In the words of Carl "WineRev" Easygoing:
After 245 days, flanked by former Vice President Mondale and Senior Senator Amy Klobuchar, on Tuesday, July 7 at 12:16pm EDT Alan Stuart Franken stood in the well of the United States Senate and raised his right hand. It took Vice President Joseph Biden about 28
seconds to recite the words of the oath of office. ....
-- MN-Sen Events v. 157.0 Final: Hats Off, Patriots!, July 8, 2009
The stuff of "Recounting Minnesota."
Following the WineRev Model, this series will provide a daily diary for posting IMAGES and VIDEOS and research findings and maps. "Death in the Gulf" is the real subtitle.
BP and Halliburton have committed ecocide.
Still, every corporate media image of oil-drenched slaughter is tagged "cause of death is being investigated." Or some such tripe. No matter how fouled the carcass.
Now is time for outrage.
-- Time to see that corporations and CEOs are outside the law.
-- Time to recognize that greed is destroying the Earth.
-- Time to see that we must make changes.
Enough with protecting BP from outrage.
Enough with pretending that booms and mops are doing a "cleanup" and "restoration" while tens of thousands of barrels of oil are going into the Gulf of Mexico every day.
You're not doing "cleanup" when you are falling further behind by the hour. You're also not doing "cleanup" when the 20% of the geyser ejecta that hits the surface and gets blown north is all you are seeing.
The 80% of the ejecta that loses its methane and natural gas at the site will eventually resurface. Oil is less dense than water:
Crude oil, California ----- 0.918
Crude oil, Mexican -------- 0.976
Crude oil, Texas ---------- 0.876
The specific gravity of distilled water is 1.000. Seawater goes a little heavier.
Allowing for cold and high pressure and layer inversion possibilities, this oil is still coming to the surface. Mr. Newton discovered the Theory of Gravity and so far gravity never loses.
That return to the surface will happen after a long trip in the Loop Current of the Gulf of Mexico, moving slowly at between 0.2 and 0.5 km/hr. The oil will have congealed to messy globs.
It will be just a poisonous as when it spewed out of the seabed at the Deepwater Horizon site.
What is happening today to Louisiana is highly probably for this fall with strikes to the Everglades and Cuba and Florida's West Coast. Tropical storms with the normal circular patter will concentrate oil and drive it ashore on their front-side waves.
There is nothing to be done to stop it. Booms are useless in 3-foot waves. A 10-foot hurricane storm surge has a mechanical power beyond anything productive or nondestructive that humans can even imagine.
Ecocide has been committed. Now we will witness the death throes of animals, plants, and local human cultures.
BTW: "CT" conspiracy theory postings are O.K., here. These little parts of the world are getting killed/murdered, so why not ? The biggest oil company in the world is going to be driven to bankruptcy, so I'd sure like to be entertained with black humor speculation on who's coming out ahead from all this. There's got to be $100-billion moving around from this mess.
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Here's what the Oil Biz don't want you to see. That they are ecological killers:
No matter how covered in oil, the MSM reporting says that cause of death has to be investigated.
The better to lock up the pitchforks.
Waves from Alex brought it ashore.
Doing slaughter.
Dead.
Dying.
Dead.
And this is only going to get worse. The propagandized "cleanup" meme is a lie. Less than 10% of the crude oil is getting picked up -- even of the 20% that is surfacing immediately and getting blown north toward Louisiana.
It looks like they are getting roughly 2% of the overall spew.
Wishful thinking. Boom the shore for show.
Wind concentration:
The experts. Jindal and Dudley. They're going to build 6 "berms" to protect the Louisiana coast.
They both failed 6th Grade math. That bit of nonsense would take 400 miles of "berm" and require 200,000,000 cubic feet of rock to have any chance of setting up an effective sub-hurricane protection sea wall.
There's rumour that this Dudley character is CGI. Escaped from one of the Harry Potter movie disk drives.
Jindal lecturing Obama. O.K., fine.
And some are born pirates, others are made:
Pirate wants its life back. Boo-hoo.
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Big Business is all about greed, hoarding, building palaces, and fucking the slaves. BP and corporate media have demonstrated the worst of it with their responses to this greed-driven disaster.
The density of oil -- measured relative to water as "specific gravity" -- tells us that almost all of this oil is going to resurface. When it does, there will be Hell to pay.
Our President, Mr. Obama ??? There is not one thing he can do about this. The crime, here, hit the fan back on April 20th, 2010.
Short of pinching off the pipe or getting the "relief" wells to work, this mess is going to get worse by the day. Wild life will be killed by the flock and population. Whole communities will be destroyed.
We have sinned. We have allowed these engines of greed -- the Big Business corporations -- to dominate human culture. We allow their money to dominate politics.
We must change our lives. Starting with the political system is good sense.
We can go with ignorant futility. Alabama's National Guard tries to hold back the tides:
Or... maybe......
The big damage to the Gulf Coast is already in the water. Wind driven oil will destroy much of the Louisiana littoral. Scenarios with oil driven ashore by hurricanes will see the coast from Mississippi to Florida damaged for 20 years. Worst case is destruction of the lower Everglades, which would be totally inundated if we see a high tide storm surge from a Cat 3, 4, or 5 hurricane.
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The big damage from Big Business is already in the water. Legal response so far is nonexistent.
The CEOs know to a practical certainty that they are beyond prosecution. Criminal negligence, manslaughter statutes, fraud, falsifying compliance statements, threatening witnesses and otherwise impeding prosecution -- they own contacts that place them beyond the Law.
They know this as fact because in January, 2008, one George Anderson, a Wall Street CEO, got drunk and ran down Florence Cioffi -- all of 5 blocks from the New York Stock Exchange. Anderson killed her. But then the crime got wiped off. Despite a confession and a blood test, this vehicular manslaughter was reduced to misdemeanor silliness in 2009 and Anderson was sentenced to 16 days at Rikers. $500 fine. The price of taking a human life, DUI driving 60 m.p.h. up Water Street in a Mercedes SUV, is a couple weeks and $500.
There was no Federal investigation of the sell-out. Nothing by New York State. Nothing happened to repair the criminal justice system.
So... the CEOs can kill and nothing happens, beyond getting double jeopardy triggered. Why be surprised when this 2010 grand mal ecocide produces a free pass ??? All that happens is the propaganda of denials and the obscene "I want my life back" narcissism. All of these as used by Dante:
-- luxuria (extravagance)
-- gula (gluttony)
-- avaritia (avarice/greed)
-- acedia (acedia/discouragement)
-- ira (wrath)
-- invidia (envy)
-- superbia (pride)
We must change.