Weathering of dispersed plumes of BP Oil has depleted the oxygen from water below a thin surface layer. Fish have migrated into the top 50 feet of water. Creatures that can't swim aren't so fortunate. A black zone of death sucks the life out of everything below.
BP's booming on land has been far more successful. Local police and the Coast guard continue the bans on photography and media access under the guise of safety.
BP has a long history of leading the U.S. government into catastrophe.
One of the most pivotal moments in world and United States history came in 1953 when the CIA and British intelligence forces staged a coup in Iran, overthrowing the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, a national Iranian hero who was named Time's Man of the Year in 1952. That coup led directly to the Iranian revolution of 1979, which launched an era of Middle East anti-Americanism whose repercussions have since been felt in deadly ways.
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There was one primary purpose of the coup that overthrew Mossadegh and installed the Shah: To reclaim BP's domination of Iranian oil.
The BP leddisaster in 1953 led to the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Iran Iraq war, the slaughter of Shiites in Iran by Saddam Hussein and ultimately the mess we are in today in Iran and Iraq.
Over 50 years later BP continues to get the U.S. to do it's dirty work. Only, this time it's right here in America where freedom is being lost to BP's schemes to hide the damage it has done in the Gulf of Mexico.
Last week Glynn Wilson realized it was quiet when he walked the beach at Gulf shores, Alabama. Death had slipped in like a black oily cloud in the water at night.
GULF SHORES, Ala. — The Gulf of Mexico coast is usually teaming with wildlife, on the beaches or in the marshes.
While walking on the beach one day last week, however, I noticed there were almost no shore birds at water’s edge. I only saw one seagull on the public beach by the Pink Pony Pub, and only one great blue heron at Little Lagoon pass on West Beach, where there is normally a healthy population.
The week before, riding around in a flat bottom boat in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay, one of the hardest hit areas on the coast by British Petroleum’s oil gusher — still pumping a million gallons a day into the Gulf — I got the strangest feeling that we were riding around a wildlife ghost town.
However, there is some good news. Recent storms have generated strong winds across the Gulf which have driven waves and strong currents which are mixing and oxygenating the water. Easterly winds and tarballs in Texas are indicate that oil is moving west, away from the coast of Florida.
