Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Ed Jewett]

Also, the incident seems to lend a new dimension to the term "deep politics". What is evident is massive long-term "winking" or collusion between government and business to the extreme detriment of sentient life forms. As someone who has studied and was qualified in NIMS incident command and exercise design, I am horrified by the ineptitude of the government's response to this "incident".

It's not ineptitude, it's policies and priorities that forsake everything but profit. Notice that the corporate gov't is utterly competent and efficient when they decide that a big brokerage firm must be bailed out. The apparatus that got Obama elected was a well-oiled machine. Then he suddenly can't govern; alluva sudden his administration is all thumbs? Bullshit. He/they merely have an agenda different from ours. Disaster capitalism.

Maybe I was being too kind or careful in my wording... but what we are talking about here, whether or not it is disaster capitalism, is gross dereliction of duty, extreme failure of leadership, scientific ignorance and hubris, failure to appreciate the nature and severity of the situation and to take appropriate action, an impeachable offense, and eco-treason.