This technology has been around for a while now, nice to see that it is finally hitting the mainstream instead of just being something amateur electronics enthusiasts use to occupy their time. I hope to see this developed a lot more in the public arena before the end of the year.
“The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Obama seems to think We The People will be his little slaves giving him taxes while being told what to do right and left. Obama can ride multiple private jets while we are told to conserve more and more.
Obama wants to create a slave world where a hard working slave (Taxpayer) can not and should not have any good heat in the slaves house, and that the slave can never have any vacation, that learning knowledge is forbidden because it wakes up the slave, and that all slaves have to obey their master Barack Obama, Al Gore and the Bilderberg clan under a World Government. A slave can not use a wood stove, a slave cannot use electric heat because it releases carbon, and a slave cannot be warm and comfortable. Only the slave owners The President of the United States and the World Government has a say in what heat is good for each slave.
That’s exactly the mentality he is bringing because according to an Examiner article Barack Hussein Obama rode two Private Jets not just avoiding the naked Body DNA tearing scanners (Once you walk through naked body scanners a hundred times your dead or have become almost dead because your Genetics will be no more), but also his second private jet is just to carry his pet dog Bo. That’s right a private jet just for his stupid pet so does he really think we are his slaves? I guess so and while he explains to us that we need to reduce carbon for climate change and cut energy output which means the hard working cubicle slaves that hardly get vacation time will have to cut pretty much all vacations well in the slave world slaves cannot take a vacation, Never.
So while Al Gore and Barack Obama which all took wasteful entirely tax paid Private Jets, once the elite politicians pass cap and trade we the slave class cannot afford heating, not even air conditioner, not even Internet, and will be working 24hrs a day just to afford food and regular living expenses while all clothes will have to be washed manually in a tub instead of a Washing Machine.
Also showers will be severely limited so many people may have BO since they can’t afford taking showers since the water treatment plants rely on loads of electricity and that also means people will have to build out houses again.
Barack Obama seems to want to forward the plans of former corporate dictator George W. Bush and that is to dissolve the Middle Class, reduce the living standards of the poor, and cut social security benefits to seniors, cut veterans care, and cut care to those that have been disabled by Government forced vaccinations and Government agency lies.
That is exactly what he has planned because why would a man that advocates Cap and Trade ride one or two private Jets, that is pure nonsense for somebody to say hes an environmentalist at heart. If Obama really cares about public transportation and the Environment then why don’t he and his secret service ride on public buses, why doesn’t Obama use 1st class on public airplanes that way there’s no worry of anybody hurting him and at the same time he conserves energy for the rest of us.
Why doesn’t Obama conserve energy and Al Gore live in a small household instead of multiple Million dollar mansions before he considers himself an Environmentalist. Cap and Trade should never pass and if it does the slaves…er American people need to rise before they become slaves to the Socialist/Communist Government.
So this whole thing where Obama is acting as though he cares about Global Warming even though there’s evidence it’s just sun spots and it isn’t man made it makes me wonder if Environmentalism has become a cult instead of a actual good Organization.
Social Engineering started by the elite, and also used by Eugenicists such as Adolph Hitler is a way of altering the conscience of humanity and making them believe whatever lies you want them to believe.
Our Government, and black ops know all about hypnotism and social engineering. They know how to easily manipulate and brainwash anybody and that is partially why stupidity of human beings is on the rise and now there are mothers that love killing their kids simply because they are autistic.
We are now in a state of time where anybody in America and around the world can be socially programmed including those that have tuned into the Babylon system.
So in other words we are being programmed by dummy organizations and fake organizations to believe that a certain problem has occurred and that only Big Brother can save us so those that take the plunge start to see their rights taken away, some head off to prison and wonder why, and even those that are losing their dreams begin to wake up and fight back but by then they are assaulted by armed Police Thugs wearing black uniforms with shielded helmets with sound cannon weapons that can do damage to the eardrums of it’s victims.
Obama and the World Elite believes we are nothing but slaves to them and they may be right if we keep letting them continue their socialist, dictatorial, pro establishment, pro communism, and even pro elite agenda. Only we the people can stand up before we all become slaves to the Government God-like Masters either by consent or force.
