The oceans are empty, the skies tinged yellow by evaporating oil and toxic dispersant devoid of...

[tex-wyo-dem]

birds, dogs mysteriously have no fleas, and in an area usually besieged by mosquitoes, there is little need for repellent, and the usual trucks spraying are nowhere to be seen.

Dauphin Island was one of the sites where carcasses of sperm whales were destroyed. The operational end of the island was closed to unauthorized personnel and the airspace closed. The U.S. Coast Guard closed off all access from the Gulf. This picture shows the area as it was prepped to receive the whale carcasses for disposal.



Read more of this unbelievable report:

The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don't Want You to Know, Part I

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/the-crime-of-the-century_b_662971.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. A chill ran up my spine when I read this:

"evidence strongly suggests that BP worked with the Coast Guard,
the Department of Homeland Security,evidence strongly suggests that BP worked with the Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, private security contractors, and local law enforcement, all of which cooperated to conceal the operations disposing of the animals from the media and the public.
the FAA,
private security contractors,
and local law enforcement,
all of which cooperated to conceal the operations disposing of the animals from the media and the public. "

Isn't that a ...conspiracy to hide evidence?
And why did they go to so much trouble to hide it when they know the laws will not be enforced?

We are years past Big Brother.
This is Death Star stuff.

[SugarShack]

3. BP worked directly with our Coast Guard here is the info

Aug 1, 2010
Toxic chemical used on spill

WASHINGTON - THE US Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of litres of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said on Saturday after examining BP and government documents.

The documents show the Coast Guard approved 74 waivers over a 48-day period after the restrictions were imposed, resulting in hundreds of thousands of litres of the chemicals to be spread on Gulf waters. Only in a small number of cases did the government scale back BP's request.

The extensive use of dispersants to break up oil gushing from BP's Deepwater Horizon raised concerns early on as to what long-term damage the toxic chemicals might be doing to the Gulf's aquatic life. That prompted the Environmental Protection Agency on May 26 to direct BP to stop using the chemicals on the water surface except in 'rare cases'. But Republican Edward Markey said on Saturday that the chemicals continued to be used extensively with Coast Guard approval, often at a rate of 22,710 to 37,850 litres a day.

A request was made and approved on June 13 to spread as much as 136,270 litres of dispersant, according to data obtained by Mr Markey's Energy and Environment subcommittee.

The EPA directive 'has become more of a meaningless paperwork exercise than an attempt ... to eliminate surface application of chemical dispersants,' Mr Markey wrote in a letter sent on Friday to retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill.

Mr Markey's office released the letter on Saturday as well as the documents his panel had analysed. Mr Markey said that instead of complying with the EPA directive, 'BP often carpet bombed the ocean with these chemicals and the Coast Guard allowed them to do it'. The House investigators found that the Coast Guard routinely approved the chemical use, in some cases a week in advance. On five occasions the Coast Guard approved a BP request to use 22,710 litres a day over a weeklong period and 'in many of these days BP still used more than double' the limit that was approved, Mr Markey said in his letter. -- AP

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_560579.html

[femrap]

51. Of course this massive

toxic sludge killed everything. It's a crime against the Planet. May the greedy meet the same fate.

It just makes me sick.

[Bobbieo]

2. You don't see politicians and their families vacationing on the Gulf of Mexico.

[SugarShack]

4. Obama and the family are going to the gulf for a vacation soon

As soon as Michelle gets back from Spain with Sasha.

[flyarm]

10. noooo.. they are going to Martha's Vineyard..no oil there!

[SugarShack]

11. Yes, it's been played up all over the news...their Gulf Vacation!

I want to see if they eat the seafood! HA!

