Thanks for that, longjack –faultlines for sure.

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Mad fiddler, your utter disgust with the “BP disaster” is MORE than fully warranted. The trouble they had with forensic custody of the blowout preventer (disputes, lawsuits threatened, injunctions, and so forth with charges and countercharges thrown back and forth among the interested parties), trouble which conveniently legally ruptured the chain of custody over the key piece of evidence as to what specifically failed, should be ENORMOUSLY instructive.

Especially when taken in concert with BP’s recent record (politically weaponizing the anti-oil greenies vs the forces of the market via accidents in and at high-profile issue sites) of accidents on the North Slope and at a refinery in Texas, especially in concert with BP’s involvement with the left wing of the Democrat party (just for starters, before the Obama admin, Rahm Emanuel lived 5 years in a free apartment paid for by a BP lobbyist; the American Power Act [cap & trade], for which John Kerry takes sponsorship credit but was written by BP), especially given several of Obama’s czars being up to their necks in other suspicious (and legislatively and financially highly remunerative to Democratic political and commercial interests) crises, including of natures environmental, financial, political, and otherwise, especially given the consorting with the radical elite NWO greens (the so-called ‘illuminati’, Trilateralists, Bilderbergers, etc) of denizens of the BP inner-sanctum such as ‘the father of modern BP’ ex BP CEO (until he had to step down in 2006 due to exposure by a male prostitute of Browne’s involvement with his ‘service’ organization) Lord John Browne, especially in context of BP’s growing partnership with sovereign oil exporters for whom higher oil prices go straight to the bottom line –referring primarily here to the recent, post Gulf of Mexico affair, sale of 10% of itself to a Russian entity.

For what it’s worth –i think, ‘plenty’.