Who is Matt Simmons, you ask? Why, he’s — he was — the gravelly-voiced oil spill whistleblower appearing on every radio and television interview he could find, from the day after the Oilcano blew off the Louisiana coast and the Oilpocalypse started, up until his suspiciously untimely death two days ago.
Simmons did his part to try to save the ocean, the wildlife, the Cajuns, the Indians, the marsh, the beaches, and the planet — by getting the word out about his version of the truth. Rather, he gave as much truth as he could surmise, given his extensive expertise, in this crime scene filled with diabolical secrecy, fact-distortion, and killer coverups. He fought bravely against the Dark Side, and now, he is our Obi Wan.
Matthew Simmons was a successful bleeding-heart oil-industry businessman who served on the National Petroleum Council and the Council on Foreign Relations, and he wrote books and founded the Ocean Energy Institute. He apparently “died of a heart attack” in his hot tub. Or he “drowned,” depending on who’s telling the story.
rest in peace, and we won’t forget you
Does anybody remember when Clifford Baxter, the former vice chairman of, and chief witness against, Enron who pulled over on the side of the road and “shot himself in the back of the head”?
Or how about October 2009, when Jeffry Picower, who profited hugely in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scam, was mysteriously found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, of an “apparent heart attack,” before he could testify?
These are the facts. Sure, maybe these people DID drown of apparent heart attacks to the back of the head. But … We’ve all seen the gangster movies. Everyone we’ve talked to about Matt Simmons’ passing gets the same squicky feeling … and there’s a place for intuition, even in the face of necessary speculation and paranoia.
We should pay attention to how the people we pay to protect us are protecting those who harm us, and how the media is NOT THE MEDIA any more, but a commercial for whatever will make their shareholders the most cash and keep their viewing audience fat, happy, and distracted.
Father (Sky and Mother Earth), forgive them, for they know not what they do. (Scripture which we’ve always interpreted as a sort of “Oh, they done did it now” or “Please Hammer, don’t hurt ’em”)
shrimping season is open, and the EPA has assured us that Gulf seafood is safe to eat
And now the Gulf Coast is like the prom queen who was in love with the jerk asshole who date-raped her and left her pregnant and bleeding to death. What does Louisiana do? Die? Complain? No — we mean yes, but not unproductively.
Arrest the rapist? Not if his dad is the police chief. You get where we’re going with this metaphor … Now it’s been proven, bit by bit, leak by leak, through “hearsay” and mainstream media “reports,” that the military-industrial-corporate-Congress-Presidential complex are ALL IN BED TOGETHER, and that they’re ALL DATE-RAPING JERKS, spending our hard-earned money as they destroy wide swaths of culture, flora, fauna, and families … what do we do?
We don’t know. Do you know? Anybody? Dunno. Wish there was something better to say. It’s incredibly freaky that the powers that be are pretending the oil magically vanished. It’s GASLIGHTING. It’s crazy-making. Weirder still, take a step back and it’s obvious their partners in crime, the “news media,” are capable of mass brainwashing. Programming. Ugh.
To paraphrase our friend Lukas: Truth, and trust, are the only real currency we have left.
LINKS to the men behind the curtain:
Obama’s Involvement in Climate Exchange: The Rest of the Story
Oil & Gas Journal: Matt Simmons Embodied Integrity
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (Even When It’s Not Out Of Sight)
Hundreds of dead fish & crabs wash up just before FL Seafood Fest
Current: Did BP and the gov’t cover up a massive “death gyre” and secret animal processing facility?
Dead fish wash ashore in Biloxi
Thousands of Dead Fish wash up in Biloxi August 3rd
DEQ: Dead Fish in Biloxi came from broken pogey net (Hey uh, if they were in the ocean, in a net, wouldn’t they still be ALIVE, and toodle off through the broken net back into the ocean?? -ed.)
