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G20 ministers to discuss Europe at Korea G20 meeting By Louise Egan – Mon May 31, 3:31 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – There will be considerable discussion about the European economy at the G20 meeting of finance officials and central bankers in Busan, South Korea, this weekend, a senior Canadian finance official said on Monday.The official told a briefing that the euro zone debt problems added new urgency to the need for countries to design credible plans to withdraw extraordinary stimulus from their economies next year.Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty also plans to stress at the meeting that many countries are reaching their limits in terms of fiscal stimulus.The Busan meeting will let finance officials prepare the groundwork for a leaders' summit in Toronto in June. It will focus on financial reform, including a proposed global bank levy, and start spelling out policies needed to rebalance the global economy as it starts to grow again, the official said.For example in large surplus countries like China, a more flexible currency would help boost domestic consumption, the official said.Canada has vocally opposed proposals for a global bank levy to ensure taxpayers don't bear the cost of future financial meltdowns.

But the official said Canada has received growing interest for its proposal for contingent capital, which would require banks to hold a substantial part of their capital in securities that could be converted to equity in a near-death experience.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will present more details of that alternative to his counterparts in Busan.The official also said the G20 finance officials will seek progress on commitments that countries have made to eliminate inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.(Reporting by Louise Egan; editing by Janet Guttsman)

BIS Warns to Ignore Banker Doomsday Scenario Fearmongering and Racketeering
Zero Hedge June 1, 2010 The bankers’ bank, the BIS.BANK-INTERNATIONAL-SETTLEMENTS

Over the past two years, the one strategy that has elicited the greatest amount of anger in the general population has been the traditional resolution to the lowest common denominator strategy of fearmongering or racketeering by the financial elite, any time it was faced with a status quo extinction event. The primary example is the Fed and Clearinghouse Association’s threat that should the Fed be forced to disclose the details of its bailout of various banks (as two courts have already ordered it to do), the result would be the greatest run on US banks in history: If the names of our member banks who borrow emergency funds are publicly disclosed, the likelihood that a borrowing bank’s customers, counterparties and other market participants will draw a negative inference is great.This is nothing but the patronizing of the broader population by those who seek to preserve their millions in bonuses, while disguising their hypocrisy in bluster, and hoping that the topic will be promptly forgotten. Curiously one entity that has decided to take on this fire and brimstone head on and to warn the general population to ignore the bankers doomsday scenarios is the bankers’ bank, the BIS. As the FT reports, according to a soon to be released report by the bank’s Chief Economic Advisors Stephen Cecchetti, Banks are exaggerating the economic effects of the regulations they are likely to face in the coming years.While his focus is on the implications of the passage of the Basel III treaty, and to preempt counter lobbying by the bank themselves, his argument can be extended to ever instance in which banks present scenarios of collapse should they not get their way: as Cecchetti points out: the banks’ doomsday scenarios were based on their assuming the maximum impact of the maximum change with the minimum behavioural change.This is a huge point, as it means that even the failure of the TBTF banks could have been mitigated in the context of a controlled (and even uncontrolled) bankruptcy, and the only reason they were bailed out was to preserve the equity interests and the existing management team, period. This also means that the Fed and Treasury are nothing but vehicles for perpetuating Wall Street’s status quo, as we have claimed from the very beginning.

More from the FT:Mr Cecchetti, who has been given a mandate to assess the economic effects of the Basel III reforms by the Basel Committee on Banking Reform and the Financial Stability Board, is adamant the transitional costs of requiring banks to hold more capital and be more robust to sudden demands for funds aren’t huge.The estimates are still a work in progress, but he said that his sense was that the net impact of the Basel committee reforms on growth will be negligible and well within normal forecast errors. Average errors of economic forecasts for the level of global output on the relevant time horizon are lower than 0.5 per cent and far lower than industry estimates that the regulations could wipe 5 per cent from the world economy.

In the longer term, Mr Cecchetti said the result of a safer banking system would provide economic benefits rather than costs. Our preliminary assessment is that improvements to the resilience of the financial system will not permanently affect growth – except for possibly making it higher.

Cecchetti continues:He gave three examples of banks over-estimating the likely effects of the new regulations, which are due to be agreed by the end of the year, with gradual implementation expected to start in 2012.First, he said banks were claiming that new liquidity rules would force them to swap large quantities of high-yielding loans for low-yielding government bonds, which would have an impact on their profitability and lending. Instead, he said, they could comply with the rules by lengthening the maturity of their liabilities so they better matched those of their assets at much lower cost.Second, he said, they assumed investors would demand the same returns on new tranches of equity capital when this equity would make banks more resilient, lowering risk to equity holders and the cost to banks.And third, he said, the warnings of high costs relied on banks’ estimates that the new rules would reduce credit growth and economic growth severely. We must always keep in mind that one of the causes of the crisis was that credit growth was too fast,he said.

If even the expert bankers of the Central Banks’ Central Bank are saying enough to banking fearmongering, it is time our own politicians followed suit. But here is where the core problem arises: politicians are nothing but bought and paid for puppets of the financial system. And by consistently siding with the Fed and Wall Street in their baseless threat, the public’s anger should be just as focused on Congress and Senate as it is on Wall Street. And while a purge of Wall Street can not occur within the confines of our legal system, as noted keenly by The International, politicians can at least be voted out. Which is why we are confident there will be an incumbent bloodbath come November, as D.C. is nothing more than a lighting rid for all the pent up anger from years of patronizing (not to mention robbery) by the financial elite which always knows what is best for the US middle class, especially if that something involves getting even deeper in debt-facilitated slavery.

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

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Africa needs a stronger voice in global affairs: Sarkozy by Carole Landry – Mon May 31, 3:58 pm ET

NICE, France (AFP) – Africa will fuel world economic growth for decades to come and must have a stronger voice in global affairs, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday as he opened an Africa-France summit.France is seeking to renew its ties with Africa at the two-day gathering that will touch on global governance and Africa's campaign for more of say at the United Nations Security Council, the UN's top decision-making body.I am deeply convinced that it is no longer possible to discuss major world issues without the presence of Africa, Sarkozy told the 38 African leaders gathered in the Riviera city of Nice.Declaring that Africa is our future, Sarkozy said it was absolutely abnormal that no African country held a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.None of the problems, absolutely none of the problems that the world faces today can be resolved without the active participation of the African continent,he said.Africa's formidable demographics and its considerable resources make it the main reservoir for world economic growth in the decades to come.A failed Africa would be a tragedy for Europe,Sarkozy warned.

France is hoping to jumpstart the push for more African representation at the Security Council, where three of the 10 rotating seats are currently held by African countries.Sarkozy said he will put forward proposals when France takes the helm of the Group of Eight and Group of 20 clubs of developed nations next year to ensure Africa takes part in global economic affairs.Currently, South Africa is the only G20 member from Africa even though the continent overall is posting strong growth, despite the global downturn.African countries have since 2005 sought two veto-wielding permanent seats in an expanded Security Council as well as two non-permanent seats, but these calls have gone unheard.Hoping to relaunch debate, France is proposing that Africa press for one permanent seat, with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner stressing that it was important to be realistic.Many see the current setup in which five countries -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- hold veto power as a holdover from the Cold War.Echoing Sarkozy's call, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said we want to end at all cost the marginalisation of the African continent.The 25th Africa-France summit is Sarkozy's first since taking office in 2007 and reflects France's shift away from its traditional west African allies toward engagement with the continent as a whole.At a formal dinner, Sarkozy stressed that the time when Africa's political problems dominated the summit agenda was over and that the economy was now at the forefront.Today we can talk about technology, innovation and research with Africa,said Sarkozy.

About 80 French business leaders including top bosses at oil giant Total and nuclear behemoth Areva are taking part in summit talks along with 150 heads of African companies. The push on the economic front comes as France has taken a back seat to China, Africa's biggest trade partner, which has injected billions over the past decade to tap into raw materials needed to fuel its hungry economy. Among the heavy hitters at the high-level talks are South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, who travelled to Nice just weeks before his country hosts the football World Cup, and Nigeria's new leader Goodluck Jonathan, sworn in this month.Zuma hit a sour note when he criticised host-country France for inviting coup leaders from Guinea and Niger to the summit, saying it amounted to a form of recognition to those who seize power through coups.We don't want to encourage military people to overturn others and become governments, because by inviting, it means recognition, that's how we are interpreting it in the continent, he told French news channel France 24.

Asian shares lower after US holiday
MAY 31,10

TOKYO – Asian stocks fell Tuesday in the absence of fresh cues following a market holiday in the U.S.Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average fell 82.22 points, or 0.8 percent, to 9,686.48 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.7 percent to 4,401.10.In Seoul, the Kospi lost 0.6 percent to 1,630.41 and Taiwan's benchmark fell 0.9 percent to 7,307.16. Hong Kong's Hang Seng bucked the trend, rising 0.1 percent to 19,787.89. U.S. financial markets were closed Monday for Memorial Day.

Japanese exporters mainly fell as the yen strengthened.

Political uncertainty also dampened market sentiment in Tokyo, where Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama faced mounting calls for his resignation after a small party left his coalition government in protest at the reversal of a campaign promise to move a U.S. military base off the southern island of Okinawa.In currencies, the dollar fell to 91.05 yen from 91.21 yen late Monday. The euro slipped to $1.2266 from $1.2304.
Benchmark crude for July delivery was up 32 cents at $74.29 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

40,000 may be evacuated in Philippine floods
MAY 31,10 10:40PM

MANILA (AFP) – Up to 40,000 people may be forcibly evacuated after torrential rains caused heavy flooding in the southern Philippines, an official said Tuesday.Ten villages in the town of Sultan Kudarat on southern Mindanao island were under waist-deep waters after a river overflowed its banks due to rains that began on Friday, local social welfare department head Pombaen Kadir said.We are preparing to evacuate them,Kadir told AFP.They still do not want to leave their homes which are now under waist-deep water, but we may force them to leave once the situation deteriorates.She said the main highway that cuts through the affected areas had been rendered impassable to light vehicles.Army troops in the area have also dispatched trucks to help in the planned evacuation efforts, she said.

