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RENTING TO OWN LINDA RETTSTATT ISBN: 978-1-935048-71-8 July 2010 Class Act Books http://www.classactbooks.com E-book $6.49 375 Pages Women's Fiction/Contemporary Romance Rating: 5 Cups
Lily Champion became a single mother at the young age of nineteen. The baby's father had wanted her to get an abortion, one thing she could not do. Her mother had died years earlier and her father buried himself in the bottle. So the only help she had was Helen, a teacher and friend who helped her along the way.
Fast forward five years and Lily has secured a home that she is renting to own, a job, is struggling, but is surviving taking care of her and her daughter. But things soon change and she has to make some serious choices. One of those is a new job where she finds a new friend in Rick, her boss.
The trials that soon appear in Lily's life seem to be taking their toll on her, everything crashing in at once. But with the help of new friends, a new sense of confidence and love, Lily steps up to each and every trial from the hurt people in the past have caused her and making the right choices for her and her daughter for the future.
Renting to Own is a wonderful emotion-filled read telling Lily's story. They journey she embarks on is nothing short of an emotional roller coaster as well as a life lesson learning session. I love all the characters. Each has a place that the story could not do without. This is definitely a book to add the shelf but, be forewarned, you might need a few tissues here and there I know this reviewer did. Kudos to Ms. Rettstatt on a fantastic, well-written, and enjoyable book!
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Ely Litsky remembers.
He remembers the night the Nazis ordered him into the street, hands on his head. He remembers the train ride, the cold of the concentration camps, the day he lost five toes after a forced march through waist-deep snow.
He remembers the date – Feb. 7, 1943 – when he last saw his wife and son on the train platform at Auschwitz.
Litsky celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday with friends and prayers and gifts of his favorite Scotch. He is among the last of a dying generation, a Holocaust survivor who was already an adult with a home and a family when the Nazis stormed into his town.
He remembers the days that followed, when living to see the next morning, much less his 100th birthday, seemed impossible.
Ely is a small man, with wispy white hair and watery, blue-gray eyes. He doesn't hear well in his right ear, where a German guard once clubbed him. His voice is gravelly with age and thick with the accent of his native Poland.
He worked as a waiter before the war, in a kosher restaurant in the town of Bialystok. He was there one evening when a band was playing and people were dancing, and he spotted a young woman with dark eyes and blonde hair. "Just a beauty," he says.
Her name was Rachel. They married and made a home in the Jewish ghetto of Bialystok, behind wires and fences, where 15 people often crowded into a single bedroom. They had a baby, a little boy with his mother's blonde hair and his grandfather's first name, Israel.
It was bitterly cold on the evening in February 1943 when the Nazis came through the ghetto, shooting and ordering everyone into the streets — and then into the train cars. Ely sat with his wife and 18-month-old son for two days as their train rumbled toward the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
As it slowed, he told Rachel to try to hide their son on the train. "I am a mother, and you are a father," she told him. "I'll hold my baby to the last second."
The train doors opened, and Ely saw guards pushing old men and women to the right, young men to the left. He held tight to Rachel's arm as she cradled Israel.
A guard grabbed Ely and tried to pull him away, then clubbed him in the head and back, knocking him to the ground. The guard kicked him in the back, shouting "Get up! Get up!" Ely struggled to his feet and searched the crowd.
Rachel and Israel were gone.
More than 2,000 people arrived at Auschwitz that day from the Bialystok ghetto, historian Martin Gilbert wrote in his history of the Holocaust. Only 123 of them were sent to the barracks, all men. The rest were sent to the gas chambers.


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The Lakeridge girls basketball finished off the preseason in dramatic fashion Tuesday, edging Gresham on the road 42-41.
It was a close contest from start to finish with neither team able to gain much separation from the other.
Coach Kevin Berry said that the team's press, which it has been working hard on all year, was the key to the game.
"Defensively we put together a nice game and gave them some problems," Berry said.
Gresham struggled against the pressure and was rarely comfortable on offense. The Pacers had an off and on night shooting and the Gophers held a slim advantage for much of the contest.
Heading into the fourth quarter, Gresham led by three points. Lakeridge then decided to go with a small line-up, running out four guards and a small forward and the strategy worked.
The quick line-up harassed Gresham on the perimeter and created more turnovers, which led to a few easy looks.
Gresham struggled to put the game away but still led by two points in the final minute.
With a little more than 30 seconds in regulation, Lakeridge swung the ball to Shea Northfield on offense and she drained a 3-pointer, giving her team the lead late.
"It was typical Lakeridge basketball, going for the 3-pointer instead of the two," Berry said.
On the Gophers' next possession, Lakeridge played tight defense but was whistled for a foul. Gresham missed both attempts but got the ball back on the rebound.
A late shot attempt missed and the Pacers knocked the rebound away as time expired, allowing the visitors to hold on to the victory.
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Lakeridge will open up league play Friday against Oregon City, a team that traditionally features one of the best presses in the state.
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A massive explosion of colourless, odourless natural gas erupting from the ocean depths may have caused the worst mass extinction in the Earth's history some 251 million years ago, according to U.S. geologists.
This is what these bozos are messing with!
Congress Robbing $400 Million From Katrina Victims To Pay For BP Gulf Oil Spill Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 17, 2010 at 5:24 pm - Yes, Federal Government has repeatedly assured the public over and over again that BP will pay for every dime of costs related to the oil spill. But as we have seen throughout this crisis the Government has repeatedly told the public one thing and has done another. The lip service has even been echoed by President Obama himself on several occasions.
[Another] sample was a spot in Orange Beach, where again, we found kids playing. and we found our highest content of oil and petroleum. 221 parts per million. …
When Naman added an organic solvent to separate the oil from the water [collected at Dauphin Island Marina, near some boom], just like he did with all the other samples, this sample exploded right in his lab. "It was almost instantaneous. Actually, maybe one second. that's just weird." The result surprised even our chemist.
"We think it most likely happened, either due to the presence of methanol, or methane gas. or the presence of the dispersant, Corexit."
Fishermen in Mississippi say they are angry that under the terms of BP's $20 billion oil spill fund, money they earn doing clean-up will be subtracted from their claim against the company.
These was leakage from the sea floor back in June.
Giant "super skimmer" no help with Gulf oil spill Reuters 2 hrs 22 mins ago The company defended the performance of its vessel and said the large quantity of dispersants poured into the water near the source of the spill made skimming difficult. "The particular conditions present in the Macondo spill did not afford the vessel the opportunity to recover a significant amount of oil," said a statement by Bob Grantham, spokesman for TMT Offshore. "This is due to the highly dispersed nature of the oil in the Gulf. When dispersants are used in high volume, virtually from the point that oil leaves the well, it presents real challenges for high-volume skimming," Grantham said.
BP Paying Off Universities And Gulf Scientists In Mass To Hide Oil Spill Research Data From The Public Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 16, 2010 at 3:28 pm Perhaps even more startling is the scientists that BP isn't paying off to keep quiet the Federal Government is. A scientist who spoke to the Press-Register on condition of anonymity because he feared harming relationships with colleagues and government officials said he rejected a BP contract offer and was subsequently approached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with a research grant offer. ...Other scientists told the newspaper that colleagues who signed on with BP have since been informed by federal officials that they will lose government funding for ongoing research efforts unrelated to the spill.
Allen said there are two possible reasons being debated by scientists on the project for why the pressure hasn't risen as high as desired: The reservoir that is the source of the oil could be depleting after a three-month spill, or there could be an undiscovered leak somewhere down in the well.
Allen may be an admiral but it is clear he is no geologist. Oil reservoirs the size of Mount Everest do not deplete in just 3 months. Allen is trying to put a positive spin on the failure of the test by saying "the news is generally good", even though clearly, it is not.
As CBS News notes:
The federal pointman for the BP oil spill says results are short of ideal in the new cap but the oil will stay shut in for another 6 hours at least.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said on a Friday afternoon conference that pressure readings from the cap have not reached the level that would show there are no other leaks in the well.
