By Mac McKinney
You don't have to be terribly astute to realize what BP and the White House with all its compromised agencies are up to these past few weeks, aided and abetted by the ever compliant Mainstream Media. The Fix is in:"kill" the drill well, even though it may not be the right drill well (click here for an explanation), continue to grant an endless panoply of waivers for BP to keep dispersing thick crude oil via Corexit to keep it out of sight and out of mind (and so what if oil is leaking upstream or downstream from the capped well, it's all "natural seepage"), hide the fish and mammal carcasses, jimmy air test results, declare fish safe to eat via unaccountable "smell tests", in brief, create a Potemkin Gulf of Mexico while ignoring and hiding the ongoing disaster engulfing the real Gulf of Mexico.
The most obvious motivations for this gambit are to limit the damage to BP's finances and reputation (or what is left of it) as well as to limit Obama's and the Democratic Party's political damage in November and beyond....
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Related: Gulf Gusher Coverage Entering Agenda-Pushing Phase
Just doing their job, folks.
"BP begins effort to permanently seal gulf gusher; Workers start pumping mud into well head Process could be done by today" by Harry R. Weber and Greg Bluestein, Associated Press | August 4, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO —
They already tried that months ago and it failed.
The pressure in the well dropped quickly in the first 90 minutes of the procedure, a sign that everything was going as planned, well site leader Bobby Bolton said aboard the Q4000, the vessel being used to pump in the mud....
Think I am believing any of these liars at this point?
Engineers won’t know for more than a week if it choked the well for good....
The static kill involves slowly pumping mud down lines running from a ship to the top of the ruptured well a mile below. BP said that may be enough by itself to seal the well.
Then why didn't they do this at the beginning?
But....
But what, PoS paper?!!!!!!!!!
Over the past few months, with each failed attempt to stop the leak, the American public has learned some of the oil industry’s lingo, including top kill, which is similar to the static kill, top hat, and junk shot, an attempt to clog up the well with golf balls and rubber scraps.
Yeah, the same junk that was found at the bottom of the well when the relief wells hit it.
I'm sorry, readers, but I'm just not buying the lies this time.
Before the cap was lowered onto the well, an estimated 172 million gallons of crude flowed into the sea....
Is that what the hypocritical, PoS MSM is going to settle on for a figure?
Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government’s point man for the spill, said the task is becoming more urgent because peak hurricane season is just around the corner.
This is about KILLING the STORY not killing the well, America!
This is about GETTING IT OFF the NEWS PAGES for the UPCOMING POLITICAL CAMPAIGN and replacing it with s*** like this.
Your front-page, Boston Globe lead today!
Tropical Storm Colin formed far out in the Atlantic yesterday, but early forecasts say it will travel toward the East Coast rather than the Gulf. And while the cap appears to be holding tight, the static kill would give scientists more confidence the well won’t leak again, he said....
Gulf residents anxiously awaited the outcome. In Yscloskey, La., Russell Prats, a crab dealer, said he is confident the static kill will work, but concerned that people will still be afraid to eat seafood....
Would you eat anything from those waters?
I wouldn't.
Aboard the Q4000, workers in red jumpsuits scurried about, pressing buttons and monitoring gauges. Some relaxed in the galley, watching “Law and Order,’’ while others typed on laptops....
At least it wasn't porn like the MMS.
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"Crush of mud finally plugs BP's well in the Gulf" by Greg Bluestein and Tamara Lush, Associated Press Writers | August 4, 2010
NEW ORLEANS --In the end, it was a crush of mud that finally plugged the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gusher of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.
As if it is over.
The government stopped just short of pronouncing the well dead, cautioning that cement and mud must still be pumped in from the bottom to seal it off for good.
Related: RED ALERT: The Other Well
Barge crashes into oil well in Gulf of Mexico, new oil leak reported
Nope, nothing about them in my "newspaper."
President Barack Obama declared that the battle to contain one of the world's worst oil spills is "finally close to coming to an end."
Fortunately for you and your party's political prospects, 'eh, liar?
Yet after months of living with lost income, fouled shorelines and dying wildlife, some Gulf Coast residents weren't so sure....
With this lying industry, government, and MSM?
Still, it appeared there might finally be an end in sight to the disaster that closed vast stretches of fishing areas, interrupted the usually lucrative tourist season, and cost BP's CEO his job and the company's shareholders billions of dollars.
Oh, POOR BP, huh?
Yup, the AGENDA-PUSHING BS is almost as offensive as the oil!
BP PLC said....
Why should we care what those environmental-war-criminal liars say?
And there was more seemingly good news: A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report released Wednesday claimed that only about 30 percent of the spilled oil remains in the Gulf and is degrading quickly. The rest has been contained or cleaned up or otherwise disappeared, and the report also said the oil no longer poses a threat to the Florida Keys or the East Coast.
Related:
"It should be pointed out that this is the same National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that was caught rigging their temperature data to support the global warming agenda."
