…about what is going on in the Gulf? Do you really believe most of the oil is cleaned up and everything is recovering? Or have you decided to just ignore it because it’s too upsetting and you don’t think you can help?  Well, I have just two words for you…. “Stop” (new word) “It!” Watch the brilliant “Stop It” skit by Bob Newhart below. I was introduced to this when I went to Liz Mitten Ryan’s ranch in BC to teach a few months ago. The students in my class had just finished a course with Liz who had shown them the skit on YouTube. They all kept screaming “Stop It”  at each other and then bursting into hysterical laughter. Now I get it. The skit kind of grows on you and sets up house….. I have an  update on the Gulf, but comedy before tragedy.

Stop It Skit

Gulf Update

Being in denial and ignoring the Gulf disaster will not work.  What is happening there is turning into a monster that is eating our world. We are going to have to find a way to deal with it or be destroyed by it. So here’s the update, as brief as I could make it.

The Oil-  It’s not cleaned up. Most of it was sunk, lots still on the surface. There is a lake of oil at the bottom of the Gulf. A whistleblower who said there is a bigger uncontrolled leak 7 miles away from the blown well, is now dead (suspicious death). Citizen observers on flyovers talk about massive amounts of oil still leaking…The oil is everywhere and it’s now moving out from the Gulf. The shores of 5 states are now polluted. It’s not just oil,  it’s got deadly Corexit mixed all through it. And because of the corexit, the oil is emulsified in the water column, which makes all the water of the Gulf toxic. The Corexit and the huge amounts of methane spewing out with the oil are eating up the oxygen. The water has no oxygen in it. Nothing can live in the Gulf ocean anymore expect microbes that don’t need oxygen to survive. If you want to watch and read about the state of the oil/water/corexit, here are the sources:

http://www.truth-out.org/out-sight-out-mind-even-when-its-not-out-sight62137

 http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/editorial-100726-1.html

The Corexit – It is a deadly poison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FxfYqnlQ50

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/20/epa_whistleblower_accuses_agency_of_covering

http://www.truth-out.org/toxic-dispersants-causing-widespread-illness61604

The Wildlife – BP purposely sank, picked up, and destroyed the dead wildlife. The death toll so far in the Gulf is beyond our comprehension and it is growing larger by the day. In my opinion, all the animals and plants in and around the Gulf and the 50 MILLIION migratory birds on their way to the Gulf right now are dead men walking. The entire Gulf ecosystem has been murdered. Did I mention birds are my favorite things on Earth. I can hardly speak I am so bereft. Here are the links to read /watch about the wildlife.

Death Gyre in the Gulf – http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/death-gyre-in-the-gulf

More and more animals are dying –

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-grant/as-turtle-toll-tops-1000_b_675578.html

Why all 1600 sperm whales are most likely dead –

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/11/gulf-oil-spills-worst-hit_n_678759.html

50 million migratory birds are on there way to the Gulf… to their death as we speak…

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/40217/

Can I just say that the groups doing wildlife cleaning (Iused to work for one) are the best public relations BP can buy? IBBRC is lauding BP because BP never questions their expenses and pays for everything… Right, and what is BP doing to all the people who are putting in damage claims…paying them are they?  Also releasing cleaned birds and turtles into the Gulf makes no sense whatsoever to me. We have to clean up the environment before putting animals back in it and at present cleaning up the Gulf is a massive, seemingly impossible task.

The People of the Gulf – People in and around the shores are getting sick. They have the symptoms of corexit poisoning and oxygen deprivation poisoning. Its being called the BP or the Blue Plague. Anyone who says corexit is ok or that  it breaks down in the environment is lying. The people who got exposed in Alaska are now dead and the places they used corexit are still devoid of life.

http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=940#p2272

BP Oil Disaster – Worst Case Scenario – from Kindra (watch the video of that name…watch the others too…)

http://www.projectgulfimpact.org/showreel/

The Rest of Us -  There are now huge fish die offs happening on the East Coast due to lack of oxygen. People all over the US and Canada from the Gulf, to CO, to  may soon be affected by toxic/acid rain originating from the Gulf.

http://atomicnewsreview.org/2010/07/05/is-rain-damage-to-plants-a-result-from-gulf-oil-spill/

http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_dreams/2010/07/bonnie-drops-toxic-bp-rain-more-plants-dying.html

The rain is acid – at 4.8 pH aquatic life dies

 http://bpoilslick.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html

The Media – You will not hear about any of this. I had to scout it out. There is a complete and total press cover up.

What To Do –

I think we need to keep researching to figure out why this happened… see my last blog for a discussion of that. My best hit on what to do is to provide the people on the ground in the affected areas (which could soon be everywhere) 1) info on how to protect themselves. 2) how to protect their immediate environment (gardens etc) from toxic rain and 3) how to bioremediate the shore (and maybe even the ocean?) themselves (without waiting for bp or EPA or the coast guard). 4) In  addition,  all of us need to find the ways to shift the power in the world away from the monopoly corporations, banks and wealthy despots who are controlling and destroying us and the earth. I am currently working with another activist on a survival package for people in the Gulf that will address the first three things. When the survival package is completed we want to get it out to everyone we can… so your help in that would be great. For item number 4, one initial action (by no means enough…) that people in US can do is to join Move On or True Majority as they and a number of other groups are going for an agenda that addresses these political issues. People in other countries can seek out groups that are addressing how to get people back in control of government, and we will all have to make that our prime directive.  Beyond all that .. please get this info out to people,  as really you can’t find it in normal media sources. And don’t give up, never give up.

 

And Now To Cheer You Up A Bit……..