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A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”.

Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.

The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm).  In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it, but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4.

The main differences between Corexit 9500 and Sea Brat 4 lie in how long these dangerous chemicals take to degrade into their constituent organic compounds, which for Corexit 9500 is 28 days.  Sea Brat 4, on the other hand, degrades into an organic chemical called Nonylphenol that is toxic to aquatic life and can persist in the environment for years.

A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America.

Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”.

Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at higher temperatures.

As over 50 miles of the US State of Louisiana’s coastline has already been destroyed by this spill, American scientists are warning that the damage may be impossible to repair, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service:

“The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil. They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good.”

And to understand the full import of this catastrophe it must be remembered that this disaster is occurring in what is described as the “biologically richest waters in America” with the greatest amount of oil and toxic Corexit 9500 set to come ashore in the coming days and weeks to destroy it completely for decades to come.

Reports are also coming from the United States that their government is secretly preparing to evacuate tens-of-millions of their citizens from their Gulf of Mexico States should the most dire of these scientific warnings start to come true.

To the greatest lesson to be learned by these Americans is that their government-oil industry cabal has been just as destructive to them as their government-banking one, both of which have done more to destroy the United States these past couple of years than any foreign enemy could dare dream was possible.

But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place.

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295 Responses to " Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America "

  1. what you just said man

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  2. Wow! For a European Union website, this whole thing sure seems to be About America, and 99% if the contributors are American.
    Have me hunted down and killed for saying this, but I smell a rat.
    Oh, and count me out of the antisemitic HATE SPEECH. Sure, I made my share of jokes, but now I’m seeing something so GD ugly, I want no part of it.
    If this were truly an EU site, we’d be hearing more about the meltdown in Greece? We hear very little if anything on France, Britain, or Germany?
    Nice try.
    Oh, and who gives a shit who runs the world? If you don’t like it, go run it yourself. We’re all poor anyway.
    OH, and thanks for the Trojan! Antivir dealt with it.
    And no I’m not John Holmes. He’s a dead porn star. Did you expect me to reveal my personal info on here?
    Ask Big Brother who I am. He knows who you are too.
    LOL again about an “EU Website being all about America!

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  3. Aren’t these the same morons who used to dump nuclear waste right off their own shores ? I don’t believe anything that comes out of Russia.

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  4. The article makes sense in terms of the possibility of toxic rain. Don’t have a reason to doubt it. Questions about what the outcome will actually be but there can be no question that it will cause destruction, probably over the long term.

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  5. The only thing worse than the leak in the Gulf of Mexico is the total bullshit (racist and anti semetic) espouesd by this publication. Utter crap!

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  6. You know, I am getting damn tired of journalists from other countries telling me, an U.S. American citizen, to do something about “my government” while not realizing the political realties in this country. As a long time American Marxist, I consider the ending of this article an insult.

    I have been a political and then a human rights activist since 1969, who lived in Washington, D.C. until recently, starting with the massive Vietnam anti-war demonstrations and ending with working for Amnesty International USA as a result of the photographs from Abu Ghraib until 2007, and have come to the following (the few listed here) conclusions:

    1.) The U.S. American citizens have absolutely no say in what the government of the United States of America does to them or to the people of the world. The elections have been definitely rigged since electronic “voting “machines were first used on mass throughout the country. This became painfully solid to me in 2004 when Bush was “elected again” and when huge amounts of evidence came out, mostly unreported in the U.S. mass media. Like one commenter correctly stated before, “IT IS ALL A LIE.” to keep the majority of us (if I may use that word to refer to all U.S American citizens) in line, quiet and supportive of a system long ago rigged to NOT be democratic. The Untied States of America was never a democracy, now it is no longer a Republic. It is now completely owned by the bosses of the transnational corporations who also own other countries’ governments and leaders, including Russia’s.

