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Much as in war, the truth appears to be an early casualty in the Gulf oil spill disaster. The volume of oil being discharged may well be 10 times what the public is being told.

BP released this video of methane gas and crude oil erupting from their damaged wellhead, 05/11/10. (video image: BP)

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+8 # Guest 2010-05-14 23:58

Ya' know...it just seems to boil down to this: the truth is a mighty rare commodity and is the one thing that corporations will not peddle. Well, what the heck? There's no profit in telling the truth or accepting culpability for one's errors. So, since being truthful is unprofitable, all corporations are liars. Those who represent them are, knowingly or not, liars. The only durable corporate truth seems to be that all things and all people and even the planet itself is entirely expendable as long as a bottom line shows a profit for its investors.

Ever get the feeling we're getting pimped? And would anyone care to venture a guess how big oil is any different in their behavior, than organized crime?

And we're supposed to pick up the tab for this in the end I suppose. Nothing like having to pay for being screwed.

Someone pass me a towel and a cigarette please.

+5 # Guest 2010-05-15 08:15

I think it is a good time to begin the process of revoking of corporate licenses. There is far too much damage being done by organizations that foundations are pined on lying to the host that derives sustenance. Isn’t that the definition of cancer? We just can’t afford this behavior. I’m for sending a strong message to all corporations who would repeatedly put the wellbeing of their profits over the wellbeing of all our future. Revoke the corporate license and kick BP off our shores. If we don’t have a way now. That’s what the lawyers and the lawmakers are for. Make one. NOW. Bold choices for challenging times.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-15 09:38

This is more of a response to your posting under the article titled "Republicans Side With Oil Companies, Oppose Raising Cap on Liability," but this is as good a spot as any to respond to it. In that response, you blame the Repubs with no mention of Obama & the Dems.

I don't know if you've read a posting that I made in an older article, but, after the disaster in the Gulf, Obama's oil man, Ken Salazar, stated that new oil leases would be frozen until this catastrophe was investigated. What really happened was that Ken Salazar continued to exempt new offshore drilling operations from environmental review despite the Gulf disaster. Since the April 20th explosion at the BP rig, the Dept of the Interior's Minerals Management Service has approved 27 new offshore drilling permits with all but one of the projects granted the same environmental review exemption used to approve the BP drilling site.

This is the Obama admin lying to the American people.

+2 # Guest 2010-05-15 11:39

Both parties have sold out for campaign contributions, awaiting a huge crisis and public reaction prior to returning to the kind of regulation that used to protect us from these disasters. Remember however, that the Minerals Management Office of the Interior Dept. was largely underfunded and undermined under the Reagan and Bush II administrations . The republicans/conservatives anti=regulation adherents bear the greatest responsibility for this calamity. BTW, the drilling was approved some 2 months following Obama's inauguration. The guy was preoccupied with a dreadful economy, two wars and a nationwide dysfunctional health insurance mess.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-15 13:25

But there's a big difference between the Repubs & the Dems. Yes, they're both bought & paid for by the oil industry, not to mention corporations in general, but Repubs really don't hide that fact. When Bush was pres, he did whatever he wanted over everybody's dead body. He was very arrogant & cared very little about other people's opinions. Obama, on the other hand, more often than not, makes wonderful inspiring speeches promising great things to the American people, but ends up doing what Bush would have done if he was pres. I knew where I stood with Bush from the moment that he stole the reins of the presidency from Al Gore, but I can never tell when Obama is telling me the truth and when he isn't. The Repubs in general are very transparent. They're cold & arrogant & aren't afraid to show their support for corporations, but the Dems try to put on an act, coming across with righteous indignation, but, in the end, supporting the very same corporations.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-15 12:29

Daniel:
You should write a book. You are so right on. Unbridled capitalism just doesn't work.
I will join you with that cigarette.

+2 # Guest 2010-05-17 09:39

All I'm gonna say is that it seems to me since coorperations apparently have the rights of humans now (Thank You Supreme Court) & they can spend as much money as they want showing their support or disapproval of a candidate in elections, perhaps we should be prosecuting these coorperations like we do individual humans. If I try to dump a quart of oil into a sewer, I would be arrested & prosecuted for endangering the environment. Millions of gallons into the Gulf, you'd think these companies would be shut down & the decision makers prosecuted to the fullest extent.

