<p align="center"><b><font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="5">Massive underwater oil cloud may destroy life in
Gulf of Mexico</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br>
Mike Adams</font></b></p><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/05.10/oilcloud.html">http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/05.10/oilcloud.html</a> <br><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Over a week ago, I
published an article here on NaturalNews questioning the media spin on
the massive oil spill in the Gulf. That story, entitled <em>Is Gulf oil
rig disaster far worse than we’re being told?</em> (<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/028749_Gulf_of_Mexico_oil_spill.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/028749_G…</a>), stated the
following:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><i>"It’s hard to say exactly what’s going on in the
Gulf right now, especially because there are so many conflicting
reports and unanswered questions. But one thing’s for sure: if the
situation is actually much worse than we’re being led to believe, there
could be worldwide catastrophic consequences. If it’s true that millions
upon millions of gallons of crude oil are flooding the Gulf with no end
in sight, the massive oil slicks being created could make their way
into the Gulf Stream currents, which would carry them not only up the
East Coast but around the world where they could absolutely destroy the
global fishing industries."</i></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Now,
barely one week later, it turns out that <strong>the oil slick is FAR
worse than what we were being told</strong>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">USA
Today now reports:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><em><font color="#990000">Researchers warned Sunday that miles-long underwater
plumes of oil from the spill could poison and suffocate sea life across
the food chain, with damage that could endure for a decade or more.</font></em>
(<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-16-gulf-oil-spill_N.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation…</a>)</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">That
same article also explained:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font color="#990000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><em>"Researchers have found more underwater plumes
of oil than they can count from the blown-out well, said Samantha Joye, a
professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. She said
careful measurements taken of one plume showed it stretching for 10
miles, with a 3-mile width."</em></font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The <em>Christian
Science Monitor</em> also reports now that as much as <strong>3.4
million gallons of oil</strong> may be leaking into the Gulf <em>every
day!</em></font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><em><font color="#990000">"The oil that can be seen from the surface is
apparently just a fraction of the oil that has spilled into the Gulf of
Mexico since April 20, according to an assessment the National Institute
for Undersea Science and Technology. Significant amounts of oil are
spreading at various levels throughout the water column… Scientists
looking at video of the leak, suggest that as many as 3.4 million
gallons of oil could be leaking into the Gulf every day - 16 times more
than the current 210,000-gallon-a-day estimate, according to the Times."</font></em>
(<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0516/Gulf-oil-spill-real-disaster-might-be-lurking-beneath-the-surface" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0516/Gulf-oil-spill-real-disaster-might-be-lurking-beneath-the-surface</a>)</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
New York Times also chimed in on the topic over the weekend with some
absolutely shocking (and disturbing) revelations:</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><em><font color="#990000">"Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep
waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3
miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence
that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially
worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.</font></em> (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil.html</a>)</font></p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Scientists
studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that
it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day.
The latter figure would be 3.4 million gallons a day. But the
government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has
calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day."</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">In
other words, while the government has been telling us the leak is only <strong>5,000
barrels a day</strong>, the true volume could be more like <strong>80,000
barrels a day</strong>.</font></p>
<font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>Wiping out the Gulf</b></font>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">It
hardly needs to be stated that 80,000 barrels of oil a day leaking into
the Gulf of Mexico could <strong>destroy virtually all marine life in
the region</strong>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Oxygen
levels have already fallen by 30 percent in waters near the oil. When
water loses its oxygen content, it quickly becomes a so-called "dead
zone" because marine species simply can’t live there anymore. (Fish and
other aquatic creatures need oxygen to live, obviously.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">With
this volcano of oil still erupting through the ocean floor, we could be
witnessing <strong>the mass-murder of virtually all marine life</strong>
in the Gulf of Mexico.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">And
yet we’re faced with a virtual <strong>blackout</strong> of truly
accurate news on the event. Both the oil industry and the Obama
administration are desperately trying to limit the videos, photos and
stories about the spill, spinning everything to make it seem like it’s
not really much of a problem at all.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">It’s
much like the media coverage of the War in Iraq, where all video
footage had to be vetted by the Pentagon before being released to the
public. Remember the uproar over the leaked photos of coffins draped in
American flags? That’s what the Obama administration no doubt hopes to
avoid by suppressing photos of dead dolphins and sea birds in the Gulf
of Mexico.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
truth, as usual, is being suppressed. It’s just too ugly for the public
to see.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Of
course, the truth has always been suppressed in the oil industry. Even
the inspections on this particular oil rig were, well, <em>rigged</em>.
