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BP Whistleblowers, Over 10 of Them Assassinated Or Kidnapped

2011-05-11T05:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/7516/BREAKING-...

BP Whistleblowers Blog

As Thomas Botch says in the comments at Facebook, “To many high profile people (successfull and educated with little reason to die from risky behavior) all “croak” in “too short a time period” to be “statistically normal.” Don’t you agree?”

Top Oil Exec. States That BP GOM Disaster Was A Planned Event

2011-05-11T05:36:00.000-07:00

As written by Deborah Dupre for examiner.com
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(snip) Ex-oilfield executive of 25 years, now human rights defender Ian Crane stated Friday during Voice America “In Discussion” radio program that the Gulf of Mexico operation was a planned population reduction event. During the program, key Gulf advocates disclosed that over 100,000 Gulf people are already plague victims, hundreds of millions more will be impacted, and BP has paid enormous sums of money to keep Gulf activists from having a voice nationally.

“BP has made sure that activists are not campaigning on a national level. They are keeping them local so the corporate world is not threatened,” Crane told show host, David Gibbons.

With capacity to apply forensic analysis to events that led to Deepwater Horizon's destruction on April 20, Crane identified the individual uhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifltimately responsible for what transpired in the Gulf, the man who must be required to answer deep and probing questions about his allegiances outside of BP. In a Bloomberg TV interview, this individual was described as a '32 year old punk' by Matthew Simmons a few days before found dead in his hot tub.

The Gulf operation exhibits each hallmark of a contrived event and "will have long-lasting and far-reaching impact on lives of up to hundreds of millions of people" according to Crane. He had stated the same in July and since then, has given numerous Gulf catastrophe lectures to Europeans who seem more keen to learn about the event than Americans. (Snip)

Continue reading here: http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/top-ex-oilfield-executive-gulf-operation-is-depopulation-event#ixzz1FwQgBjLB
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Report: New huge spill near Deepwater Horizon, at MC243 — Slick is 100 miles long, skimming started days ago

2011-03-20T10:58:00.000-07:00

Report: New huge spill near Deepwater Horizon, at MC243 — Slick is 100 miles long, skimming started days ago

BP Oil Spill Victims Sickened and Dying, Local Physicians Clueless

2011-03-08T09:35:00.000-08:00

BP Oil Spill Scientist Bob Naman: Seafood Still Not Safe

2011-03-04T07:47:00.000-08:00

More info at: www.projectgulfimpact.org

The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION

2011-03-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

Full article at: The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION

March 1, 2011 8:08 am

An odd sort of perfect storm – involving a high-profile New York Times energy series, a quirky documentary that just missed the Oscar and federal BP-spill recovery plans – may finally address the 800-pound gorilla of our nation’s energy policy: RADIATION.

The NYT series launched Sunday (Feb. 27) with detailed accounts of radioactive wastewater, created by a Halliburton-developed extraction process called “fracking,” being dumped with impunity across the country. The article even included a “smoking gun” document, a “confidential industry study” from 1990 by none other than the American Petroleum Institute. The API’s secret study concluded that even with conservative assumptions, the radium in drilling wastewater dumped off the Louisiana coast posed “potentially significant risks” of cancer for anyone eating fish from those areas. I’m working on my own series of posts about this hazard in the Gulf of Mexico.

Full article at: The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION

100,000's having symptoms from oil disaster tip of the iceberg (vid)

2011-03-04T07:42:00.000-08:00

Full article and videos at:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=197702

LSU coastal scientist dies at 54

2011-03-04T07:40:00.000-08:00

Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Published: Feb 19, 2011 - Page: 9A

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The LSU community is reeling after the sudden death Thursday of prominent LSU coastal scientist Gregory Stone.

Stone, who was quoted extensively in many publications internationally after last year’s BP oil leak, was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System.

Full article at: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/LSU-coastal-scientist-dies-at-54.html

AP: Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead

2011-02-24T17:18:00.000-08:00

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Sat Feb 19, 6:45 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.

At a science conference in Washington, marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia aired early results of her December submarine dives around the BP spill site. She went to places she had visited in the summer and expected the oil and residue from oil-munching microbes would be gone by then. It wasn't.

"There's some sort of a bottleneck we have yet to identify for why this stuff doesn't seem to be degrading," Joye told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington. Her research and those of her colleagues contrasts with other studies that show a more optimistic outlook about the health of the gulf, saying microbes did great work munching the oil.

"Magic microbes consumed maybe 10 percent of the total discharge, the rest of it we don't know," Joye said, later adding: "there's a lot of it out there."

The head of the agency in charge of the health of the Gulf said Saturday that she thought that "most of the oil is gone." And a Department of Energy scientist, doing research with a grant from BP from before the spill, said his examination of oil plumes in the water column show that microbes have done a "fairly fast" job of eating the oil. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist Terry Hazen said his research differs from Joye's because they looked at different places at different times.

Joye's research was more widespread, but has been slower in being published in scientific literature.

In five different expeditions, the last one in December, Joye and colleagues took 250 cores of the sea floor and travelled across 2,600 square miles. Some of the locations she had been studying before the oil spill on April 20 and said there was a noticeable change. Much of the oil she found on the sea floor — and in the water column — was chemically fingerprinted, proving it comes from the BP spill. Joye is still waiting for results to show other oil samples she tested are from BP's Macondo well.

She also showed pictures of oil-choked bottom-dwelling creatures. They included dead crabs and brittle stars — starfish like critters that are normally bright orange and tightly wrapped around coral. These brittle stars were pale, loose and dead. She also saw tube worms so full of oil they suffocated.

"This is Macondo oil on the bottom," Joye said as she showed slides. "This is dead organisms because of oil being deposited on their heads."

Joye said her research shows that the burning of oil left soot on the sea floor, which still had petroleum products. And even more troublesome was the tremendous amount of methane from the BP well that mixed into the Gulf and was mostly ignored by other researchers.

Joye and three colleagues last week published a study in Nature Geoscience that said the amount of gas injected into the Gulf was the equivalent of between 1.5 and 3 million barrels of oil.

"The gas is an important part of understanding what happened," said Ian MacDonald of Florida State University.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco told reporters Saturday that "it's not a contradiction to say that although most of the oil is gone, there still remains oil out there."

Earlier this month, Kenneth Feinberg, the government's oil compensation fund czar, said based on research he commissioned he figured the Gulf of Mexico would almost fully recover by 2012 — something Joye and Lubchenco said isn't right.

"I've been to the bottom. I've seen what it looks like with my own eyes. It's not going to be fine by 2012," Joye told The Associated Press. "You see what the bottom looks like, you have a different opinion."

NOAA chief Lubchenco said "even though the oil degraded relatively rapidly and is now mostly but not all gone, damage done to a variety of species may not become obvious for years to come."

Lubchenco Saturday also announced the start of a Gulf restoration planning process to get the Gulf back to the condition it was on Apr. 19, the day before the spill. That program would eventually be paid for BP and other parties deemed responsible for the spill. This would be separate from an already begun restoration program that would improve all aspects of the Gulf, not just the oil spill, but has not been funded by the government yet, she said.

The new program, which is part of the Natural Resources Damage Assessment program, is part of the oil spill litigation — or out-of-court settlement — in which the polluters pay for overall damage to the ecosystem and efforts to return it to normal. This is different than paying compensation to people and businesses directly damaged by the spill.

The process will begin with public meetings all over the region.

"We're Poisoned. We're Sick." - BlackListed News

2011-02-17T05:18:00.000-08:00

"We're Poisoned. We're Sick."
Published on 02-15-2011

Source: Truthout

Residents who live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, all the way from Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to well into western Florida, continue to tell me of acute symptoms they attribute to ongoing exposure to toxic chemicals being released from BP's crude oil and the toxic Corexit dispersants used to sink it.

Full article at:

"We're Poisoned. We're Sick." - BlackListed News

The Gulf Tragedy & Media Blackout - What To Do?

2011-02-15T04:56:00.000-08:00

Dr Termotto, speaking from Tallahassee Florida discusses different campaigns aimed at the US Government
and ex officials, (ex means they have lost immunity) and in the course of Jeff and Tom's conversation
we become aware of the ongoing tragedy of the Gulf and the accompanying media blackout.

With one Gulf activist 'BK Lim' living in fear of assassination, and another activist murdered (Dr. Thomas B. Manton) only last week -
it rapidly becomes clear that there is a dark Mafia all pervasive throughout the Gulf oil story.

Seizures and More from Swimming in the Gulf - Truth Out for the Gulf Forum ~ Paul

2011-02-08T07:35:00.000-08:00

30 Facts Evidencing that The Gulf Oil Crisis Was Planned

2010-12-07T13:26:00.000-08:00

30 Facts Evidencing that The Gulf Oil Crisis Was Planned

BP pays stripper not fisherman - National Human Rights | Examiner.com

2010-11-16T05:27:00.000-08:00

BP pays stripper not fisherman - National Human Rights | Examiner.com

Shocking aerial photo of shoreline in Orange Beach, AL near Florida border

2010-10-16T09:19:00.001-07:00

From Rumormillnews:

Posted By: Susoni
Date: Friday, 15-Oct-2010 18:28:39

Floridaoilspilllaw.com: Floating sand washing ashore in Mississippi — “Muratic acid-like smell” (VIDEO)

2010-10-16T09:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/floating-sand-washing-ashore-mississippi-horrible-stench-muratic-acid-like-smell

LATEST COMMENTS:

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* Gary on Fisherman finds “lime-green” liquid floating in Apalachicola Bay, FL (VIDEO & PHOTO)
* Gary on Cancer Expert: Short-term exposure to Hexane in oil causes nerves to “DIE back” — Neuropathy (VIDEO)
* Dixie on “The tissue mostly just DISSOLVED” when adding COREXIT 9500 says researcher — “With the oil alone there was no effect”
* Gary on “The tissue mostly just DISSOLVED” when adding COREXIT 9500 says researcher — “With the oil alone there was no effect”
* Gary on BP's Chief Operating Officer says Gulf seafood IS tested for Corexit dispersant -- "Not a single sample has failed"

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Floating sand washing ashore in Mississippi — “Muratic acid-like smell” (VIDEO)
October 13th, 2010 at 08:14 PM
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Frothy, Funky, Foam, deniselngbch (Long Beach, MS), October 10, 2010:

The title says it all…that awful dispersed oil and foam and the horrible stench of that muratic acid like smell that makes your tongue and senses numb were prevalent today.

More reports of floating sand:

* More reports of Corexit-linked “FLOATING SAND” in Gulf — Large POWDERED blobs on surface (PHOTOS)
* MUST SEE: Pilot observes “a lot of white foamy substance never seen before and that none of us could identify from the air” (PHOTO)
* “Dispersant foam” impacting MS beaches, wetlands — “Huge thick BLANKET” of “dispersant floating in the channel” (PHOTOS)
* South of Tampa: Phones buzzing “with callers reporting oil” — WHITE BUBBLES and FOAM; Officials say “nothing out of the ordinary” (PHOTO)
* Long, SAND-colored ribbons/streamers floating in and around Apalachicola Bay, Florida (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)

Dr. James Howenstine -- Update On The Gulf Oil Spill Catastrophe

2010-10-16T06:19:00.000-07:00

Dr. James Howenstine -- Update On The Gulf Oil Spill Catastrophe

BP: The Unfinished Crimes and Plunder of Anglo-American Imperialism

2010-10-16T06:02:00.000-07:00

by Frederic Clairmont

In the light of British Petroleum’s grotesque crime, as yet unfinished, against humanity in the Gulf of Mexico, it is well to recall briefly BP’s no less hideous crime perpetrated in its earlier incarnation as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and, later, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC).

Full article and pictures at: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21112

BP Contract Worker "Trenches Dug To Bury Oil On Beaches"

2010-10-10T11:09:00.000-07:00

White House “GAGGED NOAA” from revealing actual flow rate of up to 100,000+ barrels per day

2010-10-07T04:11:00.001-07:00

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/white-house-gagged-noaa-revealing-actual-flow-rate-100000-barrels-day

White House “GAGGED NOAA” from revealing actual flow rate of up to 100,000+ barrels per day
October 6th, 2010 at 03:50 PM
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Panel: Gov’t blocked worst-case oil spill figures, AP, October 6, 2010:

The White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could have been…

In documents released Wednesday, the national oil spill commission’s staff reveals that in late April or early May the White House budget office denied a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make public the worst-case discharge from the blown-out well. …

BP’s drilling permit for the Macondo well originally estimated the worst scenario to be a leak of 6.8 million gallons per day. In late April, the Coast Guard and NOAA received an updated estimate of 2.7 million to 4.6 million gallons per day. …

University of South Florida oceanographer David Hollander, who was also at the St. Petersburg meeting of 150 scientists studying the oil flow on Wednesday, said he was surprised to find that the White House budget office gagged NOAA.

Gulf news: US Navy planned to massacre millions, 5-yr warfare 'testing' (video)

2010-10-04T08:33:00.000-07:00

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/us-navy-planned-to-massacre-millions-5-yr-warfare-testing-video

Few days are left for public comment against the US Navy planned massacre millions of animals and public health crises. According to a letter from Senator Barbara Boxer and other senators to NOAA in 2009, the US Navy has had plans for "ocean exercises" including in the Gulf of Mexico. The letter expressed concern about the Navy's "exercises" ultimately massacring 11.7 million marine mammals within five years according to the Agriculture Defense Coalition. A California special report on TV highlighted chemical weapon testing.

full article: http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/us-navy-planned-to-massacre-millions-5-yr-warfare-testing-video

Dengue Fever Outbreak or Corexit Chemical Dispersant Poisoning Reported ...

2010-10-04T08:32:00.000-07:00

BP workers: We were sprayed with dispersant at night by plane with no li...

2010-10-04T08:30:00.000-07:00

Blamed for multiple recent Gulf-area deaths after water/seafood contact (VIDEOS)

2010-10-01T18:37:00.000-07:00

September 28th, 2010 at 11:04 AM

Will Bacterial Plague Follow Crude Oil Spill Along Gulf Coast?, New York Times (Greenwire), June 17, 2010:

Excerpts

Some bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico love eating oil as much as they like infecting humans. … One of the more pressing questions involves Vibrio… vulnificus… this year there is a likely possibility, scientists say, that Vibrio growth could be further spurred, directly or indirectly, in response to the oil and the organic flotsam it has left behind.

What is Vibrio vulnificus? Report: Houston man’s death linked to flesh-eating bacteria, 11 News KHOU (Houston), September 22, 2010:

Galveston, TX

DOH: Six Die from Deadly Saltwater Bacteria, WONO (Orlando), September 14, 2010:

The Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday that six deaths have occurred this year as a result of a deadly bacteria, at least two of them from raw oyster consumption. Known as Vibrio vulnificus, the bacteria infects the body in two ways, either by exposure to contaminated seafood or through an open wound exposed to contaminated seawater. DOH said that the other four deaths remain under investigation as to the source of the exposure. DOH is warning Floridians to avoid eating raw oysters and exposing open wounds to seawater and estuarine water.

The following experts were interviewed by the New York Times:

Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation and an expert in marine microbial life:

“The question is: Will there be an inadvertent enhancement of the growth of these potential human pathogens… It’s a question, and the answer is uncertain.”