BP Gulf Oil Spill Well Integrity Test Failing, 24 Hours Into Test Pressure Remains At 6,700 PSI Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 16, 2010 at 10:00 am As I reported yesterday an insider in the BP control room leaked to the Washington Post that the pressure inside BP's blowout preventer had only risen to about 6700 psi. He said that indicated that the well casing could be blown down hole although yesterday he cautioned that we needed to wait for about 24 hours to make that determination. Fast forward to now and we are almost 24 hours into the test. Apparently Kent Wells from BP isn't aware that the pressure reading was leaked to the Washington Post yesterday because he just tweeted that the pressure inside the well is around 6,700 and still rising.
Welcome to Hell: An open letter to Mr. Clint Guidry of South Louisiana By Pubali Ray Chaudhuri Jul 15, 2010, 00:22 This letter is sent as a wake-up call to all the Americans who are now feeling -- and rightfully so -- shafted by a system that has already cut large swaths of devastation in the world outside the U.S. (Yes, contrary to what many Americans think, there is a world outside the U.S.)... We are surprised, for instance, that hell should have come to South Louisiana. We understand when other nations struggle with high unemployment, food riots, chronic poverty, appalling rates of child malnutrition. That's them. Those poor, benighted, backward nations. (Underneath is the unspoken assumption: it's their own damn fault for not managing their affairs better).
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a memorandum that problems were identified "in recent weeks" with blowout preventers on BP Plc's relief wells…
In a 29-page memo to Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) dated Monday, Salazar said "performance problems" with the blowout preventers were found…
Salazar said in the memo that the discovery provided "more evidence that prior testing requirements were inadequate." …
Transocean spokesman Guy Cantwell said in an email that the issues with the blowout preventers for the relief wells were now resolved. …
"And, again, I wrote back there on June 23, so that we could publicly disclose what the integrity of the wellbore is, we could publicly disclose what the integrity of the geology around the wellbore, so that we could better understand. …"
Markey all but confirms that the government has knowledge of the condition of the wellbore, but is not permitted to release the information publicly.
Markey's wrote the June 23 letter to pressure BP to publicly disclose the problems with the wellbore. This would have allowed the information to be released without Markey doing it directly.
However, the questions raised in his letter serves to inform the public about what Congress does know about the condition of the well, without directly stating the information as fact.
BP is now conducting integrity tests for up to 48 hours in order to determine whether or not there are additional leaks in the well bore deep beneath the seabed or in other areas of the ocean floor.
As early as May 31, after the top kill procedure failed, a BP official admitted to the Washington Post that "We discovered things that were broken in the sub-surface." He said that mud was making it "out to the side, into the formation." The official said he could not describe what was damaged in the well.
This "capping" does not make any sense at all.
Adding this information to that below, we have breaks or weak spots in the well at 1000 feet, 7000 feet, and 190000 feet below the ocean floor. BP has already admitted there is a leak because that is where the drilling mud went durng the failed Top Kill operation.
So how can we be seeing building pressure in a well pipe BP has already admitted has at least one major hole in it?
None of this "Capping" is making any sense at all.
We have not learned what to do about the world's psychopaths so we will see our civilization ripped asunder. Psychopaths and sociopaths have little choice but to hurt others as well as the environment because it is in their very nature to do so. These vicious individuals and the institutions they manage are at war with the peoples of the world and there is little defense against them. The very nature of our civilization encourages these people to seek the pinnacles of power and they certainly found just that inside the oil companies.
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On June 7th, Senator Bill Nelson told MSNBC that he's investigating reports of oil seeping up from additional leak points on the seafloor: Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL): Andrea we're looking into something new right now, that there's reports of oil that's seeping up from the seabed… which would indicate, if that's true, that the well casing itself is actually pierced… underneath the seabed. So, you know, the problems could be just enormous with what we're facing.
Capping that pipe may make BP look good right now and help Obama put the Gulf Disaster behind him ahead of the November Elections, but they may be setting the gulf up for an even worse disaster by creating a huge pressurized pool of oil only 1000 feet below the sea floor. One more thing. By capping the well at the top, the pressure inside the bore is increasing, up to the 8000 PSI being touted as a sign of success. That means that the two relief wells are going to be drilling into much greater pressure and will have to overcome that increased pressure in order to pump in the drilling mud and cement. The likelihood of success for the relief wells is decreased by this capping procedure. None of this "Capping" is making any sense at all.
One more thing. By capping the well at the top, the pressure inside the bore is increasing, up to the 8000 PSI being touted as a sign of success. That means that the two relief wells are going to be drilling into much greater pressure and will have to overcome that increased pressure in order to pump in the drilling mud and cement. The likelihood of success for the relief wells is decreased by this capping procedure.
Sources at two companies involved with the well said that BP also discovered new damage inside the well below the seafloor and that, as a result, some of the drilling mud that was successfully forced into the well was going off to the side into rock formations.
"We discovered things that were broken in the sub-surface," said a BP official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He said that mud was making it "out to the side, into the formation."
So, there is no way this cap is stopping the flow of oil. It may not be coming out where the cameras are, which is great for BP and Obama, but if the drilling mud was leaking out to the side, then so too is the oil. A subsurface blowout is forming 1000 feet down under the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Sooner or later the accumulating oil bubble will blow through the ocean floor in a massive spill event. Maybe Obama is hoping it won't happen until November 5th.
However, numerous industry experts have warned that there is no upside to temporarily capping the well as part of the well integrity test, and that it might actually cause the well to blw out.
Admiral Thad Allen previously said that the test will be considered a success if pressure in the well stays at 8,000 psi or higher for 48 hours. So we won't know for a couple of days whether the test has succeeded.
One of the striking controversies about the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout has been alarm raised about chemical dispersants used to hold spilled crude oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Prospects for oil's direct harm to the environment, the economy, and coastal society were immediately obvious. But why were people so concerned that dispersing the oil was bad—worse than allowing it to come onshore? Is this just a case of "out of sight, out of mind" to benefit the oil company, or are there larger benefits that reduce the harms to other interests?
Cavnar believes that BP's true goal is to make it harder to measure the flow of oil from the damaged well, because under the Clean Water Act, it will be liable for civil penalties of up to $4300 for every barrel spilled.
"While they have every incentive to get the well killed, BP also has every incentive to not capture 100% of the well flow until they do," Cavnar wrote last week at Huffington Post. "As soon as they do capture all the flow, then a real, measurable number will be in front of the public, and that's the last thing BP wants, since that number will then be used to extrapolate environmental damage, hence per barrel fines that will likely run to the tens of billions anyway."
Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300-400 pelicans and bunchopelshundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp and sudden escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The finding underscores that official tallies of birds impacted by the spill could be significantly underestimating the scope of damage.
More than 80 independent oil and gas producers have sued units of Goldman Sachs Group Inc and BP Plc, alleging they conspired with SemGroup LP to defraud the plaintiffs of money owed for oil and gas delivered prior to the energy trader's 2008 bankruptcy.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is hoarding vast amounts of raw data that independent marine researchers say could help both the public and scientists better understand the extent of the damage being caused by the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
In most cases, NOAA insists on putting the data through a ponderous, many-weeks-long vetting process before making it public.
In other cases, NOAA actually intended to keep the data secret indefinitely. But officials told the Huffington Post on Tuesday that they have now decided to release it -- though when remains unclear.
BP, incidentally, gets to see all this data right away.
Imagine my (absence of) surprise here, particularly when this data is election-year kryptonite for the Obama administration, which had well over a year to get the MMS sorted out.
BP Plc said it will begin a pressure test of its gushing Gulf of Mexico well after fixing a leak that erupted while it was shutting off oil flow with a new containment cap.
The leak was detected in a "choke line" leading from the stack of valves that makes up the cap installed July 12 on the Macondo well, BP said in a statement yesterday. BP said the leak had been "isolated" and was being repaired.
BP And Feds Stonewalling Congress About Well Bore Integrity And BP Gulf Oil Spill Sea Floor Leaks Contributed by Alexander Higgins (Reporter) Wednesday, July 14, 2010 02:50 Experts are still warning that blown well casing and lack of well bore integrity could cause a massive underground blowout like the one that occurred during the IXTOC disaster. Such an underground blowout or the existence of large leaks in the sea floor may even prevent the relief wells from working altogether. That would mean that BP may never be able to stop the leaking well.
