Thousands of Japanese linked hands and encircled a Marine Corps base in Okinawa on Sunday to protest its presence on the island, putting more pressure on Tokyo to resolve an impasse over the base's future.

About 17,000 residents surrounded the Futenma air base early in the afternoon, chanting slogans and completing a human chain twice for several minutes each time, city official Hitoshi Nakou said. The base covers about 1.9 square miles (4.92 sq. kilometers), and sits in the middle of Ginowan, a city of about 93,000.

Locals from Japan's southern Okinawa Island are growing increasingly vocal against the presence of the U.S. military. Residents have long said they must deal with constant noise created by military aircraft and increased crime from U.S. troops in the area.

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Well, at least BP had the sense to drill the relief wells to a depth of 10,000 ft.  At least, this is what BP has said they're doing, drilling to 10,00 ft.  Perhaps this, too, is a lie.  One may surmise that, as the costs of the relief wells increase with depth, BP's internal cost-aversion governor could kick and stunt the well depth.  Nonetheless, they've managed to keep this a secret until now, knowing of the problem weeks ago. Still being dicks. Nonetheless, with evidence of yet another problem -- perhaps the problem - it appears that the remote acoustic kill switch would not have actually prevented BP from having to drill relief wells. This subsurface spill appears to be the source of multiple leaks on the sea bed. From one, to many and one.

And what if there should be other broken joints below 10,000 ft.? More oil squirting into the sea floor way down deep? One presumes that BP's extensive environmental impact studies of this scenario have evaluated the situation across multiple parameter spaces within BP's cutting edge subsurface modeling frameworks, and has thusly determined that "open communication" of oil into the strata is acceptable to the strata at that depth. So as not the harm the walruses.

Now, what does oil gushing into the the sea floor, at 1000 ft, or 10,000 ft, actually do? Potential calamity? now, tomorrow, months, years or … never? Just eternal, befouling seepage. Now, there's an apropos and much deserved epitaph for BP. Befouling Peckerheads.

It certainly does seem like oil saturating the subsurface strata could grease the slide of all sorts of seismic activity. But maybe not. Who knows? I expect we can be certain BP does not, and couldn't give a shit either. I also expect the 10,000 foot depth is the product of BP's extensive modeling of this very problem, and that a conversation in summation may have gone something like this:

"That seems pretty frickin' deep, right? ten thousand, that's fuckin' deep."

"Yeah, that'll do 'er."

"And oil in the sea floor at ten thousand, that's okay, right?"

"No problem! Ten thousand feeta rock, man, that's a lotta fuckin' rock, right."

"That is a shitlowda rock."

Ten thousand it is then.

I wonder when Americans are going to start viewing BP as an elite, embedded, forward-operating covert destabilization force of Britain. Really, they've been fucking up the US and killing Americans for decades now, making hand over fist in the process. What an op. This foreign company, operating through domestic agents in US government, essentially gets the oversight they want, which is none. They make scads, ship off the blood-tinged dividends mostly to Britain, where pensioners wail about those ghastly Americans dishonouring that fine Tony Hayward and sullying the image of BP.

As to the domestic agents, well, those have been obvious for years of course, and recently we've just learned of the BP-Rentboy Emanuel connection, and what a charmer it is. More agents.

I've been rather amazed by the specious arguments surrounding defending BP from seizure. 30,000 jobs in America is somehow supposed to justify this clear threat to national security. The notion that umbrella corp BP must not be dismantled to save jobs is risible. As an umbrella corp, BP functions, as some have noted, as a bank: much of what they purport to do, is actually done by other companies. And the work that BP actually does, it does badly, and lethally so. It commits ecocide and homicide with impunity and federal agency.

BP simply needs to be deconstructed, reduced to its previously independent parts. Done in an orderly fashion, this process will actually restore jobs that BP cut in consolidation upon consolidation. This umbrella bureaucracy is as ruthlessas it is callous in cost cutting to point of evaluating workers lives with childhood rhyme cost-benefit analysis. Beyond that sociopathy lies just the plain brutal cheap-shitness of them. Land and human be damned. Capitalism in peak form.

BP must be rent asunder. Doff that cloak of ill-gotten, black, and chintzy profit. Cast aside the damning shroud of that umbrella corp;  that useless, smothering gob of venal executives, lawyering toadies, and sniveling, shit-is-Shinola PR flacks, existing to serve only their own glutenous maw. Do this, and lift the bleak pall cast by the black and oily shadow of this Beast Pandora.

Last week, the French government began the roundup of more than 700 Romany immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania, and ordered special flights chartered to send them back to their home countries. The deportations will begin on Thursday. Over the past month, the French government began dismantling Romany camps; at present, more than 50 camps all over France have been destroyed by the state.

At the same time, France has announced two other policies directed at Roma, Travellers and other immigrants: the criminalisation of entire families rather than just individuals and the stripping of citizenship from immigrants with criminal convictions.

Just as the last round of riots, when Sarkozy could only rhetorically demonize Musliim and Arab immigrants, this one begins, not with a whimper, but a bang.

In a poor suburb of Grenoble, southeast France, young people torched cars and fired on police following an incident in which a suspect in a casino robbery was shot dead. In Saint-Aignan, in central France, police shot dead a 22-year-old Romany man for failing to stop at a roadblock. Roma armed with hatchets and iron bars felled trees and traffic lights, torched cars and attacked a bakery and a police station.