Tropical Storm Agatha kills 145 in Central America By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer - MAY 31,10 10PM

GUATEMALA CITY – Flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 145 people and made thousands homeless in Central America, officials said Monday.Dozens of people were missing and emergency crews struggled to reach isolated communities cut off by washed-out roads and collapsed bridges caused by Tropical Storm Agatha.The sun emerged Monday in hardest-hit Guatemala, where officials reported 120 dead and at least 53 missing. In the department of Chimaltenango — a province west of Guatemala City — landslides buried dozens of rural Indian communities and killed at least 60 people, Gov. Erick de Leon said.The department has collapsed,de Leon said.There are a lot of dead people. The roads are blocked. The shelters are overflowing. We need water, food, clothes, blankets †but above all, money.In the tiny village of Parajbei, a slide smothered three homes and killed 11 people.It was raining really hard and there was a huge noise, said Vicente Azcaj, 56, who ran outside and saw that a hill had crumbled.Now everyone is afraid that the same will happen to their homes.Volunteers from nearby villages worked nonstop since Sunday to recover the bodies in Parajbei, and on Monday they found the last two: brothers, 4 and 8 years old, who were buried under tons of dirt, rocks and trees.As a thank-you, rescuers got a plate of rice and beans from the mayor of nearby Santa Apolonia.

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It's a small thing, but it comes from the heart, Tulio Nunez told them through a translator.Nunez said he worried about the well-being of survivors in the area because landslides blocked roads and broke water pipes.They don't have anything to drink, he said.In all some 110,000 people were evacuated in Guatemala.Thousands more fled their homes in neighboring Honduras, where the death toll rose to 15 while meteorologists predicted three more days of rain.Two dams near the capital of Tegucigalpa overflowed into a nearby river, and officials warned people to stay away from swollen waterways.The risk is enormous, Mayor Ricardo Alvarez said.In El Salvador, 11,000 people were evacuated. The death toll rose to 10 and two others were missing, President Mauricio Funes said Monday night.About 95 percent of the country's roads were affected by landslides, but most remained open, Transportation Minister Gerson Martinez said. He said 179 bridges had been wrecked.The Lempa River, which flows to the Pacific, topped its banks and flooded at least 20 villages, affecting some 6,000 people, said Jorge Melendez, director of the Civil Protection Agency.

Officials warned that the Acelhuate River, which cuts through San Salvador, was running at dangerously high levels and threatened to spill over into the capital's streets. Melendez said classes would be suspended Tuesday in all primary and secondary schools and public and private universities across El Salvador. Agatha made landfall near the Guatemala-Mexico border Saturday as a tropical storm with winds up to 45 mph (75 kph). It dissipated the following day over the mountains of western Guatemala. The rising death toll is reminding nervous residents of Hurricane Mitch, which hovered over Central America for days in 1998, causing flooding and mudslides that killed nearly 11,000 people and left more than 8,000 missing and unaccounted for. Rescue efforts in Guatemala have been complicated by a volcanic eruption Thursday near the capital that blanketed parts of the area with ash. Associated Press writers Freddy Cuevas in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Diego Mendez in San Salvador, El Salvador, contributed to this report.

No shelter from the storm for Haiti quake victims By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer – Mon May 31, 2:34 pm ET

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A hurricane season predicted to be one of the wettest on record opens Tuesday in the Caribbean, where hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake victims have only tarps or fraying tents to protect them in a major storm.

The Haitian government, which had five months to prepare, says it's still working on emergency and evacuation plans. But it is unclear where people will go with many churches, schools and other potential shelters toppled by the quake.Since the Jan. 12 earthquake killed up to 300,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless, there has been little progress on clearing rubble so people can return to their neighborhoods or building sturdier shelters.Dr. Jean Pape, one of the country's most prominent public health experts, estimates that only 1 percent of the masses stuck in dangerous flood zones have been relocated.There's no give here. Time is just running out,said Mark L. Schneider, senior vice president of the International Crisis Group. There's no question that large numbers, tens of thousands, are going to be in situations of misery when the rains come.Already, the moderate spring rains that drench Port-au-Prince almost daily leave camp residents up to their knees in putrid water.Claudia Toussaint, a 24-year-old camped near a golf course, dug a shallow channel in the dirt under her tarp in a futile effort to keep water away from her mattress.When it rains, we don't have anywhere to go, we don't have anywhere to sleep, she said.We just get soaked.The problem goes beyond more misery in about 1,200 temporary camps. Vast numbers of people are exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes. Serious flooding could cause mass casualties even with thousands of aid workers and U.N. peacekeepers present.The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted as many as 23 named tropical storms, which would make this season one of the more active on record. The quake has forced Haiti to update its storm contingency plans, said Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, including positioning emergency food and equipment.

A response team has been set up to deal with rain emergencies in camps.We don't need a hurricane to have problems in Haiti, we just need three or four days of continuous rain to have serious problems, he said in an interview with The Associated Press.But Bellerive couldn't say how the plans are being updated. And he said the country's condition remains fragile,even though aid groups and government officials have said since the quake that flooding is a major looming disaster.The Atlantic storm season always poses a risk in mountainous Haiti. Tropical Storm Jeanne killed nearly 3,000 people in 2004, and a series of 2008 storms killed 800 — mostly in the country's central region north of Port-au-Prince.The capital city rarely gets a direct hit; it is protected by the mountains that separate Haiti from the Dominican Republic. But even modest storms are deadly in this deforested nation where entire cities are routinely plunged under water.The international community and private aid groups have pledged or delivered $3.1 billion to help Haiti after the earthquake and are promising nearly $10 billion more for reconstruction.But so far, the government has relocated only about 7,000 vulnerable people to two safer camps.The relocation is slow because the crippled government doesn't have enough money to complete a job that includes not just setting up new tents, but providing work, schools and services. You can't just move people to a new location and say take care of your life.said Pape, director of the GHESKIO clinic.

The Salvation Army has started building two-room shelters for 600 families in the southern town of Jacmel despite bureaucratic delays in getting the material through Haiti's ports. The cement-secured wooden supports are designed to withstand winds of up to 30 mph, and the raised wooden floors to prevent Haitians from risking disease by using water flowing through their homes for hygiene and cooking. They expect to complete the structures within a month using Haitian labor. Protesters have criticized President Rene Preval for a lack of progress in reconstruction. Schneider says all involved need to move faster. It's not that people are doing things that are wrong, he said.It's that people need to do the things that they are doing faster.
Magdaline Oscar lives with her husband and 6-year-old son in a trash-strewn road that leads to the capital's main garbage dump. She showed visitors the murky water that pools under her tent and splashes through its torn sides. During storms, they flee to a neighbor's shelter, though many of the other tents in their encampment are also now damaged after five months of use. The wind and the water is destroying them,said the 26-year-old.I don't think it will last much longer.Elsewhere, people are taking a do-it-yourself approach — adding corrugated steel and plywood to homes first constructed from a few bed sheets and plastic tarps. Leon Louis was confident about his prospects as he set up a shanty in the Champs de Mars, the capital's central plaza. The rain might fall, but we'll be in a stable place,Louis said.
Associated Press writers Jonathan M. Katz and Yesica Fisch contributed to this report.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

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

Strong quake hits Andaman Islands: seismologists
Mon May 31, 5:11 pm ET

NEW DELHI (AFP) – A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off India's Andaman Islands early Tuesday, seismologists said, but no widespread tsunami was expected.The quake struck at a depth of 127 kilometres (80 miles), said the US Geological Survey (USGS), with the epicentre 120 kilometres from Port Blair on the Andaman Islands, which are located in the Bay of Bengal.The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was a very small possibility of a local tsunami near the centre but no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami.Myanmar lies to the north of the Andaman Islands and Indonesia to the south.New Delhi is more than 2,500 kilometres away to the northwest.The Andamans were badly hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami, which was triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra that sent giant waves crashing into countries around the Indian Ocean.The Andaman Sea area witnesses frequent earthquakes caused by the meeting of the Indian plate with the Burmese microplate along an area known as the Andaman trench.

6.1 earthquake hits Costa Rica's Pacific coast
MAY 31,10

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific coast of Costa Rica on Monday night, the United States Geological Survey said.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage caused by the offshore quake centered 46 miles southwest of the capital San Jose at a depth of 18.2 miles below the sea.

China says final toll from April quake near 2,700
Mon May 31, 8:40 am ET

BEIJING – The death toll from a devastating earthquake that struck a remote Tibetan region in western China has risen to 2,698, officials said Monday.Another 270 people remained missing after the April 14 earthquake that flattened tens of thousands of houses in Yushu county, the official Xinhua News Agency cited Qinghai Vice Governor Zhang Guangrong as telling reporters.The new figure is a jump from the previously reported toll, which stood at a little over 2,200 in late April, with 12,000 injured.

China poured millions of dollars for relief efforts and deployed thousands of workers into the region after the quake struck. Sitting at around 13,000 feet (4,000 meters), the area's remote location posed logistical difficulties.Zhang also said 11 of the victims had not been identified, and that the deaths included 199 students.

The figures released by Zhang were confirmed by Liu Wei, a provincial spokesman, reached by phone.Liu attributed the rise in the death toll to the discovery of more bodies, increased reporting of deaths by relatives and more deaths from the county's migrant population registered.The government has capitalized on the full-scale relief operation to show it cares about China's Tibetan communities, some of which staged large anti-government protests in 2008.

