Aneirin
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I watched part of the grilling of Heywood, and all I could think was if that was an example of congress in action, the gods help America or better still Americans realise what they have and sling em out on their asses, for they were complete twats they make our political twats look intellectual.
I mean, questions requiring yes/no answers, questions they had made up themselves without knowing the full facts, and sarcasm, is that how congress should work. It was very clear to me congress had made up their minds already and all they were there to do was belittle and insult.
Now Heywood I have no great like for, for he has made his position clear regarding the little people, but all he is, is a CEO, just like any other CEO of any company big or small, and although he is the ultimate head of the company, he is not party to all the minutae of the massive multicountry company he heads, he has minions for that, just like the hierachy of any company, so why is it congress assumed he should know everything and of congress are any of them CEO's and do they know all the minutae of the companies they head.
Just as Heywood said in his grilling by congress, US officials knew about everything that happened on that rig, US officials knew the problems and the dangers, but the question has to be asked was their complacency based upon past knowledge of other oil seaking expeditions, in that problems have occured, but nothing went pear shaped, so they were used to that kind of information and decided with the DeepWater Horizon this was yet another situation that will pass without shit happening, and at the end of the day, we need oil, so the risk is worth it.
As to Obama he is clueless, he has spent the past weeks since the disaster floundering, looking for someone to blame and his recent verbal attack on BP, calling it British Petroleum has caused the point to be raised that in using a defunct company name of the past, was he aiming his attack at the British. If he was, it has been noted by many, and there are many who are falling out of love for Obama and question the special relationship we have with America because of his poor judgement and what is basically a man on the edge clueless and useless seeking to make soundbites to direct attention away from himself.
But the rig itself, I understand it is not all BP, for many other US companies were involved with the operation, the blow out preventers made by Haliburton I understand, the rig itself was hired for the job, what about the staff, the engineers and so forth, who were their employers, and who did they respond to, as it has been reported people on the rig were clueless who was in control.
Now this operation ended up in a disaster, but what if it had gone like so many other so called successful operations, you know, operations where there were similar or different concerns where the risk was taken and it pulled off, what if things had gone ok, BP would be in a very different light, perhaps even branded heros for enabling the recovery of much needed oil on US territory, but in this case, shit happened, the gamble did not work and we have a disaster to deal with, a disaster that could very well have happened before if luck was not on the side of some operations.
But in the light of this US pillorying of BP, the Indians are getting worked up over the Bhopal disaster, a disaster that is still affecting the population years later with birth defects and continuing ill health in the region, all that attributed to Union Carbide. A Dow company which is American and a company that did not clean up it's mess and even knew the plant was unsafe, but hey, it's in another country, what do we care as long as the money is coming in. As it is, there is an arrest warrant out for the then CEO of Union Carbide, but the Indian authorities are blocked by the econopolitical people in the US, they will not extradite the person to face criminal charges for a disaster which continues to wreck lives in India. If the US seeks to post charges on Heywood and BP, then it should also comply with the wishes of the Indian authorities for a US company chemical disaster too.
Or could it be that the US is allowed to mess up others lives and enviroment in other parts of the world, but dare anyone do it to the US ?
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