It cites the collapse of mortgage standards in the US as a key cause of the crisis, blaming home owners themselves, fraudulent mortgage brokers and Wall Street's voracious appetite for mortgages to be sliced and diced into derivatives for sale across the world, as well as the Federal Reserve, the US central bank and a powerful regulator.
And she tries to explain the faults she finds in Pushkin his gambling, his emotional coldness combined with sexual opportunism, his inability to judge women by anything but their looks, and his coolness to the cause of Polish nationalism by blaming a miserable start in life.
and were critically damaged by mines, although there was confusion during the battle about the cause of the damage some blamed torpedoes., sent to rescue the Irresistible, was also damaged by an explosion, and both ships eventually sank.
Still, plenty of room is left for assertion, speculation and spin over questions of cause and blame.
The assigning of blame caused depressive feelings, unhappiness and repeated intrusive thoughts related to past hurts.
The most important problem of these systems is under-reporting, a possible cause of which is fear of blame or punishment and lack of clear definitions.
But the report found no single cause of the disaster, assigning blame not only to BP and its contractors but also to the Minerals Management Service, the federal agency that oversaw offshore drilling at the time of the spill.
Meanwhile, Levi Ajuonoma, a spokesman for the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., told reporters that "pipeline damage is a major cause of pollution," and that blame for that should be directed at militants and their repeated attacks.
(He also maybe-sort-of blamed gay people for causing the fall of the Roman Empire).
We have, necessarily of course, been preoccupied with issues of blame, responsibility and cause in such disasters, almost as if we were following the examples of 18th-century sermons about the sea, as if catastrophes could be fully understood as the consequences of evil human actions or the violation of some deep principles of contemporary faith.
