After the way Amazon.com rolled over on Wikileaks, kicking them off their servers, I don't know why anyone would bother with Amazon. They just rolled over instantly and did not even put up a fight.
Julian Assange is the best friend Democracy has. All these so-called news organizations, with their bloated budgets, failed to unearth any of this stuff. To keep their precious "access" the modern TV newsreader does no investigation at all. Instead, we get celebrity news...

Oh? Really? I never thought of that! Well, gosh, thank you!

Forgive me! Correction: he was a total failure for only 5 years! Happy now?

Anyone who has held the title of Chief Software Architect at Microsoft must also carry shame for the deplorable, innovation-free time at Microsoft over the past 10 years. For all their "brightest of the brightest" employees, the bean counters and the sainted Redmond campus, Microsoft has originated exactly zero new ideas in the past decade. Every single "idea" they came up with was narrowly derivative of some existing project. Microsoft is devoid of innovation.

How ironic that we can add even NASA to the crowd saying that 2012 or thereabouts will lead to huge destruction...

So, how long you been working in the Petroleum industry? Do you recall the damage inflicted by the Exxon Valdez? By the Santa Barbara spill in 1969? Surely the oil comes from a natural source but so does mercury. Do you want to sprinkle some mercury on your cornflakes? Yes, this stuff is polluting. There is no question of that. Unless you can drink a gallon of oil, this question is done.

Should be a question of aim. Aim for the center and use one of those centrifuges to separate oil from water.

That would work! They just need to repurpose something--say the Top Hat--into a "plume" of oil and drink it all up into a ship. Remember, doing a "Junk shot" is still considered a serious solution to this spill...

New York Times: "Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf" * gushing 80,000 barrels a day * The well is 5,000-feet down. * The shallowest oil plume is 2,300 feet down. * The deepest bubble of oil is 4,200 feet down. * Will bubble up for decades. * At most 5% of the spilled oil will ever be recovered. "one big oil bubble is 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick."

What one man considers "alarmism" is better known as "experience" to another.

Add to the NPR source now the New York Times

The source was NPR, which is about the most trusted news source I know. I am merely responding to your obnoxious comment. I have NO desire for this to be a huge disaster--but it already is. There has never before been a spill like this where the oil is sloshing around in the Gulf of Mexico at the bottom--doing God knows what. This will turn out to be the worst disaster in history. Only time will tell.

... and you use the "head in the sand" technique. You, apparently, believe BP would never lie about this...

Today it was confirmed that not 5,000 but 70,000 barrels a day are leaking, and have been leaking, for the past month into the Gulf of Mexico, where it is filling not just the surface but lower down. When it is finally clear, sir, that I was spot on in my original comment, I will expect an apology from you.