Pacific volcano erupts near Marianas islands
Mon May 31, 7:12 am ET

SAIPAN, Northern Marianas – A volcanic eruption near the Pacific's Northern Mariana Islands shot clouds of ash and vapor nearly eight miles into the sky, federal scientists said.The eruption occurred early Saturday and appeared to come from an underwater volcano off Sarigan, a sparsely inhabited island about 100 miles north of the U.S. commonwealth's main island of Saipan.The Northern Marianas are about 3,800 miles southwest of Hawaii.USGS volcanologist Game McGimsey said Sunday that scientists are still trying to pinpoint the source but evidence is pointing to an underwater mountain.People on the island (Sarigan) heard a loud explosion and almost immediately there was a heavy ash fall which turned to a light fall fairly quickly, McGimsey told The Associated Press. He said there was no ash in Saipan or Guam.The eruption was fairly brief and no other volcanic clouds have been detected, said McGimsey, who is based in Anchorage, Alaska. Scientists don't know if the undersea activity is continuing.

Satellite images showed the cloud reaching to 40,000 feet. But the USGS said it was largely water vapor and strong winds were dispersing it.McGimsey said researchers flew over the area Sunday and spotted discolored water presumably over the volcanic vent, estimated at 1,000 feet beneath sea level.

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.

Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Writer – Mon May 31, 5:11 pm ET

NEW ORLEANS – Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton.Researchers have said they have found at least two massive underwater plumes of what appears to be oil, each hundreds of feet deep and stretching for miles. Yet the chief executive of BP PLC — which has for weeks downplayed everything from the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf to the environmental impact — said there is no evidence that huge amounts of oil are suspended undersea.BP CEO Tony Hayward said the oil naturally gravitates to the surface — and any oil below was just making its way up. However, researchers say the disaster in waters where light doesn't shine through could ripple across the food chain.Every fish and invertebrate contacting the oil is probably dying. I have no doubt about that, said Prosanta Chakrabarty, a Louisiana State University fish biologist.On the surface, a 24-hour camera fixed on the spewing, blown-out well and the images of dead, oil-soaked birds have been evidence of the calamity. At least 20 million gallons of oil and possibly 43 million gallons have spilled since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank in April.

That has far eclipsed the 11 million gallons released during the Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska's coast in 1989. But there is no camera to capture what happens in the rest of the vast Gulf, which sprawls across 600,000 square miles and reaches more than 14,000 feet at its deepest point.Every night, the denizens of the deep make forays to shallower depths to eat — and be eaten by — other fish, according to marine scientists who describe it as the largest migration on earth.In turn, several species closest to the surface — including red snapper, shrimp and menhaden — help drive the Gulf Coast fishing industry. Others such as marlin, cobia and yellowfin tuna sit atop the food chain and are chased by the Gulf's charter fishing fleet.

Many of those species are now in their annual spawning seasons. Eggs exposed to oil would quickly perish. Those that survived to hatch could starve if the plankton at the base of the food chain suffer. Larger fish are more resilient, but not immune to the toxic effects of oil.The Gulf's largest spill was in 1979, when the Ixtoc I platform off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula blew up and released 140 million gallons of oil. But that was in relatively shallow waters — about 160 feet deep — and much of the oil stayed on the surface where it broke down and became less toxic by the time it reached the Texas coast.But last week, a team from the University of South Florida reported a plume was headed toward the continental shelf off the Alabama coastline, waters thick with fish and other marine life.The researchers said oil in the plumes had dissolved into the water, possibly a result of chemical dispersants used to break up the spill. That makes it more dangerous to fish larvae and creatures that are filter feeders.Responding to Hayward's assertion, one researcher noted that scientists from several different universities have come to similar conclusions about the plumes after doing separate testing.No major fish kills have been reported, but federal officials said the impacts could take years to unfold.

This is just a giant experiment going on and we're trying to understand scientifically what this means, said Roger Helm, a senior official with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.In 2009, LSU's Chakrabarty discovered two new species of bottom-dwelling pancake batfish about 30 miles off the Louisiana coastline — right in line with the pathway of the spill caused when the Deepwater Horizon burned and sank April 24.By the time an article in the Journal of Fish Biology detailing the discovery appears in the August edition, Chakrabarty said, the two species — which pull themselves along the seafloor with feet-like fins — could be gone or in serious decline.There are species out there that haven't been described, and they're going to disappear, he said. Recent discoveries of endangered sea turtles soaked in oil and 22 dolphins found dead in the spill zone only hint at the scope of a potential calamity that could last years and unravel the Gulf's food web. Concerns about damage to the fishery already is turning away potential customers for charter boat captains such as Troy Wetzel of Venice. To get to waters unaffected by the spill, Wetzel said he would have to take his boat 100 miles or more into the Gulf — jacking up his fuel costs to where only the wealthiest clients could afford to go fishing.

Significant amounts of crude oil seep naturally from thousands of small rifts in the Gulf's floor — as much as two Exxon Valdez spills every year, according to a 2000 report from government and academic researchers. Microbes that live in the water break down the oil. The number of microbes that grow in response to the more concentrated BP spill could tip that system out of balance, LSU oceanographer Mark Benfield said. Too many microbes in the sea could suck oxygen from the water, creating an uninhabitable hypoxic area, or dead zone.Preliminary evidence of increased hypoxia in the Gulf was seen during an early May cruise aboard the R/V Pelican, carrying researchers from the University of Georgia, the University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi. An estimated 910,000 gallons of dispersants — enough to fill more than 100 tanker trucks — are contributing a new toxin to the mix. Containing petroleum distillates and propylene glycol, the dispersants' effects on marine life are still unknown. What is known is that by breaking down oil into smaller droplets, dispersants reduce the oil's buoyancy, slowing or stalling the crude's rise to the surface and making it harder to track the spill. Dispersing the oil lower into the water column protects beaches, but also keeps it in cooler waters where oil does not break down as fast. That could prolong the oil's potential to poison fish, said Larry McKinney, director of the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. There's a school of thought that says we've made it worse because of the dispersants, he said. Associated Press writer Jason Dearen contributed to this report from San Francisco.

S.Korea steps up efforts to haul N.Korea to UN
JUNE 1,10

SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea Tuesday stepped up its campaign to hold North Korea responsible at the UN Security Council for sinking a warship, briefing visiting Russian experts and sending an envoy to the United States.A team of Russian naval experts arrived Monday to review the findings of a multinational investigation team, which concluded last month that a North Korean submarine torpedoed the South Korean ship with the loss of 46 lives.The Russians, including experts on torpedoes and submarines, will stay in South Korea until June 7 to debrief investigators, inspect the wreckage and visit the site of the sinking, defence and foreign ministry officials said.Russia's direct trust in our investigation results will make this case clear, and it's part of our stepped-up effort to muster international support, one official told AFP.South Korea has announced a series of reprisals including cutting off trade with its communist neighbour.The hardline state furiously denies involvement and has responded to the reprisals with threats of war, sending regional tensions sharply higher.The South, with US and Japanese support, will ask the Security Council to sanction -- or at least to censure -- the North for the sinking, one of the worst military attacks since the 1950-53 war.Seoul needs support from veto-wielding Council members, including Russia and China, which have traditionally been close to Pyongyang.The foreign ministry in Moscow has said it needs 100 percent proof of the North's involvement.Seoul has also asked China to send its own experts but Beijing has not responded, according to local media, some of which said the offer had been rejected.At a three-way weekend summit, China's Premier Wen Jiabao resisted pressure from the Japanese and South Korean leaders to publicly support the UN move or to condemn the North.

Wen instead called for efforts to ease regional tensions.Despite China's unclear stance, South Korea continued its campaign by sending Second Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-Woo, in charge of UN affairs, to the United States Monday for discussions with US officials.With the US government reviewing how to step up its own actions against North Korea, South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan said restricting cash flows to the North was an effective punishment.If the cash inflow into North Korea is restricted, I think it will lower the possibility of nuclear weapons development and deter belligerent behaviour, he said in a BBC interview aired early Tuesday.South Korea estimates that its own reprisals will cost the cash-strapped North between 260-300 million dollars a year.President Lee Myung-Bak instructed his cabinet Tuesday to draw up a long-term strategy for reunification of the peninsula despite the tensions over the Cheonan corvette's sinking.National security has emerged as an important task since the Cheonan incident, Lee told them.With regard to security, people usually think of confrontation. Fundamentally, however, we should draw up a strategy on security bearing reunification in mind.

P-2 OIL SLICK NEWS-MAY 29 +

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.

WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANS BY THE ARMY
http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org/ArmyMillennDoc.pdf
RESPONSE TO WAR REPORT
http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org/StuckertReport.htm
JOHN MCTERNAN SITE
http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org/

LIVE BP OIL FEED
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
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html

WE WILL SEE WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION PLAY THE AMERICANS AS FOOLS TO TODAY IN THIS OIL SPILL MAY 29,2010.

MAY 29,10 4:20PM WE MUST WATCH BP STOCKS CLOSELY.YOU CAN BET IF THEY GO FLAT OBAMA WILL CALL FOR A TRILLION TO BAIL THEM OUT.AND FOR THAT TRILLION YOU CAN BET OBAMA WILL GET AT LEAST HALF THE COMPANY TO SCHEME UP SOME WAY OF GETTING A CAP AND TRADE BILL THROUGH AS WELL AS CARBON TAXES AND VAT TAXES AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE TAXES.AS WELL AS $10.00 GAS A GALLON TO LINE NEW WORLD ORDERS POCKETS WITH TRILLIONS UPON QUADRILLIONS.

ITS 6:45PM MAY 29,10 AT LEAST BP CAME CLEAN AND SAID THE MUD IS NOT WORKING AND THEY WILL HAVE TO CAP THE SPILL INSTEAD.

