DON'T LOOK! - The big picture, oil as far as the eye can see...(Photo From Commercial Jet)

[kpete]

Spill Baby Spill's Photos - Wall Photos
"Oil As Far As The Eye Can See"
Photo taken from a commercial jet over the Gulf of Mexico.
This is what they dont want you to see. The big picture, oil as far as the eye can see...


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=211900&id=117367724952909&fbid=124866217536393#!/photo.php?pid=211901&id=117367724952909&fbid=124866380869710

[Kalyke]

1. Discusting.

I hope this shot gets shown on all the news... erm... oh, yeah, news is controlled by big corporations so few will see this. :(

[Dr.Phool]

51. That picture looks like one I shot about 30 years ago.

It was another disaster.

We were flying over an ash cloud, just a couple of days after Mt. St. Helens blew. I think we were over Iowa somewhere. I just looked at my old pics. Looks the same.

[and-justice-for-all]

2. Those bastards better pay (big) for this! nt

[aquart]

9. No amount will make up for it. Nothing undoes it.

This is serious messing with our food chain.

[flyarm]

26. Thank you..you are 100% correct. AND THE COVER UPS CONTINUE!

and over government is up to it's eyeballs in the cover up.

[bdamomma]

3. 12,000 barrels a day are spewing out, where is all that oil going to go??

pray that there isn't going to be hurricane in the gulf area in the near future.

[jwirr]

37. Some of it is heading out of the Gulf into the ocean.

[Urban Prairie]

4. And that obviously is just the crude oil that is visible on the Gulf's surface....

Yikes!!

:scared:

[Deep13]

5. Jesus! Is fixing that even possible? I rather doubt it. nt

[flyarm]

27. answer ..no. not for decades and decades and decades! eom

[chill_wind]

6. It's a big ocean.

Best regards,

BP

[Matariki]

7. The name of the star was Bitterness.

It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died from drinking the bitter water.


(I mean to say, that's fucking biblical in proportion. depressing)

[Divine Discontent]

42. it's a truly disturbing photo indeed

Revelation 8:11
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

and

Revelation 16:3
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in it.




This oil ocean is what they do not want us to see - and what the president needs to see. But, I don't trust leaders. No one should. Americans need to pressure and keep on their elected officials.

[aquart]

8. Again, why is no one skimming that oil before it reaches New York?

I'm still aghast at the leisurely pace of containment and clean up.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. BP is in charge. Trust BP. BP has a handle on it. Who else but BP can fix it?

:puke:

[bdamomma]

11. BP CEO's can suck it up, damn what negligent murderers

[chill_wind]

12. The BPUSCG. I'm done making distinctions

for their unholy alliances.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

14. The whole liability issue is preventing the proper course of action.

It is f'n dead wrong! :mad:

[inna]

13. This is simply terrifying.

And remember a million gallons of toxic, carcinogenic dispersant that they dumped in the Gulf in their uncessful attempt to cover up the extent of the disaster.

Words fail.

:banghead:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

16. Unfortunately, I think it has been far too successful in masking

the amount of oil that has been discharged. I stand in solidarity with your anguish over this.

[aquart]

19. Those 400 bused in extras for Obama visit...paid to look like cleanup crew...

I don't feel overwhelmingly confident in the sincerity of their effort. This is why so little is being done. Are they holding Obama's children hostage?

[WestSeattle2]

39. I don't get it either; are we that impotent?

[Lorien]

43. Because Big Corporations and the Far Right believe that if government is proven to be

ineffective then we'll be happy about doing away with government and allowing corporations to make all our decisions for us. and, unfortunately, for too long Obama has been governing from the Right when it comes to any issue that effects corporations-which is nearly all of them.

[Greyhound]

50. No, we're just that stupid.

Stupid enough to believe that we are powerless, and just like the administration, so convinced that the idea of even trying is "a hope too far".

So sit back, relax, and think of England.

[corpseratemedia]

15. The Hayward/Cheney Catastrophic Gusher

The result of no govt. oversight and lax or no regulation - exactly what republicans wanted.


Good fucking Christ...this shows why no Dem should EVER pick up the mantle of the republican agenda again. Don't come close to it - it always leads to disaster.

[flyarm]

28. ahh there are many on both sides of the aisle with their fingers in the oil/money pot!

from my journal:

let me remind you that it was both republicans and democrats that supported drilling off our coastlines!

and some took a good deal of money doing so!

and ahemmmm...Obama recieved the most money from BP OIL Corp!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is from many of my former posts! and in my journal.


ahhh the strange bedfellows.....remember Dashle who pushed Obama during our primaries..and was one of his top advisors...........working with Whitman..the lady who lied about the air quality at Ground zero in NY?? Can i tickle your memory..she lied and people died and keep dying!! And that is just one example..

