Rachel Maddow - America's sad cycle of drilling and spilling (MUST SEE!)

[chillspike]

Run time: 08:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxi__a5wzvs   Posted on YouTube: May 05, 2010 By YouTube Member: StartLoving3 Views on YouTube: 57   Posted on DU: May 05, 2010 By DU Member: chillspike Views on DU: 1631

 
This is an awesome expose on the history of our relationship with the oil industry. Rachel does a fantastic job on this! Whenever you're confronted by any pro-oil advocates, remind them of the history by sending them this video.

[snake in the grass]

1. K and R...

...although it's still at zero. Such a shame that some people never learn. Let's welcome the 6th Extinction.

[slipslidingaway]

2. knr n/t

[fubarsnafu]

3. OT...but important

Great video. Get a load of this:

"The Crazy Lady, of whom it was revealed has ties to Big Oil.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-doesnt-believe-in.html

"And of whom has ties with criminal elements in Giddings and Tyler Texas (along with Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity)
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/05/sarah-palin-and-glenn-beck-complain.html

"And of whom her PAC treasurer runs a shady political dirty tricks organization.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/05/timothy-crawford-and-new-models-shady.html

"This SarahPAC treasurer's organization claims to be a non-profit 501(c)(4), but a nonprofit web identity, but "has not registered as a nonprofit, has no board of directors, and no paperwork on file with the IRS or the Federal Elections Commission".

All of which makes ones head spin at how she's able to go under the radar all the time.
<b>MSM pick up the gd phone!!</b>

[zenprole]

4. Meet The New Boss

Thank you, Rachel, for putting Obama in the lineup with 40 years of hypocritical white criminal presidents. It's how he should be regarded every single day.

[justinaforjustice]

5. Not Bad People, A Horrendous Capitalist Economic System.

Those that run the oil companies (and health insurance companies, and big box stores, etc.) are probably no better or worse, individually, than other, less wealthy folks, but the horrors that they over-see are the result of the economic system which operates them. Yes, the people are dominated by the economic system, not the reverse.

Our economic system, capitalism, is dependent upon the constant drive for ever greater and greater profit. To get that profit, they need cheap energy, which oil has been for the last hundred years. Having invested so much money in the oil industry, the capitalist companies cannot afford to invest in cleaner fuels, like wind, sun and hydrogen, or they will lose their precious profit.

The only way to end capitalism's wanton destruction of the earth for its profits is to end the capitalist economic system and replace it with a system that puts human values, which includes preserving our planet, ahead of private profits.

The Republicans have successfully demonized socialism, but a human values-based, democratic socialism is the only solution to ending the exploitation of the majority of the world's peoples and all its precious resources.

I am living in Venezuela, which is trying hard to transform itself into that human values-based democratic socialist society. I'm here and can see that it is hard work, but it is working. Poverty and illiteracy have been halved, decent working conditions,a living wage, universal access to health care and free education are constitutional rights, and all of this is being implemented by the democratic vote of the citizens at all levels of the society, from the communal councils, such as that in my apartment complex to the country's National Assembly of representatives.

We all must support the efforts of the Venezuelan government and other countries like Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Argentina to end the capitalist economic system and build a system which puts the needs and dreams of human beings ahead of the systemic greed for private profits.

[eagertolearn]

6. I remember the Ca. spill in 1969. We still have days where that tar

is all over the beach. The conservatives will try and say that that is natural oil leaks not left over from the oil spill. Some jerk I went to high school tried to rationalize that the area of the oil spill (the current one) was already a mess and then he finished his statement by saying the real dirty mess in CA is caused by all the immigrants. I'v had a few responses like this from my high school in Carpinteria...I think I will not be going to the high school reunion. I have become very intolerant of intolerance as I age and I hate that feeling!

[Progressive Cancer]

9. Yeah. Have you noticed oil is black?

OMG!

A good starter for the next Glenn Beck show...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

7. "Research", Landrieu?

How's this?
Oil companies operating rigs in American waters are (thanks to Republican de-regulation) allowed to operate with NO FAILSAFES!!!!

Research complete.

[Tx4obama]

8. K&R n/t

[JBoy]

10. Republicans have a "heart attack on the moon" plan. I like that.