Jay Grimes, marine microbiologist at the University of Southern Mississippi:

Balance of article at: http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/feds-funding-study-oil-spills-effect-flesh-eating-bacteria-blamed-multiple-recent-gulf-area-deaths-after-waterseafood-contact-videos

Travel writers visiting beaches on BP dime

2010-09-28T12:53:00.001-07:00

Travel writers visiting beaches on BP dime

From: http://www.pnj.com/article/20100926/NEWS01/9260329/1056/NEWS10/Travel-writers-visiting-beaches-on-BP-dime

Louis Cooper • lcooper@pnj.com • September 26, 2010
What does it take to get a half dozen travel writers to Navarre Beach?

This weekend, it took a check from BP and a white stretch limousine.

Six travel writers — chauffeured around in a limo — are on Navarre Beach this weekend to get the word out that this summer's BP oil spill is over, and the beach, along with the rest of Santa Rosa County, is open for tourism.

Using money from BP, the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council hosted a familiarization — or "fam" — tour for select out-of-town reporters, showing them the pristine beaches and other assets of the county.

"We've had travel writers come often, but this is an actual 'fam' trip, a planned package of events to show them the whole county," said Kate Wilkes, executive director of the council. "Having the money from BP enabled us to do this."

The tour was covered with part of $551,000 from BP, some of which also funded a voucher program which gave gift cards to tourists who stayed in local accommodations and this weekend's sand sculpture event on Navarre Beach.

The writers — who are staying at the Summerwinds condominium — come from media outlets like Baton Rouge Parents, the Houston Tribune, Southern Hospitality Magazine, www.Planet EyeTraveler.com, www.UPTake.com and www.JustSayGo.com, among others.

Ron Stern, editor of www.JustSayGo.com based in Colorado, said he will tell his readers that the oil hype has been overblown.

"What the national media has been saying is totally untrue, for the most part, and blown totally out of proportion," Stern said. "What they're going to get from me is the truth. You can come down here, and you're not going to get oil on your feet or tar balls on your shoes. ... I haven't seen anything in the sand other than sand, and I've been swimming in the water."

Apryl Thomas, a freelance writer from Athens, Ga., has written about the oil spill on the coast for several websites and publications, including Southern Hospitality.

"I knew the spill was kind of blown up. I had done many articles when this happened. The way it was first covered in the national media, you honestly thought, 'It's gone,' but once I did a little research and calling, I felt like it is important to let people know everything is good to go."

All of the reporters who are visiting have agreed to write something about the area. Although the trip is paid for by BP and is intended to combat the misconceptions created by the spill, Wilkes said she doesn't think oil will be a big part of the tour.

"From now on in, we're not going to mention oil, unless it comes back," Wilkes said. "In our advertisements, the message is that the beaches are beautiful, but, also, it's that there is more to do."

The writers arrived Friday and are scheduled to leave today. They visited the new Navarre Fishing Pier, the Gulf Breeze Zoo, Hidden Creek Golf Club in Navarre, Adventures Unlimited north of Milton and the Rufus Hayes Training Stables ranch in Milton.

The Answer to Oil Contamination Around the World: Perfect Science

2010-09-25T07:28:00.000-07:00

The Day the Water Died: Detoxing after the Gulf Oil Spill -- Signs of the Times News

2010-09-25T06:32:00.000-07:00

The Day the Water Died: Detoxing after the Gulf Oil Spill -- Signs of the Times News: "http://www.sott.net/articles/show/215274-The-Day-the-Water-Died-Detoxing-after-the-Gulf-Oil-Spill"

Gabriela Segura, M.D.
Health Matrix
Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:30 CDT

The excitement of the season had just begun, and then we heard the news: oil in the water, lots of oil killing lots of water. It is too shocking to understand. Never in the millennium of our tradition have we thought it possible for the water to die, but it is true.

Chief Walter Meganack
Traditional Village Chief
Port Graham NativeVillage, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
(National Wildlife Federation, 1990)

Psychopaths Rule Our World

We are now part of a giant experiment on massive chemical toxicity exposure, where insanity, wishful thinking, denial, and outright lies run the show. Where our leaders are completely out of touch with reality and rather than guidance, protection and healing, they offer us disinformation and manipulation. How on earth did we allow this to happen? Then again, what do we expect in a world where psychopathic corporate interests dominate almost every area of life?

An invasive cancer has spread throughout our global society. Mother nature too has succumbed to the effects of this destructive ideology and now carries the seeds of ecological disaster in her womb. Despite all their machinations and carefully laid plans, the hubris and supreme self-interest of the psychopaths that rule our world have set humanity on a course for extinction. Who benefits when there are no people left to rule and control?

Continue to article: The Day the Water Died: Detoxing after the Gulf Oil Spill -- Signs of the Times News: "http://www.sott.net/articles/show/215274-The-Day-the-Water-Died-Detoxing-after-the-Gulf-Oil-Spill"

Dahr Jamail on The Intel Hub, "Covert Spraying and Internal Bleeding" 1/3

2010-09-25T06:31:00.000-07:00

Illegal to build sandcastle on Florida & Mississippi public beach! BP gu...

2010-09-25T06:30:00.000-07:00

AILING EARTH: OYSTERS DYING IN LOUISIANA!!!

2010-09-18T09:26:00.000-07:00

Blood tests on Gulf residents show ethylbenzene and other hydrocarbons

2010-09-07T06:16:00.000-07:00

Fears of oil in inland waters grow after fish kill | kill, fish, inland - Local News - WaltonSun.com

2010-09-03T09:08:00.000-07:00

Fears of oil in inland waters grow after fish kill | kill, fish, inland - Local News - WaltonSun.com

The GULF BLUE PLAGUE is Evolving

2010-08-31T05:26:00.000-07:00

Postby Gnosty » 10 Aug 2010, 15:58
http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=940

by Michael Edward

I have been interviewing family and friends who live along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Louisiana and Mississippi. Many of them had been working on shrimp boats before May 1, 2010 and a cousin is a shrimp boat owner. I have also spoken at length with two RN's working at a Gulf coast Emergency Room and an Emergency Clinic who are close family friends. I am basing what follows on their observations and knowledge along with my own personal research. Full article

Portions of the Gulf are So Toxic that Dolphins, Fish, Crabs, Stingrays and Other Animals are “Trying to Crawl Out of the Water”

2010-08-27T04:47:00.000-07:00

Portions of the Gulf are So Toxic that Dolphins, Fish, Crabs, Stingrays and Other Animals are “Trying to Crawl Out of the Water”

Washington’s Blog
Aug 23, 2010

On Friday, Inter Press Service reported:

Danny Ross, a commercial fisherman from Biloxi… said he has watched horseshoe crabs trying to crawl out of the water, and other marine life like stingrays and flounder trying to escape the water as well. He believes this is because the water is hypoxic. …

David Wallis, another fisherman from Biloxi… [said] “I’ve seen crabs crawling out of the water in the middle of the day. This is going to be affecting us far into the future.”

This has been a common occurrence since BP started spilling oil into the Gulf.
The Post Chronicle noted on August 12th: read more. . .

Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill

2010-08-23T04:59:00.000-07:00

Nature Fighting Back Against Gulf Oil Spill

Christine Dell'Amore in Port Sulphur, Louisiana

National Geographic News

Published May 7, 2010

Part of an ongoing series on the environmental impacts of the Gulf oil spill.

Driving down Highway 23 last week in the southern Louisiana fishing town of Port Sulphur (map), David Ojeda could smell that something wasn't right. Turbulent winds over the approaching Gulf of Mexico oil spill were blowing strong odors inland, the 68-year-old shrimper suspects. Continue reading

Large Crabs Filled With Tar Found In Mississippi

2010-08-17T05:35:00.000-07:00

Spike Lee speaks Out: BP oil and U.S. gov LYING about oil spill Clean up

2010-08-17T05:32:00.000-07:00

Dead Fish Are Washing Up Everwhere . . . Is It Due to BP Oil Spill and Dispersants?

2010-08-16T13:07:00.000-07:00

Friday, August 13, 2010

Dead fish are washing up everywhere.
For example, numerous dead fish washed ashore in Massachusetts a couple of days ago:

Full report and videos at: http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/08/dead-fish-washing-up-everywhere-due-to.htm

"Death Gyre" in the Gulf

2010-08-11T05:05:00.001-07:00

Karl Burkhart
Aug. 3, 2010
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/death-gyre-in-the-gulf

Firsthand accounts and leaked photos of a secret BP processing facility -- possibly for dead animals -- point to a massive cover-up in the Gulf. An exclusive report.

June 10th was a strange day. In a surprising move, the Coast Guard instituted a dramatic expansion of the "no-fly" zone over the Gulf, preventing major media outlets like the New York Times and even scientists with top government clearance from accessing the area. This caused a wave of journalistic uproar and bewilderment on the part of researchers like Edward E. Clark of the Wildlife Center (above) who had been invited to study the impacts just prior to the media blackout.

More distressing than the media blackout itself was a lingering question in my mind ... what on earth could be so BAD that the U.S. government would risk losing credibility in the minds of journalists, the scientific community and the general public to ensure concealment? Was the sea floor cracking? Was a giant cloud of benzene going to wipe out the Eastern Seaboard? Had Godzilla emerged from the sea to wreak havoc upon us all? One thing was clear ... we weren't getting the story.

All manner of apocalyptic scenarios were running through my head that morning when by chance I received a very strange message that pointed to a less fantastic but equally horrific explanation. It was a text message that had been sent on a borrowed phone to a man's wife (according to the person who forwarded it to me) a man who had just returned from what many are now calling the "Death Gyre." The message was e-mailed to a family friend who posted it on Facebook and it has since been recirculated. Here's the text (you will notice a few colloquialisms that are specific to Bayou talk) so read through the lines, and forgive the misspellings:

I have to write this mail on a new cellphone because they have taken our phones off us. people dont know how bad this oil is.. im working in the cleanup operation and we've all has to sign a legal paper that stops us from talking to anyone. im onshore now and cant tell you where but ive just finished a very long shift in the gulf and textin this....fast as i can. the military are watching us dolphins whales, seabirds fish are all floating dead on the surface of the water.. see more.. see more…boats helicopters are scooping them away dead and dying... Whales are being exploded by the military cause they cant be carried. dead bodys as far as the eye can see air smeling of benzene ..weve seen birds fall from the sky. workers falling sick we think some workers have died. my friends are hard oilmen it was ok to at the start but now we cry. dead sea life is as big as genocide you wont imagine

Since no one has yet been able to get this individual to go on record (and the Facebook post was eventually taken down) this can't be taken as hard evidence, but it does beg the question ... just how many animals have died because of the worst oil spill in U.S. history?

According to the latest count of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Daily Collection Report (PDF), only about 4,100 birds, 670 turtles, 70 sea mammals, and 1 snake have died in the Gulf since April 20 (assuming 50 percent mortality of live animals).

It's an astonishingly low number, considering that one of the largest pods of sperm whales in the U.S. resided just miles from the site of the BP Macondo well (aka Deepwater Horizon), a region home to one of the most abundant and biodiverse marine ecosystems in the world.

Compare those small numbers with the Exxon Valdez spill ... Best estimates put the toll of the far smaller oil spill in Alaska at more than 200,000 birds (including hundreds of eagles), more than 3,000 sea mammals, more than 20 whales, and billions of fish eggs. The accident permanently wiped out the herring population of this Alaskan Gulf region. And that was an accident 1/10th the size of the Deepwater Horizon.

The final tally of the BP oil spill is almost 5 million barrels of crude, compared to only about 500,000 barrels for Exxon Valdez — a 1:10 ratio. Yes the Alaska spill happened closer inland, but the oil was not fully integrated with the water column as in the BP gusher (a far more pervasive and deadly scenario) and neither were thousands of tons of highly toxic dispersants like Corexit, a chemical that has, ironically, been banned in Britain because of its impacts on wildlife and human health.

One would be forgiven then for assuming there should be a far greater body count than what is currently being reported by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the same government office that famously blocked Anderson Cooper from peering past the 10' high barricades that had been put up to enclose a "bird receiving" area. According to the math, the count should be in the hundreds of thousands of dead birds, tens of thousands of sea mammals, and millions upon millions of fish and shellfish. So where were all the dead bodies? We should be seeing something like the mass dolphin kill off the coast of Zanzibar (left) that resulted from a much smaller offshore oil leak.

Is it possible that a massive cleanup operation in early June was focused on collecting dead animals out at sea in naturally forming "death gyres?" According to marine toxicologist Riki Ott, such gyres of dead and dying animals were common for weeks after the Exxon Valdez spill. And we know that BP was doing everything in its power to keep dead animal photographs out of the press. Kate Sheppard and Mac Mclelland of Mother Jones documented several instances of BP actually barring photography of dead animals on public beaches.

I received two firsthand accounts indicating that some sort of processing operation was taking place —one from Alabama (a rig operator contracted to work in an abandoned Navy yard) and one on Grand Isle — both reporting the construction of highly secured, nearly militarized ports that had been converted into "waste processing" areas.

EPA head Lisa P. Jackson mentioned on her Twitter feed June 11 feed that she was visiting a shipyard "...where the waste is managed." What exactly was the waste being processed? If it was just oil-soaked boom and contaminated sand bags, where were all the photo opps demonstrating BP's awesome progress in cleaning up the oil? It wasn't adding up. Then I got an e-mail with some interesting photos that were uploaded to Citizen Global, a crowdsourcing news platform, on their Gulf News Desk.

It was a firsthand account by an individual working in the Gulf, who reported...

... receiving unconfirmed confidential reports that BP is withholding information about fish kills including that of sperm whales, whale sharks, Blue-fin Tuna and other marine mammals. (…) Following up on these leads, recently I flew over the staging areas where the reports allege that BP has been engaged in these secretive operations. What I saw from the air over Shell Beach and Hopedale, Louisiana was what seemed to be military protected staging areas where whales could potentially be brought in from offshore, processed under huge white tents, then carted off in trash trucks owned by a collaborative of oil companies, including BP. I'm deeply concerned that BP has the power to put in place restrictions on... access to certain areas of the ever-growing BP drilling disaster location and will continue advocating for a change in this policy.

The following three photographs (taken in the first week of June and published here for the first time) document the processing area just prior to commencing operations. A large-scale construction project, which included creating a visual barricade on a 200' long pier, several large cranes adjacent to lined pools at least 50' in length, and a series of large tents alongside a fleet of trucks, gives further credence to the theory that BP, with the help of the U.S. government, was processing some form of waste that they did not want the public to know about:

A team of journalists, including Jerry Cope of the Huffington Post and Charles Hambleton, co-producer of the Academy award-winning documentary "The Cove", went down to the region to investigate. They had some interesting findings to report and got some great interviews with locals on the mystery of the disappearing dead animals. Most notable was their finding that some municipal dumps had been secured by law enforcement officials in the area, and several individuals reported the dumping of bags full of rotting carcasses.

You might be wondering about motive. Sure BP probably wanted to keep the full, gruesome reality of their toxic nightmare out of the press as much as possible. But was that enough of a motive to warrant such a massive and expensive operation? Probably not. A greater incentive may have been the fines the company would have incurred if the correct number of dead carcasses had been verifiable. At $50,000 a pop, hundreds of thousands of dead animals could spell B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T-C-Y for BP, and that's something that no one, including the U.S. government, would have wanted to happen.

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Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions

2010-08-01T08:14:00.000-07:00

Symptoms experienced by Gulf residents may be the result of exposure to chemical dispersants

July 30, 2010

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Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana—Area residents have begun to show up at clinics and hospitals with mysterious scabs and pustules covering their extremities, as reported from residents to non-profit relief organizations in the Gulf.

