6-14-10

Fourteen Clues Krongard, Goldman Sachs, the CIA, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, BP, and the Obama Administration are in on and Hired Blackwater "Type" to Blow the Deepwater Horizon

Obama's Gulf Spill Speech Obama said in his Gulf Spill Speech, "Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill - a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses. But the one approach I will not accept is inaction." Obama is saying in his speech he needs Cap and Trade to prevent Gulf Oil spills. More proof BP and the Administration worked together and hired a Blackwater type to blow the Deepwater Horizon. The purpose of the Administration and BP blowing the Deepwater Horizon is to pass Cap and Trade, a financial tool, like derivatives, which will allow Goldman Sachs to steal trillions. When the Goldman Cap and Trade bubble pops the Wall Street Banksters will ask for more corporate welfare. We can expect no true effort from BP or the Obama Administration to contain the oil spill or stop its flow until Cap and Trade is passed. Cap and Trade is a Goldman hustle to make a buck just like the Goldman derivatives scam. Follow the link to a 202 page report on how you can invest through Goldman in carbon market .

All Goldman needs is Obama's Cap and Trade bill. Actually Goldman is trading carbon emission contracts now.

Who is making big bucks out of September 11? Goldman Sachs. Who will make big bucks out of blowing the Deepwater Horizon? Goldman Sachs. Two good clues Goldman Sachs was in on putting the bombs in the WTC buildings September 11 and also is in on hiring some company, possibly Blackwater, to blow the Deepwater Horizon. Its about time we say no to Goldman Sachs and their lame cowardly financial schemes. When Cap and Trade is passed BP will stop the Gulf Spill in a matter of minutes. Please do not spend a dime advertising with the likes of the NY Times, Washington Post, ect. There's not a dime's difference between the DC sniper murders and blowing the Deepwater Horizon - both manipulated to give Goldman what they want. Both hammers manipulated to intimidate Congress to pass the legislation to invade Iraq and Cap and Trade.

Lightning Strike Oil Spill: BP Says Fire On Ship Halts Containment Effort "We have seen the Lord" But He (Thomas) said to them, 'Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." John 20:25 Jesus satisfied"Thomas. We will see if BP satisfies me. "A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from a blown-out BP well" But he (Randy) said to them, "Unless I is see a photo showing the bolt of lightning strike the ship and put my fingers on the spot the lightning struck the ship, I will not believe it." This lightning strike claim is the biggest pile of BS I have ever heard and do not believe one word of it. Notice the blue skies behind the black smoke and the claim in the article, "The fire was quickly extinguished" ... The communi$t$ will tell any lie, stage any disaster, to get Cap and Trade passed. Does Krongard, BP, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and the Obama Administration actually think people believe a bolt of lightening hit the ship capturing the oil? Good grief! More proof BP is in on blowing the Deepwater Horizon just as much as the Administration. IWe are dealing the a BP/Obama tag team to get Cap and Trade passed.

Former Oil Industry Official To Ob ama: Hold Firm On Drilling Moratorium - Article give reasons BP & Obama Administration do not want offshore drilling - another clue both may be in on hiring Blackwater to blow the Deepwater Horizon

Republican Attempt To Block EPA From Regulating Greenhouse Gases FAILS - An EPA and Administration victory as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Will BP Be Nationalized? If BP is nationalized this would be another Administration victory as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Hurricane season is upon us ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center is warning of a 2010 hurricane season eerily similar to 2005. Citing all-time high sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the El Nino cycle, NOAA predicts that the 2010 season will most likely produce 14 to 23 named storms, eight to 14 hurricanes, and three to seven major hurricanes (category 3 or stronger). There are methods out there to shut off the flow of oil at this well. If BP and the Obama Administration allow this oil spill to continue and a hurricane or two aggravate clean up efforts this will be another clue for us to conclude the Obama Administration and BP are in on blowing the well.

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Detectives look for the means of committing a crime coupled with motive to find the perpetrator(s). Thinking people realize the bad guys deliberately brought down the WTC buildings September 11. It stands to reason that since the bad guys manipulated September 11 then they could have had the Deepwater Horizon blown.

