Al Jazeera – April 18, 2012

New Orleans, LA – “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.”

Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010.

Cowan’s findings replicate those of others living along vast areas of the Gulf Coast that have been impacted by BP’s oil and dispersants.

Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP’s 2010 oil disaster.

Along with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp – and interviewees’ fingers point towards BP’s oil pollution disaster as being the cause.

Eyeless shrimp

Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp.

“At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these,” Kuhns told Al Jazeera while showing a sample of the eyeless shrimp.

According to Kuhns, at least 50 per cent of the shrimp caught in that period in Barataria Bay, a popular shrimping area that was heavily impacted by BP’s oil and dispersants, were eyeless. Kuhns added: “Disturbingly, not only do the shrimp lack eyes, they even lack eye sockets.”

“Some shrimpers are catching these out in the open Gulf [of Mexico],” she added, “They are also catching them in Alabama and Mississippi. We are also finding eyeless crabs, crabs with their shells soft instead of hard, full grown crabs that are one-fifth their normal size, clawless crabs, and crabs with shells that don’t have their usual spikes … they look like they’ve been burned off by chemicals.”

On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded, and began the release of at least 4.9 million barrels of oil. BP then used at least 1.9 million gallons of toxic Corexit dispersants to sink the oil.

Keath Ladner, a third generation seafood processor in Hancock County, Mississippi, is also disturbed by what he is seeing.

“I’ve seen the brown shrimp catch drop by two-thirds, and so far the white shrimp have been wiped out,” Ladner told Al Jazeera. “The shrimp are immune compromised. We are finding shrimp with tumors on their heads, and are seeing this everyday.”

While on a shrimp boat in Mobile Bay with Sidney Schwartz, the fourth-generation fisherman said that he had seen shrimp with defects on their gills, and “their shells missing around their gills and head”.

“We’ve fished here all our lives and have never seen anything like this,” he added.

Ladner has also seen crates of blue crabs, all of which were lacking at least one of their claws.

Darla Rooks, a lifelong fisherperson from Port Sulfur, Louisiana, told Al Jazeera she is finding crabs “with holes in their shells, shells with all the points burned off so all the spikes on their shells and claws are gone, misshapen shells, and crabs that are dying from within … they are still alive, but you open them up and they smell like they’ve been dead for a week”.

Rooks is also finding eyeless shrimp, shrimp with abnormal growths, female shrimp with their babies still attached to them, and shrimp with oiled gills.

“We also seeing eyeless fish, and fish lacking even eye-sockets, and fish with lesions, fish without covers over their gills, and others with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills.”

Rooks, who grew up fishing with her parents, said she had never seen such things in these waters, and her seafood catch last year was “ten per cent what it normally is”.

“I’ve never seen this,” he said, a statement Al Jazeera heard from every scientist, fisherman, and seafood processor we spoke with about the seafood deformities.

Given that the Gulf of Mexico provides more than 40 per cent of all the seafood caught in the continental US, this phenomenon does not bode well for the region, or the country.

BP’s chemicals?

Compounding the effects of the oil spill, were 1.9 million gallons of chemicals and toxic solvents used to disperse the oil. Click to enlarge

“The dispersants used in BP’s draconian experiment contain solvents, such as petroleum distillates and 2-butoxyethanol. Solvents dissolve oil, grease, and rubber,” Dr Riki Ott, a toxicologist, marine biologist and Exxon Valdez survivor told Al Jazeera. “It should be no surprise that solvents are also notoriously toxic to people, something the medical community has long known”.

The dispersants are known to be mutagenic, a disturbing fact that could be evidenced in the seafood deformities. Shrimp, for example, have a life-cycle short enough that two to three generations have existed since BP’s disaster began, giving the chemicals time to enter the genome.

Pathways of exposure to the dispersants are inhalation, ingestion, skin, and eye contact. Health impacts can include headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, chest pains, respiratory system damage, skin sensitisation, hypertension, central nervous system depression, neurotoxic effects, cardiac arrhythmia and cardiovascular damage. They are also teratogenic – able to disturb the growth and development of an embryo or fetus – and carcinogenic.

Cowan believes chemicals named polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), released from BP’s submerged oil, are likely to blame for what he is finding, due to the fact that the fish with lesions he is finding are from “a wide spatial distribution that is spatially coordinated with oil from the Deepwater Horizon, both surface oil and subsurface oil. A lot of the oil that impacted Louisiana was also in subsurface plumes, and we think there is a lot of it remaining on the seafloor”.

Marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia published results of her submarine dives around the source area of BP’s oil disaster in the Nature Geoscience journal.

Her evidence showed massive swathes of oil covering the seafloor, including photos of oil-covered bottom dwelling sea creatures.

While showing slides at an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington, Joye said: “This is Macondo oil on the bottom. These are dead organisms because of oil being deposited on their heads.”

Dr Wilma Subra, a chemist and Macarthur Fellow, has conducted tests on seafood and sediment samples along the Gulf for chemicals present in BP’s crude oil and toxic dispersants.

“Tests have shown significant levels of oil pollution in oysters and crabs along the Louisiana coastline,” Subra told Al Jazeera. “We have also found high levels of hydrocarbons in the soil and vegetation.”

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, PAHs “are a group of semi-volatile organic compounds that are present in crude oil that has spent time in the ocean and eventually reaches shore, and can be formed when oil is burned”.

“The fish are being exposed to PAHs, and I was able to find several references that list the same symptoms in fish after the Exxon Valdez spill, as well as other lab experiments,” explained Cowan. “There was also a paper published by some LSU scientists that PAH exposure has effects on the genome.”

The University of South Florida released the results of a survey whose findings corresponded with Cowan’s: a two to five per cent infection rate in the same oil impact areas, and not just with red snapper, but with more than 20 species of fish with lesions. In many locations, 20 per cent of the fish had lesions, and later sampling expeditions found areas where, alarmingly, 50 per cent of the fish had them.

“I asked a NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] sampler what percentage of fish they find with sores prior to 2010, and it’s one tenth of one percent,” Cowan said. “Which is what we found prior to 2010 as well. But nothing like we’ve seen with these secondary infections and at this high of rate since the spill.”

“What we think is that it’s attributable to chronic exposure to PAHs released in the process of weathering of oil on the seafloor,” Cowan said. “There’s no other thing we can use to explain this phenomenon. We’ve never seen anything like this before.”

Official response

Questions raised by Al Jazeera’s investigation remain largely unanswered.

Al Jazeera contacted the office of Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, who provided a statement that said the state continues to test its waters for oil and dispersants, and that it is testing for PAHs.

“Gulf seafood has consistently tested lower than the safety thresholds established by the FDA for the levels of oil and dispersant contamination that would pose a risk to human health,” the statement reads. “Louisiana seafood continues to go through extensive testing to ensure that seafood is safe for human consumption. More than 3,000 composite samples of seafood, sediment and water have been tested in Louisiana since the start of the spill.”

At the federal government level, the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency – both federal agencies which have powers in the this area – insisted Al Jazeera talk with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

NOAA won’t comment to the media because its involvement in collecting information for an ongoing lawsuit against BP.

BP refused Al Jazeera’s request to comment on this issue for a television interview, but provided a statement that read:

“Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is among the most tested in the world, and, according to the FDA and NOAA, it is as safe now as it was before the accident.”

BP claims that fish lesions are common, and that prior to the Deepwater Horizon accident there was documented evidence of lesions in the Gulf of Mexico caused by parasites and other agents.

The oil giant added:  

“As part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment, which is led by state and federal trustees, we are investigating the extent of injury to natural resources due to the accident.

“BP is funding multiple lines of scientific investigation to evaluate potential damage to fish, and these include: extensive seafood testing programs by the Gulf states; fish population monitoring conducted by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Auburn University and others; habitat and water quality monitoring by NOAA; and toxicity tests on regional species. The state and federal Trustees will complete an injury assessment and the need for environmental restoration will be determined.”

Before and after

But evidence of ongoing contamination continues to mount.

Crustacean biologist Darryl Felder, in the Department of Biology with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is in a unique position.

Felder has been monitoring the vicinity of BP’s blowout Macondo well both before and after the oil disaster began, because, as he told Al Jazeera, “the National Science Foundation was interested in these areas that are vulnerable due to all the drilling”.

“So we have before and after samples to compare to,” he added. “We have found seafood with lesions, missing appendages, and other abnormalities.”

Felder also has samples of inshore crabs with lesions. “Right here in Grand Isle we see lesions that are eroding down through their shell. We just got these samples last Thursday and are studying them now, because we have no idea what else to link this to as far as a natural event.”

According to Felder, there is an even higher incidence of shell disease with crabs in deeper waters.

“My fear is that these prior incidents of lesions might be traceable to microbes, and my questions are, did we alter microbial populations in the vicinity of the well by introducing this massive amount of petroleum and in so doing cause microbes to attack things other than oil?”

One hypothesis he has is that the waxy coatings around crab shells are being impaired by anthropogenic chemicals or microbes resulting from such chemicals.

“You create a site where a lesion can occur, and microbes attack. We see them with big black lesions, around where their appendages fall off, and all that is left is a big black ring.”

Felder added that his team is continuing to document the incidents: “And from what we can tell, there is a far higher incidence we’re finding after the spill.”

“We are also seeing much lower diversity of crustaceans,” he said. “We don’t have the same number of species as we did before [the spill].”

Felder has tested his samples for oil, but not found many cases where hydrocarbon traces tested positive. Instead, he believes what he is seeing in the deepwater around BP’s well is caused from the “huge amount” of drilling mud used during the effort to stop the gushing well.

“I was collecting deepwater shrimp with lesions on the side of their carapace. Under the lesions, the gills were black. The organ that propels the water through the gills, it too was jet-black. That impairs respiratory ability, and has a negative effect on them. It wasn’t hydrocarbons, but is largely manganese precipitates, which is really odd. There was a tremendous amount of drilling mud pumped out with Macondo, so this could be a link.”

Some drilling mud and oil well cement slurries used on oil extraction rigs contains up to 90 per cent by weight of manganomanganic (manganese) oxide particles.

Felder is also finding “odd staining” of animals that burrow into the mud that cause stain rings, and said: “It is consistently mineral deposits, possibly from microbial populations in [overly] high concentrations.”

A direct link

Dr Andrew Whitehead, an associate professor of biology at Louisiana State University, co-authored the report Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes that was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in October 2011.

Whitehead’s work is of critical importance, as it shows a direct link between BP’s oil and the negative impacts on the Gulf’s food web evidenced by studies on killifish before, during and after the oil disaster.

“What we found is a very clear, genome-wide signal, a very clear signal of exposure to the toxic components of oil that coincided with the timing and the locations of the oil,” Whitehead told Al Jazeera during an interview in his lab.

According to Whitehead, the killifish is an important indicator species because they are the most abundant fish in the marshes, and are known to be the most important forage animal in their communities.

“That means that most of the large fish that we like to eat and that these are important fisheries for, actually feed on the killifish,” he explained. “So if there were to be a big impact on those animals, then there would probably be a cascading effect throughout the food web. I can’t think of a worse animal to knock out of the food chain than the killifish.”

But we may well be witnessing the beginnings of this worst-case scenario.

Whitehead is predicting that there could be reproductive impacts on the fish, and since the killifish is a “keystone” species in the food web of the marsh, “Impacts on those species are more than likely going to propagate out and effect other species. What this shows is a very direct link from exposure to DWH oil and a clear biological effect. And a clear biological effect that could translate to population level long-term consequences.”

Back on shore, troubled by what he had been seeing, Keath Ladner met with officials from the US Food and Drug Administration and asked them to promise that the government would protect him from litigation if someone was made sick from eating his seafood.

“They wouldn’t do it,” he said.

“I’m worried about the entire seafood industry of the Gulf being on the way out,” he added grimly.

‘Tar balls in their crab traps’

Ed Cake, a biological oceanographer, as well as a marine and oyster biologist, has “great concern” about the hundreds of dolphin deaths he has seen in the region since BP’s disaster began, which he feels are likely directly related to the BP oil disaster.

“Adult dolphins’ systems are picking up whatever is in the system out there, and we know the oil is out there and working its way up the food chain through the food web – and dolphins are at the top of that food chain.”

Cake explained: “The chemicals then move into their lipids, fat, and then when they are pregnant, their young rely on this fat, and so it’s no wonder dolphins are having developmental issues and still births.”

Cake, who lives in Mississippi, added: “It has been more than 33 years since the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil disaster in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, and the oysters, clams, and mangrove forests have still not recovered in their oiled habitats in seaside estuaries of the Yucatan Peninsula. It has been 23 years since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska, and the herring fishery that failed in the wake of that disaster has still not returned.”

Cake believes we are still in the short-term impact stage of BP’s oil disaster.

“I will not be alive to see the Gulf of Mexico recover,” said Cake, who is 72 years old. “Without funding and serious commitment, these things will not come back to pre-April 2010 levels for decades.”

The physical signs of the disaster continue.

“We’re continuing to pull up oil in our nets,” Rooks said. “Think about losing everything that makes you happy, because that is exactly what happens when someone spills oil and sprays dispersants on it. People who live here know better than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters.”

Khuns and her husband told Al Jazeera that fishermen continue to regularly find tar balls in their crab traps, and hundreds of pounds of tar balls continue to be found on beaches across the region on a daily basis.

Meanwhile Cowan continues his work, and remains concerned about what he is finding.

“We’ve also seen a decrease in biodiversity in fisheries in certain areas. We believe we are now seeing another outbreak of incidence increasing, and this makes sense, since waters are starting to warm again, so bacterial infections are really starting to take off again. We think this is a problem that will persist for as long as the oil is stored on the seafloor.”

Felder wants to continue his studies, but now is up against insufficient funding.

Regarding his funding, Cowan told Al Jazeera: “We are up against social and economic challenges that hamper our ability to get our information out, so the politics have been as daunting as the problem [we are studying] itself. But my funding is not coming from a source that requires me to be quiet.”

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Read more about the scientists in this article, and their findings:

Dr Darryl Felder, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Runs a research lab that studies the biology of marine crustaceans. Dr Felder has been monitoring the seafloor in the vicinity of BP’s blow-out Macondo oil-well both before and after the oil disaster began. He was studying samples from the seafloor in the Macondo area pre-spill via funding from the National Science Foundation, which provided him a grant to log the effects of all the drilling in the area. His funding now comes from the Gulf Research Initiative (GRI), which is funded by BP. Read his full biography here.

Dr Jim Cowan with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences has been studying Gulf seafood, specifically red snapper, for more than 20 years. Funding is primarily via LSU, although LSU has also received funding via GRI. Read his full biography here.

Dr Andrew Whitehead, LSU, his lab conducts experiments and studies on Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics. He recently published “Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes” in the National Academy of Sciences. Much of his funding also comes from the Gulf Research Initiative. Read his full biography here.

Brief summary of scientists’ findings/studies:

Felder: Studies carried out from January 2010 to present in BP’s Macondo well area. Found abnormalities in shrimp post-spill, whereas pre-spill found none.

Cowan: Studies carried out from Nov 2010-present, from west Louisiana to west Florida, from coast to 250km out. Found lesions/sores/infections in 20 species of fish, as many as 50 per cent fish in some samples impacted. Pre spill levels were 1/10 of one per cent of fish.

Whitehead: Species such as the Gulf Killifish, in and around the Gulf of Mexico, will continue to be subject to negative effects of the BP oil spill disaster of 2010. The Killifish, which researchers consider a good indicator of water quality in the Gulf of Mexico, is showing signs that the oil spill is having a negative impact on its health. Tracked killifish for the first four months after spill across oil-impacted areas of Louisiana and Mississippi.

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The Press-Register reports today:

Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.

The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site on Tuesday and provided them to Ed Overton and Scott Miles, chemists with Louisiana State University.

The pair did much of the chemical work used by federal officials to fingerprint the BP oil, known as MC252.

“After examining the data, I think it’s a dead ringer for the MC252 oil, as good a match as I’ve seen,” Overton wrote in an email to the newspaper. “My guess is that it is probably coming from the broken riser pipe or sunken platform. … However, it should be confirmed, just to make sure there is no leak from the plugged well.”

