like they aren't any idle tankers around that need the work...
Posted on 06/11/2010 10:11:19 AM PDT by penelopesire
The Gulf oil spill spoiling the teeming marshes and white-sand beaches of the Gulf Coast is also threatening the pristine image of the burly, take-charge leader who has become the federal government's go-to guy in a disaster. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, one of the few federal officials whose reputation survived Hurricane Katrina intact, is facing growing criticism that he and his agency are overwhelmed by the catastrophe. It's unfamiliar territory for a former Coast Guard Academy football captain who has managed responses to crises that include the earthquake in Haiti, Katrina and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"It's very discombobulated and disorganized," Orange Beach, Ala., Mayor Tony Kennon said of the federal response after tar balls stained the beach and entered Perdido Bay this week, without protection from booms. "They had five weeks to get ready for this, and it still happened."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Everything Obama has done has been a disaster....on every issue there are two conclusions: either these people are monumentally stupid or this is being done on purpose.
“I do agree that Thad Allen is being set up for the fall guy by the federal government.”
The rats have the perfect person to put in charge. Alvin Green of South Carolina needs a job so that he will resign from the senate ballot. Alvin Green forever. Alvin Green, the new face of the rat party.
Well, Alvin Green is the new face of the democrat party! I read somewhere that he put his name on the ballot just so someone from the administration would offer him a job!
But kidding aside, why is Thad Allen the spokesperson for this mess. Shouldn’t this be the job of a cabinet minister? Doesn’t this crisis merit a higher level of authority?
“the pristine image of the burly, take-charge leader”
lol As far as I`m concerned, Allen is the Baghdad Bob of the CG.
“For 50 days they have known that when they are able to start pumping oil to the surface in a controlled manner, they don’t have enough ships to store the oil.....!
I just heard on the news that it will be a month before another ship large enough to hold oil gets there!”
Meanwhile, it`s leaking a lot more than it did before they “fixed” it. Wonderful planning. sarc/
like they aren't any idle tankers around that need the work...
“I heard a report that these ‘so called’ clean up crews were stomping all over one of the oil filled marshes in La. and were seen throwing pelican eggs at each other.”
If there`s video of that and it goes viral,,,wow.
The AP sets ‘em up and the rest of the MSM will knock ‘em down. This is nothing but smoke-n-mirrors designed to sheild President Messiah.
There IS a video of it. That parish president that is all over TV said it under oath in the hearings yesterday. I heard it with my own ears. I will try to find it on CSPAN later when I have time and will ping you. I am pretty sure of what I heard.
The video is here:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294000-1
comment about the workers tossing pelican eggs starts at minute 40:41. Billy Nungesser’s entire testimony is worth listening to. I can’t believe our media ‘watchdogs’ didn’t pick up on this little tidbit yesterday, but I guess it figures. They have to protect Zero at all costs. If anyone knows someone that can make a video of this part though..I’ll do everything I can help it go viral. He has pictures of it too that he included in a packet for every senator in that meeting.
Dittos!! Our media is a great asset to the dictatorial Obama regime.
Let’s pray that Admiral Allen doesn’t have an Admiral Boorda moment in Ft. Marcy Park. I get the feeling that after being thrown under the bus he won’t get the opportunity to explain himself.
Keep in mind this is the spawning season for most fish and crustaceans in the GOM. What is also odd is that when you search for this, each day more and more of the searches lead to pages that are no longer available or have warnings that the site will attack your computer. As we all know the same thing has been happening since the Kenyan was elected. Hot potato?..... start scrubbing and hiding. At the bottom of this post is the FOLLOW THE MONEY part and to say it is interesting is a HUGE understatement.
The EPA just approved mixing dispersant with the leak at the source — this wild experiment could have unintended consequences such as maintaining a horizontal plume of semi-dispersed oil at mid-Gulf levels.
Good article here:
Despite EPA order, BP continues to use toxic chemical dispersant on oil spill
By The Associated Press
No one but the Texas-based manufacturer, Nalco Energy Services, knows exactly what’s in Corexit 9500, the dispersant BP has been spraying on the slick. The company says it may pose a risk for eye and skin irritations and can cause respiratory problems, but “no toxicity studies have been conducted on this product.””A dispersant doesn’t get rid of oil,” said George Henderson, a senior scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg who is the state’s top science adviser on the oil spill. “It just transforms its movement.”
Ferguson could not say how many gallons of dispersant BP has sprayed underwater.
One 2006 study found that oil droplets treated with a chemical dispersant didn’t degrade nearly as fast when they were in very cold water — and the water a mile deep is just above freezing.