We as Info Warriors, we as people, need to learn the truth and wake Up before it’s too late and then you will be at a crossroads as we head for a future Civil Resistance, will we head for Tyranny and Slavery, or will we head for Peace, Freedom, Liberty, and Prosperity.
Read more at blogs.alternet.org
Is it just me, or is it somewhat unusual for a Tsunami warning not to be issued under these circumstances?
Three earthquakes of greater than magnitude 7 struck the Philippines' Moro Gulf in just over an hour early Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The first quake, magnitude 7.3, was recorded at 6:08 a.m. (5:08 p.m. ET Friday); the second, 7.6 magnitude at 6:51 a.m. (5:51 p.m. ET); the third, magnitude 7.4, at 7:15 a.m. (6:15 p.m. ET).
The USGS also recorded a 5.4-magnitude quake at 6:19 a.m. (5:19 p.m. ET)
The last quake ran the deepest at 616 (382 miles) kilometers.
The epicenters of the quakes were about 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the coastal city of Cotabato and roughly 950 kilometers (590 miles) southeast of Manila.
No tsunami warning was immediately issued for any of the quakes.
There were no reports of damage, said Rona Faeldin of the Philippines Coast Guard.
– CNN's Katy Byron contributed to this report.
If I was Apple I would very worried at this news. I would imagine much of the cost saving is down to the Linux operating system.
I'm tempted to get one myself for that price.
India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production.
"We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything,"
He said the touchscreen gadget was packed with Internet browsers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with sufficient flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requirement.
Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10.
The device was developed by research teams at India's premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.
"perhaps authorities underestimated the power of the dark side" lol.
"Darth Vader" strikes NY bank
NEW YORK |
Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:05pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Force was with a man when he robbed a bank wearing a Darth Vader mask and a cape.
Armed with a gun instead of a light saber, the man entered a Chase bank branch in Setauket, New York, about 50 miles east of New York City, on Thursday and demanded cash from a teller, police said. He fled through a parking lot with an undisclosed amount of money.
The bandit dressed as the "Star Wars" villain was part of a mini-outbreak of unusual bank robbers in the New York area.
Earlier this week, New York City police arrested a man accused of robbing two banks with a bunch of flowers and a potted plant.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Bill Trott)
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The other side of this is that the soldiers using these banned munitions also get some pretty unhealthy doses of radiation, as the guns and vehicles themselves become radioactive after just a short while. Got cancer after/while serving? This is likely the cause.
From the comments:
"well there you go, they found the weapons of mass destruction after all, it was just misplaced, they had it on themselves the whole time, in their planes"
"UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003," UK Defense Secretary Liam Fox said in a written reply to the House of Commons on Thursday, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
The announcement came after a joint study by the environment, health and science ministries in Iraq said there were communities near the cities of Najaf, Basra and Fallujah with increased rates of cancer and birth defects over the past five years.
More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels of radiation and dioxins.
Fox said the Ministry of Defense provided the coordinates of targets attacked using DU ammunition to the UN Environmental Program.
"They also exchanged information with humanitarian and other organizations; and warned Iraqis through signs and leaflets that they should not go near or touch any debris they find on the former battlefield," he claimed.
The use of depleted uranium ammunition is widely controversial because of potential long-term health effects.
It is reported that the US and Britain used up to 2,000 tons of these ammunitions during the Iraq war.
The World Health Organization is now investigating the rising number of birth defects, which Iraqi doctors attribute to the use of chemical weapons and depleted uranium ammunition during the war.
Iraqi doctors say they' have been struggling to cope with the rise in the number of cancer cases, especially in cities subjected to heavy US and British bombardment.
Iraq's Ministry for Human Rights is expected to file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq.
The ministry will seek compensation for the victims of these weapons.
DB/MMN
Read more at presstv.ir
For anyone under the illusion that the UK is anything but a police state with no regard for the safety of its subjects, this is how many police now behave, particularly in towns and cities and it is sadly a growing trend, this fact is bad enough but the courts now back them up on that behaviour, sending a clear message that this sort of thing is now acceptable.