    2.) With the U.S. corporation-owned mass media constantly lying and/or not disclosing everything to us about important issues, how can I (as an activist who do check out alternative and outside news sources) be expected to educate all of my fellow Americans with the constant bombardment of lies and pro-war propaganda that they are exposed to not to say anything about how the “news” is presented as entertainment and serious issues/problems are ignored in the mass media. I would be a rich person by now if I was paid a dime for every time and for every “friend” or acquaintance who turned away and go back into denial, and for every fellow American who shout at me that I am anti-American or anti-Semitic, whenever I do give them information gleamed from “outside” sources about what is really happening in the U.S. government, in the Middle East and in the world. I had a difficult time getting through to the brainwashed masses in my own country (including my own adult daughter) no matter how gently I presented it, because the majority of Americans basically seem not to care unless it directly affects their survival like a loss job, home and food source.

    If the information in this article is true (I have serious doubts about the source) and does come to pass, stay turn for complete chaos erupting in America resulting in either a civil war squashed by a police state takeover (i.e. Fascism) or another American revolution. It is hard to predict, because I am seeing so many conservative Americans getting really angry and beginning to think in an opposite direction, wanting to take action for the first time in their lives which means “against the government of the United States”. The state I now live in is a perfect example of this mixed population being all on the same page as many people go stainable in lifestyles and local in food sources. So much for the “divide and conquer” techniques in the corporations-owned media as they pat us on our heads and say it’s the “other” guy’s fault but everything will be alright, just listen to them because everyone else are “homegrown terrorists”.

    And 3.) Welcome to the realities of living with Peak Oil which occurred in 1995; you know, the “conspiracy theory” that “nuts” just love to expose to you according to the lying corporation-owned mass media. Now as soon as the results of this Halliburton/BP oil volcano is felt throughout our oil based economy and society, as well as in our food supplies, as the Depression deepens and the collapse of our linear Western civilization speeds up, our ability to move fast in cars will eventually slow to a stop along with the electricity to our computers and our exported food supplies will end. This is another reason why my husband (who first became politically involved in the counter sit ins of the Civil Rights movement) and I stopped taking part in demonstrations and other, now, useless political actions and moved away from the east coast to “walk our talk” … to help create a foundation for the new society and for a stainable “circular” civilization that we wish to see in the world as the old exploitive and dangerous to all life on earth, Western civilization, dies out.

    If a Russian journalist really wrote this article, he/she should have learnt something by their own history and support the U.S. American citizens instead of criticizing us for finding ourselves in the same situations that they, the Russian people, have experienced several times in their own past.

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  7. I did google, and that’s where I found the recent info that the US is keeping BP from using that chemical. That’s why I asked for verification for THIS.

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  8. Revelation 11:18 the last portion of that scripture shows what ALL of us can expect, not just for the US where the spill is, but all human kind. Honestly, do you think it’s only the US that is destroying the earth? Come on…!

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  9. Graylander..are you, by any chance, on the payroll of BP ? Nothing to worry about. You have got to be kidding. And you want sources? Sites..google man, google..there’s plenty info on the web. Don’t take MY word for it. Give it your best shot..google

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    • Like I said before
      “I find sites like this interesting, but can it be verified? Why should I listen to this one person’s report over the government?
      I’m not trying to start an argument, I’m asking for information. What makes this site/report reliable?”

      You can give me a link or two if they’re easy so easy to find, I would appreciate it. I’m being completely serious, not sarcastic, I want to know more.

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    • Like I said before…well I guess I can’t copy and paste. But why should I believe this one person’s report over the government, or either of them? I didn’t see anything verifiable in the post, or anyone saying the same things. I’m not trying to start an argument, I actually want to know

      You can give me a link or two if they’re easy so easy to find, I would appreciate it. I’m being completely serious, not sarcastic, I want to know more.

