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This is what BP does not want you to see. Quick, look over there! A cute robot video!

“Enjoy The Beach”

OIL NINE MILES OFF PENSACOLA’S WHITE BEACHES

The end of clean beaches on Florida’s gulf coast, and the end of Marco “Drill Baby Drill” Rubio.

BP CANCELS ALL AD HOC EFFORTS TO STOP OIL LEAK

All you people stuck on watching underwater videos posted to distract you and build up false hope wake up time.

UPDATE: Take a look at their much-anticipated “LMRP Cap.”

If I read tonight that President Obama himself cancelled any more of this foolishness from taking place, I’d be proud to support him in that decision.UPDATE 2:

Bloomberg’s source was the head of the Coast Guard, who as usual put out something confusing and misleading. Work continues underwater, after 6 weeks they’ve cut off the riser for the first time and are now going to cut the riser again at the very top of the BOP. Here is a picture from a few minutes ago of a saw in position to do so on the top of the blowout preventer. Keep in mind however, that the ridiculous funnel pictured above is supposed to be the cure-all device that will be applied after this second cut.

The ridiculous, trumpet-shaped hood shown above will be placed over the gushing, cut pipe if they succeed, creating a giant 360 degree cloud of oil that will make it impossible to see what the flow rate is. It won’t stop the oil from coming out at all. Is this something to get hopeful about?

Submarine Discovers Third Huge Underwater Oil Plume In Gulf of Mexico

This isn’t a science fiction movie plot although it begins to resemble one more and more each day.

Cowan said that his crew sent a remotely controlled submarine into the water, and found it full of oily globules, from the size of a thumbnail to the size of a golf ball. Unlike the plume found east of the leak — in which the oil was so dissolved that contaminated water appeared clear — Cowan said the oil at this site was so thick that it covered the lights on the submarine.

“It almost looks like big wet snowflakes, but they’re brown and black and oily,” Cowan said. The submarine returned to the surface entirely black, he said.

Cowan said that the submarine traveled about 400 feet down, close to the sea floor, and found oil all the way down. Trying to find the edges of the plume, he said the submarine traveled miles from side to side.

“We really never found either end of it,” he said. He said he did not know how wide the plume actually was, or how far it stretched away to the west.

Cowan’s finding underscores concerns about oil moving under the surface, perhaps because of dispersant chemicals that have broken it up into smaller globules. BP officials have played down the possibility of undersea oil plumes.

BP officials should go “play down” in the underwater horror they’ve created.

How They Blew Up Mississippi Canyon 252

This is the best recent round-up I have seen so far of what caused the disaster in the Gulf, in terms of a technical explanation. There were many, many violations of the law by British Petroleum, and there is new information about that in testimony today that is not included in the article.

BP STONEWALLS ACROSS THE BOARD AS WITNESSES PLEAD THE FIFTH AND CLAIM ILLNESS

Two top BP men from the exploded rig refuse to testify.

The BP official, a “company man” in industry parlance, would have been the top decision-maker on the rig, although his role may have been complicated by having a number of higher-ranking BP officials on hand to celebrate the Deepwater Horizon’s safety record.

Where did we hear that idea before?