The US Pulls a Saddam 1991: Secretly Uses Saudis to Invade Oil Rich Bahrain

While the US continues to use a so called, ''Humanitarian Mission,'' as a guise to gain access to Libya's rich oil reserves. The hypocrisy could not be clearer. The US's ally, the small, but oil rich Gulf state of Bahrain has been massacring its own citizens, just as Ghadaffi did with little remorse in Libya. The only difference is that as the regime in Bahrain's control became more and more precarious, the US secretly greenlighted or may have called for the help of the Saudi Royal Dictatorship to invade Bahrain in order to keep the Bahraini regime in power, to secure the oil, and to keep the money flowing to American companies,and to protect the US fifth fleet stationed in the small oil rich country. Does this seem all a little too familiar? If so its, because its precisely what happened with Saddam over Kuwait in 1991, only this time the belligerant oil grubbers are the US and their close allies the House of Saud.

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Another Oil Platform Explodes in the Gulf of Mexico

A mile long oil sheen is spreading outward.

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More Oil Spills

Michigan River
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Halliburton May Be Culprit in Oil Rig Explosion.

While its easy to put all the blame on those obnoxious fish and chip eating, tea sipping monarchists. One person freshly appointed as de-facto president in 2000, the former CEO of Halliburton DICK Cheney was in the perfect position to encourage and perhaps fudge a few regulations on deep water drilling for his old company Halliburton. The construction of the rig began in 2001 and Halliburton had the vital responsibility for doing the sloppiest job as possible in sealing the pipes with cement, a job that may have caused one of the largest environmental disasters in human history.

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Fuck Capturing that Mess; Make it STOP!

If I'm boiling mad over that clusterfuck in the Gulf and heading east, I can imagine how pissed the residents are.

What gets me the most is that BP and their many attempts (both tried and discussed) so far have been to try to SAVE as much oil as possible. And I'll just bet that they haven't even considered any options to make it stop.

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They Have No Shame

Article: Halt Drilling? Forget it, its time to waive environmental regulations, so that more drilling can continue in the Gulf!

NOAA Chief Dismisses Loop Current Threat as "very little tarballs."
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You're doing a heckuva job Lubchenco.

To add to the list of insult to Injury BP just had another oil spill in Alaska.

"I want my life back." - President of BP over disaster

In other news experts now propose plugging the Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak with BP Execs.

The Saga Continues: BP Preventing Fisherman from Wearing Respirators
Survivors claim that they were kept in seclusion and coerced into signing waivers.

In addition the reason the US has been in conflict with Iran for all these years is for no other reason than the former actions of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which renamed itself British Petroleum after being kicked out of Iran by the democratically elected Mohommad Mossadegh. The US wanted in on the oil game so they removed Mossadegh through a coup and placed the Shah in power. The Iranian Revolution came as a response to this from former Mossadegh supporters using the mosque system and impoverished farmers to achieve revolution. An excellent book on the subject.


If it was possible... It gets worse, much worse. The oil could be leaking for years... I was always skeptical about the 2012 stuff, but now we might be drowning in oil... video
+ The disturbing info they aren't talking about.

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Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be worse than the Exxon Valdez Disaster

Obama's plan to open up both coasts to oil drilling, in order to cater to republican oil lobbyists in the interests of bipartisan corporatism, looks pretty dumb in the light of this.

Spill Baby Spill!
The Independent

Addendum: "Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty." - Bill Maher

Addendum 2: BP is now dumping a chemical mixture called Corexit on a massive scale into the Gulf of Mexico. Info Instead of having safeguards in place in case something like this might happen, they instead had a massive batch of toxic chemicals waiting around to be dumped on top of a potential oil spill so as to hide the problem after the fact. In a just world some people at BP would be facing trial with stiff prison sentences right now. Exxon still hasn't even paid 1 billion dollars for the Valdez Spill.

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Massive Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, Shortly after Obama opened up Both Coasts for Oil Drilling.

Sorry Obama, you`ve done a lot of good, but you have to stop sucking up to Republicans. When will you get it? The healthcare bill should have been the first clue. No matter how much you bend over backwards catering to their mythology of bipartisanship, they`re never going to give you anything in return. Some lauded your recent move to open up oil drilling as some sort of brilliant gambit, but what are you expecting to gain by catering to right wing mythology? They were never going to vote for you in the first place. Let this recent oil rig explosion and the coal explosion in west virginia, be a clue. Your energy policy so far is playing with fire.

Oil Explosion With Video:
Obama Opens up Previously Off Limit Areas to Drilling
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