BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales
BP are working very hard to keep journalists away from the gulf and its coast, especially photo/video journalists:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb4JWgUuSEE
blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/06/17/video-evidence-of-more-media-restrictions-on-bp-oil-spill-beaches/
This rare flyover footage might explain why. It's like someone flooded the road to Mordor.
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Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 11:45,
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yes this is terrible but it might at least make the american public more aware of the
implications of their dependance on petroleum products.
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being aware isn't the problem
caring about it is
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:00,
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Also,
did none of them see Mad Max?
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:03,
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I like the way the Yanks keep getting blamed
when it was BP's oil rig.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 14:24,
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damn
This is an aditional scary set of photo's: blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2010/06/gulf-oil-disaster-pensacola-beach.html
The oil showing up under special lighting as well as the layer of oil 6" down under the beach are quite scary.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:01,
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Bloody hell.
Don't normally watch anything longer than a minute on here but that was compelling stuff.
Clicking, not because I like this, but because it needs wider sharing.
And at this point I do have to bring this little factoid up again...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell
Oil spills are only a big concern when it's wealthy white folk getting covered in crude it seems.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:03,
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I saw a documentary last year about the Niger delta
and you're right - it's a disgrace that is only ignored because it's happening in the "wrong" part of the world.
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:45,
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Yup
Whenever someone talks to me about the oil spill I ask "which one?" and then proceed to tell them about this one.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:49,
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Why is b3ta the place that I see this first?
Why isn't it slapped over every paper and broadcast every hour on rolling news?
oh, because Fabio Capello might be sacked......got it.
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Dr Drink, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:15,
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The newspapers and broadcasters a fickle like a teen girl
only intrested in whos who and what the unwashed masses can get brainwashed by (twilight for example) .
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Dances with Rabbits Back to Education i go, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:52,
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sea-life being extinguished for a 200 mile radius doesn't sell red-top papers
Cheryl Coles hair extensions do.
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Dr Drink, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:07,
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to be fair
ask yourself which is oilier?
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:12,
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I do hope...
that this isn't how the world ends.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:23,
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