One thirty-three year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has disclosed to Project Gulf Impact that upon seeking medical advice at a clinic, she was told she had scabies. Hours later, she was told by an area hospital that she had a staph infection. The woman was treated with a shot of penicillin and Elimite cream, a topical agent for the treatment of scabies mite infestations, and an oral antibiotic. In addition to the lesions, the woman reported aching bones, weight loss, stomach pains, inflammation in her leg and sties developing in her eyes.

Full report: http://www.projectgulfimpact.org/?post_type=pressReleases&p=132#

Coast Guard Let BP Use Too Much Toxic Chemical in Oil Spill, Congressman Says

2010-08-01T08:07:00.000-07:00

Published August 01, 2010 | Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS

As BP inched closer to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, congressional investigators railed against the company and Coast Guard for part of the cleanup effort, saying too much toxic chemical dispersant was used.

Full article at: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/01/congressman-coast-guard-let-bp-use-toxic-chemical-dispersant-gulf-oil-spill/

Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain

2010-07-31T04:58:00.000-07:00

Dan Froomkin
First Posted: 07-29-10 06:27 PM | Updated: 07-29-10 06:43 PM

Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the foodchain.

Marine biologists started finding orange blobs under the translucent shells of crab larvae in May, and have continued to find them "in almost all" of the larvae they collect, all the way from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Fla. -- more than 300 miles of coastline -- said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.

And now, a team of researchers from Tulane University using infrared spectrometry to determine the chemical makeup of the blobs has detected the signature for Corexit, the dispersant BP used so widely in the Deepwater Horizon

"It does appear that there is a Corexit sort of fingerprint in the blob samples that we ran," Erin Gray, a Tulane biologist, told the Huffington Post Thursday. Two independent tests are being run to confirm those findings, "so don't say that we're 100 percent sure yet," Gray said.

"The chemistry test is still not completely conclusive," said Tulane biology professor Caz Taylor, the team's leader. "But that seems the most likely thing."

With BP's well possibly capped for good, and the surface slick shrinking, some observers of the Gulf disaster are starting to let down their guard, with some journalists even asking: Where is the oil?

But the answer is clear: In part due to the1.8 million gallons of dispersant that BP used, a lot of the estimated 200 million or more gallons of oil that spewed out of the blown well remains under the surface of the Gulf in plumes of tiny toxic droplets. And it's short- and long-term effects could be profound.

Continued at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/scientists-find-evidence_n_664298.html

CONFIRMED - LAB TESTED Gulf Coast Water Samples are 'VERY TOXIC' - Sea S...

2010-07-29T04:47:00.000-07:00

Papantonio: BP Escrow Fund is a Sham - Pt. 2/2

2010-07-29T04:40:00.001-07:00

Papantonio: BP Escrow Fund is a Sham - Pt. 1/2

2010-07-29T04:40:00.000-07:00

Censored Gulf news: People bleeding internally, millions poisoned says 'EPA whistleblower'

2010-07-25T05:03:00.000-07:00

Original article at: http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d21-Censored-Gulf-news-Whistleblower-EPA-hiding-gassed-people-bleeding-internally

Chemical dispersants being released near Houma, Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico
Photo: USCG/1planet1ocean

"...we have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally. And that’s what dispersants are supposed to do... Congressman Markey and Nadler, as well as Senator Mikulski, have been heroes... Mark Kaufman, EPA whistleblower, Democracy Now!

Poisoning millions of people

In its report, EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup, Democracy Now! states that "many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants," so Amy Goodman interviewed Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and a leading critic of the decision to use Corexit" who disclosed how the officials are lying about many things related to the catastrophe poisoning "millions of people." (Listen: Real Audio Strea or MP3 Download)

The rushed transcript includes Kaufman saying, "And I think the media now has to follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf. (Emphasis added)

"While concerns over the impact of chemical dispersants continue to grow, Gulf Coast residents are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money cleanup workers earn by working for the cleanup effort from any future claims.

The "Vessels of Opportunity" program has employed hundreds of Gulf Coast out of work people because of the spill which Kaufman says is viewed as yest another way "to limit the number of lawsuits against BP."

"And the government—both EPA, NOAA, etc.—have been sock puppets for BP in this cover-up. (Emphasis added)

Kaufman concurs with MSNBC's report last week, that "sole purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a cover-up going for BP to try to hide the volume of oil that has been released and save them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of fines... not to protect the public health or environment. Quite the opposite.."

He says to follow the money, and that leads to individuals in the Obama Administration, naming Mr. Geithner, Mr. Summers with close ties to Larry Fink who owns BlackRock that owns most BP shares.

He commented on the children being poisoned:

"...you know, when you’re on the sand with your children and they dig, and there’s a little water?—they documented there was over 200 parts per million of oil waste in the water, and it’s not noticeable to the human eye... On top of it, the contamination in one of the samples was so high that when they put the solvent in, as a first step in identifying how much oil may be in the water, the thing blew up, just as he said, probably because there was too much Corexit in that particular sample."

When Goodman asked Kaufman to comment on the similarities between the Ground Zero of the Gulf catastrophe and what happened at Ground Zero of 911, he explained that he did the ombudsman investigation on Ground Zero, "where EPA made false statements about the safety of the air" ... since proven to be false.

Red herring: No more tests needed. Corexit known to be dangerous.

"The largest ingredient in Corexit is oil. But there are other materials. And when the ingredients are mixed with oil, the combination of Corexit or any dispersant and oil is more toxic than the oil itself. But EPA has all that information.

"That’s a red herring issue being raised, that we have to somehow know more information. When you look at the label and you look at the toxicity sheets that come with it, the public knows enough to know that it’s very dangerous. The National Academy of Science has done work on it. Toxicologists from Exxon that developed it have published on it.

"So, we know enough to know that it’s very dangerous, and to say that we just have to know more about it is a red herring issue. We know plenty. It’s very dangerous."

"[T]he media now has to follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf."

No mention was made by the whistleblower about military involvement in this operation, nor that the DoD has been in bed with EPA for decades, testing aerosol sprayed chemicals on unwitting individuals and large populations.

With all eyes on big bad BP, could it be the real red herring?

EVIDENCE MOUNTS - BP chemicals HARMFUL and will kill humans - Government...

2010-07-24T12:28:00.000-07:00

SHOCK: Water “sample exploded” when chemist tested for oil; “Most likely” methane or Corexit (VIDEO)

2010-07-23T05:32:00.000-07:00

Full Report and Videos: http://wkrg.com/906545
News 5 Investigates: Testing The Water

Despite warnings on Gulf Coast beaches some swimmers are taking their chances. News 5 tests the water to find out if there is something the eye can't see. Alabama Investigation
Short URL: http://wkrg.com/906545

Jessica Taloney Anchor/ Reporter
Jessica Taloney
MOBILE, Alabama - More than a week has passed since Alabama's beaches have seen significant oil, and despite warnings along the Gulf Coast, some swimmers are taking their chances.

News Five collected samples of water and sand from Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Katrina Key and Dauphin Island. To our eyes, the samples appeared normal, until we took them to a local lab to be tested.

The amount of oil and petroleum on Alabama's beach should be undetectable, according to Bob Naman, an analytical chemist with nearly thirty years of experience. Naman says at most he would expect our samples to contain 5 parts per million of oil, but to his surprise, the samples we collected tested much higher.

From 16 ppm to 221 ppm, our results are concerning. Even more disturbing is what happened to a sample collected from the Dauphin Island Marina near oil containment boom.

To watch News Five Investigates: Testing The Waters click on the video box.

Part One: Collecting The Samples

Video: WKRG.com News

Part Two: The Results

Video: WKRG.com News

GULF OF MEXICO LOOP CURRENT BROKEN! RISK OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE BY BP OIL SPLILL!

2010-07-22T10:27:00.001-07:00

From: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=178896

Posted By: IZAKOVIC
Date: Thursday, 22-Jul-2010 12:43:49

Socio-Economics History Blog

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:35 EDT

Factual satellite images in the past several weeks are showing that the Gulf Loop Current is broken and may cease to function entirely! This will result in massive climate change and possibly an ice age for Europe! Major trouble brewing?? More freakish weather on its way??

Read More...

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212458-Gulf-of-Mexico-Loop-Current-Broken-Risk-of-Global-Climate-Change-By-BP-Oil-Spill-

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Now this is major surprise.

Or is it?

http://www.deepspace4.com/pages/prophecy/armageddon/armageddon3.htm

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URGENT!! MSNBC REPORTING THAT COREXIT IS KILLING CLEAN UP WORKERS!!

2010-07-22T05:59:00.000-07:00

BP oil spill: US Orders New Emergency Plan as Seepage Detected near Capped Well

2010-07-20T04:12:00.001-07:00

Found at: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=178684

Posted By: Susoni
Date: Monday, 19-Jul-2010 17:59:27

Again... We hear it from the UK news.

Susoni
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BP oil spill: US orders new emergency plan as seepage detected near capped well

The US government ordered BP to submit an emergency plan for reopening its capped Gulf of Mexico oil well after experts detected seepage from the surrounding seabed.

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Tensions emerged as the US government's point man on the worst environmental disaster in US history also told the British energy giant to report swiftly on a "detected seep" and "anomalies" near the well.

BP - which said Monday the bill from the leak had risen to $3.95 billion (£2.58 billion) - had earlier acknowledged that some bubbles had appeared near the wellhead but expressed optimism that the cap installed three days earlier could stay on.
BP shares in London fell 5 per cent on Monday morning as news of fresh leak fears emerged.

US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said on Sunday that BP must lay out its next steps in writing for "opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed".

Tests were still ongoing to confirm whether oil was seeping out.

But he stopped short of ordering the immediate removal of the cap, which has halted the gushing crude for the first time since April, when BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and capsized, killing 11 workers.

Admiral Allen said in his letter to Bob Dudley, BP's chief managing director, that the company must report to the government in no more than four hours when seeps were detected.

BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles said pressure was rising slowly in the well as expected and said there were "encouraging signs" that would allow the new cap to remain on until permanent relief wells could be drilled in August.

The US government was granting extensions to exhaustive well tests on a 24-hour basis, while BP said the valves on the containment cap would remain shut as long as no leaks were discovered.

Seismic and sonar surveys and video footage filmed by robotic submarines in the murky depths of the Gulf have been monitoring whether any oil or gas was leaking through the rock formations on the sea floor.

Admiral Allen did not specify what sort of "seepage" or "anomalies" the testing had found but warned earlier that "ultimately, we must insure no irreversible damage is done which could cause uncontrolled leakage from numerous points on the sea floor".

Link for more:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7898028/BP-oil-spill-US-orders-new-emergency-plan-as-seepage-detected-near-capped-well.html

eutimes.net: Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface, Well Casing Gone So Relief Well Won't Work

2010-07-17T06:07:00.000-07:00

Found at: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=178482
Posted By: watcher51445
Date: Saturday, 17-Jul-2010 08:14:44

Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface, Well Casing Gone So Relief Well Won't Work

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note the date this was sent, since that time millions more gallons of oil have continued to spew out ........

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Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface
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Matt Simmons was on Bloomberg earlier, adding some additional perspective to his original appearance on the station, in which he initially endorsed the nuclear option as the only viable way to resolve the oil spill. Simmons refutes even the latest oil spill estimate of 45,000-60,000 barrels per day, and in quoting research by the Thomas Jefferson research vessel which was compiled late on Sunday, quantifies the leak at 120,000 bpd. What is scarier is that according to the Jefferson the oil lake underneath the surface of the water could be covering up to 40% of the entire Gulf of Mexico. Simmons also says that as the leak has no casing, a relief well will not work, and the only possible resolution is, as he said previously, to use a small nuclear explosion to convert the rock to glass. Simmons concludes that as punishment for BP’s arrogance and stupidity the government “will take all their cash.” Now if only our own administration could tell us the truth about what is really happening in the gulf…

BP Dispersant Likened to Agent Orange

2010-07-17T06:05:00.000-07:00

Press TV
July 16, 2010

BP's use of chemicals to disperse the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has
become a source of concern for the US, with lawmakers warning of another
"Agent Orange" scandal.

Agent Orange is the codename for one of the herbicides and defoliants used
by the US military in its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War
from 1961 to 1971.

According to Vietnam Red Cross as many as 3 million Vietnamese people have
been affected by Agent Orange including at least 150,000 children born with
birth defects.

The US lawmakers at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Thursday urged the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to keep a closer eye on the
dispersants used by BP to properly analyze their effect on the ocean
ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico.

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and I want to be assured on behalf of the American people that this is OK to
use and OK to use in the amounts we're talking about," said Barbara
Mikulski, chairwoman of the science panel of the Senate Appropriations
subcommittee, reported Reuters.

The London-based energy giant applies Corexit to the massive oil slick
gathered both on the surface and undersea in the disaster zone.

BP has so far used about 1.8 million gallons of the chemical agent in the
Gulf, an amount unprecedented in the US history to be directly applied to
the spill.

The EPA said preliminary results of a federal review of Corexit pointed to
no impact on marine life.

"The good news is that we've not seen signs of environment impacts from the
use of dispersants so far," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told legislators,
urging more scientific study.

The EPA, however, is still awaiting review of chemical's effect when mixed
with oil, and environmentalists are also concerned.

"I suspect that the toxicity impact will in fact be way worse than reflected
by the tests that are being conducted by EPA," because animals chosen for
testing are less sensitive than those inhabiting the Gulf, said Doug Rader,
chief oceans scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund.

New estimates by the International Energy Agency about the BP oil spill
suggest that so far at least 2.3-4.5 million barrels of crude have poured
into the Gulf of Mexico since the April event, which triggered the worst
ecological disaster in US history.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill began after an April 20 explosion at the BP-run Deepwater Horizon rig shattered the well and left 11 people dead.

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How Much Oil Has Leaked in the Gulf?

2010-07-17T04:29:00.001-07:00

BP Paying Off Universities And Gulf Scientists In Mass To Hide Oil Spill Research Data From The Public

2010-07-17T04:19:00.000-07:00

Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 16, 2010 at 3:28 pm - Permalink - Article found at: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/16/bp-paying-off-universities-and-gulf-scientists-to-hide-oil-spill-research-data-from-the-public/

If the people of the Gulf have had one advocate throughout the BP Gulf Oil Spill it has been the scientific community.

They have not been afraid to step and challenge BP and The Federal Government over the existence of underwater plumes, the dangers of the dispersants BP is using, or the safety of Gulf waters.

The scientific community has sounded the alarm on skyrocketing arsenic levels in the Gulf while the Government has kept quiet and has exposed the improper BP cleanup practices that are contaminating Gulf beaches.

Scientist have come forward to reveal the real location of the oil spill, exposed the lies about oil and methane plumes, and have alerted the public to severely low-balled flow rates.

The list goes on and on.

However those days may soon becoming to an end.

A startling new report from the Alabama Register reveals BP is trying to buy up Gulf scientists and Universities in mass to prevent them from releasing research data to the public.

For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense against spill litigation.

BP PLC attempted to hire the entire marine sciences department at one Alabama university, according to scientists involved in discussions with the company’s lawyers. The university declined because of confidentiality restrictions that the company sought on any research.

The Press-Register obtained a copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP. It prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that they collect for at least the next three years.

“We told them there was no way we would agree to any kind of restrictions on the data we collect. It was pretty clear we wouldn’t be hearing from them again after that,” said Bob Shipp, head of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama. “We didn’t like the perception of the university representing BP in any fashion.”

