Gulf Oil Spill: Mission Accomplished or Ongoing Crisis?

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The corporate media has almost entirely stopped covering the Gulf oil spill.

Many
have tried to say that the effects of the spill are not nearly as bad
as feared, and that everything is pretty much cleaned up and back to
normal.

But today, it is widely being reported that there are currently massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in the Gulf of Mexico .

And websites like Florida Oil Spill Law (FOSL) have tirelessly been reporting on the Gulf oil spill this whole time.

To give an example of the ongoing crisis in the Gulf, here's a roundup of some of the top stories from FOSL from the past 3 days:

• Toxicologist now dealing with at least three autopsies in Gulf — “People who’s esophaguses are dissolving”
  

• Healthy teenager, 16, hospitalized after swimming in Gulf on AUGUST 30 — “Compromised lung” & “enlarged heart”
  

• Boat captain mentioned on NPR: “Internal bleeding — Very, very sick”
  

• Toxicologist: 4 to 5 MILLION people on Gulf Coast exposed to dangerous levels of oil — Going to have incredible health effect
  

• “We’re starving” — “There are no fish in the waters… and any fish we would see, we would not eat”
  

• Reporter STEPS onto beach, is then forced by private security to be “decontaminated” — “Yes” it’s about dispersants

• Boat captain “bleeding from her vagina” — “I’m bleeding from my anus, too… This thing is killing me”

• Oct. 19: “A seemingly unrelenting tide of oil” surprises pilot with “countless” flights over Gulf in last 6 months
  

• Report: Homeland Security agents want organizer to “shut up” — Told by BP to “back off”
  

• Captain: Mullet observed eating “dispersant as it gathered along the tide line”

• Massive SHELF of tar exposed on beach in Pensacola
  

• Not just the coast to be affected: “It is going to keep going further and further in”
  

• “Still so much oil and dispersant in the environment” says Gulf Restoration Network executive director
  

• “ALL” oyster beds are “dead or dying” says top oysterman — “Very pessimistic”

• Local Official: “The oil is not evaporating — it’s not dissipating, it’s sitting there”

• Florida woman: Oil found in batch of oysters while eating
  

• Scientists: Acceptable levels of toxic PAH in the Gulf raised simply for the BP disaster

• BP admits oil buried “30 inches under ground"

In related news, the government - always eager to immediately get to the bottom of what is really going on and then to fully publicize the results - has sent crucial Gulf samples to be analyzed in a lab . . . in Poland
(all of the American labs are apparently busy testing the toxicity of
hinky mortgages, mortgage backed securities, CDOs and naked CDSs). And
the result will be shipped back by slow boat: NOAA isn't expecting
results back until the end of the year.

Comments

[MsCreant]

Hey GW,

Where ya been? Been lookin' for ya to be still posting on this! Glad you're back!!

MC

[tamboo]

dont forget that the gulfstream is shut down by this.

get ready for one helluva winter.

http://www.gulfstreamshutdown.com/

[Gully Foyle]

Anyone watch Rubicon?

Occasionally some information is allowed to slip through the cracks, Maxx Headroom for example and it's evil corporation message. 24 and some aspects of the various conspiracies.

And Rubicon.

Not only does the show mention the spill but seems to tie it to the larger conspiracy, well at least the catalytic act.

[Bob]

"Homeland Security".  SS, KGB and Stazi, meet your heir. 

[The Rock]

Thanks GW...

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/guest/earthorganization102510.html

[Rusty_Shackleford]

You had me at "I'm bleeding from my anus, too".

[Popo]

An important inclusion by the way -- as the "I'm bleeding from my vagina" bit seemed a tad inconsequential.

[The Rock]

Actually, she had a hysterectomy years ago, so it shouldn't have happened.

[umop episdn]

Yet another 'thank you' from another of the commentariot! I can see that the Lamestream Media is doing another of it's wonderful imitations of a corpwhore. Anyways, here is a direct link for those who want to know what is going on:

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/

[breezer1]

i know people who have vacationed in florida recently and have all reported being sick most of their time there. thanks GW.

[dimichzh]

Obama said it was over, no oil!

It reminds me about Bush saying "Mission accomplished". 

Thanks for reminding us.

[Miss Expectations]

"Mission Accomplished"

Depends on what the definition of Mission is...

[Buck Johnson]

Yes, thank you for this.  I blame myself also for the fact of not paying attention to this fiasco.  Those stories are saying what I've said earlier this summer, and that is by 2011 we are going to find out that the gulf and the people living on the gulf coast will start to massively get sick.

[RockyRacoon]

Thanks for your reporting, GW.

[ILikeBoats]

I look at it in macro view - that such ecological disasters mean that USA is increasingly socialistic/communistic - look at how Russia and other countries were so heavily polluted because the idea of tort law and private property rights were trampled on or non-existent.

The implications (assuming I am right) are staggering - that we are little better than Russians in Brezhnev-era USSR or Chinese during mid-80s China.

[DollarMenu]

Thanks.

Be careful. 

Travel about with a large entourage.

[tony bonn]

thank you so much for continuing to report on the criminality of the mass murderer obama....it is an outrage that these people are suffering because of the murderous ways of the usa government....

fuck obama, fuck the oil companies.....i eagerly await the return of yahushua to punish this wickedness....only a sociopathic kenyan born monster would turn the other eye by shipping the samples to poland...that is the utmost in contempt.

[i-dog]

"i eagerly await the return of yahushua to punish this wickedness"

Dude, you've really got to stop waiting for your imaginary friend to turn up and fix things for you! Either get active or get out of the way.

[Milestones]

B.P. is now entering into the Tijuana two step phase of their Dancing with the stars routine while poor ole Chevron is still trying to get the hang of the Ecuador's version of the "I didn't do it" cha cha cha; 17 Billion and counting on them paying off on their court judgment that they swore to abide by the decision.

Lets hear it for the industry's accountability.  Milestones

[Sean7k]

GW, you are a treasure. Thank you for your continued reports. 

[taraxias]

Ditto.

[truont]

Thanks GW--

The handling of the Gulf Oil spill has proven to me that corporations have captured our public servants.  Which means they are now private servants, to the corporations.

We're f***ed.  Corporations don't care about you.  They only care about profit.  Corporations should NEVER be allowed anywhere near public policy.

[knukles]

GW, please continue the Crusade, for the MSM has been compromised..."all is well in River City, Maude."

"NOAA isn't expecting results back until the end of the year."

How very convenient.  In the meantime, it be fuel aplenty should the Ruskies shut down the gas pipelines on the Poles.  Never let a crisis go to waste.

And "criminal" used to be hyperbole.  The only thing disspating is the news' attention.  How very fucking convenient.  When is it we vote again?

[MsCreant]

I wish I believed the vote mattered.