Reddy said he is also concerned about the total amount of dispersants used, which is unprecedented. He noted that 1 million barrels [42 million gallons] of dispersants have been applied to the Gulf of Mexico to fight this spill, more than the amount of oil spilled in any single accident prior to the BP disaster
Now it is an international crisis.
If BP and the government had been forthcoming about the oil spill, we wouldn't have to guess about what's going on, and we wouldn't worry that something bad is happening behind the scenes.
The sudden decision of BP to cap the well after telling us that nothing could be done until the relief wells were completed in August came as a surprise to me. Supposedly, there was no technology to cap a leak at this psi.
BP shares rose 9 percent with the news of the cap and their possible sale of assets in Alaska.
As BP begins to test the new cap that the company hopes will finally contain its gushing leak in the Gulf of Mexico, crude oil continued to roll into sensitive coastal areas today, an assault on the environment that will last long after the leak is finally under control.
BP and the US national incident commander say there are no guarantees that they can cap the leaking wellhead, urging patience from Gulf residents.
Translation: The cap doesn't look like it will work after all.
"Let them eat oil!"
Engineers spent hours on a seismic survey, creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. It also provides a baseline to compare with later surveys during and after the test to see if the pressure on the well is causing underground problems.
An unstable area around the wellbore could create bigger problems if the leak continued elsewhere in the well after the cap valves were shut, experts said.
It was unclear whether there was something in the results of the mapping that prompted officials to delay. Earlier, BP Vice President Kent Wells said he hadn't heard what the results were, but he felt "comfortable that they were good."
"Just days ago Barataria Bay was full of oil," Tracy informs while sweeping an arm out towards the south, where the large Bay sits, toxified, "Then they hit it with dispersants and the oil goes to the bottom. But then during the day, it heats up and the oil bubbles up to the surface."
Tracy, like many other shrimpers I will soon speak with, refers to this effect as that similar to a "Lava lamp."
"The oil, after they hit it with dispersants, moves around beneath the surface and they can't track it," she continues, "They are using dispersants so they can minimize their liability."
We've seen this black wave before ~ except it was the Exxon Valdez disaster. The time March 24,1989 and the scene was Prince William Sound, Alaska. A spill that effected the whole Gulf of Alaska, a clean up that lasted three years with over 6500 workers filing upper respiratory medical claims. In 1994, it went to a class action trial and Exxon stonewalled it to the end.
Using the 1 million barrels of dispersant means that, at a ratio of 1:10, there has been 10 million barrels of oil released in to the Gulf of Mexico since late April.
At the 1:20 ratio, there would be 20 million barrels of oil released.
Oil industry expert Rob Cavner - who previously explained that there is damage in the oil well beneath the seafloor, and that BP has to let the oil spill keep on gushing to avoid further damage to the well bore until the well can be killed with relief wells (subsequently confirmed by BP) - says that he is worried that the well integrity test could further damage the well bore and could blow out the entire well:
Written with as much feeling as rigor and investigative enterprise, these books are required reading for anyone affected by either Valdez or the current Gulf spill. I reviewed the more recent of the two, Not One Drop (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008), last year for Energy Bulletin. Here I review the earlier but equally important Sound Truth, a pioneering piece of scholarship that forces us to rethink our notions about how toxic oil and the chemicals used to clean it up really are.
Oil is much more toxic than scientists used to think—that is Ott's consistent refrain throughout the book. According to the old understanding of oil toxicity, impacts from oil spills should be entirely short-term. Since for the most part oil is non-water-soluble, scientists reasoned that it must not be that harmful to aquatic life and that whatever harm it does cause happens early on as the oil is shedding its highly volatile compounds. Thus, the old thinking goes, any oil that doesn't weather away completely after a certain amount of time is harmless, even if it remains visible in the environment for years after a spill. But studies done in the years since Valdez have shown these notions to be sadly mistaken. Oil actually becomes more, not less, harmful the longer it remains in the environment, because the weathering process exposes increasingly toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—which Ott says "may well be the DDT of the 21st century."
The start of BP PLC's (BP) crucial integrity test of the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well has been delayed until at least Wednesday, the U.S. official leading the disaster response said.
Adm. Thad Allen, the former U.S. Coast Guard chief, said he had taken the decision to delay the test after meetings with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and other top experts.
More photographic evidence surfaced today that an artificial island being built to stop the Gulf oil spill from reaching the Louisiana coast is nearly under water.
After Oil Spill, Gulf States Want Obama Vacation By Paul Bedard Posted July 13, 2010 10:50 AM ET Now 15 years later, President Obama is getting some similar vacation advice intended to bolster his image, especially with those upset with his administration's handling of the Gulf oil spill cleanup. On one hand, Gulf tourism officials think he should visit the area to help show it's still a good vacation spot while on the other hand the public wants him there to do some public service.See photos of the Gulf oil spill. http://politics.usnews.com/news/energy/photos/gulf-coast-oil-spill
A security contractor who was once responsible for keeping reporters away from cleanup workers is now coming forward to blow the whistle on BP.
Adam Dillon claims he was fired by the oil company after he took pictures showing how dispersants were being used in the Gulf.
Oil and gas industry expert Bob Cavnar:
I'm real concerned about this shut in integrity test they're going to plan in the morning, because of the down hole damage that we've talked about for the last several weeks, plus there are some components in that blowout preventer stack, the flex joint below this new assembly that doesn't rate the pressure I'm worried about it's going to take to shut it in. …
"There is an enemy that lurks, a dangerous group of people that want to do harm to the American people." - George Bush
BP has hired an army of contractors and sub-contractors who are spending plenty of "flash money" to assuage some local businesses. However, WMR noticed while driving to Louisiana a large number of seafood distributors and restaurants that were shuttered.
Those hired by BP to clean up beaches and waters are not permitted to wear respirators and many are becoming sick, even coughing up blood. This editor, while driving to Venice, began to experience burning and watering eyes, a condition that lasted hours after returning to the west bank of New Orleans.
Press Conference, National Incident Commander Thad Allen, July 13, 2010:
Nearly all questions at National Incident Commander Thad Allen's press conference today concerned the structural integrity of the well and the possibility of seepage into the seabed or a blowout.
Commander: "One could make the case that there's some structural integrity issues with the casing of the wellbore itself."
Hours after BP fitted a new containment cap to a damaged well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the gushing oil and gas appeared to completely stop, according to images relayed from a live video from the sea floor. Oil was once again jetting from the well a moment later as the company continued testing pressure seals on the "Top Hat 10" cap.
BP representatives said it would take between six and 48 hours to determine if the new well cap will work. The company has said the cap could effectively contain the massive spill, which has only been growing since the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded and sank on April 22
Teaser of Black Wave, a documentary about the Exxon Valdez tragedy. Check out the official website: http://www.blackwavethefilm.com . In the early hours of March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker runs aground in Alaska. It discharges millions of gallons of crude oil. The incident becomes the biggest environmental catastrophe in North American history.
"We were primed for a great season," Guidry says, "And it all got taken away."
See? Getting pissed off at the bastards is a good thing!
The Obama family will be taking a mini-vacation of their own this weekend, but instead of going to the Gulf Coast they are traveling to Maine's Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park.
Embattled BP is to cut costs by $14bn (£9.5bn) in six months as part of a radical plan to sustain profitability in the wake of the explosion at its Deepwater Horizon oil rig that has led to the worst spill in US history.
Remember that all that BP has done to the United States was done with the permission of the US Federal Government. The MMS, which is supposed to keep an eye on the oil corporations in this country, was known to suffer from rampant corruption and incompetence when Obama took office. Obama had 400 days to get the Federal Agencies like MMS (and SEC) back to doing their jobs. Instead, we learned that MMS had come to believe they worked for the oil companies rather than for the American people, and in the months before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, occupied themselves with internet porn, drugs, and hookers provided by the very oil companies they were supposed to be keeping an eye on. Yes, BP deserves everything it gets, but it should not stand alone on the gallows.
Yes, BP deserves everything it gets, but it should not stand alone on the gallows.
Since the Deepwater Horizon well exploded April 20, BP has paid fewer than half of the claims filed in six states, including Mississippi.