…

BP officials declined to answer the newspaper’s questions about the matter. Among the questions: how many scientists and universities have been approached, how many are under contract, how much will they be paid, and why the company imposed confidentiality restrictions on scientific data gathered on its behalf.

…

More than one scientist interviewed by the Press-Register described being offered $250 an hour through BP lawyers. At eight hours a week, that amounts to $104,000 a year.

Scientists from Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University and Texas A&M have reportedly accepted, according to academic officials. Scientists who study marine invertebrates, plankton, marsh environments, oceanography, sharks and other topics have been solicited.

The contract makes it clear that BP is seeking to add scientists to the legal team that will fight the Natural Resources Damage Assessment lawsuit that the federal government will bring as a result of the Gulf oil spill.

The government also filed a NRDA suit after the Exxon Valdez spill.

In developing its case, the government will draw on the large amount of scientific research conducted by academic institutions along the Gulf. Many scientists being pursued by BP serve at those institutions.

With its payments, BP buys more than the scientists’ services, according to Wiygul. It also buys silence, he said, thanks to confidentiality clauses in the contracts.

…

Richard Shaw, associate dean of LSU’s School of the Coast and Environment, said that the BP contracts are already hindering the scientific community’s ability to monitor the affects of the Gulf spill.

“The first order of business at the research meetings is to get all the disclosures out. Who has a personal connection to BP? We have to know how to deal with that person,” Shaw said. “People are signing on with BP because the government funding to the universities has been so limited. It’s a sad state of affairs.”

…

“This is not an agreement to do research for BP,” Wiygul said. “This is an agreement to join BP’s legal team. You agree to communicate with BP through their attorneys and to take orders from their attorneys.

“The purpose is to maintain any information or data that goes back and forth as privileged.”

The contract requires scientists to agree to withhold data even in the face of a court order if BP decides to fight such an order. It stipulates that scientists will be paid only for research approved in writing by BP.

The contracts have the added impact of limiting the number of scientists who’re able to with federal agencies. “Let’s say BP hired you because of your work with fish. The contract says you can’t do any work for the government or anyone else that involves your work with BP. Now you are a fish scientist who can’t study fish,” Wiygul said.

Perhaps even more startling is the scientists that BP isn’t paying off to keep quiet the Federal Government is.

A scientist who spoke to the Press-Register on condition of anonymity because he feared harming relationships with colleagues and government officials said he rejected a BP contract offer and was subsequently approached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with a research grant offer.

He said the first question the federal agency asked was, “‘is there a conflict of interest,’ meaning, ‘are you under contract with BP?’”

Other scientists told the newspaper that colleagues who signed on with BP have since been informed by federal officials that they will lose government funding for ongoing research efforts unrelated to the spill.

…

He said the first question the federal agency asked was, “‘is there a conflict of interest,’ meaning, ‘are you under contract with BP?’”

Other scientists told the newspaper that colleagues who signed on with BP have since been informed by federal officials that they will lose government funding for ongoing research efforts unrelated to the spill.

…

NOAA officials did not answer requests for comment. The agency also did not respond to a request for the contracts that it offers scientists receiving federal grants. Several scientists said the NOAA contract was nearly as restrictive as the BP version.

The state of Alaska published a 293-page report on the NRDA process after the Exxon Valdez disaster. A section of the report titled “NRDA Secrecy” discusses anger among scientists who received federal grants over “the non-disclosure form each researcher had signed as a prerequisite to funding.”

“It’s a very strange situation. The science is already suffering,” Shaw said. “The government needs to come through with funding for the universities. They are letting go of the most important group of scientists, the ones who study the Gulf.”

BP controls access to medical care for Gulf Oil clean-up workers.

2010-07-14T08:36:00.000-07:00

From: http://bpoilspillcomp.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/bp-controls-access-to-medical-care-for-gulf-oil-clean-up-workers/
Posted on June 23, 2010 by defensebaseactcomp

Everything they are doing is lining up their Defense to deny medical claims

Gulf Oil Hot Zone at Veterans Today

GRAND ISLE, LA) – Thousands of unemployed workers hired by BP for Gulf oil clean-up duties are housed in a tent city on Grand Isle, LA.

According to a report from Anna Hrybyk, Program Manager for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a nonprofit environmental health and justice organization, BP requires that all serious medical issues must be sent to the BP EMS.

A West Jefferson Medical Center tent is staffed with qualified physicians and nurses but is restricted by BP to give out ibuprofen and band-aids only.

Anna Hrybyk reported that,” BP does not allow the medical center to keep on hand any antibiotics, antibiotic ointments, IVs, shots, or make any prescriptions even though they have that capability. The nurse on site was extremely upset by these constraints and worried that if these infections are left untreated that staff infections could easily develop. New reports from the WJMC’s tent say that the number of oil spill workers being treated for heat-related illnesses is on the rise; to date there have been 67 workers treated since May 31st.medical center to keep on hand any antibiotics, antibiotic ointments, IVs, shots, or make any prescriptions even though they have that capability. The nurse on site was extremely upset by these constraints and worried that if these infections are left untreated that staff infections could easily develop.”

A copy of Anna Hrybyk report follows:

From the Hot Zone

June 10, 2010

From Louisianna’s Bucket Brigade

“We were in the hot zone all day today and the fumes were really strong. Now I have a terrible headache,” said an oil spill clean up worker who came to the West Jefferson Medical Center tent inside the BP worker compound in Grand Isle looking for some relief from his headaches. His headache is not unusual according to a new report from the Office of Public Health and reports to LABB’s Oil Spill Crisis Map. His headache is undoubtedly caused by working in the “hot zone,” a term used by workers for the areas of thick heavy oil.

The Louisiana State Office of Public Health released data yesterday from their Oil Spill Health Surveillance program tracking all acute health effects related to the BP Oil Drilling Disaster. The report found here relies on reports from hospital emergency departments, outpatient clinics, physician’s offices and the Louisiana Poison Control Center. From May 30 to June 5, 2010, 71 reports of health complaints related to exposure to pollutants from the oil spill received. Fifty reports came from among workers and 21 from the general population.

Sixty percent of the health complaints from workers stated that they were exposed to chemical dispersants. Seven of those reports came from workers busting oil sheen for two weeks. They stated that they were exposed to fumes from chemical dispersants causing nausea, headaches, burning throat and chest pains. Six out of the seven were hospitalized and an investigation from OPH is pending.

Out of the 71 reports of oil spill related illnesses, 79% of the reported health problems were related to irritation of the respiratory tract including nosebleeds, difficulty breathing and aggravation of existing asthma and respiratory illnesses. There were 26 reports of headaches related to exposure to pollutants from the oil spill.

From June 1st through June 3rd, 17 workers sought treatment at the West Jefferson medical center tent in Grand Isle for headaches, respiratory issues, insect bites, abrasions, and infections. Unfortunately, BP does not allow the medical center to keep on hand any antibiotics, antibiotic ointments, IVs, shots, or make any prescriptions even though they have that capability. The nurse on site was extremely upset by these constraints and worried that if these infections are left untreated that staff infections could easily develop. New reports from the WJMC’s tent say that the number of oil spill workers being treated for heat-related illnesses is on the rise; to date there have been 67 workers treated since May 31st.

Though the West Jefferson Medical Center’s medical treatment tent is a full service medical facility (they could perform surgeries if needed), all serious health issues must be sent to the BP EMS. The WJMC can only give out ibuprofen and band-aids. The WJMC has an Industrial Medicine doctor but he has not been “approved” to staff the site.

So if BP is calling the shots on treatment of exposed workers, will it surprise you to know that the only “official” worker exposure monitoring data that exists is on the BP page? According to BP’s industrial hygiene monitoring program, 21 workers have been exposed to benzene, 305 workers have been exposed to hydrocarbons, and 43 workers have been exposed to butoxethanol. Of course, they contend that the exposure levels to these hazardous cancer-causing toxins has been below OSHA safe standards. BP’s monitoring plan is frighteningly vague. We know they are monitoring workers in three areas: beach clean up, near shore skimming and booming operations, and offshore. We do not know exact coordinates of these sites or the toxic makeup of the oil they are handling.

OSHA only has jurisdiction over workers on shore to three miles out from the shore. All of the workers we encountered in Grand Isle were in Tyvek protective suits but were NOT wearing respirators or gloves. Last week, grassroots groups, including the LABB, from across the Gulf Coast have signed on to a letter requesting the Department of Labor and OSHA to require the use of respirators and to make information on worker health problems publicly available.

LABB’s Oil Spill Crisis Map has been tracking odor complaints and health effects related to the BP Oil disaster since May 1st, 2010. To date the map has received 203 odor reports (i.e., smells like kerosene, burning crayons, burning oil) and 69 health effects reports from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Thirty-eight people have reported headaches and 43 reports detailed experiences of lung tightness, nose and throat irritation as a result of exposure. Other exposure related symptoms reported on the map include nosebleeds, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, chest pains, and burning eyes.

The highest number of odor reports on the map come from the metro New Orleans area. On May 10, 2010, on a very bad petroleum smelling air day, we took a bucket air sample from the front steps of the LA Bucket Brigade office on Canal Street. The sample showed detectable, but low levels of n-Hexane and n-Heptane. Due to our lax policies around chemical safety in this country, not much is known about the long-term effects of exposure to these toxins, however it is known, according to ATSDR that both are neurotoxins that can cause serious damage to the upper respiratory tract if chronically exposed.

I have heard Coast Guard and LDEQ officials compare the risk of exposure as equivalent to what you experience while you are pumping gas at the gas station. Would you want your children playing at the gas station all day in a heat index ranging from 105 and 110 degrees?

More detailed and transparent monitoring of the air, water and personal exposure is needed. We here at the Bucket Brigade know from years of working with communities neighboring hazardous sites, the oil industry and their regulators that the most effective tool in catching “hot spot” samples is empowering residents to capture the sample themselves with the bucket. No other monitoring system will be effective because by the time the samplers have been called in, the wind direction has changed and you can no longer get a good sample of the worst of what people are being exposed to. We are working to get the buckets in the hands of trained residents throughout the Gulf Coast.

The Vatic Project: New BP oil cap appears successful

2010-07-14T07:12:00.000-07:00

The Vatic Project: New BP oil cap appears successful

Vatic Project - Daily Summary ... July 13, 2010
I. Blog: The Vatic Project

Post: Morning Brief: New BP oil cap appears successful (Oh, gee what a surprise!)

Vatic Note: (Go to link to see full Vatic Note & article:) This QUICK stoppage of the oil leak and successful repair also leads us to believe the entire fear mongering extinction event being promoted was not only bogus, but didn't work the way they wanted. NOBODY BELIEVED THEM. So there was no mass exodus out of the gulf shorelines. Also remember we had exposed a whistleblower leak to SHTF4 about what was really going on in the gulf and that the entire leak and crisis was completely controlled by BP as evidenced by only tar balls showing up on the shoreline which supported the whistleblowers leak about the controlled release from a tar oil vocano through side drilling and oil that was reddish in color which is what old oil at the bottom of tankers (there were quite a few of them out in the gulf for most of the time during the crisis, remember?) looks like due to rusting from sitting in the bottom and that is exactly what the oil looked like as we can see here. Then remember the lock down on photos and press and experts, why? Would they by chance see the bilges working on the tankers?

CHECK OUT THE VERY LAST SENTENCE OF THE ARTICLE. Compare that to the extinction event they said this was going to be and pumped that non stop for days telling everyone to move, get out.... now look at what they are saying???? This is what a pure false flag looks like. Classic. Something was never right about the whole thing.

So, an investigation needs to happen about what has really occurred and we need independant scientists now out in the gulf to confirm the truth of this entire bogus event. We also noticed they stopped the chemtrails and the corexit flights of the CIA over the gulf and the land within the past 48 hours or sooner when that got exposed as well by the blog system . Yup, something is up. We will see, keep an eye out and take nothing for granted with these psychos. .

Link: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/07/hail-caesar-queen-gives-marching-orders.html

To get it on the record-- here is a collage of facts on the Rothschild Corporate disaster that we face..

2010-07-13T04:52:00.000-07:00

From Rumormill News
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Posted By: Watchman
Date: Tuesday, 13-Jul-2010 00:28:49

When will you have enough of this bullshit, America?? When will you string up the bastards from the nearest lamp post??

The BP oil “spill” or “leak” in the Gulf of Mexico is a national nightmare that seems to have no end. In a recent speech, Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama) said “There is oil leaking. We need to stop it, and we need to stop it as soon as possible.” Ummmmm...it’s not a leak, Mr. Obama. It’s a volcanic gusher spewing out an Exxon Valdez every two to four days. This is a blow out, an explosion of oil spewing out of the earth under great pressure. In the words of Wilford Brimley in the 1981 movie Absence of Malice, “You had a leak? You call what’s goin’ on around here a leak? Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat.”

What is really going on in the Gulf of Mexico? I will give you the facts and let you “connect the dots.” Keep in mind the well-documented history of “false flag” events which are indicative of the “Hegelian Dialectic” (i.e., problem, reaction, solution). Click HERE for an overview of this technique as well as over 70 historical examples.

Before the Explosion

We now know (through witness testimony from Tyrone Benton) that there were cracks reported in the drill casing two weeks prior to the disaster and that it was leaking, but BP did nothing about it. (LINK)

Hours before the explosion, Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell was witnessed by other rig workers screaming “Are you ****ing happy? Are you ****ing happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was going to happen!” (LINK)

Goldman Sachs sold 44% of their total holdings, 4,680,822 shares of BP stock in the first quarter of 2010. The investment firm earned about USD $266 million on the sale. (LINK)

Contrary to popular opinion, the Deepwater Horizon (Mississippi Canyon 252) oil rig that exploded is not the property of BP, but rather is the property of Transocean. (LINK) Both companies are financially directed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS investment bankers, all operating in the Rothschild League of banks. (LINK)

BP CEO Tony Hayward sold £1.4 million worth of his BP shares weeks before the explosion. This represented 1/3 of his holdings. (LINK)

A little over one week before the explosion, Halliburton purchased an oil spill prevention company called Boots & Coots. Apparently, Halliburton also had some “psychic insight” on what was soon to come. (LINK)

Halliburton has admitted that it was involved in the “cementing” process (a process that involves plugging holes in the pipeline seal by pumping cement into it from the rig). Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing in April 2010 that it knew that the cementation jobs were likely to fail. (LINK)

Just hours before the rig explosion, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) took part in a “surprise inspection” aboard the Deepwater Horizon. In an interview, Zac Zimmerman revealed how odd this particular BLM visit really was, in light of the fact that many rigs have burned for weeks at a time without collapsing. (VIDEO)

On April 14, 2010 (6 days before the explosion), the Management Board of the Eurex Stock Exchange introduced an equity option on shares of Transocean. Get this....the equity option was effective on April 20th... the day of the explosion. Basically, this gave all the “insiders” ONE FULL DAY to dump their uninsured Transocean stock (using put options) at the highest possible price, then repurchase the same stock after it plummeted. (LINK)

The Explosion

What caused the explosion? Why would the explosion on the surface of the platform create the situation in which crews are unable to stop the oil flow from the well’s head, which is nearly a mile deep? I understand that the oil rig sunk after a horrific fire, so I guess it’s possible that the sinking platform could have somehow irreparably damaged the pipeline at the floor of the Gulf, but it seems unlikely to me, with all the safety features on these rigs and wells. (LINK)

One worker on the rig at the time of the explosion (10 PM on April 20th) reported that the lights on the platform went out just before the explosion. She was one of the 115 people who escaped the burning rig. Eleven others were not so fortunate; they remain missing and are presumed dead. (LINK)

Coincidentally, (or was it?) the oil rig exploded on Hitler’s birthday, just in time to poison Earth Day 2010.

