Tuesday, June 29, 2010

From Rachel Maddow Blog "Folk reporting about BP"

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Folk reporting about BP
News Type: Event — Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:54 PM EDT
By Laura Conaway

Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen posts this video of a recent flight over the Gulf of Mexico. I don't necessarily agree with all of Wathen's conclusions, and I could have done without the souping-up at the end. Still, a lot of what you need to see about the Deepwater Horizon disaster is right here -- the bad booming, the dolphins and whales swimming in oil, the slick and sheen and gunk spilling night and day into the water.

If you're looking for the big critters, start around minute six.




[Wathen's BP Slick blog]
[Wathen's amazing first footage]

Photos from the flight can be seen here.

17 comments:

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  2. The commentary at the end wasn't souping-up, as the blogger called it. No, it was the heartfelt and emotional plea of someone who speaks for many of us. Please, please stop murdering our mother earth, and in particular, the Gulf of Mexico and its inhabitants.

    Thank you for your content, and your commentary.

    From a Gulf coaster in pain.

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  3. What kind of ass-clown posts a very enlightening video, but prefaces that post with a diatribe about "don't necessarily agree with all of Wathen's conclusions" and "I could have done without the souping-up at the end"? the ass-clown that runs this blog, that's who.

    how disappointing that in the middle of an environmental catastrophe and destruction of an entire way of life, you choose to nickle-and-dime this mans efforts. my guess is you learned all you know from Fox News. In the future shut your cake hole.

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  4. what an amazing video!!
    Thank you so much for exposing the evidence. This is what BP doesn't want us to see. Burn the evidence and keep the reporters away so the ocean will wash it away.
    Your work is incredible!!!

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  5. Videos like this, that document the appocalyptic destruction to the seas, should be played on TV every night, every single night, so that every American sees what is happening. Every single American. That is what responsible journalists did during the Vietnam war, that is what patriots did during the Iran hostage crisis.

    It is a crime to turn your back to this holocaust.

    Thank you, Mr. Waltham for making this public.

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  6. IMAGINATIONS ON A THEME

    If I imagine thinking on Mother Earth's behalf, .... I feel really strongly, that the top priority here has to be a thorough shaking of conscience. Not in a blaming, finger-pointing superficial scape-goat-finding sort of way, but in a deep movement of consciousness.

    I imagine the life-force of all the creatures that lost their lives, including the 11 people, rising like a torrent, guided and supported by our own conscious movement directing itself towards those many key players in politics, economy, administration, media, religion, military - in all sectors of society, who have the capacity to influence the future with regards to the question of "money versus quality of life" especially concerning oil-dependency.

    I imagine meeting them in their dreams, questioning their piercing the fog of legal and illegal drugs, bypass the elaborate diversions and bring them to account, visualise them aware of their own personal responsibility for what they do and for what they are not doing. Aware and fully conscious of a possible future, devastated planet, when the oceans collapse, the oxygen production drops, the food production is disrupted, the temperature runs away. I see them in my inner eye, hear their breath, sense their quaking, when they feel the karmic weight of the suffering, the many deaths and the impossible lives. Not as a blame or a guilt, but as a very real option, something they will carry on their karmic port-folio, very matter-of-fact.

    The beauty of this moment in history is, that it is not yet too late. -

    I imagine those key players, this certain percentage of the population, from the very rich and powerful to the ordinary opportunists, who have so far resisted awareness, to be waking, unable to shut off, night after night, and day after day, sweating, struggling, trembling until they finally behold the wonderful idea of letting go of their self interest, for once do the right thing.

    I imagine, how they draw a deep and relieved breath, the first pure and easy breath for a long time, perhaps ever since they can remember, now, after having made their wonderful choice...and emerge cleansed, strengthened, determined and clear. - Happy, in a very new kind of way, exhilarated and instantly rewarded by a wave bliss, their right choice giving them already a small taste of the sweet future they from now on will co-create.

    Mother herself is giving us the clue. It's not about the body, she is willing to sacrifice physical life to shake us up. Let's honor her and help her with the shaking. And we are not making anything up, here, we are just making things clear.

    If I imagine, I were an unaware stock-market dealer, I would prefer to be woken up like this rather than "spared" and then later landed with the same situation but at a time when it is too late. - And after all, Jesus did the same thing. -

    I am sure, once a critical amount of people have raised their consciousness, the oil disaster will have fulfilled it's purpose and will then be taken care of. -

    much love..........

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  7. I wish I had your faith Inge. Unfortunately, those who do not care are blinded by their ideology. We who do care must be willing to carry this fight to the end without their help.

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  8. If Dawn soap wants to help fuzzy baby ducks and turtles, why won't it clean up little black children in AFRICA who are forced to wade in oil spills that sit on the ground in NIGERIA.

    The BP oil spill is nothing compared to what Nigerians have to bathe in everyday....cancer-casuing, carcinogenic oil.

    No wonder there are so many Nigerian doctors that come to America to dispense anti-depressants to a trusting public. After all, the FDA says these drugs are o.k....Right? Right?

    Thanks to these "doctors", we are now subjected to a never-ending buffet of anti-depressants that have been CLINICALLY PROVEN to make young people commit suicide.

    Google: Nikki Haley Sex Scandal(s)

    Thanks you curry-eating, FDA-bribing scumbags.

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  10. Too bad the Repukes, Repubes and Repugnants went golfing on the Fourth of July instead of extending the Unemployment Benefits of Americans who made the corporations what they are today.....pimps to the United States Supreme Court.

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  11. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY....SCUM DOG MILLIONAIRES.

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  16. "The Game is Up."--William Shakespeare

    Don't worry, Mama Grizzly. By 2012, it'll be:

    THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

    Don't believe me? Does a bear shit in the woods?

    When can we start shooting wolves from helicopters?

    The male bear always mounts the female from behind....Papa bear knows who's boss.

    Hey Todd Palin! Sarah wants you to take out the garbage....again. I don't know why she would call her own child (who has Down's Syndrome) RETARDED.

    MEN OF AMERICA: Read "US" magazine when you're pooping and you can see the conspiracy.

    "BABY DADDY" is inherently racist and stupid. We're raising a nation of Sarah's kids...retarded.

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  17. Sarah Palin called her little baby "Retarded."

    The baby has Down's Syndrome.

    And you think she cares about anyone but Sarah Palin?

    Ask Lyin' Levi Johnston. That moron has told so many lies that the Palins can't even keep them straight anymore. I never saw Playgirl. Is his weiner bigger than mine? The correct answer is "No. You have the biggest since Long Dong Silver!" (Google: Clarence Thomas Long Dong)

    Thanks Nikki Haley! Can I use that quote?

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