Sydney Morning Herald: US government workers accepted gifts and gratuities at least 135 times from oil and gas corporations, writes Simon Mann. New Orleans is the big uneasy, waiting anxiously as the massive uncontrolled oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico creeps ever closer to shore and towards likely environmental and economic calamity. Amid the rallying this week of a community whose memory is seared by images of Hurricane Katrina, of death, despair and national neglect, uncertainty was the common …