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    • Cynthia darling, NO chemical is a good thing. Antifreeze, bleach, ammonia, insecticide, etc.
      Of course corexit is toxic. We used to use a corexit demulsifier offshore, to inject into our flowstream. I worked on production platforms. Corexit is a trade name for a whole line of chemicals developed by Exxon Chemicals. They later sold the corexit line to NALCO, another chemical company.
      Corexit 9500 is an oil dispersant. Sure it’s toxic. The drum gas a sticker on it that says toxic to aquatic life. But it disperses oil, and keeps a lot of it from coming to shore.
      Corexit 9500 consists of mineral spirits (essentially paint thinner) that thin out the oil slick on the surface, breaking it up into smaller individual droplets. It also has organic sulfonates that make it water soluble. Organic sulfonates are also in detergents to make them water soluble.
      Being dissolved in water, all the corexit will NOT evaporate and cause the toxic rains that article mentioned. A lot can evaporate, but not enough to kill the whole east coast!
      Like I said, of course it’s a toxic chemical. So is crude oil, which is a complex compound of many, many chemicals and gases.
      None of this is good.
      However, an untreated oil slick of this magnitude is the greater evil, I assure you. Without corexit, the whole southern coast would be pitch black by now.
      We all wish this accident hadn’t happened. The accident was not planned, I assure you. And its victims are life itself.
      1.) Eleven Human lives
      2.) Wildlife
      3.) Plant life

      Indeed Cynthia, an oil and chemical war is being waged on life. Let us all hope this thing gets resolved as soon as possible.
      And you take care, Cindy. Why don’t you write an article telling us some things about Holland? I can’t afford to go see! I always envisioned it as being a nice, simple, honest life over there with down to earth people. Hope I’m right.

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  10. The individuals in BP management that insists on the use of these poisons should be physically arrested,and charged by the UN, sense BP ignores the U.S. orders…In any case, it must be stopped.

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    • Crow, from what I’ve read, the only other viable dispersant is Sea Brat 4. It takes longer to break down than corexit does. They need to get that well killed and get this thing behind us.
      The politicians have turned this thing into a beauty contest now. Now, American politicians are saying Tony Hayword shouldn’t be the spokesman for this thing because he has a british accent and this is America’s accident. What kind of stupid crap is that? Like that even matters? He’s the CEO of BP. What does his accent have to do with this? I thought solving the problem was the first priority?
      This whole fucking thing has been a new low for American politicians. ALL OF THEM.
      WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS. THEY ALL NEED TO SHUT UP AND GO GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY CLEANING UP SOME OIL AND WASHING SOME PELICANS.

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  11. Just to let you know, the US has forced BP to find a less toxic chemical for clean up. SO there’s nothing to worry about…

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  12. I find sites like this interesting, but can it be verified? Why should I listen to this one person’s report over the government?
    I’m not trying to start an argument, I’m asking for information. What makes this site/report reliable?

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  13. Hi everybody.
    First..Americans saved us from Hitler? Give me a break..they saved themselves from a very big russia! History lesson: Almost 4 years into the war Russia was winning from Germany and were heading west..and oops..America couldn’t have THAT happen! So what to do what to do…uh.. well let’s save the poor basterds from Hitler (read Russia). If America really wanted Hitler gone why didn’t they ‘save’ us 4 years earlier??? It was all about not wanting Russia get Europe.

    Second..us, working class people are just slaves to the globalists. You, me, Americans, Europeans alike. Our goverments aren’t governing us! The Bilderberg group is! Rothschild, Kissinger and our own queen Beatrix. As her criminaldaddy was the co-founder of this bunch.

    And guess what..the 130 members of this group just had a meeting in sunny Spain to think how to solve the problems in this world. And population reductionlover Bill Gates was there too.

    Getting rid of of at least 5 billion people is on the agenda folks! Coming soon to a theater..oops town near YOU !
    See the Georgia Guidestones (google !!)

    So let’s be a little nicer and civil to eachother. We will be dead a year from now.

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    • Cindy, Cindy, Cindy, please get laid! Christ! Your propensity for absorbing propaganda and conspiracy theories is a dime a dozen.
      Cynthia was the moon goddess. Go tend to the moon.
      And please remove the American flag that was never there. It was all a tv show.
      I do however adore you Cindy. You are female, and put here to be adored. Mother Mary taught me that. She’s a concept in my head. I’m just an insignificant freethinker. But she’s a great role model. Nice friend to have. Gotta love the Holy Mother.

      AVE MARIA!!!!!!

      And Cynthia, Smile Awhile! For time will tell. Hang in there babe. And give it hell!!!!!!!! :evil:

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      • Cynthia is probably getting laid as much as possible because she sees what the deal is…unlike you on both counts John.

        To Cindy…see if you and some friends can’t give dear Beatrix a nice long cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. We would be glad to send Gates, Kissinger et. al. along for the ride as well.