Reaction to the Explosion

Obama (along with Department of Homeland Security) sent SWAT (“Special Weapons and Tactics”) teams to the Gulf to “inspect” the rigs and platforms. Why on earth would you deploy SWAT teams in response to an oil spill unless it was an act of terrorism, an act of war, or they if they were sent to carry out some sort of covert operation? (LINK)

Wackenhut (aka G4S) has been hired by BP to block and/or arrest reporters who attempt to interview the workers in and around Grand Isle, LA. Wackenhut is a known CIA-front group (LINK) and also has ties to other “shadow government” agencies. Wackenhut’s private thugs are forcing the public off public beaches. (VIDEO)

Yahoo! News’ Brett Michael Dykes reported that BP paid busloads of temporary cleanup workers to show up as “stage props” for Obama’s visit to the oil spill cleanup operations on Grand Isle. Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts (whose district encompasses Grand Isle) told Dykes that BP bused in “hundreds” of temporary workers to clean up local beaches. According to Roberts, “as soon as Obama was en route back to Washington, the workers were clearing out of Grand Isle too.” (LINK)

A local Louisiana resident commented, “The cleanup crew was there for appearances only; their garbage bags were empty. When Obama left, they got on a bus and left, too.” (LINK)

BP has admitted to buying Google and Yahoo keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information about this disaster. (LINK)

The FAA has declared a “no-fly zone” in the Gulf. (LINK)

There seems to be a complete cover up and news blackout of the events as they are unfolding. (LINK) (LINK)

Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast? (LINK) What exactly are these National Guard troops going to be doing? Are the troops going to be used to help stop the oil or to control the public? Could the government be preparing for mass evacuations? (LINK) (LINK)

Obama is not using his authority to stop the damage in the Gulf, but is more concerned with passing the Cap-and-Trade bill, (LINK) which is based upon the global warming scam. (LINK) Did you notice that it’s no longer referred to as “global warming” but rather “climate change?” Have you ever wondered why? The truth of the matter is that since 1995, the earth has NOT been warming (LINK), so they had to rename the issue. Of course, it didn’t help them when over 31,000 scientists signed a petition rejecting global warming! (LINK)

But the facts didn’t stop Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and the other Wall Street “behemoths” from buying heavily into global warming and carbon trading. You see, these companies that made billions off of derivatives and other scams and are now getting bailed out on your dime are going to make billions from the carbon trading scam.

Why did Obama refuse the help of “thirteen entities that had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion?” Was he more concerned about ramming through his environmental agenda? (LINK)

This is classic Agenda 21 (aka “sustainable development”), a UN program spearheaded by George H.W. Bush at the Rio Conference, where he implemented this “de facto” US policy. (LINK) A few of the primary tools that Agenda 21 uses to implement control, steal private property, and further the eugenics agenda (VIDEO) are the global warming lies, man made water shortages, environmental disasters, and the Endangered Species Act. (LINK)

Oil, Gases, Chemicals & Dispersants

Hydrogen sulfide, benzene, and methylene chloride and other toxic gases are also spewing out (along with the oil) in concentrations 1000 times greater than what the EPA considers to be “safe” for humans. Any one of these chemicals in these concentrations would be lethal. Mixed together into a toxic soup, the oil disaster is truly unthinkable and a medical and health disaster of unfathomable proportions. When the hurricanes come they will absorb this toxic seawater and drop it as “toxic rain.” (LINK)

BP (with approval from the US government) has dumped hundreds of thousand of gallons of their toxic chemical dispersant, Corexit 9500, at their undersea wellhead and on surface waters. (LINK) Because it is so incredibly toxic (four times more toxic than the oil and twenty times more toxic than other dispersants), the UK has completely banned Corexit 9500, since it ruptures red blood cells, causes internal bleeding, and liver & kidney damage. If there were a major oil spill in the UK’s North Sea, BP would not be able to use it, (LINK) so why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico?

Corexit 9500 is produced by Illinois-based Nalco Corporation. A search of Nalco’s Web site reveals the company history, which leads right to the doorstep of Goldman Sachs! (LINK) Yes, Goldman Sachs owns a controlling interest in Nalco (via Apollo Management). (LINK) If you dig a little deeper you will find Nalco is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, George Soros, and Hathaway Berkshire. (LINK) (LINK)

The toxic chemicals have evaporated into the atmosphere and have condensed, falling on the plant life, farms, and the entire environment surrounding the Gulf of Mexico causing corrosive lesions on plants and killing birds. It’s raining chemicals in Louisiana & Mississippi. (VIDEO)

The residents of southern Louisiana are now experiencing a “toxic Gulf” washing ashore. (VIDEO)

The evidence is growing stronger and stronger that there is substantial damage beneath the sea floor. (LINK) (LINK)

Why is Evergreen Air (a known CIA-front company) spraying Corexit chemtrails in the Gulf by the cover of night, literally dumping toxic chemicals on people’s homes? (LINK) (LINK) And please don’t be so naïve as to believe that the government wouldn’t allow harm to its own citizens. This is the same government that poisoned its own citizens during prohibition. (LINK) This is the same government that used US soldiers as guinea pigs for radiation experiments and mustard gas experiments. (LINK) This is the same government that used soldiers and civilians as “unknowing test subjects” for studying the effects of LSD on the brain. (LINK) And this is the same government that is currently allowing plastic, silicone, and petroleum to be included in McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. (LINK)

Why are dolphins, sharks, other marine life, and various birds fleeing the Gulf? Remember the Tsunami in the Indian ocean a few years back? The animals fled first, while the clueless people stayed behind and got clobbered by the deadly wave. Could a similar event be brewing in the Gulf? All it takes is one hurricane to turn the entire region into a toxic stew of chemical poison. (LINK)

Could the giant gas bubble and magma deposits which have been detected below the ocean floor result in a potential tsunami of biblical proportions? (VIDEO)

The First Amendment?

Shockingly, CNN reports that the US government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime. (LINK). Yes, this is happening right now in America. This isn’t a hoax. I know, it sounds more like something you might hear about in China or Venezuela or some other nation run by dictators. But now it’s happening in the USA. When those who seek truth are branded criminals by the government, it is only a matter of time before that government expands its criminalization labeling to include anyone who disagrees with it. (LINK)

These are the seeds of tyranny, and the criminal US government is planting them at your doorstep right now!!

And just so you don’t think I blame this whole mess on Obama, I want to make it clear that there is virtually no difference between a “Republicrat” US President and a “Demopublican” US President. The last real President we had was JFK and they killed him for speaking out against the “New World Order” and “Secret Societies.” Plus, he wanted to abolish the Fed and pull out of Vietnam. Three strikes and you’re OUT! Every US President since JFK has been nothing more than a puppet for the globalists.

You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill

2010-07-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

Preface: The title is a parody of the fact that the government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife.

While most of these pictures have previously been published by the mainstream media - and presumably will remain publicly available - that assumption is not 100% certain. By way of analogy, the government sometimes reclassifies as top secret information which was previously declassified....

Remainder of article and pictures at: http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/07/you-are-not-authorized-to-see-these.html

San Francisco Chronicle: Leaked Corexit Information | Before It's News

2010-07-12T07:41:00.000-07:00

San Francisco Chronicle: Leaked Corexit Information | Before It's News

Oil/Water samples from Gulf...VERY TOXIC

2010-07-08T04:23:00.000-07:00

Tinley Park business owner makes statement with Spill Cam :: The SouthtownStar :: Tinley Park :: Orland Hills

2010-07-05T08:07:00.000-07:00

Tinley Park business owner makes statement with Spill Cam :: The SouthtownStar :: Tinley Park :: Orland Hills

Oil Spill DEAD burned whale COVER UP! This pic is disappearing from the web... VERY DISTURBING!!!

2010-07-04T04:14:00.000-07:00

Oil Spill DEAD burned whale COVER UP! This pic is disappearing from the web... VERY DISTURBING!!!

Toxic FEMA Trailers Get New Life Thanks to BP Oil Spill

2010-07-02T13:54:00.000-07:00

Toxic FEMA Trailers Get New Life Thanks to BP Oil Spill

Birds frozen in oil: image of a desperate summer

2010-07-02T06:18:00.000-07:00

They are the ghastly images of a summer fouled before it started. Squawking seagulls and majestic brown pelicans coated in oil. Click. Gunk dripping from their beaks. Click. Big eyes wide open. Click. Even the professionals want to turn away. They can't.

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AP/Charlie Riedel

"They get me. It's just inherently sad," said Nils Warnock, a wildlife recovery specialist. "You see this bird totally covered in oil and all you can see are those eyes looking at you blinking. You'd have to be pretty tough not to be affected by that image."

Warnock didn't see the birds in person. He's in California, but the pictures still hit him in the gut. Warnock has been rescuing birds in oil slicks since 1985 and he still chokes up when talking about photos of birds he hasn't seen in person.

Now put yourself in Melanie Driscoll's shoes. She doesn't just see the pictures. She sees the birds close-up through her bird conservation work for the National Audubon Society across Louisiana. The pleading eyes get her, too.

Driscoll has to shut down her emotions while helping coordinate the rescue of the birds. But the feelings sneak back at night, keeping her awake, making her see oily blackness creeping across her cats and even across the moon when she looks up.

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AP/Charlie Riedel

When environmental groups try to tug at the public's heart and wallet, they focus on what biologists call "charismatic megafauna." It's the feathered or furry helpless critter that you can relate to. It's not the oiled hermit crab — an image joked about as not very touching by Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" Thursday night.

It's got to have eyes that melt your heart. And that's what's all over the nation's front pages now.

"The pelican has really become the poster child for this that people are really focusing on," Driscoll said. "The bird is the symbol. They are visible. They are charismatic."

Up in Alaska, where it has been 21 years since the Exxon Valdez spill, residents watching the images of oiled birds are turning off their TV sets because it is just too hard to see, said Nancy Bird. She is director of the Prince William Sound Science Center, which still monitors the effects of the 1989 spill.

"I just wish that somebody would put them out of their misery very quickly," she said. "Watching an animal like that die a slow death is pretty disturbing."

The birds seem frozen in oil. The image is apt.

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AP/Charlie Riedel

Birds that get oiled can die from being too cold, or too hot, because the crude oil interferes with the natural oils that make them waterproof. That means their sensitive skin is exposed to extremes in temperature. Even in the relatively mild Gulf waters, they can "die from hypothermia," said Ken Rosenberg, director of conservation science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They can also drown.

The brown pelican, the state symbol of Louisiana, is now also the symbol of death — not just for the birds in the pictures, but for the likely thousands unseen.

"If you're seeing oiled birds, we can assume that there's a lot of death going on," Rosenberg said. "They literally are an indicator of what's going on in the entire ecosystem."

Some species of birds, especially those that lurk hidden in marshes — such as the clapper rail, seaside sparrow and mottled duck — will not be photographed coated with oil. They'll just disappear sight unseen, Driscoll said.

"Those birds won't get their eulogy," Driscoll said. "They'll just disappear. It's an unseen tragedy."

COREXIT is Eating Through Boats in the Gulf

2010-07-01T04:52:00.000-07:00

Pictures from Pensacola Beach June 23rd

2010-06-29T04:36:00.001-07:00

Oil washed up on Pensacola white sand beach June 23rd

Trench dug by workers reveals oil under sand

UV Light exposure shows remnants of oil after cleaning by workers

Vatic: They are Killing the Gulf (VN: with Corexit)

2010-06-28T10:52:00.000-07:00

2010-06-27
They are Killing the Gulf (VN: with Corexit)
Labels: Depopulation, Eugenics, False Flag, Mass Murder
Vatic Note: As soon as we were told Corexit, the toxic disbursant was being dumped we began to suspect something nefarious. When we were told they had dumped over 1 million gallons, we said "Really, can you picture one million gallons of corexit???" I can't, that is huge. We have been saying all along its the Corexit that is the BP weapon of Mass Destruction. This article and these videos knocks this down to the bare bones of the reality we face. Its worth it to watch this, in fact, if you want to know what is our real situation AND you want to know who did it and if it was intentional, then watch these two videos. At the very least save this article for when we are able to obtain justice one way or the other.

Remember, Britian is heavily tied into both companies especially BP but to a lesser degree to Goldman Sachs international, and they are tied into the Rothschild family (a British/Israeli combination is damn deadly). While you are thinking about that, REMEMBER ALSO, THAT COREXIT IS BANNED IN BRITIAN, and BP just put a million gallons of that garbage into our gulf? HUH??? That alone should tell you that the british leadership is not only an enemy to their own people but to the USA as well as the rest of the world. This is the biggest false flag in history. I say, arrest them and if you want real justice meted out, TURN THEM OVER TO THE FRENCH. They know how to take care of the elite criminal elements of our globe. A worthy price to pay for globalizing. We will globalize only if we can arrest all the elite, every stinking lousy one of them, prosecute them, and then execute the sentences. Hows that for a deal?

See http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/they-are-killing-gulf-vn-with-corexit.html for more and videos

Gulf Coast Toxicity Syndrome

2010-06-26T06:05:00.000-07:00

AP

Vicki B. Escarra, President and CEO of Feeding America, wrote, “Alongside natural disaster, a very real human disaster looms. The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has wrought havoc on sea and on land. But attention is now turning to the long-term effects the disaster will have on the coastlines, on businesses, and on American men, women and children. The immediate effects of the oil spill are obvious. Others, such as its effects on American families, will be hard to measure and will take years to document.”

Full article at: http://intotheashes.imva.info/?p=311/#arrive

A Reminder

2010-06-26T05:52:00.000-07:00

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Operation “Swift Fox” – Gulf Coast Evacuation to go live soon

2010-06-26T05:48:00.001-07:00

With discernment:

http://stevequayle.com/index1.html

EXTREME ALERT — Gulf Coast Evacuation Contingency Plans Soon to Go Operational: The operational name for the Gulf Coast Evacuation is “Swift Fox”. Yesterday morning at around 8:30 Mountain time, I received information that specific towns, in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia were having hotel rooms rented in mass by different named “Societies” using Federal government credit cards. The block hotel room rentals are for half the available rooms in hotels with a minimum of 120 rooms. Specific conversations were “overheard” that would indicate that the planned Gulf Coast evacuation is soon to be implemented. The only scenario I hear that may force the government to evacuate the coast is a multiple plume situation. Apparently, the unmitigated oil spilling has caused a pressure flux which, ironically, has caused a spider web network of Gulf seabed fissures, which has caused at least one other confirmed oil plume. NOAA is searching for two more suspected ones”. This quote is from an insider who is really concerned as he should be. Here’s additional info he provided. His comments in the following quote: “I know FEMA has already scoped out FEMA camp locations, i.e. vacant lots and swaths of land that can be leased temporarily in Texas and Georgia”.

The inside guy said it is up to the President to give the go-signal. There is an evacuation plan drafted and in place, ready for execution only *if* the administration deems it necessary. That can happen two ways. FEMA makes an emergency declaration with recommendation to POTUS (President of the US) for an evacuation or 2/3 of the Gulf States request federal help for an evac. States can individually declare an evacuation of their Gulf residents, but that would be a state action only, not FEMA/Federal”.

One week ago I was given a “vision of bread” while praying for wisdom. I saw a piece of bread being ripped apart as you would tear apart a sandwich from the bottom up. Imagine holding a sandwich in both hands and pressing your thumbs through the center of the bread and then tearing the bread, ripping it apart into two sections!