ITS 7:27PM MAY 29,10 THE PROPAGANDA IS NOW UNDER WAY ON CNN THERE USING WORDS LIKE THIS BOUY WILL BE SETUP IN ONLY 5 DAYS TO STOP THE OIL FROM THE MARSHES.THE CAP WILL BE DONE IN ONLY 7 DAYS.AND OF COURSE THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL GAL SAYING THIS SO THE MEN GET DISTRACTED BY HER BEAUTY INSTEAD OF PAYING ATTENTION TO THE TRUE FACTS THAT ITS BEEN 40 DAYS ALREADY AND AT LEAST 30 MILLION BARRELS ARE POISONING THE OCEAN SO FAR AND NOW THEY ARE SAYING IT MIGHT BE AUGUST BEFORE THE CAP IS COMPLETE.DON'T BE DECIEVED BY THE PROPAGANDA FOLKS STICK TO THE FACTS THAT 1/3 OF THE GULF WILL BE POISONED IF THIS IS BIBLE PROPHECY FULFILLED AND PEOPLE WILL DIE FROM THE POISONED WATER AND POISON SEA ANIMALS.PAY ATTENTION TO BIBLE TRUTHS NOT MEDIA PROPAGANDA.

8:50PM ALI VELSHI HAS BEEN ON SINCE 8:25PM,HE SUDDENLY TOOK OVER FROM THE BEAUTIFUL GAL.BP STOCKS ARE DOWN 28% HE SAID AND THE ESTIMATED COSTES OF PAYOUTS SO FAR THIS EARLY IN THE SPILL IS $930 MILLION DOLLARS.I SMELL A PROPAGANDA COMING TO CONN THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FOR A TRILLION OR 2 BAILOUT JUST WAIT AND SEE AND OBAMA WILL END UP CONTROLLING AT LEAST HALF THE COMPANY IF NOT ALL.ITS 9:23PM ITS THE WETLANDS NOW I BELIEVE WILL GET THE BIG BAILOUT,THIS BILLY GUY HAS BEEN ON 3 TIMES SINCE 6PM SAYING BP-GET ON TO PROTECT THE WETLAND TONIGHT ALREADY.REMEMBER I PUT A STORY ON A WEEK OR 2 AGO ABOUT OBAMA WANTING TO BUILD A GAREN IN CHICAGO AND OBAMA IS IN ON THE CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE A CLIMATE ENVIROMENTAL COMPANY.I WONDER IF THE BP SPILL IS ON PUROPSE BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SO IT DESTROYS THE WETLANDS AND MARSHES-ENVIROMENTALLY PRESERVED SITES TO GET GIGANTIC BAILOUTS FOR HIS ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASES AND HIMSELF UNDER THE GUISE OF DESTRUCTION OF PROTECTED PROPERTY UNDER ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION.THIS WILL GET INTERESTING FOLKS LETS SEE IF ANY OF MY HUNCHES ARE CORRECT ON THIS SCENERIO.OBAMA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER ENVROMENTAL,NEW AGE OCCULT ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASES COULD MAKE TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OFF THIS SCAM IF THATS WHAT HIS ADMINISTRATION IS UP TO.ITS BEEN 3 HOURS SINCE BP ANNOUNCED THAT THE MUD FAILED AND WERES OBAMA IN CHICAGO LAUGHING WITH HIS CHICAGO THUGS SAYING TO HIMSELF HOW THE AMERICANS ARE DUPPED BY US SMART WORLD GOVERNMENT NUTCASES.IT MIGHT TAKE TIME BUT GOD WILL REVEAL THE TRUTH....OBAMA YOU CAN BET ON THAT.OBAMAS NO WERE IN SITE TO MAKE A STATEMENT AFTER 3 HOURS AND 40 MINITES.ANOTHER INTERESTING DAY ON THE JOB AS REPORTER OF PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE GODLESS MEDIA TO KEEP THEM HONEST.I WONDER WHAT PROPAGANDA MSNBC IS SPOUTING....I HATE TO THINK.

ITS MAY 31,10 AND NOT TO MUCH HAPPENING SO FAR AT 7:28AM.I STILL HAVE NOT HEARD OBAMA ON TV SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE FAILED ATTEMPT 2 DAYS AGO AND HIS SO CALLED CHANGE SOLUTION TO BE THE SAVIOUR THAT HELPED THE EARTH FROM BEING POISONED AND THE SEA ANIMALS KILLED.AS THE ENVIROMENTALISTS ALWAYS SAY...THIS SPILL IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.THATS HOW TWISTED THIS ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE OCCULTISTS THINKING IS.

ITS 5AM ON JUNE 1,10-BP STOCKS ARE DOWN 13% AND WE WILL SEE WHAT TODAY BRINGS IN THE OIL SPILL.BP -67.50(-13.67%) $427.30.AND DROPPING AT 5AM.

Flotels await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer 4:15AM JUNE 1,10

PORT FOURCHON, La. – The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words Martin Quarters painted in black offer the only clue that they're not stuffed with cargo.This barge is a floating hotel, or flotel,set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Temporary housing is the only way to station workers at Port Fourchon, a massive shipyard that serves offshore oil rigs and is surrounded by ecologically sensitive marshes and beaches.There are no permanent residents here on the port, said Dennis Link, a manager from a BP refinery who's handling logistics at the 1,300-acre site that's easily accessible by ship, but reachable on land only by a state road that snakes through the bayous.With the ambitious top kill having failed over the weekend and a relief well at least two months away, BP was ramping up its efforts to clean up the Louisiana coast. Another temporary fix — an effort to saw through the pipe leaking the oil and cap it — could be tried as soon as Wednesday. In the meantime, more than 125 miles of the state's coastline already have been hit with oil, including the resort of Grand Isle near Port Fourchon.

The cleanup, relief wells and temporary fixes were being watched closely by President Barack Obama's administration. Obama planned to meet for the first time Tuesday with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating the spill, while Attorney General Eric Holder was headed to the Gulf Coast to meet with state attorneys general.On Monday afternoon, the living quarters on the flotel sat empty. Generators pumped in cool air and powered the lights, and at the foot of each bunk sat a towel, washcloth and individually wrapped bar of soap. If necessary, four tents on dry land nearby can house 500 more workers. Workers will likely be trucked in on the two-lane state road.The accommodations on the barge are Spartan, but comfortable — similar to military barracks. Each pod contains 12 bunks, with a bathroom for every four. Per Coast Guard standards, each resident gets 30 square feet of space in the quarters. The barge has 10 washers, 10 dryers and a kitchen, although food will be served in a tent on land. The quarters are typically floated alongside offshore oil rigs to supplement housing on the drilling operations.The flotel could be moved if significant amounts of oil wash up at another location. Another flotel sits about 15 miles away, off Grand Isle, and BP plans to establish them elsewhere along the coast. Port Fourchon and Grand Isle were quiet Monday, with only a handful of people seen walking on the beaches by an Associated Press reporter and photographer flying over in a helicopter.BP is hiring local workers and ones from other states, and Link acknowledged that some from Louisiana might prefer a long drive home each to staying on the flotel.For Chad Martin, co-owner of Martin Quarters, business is booming. His company has 200 living quarters, and 60 were available when a BP subcontractor called. The oil giant rented every single one.

But Martin understands the gravity of the situation.This is not the way to get work, he said.Cleanup efforts are being ramped up while BP also tries the latest in a series of patchwork fixes, this one a cut-and-cap process to put a lid on the leaking wellhead so oil can be siphoned to the surface. The risky procedure could, at least temporarily, increase the oil flowing from the busted well.Using robot submarines, BP plans to cut away the riser pipe this week and place a cap-like containment valve over the blowout preventer. On Monday, live video feeds showed robot submarines moving equipment around and using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf.BP failed to plug the leak Saturday with its top kill, which shot mud and pieces of rubber into the well but couldn't beat back the pressure of the oil.The oil company also announced plans Monday to try attaching another pipe to a separate opening on the blowout preventer with some of the same equipment used to pump in mud during the top kill. The company also wants to build a new freestanding riser to carry oil toward the surface, which would give it more flexibility to disconnect and then reconnect containment pipes if a hurricane passed through.Neither of those plans would start before mid-June and would supplement the cut-and-cap effort.But the best chances for sealing off the leak are two relief wells, the first of which won't be ready until August. The spill has already leaked between 19.7 million and 43 million gallons, according to government estimates.

For the relief well to succeed, the bore hole must precisely intersect the damaged well, which experts have compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate more than two miles into the earth. If it misses, BP will have to back up its drill, plug the hole it just created, and try again. The probability of them hitting it on the very first shot is virtually nil, said David Rensink, incoming president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, who spent most of his 39 years in the oil industry in offshore exploration.If they get it on the first three or four shots they'd be very lucky.The trial-and-error process could take weeks, but it will eventually work, scientists and BP said. Then engineers will then pump mud and cement through pipes to ultimately seal the well. On the slim chance the relief well doesn't work, scientists weren't sure exactly how much — or how long — the oil would flow. The gusher would continue until the well bore hole collapsed or pressure in the reservoir dropped to a point where oil was no longer pushed to the surface, said Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas-Austin. BP said it doesn't know how much oil is in the reservoir because it was starting to collect and analyze data on its size when the rig exploded April 20. In Patzek's mind, failing to get the relief wells to work isn't an option.I don't admit the possibility of it not working,he said.

Relief for Gulf is 2 months away with another well By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Writer MAY 31,10 10:00PM

NEW ORLEANS – The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate with a drill more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet on the first attempt.Bid after bid has failed to stanch what has already become the nation's worst-ever spill, and BP PLC is readying another patchwork attempt as early as Wednesday, this one a cut-and-cap process to put a lid on the leaking wellhead so oil can be siphoned to the surface.But the best-case scenario of sealing the leak is two relief wells being drilled diagonally into the gushing well —tricky business that won't be ready until August.The probability of them hitting it on the very first shot is virtually nil, said David Rensink, incoming president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, who spent most of his 39 years in the oil industry in offshore exploration. If they get it on the first three or four shots they'd be very lucky.The relief well drilling and temporary fixes were being watched closely by President Barack Obama, who planned to meet for the first time Tuesday with the co-chairmen of an independent commission investigating the spill. A senior administration official said the meeting will take place at the White House. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting had not been formally announced.

