P-17 POISON DISASTER NEWS SETUP SPILL

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html
PART 5-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-5-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 6-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-6-oil-remembering-dead-from-rig.html
PART 7-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-7-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 8-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-8-oil-spill-update-news.html
PART 9-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-9-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 10-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-10-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 11-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-11-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 12-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-12-oil-spill-news.html
PART 13-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-13-oil-spill-update.html
PART 14-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html
PART 15-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-15-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 16-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-16-poison-disaster-scheme.html

FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1219
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1227
JONES ON BP FALSE FLAG TO GET CAP & TAX SCAM THROUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNW0lkjTxAQ&feature=player_embedded

GRANT JEFFREY ON WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND THE ENVIROMENTAL RELIGION CULT SCAM OF GLOBAL WARMING UNDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SCAM.CARBON TAX,INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE SMOKE SCAM.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1279
WW3 COMING TOGETHER-GRANT JEFFREY-RUSSIA WANTS OIL CONTOL DOMINATION.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1369
HOLLY SWANSON ON OBAMA CAP & TRADE SCAM-ENVIROMENTALS DICTATORSHIP JUNE 21,10 HR 1
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/june-2010/
OIL SLICK REACHES FLORIDA
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250674/oil-slick-reaches-florida?playlist_id=86856
WHAT COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS OIL SPILL-LAST 30 MINUTES OF SHOW
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2353
http://ruvysroost.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
OIL SPILL IRAN CONNECTION-ALL MUT LISTEN
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2357
TOXIC WATER AT SPILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrbqBEGxiw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k&feature=player_embedded
NUKE THE WELL CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1

ITS DAY 78 OF THE POISON DISASTER SETUP SPILL TUE JULY 6,10.SEE WHAT HAPPENS TODAY.

REPORTS HAVE IT THAT BP IS BLEACHING THE BEACHES AT NIGHT TO STOP THE POISON FROM CONSUMING PEOPLE.THEY SPRAY AND BLEACH THE BEACHES AT NIGHT AND BAN ALL PEOPLE FROM THE BEACHES,NO PHOTOGRAPHS OR MEDIA IN THE AREAS.THIS IS REALLY GETTING SERIOUS NOW ITS 3:05PM JUNE 6,10.

ITS DAY 79,WED JULY 7,10 OF THE POISON DISASTER.NOW WE FIND OUT IT WAS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THAT GAVE BP PERMISSION TO DRILL NOT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.OBAMA GAVE THE GO AHEAD WITH THE OIL DRILLING,WHAT A HYPOCRITE OBAMA IS.NOW HE SAYS NO OIL DRILLING.CAN YOU SAY OBAMA IN POCKET OF OIL COMPANIES AND ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASES.
NUKE THE WELL CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1

ITS DAY 80,THU JULY 8,10 10:55AM AND CNN SAYS 1,500 PEOPLE ARE BEING POIONED SO FAR WITH SORE NOSE AND THROAT BURNING AND FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS.OUT OF 11,000 EXXON PEOPLE TESTED IN A SURVEY HAVING WORKED WITH THE 89 OIL SPILL,6,000 PEOPLE HAD EFFECTS FROM THE SPILL.THIS POISON DISASTER IS AT LEAST 11 TIMES MORE THEN EXXON SO FAR,SO WE CAN EXPECT AT LEAST 66,000 PLUS WORKERS BEING POISONED IN VARIOUS WAYS IN THIS DISASTER.CAUSING DEATH AND DISEASE.

I HAD A BRIEF VISION OF CEMENT BEING POURED AND AN ON SHORE OIL RIG JUST SITTING IDLE.THIS OIL RIG WAS NOT ON THE OCEAN IT WAS ON LAND.I CAN NOT FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS MEANS MAYBE NO MORE ON SHORE DRILLING WILL OCCUR EITHER BY OBAMA.OR THESE 2THINGS JUST CAME TO MY MIND.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrbqBEGxiw&feature=player_embedded

ITS DAY 81,FRI JULY 9,10 OF THE POISON DIASTER.

ITS DAY 82 OF THE POISON FLOW.THE GUSH JUST GUSHES IN FULL GEAR THIS SAT JULY 10,10

ITS DAY 83 OF THE POISON DISASTER SUN JULY 11,10.AND THE 800,000 GALLONS A DAY GUSH NOW GOES ON.

For now, oil spews unchecked in effort to cap well By TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writer - JULY 11,10

NEW ORLEANS – Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil are being allowed to spew into the fouled waters of the Gulf of Mexico while BP engineers prepare to install a new containment system they hope will catch it all in the coming days.There's no guarantee for such a delicate operation nearly a mile below the water's surface, officials said, and the permanent fix of plugging the well from the bottom remains slated for mid-August.It's not just going to be, you put the cap on, it's done. It's not like putting a cap on a tube of toothpaste, Coast Guard spokesman Capt. James McPherson said.Robotic submarines removed the cap that had been placed on top of the leak in early June to collect the oil and send it to surface ships for collection or burning. BP aims to have the new, tighter cap in place as early as Monday and said that, as of Sunday morning, the work was going according to plan. BP hopes the capping operation will be done within three to six days.Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president, said during a Sunday morning news briefing he was pleased with the progress but cautioned that unforeseen bumps could lie ahead.We've tried to work out as many of the bugs as we can. The challenge will come with something unexpected, Wells said.If tests show the new cap can withstand the pressure of the oil and is working, the Gulf region could get its most significant piece of good news since the April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers.

It would be only a temporary solution to the catastrophe. Hope for permanently plugging the leak lies with two relief wells, the first of which should be finished by mid-August.With the cap removed Saturday at 12:37 p.m. CDT, oil flowed freely into the water, collected only by the Q4000 surface vessel, with a capacity of about 378,000 gallons. That vessel should be joined Sunday by the Helix Producer, which has more than double the Q4000's capacity.But the lag could be long enough for as much as 5 million gallons to gush into already fouled waters. Officials said a fleet of large skimmers was scraping oil from the surface above the well site.The process begun Saturday has two major phases: removing equipment currently on top of the leak and installing new gear designed to fully contain the flow of oil.BP on Sunday said it had successfully removed the top flange that had only partially completed the seal with the old cap, almost a day earlier than a previous estimate.Now that the top flange is removed, BP is considering whether it needs to bind together two sections of drill pipe that are in the gushing well head. The following step involves lowering a 12-foot-long piece of equipment called a flange transition spool onto the well head and bolting it to the bottom flange still in place.After the spool is bolted in place, the new cap — called a capping stack or Top Hat 10 — can be mounted. The equipment, weighing some 150,000 pounds, is designed to fully seal the leak and provide connections for new vessels on the surface to collect oil. The cap has valves that can restrict the flow of oil and shut it in, if it can withstand the enormous pressure.