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        • Sarah, and you presume to know about Cindy’s sex life? :roll:

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    • America took the fewest losses in ww2 because we only participated in the last 4 years. You may be right re RUSSIA. PBS has had some very interesting documentaries about Stalin’s ambitions, and I assume we helped to appease him by letting him have east berlin? (and some say part of the reason we nuked hiroshima and nagasaki were to send Stalin a message? not that this justifies what we did, mind you)
      However, I do know that Russia lost 27 million lives in the war, military and civilian casualties combined.
      More than everyone else combined.

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  14. Thinks aload of stubborn school kids are decreasing the respect for the uk! We r not all selfish B*strds its just aload of kids craking s**t!

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  15. patrick u need to stop copein and pastin u pissy hed ball sak ooh bo i love you

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  16. my mates gone nuts

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  17. lets play golf with cane toads yey

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  18. 8) Im a cooool duuddee

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  19. Patrick copied & pasted a wikipedia :-x
    Shame on u!!

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  20. :-| :-P :-? :!: :) :-D :roll: :( :oops: :cry: :-o :-x :twisted: :mrgreen: :lol: :idea: :evil: :arrow:

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  21. Planetresource.net has a Eco friendly solution to clean up the tragedy British Petroleum has created, please watch the video animation:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60bdQQQ3iVw and pass this along to as many people as you know.

    One person can still make a difference in this world, is that simple interactions have a rippling effect. Each time this gets pass along, the hope in cleaning our planet is passed on.

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  22. A Lethal Concentration
    Category: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • poison
    Posted on: May 22, 2010 12:42 PM, by Deborah Blum

    The standard toxicity test for chemical compounds is called the LD50. LD stands for Lethal Dose and 50 indicates 50 percent. In other words, LD50 means the lowest dose at which a material kills half of the test subjects.

    The results are usually given in milligrams of compound per kilograms of body weight. Many of these tests are conducted on laboratory rats. To give you a few rat results: the LD50 of table sugar (sucrose) is 29,700 mg/kg. For table salt (sodium chloride, NaCl) it’s 3,000 mg/kg. Really poisonous substances, though, measure in the single digits: Sodium cyanide (NaCN), for instance, possesses an LD50 score of 6.4 mg/kg.

    Basically, the lower the number, the deadlier the compound. Poisons in water and air are usually measured in lethal concentration rather than dose – in other words an LC50. Which got me wondering about the oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s shattered oil rig. Not to mention the chemical dispersants being used in attempt to break down the spreading oil. What kind of lethal concentration might be building up in those waters?

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data on dispersants provide the LC50 in parts per million. Of course, these tests aren’t done on rats but sea creatures, in this case Menidia, a small silvery fish that likes to hover near the water’s edge and Mysidopsis, a tiny brine shrimp.

    As has been earlier reported, Corexit, the compound chosen by BP, has some of the lowest LC50 numbers on the list, meaning that it’s among the most poisonous. Also, it’s among the least effective on Louisiana crude (the type flowing from the Deepwater break). Why the EPA went along with this choice remains a mystery to me – or maybe I just think the answer would depress me – but under public pressure the agency has now ordered BP to find an immediate alternative.

    Nearly 700,000 gallons of Corexit have already been poured into gulf waters. But that pales, obviously, beside the amount of Louisana crude, now estimated at a minimum of 6 million gallons. So, I wondered, what is the LC50 of Louisiana crude on small salt water dwellers?

    Of course, I realize, that comparing lethal concentrations is not straightforward. The results differ by species and by time as well as by amount of poison, The EPA numbers for Corexit 9500 (the formula used most heavily by BP) show that at 2.62 ppm, the dispersant kills half the silver fish in 96 hours/ four days. At a slightly higher concentration – 3.4 ppm – the compound kills half the little shrimp in two days.

    As for crude oils, a very decent analysis by the American Petroleum Institute shows that all are toxic, but their effects vary with thickness and with the different chemistry seen in say, oil from the Gulf of Mexico and oil from Kuwait. The best estimate I’ve seen for South Louisiana Crude – after hours of exasperated research – comes from thesis work done at Louisiana State University several years ago. For instance, the study found that Louisiana crude had an LC50 of 4250 ppm for the warm-water loving killifish.

