Devastating, heartbreaking, infuriating. I'm passing this along to everyone I know. I'm shaking as I type.

In my experience nobody seems to want to hear about it. The thing is, it's been bad down here for a really, really, really long time.

Until it happens to us we just assume the press is covering the relevant stories or the FBI is on the case or something similar. It just isn't the case and the internet I've recently read, has dried up a lot of money for investigative reporter resources so... It' s a mess. What to do? Not yet sure but good for you for discussing it.

This is the most important post of the day. No questions asked. I just posted a quick blog linking your post. I am hopping mad. Now going to Facebook to share.

1. it doesn't make them money to show the reality of life in America
2. Lawless Lawyer is right - people generally don't want to know. They don't appreciate shining a light on what's been collectively and willfully ignored so they can live their comfortable life. Creature comforts, anyway. The North hasn't gotten over the Civil War either. Still loathing the South as full of inbred hicks, as though everything they blame and suspect about the South doesn't go on in the North just as much. It just looks less gothic.
3. Rupert Murdoch

They figured out with the Viet Nam war and the Civil Rights movement - if they show us what's happening, we won't like it. So, they quit showing us. Thank God for the BBC and Al Jazeera and all the other "foreign" news sources. Taken collectively you can get a pretty fair picture of what's going on. Thanks for posting this.

Delia Yeager nailed it with her comment. And BUMP, dammit.

Thank you to everyone who is passing this video along to their circle. If we can't trust the media, paying it forward could bring the real plight of the Gulf the attention it deserves. Activist, citizen journalism is often the toughest to ignore.

And Delia, thank you for so succinctly explaining the problem.

I will not allow this post to go gently into the good night.

I'm not stalking you, I swear. Are the people of OS just as resistant to learning the truth as the rest of the nation....? WOW. I thought much better of them. Maybe I need to reevaluate.

Could you post, or find the video somewhere else for those of us not willing to sign up for Facebook due to privacy concerns?

This can't go away, we have been distracted by "unemployment extension" running out, or whatever cruel diversion, or titillating story distracts us at the moment. B of A and a group of banks now owns the "paper" on MediaNews Inc. or whatever the heck it's called, that includes Randolf Hearst's 33% thank you bankruptcy judge!

We have to save each other by making this number one. I'm in the desert and this is still number one for me. I think we need to start planning to get people out of there. BP and govt agencies have no intelligent life at the top to figure it out.

Who will these people feed off when everyone else is dead? It is an abomination.

The so called "Eyes and Ears of the People" in this country are owned by the corporate overlords that is why it takes an outside source to tell the truth about the facts. R

Sent over by Cartouche. thank you for posting this. I am passing it on to my friends. heartbreaking.
"it should be required viewing for every American

Good stuff. Visit my blog for more on the BP disaster. R

Yes. The us seems only interested in photos of turtles and seals covered in oil...this is sad especially since most of the "washed" animals will go on to die because the have already ingested the oil while trying to eat or clean themselves...but the us media seems never interested in stories about "small" people suffering...thanks for posting this.

Contradiction - would love to post this from another source, but it is banned from You Tube due to copyright issues (which I suspect BP doesn't mind. I thought you could view public content on faceBook without a profile. If so, here is a shorter link:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=138999366114177&ref=nfs%20on%20the%20Deepwater%20Horizon%20disaster

Maybe I am naive but I did want to believe that independent media still did exist somewhere, with the resources to tell the truth about the Gulf. You folks are opening my eyes.

Cartouche = coolest stalker ever. :-)

I hadn't seen this particular video before but I have heard reports on the CBC and the BBC, which often run shows from other countries. I am horrified by what is happening in the Gulf and to the people whose livelihoods and futures depend upon it, but I am even more horrified by the apathy, censorship and sorry to say it, creeping fascism that defines North America these days.

Not to worry. $150 a barrel oil is waiting for us as soon as there's an economic recovery.

