GOD HELPED ISRAEL TO RECAPTURE JERRUSALEM ON THIS DAY IN 1967 TO BE THE BEGGINING OF THE LAST GENERATION DATE.A BIBLE GENERATION IS FROM 40 YEARS TO 51.4 YEARS.2007-2018.ALL THE BIBLES PROPHECIES WILL BE FULFILLED IN THE LAST GENERATION THAT SEES ISRAEL AS A NATION MAY 14,1948 AND RECAPTURES JERUSALEM AS THEIR CAPITAL JUNE 6-10,1967.
DANIEL 9:24-27
24 Seventy weeks(70X7YRS)(490 YRS)are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,(7X7 YRS)(49 YRS) and threescore and two weeks:(434 YRS)=(483 YRS),7 YRS LEFT TILL PROPHECY COMPLETE-(69 WEEKS OF THE 70 WEEKS) the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7 YRS)(434 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THE NEXT VERSE THE FINAL 70TH WEEK OR 7 YR PERIOD)
27 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:(7 YRS) and in the midst of the week(3 1/2 YRS IN) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.
TORAH PORTION FROM JUNE 06 2010 6PM - JUNE 12 6PM 2010
NUMBERS 16:1 - 18:32
1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.
6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
NUMBERS 17:1-13
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
NUMBERS 18:1-32
1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
PROPHETS PORTION
1 SAMUEL 11:14 - 12:22
14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
5 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
NEW TESTAMENT PORTION
2 TIMOTHY 2:8-21
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
JUDE 1-25
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
ISRAEL REJECTS PROBE-WAY TO GO NETANYAHU
HELEN THOMAS GET OUT OF PALESTINE ISRAELIS-ANOTHER BIAS HATER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14&feature=player_embedded
Dean of White House Reporters: Jews, Get Out of Palestine
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 6,10
Veteran Hearst newspaper journalist, known as the dean of White House reporters, exposed her bias on video by saying that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine. She apologized for her comments on Saturday, but Jewish and non-Jewish leaders have called on the 89-year-old journalist to hang up the typewriter and retire.Her remarks, along with her grilling of White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs over the flotilla clash last Monday, expose an anti-Israel bias that also was revealed in Associated Press coverage several days ago.Thomas’ comments, including the statement that Jews should go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else,were posted Friday on a YouTube video. She had been asked after the White House Jewish Heritage celebration last Sunday if she had any comments on Israel.Thomas, a daughter of Lebanese immigrants, replied to Rabbi David Nesenoff of RabbiLIVE.com, Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. Not Germany. Not Poland.Asked where the Jews should go, she shot back, They go home. Poland. Germany. And America and everywhere else.
After the video was posted, Thomas wrote on her web site, I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.
That did not satisfy critics. Beth Gilinsky, head of the Jewish Action Alliance, called for her immediate dismissal. Ari Fleischer, who was White House Press Secretary for former U.S. President George W. Bush, remarked, She should lose her job over this. As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling. She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs.Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said,Once again the liberal media has shown its true colors. The White House media dinosaur, also known as Helen Thomas, has called on Jews to leave Israel and move back to Poland and Germany. This anti-Semitic sentiment has no place in our public discourse. I call upon her employer, [the] Hearst Corporation, to dismiss her at once. The White House needs to revoke her press credentials immediately.Thomas’ bias was evident in her questioning of White House spokesman Gibbs. “The initial reaction to the flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful,she asserted.
Criticizing the Obama administration for not condemning Israel for the killing of nine terror activists who attacked Israel Navy commandoes when the soldiers were virtually unarmed, Thomas added, What is this sacrosanct ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people and boycotts every aid and abet the boycott? Gibbs responded, Well, look, I think the initial reaction regretted the loss of life as we tried and as we still continue to gather the relevant.Thomas retorted, Regret won’t bring them back…. Why didn’t you initially condemn it?... Who put the US in charge of the world? After the initial Associated Press report of the flotilla clash, the Washington Times exposed AP's bias for immediately jumping to the conclusion that Israel was to blame for the violence. The AP had reported, Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation in international waters. The violent takeover dealt yet another blow to Israel's international image.After two days passed, the news service filed a more neutral report.The IDF has released a video clip where one of the so called human rights advocates on the the flotilla boat that was the scene of the violent confrontation is shouting Go back to Auschwitz to the soldiers.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
4 killed in heavy storms sweeping through Midwest By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 6,10
MILLBURY, Ohio – Tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed at least four people in Ohio, sent several to hospitals, destroyed 50 homes and damaged scores more, as well a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.Authorities in northwest Ohio are still searching through homes and couldn't say whether anyone else is missing, Lake Township Fire Chief Todd Walters said. Walters flew over the damage Sunday morning and estimates the storm left an 8-mile path of destruction in a straight line over an area of farm fields and light industry. The storm that hit around 11 p.m. Saturday narrowly missed the heavily populated suburbs on the southern edge of Toledo.A township police and emergency medical services building looked to be a total loss. The storm ripped off most of the building's back half, tossing a car into where the building once stood, now a mishmash of 2-by-4 beams and insulation strewn about. A patrol car nearby was flattened.All the emergency dispatchers and 911 operators had to be moved to a nearby town.It's unbelievable, Walters said.It's just total destruction — stuff just completely flattened or gone.No tornados had been confirmed in Ohio as of late Sunday morning, though the National Weather Service has received many reports and pictures of storm damage, said Walter Fitzgerald, a hydrometeorological technician at the service in Cleveland.
He said damage stretched into central Ohio and toward Pennsylvania. Wind, scattered rain and cooler temperatures were expected Sunday.In central Illinois, the National Weather service confirmed reports of a tornado touching down 80 to 100 miles southwest of Chicago, meteorologist Charles Mott said. He did not have further details.Lake High School was also among the hardest hit buildings in northwest Ohio. The field house was damaged and the cafeteria was destroyed, Superintendent Jim Witt said, and some buses were flung across the school parking lot.Two of the buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 yards, landing on its top near the high school's football field, its right turn signal still blinking more than 10 hours later.Dozens of windows were broken at the school and the roof and a back wall were ripped off a gymnasium, hours before the graduation ceremony was scheduled to take place there.Wow. This is bad, said Michael Wasserman, a student who drove to the school to take pictures. He was among the seniors who was going to the commencement ceremony.Now I'm not, he said with a shrug of his shoulders.Tess Steedman, who had gone to see the damage shortly after the storm ended, knew she wouldn't be graduating at the school as scheduled.I don't think many people care we aren't graduating today, she said Sunday morning as she held onto her boyfriend's arm.It's more that we won't be graduating at our school.She said it's easy to forget the disappointment when hearing about other damage.You hear about friends who have lost their houses,she said.Carol Smith, of Toledo, whose grandson will be a senior in the fall, called the destruction terrible.But praise the Lord, it could've been worse,she said.At least there was no one inside.
Second flood wave inundates houses in Poland
JUNE 6,10
WARSAW, Poland – Thousands of firefighters and soldiers are strengthening dikes that are crumbling in a second wave of massive flooding in southern Poland following weeks of torrential rains.Spokesman for the firefighters Pawel Fratczak said Sunday that some 3,000 people have been evacuated from eight villages after the Vistula River spilled over near Szczucin, where massive flooding first hit in May.The Vistula was also inundating the streets and house in a part of Sandomierz, after dikes repaired after the May flooding, succumbed under new flood wave.Some villages were cut off and relying on army helicopters to drop supplies after parts of roads were washed away.Meteorologists are warning of more rain.
Flood situation critical in Hungary
Sat Jun 5, 3:21 pm ET
BUDAPEST (AFP) – Several thousands of people were still stranded Saturday in northern Hungary as the flooding situation remained critical after over a month of near-continuous rainfall, authorities said.Along the banks of the Hernad, Sajo and Boldva rivers some 2,300 people were evacuated due to the water flooding homes in the towns and villages in the northeast region, a spokesman for the rescue services said.Over 12,000 police officers, soldiers and firemen are involved in the rescue operation, which has enjoyed a rare dry spell since Friday that is forecast to last for the next week.In Budapest the docks of the flooded river Danube were shut and the banks of Margaret island, a major tourist destination in the capital, were protected by sand bags.Agriculture has been hit by the incessant rainfall too, with experts predicting a drop of between 30 and 40 percent in fruit production.In the month of May alone, between 210 and 220 millimetres of rain fell per square metre, the equivalent of an entire year's worth of rainfall normally, according to meteorological services.In northeastern Hungary, the level reached a record 273 millimetres per square metre.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Huge sinkhole in Guatemala has neighbors jittery By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jun 5, 8:46 pm ET
GUATEMALA CITY – Maria del Carmen de Ramirez's house is just as she left it when she fled into the evening during a torrential downpour, as a cavernous sinkhole opened up and swallowed the clothing factory next door.A week later, de Ramirez hasn't dared go back inside to pick up so much as a toothbrush. All I have is what people have given me, she told The Associated Press on Saturday.Some 66 feet (20 meters) across, nearly 100 feet (30 meters) deep and almost a perfect circle at its gaping mouth, the sinkhole opened up suddenly May 30 in Ciudad Nueva, a 1930s-era neighborhood full of art deco buildings and broad streets.Many who lived nearby have abandoned their homes, while those who remain say they are in constant fear of another collapse — one that could be deadly this time.I can only sleep for short stretches. You feel powerless, said de Ramirez, a 60-year resident of Ciudad Nueva who is now staying with a sister-in-law — just a few yards (meters) from her own house.The doctor told me I have to adapt to this new life, to this life that changed me in seconds, she said.But it's very hard to adapt to this.Neighbors said it was a miracle nobody died at the clothing factory, which had closed for the day just an hour beforehand. A weekend watchman also was spared because he had left to tend to his house, which was flooded by the rains.That day, hundreds of students came to pick up their uniforms (at the factory). ... If the hole had opened a few hours earlier, it would have been a great tragedy,de Ramirez said.Some locals say a private security guard making a phone call at the time was swallowed along with the phone booth, and there are also reports a taxicab may have been sucked into the abyss. But authorities have not confirmed any deaths from the sinkhole.Experts still haven't determined what caused the huge hole to open or whether it could keep growing, said Sergio Cordon, a geologist who investigated the cavity.
Neighbors and local media speculate there is a direct link between the rains last weekend — the heaviest seen here in decades, brought by the first tropical storm of the year in the eastern Pacific.There was the sound of water, a lot of water, when the hole opened up, said Andre Anguiano, who described driving to his in-laws' house when the sinkhole suddenly appeared in the car's path.It was my wife who alerted me. I was just driving along and had no idea there was a huge hole,Anguiano said, chuckling at the memory. But at that time I was very scared.Anguiano and his wife quickly put her parents in the car and they all went to spend the night on the other side of town. Like many other neighbors, they're anxious for information on whether there is still a risk.For the time being, authorities have merely fenced off the area and put down enormous plastic tarps to try to keep rains from weakening the walls of the sinkhole.David de Leon, spokesman for Guatemala's disaster agency, said teams are using radar to scan underground and assess the earth's stability, but the results have been muddled by magnetic fields radiating from ash deposited on the streets by a May 27 eruption at the nearby Pacaya volcano.One idea proposed by a local cement factory is to collect the many tons of black ash spewed by Pacaya, mix it with cement and use it to plug the sinkhole.They told us it will take 12 to 18 months to fill the hole, but I don't know what to believe,de Ramirez said. I won't go back until they assure me that everything is OK.
ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
EZEKIEL 37:9-28
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.(BURNED BY HITLER)
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Israel rejects international probe into ship raid By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 6,10
WASHINGTON – Israel rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into the country's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday.Michael Oren said Israel has the ability and the right to investigate its own military. And he said Israel will not apologize for the incident, but is talking with the Obama administration about ways to deal with it.We are open to any ideas on how to somehow deal with the Gaza situation, Oren said on Fox News Sunday.He added, however, that there is no simple idea.Israel's prime minister is claiming that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli commandos last week had prepared for the fight ahead of time.An Israeli official said Sunday that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an international commission to investigate Israel's deadly raid, which came as it was trying to stop the Turkish ship from breaching a blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Ban has not announced details of his proposal.Eight Turks and a Turkish American were killed in the May 31 raid, and a preliminary autopsy report released by Turkey on Saturday said they were shot a total of 30 times. Israel said its forces acted in self-defense against people it described as Islamic extremists.
Oren said Sunday that Israel regrets the casualties.