Did Obama lift the ban on offshore drilling ( Notice Obama is having difficulty to keep from laughing when he announced its OK to drill off shore. Why? Obama knows the Deepwater Horizon is going to be blown and the American people will be screwed again by Goldman Sachs and he thinks this is funny.) Obama lifted the ban on offshore drilling to give the Administration an alibi that they were not in on blowing the Deepwater Horizon. We really believe you are Constitutionally eligible to run for president. We believe you are a loyal American. ha. ha. ho. ho. laugh. laugh. Go play with your boy toys. Typical Rothschild president.

Oh, by the way, there exists a product which eats oil. I've personally tested it and it works fantastically. It would work to clean this oil spill and any potential oil spill which might arise. Unfortunately its not on the market for reasons I will not delve at the moment except to say. Basically every person and their brother has tried to steal the product and they do not want the Goldman Sachs of the world making money out of their product just to use the profits to enslave the world. So the day the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Goldman Sachs and the rest of Satan's minons are destroyed will be the beginning of a new age of environmental good health. Here's hoping Krongard and the rest of the money is God dregs of the world are destroyed so we can start cleaning this planet.

Clues the Deepwater Horizon was deliberately blown.

1. Earth Day - The Deepwater Horizon blew up April 20, 2010. For all practical purposes it blew up on Earth Day. Typical bad guy humor. Just like the bad guys coincided September 11 with 911. Its their way of saying they done it. The official date for Earth Day is April 22 every year. However, many events will happen the weekend before, to allow more people to attend. For more information about Earth Day and Earth Day even though you can go to earthday.org

2. Eleven bodies un recovered - Makes no sense that no bodies were found from the Deepwater Horizon explosions. If the eleven were actually killed, there would have been body parts which would have been found. Logic dictates the 11 missing are Blackwater operatives hired to set explosives on the Deepwater Horizon, cut the power, get the rest of the crew off board on to lifeboats, and then finished blowing the rig. Actually, there is a rumor Blackwater type operatives boarded the Deepwater Horizon pretending to be a new drilling crew sent to relieve old crew. The eleven dead may be Deepwater Horizon crew who resisted and were murdered by the Blackwater type operatives before the operatives blew the Deepwater Horizon. The Deepwater Horizon crew survivors may not be blowing the whistle on the Blackwater type operatives for fear of their/loved ones lives. The way the Deepwater Horizon crew is treated is an example of life in a communi$t police state. so what happened to the bodies if Blackwater type operatives murdered them? Multiple guess. The communi$t$ would not risk a bullet riddled body found, so logic dictates the operatives took the bodies of those they murdered with them.

3.Three explosions Deepwater Horizon Survivors Recount Disaster With Anderson Cooper (VIDEO) The deepwater Horizon crew said there were three explosions and this makes no sense. If there was a real methane explosion there would have been one explosion. Logic dictates Blackwater set off a couple of explosions for the purpose of scaring the crew into lifeboats before they set the big charge and got off the rig. The media giving us only staged and misleading information pertaining to the so called eleven killed. Deepwater Horizon crew said on the Anderson Cooper TV show that it took forever to load the lifeboats and one worker was so upset he jumped off the lifeboat. Blackwater operatives forced the crew into lifeboats and then finished blowing the rig.The crew photo from Anderson Cooper video left tells us the crew is supposed to keep their mouths shut and do what Krongard and the CIA tells them to do. Crew and Blackwater operatives may have been fighting each other. As true Americans the Deepwater Horizon crew must leak the truth. We can go to the bank knowing the bad guys are gagging them with legal documents and the threat of criminal punishment and no work if they do.

4. Size of explosion indicates the explosion was bigger than a natural gas or methane explosion. The color of the explosion indicates it was hotter than a normal methane explosion.

5. Buzzy Krongard and the CIA hired Blackwater . CIA CEO Buzzy Krongard is alleged to have prior knowledge of September 11 and Krongard hired Blackwater to send mercenaries to Iraq who armed and trained the Mahdi Army and Saddam Hussein's followers. These Arabs just so happened to kill our brave soldiers. Since Krongard did not see any wrong in hiring Blackwater to train Arabs who ended up killing our brave soldiers, it stands to reason Krongard would not see anything wrong in hiring Blackwater to blow the Deepwater Horizon.