For the relief well to succeed, the bore hole must precisely intersect the damaged well. If it misses, BP will have to back up its drill, plug the hole it just created, and try again.The trial-and-error process could take weeks, but it will eventually work, scientists and BP said. Then engineers will then pump mud and cement through pipes to ultimately seal the well.As the drilling reaches deeper into the earth, the process is slowed by building pressure and the increasing distance that well casings must travel before they can be set in place.Still, the three months it could take to finish the relief wells — the first of which started May 2 — is quicker than a typical deep well, which can take four months or longer, said Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas-Austin. BP already has a good picture of the different layers of sand and rock its drill bits will meet because of the work it did on the blown-out well.On the slim chance the relief well doesn't work, scientists weren't sure exactly how much — or how long — the oil would flow. The gusher would continue until the well bore hole collapsed or pressure in the reservoir dropped to a point where oil was no longer pushed to the surface, Patzek said.I don't admit the possibility of it not working, he said.

A third well could be drilled if the first two fail.We don't know how much oil is down there, and hopefully we'll never know when the relief wells work, BP spokesman John Curry said.The company was starting to collect and analyze data on how much oil might be in the reservoir when the rig exploded April 20, he said.BP's uncertainty statement is reasonable, given they only had drilled one well, according to Doug Rader, an ocean scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund.Two relief wells stopped the world's worst peacetime spill, from a Mexican rig called Ixtoc 1 that dumped 140 million gallons off the Yucatan Peninsula. That plug took nearly 10 months beginning in the summer of 1979. Drilling technology has vastly improved since then, however.So far, the Gulf oil spill has leaked between 19.7 million and 43 million gallons, according to government estimates.In the meantime, BP is turning to another risky procedure federal officials acknowledge will likely, at least temporarily, cause 20 percent more oil — at least 100,000 gallons a day — to add to the gusher. Using robot submarines, BP plans to cut away the riser pipe this week and place a cap-like containment valve over the blowout preventer. On Monday, live video feeds showed robot submarines moving equipment around and using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf. The crews will eventually cut the leaking riser and place the cap on top of it, the company hopes it will capture the majority of the oil, sending it to the surface. If you've got to cut that riser, that's risky. You could take a bad situation and make it worse, said Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental sciences. BP failed to plug the leak Saturday with its top kill, which shot mud and pieces of rubber into the well but couldn't beat back the pressure of the oil.

Meanwhile, the location of the spill couldn't be worse. To the south lies an essential spawning ground for imperiled Atlantic bluefin tuna and sperm whales. To the east and west, coral reefs and the coastal fisheries of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. And to the north, Louisiana's coastal marshes. More than 125 miles of Louisiana coastline already have been hit with oil.It's just killing us by degrees, said Tulane University ecologist Tom Sherry. It's an area that historically has been something of a superhighway for hurricanes, too.If a major storm rolls in, the relief well operations would have to be suspended and then re-started, adding more time to the process. Plugging the Ixtoc was also hampered by hurricane season, which begins Tuesday and is predicted to be very active.Three of the worst storms ever to hit the Gulf coast — Betsy in 1965, Camille in 1969 and Katrina in 2005 — all passed over the leak site. On the Gulf coast beaches, tropical weather was far from some tourists' minds. On Biloxi beach, Paul Dawa and his friend Ezekial Momgeri sipped Coronas after a night gambling at the Hard Rock Casino. Both men, originally from Kenya, drove from Memphis, Tenn., and were chased off the beach by a storm, not oil. We talked about it and we decided to come down and see for ourselves whether there was oil, Momgeri said. There's no oil here.Though some tar balls have been found on Mississippi and Alabama barrier islands, oil from the spill has not significantly fouled the shores. Still, the perception that it has soiled white sands and fishing areas threatens to cripple the tourist economy, said Linda Hornsby, executive director of the Mississippi Hotel and Lodging Association It's not here. It may never be here. It's costing a lot of money to counter that perception,Hornsby said. First it was cancelations, but that evolved to a decrease in calls and there's no way to measure that.Yet there was fear the oil would eventually hit the other Gulf coast states. Hentzel Yucles, of Gulfport, Miss., hung out on the beach with his wife and sons.Katrina was bad. I know this is a different type of situation, but it's going to affect everybody,he said. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit the Gulf Coast on Tuesday and meet with state attorneys general. Several senators have asked the Justice Department to determine whether any laws were broken in the spill.Associated Press writers Kevin McGill, Ben Nuckols and Greg Bluestein in Covington, La., Holbrook Mohr in Biloxi, Miss., and Darlene Superville at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., contributed to this report.

After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger By TED ANTHONY and MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writers - MAY 30,10 9:00 PM

BOOTHVILLE, La. – There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After trying and trying again, one of the world's largest corporations, backed and pushed by the world's most powerful government, can't stop the runaway gusher.As desperation grows and ecological misery spreads, the operative word on the ground now is, incredibly, August -- the earliest moment that a real resolution could be at hand. And even then, there's no guarantee of success. For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead.Oh ... and the Atlantic hurricane season begins Tuesday.The latest attempt — using a remote robotic arm to stuff golf balls and assorted debris into the gash in the seafloor — didn't work. On Sunday, as churches echoed with prayers for a solution, BP PLC said it would focus on containment rather than plugging the undersea puncture wound, effectively redirecting the mess it made rather than stopping it. Yet the new plan carries the risk of making the torrent worse, as top government officials warned Sunday.We failed to wrestle this beast to the ground, said BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, doing the rounds of the Sunday talk shows.

As the oil washes ashore, crude-coated birds have become a frequent sight. At the sea's bottom, no one knows what the oil will do to species like the newly discovered bottom-dwelling pancake batfish — and others that remain unknown but just as threatened.Scientists from several universities have reported large underwater plumes of oil stretching for miles and reaching hundreds of feet beneath the Gulf's surface, though BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward on Sunday disputed their findings, saying the company's tests found no such evidence of oily clouds underwater.The oil is on the surface,Hayward said. Oil has a specific gravity that's about half that of water. It wants to get to the surface because of the difference in specific gravity.

Perhaps most alarming of all, 40 days after the Deepwater Horizon blew up and began the underwater deluge, hurricane season is at hand. It brings the horrifying possibility of wind-whipped, oil-soaked waves and water spinning ashore and coating areas much farther inland. Imagine Katrina plus oil spill.The spill is already the worst in American history — worse, even, than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. It has already released between 18 million and 40 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, according to government estimates.This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we've ever faced in this country,White House Energy and Climate Change Advisor Carol Browner said on NBC's Meet the Press.At some point — the widespread debut of the BP spillcam is as good a delineation point as any — this tipped, in the national conversation, from a destructive event into a calamitous, open-ended saga. And for the bruised and cantankerous American psyche, it could not come at a worse time.Fear is everywhere, and polarization prevails. Faith in institutions — corporations, government, the media — is down. Americans are angry, and they long ago grew accustomed to expecting the resolution of problems in very short order, even if reality rarely works that way.So when something undefined and uncontrollable happens, they speculate in all the modern forums about collusion and nefarious dealings. In the process, this tale of environmental disaster and economic damage cripples the sea-to-shining-sea narrative that usually offers Americans comfort during uncertain times.There are people who are getting desperate, and there are more getting anxious as we get further into the shrimping season and there is less chance they will recover,said the Rev. Theodore Turner, 57, at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Boothville, near where oil first washed ashore. Fishermen make up about a third of his congregation.

BP's next containment effort involves an assortment of undersea robot maneuvers that would redirect the oil up and out of the water it is poisoning.The first step in BP's latest effort is the intricate removal of a damaged riser that brought oil to the surface of the Deepwater Horizon rig. The riser will be cut at the top of the crippled blowout preventer, creating a flat surface that a new containment valve can seal against. The valve would force the oil into a new riser, bringing it up to a ship. The seal, however, would not prevent all oil from escaping. White House energy czar Carol Browner said Sunday the effort could result in a temporary 20 percent increase in the flow. BP has said it didn't expect a significant increase in flow from the cutting and capping plan. If the containment valve fails, BP may try installing a blowout preventer on top of the existing one. In the end, however, a relief well would ease the pressure on the runaway gusher in favor of a controlled pumping — essentially what the Deepwater Horizon was trying to do in the first place. But that will take at least two months. Using government figures, if the leak continues at its current pace and is stopped on Aug. 1, 51 million to 106 million gallons will have spilled. They are going to destroy south Louisiana. We are dying a slow death here,said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, La. Coastal tent cities are about to rise to house the workers and contractors minimizing the damage. Sand banks and barriers are being built. But the consensus around the Gulf Coast is turning more apoplectic and apocalyptic. This is, people are starting to say, a generational event — tragic to this generation, potentially crippling to the next.

The oil spill is part of prophecy,said Turner, the Louisiana minister.The Bible prophesized hardships. If we believe the word of God is true — and we do — we also know that in addition to prophecying hardships he promised to take care of us.The Obama administration, which has been grilled for not taking the reins sooner, sought to assure the public. I am resolute and confident that we will see a better day ahead of us,Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Saturday. And yet that statement, stacked up against the word August,tempers the optimism for many watching this saga unfold. They see a dissembling corporation, an ineffective government and an ocean surface covered by a viscous shell with the consistency of molasses and the peril of poison. To them, it comes down to only this: There is still a hole in the Earth. Crude oil is still spewing from it. And there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. AP Writers Ben Nuckols, Seth Borenstein, Matthew Brown and Melissa Nelson contributed to this report. Anthony reported from New York.

Oil disaster shows a divide from physical world By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer - Mon May 31, 3:25 am ET

WASHINGTON – It's all so last millennium, that filthy business in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.It reeks of yesterday's fuel, yesterday's sweaty labor — a hands-on way of life from another time. Today's Americans don't care to know how the gas comes to the pump, the food to the table, the iPad to the store.

