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WASHINGTON, 7 NOVEMBER 2017*. Yesterday Speaker of the House Dennis Kucinich was sworn in as President, replacing President Jeb Bush, who had fled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aboard Air Force One seeking asylum in his father’s well guarded compound on the grounds of the Bin Laden family’s palace. Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been in a coma since August after suffering his fifteenth heart attack, was declared incompetent. President Kucinich immediately announced a wide-ranging package of policies designed to bring an end to the Great Depression, which began with the global financial crisis of 2007. He called for calm and pleaded with leaders of the Revolutionary Tea Party Army that has encircled Washington to call off the attack that had been planned for today, the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Commandant Dick Armey said he is willing to meet for a discussion of a ceasefire so long as his militia can take their weapons home . . .

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By Rosabeth Moss Kanter

BP doesn't need an engineer at the helm. It needs a leader.

Of course engineers matter, when the task is stemming damage from the largest oil spill in U.S. history. BP needs all the talent it can get. Scientists, engineers, and technicians, including the 2500 BOP employees sent to the Gulf from all over the world, have a critical role to play in cleaning up the environmental mess.

But BP must also clean up an organizational and cultural mess. The company needs a leader who engenders confidence. CEO Tony Hayward has had over six weeks in the spotlight to demonstrate his leadership capabilities. Yet the situation keeps getting worse: escalating damage in the Gulf and a whopping 35% drop in BP's stock price.

A true leader faces facts, presents a situation fully to all stakeholders, and models accountability. A leader does not attempt to minimize the extent of a problem or promise action faster than can be delivered. A true leader sets appropriate expectations and delivers. He or she does not duck responsibility by shifting the bulk of the blame to someone else.

About a week after the April 20 explosion, Hayward was quoted in the New York Times
as asking his executive team, "What the hell did we do to deserve this?" Recently, he declared that "I want my life back."

Mr. Hayward, it's not about you. The only consideration should be what's best for the institution and its stakeholders. Eleven workers are dead, and damage to the ecosystem and coastal livelihoods are incalculable. Tony Hayward's actions have not been responsive, and when that happens, a manager is dispensable. He can't be the only person who can run the company during this crisis — which means that BP has even more BP (big problems) ahead.

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FAST FACTS:

* Small dots appear to "burn" through leaves
* Area affected is along Tipton and Shelby County line
* Farmers afraid they may lose their entire crop

(Memphis 6/1/2010) A mystery is unfolding across MidSouth farms.

Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why.

Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague.

It's happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere near the Mississippi River bottoms.

Tiny dots appear to have burned onto leaves of all types of plants, and they appear different depending on the plant.

On corn stalks, the dots seem to turn white in the center.

On other plants, a white dust speckles the leaves and then destroys the green life underneath.

"We found it all in the herbs, in the flowers, in the plum tree, in the weeds," said organic farmer Toni Holt. "It's apparently in everything."

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BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward told the BBC Sunday that the cut-and-cap maneuver is now collecting 420,000 gallons of oil a day – 40 percent more than it was collecting Saturday.

The improvement raises hope that the containment cap now fitted atop the well might successfully collect as many as 630,000 gallons of oil daily – the highest amount that tanker vessels on the surface can collect

Labels: BP, Corporate Assclowns, Corporate Values, Gulf Of Mexico, Lies and Lying Liars, Oil Disaster, Tony Fucking Hayward

It's hurricane season now. Don't worry! We've planned for that just as well as we've planned for everything else!

Labels: BP, Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Disaster

HOUSTON — Oil continued to gush from a runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday as engineers worked to close the vents on a capping device they successfully lowered onto the gushing riser pipe late Thursday night.

“The vents remain open,” Adm. Thad Allen of the Coast Guard, who is in charge of the federal response to the oil spill, said in a briefing Saturday morning.

Admiral Allen said that while engineers had so far been able to bring 6,000 barrels of oil to the surface, they had been hesitant to close the vents. If they do so, they fear, water will rush in and form the kind of icy hydrates that doomed a previous attempt to cap the leak.

“When we put the cap down, there were four vents on the cap that allow oil to escape that’s not going up through the pipe,” he said. “What you want is you want to keep oil in the containment cap and not let water in, because when water gets in you form hydrates.”

The admiral had initially said that engineers hoped to begin closing the vents on Friday. But on Saturday he said they had not because of fears that the pressure inside the cap would become so great that oil would blast through the imperfect seal.

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BP is already preparing to install over the next several weeks a couple of backup systems in the containment effort. The company has several more caps on hand with different engineering designs in case the device it is trying now fails.

By the end of the month, it will replace the newly installed capping device with one called an “overshot tool,” which is heavier and is more tightly sealed. The tool would not only direct the escaping oil from the runaway well to a containment ship, but also be outfitted with a containment drum, so that oil collection would not be completely interrupted if a hurricane forces the ship to leave the area.

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...This is not Hurricane Katrina. This isn't another Katrina. This isn't another anything. This is a whole new thing, happening to us. This is America's Deepwater Horizon disaster. We all own it forever.

And right now, right here in Grand Isle and all along the Gulf coast there are really only three things that matter: stopping the oil from flowing; protecting the coast and the ocean from the millions of gallons of oil that have already spilled; and making sure that this never, ever happens again.

You can diagnose whether we have a functioning media in this country by whether or not the country understands that this is a vile environmental megadisaster. You can diagnose whether we have a functioning political system in this country by whether or not the result of this megadisaster is change.

Big Oil has been too rich to care about what it was putting us all at risk for. And we've been too cowardly to change direction and break free from them. If that changes because of our national disgust at this disaster, then America's political system in 2010 works. If it doesn't change, then it doesn't work.

Labels: BP, Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Disaster, Rachel Maddow

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BP's Tony Hayward hands responsibility for oil spill cleanup to American, British newspaper reports
By The Times-Picayune
June 04, 2010, 5:10PM
The Associated Press

BP is to "hive off" its Gulf of Mexico oil spill operation to a separate in-house business to be run by an American in a bid to isolate the "toxic" side of the company and dilute some of the anti-British feeling aimed at Chief Executive Tony Hayward, the company said Friday, according to a report by The Guardian.

("Hive off" is a chiefly British term that means to spin off, or to assign responsibilities to another.)

The surprise announcement was made during a teleconference with London and Wall Street analysts in which Hayward tried to shrug off the personal criticism saying words "could not break his bones," the Guardian reported.

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Pole Beans shot up four feet in a week

These are French Yellow Petite... LOTS of them!

These are Spanish Musica

A view of the back garden plot through the Beans and Pines

A nice first Bean harvest

Sweet Banana Peppers

My own Monkeyfister's Marvel shot up a foot in a week.
I need to set up trellises for this Tomato bed today.

Here are my first six MFM Tomatoes starting to grow.
Oh, BOY!

Cabbages and Sage
They love each other

Murray guarding the Catnip plant in the background. I just pulled it out of there, and transplanted it, and six others to the Cats' 2' x 6' garden-- Catnip and Wheatgrass.

He is so damned handsome.

Beans and Peppers
That is one quart of pickled Peppers, and three meals worth of Beans for the freezer (and some for tonight).

Snow Peas just keep on giving!

The back garden plot: Lima Beans, Crowder Peas and Purple Hull Peas
35' x 100'
Protein!

MFM (left) and Mortgage Lifter (right) trimmed and trellised

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Photoshop a fix to BP's oil leak

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