6. Blackwater maritime division - Logic dictates the Blackwater vessel McArthur ferried their eleven operatives to the Deepwater Horizon by helicopter. There would be conversation and other proof of this. Possibly photos of the vessel in the area when the Deepwater Horizon was blown exist. True Americans will leak this information. Lawyers should file lawsuits against the Obama Administration as well as BP. Deepwater Horizon crew should leak on the Internet every piece of paper signed, whether its an agreement with their lawyers, or whoever, irregardless as how insignificant or punitive the consequences of disclosing the contents of agreements. Punitive secretive agreements in themselves work to prove this oil spill is sabotage.

7. Blackwater for sale Blackwater up for sale indicates something its got a problem - like they've been nailed blowing the Deepwater Horizon. Not everyone hates America and can be bought coward Goldman Sachs style. Its possible guys working the rig knew Deepwater Horizon replacements worked for Blackwater. "Yea. I got drunk with that guy and he works for Blackwater."

8. BP & Obama Administration working in unison as a tag team to make the oil spill as bad as possible. The Obama Administration shows incompetence one day followed by BP showing incompetence the next.

9. BP-owned Alaska oil pipeline shut after spill - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after a crude oil spill, drastically cutting supply out of Alaska's oilfields. The thought this BP Alaska spill is not timed and deliberate to give proof of BP incompetence defies logic. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers are big owners of BP and tell BP management what to do. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers want BP nationalized and logic dictates they are directing both BP and the Administration to nationalize BP.

10. Orderly evacuation - Evacuation was orderly to the extent that it gives proof the rig was commandeered and blown.

11. Considering size of explosion more workers should have been killed, unless workers were forced into lifeboats before operatives blew rig.

12. Workers kept in seclusion What the American people are not being told is that the Deepwater Horizon crew are being forced to sign agreements which, under threat of criminal prosecution, forbid them from whistle blowing. If the Obama Administration is remembered for anything, it will be for their legislation which keeps the truth from reaching the American people. Hopefully some of the Deepwater Horizon crew go to the National Whistleblower Center web site. Whistle blowing has got to become every American's patriot responsibility. Every American must hold out whistle blowers as America's greatest heroes. What threats do Deepwater Horizon employees face? If they tell the truth they will never work again. They are to support Obama and the Administration's efforts to nationalize the US oil business. They will spend the rest of their lives in jail if they don't.

13. Obama's "Whose Ass to Kick" Comment - Typical Obama. Shows that there is basically no one in the Obama Administration who knows a thing about the oil business and there is no effort to solve the problem.

14. News blackout. Absolutely nothing of value in the news. Just like the 911 Commission report. Nothing of substance given to the people. Therefore we can assume the same guys responsible for 911, Krongard, CIA, Goldman Sachs, Rothschilds, Rockefellers are responsible for blowing the Deepwater Horizon. . DOUBLE, DOUBLE, OILY TROUBLE Is a headline from Huffingtonpost.com 6-11-10 and is typical of the news coverage of this event. Pith. Nothing of value. No investigation of the facts of the event. Only propaganda designed to nationalize the oil business and pass Cap and Trade legislation.

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Murkowski Measure To Block EPA From Regulating Greenhouse Gases FAILS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has rejected a bid to stop the Obama administration from imposing regulations on greenhouse gases, giving a boost to President Barack Obama as he pursues broader clean energy legislation.

Senators turned back a resolution that would have rescinded the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

Supporters of the measure, mostly Republicans, argued that the EPA had usurped the authority of Congress to set climate policy and that the EPA regulations would increase energy costs and kill jobs.

But the White House, which threatened to veto the measure, said depriving the EPA of its ability to regulate carbon and other greenhouse emissions would result in greater dependence on oil and more pollution.

Deepwater Horizon survivors allege they were kept in seclusion ...