As we have highlighted, as one of the founding members of the cap and trade lobby, BP stands to reap a financial bounty if the Obama administration succeeds in exploiting the worsening oil spill crisis to push through a carbon tax.
"Kill the Ocean, Save the Beaches," a "Trade-Off" decision. Under what logic does this work? The Gulf is the Mother and the Estuaries are the nurseries. If the Mother dies, there will be no children to incubate.
The reality is the oil and chemical dispersants are entering our estuaries as we speak. The "Trade-Off" logic FAILED.
As I stated, I represent commercial shrimp fishermen. I have members, friends and family presently working to contain and clean-up the spill. They are relating to me BP's total disregard for providing workers with proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
A corporation has no conscience.
This is why, when it comes to any oil drilling, the regulations and best professional practices must be observed by the corporations, and documented, by the regulatory agencies which oversee these industries.
Both BP and the US government failed catastrophically in these regards, and the people of the Gulf Coast are paying - and will continue to pay, some even with their very lives - for that failure.
If oil is being picked up or messed with, the individuals on the boat are required to wear a full body, hazwoper suit. The suit is to be duct-taped around the gloves and shoes to make sure that no oil comes in contact with your skin.
A Hazwoper suit; what the oil cleanup people have to wear when there are no cameras around.
While Allen said he believes the second pipe fell from above, some experts have advanced another explanation. They believe poorly cemented casings -- tubes that are supposed to form solid walls down thousands of feet of the well bore -- may have been dislodged by the blast of natural gas that shot up out of the well and above the sea floor.
If that's what happened, the piece of pipe would have gone into the blowout preventer, the 450-ton tower of valves and pistons that sits on top of the well head and is supposed to shut off the well in an emergency. The Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer failed to cut through the pipe that ran through it, and subsequent efforts to shut the so-called shear rams using remote-control submarine robots also failed.
This second drill pipe was being discussed here on the blogs more than a week ago, but was only officially acknowledged Friday.
I have previously argued that "the odds that the release of methane from the leaking oil will cause a tidal wave or a firestorm are infinitesimally small."
I am sticking by that assessment.
But Reuters notes that the use of explosives to seal the oil gusher could cause a landslide:
"I think this situation has taught us from the start to have a backup," retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the top official overseeing the spill response, told reporters this week. …
If both relief wells fail, Allen said BP has a plan to fabricate a new pipeline, place it on the seabed and hook it up to the leaking wellhead. …
As much as one million times the normal level of methane is showing up near the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, enough potentially to create dead zones in the water. "These are higher levels than we have ever seen at any other location in the ocean itself," according to sources cited by Reuters. The "flow team" of the US Geological Survey estimates that 2,900 cubic feet of natural gas, which primarily contains methane, is being released into the Gulf waters with every barrel of oil.
As oil continues to spew into the Gulf, BP has said it will significantly cut payments on claims to those impacted by the disaster because of problems with their paperwork, the Associated Press reported
Obama thinks it's the Golf Disaster.
Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Markham demonstrates this in a new documentary, "Gasland," which just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Director Josh Fox films Markham as he runs his kitchen faucet, holding a cigarette lighter up to the running water. After a few seconds, a ball of fire erupts out of the sink, almost enveloping Markham's head.
The source of the flammable water, and the subject of "Gasland," is the mining process called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
Hundreds of Tar balls Assualt Windward Beach In Brick NJ Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 10, 2010 Then I thought to myself. "OK, they know these tar balls are washing up on the beach. They are all over the place. They are just cleaning them up and pretending like nothing is going. They are keeping quiet and not notifying the public." "I wonder what I will find along the beach where they are not cleaning up?" I walked down to the beach to a secluded are of the shore line behind some woods. I looked over and saw what looked like a tree stump sticking up out of the surf. As I walked over to it I was amazed as I realized it wasn't a tree stump. What I had found was a monster tarball the size of my head.
We wonder out loud about whether it is now time to establish a Regional Citizens' Initiative (NGO that effectively functions as a parallel government) to step in where government and industry have completely failed and betrayed the people.
And should such a parallel government be formed, would the US Federal Government step in to stop it, just as they are now trying to block Arizona from defending their own borders?
William Mulcahey thought he had found the perfect place for his May 2011 conference of airport firefighters: the Tradewinds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach...
Thursday, July 08, 2010 Another Flyover Report On BP's Gulf Oil Disaster By John Wathen... Videos Dolphins and Sperm Whales caught in the oil. Horribly, horribly sad. US Coast Guard issued a press release claiming that no covering of oiled beach was occurring. I sat in my motel room in Orange Beach and watched as multiple pieces of heavy equipment excavated sand and hauled it up the beach and used it to cover oiled sections of beach....USCG uniformed men sat in ATV buggies and watched. I saw them and photographed them.
(Updated Regularly) Exclusive photos of the BP Oil Spill that is still leaking, world's largest environmental disaster to date Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) # Oil is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico about six miles southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana May 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Sean Gardner)
It's the same response everywhere it seems, a la, "The tar balls at OUR beach aren't from BP, it's just coincidental"
I guess I am not the only one who thinks this sudden well capping may not be what it appears to be!
Move is first step in placing a tighter dome over leak; if all goes according to plan, the gushing oil could be sealed as soon as Monday.
I hate to be such a cynic, but especially after Saddam's "nooks" I smell a huge rat here. Take a look at the live cams right now, supposedly working on the uncapped well. (Warning, this link sometimes crashes Firefox). Now, take a look at still framecaps from the well only a couple weeks ago when the cap was still in place.
Take a look at the live cams right now, supposedly working on the uncapped well. (Warning, this link sometimes crashes Firefox).
Now, take a look at still framecaps from the well only a couple weeks ago when the cap was still in place.
The live cams, with the cap supposedly removed today, do not seem to show anywhere near as much oil coming out of the pipe. How can we know we are in fact looking at the actual well head and not a staged recreation for propaganda purposes, especially with famed film maker James Cameron having been on scene for many weeks now. Yes, this idea is a little out there, but decoys for military purposes are big business in the US; it is hardly a novelty to the government point of view. Ask yourself if BP would fake a well capping to contain the bad publicity and save their stock price. Ask yourself if Obama would fake a well capping to avoid having the disaster as an issue come November? Second issue. We know from the failure of the first Top Kill procedure, as well as from the seepage coming from the ocean floor around the well head, that there has been a subsurface blowout about 1000 feet down where a piece of safety gear was damaged by the drilling process. BP calls it a malfunctioning disk. So, there are at least two vents in the pipe system, one at the well head and another 1000 feet down. Capping the well head makes absolutely no sense at all other than a public relations stunt because the oil and methane will continue to escape from the subsurface blowout lower down. Indeed, the pressure and flow of the leakage into the formation will increase with the capping of the well head, hastening the moment then the subsurface blowout breaches the ocean floor and sends the accumulated oil and gas from the last 80 days to the surface in a single giant blowout. If this is the real well head and not a fake created for public relations purposes, this is a dangerous and reckless thing to do for the sake of an election-saving headline.
How can we know we are in fact looking at the actual well head and not a staged recreation for propaganda purposes, especially with famed film maker James Cameron having been on scene for many weeks now.
Yes, this idea is a little out there, but decoys for military purposes are big business in the US; it is hardly a novelty to the government point of view.
Ask yourself if BP would fake a well capping to contain the bad publicity and save their stock price.
Ask yourself if Obama would fake a well capping to avoid having the disaster as an issue come November?
Second issue. We know from the failure of the first Top Kill procedure, as well as from the seepage coming from the ocean floor around the well head, that there has been a subsurface blowout about 1000 feet down where a piece of safety gear was damaged by the drilling process. BP calls it a malfunctioning disk.
So, there are at least two vents in the pipe system, one at the well head and another 1000 feet down. Capping the well head makes absolutely no sense at all other than a public relations stunt because the oil and methane will continue to escape from the subsurface blowout lower down. Indeed, the pressure and flow of the leakage into the formation will increase with the capping of the well head, hastening the moment then the subsurface blowout breaches the ocean floor and sends the accumulated oil and gas from the last 80 days to the surface in a single giant blowout.