That will be one of the key items for officials to monitor, said Paul Bommer, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.If the new cap does work and they shut the well in, it is possible that part of the well could rupture if the pressure inside builds to an unacceptable value,Bommer wrote in an e-mail Saturday.Ultimately, BP wants to have four vessels collecting oil within two or three weeks of the new cap's installation. If the new cap doesn't work, BP is ready to place a backup similar to the old one on top of the leak.The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons of oil a day are spewing from the well, and the previous cap collected about 1 million gallons of that. With the new cap and the new containment vessel, the system will be capable of capturing 2.5 million to 3.4 million gallons — essentially all the leaking oil, officials said. The plan, which was accelerated to take advantage of a stretch of good weather forecast to last seven to 10 days, didn't inspire confidence in residents of the oil-slicked coast. I want to believe it and I'm going to take them at their word because it's good news, Mayor Tony Kennon of Orange Beach, Ala., said Saturday. But for the popular tourist destination, any halt to the leak comes too late to save the season, Kennon said.

Louisiana State University environmental sciences professor Ed Overton said he's less concerned with the strategy than with the unknown. As long as the cap is put on properly, the plan should work, he said.The problem is that almost everything they've done, there's been some unknown about it,he said.I don't see why this is all that much different.Associated Press Writers Vicki Smith in New Orleans and Carrie Schumaker in Washington contributed to this report.

BP: Cap on gushing well removed, oil flows freely By TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writer - JULY 10,10

NEW ORLEANS – Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea.It's the first step in placing a tighter dome that is supposed to funnel more oil to collection ships on the surface a mile above. If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the surface ships could keep all the oil from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday.BP spokesman Mark Proegler said the old cap was removed at 12:37 p.m. CDT on Saturday.Over the next four to seven days, depending on how things go, we should get that sealing cap on. That's our plan, said Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president.It would be only a temporary solution to the catastrophe unleashed by a drilling rig explosion nearly 12weeks ago. It won't plug the busted well and it remains uncertain that it will succeed.The oil is flowing mostly unabated into the water for about 48 hours — long enough for as much as 5 million gallons to gush out — until the new cap is installed.

The hope for a permanent solution remains with two relief wells intended to plug it completely far beneath the seafloor.Engineers now begin removing a bolted flange below the dome. The flange has to be taken off so another piece of equipment called a flange spool can go over the drill pipe, where the sealing cap will be connected.
The work could spill over into Sunday, Wells said, depending on how hard it is to pull off the flange. BP has a backup plan in case that doesn't work: A piece of machinery will pry the top and the bottom of the flange apart.On Friday, National Incident Commander Thad Allen had said the cap could be in place by Monday. That's still possible, given the timeline BP submitted to the federal government, but officials say it could take up to a week of tests before it's clear whether the new cap is working.The cap now in use was installed June 4, but because it had to be fitted over a jagged cut in the well pipe, it allows some crude to escape. The new cap — dubbed Top Hat Number 10 — follows 80 days of failures to contain or plug the leak.BP PLC first tried a huge containment box also referred to as a top hat, but icelike crystals quickly clogged the contraption in the cold depths. Then it tried to shoot heavy drilling mud into the hole to hold down the flow so it could then insert a cement plug. After the so-called top kill, engineers tried a "junk shot" — using the undersea robots to try and stuff carefully selected golf balls and other debris to plug the leak. That also met failure.The company is also working to hook up another containment ship called the Helix Producer to a different part of the leaking well. The ship, which will be capable of sucking up more than 1 million gallons a day when it is fully operating, should be working by Sunday, Allen said.

The plan had originally been to change the cap and hook up the Helix Producer separately, but the favorable weather convinced officials the time was right for both operations. They have a window of seven to 10 days.The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons of oil a day are spewing from the well, and the existing cap is collecting about 1 million gallons of that. With the new cap and the new containment vessel, the system will be capable of capturing 2.5 million to 3.4 million gallons — essentially all the leaking oil, officials said.In a response late Friday to Allen's request for detailed plans, BP managing director Bob Dudley confirmed that the leak could be contained by Monday. But Dudley included plans for another scenario, which includes possible problems and missteps that could push the installment of the cap back to Thursday.And the latest effort is far from a sure thing, warned Louisiana State University environmental sciences professor Ed Overton.

Everything done at that site is very much harder than anyone expects, he said. Overton said putting on the new cap carries risks: Is replacing the cap going to do more damage than leaving it in place, or are you going to cause problems that you can't take care of? Containing the leak will not end the crisis that began when the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. The relief wells are still being drilled so they can inject heavy mud and cement into the leaking well to stop the flow, which is expected to be done by mid-August. Then a monumental cleanup and restoration project lies ahead. Some people on Louisiana's oil-soaked coast were skeptical that BP can contain the oil so soon. This is probably the sixth or seventh method they've tried, so, no, I'm not optimistic, said Deano Bonano, director of emergency preparedness for Jefferson Parish. He inspected beaches at Grand Isle lined with protective boom and bustling with heavy equipment used to scoop up and clean sand.Even if they turn it off today, we'll still be here at least another six weeks, on watch for the oil,he said. Associated Press Writer Kevin McGill in Grand Isle and Mary Foster in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Is the Oil Spill Staged? By Jim O'Neill Thursday, July 8, 2010

We are not the enemy here.—Anderson Cooper, CNN reporter (referring to the media blackout surrounding the oil spill)Let me say up front that, personally, I don’t believe that the oil spill disaster was staged (although I believe that much of the clean-up may well be). So why do I bring up the possibility? Because we are being lied to by both the federal government, and BP, and at this point all possible explanations for the oil spill need to remain on the table.On the face of it, asking if the Gulf oil spill is a staged event, may seem to be absurd—what about all the oil washing up on the beaches; what about the deaths from the rig explosion; what about all the money being spent on the clean-up, and so on…? What about all the money…? Indeed—what about it? Good old avarice is one of the main reasons why the oil spill may have been staged.Big people stand poised to make trillions off of the collapse of our oil-driven culture.Another reason for a staged oil spill is population control—i.e. culling the small people. You know—us.If you don’t think that mass murder is considered a viable option by the NWO-Far Left folks, then you need to wake up and smell the roses—or rather, the Zyklon B.

But before we get into population control, let us follow the money trail a bit.

You will never hear me claim that the Far Left is economically adroit—far from it—but they are undeniably clever at parasitically sucking the life-blood from capitalism, and in the process destroying it.They have not only effectively crippled Europe’s economy, but they have passed along their techniques to their friends of convenience,the Islamists (Andrew McCarthy’s term), and used them to turn Europe into Eurabia, and the United Kingdom into the United Kaliphate.America is next—check out Dearbornistan.More about that in a bit.The NWO folks, however, are economically savvy—to the extreme—and I would attribute any financial acumen on the part of the Far Left, to their collusion with the NWO cabal. Unbridled greed, coupled with ideological fanaticism—watch out.There’s big money to be made—trillions—if you have positioned yourself to take advantage of the collapse of the world’s oil-driven economies—or so the thinking goes, in certain circles. Personally, I think they’re all nuts, and deluded as can be—nonetheless, that’s the game-plan.So the monetary incentive to greatly reduce America’s ability to produce oil, exists for certain individuals and groups. What better way to close down the US petroleum industry, then to cause a huge environmental disaster, enforce a moratorium on ALL offshore drilling, and nudge the international oil companies to leave America for greener pastures.

