'Death Gyre' in the Gulf

[n2doc]

'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.
Tue, Aug 03 2010 at 11:28 PM EST

by Karl Burkart


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 (Haig Varabedian via Citizen Global).


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 real 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, 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


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[joeybee12]

1. The cover-up is absolutely amazing...KNR...n/t

[CrispyQ]

2. But the media says the oil is all gone!

And a few nights ago I heard Anderson Cooper question if the media, including himself, made the Gulf story bigger than it actually was. :grr:

snip...

Whales are being exploded by the military cause they cant be carried. dead bodys as far as the eye can see

:cry:

on edit: We'll never know how many animals died in this disaster. Just like we'll never know how many people died in Katrina. Our government is in full stealth mode, now.

[jobycom]

3. There were a thousand dead bodies floating in Lake Ponchartrain after Katrina

There were also a thousand dead bodies hanging from trees in Hancock County. And of course there were crematoriums where they were burning off all the bodies from New Orleans, which explained why there were only 1500 dead instead of the 10,000 everyone just knew there had to be. Then there were the thousands washed out to sea (from a city with no coastline) that would never be reported. There was so much proof of that, too. Lots of photos that had been confiscated. No-fly zones that had to be hiding something. Everyone had a friend of a friend who was a high ranking official or a paramedic or a local rescuer who had told them, and these friends of friends were always the bestest, most honestest of peoples that ever were, trust them on that, and they were all the hardworking blue collar type who would never lie to you.

Then after Ike they installed a no-fly zone over Galveston because of the thousands of dead bodies floating in the surf on the west end of the island, then there were a thousand dead bodies floating in the surf off Bolivar Peninsula, too.

I'm sorry, but after a while one develops a sense of skepticism that says put up or shut up. An article that shows pictures of tents in a region where all temporary operations use tents, and then shows pictures of dead dolphins from a completely separate incident some other time and place that just looks like what the author kind of imagines this could look like immediately makes me feel manipulated. A lot of words, and all they say is "Hey, what if?" without anything to suggest their "What if" is more informed than anyone else's.

No-fly zones after disaster areas with heavy air traffic are not unusual. Tents and cranes and docks on the water don't suggest anything more than a launching area. And third and fourth hand accounts of dead fish don't mean anything to me. There probably are a lot of dead fish. BP may even be fudging the number (counting only the bodies they see personally is a convenient way to keep tallies lower) and may even be disposing of carcasses in the dead of night to keep the story quiet. I don't trust BP. I don't trust our government. I don't trust my own mother. But unless the writer has something more than rumor, why is he writing anything? Spreading more rumors doesn't help anyone except the one spreading the rumors.

[Kali]

5. ...

:thumbsup:

[spanone]

4. they are pouring multi-millions into the media via ads and getting results

quid pro quo

[Scarsdale Vibe]

6. Nonsense article is nonsense

How dull and gullible do you have to be to believe that there is a secret operation in which the military is blowing up dead whales and helicopters are scooping dead animals out of the water en masse? I have a methane bubble that will kill all life on earth story to sell you, but I'm sure you've already bought it too.

[jobycom]

8. Well, when you put it like that...

:rofl: :thumbsup: You said what I was trying to in a lot fewer words.

[glowing]

18. blowing up dead whales on a beach is one of the methods to use.. They are very large to try moving.

However, instead of blowing up, I would assume creamation would be their method of disposal for most of the marine life. Yes, this is happening. Unless, you don't believe the proved turtles and dolphins and whatever else coralled up for burning in the gulf wasn't real either.. the rescue operation went to court to make them remove life before the controlled oil burns.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. K & R

[Joe Fields]

9. Dear god, it is as bad as I imagined.

[blindpig]

10. Whether this piece is true or not...

there can be no doubt that the wildlife mortality is magnitudes greater than is being presented and that the mitigation(cleaning birds and releasing baby turtles a thousand miles from their nest beach) is soothing but mostly useless.

Kill Capitalism

[earth mom]

12. There's a cover up-make NO mistake about that. This story is true. nt

[earth mom]

11. It's common sense to know that hundreds of thousands of animals were killed.

How could anything LIVE with that much oil?!

People want to stay in denial about the extent of the damage the BP gusher has caused and are allowing the powers that be to control their minds and tell them what to think!

Use your brains people, quit the denial. It's NOT possible for wildlife to survive with that much oil.

:cry:

[Lorien]

15. Amazingly one of my younger friend just posted the old "mother of all gushers could kill

all life on earth" article on my Wall and wrote "Remember this article from 4 months ago? I REALLY wish I could rub this article back into the author's face and ask him what the hell was he thinking...." to them, it's all over. Nothing more to worry about. Move along. If the media doesn't make it an issue it's not an issue. Amazing how far we've all fallen, and how complete to corporate takeover truly is.

[earth mom]

16. What's almost more horrific than the BP Ecocide is that people here on DU actually believe the lies!

It blows my mind! :wow:

[Lorien]

19. Television is a helluva drug. nt

[Uncle Joe]

21. I agree, earth mom,

to believe otherwise is self-delusion.

[bvar22]

13. Don't worry,. Be Happy. Consume!

It was announced today that the spilled oil just Goes Away!

In fact, the oil stimulates the growth of microbes that help clean up the Gulf!!!
BP should be sending us a bill for their services (and they still might).

Please help BP clean up the Gulf by dumping your used motor oil in the nearest river.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. LOL

[nilram]

17. k,r

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked, but too late to recommend.

Thanks for the thread, n2doc.