MC252 is short for Macondo block 252, which is the official designation for the location of last year’s BP Gulf oil spill.

Overton is a LSU professor and oil spill expert, who has been a lead NOAA consultant for decades, and who analyzing Macondo oil samples last year for the federal government.

Here is video the Press-Register shot a couple of days ago:

And see this and this.

The Leak Is Associated With BP’s Well

The Press-Register reported yesterday:

Oil is once again fouling the Gulf of Mexico around the Deepwater Horizon well, which was capped a little over a year ago. [Deepwater Horizon is the name of the oil drilling rig drilling at BP's Macondo well, the one which exploded and sank last year.]

Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of small, circular patches of oily sheen dotted the surface within a mile of the wellhead. With just a bare sheen present over about a quarter-mile, the scene was a far cry from the massive slick that covered the Gulf last summer.

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Floating in a boat near the well site, Press-Register reporters watched blobs of oil rise to the surface and bloom into iridescent yellow patches. Those patches quickly expanded into rainbow sheens 4 to 5 feet across.

Each expanding bloom released a pronounced and pungent petroleum smell.

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“I think the primary source with high probability is associated with the Macondo well,” said Robert Bea, an internationally prominent petroleum engineer and professor emeritus at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Bea responded to Press-Register questions via email after examining photographs taken by the newspaper.

“Perhaps connections that developed between the well annulus (outside the casing), the reservoir sands about 17,000 feet below the seafloor, and the natural seep fault features” could provide a pathway for oil to move from deep underground to the seafloor, Bea said.

“Looks suspicious. The point of surfacing about 1 mile from the well is about the point that the oil should show up, given the seafloor at 5,000 feet … natural circulation currents would cause the drift,” Bea said.

We May Never Be Able To Fully Stop the BP Leak

Washington’s Blog interviewed Dr. Bea a year ago, and the oil expert noted that we may never be able to fully stop BP’s oil leak:

Few people in the world know more about oil drilling disasters than Dr. Robert Bea.

Bea teaches engineering at the University of California Berkeley, and has 55 years of experience in engineering and management of design, construction, maintenance, operation, and decommissioning of engineered systems including offshore platforms, pipelines and floating facilities. Bea has worked for many years in governmental and quasi-governmental roles, and has been a high-level governmental adviser concerning disasters. He worked for 16 years as a top mechanical engineer and manager for Shell Oil, and has worked with Bechtel and the Army Corps of Engineers. One of the world’s top experts in offshore drilling problems, Bea is a member of the Deepwater Horizon Study Group, and has been interviewed by news media around the world concerning the BP oil disaster.

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WB: Is it possible that this fractured, subsea salt geology will make it difficult to permanently kill the oil leak using relief wells?

Bea: Yes, it could. The Santa Barbara channel seeps are still leaking, decades after the oil well was supposedly capped. This well could keep leaking for years.

Scripps mapped out seafloor seeps in the area of the well prior to the blowout. Some of the natural seeps penetrate 10,000 to 15,000 feet beneath the seafloor. The oil will follow lines of weakness in the geology. The leak can travel several horizontal miles from the location of the leak.

[In other words, the geology beneath the seafloor is so fractured, with soft and unstable salt formations, that we may never be able to fully kill the well even with relief wells. Instead, the loss of containment of the oil reservoir caused by the drilling accident could cause oil to leak out through seeps for years to come. See this and this for further background].

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WB: I have heard that BP is underestimating the size of the oil reservoir (and see this). Is it possible that the reservoir is bigger than BP is estimating, and so – if not completely killed – the leak could therefore go on for longer than most assume?

Bea: That’s plausible.

WB: The chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon said that the Macondo well was originally drilled in another location, but that “going faster caused the bottom of the well to split open, swallowing tools”, and that BP abandoned that well. You’ve spoken to that technician and looked into the incident, and concluded that “they damn near blew up the rig.” [See this and this].

Do you know where that abandoned well location is, and do you know if that well is still leaking?

Bea: The abandoned well is very close to the current well location. BP had to file reports showing the location of the abandoned well and the new well [with the Minerals Management Service], so the location of the abandoned well is known.

We don’t know if the abandoned well is leaking.

WB: Matthew Simmons talked about a second leaking well. There are rumors on the Internet that the original well is still leaking. Do you have any information that can either disprove or confirm that allegation?

Bea: There are two uncorroborated reports. One is that there is a leak 400 feet West of the present well’s surface location. There is another report that there is a leak several miles to the West.

[Bea does not know whether either report is true at this time, because BP is not sharing information with the government, let alone the public.]

Indeed, in June of 2010, BP officials admitted to damage beneath the seafloor, and numerous scientists have speculated that the blowout and subsequent clumsy attempts by BP to plug the well could have created new seeps, and made pre-existing natural seeps bigger.

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It’s been in the news a lot recently. It’s a pathetic statement of the state of affairs of today’s cryptocracy.

It seems whistleblowers are not only being discouraged, and demonized, but disappeared.

Actually, what’s new.

Forcibly removing any “dangerous opposition” has always been a fact of life in an evil, controlled world and extremely sad for the rest of us who witness this expected response. But despite today’s Orwellian dystopia the word is getting out, fast and furious.

It makes a difference every time any one of us blows the whistle on these controllers and their schemes. Truth will win out in the long run. And once you know it you gotta tell it, and live it.

That, or you’re in for some serious karma constipation. THEN you’ll have real problems. 

9/11 Witnesses Being Taken Out

This is outright upsetting. The brave folks who personally witnessed the true horrors of 9/11′s planted bombs and could have officially testified against the lies about the cover-up operations following that fateful day, AND had the guts to speak out against the monstrous lies the regime has since perpetrated…are being picked off one by one.

Take it for what you will. Doesn’t surprise me one bit. The 9/11 first responders who witnessed many “anomalies” regarding this event have now been targeted as potential terrorists, similar to ex-military who have witnessed first hand the atrocities being perpetrated by the aggressing controllers.

Then There’s the Gulf Oil Disaster

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What in the world is happening in the middle of the United States right now?  Thousands of birds are falling dead from the skies, tens of thousands of fish are washing up on shore dead, earthquakes are popping up in weird and unexpected places and people are starting to get really freaked out about all of this.  Well, one theory is that the New Madrid fault zone is coming to life.  The New Madrid fault zone is six times bigger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.  The biggest earthquakes in the history of the United States were caused by the New Madrid fault.  Now there are fears that the New Madrid fault zone could be coming to life again, and if a “killer earthquake” does strike it could change all of our lives forever.

So exactly what events have happened recently that are causing people to take a close look at the New Madrid fault zone?  Well, just consider the following examples of things that have been popping up in the news lately….

*According to the U.S. Geological Survey, more than 500 measurable earthquakes have been recorded in central Arkansas just since September.

*A magnitude-3.8 earthquake that shook north-central Indiana on December 30th is being called “unprecedented”. It was strong enough to actually cause cracks along the ground and it was felt in portions of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Kentucky.

*More than 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell out of the sky dead in the Arkansas town of Beebe on New Year’s Eve.

*Large numbers of dead birds were also found in Kentucky right around Christmas.

*Approximately 500 dead blackbirds and starlings were also recently discovered in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

*Approximately 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River just last week.

So could all of these things have some other very simple explanation?

Possibly.

But the fact that they all happened in or around the New Madrid fault zone is starting to raise some eyebrows.

About 200 years ago, in 1811 and 1812, there were four earthquakes that were so powerful in the area of the New Madrid fault zone that they are still talked about today.  All four of the quakes were estimated to have been magnitude-7.0 or greater.  It is said that those earthquakes opened deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards and that they were felt as far away as Boston.

The last major earthquake to hit the region was a 5.4-magnitude quake that struck the town of Dale, Illinois in 1968.  Things have been strangely quiet in the region since then until recently.

If a true “killer earthquake” struck along the New Madrid fault zone today, cities such as St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee could potentially be completely destroyed.

Unfortunately, this is not an exaggeration.

The following video describes just how incredibly powerful the earthquakes along the New Madrid fault in 1811 and 1812 actually were….

So could such a thing happen today? 

Well, that is exactly what many seismologists now fear.  The following video news report from ABC News explains why so many scientists are so concerned about the New Madrid fault zone….

One interesting theory is that the “oil volcano” unleashed by the BP oil spill in 2010 may have sparked renewed seismic activity in that part of the world.

Jack M. Reed, a retired Texaco geologist-geophysicist, has been carefully studying the geology of the Gulf of Mexico for over 40 years.  Reed is convinced that the Gulf of Mexico is currently tectonically active, and that the Gulf of Mexico is the source for most seismic activity along the New Madrid fault.

According to Reed, there is substantial evidence that the New Madrid fault zone is directly connected to “deeply buried tectonics” in the Gulf of Mexico….

This entire zone through the United States is suffering some type of tectonic activity that I believe is tied to the deeply buried tectonics in the Gulf of Mexico.”

 So did BP disturb those “deeply buried tectonics” by drilling such a deep well and unleashing all that oil that flowed into the Gulf of Mexico?

Let’s hope not.

If a truly historic earthquake did strike along the New Madrid fault the amount of damage that could be done to surrounding states such as Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee could potentially be unimaginable.

Jeremy Heidt of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says that life in the region would be instantly transformed in the event of a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault….

According to a recent study by the University of Illinois, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault would leave 3,500 people dead, more than 80,000 injured and more than 7 million homeless.

So what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake struck?

Or an 8.5?

Or a 9.0?

Remember, an 8.7-magnitude earthquake would be ten times worse than a 7.7-magnitude earthquake.

There are even some who believe that if a powerful enough earthquake hit the New Madrid fault someday it could potentially alter the surrounding geography enough that it could actually create a new major body of water in the middle of the United States.

So, no, it is not just California that needs to worry about “the Big One”.

Right now seismic activity has been dramatically increasing all over the globe.  Just think of the unprecedented number of volcanic eruptions that we have seen over the past year.  Major earthquakes have been popping up all along the “Ring of Fire”.  Just over the past couple of days a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit central Chile and a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck northern Argentina.

So to think that “it can’t happen” in the United States is just being totally naive.

Let us hope and pray that a devastating earthquake does not hit the New Madrid fault any time soon, because such an event could completely wipe out our economy.  The U.S. economy is already teetering on the brink of disaster, and all it would take is one major blow to bring the entire house of cards crashing down.

Just remember what happened in Haiti.  A magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed 230,000 people and caused such horrific devastation that it is still hard to even try to put it into words.  Let us hope and pray that nothing like that happens in any U.S. city any time soon.

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Lord Stirling gives a thorough description of how he believes the Gulf Oil tragedy has already affected the weather worldwide. The Jet Stream flows at roughly 200 mph at 5 to 7 miles above the Earth. It’s driven by warm ocean currents, notably the Gulf Stream. Stirling claims the disruption of the planet’s thermal energy exchange system has contributed to 2010′s freak weather observed in Russia, Pakistan, China, as well as in North and South America.

The 2010 grain harvest in Russia declined 31% due to an anomalous drought and will *not* be exporting wheat this Quarter, as it had for several years. This will affect European commodities markets and food prices around the world.

The outlook is not good, with the possibility of soil conditions remaining cold through May or June and a vastly decreased growing season. Stirling predicts crop failures in the Northern Hemisphere for 2011.

The Earth goes through cyclical Ice Ages. Stirling discusses the different scenarios for the onset of an Ice Age. Evidence, in the form of “flash-frozen” mammoths found in Siberia show that there have been events where the Jet Stream has dipped down to ground level, literally freezing everything it touched within 3 days. The more common scenario is less brief but still quite rapid: The first winter lasts longer than normal, the second winter never ends and by the third winter, the ice pack has become permanent and you would do best to move your body toward warmer climes.

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Another offshore oil facility caught fire Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, sending 13 workers into the water to be rescued by boat, and sending enough petroleum into the water to create a mile-long by 100 foot wide sheen, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The cause of the explosion is not yet known and is under investigation. It comes a little more than four months after BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig blowout, which killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The government and BP are still working on completely sealing that well, which has not leaked since mid-July.

Among environmentalists and liberal lawmakers, reaction was swift.

“In the wake of the BP catastrophe, this is an extremely disturbing event,” said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who has led a congressional investigation into the BP spill. “I call on the administration to immediately redouble safety reviews of all offshore drilling and platform operations in the gulf and take all appropriate action to ensure safety and protection of the environment.”

In a news conference Thursday afternoon, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said that the oil platform’s operator, Mariner Energy reported that all of the site’s seven active wells had been “shut in,” meaning they were not leaking oil. Though a fire was still burning on the platform, Jindal said the company had told officials that it was being fed by an oil product stored on the platform.

“That’s a very important point,” Jindal said — and one that may differentiate this disaster from the BP fire, which was fed by an uncontrollable gush of oil from the well below.

Thursday’s incident occurred farther west than the BP blowout, about 102 miles off the Louisiana shore, on a shallow-water oil and gas platform south of Terrebonne Bay, said Eileen Angelico, a spokesperson with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.

The Coast Guard received the fire report at 9:20 am, according to Petty Officer Casey Ranel. Workers on a nearby oil facility reported that an explosion occurred on the platform, Ranel said.

The rig’s 13 workers, wearing floatation suits, apparently jumped in the water, which is about 340 feet deep. They were evacuated by boat, said Patrick Cassidy, a Mariner spokesman, in an interview with CNN.

Cassidy said he didn’t know the circumstances that led the workers to jump overboard.

“The expectation is that they shut-in production and then evacuated the facility,” he said. “They were picked up from a life raft, picked up by a boat, and are on their way to facilities onshore.”

A Coast Guard e-mail to Congressional offices said that the platform workers reported beginning emergency shutdown procedures before abandoning it, but that the success of those procedures was “unknown.”

According to the e-mail, the company told the Coast Guard that the platform does not have a “standard” blowout preventer, the device of last resort used to shut off the flow of oil and gas from a wild well.

Jindal said it was possible, though not confirmed, that some type of “nonstandard” blowout preventer may have been used on the platform.

Jindal and the Coast Guard reported that that one worker was injured, but Mariner Energy, in a news release, said that there were no injuries. Jindal said all 13 workers would soon be flown by helicopter to a Louisiana hospital to be checked for injuries.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Matthew Masaschi said Mariner Energy had sent three vessels to combat the fire, which was contained but still burning as of Thursday afternoon.

The Mariner Energy news release said that in the last week of August, production on the facility, which is technically in a federal lease area called Vermillion block 380, averaged about 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 1,400 barrels of oil and condensate.

Mariner Energy focuses on oil and natural gas exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. Among all operators in the U.S. outer-continental shelf, it ranks the eighth-largest in natural gas production and 24th in oil production.

By the end of 2009, Mariner Energy had interests in nearly 350 federal offshore leases, with more than 110 of those in development. The company currently has ties to more than 80 deep-water wells.

The firm has been aggressively ramping up its expansion in the Gulf of Mexico since 1996. Some of those exploration and development projects had been in deeper waters, ranging from 1,300 feet up to 7,100 feet. But the one area the business has been particularly active in the Permian basin oil field, off the coast of Texas. As of Dec. 31, 2009, Mariner Energy’s net acreage in the Permian Basin was nearly 150,000 acres.

Apache, another petroleum company based in Houston, announced plans to buy Mariner Energy one week prior to the BP oil spill. The $3.9 billion cash-and-stock deal is still pending. It had expected to be finalized by next month.

It was the company’s wide swath of drilling acreage and off-shore leases in the Gulf of Mexico, both closer to shore and further out in the deep water, that attracted Apache Corp.’s attention, said Apache spokesman Robert Dye.

“We’re monitoring the situation closely,” Dye said. “We’re still trying to see what sort of damage has happened out there, and if there were any hydrocarbons that were spilled.

As of 2008, the Vermilion 380 site was Mariner Energy’s “largest field in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf by reserves,” according to the company’s 2008 annual report. The field, which consisted of 50% oil and 50% natural gas, was large enough and robust enough to convince Mariner Energy to drive several wells into it.

The rig had been active and in production prior to the explosion, Dye said.

Activists and Democrats said Thursday that the fire demonstrated the need for more stringent regulation of the offshore oil industry.

