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Originally posted by The Theorist
Interesting. So they DID weaken the sea-floor. And there are cracks with oil leaking through them. This situation just got a whole lot worse. Now, where are the HD videos BP should be releasing to us?
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Special Note To ATS Brits Complaining About Obama And How 'Unfairly' We Are Treating BP:
I don't care what you Brits think of America, or of our elected President. He doesn't represent you. He represents us. Our President needs to consider the needs of his people, namely US, over the needs of the people of a foreign country.
Our needs come first! It's our shores being destroyed, our fishing industry being ruined, our economy which will feel the blunt of this disaster. BP is a corrupt company trying to short-change us and we, the American people, will not allow it. They block our media, and are not being transparent with quite possibly the biggest disaster this country has ever faced.
If it bankrupts BP and causes you Brits to suffer some financial pain, lost pensions, or total economic collapse, then so be it. Frankly, it is NOT our immediate concern and the majority of us don't really give a damn.
Once we settle this whole BP issue, we'll do what we can to help you. Until then, push off. Have some biscuits and tea.
You want to burn our flags? Say hateful things about us during demonstrations? More power to you. We'll burn yours in return. We'll show you the true meaning of hate. Straight up, what you Brits think of us, our country, or our President means nothing to us.
/end rant over recent reports of Brits being mad at how 'unfairly' BP is being treated by us.
[edit on 13-6-2010 by The Theorist]
[edit on 13-6-2010 by The Theorist]
Originally posted by likeabull
At 2:06 I swear there is a mechanical device zooming by. Look at left screen. Scroll back and forth. Later in the video there appears to be other stuff flying around but nothing like at 2:06. Just thought I would point it out.
Originally posted by The Theorist
Interesting. So they DID weaken the sea-floor. And there are cracks with oil leaking through them. This situation just got a whole lot worse. Now, where are the HD videos BP should be releasing to us?
***
Special Note To ATS Brits Complaining About Obama And How 'Unfairly' We Are Treating BP:
I don't care what you Brits think of America, or of our elected President. He doesn't represent you. He represents us. Our President needs to consider the needs of his people, namely US, over the needs of the people of a foreign country.
Our needs come first! It's our shores being destroyed, our fishing industry being ruined, our economy which will feel the blunt of this disaster. BP is a corrupt company trying to short-change us and we, the American people, will not allow it. They block our media, and are not being transparent with quite possibly the biggest disaster this country has ever faced.
If it bankrupts BP and causes you Brits to suffer some financial pain, lost pensions, or total economic collapse, then so be it. Frankly, it is NOT our immediate concern and the majority of us don't really give a damn.
Once we settle this whole BP issue, we'll do what we can to help you. Until then, push off. Have some biscuits and tea.
You want to burn our flags? Say hateful things about us during demonstrations? More power to you. We'll burn yours in return. We'll show you the true meaning of hate. Straight up, what you Brits think of us, our country, or our President means nothing to us.
/end rant over recent reports of Brits being mad at how 'unfairly' BP is being treated by us.
[edit on 13-6-2010 by The Theorist]
Originally posted by mclarenmp4
reply to post by The Theorist
Wow you really need a big slice of melodrama in the morning don't you?
It's not the fact that BP aren't at fault that we are angry about, it's the fact that you are blaming Britain and not a multinational company called BP.
Yes pension funds might suffer but the fact of the matter is that all that is irrelevant at this moment because of what is happening in the gulf.
What we brits are angry at is that you are taking your anger out on our country when you should really just be angry at the company. Personally I couldn't care less if BP go bankrupt or taken over, they made this mess.
Just don't go blaming a whole country over the actions of a company which has more American employees than it does British.
Originally posted by KINGKONG
Are you sure the oil seeps arent natural....please read this link
seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov...
" The only thing the US cares about is getting our waters clean again if possible. "
No the only thing they cared about was USA only crews ( sod the foreign deep water experience) ...and get the oil out as quickly as posssible
Personaly I would love to see BP go under, then maybe we can get them out of the way and bring in people who know what they are doing and cap this well.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
I think that is about time that we British straightened you Americans of the USA out on a few points. Until a week before the disaster struck, the rig was not owned or run by BP. It was run and owned by an entirely USA company called "Deepwater Horizon" who were being urged on at break neck speed by your American Congress saying "Drill baby drill". All the work force were, and still are, entirely completely USA American nationals living and working in the immediate Gulf of Mexico coastal area. At no time are BP anything other than the financial support for what is a fully USA operation, using 100% USA personel. There are no British working on the rigs. All decissions are and were being made by the USA personnel. Thus I think that it is literally obsurd and insane that BP Plc are being held responsible for the blow out. It is a USA problem caused by typical USA attitude.
