Author’s note: Yeah yeah yeah…another one on this. But I feel like sayin’ to the dumbass corporate media, “I told you so.” This is bad, really bad… I’ll post a sat image.
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Now that BP, the federal government and the corporate propaganda networks known as ABCBSCNNBCFOX have finally conceded that oil is gushing into the Gulf at a far higher rate than the public has been told for the past month, will a real disaster response be initiated, or will there just be more cover ups and more finger-pointing at who may be to blame?
“Officials” have finally admitted that the volcano of oil erupting from the seabed of the Gulf is probably gushing closer to a rate of about 95,000 barrels per day, instead of the 5000 barrels that has been incessantly repeated for the past month. Many people have been saying that for weeks. How does it feel to be scooped by a bunch of shrimp-huggers, scientists who can take one look at it and tell it is worse than official reports, and even a lowly Examiner? I don’t think you care because, after all, you get paid more to lie for your corporate masters than scientists and fisherman on the Gulf earn who really work for a living.
As heavy crude washed onto the beaches of Louisiana earlier this week, unlike the oily sheen that touched shore earlier this month, BP had a great public relations announcement. The oil giant proudly proclaimed that a 4-inch in diameter, mile-long insertion tube was extracting 5000 barrels per day into a tanker on the surface. The only problem with that – 5000 barrels per day was the official estimate until now, and oil is still gushing into the water. Videos clearly show that the tube is catching only a fraction of the oil. Guess it was finally time to ‘fess up, huh boys? Even the feds got tired of covering up your bovine excrement.
So now what? Is it it time for finger-pointing, as scientists blame the White House and BP for stifling the flow of information and not allowing experts in the field to have access to the site in which this could have been properly assessed almost from day one? Or is it time to start cleaning up the mess? It may be too late. The time for the disaster response was four weeks ago, not now. The damage has already been done.
BP, meanwhile, seems to remain in CYA mode. Coast Guard officials, along with BP contractors threatened CBS reporters with arrest for photographing oil-slicked beaches in Louisiana. McClatchy news reports that the “low estimate of [the] oil spill’s size could save BP millions in court.”
It’s perfectly fitting that BP and the federal government are not as adept at restraining the flow of oil as they are the flow of information. Unfortunately, the truth will wash up on our beaches…soon. And there are going to be a lot of angry people when that happens. Apparently we can finance and fight wars halfway across the globe, but when a real problem arises on our own shores, no one has a clue as to what to do about it.
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