If this is the real well head and not a fake created for public relations purposes, this is a dangerous and reckless thing to do for the sake of an election-saving headline.
The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 5, 2010 So What Are These Dispersants Made Of That Makes Them Such a Powerful Neurotoxin Pesticide? The main ingredients of Corexit is 2-Butoxyethanol which can make up to 60% of the dispersant and is known to be toxic to blood, kidneys, liver, and the central nervous system (CNS). 2-Butoxyethanol is also known to cause cancer, birth defects and has been found to cause genetic mutations and is a delayed chronic health hazard as well as an environmental hazardous material Corexit also contains Arsenic, Cadmium, Chromium, Mercury, and Cyanide.
NALCO COREXIT INGREDIENT LIST (Not written by a PR company)
1,2-Propanediol - The primary ingredient in aircraft anti-freeze and automotive anti-freeze. Used as the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles. Mixing anti-freeze with heavy metals (iron, cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, mercury, plutonium, lead, arsenic, aluminium, mercury, cadmium... see list of ingredients spewed by the volcanic oil gusher) makes it very toxic. Not recommended for your aquarium. Don't try going to a sushi restaurant, get salmon eggs, tobiko or uni and start soaking them in anti-freeze.
Ethanol, 2-butoxy-
In a dramatic turn of events, the Obama administration has given BP the go-ahead to remove the containment cap atop the runaway Deepwater Horizon oil well and replace it with a tighter fitting one in an attempt to stop all the oil now flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps as soon as the middle of next week.
Two aspects to this story. First is the ludicrous play-acting by Obama that he has anything meaningful to contribute to this operation and second, if they are going for a cap replacement, it means they think the relief well operation is going to fail.
In an under-the-radar release of new test results for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill workers, BP PLC is reporting potentially hazardous exposures to a now-discontinued dispersant chemical -- a substance blamed for contributing to chronic health problems after the Exxon Valdez cleanup -- among more than 20 percent of offshore responders.
Let me get this straight: isn't this the same company which refused to allow its cleanup workers to use respirators?
2400 Canadian Soldiers and the 1 Combat Engineer Regiment based in Edmonton Alberta are on a 72 Hour notice for deployment to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
"The Canadian Engineer Regiment is often associated with the British SAS and their role in recent conflicts such as Bosnia and Afghanistan has seen them doing less reconstruction work and more urban pacification and counter insurgency operations."
One has to wonder, considering their background, why it is Canadian troops rather than the US National Guard, who have been deployed to the Gulf.
Precisely why is it this unit that the US government has requested this particular Canadian unit here here?!?
Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.
251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world. [2]
Folks are breathing, drinking, and absorbing this stuff too!
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwYG_i_4_A
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VneHlXAwYo
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkaXmrzQiYc
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhxSA1qNQE
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmH9cZqJtVg
Now, two toxicologists are saying that Corexit is much more harmful to human health and marine life than we've been told.
Specifically Gulf toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw - Founder and Director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute - dove into the oil spill to examine the chemicals present.
The Canadian government is considering a lawsuit against oil giant BP for environmental damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
P.E.I. fishermen were briefed about the potential move at a meeting with Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials Friday in Stanhope.
The meeting was called to plan for Canada's share of bluefin tuna stocks in the future, but fisheries scientists are also looking for signs of damage to North Atlantic tuna populations.
Oysters await in oil-free bay as harvesters cash BP damage-claim checks By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel 9:55 p.m. EDT, June 23, 2010 APALACHICOLA — The capital of Florida's oyster industry has a history of surviving everything from drought to toxic algae, and it was bracing for an onslaught of crude oil when another sort of calamity struck that nobody saw coming: a flood of cash. Emergency payments to local oyster harvesters by BP PLC, whose blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has slathered four states with crude, has triggered an abrupt drop-off this month in the time harvesters are spending on Apalachicola Bay. That, in turn, has left seafood dealers on shore with far fewer oysters to process and sell.
Standard EPA tests for "toxicity" consider a product safe if nothing dies in 96 hours. The dispersant being used is only considered "safe" because it killed creatures two weeks later instead of in 4 days.
...If the wind is blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, she said, "the oil smell is often very strong, too strong to be outside."
In ways big and small, the Deepwater Horizon disaster is reshaping the gulf coast. It's doing more than damaging the tourism and fishing industries; it's permeating the air people breathe and the way they think and feel, altering habits formed over a lifetime...
A detailed, thorough account by one Harvey Molotch of what happens when people who have everything in their favor take on Big Oil. Not to give it away, but how they are utterly screwed shows cleary how Big Oil operates. None of the usual extenuating factors (like lack of political organization, lack of familiarity with the system, lack of money, power, education or influence) exist to obscure the evil. Something wicked this way comes...
Excerpts and download links at source.
While BP has put forth great effort in securing tax benefits acquired from leasing rigs like the sunken Deepwater Horizon, it has also saved money by choosing not to pursue better cleanup methods and technologies. We live in a corporate world where profit is god. Profit rules. Showing a profit on the next quarterly earnings statement is everything. This is how a multi-billion dollar oil giant like BP (yes, we can include the others as well - Exxon/Mobile, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Total S.A.) spends vast troughs of money on developing the latest oil exploration and drilling technologies. But when it comes to cleaning up their toxic mess when disaster strikes, every expense is spared.
The most important thing I can say today is that BP is majority owned by J.P. Morgan which is owned and controlled by the Rothschild Crime Syndicate and the Queen of England who just waddled into the U.S. with a message of peace. Let me contract and concise that statement; BP is Rothschild. BP is Rothschild. BP is Rothschild. Observe the way that BP is doing business; hiring entire police forces, controlling public lands and not even being a citizen or domestic corporate entity, insisting that cleanup workers not wear safety gear because it doesn't look good and blackmailing fishermen as well as not paying out deserving monies on time… this serves to make hungry families subservient and pliable. This is how Rothschild does business. This is what Rothschild thinks of the world.
The Gulf area may have to live with oil long after the beaches have been cleaned. Some residents are outraged that BP has been dumping oily waste in landfills in their areas.
After BP crews scoop up the oil off Gulf beaches, the waste is transported to Mississippi's Pecan Grove landfill. Even workers' protective suits, gloves, shovels, rakes and anything else that touches oil is buried there.
The Board of Supervisors in Harrison, Mississippi passed a resolution saying they don't want any BP waste in their community but there is little they can do. BP has cut deals with Waste Management, the owners of the landfill. They answer to the state instead of local county government.
Unflipping believable.
On another note, I think she found someone who could be cast to play Beaufort T. Justice if they ever remake Smokey and the Bandit.
As I previously pointed out, the Gulf oil spill is very similar to 9/11, because - in both cases - the responders helping with rescue and clean up were getting sick ... but were told they don't need any safety gear. And see this.
In addition, the government is keeping scientists away from "ground zero" of the oil spill and - for that reason - scientists cannot accurately measure the size of the oil spill.
Russian-owned submersibles would be able to cap the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the captain of one of the vessels has said.
The skipper was speaking as two of the subs - which can dive to 6,000m - started a campaign of exploration at the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia.
He added that there was still time for the subs to help BP with the disaster.
Massive Amounts Of Tar balls Cover Cocoa Beach And Cape Canaveral On The East Coast Of Central Florida Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 8, 2010 at 1:31 pm - Massive amounts of tarballs are now hammering the Atlantic Coast of Florida and have left a large portion of Cocoa Beach in Central Florida literally covered in tarballs. Meanwhile local Government officials have taken a move straight from the Pensacola Beach playbook and are already misleading the public into thinking that the beaches are safe. Mellisa Cones, director of the the Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce, attempts to assure the public that the tarballs are not from the BP Gulf Oil Spill by saying "it's just to thick to be coming from the west coast".
And that is the count ONLY of people who went to BP for medical treatment, and does not include workers who went to their own physicians or local hospitals.
Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said.
On July 6, Governor Bobby Jindal blasted the federal government for again denying a defense plan proposed by local and state officials that would block oil from further damaging Louisiana's fragile marshlands. Over the past weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a plan to place rocks in the water that would stop oil from hitting the coast near Grand Isle – which leaves the area nearly unprotected from further oil impact.
