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An Example of how we have all been fooled by this US Government - Private Banking Cartels who are all Traitors, Kidnappers, Torturers, Murderers & Thieves.
This is why Amnesty International & Other High Courts have ruled the U.S. Government Inc. is to be brought up on charges for War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity.
England is intent on arresting George Bush for his War Crimes along with the rest of his rotten money grubbing Krew. The War Act of Congress REQUIRED Bush to go back to the UN to get permission. Because his people had already wiretapped the UN Offices for China & Russia (as wikileaks now confirms, thank you!) and knew they were going to Veto the Invasion of Iraq. So, he never went back to the UN. He moved ahead with the pre-written script.
Bush's actions & later by Congress' Silence & Failure To Act In Accordance With Their Own Law; makes them all Prime Suspects & Co-Conspirators in an illegal War that allowed them personally and as a group (with the military and private security contractors who cannot account for billions in funds every year) along with Global Banks & Big Oil, orchestrated the world's largest cover-up & scam involving Trillions of Dollars in contracts, with mass murder as nearly 80% of all deaths in these illegal wars have been CIVILIANS (thanks again to Wikileaks for confirming that) so, they all should be Charged For High Crimes & Prosecuted for the mass murder under false color of authority. This is Fact, Ladies & Gentleman.
If you are a Sworn Public Official you have an affirmative Duty To Act to Protect Our People & Our Nation From ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN & DOMESTIC. DO YOUR DUTY, NOW! You will have the enlightened support of literally hundreds of millions of people around the world who fully understand the Crimes committed and will back you and your prosecution actions 100%. This is Your Duty.
We love baseball, football & soccer - the sports for people & affordable for all families - but when things get too corporate it's time to not be too distracted.
Some of us would rather spend the evening in a small mexican pueblo watching the kids play football in the alley. The Family, together & community together is what is truly important. The Big Corporate Sponsors of today's sports games (which distract often) - own the corporations which harm us and this Corporate Game is now played by those who have never been without or been hungry or in great need of anything (but love, which their family's money as we have all learned, can never buy!) are best left to those that profit from it.
Millionaires helped the billionaires & banks make more mega bucks & we'll all proud of the (our?) team.
Enjoy The Sports but Watch Out For The Others Game !
ELECTION 2010 !
Could this win affect us all in San Francisco, in the real sense ?
Perhaps now - lots more carpet baggers from the east and slicksters from the south, all high on cognac & vicodin cocktails, will move here to get a piece of our city... okay, wagon masters... prepare your wagons for incoming!
We've already seen increased raids in rural areas on mom & pop, medical cannabis grows... Heard tales of R J Reynolds and all kinds of LLC (Limited Liability Company often used by mega-biz to infiltrate markets disguised as little people) buying up land for commercial use in rural counties. Sounds like cops paid off of being pressured to level the playing field of ALL longstanding, nature lovers, care givers and growers of Our Natural Cannabis in order to Please Big Commercial Interests. Otherwise known as Pandora's Box if you recall Laura Croft Tomb Raider Movies.
Once you allow these men, whom gave us Alcohol, Nylon, Petro-Chemicals, Candy Cigarettes, Cute little flavored bottles of candy Liquor which has cost our nation millions of lives, millions of dollars & gave these men new multi-trillion dollar empires based on Cancer, Death & Klean Up of the Massive Toxins they lay upon our soil, waters, lands, people, homes & air.
We just learned about the latest. BP = Baby Poisoners as we see test results of babies being born with Benzene Poisoning. Thanks, BP ! Thanks, oBPama for Being Poisoners of your own people, lands, waters, fishies & babies. The rest of you non-elite, less than 20 Million a year types, get back to work.... check out the latest info that many other premature voters never had a chance to see before they cast their slightly less informed votes before all the facts (the horses) were on the table (at the gate!). Check This Out , You Timely Voters: GOOGLE SEARCHED FOR THIS: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, PROPOSITION http://www.google.com/search?q=%22proposition+19%22+23+%22financial+analysis+%22&num=30&hl=en&lr=&tbo=1&source=lnt&tbs=prv:1&sa=X&ei=W4HPTIq5OIq8sAOIpbyTA w&ved=0CBkQpwU
More truth than cable tv... lots more on BP's coverups from the people on the inside who know.... and are courageous enough to share Truth with us all. Don't go here if you want to remain stupid, complacent & ignorant while the rest of us grow in truth, leaving the sheeple behind...
