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JULY 23, 2010 10:42PM

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Since this series, Toxic by Vice Magazine’s Thomas Morton, has made it all the way to CNN, and I can’t get the original embed to work here, I’ll post the CNN version with links to VBS.tv’s part two and three. Even though this was first published about a month ago, it still feels relevant as some of the most humanized reporting available on the gulf spill.

Also, in the news this week, the rumor that BP faked its “Crisis Command Center” photos....

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just wanted to post this in case anyone missed it....

doloresflores_d

July 23, 2010 10:45 PM

That video is just horrific. The woman talking--a local environmentalist?--is just amazing in her dispassionate analysis. Makes it all the more chilling. Thanks for posting this, dolores. It's just awful, isn't it?

Lainey

July 24, 2010 01:16 AM

Lainey she might be dispassionate or she might be in shock...I don't know if you saw parts two and three but they showed how the grassland will be soaked affecting erosion of wetlands as well as the death of a generation or more of fish. It's also creepy the moratorim on filming. Why should a corporation get to determine who takes pictures? Will this be known as the most egregious overreach of corporate power that the can control the message to this degree although it affects so many peoples' lives? I don't remember exxon having that much power and their spill was much smaller. That fake mews room just astound me though...

doloresflores_d

July 24, 2010 01:46 AM

Heartbreaking. But football season is just around the corner and that's far more important, isn't it?

cartouche

July 24, 2010 08:39 AM

cartouche you make a great point...also I think these things are only meant to be heart breaking at the top of the news cycle...and meanwhile....and in other news....

doloresflores_d

July 24, 2010 09:23 AM

thank you

fingerlakeswanderer

July 27, 2010 11:28 AM

thank-you loraine....this may change life for a generation of people....I wish they had more of a chance to tell their stories over the din of corporatocracy.....

doloresflores_d

July 27, 2010 09:22 PM

Thank you for this. Could only watch some of it right now...just too fucking upsetting. Will share. Good job for keeping this kind of video alive. God bless us all.