Just make sure they do.But now they're staring, transfixed, at where things come from. And what people still do to get it to you, and the death and devastation that can result when something goes wrong and it can't be fixed with a call to technical support.Top kill wasn't a video game. It was a desperate injection of mud and junk into the primeval muck near the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. It was the most ambitious effort yet for a temporary fix, and it failed. So the oil spews, the search goes on and long-term hopes rest on relief wells still two months or more away.In this age of microchip miracles, people are seeing brute mass, old tools and ancient physics at work in the weirdly lunar undersea landscape. The atmospherics could be from a moon mission.A mile down, supersized vise grips clench a pipe forcing a flotsam into the ruptured well like oil workers have done on land.All so yesterday in look and feel — even if it is the first ever top kill at such great ocean depths.The enormity of the Gulf, its depths and the engineering challenges are beyond ordinary comprehension. (The Gulf alone is punctured with more than 2,300 deep wells. Who knew?) No fancy touch-sensitive chart on TV conveys the vastness. Even experts wildly disagree on fundamental questions such as how much oil is coming out.The United States is a seafaring nation whose encounters with the sea now tend to be Red Lobster in the suburbs or Memorial Day at the beach.It's historically a farming, industrial and exploring nation, most of whose people now are distant from the elemental struggles of living and working in the physical environment, much less understanding it.Only 14 percent of the modern U.S. work force is engaged in production: manufacturing, mining, logging, construction and the like. The rest are in services.

While it is often considered an alien place, too, Washington is a product of that nation.The president and many lawmakers are lawyers by training, not engineers, roustabouts or farmers. No wonder members of Congress met to discuss legal liability among their first orders of business in the oil spill response. For many in Washington, the talk is of blame, accountability and political consequences.No wonder, perhaps, that President Barack Obama assumed that something so terrible would not happen because it had not happened before.Like most Americans, he lacks the sixth sense of a mariner in foul weather or a miner listening to the earth speak.He does, though, hail from Hawaii, where, as he noted last week, the ocean is sacred. Not to mention, all around.Obama touched on the disconnect between those of the grounded physical world and everyone else during his news conference. He showed that he knows what he can't really feel. When I hear folks down in Louisiana expressing frustrations, I may not always think that their comments are fair, he said. On the other hand, I probably think to myself, these are folks who grew up fishing in these wetlands and seeing this as an integral part of who they are.

The land, sea and factory are less and less an integral part of Americans. If Aristotle were blogging about all of this, he would probably have little patience with the armchair experts and the pontificators who think the solution should be as easy as Malia Obama suggested when she asked her father, Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy? The Greek philosopher said those who dwell in intimate association with nature are apt to understand the big picture.Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view.His way of saying, you have to be there to get it. Americans, these days, are not. Online: Live video of oil spill: http://tinyurl.com/2c8y3rj

After another failure, BP scrambles to stem leak BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer SUN MAY 30,10 9:45AM

ROBERT, La. – With BP declaring failure in its latest attempt to plug the uncontrolled gusher feeding the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the company is turning to yet another mix of risky undersea robot maneuvers and longshot odds to keep crude from flowing into the Gulf.Six weeks after the catastrophe began, oil giant BP PLC is still casting about for at least a temporary fix to the spewing well underneath the Gulf of Mexico that's fouling beaches, wildlife and marshland. A relief well that's currently being drilled - which is supposed to be a better long-term solution - won't be done for at least two months. That would be in the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins Tuesday.President Barack Obama said it is as enraging as it is heartbreaking that the most ambitious bid yet for a temporary solution failed. BP said Saturday that the procedure known as the top kill failed after engineers tried for three days to overwhelm the crippled well with heavy drilling mud and junk 5,000 feet underwater. Now, BP hopes to saw through a pipe leading out from the well and cap it with a funnel-like device using the same remotely guided undersea robots that have failed in other tries to stop the gusher.

Robert Dudley, BP's managing director, said on Fox News Sunday that company officials were disappointed that they failed to wrestle this beast to the ground.

Engineers will use remotely guided undersea robots to try to lower a cap onto the leak after cutting off part of a busted pipe leading out from the well. The funnel-like device is similar to a huge containment box that failed before when it became clogged with icelike slush. Dudley said officials learned a lot from that failure and will pump warm water through the pipes to prevent the ice problems. Video courtesy of ABC News. For more visit ABC News.com.The spill is the worst in U.S. history - exceeding even the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster - and has dumped between 18 million and 40 million gallons into the Gulf, according to government estimates. The leak began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, killing 11 people.Suttles said BP is already preparing for the next temporary fix. The company plans to cut off the damaged riser, and then try to cap it with a containment valve. The effort is expected to take between four and seven days.This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven't succeeded so far, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said Saturday.Many of the things we're trying have been done on the surface before, but have never been tried at 5,000 feet.He said cutting off the damaged riser isn't expected to cause the flow rate of leaking oil to increase significantly.Experts have said that a bend in the damaged riser likely was restricting the flow of oil somewhat, so slicing it off and installing a new containment valve is risky.If they can't get that valve on, things will get much worse, said Philip W. Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama.Johnson said he thinks BP can succeed with the valve, but added: It's a scary proposition.News that the top kill fell short drew a sharply worded response from President Obama on Saturday, a day after he visited the Gulf Coast to see the damage firsthand.

It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimized by this manmade disaster are made whole, Obama said.In the days after the spill, BP was unable to use robot submarines to close valves on the massive blowout preventer atop the damaged well, then two weeks later, ice-like crystals clogged a 100-ton box the company tried placing over the leak. Earlier this week, engineers removed a mile-long siphon tube after it sucked up a disappointing 900,000 gallons of oil from the gusher.Frustration has grown as drifting oil closes beaches and washes up in sensitive marshland. The damage is underscored by images of pelicans and their eggs coated in oil. Below the surface, oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death. Fishermen complain there's no end in sight to the catastrophe that's keeping their boats idle. In the latest try, BP engineers pumped more than 1.2 million gallons of heavy drilling mud into the well and also shot in assorted junk, including metal pieces and rubber balls. The hope was that the mud force-fed into the well would overwhelm the upward flow of oil and natural gas. But Suttles said most of the mud escaped out of the damaged pipe that's leaking the oil, called a riser.Word that the top kill had failed hit hard in fishing communities along Louisiana's coast.Everybody's starting to realize this summer's lost. And our whole lifestyle might be lost, said Michael Ballay, the 59-year-old manager of the Cypress Cove Marina in Venice, La., near where oil first made landfall in large quantities almost two weeks ago. Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his business during what's normally the best time of year - and there's no end in sight. If fishing's bad for five years, I'll be 60 years old. I'll be done for,he said after watching BP's televised announcement.

The top official in coastal Plaquemines Parish said news of the top kill failure brought tears to his eyes.They are going to destroy south Louisiana. We are dying a slow death here,said Billy Nungesser, the parish president. We don't have time to wait while they try solutions. Hurricane season starts on Tuesday.Online: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ Associated Press Writers Matthew Brown, Janet McConnaughey and Mary Foster in New Orleans and AP Radio correspondent Shelly Adler contributed to this report.

BP’s Hypocritical Green Image is Covered With Oil
By Dr. Tim Ball Thursday, May 27, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.Words of advice Polonius gave to his son Laertes in Hamlet. They’re addressed to an individual, but also apply to groups. Beyond self-deception you are misrepresenting yourself to the world. Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of examples in all segments of society, especially in the exploitation of the environment and climate change. Environmental groups with a political agenda or businesses pretending to be green are good examples. Shakespeare would appreciate the irony of BP, the self-professed most green energy company, creating the potentially worse oil spill in US history. The motive for being untrue to self is important because the public have empathy for some self-aggrandizement. However, when the actions are premeditated, and cynically assume people don’t know or are easily fooled, then they are angry. There is no empathy or sympathy for hypocrisy. Nothing did more to destroy Al Gore’s credibility than disclosure that his carbon footprint was multiples larger than average.

Self-Inflicted Public Relations Disaster
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a disaster and everyone understands accidents happen. What they expect is quick acceptance of blame and then responsibility. British Petroleum handling of the event is a public relations nightmare and evidence of technological incompetence. Instead of taking full and complete blame they tried to blame subcontractors; they made lame excuses about the amount of oil and water volume; split hairs when they said they would pay all legitimate claims; it is unconscionable that they lacked any pre-planned technology to deal with deepwater blowouts; each failed attempt to stop the flow shows they didn’t even do theoretical planning. This is not to take the US government off the hook because they failed to ensure BP was prepared and have nothing in place to control the oil as it spread. But how serious is BPs commitment beyond mitigating the costs and reducing lawsuits? Obama is using the spill to reduce dependence on oil and promote alternate energy in which BP is a major player.