BP should stop their involvement and stop funding the USA. Your President Obama is not a scientist and has proven himself to be just riding a wave of public ignorance. If the obnoxiousness continues then the British public might like to request that the USA remove its military bases from British soil and waters ? The USA might end up having to remove the nukes that are deployed on British soil and waters ? The USA might be requested to shut down its Air Bases ? If certain other countries see we the British throwing the USA out then they might follow suit ? Japan and Korea might like to throw the "Yanks" out too ? "Yanks Out" is the moto for literally millions in countries all around the world. So you might like to moderate your Anti-British sentiments ?
The material emitting from the Deepwater Horizon well head is near to being 100% methane. What oil is coming out with that methane is very dispersed and is being attacked by marine bacteria, very quickly turning it into jelly, which is eaten by the fish. The thick crude oil washing up on the Louisiana coast is very certainly not from the Deepwater Horizon well at all. This can easilly be proven by forensic analysis. It is from a different, USA owned, "Diamond" rig, operation some six miles away in shallower water. That rig has been leaking crude oil sludge for about a year with out the media complaining about it.
Once again like as with 9/11 this disaster is an USA inside job. Americans are their own worst enemy. Using BP as a scape goat ? Blaming Al-Qaeda ? The Germans during the 1930's did much the same when they wanted to build a new modern Riech Building. So they burnt down the old building and then found a Jew to carry the blame. The British are not to blame for the Deepwater Horizon blow out and nor are BP either. It was USA American workers who are so obviously to blame.
[edit on 13/6/2010 by CAELENIUM]
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
I am sad to say the only person that needs to be straighten out is you. The live feeds from the ROV DO NOT LIE!
Look at all that horrifying oil gushing out on a daily basis from BP's rig. DO NOT attempt to distract or mislead further with any other disasters. The BP rig is currently NOW providing an ecological and social disaster with no end in sight still.
Regardless of whether it is BP or American rig, the whole point is about the OIL GASHING OUT. It's not about americans or brits, but the Corporation to blame, whichever spot it decides to collect oil from, and is thus FULLY responsible for any disaster to happen.
Stop blaming americans or brits or anyone else, but hold the Corporatists to account. They must resolve this current issue, not hide behind blame games, and MUST make restitutions. The ROV do not lie.
Originally posted by Izarith
reply to post by MissSmartypants
I'll tell you i don't like BP one bit,.......
But this video looks really , really fake. I have been fooling around on YouTube with enough "After Effects" tutorials to know that making a video like in the op is as easy a pie because of the supposed ROV's front gear that's always in the video.
I've seen ROV hand's, tools, rope...But I've never seen that same stationary front car deal on an ROV ever.
I've never done this but.....I'm calling the video a composite of different nulled POB clips and one fake front ROV deal used to smooth out and cover where the Flow would normally be seen coming out of the ground.
I could very well be totaly wrong about this tho.
Originally posted by Gakus
Keep blaming America for your mistakes Britain it's always worked in the past. Keep bringing up how America owns a MINORITY share in the company as if that means anything. No seriously people are buying it!
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
Listen to me sunshine. I was not born yesterday. I know my job. I can see clearly, looking at the live feed, that the material coming out of the DEEPWATER HORIZON well is virtually 100% methane hydrate. Absolutely not the thick sludge washing up on to the coast of Louisiana. You are the crowd who need to get your facts right before you start off loading responsibility onto others. BP are not to blame for the string of mistakes made by DEEPWATER HORIZON long before BP were anywhere near to it. The men who work on the rigs are responsible. Corporation bosses sitting in plush offices are not responsible for the day to day decissions that workers made in the lead up to the blow out.
[edit on 13/6/2010 by CAELENIUM]
Originally posted by Seanbomber
At this point, all I can really see them doing at this point is nuking it shut. And I have doubts that that would even work. Where are all the engineers? All the engineers who could make the impossible possible, get a man to the moon, etc. I feel as if we are completely wasting the minds of America right now.