Spill, Baby, Spill
By Michael Isikoff, Ian Yarett and Matthew Philips | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated May 10, 2010

BP has been trying hard to burnish its public image in recent years after being hit with a pair of environmental disasters, including a fatal refinery explosion in Texas and a pipeline leak in Alaska. One major step was to announce, in 2007, that it had hired a high-powered advisory board that included former EPA director Christine Todd Whitman, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, and Leon Panetta, who were each paid $120,000 a year. (Panetta left when he became President Obama's CIA director.) Two years ago the oil giant's chief executive, Robert Malone, flew board members out to the Gulf of Mexico on a helicopter to demonstrate the safeguards surrounding BP's advanced drilling technology. "We got a sense they were really committed to ensuring they got it right," Whitman told NEWSWEEK.

Now BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, finds itself blamed for what could prove to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history. And only weeks after Obama announced an ambitious plan to open up more U.S. offshore waters to oil drilling, shunting aside environmental concerns from his own Democratic Party, his administration is facing a comeuppance from hell. "There was a lot of wishful thinking, I guess," says Villy Kourafalou, a scientist at the University of Miami's Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "The new technologies were said to be so wonderful that we'd never have an oil spill again." Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), who had sought to block the expanded drilling, says the oil and gas industry was pushing this idea hard. "They said, 'We'll never have a repeat of Santa Barbara,'?" referring to the 1969 rig explosion off the California coast. Both the Bush and Obama administrations "were buying the line that the technology was fine," Pallone adds.

BP pressed hard to make that point in D.C. Its PR efforts included payments of $16 million last year to a battery of Washington lobbyists, among them the firm of Tony Podesta, the brother of former Obama transition chief John Podesta. Last fall, after the U.S. Interior Department proposed tighter federal regulation of oil companies' environmental programs, David Rainey, BP's vice president for Gulf of Mexico exploration, told Congress that the proposal was unnecessary. "I think we need to remember," he said, that offshore drilling "has been going on for the last 50 years, and it has been going on in a way that is both safe and protective of the environment."

Read the full article at:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/237298

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and never forget this..we Floridans won't!!!


YouTube - Barack Obama on Offshore Oil Drilling ( to Florida voters while asking for their votes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8fkbEuCQss ...


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Obama: “Oil Rigs Today Generally Don’t Cause Spills”

Obama Repeats Katrina Oil Spill Myth To Defend Offshore Drilling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8gLmuTvJ4 ... ...


By: David Dayen Thursday April 29, 2010 1:42 pm

snip:

What a difference 18 days makes. Here was Barack Obama, on April 2, before the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, claiming that oil rigs are safe to justify his position on offshore drilling:

I don’t agree with the notion that we shouldn’t do anything. It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore.

Not only does this quote look ridiculous in hindsight, it wasn’t true at the time, as Brad Johnson points out:

Obama’s claim that oil rigs did not cause any spills during Hurricane Katrina is simply false, as the Wonk Room reported in June, 2008, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other conservatives made the same false claim:

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused 124 Offshore Spills For A Total Of 743,700 Gallons. 554,400 gallons were crude oil and condensate from platforms, rigs and pipelines, and 189,000 gallons were refined products from platforms and rigs.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused Six Offshore Spills Of 42,000 Gallons Or Greater. The largest of these was 152,250 gallons, well over the 100,000 gallon threshhold considered a “major spill.”

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/04/29/oba ... ... ’t-cause-spills/



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Government to Oil Plume Discovery Team: Shut Up
Posted by flyarm in General Discussion
Tue May 18th 2010, 02:38 PM
Government to Oil Plume Discovery Team: Shut Up | The Seminal

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/48816 ...

Government to Oil Plume Discovery Team: Shut Up
By: Jim White Tuesday May 18, 2010 6:06 am


The research vessel Pelican. (photo: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium)

On Saturday, the New York Times brought the world’s attention to the discovery by a team of researchers on the the vessel Pelican that there are large underwater plumes of oil emanating from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Remarkably, the response of the government to the attention focused on this discovery has been to tell the researchers to stop granting interviews with the press. At the same time, the blog on which the researchers had been providing updates has also fallen silent since Saturday.

Pensacola television station WEAR filed a report (video at the link) on the oil plume and broke the news about the scientists being muzzled by the government:

Over the weekend, a research crew from the University of Southern Mississippi found evidence that there are 3 to 5 plumes… About 5 miles wide, 10 miles long and 3 hundred feet in depth.

But after giving that information to the press, the lead researcher now says he has been asked by the federal government… Which funds his research… To quit giving interviews until further testing is done.

What an interesting change of course for the government. Even the government’s website on the Deepwater Horizon response had been touting the mission of the Pelican as recently as May 6:

[Usrename]

29. This is a great post!

It really begins to illuminate the enormity of the problem that led up to this ongoing catastophe.

