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Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill
An anonymous reader writes "The US has sent a team of nuclear physicists to help BP plug the 'catastrophic' flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking Deepwater Horizon well, as the Obama administration becomes frustrated with the oil giant's inability to control the situation. The five-man team — which includes a man who helped develop the first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s — is the brainchild of Steven Chu, President Obama's Energy Secretary." Let's hope this doesn't mean they actually try the nuclear option. In other offshore drilling news, reader mygoditsfullofdoom informs us that a Venezuelan gas rig has sunk in the Caribbean (with no loss of life). This one is being laid at the feet of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, which hasn't exactly been regarded as uber-competent "after President Hugo Chavez fired half the company's managers and senior engineers following a 2002 strike."
Hugo Chávez gets all his communism second hand through people like Castro, Che and Marigella (sp) but he is equally dangerous as he is slowly establishing a totalitarian regime. What is frightening is not the political aspects to his debasing of human, civil and corporate rights but the sheer incompetence in his doing so.
If we allow Venezuela to establish itself in the orbit of the last of the last totalitarian Marxist-Lenist states like Cuba it is going to spread not communism but totalitarianism. What we might eventually have is something like Hoxha again, who went batshit insane after WWII and kept Albania shut almost completely out of the world for 60 years.
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Half the people on /. are environuts, another part don't know the science and claim that they do. Don't expect it to change overnight as in the US they've had 30 odd years of anti-nuclear BS shoved down their throats by environmentalists who want the world back in the stone age.
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In any case, it's good to see people besides BP employees are on the case.
This is most accurrate. At least we're drawing the big boys/girls out when the big boys/girls are required for a national emergency like this (and I like having people like Stephen Chu on our side).
Any doubters, just consider how McCain/Palin would have reacted in this position because it was inevitable. "Drill, baby, drill," can only get you so far in a catastrophe like this (i.e., the beginning...).
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I see I struck a few nerves. Remember mods, there's a difference between trolling and telling the truth as it is; and the truth you don't want to hear.
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benefiting? Im a collegue student, with a minimum wage job at an electronic store. I do lots of volunteer job's with a lot of movements of our glorius revolution helping a lot of people in need. Like i always say, dont talk abot my country if you dont live in it. dissentmagazine is imperial propaganda, paid by US ONG's and CIA or whatever organization is behind the curtains of the USA goverment.
"When Reagan broke PATCO, A) he had overwhelming support from the public, which was tired of constant strikes and exhorbitant demands, and B) Reagan made sure experienced AC's were in place so safety was maintained."
Um, which overwhelming support are you talking about, the general public or the limited public that used and ran the airlines? Exorbitant demands, they were striking to have the already budgeted money released to upgrade the towers instead of hiding the deficit and relief for jobs that were rapidly being overloaded to the point of failure. How many major plane crashes were there in the U.S. after the controller firings during the 1980's? How many people died? Reagan blew it and like everything else he did never took responsibility for it.
Don't get me started on Reagan, federal highway funds, spending warnings, and the deficit.
You don't even begin to speak for me, I'm an eclectic not ecclesiastical political realist; people that apologize for other people suffer from either delusions of grandeur, Jerusalem syndrome or some other deep-seated messiah complex. I believe you are the more likely of us to hold to some religious belief, watch scrolling news networks and buy products based upon exposure to wantonly egregious displays of craven consumerism synchronized to the beats of your favorite popular music band. Yeah, I'm solidly against allowing a country to slip into the shackles of slavery because their version of the populist pied piper deposed a more hated regime.
En Garde, motherfucker.
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