(A key part of such a scenario, however, is being able to turn off the spigot, after the oil has done its job.There are several possible explanations for how such a thing may be done, but I won’t be addressing them in this article. Such remedies depend on the oil spill being staged, in the first place).At this point I’d like to bring the Islamists back into the picture for a moment. Have you given any thought to what a war in the Middle East will do to America’s oil supply—especially with the oil moratorium in effect? Keep in mind that the 12th Imam’s birthday (mid-Sha’ban) is only a couple of weeks away. The NWO, the Far Left, and Islamists, all working in collusion—a ménage à trois from hell.Be that as it may, let’s take a quick look at the oil spill, and population control.The NWO-Far Left oligarchy, envisions a future for us, that is very far removed from the present status quo. We the sheeple,will be forced to live in green communities. Driving will be strongly discouraged, and we will be expected to, for the most part, move around via public transportation, and bicycles. No fossil-fuels, thank you (or abiotic oil, for that matter).Also, humanity’s population will need to be trimmed down a bit—about 2-3 billion should do it. Then again—maybe more—the Georgia Guidestones state that a world-wide population of 500 million would be ideal. That means that around nine out of every ten people alive today, would need to die.Speaking of trimming down the population—the possible toxic effects of the oil dispersant Corexit (not to mention a Corexit/oil mixture), are alarming, to say the least. That Corexit has been, and is being, used with such abandon, reputedly to mitigate the effects of the oil spill, is cause for great concern.That the CIA may be involved in spraying Corexit over the Gulf, is further cause for concern.In summation: the people who believe that the oil spill is being staged, are not denying the reality of the oil spill—the oil’s real enough, all right. They are saying that the disaster was rigged (pun noted), and that the clean-up is a sham.I should mention that the above reasons given for a Staged oil spill, apply to several other theories as well.

There are a number of theories surrounding the oil spill, and all but the patently ridiculous need to be kept in play, until we learn the truth.If a staged event scenario seems too tame for you, there’s always the methane mega-bubble theory.I believe that even sane liberals (no snide comments, please) would agree that this whole oil-spill-thing stinks.It stinks of cover-up, lies, and corruption.The truth will set us free.Laus Deo.

Obama loses moratorium bid on offshore oil drilling by Allen Johnson - JULY 8,10

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – The Obama administration lost its bid to maintain a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling, while BP was ordered to outline on Friday its next steps to cap the ruptured well which has been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April.A federal judge blocked the deepwater drilling moratorium last month after 32 oil companies and local officials argued it was causing irreparable economic harm.The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied the administration's emergency request to stay that judge's order pending appeal.The motion was denied because the government failed to show a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted, the appeals panel judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling.The government also made no showing that there is any likelihood that drilling activities will be resumed pending appeal.Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has said he will soon issue a new order to block deepwater drilling regardless of how the court ruled, and oil companies have not resumed operations due to the legal uncertainties.The court noted that the Salazar has the right to apply for emergency relief if he can show that drilling activity by deepwater rigs has commenced or is about to commence.Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal hailed the court's decision Thursday but expressed concern that the uncertainty has created a de facto moratorium which could cost the state 20,000 jobs.The federal government has an entire agency dedicated to monitoring safe drilling, Jindal said in a statement.It shouldn't take them six months or longer for a new national commission to ensure safety measures are in place and their laws and regulations are being followed.

Meanwhile, US officials ordered BP to outline its next steps in the fight to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by Friday afternoon, saying efforts to cap a fractured well were entering a critical stage.After days of high winds hampered BP's bid to stop the leak, forecasters are predicting seven to eight days of good weather, and the US administration is keen to press ahead before the Atlantic hurricane season truly gets underway.BP is preparing to replace the containment cap on the ruptured wellhead with a more secure seal and hook up a third containment ship to the system in a bid to capture most, if not all, of the oil leaking into the Gulf.The sea is calming, which gives us the window in what... we now understand as an extremely active tropical storm and hurricane season,a senior US official told journalists.

Fixing a new cap on the ruptured pipe would also give engineers greater flexibility if they have to move the containment ships quickly because of an approaching storm, another official said.But before the administration gives BP permission to go ahead, it wants detailed timetables for the steps ahead and contingency plans in case things go wrong.BP managing director Bob Dudley said earlier Thursday BP was hoping to permanently cap the gushing well ahead of schedule, even as early as July 27, when the troubled energy giant reports second-quarter earnings.It is the first time the British energy giant has set a fixed date for ending the disaster, and is ahead of a mid-August time frame outlined by the US government for completing two relief wells to permanently cap the leak. But US officials remained cautious about the date, stung by a string of botched efforts to contain the massive oil spill now in its 11th week.If the relief wells can be completed ahead of schedule we can all jump for joy,said Admiral Thad Allen, the government's pointman on the disaster, adding the government's mid-August target was more of a realistic expectation.Dudley did concede in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the company's perfect case,threatened by the Atlantic hurricane season that usually heralds rough weather in the Gulf, was unlikely.Allen said meanwhile that all the leaking oil would be contained this month if the new cap and a connection to the other processing ship, called the Helix Producer, is put in place. The new moves by BP would boost the amount of captured oil more than three-fold, to "60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day, which exceeds the current estimate flow rate of 35,000 to 60,000 barrels oil a day.

An estimated two to four million barrels of oil have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico since the catastrophic April 20 explosion destroyed the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.Oil has now washed up on the shores of all five Gulf states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida - and tar balls from the spill have even entered the vast inland Lake Pontchartrain, a key estuary which borders New Orleans.

Toxic Gulf: Citizen Journos Do What Corporate Media Will Not
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 8, 2010

Prior to the government declaring Gulf of Mexico beaches no-go zones for journalists, a group of concerned citizens traveled to Grand Isle, Louisiana, and scooped up samples of sea water and sent them to a lab to be tested.The preliminary analysis was done at an academic analytical chemistry laboratory, they write on a YouTube post.Benzene and other highly toxic contaminants were very low however the concentration of propylene glycol was between 360 and 440 parts per million. Just 25 parts per million is known to kill most fish and propylene glycol is just one of many ingredients found in Corexit. In short, the Gulf is being poisoned by BP’s usage of the dispersants even after the EPA asked them to stop back in May.According to the Material Safety Data Sheet, exposure to propylene glycol causes liver abnormalities and kidney damage. It can easily penetrate the skin, and can weaken protein and cellular structure. In fact, PG penetrates the skin so quickly that the EPA warns factory workers to avoid skin contact, to prevent brain, liver, and kidney abnormalities,reports the Anti-Aging Choices website.In addition to killing marine life, Corexit is a threat to the residents of Grand Isle, according to a lab tech who talked with the citizen journalists by telephone.