Thanks for posting this Becky.
I joined facebook so I could watch ( since I missed it here in Australia - 60 Minutes is on Rupert's channel ... ) - and EoC, it's worth joining, if only for long enough to watch this.

Kindra Arneson and the tech guy who had to jump 10 stories into the sea, the people who clean pelicans ... the environmentalist who worked on the Alaskan spill 21 ( ! ) years ago ... now Shell is going ahead with exploration back up there ... the environmentalist said it all : " Enough of oil, already. "

Beyond Petroleum. How cynical is that.

Thanks again, Becky. We are a long way away, and only last year suffered a 10000 square mile spill here ( Timor Sea Montaro Oil )
which even at a fraction of the depth took from August until October to intercept - off the coast of one of our largest wilderness areas ( the Kimberly, WA ) - but guess who did the cement casing ?

I heard Tony Hayward's wife imploring the press ( from her home in Kent ) to ask people to please stop sending hate mail to their address.
Some of it, she said, was "quite nasty " ...

$150 barrel is right, Lefty, though they can't really blame OPEC anymore. Well, they can, but the public isn't really believing it any more. We are buying it, yes, since they destroyed any alternatives, but still believing it, not so much.

BP didn't get here all alone. And Tony Hayward isn't The Cause of It All. Crucifying innocent people screws us all. BP = the new Enron.

www.ungagged.net.

If BP spends hundreds of millions openly to buy search-engine placement (ala sterile fruit fly over seeding to eradicate fruit flies, the flies in this instance being the truth), why be surprised at their probable bribery of the centralized media?
We are the 4th estate, traditional media today merely the minions of the oligarchs.
Keep on keepin' on my sistah!

(R)ated because I am free to do so and I just feel like it!

Delia wasn't it Tony Hayward who abandoned the whole renewables thrust when he took over ?
Wasn't it Tony Hayward who employed the guy who overrode the concerns of experts at that meeting on the rig ?
You've lost me completely.
Who IS the cause of it all ?
P'raps us, for buying the stuff, believing it came from a well-managed source ?
Or Halliburton, for the casing. No, that would be the responsibility of BP's CEO too, for ignoring their track record as well as several hundred other regulatory concerns ... or not ? You've lost me.

Should have said not the only cause... and yes, we have a part, and so does all the contributing departments of the Fed, etc. It's just not so quick and easy as black and white. Slay this one single dragon and everything will be fine.

Becky, Am just seeing this post now. Am remembering as I read that when I talked with my mother, years ago about news I was seeing covered in England about the US back in the 80s that no one was touching here. I seem to recall coverage of Reagan's dealings with Grenada. My mother was as liberal as I and yet she found it hard to hear that I was hearing news she was not hearing here. We all think that here - that nothing would be denied or covered incompletely here. But it is. And it was. And though I haven't even clicked on your link here, I can imagine what it will say. I so wanted to believe that this president would wipe away the horror of the preceding presidency and the lack of awareness of the world that Bush demanded. Thank you for posting this and, as Cartouche says, I hope everyone will see it and begin to think of what we are not hearing though sadly, can it really be a surprise to anyone who has any sense of imagination? How blind can we allow ourselves to be to all of the horror that our choices are inflicting on the natural beauty we say that matters to us. Does it? Does it really? Are we trying to fool ourselves? Glad to see Kim's comments from Oz as well.

Why do I hear the Gibb brothers singing "Staying Alive" in my head? Glad to see that some people are finding this and that an excellent dialogue has begun. Let's keep this thing going, folks. I'm doing the best that I can while juggling with art deadlines...

I'm not on Facebook, so I can't watch it. Is there another outlet? I'm sure it will reach the masses eventually, but I'd like to see it.

I suppose we will have to end up like the woman in the old TV commercial for Palmolive to find out that we're "soaking in it" before we wake up and do anything. I'm appalled and disgusted by the apathy of the general population of this country. Fireworks, the World Cup, Wimbledon, beer and hot dogs are so) much more important.