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NEWS BULLETIN
What's clear about
the BP
oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico
(NaturalNews) What's clear about
the BP
oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is that the independent
journalists are doing a better job of asking the really tough questions
than the mainstream media. Sure, CNN, Fox and others are bringing some
attention to the matter, and they've done some solid reporting on it,
but they haven't yet found a way to ask the deeper questions like why
the U.S. government seems to be colluding with BP to cover up the truth
about the spill.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/029030_Gulf_of_Mexico_oil_spill.html

Just the other day, I found an article entitled, "16 Burning Questions
About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill" on the TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com
site (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/...).
It
was
a really
insightful collection of important questions, so I've repeated them
below. The author of these questions wasn't mentioned on the page, so I
regret I cannot properly attribute the list, but I do think they're
worth reviewing, so I've included my own commentary and an extra
question below.
Here are the 16 questions:
#1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000
National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used "as needed" by
state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going
to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or
to control the public?
Mike's comment: Good question. Much of the response activity to the
spill seems to be about controlling the public's perception and
limiting media access to the spill site rather than actually cleaning
up the mess.
#2) Barack Obama has also announced the creation of a "Gulf recovery
czar" who will be in charge of overseeing the restoration of the Gulf
of Mexico region following the oil spill. So is appointing a "czar"
Obama's idea of taking charge of a situation?
#3) Because it is so incredibly toxic, the UK's Marine Management
Organization has completely banned Corexit 9500, so if there was a
major oil spill in the UK's North Sea, BP would not be able to use it.
So why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico?
Mike's answer: Because Corexit kills sea animals and makes them sink
and disappear rather than allowing them to wash up on shore where the
emotional outcry would be even worse than it is already.
#4) It is being reported that 2.61 parts per million of Corexit 9500
(mixed with oil at a ratio of 1:1o) is lethal to 50% of fish exposed to
it within 96 hours. That means that 1 gallon of Corexit 9500/oil
mixture is capable of rendering 383,141 gallons of water highly toxic
to fish. So why was BP allowed to dump 1,021,000 gallons of Corexit
9500 and Corexit 9527 into the Gulf of Mexico, and why aren't they
being stopped from dumping another 805,000 gallons of these dispersants
that they have on order into the Gulf?
Mike's answer: Sadly, BP is running the show in the Gulf, not the
government! The U.S. government has sold out to private corporations
who now think they own the gulf and can run operations there however
they see fit.
#5) If these dispersants are so incredibly toxic to fish, what are they
going to do to crops? What are they going to do to people?
Mike's answer: They're obviously going to poison the entire Gulf Coast
region if hurricanes whip up these chemicals and deposit them on land.
We could be looking at a complete wipeout of the Florida citrus
industry, for example, if all the worst conditions converge.
#6) If the smell of the oil on some Gulf beaches is already so strong
that it burns your nostrils, then what in the world is this oil doing
to wildlife that encounter it?
#7) Is it a bad sign that birds from the Gulf region are flocking north
by the thousands?
Mike answer: Remember the Tsunami in the Indian ocean a few years back?
The animals fled first, while the clueless people stayed behind and got
clobbered by the deadly wave. I think a similar thing could be
happening in the Gulf. All it takes is one hurricane to turn the entire
region into a toxic stew of chemical poison.
#8) Why is BP being allowed to use private security contractors to keep
the American people away from the oil cleanup sites?
Mike's answer: Yes, this is the real question. BP is running security
in the Gulf the same way Halliburton runs security in the Middle East.
The corporate contractors are now the police force in the area, and
they're running the Gulf as if they owned it! This is a clear
indication that the corporations have taken over our government.
#9) Why is BP openly attempting to manipulate the search results on
sites like Google and Yahoo?
#10) Why has the FAA shut down the airspace above the Gulf of Mexico
oil spill? What don't they want the American people to see?
Mike's answer: There are lots of answer to this one: The feds probably
don't want people in small airplanes taking aerial photos and posting
them online (because the Obama administration is working overtime to
cover up the truth here, much like the Bush administration did with the
flag-draped coffins coming home from war in the Middle East). It could
also be that they are planning something really crazy like a deep ocean
nuke to collapse the well, and they don't want civilians falling out of
the sky when the mushroom cloud appears.
#11) Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says there are reports that there
are additional ruptures in the sea floor from which oil is leaking. If
there are quite a few of these additional ruptures, then how in the
world does BP expect to completely stop this oil leak?
Mike's answer: BP actually doesn't expect to stop this leak anytime
soon. They are clearly in full-on spin mode, just trying to deny the
truth and spin the words to buy themselves more time to offload stock
shares before the whole thing comes tumbling down.
#12) Why are scientists finding concentrations of methane at up to
10,000 times normal background levels in Gulf waters?