Sadly, this only serves to prove that BP, EPA, Obama & State Governors Lied To US All, causing millions of sea, air, land & human life to be put at clear lethal risk & harm. Millions of souls & animal lives will perish in the nxt few years, for sure. David Bowie would sing... THIS is NOT -- A-MER-ICA..... Pssst! Are You Awake Yet! Share this with family & make friends with your neighbors...
More Facts on Deadly Corexit. Also be sure to check out the video on youtube discussing Earth's air having too much CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) up to levels of what's known as The Tipping Point (aka The Point of No Return When All Oxygen Is Displaced By Carbon Dioxide).
Scary Stuff, But True !Happy BP Halloween !! BTW, MOST IMPORTANT LINK [click here] for Videos which may explain why YouTuber User: 'DeepwaterSays' keeps telling us all to buy commerical grade gas masks & suits like the one he wears in his public safefty alert videos.
All hidden by BP, Obama, EPA & Paid Off Mainstream Media... GREAT LINK TO LEARN TRUTH ABOUT HOW MUCH OXYGEN IS REALLY LEFT FOR US TO BREATH !
BP (Big Pinnochio) denies use of Lethal Corexit (banned in UK as ecosystem hazard, changes DNA of micro organisms which enter food chain & water supplies & crops) when confronted with photos taken by Courageous Local Gulf Americans who know TRUTH.
Gulf Residents prove every day that BP, Obama, EPA & others we trusted have been lying and are still lying about this ongoing massive nightmare.
Only because of the continued use of these lethal toxins & the fact that these so-called leaders Failed to protect our land, people & water - many will die whose death could have clearly been avoided. Had these so-called leaders not put money or other agendas ahead of our very lives and futures is plain jeopordy because of their indifference to life. Their actions have spoken much louder than empty promises.
Try going onto local, Gulf Area web sites, chat rooms & craigslist (biloxi, gulfport, new orleans) to actually spend a half hour checking out reality with people just like you - instead of mass media programming, for a real change.
They need us now and we all need each other now, more than ever in our nation's history. Reach out and make a new friend & ally against ongoing incompetence or planned depopulation or sheer neglect, which kills. Stand up & united for life in all forms, now. Tomorrow may be too late when disaster strikes your community & families.
So, now who wants to argue that it's impossible to consider that AIDS & Other mutant (man made)
diseases could never have been part of a tax funded government experiment, in secret ?
Most high tech electronics, medical processes, chemicals & weapons first go through secret labs inside the military industrial complex (Global Banks+Operation Paperclip Nazi Experimenter Types into Eugenics...) to make sure the best is kept for governmental military useage. Retail Consumer technology is about 30 years behind the stuff the military & Nazi lab coat types play with every day. You have 5 watt walkie-talkies, they have 5 Megawatt transmitters. You have a shot gun they have microwave & sound weapons to wipe out a block of people at a time.
We have a disparity between health & sickness; poverty & wealth; digital divides and governments with overwhelingly powerful weapons which are all an inbalance that must be adjusted to put all people onto an even footing with the governments who are to rule by our permission - not by our economic or fear induced enslavement or Tyranny.
OBAMA! Are you paying attention ? Who Do You Work For, Sir ?
Seriously, Mr. Obama, would your wife Michelle Obama have allowed or put our babies or people at risk by using Corexit, as you have chosen to do, despite the fact it's likely or been proven to destroy entire eco-systems ?
AMERICAN BABIES COVERED IN BLOOD FROM LETHAL COREXIT THAT YOU ALLOW BP TO CONTINUE SPRAYING UPON OUR LAND, SEA, AIR, RIVERS, SWAMPS & CROPS.
ANY AMERICAN WHO IS NOT OUTRAGED ABOUT THIS -- IS EITHER NOT HUMAN OR NEEDS A DETOX OF THEIR FRUTOSE LADEN BRAINS & BODIES.
Any President or so called american who allows this is a traitor & a murderer or homicidal maniac.