Jacqueline Savitz, senior campaign director for the environmental group Oceana, said that the Obama administration should maintain a recent moratorium on oil and gas drilling that has been strongly opposed by both the oil industry and Louisiana politicians.

“We cannot afford to lose any more human lives, nor can we tolerate further damage to the gulf and its irreplaceable ocean ecosystems,” Savitz said.

The administration has said it plans to keep the moratorium in place until Nov. 30 at the latest.

Fausset reported from Atlanta and Geiger from Washington. Times staff writer P.J. Huffstutter contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-explosion-20100903,0,6227197,full.story

An Italian theoretical physicist, Dr. Gianluigi Zangari says the BP Oil Disaster has caused a dramatic weakening in the vorticity of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, and a reduction in North Atlantic water temperatures by 10 Celsius.

“The breaking of a crucial warm stream … may generate a chain reaction of unpredictable critical phenomena and … may have serious consequences on the dynamics of the Gulf Stream thermoregulation activity of the Global Climate.”

The Gulf Stream’s impact on climate is well known, keeping Iceland and Scotland comfortable in winter compared to the deep-freeze of Labrador at the same latitude. The Gulf Stream directly affects weather and climate patterns over the whole Northern Hemisphere, and perhaps even world wide.

The entire ‘river of warm water’ that flows from the Caribbean to the edges of Western Europe is dying due to the Corexit that the Obama Administration allowed BP to use to hide the scale of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster.

The approximately two million gallons of Corexit, plus several million gallons of other dispersants, have caused the over two hundred million gallons of crude oil to mostly sink to the bottom of the ocean. This has hidden much of the oil, with the hopes that BP can seriously reduce the mandated federal fines from the oil disaster.

However, there is no current way to effectively ‘clean up’ the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, which is about half covered in crude oil. Additionally, the oil has flowed up the East Coast of America and into the North Atlantic Ocean, and there is no way to effectively clean up this ‘sea bottom oil’.

This massive amount of crude oil, covering such an enormous area, has seriously affected the Loop Current, the Gulf Stream, and the North Atlantic Current system, by breaking up the boundary layers of the warm water flow.

There are several names to the themo-regulation ‘river of warm water’ that keeps the Northern Hemisphere from going into a new Ice Age. The first section is named the “Loop Current” and it begins in the Caribbean, flows around the Yucatan Peninsula and goes into the Gulf of Mexico, then loops around the Gulf and exits on the east side and runs between Cuba and Florida.

At this point the current is called the “Florida Current” and it flows from the Keys up the East Coast of America (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and part of North Carolina) to the Outer Banks. At the Outer Banks the current heads east into the North Atlantic where it is known as the “Gulf Stream”. Eventually the Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Current, which itself eventually becomes the Norway Current and the Canary Current.

This ‘river of warm water’ does not begin with the Loop Current, it is part of a much larger system that includes the Atlantic South Equatorial Current which flows north along the coast of Brazil (the North Brazil Current), and becomes the Caribbean Current, and is renamed the Yucatan Current as it flows north into the Yucatan Channel. This entire system is one of the main global themo-regulation processes that regulates the planet’s temperatures.

Based on what has already happened (to the Loop Current and the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Current/etc. and global weather patterns), and what is continuing to happen, we can project increased global climate changes that are both serious and near in terms of time. We may be entering a full new Ice Age.

There is no known way to clean up the massive amount of free crude oil, stripped of its lighter elements by dispersants, now on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and in significant parts of the Atlantic Ocean (where the Gulf Stream flows).

The use of Corexit and other dispersants by BP, with the full cooperation of the Obama Administration has created the most significant danger to the entire planet in recorded history. This is what happens when a great nation slips into being a Third World type of nation, where money alone is the key driving force in government actions.

As full knowledge of the scope of the oncoming mega-disaster to the planet becomes known, the Obama Administration will find itself in a political crisis way beyond Watergate (that cost Nixon his presidency) or the sex affair that almost cost Clinton his presidency. The effect on this years mid-term Congressional elections are apt to be dramatic.
Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/bp_disaster_causing_weather_ch.html

Original source: http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2010/08/special-post.html

BP and federal authorities said they are now turning to a new strategy to stop the leak after admitting their “top kill” operation had failed, but it will take at least four to seven days before it can be put into place.

At least 20 million gallons are now estimated to have gushed into the ocean since the disaster unfolded five weeks ago, threatening an environmental and economic catastrophe across hundreds of kilometers of the US Gulf Coast.

“After three full days of attempting ‘top kill,’ we have been unable to overcome the flow from the well, so we now believe it’s time to move on to the next of our options,” BP Chief Operations Officer Doug Suttles told a press briefing.

President Barack Obama called the developments “enraging” and “heartbreaking”.

Speaking on NBC’s Meet The Press, Carol Browner, the White House’s energy adviser, said: “More oil is leaking in the Gulf of Mexico than at any other time in our history. It means there is more oil than the Exxon Valdez (in Alaska in 1989).”

Engineers had spent days pumping some 30,000 barrels of heavy drilling fluid into the leaking well head on the ocean floor in a high-pressure bid to smother the gushing crude and ultimately seal the well with cement.

The announcement marks the latest failure for BP, which despite a series of high-tech operations over the past month has appeared powerless to bring the disaster to heel since an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig April 20 which killed 11 workers. The rig sank two days later.

The British energy giant had stressed that “top kill” was the best chance at stopping the leak other than drilling an entirely new relief well, a process that has already begun but is expected to take another two months.

“Obviously, we’re very disappointed in today’s announcement and I know all of you are anxious to see this well secured,” US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry told the briefing.

Efforts will now focus on severing the damaged riser pipes that lay crumpled on the ocean floor, then installing a containment device that could capture the leaking oil and syphon it to the surface.

The new containment plan, scheduled to begin next week, is called the “Lower Marine Riser Package Cap (LMRP Cap).”

It is a complex operation that will be carried out by remotely operated robots on the ocean floor, BP officials said – nearly one mile (1.6 kilometers) below the spot where the drilling rig exploded.

The robots, wielding cutting tools, will sever the bent riser pipe and replace it with the LMRP cap, BP officials say.

The cap will then be connected to a riser leading to the drill ship Enterprise, nearly above the robots.

The setback came after Mr Obama visited the region for the second time since the spill began 40 days ago, in an attempt to bring new urgency to the response.

“It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimized by this manmade disaster are made whole,” Mr Obama said.

He ordered Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other top environmental officials to return to the region next week to continue their work aggressively responding to the spill.

Government data released Thursday suggested between 18.6 million gallons and 29.5 million gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf – far more than the roughly 11 million gallons of crude spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. It has already been labelled the worst US environmental disaster in history.

Amid the environmental catastrophe, there were also growing fears for the health of cleanup workers exposed to the oil and chemical dispersants.

Four more crewmen aboard ships helping burn off surface oil were evacuated to hospital late Friday after falling ill, a day after the Coast Guard announced that seven workers were evacuated for medical emergencies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7786754/Oil-to-spill-into-Gulf-for-at-least-two-more-months.html

The story from Mathew Simmons (that the oil well was never capped and was still raging at full speed) has been deemed to be a misleading fraud. [Price & Makow.com fell for it. Apologies] It looks like the purpose of his “disclosure” was to get us to believe that the major cause of death in the gulf region is from methane gas and abiotic oil, WHEN IN FACT, the cause of death is corexit.

It now looks like we do not have an oil leak at all but a tar leak. I will be following up on this, but as you continue reading you will find good reason to believe that what has actually been leaking is from an asphalt volcano, and this could have been a normal seepage of such material. Asphalt is consumed by microbes and does not pose a threat to the oceans nor sea life. In fact, it provides billions of lower food-chain building blocks.

So this is what we have left to go on at the moment:

1. Corexit is lethal. It has been tested in the Valdez disaster and it is known to dramatically reduce the lives of all humans who work around it and breathe it. It should never have been used again.

2. Continue to stay away from areas along the shoreline. Do not swim in the waters.

3. There is a massive media illusion being fed to the public. This has been brought to light by the following:

* Faked pictures of the well supposedly being capped.
* Faked pictures of the BP supposed “command center”.
* Zero callbacks have been made from the supposed BP “help center”
* Ground cleanup crews leaving the scene within an hour of the president’s departure of the area he visited.
* Up to two feet of hauled-in sand being dumped on beaches in front of resorts during the night for photo ops the next day looking ok.
* Public access denied at most beaches along with speaking with any cleanup workers, flying over the gulf region, photographing BP or workers, access to records (how much dispersants, what’s in it, etc.).
* Few people know anything about thousands of workers who have become ill working along the shores and off shore in boats.
What a fact finding mess!

4. Very little oil has hit the gulf coast beaches and this is after days of prevailing winds from the south. So if the oil was ever there in the first place, dispersant or not, it would be reaching the shores now. What has reached the shore has been mostly tar, and overall, after all this time, the amounts have been minuscule. Some of the pictures have shown the “oil” to be reddish, others have shown it to be white.

The latest hypothesis is this: The Deep Horizon’s rig drilled through a clay deposit and an asphalt deposit. This means the event was way over-hyped, that there has never been a threat from a deep well that tapped into 100,000 psi pressure within the largest oil reserve ever found. It would also mean that we DO NOT have a massive flow of toxic abiotic oil killing our oceans. This could mean that this was a scare tactic fed to the public to cover (as a reason) for the use of the deadly corexit.

There is absolutely no reason that this area should be so shut off to visitors other than to hide from us what is really going on. There was no reason to allow BP to control this situation, from the beginning, and over 80 days before the well was supposedly “capped”, without every major world leader screaming for the United States to take immediate action to stop the poisoning of the world’s seas. Unless there never really was such a threat. I repeat, we can not trust any information received via MSM. Photos and movies are easily faked.

I do not know what is really happening or what the plan is. From the looks of things currently it does resemble a hurricane Katrina scenario resulting in permanent evacuation/relocation of lower income people and a possible redevelopment of the region. It all depends on the extent of the damage, long term and short term, of the generously applied corexit. What we may have is a massive dumping of accumulated toxic waste directly into the workplace of hundreds of thousands unsuspecting residents of the gulf.

Other possible reasons include:

* To cause a moratorium on offshore drilling so they can cry about a shortage later (and raise the price) .
* To cause a cataclysmic event for use as a reason the US economy collapsed (Chernobyl proceeded the USSR collapse by about five years).
* To spread a bio disease (depopulation).
* To collapse the economy of the middle east which has loans of such magnitude that some of the countries need crude oil at over 100 dollars per barrel just to survive the interest. This “black eye” the oil industry must now bare could lead to reduced demand and reliance on petroleum (not one of my hypothesis).
* To force the world into changing energy sources. This way they could make us rebuild out transportation system all over again, and capitalize and tax us at every stage of the way. (I’d like to see the day!)
* To change the climate of the East Coast of the US and/or England, Holland, Netherlands, etc.
* To change the gulf stream currents.
* To give reason for “emergency intervention”, coming in the form of military takeover (aka Haiti), this time on a larger scale including Cuba and all the islands of the gulf region.
* As part of a larger world plan; there are now confirmed oil leaks in China, the North Sea, the Red Sea and now a pipeline rupture sending 840,000 gallons into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

“Why are oil spills suddenly occurring constantly, all over the world? Just this year, the environment has taken an unprecedented beating, from the oil industry alone.” Meta Ocean Research

In my last update I mentioned that a second well has been leaking in the gulf near the Deepwater Horizon, and the size of the leak was only mentioned as “smaller than the Deepwater Horizon’s leak”. I am seeing a mass of confusion coming together in the coming days, and years from now they may be still denying that BP’s nightmarish accident was the major cause of the disasters of the seas as seen from a world-wide perspective.

Are these latest incidents for the creation of “plausible deniability” or a much larger plan?

The search for the truth never stops. I hope this helps you in your search for it.

Latest on Corexit Damage

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The chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward, is finalising the details of his imminent exit from BP this weekend as the oil giant prepares to make an announcement on the chief executive’s future possibly within the next 48 hours.

After a weekend of detailed negotiations over Mr Hayward’s severance package, it now appears almost certain that he will announce his departure ahead of BP’s half year results on Tuesday.

According to consensus estimates, those results are expected to show that BP has made profits of nearly $10bn so far this year, despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster which has left the oil company facing bills of many billions of dollars.

It is now thought to be widely agreed by the BP board that it is only with Mr Hayward’s departure that the company can draw a line under the Gulf of Mexico disaster and plan for the future. The chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, is now believed to agree that Mr Hayward should go and that BP needs to announce a root-and-branch change of operational culture.

Sources close to the chairman have said that Mr Svanberg has been surprised by some of the operational systems at the company.

The board is scheduled to meet tomorrow and it only appears to be a last-minute hitch on the politically sensitive severance package that could derail the announcement. The US President and federal government will pore over any details for signs that Mr Hayward has been “rewarded for failure”.

If the details can be agreed, Mr Hayward will be paid at least £1.045m, equivalent to a year’s salary, on leaving BP but is almost certain to demand more in compensation for agreeing to go for the good of the company where he has worked for 28 years.

Under the terms of his contract, Mr Hayward is entitled to “current salary and benefits” on departure, the latest annual report states. Last year, Mr Hayward earned a total of £4.56m – made up of £1.045m in salary, a £2.09m annual bonus, an £852,000 long-term incentive payment and £440,000 by cashing in 220,000 share options.

If he departs as expected, Mr Hayward will be giving up 546,000 share options, all of which are out of the money at BP’s current share price, and a maximum potential 2m shares under the long-term incentive plan, now worth £8m. However, the long-term plans are unlikely to pay out at all given the collapse in the stock and questions about safety standards, which form part of the scheme’s targets.

Mr Hayward, 52, has built up a substantial final salary pension with the company. He has a £10.8m pension pot that will pay him £584,000 a year from the age of 60. However, he will have to wait eight years to start drawing the unreduced amount.

The BP board is likely to use the half-yearly results to tell shareholders that the company will slim down into a leaner, more profitable business following the accident on April 20 which killed 11 men and triggered the worst accident spill in history.

Bob Dudley, the director of its oil spill response unit, has enjoyed a better media profile since taking over operational control in the Gulf of Mexico and is now front-runner to succeed Mr Hayward at the top.

Analyst estimates for “clean” profits of $5bn in the second quarter of the year, stripping out the effect of inventory changes, are likely to rile BP’s critics angry about the oil spill.However, the company will take a hit when costs related to the disaster are taken into account. That could lead BP to record a pre-tax loss of up to $25bn, according to an estimate by Jason Kenney, oil analyst at ING.

Almost 100 days since the disaster, BP has capped its leak and hopes to plug the blown-out hole permanently using cement via a separate relief well.

The Sunday Telegraph can also reveal that plans to publish the initial internal inquiry into what caused the accident has been delayed until next month.

Senior BP sources said that a lack of co-operation from Transocean, which operated the well, and Halliburton, which worked on the cement plug, had meant that BP was unable to give a thorough picture of what happened.

It was originally hoped to publish the document this week.

BP has also sent demands totalling $1.6bn to Anadarko and Mitsui who shared in the ownership of the well. Neither has paid BP, with Anadarko claiming that BP had been “grossly negligent”.

The oil giant is facing mounting pressure from shareholders to sell off more assets – since the sum of BP’s parts is much more valuable than its share price suggests.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7908628/Oil-Spill-BPs-Tony-Hayward-will-quit-in-days.html

So I guess we should not be surprised that they have lied every day about the profound defacement using an out-of-control oil well to destroy the Gulf of Mexico.

But now the lies are beginning to catch up with them. Even the dullest of American minds is beginning to understand that the so-called facts being spouted by the corporate-kept, Jewish-owned mainstream media are becoming more preposterous.

Most Americans can’t comprehend the technological terms that have been used throughout this ugly episode of lying by almost everyone involved – the U.S. government, British Petroleum, and the major media.