Fri May 21, 5:20 pm ET
According to two surviving crew members of the Deepwater Horizon, oil workers from the rig were held in seclusion on the open water for up to two days after the April 20 explosion, while attorneys attempted to convince them to sign legal documents stating that they were unharmed by the incident. The men claim that they were forbidden from having any contact with concerned loved ones during that time, and were told they would not be able to go home until they signed the documents they were presented with.
Stephen Davis, a seven-year veteran of drilling-rig work from San Antonio, told The Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg today that he was held on a boat for 36 to 40 hours after diving into the Gulf from the burning rig and swimming to safety. Once on a crew boat, Davis said, he and the others were denied access to satellite phones or radio to get in touch with their families, many of whom were frantic to find out whether or not they were OK.
Davis' attorney told Goldenberg that while on the boat, his client and the others were told to sign the statements presented to them by attorneys for Transocean — the firm that owned the Deepwater Horizon — or they wouldn't be allowed to go home. After being awake for 50 harrowing hours, Davis caved and signed the papers. He said most of the others did as well.
Davis' story seems to be backed up by a similar account given to NPR by another Deepwater Horizon crewmember earlier in the month. Christopher Choy, a roustabout on the rig, said that the lawyers gathered the survivors in the galley of a boat and said, "'You need to sign these. Nobody's getting off here until we get one from everybody.' ... At the bottom, it said something about, like, you know, this can be used as evidence in court and all that. I told them, 'I'm not signing it.' "
Choy said that once he was finally allowed to get off the boat, he was shuttled to a hotel, where he met up with his wife. At the hotel, representatives from Transocean confronted him again and badgered him to sign the statement. Exhausted, traumatized and desperate to go home, Choy said that he finally relented and signed.
Choy's lawyer, Steve Gordon, is incensed over what transpired in the hours after the explosion. He, along with other attorneys for Deepwater Horizon workers, is trying to get the documents voided by the courts.
"It's absurd. It's unacceptable, and it's irresponsible," Gordon told NPR.
— Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.

IT Storm Watch: NOAA Predicts Near-Record Hurricane Season for 2010

June 10, 2010

Five years have passed since Hurricane Katrina and seven other named storms struck the Gulf Coast and Southeast in one of the most devastating hurricane seasons on record, but some areas of the Gulf Coast and adjoining states are still repairing the damage. Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center is warning of a 2010 hurricane season eerily similar to 2005. Citing all-time high sea surface temperatures in key areas of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the El Nino cycle, NOAA predicts that the 2010 season will most likely produce 14 to 23 named storms, eight to 14 hurricanes, and three to seven major hurricanes (category 3 or stronger).

Read more: IT Storm Watch: NOAA Predicts Near-Record Hurricane Season for 2010 - FierceGovernmentIT http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/press-releases/it-storm-watch-noaa-predicts-near-record-hurricane-season-2010#ixzz0qTY6GBCj

God defeat the bad guys and may we have a very mind hurricne season this year and may none be anywhere near where the Deepwater Horizon went down.

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President Obama expands offshore drilling

By CAROL E. LEE | 3/31/10 6:24 AM EDT
Updated: 3/31/10 12:57 PM EDT

President Barack Obama launched an ambitious plan on Wednesday to lift a decades-long moratorium on offshore oil drilling along the East Coast from Delaware to Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

“This is not a decision that I’ve made lightly,” he said in remarks at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. “But the bottom line is this: given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel, even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy.”

Obama’s decision is closely tied politically to the fate of the climate change bill jointly sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) And while it could win the president support from conservative Democrats and Republicans – Graham has said he would not support a bill that “doesn’t have offshore drilling in a meaningful way” – it is also likely to rile part of Obama’s Democratic base, particularly environmentalists.

In urging Congress to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation, Obama attempted to bridge the political divide by tying offshore drilling to the nation’s security and stressing that it’s one piece of a larger energy plan.

“There will be those who strongly disagree with this decision, including those who say we should not open any new areas to drilling,” Obama acknowledged. “But what I want to emphasize is that this announcement is part of a broader strategy that will move us from an economy that runs on fossil fuels and foreign oil to one that relies more on homegrown fuels and clean energy. And the only way this transition will succeed is if it strengthens our economy in the short term and long term.”

“To fail to recognize this reality,” he concluded, “would be a mistake.”

Obama is proposing the first new offshore oil and gas sales in the Atlantic in two decades. The decision modifies a 20-year-old ban that limited new drilling, confining most to the seas off the Gulf of Mexico. The government will continue lease sales in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico.

The president urged those on both sides of the energy debate to cede some ground. Addressing Republicans who believe his offshore drilling initiative doesn’t go far enough, Obama suggested they embrace his clean energy initiatives by pointing out that the United States has 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, yet is responsible for 20 percent of global consumption.

