They got the lube out tonight. National Geographic Channel had a program

on dismantling old oil rigs in the Gulf! Year listed as made 2010. I guess they will tie in Nostradamus. Remember during the illegal invasion of Iraq they had a lot of patriotic and war shows. The History Channel and the Discovery Channels have their constant pandering programs...... 2010 Already!

to try and mitigate responsibility for the disaster. Using the classic psychological tool of getting you on their side and showing the human side of their operations. There are billions of dollars up in the air.

I couldn't hear the tone of the piece from what you wrote. Sounds like a "Flint Michigan on the Gulf" piece?

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there should be no doubt about their very sophisticated PR resources, their priorities and the lengths they will go to keep them implemented. Nothing they do in that vein should surprise us.

TPM's Tour Of The Oil Spill Flack Universe -- Who's On Damage Control?
Christina Bellantoni | May 5, 2010, 12:25PM

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/oil_spill_damage_control_--_bp_has_wide_net_of_fir.php?ref=fpblg

Very good overview.

Putting together their damage control team: Also on deck helping is the American Petroleum Institute, where top lobbyists are working with reporters and writing blogs to frame the incident as an aberration in a safe industry.//// This week BP has created a slick new Web page seemingly designed to get positive information out about the company's response to the spill: http://www.bp.com/bodycopyarticle.do?categoryId=1&contentId=7052055///// Also on deck helping is the American Petroleum Institute, where top lobbyists are working with reporters and writing blogs to frame the incident as an aberration in a safe industry. A spokesman told me today there were no ads on television related to the oil spill - yet. The group is using Twitter and Facebook and a fancy Web site: http://energytomorrow.org/................ They have started the 'Big Lie', pretty soon it will be Clinton's fault. - edited to fix link-

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8304092#8305168


In 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, according to a group involved in the court case.

A Washington DC Appeals Court ruled in April 2009 that the Bush administration’s five-year plan for offshore oil and gas drilling (covering 2007 to 2012) was not based on a proper review of the environmental impact of the drilling. Only days before the ruling, the Obama administration had granted BP a “categorical exclusion,” exempting it from an environmental impact study for the Deepwater Horizon project.


U.S. court approves Gulf of Mexico oil drilling plan
Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON
Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:30pm EDT


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a big win for oil companies, a federal appeals court said it will allow the U.S. Interior Department to move forward with oil and natural gas leasing plans for the Gulf of Mexico that were drawn up by the Bush administration.

The department in May sought clarification of a court decision that struck down the Bush administration's five-year (2007 to 2012) offshore oil and gas drilling plan based on the court's findings that a proper review had not been done on how the drilling would affect the environment.

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If the department fails to carry out the risk analysis, the court said it may throw out the leasing plan.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he was pleased with the court's decision and will go forward with a Gulf of Mexico lease sale planned for August 19.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE56S5TY20090729

Salazar and The American Petroleum Institute. Two oily peas in a pod.

...Reilly is a director of DuPont, ConocoPhillips, Royal Caribbean International, the National Geographic Society...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Reilly

Multiple vantage points there. No one is ever on just one board of anything, ever, anymore.

They Rule:

http://www.theyrule.net/2004/tr2.php

I don't think that site has been updated since the Bush admin, but I doubt the power centers of the oligarchy have changed much, if at all. It's an amazing web.

These people are so important and wise that I'm surprised Gawd doesn't take them all to run Heaven.But I'm so glad He doesn't because they're running Earth so very very well.

...they are part of the status quo and wish to remain so. The idea seems to be that no matter what happens, some of us will survive and must go on with life, so tune in and buy their advertiser's products.

history, TLC, TDC all broadcast government propaganda.

My wife and I notice that some of the programing seems to be in a rotation among those networks.