Ponies and Balloons: Gulf Resident Gives Behind the Scenes Account

06-26-2010 • NakedCapitalism.com/ & Washington2.blogspot.com

In a must-watch video, Arnesen says: BP is given advanced warning when an official is going to show up to any place where there is oil. All assets are deployed. As soon as the official leaves, 75-80% of the assets are removed. BP calls it a "pony and balloons" show. "We are expendable to these people. We do not matter." They're not cleaning it up, they're covering it up. BP is making it impossible for clean-up workers to wear respirators. She saw hundreds of thousands of fish dying, so disoriented by the oil that they crashed into her boat. There is a media blackout. If the country does not stand up and say "no more", this will go global. All of the world's oceans are connected. If not stopped, it will destroy one-third of the world's water.