But fortunately, experts are stepping forward. Mainstream media have pretty much ignored the claims recently made by oil industry insider Matt Simmons that the main leak of the so-called volcano was not the device so often pictured on network TV, because the diameter of that pipe was not large enough to account for the volume of oil observed in the Gulf by satellites of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

The best CNN could do July 19 was to report that government and BP spokespeople were admitting that other leaks in the seafloor were appearing in other locations than the so-called riser pipe, perhaps as a way to deflect attention from Simmons’ assessment that officials were covering up both the location and the volume of the main leak that has now poisoned the entire Gulf of Mexico.

But now geologist Chris Landau has blown the lid off the whole tragic charade that has been cynically carried on by BP, President Obama and the various functionaries who have been paraded before the cameras to parrot oil industry misinformation.

Landau, who has been critically commenting on the whole sorry episode throughout this 3-month ordeal that threatens the health of the entire world, has enumerated a whole list of reasons as to why the government’s story cannot possibly be true.

The most egregious lie, according to this veteran oil industry watcher, is the constant images put forth on television which show a pipe burbling some substance into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It looks like an overworked water bubbler in a public park, emitting a substance of changing colors that floats with a moderately effervescent turbulence toward the surface.

However, news reports have quoted various BP and government officials as saying that extreme pressures from the wellhead are what caused the oil rig to explode and the leak to remain unplugged for three months.

Landau isn’t believing any of it.

“I have worked with air, steam, and hydraulic leaks up to the 4,500 PSI (pounds per square inch) range,” Landau wrote. “They were claiming wellhead pressures of up to 70,000 to 100,000 pounds per square inch.

Now, they are claiming pressures of 6.5-7K PSI.”

Landau writes: “From personal observations, I can tell you that 600 PSI, it’ll cut you in half. Hydraulic fluid at 3,000 PSI vaporizes when a line bursts.

“Now, can you correlate those facts with the images being shown on MSM of a lazy burbling fountain of oil lazily coming out of a 14″ diameter pipe, when the pressure indications would indicate something in the nature of a Saturn rocket booster engine?”

He said the oil leak, if they’re claiming 100,000 pounds per square inch as the reason for the disaster, should look like the most colossal rocket engine exhaust we have ever sent into space!!!

Is this not more verification of what oil expert Matt Simmons said is “the biggest lie of all time”?

And that’s not all.

“The video of the pressure gauges is interesting,” Landau writes, adding “not for what the gauge itself reads, but for the fact that crush depth for a modern nuclear submarine is somewhere around 1,200 ft.

“How do they keep the gauges from crushing in at 5,000 feet?” he asks, fuming.

And if all that’s not bad enough, Landau notes:

“Since when do you have a blue background in videos taken at 5,000 feet? Some shown have had them.”

Is this not proof positive that the whole pathetic presentation by BP and the U.S. government is a pathetic hoax? Yet who in that sorry day and age, can arrest our own criminal government, which is not only waging unjust wars against innocent people around the world, but now is complicit up to its eyeballs in trying to kill its own people and destroy the entire Gulf of Mexico?

Since the U.S. government shows no signs of trying to act honestly through this horrifying debacle, perhaps it is approaching the time another country, or a collection of other countries, might have to step in to save the environmental health of the world from the Jewish-controlled monster called the USA.

Watch Landau’s video and then try to figure out what we as Americans can do with a government in charge of a law enforcement and military apparatus that is clearly complicit in a horrible scheme to kill millions of people.

The read Landau’s latest article: “BP Well Should Not be Pressure Tested”: http://www.opednews.com/articles/BP-Blown-out-well-should-n-by-Chris-Landau-100714-978.html

In other oil disaster news, numerous officials are talking about methane seepage near the riser that is being watched on television.

See those numerous reports at http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/

Perhaps these reports are an attempt to deflect attention from Matt Simmons’ assertion yesterday that a giant hole perhaps ten miles away from the center of everyone’s attention is what is really responsible for the continuing fouling of the Gulf. Simmons estimates that gaping hole in the Gulf floor is what is really responsible for the 120,000 BARRELS per day that continues to flow into the ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard continues to remain silent about these methane reports, despite numerous stories about “mystery seepage” near the wellbore.

Perhaps the most sensational story of the day came from a source of debatable credibility, the Drudge Report, that said the methane levels now being seen in the Gulf have only been previously conjectured as happening during mass extinction events, a comment made by oceanographer John Kessler of Texas A&M University. You can read that on floridaoilspilllaw.com.

And in a development late in the day July 19, the Associated Press was reporting that oil and gas were leaking from the new cap on BP’s ruptured oil well, but retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, still serving as the point person for BP and the U.S. government’s cynical spin machine, said Monday afternoon that the leaks are so far not a major concern, while mentioning nothing about methane or Simmons’ contention that the real source of the leak was being hidden by BP.

John Kaminski is a writer who formerly lived on the Gulf Coast of Florida who is now a thousand miles away and now has no plans to ever return there.
Source: http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/environment/314635

Dear Henry,

Here is an interesting tv news broadcast from July 21st that reveals a second deep water oil well, called the “Ocean Saratoga,” has been leaking since April. What I find most interesting is that this information was just released by the coast guard. In the report,they state that the size of the spill is SMALLER than that of the Deepwater Horizon’s, but that it is now visible as a slick on the ocean that is miles long.

Can you believe the rhetoric! Smaller than the Deepwater Horizon’s? So, it could have been as large as the aforementioned oil volcano, or, it was so small that the US Coast Guard didn’t even need to mention it, or something in-between. Thanks for presenting a potential second disaster as though it is nothing!

It is amazing what kind of confounding/worthless information these supposed professional newscasters are getting away with. “Hey it’s just another accident in the already accident-prone Gulf of Mexico.”

Is it possible that there is a tie-in with the Mathew Simmons story about the original and uncontrollable Deepwater well being ignored with this now recent report of a confirmed second leak? Why? For confusion purposes.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06mexico/background/oil/media/platform_600.html

Go here for a map of the total number and location of oil rigs currently in the Gulf region. There are 3,858 platforms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFheGtWnDbU

Go here for a hurricane forecast. The forecast is for gale force winds to be in the vicinity of the cleanup efforts five days from now.

With these conditions and changing events noted, one thing I think we know is this:

In the aftermath of the next hurricane striking the gulf region (which could be soon), Government data vs. BP data vs. TV media data vs. Internet data won’t matter, as it will be impossible to sort out the real truth in the midst of forced evacuations and media cowardice.

From June:

Did you see this video on youtube, by any chance? It states the entire gulf oil leak was created and is controlled by the NOW for depopulation:

My husband and I watched it and we must admit, it does make us wonder if this entire gulf oil leak was indeed purposed and created by the NWO to cause a phony disaster in order to enable them to depopulate (use bio weapons (dispersant) and kill off low income coastal populations) and gain control of all waterfront properties! I do know that much of those waterfront areas are populated by low income and black people.

The video does not give the name of the person who says he or she received this info firsthand from the top levels of government, so it lacks credible witness, but it does provide for an extremely credible possibility that what this person is saying is true. After listening to it, we do wonder why there is not more oil, not tar balls, but oil, coming up on the beaches.

This should be more evident. Could this ‘illusion’ be the reason the government is breaking the first amendment and keeping the media from knowing too much? Could they have played the ‘illuminati card’ for real, drilled into the volcano side to create a ‘controlled’ oil leak, and tell the world it was a real accident–now playing the world into thinking this is a huge out of control disaster…thus giving them an easy way to commit mass murder?

This video by a person shows that the oil in the gulf can be cleaned within 6 weeks by the use of natural microbes that live in the ocean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYxsbAXXvg

This is how the oil during the 1979 gulf oil leak disappeared and got cleaned. So, the NWO was not concerned about allowing oil into the gulf back in April, as they know the microbes would dissipate it eventually, like the1979 scenario.

I saw a news video showing that gulf disaster back in 1979, and this gulf oil leak seems to be an exact copycat, except this leak is in a deeper area of the ocean. Back then, they performed all the exact same procedures that they are doing now, and in the end nothing worked until they drilled ‘relief’ wells. This was 4 months after the spill, and thus they were finally able to cap that well.

Could it be that they staged that oil leak back in 1979, and now, repeating the process again to further their global agenda? Or could it be that they used the 1979 oil disaster as a blueprint to create a ‘staged’ oil leak in 2010?

What does concern me is that many newsites are using this Simmons fellas’ (oil expert from the Bush era) interview…yet he is CFR, right? So, can he be trusted? Or is he a plant to make this illusion look real?

I am sure we will all know more later as time passes, but the above first video is compelling information to consider…what do you think?

The facts remains…highly toxic dispersants were used and is now raining down on the gulf populations…and soon humans will get sick and die just like some plants and trees are currently doing. (Dispersants were used in 1979, by the way). It is unbelievable, simply unbelievable, that they can get away with using such a toxic dispersant…yet, here they are, legally killing people all under the guise of stopping the oil….what genius by these madmen!

Leak was Always Stoppable

Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/object_width480_height385param.html

There are cracks in the seafloor leaking, and the pressure tests are revealing that the casing will not hold; it has already been perforated in numerous places.

[This is in contradiction to the latest mainstream press reports that there are no leaks either in the well cap or the sea floor.]

I believe it is time to leave the gulf coast in case the sea floor expands then collapses delivering a tsunami to the region.

There is no way that this device can hold the pressures that are involved with this super-pressurized gas reserve. Advise loved ones to leave the region, now, and for a few days; this well cap poses a much more dangerous situation than they probably know.

How can we get people in the gulf region to watch a couple hours of YouTube (see below) and read all that I have, such that they would come to the conclusion that they are in grave danger?

These nuts deliberately let crude flow through the pipe casing for a long enough time to insure that it is worn and weakened in numerous places, and now they apply a cap, and now they start pressurizing all of the layers of strata in between the oil reservoir and seafloor.

Few know of the existence of a power “group” that rules above the spoon fed TV characters called presidents, senators, governors, etc. You and I know, such a diabolical event does not happen without plan and execution.

Dave Lindorff is the one who has most recently brought this situation of the pressure spreading out under the layers beneath the sea floor to light. I’m trying to predict the timing. If there is one thing I have learned over and over again it is this: I cannot predict the timing of these tragic events.

Videos of Seabed Leaking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydghupdEoxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_IPueV9mI

Henry, understand, I as a father of three with a wife came to the conclusion that if we were living in the gulf region that we would be packing our things right now and leaving. With that decision it seemed imperative that I at least let other people, who might be in this region or know of somebody in this region, know of what I believe are significant risks at this particular juncture of this attempted pressure containment.

I think this youtube video describes the situation most accurately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ8Z4oeecw

BP engineers were hoping to achieve gas pressures as high as 10,000 psi, and they were hoping for a sustained pressure of around 8,000 psi. The fact that they only got upwards of 6,700 psi indicates that they have leaks, which is not good news as you know this means that oil is working its way between the steel case and the sedimentary layers.

A major point to keep in mind is the huge percentage of methane gas: I have read upwards of 30% of the discharge is methane gas. This gas will gradually seep between various levels of strata leading to a rise in the sea floor. Here is part of a July 16th article from the LA Times Greenspace:

“We’re at the point where there’s enough uncertainty … we need to be careful not to do any harm,” said Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who is overseeing the spill response.

After consulting with scientists Friday afternoon, Allen told BP to take more seismic soundings of the seabed and expand its monitoring of the seafloor. A federal ship with the ability to detect methane bubbles in the water – signaling a leak – was also called into action. end times article

I think it is noteworthy that they are requesting a ship to look for gas bubbles; it must be a large area that they need to monitor.

BP Readying Star Wars Weapon

Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/ken_price.html

Simmons, former energy adviser to the second President Bush, explained that according to his reading of the data from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, capping of the so-called riser and the subsequent announcement by U.S. President Obama was “the biggest con job we’ve ever seen.”

Simmons, creator of an investment bank catering to oil companies, told radio host Ian Masters that the real problem continuing to gush oil into the Gulf was not the 6-inch “riser” that apparently has been capped amid much TV hoopla, but that an open hole or cauldron perhaps up to 10 miles distant from where British Petroleum’s cameras are focused which continues to spew 120,000 BARRELS per day, and that BP’s much publicized effort to drill relief wells in what the company says is an effort to stop the flow of oil is nothing but a cynical publicity stunt.

“The dimensions of this lie are beyond belief,” said Simmons, explaining that the idea of a relief well is “tricky at best,” since trying to hit a pipe of less than a foot in diameter 35,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf may be entirely futile because the casing of the original pipe is not even there, having blown away at some point.

But Simmons noted that both BP and Obama continue to deny that this open hole, or cauldron, even exists, even though Simmons and others insist the NOAA data from satellites prove by speed of flow and depth of light that the amount of oil that has been flowing through the on-camera riser could not possibly account for the amount of oil that has spilled into the Gulf.

“The riser is totally irrelevant,” Simmons stressed, adding “and there’s no way to cap the open hole.” He explained that BP continues to deny the open hole exists and theorizes the continuing flow of oil into the Gulf is really just the residue from what has already been spilled during the first 90 days of the disaster.

“There is denial that there’s even a problem,” Simmons said. “In about a month or two people will realize that this actually was the biggest con job we’ve ever seen.”

Simmons also noted an additional danger. “What the researchers now believe is that basically is that between 4000 and 4500 below the ocean floor lies an oil lake that’s somewhere between 100 and 120 miles wide and it’s about 4500 feet deep. It’s this toxic waste and crude and it’s releasing methane gases that are absolutely lethal which is why all the fish and dolphins and sharks and whales are dying. And workers too, which is why so many have gotten sick, or maybe really sick.

“The health problems are so serious,” Simmons said. “When you inhale methane you just die.”

The only possible solution, Simmons insists, “is a small diameter low level nuclear device. They insert it down the well 18000 feet, and set it off. It will fuse the rock and glass, and it’s totally safe, three miles under the seabed.”

Radio host Masters asked, “When do we get the truth?”

Simmons responded, “Basically the walls are starting to cave in on BP. There are only so many things you can make up.”

“But here’s the really scary thing,” Simmons told the Pacifica radio audience. “If we have a storm, let alone a hurricane, what hurricanes basically do is they churn up cold water from the base of the Gulf.

This time it’s not going to be cold water, it’s going to be black poisonous crude. It will also shut down the 18 power plants along the Gulf Coast.

“So we’re going to entrap 20 million people in harm’s way.”

Listen to interview.

Source: http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/environment/312357-theyre-still-lying-about-oil-disaster

The potential magnitude of what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico simply cannot be overstated. It is far, far worse than is being admitted and what we are allowed to see is catastrophic enough.

When a major event happens we should watch and wait to see what information comes to light before jumping in with ‘it’s this’ or ‘it’s that’. What appears to be one thing at the start can become something quite different a few days or weeks later.

But we now have had enough time to shake our heads at claims that this was just an ‘accident’ or ‘incompetence’.

Beware cover stories of ‘incompetence’, as with ‘incompetent bureaucrats’, because they are so often a veil for cold calculation. The Gulf of Mexico disaster didn’t just happen, it was made to happen.

Mother Jones magazine reported:

‘Tony Buzbee, a lawyer representing 15 rig workers and dozens of shrimpers, seafood restaurants, and dock workers, says he has obtained a three-page signed statement from a crew member on the boat that rescued the burning rig’s workers.

Buzbee told Mother Jones that, according to this witness’s account, Harrell was screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.’

Yes, and nothing was done because it was meant to happen.

We are well aware of Halliburton, the company headed by a key player behind the war on Iraq has since been awarded a stream of no bid government contracts in the country that has transferred staggering amounts of taxpayer money into the pig trough infested by Halliburton executives and shareholders.

Lawsuits claim that the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, 52 miles south-east of the Louisiana port of Venice on April 20th, was caused because Halliburton workers improperly capped the well – a process known as cementing.

Just eight days before the Gulf blow-out, Halliburton also announced that it had agreed to buy Boots & Coots for $240.4 million. Who are Boots & Coots?

The world’s largest oil-spill clean-up company which also deals with oil and gas well fires and blowouts.

What an incredibly fortunate coincidence. What a slice of luck.

Goldman Sachs sold 44 per cent of its holdings in BP, a total of 4,680,822 shares worth the best part of $300 million, in the weeks before the Gulf disaster that sent BP shares plummeting, and Tony Hayward, BP’s disgraceful chief executive, is reported to have sold his £1.4 million shares in BP a month before the explosion. The profit allowed him to pay off the mortgage on his mansion. How nice.