The Turkish ship, which was part of a six-vessel international aid flotilla, was breaching an Israeli blockade of Gaza. Israel argues that a blockade is necessary to keep weapons and other military components out of the hands of Gaza militants who have attacked Israel with bombs, rockets and mortars for years.Associated Press writer Amy Teibel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Israel says activists prepared for fight on ship By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 6,10
JERUSALEM – Israel's prime minister claimed Sunday that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli naval commandos in a deadly clash last week had prepared for the fight ahead of time — boarding the ship separately from other passengers after they organized and equipped themselves.The comments from Benjamin Netanyahu were the latest in an Israeli campaign to defend its crackdown on Monday that killed nine activists on a flotilla headed to the blockaded Gaza Strip with hundreds of activists and humanitarian supplies on board. The operation has drawn fierce international condemnation, seriously damaged Israeli ties with Turkey, and brought heavy pressure to lift the 3-year-old closure of Gaza.Netanyahu told his Cabinet that dozens of thugs from an extremist, terrorism-supporting organization had readied themselves for the arrival of the naval commandos.According to the information currently in our possession, this group boarded separately in a different city, organized separately, equipped itself separately and went on deck under different procedures,he said.The clear intent of this hostile group was to initiate a violent clash with IDF (Israeli) soldiers.Netanyahu did not say where the information came from. But Israeli military officials have claimed there is strong evidence that the men who fought the soldiers were hired mercenaries.
The organizers deny the allegations.
Videos released by the army have shown a crowd of men attacking several naval commandos as they landed on a ship from a helicopter, beating the soldiers with clubs and other objects. The army has displayed pictures of knives, slingshots and metal rods confiscated from the crowd, and other video seized from reporters and security cameras on board the ship appear to show a group of young man brandishing clubs and other weapons ahead of the arrival of the soldiers.The fighting took place on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, and the dead included eight Turks and a Turkish-American man. The ship was organized by the IHH, a Turkish Islamic charity that Israel has outlawed because of its close ties to the Hamas militant group.In Turkey, IHH head Bulent Yildirim decried what he called Netanyahu's baseless words.He said all passengers had boarded the ship in the Turkish port of Antalya, and rejected suggestions that those who clashed with the soldiers were trained militants.Take a look at who was killed. They had pot bellies. They were old. They were young. Who would believe that they received special training? he said.We had decided to show passive resistance on the boat. We did not think for one minute that they would come on the ship with arms. We were prepared for scuffles, but not for this.Huwaida Arraf, a leader of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, denounced Netanyahu's claims as another pack of lies.Arraf, who was on board the Marmara, said that all passengers had been screened for weapons, and that partners in the mission, including the Turkish aid group IHH, had agreed not to bring weapons on board.No one was allowed to board the ship with any weapons. Every ship has one or two knives for the captains' use. So on a big ship that holds 1,060 people, certainly knives are not out of the ordinary,she said. She said it was possible that Israel had doctored the videos it has released.The U.N. Security Council has called on Israel to carry out an impartial investigation into what happened on board the ship.
On Sunday, Netanyahu rejected a proposal by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon for an international commission to investigate the raid, officials said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity pending a formal announcement, said Netanyahu was open to a probe, but did not agree with the exact format suggested by the U.N. chief.
The push for an international inquiry puts Israel under further pressure to explain how its attempt to stop the aid ship from breaching a blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza turned deadly. It could also cast light on the motives and plans of some of the ship's passengers.The outrage over the deaths has also prompted calls from many nations, including the United States, for at least a partial lifting of a blockade that Israel says is necessary to isolate the Islamic militants of Hamas and keep them from expanding their arsenals. Critics note that the blockade has failed to weaken Hamas, but has caused heavy damage to the Gazan economy and resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. Netanyahu told officials in his Likud Party on Sunday that he has been in touch with friendly nations to discuss ways to allow more civilian goods into Gaza without allowing Hamas to bring in arms. On Saturday, Israel took over another aid ship without incident. All 19 activists and crew were to be deported Sunday.
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF LOT. NO BODY LISTENED TO WARNING SIGNS
LUKE 17:28-32
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF NOAH. WORLDWIDE FLOODING,CURRUPTION,VIOLENCE (TERRORISM).
MATTHEW 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
LUKE 17:25-27
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
THE JUDGEMENT OF THE NATIONS
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 12:8-13
8 And I (DANIEL) heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, (at the 3 1/2 yr mark of the 7 yr treaty) and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14&feature=player_embedded
Dean of White House Reporters: Jews, Get Out of Palestine
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 6,10
Veteran Hearst newspaper journalist, known as the dean of White House reporters, exposed her bias on video by saying that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine. She apologized for her comments on Saturday, but Jewish and non-Jewish leaders have called on the 89-year-old journalist to hang up the typewriter and retire.Her remarks, along with her grilling of White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs over the flotilla clash last Monday, expose an anti-Israel bias that also was revealed in Associated Press coverage several days ago.Thomas’ comments, including the statement that Jews should go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else,were posted Friday on a YouTube video. She had been asked after the White House Jewish Heritage celebration last Sunday if she had any comments on Israel.Thomas, a daughter of Lebanese immigrants, replied to Rabbi David Nesenoff of RabbiLIVE.com, Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. Not Germany. Not Poland.Asked where the Jews should go, she shot back, They go home. Poland. Germany. And America and everywhere else.
After the video was posted, Thomas wrote on her web site, I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.
That did not satisfy critics. Beth Gilinsky, head of the Jewish Action Alliance, called for her immediate dismissal. Ari Fleischer, who was White House Press Secretary for former U.S. President George W. Bush, remarked, She should lose her job over this. As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling. She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs.Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said,Once again the liberal media has shown its true colors. The White House media dinosaur, also known as Helen Thomas, has called on Jews to leave Israel and move back to Poland and Germany. This anti-Semitic sentiment has no place in our public discourse. I call upon her employer, [the] Hearst Corporation, to dismiss her at once. The White House needs to revoke her press credentials immediately.Thomas’ bias was evident in her questioning of White House spokesman Gibbs. “The initial reaction to the flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful,she asserted.
Criticizing the Obama administration for not condemning Israel for the killing of nine terror activists who attacked Israel Navy commandoes when the soldiers were virtually unarmed, Thomas added, What is this sacrosanct ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people and boycotts every aid and abet the boycott? Gibbs responded, Well, look, I think the initial reaction regretted the loss of life as we tried and as we still continue to gather the relevant.Thomas retorted, Regret won’t bring them back…. Why didn’t you initially condemn it?... Who put the US in charge of the world? After the initial Associated Press report of the flotilla clash, the Washington Times exposed AP's bias for immediately jumping to the conclusion that Israel was to blame for the violence. The AP had reported, Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation in international waters. The violent takeover dealt yet another blow to Israel's international image.After two days passed, the news service filed a more neutral report.The IDF has released a video clip where one of the so called human rights advocates on the the flotilla boat that was the scene of the violent confrontation is shouting Go back to Auschwitz to the soldiers.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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.
4 killed in heavy storms sweeping through Midwest By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 6,10
MILLBURY, Ohio – Tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed at least four people in Ohio, sent several to hospitals, destroyed 50 homes and damaged scores more, as well a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.Authorities in northwest Ohio are still searching through homes and couldn't say whether anyone else is missing, Lake Township Fire Chief Todd Walters said. Walters flew over the damage Sunday morning and estimates the storm left an 8-mile path of destruction in a straight line over an area of farm fields and light industry. The storm that hit around 11 p.m. Saturday narrowly missed the heavily populated suburbs on the southern edge of Toledo.A township police and emergency medical services building looked to be a total loss. The storm ripped off most of the building's back half, tossing a car into where the building once stood, now a mishmash of 2-by-4 beams and insulation strewn about. A patrol car nearby was flattened.All the emergency dispatchers and 911 operators had to be moved to a nearby town.It's unbelievable, Walters said.It's just total destruction — stuff just completely flattened or gone.No tornados had been confirmed in Ohio as of late Sunday morning, though the National Weather Service has received many reports and pictures of storm damage, said Walter Fitzgerald, a hydrometeorological technician at the service in Cleveland.
He said damage stretched into central Ohio and toward Pennsylvania. Wind, scattered rain and cooler temperatures were expected Sunday.In central Illinois, the National Weather service confirmed reports of a tornado touching down 80 to 100 miles southwest of Chicago, meteorologist Charles Mott said. He did not have further details.Lake High School was also among the hardest hit buildings in northwest Ohio. The field house was damaged and the cafeteria was destroyed, Superintendent Jim Witt said, and some buses were flung across the school parking lot.Two of the buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 yards, landing on its top near the high school's football field, its right turn signal still blinking more than 10 hours later.Dozens of windows were broken at the school and the roof and a back wall were ripped off a gymnasium, hours before the graduation ceremony was scheduled to take place there.Wow. This is bad, said Michael Wasserman, a student who drove to the school to take pictures. He was among the seniors who was going to the commencement ceremony.Now I'm not, he said with a shrug of his shoulders.Tess Steedman, who had gone to see the damage shortly after the storm ended, knew she wouldn't be graduating at the school as scheduled.I don't think many people care we aren't graduating today, she said Sunday morning as she held onto her boyfriend's arm.It's more that we won't be graduating at our school.She said it's easy to forget the disappointment when hearing about other damage.You hear about friends who have lost their houses,she said.Carol Smith, of Toledo, whose grandson will be a senior in the fall, called the destruction terrible.But praise the Lord, it could've been worse,she said.At least there was no one inside.
Second flood wave inundates houses in Poland
JUNE 6,10
WARSAW, Poland – Thousands of firefighters and soldiers are strengthening dikes that are crumbling in a second wave of massive flooding in southern Poland following weeks of torrential rains.Spokesman for the firefighters Pawel Fratczak said Sunday that some 3,000 people have been evacuated from eight villages after the Vistula River spilled over near Szczucin, where massive flooding first hit in May.The Vistula was also inundating the streets and house in a part of Sandomierz, after dikes repaired after the May flooding, succumbed under new flood wave.Some villages were cut off and relying on army helicopters to drop supplies after parts of roads were washed away.Meteorologists are warning of more rain.
Flood situation critical in Hungary
Sat Jun 5, 3:21 pm ET
BUDAPEST (AFP) – Several thousands of people were still stranded Saturday in northern Hungary as the flooding situation remained critical after over a month of near-continuous rainfall, authorities said.Along the banks of the Hernad, Sajo and Boldva rivers some 2,300 people were evacuated due to the water flooding homes in the towns and villages in the northeast region, a spokesman for the rescue services said.Over 12,000 police officers, soldiers and firemen are involved in the rescue operation, which has enjoyed a rare dry spell since Friday that is forecast to last for the next week.In Budapest the docks of the flooded river Danube were shut and the banks of Margaret island, a major tourist destination in the capital, were protected by sand bags.Agriculture has been hit by the incessant rainfall too, with experts predicting a drop of between 30 and 40 percent in fruit production.In the month of May alone, between 210 and 220 millimetres of rain fell per square metre, the equivalent of an entire year's worth of rainfall normally, according to meteorological services.In northeastern Hungary, the level reached a record 273 millimetres per square metre.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Huge sinkhole in Guatemala has neighbors jittery By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jun 5, 8:46 pm ET
GUATEMALA CITY – Maria del Carmen de Ramirez's house is just as she left it when she fled into the evening during a torrential downpour, as a cavernous sinkhole opened up and swallowed the clothing factory next door.A week later, de Ramirez hasn't dared go back inside to pick up so much as a toothbrush. All I have is what people have given me, she told The Associated Press on Saturday.Some 66 feet (20 meters) across, nearly 100 feet (30 meters) deep and almost a perfect circle at its gaping mouth, the sinkhole opened up suddenly May 30 in Ciudad Nueva, a 1930s-era neighborhood full of art deco buildings and broad streets.Many who lived nearby have abandoned their homes, while those who remain say they are in constant fear of another collapse — one that could be deadly this time.I can only sleep for short stretches. You feel powerless, said de Ramirez, a 60-year resident of Ciudad Nueva who is now staying with a sister-in-law — just a few yards (meters) from her own house.The doctor told me I have to adapt to this new life, to this life that changed me in seconds, she said.But it's very hard to adapt to this.Neighbors said it was a miracle nobody died at the clothing factory, which had closed for the day just an hour beforehand. A weekend watchman also was spared because he had left to tend to his house, which was flooded by the rains.That day, hundreds of students came to pick up their uniforms (at the factory). ... If the hole had opened a few hours earlier, it would have been a great tragedy,de Ramirez said.Some locals say a private security guard making a phone call at the time was swallowed along with the phone booth, and there are also reports a taxicab may have been sucked into the abyss. But authorities have not confirmed any deaths from the sinkhole.Experts still haven't determined what caused the huge hole to open or whether it could keep growing, said Sergio Cordon, a geologist who investigated the cavity.