One has to wonder if this how the police now wish to be seen, considering their actions of late. A reputation in tatters and no sincere sign of any kind of remorse as a vicious murderous thug walks free with his only punishment being the slight possibility that he may lose his job but realistically even that is doubtful.
Or perhaps considering the rising disenchantment of the public at large with the lies being spun from all levels of government, the wish is to have the public fear the Policy Enforcers, to feel they cannot rely on them. If this is the end goal then they are making great strides of progress towards it. However the victims of this practice are not just the public, it is the police also, who are little more than empty animated uniforms. They have a tendency to forget that when they take off that uniform they are just the same as the very people they inflict the will of their employers upon, that they and their children will have to live in the nightmare they helped to create. This by no means is restricted to the UK or even Europe, it is a global trend and one that will continue for as long as good people do nothing about it.
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” - Martin Luther King Jr
The decision not to charge a police officer over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in London is "disastrous" for the Metropolitan Police, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority tells Channel 4 News.
A police officer was filmed by a Channel 4 News cameraman striking out at Mr Tomlinson during the G20 protests in central London last April, minutes later the newspaper seller died.
The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) announced today that the police officer involved would face no charges - after considering the three charges of manslaughter, assault and misconduct.
Video footage filmed by an eyewitness and by a Channel 4 News cameraman showed PC Simon Harwood, a member of the Metropolitan Police's territorial support unit striking out at Mr Tomlinson with a baton, and then pushing him to the ground.
Mr Tomlinson, 47, staggered about 100 metres from the scene and was found several minutes later collapsed on the ground.
Jenny Jones, member of the MPA and Green politician, told Channel 4 News: "At the very least it was utterly unprofessional behaviour - striking a man from behind.
The Tomlinson family seek 'justice'
The DPP decision's not to charge results from events going all way the back to 2 April last year and the decision by the coroner for the city of London to call in Dr Freddie Patel, a forensic pathologist who no longer had a contract with any police force, who's performance had been investigated in the early part of this decade and found to be wanting, writes Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel.
He received words of advice and carried on practising, even though the Metropolitan Police had decided not to use him any more in suspicious deaths.
When he was asked to perform the post mortem on Mr Tomlinson he was under investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) concerning four cases. The GMC hearing where he's accused of deficient professional performance began this week and scheduled to carry on until September. But all this is too late for Mr Tomlinson's family.
The sad fact is that the images of him being struck with a baton by a policeman and shoved to the ground will never be defined as a criminal act.
Now that the DPP has defined this as assault it is quite possible that the officer will face an internal misconduct hearing where the ultimate penalty would be the sack.
But it's difficult to see even if an inquest at a later date was too return a verdict of unlawful killing that the family will ever get what they see rightfully as justice.
"This does nothing for the reputation of the Met...it is disastrous."
"The Met infuriates me but at the same time I want its reputation to be good," she said.
"The police's reputation with the public is dreadful - the fact that there were so many nice messages about the death of (Raoul) Moat shows that the police's reputation is quite poor."
Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, announced today that following a review by the Crown Prosecution Service, no charges would be brought against the officer, saying there was "no realistic prospect" of a conviction.
Mr Starmer added there is a "fundamental" disagreement among medical experts about what led to Mr Tomlinson's death.
He added: "In the face of this fundamental disagreement between the experts about the cause of Mr Tomlinson's death, the CPS embarked on a detailed and careful examination of all the medical evidence and held a series of meetings with the meetings with experts in attempt to resolve, or at least narrow, the areas of disagreement.
"This inevitably took some considerable time."
Family: decision is 'disgraceful'
Flanked by her two sons and her daughter, Julia Tomlinson held a dignified silence as she walked into the CPS headquarters this morning to find out if, after 15 months of waiting for a decision, a police officer would face charges over the death of her husband.
Emerging an hour later, she held back her tears asking reporters: "What can we do now?", before turning to her son Paul King to address the media. Mr King described the family's bitter disappointment at the "disgraceful" decision not the charge the PC involved.
As they return to a home with no father, the police officer in question will be back on the beat, he said. The family said their only comfort was that the police officer "knows what he's done and has to live with it".