Thank you, Mike.
But some independent experts said they were concerned that the government's method of estimating the amount was too simple for such a complex spill, and even government scientists cautioned the rosy numbers do not mean the Gulf is out of harm's way.
Translation: They are LYING TO YOU, America!
AGAIN!!!!
The containment effort -- and the cleanup -- aren't finished either....
An experimental cap had stopped the oil from flowing for the past three weeks, but it was not a permanent solution.
It was yesterday.
Related: No Relief in Sight on Gulf Gusher
You are getting something akin to mud shoved up your well hole, America.
Before it was lowered, the government estimates that 172 million gallons of oil had flowed into the Gulf.
That must be an agreeable amount to BP to establish the fine. That is why MSM has settled on it.
And before that, BP tried a series of often-absurd sounding contraptions, raising hopes only to dash them when those efforts failed.
Just like reading a Boston Globe.
They included a giant 100-ton containment box that got clogged with ice-like crystals and the so-called junk shot, an attempt to clog up the well with golf balls and rubber scraps.
Yeah, the SAME CRAP they found at the bottom of the relief well that made them stop drilling for a few days.
The apparent success of the static kill had some along the Gulf curious about why BP waited so long to try it.
"I'm wondering, as smart as the people in the U.S. government are, they couldn't have done this sooner?" asked 78-year-old Willie Jones, a retiree from Baton Rouge, La., who sat in the shade in Pensacola Beach, Fla., while his wife and granddaughter ventured onto the white -- and oil-free -- sand.
YUP!
And you wonder why the beaches are clean?
See: Oil Oozing Out of the Ground in Louisiana
Cleanup or coverup? BP is dumping sand over oil on our beaches
BP covers oil with sand on Gulf Shores Beach
Maybe that's why the beaches are looking clean.
Related: Boston Sunday Globe Says Gulf Coast All Clean
Quick Dip In the Oil Slick
Yup, everything back to normal says the MSM you hate and mistrust.
But the static kill -- also known as bullheading -- probably would not have worked without the cap in place. It involved slowly pumping the mud from a ship down lines running to the top of the ruptured well a mile below, and a similar effort failed in May when the mud couldn't overcome the flow of oil.
Workers stopped pumping mud in after about eight hours of static kill work and were monitoring the well to ensure it remained stable, BP said.
And that is where my print copy ended it.
Charter boat captain Randy Boggs, of Orange Beach, Ala., said he has a hard time believing BP's claims of success with the static kill and similarly dismissed the idea that only a quarter of the oil remains in the Gulf.
"There are still boats out there every day working, finding turtles with oil on them and seeing grass lines with oil in it," said Boggs, 45. "Certainly all the oil isn't accounted for. There are millions of pounds of tar balls and oil on the bottom."
In the fishing town of Yscloskey, La., crabber Oliver Rudesill, 28, said he has been out of business like most of his buddies, some of whom are doing cleanup for BP instead but are earning about a quarter of what they do fishing.
"As soon as BP gets this oil out of sight, they'll get it out of mind, and we'll be left to deal with it alone," he said Tuesday....
Already are.
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"Some scientists doubt data on dissipation of oil from gulf; 3/4 of spill said accounted for; Ecologic effect still unknown" by David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post | August 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — The “greatest environmental disaster’’ in US history — which has appeared at times to leave a high-control White House powerless — seemed to have lost its power to scare.
A few hours after BP’s well was declared virtually dead, the Obama administration announced yesterday that only about 26 percent of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico was unaccounted for.
“A significant amount of this,’’ said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “is a direct result of the very robust federal response efforts.’’
But, in interviews, scientists who worked on the report said the figures were based in large part on assumptions and estimates, educated guesses with a significant margin of error.
Or not so educated.
Some outside scientists went further: In a situation in which many facts remain murky, they said, the government seemed to have used interpretations that made the gulf — and the federal efforts to save it — look as good as possible.
Translation:
Yeah, I thought I smelled something.
Had that government and MSM smell.
“There’s a lot of . . . smoke and mirrors in this report, I’m afraid,’’ said Ian MacDonald, a professor of biological oceanography at Florida State University. “It seems very reassuring, but the data aren’t there to actually bear out the assurances.’’
I didn't expect such lying from Obomber.
I thought we got rid of those with Bush.
The government’s accounting of the spilled oil, called an “oil budget,’’ was announced yesterday at the White House. It appeared to answer the most troubling question: Of the 4.9 million barrels that poured out of the well, only 827,000 barrels were siphoned to vessels on the surface. Where did the rest of it go?
Where there had been mystery, now there was a pie chart....
Made of you-know-what, readers.
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USGS reported a rare 3.0 earthquake in Louisiana on Sunday August 1st. Nothing to see here folks, nothing strange going on in the Gulf.
???????
Also see:
Yeah, some oil spills receive no coverage at all.
How many other oil spills is my "newspaper" obfuscating or omitting?
