Don't believe the hype: BP's magical disappearing oil not really disappeared...

So, the AP reports on a, uh, report that says most of the oil in the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is gone. Meanwhile there's more than just Shep Smith from Fox News who thinks that's not the case. The below excerpt comes from DemocracyNow.org:

Environmental Activist Jerry Cope on "The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don’t Want You to Know"

Environmental activist Jerry Cope has spent the last few weeks traveling along the Gulf Coast and experiencing firsthand the contamination in the air and water. In an article being published on Huffington Post, Cope argues that instead of celebrating the allegedly vanishing oil, we should be concerned about the disappearance of marine life in the Gulf. He describes the Gulf as a "kill zone" and looks into where the marine animals have gone, given that BP has reported a relatively low number of dead animals from the spill. [includes rush transcript]

Antonia Juhasz: BP’s "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary’s Parish, LA

We speak with independent journalist Antonia Juhasz, who is just back from Louisiana, where she found what she calls some of BP’s "missing oil" on the wetlands and beaches along the waterways near St. Mary’s Parish, where no one is booming, cleaning, skimming or watching. [includes rush transcript]

via democracynow.org

Sure, there are the odd exceptions, but your not going to get the whole story if you only get your news from mainstream sources. This is why you should check out DemocracyNow.org or just click on the links/pics above to read their coverage today.

I listen to DN almost every day (they don't broadcast on the weekends).

Oh yeah, and big surprise: what the USG and BP are telling us doesn't match up with logic or, it would seem, reality.

After the air around Ground Zero being "safe" and the bungled reaction to Katrina, should we expect anything else? I don't think so.

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