Gulf of Mexico oil geyser

Originally Posted by WebSlave

Millions Of Fish Wash Ashore In Gulfport

When you look at this article, notice anything odd about the photograph?

Where are all the scavenger types that would normally be feeding on a bounty such as this?

I think this is just the beginning. Such a waist.

Originally Posted by WebSlave

Millions Of Fish Wash Ashore In Gulfport

When you look at this article, notice anything odd about the photograph?

Where are all the scavenger types that would normally be feeding on a bounty such as this?

The picture doesn't show much oil on the beach.

"Not Yet Known If Oil Spill Was Factor"

Oil spewing from well near Louisiana marsh
Boom placed around 20-foot-high plume; tug boat hit well, officials say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38429966...s-environment/

Oil spill in Michigan making waves in Kalamazoo

http://www.examiner.com/x-8519-Ann-A...ng-small-waves

Is it over? I don't know.

Link below.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100806/...9zZWFsb3JzZWxs

Yeah, the local newspaper here is acting like the crisis is over with, and everyone can return to normal. Yeah man, come on down to Florida to get your late season beach vacation right now! Spend your money, the coast is clear (literally)....

But where is all the oil? It hasn't all sunk to the bottom of the Gulf, otherwise the well head itself would be under a thick layer of it. People are saying that little is visible on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Conservative estimates are saying 180 MILLION gallons (which is probably low by a substantial margin based on all the lies BP has been caught in) of oil leaked out of that well. And how much dispersant was sprayed into that leaking oil as well? We are talking about a substantial amount of oil and chemicals let loose in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for several MONTHS.

I read an article in the newspaper claiming that the oil did not get into the loop current taking it around the eastern coast of Florida into the Atlantic.

So where IS all that oil right now? I've heard the old saying "Out of sight, out of mind", but this is ridiculous.....

Anyone up for a swim in the Gulf?





Another interesting read.....

USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings

By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, August 10, 2010


A month after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, scientists from the University of South Florida made a startling announcement. They had found signs that the oil spewing from the well had formed a 6-mile-wide plume snaking along in the deepest recesses of the gulf.

The reaction that USF announcement received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research:

Shut up.

"I got lambasted by the Coast Guard and NOAA when we said there was undersea oil," USF marine sciences dean William Hogarth said. Some officials even told him to retract USF's public announcement, he said, comparing it to being "beat up" by federal officials.

The USF scientists weren't alone. Vernon Asper, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, was part of a similar effort that met with a similar reaction. "We expected that NOAA would be pleased because we found something very, very interesting," Asper said. "NOAA instead responded by trying to discredit us. It was just a shock to us."

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, in comments she made to reporters in May, expressed strong skepticism about the existence of undersea oil plumes — as did BP's then-CEO, Tony Hayward.

"She basically called us inept idiots," Asper said. "We took that very personally."

Lubchenco confirmed Monday that her agency told USF and other academic institutions involved in the study of undersea plumes that they should hold off talking so openly about it. "What we asked for, was for people to stop speculating before they had a chance to analyze what they were finding," Lubchenco said. "We think that's in everybody's interest. … We just wanted to try to make sure that we knew something before we speculated about it."

"We had solid evidence, rock solid," Asper said. "We weren't speculating." If he had to do it over again, he said, he'd do it all exactly the same way, despite Lubchenco's ire.

Coast Guard officials did not respond to a request for comment on Hogarth's accusation.

The discovery of multiple undersea plumes of oil droplets was eventually verified by one of NOAA's own research vessels. And last month USF scientists announced they at last could match the oil droplets in the undersea plumes to the millions of barrels of oil that gushed from the collapsed well until it was capped July 15.

"What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is," USF scientist David Hollander said then. "It has gone from a two-dimensional disaster to a three-dimensional catastrophe."

Now Lubchenco is not only convinced the undersea plumes exist, but she is predicting that some of the spill's most significant impacts will be caused by their effect on juvenile sea creatures such as bluefin tuna. Lubchenco and her staff say they are now working smoothly with USF and other academic institutions in investigating the consequences of the largest marine oil spill in history.

However, Hogarth said, not all is hunky-dory.

USF's first NOAA-sponsored voyage to take samples after Deepwater Horizon, the one that turned up evidence of the undersea plumes, was designed to gather evidence for use in an eventual court case against BP and other oil companies involved in the disaster. At the end of the voyage, USF turned its samples over to NOAA, expecting to get either a shared analysis or the samples themselves back. So far, Hogarth said, they've received neither.

NOAA's top oil spill scientist, Steve Murawski, said Monday that he was "sure we will release the data" at some point. However, he said, because NOAA has collected so many samples over the past three months, when it comes to the samples from USF's trip in May, "I'm not sure where they are."

Lubchenco's agency came under fire last week for a new report that said "the vast majority" of the oil from Deepwater Horizon had been taken care of. Scientists who read the report closely said it actually said half the oil was still unaccounted for.

Lubchenco said anyone who read the report as saying the oil was gone read it wrong.

"Out of sight and diluted does not mean benign," she said.

SOURCE: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environ...ndings/1114225

As soon as I started seeing the "Where is all the oil?" headlines in the news I knew the coverup had begun.
The media, I'm sure as a result of government as well as corporate pressure is attempting to lead the American sheeple into believing that all the uproar of the last 3 months is unfounded and there really is no big problem.
Sad how soon the masses forget and how eagerly they devour whatever they are spoonfed by the media machine.

Originally Posted by WebSlave

Anyone up for a swim in the Gulf?

I think I'm going to order one of those suits they wear at the nuclear power plants. As soon as I get it I will meet you at the beach. Hey, I won't have to worry about sun block.

And just think, with all the dead sea life on the beach, it will be like an all you can eat sushi bar, so come hungry.

I think at this point a lot of people have to be thinking, "Of what use is a government that doesn't step in to protect the public when something like this happens?"

Which then eventually leads to the thought, "Of what use is a government that outright LIES to the people it is supposed to protect, when those lies can cause harm to those very same people?"

Obviously they have forgotten why they are in office..... It is NOT to protect the value of their oil stocks.