Here is The Proof, which is the tested positive for poison blood - coming from the bodies of our Most Innocent Children. Watch and learn Truth about how our familie, communities & states are not being protected, by public servants who swore an Oath to protect us all and chose not to for the sake of power & profit.
Apparently, President Obama is being sued because he lied to us all.
He allowed the Prime Suspect of Major Crimes to take control of the Crime Scene; hide evidence; literaly bury evidence under new sand at the beaches; and allowed BP to use one of the most lethal neurotoxins (Corexit) on land, sea, air which is ILLEGAL TO USE in England & Canada, because they know it destroys Entire Eco-Systems, which is happening to all of us, now! Obama, BP & Corrupte Senators have blocked alternative safe methods to deal this oil and methane disaster. The Lethal Corexit has now entered our food chain and is causing destruction to people, land, water, marine life and crops around the nation and the world. They chose to ignore SAFE, GREEN alternatives which would have eaten the oil, methane and all other hydrocarbons and produced clean Fish Food everywhere, instead of poison. This about a President & Global Corporations trying to hide evidence, lying to the public (and Investors... who don't stray from mass media lie channels) to the point of hiding facts about lethal poisons which are now, killing our people on YouTube, because all these leaders & power figures had financial interests that profit from lack of attention to safety standards & regulations. They are corrupted by Global Corporations and banks who all profit from the suffering, sickness and death that will become millions of fish, plants crops, people and entire cities & states, only because the Corexit was allowed to be used. Shame on all Traitors who keep insisting on fraudulently putting Profits & Corporations & Governments ahead of people's lives & our most precious Mother Earth, from which all life, powers and all other systems come from -- not to be ruled by greedy men & failed systems who have no honor or respect for our people or our natural lands, waters, oceans and our treasured animal, plant & marine life. Profit kills life we seek to protect.
Every individual who is corrupted and causes harm for profit, must be brought down and put on trial to insure Justice for all life that has been harmed & destroyed by these corrupted and ill minded leaders who have failed us all and violated their Oath of Office to defend Our People & Our Constitution. Let the Grand Juries, World Courts & Public Trials Commence Now !!
LOOK AT WHAT YOUR PRESIDENT & U.S. SENATE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN, WITHOUT OVERSIGHT, PROTECTIONS OR FULL INVESTIGATION FOR TRUTH & JUSTICE. PRESIDENT OBAMA ALLOWED A FOREIGN CORPORATION, THE PRIME SUSPECT
OF ONE OF THE LARGEST CRIMES OF OUR LIVES - TO USE LETHAL DOSES OF
DANGEROUS NEUROTOXIC CHEMICALS, CALLED COREXIT, WHICH IS BANNED
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM & CANADA - TO BE DUMPED INTO OUR GULF OF MEXICO
& THE AIR AND LAND ALL AROUND.
HERE IS ONE RESULT. MILLIONS OF FISH DEAD IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
IGNORED BY YOUR PRESIDENT. IGNORED BY YOUR GOVERNORS. MILLIONS MORE
FISH AND MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WILL LIKELY CONTARCT CANCERS
AND DISEASE FROM THE COREXIT ALONE & DIE PREMATURELY.
THIS IS THE KIND OF HORRIFIC CRIME THAT THE U.S.S HOUSE BILL TO FULLY INVESTIGATE THIS ONGOING BP DISASTER - WHICH WAS BLOCKED BY THE ELITE PAID-OFF SENATE WHO WISH TO KEEP THE TRUTH OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE HARM & CRIMES THEY ARE COMMITTING HIDDEN FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND THE REST OF THE WORLD TO PROTECT THEIR BLOODY MONEY. HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL ? IF THE PRESIDENT FAILS TO PROTECT US FROM FOREIGN CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS; AND IF THE SENATE FAILS TO HONOR THE HOUSE TO INSURE WE HAVE A FULL INVESTIGATION WITH SUBPOENA POWERS, THEN THE PRESIDENT & THE SENATE ARE NOW APPARENTLY ACTING CONTRARY TO THE HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE OF US ALL. THEY ARE NOW TRAITORS IN THE EYES OF ANYONE WHO LOVES THIS NATION, THEIR STATE AND ALL OF OUR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN DIRE NEED OF OUR PROTECTION.
