goinsouth tried to post an anticapitalist meetup over at Kos today, and someone or something was monkeying with the HTML.
July 2010 archive
Jul 25 2010
BPravity: Cheap ‘n Cheat — Bastards!!!!
(cross-posted at firefly-dreaming)
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This is a “Flotel.” It is a huge barge upon which pods, made of corrugated steel, are stacked two high and three wide. Each pod holds 12 bunks. There are 4 bunks to a “room”
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There is a common area for eating, showering and leisure activities.
The men working for BP, in helping with the clean-up, are expected to put in 12 hour days, for 18 days straight, and then, they are to receive 3 days off. This means workers living in these “flotels” spend 24 hours a day there for 18 days straight. And it means being away from their families for a long time at a stretch.
Although workers had been promised motels, BP brought in these flotels, because of, or so they say,
One of the logistical difficulties in combating the Gulf oil disaster has been finding housing for the thousands of workers brought in by BP and its contractors to work on cleanup and containment operations . . . .
However,
BP told a New Orleans Fox affiliate that the flotels were useful for keeping workers close to cleanup sites, thereby eliminating travel time.
Jul 25 2010
On Wildness Lost
He was the most beautiful and arrogant being I have ever met. Not arrogant in the nouveau rich, loud and flashy way, but one born of the quiet confidence of real power. He would, with a mere look, let you know every command was merely a suggestion, and whether he would deign to consider it.
Now, in these his waning days, he is becoming a house pet. In some ways I love that he is coming to me for comfort, vying for endless attention. In others, I am almost embarrassed for him. My wolf is becoming dog, and he is dying.
When this amazing being, the last of my pack dies, I feel like a part of my soul will be ever destroyed. I feel my own wildness being drawn away with his. I feel like a dog, too, always doing what I should be doing, instead of exactly what I want to. You see, I never tried to tame my wolves, nor redefine them in some image. The rules were few. The kitchen is mine. Don’t shit in my house. Anyone who comes through my door is pack. Yet, in a room full of eyes, his were often the only ones that saw me, got me. I could convey more with a flick of my eyes to him than a thousand words to a dog… or a human for that matter. They never lived with me because they had to, they chose me, chose to and never let you forget it. Especially Roo – he was no hybrid like my others- he is 100% wolf.
Jul 25 2010
GULF Coast, A reminder
I`m a day late this week, in posting reminders of what kind of life we stand to lose due to the oil gusher in the gulf.
I know it is presently capped, albeit temporarily, but I worry about the situation going south fast.
I feel that the decisions that were made in the last few weeks, are to hide to the public, the fact that they (BP) are not very confident they can stop this disaster, even with the relief wells so near completion.
But I post these images in hopes that people will never forget this disaster, man made, I should add, & never allow it to happen again.
It seems like greed has taken over, regardless of the consequences to the livelihood of humans, & the lives of all the defenseless animals above & below the surface.
CORA BANDED SHRIMP
Jul 25 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Mission Accomplished
Crossposted at Daily Kos and The Stars Hollow Gazette
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Jul 24 2010
Science Says: Those 3-D Underwater Oil Plumes Belong to BP
Now for a little exercise in News Spin Cycles, vs the Scientific Process …
When the Facts, finally come in, IS Anyone even still Paying Attention?
“What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is,” said chemical oceanographer David Hollander, one of three USF researchers credited with the matching samples of oil taken from the water with samples from the BP well. “It has gone from a two-dimensional disaster to a three-dimensional catastrophe.”
[…]Together, the two studies confirm what in the early days of the spill was denied by BP and viewed skeptically by NOAA’s chief – that much of the crude that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well stayed beneath the surface of the water.
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