It turns out the rig wasn’t even inspected on schedule (<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_inspections" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/028749_Gulf_of_Mexico_oil_spill.html</a>).</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">It
also turns out that the Obama administration actually gave the Deepwater
Horizon an award for its history of safety! That was before the whole
thing literally blew up in their faces.</font></p>
<font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>Corruption in Washington leads to catastrophe</b></font>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
oil industry, you see, is just like every other industry that’s
regulated by the federal government: It has a cozy relationship with
regulators.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">It’s
the same story with Big Pharma and the FDA, or the meat industry and
the USDA. Wall Street and the SEC. Every industry that’s regulated
eventually turns the tables on its regulators and ends up rewriting the
rules for its own benefit.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
oil industry has been able to get away with so many exemptions and
loopholes that the regulatory environment is now lenient at best. The
Deepwater Horizon, for example, was given all sorts of exemptions to
engage in risky drilling operations without following proper safety
procedures. And who granted it these exemptions? The U.S. federal
government, of course!</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">So
now <strong>the U.S. government is just as guilty as the oil industry</strong>
in this mass-murder of life in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the government
that <em>allowed</em> the series of events that led to catastrophe in
the first place. And now, this catastrophe could lead to a near-total
wipeout of marine life throughout the Gulf (and possibly beyond).</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">In a
worst-case scenario, this could destroy some percentage of life in
oceans all around the world. It could be the one final wound to Mother
Earth who bleeds her black blood into the oceans for ten thousand years,
destroying life as we know it on this planet.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">All
for profit, of course. Let nothing stand in the way of another billion
dollars in oil company profits! (Regulators? Bah!)</font></p>
<font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>Collusion between government and industry always leads to
disaster</b></font>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">I
hope BP can find a way to suction some of that oil out of the ocean. If
they can manage such a solution, they should then turn around and dump
the entire slick across the landscape of Washington D.C. to coat all the
bureaucrats in the black slimy shame they no doubt deserve. This isn’t
about some random accident, you see: It’s about <strong>a failure of
federal regulators to enforce safe drilling practices</strong>.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
fishing industries in and around the Gulf of Mexico could be devastated
for <em>decades</em>. The diversity of life in the marine ecosystems
there may soon find itself on the verge of collapse. And still there is
no real solution for stopping the <strong>volcano of oil</strong> that
continues to gush out of this gaping wound in the Earth herself.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">I
can only wonder what kind of hare-brained ideas these oil men are coming
up with now to stop the flow. A nuke bomb expert has reportedly been
sent to the area by the Obama administration as part of some sort of
"dream team" of super smart people to find a solution.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">But
it begs the question: If we were so smart, <strong>why are we still
running the world on fossil fuels in the first place?</strong> There’s
enough sunlight energy striking the deserts of Arizona to power the
entire nation indefinitely! Free energy technology continues to be
suppressed in large part by oil company interests (and the arrogant
scientific community), and renewable energy technology has received
virtually no government support whatsoever.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">If
we were really smart, we wouldn’t be drilling holes in the ocean floor
and hoping we can cope with whatever comes gushing out. We’d be
installing <strong>Concentrated Solar Power</strong> (CSP) installations
across the deserts of America or building more wind power generators.
We’ve be investing in electric cars and alternative fuels rather than
burning up our future with fossil fuels.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
smartest thing we could do right now - after capping the volcano of oil,
of course - would be to make a commitment to <strong>end our world’s
dependence on fossils fuels forever</strong>. But that goes against the
financial interests of the oil companies who all want to keep us trapped
in their system of fossil fuel dependence no matter what the cost to
the environment.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">And
so we plug along, handcuffed to an outdated fuel source and still
running our ridiculously historical <strong>internal combustion engines</strong>
which should have been phased out decades ago and replaced with
electric motors.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Humans
are slow learners, it turns out. Our modern civilization isn’t really
that "modern," and it only seems to learn from catastrophe rather than
intelligent planning.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The
question remains: How much more damage can our planet handle from Man’s
arrogant pollution? At what point does all the chemical contamination,
fertilizer runoff, carbon emissions and runaway oil pollution of the
ocean add up to <strong>a global extinction event?</strong></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We’re
playing a global game of Russian Roulette right now with the future of
human civilization… and the oil companies just can’t stop pulling the
trigger. There’s little question where we’re all going to end up if we
don’t change our ways and find a cleaner way to power our <em>infantile</em>
civilization.</font></p>
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