Obama said his energy plan will boost the economy by putting the United States in position to compete in global energy marketplace “so that we are no longer tethered to the whims of what happens somewhere in the Middle East.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35223.html#ixzz0qTT6A9KN

Search ends for 11 missing oil rig workers off La.

NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard officials on Friday suspended the three-day search for 11 workers missing since an explosion rocked an offshore oil rig, saying they believe the men never made it off the platform that erupted into a giant fireball.

Coast Guard Capt. Peter Troedsson said he spoke with all the workers’ families about the decision to suspend the search before announcing it to the media.

“I’m a father and husband, and I have done this a few times before. It’s never easy. Your heart goes out to these people,” Troedsson said.

The Coast Guard says it will resume the search if any ships in the area see anything, but the workers’ chances of survival had seemed slim well before Friday afternoon’s announcement. “The time of reasonable expectation of survivability has passed,” Rear Adm. Mary Landry said.

What caused Tuesday’s massive blast off the Louisiana coast is unknown. As the search was ending, oil company crews were trying to clean up the environmental mess created by the Deepwater Horizon, which finally sank Thursday. The other 115 crew members made it off the platform, though four were critically hurt.

Federal regulators did not need this week’s explosion aboard the state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed.

The U.S. Minerals and Management Service is developing regulations aimed at preventing human error, which it identified as a factor in many of the more than 1,400 offshore oil drilling accidents between 2001 and 2007.

The Deepwater Horizon was the site of a 2005 fire found to have been caused by human error. An MMS investigation determined that a crane operator on the rig had become distracted while refueling the crane, allowing diesel fuel to overflow. Records show the fire was quickly contained, but caused $60,000 in damage to the crane.

An MMS review published last year found 41 deaths and 302 injuries out of 1,443 accidents from 2001 to 2007, the majority of caused by human error and operational and maintenance problems.

As a result of the findings, the MMS is developing new rules that would require rig operators to develop programs focused on preventing human error, an area that hadn’t received as much attention in the past. The agency, which has yet to implement the new rules, also proposed audits once every three years.

Environmentalists say that while new technology touted by oil industry executives continues to improve, people still have to oversee those devices and human error remains a widespread problem.

“You can’t outlaw human error,” Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser with Defenders of Wildlife, who has been involved in drilling issues for 30 years, said of Tuesday’s explosion. “It’s one of the sidebar issues now emerging for the Horizon incident — these are common incidents and this was just a bigger one.”

Opponents of President Barack Obama’s plan for more offshore drilling, particularly off the East Coast, say the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon should be taken as a warning to slow the fervor to “drill, baby drill.”

“I would hope it would serve as another wake-up call on this issue that there is no such thing as safe oil drilling,” said Sara Wan, a member of the California Coastal Commission, a state regulatory agency. “Once that oil starts leaking in the ocean, that damage is irreversible. You just look at what happened with Exxon-Valdez — they’re still feeling the effects of it. There’s no real way to clean it up.”

Obama showed no sign of budging Friday. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president still believes increasing domestic oil production can be done safely, securely and without harming the environment.

“I don’t honestly think it opens up a whole new series of questions, because, you know, in all honesty I doubt this is the first accident that has happened and I doubt it will be the last,” Gibbs said.

On March 31, Obama called for new offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean from Delaware to central Florida, plus the northern waters of Alaska. He also wants Congress to lift a drilling ban in the oil-rich eastern Gulf of Mexico, 125 miles from Florida beaches.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday that the Obama administration’s drilling plan would assess potential risks and benefits of any offshore site before drilling is pursued. No new lease sales are planned before at least 2012.

An undetermined amount of oil has spilled from the Deepwater Horizon, which is owned by Transocean Ltd. The sheen appeared to cover an area about two miles wide and eight miles long Friday afternoon, said Petty Officer Ashley Butler of the Coast Guard.

BP PLC, which leased the rig and is taking the lead in the cleanup, said it has activated an extensive oil spill response, including using remotely operated vehicles to assess the well and 32 vessels to mop up the spill.

Rear Adm. Landry said no oil appeared to be leaking from a well head at the ocean floor, nor was any leaking at the water’s surface. But she said crews were closely monitoring the rig for any more crude that might spill out.