    This suggests that crude oil is less acutely poisonous than chemical dispersants. But here’s the really interesting finding in that terrific little study. Adding a dispersant – specifically Corexit 9500 – made the oil more poisonous. A lot more poisonous.

    The “dispersed” oil had an LC50 of 317.7 ppm, making it more than 11 times more lethal in its effects. The study found a similar worsening for white shrimp, although not quite as dramatic. “Dispersed oils were more toxic than crude oils,” noted the report.

    Oh, definitely. Still, you might argue that this is only a master’s thesis conclusion. But as it turns out there are plenty of other studies raising very similar warnings and they go back quite a ways. A report in the journal Environmental Toxicology a decade ago concluded that “LC50 values indicate that dispersed oil combinations were significantly more toxic to these organisms than .. crude oil.” Another study, this time of snails and amphipods reached exactly the same conclusion.

    To be fair, a study of the Australian octopus found no increased toxicity. But don’t you wonder what we’re doing out there in the fragile environment of the Gulf, whether we’re reducing the spill damage or just turning the whole area into one ever-more poisonous bowl of toxic soup?

    And don’t you wish our officials gave any indication that they knew more about it than we do? I love doing this kind of research but in this case I’d much rather have our country’s so-called regulators waving the LC50 red flag ahead of me

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    • Wow, that was extremely insightful. Thanks for your hard research, and for the clear explanation for us laymen, who are not doing a masters thesis on oil toxicity! Thanks for the info, now I’m even more pissed at the ignorance of BP and accomplices! So, if the world even has history books in 50 years, students will be amazed at the ignorance of our generation, especially amazed at all the things we tried to do to stop the oil flow into the GoM. Including throwing trash at it, and using Corexit, which actually made the problem worse. Ah, hindsight is 20-20.

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    • Thank you for your research into this. In light of this, I can see no sane reason for the measures they are taking. God help us all.

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  23. Ever notice all these “dire reports” on this website originate “in the Kremlin?” LOLOLOL
    I’d suggest the Kremlin pop the cork on another bottle of vodka and stfu.
    Corexit9500 is basically mineral spirits and organic salts of sulfonic acid to ensure solubility with water. This means it can’t all evaporate. It’s a chemical, ok? No chemical is good, but neither is an oil slick.

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  24. Ha!

    The last laugh is on the rest of the world for while they stand back and talk about how the Americans are getting what they asked for what they don’t realize is that this disaster is going to kill THEM too! Can’t help but love the irony, even though I’m one of the “stupid Americans.”

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  25. Maybe Harry Potter can help us….

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  26. I like the hot chick in the video game ad there on the left, but besides that I’m going to the beach before it’s too late. After that I’m stocking up on Luksusowa Vodka. Then I’ll just have to wait and see what’s going to happen. This sucks.

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  27. “Stupid Americans who deserve everything they get” Don’t forget some of our ancestors were “Stupid Europeans” before arriving in America, we are you.

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  28. Sounds like rubbish conspiration theory to me: digging in where this article comes from, the source links at the bottom of the articles redirects to a rather obscure website called whatdoesitmean, written by a sister of the “Sorcha Faal Order”, who are also expecting a “death star pandemic” by 2012, a “great famine”, the “Return of the Einherjar Warriors” who will fight for the “throne of this world”… OMG, what a slap of crap! Some people should give up trying to talk to undeads and get a life of their own.

    More seriously there is no doubt this is one of the worst man made catastrophe in history. Without a doubt we will have ecosystem collapse and unemployment in the south may threaten the economic recovery.

    In those terrible times my thoughts are first with all the people who are seeing their health and very livelihood threatened apparently beyond recovery.

    I just want to propose a small step which may help in the cleaning effort: http://goo.gl/YlFQ
    Not the ultimate solution, but only a step toward it.

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  29. we dont have no oil spills doo daa doo daa we dont have no oil spills doo daa doo daa deee

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  30. i can see clearly now th rain has gone, i can see all obsticles in my way. none of the dark clouds have had me blind. its gonna be a bright bright sun shiny dayyyy :D

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  31. Santa Clause is real!

