Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Contact
Ace:
aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
CBD:
cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton:
sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com


Recent Entries
Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022
Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me
Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups






















« Europe Denies Refueling/Landing Privileges For Planes Carrying IDF Supplies | Main | Robotic, Heavily Armed UAV Frisbees of Death »
September 05, 2006

Omigosh!!! War Causes Pollution!!! -- Michael

I was done guest-blogging here until I saw this. Then I got pissed.

So I checked to see if Ace had cut me off yet. Nope, I still have access.

Oil Slick.jpg

Dang, that's ugly. There's a bunch of oil on the water in this small-scale photo.

Still, it doesn't really look like an environmental catastrophe. So when you read the following, just check out the name of the author. And be advised that "AFP" stands for Agence France-Presse (yes, we're talking about the Fwenchie perspective).

by Salim Yassine Mon Sep 4, 12:49 PM ET BEIRUT (AFP) - The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused by the Jewish state's bombardment of a power station, Greenpeace has said.

"You have to be able to overfly Lebanese waters to pinpoint surface slicks and fuel oil deposits deeper down, as well as intervention by skimmers (cleaning boats) -- and that is not possible while the blockade continues," Greenpeace Lebanon's spokesman Omar al-Naim told AFP Monday.

"The use of pumps is also necessary, which means being able to operate freely on the surface of the sea, which is impossible because of the blockade," Naim said.

"The more time that passes, the more the slicks are dispersed by the wind and the currents," he added.

See, according to AFP, the whole problem is the Israeli blockade. No mention of Hezbollah's use of Lebanese waters to import weapons destined to attack Israeli civilians.

Of course, those weapons came from Syria.

Syrian officials said on Sunday that a new oil slick had reached its shores after initial pollution at the end of July, caused by Israeli air strikes in the middle of the month against the Jiyeh power station 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Beirut.

Two attacks by Israeli warplanes hit fuel oil storage tanks at the coastal generating station, spilling up to 15,000 tonnes of fuel into the Mediterranean and fouling three quarters of Lebanon's 200-kilometre (124-mile) coast.

The air assaults came after Israel launched its blistering 34-day offensive on July 12 against Lebanese Shiite fighters from Hezbollah, and subsequent fires at Jiyeh burned for nearly two weeks.

The latest slick washed up on Syrian shores between the Lebanese frontier and Tartus, 260 km (161 miles) northwest of Damascus, Hassan Murjan, the head of environment services in Tartus, told AFP on Sunday.

"As long as the Lebanese coastline has not been cleaned there will be a risk for Syria," Murjan said. "We're waiting for the clean-up in Lebanon so we can get started again."

Murjan, let me set you straight. You're waiting for the clean-up in Lebanon because you are a lazy piece of shit and your fucktard government wants to get some PR out of a few oil-fouled Syrian beaches.

Here's the best part of this article. AFP (the Fwenchies) found an American to opine on the situation.

According to Rick Steiner, an American expert sent to the region by the World Conservation Union at the request of the Lebanese non-governmental group Greenline, "the longer pollution lasts, the more dangerous it becomes".

Wow, Rick, thanks for that expert opinion. Did you really need a high school diploma to come up with that?

Rick, I just don't have the words to describe what an unwitting, fucktardaceous, ridiculous dupe you are.

Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up


digg this
posted by Ace at 02:44 AM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Sponge - F*ck Cancer: "[i] The Constitutional Court in the European Unio ..."

Orson: "314 The Constitutional Court in the European Union ..."

Pedocrat: "30 A child is obviously lost and crying. If you're ..."

BurtTC: "Instead, we should have socialized medicine for al ..."

ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast [/b][/i][/s][/u] : "Penny should have called Top Dog LAWWW! https:/ ..."

Sponge - F*ck Cancer: "[i] I hope so but Twitchy is not exactly reliable ..."

Oldcat: "Democracy Dies via Tik-Tok The Constitutional C ..."

Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon: "Man that was going to be my angle on that. Vocal ..."

Sponge - F*ck Cancer: "Driving home this afternoon, there's some construc ..."

Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere [/i] [/b] : "[i]Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere * You ..."

N: "Autocucumber at its finest. Posted by: Re ..."

pakisa: "Kid in corner has shaved head - cooties. ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64