About half a dozen boats were using booms to trap the thin sheen, which extended about seven miles north of the rig site. There was no sign of wildlife being affected; the Louisiana coast is about 50 miles away.

Strong winds were blowing generally from the south as a cold front approached from Texas. The passage of the front late Friday or Saturday was expected to shift winds to the north, which could push the sheen away from the coast. Crews were trying to contain what spilled and prevent any threat to the coast’s fragile coastal wetlands — nurseries for fish and shrimp and habitat for birds.

The Marine Spill Response Corp., an energy industry cleanup consortium, brought seven skimmer boats to suck oily water from the surface, four planes that can scatter chemicals to disperse oil, and 500,000 feet — 94.6 miles — of containment boom, a floating barrier with a skirt that drapes down under the water and corrals the oil.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson called for a congressional investigation of safety practices at offshore oil rigs. Nelson, a Florida Democrat who has led opposition to offshore drilling, said he asked the U.S. Interior Department to investigate and provide a comprehensive report on all U.S. drilling accidents over at least the last decade.

“The tragedy off the coast of Louisiana shows we need to be asking a lot more tough questions of big oil,” Nelson said. “I think we need to look back over 10 years or so to see if the record denies the industry’s claims about safety and technology.”

Associated Press Writer Noaki Schwartz reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Mike Kunzelman, Cain Burdeau and Alan Sayre in Louisiana contributed to this report.

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From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riki-ott/from-the-ground-bp-censor_b_608724.html

Orange Beach, Alabama -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- controls the response. In fact, people on the ground say things are out of control in the gulf.

Even worse, as my latest week of adventures illustrate, BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability.

For example, while flying on a small plane from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot suddenly exclaimed, "Look at that!" The thin red line marking the federal flight restrictions of 3,000 feet over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include the coastal barrier islands off Alabama.

"There's only one reason for that," the pilot said. "BP doesn't want the media taking pictures of oil on the beaches. You should see the oil that's about six miles off the coast," he said grimly. We looked down at the wavy orange boom surrounding the islands below us. The pilot shook his head. "There's no way those booms are going to stop what's offshore from hitting those beaches."

BP knows this as well -- boom can only deflect oil under the calmest of sea conditions, not barricade it -- so they have stepped up their already aggressive effort to control what the public sees.

At the same time I was en route to Orange Beach, Clint Guidry with the Louisiana Shrimp Association and Dean Blanchard, who owns the largest shrimp processor in Louisiana, were in Grand Isle taking Anderson Cooper out in a small boat to see the oiled beaches. The U.S. Coast Guard held up the boat for 20 minutes - an intimidation tactic intended to stop the cameras from recording BP's damage. Luckily for Cooper and the viewing public, Dean Blanchard is not easily intimidated.

Credit - Clint Guidry. U.S. Coast Guard blocking media from oiled beaches off Grand Isle, Louisiana. June 2, 2010.
A few days later, the gig was up with the booms. Oil was making landfall in four states and even BP can't be everywhere at once. CBS 60 Minutes Australia found entire sections of boom hung up in marsh grasses two feet above the water off Venice. On the same day on the other side of Barataria Bay, Louisiana Bayoukeeper documented pools of oil and oiled pelicans inside the boom - on the supposedly protected landward side - of Queen Bess Island off Grand Isle.

Credit - Louisiana Bayoukeeper. Ineffective boom traps oil on beach; oiled brown pelican awaits fate. Queen Bess Island, Louisiana. June 5, 2010.
With oil undisputedly hitting the beaches and the number of dead wildlife mounting, BP is switching tactics. In Orange Beach, people told me BP wouldn't let them collect carcasses. Instead, the company was raking up carcasses of oiled seabirds. "The heads separate from the bodies," one upset resident told me. "There's no way those birds are going to be autopsied. BP is destroying evidence!"

Provided by Riki Ott. Laughing gull head is separated from body during collection, rendering it useless for autopsy. Waveland, MS. May 13, 2010.
The body count of affected wildlife is crucial to prove the harm caused by the spill, and also serves as an invaluable tool to evaluate damages to public property - the dolphins, sea turtles, whales, sea birds, fish, and more, that are owned by the American public. Disappeared body counts means disappeared damages - and disappeared liability for BP. BP should not be collecting carcasses. The job should be given to NOAA, a federal agency, and volunteers, as was done during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

NOAA should also be conducting carcass drift studies. Only one percent of the dead sea birds made landfall in the Gulf of Alaska, for example. That means for every one bird that was found, another 99 were carried out to sea by currents. Further, NOAA should be conducting aerial surveys to look for carcasses in the offshore rips where the currents converge. That's where the carcasses will pile up--a fact we learned during the Exxon Valdez spill. Maybe that's another reason for BP's "no camera" policy and the flight restrictions.

