The Big Fix - BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cover up

A documentary that examines the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

To quote a statement at the end the film “The gulf oil spill uncovered an unsettling truth: We live in a corrupt system controlled by a small group obsessed with putting profit and power above the health of humankind and the planet”… an excellent documentary and everyone owes it to themselves and to their children and future generations to see.

BP chose not to present its side of the story — the company declined to be interviewed for the film.

Big Oil's Big Lies About Alternative Energy

As President Obama calls for greater investments in alternatives, the biggest energy companies are doubling down on riskier, more destructive oil sources.

Since the Gulf oil disaster in 2010, BP has spent hundreds of millions of ad dollars to cleanse its image as a dirty-energy giant. In the company's latest TV ad, wind turbines whirl in the sun as a voiceover touts the number of American jobs created by BP and promises, "We're working to fuel America for generations to come." There's just one problem: BP's commitment to wind energy is virtually nonexistent.

In April, BP announced that it is selling off its entire $3.1 billion U.S. wind energy business – including 16 farms spread across nine states – as "part of a continuing effort to become a more focused oil and gas company," according to a company spokesperson. Indeed, though it famously rebranded itself "Beyond Petroleum" in 2000, BP also exited the solar energy business back in 2011. Today, its alternative energy investments are limited to biofuels and a lone wind farm in the Netherlands.

Big Oil's Big Lies About Alternative Energy

Don't harness the wind

Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down which would cause the temperature to go up.   From Chairman of the House Senate energy conference committee - Joe Barton

Yes ... and harnessing the sun would put it out

Hilarious Gay Marriage Speech

Hilarious Gay Marriage Speech from New Zealand 

Before a final vote that approved marriage equality in New Zealand, Maurice Williamson, a member of Parliament from Pakuranga, delivered this hilarious, heartfelt, and altogether brilliant speech defending his vote for the bill.

Deport the Bieber

Could Bieber be deported? Don't hold your breath

Pope Francis on economic inequality

Pope Francis called rampant capitalism “a new tyranny” in his first major document released as head of the Catholic church on Tuesday.

“In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” Francis wrote. “This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”

Francis also called on the rich to share their wealth, arguing that there should be a commandment that guides humans to be inclusive of all people and eliminate economic inequality from society.

Pope Francis on economic inequality: ‘Such an economy kills’