The shrimpers are worried that using dispersants at such a depth would guarantee that it would spread the oil droplets and dispersant on the sea floor, where shrimp larvae and other organisms could be affected.
What is more, the main dispersants applied so far, from a product line called Corexit, had their approval rescinded in Britain a decade ago because laboratory tests found them harmful to sea life that inhabits rocky shores, like limpets, said Mark Kirby, a scientific adviser to the British government on the testing, use and approval of oil spill treatment options.
So, no one knows what untold long-term damage BP is causing in the food chain, and, ultimately to the public health, in addition to the massive oil hemorrhage itself in the Gulf. And BP sure doesn’t want us to find out.
http://wakeup2010.blogspot.com/2010/05/corexit-9500.html
http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/Corexit.pdf
http://lmrk.org/corexit_9500_uscueg.539287.pdf
The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons
BP’s latest oil spill response update for June 4th says the total amount of the dispersant used in the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,021,000 gallons.
But what most people don’t know is that the active ingredient of the toxic chemical dispersant, which is up to 60% by volume, being sprayed by BP to fight the Gulf oil spill is a is a neurotoxin pesticide that is acutely toxic to both human and aquatic life, causes cancer, causes damage to internal organs such as the liver and kidneys simply by absorbing it through the skin and may cause reproductive side effects.
In fact the neurotoxin pesticide that is lethal to 50% of life in concentrations as little as 2.6 parts per million has been banned for use in the UK since 1998 because it failed the UK “Rocky shore test” which assures that the dispersant does not cause a “significant deleterious ecological change”.
Corexit has also earned the highest EPA warning label for toxicity which means the effects of the toxic chemicals to the eye are corrosive resulting in irreversible destruction of ocular tissue and other tissue with corneal involvement along with an burning that can persist for more than 21 days and effects to human skin are corrosive resulting in tissue destruction into the dermis and/or scarring.
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/589583/
BP’s preferred dispersants, thus far, have been Corexit 9500 and 9527, which are manufactured by Nalco, Inc. BP executives and board members have direct financial ties to Nalco, so that the m0re Corexit they use in their “clean-up” efforts the more they stand to profit from the disaster on the back-end.
Corexit 9500 and 9527 were also determined to be the least effective dispersants of all 18 tested, further confirming that BP’s decision to use these products is based on an attempt to profit handsomely from their use, and not their expressed goal of “cleaning up the mess.”
Ultimately the conflict between the EPA and BP being waged right now on using “more effective” and “less toxic” dispersants, skirts the real issues. Although using “less toxic” dispersants is a good idea, the more “effective” they are, the more harm they do to the life in the Gulf. The focus should not be only on the inherently toxic nature of all dispersants, but on the inherently toxic consequences of dispersing the oil through any means.
Dispersing the oil into the water column accelerates the poisoning of all marine life, deep throughout the water column and seabed. Ultimately it results in “covering-up” the extent of the disaster on the surface, while amplifying the damage within our oceans. Also, when the dispersants admix with the crude oil, a third far more toxic product is produced called “dispersed oil.” Dispersed oil has been shown to be more toxic than the sum of its parts.
http://oilspilltruth.wordpress.com/dispersants/
“It’s not at all clear to me why we are dispersing the oil at all,” Safina said. “It’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind strategy. It’s just to get it away from the cameras on the shoreline.
“It takes something that we can see that we could at least partly deal with and dissolves it so we can’t see it and can’t deal with it.”
The scientists said that we have quite literally a surface understanding of what a spill of this magnitude may have on ocean life, with most attention and understanding devoted to what is visible atop the ocean, when it soils birds or marine life that we can see, or when it fouls a wetland or beach.
carl_safina.JPGManuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated PressCarl Safina is president and co-founder of Blue Ocean Institute.
But its most profound and long-lasting effects, they said, may be on ocean life in the deep waters of the Gulf, which, Earle said, at its lower depths remain, to a remarkable degree, a “mystery.”
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_is_sticking_with_its_disper.html
E.P.A. Violates Clean Water Act!
Corexit was approved for a very specific purpose — coastal oil spill cleanup. It was approved to be utilized in a very specific manner: sprayed (droplets, not mist) from airplanes or boats, over the oil slick. The approval goes into very exact language as to how the product should be utilized, and even talks about mitigating possible consequence to the humans spraying the product. It was NEVER cleared for deployment UNDER the water, nor offshore, nor at such depths. Temperature, pressure and environment all come into play, and those factors cannot be ignored.
http://www.protecttheocean.com/e-p-a-violates-clean-water-act/
Less Toxic Dispersants Lose Out in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
Nalco’s connections
Critics say Nalco, which formed a joint venture company with Exxon Chemical in 1994, boasts oil-industry insiders on its board of directors and among its executives, including an 11-year board member at BP and a top Exxon executive who spent 43 years with the oil giant.