Mr King said: "We feel like it wasn't a full investigation from the beginning. It's been a cover up." The family’s lawyer said they would be seeking a review of the decision, as Mr King added: "This is not going to die down tomorrow. We feel let down, very disappointed… you haven't heard the last of us."
Later Ms Tomlinson told Channel 4 News said the family "won't give up yet".
But Mr King expressed frustration that today's decision meant they were "back to day one again."
Their lawyer Jules Carey said it was "unbelievable" that the officer faces no charges. "The issue today is the failure of the CPS. It's unbelievable, there needs to be an inquiry", he said.
How Channel 4 News covered Mr Tomlinson's death.
Mr Starmer said there was enough evidence to charge PC Harwood, who had struck Mr Tomlinson and knocked him to the ground with assault.
It was not the first time the officer has been investigated for the alleged use of excessive force.
While with Surrey Police, PC Harwood was the subject of a complaint in 2004. It was found to be unsubstantiated after an internal inquiry.
Three post-mortem examinations were conducted on Mr Tomlinson's body arrived at differing conclusions.
The first pathologist, Dr Freddy Patel, found he died of natural causes, linked to coronary artery disease.
Dr Patel is currently facing the General Medical Council accused of misconduct over his failings in a total of four unrelated autopsies performed between September 2002 and August 2004.
The second pathologist, Dr Nat Carey, found he died of internal bleeding as a result of blunt force trauma, in combination with cirrhosis of the liver.
A third, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second post-mortem.
Mr Starmer said prosecutors did not believe they could prove a "casual link" between the alleged assault on Mr Tomlinson and his death, blaming a "sharp disagreement" between the medical experts that was "irreconcilable".
Mr Starmer said prosecutors also considered assault charges but could not prove the strike or push substantially harmed Mr Tomlinson.
The officer could not be charged with common assault, which does not require proof of injury, because there is a six month time limit.
Speaking outside the CPS after the statement, Ian Tomlinson's family condemned what they called a "disgraceful decision".
Ms Jones said the Tomlinsons' best option would be to launch a civil case, however this would be expensive.
"Personally I think asking for a review won't get the family anywhere with the CPS, they could look again at the second and third pathologists' reports," she said.
The CPS' decision today was "terrible" Ms Jones said, simply "prolonging the agony" for all involved.
Read more at www.channel4.com
For anyone under the illusion that the UK is anything but a police state with no regard for the safety of its subjects, this is how many police now behave, particularly in towns and cities and it is sadly a growing trend, this fact is bad enough but the courts now back them up on that behaviour, sending a clear message that this sort of thing is now acceptable.
One has to wonder if this how the police now wish to be seen, considering their actions of late. A reputation in tatters and no sincere sign of any kind of remorse as a vicious murderous thug walks free with his only punishment being the slight possibility that he may lose his job but realistically even that is doubtful.
Or perhaps considering the rising disenchantment of the public at large with the lies being spun from all levels of government, the wish is to have the public fear the Policy Enforcers, to feel they cannot rely on them. If this is the end goal then they are making great strides of progress towards it. However the victims of this practice are not just the public, it is the police also, who are little more than empty animated uniforms. They have a tendency to forget that when they take off that uniform they are just the same as the very people they inflict the will of their employers upon, that they and their children will have to live in the nightmare they helped to create. This by no means is restricted to the UK or even Europe, it is a global trend and one that will continue for as long as good people do nothing about it.
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” - Martin Luther King Jr
The decision not to charge a police officer over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in London is "disastrous" for the Metropolitan Police, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority tells Channel 4 News.
A police officer was filmed by a Channel 4 News cameraman striking out at Mr Tomlinson during the G20 protests in central London last April, minutes later the newspaper seller died.
The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) announced today that the police officer involved would face no charges - after considering the three charges of manslaughter, assault and misconduct.
Video footage filmed by an eyewitness and by a Channel 4 News cameraman showed PC Simon Harwood, a member of the Metropolitan Police's territorial support unit striking out at Mr Tomlinson with a baton, and then pushing him to the ground.
Mr Tomlinson, 47, staggered about 100 metres from the scene and was found several minutes later collapsed on the ground.
