BP CEO Tony Hayward is handing over over daily responsibility for oil company's response to its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill to another executive, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Friday.
"It is clear Tony has made remarks that have upset people," Svanberg said in an interview with SkyTV. Svanberg said managing director Bob Dudley will take over responsibility for the nation's largest oil spill and its aftermath.
It's questionable whether the actual day-to-day operations will be changed with Hayward stepping down, but the seven hours of testimony he gave yesterday didn't really engender any confidence in Hayward's abilities nor understanding of the disaster. HuffPo put together a mashup of Hayward's seven hours of obfuscating in just four minutes:
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On Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a blatant profiling bill into law, securing Arizona’s title as the first official police state in the nation. If enacted, a whopping 30% of Arizonans – or nearly two million Latinos—would be walking around with a target on their backs.
Under the law, police must stop anyone who they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe may be an “illegal immigrant.” President Obama slammed the new law as a severely “misguided” way to deal with immigration. Republican lawmakers, on the other hand, are scrambling to excuse the fact that the bill mandates racial profiling and could waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. According to Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA), former lobbyist for the anti-immigrant group behind the bill, FAIR, police can use plenty of other cues—like people’s hair, or shoes—to determine immigration status.
The irony here is that what was supposed to be a bill that mobilized the nativist elements of the GOP base has instead become a rallying cry for Latino and immigrant communities that have hosted intense, round-the-clock vigils and protests for the last six days in Arizona.
A line of activists and protesters filed in front of the state Capitol on Friday morning to rally against the immigration bill, joining those that had stayed the night. [...]
Student protesters have been out front, protesting the Governor all the way to her hotel Thursday night to demand she veto the bill, while posting pictures on twitter with the hashtags #SB1070 and #altoarizona (“alto” means stop in Spanish and AltoArizona.com is a hub of activity around the bill).
On Friday, the mainstream media finally began to cover this grassroots display of outrage and power – CNN’s Rick Sanchez reported that protests of the bill were sending twitter over capacity and posted pictures from the thousands of protesters waiting outside to hear the Governor’s decision. As the final decision came down, pictures streaming across twitter showed the bill’s opponents gathered peacefully on their knees, in a moment of silence for human dignity that was echoed across Spanish radio, facebook, and twitter. Not your average tea party.
Media Matters has put together a mashup of FOXNews' attacks on Air America Radio and their new show FreeThought Radio, a show aimed at atheists and the growing number of Americans who take issue with organized religion. In what is surely a warm up for FOXNews' annual War On Christmas crusade, they not only attack atheists, but take their shots at science and evolution. Using religion has always been one of Fixed Noise's weapons of choice. But cowards that they are, in promoting the story, they use photos of favorite liberal targets Janeane Garafalo and Al Franken, neither of whom actually work for Air America or have anything to with Free Thought Radio.
From the October 9 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
HEMMER: In a moment here, a liberal radio network launching a new show aimed at folks who do not believe in God -- Air America, promoting a nationwide show focusing on atheism. Is this the new war on religion? We'll check that out.[...]
HEMMER: Also, do you think religion is a sickness? If you think so, the radio guys at Air America have -- they've got one heck of a show for you. Straight ahead: on the air and godless. Read more...