[Laelth]

49. +1 Agreed. Flyarm's post is excellent. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[corpseratemedia]

31. ....yeah

a lot of enabling.. i thought cheney was responsible for letting oil cos. bypass back-up safety measures for offshore drilling in the gulf.

obama admin should have never issued an environmental waiver for horizon or make such an asinine statement. They never cleaned house either(now they might make a show of it.. perhaps...but perhaps not).

It is my impression, and the impression i wanted to leave, that it is the sociopathic corporate ceos/vp who lead, republicans follow... while dlc dems meekly do their bidding while asking can i have another.

I still want to save the democratic party from corporate "centrists." They're only more passive and better liars than repubs.

[flyarm]

34. unfortunately , they are not better liars or more passive!

the problem lies in we the people who continue to buy into the red and blue shit..if you never ask the right questions you never get truth and many continue to hold their hands over their ears and sing lalalalalalala..

There are no two parties...there is one large party with one giant money pot in the middle..all are owned by the same people and the power stays among the few. The IDEA that there are two parties is an illusion the powers that be, want you to believe in..it is a scam of the worst degree..

The most power we the people have is to vote all their asses out..that is if our votes ever count again.

When we the people allow others votes to be stolen, even in primaries..we all lose. And the most powerful get their choice of government ..we don't.

You can not blame "the other guy" when your own is doing the same damn thing! These people need to be held accountable ..all of them..Equally. One can not say when "my guy does it " it is ok...it is never OK.

The eco system will now be destroyed because of this behavior. The food chain will be destroyed because of this behavior. Sea life will be destroyed because of this behavior. Wild life will be destroyed because of this behavior. Millions of Americans livelyhood will be destroyed because of this behavior. People will get cancers and diseases because of this behavior...behavior the "powers that be" can count on like clockwork..because "we the people" have been damn fools..and fooled.

[awoke_in_2003]

47. and voting their asses out...

doesn't do any good, either. The only people who can run a campaign are already bought and paid for.

[felinetta]

17. You mean, BP isn't stopping commercial flights from flying over this catastrophe?

[flyarm]

35. ahhh now that is a question that can easily be answered!!

as a retired flight crew for a major airline I can tell you..it is a federal regulation that no photo's be taken inside an airborn commerical airline flight.

All the government needs to do is enforce the regulation!

It is a regulation rarely enforced against passengers flying commerically ..but that does not mean it can't be!!

After 9/11 the regulation was more strictly enforced.
But the enforcement didn't last too long.

Most people do not know that is a FAA regulation!



But the Regulation is on the books!

[Quantess]

18. Yuck.

[BrklynLiberal]

20. oh. my. gawd!

[Panorama]

21. Sad. n/t

[Avalux]

22. OMG. And that's just what we can see on the surface.

So much more deep in the water...

[Heidi]

23. Recommended.

:kick:

[defendandprotect]

24. k

[XemaSab]

25. That's what Prince William Sound looked like when I flew over

:(

[tabasco]

30. But.....but.......but

oil leaks into the oceans naturally all the time!

:sarcasm:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

32. k

[Urban Prairie]

33. Catastrophic epic historic fail:

David Rainey, BP's vice president for Gulf of Mexico exploration, told Congress that the proposal was unnecessary. "I think we need to remember," he said, that offshore drilling "has been going on for the last 50 years, and it has been going on in a way that is both safe and protective of the environment."

How many times in history, has someone reassured or guaranteed the success or infallibility of something, only to be proved completely wrong soon afterwards??

[ChiciB1]

36. I Live On The West Coast Of Florida & Went To the Beach Last Monday!

Just a short story about what I SAW! Something I have RARELY seen on our beautiful beaches here, our fine white, white sand in this area! I don't mind telling people where I live... Sarasota County! This Ruby Red County may soon start pointing their particular anger at a Democratic run WH & Congress because they are LOSING MONEY!! The last I heard, this county is the #3 in per capita income in the state of Florida and this WILL NOT sit well here! Believe me, I've been here for 30 years and have butted heads politically many times with them!

We HAVE NOT seen anything YET, but because of this VOMIT that BP caused, the beach was almost empty! Didn't have to try to find a place to plop, parking was SIMPLE, VERY SIMPLE... right up front! Lifeguards are saying fewer and fewer people are going to the beach each day, and we haven't had anything come on shore YET!

I had to do some grocery shopping yesterday and was AMAZED at how LITTLE traffic there was! PEOPLE have been SCARED AWAY! The news here is ALL ABOUT the fact that there are up to 40% to 50% cancellations in this area, and I can attest to that! All I have to do is walk about a mile up the road and look out at the Gulf!