BP Connection With Gore and Enron
Nothing does more to destroy British Petroleum’s (BP) credibility than the hypocrisy of their history. They were one of the first oil companies to pretend to be green. 1997 was a momentous year with a meeting at the White House between Clinton, Gore, Lord Browne head of then British Petroleum (BP) and Ken Lay of Enron. At the meeting,Lay urged President Clinton and Vice President Gore to back a market-based approach to the problem of global warming—a strategy that a later Enron memo makes clear would be good for Enron stock.Chris Horner describes Enron’s involvement this way, Enron was part of a select group that shaped the administration’s case for policy action on the theory of man-made climate change.Browne and BP were involved in the market based strategy discussions, which required acknowledgement of human induced global warming. In 1997 BP pulled out of the Global Climate Coalition declaring that global warming was a real problem and needed attention. Browne reiterated his views in a 2002 speech at Stanford University and as one commentary states,Had you stumbled into the auditorium partway through, you might be forgiven for assuming the man at the podium was not an oil baron, an industrialist, an extractor of fossil fuels from the tender earth but an environmentalist of the high church calling for the abolition of hydrocarbons, the very substance that had made his company and himself so fabulously rich. His subject was global climate change—in particular, the process by which humans, by burning oil and gas, have been slowly, perhaps irreversibly, warming the earth’s atmosphere.(Source)

Played the Precautionary Principle Game
Browne claims he examined climate science research and spoke with several climate scientists. He concluded, The science wasn’t complete—but science is never complete.But they knew enough to say that there were long-term risks and that precautionary action was necessary if we were to avoid the greater risk—of the evidence mounting to the point where draconian action was unavoidable.(Source)

Who did he speak to? It is hard to believe BP did not have scientists who would know the problems with climate science. The statement suggests he was told the science was lousy so avoided the problem with the standard green justification of the precautionary principle.Browne had already begun changing BP‘s corporate image and direction. The corporate name was officially BP instead of British Petroleum and tacitly promoted to stand for Beyond Petroleum. The corporate logo changed from the mundane shield to the greener image with solar implications. BP began investment in alternate energies and now has a major interest in solar energy panels.The campaign was successful as, a survey of consumers found 21 percent of them thought BP was the greenest of oil companies.Despite its new sunburst logo and Beyond Petroleum slogan, BP still invests $12 billion, or 25 times more, on oil and gas than on its wind and solar division for the simple fact that, right now, there’s a huge market for oil and almost none for solar panels.But this creates a problem for current CEO Tony Hayward who says he wants BP’s alternative energy investments to be more than a publicity exercise, according to FT. To that end, BP will now look at its alternative energy unit as a portfolio of investments which will face deadlines for delivering profits.Hayward is going to have to pursue that in light of the disastrous spill. BP can continue the hypocrisy and play the green card, but they will do it quietly. They will also have to continue ignoring the real science of climate change. Lord Browne may help as colleagues say he is.The issue is not profit; business is about profit. Companies are going green purely for profit and to suggest it is otherwise is pure hypocrisy. It is the hypocrisy of using climate change and pretending to be green as justification. They deceived themselves so they could deceive us.

BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer - MAY 30,10 12:01AM

ROBERT, La. – The most ambitious bid yet to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history ended in failure Saturday after BP was unable to overwhelm the gusher of crude with heavy fluids and junk. President Obama called the setback as enraging as it is heartbreaking.The oil giant immediately began readying its next attempted fix, using robot submarines to cut the pipe that's gushing the oil and cap it with funnel-like device, but the only guaranteed solution remains more than two months away.The company determined the top kill had failed after it spent three days pumping heavy drilling mud into the crippled well 5,000 feet underwater. It's the latest in a series of failures to stop the crude that's fouling marshland and beaches, as estimates of how much oil is leaking grow more dire.The spill is the worst in U.S. history — exceeding even the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster — and has dumped between 18 million and 40 million gallons into the Gulf, according to government estimates.

This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven't succeeded so far, BP PLC Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said Saturday. Many of the things we're trying have been done on the surface before, but have never been tried at 5,000 feet.Frustration has grown as drifting oil closes beaches and washes up in sensitive marshland. The damage is underscored by images of pelicans and their eggs coated in oil. Below the surface, oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death. Fishermen complain there's no end in sight to the catastrophe that's keeping their boats idle.News that the top kill fell short drew a sharply worded response from President Barack Obama, a day after he visited the Gulf Coast to see the damage firsthand.It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimized by this manmade disaster are made whole, Obama said Saturday.In the days after the spill, BP was unable to use robot submarines to close valves on the massive blowout preventer atop the damaged well, then two weeks later ice-like crystals clogged a 100-ton box the company tried placing over the leak. Earlier this week, engineers removed a mile-long siphon tube after it sucked up a disappointing 900,000 gallons of oil from the gusher.

In the latest try, BP engineers pumped more than 1.2 million gallons of heavy drilling mud into the well and also shot in assorted junk, including metal pieces and rubber balls.The hope was that the mud force-fed into the well would overwhelm the upward flow of oil and natural gas. But Suttles said most of the mud escaped out of the damaged pipe that's leaking the oil, called a riser.Suttles said BP is already preparing for the next attempt to stop the leak that began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, killing 11 people.The company plans to use robot submarines to cut off the damaged riser, and then try to cap it with a containment valve. The effort is expected to take between four and seven days.

We're confident the job will work but obviously we can't guarantee success, Suttles said of the new plan, declining to handicap the likelihood it will work.He said that cutting off the damaged riser isn't expected to cause the flow rate of leaking oil to increase significantly.The permanent solution to the leak, a relief well currently being drilled, won't be ready until August, BP says.Experts have said that a bend in the damaged riser likely was restricting the flow of oil somewhat, so slicing it off and installing a new containment valve is risky.If they can't get that valve on, things will get much worse, said Philip W. Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama. Johnson said he thinks BP can succeed with the valve, but added: It's a scary proposition.Word that the top-kill had failed hit hard in fishing communities along Louisiana's coast. Everybody's starting to realize this summer's lost. And our whole lifestyle might be lost, said Michael Ballay, the 59-year-old manager of the Cypress Cove Marina in Venice, La., near where oil first made landfall in large quantities almost two weeks ago. Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his business during what's normally the best time of year — and there's no end in sight.

If fishing's bad for five years, I'll be 60 years old. I'll be done for, he said after watching BP's televised announcement. The top official in coastal Plaquemines Parish said news of the top kill failure brought tears to his eyes. They are going to destroy south Louisiana. We are dying a slow death here, said Billy Nungesser, the parish president.We don't have time to wait while they try solutions. Hurricane season starts on Tuesday.Online: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ Associated Press Writers Matthew Brown, Janet McConnaughey and Mary Foster in New Orleans and AP Radio correspondent Shelly Adler contributed to this report.

BP says so far, Gulf well plug isn't working By Ben Nuckols, Associated Press Writer – 3:30PM MAY 29,10

COVINGTON, La. – A risky procedure to stop the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico has yet to show much success, and BP is considering scrapping it in favor of a different method to contain the worst oil spill in U.S. history, an executive said Saturday.The comments from BP PLC chief operating officer Doug Suttles came amid increasing skepticism that the top kill operation — which involves pumping heavy drilling mud into a crippled well 5,000 feet underwater — would halt the leak.The top kill began Wednesday, and to date it hasn't yet stopped the flow, Suttles told reporters at Port Fourchon.What I don't know is whether it ultimately will or not.If the top kill fails, BP would cut off the damaged riser from which the oil is leaking and cap it with a containment valve that's already resting on the seafloor. BP is already preparing for that operation, Suttles said.Since the top kill began Wednesday, BP has pumped huge amounts mud into the well at a rate of up to 2,700 gallons per minute, but it's unclear how much is staying there. A robotic camera on the seafloor appeared to show mud escaping at various times during the operation. On Saturday, the substance spewing from the well appeared to be oil, experts said.BP has also tried several times to shoot assorted junk into the well's crippled blowout preventer to clog it up and force the mud down the well bore. That, too, has met with limited success.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, addressing reporters after he spoke at a high school graduation ceremony in Denver, echoed what Suttles said and said officials were evaluating the next step. He said the relief well was the ultimate solution, but said something was needed to stop the spill until then.We're doing everything with the best minds in the world to make sure that happens, he said.The oil spill began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, killing 11 people. It's the worst spill in U.S. history — exceeding even the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 off the Alaska coast — dumping between 18 million and 40 million gallons into the Gulf, according to government estimates.Experts and other observers were growing increasingly skeptical that BP would be able to plug the well. Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, said Saturday that the top kill appeared headed for failure.They warned us not to draw too many conclusions from the effluent, but ... it doesn't look like it's working, he said.BP had pegged the top kill's chances of success at 60 to 70 percent. The company says the best way to stop the flow of oil is by drilling relief wells, but those won't be completed until August.Chris Roberts, a councilman in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, said he was frustrated by BP's failures and perceived lack of transparency.We're wondering whether or not they're attempting to give everybody false hope in order to drag out the time until the ultimate resolution to it" — the completion of the relief wells, Roberts said.Meanwhile, Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service officials heard a sixth day of testimony during hearings into the disaster in Kenner.David Sims, BP's drilling operations manager for exploration and appraisal in the Gulf of Mexico, testified he was aware of well problems experienced by the Deepwater Horizon's drilling crew in the weeks and months leading up to the explosion. He said there were no serious problems the day the rig exploded.Online: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ AP Radio correspondent Shelly Adler and Associated Press writer Ivan Moreno contributed to this report.

22-mile oil plume under Gulf nears rich waters By MATTHEW BROWN and JASON DEAREN, Associated Press Writers – Fri May 28, 10:40 am ET

NEW ORLEANS – A thick, 22-mile plume of oil discovered by researchers off the BP spill site was nearing an underwater canyon, where it could poison the foodchain for sealife in the waters off Florida.The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume reported since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20. The plume is more than 6 miles wide and its presence was reported Thursday.The cloud was nearing a large underwater canyon whose currents fuel the foodchain in Gulf waters off Florida and could potentially wash the tiny plants and animals that feed larger organisms in a stew of toxic chemicals, another researcher said Friday.

Larry McKinney, executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said the DeSoto Canyon off the Florida Panhandle sends nutrient-rich water from the deep sea up to shallower waters.McKinney said that in a best-case scenario, oil riding the current out of the canyon would rise close enough to the surface to be broken down by sunlight. But if the plume remains relatively intact, it could sweep down the west coast of Florida as a toxic soup as far as the Keys, through what he called some of the most productive parts of the Gulf.The plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at USF.Hollander said the team detected the thickest amount of hydrocarbons, likely from the oil spewing from the blown out well, at about 1,300 feet in the same spot on two separate days this week.The discovery was important, he said, because it confirmed that the substance found in the water was not naturally occurring and that the plume was at its highest concentration in deeper waters. The researchers will use further testing to determine whether the hydrocarbons they found are the result of dispersants or the emulsification of oil as it traveled away from the well.The first such plume detected by scientists stretched from the well southwest toward the open sea, but this new undersea oil cloud is headed miles inland into shallower waters where many fish and other species reproduce.

