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NATO Orders 7,000 US Marines To Costa Rica As Gulf Oil Disaster Quake Fears Grow

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Russian foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) sources are reporting in the Kremlin today that NATO has ordered over 7,000 US Marines to begin deploying in the Central American Nation of Costa Rica [map 2nd photo left] over fears the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is about to rupture the fracture zone lying between the North American and Caribbean Plates and potentially unleashing... 

NATO Orders All "Critical Assets" Moved 100 Miles Inland From Gulf Oil Spill Region

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A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by the foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) warns that Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) current Chairman of the Military Committee, has ordered all “critical assets” of the Western alliance to be moved “at least” 100 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico oil... 

Millions of birds set to fly into Gulf oil mess

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Oil-covered pelicans sit in a pen waiting to be cleaned at a rescue center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana, on June 7, 2010. Despite the images of oil-soaked pelicans flooding the media in recent weeks, wildlife experts say the toll on sea birds from BP’s Gulf Coast oil spill is smaller than was anticipated, so far. That is expected to change drastically for the worse. Scientists warn that as shifting... 

Oil found in Gulf crabs raises new food chain fears

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Workers clean oil and tar balls Wednesday from Biloxi Beach, Miss. University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last “years, probably not a matter of months” and affect many species. Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans... 

Russia again calls for US to nuke leaking Gulf oil well

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Oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico around a work boat at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico June 2, 2010. His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of... 

Oil Efforts Ramp Up As Toxic Storm Nears

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Large patches of thick oil from BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill washed ashore in Mississippi for the first time on Sunday while the Atlantic hurricane season’s first named storm posed an uncertain threat to the gulf. The oil spill, which began on April 20, has caused an economic and environmental disaster along the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening fisheries, tourism and wildlife. Tropical... 

Toxic Storm Could Make Beach Towns Uninhabitable

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Mark Woodward of Daphne, Ala., looks for tar balls as he walks along the beach at dawn in Destin, Fla., Saturday, June 26. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has started coming ashore in Destin and other beaches on the Florida and Alabama coasts. Ron Greve expects the worst is yet to come in the oil spill drama that is haranguing beach towns all along the US Gulf Coast. So, like a growing number... 

Entire Gulf of Mexico Now Covered With Oil

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This was the one of the most emotionally disturbing videos we’ve ever seen! Youtuber’s message: “A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil, some dying. I also photographed a Whale covered in oil all around it’s blow hole. Please spread this around the world. Send me any links to places it gets posted so I can follow. I want to piss off the... 

BP reported burning sea turtles and other animals alive

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A boat captain working to rescue sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico says he has seen BP ships burning sea turtles and other wildlife alive. Captain Mike Ellis said in an interview posted on You Tube that the boats are conducting controlled burns to get rid of the oil. “They drag a boom between two shrimp boats and whatever gets caught between the two boats, they circle it up and catch it on fire.... 

BP Spill - Volcanic Tsunami And Poison Gas Alert

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Bil Ryan, of Project Camelot/Avalon discusses the latest on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with Dr Bill Deagle. Dr Deagle says there is a real danger we could see a tsunamia triggered by an underwater volcana that BP drilled into. He also talks about how this event could result in a mini ice age in Europe due to disruption to the flow from the gulf stream. Also, Dr Deagle goes into the dangers of the... 

Another BP oil platform is a ticking timebomb

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A former BP contractor who claims that the oil giant’s Atlantis production platform in the Gulf of Mexico is unsafe is gaining attention on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are pressurisng the federal government to shut it down. Claims by Kenneth Abbott, who was fired by BP in 2009 allegedly after raising persistent claims about lax engineering documentation on the platform, have fuelled the... 

Methane eruption warned may kill Gulf of Mexico

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It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem. The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer who is studying... 

Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface

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Matt Simmons was on Bloomberg earlier, adding some additional perspective to his original appearance on the station, in which he initially endorsed the nuclear option as the only viable way to resolve the oil spill. Simmons refutes even the latest oil spill estimate of 45,000-60,000 barrels per day, and in quoting research by the Thomas Jefferson research vessel which was compiled late on Sunday,... 

Disaster Compounds As Obama Blows Smoke to Calm the Sheep

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Day 49 On Tuesday evening, with the disaster now pushed into a continual downward spiral, the President addressed the nation. By pushing the cap and trade agenda he was attempting to blow smoke to his sheeple. Lots of interesting keywords and phrases were used in the speech to quail the fear throughout the general public. During the speech, Obama had this to say about stopping this horrific spill,... 

Gulf oil disaster: a trillion-dollar corporate crime

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The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a corporate crime whose magnitude almost defies comprehension. The eventual cost—combining damage to complex Gulf and coastal ecosystems, wiping out of the fishing and tourism industries, and long-term health consequences for the population of the region—is likely to total over $1 trillion. The explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig,... 
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