Florida is already suffering because TOURISM on THIS side of Florida is declining DAILY, even though local TV and Tallahassee is telling the country that our beaches are still clean!

We already have one of the highest rates of unemployment, housing prices have declined more than other places and it looks like it's going to get WORSE!!

A local friend of mine who runs a vegetable stand has decided to stay open all summer for the FIRST time since he's been in business because he has begun to see so few customers! He usually shuts down during the summer because of the spoilage rate, but say he can't afford to do so this year! Ironically, he MAY have to shut down after all!

I personally think this DISASTER is much bigger and more widespread than we are being told and I'm LIVID! We've been lied to so many times by our Government for so many many years, but this is ONE time I feel that the LYING will bring much more DEATH & DEVASTATION than most of can imagine!

I say... ALL HANDS ON DECK... DAMN THE TORPEDOES and quit playing CYA!! This is a CRIME worse than any serial killer could have committed! Perhaps that sounds like an overstatement, but it's the only analogy I could come up with as I type with speed right now!

I'm PAST using adjectives, I just feel HELPLESS!! I "think" I realize that ONE MAN (Obama) can't solve this... but then ONE MAN never could! Who YA GONNA CALL?? OIL BUSTERS and maybe the FBI too?? Doesn't seem to be happening, but what do I know??

This is CRIMINAL beyond words!! Anyone see the last part of the Schultz show last night, and the woman (comedian, forgot her name) when she said that she thought that EVERY SINGLE BP worker up to and including the Corporate bosses should be wearing an ankle bracelet to define WHO they are as criminals! What a GREAT idea! She wasn't funny last night, she was feeling with her heart!

Can we still TRUST Washington and what they say?? PLEASE, I'm NOT trying to make OBAMA the PERP, but he's not making me feel like "he's got this one!" And yes, I HAVE been one of his critics on many issues... but this isn't a time to "go there!" It's just a time to get WHATEVER HELP, WHERE EVER IT IS, and tell BP to F--k OFF and take a LIFE LINE from ANYONE!! This is a WORLD WIDE catastrophe that seems to need WORLDWIDE help!! Quit playing GAMES!

I'm done with this RANT for now... but I think it's not the last time!!
:nuke: :grr: :cry:

[Shining Jack]

40. That's awful.

I'm really sorry,words fail me. :(

[HughMoran]

38. That's nasty

uggh

[Uncle Joe]

41. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Lorien]

44. Share it on your FB wall. It may be the only plave many people get a glimpse of the

truth. :-(

[craigmatic]

45. I have a terrible feeling that no one will pay for a fuck up of this magnitude.

They never do. It would be the end of BP if they paid for this.

[speedcat]

46. are you sure that's oil?

I mean, maybe I'm not looking at the most hi-res screen, but it looks like a lot of scenery I have seen from an airplane... could be ground with lakes, for all I know. If that is the gulf, it could be formations under the water that are showing up due to the low depth. Maybe I'm just blind but I can't tell WTF that picture really is of. I'm having a really hard time believing there is THAT much fucking oil in the water. If that is oil, OMFG that is the most disgusting, horrible thing I have ever seen.

[Iwasthere]

53. Wake up Speedcat!

YES that is oil, not only that but most of the oil is now UNDER the surface, can't fathom the immensity of this. The disbursment has added a deady element to this as well. This is now or soon to be a global issue once those disbursments enter the stream. It is also a crime in our country to kill endangered species (advertant or not), the fines for each case are huge. And the loss of human life as a result of the toxins will be massive. You are seeing only the tip of the iceberg. WAKE UP!

Welcome to DU ...

[ChiciB1]

54. Yes, Welcome To DU...AND THAT IS OIL! I've Flown Over The Gulf A Number

of times, been to the Keys many, many times and I can sincerely tell you that from above, the GULF doesn't look like that! You may see darker spots from deeper water, but it DOES NOT look like this!

Besides, if you look closely... there IS reddish hue that is undeniable!!

Someone should have warned us! The British were coming, but this time I THINK they're winning the WAR! They will destroy so much of the environment and economy without even using the long barrel of a musket gun!! I know, a hokey comment... but I do WISH we had a PAUL REVERE around somewhere!
:yoiks:

[Dappleganger]

48. Shared it on FB. nt

[AlphaCentauri]

52. You want oil, you have it, now eat it n/t

:grr:

[clayton72]

55. Is that land?

Last comment to the Facebook thread:
This is silly. You're looking at dry land, a river in the distance, some creeks, and clouds. However devastating, the spill doesn't look like this from the air. If there was THAT much oil, life on Earth would end.

[Rex]

56. Wow, it looks like land from that picture. Man, what corporations

and our government won't do to keep us stupid to the facts...bliss really must be ignorance...