I wondered why the Lord would give me the Bread Vision, and then it became apparent. FAMINE is going to explode through the land as a result of the Gulf of Mexico’s sea floor rupturing! Yesterday, as I pondered all that’s going on, I received an image of a jig saw puzzle with all the interrelated pieces being broken apart, and being tied to this event taking place in the Gulf. The famine that is coming to the US is heartbreaking in it’s ramifications. The slaughter and devastation is unimaginable. As the Great Quake literally tears apart the US mainland, all America’s external enemies including those “enemies within” will seek to destroy and devour that which is left and flee, but they will not succeed. THEY WILL BE STOPPED BY ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF. THE DESTRUCTION THEY HAVE PLANNED FOR THE INNOCENT WILL BE SUPERNATURALLY TURNED AGAINST THEM!

I will be publishing the prophecy that the Lord has given me at His appointed time. I want to personally thank all of the Lord’s intercessors who pray for me daily that I might warn and help prepare those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. I urge every one who understands the lateness of the hour to get their hearts right before the Living God, as the time comes when only the power of an individual’s relationship with God and the power of prayer will get us through the most perilous time period in ALL HISTORY! —Stephen Quayle

Satellite Picture of Gulf Oil Spill approx June 26, 2010

2010-06-26T05:46:00.001-07:00

The Oil Spill Is An Illusion....It's All a Setup?

2010-06-26T05:37:00.001-07:00

What's the benefit of this scam? MONEY, and population control. Read the intelhub article linked below. If you're still listening, and even beginning to grasp the sinister nature of the fraud being perpetrated, then you'll realize that the corexit9500, and other dispersant's are not needed. They are purposely being sprayed by Evergreen Air/CIA to cull the population along the Gulf Coast.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=109_1277394761

Corexit EC9527A Safety Data Sheet

2010-06-26T05:21:00.000-07:00

Safety Data Sheet for Corexit can be viewed here:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9527A_MSDS.539295.pdf

Letter from Natural Resource Systems Offering Perfect Science Technology

2010-06-25T16:15:00.000-07:00

Now that TVI executives have had the experience of witnessing first hand the present pathetic situation in New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, and the 90,000 square miles of surrounding area affected by Hurricane Katrina and, in the aftermath of this national disaster, I thought perhaps you might want to reconsider my proposal of supplying a product that offers a remedy for cleaning up such pollution as is now affecting this entire area, in addition to the other compatible uses of this product with your decontamination shelters.

As I stated, no company in your field presently has this capability that I am offering you. The product can also be used in your decontamination shelters with far superior advantages to any other decontamination solution with an absolute degree of safety in contrast to those who might be otherwise decontaminated with your present solution, or in comparison to other companies offering decontamination equipment and solutions. This product would not require any additional investment in plant and equipment for TVI. It would, of course, require some additional administrative and office support for logistical disbursement of the product in times such as now exist in the affected area. TVI would not even be required to inventory product. The potential end users such as local, state and federal government agencies that anticipate immediate need may want to inventory the product. It would be a safe bet that FEMA would be one of those agencies in the aftermath of this present experience. Otherwise, the product can be hastily supplied in large quantities from us as needed for direct shipment to end users with TVI as broker.

You will also recall that I mentioned a very conservative figure of less than $200 to clean up a surface acre of pollution, a figure which is extremely cost efficient considering any other presently known means of clean-up. Not only do I not need to do the math to convince you of how many surface acres there are in 90,000 square miles, I do not need to convince you of the fact that there is no other such known cost effective means to clean up biological and chemical pollutants in such a large area as I will demonstrate below. The potential bottom line numbers to both of us are staggering to say the least.

As one of the founders of the company, I have witnessed laboratory tests of worse pollution than is now present in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina being completely restored to the three (3) basic building blocks of life with the product I intended to introduce to you when I visited with you on August 15th last. Water taken from chemically polluted streams, water from cesspools, runoff water from open garbage dumps as found in Turkey, and water from any type of the most vile pollution imaginable, we can successfully treat returning it to its pristine condition. I have participated in both public and private demonstrations where we have accomplished this very result, where so-called experts have been present and cannot believe nor can they explain the results. But results they are, proven by what they see in minutes after the decontamination solution is introduced to the polluted medium%u2026.rendered so clean that a goldfish will survive in the solution minutes after the purification process is initiated.

The product that I hoped to offer TVIN is a water-purification agent that ingeniously uses water as the medium to multiply and intensify the purification process. It will neutralize all biological and virulent causing diseases, and all chemical agents of whatever kind, by turning polluted water containing any of the most vile forms of pollution into the following three basic life essentials:

1. Pure water with restored oxygen content and a pH of 7;
2. Amino acids; and,
3. Fatty acids%u2026

The latter two being the basic building blocks of life as we know it, and which can be processed to be used as fertilizer. In our past demonstrations in which I have personally participated, in a matter of minutes after introducing the purifying agent into a highly polluted solution of whatever kind, and to demonstrate the end result, we place a goldfish into the purified solution. Not only does the goldfish survive as it would in any adequately oxygenated and clean water, it goes to the bottom and begins feeding on the pollution residue which has been returned to a safe state and is edible as fish food. The suspended pollutants gradually descend to the bottom of the tank and the result is absolutely clear water. Proof of the results resides in the living goldfish.

Therefore, I ask that you reconsider my offer by your acceptance of my Non-Disclosure and Non-Circumventure Agreement so that we may proceed to the next level.

Sincerely,

Mr Lex Hahn

Natural Resource Systems

perfectscience@Gmail.com

Corporate Gas Drilling Buries Indonesian Town in Methane Mud (Video)

2010-06-25T16:01:00.000-07:00

Corporate Gas Drilling Buries Indonesian Town in Methane Mud (Video)

List of oil spills

2010-06-25T06:45:00.000-07:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikinews

This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, or 7.33 barrels, or 1165 liters. This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil; actual values can range from 0.816 to 0.893, so the amounts shown below are inexact. They are also estimates, because the actual volume of an oil spill is difficult to measure exactly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills

Gulf Emergency Summit - Cindy Sheehan Speech

2010-06-24T15:07:00.000-07:00

Kindra Arnesen Venice LA Local @ the Gulf Emergency Summit

2010-06-24T14:32:00.000-07:00

CNN: Almost All 1989 Exxon Valdez Cleanup Crew Dead!

2010-06-24T05:02:00.000-07:00

But there are even more downright criminal activities taking place right now. According to a government panel, new calculations suggest that "an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days," the New York Times reported on June 10.

In addition, the CNN video in the below article discusses the health problems suffered by the clean-up workers, and the fact that BP is strongly discouraging any type of protective gear, such as respirators and even rubber gloves! In the video, Kerry Kennedy mentions that the average age at the time of death of workers who cleaned up after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill was 51!
Today, all those clean-up workers are DEAD!

http://newscottage.blogspot.com/2010/06/cnn-almost-all-1989-exxon-valdez.html

TILT: The illness afflicting workers exposed to BP's oil disaster?

2010-06-24T04:57:00.000-07:00

Workers cleaning up the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have reported suffering from flu-like symptoms that may be the consequence of exposure to chemicals in the oil as well as the petroleum-derived solvent being used to disperse the spill.

The illness -- marked by headaches, fatigue, upset stomach, and problems with memory and concentration -- has been dubbed toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, or TILT. People suffering from TILT lose the ability to tolerate exposures to household chemical products, medication or even food, Dr. Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center told WOAI TV:

"Things like diesel fuel, exposure to fragrances, cleaning agents that never bothered them before suddenly bother them," adds Dr. Miller.

Miller first described TILT in 1996, but it remains a controversial diagnosis among the medical community. The syndrome is also known as multiple chemical sensitivity and idiopathic environmental intolerance. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, has defined the illness as a "chronic, recurring disease caused by a person's inability to tolerate an environmental chemical or class of foreign chemicals."

Regardless of whether the illness being reported in Gulf cleanup workers and residents ends up being confirmed as TILT, the fact remains that the chemicals people are being exposed to in the oil and dispersants are known to have health impacts including eye, skin and respiratory irritation, as well as headaches, dizziness, weakness, nausea and confusion. An analysis of EPA air testing data has found levels of these chemicals in coastal communities exceeding safety standards.

As of this week, the Louisiana Department of Health has documented 109 reports of illnesses among residents exposed to the spill, with 74 of those complaints coming from cleanup workers, according to ProPublica. In Alabama, another 19 cases of illness have been reported among people exposed to chemicals in the spill.

Much more on link:
http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/06/tilt-the-illness-afflicting-workers-exposed-to-bps-oil-disaster.html

Surf on Pensacola Beach Boiling Like Acid

2010-06-24T04:55:00.000-07:00

CDC advises “Everyone, including pregnant women” to avoid areas affected by spill; Expert says crude oil contains “some of the most toxic chemicals

2010-06-23T06:02:00.001-07:00

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has issued health warnings…

While they suggest there is no threat, the CDC simultaneously advised “everyone, including pregnant women” to avoid spill-affected areas. …

Shira Kramer, an epidemiologist who has conducted research for the petroleum industry on the health consequences of exposure to petroleum, said she is concerned that the risks are being downplayed.

“It’s completely scientifically dishonest to pooh-pooh the potential here when you are talking about some of the most toxic chemicals that we know,” said Kramer, who is founder and president of consulting firm Epidemiology International in Hunt Valley, Maryland. She isn’t involved with the Institute panels.

“When you talk about community exposure, you are talking about exposures in unpredictable ways and to subpopulations that may be more highly susceptible than others, such as those of reproductive age, people who are immuno-compromised, children or fetuses. …

“[W]e have a soup of chemicals from the crude, chemicals from the dispersants and pollutants that were already in the water. Who can say how they will interact?”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-22/health-data-gaps-bp-suspicions-worry-u-s-panelists.html

Oil Spill - 17 big questions about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

2010-06-23T05:26:00.001-07:00

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) What's clear about the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is that the independent journalists are doing a better job of asking the really tough questions than the mainstream media. Sure, CNN, Fox and others are bringing some attention to the matter, and they've done some solid reporting on it, but they haven't yet found a way to ask the deeper questions like why the U.S. government seems to be colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill.

Just the other day, I found an article entitled, "16 Burning Questions About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill" on the TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com site (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/...). It was a really insightful collection of important questions, so I've repeated them below. The author of these questions wasn't mentioned on the page, so I regret I cannot properly attribute the list, but I do think they're worth reviewing, so I've included my own commentary and an extra question below.

Here are the 16 questions:

#1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used "as needed" by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or to control the public?
Mike's comment: Good question. Much of the response activity to the spill seems to be about controlling the public's perception and limiting media access to the spill site rather than actually cleaning up the mess.

#2) Barack Obama has also announced the creation of a "Gulf recovery czar" who will be in charge of overseeing the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico region following the oil spill. So is appointing a "czar" Obama's idea of taking charge of a situation?

#3) Because it is so incredibly toxic, the UK's Marine Management Organization has completely banned Corexit 9500, so if there was a major oil spill in the UK's North Sea, BP would not be able to use it. So why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico?
Mike's answer: Because Corexit kills sea animals and makes them sink and disappear rather than allowing them to wash up on shore where the emotional outcry would be even worse than it is already.

#4) It is being reported that 2.61 parts per million of Corexit 9500 (mixed with oil at a ratio of 1:1o) is lethal to 50% of fish exposed to it within 96 hours. That means that 1 gallon of Corexit 9500/oil mixture is capable of rendering 383,141 gallons of water highly toxic to fish. So why was BP allowed to dump 1,021,000 gallons of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 into the Gulf of Mexico, and why aren't they being stopped from dumping another 805,000 gallons of these dispersants that they have on order into the Gulf?
Mike's answer: Sadly, BP is running the show in the Gulf, not the government! The U.S. government has sold out to private corporations who now think they own the gulf and can run operations there however they see fit.

#5) If these dispersants are so incredibly toxic to fish, what are they going to do to crops? What are they going to do to people?
Mike's answer: They're obviously going to poison the entire Gulf Coast region if hurricanes whip up these chemicals and deposit them on land. We could be looking at a complete wipeout of the Florida citrus industry, for example, if all the worst conditions converge.

#6) If the smell of the oil on some Gulf beaches is already so strong that it burns your nostrils, then what in the world is this oil doing to wildlife that encounter it?

#7) Is it a bad sign that birds from the Gulf region are flocking north by the thousands?
Mike answer: Remember the Tsunami in the Indian ocean a few years back? The animals fled first, while the clueless people stayed behind and got clobbered by the deadly wave. I think a similar thing could be happening in the Gulf. All it takes is one hurricane to turn the entire region into a toxic stew of chemical poison.

#8) Why is BP being allowed to use private security contractors to keep the American people away from the oil cleanup sites?
Mike's answer: Yes, this is the real question. BP is running security in the Gulf the same way Halliburton runs security in the Middle East. The corporate contractors are now the police force in the area, and they're running the Gulf as if they owned it! This is a clear indication that the corporations have taken over our government.

#9) Why is BP openly attempting to manipulate the search results on sites like Google and Yahoo?

#10) Why has the FAA shut down the airspace above the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? What don't they want the American people to see?
Mike's answer: There are lots of answer to this one: The feds probably don't want people in small airplanes taking aerial photos and posting them online (because the Obama administration is working overtime to cover up the truth here, much like the Bush administration did with the flag-draped coffins coming home from war in the Middle East). It could also be that they are planning something really crazy like a deep ocean nuke to collapse the well, and they don't want civilians falling out of the sky when the mushroom cloud appears.

#11) Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says there are reports that there are additional ruptures in the sea floor from which oil is leaking. If there are quite a few of these additional ruptures, then how in the world does BP expect to completely stop this oil leak?
Mike's answer: BP actually doesn't expect to stop this leak anytime soon. They are clearly in full-on spin mode, just trying to deny the truth and spin the words to buy themselves more time to offload stock shares before the whole thing comes tumbling down.

#12) Why are scientists finding concentrations of methane at up to 10,000 times normal background levels in Gulf waters?
Mike's answer: Because BP broke the ocean floor, and now huge volumes of gas hydrates (which contain methane) are bubbling up from places that were previously trapped safely underground.

#13) At some testing stations in the Gulf of Mexico, levels of benzene have been detected at over 3000 parts per billion, and levels of hydrogen sulfide have been detected as high as 1192 parts per billion. Considering that these levels would be highly toxic to humans, why hasn't the general public been warned?

#14) Why are so many Gulf oil spill disaster workers showing up at local hospitals complaining of a "mysterious illness"?
Mike's answer: This is going to be the Gulf War Syndrome of the Gulf Coast. Or the 9/11 asbestos question affecting firefighters. There will be a wave of toxic side effects from the use of chemicals in the Gulf, and both BP and the federal government will predictably deny any link between the chemicals and the health effects for years to come.

#15) If "70% or 80%" of the protective booms are doing absolutely nothing at all to stop the oil, then what is going to stop the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf from eventually reaching shore?
Mike's answer: Nothing, of course. The oil is going to reach the shore, and there's nothing BP or the feds can do to stop in. In fact, it seems as if they are trying to interfere with the cleanup by halting the barges that were supposed to be vacuuming oil just off the beaches.

#16) It is being reported that the deep sea oil plumes are creating huge "dead zones" where all creatures are dying as they are deprived of oxygen. If this oil spill continues to grow could the vast majority of the Gulf of Mexico become one gigantic "dead zone"?
Mike's answer: Indeed, that is precisely what looks likely to happen. The Gulf of Mexico could become a massive dead zone, adding to the long list of humanity's crimes against the planet. See my related CounterThink cartoon at: http://www.naturalnews.com/029015_a...