After a flyover of Lake Pontchartrain and a meeting today with local officials, Governor Jindal said it was unacceptable for the federal government to continue to deny state and local defense plans without proposing any of their own solutions. The Governor said officials from Jefferson Parish and Grand Isle would be resubmitting the rock plan for approval.
Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn't.
Wednesday night, their lawyer wanted answers.
I wouldn't bet on these people ever seeing a check from BP for their work.
From the air, the area north of Grand Isle, Louisiana, much of it around Barataria Bay, looks like scorched earth. This area has been and is heavily afflicted by BP's oil. The so-called clean up efforts, including laying out booms to supposedly prevent oil from destroying more marsh and killing more wildlife, are a farce.
Opaque multi-color sheen stains much of the bay, and is visible in countless inlets that snake their way into the marsh. The contrast between the green marsh area yet to be soiled and the marsh already blackened by the oil and the sheen covered Gulf water is stark. The afflicted water appears as a lifeless, dull, silvery fluid.
Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong.
According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how many people were put out of work by the spill, BP will deduct money from individual payments on claims for lost income if the claimant refuses to work in assisting the spill response.
Reporters and photographers are reporting numerous incidents where they have been prohibited from approaching areas where oil has fouled Gulf beaches and have been prevented from taking photos or gathering enough information to publish reports.
The term is accurate in this context.
Holocaust = murder on a mass scale.
Future videos will show exactly how appropriate this term is, but in short, not only has BP unleashed an uncontainable disaster of geologic proportions, it's also spraying tons of a highly toxic substance - coexit - at night, against the "request" of the EPA, not to contain the oil, but to mask the scale and scope of the disaster.
This is not only creating a ecological catastrophe of unprecedented proportions, it will sicken and kill thousands, possibly millions, of people, contaminate drinking water, and damage crops and agricultural land.
And make no mistake, this catastrophe is a major bonanza for the Oil Industrial Complex.
Top elitist and Harvard Professor Kenneth Rogoff has shamefully called for the BP oil spill disaster to be exploited in order to create political momentum behind a carbon tax, even going to the lengths of embracing the nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing the oil onshore as a way to create political momentum behind Obama's dreaded "green economy".
Published: July 07, 2010 While Big Easy Takes on Oil, Obama Sues Arizona! By John Lillpop While the worst environmental disaster in history spreads to Big Easy and all of the Gulf States, Barack Hussein Obama, in a snit of poor judgment and political fraud, has unleashed the vast powers and resources of the U.S. Government against the state of Arizona for its tough, and long overdue, anti-illegal alien bill. Call Obama's hideous meddling what you wish, pandering to illegal aliens, or trolling for votes among those who oppose secure borders and the rule of law, the fact is that Barack Obama has taken his eye off the tar balls long enough to attack a sovereign entity of the United States. Which is either incredibly poor judgment, or out and out treason, or, most probably, both.
Sure, President Obama's now saying about BP, "We will make sure they pay every dime." He also pledged months ago that big banks would repay "every single dime" of bailout money.
In fact, there's an excellent chance Washington will do as it did in the financial, housing and auto-industry crises -- and decide that BP is "too big to fail." This time, it won't be to prevent panic but to keep peace among allies and to keep oil prices low. You see, the British public is outraged at us -- for being mad at BP, one of Britain's crown jewels and a huge taxpayer.
Last week, I interviewed Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, who has been covering the BP oil spill in the Gulf since the first day it happened. She detailed how local police and federal officials work with BP to harass, impede, interrogate and even detain journalists who are covering the impact of the spill and the clean-up efforts. She documented one incident which was particularly chilling of an activist who -- after being told by a local police officer to stop filming a BP facility because "BP didn't want him filming" -- was then pulled over after he left by that officer so he could be interrogated by a BP security official.
It's glaringly obvious by now who is actually in control of the alleged BP Gulf "cleanup", and that is the corporation itself.
As horrific as the gulf environmental catastrophe is, an even more intractable and cataclysmic disaster may be looming. The yet unknowable costs associated with clean-up, litigation and compensation damages due to arguably the world's worst environmental tragedy, may be in the process of triggering a credit event by British Petroleum (BP) that will be equally devastating to global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The potential contagion may eventually show that Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns were simply early warning signals of the devastation lurking and continuing to grow unchecked in the $615T OTC Derivatives market.
More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not government — is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.
More to the point,m how many will start leaking if this lame-ass idea of using a nuke on the Deepwater Horizon site is carried out?
But Haywayd's visit comes amid reports that BP had been seeking the support of foreign sovereign wealth funds (SWF) following the collapse of its share price which increased the risk of possible takeover bids by rival companies.
In other words, BP will borrow itself to the hilt to clean up the mess they made (and MMS let them) and you will spend the test of your life paying high gas prices to repay the loans. I gu7ess from BP's point of view that's a better deal than digging into their executive bonuses!
Why this matters This is scary stuff, folks. Now we have a police state in America. No one can deny it. You can't argue the point anymore. It is documented fact, and it's happening right now in the Gulf Coast.
If you pick up a professional camera and start snapping photos of a BP refinery, or a BP cleanup vessel, or a beach with an oil boom on it, you risk being followed, detained, questioned and intimidated. And if you don't surrender your own rights and consent to an illegal search of your photos or film footage, you will be hauled into a federal holding facility and held by the Department of Homeland Security until they feel like letting you go.
The Gulf of Mexico is packed with abandoned oil wells from a host of companies including BP, according to an investigation by Associated Press, which describes the area as "an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades".
While the explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig has thrown the spotlight sharply on BP's activities in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental safety in the area has been neglected for decades.
Although Obama appears to have ordered a media blackout of the Gulf disaster, a relative few shocking photos have leaked out thanks to enterprising area residents. You won't be seeing these in your local paper, that's for sure.
This is without a doubt, the most disturbing video I have ever produced.
I saw at least 100 Dolphins dying or struggling to get out of the oil. It was many miles from any water that was not contaminated. In all likelihood, the Dolphins and Sperm Whale seen in this video are dead by now.
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Many oil drilling experts are hopeful that BP's relief wells will succeed on the first try. I hope and pray that they do.
But the relief wells are not a slam dunk.
CBS News states:
"It's not a solid dunk," said Eric Smith, a deepwater drilling expert. "It's going to take some work."
Smith said two things could go wrong. The cut could miss the broken wellbore, and BP would just try again, or engineers could drill into hidden gas pockets.
"When you are drilling into that you have to be careful of a kick, a blowout in the relief well," Smith said.
We finish eating and talk a little while longer before we thank Theresa again for her time and hospitality.
"We hope we don't have to wait as long as the Alaskans did for our marine life to come back," she says, referencing the Exxon Valdez disaster from 1989, "They had to wait 17 years for their shrimp to return, and they are still waiting on their herring."
I know you are supposed to be a ditz, Sarah, but this is abusing the privilege!
Tucked away in a strip center called Patriot Square in Naples, sharing a building with Victoria's Nail & Spa, Mangrove Outfitters and others, is Southwest Florida's only BP Claims Center.
The lone identifying mark is a small white sign stuck in the grass out front. The office and sign aren't visible from U.S. 41. Three signs with information about hours and more are taped to the front door.
"We're not the easiest place to find," office manager Tom Wiley said.
According to the NHC, a weather formation, centered about 50 miles south-southeast of Morgan City, Louisiana, is packing sustained winds near tropical storm force. As the map below indicates, this is above the Macondo blowout. According to Reuters, "there was a "high chance" it will become the second named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season before it makes landfall in the Terrebonne Parish area near Caillou Bay early Monday evening, the Miami-based hurricane center said." Tomorrow, the news of yet another 60% probability cyclone ramming the cleanup effort will be digested alongside the WSJ report that Libya is allegedly looking to make a staple British company part-owned by the Khadafi regime.
Just two weeks before the Gulf spill, a BP refinery in Texas released thousands of pounds of chemicals into the atmosphere. Unsurprisingly, BP did not handle the situation well (from ProPublica/Frontline):
Two weeks before the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the huge, trouble-plagued BP refinery [1] in this coastal town spewed tens of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the skies.
While the MMS surfed internet porn and did drugs on YOUR dime!