Remember that Obama told his peers at the G20 in Ottawa that millions U.S. residents will likely get sick and die as a result of the BP Oil Gulf of Mexico Disaster. Yet, he keeps telling us in the U.S., there's no reason to be afraid to go to the beaches and enjoy the clean, safe Gulf !
400 People Became Sick At The Same Florida Beach the week Obama & State Governors told us IT WAS SAFE ! If YOU or I were President, we likely NEVER have allowed ANY KNOWN or UNKNOWN Toxins to be dumped en masse, into our eco-systems, land, water supplies, marshes & swamps, would we ? I don't think so. We are truly dumbfounded, shocked and disappointed to see this all happen, for PROFIT motives.
We are especially concerned about reports that Obama may have been groomed all along for the events taking place today. Events that are causing massive suffering, lack of security, health risks and likely premature death for hundreds, thousands or millions of Gulf Residents without any APPARENT Good Cause or Reason.
How can it be that 99.9% of any Nation would demand a halt to the spraying of Corexit or any chemical banned by a reputable nation, like the UK ?
And if there is no deception and many people demand to have cameras on all Wells, Bore Holes, Fissures surround all of the multiple planned and drilled well sites in the Mississippi Canyon 252 Plott and the surrounding area, then why not do that ?
If you really honored the will of your People, you would alleviate their concenrs, by installing cameras everywhere and push for a Commission with Subpoena powers to investigate the Foreign Corporations responsible. Yet, Our President, whose Primary Duty is to Protect the lives of OUR CITIZENS, not defer or tread upon our safety and security, decided to put us all directly into Sure Lethal Harm's way to please a Foreign Corporation, who is the Primary Suspect of Major Crimes Against Humanity, The Environment & The People of the united States, who may end up reforming to create a more perfect union we can trust.
The opposite kind of nation and government we have seen deceive and decimate our lives for the past several decades. Time for a New America if only because we cannot trust this government because of its own longstanding history of deceit, unprovoked acts of aggression in order to gain territory, power, land and profits not for Our People, but for Globalists, Dominionists & Eugenics types who are bent on Global Control under a single government they operate for their benefit.
When the vast majority of any people no longer trust their own government, clearly the government is the element that must be cleansed or reformed to restore any true Democratic Republic. We benefit by all we have learned about what happens when Our People fail to keep watch on business and corrupted government insiders.
Now, we know better than to trust any of them (private bankers, oil, big pharma, big insurance, big mortgage, et al. ) so, in the future, we can implement changes to our new nation, which preclude making profits from the most essential tools and resources required for any one or one family to use to be, to be healthy, eat nutritiously and have free access to the communications and transportation and medicine at cost.
Other speculative or risky or non-life endangering activities for commerical profit are open to any business who follows all laws, but the things we need most to survive, which is a natural birth right, will not be exploited by private banks or financial wizards who always bleed us dry for profits.
These are just ideas we must explore if its true that Obama is being told what to do by people who do work with corrupted insiders to form a New World Government & Global Currency under the control of the private corporations who have led us to this abyss from which we are about to be pushed into, unless YOU wake up and step up and speak out to make our future according to what you want and need, not what others in the elite class want for us all... depopulation by all means.
Do not underestimate insane people bent on global control and enjoy mass murder. The Jews, The Gypsies, Christians and others all underestimated Hitlers new programs which looked innocent on the surface with lots of repetitive propaganda, basically charmed everyone into NOT believing the unthinkable, which was in fact, the horrid reality which nearly destroyed our nations a half century ago.
That last cycle of fascism, genocide & planned war was financed by Who ? Bush, Harriman, Warburg and other Globalists who are here with us today, repeating the only script they know. They are all about power, suffering & death for their own amusement and prosperity.
We're so blown away by the exposure of The Elite paying off & conspiring with local Ottawa police to commit Federal Crimes of inciting a riot, mayhem, assault, false arrest under color of authority, subversive criminal acts including illegal detention, sexual assault of female detainees (law abiding peaceful protesters) all caught on tape.
Mass media sucked up into the lies that the fire bombing, window breaking and robotic anarchist look alikes were responsible when in fact, all that was done by 35-45 year old Police Officers masquerding to justify their $1.2 Billion Dollar payoff by Elite Foreign Nationals (all traitors) convening illegal g-20 & G-8 series meetings.
