Slow Violence -- BP's Killing of the Gulf

"The Gulf Crisis is Not Over: Slow Violence and the BP Coverups," by Anne McClintock

I stumbled across a link on WhatReallyHappened.com to this excellent overview of BP's deception regarding the events behind the Gulf oil disaster and their lies regarding the cleanup efforts, damage done and damage still to be done. I'll paste the first two paragraphs of Ms. McClintock's article so that you can decide whether you'd be interested in reading the whole thing. It is a long article but a masterwork as regards the fraud BP has been allowed to perpetrate on the American people by our government. Recommended to everyone:

Three vanishing acts are being played out in the Gulf: the disappearing of the oil from the ocean surface by Corexit, the disappearing of the story by the media blockade, and the disappearing from view of the shadowy private contractors who are making a mint helping BP and the Coast Guard keep a cover on the clean-up. This triple vanishing trick, collectively choreographed by BP and sundry federal agencies, culminated on August 4th in a report released by NOAA that claimed 75% of the oil spill had been captured, burned, evaporated or broken down. The White House hailed the report as something to celebrate. Energy advisor Carol Browne announced: "the vast majority of the oil is gone."

A clamor of outrage immediately rose from the Gulf, as residents refused to dance the crisis-is-over, happy-feet dance. Hundreds of locals furiously insisted that they were still seeing masses of oil on ocean, beaches and marshes, and dead fish, dolphins, sharks, birds and other marine life washing ashore. Then on August 18th scientists from the Universities of Georgia and South Florida produced an open challenge to the White House report, asserting that 70% to 79% of the oil in the Gulf still remained in the water. Charles Hopkinson, a professor of marine science at the University of Georgia declared: "The idea that 75% of the oil is gone and of no concern to the environment is just absolutely incorrect."