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[t'Sade]

I haven't talked much about the BP oil spill. Mainly because I think it is the logical conclusion of what has been going on there for years and it would take a far larger ecological disaster before people actually *think* about what is going on.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/20/bp-launches-effort-t.html
http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/18/bp-launches-effort-to-control-scientific-research-of-oil-disaster/
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/07/bp_buys_up_gulf_scientists_for.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/bp-closed-research/

But, I found a set of articles that suggests that BP is funding research into the oil spill, but putting restrictions on what can be published out of it. An interesting problem. From the articles, they have to wait three years before they can publish, long enough for the collective memory of the US to cease to be offended and it to become the past. I could see why they would want to do that, damage control is an important part of these types of things. I'm sure that the people reporting on this "pay for silence" thing are also blowing it just out of proportion. In my case, I'm inclined to be against BP since they are in it for one thing: money. And money makes everyone stupid.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/20/bps-photoshopped-spi.html
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/why-would-bp-photoshop-its-crisis-command-center/19561136?icid=main|main|dl2|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fsurge-desk%2Farticle%2Fwhy-would-bp-photoshop-its-crisis-command-center%2F19561136

And a bunch of people are getting upset that BP's crisis center (found on their website) was pretty obviously photoshopped (look at the lower right two screens for an example). The big question is why (plus that whole 2001 image timestamp which may or may not be the results of salt damage) would they photoshop it? Hiding something? Making it more impressive?

Don't know, I just happen to see this as one more thing toward manipulating people. I don't really care the reasons why, just that I think it is part of that whole PR thing as they try to regain some control over this disaster.