The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
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Deepwater Horizon

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster is shaping up to be one of the worst environmental disasters of our time. Was it an accident, or was it yet another nightmare manipulated into happening?

Heres what I’ve discovered so far..

Confirmed Facts:
• The Deepwater Horizon Oil rig is run in a partnership between BP, Transocean & Halliburton.
• Halliburton bought an oil spill response company 1 week before the explosion.
• Several hours of operational data from just before the explosion is missing.
• Survivors were held and coerced into signing legal waivers saying they didn’t witness anything and weren’t injured.
• The GOP has repeatedly block an Oil Spill Liability Bill, partially protecting BP from paying for its mistake.
• BP has fought to keep images showing the full extent of the damage from becoming public.
• Goldman Sachs made “a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico” one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water.
• BP claims a release rate of 5,000 barrels a day, whilst conservative estimates based on satellite imagery indicates that the surface oil alone (10,000+ square miles, May 18th) requires a release rate of at least 26,000 barrels or 109,000 gallons a day.
• EPA gave BP permission to dump an unprecedented amount of chemical dispersant on and throughout the crime scene, despite the fact that it is so toxic that the UK banned it ten years ago, and the EPA’s own analysis showed it was one of the most toxic and least effective dispersants on the market.
• Many BP executives and board members have inside financial ties with Nalco, the manufacturer of BP’s chosen dispersant Corexit 9500, which explains why they plan on dumping another 805,000 gallons of the stuff into the Gulf, as soon as it is available.
• EPA’s May 20th order for BP to stop using Corexit dispersants within 24 hours, due to their high toxicity and relative ineffectiveness versus other products on the market, was entirely disregarded by the company
• In the month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, the government has failed to make public a single test result on water from the deep ocean.
• Deep beneath the iceberg-like tip of the visible surface spill hovers massive oil plumes, including one 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. Some of these plumes are at a depth of 2,300-4,200 feet.
• 1 gallon of crude oil can pollute approximately 600,000 gallons of sea water. Given the discovery of massive subsurface plumes, the spill may have already released over 100 million gallons of crude (based on the figure of 85,000 barrels a day, or 3.4 million gallons a day released for one month). If you multiply 100 million times 600,000 you get 60 trillion gallons of seawater rendered toxic to marine life.
• Govt agency employees responsible for oil & gas oversight have been found guilty of accepting gifts from BP, watching porn and snorthing meth on the job
• Video footage of the leak indicates that toxic natural gases are being released in tremendous quantities.
• Already areas as far away as Naples have reported complaints by the public of a “foul smell” and concomitant respiratory symptoms.
• We should proceed with the cautionary principle due to the inherent risks of exposure to “air toxics” from the underwater geyser, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene and hydrogen sulfide. These substances can be carried far from their point of origin via air currents, potentially putting residents of heavily populated coasts at risk.
• A recent evaluation done by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) of the Environmental Protection Agency’s results of air content and quality testing, showing that the level of some airborne toxins is greater than 100 times the quantity considered safe to humans and could cause physical reactions.
• BP’s government-sanctioned disaster mitigation approach thus far has focused on “suppressing symptoms” of the calamity by using highly toxic dispersants to drive the problem deeper into the water column where it will it will do greater harm to wild life, and will accelerate its entry into the gulf stream.
• The highly symbolic movie “Knowing” predicted this exact oil rig disaster in this exact place on this exact date, over a year in advance.

Articles:
• BP Says “NO” to EPA on Switching Dispersants: Who’s in Charge?
• Gulf oil spill will help bump prices: BNP
• Obama is biggest recipient of BP’s political action cash in the last 20 years
• Halliburton Strikes Deal for Boots & Coots (Makers of Oil Spill cleanup gear) 1 week before disaster
• BP could freeze shareholder payout for three years
• Oil reaches Louisiana shores, first pictures to show the spill, still leaking
• BP Oil Spill Live Feed: Company To Cut Video During Top Kill Procedure
• Exclusive: Oil Rig Worker Shares Tale of Survival, Fear, Legal Tangles
• Disaster must be catalyst for change, says Jean-Michel Cousteau
• States hit by oil spill prepare to seize control of botched clean-up
• Seven hours of data missing from Deepwater Horizon operations just prior to explosion
• Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
• Deepwater Horizon survivors allege they were kept in seclusion after rig explosion, coerced into signing legal waivers
• Did the Oil Rig in the Gulf Actually Puncture Open a Volcano?
• Andy Borowitz: Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico
• US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig
• Major Change Down Below…
• GOP Blocks Oil Spill Liability Bill
• BP calls in Kevin Costner’s $26m vacuum cleaners to mop up Gulf of Mexico oil spill
• Why is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill an Information Dead Zone?
• WAKE UP – BP Will Continue to Use Deadly Dispersants to Cover Up Their Crime Scene If We Do Not Act Now!
• The Crude Facts…
• Gulf oil well disaster could mean explosive profits for Halliburton

Videos:
• 60 Minutes – BP disaster – Deepwater Horizon survivor Mike Williams
• Alex Jones: Running on Empty
• Witness PROVES Gulf Oil Rig Explosion Survivors ARE Being Silenced By Big Oil
• HALLIBURTON OIL SPILL IS THE LATEST FALSE FLAG!
• Gulf Oil spill – looks more like a Volcano
• OIL RIG DISASTER – HALIBURTON SABOTAGED THE RIG !
• OLS – Global Catastrophe – Trail Of Tears – 2010
• ‘Knowing’ Movie Knew About Oil Rig Explosion
• Report: Gov Oversight Of Big Oil Watching Porn Snorting Meth & Accepting Gifts
• Oil Spill Clean Up Needs To Be A Military Operation

Sites for further info:
• Sieze BP
• FB group: Plug the oil leak now
• Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
• Oil Spill Truth
• Spill The Truth
• HealthyGulf
• Transocean
• BP
• BPGlobalPR (Satire)
• Realtime Google results: “Deepwater Horizon”, BP, Gulf of Mexico
• Stream search results: Deepwater, Horizon, Halliburton, Oil, Gulf of Mexico, BP