As with the pre-9/11 ‘put options’ (bets) on the stocks of American airlines falling, so we have gathering evidence that some people knew what was coming in the Gulf of Mexico from an oil rig operated by one of the biggest companies on the planet – British Petroleum.

Merely drilling where BP did, with the known pressures from within the earth, was asking for trouble.

But what’s the deal? How does an oil-poisoned ocean and devastated coastal communities (and potentially others far inland and around the world) benefit an agenda for total global control?

Oh, in so many ways.

Firstly, we need to appreciate the almost unimaginable scale of what is happening – facts that BP and the Obama-fronted American government are desperate to keep from us.

Recent reports have claimed to quote the opinions of scientists who are too fearful to be publicly named because of the consequences for their lives and careers.

They estimate the release of oil from under the Earth’s crust at between 80,000 and 100,000 barrels a day. That is 4.2 million gallons or 15.9 million litres a daypotentially pouring into the Gulf.

This aligns with a leaked internal BP document that says that in a ‘worst-case scenario’ up to 100,000 barrels a day could be released into the ocean.

The scientists were quoted as saying that the ‘sandblasting’ of the oil, toxic gases, rocks and sand will be continually making a bigger hole for the oil and gas to escape. In other words, the situation is getting worse not better and it is already a catastrophe of immense proportions for those immediately affected – a number growing rapidly by the day.

The scientists predicted that the drill hole will expand beneath the wellhead and so weaken the area on which the wellhead stands until it is pushed off the hole to allow the oil to flow with no restrictions at all.

Should that happen the consequences are unthinkable.

The scientists said that billions of barrels of oil will be released before the pressure in the enormous cavity five miles below the seabed calms and finds balance and then water would pour into the cavity to replace the oil.

They said that the temperature at that depth, some 400 degrees, will turn the water to steam creating a pressure that will lift the ocean floor. They estimate that this will create a tsunami of between 20 to 80 feet, or even higher, that will bring the poisoned ocean ashore to leave great tracts of land uninhabitable and without life.

American investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen, writes that satellite imagery withheld by the Obama administration shows that ‘under the gaping chasm spewing oil at an ever-alarming rate is a cavern estimated to be around the size of Mount Everest’. This information, he says, has been given an almost national security-level classification to keep it from the public.

Now, we have heard many doomsday scenarios before in many circumstances that have not manifested, but even if such shocking predictions do not happen on that staggering scale there is no question that the world changed on April 20th 2010 when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded.

Just a look at the map of the Gulf region reveals the potential effect on enormous numbers of people in Mexico, the Caribbean and the southern states of America with so many living on or close to the coastline …

But the scale and potential of what we are seeing goes way beyond even the Gulf. The scientists mentioned earlier say that the oil has now reached the Gulf Stream, with a current at least four times stronger than in the Gulf of Mexico itself, and this could help to direct the oil all over the world in the next 18 months.

It is the Gulf Stream that keeps the United Kingdom and parts of Europe much warmer than they would otherwise be at their latitude, but it will also act as a oceanic conveyor belt delivering the oil from the Gulf Mexico across the Atlantic.

The toxic oil and gas are being added to by the lethal ‘dispersant’ used by BP to (theoretically, for public consumption only), ‘disperse the oil’. They are using Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527A which are so toxic they have been banned in Europe, although Europe is likely to get them anyway via the Gulf Stream.

Corexit is manufactured by a corporation called Nalco, once part of ExxonMobil, and the current leadership includes executives from Exxon and BP. TheEuropean Union Times said of Corexit:

‘A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction” …

… Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.’

You might think at first hearing that it is blatantly crazy to use Corexit when there are some 12 other less toxic and more effective dispersants approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Two of those on the EPA list ‘were found to be 100 percent effective on Gulf of Mexico crude, while the two Corexit products rated 56 percent and 63 percent effective’.

Well, yes, it is crazy, these people are crazy, but there is method in their madness, as we will see.

Killing the sea to ‘save’ the sea.

Corexit also causes the oil to drop below the surface so giving a false impression of how much oil is in the water.

Environmental engineer Joe Taylor has publicly warned BP to stop using Corexit immediately or everything in the sea is going to die. It is worth watching this short report on his findings before we move on, because we are getting to the prime question – why is BP doing everything it can to cause maximum destruction. (If the picture did not transfer the link is still here.)

The key words spoken by Joe Taylor were when he said that if he knew the information about the effect of Corexit then so did BP – ‘They have a lot of chemists who are a lot smarter than I am, and they know this.’

Why would BP be knowingly causing as much environmental devastation as possible? The answer to this question is the same as the answer to these:

Why was the booming operation supposed to protect the beaches from the oil so pathetic and ‘inept’, as exposed here by an expert …BP Fails Booming School 101? (link included below)
Why is the BP ‘clean-up’ operation so disorganised, unmotivated and basically non-existent that BP employees are working for little more than two hours a day on beach cleaning, as exposed here in The Short Film BP Doesn’t Want You To See …?

The answer to all those questions and so many more is this: we are looking at an environmental 9/11 that was made to happen and those behind this carnage want it to be as extreme as possible to get maximum impact in terms of their goals of control and chaos.

A vacuous, ludicrous and mendacious man called Bob Dudley, the BP managing director, said from the comfort and distance of Washington DC that ‘for BP, our intent is to restore the Gulf the way it was before it happened.’

Meanwhile, back here on Planet Earth, life as they have known it is already over for the coastal communities of the Gulf region with the tourist and fishing industries devastated or destroyed. People are now being forced to earn a livelihood working on ‘clean-ups’ for the same BP that has wreaked this havoc on their lives and families.

What’s more, they are told by this merciless corporation that they must work amid shocking levels of toxicity without respirators because they don’t want to ‘alarm the public’ by seeing such pictures – the same reason why BP has basically introduced its own martial law in the region to stop the full and horrific extent of the disaster and its global potential coming to light.

The health consequences for those ‘clean-up’ workers already exposed to this deeply toxic environment without protection will already be horrific, as we shall see. But BP couldn’t shiv a git – just as the US government and the New York authorities couldn’t give a shit about the rescue workers on the toxic World Trade Center site after 9/11.

Already, even the (pathetic) mainstream media has reported that 70 people in Louisiana have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of toxin poisoning. Many beaches have been closed because of toxins in the air and water and people are reporting breathing problems and skin rashes and lesions.

One report said that crops as far north as North Carolina have been damaged by toxic rain, while oil has been falling in the rain near the Louisiana coast.

This is only the beginning, too, as the oil continues to gush in ever-greater amounts to be met by the lethal Corexit in ever-greater amounts, and that whole deadly toxic cocktail is going to fall as rain on communities far from the coast.

Add to that the hurricanes, tidal surges and other weather phenomena and you can understand why those nameless scientists are writing off land up to 200 miles from the shore as becoming too toxic to support life, let alone a human society. See the story about Nigeria at the end of this article for some of the consequences that oil pollution can bring.

Two other effects of so much oil in the Gulf of Mexico could be to heat up the sea, so causing more hurricanes and super-storms, and making the process of producing rain from seawater less efficient, so affecting rainfall on the land.

The major target of this engineered horror is America and its economy – the powers that be are seeking to destroy the United States militarily and financially to bring this ‘superpower’ to its knees so it can be absorbed into a world government dictatorship via a North American Union.

BP has said that massive quantities of methane are leaking with the oil, along with large mounts of lethally toxic hydrogen sulfide, benzene and methylene chloride. This has the potential to trigger mass evacuations.

John Kessler, oceanography professor at Texas A&M University, discovered on a ten-day research expedition what he called ‘astonishingly high’ levels of methane within five miles of the stricken rig – ‘an incredible amount’ – and maybe as much as a million times greater than normal.

It is very sobering to look again at the towns and cities of the Gulf coast given a report by investigative journalist, Wayne Madson, that quotes ‘sources’ inside the US government, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers as predicting a ‘dead zone’ within 200 miles of the rig caused by a combination of methane and toxic rain containing Corexit.

Madsen says:

‘Plans are being put in place for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mandeville, Hammond, Houma, Belle Chase, Chalmette, Slidell, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Mobile, Bay Minette, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Crestview, and Pascagoula.’

Imagine evacuating that many people and maybe more of the tens of millions of people who live on or within 200 miles of the Gulf coast, but then that would be just the scale of disaster and compulsion that would allow FEMA, a major asset of the Control System to impose its long-planned martial law on enormous numbers of people.

FEMA and the military have been preparing for this for years with exercises for just such a situation involving oil pollution, but all records of this were expunged from FEMA-related websites in the weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Anything that affects America on such a scale would have a knock-on effect economically across the world – another bonus for the cabal which is seeking to create maximum chaos on every front to instigate the global problems to which it will offer its global solutions – a world political and military dictatorship.
Source: http://thedrcoldwellreport.blogspot.com/2010/07/biblical-catastrophe-that-will-affect.html

Links:

http://www.patriotsprepare.com/

http://www.exiledbroadcasting.com/

http://www.governmentisaparasite.com/

What is yet unknowable is what the reality is of BP’s off-balance sheet obligations and leverage positions. How many Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) is it operating? Remember, during the Enron debacle Andrew Fastow, the Enron CFO, asserted in testimony nearly 10 years ago that GE had 2500 such entities already in existence. BP has even more physical assets than Enron and GE. Furthermore, no one knows the true size of BP’s OTC derivative contracts such as Interest Rate Swaps and Currency Swaps. Only the major international banks have visibility to what the collateral obligations associated with these instruments are, their credit trigger events and who the counter parties are. They are obviously not talking, but as I will explain, they are aggressively repositioning trillions of dollars in global currency, swap, derivative, options, debt and equity portfolios.

Once again, as we saw with Lehman Bros and Bear Stearns we have no visibility to the murky world of off balance sheet, off shore and unregulated OTC contracts, where BP’s financial risk is presently being determined. At a time when understanding a corporation’s risk position is critically important, investors are in the dark. When markets are uncertain, bad things are certain to follow. The new financial regulations under the Dodd-Frank legislation does absolutely nothing to address this. This was the central issue in truly understanding and corralling TBTF risk. It has not been addressed and the markets will likely make the tax payer pay for this regulatory failure once again.

Massive BP Risk lay in the $615T OTC Market that only the major international banks have any visibility to…. and they are not talking!

I could not have stated it any clearer than Jim Sinclair at jsmineset.com: “People are seriously underestimating how much liquidity in the global financial world is dependent on a solvent BP. BP extends credit – through trading and finance. They extend the amounts, quality and duration of credit a bank could only dream of. You should think about the financial muscle behind a company with 100+ years of proven oil and gas reserves. Think about that in comparison to a bank with few tangible assets. Then think about what happens if BP goes under. This is no bank. With proven reserves and wells in the ground, equity in fields all over the planet, in terms of credit quality and credit provision – nothing can match an oil major. God only knows how many assets around the planet are dependent on credit and finance extended from BP. It is likely to dwarf any banking entity in multiples…. The price tag and resultant knock-on effects of a BP failure could easily be equal to that of a Lehman, if not more. It is surely, at the very least, Enron x10.”

From a historical context, some may not be aware that the infamous House of Rothschild at the height of their banking power moved into Energy & Oil. Also, John D. Rockefeller quickly realized his globally expanding Standard Oil was more a bank, consolidating his financial empire under a banking structure which resulted in the Chase Manhattan Bank (the basis of Citigroup). As long as an energy giant can manage its cash flows throughout the volatility of price fluctuations, it becomes a money and credit generating machine. It can borrow with AAA yields anywhere on the curve and lend to less credit worthy entities at attractive spreads. These lending differentials help fuel the $430T Interest Rate Swap OTC market. BP has been able to spin off $20B of earnings for the last 5 years and $15B in cash last year. All of this suddenly comes to an end if its credit rating is significantly impaired. But what could possibly cause this to happen? It would take a black swan event. An outlier. A fat tail.

Sound familiar? Heard this discussion before?

The Gulf Oil Disaster may be the fat tail to end all fat tails and shows the exposure behind the entire risk models of the vast majority of derivatives algorithm models. To suggest that BP would need to take impairments north of $20B would have seemed out of the realm of possibilities less than 90 days ago. Now, if it is contained to only $20B, it would be considered a blessing. Fitch dropped BP’s credit rating an unprecedented 6 notches on June 15th from AA to BBB which followed June 3rd’s AA+ to AA cut. This is what happens when a fat tail occurs and it has only just begun.

Though few are talking openly, it doesn’t mean large amounts of money aren’t aggressively repositioning. This repositioning is effectively de-leveraging and is consequentially a liquidity drain. This comes as US M3 has gone negative and M2, M1 are rapidly declining. BP is going to face a massive liquidity crunch which has all the earmarks of triggering an already tenuous and worsening international liquidity situation.

I found the charts (right) published by Credit Derivatives Research to be very telling of the abrupt shift that has occurred. Their charts show that the April 21st Macondo well explosion has triggered a significant inflection in the risk, counterparty and high yield areas. A comparison with Government and High Grade Debt has a different profile (see end of this report for the charts) which reflects the European banking concerns associated with the southern European economies (PIIGS). It is important to differentiate these as separate drivers. Both come as the percentage of corporate bonds considered in distress is at the highest in six months – a sign investors expect the economy to slow and defaults to rise. This spells deleveraging.

1 – CSO (Credit Synthetic Obligations)

A study by Moody’s outlines that a BP bankruptcy would impair 117 Collateralized Synthetic Obligations (CSOs), which would lead to pervasive losses by a broad range of holders. The 117 effected is a startling 18% of the total CSOs outstanding, which is an indication of the scope and impact of BP financing globally. For those that remember the 2008 financial debacle, you will recall its epicenter was the collapse of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) associated with mortgages and Credit Default Swaps (CDS) of financial companies impacted. CSOs are even more leveraged and toxic.

The exhibit above lists CSOs (excluding CSOs backed by CSOs) with over 3% exposure to the five companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico incident.

To quote Moody’s:

In the event of BP’s restructuring or bankruptcy, CSO transactions referencing BP or its affected subsidiaries may experience what is called a “credit event.” If the credit event occurs, the CSO transactions will have to meet their payment obligations to the protection buyers, which will result in the loss of subordination to the rated CSO tranches. In cases where the subordination is no longer available, CSO investors will incur the loss.

We reviewed our entire universe of outstanding CSOs and determined that exposure to BP and its rated subsidiaries appears in 117 (excluding CSOs backed by CSOs) transactions, which represents approximately 18% of global Moody’s-rated CSOs. Exposure ranged from 0.26% to 2% of the respective reference portfolios. The transaction with the largest exposure to BP and its subsidiaries is Arosa Funding Limited – Series 2005-5.

Restructuring or Bankruptcy of Other Oil Companies Involved in the Spill Also Affects CSOs. In addition, we assessed Moody’s-rated CSO exposure to the other four companies and their subsidiaries that were involved in the Gulf of Mexico incident, which are Halliburton, Anadarko Petroleum, Transocean Inc., and Cameron International. Halliburton appears in 43 CSOs, Anadarko Petroleum appears in 28 CSOs, Transocean Inc. appears in 79 CSOs, and Cameron International appears in 6 CSOs. We recently changed the credit outlooks for Transocean and Anadarko Petroleum, as well as their rated subsidiaries, to negative from stable because of uncertainties related to the companies’ involvement in the Gulf of Mexico incident and potential financial liabilities associated with it. The CSOs referencing one or more of these issuers would face credit event consequences in a scenario where any of them restructures or enters bankruptcy.

We need to recall that Transocean was the owner /operator of Deepwater Horizon with 131 of the actual 137 employed by Transocean (RIG) and that Anadarko (APC) was BP’s 25% partnership holder in the well. Cameron International (CAM) was the builder of the faulty blowout preventer and Halliburton (HAL) the contractor for the well cementing operation in sealing the 13,350 foot Macondo drill site. These players will no doubt be heavily involved in the litigation and compensation settlements, but additionally will have collateral damage on other oil industry participants as they are forced to raise cash for litigation and claims.