Neighbors and local media speculate there is a direct link between the rains last weekend — the heaviest seen here in decades, brought by the first tropical storm of the year in the eastern Pacific.There was the sound of water, a lot of water, when the hole opened up, said Andre Anguiano, who described driving to his in-laws' house when the sinkhole suddenly appeared in the car's path.It was my wife who alerted me. I was just driving along and had no idea there was a huge hole,Anguiano said, chuckling at the memory. But at that time I was very scared.Anguiano and his wife quickly put her parents in the car and they all went to spend the night on the other side of town. Like many other neighbors, they're anxious for information on whether there is still a risk.For the time being, authorities have merely fenced off the area and put down enormous plastic tarps to try to keep rains from weakening the walls of the sinkhole.David de Leon, spokesman for Guatemala's disaster agency, said teams are using radar to scan underground and assess the earth's stability, but the results have been muddled by magnetic fields radiating from ash deposited on the streets by a May 27 eruption at the nearby Pacaya volcano.One idea proposed by a local cement factory is to collect the many tons of black ash spewed by Pacaya, mix it with cement and use it to plug the sinkhole.They told us it will take 12 to 18 months to fill the hole, but I don't know what to believe,de Ramirez said. I won't go back until they assure me that everything is OK.
ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
EZEKIEL 36:24
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
EZEKIEL 37:9-28
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.(BURNED BY HITLER)
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).
MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.
LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0&feature=player_embedded
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
EZEKIEL 47:13-23,48:1-35
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.
5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.
25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.
28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Israel rejects international probe into ship raid By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 6,10
WASHINGTON – Israel rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into the country's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday.Michael Oren said Israel has the ability and the right to investigate its own military. And he said Israel will not apologize for the incident, but is talking with the Obama administration about ways to deal with it.We are open to any ideas on how to somehow deal with the Gaza situation, Oren said on Fox News Sunday.He added, however, that there is no simple idea.Israel's prime minister is claiming that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli commandos last week had prepared for the fight ahead of time.An Israeli official said Sunday that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an international commission to investigate Israel's deadly raid, which came as it was trying to stop the Turkish ship from breaching a blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Ban has not announced details of his proposal.Eight Turks and a Turkish American were killed in the May 31 raid, and a preliminary autopsy report released by Turkey on Saturday said they were shot a total of 30 times. Israel said its forces acted in self-defense against people it described as Islamic extremists.
Oren said Sunday that Israel regrets the casualties.
The Turkish ship, which was part of a six-vessel international aid flotilla, was breaching an Israeli blockade of Gaza. Israel argues that a blockade is necessary to keep weapons and other military components out of the hands of Gaza militants who have attacked Israel with bombs, rockets and mortars for years.Associated Press writer Amy Teibel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Israel says activists prepared for fight on ship By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 6,10
JERUSALEM – Israel's prime minister claimed Sunday that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli naval commandos in a deadly clash last week had prepared for the fight ahead of time — boarding the ship separately from other passengers after they organized and equipped themselves.The comments from Benjamin Netanyahu were the latest in an Israeli campaign to defend its crackdown on Monday that killed nine activists on a flotilla headed to the blockaded Gaza Strip with hundreds of activists and humanitarian supplies on board. The operation has drawn fierce international condemnation, seriously damaged Israeli ties with Turkey, and brought heavy pressure to lift the 3-year-old closure of Gaza.Netanyahu told his Cabinet that dozens of thugs from an extremist, terrorism-supporting organization had readied themselves for the arrival of the naval commandos.According to the information currently in our possession, this group boarded separately in a different city, organized separately, equipped itself separately and went on deck under different procedures,he said.The clear intent of this hostile group was to initiate a violent clash with IDF (Israeli) soldiers.Netanyahu did not say where the information came from. But Israeli military officials have claimed there is strong evidence that the men who fought the soldiers were hired mercenaries.
The organizers deny the allegations.
Videos released by the army have shown a crowd of men attacking several naval commandos as they landed on a ship from a helicopter, beating the soldiers with clubs and other objects. The army has displayed pictures of knives, slingshots and metal rods confiscated from the crowd, and other video seized from reporters and security cameras on board the ship appear to show a group of young man brandishing clubs and other weapons ahead of the arrival of the soldiers.The fighting took place on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, and the dead included eight Turks and a Turkish-American man. The ship was organized by the IHH, a Turkish Islamic charity that Israel has outlawed because of its close ties to the Hamas militant group.In Turkey, IHH head Bulent Yildirim decried what he called Netanyahu's baseless words.He said all passengers had boarded the ship in the Turkish port of Antalya, and rejected suggestions that those who clashed with the soldiers were trained militants.Take a look at who was killed. They had pot bellies. They were old. They were young. Who would believe that they received special training? he said.We had decided to show passive resistance on the boat. We did not think for one minute that they would come on the ship with arms. We were prepared for scuffles, but not for this.Huwaida Arraf, a leader of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, denounced Netanyahu's claims as another pack of lies.Arraf, who was on board the Marmara, said that all passengers had been screened for weapons, and that partners in the mission, including the Turkish aid group IHH, had agreed not to bring weapons on board.No one was allowed to board the ship with any weapons. Every ship has one or two knives for the captains' use. So on a big ship that holds 1,060 people, certainly knives are not out of the ordinary,she said. She said it was possible that Israel had doctored the videos it has released.The U.N. Security Council has called on Israel to carry out an impartial investigation into what happened on board the ship.
On Sunday, Netanyahu rejected a proposal by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon for an international commission to investigate the raid, officials said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity pending a formal announcement, said Netanyahu was open to a probe, but did not agree with the exact format suggested by the U.N. chief.
The push for an international inquiry puts Israel under further pressure to explain how its attempt to stop the aid ship from breaching a blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza turned deadly. It could also cast light on the motives and plans of some of the ship's passengers.The outrage over the deaths has also prompted calls from many nations, including the United States, for at least a partial lifting of a blockade that Israel says is necessary to isolate the Islamic militants of Hamas and keep them from expanding their arsenals. Critics note that the blockade has failed to weaken Hamas, but has caused heavy damage to the Gazan economy and resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. Netanyahu told officials in his Likud Party on Sunday that he has been in touch with friendly nations to discuss ways to allow more civilian goods into Gaza without allowing Hamas to bring in arms. On Saturday, Israel took over another aid ship without incident. All 19 activists and crew were to be deported Sunday.
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF LOT. NO BODY LISTENED TO WARNING SIGNS
LUKE 17:28-32
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
JUDGEMENT SIGNS IN DAYS OF NOAH. WORLDWIDE FLOODING,CURRUPTION,VIOLENCE (TERRORISM).
MATTHEW 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
LUKE 17:25-27
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
THE JUDGEMENT OF THE NATIONS
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
DANIEL 12:8-13
8 And I (DANIEL) heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, (at the 3 1/2 yr mark of the 7 yr treaty) and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
MATTHEW 25:31-46
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
P4 - OIL SPILL NEWS
PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
ITS 10 AM JUNE 4,10 AND SEE WHATS UP WITH THE OIL SPILL TODAY.
ITS 3:10PM JUNE 4,2010 A LOT OF THE BILDERBERG MEMBERS ARE STARTING TO GET SCARED AND ARE AFRAID TO BE SEEN AT BILDERBERG-THEY WANT TO AVOID BEING SEEN THERE.THE NUTCASES CONTROL FREAKS ARE FINALLY ON THE RUN AND KNOW THEY ARE BEING WATCHED VERY CLOSELY OF THEIR DEMONIC DEEDS AGAINST THE WORLDS CITIZENS.THIS IS PRETTY GOOD FOR BEING A RACIST AND IMAGINING THAT THE BILDERBERGS EXIST AND CONTROL WORLD EVENTS WITH THEIR BIG MONEY THEY ROBBED THE WORLD CITIZENS OF.THE BILDERBERGS WANT THE IMF AS THE TREASURY OF THE WORLD JUST LIKE I FIGURED WOULD BE SAID THERE.THE IMF BANK OF THE WORLD TO PAY CAP & TRADE-CLIMATE CHANGE TAXES TO WORLDWIDE BY EVERY CITIZEN.THE GLOBAL BANK OF THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
THE BILDERBERGS ARE AFFRAID THEIR CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM IS BEING DESTROYED,JIM TUCKER SAID THE NEW WORLD ORDER WILL BE IN FULL PROPAGANDA GEAR TO GET THIS CLIMATE CHANGE CAP & TRADE TREATY PASSED.OBAMA WILL BE PUSHING FOR IT TUCKER SAYS OBAMAS OUR BOY.NOW WE KNOW WHY OBAMAS PUTTING CLIMATE CHANGERS ON THE BP SPILL JUST AS I FIGURED AGAIN.GAS WILL BE WELL PRICED TILL NOVEMBER WHEN IT WILL GO TO $4.00 A GALLON.THIS MAKES SENSE TO AS IN AUGUST THEY SAY BP WILL HAVE THE SPILL CAPPED.SEE HOW EVERYTHING IS COMING TOGETHER AS THE NEW WORLD ORDER BILDERBERG NUTCASES WANT A TREATY TO BAN GUNS ALSO WORLDWIDE.THEY REALLY ARE SCARED.GET READY FOLKS BIBLE PROPHECY IS COMING TOGETHER QUICK NOW.
ITS 4:20PM DAY 46 OF OIL SPILL JUNE 4,10.552 BIRDS ARE DEAD ALONG THE GULF COASTLINES.AND I WONDER WHO BOUGHT THE 44% OF BP STOCKS THAT GOLDMAN SACHS GOT RID OF.IF IT WAS A MUSLIM COUNTRY THIS COULD BE A TERRORIST ATTACK THIS OIL SPILL TO DESTROY AMERICANS OCEAN AND FORCE THE PRICE OF OIL AND GAS TO GO UP.THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHT BUT THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT IN THE END.
ITS 7:35PM JUNE 4,10 THERE SAYING TONY HAYWARD WILL STEP ASIDE AND LET SOMEBODY ELSE TAKE OVER.IF TONY HAYWARD GETS FIRED YOU CAN BET HE WILL GET MILLIONS IN SEVERENCE PAY,GOLDMAN SACHS WILL HIRE HIM,THEN 6 MONTHS LATER HE WILL BE A CZAR IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO OVERLOOK THE OIL INDUSTRY.THIS IS HOW THESE CHICAGO THUGS WORK-SOETORO-OBAMA AND HIS CREW OF CRIMINALS.
ITS 8:20PM JUNE 4,10 NOW THERES ALLIGATIONS THAT 100 AND POSSIBLY MORE SO CALLED ENVIROMENTAL WORKERS HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR BACKROUNDS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.WELL JAILBIRDS IF THEY WERE HIRED FROM THEIR CELLS WOULD BLEND RIGHT IN WITH THE CRIMINAL OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.NOTHING SURPRISES ME WITH THIS OBAMA DICTATORSHIP.
ITS 9:06 AM JUNE 5,10 AND PEOLE ARE FINALLY WAKING UP TO THIS BEING PROPHECY FULFILLED LITERALLY FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION.GOD (KING JESUS)SAID ONCE SIN OVERTAKES A NATION AND PEOPLE HATE HIM (JESUS-GOD)AND ISRAEL-THAT NATION OR PERON WILL BE DESTROYED.SINCE THIS PROPHECY OF THE OIL SPILL IS LITERALLY COMING TO PASS,ALL THE REST OF THE PROPHECIES I PUT ON MY SITE WILL LITERALLY COME TO PASS TO JUST LIKE JESUS (GOD)SAID RIGHT FROM HIS WORD.
DAY 47 11:05 AM JUNE 5,10-NOW THERE TALKING ABOUT NUKING THE OIL SPILL TO STOP IT.THIS COULD CAUSE A GIGANTIC TSUNAMI AND END UP POISONING THE WATERS AND STREAMS TO LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WOULD HAPPEN.SO THEY MIGHT USE THE NUKE OPTION ON THIS SPILL WHICH WOULD CAUSE A TSUNAMI LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTS AND THE RADIATION FROM THE NUKE GOING OFF WOULD THEN POISON ALL OF THE GULF AS WELL AS GO IN THE AIR AND POISON THE WATERS AND STREAMS.WE ARE IN FOR INTERESTING TIMES NOW.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS PERILAS DANGEROUS TIMES.