[flyarm]

14. Michelle already went to the Gulf before going to Spain..then they go to Marthas Vineyard

Michelle Obama to travel to Spain - Yahoo! News
Jul 26, 2010 ... US First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Spain next week on a "private ... The announcement came a day after Spanish media reports erroneously ... 10 days in the upscale northeastern resort island of Martha's Vineyard. ... vacation at the same time the wedding was going to take place to play off ...

news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/en_afp/usspainpoliticst... - Similar
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www.huffingtonpost.com/news/michelle-oba... - 26 minutes ago - Similar
Mommy Life: Michelle Obama: Florida, Spain, Martha's Vineyard
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Obama, family going to Martha's Vineyard in August | AP ...
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www.thenewstribune.com/2010/07/23/1274790/obama-famil... - Similar

[obxhead]

15. or get into the water. nt

[truedelphi]

55. The new head of BP was quoted as saying that he would not have any problem eating

Any of the seafood from the Gulf.

Of course, that is an easy thing to say when you live in England and get your seafood from the pristine fjords of Norway.

[Lorien]

33. I hope they vacation at Pensacola beach. Swim in the ocean, eat fish that they

catch there themselves. Ya think?

[AlabamaLibrul]

13. For me, it is no vacation. I live here. This is literally my front yard. And it's disgusting. n/t

[sdnewbie]

22. tell us more

..about what you're experiencing there...my heart goes out to you and your community.

[revolution breeze]

23. Two miles from the Gulf as the crow flies.

I was speaking to a man up in Iowa last week. He said "If adversity builds character, the Gulf Coast must be a regular Disneyland by now."

[highplainsdem]

5. K&R

[tex-wyo-dem]

6. There are no words that can accurately describe how I feel about this...

fucking outraged are a couple of good ones...

<snip>

Over the Gulf from the Source (official term for the Deepwater Horizon spill site) in to shore there is virtually no sign of life anywhere in the vast areas covered by the dispersed oil and Corexit. This in a region previously abundant with life above and below the ocean's surface in all its diversity. For months now, scientists and environmental organizations have been asking where all the animals are. The reported numbers of marine animals lost from BP fall far short of the observed loss. The water has a heavy appearance and the slightly iridescent greenish yellow color that extends as far as the eye can see.

On two, unrestricted day-long flights, on July 22nd and 23rd, we were fortunate enough to be on with official clearance. We saw a total of four distressed dolphins and three schools of rays on the surface. As the bottom of the ocean is covered with crude and only the oil on the surface broken up by dispersant, the rays are forced up to the surface in a futile attempt to find food and oxygen. Birds are scarce where one would usually find thousands upon thousands. The Gulf of Mexico from the Source into the shore is a giant kill zone.

<snip>

In May, Mother Nature Network blogger Karl Burkart received a tip from an anonymous fisherman-turned-BP contractor in the form of a distressed text message, describing a near-apocalyptic sight near the location of the sunken Deepwater Horizon -- fish, dolphins, rays, squid, whales, and thousands of birds -- "as far as the eye can see," dead and dying. According to his statement, which was later confirmed by another report from an individual working in the Gulf, whale carcasses were being shipped to a highly guarded location where they were processed for disposal.



<snip>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/the-crime-of-the-century_b_662971.html

[joe black]

19. My god.

The fuckers that caused this can burn in hell.

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. +1

:grr:

[FiveGoodMen]

52. There is no hell

If you want them to burn...

[glitch]

58. Sure there is -- plenty of hell on earth.

don't think an afterlife was specified. :evilgrin:

[glitch]

57. the sooner the better. nt

[SugarShack]

7. Basler BT-67 (DC-3 turbine conversion) battling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

We received several photos of an Oshkosh aviation company helping to battle the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the past two weeks, Clean Gulf Associates’ Basler BT-67 from Basler Turbo Conversions , Oshkosh, has been spraying dispersants on the oil slick in the Gulf, with Basler pilots at the controls. BT-67s are DC-3s converted to turboprops by Basler. The aircraft is fitted with a spray delivery system and has been particularly effective in battling the oil that’s been leaking into the Gulf since an April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon.

U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen Lehmann.

