Obama's Gulf Swim Was Fake - by Stephen Lendman

On August 15, AP reported that Obama gave his "personal assurances of (the) Gulf's safety," saying:

"Beaches all along the Gulf Coast are clean, they are safe, and they are open for business."

He lied.

The same day, Britain's government owned BBC reported:

"Barack Obama has taken a swim in the Gulf of Mexico (to) reassure Americans that the waters are safe despite the recent oil spill."

US corporate media reporters repeated the message, CNN's senior White House correspondent Ed Henry among them, saying "Obama takes (the) plunge, swims in the Gulf (to show it's safe and) open for business."

In fact, area businesses continue to be severely impacted, and the entire region is dangerously unsafe.

As for Obama's swim, on August 16, the London Independent reported that Obama and his daughter, Sasha, swam in a private Panama City Beach, FL beach off Alligator Point in St. Andrew Bay, not part of the Gulf.

Reporters were banned, no TV video permitted. "So....only the White House photographer was allowed to capture proceedings. The official picture was intended to provide evidence that the region's beaches are back to normal."

False. A dangerously toxic oil/dispersant brew contaminates much, perhaps the entire Gulf. It's poisoned and potentially lethal for decades, maybe generations. Nothing in it should be ingested. Millions in the region are at risk. No one should swim in coastal waters or eat any Gulf seafood. Responsible officials should ban it. Instead the all-clear's been given.

Obama, his officials, and BP executives are criminally liable. So are state governors, coastal mayors, and regional health authorities.

Area residents with children should leave. Tourists should avoid the region. A growing catastrophe will continue for decades, including a silent epidemic of cancers and other diseases, as well as lives and livelihoods lost.

That's the major media's unreported reality, worsening, not improving daily.

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It's a dilute mixture of oil, detergents, and crap.

The dispersants probably emulsified with the oil so it'll just float in the water until something consumes it. Probably a fish's gills, or some clams or mussels or something.

I imagine it's no more toxic than a bathtub after you've washed your oil stained hands with some Goop and soap. That is, it's not that toxic, but it's pretty disgusting, and it's not going to be clean until the water flows through some kind of filtration system (a lot of sand, plants, and animals). That'll take a while.

I suspect any microorganisms that can consume droplets of detergent and oil and survive will do okay. At the same time, every other creature will suffer due to the growth of the oil eating creatures.

This spill is bad, but there have been bad spills before. We've polluted the water before. The effect is that some things die off, and other "weed" plants and creatures thrive a while, but after a decade or two of attention, things get back into balance.

Let's re-regulate the oil business so we don't have to deal with this ecological destruction again.

the Corexit used in the gulf caused the oil to SINK.

"re-regulate the oil business "

actually what was happening was that the MMS [ mineral management service ] was beating off to internet porn and being plied with BP hookers and drugs to waive the inspections off.

So far that's 100% wrong score for 'mous'