I've also added one more question of my own:
#17) Why is our government colluding with BP to cover up the truth about the spill?

Remember the BP press conferences on cable news? A U.S. Coast Guard representative was standing right there beside the BP spokesperson, almost as if she were a subordinate of BP. This is insane! If anything, the US Coast Guard should be telling BP what to do, not the other way around.

And why is the US Coast Guard restricting reporters' access to the spill areas, threatening them with arrest if they "trespass." Trespass into PUBLIC waters? Doesn't anybody realize that BP does not own the Gulf of Mexico and if we want to take our boats out into the Gulf to get some video of what's really happening there, that's our right! But the U.S. government is now working for BP, it seems, and they're trying to protect BP's image by restricting the freedoms of ordinary Americans.

Sound familiar? That's why I think this Gulf of Mexico disaster is another 9/11 reactionary freedom squasher in the works. Just wait... you'll see what kind of freedom-destroying ideas are put forth by our lawmakers in response to this catastrophe. When it's all said and done, it won't only be British Petroleum that loses; it will be all of us.
The Corporatocracy and government collusion
What we're really witnessing here with the BP disaster is our own government colluding with the powerful corporatocracy to cover up the truth all while making it worse by interfering with legitimate cleanup efforts.

It's almost as if the federal government were actively working to worsen the problem and expand the impact of the disaster. But that brings up the question: Why?

Why would our own government worsen a catastrophe? The answer, of course, is right in front of you. Just visit ground zero in New York City and remind yourself of all the various ways the U.S. government expanded its power following the collapse of the twin towers. "Never waste a good crisis" is the mantra of Big Government today, and the easiest way to steal even more power away from the people is to turn a small disaster into a big disaster, then leap in with a "government solution" that enacts some large, oppressive new act that never would have been possible before the disaster.

So what kind of oppressive new laws does the Obama administration want to put in place in response to this disaster? Perhaps government control over all oceans, or government control over all seafood. Maybe they want to outlaw oil over the next 25 years and force everybody to transition to some other form of energy (which may not actually be a bad idea from an ecological perspective, but at what price to freedom?).

There are a thousand other conspiracy theories that try to guess at what the government's true agenda might be in this moment. While it's hard to say which of them (if any) might be true, one thing is crystal clear: The government does not seem interested in solving the problem in the Gulf of Mexico. It is covering up the truth, threatening mainstream journalists who try to photograph the region, restricting air travel over the well site, restricting boat travel anywhere near the spill, and basically lying to the public on a daily basis about what's really happening there.

That alone should make any thinking person suspicious. If the situation were really under control, why would they have to lie about it?
US government poisons its own citizens
There is precedent for believing that the U.S. government might try to poison its own citizens in order to achieve a political goal. During Prohibition, the U.S. government actually released poisoned alcohol in order to harm (or kill) those who were defying the law and drinking liquor.

That story is published today here on NaturalNews.com. Read it to learn more about what our own government may be capable of doing when it wishes to exercise power of the People.{SubscribeHealthRangerBlock}

50 mile oil 'patch' just south of Florida Keys

2010-06-23T05:23:00.000-07:00

Environmental Engineer: Dispersants Have to Stop Now

2010-06-20T05:40:00.000-07:00

Vatic Project - Daily Summary ... June 18, 2010

I. Blog: The Vatic Project

Post: Environmental Engineer: Dispersants Have to Stop Now

Vatic Note: Please read what this environmental Engineer has to say which is what I have been saying all along. BP, KNOWS exactly what that chemical does and it is killing the gulf when it did not have to do so. Here is an article to discuss corexit that supports what he is saying. Scroll down half way and it begins at half way mark on what corexit is. Its a killer. Why then are they doing it? Remember, we learned that this chemical interacts with water to form a gas cloud that can travel anywhere in the US and when it rains it will kill our plants during the prime period of the growing season. It will be too late to replant new crops and the soil will be damaged beyond repair if it comes down to earth which it will. This engineer has been trying to get someone in government to listen to him and of course they can't hear him because they are TOO BUSY WITH LOCKING DOWN "AND CONTROLLING" ALL INFORMATION that goes out to the public and leaving the fascist BP in charge of all things that our elected reps should be dealing with instead of private mercenary contractors. . We must understand that means we do not really know what is going on or the impact of this on us OR THEIR INTENT given this has been known it was going to happen for sometime now. Notice once the public on their own put out all the indicators that BP knew and had this planned in advance, they finally came out over the past couple of days and said they knew, so they traded their stock instead of preventing the problem, IF ITS A REAL PROBLEM. Not necessary if its not a real problem. I said it before and I am going to keep saying it, THIS IS CHEMICAL WARFARE AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY OUR SWORN ENEMY. Just try to remember who owns BP and who owns the toxic chemical company and once you see that you will understand this is a war that they are conducting against us using fear for manipulating us into compliance, in fact the people are so scared that I bet they begin to beg to be put into the camps just like those in Katrina. Now no food in the bay and the chemicals are killing the crops growing right now, so that will make those that do not leave without food or decent water. See the next one on BP trying to stop the rescue of turtles that are endangered. WHY???
Link: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/environmental-engineer-dispersants-have.html

II. Post: BP Blocks Attempt to Save Endangered Sea Turtles from Oil Spill

Vatic Note: Remember, this sea life can withstand the oil a lot longer than we had imagined and we got that from the valdez rescue of so many birds and wildlife. But these animals cannot withstand the "43 times more toxic" disbursing agent being used. Please watch the video below of the fisherman who said they are rescuing these turtles within a short distance of the blow out location. Now that caught my attention big time since that is suppose to be where the millions of gallons a day is pumping out of there, and yet they are catching these turtles still alive and swimming around and are well enough to be rehabiliated? Something is wrong here. Seriously, how can this be? I can understand it if it were many miles away but not that close?

Now, given there are so many other non toxic options, why did they use the corexit? AND WHY ARE THE PREVENTING THE FISHERMEN TO RESCUE THE JUVENILE TURTLES??? Food??? Is it because they are easily accessible food supply for the people living in this region? Add that to the fact that the disbursant is turning into a gas forming cloud when it hits the water and you then you have the plant life on shore also under attack. Finally, WHO IS BP TO TELL US WE CAN'T RESCUE OUR TURTLES??? This is major intentional crime and worse, after the EPA told BP to stop using the disbursant, they ignored our government and continued, intentionally to use it, therefore the crime is even bigger because of that. Now its time to write to the President and ask for the PROSECUTION OF THESE CRIMINALS? Have they filed charges? Have they made arrests??? If not, why not??? These are questions that must be answered becasue the only answer I can see, is not the one they would like us to have which is, "even the government is in on it." That makes them criminals as well. Lots to consider once this calms down a bit. "WHY?" on all of it, is the big question and the answers are getting to be fewer and fewer and much more evil once you read all the articles on this site about depopulation.
Link: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/bp-blocks-attempt-to-save-endangered.html

III. Post: Food and Depopulation (Part 1 of 4) , Rockefeller Family

Vatic Note: We will be watching this over time and bring you all four parts of the series. This is important because you can see it unfolding as we sit here watching the chemical clouds from the gulf move inland and begin to kill the plants along their path and to make people ill. Right now reports from the gulf suggests that the smell of the chemicals are horrific, like toxic battery acid and people are truly getting ill from it. We will republish the article on the affects of this "Goldman Sachs" chemical disbursement on humans and its 4 times worse than any impact of the oil. Remember also, animals can recover from the oil, but are dying and cannot recover from the chemical poisoning and chemical warfare being conducted against it. It wasn't bad enough they had to rape and pillage our wealth from the nation, but now they have to destroy our natural resources and move into their DEPOPULATION plan. Well, justice does always find a way and we will help that process along. How we do it depends on our leaders and how seriously they take their jobs in this area. If they don't take it seriously then we will.
Link: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/food-and-depopulation-part-1-of-4.html

IV. Post: Profitable Depopulation Plot Links JP Morgan-Chase and Goldman Sachs to Vaccination Contaminations and BigPharma Corruption

Vatic Note: Do not forget that Wall Street has a derivative on Seniors betting when they will die off while also buying out the cash equity in the seniors life insurance policies for PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR, and thus the senior only gets about 7,500 or maybe even $20,000 up front, and when that senior dies, the wall street player not only gets the face value of the policy say, maybe 100,000 dollars, but also gets the derivative bet that the senior died. Which makes all these policies between JP Morgan and our health industry a serious conflict of interest in favor of wall street. In fact, you could say its an incentive to do wrong and harm another.
Link: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/04/profitable-depopulation-plot-links-jp.html

V. Post: Wikileaks founder fears for his life

Vatic Note: It is ashame that we have come to this point in our world, not just our nation. This is similar to the prewar period in Nazi Germany, only global. This is what happens when a foreign nation with no respect for international law, laws of humanity, and laws of civil behavior are totally ignored, and it occupies your nation through war that is undeclared and fought surrepticiously. Then your country begins to take on the demeanor, practices, and philosophy of your OCCUPIER. We all know what that looks like, concentration camps created with brick walls, embargoes of food and medical supplies (who does that to civilian populations? No one except our foreign occupying nation that should never have been given nation status since they don't know how to behave like good nations and neighbors). Its why we are becoming like them since 32 of their citizens occupy our White House and congress. Its time we took our own identity back again, but unfortunately we waited too long. Now we are going to have to do it the hard and costly way. Too bad, but it was our choice to let it go on this long. I hope the owner of Wikileaks remains in good health and can find the ability to continue his good work.
Link: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/wikileaks-founder-fears-for-his-life.html

GULF OIL SPILL : DISASTER? OR A WELL ORGANIZED PLAN

2010-06-19T16:09:00.000-07:00

In the last few months, a strange series of events has taken place surrounding the April 20th BP Gulf oil spill. The Intel Hub will attempt to lay out some of the seemingly unbelievable facts in a manner which can easily be understood.

Between March 22nd and March 24th, several drills involving an oil spill took place.“Spills Of National Significance” was a drill ran by DHS and the Coast Guard. The SONS documents were first broke by the Intel Hub on May 8, 2010. More than a week later, ABC News would of course take credit for the story.

We now know, through witness testimony, that there were cracks reported in the drill casing two weeks prior to the disaster. Goldman Sachs sold 44% of their total holdings, 4,680,822 shares of BP stock in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman Sachs earned about $ 266 million on the sale.

Apparently, Halliburton also had some psychic insight on what was soon to come. Eleven days before the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, Halliburton purchased an oil spill prevention firm. Halliburton was the lead company in charge of cementing the Deepwater rigs as well.

Just hours before the rig explosion, The Bureau of Land Management took part in a surprise inspection aboard the Deepwater Horizon. A four man team quickly flashed credentials to a supervisor and was then allowed access to the entire rig. Zac Zimmerman reveals in this interview how odd this particular BLM visit really was. Not to mention,many rigs have burned for weeks at a time without collapsing.

Another important fact is that Obama, along with DHS and the Department of the Interior, sent SWAT teams to the gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs. One must question, why would you deploy over 30 SWAT teams in response to an oil spill unless it was an act of terrorism, an act of war, or they if they were sent to carry out some sort of covert operation?

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BP seeking billions for Gulf cleanup

2010-06-19T15:42:00.001-07:00

BP chief executive Tony Hayward as been relieved of day-to-day control of efforts to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Energy giant BP is asking for billion-dollar loans to help it resolve the oil spill crisis as crude continues to gush from an underwater well in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP PLC, battling to contain the oil spill under the Gulf of Mexico, now is seeking loans of $1 billion from each of seven banks to raise up to $7 billion. The corporation may also raise five billion dollars in an unsecured bond. US President Barack Obama has demanded that the company provide $20 billion for damage claims. On Wednesday, BP announced plans to cut payments of dividends this year.

Experts say that despite different methods applied by BP for plugging the flow, 35 to 60 thousand barrels of oil are still spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day. Meanwhile, BP chief executive Tony Hayward has been relieved of day-to-day control of efforts to stop the oil spill, the company's chairman confirmed. BP managing director Bob Dudley will now take charge of the response to the spill, which continues to threaten the Gulf Coast.
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BP's chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the company's point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis

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By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer – 1 min ago
NEW ORLEANS – BP's chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the company's point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis, a day after Hayward enraged members of Congress by offering few answers about how the environmental disaster happened. It was unclear when the switch will occur.
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told Britain's Sky News television on Friday that Hayward "is now handing over the operations, the daily operations to (BP Managing Director) Bob Dudley." BP had said this month that Dudley would take over the long-term response to the spill once the leak was stopped, but millions of gallons continue to spew and that milestone remains months away.
Svanberg's statement sowed confusion, with other BP officials saying Hayward remains in charge. Spokesman Toby Odone said "Nothing has changed" since the earlier announcement regarding Dudley, and spokesman Tristan Vanhegan said the "board still has confidence in Tony."
BP's move overshadowed some positive news in the cleanup effort. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced earlier Friday that a newly expanded containment system is capturing or incinerating more than 1 million gallons of oil daily, the first time it has approached its peak capacity.
And the system will soon grow. By late June, the oil giant hopes it can keep nearly 90 percent of the flow from hitting the ocean.
But the massive leak, set off by an oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers nearly two months ago, will not be stopped completely until at least August. BP has been hammered for its response, in part because of comments by Hayward that Gulf Coast residents horrified by the spill consider insensitive.
Hayward shocked residents in slick-hit Louisiana by saying, "I would like my life back." He was quoted by the Times of London suggesting that Americans were particularly likely to file bogus claims — a statement that gained significance Friday when a House committee said BP has paid less than 12 percent of claims submitted. President Barack Obama suggested he would fire Hayward if he could.
On Thursday, Hayward told lawmakers on a U.S. House investigations panel that he was out of the loop on decisions surrounding the blown well. Both Democrats and Republicans were infuriated when he asserted, "I'm not stonewalling."
"It is clear that Tony has made remarks that have upset people," said Svanberg, who made a misstep of his own this week when he said BP cares "about the small people." But he added that Hayward "is also a man who has probably been on 100 hours of TV time and maybe 500."
Dudley, an American-born oil man with more than 30 years in the industry, has been BP's managing director since 2009. His responsibilities include broad oversight of the company's activities in the Americas and Asia, and earlier this month he was named head of the company's disaster management unit.
Svanberg told Sky News that no matter who is heading BP's oil spill response, "as long as we don't close the well and take care of this, there will be criticisms about many things."
Many Gulf Coast residents and business owners who have been economically devastated by the spill are still waiting for compensation from BP. The House Judiciary Committee said data it has collected shows that BP has paid $71 million out of an estimated $600 million in outstanding claims as of Tuesday. It based the figure on data it collected from BP's daily reports to the Coast Guard on claims and on discussions with BP.
The committee said not one of the 717 claims for bodily injury, or the 175 claims for diminished home property value, have been paid.
"I remain concerned that BP is stiffing too many victims and shortchanging others," said the committee's chairman, Michigan Democrat John Conyers.
BP spokesman Scott Dean said in an e-mail that the company had paid out $95 million as of Friday, and it had written about 30,000 checks to settle about half of the 63,000 claims it has received.
The chief of the Independent Claims Facility — the newly created office charged with distributing $20 billion in compensation from BP — said a plan to handle the remaining damage claims will be in place in 30 to 45 days. Kenneth Feinberg said he hopes to have a program going forward that would provide payment within 30 to 60 days of someone submitting a new claim.
Those pledges don't mean much to Jerry Forte, who filed a business claim with BP more than a month ago and hasn't seen a dime. His seafood processing business on the docks in Pass Christian, Miss., used to bring in more than $1 million a year but now is practically shuttered.
"I'm 99 percent down. They took all the shrimp boats. I don't have anybody shrimping," Forte said Friday. "My bank accounts are all going down to nothing because we're spending it all on bills, just waiting on BP."
The slow claims process is just one of many criticisms lawmakers and the public have had with BP's response to the spill — and many of the toughest complaints have been directed at Hayward.
Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said the CEO's "evasive and obstructive" responses during Thursday's congressional testimony further damaged BP's reputation.
"Whether this change in Gulf leadership for BP will be productive remains to be seen," Stupak said in a statement. "I expect that Mr. Dudley will take a much more cooperative and open approach to answering our questions and responding to the needs of the Gulf region. If not, his tenure will likely be as short lived as Mr. Hayward's."
The recent oil containment efforts are a rare bit of good news for BP and suggest that its engineers are getting better at trapping oil after a two-month string of failures with equipment that clogged, proved ineffective or was simply abandoned.
"This is a significant improvement moving forward," said Adm. Allen, the top federal official in charge of the spill.
But there's still much that can go wrong, from strained hoses breaking to ships colliding in the crowded seas over the leak. A bolt of lightning that hit a drill ship this week started a fire and halted oil collection for hours.
Stopping the leak will require a pair of relief wells that are not expected to be ready until August, although drilling has gone faster than expected.
"Certainly stopping it is the first step and the important thing anyone can do," said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University. "Mother Nature can handle a lot of insult. It's just when you pile it and pile it and pile it."
Even if the new containment systems are a success, it could take months for those living along the Gulf Coast to notice any improvement. Experts say oil could be washing up for another six months, and it may take years for wildlife populations harmed by the spill to rebound to levels seen before the leak.
To collect oil, BP now has a containment cap sitting over a well bore that is siphoning oil and gas to a drill ship on the ocean surface. Separate lines are pulling oil and gas from beneath a stack of pipes above the seafloor to a drilling rig where the flow is burned. Engineers have been working since Wednesday to bring that system to full speed.
The ability to contain oil should grow as BP and the federal government move toward getting oil-trapping equipment in place that could better withstand Gulf hurricanes. In addition, BP wants to take off the existing cap in July and replace it with one of three possible designs that would offer a tighter seal and siphon oil to two ships waiting above.
Cutting back on the flow would give cleanup crews some breathing room.
For example, the Coast Guard has put an emphasis on skimming the heavy oil as close to the damaged well as possible, before it breaks into thousands of smaller, unpredictable slicks that meander with the weather and can elude or outpace skimmers as they are pushed to shore.
But if the oil flow was substantially reduced, about 15 offshore skimmers could start chasing ribbons of oil — sometimes as long as 60 miles — that spread away from the leak site, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. James Watson, who coordinates day-to-day oil spill operations.
Watson wasn't ready to make any plans just yet.
"I've tempered my optimism over time with this spill," he said.
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Associated Press writers Shelia Byrd in Jackson, Miss., Brian Skoloff in New Orleans, Harry R. Weber in Atlanta, Holbrook Mohr in Venice, La., and Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.
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Oil spill full of methane, adding new concerns

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Oil spill full of methane, adding new concerns

The Associated Press

12:53 PM EST June 18, 2010

Work crews on boats gather to clean marshland impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Spill near Bay Jimmy, in the Barataria Bay of Louisiana on Thursday.

It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem.

The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer who is studying the impact of methane from the spill.

That means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.

"This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.

Methane is a colorless, odorless and flammable substance that is a major component in the natural gas used to heat people's homes. Petroleum engineers typically burn off excess gas attached to crude before the oil is shipped off to the refinery. That's exactly what BP has done as it has captured more than 7.5 million gallons (28 million liters) of crude from the breached well.

A BP spokesman said the company was burning about 30 million cubic feet (850,000 cubic meters) of natural gas daily from the source of the leak, adding up to about 450 million cubic feet (12.7 million cubic meters) since the containment effort started 15 days ago. That's enough gas to heat about 450,000 homes for four days.

But that figure does not account for gas that eluded containment efforts and wound up in the water, leaving behind huge amounts of methane.

BP CEO TONY HAYWARD TO BE RELIEVED OF DAY TO DAY DUTIES

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LONDON (AP) -- The chairman of BP says embattled chief executive Tony Hayward is being relieved of day-to-day responsibility for managing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

According to the transcript of an interview with Sky News television released Friday, chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg Svanberg says that Hayward "is now handing over the operations, the daily operations to (BP Managing Director) Bob Dudley." Continued at above link

Massive Oil Plumes Inching Closer to Florida Panhandle

2010-06-18T07:55:00.000-07:00

PENSACOLA BEACH (AP) -- Skimming vessels and boom lines are trying to hold off two massive plumes of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill that are inching closer to the western Florida Panhandle.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection said Sunday that one of the slicks is as close as three miles south of Pensacola Pass.

The pass is adjacent to a section of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and Pensacola Beach.

Another patchy, orange slick was 9 miles south of the pass. It is at least 2 miles wide and extends 40 miles to the south.

The DEP said winds continue to blow the oil toward the shore, increasing the chances of tar balls and weathered crude on the beaches during the next week.

"We're seeing this oil now and it still looks pretty fresh.' said Kenneth Manning with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. "It's still pumping 200 miles from here. So it's hard to say when this stuff is going to hit. But when this stuff hits, its going to be so much worse than tarballs cause its actual liquid."

The DEP said winds continue to blow the oil toward the shore, increasing the chances of tar balls on the beaches during the next week.

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Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately destroy human civilization

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Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately destroy human civilization

Claims Against Queen and BP

2010-06-17T19:17:00.000-07:00

It has just come across our desk that a Lis Pendens has been sent charging the Queen and British Petroleum with Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, and poisoning our water.

Please spread far and wide. See Lis Pendens Here

Spill threatens NW Florida; Intracoastal Waterway may close

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Field Notes - Spill threatens NW Florida; Intracoastal Waterway may close

Spill threatens NW Florida; Intracoastal Waterway may close

NOAA
A NOAA projection shows where the spill is expected to have spread by Friday.

Oil has begun invading beaches in Northwest Florida and is seeping into Pensacola Bay, leading state officials to warn that the Intracoastal Waterway may have to be closed to commercial traffic.

Small deposits are already drifting to inland waters, and large concentrations are right off-shore and moving closer with every incoming tide. Closing the Intracoastal Waterway, a vital inland conduit for shipping and barge traffic, becomes more likely with each incoming tide, Sarah Manning, a state Fish and Wildlife officer, tells NBC station WJHG of Panama City.

"You can see the sheen real well right here," Manning says. "There's a lot of weathered, small tar balls right here" in the bay.

The spread of the oil prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to expand off-limits fishing areas north to Panama City Beach this afternoon. That brings the total area closed to fishing to 80,806 square miles, slightly more than a third of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

NOAA is offering an interactive mapping service providing a wide range of customizable information on the spread of the oil spill. You can track its progress and projected course here.

Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore

2010-06-17T16:45:00.000-07:00

JAY REEVES
From Associated Press
June 16, 2010 6:51 PM EDT

GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.

Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange — and troubling — phenomena.

Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might appear to be, researchers say.

The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily get devoured by predators.
"A parallel would be: Why are the wildlife running to the edge of a forest on fire? There will be a lot of fish, sharks, turtles trying to get out of this water they detect is not suitable," said Larry Crowder, a Duke University marine biologist.
The nearly two-month-old oil spill has created an environmental catastrophe unparalleled in U.S. history as tens of millions of gallons of have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.

Day by day, scientists in boats tally up dead birds, sea turtles and other animals, but the toll is surprisingly small given the size of the disaster. The latest figures show that 783 birds, 353 turtles and 41 mammals have died — numbers that pale in comparison to what happened after the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989, when 250,000 birds and 2,800 otters are believed to have died.

Researchers say there are several reasons for the relatively small death toll: The vast nature of the spill means scientists are able to locate only a small fraction of the dead animals. Many will never be found after sinking to the bottom of the sea or getting scavenged by other marine life. And large numbers of birds are meeting their deaths deep in the Louisiana marshes where they seek refuge from the onslaught of oil.

"That is their understanding of how to protect themselves," said Doug Zimmer, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking in the oily sheen and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.
"I think part of the reason why we're not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning," Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.

As for the fish, locals are seeing large schools hanging around piers where fishing has been banned; apparently the fish feel safer now that they are not being disturbed by fishermen.

Also, researchers believe fish are swimming closer to shore because the water is cleaner and more abundant in oxygen. Father out in the Gulf, researchers say, the spill is not only tainting the water with oil but also depleting oxygen levels.
A similar scenario occurs during "dead zone" periods — the time during summer months when oxygen becomes so depleted that fish race toward shore in large numbers. Sometimes, so many fish gather close to the shoreline off Mobile that locals rush to the beach with tubs and nets to reap the harvest.

But this latest shore migration could prove deadly.

First, more oil could eventually wash ashore and overwhelm the fish. They could also become trapped between the slick and the beach, leading to increased competition for oxygen in the water and causing them to die as they run out of air.

"Their ability to avoid it may be limited in the long term, especially if in near-shore refuges they're crowding in close to shore, and oil continues to come in. At some point they'll get trapped," Crowder said. "It could lead to die-offs."
The fish could also fall victim to predators such as sharks and seabirds. Already there have been increased shark sightings in shallow waters along the Gulf Coast.
The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.

Roger Helm, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service's contaminants division, said the government expects a battle with BP over the extent of the damage and has every incentive to be scientifically credible.

"Both sides go to their own corner and interpret the data the way they want," Helm said. "This is a legal process, and if we can't get an agreement we'll end up in court."
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Lush contributed from Barataria Bay, La., Flesher from Traverse City, Mich.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Press Release: Perfect Science A.D. June 17, 2010

2010-06-17T16:40:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chicago,Illinois, June 17, 2010.

Perfect Science A.D. announces its availability to work with local and federal governments to provide oil remediation for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and any and all oil disasters around the world. In 1996, Perfect Science unveiled its technology at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), and addressed its statement to Mikhail Gorbachev of the International Green Cross, Dr. Wally N' Dow, Secretary General of The Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), The World Bank, The World Health Organization, The White House and Ms. Carol Browner, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

On January 3, 1996 Perfect Science received full approval from the Turkish Standards Institution for implementation of the Perfect Science Environmental Purification Technologies. Perfect Science took emergency action here today to halt to world-wide flood of hydrocarbon pollution by calling for geopolitical adoption and accelerated implementation of a global delivery system for its patented Environmental Cleansing Formulae and Technologies.

The Perfect Science Chairman announced details of a new "direct business" format. The chairman said Perfect Science was prepared to grant each of the world's 216 independent states controlling interest in individual joint ventures and was prepared to accept payment from them in countertrade, with barter levels based on a sliding scale of energy use per capita, in order, he said, "to permit simultaneous adoption and participation by all the world's governments."

The Perfect Science chairman described the Perfect Science Formulae as the master key for unlocking the entire complex of hydrocarbon substances, as well as all the other organic chemicals, that are currently laying siege to and disabling the earth's soil, water and atmosphere. "Having the passkey to organic chemistry means you can clean up all carbonaceous fuels and everything petrochemical from cradle to grave." But in addition to neutralizing all the poisonous effects, the Perfect Science Formulae will renovate industrial processes at all levels and in all sectors, permitting continued economic expansion without environmental debacle." The sudden and thoroughgoing revision of all organic chemistry," the chairman continued, "will require similar revision of the industrial, financial and insurance matrices within each sovereign state. Moreover it is the responsibility, and it will become the duty, of each government to take effective measures locally for rescuing its people and region. This task will naturally include the proper co-ordination and regulation of the Perfect Science Formulae."

The Perfect Science chairman stated further that the projected rescue of the planetary environment by the emergency implementation of the Perfect Science Formulae will simultaneously produce at least six other major stabilizations:

· of energy supply and demand

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Mikhail Gorbachev's speech delivered at the Fourth International Global Forum conference in Kyoto, Japan delineated the grave implications of a breakdown in the stability of the biosphere and the potential planetary catastrophe that might ensue. Mr. Gorbachev called for all nations and each individual to bring to bear all their efforts for the cause of human survival.

It is now a well known fact that the severe disruption of global ecosystems is the direct result of 140 years of irresponsible industrialization resulting in the extensive contamination by hydrocarbons and petrochemicals of sovereign atmospheres, lands, surface waters and critical drinking water supplies.It is no understatement to say that these deadly industrial wastes have brought ecosystems around the world to the precarious state of potential collapse. As more and more third world countries enter into industrialization for the benefit of their economies, the added pressure of their industrial wastes, improperly dealt with, will most certainly result in the drastic destabilization of planetary ecosystems.

Mr. Gorbachev clearly stated in his address that the foundations of human existence could be undermined, threatening life on earth. Although these issues of industrial and economic development are complex and are interwoven with cultural and social trends internationally, three major challenges can be identified for discussion.

The first major challenge is the intensive remediation of global environments which have become supersaturated with toxic hydrocarbon and petrochemical wastes. This task will require the development of environmental purification technologies which must be applicable for wide scale, cost effective implementation.

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The third major challenge is the renovation of The Liquid Fuel Cycle which has been supplying global industry and commerce with fuels that cause massive and aggravated pollution of global atmospheres due to incomplete combustion. This task will require the development of technologies for the construction of new clean burning hydrocarbon eco-fuels, that will permit, through complete combustion, continued use of the vast stockpiles of hydrocarbons available for industry and commerce without the backlash of environmental degradation.

It is the great pleasure of Perfect Science, at this time, to announce that Perfect Science has finalized historic research and development in the above mentioned fields of environmental remediation, industrial toxic waste stream neutralization, and clean burning hydrocarbon eco-fuels. Perfect Science engineers have developed methodologies for the in situ destruction of toxic hydrocarbon and petrochemical wastes.These methodologies can be applied for macro-purification of polluted atmospheres, toxic soils, contaminated surface waters, poisoned drinking water supplies and urban sewage streams. The Perfect Science in situ Purification Technologies render all hydrocarbon and petrochemical pollutants into bio-nutrients.

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In the view of history the science of water and the science of hydrocarbons have been at odds. The science of hydrocarbons, with its man-made complex chemical reactions, has supplied much bounty to mankind. However, within aqueous mediums at ambient temperatures, hydrocarbon chemical reactions have been impossible. All that has now been changed forever.

Today, I bring to you a new science of petrochemistry where the complex science of water and the complex science of hydrocarbons are joined as one. Here, within this new petrochemistry, unlimited chemical reactions, heretofore impossible, are now manifested easily, perfectly. Here, within this new petrochemistry, the true science of hydrocarbons will blossom forth and the blessings of Our Creator will be multiplied a thousandfold. Perfect Science is therefore pleased to announce that it has finalized research and development pertaining to historic scientific advancements in the field of petrochemistry.

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Welcome to Gulf Oil Solution

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We have tried to gain the attention of the federal government, BP Oil, and other entities.

Perfect Science A.D. has been here since the 90's, with proven, researched technology that can clean toxic waste.

We are appealing to the grassroots movement people to get the word out that this technology will clean up oil spills, and will transform oil and chemicals into beneficial amino acids.

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