{"id":25192,"date":"2010-05-17T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25192"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:27:52","slug":"the-gulf-of-mexico-view-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-gulf-of-mexico-view-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gulf of Mexico: View from above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"kickWidget_4315_27263\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"affiliateSiteId=4315&amp;widgetId=27263&amp;width=420&amp;height=338&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;mediaType_mediaID=video_1045332\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/serve.a-widget.com\/service\/getWidgetSwf.kickAction\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"kickWidget_4315_27263\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"affiliateSiteId=4315&amp;widgetId=27263&amp;width=420&amp;height=338&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;mediaType_mediaID=video_1045332\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Until now I&#8217;ve avoided showing graphic images of the damage to the Gulf of Mexico; today I am revisiting this policy. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been learning a lot this weekend about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico: in particular, about the dispersants being used and what company manufactures them (in particular, its astonishing criminal history, on which I have extensive files from my prior career); how most of the damage is in an underwater plume, not a surface issue; and the extent to which BP is understating the problem. It is being treated as a superficial issue &#8212; since &#8216;oil floats&#8217;, as something on the surface, containable by booms. The problems at the bottom are much more serious. The tons of what amounts to antifreeze being dumped into sensitive Gulf of Mexico waters will themselves cause agonizing deaths to sea life.<\/p>\n<p>The video above is painful. Once you&#8217;ve seen it there is no going back. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow there has been a call to prayer action by a Council of Grandmothers in South America. Later in the day I will post information about that worldwide event &#8212; please check back. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now I&#8217;ve avoided showing graphic images of the damage to the Gulf of Mexico; today I am revisiting this policy. I&#8217;ve been learning a lot this weekend about the situation in the Gulf of Mexico: in particular, about the dispersants being used and what company manufactures them (in particular, its astonishing criminal history, on &#8230; <a title=\"The Gulf of Mexico: View from above\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-gulf-of-mexico-view-from-above\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Gulf of Mexico: View from above\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}