Corexit 9527 is defined as a chronic and acute health hazard by the EPA. The 9527 formula includes 2-butoxyethanol, said to be the cause of health problems experienced by cleanup workers after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, and propylene glycol. Exxon Valdez worker Merle Savage told FastCompany.com the symptoms included nausea, vomiting, liver damage, and dizziness.In June, CNN reported that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead.In fact, the expert that CNN had on said that the life expectancy for those who worked to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill is only about 51 years. Considering the fact that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now many times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster, are you sure you want to volunteer to be on a cleanup crew down there? asks Michael Snyder, writing for Business Insider.BP and the government are engaged in a massive cover-up of the adverse health effects related to the oil gusher and the use of Corexit.

Harvard Professor: Exploit Gulf Disaster For Carbon Tax
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, July 8, 2010

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.Bilderberger Rogoff openly embraces nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing oil onshore as a way of exploiting tragedy to create political momentum behind Obama’s dreaded green economy.In an opinion piece for the Korea Times, Rogoff sensationally warns that failure to exploit the tragedy for political ends would represent a lost opportunity, a startling display of mercenary indiscretion, and a shining example of what we warned about from the very beginning, that elitists would waste little time in pointing to heart-rendering images of oil-covered birds and dead wildlife as part of a crass stunt to push their consumption tax agenda.Rogoff is a Bilderberg Group member, having attended the 2006 conference of global elitists in Germany. He is also a regular attendee of Trilateral Commission meetings. Rogoff is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and writes for the group’s publication Foreign Affairs. He is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University, having previously served as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game-changer of historic proportions. If summer hurricanes push huge quantities of oil onto Florida’s beaches and up the Eastern seaboard, the resulting political explosion will make the reaction to the financial crisis seem muted, writes Rogoff, seemingly salivating about the potential of an even greater tragedy that would contribute to rekindling interest in a carbon tax.Later in the article, Rogoff brazenly states that exploiting tragedy in the Gulf is just one way of filling the coffers of the federal government.He goes on to laud the visual propaganda value of high-definition images of oil spewing from the bottom of the ocean in addition to a blackened coastline and devastated wildlife as a tool through which to mobilize young people into lobbying for a tax on the very substance they exhale.Exploiting the catastrophe is necessary to catalyze support for an American environmental policy with teeth, writes Rogoff, noting that the cap and trade system basically amounts to the same thing as a carbon tax and is just a trick to hide the use of the incendiary word tax. Of course, that policy has little to do with the environment and everything to do with fattening the wallets of the people invested in the cap and trade scam, the same alarmists who push claptrap about global warming and CO2, Rogoff’s elitist buddies Al Gore, Maurice Strong and the rest of the globalists who own and run the cap and trade scheme.Cap and trade was also founded and funded by big oil conglomerates – which is why transnational oil companies have been the most vehement peddlers of global warming propaganda.Companies like British Petroleum and Exxon Mobil have been amongst the biggest promoters of man-made global warming because they are headed up by one-world globalists who understand that the carbon tax will do nothing to help the environment but will be used to bankroll the implementation of global government while swallowing up whatever deposable income impoverished Americans have left.

The government has aggressively exploited the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to manufacture an artificial urgency in an effort to speed the passage of cap and trade, an agenda firmly supported by the transnational oil corporations Obama is claiming to be reigning in. British Petroleum is one of the founding members of the cap and trade lobby, and has consistently lobbied for tax hikes, greenhouse gas restraints, the stimulus bill, the Wall Street bailout, and subsidies for oil pipelines, solar panels, natural gas and biofuels.The elite are still desperate to impose a consumption tax on Americans as part of the move towards a post-industrial revolution and the kind of nightmare green economy that has left Spain with a 20 per cent unemployment rate. In a so-called green economy, over 2.2 jobs are lost for every green job created. Electricity prices in Spain have skyrocketed since the implementation of these policies, according to a leaked government report.Rogoff is merely parroting Obama in the push to hype the oil spill beyond all reasonable levels in a move to exploit an inflated crisis. In comparing the spill to 9/11, Obama signified that he was not going to let a good crisis go to waste, as his top advisor Rahm Emanuel would no doubt have reminded him.Kenneth Rogoff is the neo-lib equivalent of neo-con Stu Bykofsky, a Philadelphia Daily News columnist who called for there to be more terror attacks in order to restore America’s righteous rage. In effect, Rogoff is drooling with anticipation at the total devastation a massive hurricane would bring to the region, and how out of the panic globalists could ram through their entire carbon tax agenda with little opposition.We invite readers to politely email Rogoff and let him know that Americans will not pay a tax on the life-giving, harmless trace gas which helps plants grow in order to enrich the coffers of Al Gore, British Petroleum, Maurice Strong, Barack Obama, and the rest of the criminals pushing this fraud in a concerted effort to reduce our living standards and usher in a post-industrial revolution and a one world government.Contact Rogoff at krogoff@harvard.edu.

BP oil spill detergent could pose risk for EU coastlines
ANDREW RETTMAN Today JULY 7,10 @ 09:32 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A leading scientist has warned that the detergent being used by BP to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico could pose an environmental threat as far afield as the EU, after ocean currents bring residues to Europe next year. Martin Visbeck, head of the Physical Oceanography unit at the IFM-Geomar institute in Kiel, Germany, told EUobserver on Tuesday (6 July) that the large amount of detergent - most of it a substance called Corexit 9500 - being pumped into the sea poses an unknown environmental risk.Oil in Florida: IMF-Geomar scientists said more oil each year enters the North Atlantic due to normal shipping traffic than has so far come from the spill. But the detergent is an unknown factor (Photo: Deepwater Horizon Response)That's what we are concerned about. There's a lot of understanding of the oil but not of the detergents. They have never been put into the water in such quantities before, he said.BP says they're safe but we're not sure, he added.

They have been approved by the EPA [the US Environmental Protection Agency] but in these large quantities, we'll know what happens when it happens.BP has so far put 6,493,526 litres of detergent into the sea according to data from Deepwater Horizon Unified Command, the joint BP-US body set up to handle the oil disaster. A further 47,136 litres is being added daily as of 6 July.The detergent can cause kidney and liver damage if directly ingested by people.Preliminary test results on small fish and shrimp released by the EPA on 30 June said it does not display biologically significant endocrine disrupting activity, referring to the chemical compound's ability to alter hormones in sea life.The tests were criticised by US environmentalists for failing to study repeated exposure and for not looking at impact on juvenile marine life, however.The EPA also noted that tests on the effect of Corexit 9500 when mixed with oil have yet to be carried out and that the lifespan of the compound is unknown. We are currently unaware of published scientific information in the peer-reviewed literature about the biodegradation of the dispersant itself,the body says on its website.Mr Visbeck's team at IFM-Geomar has since the oil spill in April carried out computer models of how waterborne substances from the Gulf of Mexico end up in Europe.The oil - which is still leaking at a rate of 35,000 to 65,000 barrels a day - floats through the Florida Strait and accelerates rapidly along the US east coast before slowing and dispersing as it enters the Gulf Stream current, which will bring it, 12 to 18 months later, to Denmark, Ireland and the UK.