Mike's answer: Because BP broke the ocean floor, and now huge volumes
of gas hydrates (which contain methane) are bubbling up from places
that were previously trapped safely underground.
#13) At some testing stations in the Gulf of Mexico, levels of benzene
have been detected at over 3000 parts per billion, and levels of
hydrogen sulfide have been detected as high as 1192 parts per billion.
Considering that these levels would be highly toxic to humans, why
hasn't the general public been warned?
#14) Why are so many Gulf oil spill disaster workers showing up at
local hospitals complaining of a "mysterious illness"?
Mike's answer: This is going to be the Gulf War Syndrome of the Gulf
Coast. Or the 9/11 asbestos question affecting firefighters. There will
be a wave of toxic side effects from the use of chemicals in the Gulf,
and both BP and the federal government will predictably deny any link
between the chemicals and the health effects for years to come.
#15) If "70% or 80%" of the protective booms are doing absolutely
nothing at all to stop the oil, then what is going to stop the millions
of gallons of oil in the Gulf from eventually reaching shore?
Mike's answer: Nothing, of course. The oil is going to reach the shore,
and there's nothing BP or the feds can do to stop in. In fact, it seems
as if they are trying to interfere with the cleanup by halting the
barges that were supposed to be vacuuming oil just off the beaches.
#16) It is being reported that the deep sea oil plumes are creating
huge "dead zones" where all creatures are dying as they are deprived of
oxygen. If this oil spill continues to grow could the vast majority of
the Gulf of Mexico become one gigantic "dead zone"?
Mike's answer: Indeed, that is precisely what looks likely to happen.
The Gulf of Mexico could become a massive dead zone, adding to the long
list of humanity's crimes against the planet. See my related
CounterThink cartoon at: http://www.naturalnews.com/029015_a...
I've also added one more question of my own:
#17) Why is our government colluding with BP to cover up the truth
about the spill?
Remember the BP press conferences on cable news? A U.S. Coast Guard
representative was standing right there beside the BP spokesperson,
almost as if she were a subordinate of BP. This is insane! If anything,
the US Coast Guard should be telling BP what to do, not the other way
around.
And why is the US Coast Guard restricting reporters' access to the
spill areas, threatening them with arrest if they "trespass." Trespass
into PUBLIC waters? Doesn't anybody realize that BP does not own the
Gulf of Mexico and if we want to take our boats out into the Gulf to
get some video of what's really happening there, that's our right! But
the U.S. government is now working for BP, it seems, and they're trying
to protect BP's image by restricting the freedoms of ordinary Americans.
Sound familiar? That's why I think this Gulf of Mexico disaster is
another 9/11 reactionary freedom squasher in the works. Just wait...
you'll see what kind of freedom-destroying ideas are put forth by our
lawmakers in response to this catastrophe. When it's all said and done,
it won't only be British Petroleum that loses; it will be all of us.
The Corporatocracy and government collusion
What we're really witnessing here with the BP disaster is our own
government colluding with the powerful corporatocracy to cover up the
truth all while making it worse by interfering with legitimate cleanup
efforts.
It's almost as if the federal government were actively working to
worsen the problem and expand the impact of the disaster. But that
brings up the question: Why?
Why would our own government worsen a catastrophe? The answer, of
course, is right in front of you. Just visit ground zero in New York
City and remind yourself of all the various ways the U.S. government
expanded its power following the collapse of the twin towers. "Never
waste a good crisis" is the mantra of Big Government today, and the
easiest way to steal even more power away from the people is to turn a
small disaster into a big disaster, then leap in with a "government
solution" that enacts some large, oppressive new act that never would
have been possible before the disaster.
So what kind of oppressive new laws does the Obama administration want
to put in place in response to this disaster? Perhaps government
control over all oceans, or government control over all seafood. Maybe
they want to outlaw oil over the next 25 years and force everybody to
transition to some other form of energy (which may not actually be a
bad idea from an ecological perspective, but at what price to freedom?).
There are a thousand other conspiracy theories that try to guess at
what the government's true agenda might be in this moment. While it's
hard to say which of them (if any) might be true, one thing is crystal
clear: The government does not seem interested in solving the problem
in the Gulf of Mexico. It is covering up the truth, threatening
mainstream journalists who try to photograph the region, restricting
air travel over the well site, restricting boat travel anywhere near
the spill, and basically lying to the public on a daily basis about
what's really happening there.
That alone should make any thinking person suspicious. If the situation
were really under control, why would they have to lie about it?
US government poisons its own citizens
There is precedent for believing that the U.S. government might try to
poison its own citizens in order to achieve a political goal. During
Prohibition, the U.S. government actually released poisoned alcohol in
order to harm (or kill) those who were defying the law and drinking
liquor.
That story is published today here on NaturalNews.com. Read it to learn
more about what our own government may be capable of doing when it
wishes to exercise power of the People.