All the rogue protesters in disguise (who caused the destruction of property) AND uniformed Ottawa Police Officers all had the SAME model boots on with the SAME green stripe across the sole to identify them during the charade of mayhem.
We wonder how many local bay area officers (in Pittsburg, CA) likewise, were paid off to commit similiar , crimes on the Elite payroll against our own locals here in the US, the week following the Ottawa Scandal.
Here is a great link to Search Results and links to videos below that.
YouTube Videos: G8 G20 Exposed (This link is to a list of videos)
Some of the better videos:
G20 American Assasinations - Police Exposed -
This video is a mix of some of the best videos showing exactly how the local Ottawa police were caught staging, inciting and actually doing the vast majority of any rioting, damages, setting fires, the whole nine yards.
They look like keystone cops dressed up by a bad costume designer on a low grade B movie set.
Comical, even laughable if it weren't for the fact they spent Canadian dollars to bankroll a fake riot in which innocent citizens were fired upon with less than 2 second warning with large rubber projectiles, physical and sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned & endangered by the window breaking & fire bombs, ALL set off & caused by Ottawa Police Officers & Private Security disguised as Anarchists & Protesters, acting under orders from Elite Foreign Nationals orders.
This is why we call them Amateur Provocateurs because even a third grader watching these videos could spot the cops doing all the wrongdoing.
Here's the more about what you need to understand why this is happening.
The Elite paid off local Ottawa Police to use Military Sound Canons on the peaceful protesters.
Everywhere around the world, local communities are waking up to realize that The Elite are now using all illegal & brutal methods to pay off local police to commit crimes against innocent people everywhere to justify their push for global control using their one world government & currency.
They are being caught lying, cheating, stealing and beating people using deceptions and disguises all around the world within hours and days of their futile scams & charades. They are no longer trusted to be capable of ever changing their evil ways, so it's time to be done with them all.
We have seen our own Senate (both parties, Team A and B, owned by The Elite) become Traitors as they blocked the 460 Members of Our House of Representatives who, as Our People's Representatives DEMAND a full investigation of all aspects of the ongoing, BP mega-disaster with full subpoena powers.
WHAT AMERICAN PATRIOT WOULD NOT DEMAND AND APPROVE A FULL INVESTIGATION OF A FOREIGN POWER WHO HAS BEEN OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE AND COVERED UP THE LARGEST MAN MADE DISASTER KNOWN TO MANKIND ?
SOLUTIONS ? REFORM THE CORRUPTED OR START ANEW WITH PEOPLE WE TRUST ?
22 States need to reform a New America using the 460 Members of the House of Representatives to be the new Congress, split between a new Senate/House which acts like the old one, expect both houses are represented by population count just like the House.
We'll let South Carolina mint real money with gold/silver mixed dollars and on account in a public vault to back up new hemp paper money.
New America's bank will be a non-profit public institution under the Organic US Constitution which is ours and we'll take it with us to the New America minus the Personal Income Tax & Federal Reserve Act Frauds. New America will ban ALL SECRET SOCIETIES & will form new agencies under tight public watch dog committees with full subpoena powers.
WOW! Imagine a chance to make Our New World Order minus the corruption, depopulation & tryanny! LONG LIVE THE NEW AMERICA !
A real people respresented democratically modelled republic of Free States & Cities ! No more budget shortages, fake energy crisis, no more Nafta, Cafta or Private Banks needed because New America will be real not fake like the last America which has become too corrupted to withstand. Imagine, printing real money sufficient to meet the needs of Our People ! No more foreign interventionist Oil Wars !!
The world would spark up and run to invest in a new, clean, safe America with the Honor we had from oppressed people of the world, as we were back in the 1700's. A second chance for us to get it right, without foreign global meddling in our local communities, families and lands which belong always To Our People in need, first.
In New America, ALL ENERGY, WATER, FOOD & MEDICINES will be produced and distributed at true cost under public + non-profit agency partnerships with local public rule in each community.
Oil will be phased out (rapidly!) in favor of all other clean sources, as proven by trusted science & physics we already know of but the Big Oil spent decades hiding and suppressing anything not related to oil when it comes to energy.