“It’s a chemical that the oil industry makes to sell to itself, basically,” said Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.
The older of the two Corexit products that BP has used in the Gulf spill, Corexit 9527, was also sprayed in 1989 on the 11-million-gallon slick created by the Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
Cleanup workers suffered health problems afterward, including blood in their urine and assorted kidney and liver disorders. Some health problems were blamed on the chemical 2-butoxyethanol, an ingredient discontinued in the latest version of Corexit, Corexit 9500, whose production Nalco officials say has been ramped up in response to the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Among Corexit’s competitors, a product called Dispersit far outpaced Corexit 9500, EPA test results show, rating nearly twice as effective and between half and a third as toxic, based on two tests performed on fish and shrimp. The material safety data sheet for Corexit 9500 warns: “Do not contaminate surface water.” Also, the document says, “Component substances have a potential to bioconcentrate.
Bruce Gebhardt, president of the company that manufactures Dispersit, U.S. Polychemical Corp., said BP asked for samples of his company’s product two weeks ago. Later, he said, BP officials told him that EPA had wanted to ensure they had “crossed all their T’s and dotted all their I’s” before moving forward.
Gebhardt says he could make 60,000 gallons a day of Dispersit to meet the needs of spill-containment efforts. Dispersit was formulated to outperform Corexit and got EPA approval 10 years ago, he said, but the dispersant has failed to grab market share from its larger rival.
“When we came out with a safer product, we thought people would jump on board,” he said. “That’s not the case. We were never able to move anyone of any size off the Corexit product.”
He added, “We’re just up against a giant.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/business/energy-environment/13greenwire-less-toxic-dispersants-lose-out-in-bp-oil-spil-81183.html
But even as these arguments continue, with 230,000 gallons of Corexit on tap and more commissioned by BP, a superior alternative could be left on the shelf.
Called Dispersit, it’s manufactured by the U.S. Polychemical Corporation and has been approved for use by the Environmental Protection Agency. Both Corexit and Dispersit were tested by the EPA, and according to those results, Corexit was 54.7 percent effective at breaking down crude oil from the Gulf, and Dispersit was 100 percent effective.
Not only did Corexit do a worse job of dispersing oil, but it was three times as lethal to silverfish – used as a benchmark organism in toxicity testing — and more than twice as lethal to shrimp, another benchmark organism and an important part of Gulf fisheries.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/gulf-dispersants/
EPA tells BP to use less-toxic chemicals
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2010-05-20-oil-spill-chemicals_N.htm
BP defies EPA orders to use less toxic chemicals on Gulf oil spill
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d22-BP-defies-EPA-orders-to-use-less-toxic-chemicals-on-Gulf-oil-spill-Live-oil-spill-video
EPA: BP makes Gulf oil spill worse by using more toxic, less effective chemical dispersants
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d13-EPA-BP-makes-Gulf-oil-spill-worse-by-using-more-toxic-less-effective-chemical-dispersants
http://www.iosc.org/papers/00020.pdf
http://www.politicolnews.com/bp-using-toxic-corexit-9500/
Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.
The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/toxic-oil-spill-rains-warned-could-destroy-north-america/
http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100523/bp-persist-corexit-9500-dispersant-id-10114389.html
Secret Formulas, Data Shortages Fuel Arguments Over Dispersants Used for Gulf Spill
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/24/24greenwire-secret-formulas-data-shortages-fuel-arguments-o-9112.html
Swimming Through the Spill ...
Only a few meters down, the nutrient-rich water became murky, but it was possible to make out tiny wisps of phytoplankton, zooplankton and shrimp enveloped in dark oily droplets. These are essential food sources for fish like the herring I could see feeding with gaping mouths on the oil and dispersant. Dispersants break up the oil into smaller pieces that then sink in the water, forming poisonous droplets — which fish can easily mistake for food.
Though all dispersants are potentially dangerous when applied in such volumes, Corexit is particularly toxic. It contains petroleum solvents and a chemical that, when ingested, ruptures red blood cells and causes internal bleeding. It is also bioaccumulative, meaning its concentration intensifies as it moves up the food chain.
The timing for exposure to these chemicals could not be worse. Herring and other small fish hatch in the spring, and the larvae are especially vulnerable. As they die, disaster looms for the larger predator fish, as well as dolphins and whales.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/opinion/30shaw.html
NOW FOLLOW THE MONEY!