Some 492 miles (792 kilometers) of US shoreline across the five Gulf states -- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and now Texas -- have been oiled by the disaster.
Oil sheen and tar balls were spotted Monday near the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, the lake near New Orleans that flooded disastrously during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
As tar balls from the BP oil spill wash into Galveston, Texas, Congressman Ron Paul has slammed federal interference in the relief effort that is hampering local attempts to mitigate the consequences of the disaster, mimicking how the feds deliberately botched the response to hurricane Katrina and made the crisis worse.
"They have done a lot to interfere," Paul told National Political Correspondent Jessica Yellin on CNN's "John King USA."
"A lot of local officials, property owners and state officials have wanted to do more over in Louisiana and Mississippi and the federal government, the fish and wildlife people, the EPA and others, they come in and they prohibit them from doing it," said Paul.
...This information offered the possibility that Petty Officer Polish was a paid public relations operative for BP, working in her capacity as a Coast Guard reservist. Did my post inadvertently provide a bully pulpit for BP and Coast Guard propaganda? Could this be true? As it turns out, there is plenty of room for concern regarding this apparent marriage of public relations and a government agency, especially when the PR firm that employs Petty Officer Polish is the same PR firm that represents BP.
...This information offered the possibility that Petty Officer Polish was a paid public relations operative for BP, working in her capacity as a Coast Guard reservist.
Did my post inadvertently provide a bully pulpit for BP and Coast Guard propaganda?
Could this be true? As it turns out, there is plenty of room for concern regarding this apparent marriage of public relations and a government agency, especially when the PR firm that employs Petty Officer Polish is the same PR firm that represents BP.
Not surprising as the US military is BP's #1 customer.
I know this is supposed to be a just in case, But WTF? are we expecting something on the West Coast?
ST. HELENS — The Oregon Responder, a 210-foot oil spill response vessel, dropped anchor in the middle of the Columbia River west of Portland.
It was Petty Officer Polish's right to offer commentary and within readers' rights to offer positive and negative commentary on my post. This is the age of interactive media after all. What absolutely floored me were the number of tips that came in on my Facebook page from concerned citizens of the Louisiana Delta and elsewhere. This information offered the possibility that Petty Officer Polish was a paid public relations operative for BP, working in her capacity as a Coast Guard reservist.
Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill found on a Texas beach were confirmed Monday as the first evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.
Now why would that be?
BP workers claim that they speak no English.
Tests of the effectiveness of the A Whale oil skimmer in the Gulf of Mexico are inconclusive, a spokesman for the company that owns the huge converted cargo ship said Monday.
Bob Grantham of TMT Shipping Offshore said rough seas over the initial 48-hour testing period made it difficult to determine the skimming results, but he expects more typical sea conditions over coming days will allow more testing.
BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.
British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.
And that asshole Florida Governor is out there telling tourists to come swim at their beaches!
Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower its U.S. corporate tax rate by almost 15 points. And due to a break in the U.S. tax code, BP was also allowed to write off the rent it paid to Transocean on its own tax bill, saving it hundreds of thousands of dollars per day:
"The distribution of the oil, it's bigger and uglier than we had hoped," said Roger Helm, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official and the lead scientist studying the spill for the Interior Department. "The possibility of having significant changes in the food chain, over some period of time, is very real. The possibility of marshes disappearing . . . is very real."
Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 fine and even one to five years in prison under a new rule instituted by the Coast Guard late last week.
It's a move that outraged observers have decried as an attack on First Amendment rights. And CNN's Anderson Cooper describes the new rules as making it "very easy to hide incompetence or failure."
The Coast Guard order states that "vessels must not come within 20 meters [65 feet] of booming operations, boom, or oil spill response operations under penalty of law."
A "willful" violation of the new rule could result in Class D felony charges, which carry a penalty of one to five years in prison under federal law.
Translation: the repercussions of this catastrophe are far worse than either BP or the Federal government wants to let the general public know about.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program it says violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country's largest refineries in a state of limbo.
The move comes after years of backdoor bickering, negotiations and public arguments between the EPA and Texas. The argument recently escalated from a battle over environmental issues into a heated political dispute over states' rights.
President Pussy has gone stark raving certifiably mad! Obama unleashed the worst environmental disaster in history by handing out EPA exemptions to British Petroleum like candy while the MMS did drugs and surfed internet porn, and now Obama is going to have the EPA drop an existing agreement to force Texas oil refineries to halt operations while they refile their paperwork, effectively shutting down a major portion of the United States' oil supply at a time when the flow of oil from the Gulf drilling operations is already limited to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Is Obama paying back BP for all their campaign money by slamming the US oil producers to "level the playing field", or is Obama playing a mafia-like racket in which he will shut off the flow of oil until Congress gives him his carbon-tax? Either way, this is a reminder that the Founding Fathers were correct in warning against allowing the President to acquire too much direct authority over our lives.
Is Obama paying back BP for all their campaign money by slamming the US oil producers to "level the playing field", or is Obama playing a mafia-like racket in which he will shut off the flow of oil until Congress gives him his carbon-tax?
Either way, this is a reminder that the Founding Fathers were correct in warning against allowing the President to acquire too much direct authority over our lives.
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they've taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
Senate Democrats today asked unanimous consent to pass legislation that would give the BP Oil Spill Commission the subpoena power it needs to do its job. "Frankly, it's time we have a vote after so many Republican objections to this commonsense legislation," said Sen. Robert Menendez. "[This bill] asserts that we want to protect those families, taxpayers, not oil company profits."
When the Deepwater Horizon disaster set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the drilling platform was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig's owner to significantly reduce its U.S. taxes.
The platform's owner, Transocean, moved its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Cayman Islands in 1999 and then to Switzerland in 2008, maneuvers that also helped it avoid taxes.
At the same time, BP was reaping sizable tax benefits from leasing the rig. According to a letter sent in June to the Senate Finance Committee, the company used a tax break for the oil industry to write off 70 percent of the rent for Deepwater Horizon, a deduction of more than $225,000 a day since the lease began.
John Galt Activist Post
The 2010 hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico is here and it's all-systems-go in the preparation for the FEMA Beta Test. This Beta test will likely happen in stages as storms will hit different areas at different times. With oil- and chemical-soaked waters brewing in the Gulf waters, this hurricane season may prove to be the last time the coastal areas will be habitable to humans for some time.
The Obama Presidency: An Unfolding Disaster Written by Larry Pinkney Friday, 02 July 2010 04:35 Barack Obama is in fact, shrewdly facilitating and overseeing the dismantling, not of the U.S. corporate / military empire, but rather of the economic and political human rights and legitimate needs of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples in this nation. It is for this purpose that the corporate / military establishment and the corporate media ensured that Barack Obama was installed in the White House. This is an increasingly obvious disaster not for the wealthy elite who already have homes, villas, gated mansions, yachts, and cushioned financial holdings all over the world. It is however, a horrible disaster for everyday common folks in this nation and around this planet.
The FDA has decreed? Corexit to be a vital part of a balanced agonizing hell storm.
BP was facing fresh criticism over its approach to safety on Saturday night after critics said it did not use an industry standard process to asses risk ahead of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The procedure, known as a safety case, was developed in Britain after the catastrophic Piper Alpha oil rig explosion of 1988 in which 167 people lost their lives.
However, BP admitted to The Sunday Telegraph that it does not use safety cases on any of its US wells, including the high-pressure deep water Macondo well from which up to 60,000 barrels of oil per day are still leaking in the Gulf of Mexico.
Unflipping believable! And only now, the US is considering the adopting of such a procedure for offshore oil drilling?!?!?
Do not let your kids eat the hail or drink the rainwater. It is likely to contain some benzene and cyclohexane. Can it rain oily compounds? The short answer is it certainly can. It is also not complex to work out which chemical compounds will be coming down in our rainwater. It is those with a similar boiling point and freezing point to water. It is those that are not too heavy, that are similar to that of air at 1.2 kg per cubic meter. They should be able to rise easily to upper atmospheric levels.
Let us start with water. On earth at everyday working temperatures matter has 3 phases. They are solid, liquid and gas. We know these phases by other names called ice, water and steam.
