Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Climate Change and Environmental Issues BP Oil Spill

Still saying that this disaster, if left unchecked, possesses the capacity to utterly destroy the food chain and habilitability of the entire American South Coast and regions as far as 500 miles north from one end to the other, and possibly extending well into international waters in the Atlantic, South and Central America and Mexico.

It could also conceivably form the basis for a world war and an attack on the United States of America.

It could also contribute the fatal blow to the existence of the United States of America as we know it today.

Makes sense to me, It. From a couple of articles I've read it seems that someone or some people in government, more powerful than NOAA, have clamped the lid on NOAA and the smart science guys and continue to.

You are correct, it seems, that we haven't been getting the truth, or the truth when it was known since the day one. There is no reason we should expect the government to level with us about the probable extent of the damage.

IMHO the greatest success of the Bush Administration was the brilliant manipulation of information given to the American people. It was masterful, truly. Goebbels couldn't have held a candle to it.

At the time I discovered how magnificently successful the Bush Administration public manipulation was I knew that the genie was out of the bottle. I knew that the president to follow President George W. Bush would not be able to resist using that awesome power.

Here we are. President Obama has a world changing disaster on his hands. Has he summoned the genie? I say, yes. There are indications he would. Mr. Obama, who promised transparency, has done more than Mr. Bush to keep Americans in the dark. It is logical to assume President Obama's Administration is now using the extraordinary weapons grade psyop developed and/or refined by the Bush Administration. With the above in mind it is then easy to see why the MSM has not been doing much investigative reporting on the BP disaster. It makes sense that respected government scientist are not talking or are not allowed to talk. Do you think the MSM doesn't know where to go and who to ask? They know, but editors who are directed by publishers to back off or to spike pieces that are too informative.

The absolute best piece I've read to date on what happened and why and how Washington screwed the pooch is by Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone. It's not MSM, though Rolling Stone has published some top investigative pieces. Conservatives won't consider reading it. Teabaggers, read it? It's eight pages long on-line, you tell me. LOL! Most of the people who read it will be some centrists, progressives, and Democrats. The left becomes more informed simply because the left choses to take the opportunity. The right will feel alienated and will distrust the left and Washington will control the MSM, which remains the arbiter of truth for most of America.

All that said, I do believe that the BP disaster will prove to be too big for too long. Even the most timid Americans are finally going to smell the rat. When they do they are going to be pissed at Washington and pissed at corpgov to put it lightly.

Indeed, Checkers. The spill may continue into winter before it is halted. There will be hurricanes in that area this year as there are hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico every year. How strong must the hurricane be to churn oil to the surface and blow it inland? I don't know.

I can tell you that when I lived in Cary, North Carolina (between Raleigh and Durham) a hurricane that did little damage on the coast ripped part of Cary to shreds. It took us a day and a half to cut our way out of the neighborhood to the main road. We were 90 miles from the coast. Nothing on the coast was damaged. The wind came inward 90 miles.

Imagine a storm bad enough just to cause oil to rain down 25 miles inland, hitting home and communities and cities and businesses with oil and toxic chemical. Crops can't grow if their covered in oil. Fresh water supplies may be contaminated and the air itself may be hazardous to breathe.

With any luck there will be no storms this season in the Gulf. Fishing in part of the Gulf will still be banned. If there have been government toxicity reports I haven't seen anything about them. How badly is the oil affecting marine life now? We don't know, but it looks as if BP is attempting to hide the evidence.

Next year when you order shrimp in a restaurant don't be surprised if the waiter asks you if you prefer 30 Weight shrimp or 10W - 40 shrimp. All kidding aside, can you imagine the impact of this on the seafood industry alone? You go to places like Bayou La Batre and Bon Secours and the entire town and community live on the oyster industry. There are little towns and villages on the entire coast that exist because of what they harvest and sell from the Gulf. I doubt there is a grocery store in the South that doesn't sell seafood from the Gulf.

This mega-disaster combined with a market meltdown or economic collapse along with some other major natural catastrophes would not only leave the US vulnerable, but also alter the nature of the country.

Media Lock down BP Gulf Oil Spill - Part 1 of 2

Media Lock down BP Gulf Oil Spill - Part 2 of 2

Since it looks as if the technical part of deep water oil drilling is going to be a subject for much more discussion in the future, you may want to learn a little more about how it works.

One of the short cuts that BP took in drilling the 5 miles of sea bed, was to limit the number of "spacers" to 6, when the optimum number would have been 22. The article explains "spacers" as well as a lot of other terms that are being used in the articles about the process.
Oil Drilling "How Stuff Works"

Air Quality BP Oil Spill Safe levels for benzine are 0-4 ppb, and 5-10 ppb for hydrogen sulfide. I believe that TV station 4WWL mistakenly displayed the EPA figures for hydrogen sulfide (EPA readings:1200 ppb; Safe level: 5-10 ppb)while discussing benzene,aka swamp gas(EPA readings about 3000 ppb). In any case, it's not good.

Look for rainwater contamination by benzene and other various and sundry volatile compounds in the very near future.
Benzene may well turn out to be the "nuclear fallout" from the BP Gusher.