very cold. come on in. and that makes for very fun nfl sunday. can we put the game on today. new england at buffalo and those are the games i like to see. i don t like the dome games. out in the snow. and i think you re he going to get your wish today. all right. the results are in from a shocking new appropriate in today s explosion of the bp horizon oil rig and new york times reporting every defense system failed last april and systems that were actually deployed did not work. 11 rig workers were killed after the well leaked millions of gallons into the gulf of mexico and the largest environmental disaster in u.s. history. also, come january 1st, a controversial health care regulation will offer medicare recipients voluntary end of life planning. according to the new york times, the provision allows medicare to pay for counseling to help families when a loved one is approaching death and this practice has been heavily
to call corporations citizens and say they re just equivalent to you and me, you and me, we don t have the same year to year options of venue shopping for the best tax liability, for the least regulations, for the least account billion. you might remember us reporting that even though transocean is a swiss company, yeah, whatever, the rig that exploded and sank in the gulf was flying the flag of where? the marshall islands. why was that purportedly swiss rig flying the flag of the marshall islands when transocean isn t based in the marshall islands, when the rig wasn t built in the marshall islands, when the workers on the rig didn t come from the marshall islands? it s a good question. it was a flag of convenience, as they say. convenient in the sense that preventing to be a rig from the marshall islands meant that deepwater horizon could avoid pes beiky regulations. the new york times reported today that, quote, no one from the marshall islands ever
sustainable energy. i have a bill in, for example, that would put 10 million solar rooftops up in this country in ten years. it is a very cost effective approach to creating new energy. vermont senator bernie sanders, thank you very much for your time tonight. i know sometimes it s hard to do this late on a friday and i really appreciate your time, sir. you keep up the great work, rachel. two stories have converged in recent days. first the government oversight agency stars lure id office sex and the snorting of drugs off a toaster often. remember that one? then there was that allegatioge failure to supervise the horizon oil rig. that convergence ahead. [ female announcer ] crunch time, wheat thins.
inspei inspected the rig. those that did were paid by the operator, in this case, transocean. also handy. hey, me, how you doing? i m doing good. thanks, me. see you again, me. transocean filed a petition to have its legal liability resulting from this disaster in the gulf limited to $27 million. that works out to roughly three days of transocean profit. that s what they make in profit in three days. as outrageous as this behavior may seem, this is not outrageous behavior for a corporation. a corporation is not a person. a corporation isn t moral or immoral. a corporation is by design a device that is created by humans. it s on paper and its purpose is to seek profit. and so obviously it makes sense for transocean just like it makes sense for the rachel maddow show to relocate here to beautiful zug, where the tax
those oil companies for that drilling. there is a conflict of interest there if that same agency is also responsible for making sure that drilling is safe. if you think about it, if they shut down an oil rig because it s not safe, the agency can then be criticized that they shouldn t have given this permit for this thing in the first place if it ended up not being safe. so that s a butt covering incentive to make sure nothing on that rig ever gets flagged as unsafe since that s the office that permitted it. not to mention if the mms shuts down an oil rig because it s not safe, guess who isn t collecting royalties from that rig anymore? the minerals management service. so dividing this agency in two would seem to get rid of that particular conflict of interest problem. but it also does something else. it takes the safety inspection s responsibility which we know is frankly pretty important away from the agency best known for the snorting meth off the toaster oven thing. removing that pa