youtube.com — Frustration is growing among residents of the US Gulf of Mexico coast over the pace of efforts to combat the growing oil spill in the region. Author and activist Naomi Klein has been visiting the state of Louisiana. She told Al Jazeera that patience is running very thin.......
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homercles337May 31, 2010
Man, you trolls dont even make it hard to spot you anymore.Michael (changesucks)A 27 year-old guy from Tulsa, OK (US) who joined Digg on May 29th, 2010So, who were you before you violated the Terms of Use here at Digg?
lennybirdMay 31, 2010
Read The Shock Doctrine by her.
bizchrisMay 31, 2010
Great idea! They did a bang-up job with the levees before Hurricane Katrina, after all.
homercles337May 31, 2010
So you admit to violating the ToU?
phaeiloMay 31, 2010
I disagree. "Don't know what they're doing" is an extreme overstatement. If they hadn't had any experts for cleanup missions they probably wouldn't be there right now trying to solve the problem. The fact that to date only one of the three leaks is stopped may suggest that "BP sucks" at their job to some people. However, I think repairing a valve ca. 5 km under the sea using ROVs is not such a trivial task. If some other group of engineers had a magical solution to stop the leak instantly then it would already be fixed. The fact that it's not yet fixed means that there is no such solution available.So all in all I don't agree with all you people saying "f**k BP", because they do/did a "s**tty" job fixing the leak. Sure, the blowout should never have happened and I don't have any problems with someone blaming BP for causing spill. But because of this BP became the scapegoat for everything related to the incident. This leads people to believe that BP fails at stopping the leak since they're that big evil company that caused the spill in the first place. You should really change your perspective and try looking at it from BP's point of view.
idiggaponyMay 31, 2010
Fair point.
Closed AccountMay 31, 2010
Naomi Klein is wonderful, can't wait to see her speak at Shout Out for Global Justice, University of Toronto on June 25.