BP's only Bay area claims office opened Monday in Clearwater. Some are getting money to help offset losses caused by the oil spill, but many are not satisfied.
For Kathy Birren, the BP claims process is so frustrating it brings her to tears...
As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime.
BP and Government Misleading Public About Safety Of Florida Beaches Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 23, 2010 As a tide of tarballs from the BP Gulf Oil Spill assaults the Florida coast line local Florida residents, businesses and county officials are demanding action from BP, State, and Federal Government officials in charge of monitoring and responding to the spill. "They are also demanding answers to other questions like why local beaches have been declared safe and remain open even though tarballs have been washing ashore for weeks in Florida and the DEP hasn't tested the waters for hydrocarbons since May 1st."
No -- really.
Must be read to be believed.
While I agree that there needs to be some reasonable rules that allow clean-up crews to do their job, cutting off press access completely it totally uncalled for and, to the extent that it's a government action, it comes very close to being a violation of the First Amendment.
University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last "years, probably not a matter of months" and affect many species.
BP's Oil Spill Fouls Water, Land and Air By Dennis Bernstein June 29, 2010 ..."I think we have to be suspicious of everything they're saying to us. We have to assume they're withholding the information, that they are possibly even falsifying information, so as not to cause a panic, because I think the last thing they want is an outraged, panicked public to face." She said the federal government and the Coast Guard are marching in lockstep with BP, adding: "Essentially, the government and BP are one and the same right now. And that's a really frightening thing to say I realize that, but that's what I see...."
Countdown: Dr.Riki Ott alleges BP engaged in massive cover-up to hide Gulf Disaster damage firedoglake YouTube/MSNBC Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:07 EDT
To date, skimmers in the Gulf have collected 671,000 barrels (28.2 million gallons) of oil and water mix from the Gulf.
The A Whale, for its part, could collect more than 125 times the amount of the largest skimmer currently working the Gulf. It's capable of slurping up 300,000 barrels of oil (21 million gallons) of oil in 10 hours, and offloading it to a companion vessel, A Elephant. Mr. Su is already readying two other retrofitted tankers, the B Whale and C Whale, for service in the Gulf.
Chemical dispersants keep flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at virtually unchanged levels despite the Environmental Protection Agency's order to BP to "significantly" scale back, according to a CNN analysis of daily dispersant reports provided by the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command.
A $40,000 fine and a Class D Felony for taking pictures of oil-soaked wildlife? The US Government is repeating all the mistakes the USSR did with the Chernobyl disaster!
The US Government is repeating all the mistakes the USSR did with the Chernobyl disaster!
Illinois-based Nalco Corporation is responsible for the Corexit 9500 chemical dispersant highlighted by experts as being 4 times more toxic than the oil that is flowing into the Gulf. Scientists in congressional hearings added that the dispersant is more toxic than other similar dispersant on the market. Naturally, whenever a major disaster takes place -- especially when major, society-altering solutions are being offered -- one needs to follow the trail of money and power to see who benefits. Sure enough, a casual search of Nalco's Web site reveals their company history; it leads right to the doorstep of Goldman Sachs.
Tropical storm Alex slowed oil spill clean-up and containment work in the Gulf of Mexico and drove more petroleum into fragile Gulf wetlands and beaches on Thursday, with any permanent fix to BP Plc's ruptured deep-sea well still several weeks away.
More than 10 weeks into the crisis, oil continued spewing into the Gulf, clean-up success remained limited and a proposal by the Obama administration to halt all deep-water drilling for the next six months remained in limbo.
The damage created by this catastrophe may well last decades.
I wonder if BP paid for these photos to be taken for PR purposes; to convince people that tarballs at the beach are no big deal?
It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill's damage. But as Henry Fountain explains in the New York Times, the gadget in question - an oil-separating centrifuge - marks a major breakthrough in spill cleanup technology. And BP, after trial runs with the device, is ordering 32 more of the Costner-endorsed centrifuges to aid the Gulf cleanup.
Maybe it will work on some of the oil. But it won't touch the toxic mess they created with Corexit in lower levels of the gulf. That mess is going to be affecting the whole gulf area and more for generations - long after BP has ceased to pay for damages.
C.S.'s original goal was to gain access to some of the areas being guarded by BP contractors and deemed "off limits" to reporters, but yesterday he, along with Save Our Shores's Judson Parker, made an unexpected discovery.
They believe that BP has been dumping sand on the beaches in order to cover up oil.
...The sheen appears to be an illegal discharge of fuel, said Capt. Tim Close, commander of Coast Guard sector St. Petersburg. It is not believed to be linked to the BP oil leak...
Yesterday, I contacted a friend of mine, C.S. Muncy, who is a photojournalist currently raising all kinds of hell down in southern Louisiana.
They believe that BP has been dumping sand on the beaches in order to cover up oil. You can view some video Judson shot of the beach over here.
If this is true, why the heck is Obama's administration allowing BP to get away with this?!?!
That means that the toxic legacy of this oil may be left on the Gulf's shores for decades!!


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ILUG 2008: We'll be there
>>Author: Thomas Bahn >>Ort: SchwentinentalURL: http://www.assono.de/blog/d6plinks/ILUG2008-Well-be-there
Category: ILUG, Konferenzen, OOP
Some minutes ago I got the confirmation that our session has been accepted. We are pleased to present the following session at ILUG 2008:
Simply - OOP - Simply
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Session abstract | Do you have objections to objects? Haven't
you visited classes about classes? Is abstraction still too abstract for
you? Don't you use methodic methods and proper properties?
Then come to this introductory session about object-oriented programming (OOP) in LotusScript, where you can learn: - why delegation might be better then inheritance, - why hiding information can be helpful sometimes and - how you can use polymorphism to teach old dogs new tricks. |
Type | Development |
Speaker | Thomas Bahn |
#1 | Great you got accepted. Looking forward to your session.


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Subject: History By Place , History , Ancient History , Jordan
Description: Exhibit about the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, which "was unmarked on modern maps" until it was rediscovered in the 19th century. The site features an illustrated history of the city from its founding by Arabian nomads called the Nabataeans through its annexation by the Romans, its great earthquake in A.D. 363, and the Byzantine era. Also find photos of the present-day Bedouin of Petra. From the American Museum of Natural History.
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
Language: English
Source: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/petra/


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Reference is to Printer's Date 4/9/14-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Title 15 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
Section 15-82-10. (A)
As used in this section, the terms:
'Possessor of land' means the possessor of any fee,
reversionary, or easement interest in real property, including
an owner, lessee, or other lawful occupant;
'Trespasser' means a person who enters or remains on the
land of another without permission or without legal
(B) A possessor of land
owes no duty to a trespasser except to refrain from causing a
wilful or wanton injury.
(C) Notwithstanding
subsection (B), a possessor of land is subject to liability for
physical harm to children trespassing thereon caused by an
artificial condition upon the land if:
the place where the condition exists is one upon which the
possessor knows or has reason to know that children are likely
to trespass;
the condition is one of which the possessor knows or has
reason to know and which he realizes or should realize will
involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to
such children;
the children because of their youth do not discover the
condition or realize the risk involved in intermeddling with it
or in coming within the area made dangerous by it;
the utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition
and the burden of eliminating the danger are slight as compared
with the risk to children involved; and
the possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to
eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children.
(D) This chapter does
not affect any immunities from or defenses to civil liability
established by another section of the South Carolina Code of
Laws or available at common law to which a possessor of land may
be entitled."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.


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Title: | [2001.13.050] Coffin portrait of Margaretha Buck |
Author: | Westine, David; Westine, Katherine; Westine, Phillip |
Abstract: | Photographic image. Black and white. Image of a young child in a casket. Identified as the funeral coffin portrait of Margaretha Buck (born 22 February 1886, Scotland, Dakota Territory, died in 1900 at Richville, North Dakota), the seventh child of Johann "Michael" and Margaretha (Wolfert) Buck. Dated 1900. Photographer is possibly J. J. Hochhalter (rural Wishek); pre-Streeter, North Dakota. Courtesy of Ludwig and Christina Graf- Buck Collection, 2001.13, GRHC. |
Date: | 1900 |
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