I’m having flashbacks of the Hedgemony listening to this White House propaganda. The BBC reports that the Majority of BP spill ‘dealt with’

Almost three-quarters of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico has been cleaned up or broken down by natural forces, the US government has said.

A government report says only a quarter of the oil from the BP well remains and that it is “degrading quickly”.

The majority had been captured, burned off or evaporated, it states. But more clean-up is necessary officials warn.

The report was released after BP announced its “static kill” procedure to seal the leak was working.
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Speaking on the ABC television network, White House energy adviser Ms Browner said: “The scientists are telling us about 25% was not captured or evaporated or taken care of by mother nature.”

She said the inter-agency report was “encouraging”, but added that further clean-up effort was necessary.

Browner is effectively lying. Even Newsweek has figured it out: What the New Report on the Gulf Spill Really Says

To be precise, the report indicates that 50 percent of the oil is gone—17 percent was collected directly from the wellhead, 8 percent has been skimmed or burned, and 25 percent has evaporated or dissolved. Of the remainder, 24 percent has been dispersed, either naturally (16 percent, by the force with which oil left the wellhead, much like spray from an aerosol can) or through the use of chemical dispersants (8 percent). The final 26 percent remains unaccounted for, and has either washed ashore or remains lurking in the sea.

The “dispersed oil” isn’t gone. They are finding it in larval crabs and in huge plumes in the water column. They don’t know what is going on, because they aren’t doing the sampling that is necessary to find it.

At a press conference the head of NOAA, Dr. Lubchenco, said that there was no oil on the floor of the Gulf. How in hell does she know – they don’t have anyone looking at the floor of Gulf. Off shore in five feet of water people are finding oil on the floor of the Gulf, so Lubchenco is back to her bad habit of denying reality until someone buries her in facts. You can’t find it if you don’t look, and NOAA isn’t looking.

We put up with eight years of this anti-scientific garbage under the Shrubbery, and it looks like this is another policy that Obama is continuing.

McClatchy is trying to fight against the ignorance: Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis

WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.

Commentators say that’s what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They’ve specifically targeted the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the federal government seized on Sept. 6, contending that lending to poor and minority Americans caused Fannie’s and Freddie’s financial problems.

Federal housing data reveal that the charges aren’t true, and that the private sector, not the government or government-backed companies, was behind the soaring subprime lending at the core of the crisis.

Jeff Greene, the billionaire running against Kendrick Meek for the Democratic nomination for Senate, is pushing the Fannie/Freddie fairy tale, to avoid his personal responsibility for the meltdown as a major player in the Credit Default Swap scam.

It is the standard conservative agitprop – everything is the fault of the government and poor people, and the rich are the victims.

McClatchy, and most news outlets, gets carried away and reports: BP well in Gulf killed with heavy mud in 8-hour operation

WASHINGTON — BP’s Deepwater Horizon well, which for 87 days spewed millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in the worst accidental oil spill the world has ever seen, has been successfully killed by thousands of tons of heavy drilling mud.

BP announced early Wednesday that a so-called “static kill” had succeeded in forcing the Macondo well’s oil back into rock formations 18,000 feet below the sea’s surface.

“The MC252 well appears to have reached a static condition,” BP said in a news release, calling the well by the Mississippi Canyon lease number it was assigned when BP bought the rights to drill from the federal government in 2008.

The well reached it’s “static condition” — meaning the drilling mud was holding the oil in the reservoir by nothing more than its weight — about eight hours after technicians began pumping the mud into the well, BP said. It was midnight on the East Coast, but still Tuesday in the Central time zone, the 105th day of the crisis.

They have the well in balance for the moment, but it was supposedly in balance on April 20^th, just before a gas bubble pushed all of the mud out of the well and exploded. After they pump in enough cement to fill the entire well bore I’ll accept that it is dead, but not before.

The cementing process itself is not risk free. It may well have been the heat from the curing cement that released the gas from a hydrate deposit and caused the bubble. The Wagnerian soprano isn’t on stage yet.

From Weather Underground

Cinco Bayou – Pocahontas Dr., Fort Walton Beach, Florida (PWS)
Updated: 1:30 PM CDT on August 04, 2010
Scattered Clouds
92.7 °F [33.7 °C]
Humidity: 70%
Dew Point: 82 °F
Wind: 0.0 mph
Wind Gust: 1.0 mph
Pressure: 29.94 in (Falling)
Heat Index: 116 °F [46.7 °C]
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 10 out of 16
Pollen: 4.00 out of 12
Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 3000 ft
Scattered Clouds 11000 ft
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 16 ft

There are no advisories??