Oil dispersant is carefully pumped from tanks into a Basler BT-67 fixed wing aircraft by workers at a hanger in Houma, Louisiana on May 5, 2010.

http://www.oshkosh365.org:80/ok365_DiscussionBoardTopic.aspx?id=1235&boardid=147&forumid=175&topicid=4431

The workers are in protective gear, and these are military planes. WE DID THIS! We allowed this and provided the means to spread this toxin all over the place that is now evaporating and will re-enter the atmosphere as rain. Reports of toxic rain already in CO and PA.

:cry:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. Kicked and recommended

Hope and Change and Transparency What a joke.

[truebrit71]

45. I know, right?

I am BEYOND pissed that this has been allowed to happen...

I'd EXPECT to get fucked when there's a rethuglican in the WH...but not when there's an alleged "Democrat" in there...

[CountAllVotes]

9. K&R

we'd like to know the truth Mr. President! :mad:

ENOUGH!!

:kick:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. The seas run red with blood, plagues of frogs and locusts

dogs and cats living together...

[Cetacea]

18. And would be scientists talk woo woo

I'm surprised at you.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. I'm not surprised at you.

Still slinging the woo.

[tex-wyo-dem]

46. No more prons (or prawns) for you....

I don't think you'd want to eat 'em anyway.

[Cetacea]

63. It just seems ironic

to see you rejecting the need to see raw data. Laughing in the face of science, and all that pip and cheerio.

[Poboy]

16. Important excerpt-

excerpt-

"But we know that offshore there was an attempt by BP and the government to keep the animals from coming onshore in great numbers. The excuse was this was a health problem -- we don't want to create a health hazard. That would only be a good excuse if they kept tallies of all the numbers because all the numbers - all the animals - are evidence for federal court. We the people own these animals and they become evidence for damages to charge for BP. In Exxon Valdez the carcasses were kept under triple lock and key security until the natural resource damage assessment study was completed and that was 2 1/2 years after the spill. Then all the animals were burned but not until then."

[old mark]

17. Time to go fishin'!!!

Why in the hell is the government covering this up?


mark

[tex-wyo-dem]

20. short answer...

Th government is complicit in this crime. Anymore it exists solely to grease te skids for corporate profit and, when things go wrong, to help soften the blow or facilitate the coverup. The government and big industry are one in the same, joined at the hip, the people be damned.

Another way to describe it is Mussolini's version of fascism.

[Poboy]

21. Where is the oversight?

[DCBob]

24. wow are you people gullible..

[Poboy]

27. And you are too trusting. -nt

[tex-wyo-dem]

28. Right back at ya, DCBob...

:thumbsdown:

[Subdivisions]

40. Care to elaborate? n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. -1

:thumbsdown:

[Junkdrawer]

25. K&R

[blindpig]

26. Due diligence.....

This is what Capitalism does.

[slackmaster]

30. You're right. It is unbelievable.

:nuke:

[hugo_from_TN]

31. Evaporating oil tinges the sky yellow?

:eyes:

[Poboy]

32. But why is the gov't. hiding/destroying the evidence for BP?

Why aren't accurate body counts tallied and saved for trials/fines?
Why did it take OVER 3 MONTHS to get someone to ATTEMPT to get an accurate flow rate?

COLLUSION!

[lib2DaBone]

34. If a tree falls in the woods... If a whale dies in the Gulf.....

and no one sees it.. did it really happen?

[BrklynLiberal]

38. WHEN a whale dies in the Gulf.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/death-gyre-in-the-gulf

[tex-wyo-dem]

44. Thanks for the link, BrklynLiberal!

Again, I have no words for the level of disgust I feel about this massive coverup.

[BrklynLiberal]

66. I am also left with no words to describe the level of horror I feel.

[Cetacea]

64. When whale carcasses are "processed " in the gulf at secret locations

[tex-wyo-dem]

35. From Deepwater Horizon to the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida coasts...

is described as a massive dead zone. An area where life was once everywhere...