VIDEO OF NUKE WORK RESULT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPNQoTlacU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BE42PzZZc&feature=player_embedded
Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 13:58 ET How The World Works Enough lollygagging: Nuke the Gulf oil spill! The Soviet Union employed the nuclear option to stop runaway gas wells. So what could possibly go wrong? Video By Andrew Leonard
iStockphoto/AP Why can't we just nuke the oil well out of existence? As each successive failure to stop the nation's worst-ever spill ratchets up popular outrage and political pressure on the Obama administration, chatter about the nuclear option has also heated up. We've got an extreme problem, so why not an extreme solution? Strange as it may seem to hear people advocating thermonuclear devastation to stop an environmental catastrophe, one can understand the psychological attraction. Enough with the nutty Rube Goldberg "top kill" kludges. Let's just blow the damn thing up and get it over with! Hey, the Soviets did it, why can't we? This much we do know: In four separate instances dating back to 1966, the Soviet Union successfully used nuclear explosives to shut off runaway onshore gas wells. According to a report published by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2000, The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions,the first successful application of the nuclear option took place in the Urtabulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan. The Urtabulak well had been gushing more than 12 million cubic meters of gas per day for almost three years and had defied numerous techno-fixes.Finally, in the fall of 1966, a decision was made to attempt closing the well with the use of a nuclear explosive... Two 44.5-cm (13.5-in) diameter slant wells, Holes No. 1c and 2c, were drilled simultaneously. They were aimed to come as close as possible to Hole No. 11 at a depth of about 1500 m in the middle of a 200-m-thick clay zone.... The location for the explosive in Hole 1c was cooled to bring it down to a temperature the explosive could withstand. A special 3O-kt nuclear explosive developed by the Arzamas nuclear weapons laboratory for this event was emplaced in Hole 1c and stemmed. It was detonated on September 30, 1966. Twenty-three seconds later the flame went out, and the well was sealed.
Emboldened by their success, the Soviets proceeded to cap three other runaway gas wells in ensuing years, once in 1968 and twice in 1972. Another attempt in 1981 failed, however, and as far as we know, there have been no further efforts at nuclear well destruction. I cannot affirmatively attest to the authenticity of the footage in the following video, but the events recorded align pretty well with the DOE report, and it certainly makes for gripping viewing:One of the Soviet scientists involved with the Urtabulak effort has already helpfully proposed that the U.S. follow the Russian example, inspiring animated discussion among the online Deepwater Horizon voyeurs who hang out at places like the indispensable The Oil Drum. What's Obama waiting for? What could possibly go wrong? The first cautionary note would be to observe that there's a big difference between a gas well on land and a deep-water oil well. The primary reason why the Deepwater Horizon spill has proven so difficult to stop is precisely because the wellhead is 5,000 feet underwater, and the well bore penetrates another 13,000 feet below the seabed. Solutions that are possible on land or in shallow water are not readily applicable, or the well would already be plugged.It's also worth noting that in the Soviet case, additional slant wells had to be drilled in order to get the nuclear explosive deep enough and close enough to the original well to be able to seal it off. Although some armchair nuclear option quarterbacks have recommended exploding a nuclear device at the seabed in the hope of fusing the surrounding seafloor into a giant cap, it's not clear that such a cap would be able to withstand the immense pressure exerted by the oil and gas bubbling from below. To properly place any explosive -- conventional or nuclear -- deep enough to be able to permanently plug the well would require drilling a new well -- a process that we already know is time-consuming.
This is just speculation, but I'm also guessing that we don't have a whole lot of data about what happens to the geology of a deepwater oil reservoir when a nuclear bomb is detonated in the general vicinity. I'd hate to be the president who authorized a nuclear strike against an oil well and discover that the blast created numerous fractures in the seafloor that allowed even more oil and gas to escape. It seems to me that one might want to hold such a tactic in reserve as a last resort.
And then there are the worst-case scenarios -- such as the possibility that a nuclear explosion might ignite a chain reaction of methane hydrate eruptions that could result in the most horrific global catastrophe since the Permian extinction:
You think the good citizens of Louisiana are upset now. Imagine how they'd feel after a tsunami followed by clouds of deadly methane gas laid waste to the Gulf?
Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real By HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 5,10 7:20 PM.
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson.Scenes like this played out along miles of shoreline Saturday, nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded and the wellhead a mile below the surface began belching millions of gallon of oil.These waters are my backyard, my life, said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove.I don't want to say heartbreaking, because that's been said. It's a nightmare. It looks like it's going to be wave after wave of it and nobody can stop it.The oil has steadily spread east, washing up in greater quantities in recent days, even as a cap placed by BP over the blownout well began to collect some of the escaping crude. The cap, resembling an upside-down funnel, has captured about 252,000gallons of oil, according to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis.
If earlier estimates are correct, that means the cap is capturing from a quarter to as much as half the oil spewing from the blowout each day. But that is a small fraction of the roughly 24 million to 47 million gallons government officials estimate have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, making it the nation's largest oil spill ever.Allen, who said the goal is to gradually raise the amount of the oil being captured, compared the process to stopping the flow of water from a garden hose with a finger: You don't want to put your finger down too quickly, or let it off too quickly.BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.President Barack Obama pledged Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address to fight the spill with the people of the Gulf Coast. His words for oil giant BP PLC were stern: We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast.But his reassurances offer limited consolation to the people who live and work along the coasts of four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida — now confronting the oil spill firsthand.In Gulf Shores, Ala., boardwalks leading to hotels were tattooed with oil from beachgoers' feet. A slick hundreds of yards long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with a thick, red stew. Cleanup workers rushed to contain it in bags, but more washed in before they could remove the first wave of debris.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Allen met for more than an hour Saturday in Mobile, Ala., agreeing to a new plan that would significantly increase protection on the state's coast with larger booms, beachfront barriers, skimmers and a new system to protect Perdido Bay near the Florida line.Riley, who was angered by a Coast Guard decision to move boom from Alabama to Louisiana, said the barriers must be up within days for him to be satisfied. Allen said he needed to report to the president before confirming more details of the agreement.The oil is showing up right at the beginning of the lucrative tourist season, and beachgoers taking to the region's beaches haven't been able to escape it.This makes me sick, said Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude. We were over in Florida earlier and it was bad there, but it was nothing like this.At Pensacola Beach, Erin Tamber, who moved to the area from New Orleans after surviving Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, inspected a beach stained orange by the retreating tide.I feel like I've gone from owning a piece of paradise to owning a toxic waste dump, she said.Back in Louisiana, along the beach at Queen Bess Island, oil pooled several feet deep, trapping birds against unused containment boom. The futility of their struggle was confirmed when Joe Sartore, a National Geographic photographer, sank thigh deep in oil on nearby East Grand Terre Island and had to be pulled from the tar.I would have died if I would have been out here alone,he said. With no oil response workers on Queen Bess, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, the slime dripping from its wings.We're in the sixth week, you'd think there would be a flotilla of people out here, Hahn said.As you can see, we're so far behind the curve in this thing.After six weeks with one to four birds a day coming into Louisiana's rescue center for oiled birds at Fort Jackson, 53 arrived Thursday and another 13 Friday morning, with more on the way. Federal authorities say 792 dead birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other wildlife have been collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its coastline.
Yet scientists say the wildlife death toll remains relatively modest, well below the tens of thousand of birds, otters and other creatures killed after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The numbers have stayed comparatively low because the Deepwater Horizon rig was 50 miles off the coast and most of the oil has stayed in the open sea. The Valdez ran aground on a reef close to land, in a more enclosed setting. Experts say the Gulf's marshes, beaches and coastal waters, which nurture a dazzling array of life, could be transformed into killing fields, though the die-off could take months or years and unfold largely out of sight. The damage could be even greater beneath the water's surface, where oil and dispersants could devastate zooplankton and tiny invertebrate communities at the base of the aquatic food chain.People naturally tend to focus on things that are most conspicuous, like oiled birds, but in my opinion the impacts on fisheries will be much more severe, said Rich Ambrose, director of the environmental science and engineering at program at UCLA. The Gulf is also home to dolphins and species including the endangered sperm whale. A government report found that dolphins with prolonged exposure to oil in the 1990s experienced skin injuries and burns, reduced neurological functions and lower hemoglobin levels in their blood. It concluded, though, that the effects probably wouldn't be lethal because many creatures would avoid the oil. Yet dolphins in the Gulf have been spotted swimming through plumes of crude.Gilly Llewellyn, oceans program leader with the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, said she observed the same behavior by dolphins following a 73-day spill last year in the Timor Sea.A heartbreaking sight, Llewellyn said.And what we managed to see on the surface was undoubtedly just a fraction of what was happening.
The prospect left fishing guide Marino shaking his head, as he watched the oil washing into a marsh and over the body of a dead pelican. Species like shrimp and crab flourish here, finding protection in the grasses. Fish, birds and other creatures feed here.It's going to break that cycle of life,Marino said.It's like pouring gas in your aquarium. What do you think that's going to do? Flesher reported from Traverse City, Mich. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr on Barataria Bay, La.; Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla.; and Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Truths About the Oil Spill
by Martha Zoller 06/04/2010
There are some truths about the Gulf oil spill that must be considered when addressing this calamity.While there is no doubt the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is a major disaster, it should not mean the end of off-shore drilling.And the slowness of the government response is a disaster of epic proportions.
First, where to drill.
President Obama says we are drilling so far out to sea because the close-in resources have been tapped. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are drilling so far out because of the short sightedness of politicians, including Republicans like Florida Governors Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. These Republicans caved to bad information about drilling off their states’ coasts. They wanted to be liked by environmentalists. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats and environmentalists to derail our energy independence?
We are drilling in deep water, where it’s extremely risky, because in the safer places to drill, such as ANWR, closer to shore along the coast and much of the vast expanses of federal lands in the West, the federal government has placed restrictions preventing energy development. The BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill isn’t a reflection of not enough regulation. We have 300 pages of regulation. It is a reflection of unenforced regulation. The people put in charge of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service were academics appointed by the Obama Administration with little to no experience in the real world. And where is President Obama, other than his Clinton walking the beach picking up a rock moment last weekend. He seems unconcerned with the whole thing. Mr. Cool doesn’t have the answers. And if anyone believes one of the first daughters asked Daddy,
Did you plug the hole, yet? as he shaved, I’ve got some barrier islands in Louisiana I could sell you. This oil spill should not be a condemnation of Drill Here, Drill Now.This disaster supports Drill Here, Drill Now.It is safer to drill off shore in shallow waters and on land in the U.S. than to buy oil from foreign sources and have it shipped to us. I talked to a very high ranking congressman and he said, How do we advocate Drill Here, Drill Now now? It’s easy, be armed with the facts. Stand up and don’t let the emotion lead the debate.Meanwhile, the federal response to the spill has been nothing short of abysmal. In the five states impacted immediately (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida), we’ve seen executives at work. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has shown he is a can-do executive while the feds are doing little but getting in the way. Jindal talks of useless meetings lacking action. The Obama Administration seems to be hung up on having the best minds looking at this but they can’t give Gov. Jindal an answer on the best option: dredging sand and making a barrier to keep the oil away from the coast. He asked for that weeks ago and has gotten only limited approval. Limited approval? This is not a limited disaster.It shouldn’t take the Army Corps of Engineers weeks to approve the sand berms, they should have gotten the equipment to the coast right away.
We can’t change what’s happened but we can act now. Work with Jindal in the lead; don’t have more meetings with the likes of the Atty. Gen. Eric Holder. There will be a time for useless meetings, as Gov. Jindal said. Now is the time for action.But before White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gets us all riding bicycles to work, let’s look at the real truth about this spill. Roy Spencer, former NASA scientist, author of Climate Confusion and research scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, took a historical look at the oil spills in the world. Spencer is the official climatologist of The Rush Limbaugh Program,but most importantly, his research at UAB Huntsville is not funded by corporations. Spencer took into consideration what BP says they were pumping daily from the well, which was 15,000 barrels a day and the actual numbers on the historical spills. The largest oil spill, deliberately set in 1991 by Iraqi forces, was an estimated 500 million gallons. The second largest spill occurs every year in leakage from tankers and ships, estimated at 250 million gallons a year. The third largest was the only other spill from a rig—in Mexico in 1979 (IXTOC)—at less than 150 million gallons. Exxon Valdez was way down the list at less than 50 million gallons. BP/Deepwater Horizon is also less than 50 million gallons but still gushing. We are a long way from the worst spill in history and it’s clear that most spills occur from shipping oil, not drilling it. Granted, if we don’t get that thing tapped, it could be worse, but we are not there yet. It’s been said, A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Let’s use it to our advantage for a change. Lets use this to educate about the facts of drilling. I know with the 24/7 spillcam going all the time, Drill Here, Drill Now advocates think they can’t talk about drilling, but this is the perfect moment. Spread the facts and don’t stop telling them. Drilling for oil in America is safe. Let’s fix this and then move close to shore and on land and Drill Here, Drill Now.