2 – CDS (Credit Default Swaps)
On June 25th BP’s Credit Default Swaps shot up 44 to 580 on the 5 years CDS. This meant it costs $580,000 per year to ensure $10 million in BP bonds over a 5 year contract period. Anything approaching 300 is considered serious risk. For counterparties willing to pay this amount means their dynamic hedging models are working over time and a near panic scramble is taking place.

On June 16th Zero Hedge Reported:

The BP Curve has really flipped (out). The 1 year point on the curve is now over 1,000 bps, a 400 bps move in one day. The point is also offerless (bidless in traditional cash jargon). Granted the DV01 so close to 0 is rather low, but this kind of ridiculous curve inversion is simply wreaking havoc on correlation desks. The 6 month point is now 0.5 pts upfront. Pretty soon BP will need to apply for the same ECB bailout that rescued all those banks who were risking a wipe out when Greek spreads were trading at comparable levels. The question now becomes: who sold the bulk of the BP protection? BofA’s announcement yesterday (06-15-10) that it is limiting counterparty risk exposure with BP to all contracts over 1 year could be a rather material clue as to the identity of at least one such entity.

3 – BOND INVERSION

With Credit Default Swap concerns we would expect this to be reflected in BP’s Yield Curve Spread. What is interesting here is that the curve is inverted as is BP’s CDS curve (shown above). Usually short term yields are less than longer term yields because of inherent risk over a longer period of time. For instance, one heavily traded bond, which matures in March 2012, traded with 9.48% yield recently. Meanwhile, further down the curve a bond that matures in March 2019 is trading at a yield of 7.74%, less than the shorter-term bond. This suggests that the market is pricing in a credit event. A credit event would have a profound impact on OTC contracts, which we have no visibility to.

What we do know however is that BP has between $2 and $2.5 Billion in one year commercial paper to rollover that is required for trading operations and working capital. This is going to make it both more expensive and harder to secure and will be a liquidity drain for BP.

4 – LIQUIDTY REQUIREMENTS

To the above Commercial paper roll-over ($2-$2.5B in one year), ongoing new and rollover debt issuance, we need to add the $20B it has agreed with the White House to put in place, though we know of no detailed agreement actually being signed.

5 – SHORT INTEREST

The Financial Times Alphaville via Data Explorers reported the short interest through June 4th. As you can see from the graph below by stripping out the spike related to the last dividend payment, the underlying level of stock outstanding on loan (SOOL) has barely budged since the spill. So, short sellers can’t be blamed for the plunge; the selling must be coming from somewhere else, such as long-only funds. Rumors circulated 06/10/10 that Norges Bank was looking to offload 330m shares. Brokers said the total Transatlantic volume of stock traded in BP 06-09-10 had a value of $8bn. To put that figure into some perspective, the total volume traded on the entire EuroStoxx index on the same day amounted to $15bn. Moreover, since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 21st, 70 per cent of BP’s market cap has turned over, most of it in the US. Trading volumes in BP American Depository Receipts (ADRs) are usually 10 per cent lower than the ordinary shares in London. Since the spill, that position has been reversed and the ADRs have traded 3.5 times the ordinaries, all of which suggests BP’s largest US investor base have been dumping stock.

How long before equity shorting begins? It must be noted here that this is BP equity. Shorting activity of BP debt is all together another matter especially concerning dynamic hedging, with again much less visibility.

6 – OPTIONS ACTIVITY

Wall Street Pit on 06/10/10 wrote that “Options volume on beleaguered oil company, BP PLC, is fast approaching 750,000 contracts, fueling a more than 79.7% upward shift in the stock’s overall reading of options implied volatility to a 5-year high of 120.96%. Options activity on the stock can easily be described as frenzied as volume continues to grow in both call and put options across multiple expiries.”

Are the final gulf oil spill costs going to be $20B or $60B? Does anyone know? I personally believe it is closer to the latter than the former. If we just use the reported oil spillage numbers for comparison we might get a better understanding of the complete failure to grasp the scope of the disaster. According to the Financial Times, the oil spillage was reported as follows:

SPILLAGE COST INCREASE
(bls./day) TO DATE
April 20 1000
May 4 5000
May 7 5000 350M
May 14 5000 625M
May 28 15,500 950M
June 3 19,000 990M
June 8 15,500 1,250M
June 10 15,500 1,430M
June 17 15,500 1,600M
June 23 25,800 2,600M Spillage increased by 25 X in 60 days

As time passes the numbers are rising exponentially. Engineers are warning that the capture will be complicated and scientists monitoring the situation are predicting the spill will prove larger than the current estimates are reflecting. An expert in the field, Matt Simmons of Simmons International has stated that the flows are over 100,000 barrels per day. Most independent experts agree.

Assuming $4,000/barrel damages costs, 100,000 barrels per day flow rates, a 90 day flow duration (minimal), we arrive at clean-up, litigation and damage compensation of approximately $32B. This is nearly twice the US escrow account agreement and within our expectations of between $20 and 60B. There are a range of issues regarding further leaks, shifting seafloor, methane levels, hurricanes, disbursement effects and many more that are surfacing daily that will have significant negative impact on current analysis and assumptions.

An element of future litigation that is very concerning is the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded. After the White House sent Attorney General Eric Holder to New Orleans to threaten BP with criminal prosecution, BP responded that it believes a case of negligence can’t be proven. However, the Deepwater Horizon travesty comes at a particularly bad time for BP. According to Caroline Baum at Bloomberg: “BP is already the most reviled company in America. Two of its refineries accounted for 97 percent of the violations (a total of 862, of which 760 were “egregious willful”) in the refining industry over the last three years, according to the Center for Public Integrity. It holds the record for the largest fine ($87 million) ever levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.” Additionally, the US Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board has immediately jumped into the oil spill investigation as they did previously at the 2005 fire and explosion of BP’s Texas City refinery that killed 15 and injured many others.

After Moody’s cut Anadarko’s rating to junk late on June 18th, the US oil company (a 25 per cent non-operating investor in the Macondo well) broke its eight-week silence with this broadside from CEO Jim Hackett:

“The mounting evidence clearly demonstrates that this tragedy was preventable and the direct result of BP’s reckless decisions and actions. Frankly, we are shocked by the publicly available information that has been disclosed in recent investigations and during this week’s testimony that, among other things, indicates BP operated unsafely and failed to monitor and react to several critical warning signs during the drilling of the Macondo well. BP’s behavior and actions likely represent gross negligence or willful misconduct and thus affect the obligations of the parties under the operating agreement.”

We can safely surmise that the stab in the dark by the White House of $20B is about as accurate as its forecasts of GDP growth, unemployment improvement and the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Slim to none. A more realistic number is likely substantially larger and will likely surface soon. However, anything larger than $20B is likely to be the immediate nail in the coffin for BP as evidenced by how quickly the newly elected British Prime Minister was dispatched to the White House to stop the mounting implosion of both BP and the seriously impacted British Pension system.

BP has stated it has immediate cash available of $15B and will raise additional cash via:

1.Asset Sales

2.Capital Expenditure Cuts

3.Dividend Cut for the Next 3 Quarters

To again quote Jim Sinclair at jsmineset.com: “BP is the primary player on the long-end of the energy curve. How exposed are Goldman sub J. Aron, Morgan Stanley and JPM? Probably hugely. Now credit has been cut to BP. Counter-parties will not accept their name beyond one year in duration. This is unheard of. A giant is on the ropes. If he falls, the very earth may shake as he hits the ground. As we are beginning to see, the Western pension structure, financial trading and global credit are all inter-twined. BP is central to this, as a massive supplier of what many believe(d) to be AAA credit. So while we see banks roll over and die, and sovereign entities begin to falter… we now have a major oil company on the verge of going under. Another leg of the global economic “chair” is being viciously kicked out from under us.”

The whole BP travesty is quickly compounded via the OTC Derivatives market and the risk inherent within it.

1.As it was in Lehman, opacity is once again experienced when transparency is most critically required.

2.Finance has always been about risk determination but never before with so much leverage associated with risk assessments and held in such complex, dependent structured instruments.

3.Investors are still unprotected. The Frank-Dodd Bill is now nothing more than watered down window dressing before it finally reaches legislative approval and even before it begins the regulatory supervision machinations.

4.Investors hate uncertainty and we have nothing but uncertainty here:

1.Political

2.Legal

3.Financial

4.Business

The most likely scenario is that the US operations of BP will voluntarily attempt Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. This is the worst possible scenario for claimants. The problem here is that this triggers a credit event which has daunting repercussions to the highly leveraged global financial markets. Like AIG before, the government does not want to tamper with the ramifications and fall out of a CDS event. Lehman was one too many.

If a US voluntary bankruptcy is stopped by the US and there is a BP corporate bankruptcy, then there is a strong possibility that the British Government will be forced to step in and bailout BP. In the end, the tax payer will pay as the ongoing game of Regulatory Arbitrage is played masterfully once again.

Deleveraging associated with BP may be the event that triggers the $5T Quantitative Easing spike we have been warning about for some time now. It will be needed to complete the final process of manufacturing of a Minsky Melt-up to avoid the looming pension, entitlement and US state financial crisis.

The ability of the government to achieve this is anything but certain. However, we need to expect the unexpected and watch out for fat tails to trip over.
Source: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article20778.html

The story has been rolling for a couple of months, and it’s time for a new angle. You instantly think of something dramatic like “Extinction Level Event.” But you know that won’t fly.

It stands to reason that television without pictures is like newspapers without print so the first thing you do is begin visualizing the images you’ll need to cover the story.

(Everybody imagines some sort of movie in their mind when they’re talking or listening or reading. So listen up and turn on your inner DVD player as we get to the story about the future – including several variations on a theme.)

For a catch-line or “slug,” we’ll do our usual play on words and we’ll call it something like “S…oiling Ourselves.”

Next we do some research, and we discover there are two theories about the origin of oil (this is the back story part) one of which we thought we already knew, and the other we hadn’t heard about until we started covering the biggest disaster in the history of Planet Earth.

Most of us believe that oil is the remains of dead dinosaurs and vegetation that somehow went from being organic to the mineral state over thousands of years under pressure in their grave yards.

However, you have been wondering how many dinosaurs per second are coming out of the Gulf Gusher right now? How many were buried in what is now known to be such an immense oil field that 4000 rigs are doing their best to pump it out, make gasoline and make money?

What size herd of dinosaurs would it take to create that much oil? Or how big a forest? And how did they all get to be in the same place at the same time then get sucked down to a humongous cave at least 20,000 feet under the ocean floor?

Seems like that belief is due for a revamp don’t you think? Yes indeed, and you’re not the first to think so. Writing in National Review in 2004 Bruce Bartlett pointed out that ” in the 1950s, Russian and Ukrainian scientists developed a new theory about petroleum’s origins called the abiotic or abiogenic theory. According to this view, oil is fundamentally inorganic and has no relationship to dead plant or animal life. Rather, oil originates deep in the Earth’s crust from inorganic material that is part of the planet’s origin.”

Your next task is to figure how to bring this complex story down to a few words and pictures that even a child can understand – because you were taught years ago that the average viewer has the attention span of a potato chip.

You have to explain how the BP Well From Hell is going to screw everybody so royally that life will never be the same. No easy task that.

How do you explain abiotic oil? Let’s imagine that you are a blood donor. You have just had a pint of good red blood extracted from a vein. It will go to a good cause (you hope) and by some process beyond your understanding, your body will replace that pint of blood in reasonably short order. That’s why oil wells are gushers. They’re the earth’s blood.

You know the next part of your script has no chance of making it past the propaganda police in your newsroom, but you write it anyway…

“Perhaps that’s how the earth has been handling our addicted oil-sucking society, putting up with our habit of behaving like blood thirsty mosquitoes, drilling into her body wherever there is a hint of what we need for a fix. She has put up with us so far, because she has been able to self-replenish her bloodstream. However, unlike addicts who inject their drug of choice into their bodies, we use our hypodermics (drilling rigs) to dig a well so we can hit a vein and suck out that black fluid that we have become so totally dependent on….we’re just a bunch of mother suckers…

“Unfortunately, this time we really bleeped up…or at least, that British corporation from across the pond bleeped up so badly that not even Dick Cheney is willing to give them a free pass any more.

“This is truly astounding.

But wait..there’s more…and worse.

Think – BP.

Think “Big Oil.”

Think – and this’ll surprise you – think “you and me.”

“Now think about mosquitoes. Mosquitoes don’t think too far ahead. They fill their little bodies wherever they can, then fly around until they run out of gas, so they pull into another service station (think blood donor) unaware that they’re under surveillance until “splat” – end of story.

“They picked a body that was tired of being drilled into and it reacted quite unexpectedly.”

Tearing a sheet of copy paper out of your Remington computer you remind yourself that metaphors can only be pushed so far. Yet that also applies to Terra.

You prepare a short piece-to-cam (stand-upper) with a chroma-keyed rig over your shoulder as you say “This time, we’ve not just hit a vein, it looks like we’ve hit an artery, and there’s nothing we can do to stop the bleeding.”

Time Out….

Time to leave the fantasy world of the newsroom and days gone by when one of the axioms was “never let the facts spoil a good story.”

Instead, in the here and now of late June 2010, we can say that in the time it will take to write this sentence, by some (perhaps conservative) estimates at least another 250 gallons of oil will have spurted out of that artery into the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s 1500 gallons a minute, or close to 10,000 gallons an hour – which equates to almost a quarter million gallons a day. All day, every day. And there’s nothing we can do to stop the bleeding (repetition for emphasis).

If we had a friend with such a wound, we could call for the doctor, and he might be able to break himself away from a game of gulf (miss-spelling deliberate) or sailing his yacht and come take a look at the wound. If so, he’d more than likely tell us nothing much about what he would do to stop the flow of blood. More likely, he’d suggest we just relax and go sit in the waiting room and watch something on the television.

Some time later, he might open the door and with a sad look on his face say something like….”sorry….he’s still bleeding..and I’m afraid to say there’s blood all over your Berber carpet, door to door, up the walls, on the ceiling…everywhere! I’ve never seen anything like it. So sorry. Must rush. Game of gulf to get to you know,” and off he goes without a backward glance.

In the two full months that the Deepwater Horizon BP disaster has been unfolding, the spinmeisters in government and in BP itself have been less than forthcoming with the truth.

Instead, they have gone into PR overdrive, attempting to divert a thinking person from thinking the obvious. Obviously, “they” are incapable of handling this. If they could, they would have had it done by now. But no – everything they’ve done has done absolutely nothing to staunch the wound, stop the flow, and prevent further widespread damage.

How widespread could it be? And when will it be over?

There are answers to both questions. But they’re not the sort of answers a spinmeister would give you. They involve scenarios that the Propaganda Press might briefly flirt with, but which they’d also bury behind or under their constant efforts to distract you by having you focus on the clean-up operations (doomed), political infighting (pointless theater intended to suck your vote out of your brainwashed head), and who is doing what with the money.

Most of what follows has been mentioned in one way or another in my previous newsletters (Earth Change Report and New Earth News), but now that it’s obvious that putting miles of band aids on Gulf beaches is about as effective as doing heart surgery with a pick ax, it seems like it’s important to step back from the day-to-day chronology of events, and take a squizz (look) – unemotionally if at all possible – at some things that are so ugly we’d rather not give them a second glance.

But, ugly as they might be, they should be looked at as if our life depended on it – because for some, it does. There is one particular potential that will most certainly impact the entire planet and all its people. Regrettably, wishing it not to happen (and I’m one of those) does not mean for certain that it won’t.

Let’s face the fact that this gusher is going to go on gushing every second of every day for months to come.

BP and the government are batting 100 per cent failure when it comes to stopping it.

This leaves us with a number of scenarios and outcomes which require unemotional attention. Unemotional, because they’re all as scarey as hell, and if we give in to fear in any way, we’re more screwed than if we’d just elected another President of Promises.

Looking at the various potentials is no easy task. Having been brought up to expect someone else to be responsible for fixing problems in our lives (or to be blamed for them) we are not in the habit of trusting our own judgment. It’s easier to run with the pack and think like the herd than it is to distance ourselves from their collective finger pointing, bleating, and subservience to authority.

