BP Oil Volcano(‘s)

(SOTT) – Is It Raining Oil In Florida? This Is Just The Beginning

As early as May 9 it was announced that FEMA evacuation protocol for forest fires in and around Tampa, Florida could be activated at a moment’s notice in the event of the oil slick approaching Florida’s coastline. One proposal is to undergo a ‘controlled burn’ of surface oil in the Gulf to prevent the oil reaching Florida’s coast. This would result in highly toxic fumes blowing ashore. In fact, toxic fumes have already been reported elsewhere as Gulf residents complain of breathing difficulties and nausea: Read More Here

(Nola) – Oil spill hearings: BP didn’t test mud prior to critical pipeline procedure, driller testifies – Read More Here

(Reuters) – BP may switch tactic to plug oil well – Read More Here

(AlterNet) – Ten Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill

How the owner of the exploded oil rig has made $270 million off the disaster, and nine other shocking, depressing facts about the oil spill. Read More Here

(Truthout) – Why Isn’t BP Under Criminal Investigation? – Jason Leopold

Like previous BP-related disasters in Alaska and Texas, evidence has emerged that appears to show BP knowingly cut corners on maintenance and safety on Deepwater Horizon’s operations, which, according to blogger bmaz, who writes about legal issues at Emptywheel, could amount to criminal violations of the Clean Water Act. Additionally, because people were killed, BP and company officials could also face prosecution for negligent and reckless homicide. Read More Here

(Buzzflash) – Smart Pig: BP’s OTHER Spill this Week – BP’s Alaska Operation – Greg Palast

How does BP get away with it? The same way the Godfather got away with it: bad things happen to folks who blow the whistle. BP has a habit of hunting down and destroying the careers of those who warn of pipeline problems. Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – BP Suspends “Top Kill” For Second Time After Trying Two Junk Shots. Less Than 10% of Injection Fluids are Staying Inside the Leaking Pipes

As I reported yesterday, the “Top Kill” attempt to stop the oil flow using mud had failed, and BP would now try to use a “junk shot” to close the leaks in the pipe using various debris.

The New York Times is now reporting that the junk shot approach is not going well: Read More Here

(NASA) – NASA Satellite Spots Oil at Mississippi Delta Mouth – View Image Here

Video: TOP KILL Fails – Gulf oil spill BOP Blown A Huge Hole – Video Link Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Third Giant Underwater Oil Plume Discovered – Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – BP used cheaper casing on oil well to save money, Congress papers show

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that precipitated the vast Gulf of Mexico oil spill came after the well was capped with a relatively cheap type of casing, BP papers have revealed. Read More Here

(RawStory) – Scientists: Newly discovered Gulf oil plume is 22-miles long, six-miles wide

Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Gulf of Mexico oil spill: clean-up boats recalled after crews suffer health problems

All 125 commercial fishing boats helping oil recovery efforts off Louisiana’s Breton Sound area have been recalled after four workers reported health problems, officials said. Read More Here

(WSWS) – Lies and evasions in defense of BP

The White House press conference Thursday, the first held by President Barack Obama in nearly ten months, was devoted to presenting his administration as an active crisis manager in the Gulf oil catastrophe, rather than a handmaiden for BP, the giant oil company whose profit drive is responsible for the worst ecological disaster in US history. Read More Here

(WSWS) – “Top kill” has yet to stop Gulf oil flow

On Thursday afternoon, BP admitted that the success of its latest attempt to stem the flow of oil from the ocean floor, the so-called “top kill,” was in doubt. The effort to blast thousands of gallons of heavy mud directly into the Deepwater Horizon rig’s failed blowout preventer one mile beneath the water’s surface was suspended early Thursday morning so that BP could analyze data, company spokesmen said. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – BP’s oil gusher in the Gulf: Spin terminology explained (satire) – Mike Adams

What exactly is a “junk shot?” How about “top kill” or an “undersea plume?” The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is introducing the world to all sorts of fascinating words and phrases from the world of Big Oil. Some of them can be a bit confusing, so as a public service to NaturalNews readers, I’ve published a short dictionary that provides the real meaning behind many of these new terms. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Oil spill threatens ‘total destruction’

The British Petroleum oil spill is threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction,” reports say.

An ominous report by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources warned of the impending disaster resulting from the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, calling it the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history, the European Union Times reported.

Russian scientists believe BP is pumping millions of gallons of Corexit 9500, a chemical dispersal agent, under the Gulf of Mexico waters to hide the full extent of the leak, now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.

Experts say Corexit 9500 is a solvent four times more toxic than oil.

The agent, scientists believe, has a 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when mixed with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its molecules will be able to “phase transition.”

This transition involves the change of the liquid into a gaseous state, which can be absorbed by clouds. The gas will then be released as “toxic rain” leading to “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top,” the report said. – Source: PressTV

The Picture Obama and BP Don’t Want You to 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…

Video: The Red Phone Has Rung

Hon. James David Manning, PhD speaks about the British Petroleum oil spill and says the red phone is going to ring again. Recorded on Friday, 28 May 2010 –

Why Capitalism Fails

The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again

MSM: Swine flu could kill hundreds of thousands in U.S. if vaccine fails, CDC says

(LATimes) – As much as 40% of the workforce could be affected during the peak of a pandemic, health officials say, noting low resistance to the H1N1 virus and its persistence through the summer months.