GULF OIL PROFITEERS EXPOSED HERE !!! THE REAL TRUTH !!! 06/05/2010
There is a company called NALCO. They make water purification systems and chemical dispersants.
NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
NALCO is associated with UChicago Argonne program. UChicago Argonne received $164 million dollars in stimulus funds this past year. UChicago Argonne just added two new executives to their roster. One from NALCO. The other from the Ill. Dept of Educaution.
If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire.
Warren Buffet /Hathaway Berkshire increased their holdings in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything).
The dispersant chemical is known as Corexit. What it does is hold the oil below the water’s surface. It is supposed to break up the spill into smaller pools. It is toxic and banned in Europe.
The Top Kill method was started and suspended several times. It was being attempted only half heartedly. The reason is, there is no money to be made with a solution that simple.
The real money is in the use of dispersants.
If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire.
Warren Buffet /Hathaway Berkshire increased their holdings in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything).
http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico
This is NALCO:
http://www.nalco.com/index.htm
Goldman Sachs was part of a three-pronged group that purchased NALCO:
BP And Goldman Sachs Sued For Oil Fraud
http://blogs.forbes.com/energysource/2010/05/18/bp-goldman-sued-oil-fraud/
Buffett’s Bet On Water, NALCO (NLC is trade code):
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3095068
‘Blackstone, Apollo and Goldman Sachs to acquire Ondeo NALCO’ (COREXIT 9500):
http://bit.ly/bVHQkR
The Betrayed: a True Patriot site did a superb job researching this and has many links to back it up:
http://roach1958.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/gulf-oil-profiteers-exposed-here-the-real-truth/
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BP Embraces Exxon’s Toxic Dispersant, Ignores Safer Alternative
It has been confirmed that the dispersal agent being used by BP and the government is Corexit 9500 , a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, IL. Their stock took a sharp jump, up more than 18% at its highest point of the day today, after it was announced that their product is the one being used in the Gulf. Nalco’s CEO, Erik Frywald, expressed their commitment to “helping the people and environment of the Gulf Coast recover as rapidly as possible.” It may be that the best way to help would be to remove their product from the fray. Take a look at some of the facts about Corexit 9500:
A report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. entitled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview ” states that “Corexit 9500, Corexit 9527, and Corexit 9580 have moderate toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans and mollusks (LC50 or EC50 – 1.6 to 100 ppm*). It goes on to say that decreasing water temperatures in lab tests showed decreased toxicity, a lowered uptake of the dispersant. Unfortunately, we’re going to be seeing an increase in temperatures, not a decrease. Amongst the other caveats is that the study is species-specific, that other animals may be more severely affected, silver-sided fish amongst them.
http://www.protecttheocean.com/gulf-oil-spill-bp/
Follow The Data, Forget Conspiracy Theory
1. In the weeks prior to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe BP CEO Tony Hayward sold 1/3 of his BP shares, using the money to pay off his family mansion.
2. During those same few weeks Goldman Sachs shorted 44% of its BP holdings, while Wachovia and UBS sold 98% and 97% of their BP holdings.
3. CEO Tony Hayward made $4.5 million last year = $12,000 A DAY – even since the Deepwater explosion
4. Deepwater Horizon oil rig owner, Transocean, made a whopping $270 million off the explosion and oil leak.
5. Part of BP’s cost-benefit analysis for determining how well to build employee housing included a document comparing employees to the Three Little Pigs, ultimately determining that dead employees were worth more to the company than what the more expensive and safer housing would cost.
6. President Obama just appointed his THIRD Monsanto executive to a top Food/Ag position in US Government. If you want a better understanding of how Monsanto operates, rent the documentary Food, Inc.
7. Carl Casale, Director at Nalco (manufacturer of Corexit) is also EVP/CFO of Monsanto.
8. Rodney Chase, another Director at Nalco was previously Deputy Group Chief Executive at BP.
9. Despite much more efficient alternatives, BP defied EPA’s order to find a more suitable solution than Corexit.
10. While they could have been testing this better alternative, BP and USCG were ignoring it.
11. Scientific data points to the long-term ineffectiveness and damage to overall ecosystem from use of dispersants, demonstrating cases where nature fared far better when oil was left untreated by chemical dispersants.
12. Reams of data testify to the toxic nature of Corexit, including it’s hazardous impact on both wildlife and humans. And still clean up workers are not being provided masks or critical safety equipment for working around it. And The EPA has done no more than a mere suggestion that BP use alternative remedies. Google it. Too many links out there documenting this to list.
