Hat Tip: Glenn Beck
From: Business Insider
1. What are those 17,000 National Guard troops actually doing?
Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used “as needed” by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or to control the public?
2. Is appointing an Oil Czar supposed to fix anything?
Barack Obama has also announced the creation of a “Gulf recovery czar” who will be in charge of overseeing the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico region following the oil spill. So is appointing a “czar” Obama’s idea of taking charge of a situation?
3. Why is BP using a dispersant so toxic it was banned in British waters?
Because it is so incredibly toxic, the UK’s Marine Management Organization has completely banned Corexit 9500, so if there was a major oil spill in the UK’s North Sea, BP would not be able to use it. So why is BP being allowed to use Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico?
4. Why are we letting BP continue using this fish-killing dispersant?
It is being reported that 2.61 parts per million of Corexit 9500 (mixed with oil at a ratio of 1:1o) is lethal to 50% of fish exposed to it within 96 hours. That means that 1 gallon of Corexit 9500/oil mixture is capable of rendering 383,141 gallons of water highly toxic to fish. So why was BP allowed to dump 1,021,000 gallons of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 into the Gulf of Mexico, and why aren’t they being stopped from dumping another 805,000 gallons of these dispersants that they have on order into the Gulf?
5. If these dispersants are so incredibly toxic to fish, what are they going to do to crops? What are they going to do to people?
6. If the smell of the oil on some Gulf beaches is already so strong that it burns your nostrils, then what in the world is this oil doing to to wildlife that encounter it?
Read more: The Guardian
7. Is it a bad sign that birds from the Gulf region are flocking north by the thousands?
Read more: The Intel Hub
8. Why is BP being allowed to use private security contractors to keep the American people away from the oil cleanup sites?
Source: The Raw Story
9. Why is BP openly attempting to manipulate the search results on sites like Google and Yahoo?
Read more: The Times
10. Why has the FAA shut down the airspace above the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? What don’t they want the American people to see?
Read more: FAA
11. What is BP doing about the ruptures from the sea floor?
Senator Bill Nelson of Florida says that there are reports that there are additional ruptures in the sea floor from which oil is leaking. If there are quite a few of these additional ruptures, then how in the world does BP expect to completely stop this oil leak?
12. Why are scientists finding concentrations of methane at up to 10,000 times normal background levels in Gulf waters?
Read more: NYT
13. Why haven’t people been warned about toxins in the waters?
At some testing stations in the Gulf of Mexico, levels of benzene have been detected at over 3000 parts per billion, and levels of hydrogen sulfide have been detected as high as 1192 parts per billion. Considering that these levels would be highly toxic to humans, why hasn’t the general public been warned?
14. Why are so many Gulf oil spill disaster workers showing up at local hospitals complaining of a “mysterious illness?”
15. Can anything prevent oil from eventually plastering the shore?
If “70% or 80%” of the protective booms are doing absolutely nothing at all to stop the oil, then what is going to stop the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf from eventually reaching shore?
16. What happens to the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone?
It is being reported that the deepsea oil plumes are creating huge “dead zones” where all creatures are dying as they are deprived of oxygen. If this oil spill continues to grow could the vast majority of the Gulf of Mexico become one gigantic “dead zone”?
Hi Mike, Looks like the usual suspects benefit financially. JoAnne and her research team found this (and more):
“NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
NALCO is associated with UChicago Argonne program. UChicago Argonne received $164 million dollars in stimulus funds this past year. UChicago Argonne just added two new executives to their roster. One from NALCO. The other from the Ill. Dept of Educaution.
If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire.
Warren Buffet /Hathaway Berkshire increased their holdings in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything).
The dispersant chemical is known as Corexit. What it does is hold the oil below the water’s surface. It is supposed to break up the spill into smaller pools. It is toxic and banned in Europe.
NALCO says they are using older and newer versions of Corexit in the Gulf.. (Why would you need a newer version, if the old one was fine?)
There is big money and even bigger players in this scam. While they are letting the oil blow wide open into the Gulf, the stakes and profit rise.”
http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico
and, who benefits financially by the use of Nalco’s dispersant?
Excellent questions and we deserve answers!