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  32. In reference to the first post on here with the “The truth is AMERICANS HAVE NO VOTE. IT IS ALL A LIE.”

    That is straight out wrong. Votes do make a difference, whether one deals with school, local, or national elections. We have had several presidents that have been close to call and if x amount of people decided they just weren’t going to vote that day because they felt their vote did not count we would have different presidents. Take 1876 with Hayes vs Tilden or 1800 with Jefferson and Burr. If more people voted the decision might have been towards the non-elect than who served as president.

    So, strictly commenting in reference to as to whether votes count, they do. Saying that no votes count is along the lines of the saying that the trash one accumulates and fails to reycle doesn’t contribute to the poor conditions of earth but it does matter. Each vote DOES count, just as each action you do counts towards how the earth’s condition is.

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    • Wow Elena, you are given the retard award. Congratulations. You keep believing that your vote counts. You are referring to elections that have occurred over a hundred years ago.Now, we live in an age where only candidates who pimp themselves out to corporations can make the ballot with the money they whored themselves out for. In an age where Diebold makes machines that magically drop votes (ones which you say everyone one counts) and where one must vote either republican or democrat only because to vote either green or independent is a waste of vote because the candidates representing the party has meager campaign funds with respect to republican and democrat campaign funds. You are wearing “we live in a happy perfect world” goggles you idiot.

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      • Hahaha. That’s awesome. Everything is rigged – we are all operating in the US like little mice in a science experiment, while the big guys do what they want and throw us some cheese sometimes – kinda like the cheese Obama’s been throwing back during tax season! But oh wait, they took all our cheese and breadcrumbs away first, and then threw us some cheese to make us happy again. Have your cheese and breadcrumbs run out yet? Everyone is going to run out of cheese here soon… and they’re all going to wonder what happened. We were all selfish, that’s what! We wanted to hoard our cheese for our family, when the family next to use was starving, while Congressmen, Senate, and House Reps are swimming in cheese! Wake up America! Any day now… you can’t hit snooze forever – you eventually have to face the day you’ve created for yourself. :-o

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  33. Eugenics

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  34. The veracity of this article has been effectively debunked. Please see
    http://www.rense.com/general91/eu_dev.htm

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  35. This is definitely not good…

    And to believe people like Sarah Palin want to ignore the federal government in regards to environmentally disasterous actions, just so they can get their precious oil back on track…

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  36. This is probably part of the Illuminati’s plan to eradicate most of the world’s population (The area will be uninhabitable and there will be worldwide food shortage: not only will fishing in the Atlantic be crippled, but a cyclone can take those toxins and distribute them at any point in the world resulting in infertile soil for years to come).
    http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/illuminatiagendabestoverviewyet8jun02.shtml copy the link in your address bar to learn something about the People Who Pull the Strings. And you should definitely find time to read it all.
    I WANT PEACE AND TRUE FREEDOM FOR ALL!!!

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  37. ok, where is the link for this Russian report? There is no validation for this story anywhere. I’m not disagreeing that this is a terrible environmental disaster but this article has no sources to back it up.
    blah!

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  38. Excuse me? I’m American and I don’t remember ever allowing this to happen. I don’t remember being in control of the situation in the first place. It must be nice to sit atop your arrogant high horse and judge from a position where you’ve done nothing but write. Congratulations, you’re a piece of trash.

    Also, way to be completely ignorant to massive corruption and power (including the purposeful manipulation of knowledge as well as the dispersal of it) struggles that have nothing to do with what the citizens of America can even remotely be responsible for. Imagine being an American stuck in the middle of this, and, to shamelessly quote Wanted: “What the fuck have you done lately?” You’re the same as the rest of us.