Unlike the detergent, Mr Visbeck said dilution of the oil by the time it reaches EU coasts will see it pose no harm. This is the case even if the oil continues to leak for months or years because microbes break it down to harmless levels as it crosses the Atlantic Ocean.A spokeswoman for the Irish Environmental Protection Agency told this website that: We would expect some tiny wee tar balls, something negligible.The European Commission has not yet looked at the potential Gulf Stream effect. But energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger and three other commissioners - on aid, the environment and maritime affairs - are to meet leaders from 18 major oil firms in Brussels on 14 July to ask them if new safety rules are needed.We're talking about platforms and how to make them safe,Mr Oettinger's spokeswoman said. The main aim is to see whether in Europe we have to do something to prevent a similar accident and if an accident happens, what could be done, and if there's damage, who would be liable.Meanwhile, the oil disaster risks having another effect on the EU - an economic one - amid talk of the potential financial collapse of BP, the EU's fourth largest company according to a ranking by Forbes magazine.Shares in the battered firm rose on Tuesday due to market chatter that Libya's state oil company and sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Singapore are interested in buying stakes. BP saw its share value almost halved at its lowest point since the disaster, while the cost of the clean-up so far amounts to around around €2.5 billion.

This time it's oil trouble for Lake Pontchartrain By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer - JULY 7,10

NEW ORLEANS – Oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is seeping into Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans, threatening another environmental disaster for the huge body of water that was rescued from pollution in the 1990s.The lake rebounded then to once again become a bountiful fishing ground and a popular spot for boating and swimming.Even the people involved in the restoration didn't believe it could be restored. It was completely written off. It was thought to be an impossible task, said John Lopez, a scientist with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, which led the restoration effort.It has been a dramatic turnabout.It is threatened again after a weekend when tar balls and an oil sheen pushed by strong winds from faraway Hurricane Alex slipped past lines of barges that were supposed to block the passes connecting the Gulf of Mexico to the lake.Our universe is getting very small,said Pete Gerica, president of the Lake Pontchartrain Fishermen's Association.Elsewhere on the Gulf Coast, a new wave of tar balls and brown, oil-stained foam hit Alabama beaches Wednesday after days of relatively oil-free surf, but few tourists were on the coast to see the mess.A wildlife rescue group also announced that almost 420 birds have been hit by the oil in Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle over the last two months. About 190 with oil had been found dead, and almost 220 were found alive for possible cleaning.

The oil in Lake Pontchartrain could be the second setback in five years. Hurricane Katrina knocked out seafood docks and lakeside restaurants in 2005. The lake's water quality also took a hit when the Army Corps of Engineers drained New Orleans' contaminated floodwaters into the lake.So far, this stuff has been offshore for the majority of the population in the southeastern portion of Louisiana, Anne Rheams, executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, said of the oil spill. This is bringing it closer to home.State authorities closed the lake's eastern reaches to fishing Monday, though most of it remained open. Barges were lined up at bayous and passes to stop the oil from coming in, and cleanup crews Tuesday used nets to collect tar balls from marinas and docks.They also planned to lay 9,000 feet of special permeable booms, but the lake was too choppy for skimmer vessels to operate.About 1,700 pounds of oily waste has been collected, said Suzanne Parsons Stymiest, a spokeswoman for St. Tammany Parish.The amount of oil infiltrating 600-square-mile Lake Pontchartrain (pronounced PAHN-chuh-trayn) appears small so far. And tests on seafood have not turned up any oil contamination, said Brian Lezina, a state biologist. But the pollution is distressing to the many people in Louisiana who have a deep attachment to the lake.You won't hear songs about a lot of the marshes in south Louisiana, but you will hear songs about Lake Pontchartrain, Lezina said.Out in the Gulf, meanwhile, stormy weather kept skimmers from working offshore Tuesday for yet another day and delayed the hookup of a big new ship intended to suck more crude from the gushing blown-out well a mile underwater. Also, the arrival of a Navy blimp intended to hover above the relief effort was delayed until Friday.Tar balls from the spill also washed up on Texas beaches over the holiday weekend, meaning the disaster now touches all five Gulf Coast states, spanning more than 500 miles of coastline.

Lake Pontchartrain, named for the French count of Pontchartrain during the reign of Louis XIV, is on the northern edge of the city. It is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by two main passes: the Rigolets, a winding passage of about 10 miles, and the Chef Menteur, around nine miles long.For centuries, it has been a playground, a source of seafood and a backdoor route to New Orleans for invading British troops and hurricane storm surge. Until the 1970s, its shores were a top destination for city folks who took streetcars and buses to the lake to swim and to dine at restaurants that cooked up the lake's crabs and other seafood. They played in penny arcades and rode the Zephyr roller coaster at the Pontchartrain Beach amusement park. But pollution shut down the swimming and chased away marine life, and the amusement park closed in the early 1980s. Slowly, the lake revived. In recent years, sightings of dolphins and manatees have delighted locals, and commercial and recreational fishing is thriving. Anthony Montalbano Jr., the chef and owner of II Tony's, an Italian seafood restaurant next to the lake, said it has been a struggle to stay open. Katrina swamped his restaurant at Bucktown, a lakeside community in New Orleans that has the feel of a bayou town.This was going to be our best year since Katrina for sure, but not now, Montalbano said as the TV in the bar showed an ad for a law firm suing BP.Associated Press writers Michael Kunzelman and Tom Breen in New Orleans contributed to this report.

AP IMPACT: Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells By JEFF DONN and MITCH WEISS, Associated Press Writers – Wed Jul 7, 12:49 am ET

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.The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing.The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells — those characterized in federal government records as temporarily abandoned.

Regulations for temporarily abandoned wells require oil companies to present plans to reuse or permanently plug such wells within a year, but the AP found that the rule is routinely circumvented, and that more than 1,000 wells have lingered in that unfinished condition for more than a decade. About three-quarters of temporarily abandoned wells have been left in that status for more than a year, and many since the 1950s and 1960s — eveb though sealing procedures for temporary abandonment are not as stringent as those for permanent closures.As a forceful reminder of the potential harm, the well beneath BP's Deepwater Horizon rig was being sealed with cement for temporary abandonment when it blew April 20, leading to one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation's history. BP alone has abandoned about 600 wells in the Gulf, according to government data.There's ample reason for worry about all permanently and temporarily abandoned wells — history shows that at least on land, they often leak. Wells are sealed underwater much as they are on land. And wells on land and in water face similar risk of failure. Plus, records reviewed by the AP show that some offshore wells have failed.Experts say such wells can repressurize, much like a dormant volcano can awaken. And years of exposure to sea water and underground pressure can cause cementing and piping to corrode and weaken.