It’s easier to wait till the last minute – despite all the warnings that a hurricane is coming (for example) – and expect God to pluck us off the roof in a helicopter or send us a Zodiac dinghy and take us to a shelter somewhere until the danger is over.

But if Hurricane Katrina is anything to go by, the herd will find itself in a facility of some sort where everything is inadequate, and the doors are locked.

Those who shook themselves awake ahead of the hurricane had their lives thoroughly disrupted for sure. But they were most certainly a lot better off than those who chose to ignore the first rescue device God ever gave them – the ability to think and act for themselves.

Even so, those who can think but don’t act, are no better off than those who can’t think at all. So what is there to think about?

Many messengers throughout history have been hung drawn and quartered, even crucified or burned at the stake because their messages were upsetting.

On a personal level, we have all had the experience which is commonly referred to as having our buttons pushed. This suggests that someone has said or done something that ticks us off, so we get emotional in some way. We may respond with anger, or by belittling both the messenger and the message (Republicans and Democrats have a knee-jerk feature in that regard).

Wise people turn this on its head. They figure out that it was not the information per se that got them upset. It was in fact something within themselves, an emotion or a favorite belief or something as simple as their self-image which precipitated an instant reaction.

So who pushed the button? Certainly not the messenger. Nor the information. It was the recipient who chose either consciously or unconsciously to respond in a certain manner – and if you study yourself, you’ll see how predictable you really are.

However, now that the world is faced with a disaster that will spread from the Gulf of Mexico up through the Atlantic, across to Europe and eventually perhaps throughout the oceans of the world, those entrenched attitudes and responses could do with a shake-up – and would best be got rid of.

It’s time (if you can) to understand that fear is a natural first response, and that fear has its roots in the fear of death, which is what prompts us to be endlessly worried about our survival. And under the circumstances, we definitely should be giving that some very serious thought.

We’re in a theater. Some of us can smell smoke. The messenger has yelled “I smell smoke!” The manager has said “please stay seated, we have it under control.” Some of us have heard both, seen that there’s a chance to make it out the exit doors before the smoke turns to fire, and we’re sensible enough to drop our Coke and popcorn and get the heck out of there.

The politicians who enabled the screw-up by lax oversight and deregulation, also screwed up.

Those who screw up are incapable of fixing their own screw-up.

But they’re very good at pretending.

We know that an unbelievable quantity of oil and gas and a multitude of toxins are spewing and vomiting and bleeding and gushing from a hole in the Gulf that some early reports said was an opening into a cavity the size of Mt Everest.

We know that BP ignored or failed to follow numerous safety procedures, even when advised to do so by experienced on-site personnel. BP thought they could get away with it. They didn’t. And the accident that was waiting to happen, happened.

It killed 11 people in a heartbeat.

And now, millions, absolutely millions, of people are at risk as well.

No matter how BP and government officials and the propaganda press try to divert our attention from the ongoing flushing of this upside down toilet in the ocean, we know that we are (finally) in it – hip deep in it, neck deep in it, over our heads in it.

The oil and the over-a million gallons of dispersants that have been released, are not going to stop traveling any time soon.

We know that it’s impossible to stop this stuff from getting into the Loop Current in the Gulf, then finding its way wherever those currents lead. Cuba for example. The Caribbean? And up the US East Coast via the Gulf Stream, which feeds (or is a feeder for) the Atlantic Current – which influences the climate in Europe.

All the while, from surface to sea floor, this cocktail of poisons will be the extinction level event that absolutely none of the myriad species of marine life are prepared for. Exposed to such chemicals and gases that turn pristine waters into dead zones and graveyards, what chance do they have?

Already compromised by our endless dumping of agricultural fertilizer runoff, sewage, garbage, radioactive waste, and effluent from tour ships carrying thousands of passengers (not to mention aviation gas from military planes dumping thousands of gallons during their circuit-and-bump exercises from their aircraft carriers) this busted artery is potentially the death knell for the oceans of the entire world.

Is that an over-the-top scenario?

No.

It’s just information – which cannot be refuted or rebutted, and it should not be. It’s not a scenario worth arguing over. It’s a scenario that is a potential. But there are others.

This one is short and bitter.

The pressure at the bottom of the hole where the oil is coming out is estimated as being anywhere up to 100,000 pounds per square inch.

It has been said that the riser pipe was broken somewhere between there and the now-useless Blowout Preventer (BOP) at the top end (on the sea floor).

This is allowing the oil to escape into the surrounding strata, where it is blasting its way through the cracks and fissures. It’s as if there’s a giant chicken down there trying to bust out of an egg, and the shell is cracking in all directions.

This could first of all release methane gas which has the property of altering the buoyancy of water. In that event, boats of all sizes would find themselves – and their crews – literally disappearing into the deep. Instantly.

Eventually, as the cracking continues in the sea bed, without warning it could be weakened to such a degree that the gas and oil trapped in that Everestsized cavity will explode with such force that there are no words to describe it. We could however say that the Hiroshima atomic bomb would be like a firecracker in comparison.

The result would be an eruption and an instant tsunami that would travel the 50 miles to shore – at hundreds of miles an hour – and wipe out everything in its path for who-knows-how-many miles inland.

Short and bitter indeed.

It is inevitable that storms and hurricanes will add to the devastation.

Hurricanes gather strength over warm water. The Gulf of Mexico is warm. Add a sheen of oil to its surface, and is it not warmer?

If that is so, think – hurricanes on steroids.

Hurricanes generate a phenomenon called “storm surge.” That means the power of the wind is not only picking up surface water and whirling it up up and away into that super-blender that is whipping around at well over 100 miles an hour, but its leading edge is acting like a giant bulldozer blade. It is piling the ocean water up ahead of itself.

And then it hits the rising seashore, and it will travel for perhaps miles inland.

Further, on top of that storm surge (which may be as much as 30 feet high) there are waves that are as high again.

Wherever it makes landfall, you can kiss goodbye to any marshes and wetlands, for the oil will be deposited like a blanket of death, suffocating all living things. As for recovery? What recovery?

Hurricane or not, even a mild storm coming in from the Gulf is going to bring with it oily rain – and poisonous gases.

With this BP Gusher, we have an added issue. We know that clean-up (wrong word) workers are reporting symptoms of nausea, headaches, heart palpitations and worse.

Independent health experts say this is a consequence of exposure to benzene fumes. (BP says it’s food poisoning from eating a bad lunch).

Current government testing for “Volatile Organic Compounds” (i.e., toxins in the air) apparently does not include a test for benzene fumes. Purely an oversight, no doubt?

Therefore, officials can say they have detected no gases in the air at life-threatening levels without even addressing the issues associated with benzene.

Benzene is heavier than air. Yet it too – along with whatever is out-gassed from that toxic Corexit “dispersant” – can no doubt be picked up by an ill wind which we can be assured will blow nobody any good.

And then there’s the “dispersant” called Corexit that is being used to keep the oil out of sight.

“Oil in the environment is toxic at 11 PPM (parts per million). Corexit 9500 is toxic at only 2.61 PPM. But Corexit 9500 has another precarious characteristic; it’s reaction to warm water.

“As the water in the Gulf of Mexico heats up, Corexit 9500 goes through a molecular transition. It changes from a liquid to a gas, which is readily absorbed by clouds and released as toxic rain. The chemical-laden rain then falls on crops, reservoirs, animals and of course, people. ”

Under this scenario, once again millions of people are at risk – especially if they choose to stay around the Gulf of Mexico coastline and tough it out – at least until their state or the federal government suddenly decides on a mass evacuation program.

Further afield, as the hurricane season progresses through to November, oil will be well up the East Coast, so any storm coming in from the Atlantic will affect that area as well. Living within 20 miles of the ocean (some say within 200 miles) is therefore not a very good situation to be in as far as this scenario is concerned.

Desalination plants that provide city water are going to have to be shut down.

They rely on filters down to the nano level – but oil will clog them as soon as it finds them.

Likewise, nuclear power plants that cool themselves with sea water, are going to go off line as well.

It’s all very well for state governments to suggest that people drink bottled water instead, but how long will supplies last?

At what point will the nuclear power plants be shut down permanently? How much of what they were producing can be made up by calling on other areas of the grid?

Expect blackouts folks. Be prepared. Buy a travel trailer. Leave….

In this scenario, the gusher relieves enough pressure on surrounding rocks and tectonic plates that there is a sudden massive earthquake affecting the New Madrid Fault. This in turn collapses the cavity and stops the gusher. That’s the good news.

Unfortunately, lots of people are dead or injured.

On the face of it, this scenario looks like something out of a horror movie screenwriter’s folio of nightmares.

However, it does have legs.

There have been major earthquakes on the New Madrid Fault in the past.

“Take a green stick and start bending it. At first, not much happens. Then, just before the stick breaks, you hear small pops and cracks coming from inside.

“That’s how Dr. Otto Nuttli of St. Louis University describes what is happening in the New Madrid earthquake zone. Every other day or so, the land underneath the area where Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Indiana meet pops and cracks just a little.

“But, the scientist said, the pressure is building for a break — a major earthquake that could conceivably devastate much of the nation’s midsection, causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damages.

“At 2 a.m. on Dec. 16, 1811, the ground underneath the tiny town of New Madrid, Mo., moved, and that movement produced the greatest earthquake in the history of the United States. Later estimates have placed the magnitude of the quake as high as 8.7 on the Richter scale.

“Rapids rose in the Mississippi River, which appeared to run backward for a while. Islands in the river sank from view. Reelfoot Lake was formed in Tennessee.” (Published June 10, 1984
By Andy Mead, Herald-Leader Staff Writer, ST. LOUIS).

That was written 26 years ago. Coincidentally, or not, another study commissioned by FEMA was released this week. “A study commissioned by (FEMA) indicates that a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault would kill 3,500 people and leave millions homeless. It found that more than 80,000 people would be injured by a 7.7-magnitude quake….”

How does this tie in to the Gulf of Mexico?

It does so via the work of a retired geologist-geophysicist, Jack M. Reed.

“(He) studied the Gulf and the New Madrid Fault for something like 40 years (and) believes the origin of the earthquakes lies beneath the Gulf of Mexico.

“(He also) says the accepted theory of a quiet geologic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin is fundamentally flawed and needs to be revised.”

Says Reed:- ” … if you want waterfront property you should buy land around Indianapolis. In a couple of million years this acreage could be overlooking the Strait of America that separates western (and) eastern America!”

Not to make light of any of this, if the New Madrid Fault does have an earthquake shortly, perhaps you won’t need to wait a couple of million years for waterfront property in Indianapolis. The water might come to you. Complete with an oily sheen.

“Other estimates from the report include:

• 715,000 buildings damaged
• 7 million people homeless
• 2.6 million households without power
• $300 Billion economic impact

“The two towns most at risk because of their proximity to the fault zone are St. Louis, and Memphis, though towns in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas and Alabama will also see damage, according to the report.”

If Reed is correct and such earthquakes have their beginnings in the Gulf of Mexico, then it seems to be within the realms of possibility that a big earthquake could happen much sooner than anyone has expected. Then again, they always do catch us by surprise, no matter where they occur.

Moreover, human nature being what it is, it is very unlikely that this report will spur many people into taking evasive action – such as leaving for a safer place to live.

Under any of the above scenarios, mass evacuations could quite conceivably be mandated by the government.

Already, people are leaving some of the Gulf states voluntarily. Not happily by any means, for it requires leaving behind property that may never sell, and family and friends who do not share the same forward-looking comprehension of what’s inevitably going to happen.

Inevitably, oily rain will ruin as much on land as it has in the ocean.

Hurricanes will do even worse damage than any of their predecessors.

The oil will continue to spill, gush, erupt and pollute until it is finally stopped – either by man (so far proving to be impossible) or by Nature itself.

Mass evacuations are always in the planning rooms prior to and during any hurricane season, so that’s not a new concept.

But those who wait till the last minute may find, much to their dismay, that they have missed the last car on the last train out.

As upsetting as it might be, facing these several previously unthinkable scenarios arising from the BP Disaster leads to some life-changing ideas, and on to thoughts of the future.

It’s the responsibility of those who will be affected either directly or indirectly to do everything they can for themselves, before they find they have to wait weeks or months for that government assistance that was promised in advance – and delivered way too late.

There is also a collective responsibility, which is to admit that we (the individual mosquitoes) have been as happy to suck crude out of BP pumps (or Texaco or Shell or whatever) as BP has been to suck it out of the earth. In that sense, we are as much at fault as BP. .

Theirs has been a culture of absolute greed for the sake of profit, and who cares who or what suffers in the process. Ours on the other hand has been an attitude of lazy acceptance of our addiction to gasoline and all the so-called comforts that stem from our reliance on fossil fuels.

BP might be destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the oceans of the world in a matter of months. But we have been doing the same for decades ourselves.

Did you know there is a garbage patch the size of Texas in the Pacific where our plastic trash now resides? Or that sea birds are dying because of what we have thrown into their environment – and yet we accuse and abuse BP for the loss of wildlife habitat – because it’s obvious what they’ve done, but we prefer to never even think about what we’ve done.

That’s where the first revolution has to start. A revolution in personal thinking about our responsibility to our planet – which in turn should lead us to demand the demise of “Big Oil” (especially those multinational companies like BP that owe no allegiance to anyone, spend millions on corrupting already-corrupt politicians and agency personnel, ignore safety procedures, and do everything they can to kill off any alternatives to fossil fuels.)

This is nothing more than supposition. But, suppose those folks in the Gulf states and up the East Coast whose lives are going to hell right now, start to question how it all happened.

Their lives went to hell because politicians took money from corporations and in turn turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the way those corporations defied the law.

When these now unemployed people get to the point that they cannot sell their homes while the banks continue to insist on mortgage payments (“or you’re outa here”), while the IRS insists they pay taxes on their compensation monies, are they going to quit paying taxes – and start a revolution against the banks? Quite likely. Will this lead to a martial law backlash? Quite possibly.

But all that has yet to unfold, and it’s reasonable to say not all these potentials will; necessarily, come to pass. But some, like the never-ending spill, are already here.

That means death to sea creatures. Death to birds. A creeping sludge that will annihilate tourism and countless businesses throughout the Gulf and up the East Coast.

What happens if that riser pipe continues to leak, and then a second gusher springs
into being?

What happens if huge gas bubbles take down boats and ships and drilling rigs?

How would anyone cope with a full-on volcanic eruption and tsunami?

Acid rain, deadly health issues, decimated food production areas, undrinkable city water…how does one adjust one’s head to those potentials? (Ignore it – or what? Stick our heads in the television instead of the sand and hope for some hope and comfort from those who have yet to keep a promise? Now that would be change we couldn’t believe in…).

What if Jack Reed is right and the New Madrid Fault is connected to the Gulf itself – and suddenly there’s the mother of all earthquakes?

Is the thought of mass evacuations so far fetched that we simply won’t entertain the idea?

Are we ready to start demanding more focus on alternative fuels and energy – or is this price we’re paying for our own addiction to oil the sort of price we’re willing to continue paying in future?

If our neighbors start talking revolution because they’re fed up with being screwed by banks and corporations and politicians (in that order) where will we stand?

Any way we look at any of these potentials, for each case study the options for those most immediately affected appear to be extraordinarily similar.

One option is to get over the shock, get emotions under control, decide to get out of harm’s way, make a plan, and do it.

The other is to stay put, stick it out and take the consequences. (Ends).

From an article titled “Methane and Martial Law In The Gulf of Mexico,”

“Corexit 9500, the oil dispersant used by BP, is viewed by FEMA sources as mixing with evaporated water from the Gulf. This deadly mixture is then absorbed by rain clouds and produces toxic precipitation that threatens to continue killing marine and land animals, plant life, and humans within a 200-mile radius of the Deepwater Horizon disaster site in the Gulf.

“The “dead zone” created by a combination of methane gas and Corexit toxic rain, Madsen continues, will ultimately result in the evacuation and long-term abandonment of cities and towns within the 200-mile radius of the oil gusher.

“Plans are being put in place for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mandeville, Hammond, Houma, Belle Chase, Chalmette, Slidell, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Mobile, Bay Minette, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Crestview, and Pascagoula,” Madsen writes.”