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  39. It is sad that corporations and the greedy people who run them and the government truly care and value money over human life. I hate money and sorry to offend…religion, it has and will continue to kill more people than anything else. There is nothing I can do so I just stay in my apartment because I cannot stand going places since 99% of people think the world and time revolves around them. I care more about other life including animals and the earth than I do my own life, some things are more important than how many homes and cars people have and what they own. Hearing people talk about having vacation homes they have not been in years while stepping over homeless and hungry humans. We need to be exterminated and maybe BP’s mess up will be the hand mother earth needs. I wish I would have not started reading and learning so much and found out how corrupt and heartless poeple are and the things they do to one another. Dont worry it’s just one loser hermits opinion right. Like my dad says money makes the world go around, Maybe it’s because I lived with my mother who told me it was love

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    • Love it, love it, love it. Too true. What’s the point of 2 homes, 5 cars, 3 jobs, and a diamond ring? The point is – we’ve learned nothing of life, love, peace, or progression for humanity’s sake. Rather, we’ve mastered economic gain, growth, and power over another – but for what? It’s all been so pointless. Work your ass off to build a country, invent and progress rapidly… and then collapse and die because we were all too greedy and selfish… or we were too lazy to try to change anything, because it’s all going down the drain anyways, right?
      I say:
      1 – Get BP out of the situation completely. They are nothing but rich idiot liars that are backpedaling as best they can. James Cameron has a group together that have good ideas and the expertise to get it done – let them try!
      2 – Impeach Obama – he’s been nothing but bad bad bad
      3 – Move away from oil, gas, and coal completely. When have the technology to run on electric, which means no emissions, which means no harm to the planet. The sun is permanent reusable SUSTAINABLE energy. Again, we have the technology… so what’s the question? What’s the hesitation? OH! That’s right. Stock in oil! Darn!
      4 – Do not elect anyone for any office ever again that does not fully support a complete removal from oil. If you elect one or two here and there that still support oil and drilling, guess what???? We won’t make the transition away from oil because we don’t have to.

      It’s all pretty simple, really. We are destroying our planet, and now we’re doing it even faster with the help of BP and Obama, who just OK’d another hole to be drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in SHALLOW water, not even relating to the first F* up. Get him outta there, get BP outta there, get this problem fixed no matter who does it and how much it’s going to cost us, and then learn from our mistake – NO MORE OIL. Solar power, wind power, water power, all sustainable, natural, non-harmful technologies that will sustain our way of life, AND the planet.

      Thank you. Thank you. I’ll be here all night.

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      • Wow, you really have no connection with reality do you?

        1)Yes, why not let the guy who makes imaginary disasters fix a real one. He can’t do any worse, right? Oh, I know why. It’s because BP isn’t doing everything feasible to contain millions of gallons of oil that they could otherwise be pumping and selling.
        2)I don’t like the guy but come on, really? There’s no grounds, go check the Constitution on impeachable offenses.
        3)”When have the technology to run on electric, which means no emissions, which means no harm to the planet.”
        Sweetheart, where do you think the electricity comes from? The Underpants Gnomes rubbing silk lingerie together? Solar and wind are too unreliable to depend on. Hydro-electric works on the scale of Hoover Dam but where are you going to put enough dams that size to power the whole country? If you included nuclear (dependable, safe despite the American mis-conception, sustainable and 99% emission free) I might have given you a point. Then I realized your an idealistic environmentalist who wouldn’t even let the word nuclear pass their lips.
        4)You were so close. How about something more realistic? Elect people who actually have read the Constitution, enact term limits and actually hold them accountable.

        To be young, ignorant and idealistic again.

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    • Love does make the world go round Your right There is a God and that is what he was trying to tell us every way he could

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  40. What a bunch of malarkey. A rain that will kill all microbrial life in North America? Someone is pulling a hoax. This story is just something made up on a lark. They’re off somewhere getting a big laugh out of it. Oil spills have occurred before, and although this one is the biggest US oil spill, its not the worlds biggest. Everyone take a breath and settle down. Its gonna be ok.

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    • Well maybe it is malarkey as you say… yet this article was recently posted re: dying plants (even weeds)and small birds; here is the link.
      http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-mystery-crop-damage%2C0%2C187535.story?track=rss
      Gulf related? Dupont caused? or Chemtrails?
      Whatever maybe causing it, cannot be that good.

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  41. Fearmongering religious fanatics wouldn’t be happy without the next theory of the world’s end. Get medicated; enjoy life.

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  42. Vengeance is upon this world!

    Have you met the Lord Jesus Christ?