"Over the Gulf from the Source (official term for the Deepwater Horizon spill site) in to shore there is virtually no sign of life anywhere in the vast areas covered by the dispersed oil and Corexit. This in a region previously abundant with life above and below the ocean's surface in all its diversity. For months now, scientists and environmental organizations have been asking where all the animals are. The reported numbers of marine animals lost from BP fall far short of the observed loss. The water has a heavy appearance and the slightly iridescent greenish yellow color that extends as far as the eye can see."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/the-crime-of-the-century_b_662971.html

[BrklynLiberal]

36. Saw this yesterday...and went to the links in the article. Its Heartbreaking, stomach churning, and

and about as infuriating as anything that has happened since pres-shit-for-brains got into the white house for a second time.

They are blatantly lying to us...

As I have said..they are peeing on our shoes and telling us it is raining!!!!!!!!!

They think we are all idiots.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x551888

As for the credibility of the EPA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8879142

The disperents' effects have yet to be considered fully.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4491586

Some of that "missing oil" has been found!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x491944

[Uncle Joe]

37. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, tex-wyo-dem.

[Subdivisions]

39. Hi Unca Joe. It's a terrible thing. Sigh... n/t

[Uncle Joe]

48. Hi, Subdivisions, it is a terrible thing and I fear we will be drinking from a bitter cup

for a long time unless we dramatically alter our course.

[OwnedByFerrets]

43. Our government, and that includes this administration....

hides thousands of things from us every day....FOR OUR OWN GOOD. Why should this be a shock?:puke:

[amborin]

47. K&R

[IBEWVET]

49. How many of us live on the Gulf?

I can't report on any place but Pensacola Beach, Fl. But I can tell you that I have been to the beach the last three weeks and if it were not for BP workers around, it would be hard to tell that there had been a spill. A few tar balls and that is it. No yellow sky, no smell of oil, no dead fish and the water is clear blue. Please understand, I am not downplaying damage that has been done, just reporting on one spot that I have seen myself. I have been seeing fish caught off the pier, but not kept as it is still closed for keeping them. I am worried about the long term damage to life in the Gulf, but there is not as much physical damage to our beach as I was expecting.

[glowing]

54. Thanks to the dispersants, its invisible. Mixed in with the sand and still toxic.

I've seen lots of reporting from people in the region that report everyday... Scientists, reporters, and laymen. What you can't see, will harm you.

[sabrina 1]

60. 'What you can't see, will harm you'

Here's a photo of what cannot be seen above the surface:

The Big Picture




Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen from an underwater vantage, Monday, June 7, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Rich Matthews)

[truedelphi]

56. My heart goes out to everyone in the vicinity

The dispersant dissolves the oil, so the fact that it is not noticeable means that either your area had been very lucky in terms of current carrying the muchkt o you, or else the dispersants ahve doen their job and now the oil is not visible.

The scientific community does not have the data on this dispersant.

Think of yourself and everyone you know as the guinea pigs.

And due to how the evaporated air and mositure and its contents spread out across the globe,
whatever is in those chems and makes it to the upper reaches of the atmosphere will be equally divided across the whole earth. From the penguins of the Antartic, to the caribou of the sScandanavian tundra, it will end up inside the fat cells of every living thing.

[earth mom]

50. Both Horrifying and Tragic. BP is EVIL.

:grr:

[glitch]

59. as are their appeasers, collaborators and apologists. nt

[Spheric]

53. K&R The pigs have control of the farm. And the dogs support them. /nt

[DFW]

61. Are we all supposed to believe that crude oil and corexit are biodegradable?

I'd sooner believe in the Tooth Fairy than that one, and I will not knowingly be eating ANYTHING caught in the eastern
Gulf of Mexico for the next decade.

Maybe they are covering it all up because the company that makes "OFF" is experiencing slow sales in the South this year?

And what the hell are those big black things? 60 foot body bags for sperm whales? That's one detail they couldn't drag me
to with a tank(er).

[Yeahyeah]

62. Is Obama a one-term double agent?

[Fumesucker]

65. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

[WillyT]

67. Kick !!!

:kick: