August 2010 archive

BP claims “milestone” as drill mud holds well shut

By Tom Bergen and Kristen Hays

August 4, 2010

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Factbox: How BP’s static kill works

Factbox: Developments in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

NOAA, that wonderful government division, that showed us incorrect oil maps, lied about there being plumes of oil in the water, now gives us this laugher:  

Only about 26 percent of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak is still in the water or onshore, and most of it is diluted and breaking down rapidly, officials say.

NYT

Uh, sure.

Right.

26 % you say?

Poof. All gone.

If this isn’t proof that the American government is controlled by corporations, I don’t know what is.

To sum up, the government has collaborated with BP to hire public relations firms, been caught setting booms w/o skimmers, has kept reporters away from the gulf, been repeatedly caught lying about the size of the spill, the oil plumes, the reason for the use of toxic dispersant, and now claims that the seafood is clean based on ‘experts’ who literally smell it, and based on the smell, pronouce it safe. See here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

And now NOAA says 74% is just gone, although, the exact release number presumably is unknown (“unknown/unknown”) , we now know that more or less 74% of that unknown number is just gone.

This has been determined totally  scientifically, by real experts complete with oil diving rods, combing a map of the gulf painstakingly & by smell, I presume.  Drawn on a napkin.

Thank you, BP US government for fixing the gulf so rapidly.

I commode you.

Uh, commend you.  

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has survived an attack on his convoy in western Iran, media reports from the region say.

The reports say a device was thrown at the convoy in the city of Hamedan, where he was to deliver a speech.

Mr Ahmadinejad was unhurt and went ahead with the speech to a rally at a football stadium, which was broadcast live on state TV.

However, Iran’s state-owned Press TV has denied the attack.

Arab TV reports said a number of people were wounded in the attack.

This is going to be a mish mash of various links relevant to today’s oil spill news, Tues Aug 3, 2010.  I took one look at the amusing picture of the moonshine still on the open thread and saw instead the Blow Out Protector on the Macondo Oil Well of Doom.

I was trying not to laugh my arse off about a certain fp diary at a certain blog yesterday which was a repeat of a certain breathless Washington Post article announcing that The Oil Spill Was Really BIGGER than they all thought according to the “new” government figures.

Which was as big as the government knew all along, from April 23, 3 days after the blowout, when they were doing estimates based on BP’s internal documents that weren’t released yet, and then the government and BP have colluded since then to lie their a$$es off about.   NOAA released a chart of the potential leak impact on the coast line back in April with the higher number.

3 months minus 5 days times 50,000 to 60,000 barrels a day.  Duh.  As if BP Tony hadn’t mentioned 60,000 a day back in June in front of Congress, either.

Yes, they really do think we are THAT stupid.

Testvets {Mike (Beetle) Bailey’s Blog}! A never ending, and usually unknown by those soldiers being tested, fact of the Military as they have extremely easy to use subjects where results can be turned over to the private sector for profit {especially in these times of private contractors and what’s already surfaced as to}, in the many cases over the years this has taken place on many issues, some still unknown and even denied happened.

BP faces insider dealing probe as nears well kill

By Rachelle Younglai and Kristen Hays

August 3, 2010

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BP says must delay test ahead of static kill

BP may sell German gas stations for $2.6 billion: report h

Most Americans are proud. Very. Land of the Free. Home of the Brave. The world’s oldest democracy. The greatest country in the history of the world. Equality and Liberty. Truth, Justice and the American Way.

The American Way. What is that exactly, besides Superman’s motto?