Jenny Jones, member of the MPA and Green politician, told Channel 4 News: "At the very least it was utterly unprofessional behaviour - striking a man from behind.
The Tomlinson family seek 'justice'
The DPP decision's not to charge results from events going all way the back to 2 April last year and the decision by the coroner for the city of London to call in Dr Freddie Patel, a forensic pathologist who no longer had a contract with any police force, who's performance had been investigated in the early part of this decade and found to be wanting, writes Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel.
He received words of advice and carried on practising, even though the Metropolitan Police had decided not to use him any more in suspicious deaths.
When he was asked to perform the post mortem on Mr Tomlinson he was under investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) concerning four cases. The GMC hearing where he's accused of deficient professional performance began this week and scheduled to carry on until September. But all this is too late for Mr Tomlinson's family.
The sad fact is that the images of him being struck with a baton by a policeman and shoved to the ground will never be defined as a criminal act.
Now that the DPP has defined this as assault it is quite possible that the officer will face an internal misconduct hearing where the ultimate penalty would be the sack.
But it's difficult to see even if an inquest at a later date was too return a verdict of unlawful killing that the family will ever get what they see rightfully as justice.
"This does nothing for the reputation of the Met...it is disastrous."
"The Met infuriates me but at the same time I want its reputation to be good," she said.
"The police's reputation with the public is dreadful - the fact that there were so many nice messages about the death of (Raoul) Moat shows that the police's reputation is quite poor."
Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, announced today that following a review by the Crown Prosecution Service, no charges would be brought against the officer, saying there was "no realistic prospect" of a conviction.
Mr Starmer added there is a "fundamental" disagreement among medical experts about what led to Mr Tomlinson's death.
He added: "In the face of this fundamental disagreement between the experts about the cause of Mr Tomlinson's death, the CPS embarked on a detailed and careful examination of all the medical evidence and held a series of meetings with the meetings with experts in attempt to resolve, or at least narrow, the areas of disagreement.
"This inevitably took some considerable time."
Family: decision is 'disgraceful'
Flanked by her two sons and her daughter, Julia Tomlinson held a dignified silence as she walked into the CPS headquarters this morning to find out if, after 15 months of waiting for a decision, a police officer would face charges over the death of her husband.
Emerging an hour later, she held back her tears asking reporters: "What can we do now?", before turning to her son Paul King to address the media. Mr King described the family's bitter disappointment at the "disgraceful" decision not the charge the PC involved.
As they return to a home with no father, the police officer in question will be back on the beat, he said. The family said their only comfort was that the police officer "knows what he's done and has to live with it".
Mr King said: "We feel like it wasn't a full investigation from the beginning. It's been a cover up." The family’s lawyer said they would be seeking a review of the decision, as Mr King added: "This is not going to die down tomorrow. We feel let down, very disappointed… you haven't heard the last of us."
Later Ms Tomlinson told Channel 4 News said the family "won't give up yet".
But Mr King expressed frustration that today's decision meant they were "back to day one again."
Their lawyer Jules Carey said it was "unbelievable" that the officer faces no charges. "The issue today is the failure of the CPS. It's unbelievable, there needs to be an inquiry", he said.
How Channel 4 News covered Mr Tomlinson's death.
Mr Starmer said there was enough evidence to charge PC Harwood, who had struck Mr Tomlinson and knocked him to the ground with assault.
It was not the first time the officer has been investigated for the alleged use of excessive force.
While with Surrey Police, PC Harwood was the subject of a complaint in 2004. It was found to be unsubstantiated after an internal inquiry.
Three post-mortem examinations were conducted on Mr Tomlinson's body arrived at differing conclusions.
The first pathologist, Dr Freddy Patel, found he died of natural causes, linked to coronary artery disease.
Dr Patel is currently facing the General Medical Council accused of misconduct over his failings in a total of four unrelated autopsies performed between September 2002 and August 2004.
The second pathologist, Dr Nat Carey, found he died of internal bleeding as a result of blunt force trauma, in combination with cirrhosis of the liver.
A third, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second post-mortem.