Ed. Note:- Such articles can be written off as “alarmist” if you choose. Or else they can be seen as additional information – of the sort you will never see in the Mainspin Media.

However you look at it, the truth is that there are people who in their insatiable greed and love of power and profit are literally destroying our planet. We may be partially responsible for that because of our unquestioning acceptance of the line that we must have fossil fuels, and because we have been kept ignorant of the fact that there are valid alternatives that have been suppressed.

However, once we know that we have been consistently lied to then we have no reason to believe that we will not be lied to in the future.

And the lies may go so far as to cover up the deadly effects of toxic rain, or telling us some time in the near future that they have the leak under control.

Bottom line – evaluate all information for yourself. Trust your own instincts. Decide what to do that is best for you – prudent, sensible, even if very difficult decisions must be made. It is your life, and other people will only offer very predictable opinions, usually contrary to what you feel in yourself is what you should do. But they are not you. Your life is your responsibility – which is why we have free will, and we should be using it because it is very powerful. Understand that fear and depression are close cousins. Courage is the antidote – it means going ahead even though you know you are afraid. And depression does pass eventually.

Best wishes.
Michael Knight.
Source: http://www.buycontacthasbegun.com/support-files/nenjune262010truthconsequences.pdf

Also see: Obama Administration Knew About Deepwater Horizon 35,000 Feet Well Bore

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=12914

CNN reporter Anderson Cooper says, “A new law passed today, and back by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges, … will prevent reporters and photographers from getting anywhere close to booms and oil-soaked wildlife just about any place we need to be. By now you’re probably familiar with cleanup crews stiff-arming the media, private security blocking cameras, ordinary workers clamming up, some not even saying who they’re working for because they’re afraid of losing their jobs.”

Watch the video clip yourself at NaturalNews.TV: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=203

The rule, of course, is designed to restrict the media’s access to cleanup operations in order to keep images of oil-covered seabirds off the nation’s televisions. With this, the Gulf Coast cleanup operation has now entered a weird Orwellian reality where the news is shaped, censored and controlled by the government in order to prevent the public from learning the truth about what’s really happening in the Gulf.

If all this sounds familiar, it’s because the U.S. government uses this same tactic during every war. The first casualty of war, as they say, is the truth. There are lots of war images the government doesn’t want you to see (like military helicopter pilots shooting up Reuters photographers while screaming “Yee-Haw!” over the comm radios), and there are other images they do want you to see (“surgical strike” explosions from “smart” bombs, which makes it seem like the military is doing something useful). So war reporting is carefully monopolized by the government to deliver precisely the images they want you to see while censoring everything else.

Now the same Big Brother approach is being used in the Gulf of Mexico: Criminalize journalists, censor the story and try to keep the American people ignorant of what’s really happening. It’s just the latest tactic from a government that no longer even recognizes the U.S. Constitution or its Bill of Rights. Because the very first right is Freedom of Speech, which absolutely includes the right to walk onto a public beach and take photographs of something happening out in the open, on public waters. It is one of the most basic rights of our citizens and our press.

But now the Obama administration has stripped away those rights, transforming journalists into criminals. Now, we might expect something like this from Chavez, or Castro or even the communist leaders of China, but here in the United States, we’ve all been promised we lived in “the land of the free.” Obama apparently does not subscribe to that philosophy anymore (if he ever did).

So how does criminalizing journalists equate to “land of the free?” It doesn’t, obviously. Forget freedom. (Your government already has.) This is about controlling your mind to make sure you don’t visually see the truth of what the oil industry has done to your oceans, your shorelines and your beaches. This is all about keeping you ignorant with a total media blackout of the real story of what’s happening in the Gulf.

The real story, you see, is just too ugly. And the government has fracked up the cleanup effort to such a ridiculous extent that instead of the “transparency” they once promised, they’re now resorting to the threat of arrest for all journalists who try to get close enough to cover the story.

Yes, this is happening right now in America. This isn’t a hoax. I know, it sounds more like something you might hear about in Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela or some other nation run by dictators. But now it’s happening right here in the USA.
As Anderson Cooper reported on CNN:

“Now the government is getting in on the act. Despite what Admiral Thad Allen promised about transparency just nearly a month ago.

Anderson Cooper: The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers, reporters and anyone else from coming with 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches. What this means is that oil-soaked birds on an island surrounded by a boom, you can’t get close enough to take that picture. Shot of oil on beaches with booms? Stay 65 feet away. Pictures of oil-soaked booms uselessly laying in the water because they haven’t been collected like they should? You can’t get close enough to see that. Believe me, that is out there. But you only know that if you get close to it, and now you can’t without permission. Violators could face a fine of $40,000 and Class D felony charges.”

See the video yourself at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=203

All I can say to CNN is: Welcome to the club! This kind of censorship, intimidation and tyranny has been going on for decades in the field of health, where the Orwellian FDA has treated the entire U.S. public to a nationwide blackout on truthful health information about healing foods and nutritional supplements. CNN has never covered that story, by the way. Most of the mainstream media has, in fact, gone right along with censorship of truthful health information by the FDA and FTC.

Now they’re suddenly crying wolf. But where was the media when the FDA was raiding nutritional supplement companies and arresting people who dared to sell healing foods with honest descriptions about how they might help protect your health? The media went right along with the cover-up and never bothered to even tell its viewers a cover-up was taking place.

You see, even CNN is willing to tolerate some Orwellian censorship, as long as its advertisers are okay with it. The only reason they’re talking about censorship in the Gulf of Mexico right now is because oil companies don’t influence enough of their advertising budget to yank the story.

I like the fact that CNN is finding the courage to speak up now about this censorship in the Gulf, but I wish they wouldn’t stay silent on the other media blackouts in which they have long participated. Media censorship is bad for any nation, and it should be challenged regardless of the topic at hand. When the media is not allowed to report the truth on a subject — any subject! — the nation suffers some loss as a result.

Without the light of media scrutiny, corporations and government will get away with unimaginable crimes against both humanity and nature. That’s what’s happening right now in the Gulf of Mexico: A crime against nature.

Obama doesn’t want you to see that crime. He’s covering it up to the benefit of BP. He’s keeping you in the dark by threatening reporters and photographers with arrest. How’s that for “total transparency?”

The only thing transparent here is that President Barack Obama has violated his own oath of office by refusing to defend the Constitution. By any honest measure, in fact, these actions, which are endorsed by the White House, stand in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution. And that means this new censorship rule in the Gulf, which suspends the First Amendment, is unconstitutional. It also means those who decided on this rule are enemies of freedom.

They are the ones who should be arrested and hauled off to federal prison, not the CNN reporters who are trying to cover this story.

The loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the only catastrophe taking place here, you see: Now we’re losing our freedoms while our government tries to intentionally blind us all from the truth of what’s happening on our own public beaches.

When those who seek truth are branded criminals by the government, it is only a matter of time before that government expands its criminalization labeling to include anyone who disagrees with it. These are the seeds of tyranny, and Obama is planting them at your doorstep right now.

What BP did to the Gulf Coast, Obama is now doing to your freedom.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/029130_Gulf_of_Mexico_censorship.html

If you’re like most people you probably have already decided that I am exaggerating without knowing why I am saying this. Well let me make it clear that I also wish I was exaggerating. I don’t sell survival equipment or gold. My job is not recession proof. I have a family. I didn’t wake up today and randomly decide to declare that this is the end of life as we know it. But I do research. I make calls and tune into radio, scouring the internet for news clips and analysis. I make a concerted effort to only quote trustworthy sources. The information that has emerged over the past few days confirms fears that this is actually an “Armageddon” event. I am being completely serious.

Check it: The oil, spewing out at 20,000 to 70,000 psi, and the sediment within it has eroded the very walls of the well itself in several areas. This means that this is now an uncontainable gusher that is literally spewing oil up from dozens of sites across the gulf floor. The massive oil pocket tapped under immense pressure is now spewing out into the seabed. Capping the well does nothing. The oil pocket is tapped, the pipe is eroded and the oil is now spewing up to the ocean floor with intense pressure. Plumes are being generated everywhere. They cannot stop this. Human technology cannot contain a liquid at that pressure, especially at that depth under the ocean. We simply do not have the technology or know-how to fix this. We don’t. The relief wells are essentially useless now because the original well cannot be plugged so oil will always flow out of it regardless of how many other wells they dig. They needed to get into the pipe, fill the old pipe with mud and cement and then divert the oil into the new well. But because the tapped oil pocket is sand blasting itself routes to the surface that grow each day in diameter due to the eroding walls and passageways, there is no “well” to fill. That is because whats left of the well is already dissolving. And each day that passes until they drill their so-called “relief wells” will only see the oil finding new routes through the escapes it has carved through erosion of the pipes and rock. Thad Allen, the head of the US Coast Guard, has said that the oil isn’t all flowing up the pipe anymore but is now “in communication” with the seabed and the surrounding soft rock formation. It is now blasting its own wells.

Ya, that’s bad, but that isn’t even the scary part. Hydrogen Sulfide, Benzene, Methylene Chloride, and other toxic gases are also spewing out along with the oil. In concentrations hundreds and thousands of times greater than what is considered safe for humans. Lethal levels. When the hurricanes come they will absorb this toxic seawater and drop it as rain. Literally toxic rain. Let me guess, toxic rain doesn’t scare you. The biggest threat is already actualized with the chemicals entering the atmosphere and being carried around by the wind.

“The media coverage of the BP oil disaster to date has focused largely on the threats to wildlife, but the latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher,” the Institute for Southern Studies blog reported on May 10.

Any one of these chemicals in these concentrations would be lethal. Mixed together it’s truly unthinkable.

The fragile US economy, in the midst of a feeble attempt at a jobless recovery, overstretched by war and out of control spending is not equipped to handle a disaster of this magnitude. No country in the world could. Remember how well they handled the Katrina thing? This makes Katrina look like a grade school fire drill. Well I wonder how well they will do this time as they prepare to evacuate entire cities and states. See this and this. Once the evacuations begin the markets will tank. Once people are forced to grasp what is happening around them the global economy will come to a screeching halt as it’s engine, the USA, sinks into the throes of the worst environmental disaster in the history of the world. This will cause a dollar confidence crisis. Enraged citizens will riot and loot with no hope of a decent life ahead of them. Martial law will be declared.

They have no way to stop this, only a theory that maybe a nuke would implode the oil pocket. Ya, we’re talking about nuking the earths crust under the ocean. Eventually the oil will make it’s way around the world as the entire oil deposit is unleashed into the ocean.

Are you buying the crap coming from BP? The bogus press releases and the downplayed assessments? They’ve been lying through their teeth, censoring the media and destroying evidence. If you trust them, you have some problems.

BP Official Admits to Damage Beneath Sea floor

Source: http://johndotyjr.blogspot.com/2010/06/oil-disaster-will-be-end-of-life-as-we.html

So what happens when a Katrina-class hurricane comes along and picks up a few million gallons of oil, then drops that volatile liquid on a major U.S. city like Galveston or New Orleans?

Now, before we pursue this line of thinking any further, let’s dismiss the skeptics out there who think oil can’t drop from the sky because oil doesn’t evaporate. Actually, if you look at the history of hurricanes and storms, you’ll find thousands of accounts of lots of things that don’t evaporate nonetheless falling out of the sky. The phrase “raining cats and dogs” it’s entirely metaphor, you know: There are documented accounts of all sorts of things raining down from the sky: Fish, frogs, large balls of ice, and so on.

If rain storms can pick up fish out of the ocean, then drop them on land, then they certainly have the capacity to pick up oil, too.

Besides, as any chemist will tell you, the various petrochemicals found in crude oil evaporate even without a storm picking them up! Oil, in other words, does evaporate into the air. Or, more accurately, some of the lighter chemicals in crude oil evaporate even at temperatures of around 100 degrees (F). Those are Gulf Coast temperatures.

Now, these lighter chemicals that more easily evaporate also happen to have lower flash points, meaning they catch on fire more easily and at lower temperatures than other elements in the oil. The flash point for gasoline, for example, is much lower than diesel fuel. That’s because gasoline is “more flammable” and is a lighter fuel than diesel.

The EPA classifies oils into Classes A – D. Class A is the lightest kind of oil, which the EPA describes as follows (http://www.epa.gov/oem/content/learning/crude.htm)

“These oils are highly fluid, often clear, spread rapidly on solid or water surfaces, have a strong odor, a high evaporation rate, and are usually flammable. They penetrate porous surfaces such as dirt and sand, and may be persistent in such a matrix.”

That same EPA document makes it quite clear that the more volatile oils can evaporate from crude oil, rendering the remaining oil heavier and more “tar-like.”

And we already know these oils can catch on fire. That’s the whole point of tapping crude oil, of course: To pump it into engines then catch it on fire in order to turn the energy of that mini-explosion into force (to drive the eight pistons in your gas-guzzling SUV, for example).

So let’s say the oil blowout continues, and the Gulf of Mexico is carrying millions of gallons of crude oil as a massive hurricane approaches. It’s a hot July day in the Gulf of Mexico, with temperatures soaring towards 110 degrees, accelerating the evaporation of volatile oils which get mixed in with hurricane-force winds.

The hurricane makes landfall in New Orleans, let’s say, dumping potentially hundreds of thousands of gallons of what is essentially “volatile fuel” on the city of New Orleans. Now, at first it’s just a wet, slippery toxic mess that kills trees and grass. But what happens after the storm when the sun dries out the city?

All the dead trees killed by the oil turn into kindling. The sun evaporates off the rain water, leaving behind fuel. A few days of sun baking and you have a city doused in fuel, ready to burst into flames. It’s every fireman’s worst nightmare. The whole city is essentially turned into a giant match.

Now, sure, the more volatile fuels might evaporate, but as they do, they’d fill the city with explosive fumes. One spark, one fire, one lightning strike and your whole city literally goes up in flames. The BP oil spill, in other words, provides the fuel that could turn an ordinary hurricane into Mother Nature’s arson attack on an entire city.

This would not be an ordinary city on fire, either: It would be a city doused with volatile fuels that soaked it to the core. The sewers would explode like massive terrorist bombs, ripping to shred any underground infrastructure (fiber optics, water delivery, electrical infrastructure, etc.). The pavement itself would be on fire, as would parks, grasslands and forests. The city would burn from top to bottom, and there would be no point even trying to put out the flames. All we could do is evacuate and watch it all burn to the ground.

And in the aftermath, you’d still have oil covering the beaches, oil in the ocean, and the threat of more firestorms yet to come. It could be just the first of many such incidents striking the Gulf Coast.

Think this couldn’t happen? Sure, and BP said the oil was a “tiny” little leak that didn’t matter, either. They said the oil rigs would never explode. They said they would cap the blowout. They said they would protect the shores. And all along the problem just got worse and worse until even the press noticed that these corporate criminals just couldn’t stop lying.

Now, BP is at least $20 billion in the hole in an effort to compensate some of the Gulf Coast businesses for the damage they’ve caused. But how will they compensate people if an entire city burns to the ground?

The answer? They won’t. That would be the end of BP. Immediately bankruptcy. B.P. = “Bankruptcy Protection,” after all.

No more payments go out to anyone. BP goes belly up just like all the fish being murdered by CorExit dispersant chemicals in the Gulf right now. The company goes down in flames just like New Orleans (or some other major city on the coast).

Of course, the scenario I’m describing here is theoretical, and I hope it’s a worst-case scenario, too. But it is possible. Catastrophe is what happens at the intersection of poor planning and bad luck. BP has given us poor planning, and now Mother Nature may be about to deliver a heavy-handed dose of bad luck in the form of a seasonal hurricane that takes oil from the Gulf and dumps it on land.

We can only hope that these two elements do not collide on our shores. For if they do, we may witness loss on a scale our world hasn’t seen since the dropping of atomic weapons on civilian populations in World War II. If a hurricane drops oil on New Orleans (or any other Gulf Coast city) and it goes up in flames a few days later, the aftermath will, indeed, resemble the effects of a nuclear bomb explosion.

You probably don’t want to be anywhere near that. Needless to say, if it starts raining oil in your neighborhood, that might be a good time to grab whatever you value and get outta Dodge.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/029082_Gulf_Coast_oil_spill.html