GOOGLE SEARCH FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE FRONT LINES IN AMERICA:
THIS IS WHAT BIG OIL DOES TO OUR BELOVED INVENTORS, PATRIOTS & WHILSTLEBLOWERS ( and Senators who turn honest, such as the Honorable Senator Stevens who would have likely pushed for a Full BP Disaster investigation In Solidarity with our US House of Represenatives who stood up to Big Oil from us and were Betrayed BY TRAITORS in the Teams we call A & B (Current Spineless Republicans & Democrats) in THE CFR SENATE.
Hell, even Matt Simmons, Oil Man & CFR Man who went on national media to expose the multiple blowouts, fissures and bare holes left all over the area surrounding the Deepwater & Well A blowup sites which is in fact, causing a massive puffing up of the Sea Floor AND causing other wells (thanks to highly corrosive corexit everywhere in tons) previously sealed to burst open as the ever expanding veins of high pressure abitotic oil pumps into every nook and cranny inside of 60 layers of granite, rock and soil along open bore holes miles in length throughout the area now.
Matt Simmons and Senator Stevens just happened to die during these events while exposing BP & Federal Agency Lies and pushing our nation closer to Truth & Justice. The US Senate stands Guilty of Obstruction of Justice and should be added to the list of Criminals involved in this massive outrageous series of negligent & criminal acts against man and nature being committed by a Conspiracy of Corporate and Government Agents and Officials, acting Agaisnt Our People's Real National Security.
This is mass genocide under color of authority that cannot stand any longer.
The Net result after experimenting with the Narcotics, Alcohol & Petro-Chemical Industries upon our health, life, land, animals, nature, seas, air and water supplies has been one big failure which only served to place The Elite into a position of potential global domination and has cost us all, millions of lives and trillions of dollars for all the damage, death, destruction, cancers and ills that plague us because of their misguided control freaking ways of 'leading' us all into an abyss.
Thank your Creator that now, obscure factual videos of all of their scams, deeds and global plans have been exposed and for once are finally all going viral and millions upon millions around the world all wake up to find everyone on the same page minus the propaganda and programming that used to charm us until it all became clear, thanks to all kinds of whistleblowers, citizen journalists, scientists, insiders, patriots, advocates and investigators who finally put it all together for the world to clearly see and understand it all now. The sheep days are passing by fast now.
Create your own water car !! Screw Big Oil & Nazi Planned Obsolence, Warranties, Financing & non-local dependency on others for your own energy, mobility & freedoms !!
With the search above you can find videos and stuff to make your own Hydrogen On Demand Systems for your car, boat, bicycle or skateboard with cheap parts from Home Depot. SAY GOOD BYE BP ! BYE BYE BIG OIL !
Water is so much cleaner than your putrid oil & corexit. Suck hydrogen you oily, blood stained foreign & domestic Traitors & Murderers.
Peace Out ! Keep your eyes and minds open because its going to get much worse before we are all free again !
Many of us were raised to believe that our local, state and federal servants were supposed to honor a sworn oath and dedication to Protecting People.
In this current disaster, we have seen the Federal Government, President Obama & Congress Stand Down and allow the Prime Suspect in what may be the world's greatest mad made disaster by negligence, to control the crime scene and use some of the World's deadliest chemicals in an uncontrolled experiment which has destroyed all kinds of life around the Gulf, the Nation and Mexico, with no end in sight.
We have seen first hand accounts of local Gulf residents and on the ground independent marine biologists, toxicologists, shrimpers, residents and advocates which are The Opposite of official and mainstream media reports. We must believe in Our People with no financial or political gain over the propaganda generated by the White House, BP & Others, which are in the final analysis, pure fabrications, lies and deceptions which aids an ongoing disaster and fraud upon all people.
August 18, 2010:Craig Pittman/ The St. Petersburg Times – August 18, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG — Far from being gone, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster appears to still be causing ecological damage in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from University of South Florida scientists.
And scientists from the University of Georgia said the amount of oil that remains in the water could be 70 to 79 percent of the more than 4 million barrels of oil that escaped into the Gulf.
Both reports again raise questions about the Obama administration’s claim, made two weeks ago, that most of the oil spewed from BP’s well is either gone or widely dispersed.