The researchers say they are worried these undersea plumes may be the result of the unprecedented use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil a mile undersea at the site of the leak.Hollander said the oil they detected has dissolved into the water, and is no longer visible, leading to fears from researchers that the toxicity from the oil and dispersants could pose a big danger to fish larvae and creatures that filter the waters for food.There are two elements to it, Hollander said.The plume reaching waters on the continental shelf could have a toxic effect on fish larvae, and we also may see a long term response as it cascades up the food web.Dispersants contain surfactants, which are similar to dishwashing soap.A Louisiana State University researcher who has studied their effects on marine life said that by breaking oil into small particles, surfactants make it easier for fish and other animals to soak up the oil's toxic chemicals. That can impair the animals' immune systems and cause reproductive problems.The oil's not at the surface, so it doesn't look so bad, but you have a situation where it's more available to fish,said Kevin Kleinow, a professor in LSU's school of veterinary medicine.

Americans wait to learn if top kill will stop oil By BEN NUCKOLS and GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writers - MAY 29,10

ROBERT, La. – Two days after BP began a risky effort to stop a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, company officials said the operation was going as planned but offered few details, leaving the nation in suspense about whether its worst oil spill would end any time soon.BP PLC warned that it could be Sunday or later before the outcome of its bid to plug the well through an effort known as a top kill would succeed.Experts said they could see incremental progress at best from BP's spillcam of mud, gas and oil billowing from the seafloor. The hypnotic video has become an Internet sensation as Americans watch and try to fathom whether BP's efforts are working.Scientists say the images may offer clues to whether BP is getting the upper hand in its struggle to contain the oil, said Tony Wood, director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. If the stuff coming out of the pipe is jet black, it is mostly oil and BP is losing. If it is whitish, it is mostly gas and BP is also losing.If it is muddy brown, as it was much of Friday, that may be a sign that BP is starting to win, he said. That may in fact mean that there's mud coming up and mud coming down as well, which is better than oil coming out, Wood said.Philip W. Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama, said the camera appeared to show mostly drilling mud leaking from the well Friday morning, and two of the leaks appeared a little smaller than in the past, suggesting the top kill may have had a slight but not dramatic effect.

But Bob Bea, a professor of engineering at University of California at Berkeley who has studied offshore drilling for 55 years, said late Friday that what he saw didn't look promising.He likened the effort to pushing food into a reluctant baby's mouth — it only works if the force of the stuff going down is more than the force of what's coming up.It's obvious that the baby's spitting the baby food back because the pressure pushing up from the well is stronger, Bea said.Meanwhile, President Barack Obama visited the coast Friday to see the damage as he tried to emphasize that his administration was in control of the crisis, which began April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform blew up and killed 11 workers.I'm here to tell you that you are not alone, you will not be abandoned, you will not be left behind, he told people in Grand Isle, where the beach has been closed by gobs of oil and the frustration and anger are palpable.The media may get tired of the story, but we will not. We will be on your side and we will see this through.He also urged the public to volunteer to join the cleanup and for tourists to help by visiting the majority of the region's coastline that is untouched.Hundreds of workers hit the beaches ahead of Obama's visit, cleaning debris from the shoreline before they hopped on buses and left soon after the president arrived.This is the cleanest I've ever seen the beach, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said. We saw a surge of activity the last couple of days. Let's hope it continues now that he's gone.The top kill operation began Wednesday, with BP pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out well in an effort to choke off the source of the spill which has released anywhere from 18 million gallons to 40 million of oil by the government's estimate.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said the denser-than-water mud had pushed down the oil and gas that's forcing its way up from underground, but the mud had not overwhelmed the gusher.BP has brought in about 2.5 million gallons of drilling mud for the top kill. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said Friday the procedure was going basically as planned, though the pumping has stopped several times.The fact that it's stopped and started is not unusual, Suttles said.We're going to stay at this as long as we need to.He said the company has also shot in assorted junk, including metal pieces and rubber balls, which seemed to be helping to counter pressure from the well. The first infusion of junk was Thursday evening. A top kill has never been attempted 5,000 feet underwater, and public fascination is high. BP, under pressure from Congress, made available a live video feed of what is going on underwater, and about 3,000 websites were showing a version of it that the PBS "Newshour" offered for free. On Thursday alone, show spokeswoman Anne Bell said, more than a million people watched it. Many found it hypnotic. It made me wonder how I use energy and if this situation could teach us how much energy we use ourselves,said Jeb Banner, 38, a web design and marketing company owner in Indianapolis who has been looking at the feed every hour or so since before the top kill started.It felt like a historic moment.BP says the best way to stop the oil for good is a relief well, but it won't be complete until August. The company had been drilling a second relief well as a backup — Obama said Thursday his administration pushed for it in case the first one did not stop the oil — but work on that has stopped while the rig that had been drilling it works on another option for stopping the oil. We actually started that well before this job started, so you shouldn't read that as any indication of anything about the top kill job, BP's Suttles said Friday. Billy Ward, a developer who was building a gated fishing community that is now on hold because of the spill, said that Obama's visit was for show and that there was really nothing the president could do. It's the unknown that's killing us, said Ward, who comes to Grand Isle with his family every weekend to stay in their beach house.We don't know if it's going to be six months or six years before we get back to normal, if ever. All we can do is pray.Online: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/
Associated Press Writers Seth Borenstein, Jonathan Landrum, Brian Skoloff and David Bauder contributed to this report.

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE IN FULL GEAR.

RICK SANCHEZ OF CNN WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT BECK PRETENDING TO BE OBAMA-SOETOROS DAUGHTER ASKING OBAMA QUESTIONS.SANCHEZ SAID WHY WOULD BECK GO AFTER THE DAUGHTER.THEN THE PROPAGANDA WENT REALLY INTO ACTION AS SANCHEZ SAID TONS OF TWITTERS AND BLOGS WERE AGAINST THIS.

WELL WERE WAS SANCHEZ WHEN SARAH PALINS DAUGHTER WAS BEING PULVERISED BY THE GODLESS LEFT NUTCASES.SEE THE HYPOCRITICAL ACTIONS OF THE LEFT IF THEIR MESSIAH OBAMAS FAMILY IS INVOLVED,BUT THE LEFT CAN PUT DOWN OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN 100 TIMES AND OH I FORGOT ITS BECAUSE THE PERSON WAS A RACIST AND THEIR FAMILY WAS FAIR GAME SAYS THE LEFT NUTCASES.

THE PROPAGANDA JUST GOES ON.WHY DOES SANCHEZ NOT MENTION OBAMAS REALLY BARRY SOETORO OF KENYA AND NOT EVEN LEGEL TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.ANYTHING THIS LYING FRAUD OBAMA SIGNS IN OBAMAS NAME IS NOT EVEN LEGEL AND THAT SIGNATURE IS USELESS.BUT YOU WILL NEVER HERE CNN MENTION THE TRUTH,JUST DECEPTIVE LIES LIKE THEIR VERY CLOSE FRIENDS THE SOETORO-OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THEIR CLOSE FRIENDS AT MSNBC.THE 2 WORST PROPAGANDA MACHINES GOING TO DISCREDIT AMERICAN CITIZENS AND CALLING THEM COMMON CRIMINALS.

AMERICA THESE GODLESS PROPAGANDA MACHINE MEDIA NETWORKS-CNN-MSNBC HAVE TO BE MADE TO REVEAL THE CIA CONNECTIONS WITH THESE MEDIA OUTLETS AND THE OBAMA PROPAGANDA MACHINE SO THE RACIST HATE GETS STOPPED AGAINST ANYONE WHO WANTS TO GET THE TRUTH OUT.

TAMAR YONAH ON THE EXTREMISTS INVADING ISRAELS LAND-THE FLOTILLA
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JUST LIKE I FIGURED A STINK AGAINST ISRAEL FROM THE WORLD(RIOTS-PROTESTS)FOR KILLING EXTREMISTS IN GAZA WHO ARE NOT OBEYING ISRAELS LAWS.WELL THAT NEVER TOOK LONG.BUT THE MURDERING ARABS CAN SHOOT 10,000 + ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL AND THE WORLD SAYS ITS THEIR RIGHT TO BOMB ISRAEL FOR TAKING ARAB LANDS.THIS IS JUST SO HYPOCRITICAL.I WENT TO MY BANK TODAY AND THERE WERE FLAGS OF COUNTRIES ON THE TELLERS DESK AND I SAID TO HER HOW COME THERES NO ISRAELI FLAG HERE.I AM AN ISRAEL SUPPORTER.I WENT ON TO SAY WHY IS THE WORLD SO BIAS AND HATE ISRAEL SO MUCH.HER REPLY,I NEVER PUT THE FLAGS UP.THIS IS HOW HYPOCRITICAL THE WORLD IS AGAINST ISRAEL AND SUCK UP TO THE MURDERER ARAB-MUSLIMS.

HERES SOMETHING I LIKE I JUST HEARD ON CBC NEWSWORLD.BENJAMIN NETANYAHU JUST LEFT CANADA AND CANCELS WASHINGTONS VISIT TO GO BACK TO ISRAEL TO DEAL WITH THESE EXTREME MILITANTS THAT WANT TO PUT SHIPS IN GAZA WITHOUT ISRAELS PERMISSION.ITS 3PM MON MAY 31,10.

THESE EXTREME MILITANTS DONE THIS SAME THING 9 OTHERS TIMES BEFORE ,BUT ISRAEL STOPPED THEM THE OTHER TIMES.THIS TIME THEY ARE REALLY MILITANT TO GET INTO GAZA AGAINST ISRAELS LAWS.BUT THIS TIME THEY BROUGHT 6 FIRST SAIL SHIPS AND 2 BACKUPS.THESE ARE NOTHING MORE THEN ISRAEL HATING PEOPLE THAT WANT HAMAS - ARABS RIGHTS OVER ISRAELS TERRITORY.ITS NO HUMANITARIAN AIDE MISSON.THESE ARE HAMAS-ARAB SUPPORTING EXTREMISTS AND NOTHING BUT THAT.