You can have changing geological conditions where a well could be repressurized, said Andy Radford, a petroleum engineer for the American Petroleum Institute trade group.Whether a well is permanently or temporarily abandoned, improperly applied or aging cement can crack or shrink, independent petroleum engineers say.It ages, just like it does on buildings and highways, said Roger Anderson, a Columbia University petroleum geophysicist who has conducted research on commercial wells.Despite the likelihood of leaks large and small, though, abandoned wells are typically not inspected by industry or government.Oil company representatives insist that the seal on a correctly plugged offshore well will last virtually forever.It's in everybody's interest to do it right, said Bill Mintz, a spokesman for Apache Corp., which has at least 2,100 abandoned wells in the Gulf, according to government data.Officials at the U.S. Interior Department, which oversees the agency that regulates federal leases in the Gulf and elsewhere, did not answer repeated questions regarding why there are no inspections of abandoned wells.State officials estimate that tens of thousands are badly sealed, either because they predate strict regulation or because the operating companies violated rules. Texas alone has plugged more than 21,000 abandoned wells to control pollution, according to the state comptroller's office.

Offshore, but in state waters, California has resealed scores of its abandoned wells since the 1980s.In deeper federal waters, though — despite the similarities in how such wells are constructed and how sealing procedures can fail — the official policy is out-of-sight, out-of-mind.The U.S. Minerals Management Service — the regulatory agency recently renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement — relies on rules that have few real teeth. Once an oil company says it will permanently abandon a well, it has one year to complete the job. MMS mandates that work plans be submitted and a report filed afterward.Unlike California regulators, MMS doesn't typically inspect the job, instead relying on the paperwork.

The fact there are so many wells that have been classified for decades as temporarily abandoned suggests that paperwork can be shuffled at MMS without any real change beneath the water. With its weak system of enforcement, MMS imposed fines in a relative handful of cases: just $440,000 on seven companies from 2003-2007for improper plug-and-abandonment work. Companies permanently abandon wells when they are no longer useful. Afterward, no one looks methodically for leaks, which can't easily be detected from the surface anyway. And no one in government or industry goes underwater to inspect, either.Government regulators and industry officials say abandoned offshore wells are presumed to be properly plugged and are expected to last indefinitely without leaking. Only when pressed do these officials acknowledge the possibility of leaks.Despite warnings of leaks, government and industry officials have never bothered to assess the extent of the problem, according to an extensive AP review of records and regulations.That means no one really knows how many abandoned wells are leaking — and how badly.The AP documented an extensive history of warnings about environmental dangers related to abandoned wells:

-The General Accountability Office, which investigates for Congress, warned as early as 1994 that leaks from offshore abandoned wells could cause an "environmental disaster,killing fish, shellfish, mammals and plants. In a lengthy report, GAO pressed for inspections of abandonment jobs, but nothing came of the recommendation.

-A 2006 Environmental Protection Agency report took notice of the overall issue regarding wells on land: Historically, well abandonment and plugging have generally not been properly planned, designed and executed.State officials say many leaks come from wells abandoned in recent decades, when rules supposedly dictated plugging procedures. And repairs are so routine that terms have been coined to describe the work: replugging or the re-abandonment.

-A GAO report in 1989 provided a foreboding prognosis about the health of the country's inland oil and gas wells. The watchdog agency quoted EPA data estimating that up to 17 percent of the nation's wells on land had been improperly plugged. If that percentage applies to offshore wells, there could be 4,600 badly plugged wells in the Gulf of Mexico alone.

-According to a 2001 study commissioned by MMS, agency officials were concerned that some abandoned oil wells in the Gulf may be leaking crude oil.But nothing came of that warning either. The study targeted a well 20 miles off Louisiana that had been reported leaking five years after it was plugged and abandoned. The researchers tried unsuccessfully to use satellite radar images to locate the leak. But John Amos, the geologist who wrote the study, told AP that MMS withheld critical information that could have helped verify if he had pinpointed the problem.I kind of suspected that this was a project almost designed to fail, Amos said. He said the agency refused to tell him how big and widespread a problem they were dealing with in the Gulf. Amos is now director of SkyTruth, a nonprofit group that uses satellite imagery to detect environmental problems. He still believes that technology could work on abandoned wells.MMS, though, hasn't followed up on the work. And Interior Department spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said agency inspectors would be present for permanent plugging jobs only when something unusual is expected.She also said inspectors would check later only if there's a noted leak. But she did not respond to requests for examples. Companies may be tempted to skimp on sealing jobs, which are expensive and slow offshore. It would cost the industry at least $3 billion to permanently plug the 10,500 now-active wells and the 3,500 temporarily abandoned ones in the Gulf, according to an AP analysis of MMS data.The AP analysis indicates that more than half of the 50,000 wells ever drilled on federal leases beneath the Gulf have now been abandoned. Some 23,500 are permanently sealed. Another 12,500 wells are plugged on one branch while being allowed to remain active in a different branch.

Government records do not indicate how many temporarily abandoned wells have been returned to service over the years. Federal rules require only an annual review of plans to reuse or permanently seal the 3,500 temporarily abandoned wells, but companies are using this provision to keep the wells in limbo indefinitely. Petroleum engineers say abandoned offshore wells can fail from faulty work, age and drilling-induced or natural changes below the seabed. Maurice Dusseault, a geologist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, says U.S. regulators assume that once a well is sealed, they're safe — but that's not always the case.Even fully depleted wells can flow again because of fluid or gas injections to stimulate nearby wells or from pressure exerted by underlying aquifers.Permanently abandoned wells are corked with cement plugs typically 100-200 feet long. They are placed in targeted zones to block the flow of oil or gas. Heavy drilling fluid is added. Offshore, the piping is cut off 15 feet below the sea floor.Wells are abandoned temporarily for a variety of reasons. The company may be re-evaluating a well's potential or developing a plan to overcome a drilling problem or damage from a storm. Some owners temporarily abandon wells to await a rise in oil prices.Since companies may put a temporarily abandoned well back into service, such holes typically will be sealed with fewer plugs, less testing and a metal cap to stop corrosion from sea water.In the Deepwater Horizon blowout, investigators believe the cement may have failed, perhaps never correctly setting deep within the well. Sometimes gas bubbles form as cement hardens, providing an unwanted path for oil or gas to burst through the well and reach the surface.The other key part of an abandoned wells — the steel pipe liner known as casing — can also rust through over time.MMS personnel do sometimes spot smaller oily patches on the Gulf during flyovers. Operators are also supposed to report any oil sheens they encounter. Typically, though, MMS learns of a leak only when someone spots it by chance.In the end, the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Laboratory handles little more than 200 cases of oil pollution each year.And manager Wayne Gronlund says it's often impossible to tell leaking wells from natural seeps, where untold thousands of barrels of oil and untold millions of cubic feet of gas escape annually through cracks that permeate the sea floor.The AP National Investigative Team can be reached at investigate(at)ap.org

Could this oil spill cause the sea floor to collapse and create a 20-80 mile high tsunami? I just heard that this disaster scenario is a possibility and that it could apparently destroy up to 50 miles inland. I hear some people are trying to get out of there because of this and other possible disastrous consequences of the oil spill. Is this a real possibility?

