Oil companies and their politicians - utterly corrupt

I see that BP is still trying to spew out even more lies to cover the catastrophe it is responsible for in the gulf. To do so it has hired a new public relations person, that is a new liar. Who is this person?Should they be believed. Just asking the question answers it. But it is good to have the specific information to hand. Who is this person?

BP has hired as its new public relations executive: Anne Womack-Kolton. Is this some new independent person who should be believed? Not likely. She served as Cheney's campaign press secretary in 2004 and worked in George W. Bush's White House and at the energy department. So BP has its oil industry stooge to lie for it and at the same time strengthens its links with oil industry corporate criminals Cheney and Bush. This shows among other things that BP has no intention of changing its ways.

It is interesting to see how many times when the corporations need a difficult public relations, that is lying, job, carried out they pick a woman to do it. The idea is to try and put a more human face on their crimes.

By the way the reason for Obama's pathetic response to BP's crime is not hard to explain. He is a bourgeois politician, that is he believes totally in the corrupt criminal corporate capitalist system. Whenever it goes wrong he cannot think outside the box. He can only see the solution as coming from the corporations from their system.

When the financial system was collapsing he bailed it out. One of the results of this was that the owners of the financial institutions concluded that they were so big and central to the system that no matter what they did they would always be bailed out. This became known as moral hazard.

There is a similar sort of process at work here. It is also privately owned profit addicted corporations which dominate the oil industry so when this industry gets into crisis it insists that only it has the technology and resources to get out of the crisis. It blackmails the governments of the world and this includes their representative in the White House. Just like we said in relation to the financial institutions this blackmail by the major corporations must be ended. This can only be done by taking these institutions out of the hands of the private profit addicted sector and put into the hands of public ownership under workers and consumers control and management.

Sean.