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  43. Of course we dont hear this in America. But Liberal Media is completly controlled to keep the Obama set in a nice peaceful place of idiocy….

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  44. How does one even fathom what this would be like? Sounds so like a bad disaster movie. No one else is reporting on this study. Why is that? Is the possibility simply too horrifying to allow the general public to believe this in mass? The consequences would be terrifying. I will certainly watch this issue with growing concern. You folk over there are doing a great service to your world… thank you again for waking me up a little bit more.

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    • The oil Companys owns the Media ??

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  45. Fuck you EU bastard. We don’t live in a goddamn democracy you rat fink piece of eurotrash.

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    • Irony or sarcasm I bet. 2 choices is a dillemma. not an option.

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  46. http://books.google.de/books?id=ouMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=%22ecopemex%22&source=bl&ots=cGUHX9EivH&sig=QssWyO8-sjJctcH0mK10IcSYYzI&hl=en&ei=RmQGTO32PMuJOKi__LQL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22ecopemex%22&f=false

    Mexico and Germany have such a ship, Why they are not using them? They could “steal” the oil and clean a bit, sure compared with the catastrophe they would might help nothing, but something is something…

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  47. :-o Is it an environmental issue or political? Can’t figure out!

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  48. Ok…the article was written by who? In the article it states what Russian scientists think and what the Russian natural resource ministry says (blah blah) and then all the finger pointing at the end towards us evil Americans that use oil and allow these monster corporations in here. But if you look right *after* the article, the next headline up says “Russia prepares to drill for oil off cuban cost despite Obama ban”. Like is the pot calling the kettle black here? Sure seems like the Russians are still drilling even as their *scientists* and others make our country out to be oil greedy and stupid. Excuse me? Can I say stick it in your ear? This accident could happen to any country anywhere with a similar setup…geez. Get off it!!

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    • :roll:

      You have answered the age old question “Do two wrongs make a right?” In your opinion they do. In my opinion they don’t. One can not argue with the catastrophic destruction that is and will take place as a result of this. It is time to get away from fossil fuel energy and go to clean energy sources. Unless it hits you at home you won’t care.

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    • Karla,like America,like Russians,Canadians…we don’t have to agree with our government,or their decisions.Our scientists of the world are agreeing with those findings…what these oil companies are doing,is criminal negligence at best…ecological genocide,justified by their own greed (this implies intent)at worse!!!…This is no accident,we all know now that corners were cut to save money!!!Our children s children will,not maybe,reap the consequences of these companies greed and arrogance!Karla,do really think these “set ups” are ok?!…Anywhere! Why do corporations have more rights than People or the environment, we need, to sustain all life!!! …or are you a shareholder! Candyrose Freeman

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    • Well Karia, why is it that only the US doesn’t insist on basic safety mechanisms to shut off the flow of oil in case of emergency? Because it would cost the corporation money (the valve in questions costs about 500 million) and the US doesn’t like to cost corporations money, likes to give it to them – so yes, we are stupid. Don’t forget, that as the US gov goes down its fiscal toilet, it earns money off off-shore drilling, thus the incentive to continue drilling. Rather than taken umbrage at the Russians, let’s stop being stupid. Like let’s take the corporations at the rate they were taxed in 1970, remove their personhood, and clean up the environment.

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  49. :cry: Am 20 miles from the oil spill, people don’t even think it’s a problem here, but the children are getting sick..NewsPaper now says the relief well solution is a LONG SHOT..finding that hole in the dark may take a lot of tries..remember: this ain’t just an U.S.A. problem..the oil leak isn’t gonna end,till it is empty and it’s a big reservoir of crude…the oil sheen will soon cover all of the oceans..reflecting sunlight and halting evaporation..STOP blaming and prepare for extinction of everything except crude oil eating microbes..it will all be alright, we’ll be back in 5,000,000,000 years..

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  50. Well, We are fucked.

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    • Damn, what a situation this is.

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    • we are only fucked till 28 days after they stop useing corexit,if they would go to the better option starting when it happene,we would have no oil probs life would be normal,and no marsh would be hurt,the worse that would happen,is every 6 weeks we would have dirt all over the place,but no one cares,so no one is useing the microbes :-x

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