Scientists say oil spill will cause tsunami
June 26, 10:43 PM Baton Rouge Republican Examiner Al Landry

Oil Spill Greater Than Reported

More and more reports are coming out by oil field professionals who claim the oil spill is far greater than being reported by the mainstream media. The number of fish, sea critters, birds, and other animals in the gulf area affected are growing everyday and the grave situation will not get better until the leak is stopped.
Nonetheless, human illnesses are likewise escalating and with other chemicals associated with the oil emissions such as the deadly benzene gas marine toxicologists are extremely concerned.It is well known that oil vapors cause respiratory problems; central nervous system problems,said Nikki Ott marine biologist in an interview with Greenopolis TV recently at the site of a cleanup project near Grande Isle, Louisiana.Ott was involved with the Exxon Valdez oil spill over twenty years ago in Alaska and said there were well over six-thousand people who became sick or died from that incident.The symptoms for chemical induced illnesses mimic colds and flu, she went on.We are talking about toxic exposure. If it’s cold and flu you get over it when you go home…We want to make sure that it’s safe to live here, as well… Given the extent of what we’re dealing with, where are the health precautions commensurate with the risk? I’m not seeing it Ott said.Ott went on to say that BP and Barack Obama need to step up now and do something. But the thing is Obama does not want this oil spill to go away.Scientists who are studying the ordeal and who say they must remain anonymous because Obama and BP does not want this information out, paint an incredible dismal picture.

Extreme High Pressure Destroys Well Head

Moreover, experts claim that the pressure of the oil discharge varies from 20-thousand to 70-thousand pounds per square inch (psi). To put that into perspective the normal pressure at a well head is about 15-hundred psi, so even at the lowest of 20-thousand psi, that’s more than 13 times greater than the average. That means the pressure is so high that the oil and abrasive particles spewing forth is acting as a sand blaster.This sand-blast affect has thinned the pipe at the well from its original thickness of two inches to an inch or less. As the oil continues to flow at this high pressure rate eventually all the pipes and fittings will disintegrate, the well head will be blown off the drilled hole, and the hole where the well is will be bored larger and larger, and therefore, the oil will discharge unobstructed.

Tidal Wave Could Destroy Coastal Cities

At this point these marine scientists expect billions of barrels of oil to emit from the hole, draw water into the hole with temperatures 400 degrees and higher, a subsequent collapse of the gulf floor, and then a boiling and volcanic affect that will propel the bottom of the gulf upward with a force so great that a giant swell will be created.The tsunami wave this will create will be anywhere from 20 to 80 feet high, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now vacant chamber. This is how nature will seal the hole, Dr. James P. Wickstrom wrote in a recent on-line article.Depending on the height of the tsunami, the ocean debris, oil, and existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland, will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life. Even if the debris is cleaned up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit re-population of these areas for an unknown number of years,” Wickstrom wrote in his piece.

Are You Prepared?

In view of that, if this tidal wave were to go inland as much as 200 miles, how many people will be affected and what kind of warning will gulf coast residents have? Furthermore, why can’t Obama step up any action that may prevent this and is he really putting his best efforts into the oil spill resolve? The proof is in the pudding as for as Obama’s urgency is concerned or in this case in the sludge and the sludge is growing bigger by the minute.What's your take on this? Are you prepared to evacuate in the event of this taking place? Do you think Obama really wants this oil leak to be fixed or do you believe he has other sinister ideas for what's happening in the gulf? Make your voice be heard in the comments section of this article and subscribe to other articles by clicking on to the subscription area of this article.

Finding frugality without the lecture: Woodcock
By CONNIE WOODCOCK, Toronto Sun Last Updated: July 3, 2010 5:23pm

Frankly, if I ever hear the word G20 again, it will be too soon.But now that it’s over, there’s one message that came through loud and clear: Frugality is in.If most of the world’s biggest governments are planning on huge public spending cuts, you can bet we’re all going to be getting a lot more familiar with the concept.The whole idea of living less extravagantly — way less extravagantly — has been gaining steam for a couple of years now. The recession accelerated it, as did a U.S. study earlier this year that showed many major economists believe consumer spending may never recover.They call it the new frugality and it’s not a result of the recession alone. It’s fashionable — and it’s way different from the old kind of frugality.My grandma was a frugal woman. She saved tinfoil, string and elastic bands; raised chickens, put up dozens of quarts of preserves, knit grandpa’s work socks and made dresses for her young daughters out of bleached flour sacks.She was frugal because she had to be and that’s the difference. Today’s frugality fans are doing it because they’re reducing their carbon footprint, feeling guilty about global warming and being as politically correct as possible.To its practitioners, it’s almost a religion.(THE ENVIROMENTAL-CLIMATE CHANGE NUTCASES)

Grandma used vinegar and warm water to wash windows because (a) it worked and (b) it was inexpensive. The newly frugal do it to demonstrate their virtue.The new frugality dictates some strangely expensive behaviour my grandma wouldn’t comprehend.

Carbon credits

For instance, these people still fly to the Caribbean on vacation but they buy carbon credits to offset the jet fuel. I know a guy who travels widely all winter but he’s planted more than 6,000 trees on his property. Maybe it makes him feel warm and fuzzy.These people make sure you know they walk or ride a bicycle as much as possible, but they’re not above car ownership, even an SUV, as long as it’s a hybrid.

If you meet them in the supermarket, they’re only buying vinegar, olive oil and baking soda, the better to whip up green household cleaning products. They do their food shopping at farmers’ markets and high-end shops like Whole Foods where they can buy as local as possible. Sure it’s expensive, but think of all the fuel it saves.

Some of them do a lot of coupon clipping and bargain hunting so you may see them in the supermarket. I spotted a woman I know carting off three cases of canned pasta. She doesn’t even have toddlers to eat it — but it was 77¢ a can.They buy the dozens of books on frugal living and they surf the web for the hundreds of websites devoted to it. They didn’t get why a bunch of world leaders needed to meet in person and build relationships at the G20. Wouldn’t a conference call be better for the environment and the economy? they wonder.

Other views not welcome

As with most converts, these people are more Catholic than the pope, so they’re not tolerant of other views. They’ll gladly tell you exactly what a poor citizen of the planet you are with your lawn tractor, your secret stock of 2-4-D and your two-hour commute when you could be living in a 700-square-foot condo on Queen St. W.

If you don’t agree, you’re a knuckle-dragging moron.

I had an old reporter friend once who was frugal decades before it became fashionable. He shopped only at church rummage sales and Goodwill. He avoided rent by camping out in friends’ living rooms. If he had to rent, he liked to live close to a supermarket so he could dumpster-dive and bring home steaks with freezer burn. We all thought him cheap.Nowadays, they call it freeganism — living as much as possible without money.The new frugality isn’t for me, thanks. I’m still coping with the old kind.I waste gas sometimes — but I make great pear jam from my own tree.
connie.woodcock@sunmedia.ca

Ron Paul Slams Federal Interference In Oil Spill Relief Efforts
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, July 6, 2010
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-slams-federal-interference-in-oil-spill-relief-efforts/ (VIDEO TO STORY)

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.The Congressman also added that if large numbers of National Guard troops were not deployed oversees fighting endless wars, there might be more manpower to call upon in aiding relief efforts.If all our states had their Guard units back here maybe they would have the manpower to do more to help clean up the beaches and prevent the oil from coming in, but, no, our Guard units are all over the world fighting wars we don’t need,said Paul.