Ms. Zoller is a political analyst and conservative talk show host for WXKT FM 103.7 in Gainesville, Georgia and syndicated on The Georgia News Network. She is one of the Talkers Magazine Heavy Hundred Talk Shows in America. She can be seen regularly on cable news. She is the author of Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America.You may contact her through www.marthazoller.com
Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured By MELISSA NELSON and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 5,10 8:30 AM
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – President Barack Obama promised Saturday to fight the massive oil spill alongside the people of the Gulf Coast, as a cap placed over the gusher was collecting only some of the crude and a slow-motion catastrophe spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states.The spreading slick arrived with the tide on the Florida Panhandle's white sands Friday as BP continued its desperate and untested bid to arrest what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.It's brutally unfair. It's wrong. And what I told these men and women — and what I have said since the beginning of this disaster — is that I'm going to stand with the people of the Gulf Coast until they are made whole," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address, recorded in Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast.Obama also maintained his increasingly forceful tone toward BP PLC, the oil giant responsible for the cleanup: We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast.The government's point man for the crisis, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Friday that there had been progress but cautioned against overoptimism.Early Friday, he guessed that the cap was collecting 42,000 gallons a day — less than one-tenth of the amount leaking from the well. Later in the day, BP said in a tweet that since it was installed Thursday night, it had collected about 76,000 gallons.The widening scope of the disaster deepened the anger and despair just as Obama arrived for his third visit to the stricken Gulf Coast.On Obama's trip to the Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast, his motorcade passed a building that had been adorned with his portrait reminiscent of posters of him during his presidential campaign. Instead of hope or change,the words what now? were on his forehead.
The oil has reached the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It has turned marshlands into death zones for wildlife and stained beaches rust and crimson. Some said it brought to mind the plagues and punishments of the Bible.In Revelations it says the water will turn to blood,said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. That's what it looks like out here — like the Gulf is bleeding. This is going to choke the life out of everything.
He added: It makes me want to cry.Six weeks after the April 20 oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, the well has leaked somewhere between 22 million and 47 million gallons of oil, according to government estimates.The mayor of Grand Isle, David Camardelle, choked up as he told the president of staying up nights worrying.We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, Camardelle said.I'm trying to keep Grand Isle alive.A device resembling an upside-down funnel was lowered over the blown-out well a mile beneath the sea to try to capture most of the oil and direct it to a ship on the surface. But crude continued to escape into the Gulf early Saturday through vents designed to prevent ice crystals from clogging the cap. Engineers hoped to close several vents.One unanswered question was whether the cap fit snugly. BP sheared off the well pipe before installing the cap but was unable to make a smooth cut.As the operation went on at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the effect of the BP spill was increasingly evident.Swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the mess, while other beachgoers inspected the clumps with fascination, some taking pictures. David Lucas of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly cut their visit short after wading into oily water. It was sticky brown globs out there, Lucas said after he and the others cleaned their feet and left. Health officials said that people should stay away from the mess but that swallowing a little oil-tainted water or getting slimed by a tarball is no reason for alarm. Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson said there are no plans to close the beach. For the most part if you went and walked on the sand that was not right there on the shoreline, you were in no danger of engaging tar balls, he said Friday.
At Gulf Shores, Ala., a slick of oil hundreds of yard long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with thick, reddish goo. A squad of cleanup workers bagged up the oil, but more washed in before they could remove the debris from the first run. Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., watched as drops of oil turned the surf brown and collected at the waterline, smearing the beach with big, thick globs.
This makes me sick, said Thomasson, her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley said he's frustrated with the Coast Guard's response on the state's coast and will consider closing the beaches if the oil becomes a public health threat.Back in Grand Isle, one frustrated man didn't hold back before the president's visit.He ain't much of a leader, Eugene Ryman Jr. said of Obama. The beach you can clean up. The marsh you can't. Where's the leadership? I want to hear what's being done. We're going to lose everything.Meanwhile, BP's Hayward assured investors that the company had considerable firepower to cope with the severe costs. Hayward and other senior BP executives struck a penitent note in their first comprehensive update to shareholders since the oil rig explosion, promising to meet its obligations related to the spill. Frank Basson has a comfortable monopoly along the main drag in Grand Isle. He owns a restaurant, souvenir shop and daiquiri spot. Business plummeted once oil washed up on the shores, but he isn't going anywhere. He came back after Hurricane Katrina, and if he has to close his doors, he figures he'll find a new venture. But he worries about the greater community. BP has to take care of us,he said.Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr in East Grande Terre, La.; Greg Bluestein in Grand Isle, La.; Eileen Sullivan in Washington; Paul J. Weber in Houston; Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.; and Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., contributed to this report.
Will the Oil Spill Help Secure Cap and Trade?
More By Max Fisher on June 03, 2010 11:15am
It's hard to find an upside to the disastrous oil spill still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. But Democrats may be looking to push cap and trade legislation, which had previously stalled, off of public outrage against the offshore drilling accident. What are their chances?
-Finding Something Good From Oil Spill The Washington Post's Steve Mufson and Michael Shear write, President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency. In a speech at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, Obama made one of his strongest pitches for comprehensive climate legislation, arguing that the case for breaking the nation's addiction to fossil fuels has been made clearer by the environmental catastrophe in the gulf.
-Exploiting Crisis for Bad Policy The Heritage Foundation's Nicolis Loris fumes, Similar to Rahm Emanuel’s You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste statement, President Obama urged both Democrats and Republicans to move quickly to pass cap and trade legislation. This is not the solution to America’s energy needs because cap and trade will raise energy prices, kill jobs and contract the economy.He adds,The president said he is angry and frustrated – as are most Americans. But that frustration should not lead to policies that will shrink America’s economy, destroy jobs and affect America’s energy production for years to come.
-But Policy Remains Unpopular, Difficult to Secure The Examiner's John Ryden notes, It is clear from his speech that the president’s top priority is to pass cap and trade legislation. It is notable that he did not directly address it by that name. Probably because cap and trade is not very popular, often referred to by critics as cap and tax. He does not have the votes in the senate to pass this legislation as he noted. ... To get his cap and trade bill passed he is trying to add energy development measures to develop off-shore oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. The BP oil spill in the Gulf has made this more difficult as it has stiffened the opposition to any off-shore drilling, leaving the president less incentives to win votes for his cap and trade legislation.
-Economic Cost Too High National Review's Stephen Spruiell makes the case. The state’s independent auditing agency just released a damning study on the cap-and-trade program California plans to implement unilaterally, concluding that the 'net economywide impact' — which includes badly needed revenue for the state’s empty coffers — will in all likelihood be negative.The case of California shows us that our illusions about the economic feasibility of a green-energy utopia are on a fast track to the dust bin.
-Oil Spill Hurting Obama's Energy Agenda The New York Times' Peter Baker writes, Now that engineers have given up trying to plug the leak and have turned their efforts to containing it until a relief well can be finished in August, Mr. Obama faces at least two more months of crisis management that will complicate his hopes of advancing his agenda in other areas. Every day he devotes to a spill that seems beyond his control, and every day it consumes attention in Washington, is another day that he cannot focus as much energy and resources on his own initiatives.
Cap collects some Gulf oil; crude washes into Fla. By MELISSA NELSON and JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writers - 4:15PM JUNE 4,10
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude now fouling four states.Even though the inverted funnel-like device was set over the leak late Thursday, crude continued to spew into the sea in the nation's worst oil spill. Engineers hoped to close several open vents on the cap throughout the day in the latest attempt to contain the oil.As they worked on the system underwater, the effect of the BP spill was widely seen. Swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the mess while children played with it on the shore and others inspected the clumps with fascination, some taking pictures. Brown pelicans coated in chocolate syrup-like oil flailed and struggled in the surf on a Louisiana island, where the beached was stained in hues of rust and crimson, much like the color of drying blood.In Revelations, it says the water will turn to blood. That's what it looks like out here — like the Gulf is bleeding,said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Plaquemines Parish as he kneeled down to take a picture of an oil-coated feather. This is going to choke the life out of everything.President Barack Obama was in Louisiana, his second trip in a week and the third since the disaster unfolded following an April 20 oil rig explosion. Eleven workers were killed.
Obama got a briefing on the spill and said progress was being made but that it was way too early to be optimistic about BP's latest attempt. He criticized BP for spending on advertising and shareholder dividends, saying the company must not do that if it's nickeling and diming local businesses and workers.In Grand Isle where the president was headed, the once-bustling fishing pier was filled not with anglers, but photographers seeking a new angle on the invading ooze. The community of 1,500 rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina and residents savor their pristine shoreline.Their frustration is boiling over. One sign on the street said: Tony Bologna, a dig at BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward.Stephanie and Eugene Ryman Jr., who live in nearby Rockport, come to the pier every year to celebrate their wedding anniversary. This was their 33rd, and they were going to make the most of it — even if it meant looking at oil sheen instead of a beautiful vista.Eugene, 54, who has worked for decades in a shipyard, said he was growing tired of the government's response.He ain't much of a leader,he said of Obama. The beach you can clean up. The marsh you can't. Where's the leadership. I want to hear what's being done. We're going to lose everything.Off the coast and a mile below the water's surface, crews were working on the cap to try to curtail the spill. The device has different colored hoses loosely attached to combat near-freezing temperatures and icylike crystals that could clog it. It started pumping oil and gas to a tanker on the surface overnight, but it wasn't clear how much.Progress is being made, but we need to caution against over-optimism, said Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the disaster.He said a very rough estimate of current collection would be about 42,000 gallons a day, though he stressed the information was anecdotal.
Robots a mile beneath the Gulf were shooting chemical dispersants at the escaping oil — though it looked more like flares when illuminated a mile underwater.To put the cap in place, BP had to slice off the main pipe with giant shears after a diamond-edged saw became stuck. By doing so, they risked increasing the flow by as much as 20 percent, though Allen said it was still too soon to know whether that had happened.Once the containment cap is on and it's working, we hope the rate is significantly reduced, he said.The jagged cut forced crews to use a looser fitting cap, but Allen did not rule out trying to again smooth out the cut with the diamond saw if officials aren't satisfied with the current cap. The best chance to plug the leak is a pair of relief wells, which are at least two months away. The well has spit out between 22 million and 47 million gallons of oil, according to government estimates. In Florida, spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number before dawn on the beaches. David Lucas, of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly ended their visit to Pensacola Beach after wading into oily water. It was sticky brown globs out there, Lucas said after the group cleaned their feet in the parking lot and headed south to Orlando.
People should stay away from oil on the beach or in the water, but swallowing a little oil-tainted water or getting slimed by a tarball is not considered grounds for a trip to the emergency room, health officials said. Oil is considered toxic. Short exposures may cause only fleeting symptoms, and exposure to large amounts of it for a long time could lead to problems with breathing, thinking and coordination, and potentially raise the risk of cancer, said Niladri Basu, a University of Michigan environmental toxicologist. Children are more sensitive to pollution than adults. Steven Majerus and his 11-year-old nephew, Zach, walked along Pensacola Beach and checked out the oil clumps as family members splashed in the surf. Majerus filled a plastic baggy with tar and photographed it with his phone.It's really hot. See how hot it gets in this bag with the sun beating down on it, he said. Just to the west at Gulf Shores, Ala., Wendi Butler watched glistening clumps of oil roll onto the white sand beach during a morning stroll. An oily smell was in the air. You don't smell the beach breeze at all,said Butler, 40. Butler moved to Perdido Bay from Mobile days before the spill. Now, her two kids don't want to visit because of the oil and she can't find a job.Restaurants are cutting back to their winter staffs because of it. They're not hiring,she said. Meanwhile, BP's Hayward sought to reassure investors, saying the company has considerable firepower to cope with the severe, long-running costs. Hayward and other senior BP executives struck a penitent note in their first comprehensive update to shareholders since the oil rig explosion, stressing their commitment to rebuilding BP's tarnished reputation, improving safety measures and restoring the damaged Gulf coast.Reeves reported from Gulf Shores, Ala. Associated Press writers Greg Bluestein in Grand Isle, La.; Holbrook Mohr in East Grand Terre, La.; Jane Wardell in London, Mike Stobbe in Atlanta and Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans contributed to this report.
Cap collecting Gulf oil, still unclear how much By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer 10 AM JUNE 4,10
GRAND ISLE, La. – A cap collected some of the oil spewing out of the blown-out Gulf well, but black crude was still leaking into the sea, and officials said they won't know until later Friday how the device is working.It's the latest bid to contain — not plug — the nation's worst spill. Even if the cap is successful, it will not collect all the oil coming out. Stopping the leak is still months away.But officials were optimistic when the inverted funnel-like system, wrapped in hoses and more sophisticated than previous devices, started pumping oil and gas to a tanker on the surface.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the disaster, said a very rough estimate of current collection would be about 42,000 gallons a day, though he stressed he wasn't certain.Progress is being made, but we need to caution against over-optimism, he said.President Barack Obama was set to visit the Louisiana coast Friday, his second trip in a week and the third since the disaster unfolded following an April 20 oil rig explosion. Eleven workers were killed.
Meanwhile, waves of gooey tar blobs were washing ashore on the white sand of the Florida Panhandle and nearby Alabama beaches as a slick from the spill moved closer to shore.Spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number before dawn on the beaches of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and nearby areas, a county emergency official said. The park is a long string of connected barrier islands near Pensacola.BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said it will be later in the day before they know how much is being captured.
There is flow coming up the pipe. Just now, I don't know the exact rate, Suttles said on NBC's Today show.Robots a mile beneath the Gulf positioned the lid over the main pipe on the leaking well Thursday night. The robots were shot chemical dispersants — though it looked more like flares when illuminated a mile underwater — at the spewing oil.To put the cap in place, BP had to slice off the pipe with giant shears after a diamond-edged saw became stuck. By doing so, they risked increasing the flow by as much as 20 percent, though Allen said it was still too soon know whether that had happened.Once the containment cap is on and it's working, we hope the rate is significantly reduced, he said.The jagged cut forced crews to use a looser fitting cap, but Allen did not rule out trying to again smooth out the cut with the diamond saw if officials aren't satisfied with the current cap.Suttles said some of the oil still pouring out came from vents deliberately placed to keep icelike crystals from forming that could block the funnel. BP will try to close those four vents in succession and reduce the spill, he said.The best chance to plug the leak is a pair of relief wells, which are at least two months away. The well has spit out between 21 million and 46 million gallons of oil since a rig exploded on April 20 about 50 miles from the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers. BP was leasing the rig and is responsible to fix and clean up the spill.In oil-soaked Grand Isle, Jason French might as well have painted a bulls-eye on his back. His mission was to be BP's representative at a meeting for 50 or so residents who had gathered at a church to vent.We are all angry and frustrated, he said.Feel free tonight to let me see that anger. Direct it at me, direct it at BP, but I want to assure you, the folks in this community, that we are working hard to remedy the situation.
Residents weren't buying it. Sorry doesn't pay the bills,said Susan Felio Price, a longtime resident. Through the negligence of BP we now find ourselves trying to roller-skate up a mountain,she said.We're growing really weary. We're tired. We're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Someone's got to help us get to the top of that mountain.Obama shared some of that anger ahead of his Gulf visit. He told CNN's Larry King that he was frustrated and used his strongest language in assailing BP. I am furious at this entire situation because this is an example where somebody didn't think through the consequences of their actions,Obama said.This is imperiling an entire way of life and an entire region for potentially years.Meanwhile, newly disclosed internal Coast Guard documents from the day after the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig indicated that U.S. officials were warning of a leak of 336,000gallons per day of crude from the well in the event of a complete blowout. The volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later it was revised to 210,000 gallons. Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily. The Center for Public Integrity, which initially reported the Coast Guard logs, said it obtained them from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The logs also showed early in the disaster that remote underwater robots were unable to activate the rig's blowout preventer, which was supposed to shut off the flow from the well in the event of such a catastrophic failure.The damage to the environment was chilling on East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, where workers found birds coated in thick, black goo. Images shot by an Associated Press photographer show Brown pelicans drenched in thick oil, struggling and flailing in the surf.BP CEO Tony Hayward promised that the company would clean up every drop of oil and restore the shoreline to its original state.BP will be here for a very long time. We realize this is just the beginning,he said.
Those on Grand Isle seemed less than convinced by BP's assurances.We want you to feel what we feel,said Leoda Bladsacker, a member of the town's council, as her voice trembled. We're not going to be OK for a long, long time.Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Paul J. Weber in Houston contributed to this report.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
POISONED WATERS
REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)
REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
ITS 10 AM JUNE 4,10 AND SEE WHATS UP WITH THE OIL SPILL TODAY.
ITS 3:10PM JUNE 4,2010 A LOT OF THE BILDERBERG MEMBERS ARE STARTING TO GET SCARED AND ARE AFRAID TO BE SEEN AT BILDERBERG-THEY WANT TO AVOID BEING SEEN THERE.THE NUTCASES CONTROL FREAKS ARE FINALLY ON THE RUN AND KNOW THEY ARE BEING WATCHED VERY CLOSELY OF THEIR DEMONIC DEEDS AGAINST THE WORLDS CITIZENS.THIS IS PRETTY GOOD FOR BEING A RACIST AND IMAGINING THAT THE BILDERBERGS EXIST AND CONTROL WORLD EVENTS WITH THEIR BIG MONEY THEY ROBBED THE WORLD CITIZENS OF.THE BILDERBERGS WANT THE IMF AS THE TREASURY OF THE WORLD JUST LIKE I FIGURED WOULD BE SAID THERE.THE IMF BANK OF THE WORLD TO PAY CAP & TRADE-CLIMATE CHANGE TAXES TO WORLDWIDE BY EVERY CITIZEN.THE GLOBAL BANK OF THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
THE BILDERBERGS ARE AFFRAID THEIR CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM IS BEING DESTROYED,JIM TUCKER SAID THE NEW WORLD ORDER WILL BE IN FULL PROPAGANDA GEAR TO GET THIS CLIMATE CHANGE CAP & TRADE TREATY PASSED.OBAMA WILL BE PUSHING FOR IT TUCKER SAYS OBAMAS OUR BOY.NOW WE KNOW WHY OBAMAS PUTTING CLIMATE CHANGERS ON THE BP SPILL JUST AS I FIGURED AGAIN.GAS WILL BE WELL PRICED TILL NOVEMBER WHEN IT WILL GO TO $4.00 A GALLON.THIS MAKES SENSE TO AS IN AUGUST THEY SAY BP WILL HAVE THE SPILL CAPPED.SEE HOW EVERYTHING IS COMING TOGETHER AS THE NEW WORLD ORDER BILDERBERG NUTCASES WANT A TREATY TO BAN GUNS ALSO WORLDWIDE.THEY REALLY ARE SCARED.GET READY FOLKS BIBLE PROPHECY IS COMING TOGETHER QUICK NOW.
ITS 4:20PM DAY 46 OF OIL SPILL JUNE 4,10.552 BIRDS ARE DEAD ALONG THE GULF COASTLINES.AND I WONDER WHO BOUGHT THE 44% OF BP STOCKS THAT GOLDMAN SACHS GOT RID OF.IF IT WAS A MUSLIM COUNTRY THIS COULD BE A TERRORIST ATTACK THIS OIL SPILL TO DESTROY AMERICANS OCEAN AND FORCE THE PRICE OF OIL AND GAS TO GO UP.THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHT BUT THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT IN THE END.
ITS 7:35PM JUNE 4,10 THERE SAYING TONY HAYWARD WILL STEP ASIDE AND LET SOMEBODY ELSE TAKE OVER.IF TONY HAYWARD GETS FIRED YOU CAN BET HE WILL GET MILLIONS IN SEVERENCE PAY,GOLDMAN SACHS WILL HIRE HIM,THEN 6 MONTHS LATER HE WILL BE A CZAR IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO OVERLOOK THE OIL INDUSTRY.THIS IS HOW THESE CHICAGO THUGS WORK-SOETORO-OBAMA AND HIS CREW OF CRIMINALS.
ITS 8:20PM JUNE 4,10 NOW THERES ALLIGATIONS THAT 100 AND POSSIBLY MORE SO CALLED ENVIROMENTAL WORKERS HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR BACKROUNDS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.WELL JAILBIRDS IF THEY WERE HIRED FROM THEIR CELLS WOULD BLEND RIGHT IN WITH THE CRIMINAL OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.NOTHING SURPRISES ME WITH THIS OBAMA DICTATORSHIP.
ITS 9:06 AM JUNE 5,10 AND PEOLE ARE FINALLY WAKING UP TO THIS BEING PROPHECY FULFILLED LITERALLY FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION.GOD (KING JESUS)SAID ONCE SIN OVERTAKES A NATION AND PEOPLE HATE HIM (JESUS-GOD)AND ISRAEL-THAT NATION OR PERON WILL BE DESTROYED.SINCE THIS PROPHECY OF THE OIL SPILL IS LITERALLY COMING TO PASS,ALL THE REST OF THE PROPHECIES I PUT ON MY SITE WILL LITERALLY COME TO PASS TO JUST LIKE JESUS (GOD)SAID RIGHT FROM HIS WORD.
DAY 47 11:05 AM JUNE 5,10-NOW THERE TALKING ABOUT NUKING THE OIL SPILL TO STOP IT.THIS COULD CAUSE A GIGANTIC TSUNAMI AND END UP POISONING THE WATERS AND STREAMS TO LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WOULD HAPPEN.SO THEY MIGHT USE THE NUKE OPTION ON THIS SPILL WHICH WOULD CAUSE A TSUNAMI LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTS AND THE RADIATION FROM THE NUKE GOING OFF WOULD THEN POISON ALL OF THE GULF AS WELL AS GO IN THE AIR AND POISON THE WATERS AND STREAMS.WE ARE IN FOR INTERESTING TIMES NOW.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS PERILAS DANGEROUS TIMES.
VIDEO OF NUKE WORK RESULT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPNQoTlacU&feature=player_embedded
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Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 13:58 ET How The World Works Enough lollygagging: Nuke the Gulf oil spill! The Soviet Union employed the nuclear option to stop runaway gas wells. So what could possibly go wrong? Video By Andrew Leonard
iStockphoto/AP Why can't we just nuke the oil well out of existence? As each successive failure to stop the nation's worst-ever spill ratchets up popular outrage and political pressure on the Obama administration, chatter about the nuclear option has also heated up. We've got an extreme problem, so why not an extreme solution? Strange as it may seem to hear people advocating thermonuclear devastation to stop an environmental catastrophe, one can understand the psychological attraction. Enough with the nutty Rube Goldberg "top kill" kludges. Let's just blow the damn thing up and get it over with! Hey, the Soviets did it, why can't we? This much we do know: In four separate instances dating back to 1966, the Soviet Union successfully used nuclear explosives to shut off runaway onshore gas wells. According to a report published by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2000, The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions,the first successful application of the nuclear option took place in the Urtabulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan. The Urtabulak well had been gushing more than 12 million cubic meters of gas per day for almost three years and had defied numerous techno-fixes.Finally, in the fall of 1966, a decision was made to attempt closing the well with the use of a nuclear explosive... Two 44.5-cm (13.5-in) diameter slant wells, Holes No. 1c and 2c, were drilled simultaneously. They were aimed to come as close as possible to Hole No. 11 at a depth of about 1500 m in the middle of a 200-m-thick clay zone.... The location for the explosive in Hole 1c was cooled to bring it down to a temperature the explosive could withstand. A special 3O-kt nuclear explosive developed by the Arzamas nuclear weapons laboratory for this event was emplaced in Hole 1c and stemmed. It was detonated on September 30, 1966. Twenty-three seconds later the flame went out, and the well was sealed.
Emboldened by their success, the Soviets proceeded to cap three other runaway gas wells in ensuing years, once in 1968 and twice in 1972. Another attempt in 1981 failed, however, and as far as we know, there have been no further efforts at nuclear well destruction. I cannot affirmatively attest to the authenticity of the footage in the following video, but the events recorded align pretty well with the DOE report, and it certainly makes for gripping viewing:One of the Soviet scientists involved with the Urtabulak effort has already helpfully proposed that the U.S. follow the Russian example, inspiring animated discussion among the online Deepwater Horizon voyeurs who hang out at places like the indispensable The Oil Drum. What's Obama waiting for? What could possibly go wrong? The first cautionary note would be to observe that there's a big difference between a gas well on land and a deep-water oil well. The primary reason why the Deepwater Horizon spill has proven so difficult to stop is precisely because the wellhead is 5,000 feet underwater, and the well bore penetrates another 13,000 feet below the seabed. Solutions that are possible on land or in shallow water are not readily applicable, or the well would already be plugged.It's also worth noting that in the Soviet case, additional slant wells had to be drilled in order to get the nuclear explosive deep enough and close enough to the original well to be able to seal it off. Although some armchair nuclear option quarterbacks have recommended exploding a nuclear device at the seabed in the hope of fusing the surrounding seafloor into a giant cap, it's not clear that such a cap would be able to withstand the immense pressure exerted by the oil and gas bubbling from below. To properly place any explosive -- conventional or nuclear -- deep enough to be able to permanently plug the well would require drilling a new well -- a process that we already know is time-consuming.
This is just speculation, but I'm also guessing that we don't have a whole lot of data about what happens to the geology of a deepwater oil reservoir when a nuclear bomb is detonated in the general vicinity. I'd hate to be the president who authorized a nuclear strike against an oil well and discover that the blast created numerous fractures in the seafloor that allowed even more oil and gas to escape. It seems to me that one might want to hold such a tactic in reserve as a last resort.
And then there are the worst-case scenarios -- such as the possibility that a nuclear explosion might ignite a chain reaction of methane hydrate eruptions that could result in the most horrific global catastrophe since the Permian extinction:
You think the good citizens of Louisiana are upset now. Imagine how they'd feel after a tsunami followed by clouds of deadly methane gas laid waste to the Gulf?
Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real By HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 5,10 7:20 PM.
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson.Scenes like this played out along miles of shoreline Saturday, nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded and the wellhead a mile below the surface began belching millions of gallon of oil.These waters are my backyard, my life, said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove.I don't want to say heartbreaking, because that's been said. It's a nightmare. It looks like it's going to be wave after wave of it and nobody can stop it.The oil has steadily spread east, washing up in greater quantities in recent days, even as a cap placed by BP over the blownout well began to collect some of the escaping crude. The cap, resembling an upside-down funnel, has captured about 252,000gallons of oil, according to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis.
If earlier estimates are correct, that means the cap is capturing from a quarter to as much as half the oil spewing from the blowout each day. But that is a small fraction of the roughly 24 million to 47 million gallons government officials estimate have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, making it the nation's largest oil spill ever.Allen, who said the goal is to gradually raise the amount of the oil being captured, compared the process to stopping the flow of water from a garden hose with a finger: You don't want to put your finger down too quickly, or let it off too quickly.BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.President Barack Obama pledged Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address to fight the spill with the people of the Gulf Coast. His words for oil giant BP PLC were stern: We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast.But his reassurances offer limited consolation to the people who live and work along the coasts of four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida — now confronting the oil spill firsthand.In Gulf Shores, Ala., boardwalks leading to hotels were tattooed with oil from beachgoers' feet. A slick hundreds of yards long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with a thick, red stew. Cleanup workers rushed to contain it in bags, but more washed in before they could remove the first wave of debris.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Allen met for more than an hour Saturday in Mobile, Ala., agreeing to a new plan that would significantly increase protection on the state's coast with larger booms, beachfront barriers, skimmers and a new system to protect Perdido Bay near the Florida line.Riley, who was angered by a Coast Guard decision to move boom from Alabama to Louisiana, said the barriers must be up within days for him to be satisfied. Allen said he needed to report to the president before confirming more details of the agreement.The oil is showing up right at the beginning of the lucrative tourist season, and beachgoers taking to the region's beaches haven't been able to escape it.This makes me sick, said Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude. We were over in Florida earlier and it was bad there, but it was nothing like this.At Pensacola Beach, Erin Tamber, who moved to the area from New Orleans after surviving Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, inspected a beach stained orange by the retreating tide.I feel like I've gone from owning a piece of paradise to owning a toxic waste dump, she said.Back in Louisiana, along the beach at Queen Bess Island, oil pooled several feet deep, trapping birds against unused containment boom. The futility of their struggle was confirmed when Joe Sartore, a National Geographic photographer, sank thigh deep in oil on nearby East Grand Terre Island and had to be pulled from the tar.I would have died if I would have been out here alone,he said. With no oil response workers on Queen Bess, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, the slime dripping from its wings.We're in the sixth week, you'd think there would be a flotilla of people out here, Hahn said.As you can see, we're so far behind the curve in this thing.After six weeks with one to four birds a day coming into Louisiana's rescue center for oiled birds at Fort Jackson, 53 arrived Thursday and another 13 Friday morning, with more on the way. Federal authorities say 792 dead birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other wildlife have been collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its coastline.
Yet scientists say the wildlife death toll remains relatively modest, well below the tens of thousand of birds, otters and other creatures killed after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The numbers have stayed comparatively low because the Deepwater Horizon rig was 50 miles off the coast and most of the oil has stayed in the open sea. The Valdez ran aground on a reef close to land, in a more enclosed setting. Experts say the Gulf's marshes, beaches and coastal waters, which nurture a dazzling array of life, could be transformed into killing fields, though the die-off could take months or years and unfold largely out of sight. The damage could be even greater beneath the water's surface, where oil and dispersants could devastate zooplankton and tiny invertebrate communities at the base of the aquatic food chain.People naturally tend to focus on things that are most conspicuous, like oiled birds, but in my opinion the impacts on fisheries will be much more severe, said Rich Ambrose, director of the environmental science and engineering at program at UCLA. The Gulf is also home to dolphins and species including the endangered sperm whale. A government report found that dolphins with prolonged exposure to oil in the 1990s experienced skin injuries and burns, reduced neurological functions and lower hemoglobin levels in their blood. It concluded, though, that the effects probably wouldn't be lethal because many creatures would avoid the oil. Yet dolphins in the Gulf have been spotted swimming through plumes of crude.Gilly Llewellyn, oceans program leader with the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, said she observed the same behavior by dolphins following a 73-day spill last year in the Timor Sea.A heartbreaking sight, Llewellyn said.And what we managed to see on the surface was undoubtedly just a fraction of what was happening.
The prospect left fishing guide Marino shaking his head, as he watched the oil washing into a marsh and over the body of a dead pelican. Species like shrimp and crab flourish here, finding protection in the grasses. Fish, birds and other creatures feed here.It's going to break that cycle of life,Marino said.It's like pouring gas in your aquarium. What do you think that's going to do? Flesher reported from Traverse City, Mich. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr on Barataria Bay, La.; Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla.; and Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Truths About the Oil Spill
by Martha Zoller 06/04/2010
There are some truths about the Gulf oil spill that must be considered when addressing this calamity.While there is no doubt the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is a major disaster, it should not mean the end of off-shore drilling.And the slowness of the government response is a disaster of epic proportions.
First, where to drill.
President Obama says we are drilling so far out to sea because the close-in resources have been tapped. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are drilling so far out because of the short sightedness of politicians, including Republicans like Florida Governors Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. These Republicans caved to bad information about drilling off their states’ coasts. They wanted to be liked by environmentalists. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats and environmentalists to derail our energy independence?
We are drilling in deep water, where it’s extremely risky, because in the safer places to drill, such as ANWR, closer to shore along the coast and much of the vast expanses of federal lands in the West, the federal government has placed restrictions preventing energy development. The BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill isn’t a reflection of not enough regulation. We have 300 pages of regulation. It is a reflection of unenforced regulation. The people put in charge of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service were academics appointed by the Obama Administration with little to no experience in the real world. And where is President Obama, other than his Clinton walking the beach picking up a rock moment last weekend. He seems unconcerned with the whole thing. Mr. Cool doesn’t have the answers. And if anyone believes one of the first daughters asked Daddy,
Did you plug the hole, yet? as he shaved, I’ve got some barrier islands in Louisiana I could sell you. This oil spill should not be a condemnation of Drill Here, Drill Now.This disaster supports Drill Here, Drill Now.It is safer to drill off shore in shallow waters and on land in the U.S. than to buy oil from foreign sources and have it shipped to us. I talked to a very high ranking congressman and he said, How do we advocate Drill Here, Drill Now now? It’s easy, be armed with the facts. Stand up and don’t let the emotion lead the debate.Meanwhile, the federal response to the spill has been nothing short of abysmal. In the five states impacted immediately (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida), we’ve seen executives at work. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has shown he is a can-do executive while the feds are doing little but getting in the way. Jindal talks of useless meetings lacking action. The Obama Administration seems to be hung up on having the best minds looking at this but they can’t give Gov. Jindal an answer on the best option: dredging sand and making a barrier to keep the oil away from the coast. He asked for that weeks ago and has gotten only limited approval. Limited approval? This is not a limited disaster.It shouldn’t take the Army Corps of Engineers weeks to approve the sand berms, they should have gotten the equipment to the coast right away.
We can’t change what’s happened but we can act now. Work with Jindal in the lead; don’t have more meetings with the likes of the Atty. Gen. Eric Holder. There will be a time for useless meetings, as Gov. Jindal said. Now is the time for action.But before White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gets us all riding bicycles to work, let’s look at the real truth about this spill. Roy Spencer, former NASA scientist, author of Climate Confusion and research scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, took a historical look at the oil spills in the world. Spencer is the official climatologist of The Rush Limbaugh Program,but most importantly, his research at UAB Huntsville is not funded by corporations. Spencer took into consideration what BP says they were pumping daily from the well, which was 15,000 barrels a day and the actual numbers on the historical spills. The largest oil spill, deliberately set in 1991 by Iraqi forces, was an estimated 500 million gallons. The second largest spill occurs every year in leakage from tankers and ships, estimated at 250 million gallons a year. The third largest was the only other spill from a rig—in Mexico in 1979 (IXTOC)—at less than 150 million gallons. Exxon Valdez was way down the list at less than 50 million gallons. BP/Deepwater Horizon is also less than 50 million gallons but still gushing. We are a long way from the worst spill in history and it’s clear that most spills occur from shipping oil, not drilling it. Granted, if we don’t get that thing tapped, it could be worse, but we are not there yet. It’s been said, A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Let’s use it to our advantage for a change. Lets use this to educate about the facts of drilling. I know with the 24/7 spillcam going all the time, Drill Here, Drill Now advocates think they can’t talk about drilling, but this is the perfect moment. Spread the facts and don’t stop telling them. Drilling for oil in America is safe. Let’s fix this and then move close to shore and on land and Drill Here, Drill Now.
Ms. Zoller is a political analyst and conservative talk show host for WXKT FM 103.7 in Gainesville, Georgia and syndicated on The Georgia News Network. She is one of the Talkers Magazine Heavy Hundred Talk Shows in America. She can be seen regularly on cable news. She is the author of Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America.You may contact her through www.marthazoller.com
Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured By MELISSA NELSON and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 5,10 8:30 AM
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – President Barack Obama promised Saturday to fight the massive oil spill alongside the people of the Gulf Coast, as a cap placed over the gusher was collecting only some of the crude and a slow-motion catastrophe spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states.The spreading slick arrived with the tide on the Florida Panhandle's white sands Friday as BP continued its desperate and untested bid to arrest what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.It's brutally unfair. It's wrong. And what I told these men and women — and what I have said since the beginning of this disaster — is that I'm going to stand with the people of the Gulf Coast until they are made whole," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address, recorded in Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast.Obama also maintained his increasingly forceful tone toward BP PLC, the oil giant responsible for the cleanup: We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast.The government's point man for the crisis, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Friday that there had been progress but cautioned against overoptimism.Early Friday, he guessed that the cap was collecting 42,000 gallons a day — less than one-tenth of the amount leaking from the well. Later in the day, BP said in a tweet that since it was installed Thursday night, it had collected about 76,000 gallons.The widening scope of the disaster deepened the anger and despair just as Obama arrived for his third visit to the stricken Gulf Coast.On Obama's trip to the Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast, his motorcade passed a building that had been adorned with his portrait reminiscent of posters of him during his presidential campaign. Instead of hope or change,the words what now? were on his forehead.
The oil has reached the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It has turned marshlands into death zones for wildlife and stained beaches rust and crimson. Some said it brought to mind the plagues and punishments of the Bible.In Revelations it says the water will turn to blood,said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. That's what it looks like out here — like the Gulf is bleeding. This is going to choke the life out of everything.
He added: It makes me want to cry.Six weeks after the April 20 oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, the well has leaked somewhere between 22 million and 47 million gallons of oil, according to government estimates.The mayor of Grand Isle, David Camardelle, choked up as he told the president of staying up nights worrying.We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, Camardelle said.I'm trying to keep Grand Isle alive.A device resembling an upside-down funnel was lowered over the blown-out well a mile beneath the sea to try to capture most of the oil and direct it to a ship on the surface. But crude continued to escape into the Gulf early Saturday through vents designed to prevent ice crystals from clogging the cap. Engineers hoped to close several vents.One unanswered question was whether the cap fit snugly. BP sheared off the well pipe before installing the cap but was unable to make a smooth cut.As the operation went on at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the effect of the BP spill was increasingly evident.Swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the mess, while other beachgoers inspected the clumps with fascination, some taking pictures. David Lucas of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly cut their visit short after wading into oily water. It was sticky brown globs out there, Lucas said after he and the others cleaned their feet and left. Health officials said that people should stay away from the mess but that swallowing a little oil-tainted water or getting slimed by a tarball is no reason for alarm. Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson said there are no plans to close the beach. For the most part if you went and walked on the sand that was not right there on the shoreline, you were in no danger of engaging tar balls, he said Friday.
At Gulf Shores, Ala., a slick of oil hundreds of yard long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with thick, reddish goo. A squad of cleanup workers bagged up the oil, but more washed in before they could remove the debris from the first run. Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., watched as drops of oil turned the surf brown and collected at the waterline, smearing the beach with big, thick globs.
