the last three decades now unfortunately we do recognise that from time to time accidents like that macondo accept i mean that gulf of mexico you created normal sane back and more most criticism from society cannot we learn a lot from accidents like those and we take those lessons and trying to use those to improve our performance so much so that one will hold a congress like this and we always that make a you know a good part of the program to discuss what we learned and how we should be improved our war operations in moving for the world i hope you are successful in that thank you thank you very much for being so nice and just a reminder that my guest on the show today was there not a better president on the world patrol and that's it for now from all of us here if you want your sense for blood drop to put blood will be back with more first uncommon fund what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on t.v. and take. thank the good. are. plenty.

>> the koch brothers, big ies, a, tobacco industry' and we also seem groups like the macondo coalitionich is privatizing -- looking to privatize everything in the country from bill bonds to cut taxes and stop the ability of the epa to regulate poison. >> lisa graves, we will leave it there, but continue to follow this story. she formerly served as deputy assistant attorney general of the u.s. to permit justice. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> in israel in the occupied territories, an israeli government committee has affirmed the country self- proclaimed right to build settlements throughout the occupied west bank, and recommended the legalization of dozens of settler outposts that of not received government authorization. the international criminal court of justice has already ruled that all of israel's west bank settlements are illegal, but israel has said it would only consider dismantling scattered outposts that it has not officially approved. the settlers have used the outposts to seize even more palestin

with the macondo well.ell's contingency plan for something they say you can't 100% control. >> you can't, but i've read a heck of a lot and they have gone to enormous lengths. they have 15 ships going up there with these two rigs dedicated solely to the collection and processing of oil. they have planes and helicopters that can spray dispersants. if worse comes to worse, they can burn it off much more readily in the arctic as well because it hanging together in that cold water. the one big question is whether it will be tested. >> miguel of course is doing an extended series for us. you'll see the next installment tomorrow night, cold war, fight for arctic oil right here out front. ahead tonight, what u.s. special forces are doing to stop the threat of al qaeda, which is now rising again. >>> and seven minutes of terror. sounds like a horror movie, buts's actually nasa's latest pr push. you can't wish your way onto the podium. ♪ you can't buy it or hope for it. ♪ it's not enough to dream about it. ♪ luck di

it was 52 miles off the coast of louisiana, the macondo 252 oil well, it suddenly kicked, leading to an explosive blowout that claimed the lives of 11 americans. and for the next 87 days, almost five million barrels of crude oil gushed into the gulf. fishermen pulled the gear off their boots and replaced it with -- they pulled the gear off their boats and replaced it with boom and skimmers. the tourists canceled their vacations. the waiters came to work to find that there were no customers. and the oil continued to coat the marshes that are the nursery habitat for juvenile shrimp and so many of the other critters that spawn in and around the marshes. the beaches that draw all the tourists every summer, some of them were coated. and even those that did not have oil, the perception was that there was oil on our beaches, and the tourists did not come. and it killed an entire tourist season. and that's why, in addition to louisiana being affected with their environment and their shrimping industry and their fishing industry, the economy of florida where oil got on to the western most bea