In hindsight, it’s becoming clear that the government has deliberately botched the response and prevented local authorities from doing their jobs, just as FEMA deliberately sabotaged the state response to Hurricane Katrina in order to make the crisis worse and create the pretext for a police state response, gun confiscation and ultimately more federal power.Numerous reports have surfaced of locals and state authorities being prevented by BP contractors and the U.S. Coast Guard from helping to address the devastation the spill has created in the region.One example of undue federal interference occurred last month when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ordered the state’s fleet of sixteen vacuum barges to clean up oil in the Louisiana marshes. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the barges for the purposes of an inspection, but then promptly failed to conduct any inspection and merely ordered them to turn around and head back to the dock.While stifling the efforts of local authorities to adequately battle the consequences of the spill, the federal government also refused help from foreign governments who had immediately offered sophisticated technology that could have already fixed the problem.Obama initially blocked international help, citing the Jones Act, which forbids foreign ships from operating between U.S. ports, and thereby preventing the use of sophisticated technology which foreign firms insist could have sealed the leak.The Jones Act can be waived in in cases of national emergencies or in cases of strategic interest. Belgian company DEME contends that it has the specialist vessels to fix the oil leak within two to four months, technology the U.S. does not have. By taking bids on a contract to fix the oil leak from international companies, Obama could have the problem solved within a matter of weeks, but he immediately refused the help of thirteen entities that had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion.

Obama’s two month delay in refusing international help ensured that the window of opportunity was missed to fix the leak before the start of the hurricane season, which will make the crisis immeasurably worse.The arrival on July 1st of a Taiwanese super-skimmer which can collect 500,000 barrels per day of contaminated water was nearly 10 weeks overdue, and inclement weather has now delayed the device from even being tested in the Gulf. Had Obama immediately accepted international support, the majority of the oil could have been cleaned up before the hurricane season began, avoiding the threat that large amounts of oil will be dumped onshore, which if it occurs could mandate massive evacuations of the affected areas.As we have highlighted, the longer the crisis drags on and the worse it gets, the more political capital Obama accrues in pursuit of his nightmare green economy carbon tax agenda. Viewed from this perspective, the federal government has no motivation whatsoever to cap the oil leak or clean up the spill.

Tar balls in Texas mean oil hits all 5 Gulf states By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writer - JULY 6,2010 9:25 AM

TEXAS CITY, Texas – More than two months after oil from BP's blown-out seafloor well first reached Louisiana, a bucket's worth of tar balls that washed onto a Texas beach means the crude has arrived in every Gulf state.Oil is still on the move, but the fleet of skimmers tapped to clean the worst-hit areas of the Gulf of Mexico is not. A string of storms has made the water too choppy for the boats to operate for more than a week off Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, even though the gusher continues.The number of tar balls discovered in Texas is tiny compared to what has coated beaches in other Gulf states. Still, it provoked the quick dispatch of cleaning crews and a vow that BP PLC will pay for the trouble.Any Texas shores impacted by the Deepwater spill will be cleaned up quickly and BP will be picking up the tab,Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said in a news release.The oil's arrival in Texas was predicted Friday by an analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which gave a 40 percent chance of crude reaching the area.It was just a matter of time that some of the oil would find its way to Texas, said Hans Graber, a marine physicist at the University of Miami and co-director of the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing.About five gallons of tar balls were found Saturday on the Bolivar Peninsula, northeast of Galveston, said Capt. Marcus Woodring, the Coast Guard commander for the Houston/Galveston sector. Two gallons were found Sunday on the peninsula and Galveston Island, though tests have not yet confirmed the oil's origin.

Woodring said the consistency of the tar balls indicates they could have been spread to Texas water by ships that have worked out in the spill. But there's no way to confirm how they got there.Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski said he believed the tar balls were a fluke, rather than a sign of what's to come.This is good news, he said.The water looks good. We're cautiously optimistic this is an anomaly.Hurricane Alex, which blew through the Gulf last week and made landfall along the border between Texas and Mexico, may have played a small role in bringing the oil ashore in Texas by increasing the westerly current near land, Graber said. But it was more likely due to normal coastal currents and local weather patterns.NOAA scientists are looking at local weather, Hurricane Alex and Gulf vessels as possible sources for the tar balls, agency spokeswoman Monica Allen said Monday.The distance between the western reach of the tar balls in Texas and the most eastern reports of oil in Florida is about 550 miles. Oil was first spotted on land near the mouth of the Mississippi River on April 29.The spill is reaching deeper into Louisiana. Strings of oil were seen Monday in the Rigolets, one of two waterways that connect the Gulf with Lake Pontchartrain, the large lake north of New Orleans.So far it's scattered stuff showing up, mostly tar balls, said Louisiana Office of Fisheries Assistant Secretary Randy Pausina.It will pull out with the tide, and then show back up.New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said assets would be deployed to protect the Lake Pontchartrain basin.Pausina said he expected the oil to clear the passes and move directly into the lake, taking a backdoor route to New Orleans.The news of the spill's reach comes at a time when most of the offshore skimming operations in the Gulf have been halted by choppy seas and high winds. A tropical system that had been lingering off Louisiana flared up Monday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and winds.

Last week, the faraway Hurricane Alex idled the skimming fleet off Alabama, Florida and Mississippi with choppy seas and stiff winds. Now they're idled by the smaller storms that could last well into this week. Officials have plans for the worst-case scenario: a hurricane barreling up the Gulf toward the spill site. But the less-dramatic weather conditions have been met with a more makeshift response. Skimming across the Gulf has scooped up about 23.5 million gallons of oil-fouled water so far, but officials say it's impossible to know how much crude could have been sucked up in good weather because of the fluctuating number of boats and other variables.

Jerry Biggs, a commercial fisherman in Pass Christian, Miss., who has had to shut down because of the spill, is now hiring out his 13 boats and 40-man crew to BP for cleanup. He said skimming is severely hampered by the weather.This isn't going away. This isn't a sneeze or a hiccup. This is diarrhea for a long time,he said. My lifestyle is screwed. It's over. The thing that I love the most I'm not going to be able to do anymore.The British company has now seen its costs from the spill reach $3.12 billion, a figure that doesn't include a $20 billion fund for damages the company created last month. The storms have not affected drilling work on a relief well BP says is the best chance for finally plugging the leak. The company expects drilling to be finished by mid-August.Associated Press writers Tom Breen and Mary Foster in New Orleans and Brendan Farrington in Pass Christian, Miss., contributed to this report.