, kids need to grow up and realize the world doesn’t revolve around them
Zahra: see i thought that too Zahra: well...
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Is Using Dispersants on the BP Gulf Oil Spill...
However, those solvents-petroleum distillates-are also known animal carcinogens, according to toxicology data, and make up 10 to 30 percent of a given volume of COREXIT. And those same everyday products can be deadly to wildlife. “It’s the same products in Dawn dishwasher soap,” Mitchelmore notes, which is being used widely to clean up oiled birds and other animals. “I...
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“BP Gulf Disaster: official leak estimate revised upward to 35,000-60,000 barrels...”
– deepwaterhorizonresponse (Via Boing Boing)
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Watch
Jon Stewart Blasts Obama for War-Related Lies, Broken Promises
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The Spill, the Scandal and the President →
buchino:
Since 2007, according to analysis by the Center for Public Integrity, BP has received 760 citations for “egregious and willful” safety violations — those “committed with plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health.” The rest of the oil industry combined has received a total of one.
Read more →
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Another Kind of War
From Stephanie McMillan:
“Under capitalism, competition causes the rate of profit to drop, and for goods to be overproduced. This is when the business cycle dips, and we experience recessions and depressions. To restore the rate of profit and force the cycle up again, capitalists have several methods including financial speculation and deliberate waste. Plus they must destroy capital,...
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CONSTANT SIEGE: On BP (Big Problems) →
Regulatory Capture: “Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government…