This makes me sick, said Thomasson, her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley said he's frustrated with the Coast Guard's response on the state's coast and will consider closing the beaches if the oil becomes a public health threat.Back in Grand Isle, one frustrated man didn't hold back before the president's visit.He ain't much of a leader, Eugene Ryman Jr. said of Obama. The beach you can clean up. The marsh you can't. Where's the leadership? I want to hear what's being done. We're going to lose everything.Meanwhile, BP's Hayward assured investors that the company had considerable firepower to cope with the severe costs. Hayward and other senior BP executives struck a penitent note in their first comprehensive update to shareholders since the oil rig explosion, promising to meet its obligations related to the spill. Frank Basson has a comfortable monopoly along the main drag in Grand Isle. He owns a restaurant, souvenir shop and daiquiri spot. Business plummeted once oil washed up on the shores, but he isn't going anywhere. He came back after Hurricane Katrina, and if he has to close his doors, he figures he'll find a new venture. But he worries about the greater community. BP has to take care of us,he said.Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr in East Grande Terre, La.; Greg Bluestein in Grand Isle, La.; Eileen Sullivan in Washington; Paul J. Weber in Houston; Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.; and Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., contributed to this report.
Will the Oil Spill Help Secure Cap and Trade?
More By Max Fisher on June 03, 2010 11:15am
It's hard to find an upside to the disastrous oil spill still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. But Democrats may be looking to push cap and trade legislation, which had previously stalled, off of public outrage against the offshore drilling accident. What are their chances?
-Finding Something Good From Oil Spill The Washington Post's Steve Mufson and Michael Shear write, President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency. In a speech at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, Obama made one of his strongest pitches for comprehensive climate legislation, arguing that the case for breaking the nation's addiction to fossil fuels has been made clearer by the environmental catastrophe in the gulf.
-Exploiting Crisis for Bad Policy The Heritage Foundation's Nicolis Loris fumes, Similar to Rahm Emanuel’s You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste statement, President Obama urged both Democrats and Republicans to move quickly to pass cap and trade legislation. This is not the solution to America’s energy needs because cap and trade will raise energy prices, kill jobs and contract the economy.He adds,The president said he is angry and frustrated – as are most Americans. But that frustration should not lead to policies that will shrink America’s economy, destroy jobs and affect America’s energy production for years to come.
-But Policy Remains Unpopular, Difficult to Secure The Examiner's John Ryden notes, It is clear from his speech that the president’s top priority is to pass cap and trade legislation. It is notable that he did not directly address it by that name. Probably because cap and trade is not very popular, often referred to by critics as cap and tax. He does not have the votes in the senate to pass this legislation as he noted. ... To get his cap and trade bill passed he is trying to add energy development measures to develop off-shore oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. The BP oil spill in the Gulf has made this more difficult as it has stiffened the opposition to any off-shore drilling, leaving the president less incentives to win votes for his cap and trade legislation.
-Economic Cost Too High National Review's Stephen Spruiell makes the case. The state’s independent auditing agency just released a damning study on the cap-and-trade program California plans to implement unilaterally, concluding that the 'net economywide impact' — which includes badly needed revenue for the state’s empty coffers — will in all likelihood be negative.The case of California shows us that our illusions about the economic feasibility of a green-energy utopia are on a fast track to the dust bin.
-Oil Spill Hurting Obama's Energy Agenda The New York Times' Peter Baker writes, Now that engineers have given up trying to plug the leak and have turned their efforts to containing it until a relief well can be finished in August, Mr. Obama faces at least two more months of crisis management that will complicate his hopes of advancing his agenda in other areas. Every day he devotes to a spill that seems beyond his control, and every day it consumes attention in Washington, is another day that he cannot focus as much energy and resources on his own initiatives.
Cap collects some Gulf oil; crude washes into Fla. By MELISSA NELSON and JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writers - 4:15PM JUNE 4,10
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude now fouling four states.Even though the inverted funnel-like device was set over the leak late Thursday, crude continued to spew into the sea in the nation's worst oil spill. Engineers hoped to close several open vents on the cap throughout the day in the latest attempt to contain the oil.As they worked on the system underwater, the effect of the BP spill was widely seen. Swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the mess while children played with it on the shore and others inspected the clumps with fascination, some taking pictures. Brown pelicans coated in chocolate syrup-like oil flailed and struggled in the surf on a Louisiana island, where the beached was stained in hues of rust and crimson, much like the color of drying blood.In Revelations, it says the water will turn to blood. That's what it looks like out here — like the Gulf is bleeding,said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Plaquemines Parish as he kneeled down to take a picture of an oil-coated feather. This is going to choke the life out of everything.President Barack Obama was in Louisiana, his second trip in a week and the third since the disaster unfolded following an April 20 oil rig explosion. Eleven workers were killed.
Obama got a briefing on the spill and said progress was being made but that it was way too early to be optimistic about BP's latest attempt. He criticized BP for spending on advertising and shareholder dividends, saying the company must not do that if it's nickeling and diming local businesses and workers.In Grand Isle where the president was headed, the once-bustling fishing pier was filled not with anglers, but photographers seeking a new angle on the invading ooze. The community of 1,500 rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina and residents savor their pristine shoreline.Their frustration is boiling over. One sign on the street said: Tony Bologna, a dig at BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward.Stephanie and Eugene Ryman Jr., who live in nearby Rockport, come to the pier every year to celebrate their wedding anniversary. This was their 33rd, and they were going to make the most of it — even if it meant looking at oil sheen instead of a beautiful vista.Eugene, 54, who has worked for decades in a shipyard, said he was growing tired of the government's response.He ain't much of a leader,he said of Obama. The beach you can clean up. The marsh you can't. Where's the leadership. I want to hear what's being done. We're going to lose everything.Off the coast and a mile below the water's surface, crews were working on the cap to try to curtail the spill. The device has different colored hoses loosely attached to combat near-freezing temperatures and icylike crystals that could clog it. It started pumping oil and gas to a tanker on the surface overnight, but it wasn't clear how much.Progress is being made, but we need to caution against over-optimism, said Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the disaster.He said a very rough estimate of current collection would be about 42,000 gallons a day, though he stressed the information was anecdotal.
Robots a mile beneath the Gulf were shooting chemical dispersants at the escaping oil — though it looked more like flares when illuminated a mile underwater.To put the cap in place, BP had to slice off the main pipe with giant shears after a diamond-edged saw became stuck. By doing so, they risked increasing the flow by as much as 20 percent, though Allen said it was still too soon to know whether that had happened.Once the containment cap is on and it's working, we hope the rate is significantly reduced, he said.The jagged cut forced crews to use a looser fitting cap, but Allen did not rule out trying to again smooth out the cut with the diamond saw if officials aren't satisfied with the current cap. The best chance to plug the leak is a pair of relief wells, which are at least two months away. The well has spit out between 22 million and 47 million gallons of oil, according to government estimates. In Florida, spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number before dawn on the beaches. David Lucas, of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly ended their visit to Pensacola Beach after wading into oily water. It was sticky brown globs out there, Lucas said after the group cleaned their feet in the parking lot and headed south to Orlando.
People should stay away from oil on the beach or in the water, but swallowing a little oil-tainted water or getting slimed by a tarball is not considered grounds for a trip to the emergency room, health officials said. Oil is considered toxic. Short exposures may cause only fleeting symptoms, and exposure to large amounts of it for a long time could lead to problems with breathing, thinking and coordination, and potentially raise the risk of cancer, said Niladri Basu, a University of Michigan environmental toxicologist. Children are more sensitive to pollution than adults. Steven Majerus and his 11-year-old nephew, Zach, walked along Pensacola Beach and checked out the oil clumps as family members splashed in the surf. Majerus filled a plastic baggy with tar and photographed it with his phone.It's really hot. See how hot it gets in this bag with the sun beating down on it, he said. Just to the west at Gulf Shores, Ala., Wendi Butler watched glistening clumps of oil roll onto the white sand beach during a morning stroll. An oily smell was in the air. You don't smell the beach breeze at all,said Butler, 40. Butler moved to Perdido Bay from Mobile days before the spill. Now, her two kids don't want to visit because of the oil and she can't find a job.Restaurants are cutting back to their winter staffs because of it. They're not hiring,she said. Meanwhile, BP's Hayward sought to reassure investors, saying the company has considerable firepower to cope with the severe, long-running costs. Hayward and other senior BP executives struck a penitent note in their first comprehensive update to shareholders since the oil rig explosion, stressing their commitment to rebuilding BP's tarnished reputation, improving safety measures and restoring the damaged Gulf coast.Reeves reported from Gulf Shores, Ala. Associated Press writers Greg Bluestein in Grand Isle, La.; Holbrook Mohr in East Grand Terre, La.; Jane Wardell in London, Mike Stobbe in Atlanta and Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans contributed to this report.
Cap collecting Gulf oil, still unclear how much By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer 10 AM JUNE 4,10
GRAND ISLE, La. – A cap collected some of the oil spewing out of the blown-out Gulf well, but black crude was still leaking into the sea, and officials said they won't know until later Friday how the device is working.It's the latest bid to contain — not plug — the nation's worst spill. Even if the cap is successful, it will not collect all the oil coming out. Stopping the leak is still months away.But officials were optimistic when the inverted funnel-like system, wrapped in hoses and more sophisticated than previous devices, started pumping oil and gas to a tanker on the surface.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the disaster, said a very rough estimate of current collection would be about 42,000 gallons a day, though he stressed he wasn't certain.Progress is being made, but we need to caution against over-optimism, he said.President Barack Obama was set to visit the Louisiana coast Friday, his second trip in a week and the third since the disaster unfolded following an April 20 oil rig explosion. Eleven workers were killed.
Meanwhile, waves of gooey tar blobs were washing ashore on the white sand of the Florida Panhandle and nearby Alabama beaches as a slick from the spill moved closer to shore.Spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number before dawn on the beaches of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and nearby areas, a county emergency official said. The park is a long string of connected barrier islands near Pensacola.BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said it will be later in the day before they know how much is being captured.
There is flow coming up the pipe. Just now, I don't know the exact rate, Suttles said on NBC's Today show.Robots a mile beneath the Gulf positioned the lid over the main pipe on the leaking well Thursday night. The robots were shot chemical dispersants — though it looked more like flares when illuminated a mile underwater — at the spewing oil.To put the cap in place, BP had to slice off the pipe with giant shears after a diamond-edged saw became stuck. By doing so, they risked increasing the flow by as much as 20 percent, though Allen said it was still too soon know whether that had happened.Once the containment cap is on and it's working, we hope the rate is significantly reduced, he said.The jagged cut forced crews to use a looser fitting cap, but Allen did not rule out trying to again smooth out the cut with the diamond saw if officials aren't satisfied with the current cap.Suttles said some of the oil still pouring out came from vents deliberately placed to keep icelike crystals from forming that could block the funnel. BP will try to close those four vents in succession and reduce the spill, he said.The best chance to plug the leak is a pair of relief wells, which are at least two months away. The well has spit out between 21 million and 46 million gallons of oil since a rig exploded on April 20 about 50 miles from the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers. BP was leasing the rig and is responsible to fix and clean up the spill.In oil-soaked Grand Isle, Jason French might as well have painted a bulls-eye on his back. His mission was to be BP's representative at a meeting for 50 or so residents who had gathered at a church to vent.We are all angry and frustrated, he said.Feel free tonight to let me see that anger. Direct it at me, direct it at BP, but I want to assure you, the folks in this community, that we are working hard to remedy the situation.
Residents weren't buying it. Sorry doesn't pay the bills,said Susan Felio Price, a longtime resident. Through the negligence of BP we now find ourselves trying to roller-skate up a mountain,she said.We're growing really weary. We're tired. We're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Someone's got to help us get to the top of that mountain.Obama shared some of that anger ahead of his Gulf visit. He told CNN's Larry King that he was frustrated and used his strongest language in assailing BP. I am furious at this entire situation because this is an example where somebody didn't think through the consequences of their actions,Obama said.This is imperiling an entire way of life and an entire region for potentially years.Meanwhile, newly disclosed internal Coast Guard documents from the day after the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig indicated that U.S. officials were warning of a leak of 336,000gallons per day of crude from the well in the event of a complete blowout. The volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later it was revised to 210,000 gallons. Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily. The Center for Public Integrity, which initially reported the Coast Guard logs, said it obtained them from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The logs also showed early in the disaster that remote underwater robots were unable to activate the rig's blowout preventer, which was supposed to shut off the flow from the well in the event of such a catastrophic failure.The damage to the environment was chilling on East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, where workers found birds coated in thick, black goo. Images shot by an Associated Press photographer show Brown pelicans drenched in thick oil, struggling and flailing in the surf.BP CEO Tony Hayward promised that the company would clean up every drop of oil and restore the shoreline to its original state.BP will be here for a very long time. We realize this is just the beginning,he said.
Those on Grand Isle seemed less than convinced by BP's assurances.We want you to feel what we feel,said Leoda Bladsacker, a member of the town's council, as her voice trembled. We're not going to be OK for a long, long time.Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Paul J. Weber in Houston contributed to this report.
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