Mr Starmer said prosecutors did not believe they could prove a "casual link" between the alleged assault on Mr Tomlinson and his death, blaming a "sharp disagreement" between the medical experts that was "irreconcilable".
Mr Starmer said prosecutors also considered assault charges but could not prove the strike or push substantially harmed Mr Tomlinson.
The officer could not be charged with common assault, which does not require proof of injury, because there is a six month time limit.
Speaking outside the CPS after the statement, Ian Tomlinson's family condemned what they called a "disgraceful decision".
Ms Jones said the Tomlinsons' best option would be to launch a civil case, however this would be expensive.
"Personally I think asking for a review won't get the family anywhere with the CPS, they could look again at the second and third pathologists' reports," she said.
The CPS' decision today was "terrible" Ms Jones said, simply "prolonging the agony" for all involved.
Read more at www.channel4.com
BP caught with their pants down again.
"BP has ordered staff to stop manipulating photographs of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill response, as the row over its public relations campaign intensifies. "
The oil giant was forced to issue new guidelines to staff to “refrain from
doing (sic) cutting-and-pasting” after several official company images were
found to have been doctored.
BP admitted on Thursday that it “Photoshopped” some of its official images
that were posted on its website and vowed to stop the embarrassing practice.
For the second time in two days, the company was identified to have doctored
images posted on its official website that were supposed to show how it was
responding to the oil crisis in America.
In the latest image, a photo taken inside a company helicopter appeared to
show it flying off the coast near the damaged Deepwater Horizon rig.
But it was later shown to be faked after internet bloggers identified several
problems with the poorly produced image that contradicted the appearance
that it was flying.
Among the problems identified included part of a control tower appearing in
the top of the top left of the picture, different shades of colours, its
pilot holding a pre-flight checklist and its control gauges showing the
helicopter’s door and ramp open and its parking brake engaged.
The image was posted on the official
BP website but later removed.
It has since been posted
to the company's official Flickr account under the heading "BP altered
images, which also includes a further two faked pictures.
The image, entitled “View of the MC 252 site from the cockpit of a PHI S-92
helicopter 26 June 2010”, was
first identified by Gizmodo, a technology news website, which posted
the images on Thursday after a tip-off from a reader.
Another image has also been exposed as faked, which BP admitted appeared to be
“cut and pasted”.
BP admitted the image of a meeting in its Houston office, showing a technical
team in front of a large projection screen, had been “edited” using
colouring tools. This was to ensure the detail on the projection screen
could be seen to readers.
The disclosures have created further embarrassment for the oil giant and is
the latest blunder to hit the company.
It comes less than a day after the oil giant was
criticised for doctoring an image of image of its Gulf Coast oil spill
command centre, which indicated that staff were busier than they
actually were.
It later acknowledged that it posted on its website an altered photo that
exaggerated the level of activity at the centre in Houston.
In a statement to The Daily Telegraph on Thursday, BP admitted that it edited
images it posted on its official “Gulf of Mexico Response” website.
“BP's photographic department uses Photoshop to edit images we post on the
bp.com Gulf of Mexico Response web site,” a spokesman said.
“Typical purposes include colour correction, reducing glare and cropping. In a
few cases, cut-and-paste was also used in the photo-editing process. These
cut-and-pasted images have been removed.
“We've instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing (sic)
cutting-and-pasting in the future.”
He added that both the original and edited images have
been posted on its official Flickr page “for comparison”.
He said the company had included an image that “appears cut-and-pasted, but
was edited using the colour saturation tool to improve the visibility of a
projection screen image”.
The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers
and causing one of America's worst environmental crises.
The well has spewed somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons into
the Gulf. BP said the cost of dealing with the spill has now reached nearly
$4 billion.
A
US Senate panel has invited Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP,
to testify next week at a hearing on the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee also is requesting testimony from Sir
Mark Allen, who has served as an advisor to BP.
Mr Hayward and other oil bosses are
expected to give evidence to a new UK political inquiry into
offshore deep-water drilling.Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk
That inquiry, expected to start later this year, will ask "serious
questions" about the oil companies' plans for dealing with spills,
including key safety devices such as blowout preventers.
