I awoke in an alternate reality

Yeah, I woke up last night with the notion that I shouldn't believe anything I hear or see.

I was in a foggy place and the notion predominated. I turned on the light and then the radio an arm's reach from my bed on the bookshelf. The talkers were discussing the BP Toxic Oil Gusher. And my state of mind took over, and I filtered everything from the perspective that all was orchestrated to deceive. For example:

O BP (and the government by implication since the government has done nothing to allow journalists to do their full job) won't allow reporters and photographers to gather full news information along the coast or out into the Gulf. (We've assumed such behavior would be done to hide the awful extent of an extraordinary oil tragedy. However, could it also be done to prevent us seeing that it is an average oil tragedy?)

O BP won't allow anyone out to the Deepwater Horizon site. What don't they want seen? Rather than worse than they've said it is, is it not as bad as they say it is?

O BP has only one seabed underwater camera pointed at the wellhead for our access, so we really don't know what that camera is really pointed at, or if that camera is actually being broadcast from a different damaged underwater oil well site.

O The Oil Industry does not care if the Mississippi Delta wildlife habitat is destroyed, because for a long time, have they not wanted to dredge up into the Delta land/waterscape for port facilities or pipelines or something? So to the technocrats and oil barons, this destruction of habitat around the Delta is not considered a loss (just as those in charge saw no problem in the loss of lowland cheap housing neighborhoods after Katrina; it just freed up real estate for a government-funded redevelopment or something else down the line that supported their plans; just as they have not cared if pristine Arctic and flora and fauna is destroyed by leaking pipelines sitting on permafrost).

O We are told dispersants are sinking the oil, however, since underwater photography/filming is banned (example: Movie maker James Cameron's offer to film the area was refused), we don't know if this is a massive 'spill'/release or a small 'spill'/release. As for the satellite photos, could those images on the computer have been intercepted and altered to reflect an invented narrative?

O BP and the government have appeared emotionally unanimated, even untroubled about this event. Surprisingly unanimated and unmoved. No one is sweating or agitated apparently.

O No one lost his job for a very long time and still many who would have been jettisoned for such problems in the real world are still around. Others are making tv commercials to boost the image of the corporate logo and the stock value (and the stock value is now stable!); others are making politically potent photo ops in an attempt to show leadership (The Disaster/War President is straight out of the sci-fi movie "Independence Day").

O In an emergency that should be called an emergency and responded to with the force of many agencies, the Obama Administration refuses to go there, and HAS NOT ACTIVATED all it can -- federal, state and local -- to deal with the situation that they claim is occurring.

O Transparency is lacking. The primary responders remain BP contractors and the military who are locked in confidentiality agreements. Transparency is missing as not even the local/state governments along the Gulfcoast are able to get a clear line of communication set up between the perpetrator BP and the U.S. Government and its representatives such as the Coast Guard. Locals and state officials are calling unresponsiveness "chaotic".

O The primary doomsday oil disaster information (collapse of wellhead, disintegration of the sea floor, quantity of oil) is coming from BP, the Obama Administration and anonymous parties on the Internet and claimed BP employees and contractors who appear to be leaking details and science about the ominous nature of the post-explosion Deepwater Horizon site. The President has not used a major nationwide address from the Oval Office to clarify or corroborate all of these details but allows the (planted?) rumors to circulate unchallenged.

O A horrible event is unfolding in the natural world -- however, for a class of individuals, and an industry (and an industry's lackeys in government) who have never been concerned for the ecology or survival of the Natural World if it stands in the way of profiteering and long-term Oligarchic plans (globalization, regional rule, social engineering, planned wars, imperialism, financial control, etcetera) -- I see nothing that assures me that this destruction is accidental.

I admit I am someone who did not believe the official 9/11 narrative from the first day when the news shows displayed tidy photos of the 19 suspected hijackers. (My reasoning on Sept. 11, 2001: If the Authorities knew who these "hijackers" were and their plans, how were they allowed to move freely without being tailed -- to the point of knowing it was them on the day of the 9/11 crime? Very suspicious, in my view.)

However, I have been 'buying' all the images and unofficial and official information about this BP Disaster.

But when I awoke in the night with an alternate frame of mind, it did make me wonder: What do I really know accept for what I am being allowed to be exposed to? Is this an engineered event, or an event occurring and quickly being used as the centerpiece of another plan that requires a "disaster" or New Pearl Harbor in order to be implemented?

Bright.

-What do I really know accept for what I am being allowed to be exposed to? -

That sounds very bright and very right to me...As far as physical reality goes..what do we know other than what we've experienced? Once I said that here a long time ago, and Nobody said something like, "Does a child have to put its finger in fire (or on the stove?) to know it's hot?"....

Anywhoozle...

Thanks for writing all that out, nora...

BP Using Mercenaries To Prevent Journalists From Talking To Work

Brilliant post, Nora
I just read it and my thoughts go in all kinds of directions

Whose country is it anyway? BPs?
Nobody is allowed to clean up the beaches? Help the animals? Take photos? How is that possible?

This reminds me of the Bush doctrine after 9/11: Don't worry, go shopping.

Obama stept into the same footsteps with his Oval Office Speech: don't worry, everything will work out. He did not take advantage of the good will of the people and ask them to volunteer. The opposite is the case. And from the v. start experienced people w. the appropriate knowledge have been rejected.

They really don't want us to see whats going on. Check out this video:

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BP Using Mercenaries To Prevent Journalists From Talking To Workers

Vince Veneziani | Jun. 17, 2010, 2:41 PM

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-hires-mercenaries-to-prevent-reporters...

A reporter for local New Orleans news station WDSU tried to interview some BP employees on a beach in Louisiana and was met by a BP-hired security guard and was told he shouldn't disturb the workers reports The Consumerist.

According to the video (shown below), the media needs to stay at least 100 feet from BP workers. Here's one killer quote from the BP-hired security guard when the reporter asks why he's preventing people from accessing a public beach:

GUARD: "I can tell you where to go because I'm employed to keep this beach safe. I have to keep the workers safe."

REPORTER: "Can I go interview that worker?"

GUARD: "NO."

Powerful stuff. Watch the video below for the full confrontation

V I D E O MUST WATCH

The Nightmare Scenario in the Gulf (The Oil Drum)

via Counterpunch

Editors' note for first-time visitors: What follows is a comment from a The Oil Drum reader. To read what The Oil Drum staff members are saying about the Deepwater Horizon Spill, please visit the front page. (Were the US government and BP more forthcoming with information and details, the situation would not be giving rise to so much speculation about what is actually going on in the Gulf. This should be run more like Mission Control at NASA than an exclusive country club function--it is a public matter--transparency, now!)

OK let's get real about the GOM oil flow. There doesn't really seem to be much info on TOD that furthers more complete understanding of what's really happening in the GOM.
As you have probably seen and maybe feel yourselves, there are several things that do not appear to make sense regarding the actions of attack against the well. Don't feel bad, there is much that doesn't make sense even to professionals unless you take into account some important variables that we are not being told about. There seems to me to be a reluctance to face what cannot be termed anything less than grim circumstances in my opinion. There certainly is a reluctance to inform us regular people and all we have really gotten is a few dots here and there...

read her
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593/648967