7 Toxic Seafood Chemicals You Don’t Know About
Dr. Tom Termotto: Environmental and Health Impacts of the BP Gulf Oil Spill
they also say the water is safe for swimming. this is what happened to a LOT of people’s skin when they went swimming in what the EPA promised were oil-free waters in the Gulf
As turtle toll tops 1000, NWE overflight finds mystery discolorations
WWL-TV: New oil sightings continue adding up in St. Bernard Parish
CBS News: Spike Lee Bashes US Claim of Vanished Gulf Oil
Nat’l Geo: Much Gulf Oil Remains, Deeply Hidden and Under Beaches
NOLA.com: Oil spill plugged, but more oiled birds than ever are being found
St. Petersburg Times: USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings
Two pipes instead of one: VERY Peculiar
WTF: Two Drill Pipes in BP’s BOP, Nobody Admitting It
NOLA.com: Gulf oil spill investigators say bottom of sea at explosion site is a crime scene
Why is BP’s Macondo blowout so disastrous and beyond patch-up
HuffPo: The Crime of the Century: What BP Doesn’t Want You to Know
this is our friend we met in Grand Isle in June-July. Her Corexit-crude-poisoning symptoms differ from ours. Needless to say, she doesn’t always look like this. This photo was taken in the ER after her throat swelled up almost shut. One of the people we met together in Grand Isle has a best friend who is now in a coma from Corexit-crude poisoning, from cleaning up their mess, and his family is settling out of court to get some money in case he dies, and now they can’t talk shit about BP / Halliburton to the “media”
BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers (before they get so sick it’s proveable how they got that way. standard industry practice -ed)
NY Times: Gulf of Mexico Has Long Been a Sink of Pollution
NOLA: Convincing public that Gulf of Mexico seafood is safe will take time, experts say
NY Times: Tracing Oil Reserves to their Tiny Origins
WashPo: Empowering Oil-Rig Workers to Stop Operations Not a Fail-Safe Plan
Youtube: Day 91 – BP Disaster in the Gulf
U.S. Faces Climate-Driven Water Shortages
Striking BP’s Oil: Under the Surface
Students Strike Oil on an Alaskan Beach – 17 years later
another photo of another woman’s legs after wading into the Gulf when they re-opened the beaches
BP’s selling the fake story that there’s no oil
WashPo: Scientists question government team’s report of shrinking Gulf oil spill
Youtube: Mike Dean BP Song “Lift the Ban”
The Exxon Valdez Disaster: 20 Years Later
NY Times: Survey Finds Broad Anxiety among Gulf Residents
What the Oil Rig Cook Saw: Corruption, Mostly
Youtube: BP wellhead just one of 400,000 shut off in Gulf
Youtube: Citizens of New Orleans respond to the BP oil spill
this photo, stolen from HuffPo, was taken on an August 6 flyover through Chandeleur Sound, in waters BP claimed were oil-free. The observer claims the brown stuff stretched for miles and miles, as far as the eye could see
BBC: Battle to Contain India Oil Spill
LA Times: Obama administration seeks seismic testing for oil drilling in Arctic ocean
BP collecting millions in government stimulus funds for California power plant (GRRRRRRRRR – ed.)
Dan Rather Talks About the Corrupt Corporate Media
The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs
BBC: Fidel Castro addresses parliament after four-year gap; warns of nuclear holocaust
Transcript of Fidel’s June 27 speech in English
Capitalism is Over If You Want It: Summer of Tough Love
HuffPo: Putting BP’s Oil Into Context
hope for the future … or clouds in our coffee? You decide
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Comments
I’m linking to this post on my blog because I watched Matt Simmons preach his heart out in attempt to get the word out and I’m saddened by his obviously (to my mind) unnatural death which I investigated as well as I could by reading their local newspapers and TV reports and ended up at a dead end, anyhow I think I know why we’ll never know because it’s a case of the ones close to him just deciding to live quietly and hope they don’t cross his killers by telling whatever they might suspect. Anyhow I think the man deserves the credit for trying to save us, even if not many people listened and one day it’ll be justice for all involved is my comfort. Keep on telling it and bless all the truth tellers.