USF marine scientists conducting experiments in an area where they previously found clouds of oil have now discovered what appears to be oil in the sediment of a vital underwater canyon and evidence that the oil has become toxic to critical marine organisms, the college reported Tuesday.
In preliminary results, the scientists aboard the Weatherbird II discovered that oil droplets are scattered on sediment in the DeSoto Canyon, a critical spawning ground for commercially important fish species about 40 miles southeast of Panama City.
The oil isn’t spread across the sandy bottom like a blanket, explained David Hollander. Instead, when the scientists shined ultraviolet light on the sediment samples, it picked up lots of dots from tiny oil droplets. “They sparkled … like a constellation of stars,” Hollander said.
USF’s scientists also found that the oil droplets were toxic to some phytoplankton, microscopic plants that form the base of the gulf’s food chain, as well as some bacteria. The oil doesn’t accumulate within the plankton, but rather kills it. If the droplets wipe out enough phytoplankton, it could alter the food supply for larger creatures such as fish and crabs in the same way a cattle pasture that loses all its grass alters the food supply for steak fans.
The discovery of oil droplets in DeSoto Canyon spells potential bad news for the areas of Florida’s Gulf Coast that escaped the tar balls and liquid oil that tainted the Panhandle, said USF oceanographer Robert Weisberg. That’s because right now cold water from the deeper part of the gulf is “upwelling” across the continental shelf and headed for coastal areas, Weisberg said. “As water … makes its way across the shelf, those waters will eventually be at the beach along Florida’s west coast, here and at points farther south, along with whatever is in the water,” he explained.
BP vice president Ray Dempsey said the latest USF findings “are preliminary conclusions that require some further review. But we want the answers just as much as anyone else. Our aim is to restore the environment to the way it was.” The findings come two weeks after President Barack Obama’s top energy adviser, Carol Browner, touted a new government report that she said showed that “more than three-quarters of the oil is gone. The vast majority of the oil is gone.”
The team from Georgia analyzed the federal report in its research. “The idea that 75 percent of the oil is gone and of no concern for the environment is just absolutely incorrect,” said Charles Hopkinson, a director of Georgia Sea Grant and marine science professor at the University of Georgia, who co-wrote the report.
Two calculations explain the bulk of the difference. The Georgia report tossed out 800,000-plus barrels BP managed to pipe directly from the well after it had fitted a sealing cap on the gusher — 17 percent of the well’s estimated flow — arguing that oil had never actually “spilled” into the gulf. More significantly, the report also dramatically reduced the amount of oil estimated to have evaporated, to 7 to 12 percent from the federal study’s 25 percent.
The federal government’s evaporation estimate was based on a standard accepted by industry experts and researchers for light sweet crude in the warm gulf. But Hopkinson argued that the percentage is invalid because much of the oil remains deep beneath the surface, trapped under dense temperature and salinity layers that would dramatically limit evaporation.
One of the institutions that first found those underwater plumes of oil was USF. The area in DeSoto Canyon that the Weatherbird II explored on a 10-day cruise this month was also one of the places where USF found plumes and conclusively linked them with Deepwater Horizon.
However, Hollander and his colleague John Paul, in speaking with reporters Tuesday, stopped short of pointing a finger at Deepwater Horizon as the source of the oil they had found in the canyon. Tests are still being run, they said. Still, they said, the findings underline the persistent concerns that spraying chemical dispersants deep beneath the water’s surface may have created a greater peril for the gulf and its marine life.
Rather than rising to the top of the gulf, where the water is warm and deterioration and evaporation are rapid, the oil spread through colder waters where it has persisted. At this point, no one knows how long it will take for the oil to deteriorate so it’s no longer toxic. However, Hollander said, recent studies have found indications that the rate is “orders of magnitude slower” in the colder, deeper parts of the gulf.
In hindsight, Hollander said, “there’s risks that were taken that could have been avoided” by not spraying the dispersants directly at the gushing wellhead. The amazing thing, he said, is that the disaster has been going on since April “and we’re now addressing these first-order questions.”
The Tonka Report Editor’s Note:As I have stated ad nauseum from the beginning, this disaster is far from over. In fact, in many respects, it has only now just begun… - SJH