13. Corexit has NEVER been used in this quantity, at these depths. This is unprecedented – a giant science experiment we allow BP to conduct in our back yards.
14. This dispersant use may be a direct violation of federal law.
15. Last minute arguments after the rig exploded point to…. well, see for yourself.
16. Since 1990 BP and its employees have given $3.4 million to federal candidates. Their highest paid yet? Obama.
17. The MMS, the branch of government in place to oversee and regulate the oil industry actually considered themselves part of the oil industry. We now know that the MMS spent years accepting lavish gifts from the oil industry and doing drugs while on the taxpayer’s dime (all outlined in this Federal Report).
18. BP insists that CEO Tony Hayward has moved to improve its overall safety. If that’s so, let the record show it: Since 2007 BP has accounted for 97% of all serious safety violations in the industry (that’s compared with all other companies in the entire industry – COMBINED). Is that an improvement? I suppose it could actually be.
19. Whistleblower’s within BP were silenced, not only by BP, but by the DOJ, who shut down an important investigation and gave BP a “slap on the wrist” before firing the lead investigator who had reams of evidence into the criminal nature of BP’s operations. This article is truly a MUST READ. This is investigative journalism at its finest.
20. In 2009 BP was fined $87M for “life-threatening safety failings” where 439 “willful and egregious” safety violations had been found at one of its Texas refineries. The reason for the fine? Not the original safety failing – but rather for failing to make agreed upon safety upgrades to the Texas refinery after the explosion and fire that killed 15 people. Is this progress according to Hayward?
21. BP is now sitting on another ticking time bomb in the Gulf of Mexico. The BP oil rig Atlantis is sitting in 7,000 feet of water, and is in violation of a host of safety regulations. The BP contractor who originally raised concerns about these violations had his contract terminated shortly after he alerted management to the rig’s lack of crucial engineering documents in late 2008. Improvements on safety?
22. The Deepwater Horizon itself had a lengthy history of safety violations. But really, at this point, did you need to be told that?
23. Today is the 46th day since this tragedy began. The clean up efforts along the Gulf Coast remain a fragmented, uncoordinated mess. No branch of the military has been called in to oversee and coordinate coastal wide clean up efforts – a perfect job for the Army. Our military is equipped to orchestrate the take down and re-assembly of a foreign country, but when our shores need protecting our leaders do not call on them. This may be the most baffling, and disturbing, fact of all.
http://cleanthegulfnow.org/archives/follow-the-data-forget-conspiracy-theory/
“Everything is dead” That’s the testimony of Billy Nungesser, Plaquemines Parish President on June 10 before the Senate Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration More coastland will be destroyed by the oil spill that Hurricane Katrina, Ike, Rita and Gustav combined. BP is the “main problem” in the oil cleanup. Nungusser said he spends more time fighting with BP officials than he does fighting the oil spill.
BP contractors are doing nothing but “destroying coastline.” Workers work 20 minutes per hour. BP is standing in the way of protecting the coast line. BP contractors were found throwing pelican eggs instead of cleaning the oil spill until local fisherman stopped them. 100 skimmers sit in a warehouse but BP won’t use them because they don’t belong to their contractors. Nungesser said pictures of BP contractors wiping blades of grass and flyovers by politicians were an “insult” and achieved nothing.
Nungesser said BP was wasting money on practices that do nothing to protect the coastline and ignoring proven techniques. He added had ignored the use of microbes and other dispersants that local officials knew to be of benefit and that it takes up to five days to get approval for cleanup practices that have been proven to work.
Nungesser said National Guard efforts were doing the most good and were the “real heroes” of the cleanup effort but more were needed. About 1,000 National Guardsmen have been deployed but more were needed.
Captain Kickass and BP are counting on peoples short attention span and, unfortunately, time is on their side. The media and the population will soon tire of this story and move on to something else. Meanwhile, the destruction to the ecology, wildlife, and people by the oil and corexit will continue unabated.
Thanks for the link. One correction though....Nungusser actually said he was spending most of his time fighting BP AND the Coast Guard(who are carrying out the dictator’s orders). The link I posted on Cspan has his whole testimony. When the truth finally comes out, we are going to find that these so called ‘clean up crews’ that BP hired, were the people that OBAMA INSTRUCTED THEM TO HIRE. Mark my words. That’s why there is so much secrecy surrounding them. These are either union goons and/or prisoners just like a Van Jones type might insist upon. They have been instructed not to talk with the media and it’s all very mysterious.
This problem is unsolvable.
Someone please prove me wrong.
Imagine the State-run media if G. W. Bush were at the helm during this catastrophe!
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