+1 # Guest 2010-05-15 02:42

use Hydrophobic Hand to bind the oil. HS is reacting immediatly with oil and oil is bound very quick. A m³ of HS may cost about 300 Euros from Europe to the Gulf but it is a solution that works and the sand later can be combusted so that oil is used.
interested firms may contact me as I can organize the delivering of HS and valid prices cif.
fax 1-4197102845 or email: info@naturgas.de
phone 49-5339-707 in Germany

+10 # Guest 2010-05-15 02:57

Good God, the Middle East must be laughing up its sleeve! I certainly would be, in its place. The West has declared war, killed, lied, cheated and done everything illegal and immoral, all for the sake of oil. Now, its own is being lost, under its nose, out of sheer greed and carelessness. How fitting that they are now overtly killing off the planet, as well as human beings. Time to declare war on another oil-rich country, while everyone involved denies responsibility for the spill they own. The situation is similar to the coal miners, recently lost. "Huh...?" by vacuous big business fat cats.

+3 # Guest 2010-05-15 08:21

Funny, I don't seem to be hearing "Drill Baby Drill" so much these days. We need to juxtapose clips of the Republican National Convention, Caribou Barbie, and Drill Baby Drill signs with THE REAL results of oil dependency: this and other spills and war. So oil junkie: is it worth it? The party of no includes one huge no: NO INNOVATION. We could be free of our dependence on oil if we innovate instead of stagnate like we are currently doing and have done for the last 9 years. Conservative means never having to say you improvised. We're running on technology developed in the 19th century! We can't do better than THAT? Then we are indeed too dumb to compete.

+4 # Guest 2010-05-15 08:35

Why expect TRUTH IN MEDIA ?
After 30 years of relentless CONservative efforts to Deregulate EVERYTHING Corporate, including Media Ownership Rules, we have an Orwellian State of Affairs in OUR Country. Just a few GLOBAL CORPORATIONS now own and exploit almost all of the vast Media Enterprises in America. They own most of the 'FREE PRESS.' They own most Pipelines for 'FREE SPEECH.'
GLOBAL Corporations have profit and power seeking agendas, but what 'National Loyalties' do they consider along their way ?
GLOBAL Corporations are 'persons' under the law and thanks to the overly CONservative U.S. Supreme Court (of Corporate Considerations) , Global Corporate ''PERSONS'' are now allowed to use their vast wealth and power to influence Our Elections.
Hmmm... 'Elections'.. 'Free Press'... a.k.a.-- 'Bought' and 'Owned'..?
Tell me.., does a Global Corporate 'PERSON' think of itself as an AMERICAN..?
Think about it.
Then ask yourself why Our Government allows it !

+3 # Guest 2010-05-15 11:24

I don't own a TV, but I did sit in a room with one for a few hours at work. Is it my imagination, or were there an excessive number of oil company commercials compared with other 'times'?

It seems that big media is being bought off by big oil in this manner. AT&T seems to have lots of commercials while the fate of a free internet is being discussed too.

I think this is how *hush money* appears to the population, with one industry scratching the other's back. What annoys me, too, is that they don't pay taxes on this PR campaign because "its a write-off".

Tell me if I'm just imagining things.

+2 # Guest 2010-05-16 06:20

The latest and greatest news from the Gulf of Mexico:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill

It will be May 20th in just 4 days. It will then be a month since the April 20th explosion in the Gulf. That will be 30 days worth of at least 210,000 gallons (5000 barrels) of gushing crude pouring into the Gulf of Mexico each and everyday. And what do I hear from the world, "Silence," as if people, especially our government, have become completely apathetic to the situation as if it has become the norm.

I'm sorry, but there is something dreadfully wrong here when our government and BP have not been able to stop this oil leak within that period of time.

Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, Obama's chosen (oil) man, continues to issue permits without any environmental review required.

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