On Saturday June 12, people across America will stand up and speak out with one voice to protest BP's treatment of the Gulf, neglect for the response workers, and their response to government authority. President Obama needs to hear and see the people waving cameras and respirators. Until the media is allowed unrestricted access to the Gulf and impacted beaches, BP - not the President of United States - will remain in charge of the Gulf response.

For more information on community rallies, please visit HERE.

Obama's Gulf Spill Speech

06-15-10 09:14 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/obamas-gulf-spill-speech_n_613554.html

Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al Qaeda wherever it exists. And tonight, I've returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with you about the battle we're waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens.

On April 20th, an explosion ripped through BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about forty miles off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven workers lost their lives. Seventeen others were injured. And soon, nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean, oil began spewing into the water.

Because there has never been a leak of this size at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology. That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge - a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's Secretary of Energy. Scientists at our national labs and experts from academia and other oil companies have also provided ideas and advice.

As a result of these efforts, we have directed BP to mobilize additional equipment and technology. In the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90% of the oil leaking out of the well. This is until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely.

Already, this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced. And unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days. The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years.

But make no mistake: we will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused. And we will do whatever's necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.

Tonight I'd like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward: what we're doing to clean up the oil, what we're doing to help our neighbors in the Gulf, and what we're doing to make sure that a catastrophe like this never happens again.

First, the cleanup. From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental cleanup effort in our nation's history - an effort led by Admiral Thad Allen, who has almost forty years of experience responding to disasters. We now have nearly 30,000 personnel who are working across four states to contain and cleanup the oil. Thousands of ships and other vessels are responding in the Gulf. And I have authorized the deployment of over 17,000 National Guard members along the coast. These servicemen and women are ready to help stop the oil from coming ashore, clean beaches, train response workers, or even help with processing claims - and I urge the governors in the affected states to activate these troops as soon as possible.

Because of our efforts, millions of gallons of oil have already been removed from the water through burning, skimming, and other collection methods. Over five and a half million feet of boom has been laid across the water to block and absorb the approaching oil. We have approved the construction of new barrier islands in Louisiana to try and stop the oil before it reaches the shore, and we are working with Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida to implement creative approaches to their unique coastlines.

As the clean up continues, we will offer whatever additional resources and assistance our coastal states may need. Now, a mobilization of this speed and magnitude will never be perfect, and new challenges will always arise. I saw and heard evidence of that during this trip. So if something isn't working, we want to hear about it. If there are problems in the operation, we will fix them.

But we have to recognize that despite our best efforts, oil has already caused damage to our coastline and its wildlife. And sadly, no matter how effective our response becomes, there will be more oil and more damage before this siege is done. That's why the second thing we're focused on is the recovery and restoration of the Gulf Coast.

You know, for generations, men and women who call this region home have made their living from the water. That living is now in jeopardy. I've talked to shrimpers and fishermen who don't know how they're going to support their families this year. I've seen empty docks and restaurants with fewer customers - even in areas where the beaches are not yet affected. I've talked to owners of shops and hotels who wonder when the tourists will start to come back. The sadness and anger they feel is not just about the money they've lost. It's about a wrenching anxiety that their way of life may be lost.

I refuse to let that happen. Tomorrow, I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company's recklessness. And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party.

Beyond compensating the people of the Gulf in the short-term, it's also clear we need a long-term plan to restore the unique beauty and bounty of this region. The oil spill represents just the latest blow to a place that has already suffered multiple economic disasters and decades of environmental degradation that has led to disappearing wetlands and habitats. And the region still hasn't recovered from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That's why we must make a commitment to the Gulf Coast that goes beyond responding to the crisis of the moment.

I make that commitment tonight. Earlier, I asked Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, a former governor of Mississippi, and a son of the Gulf, to develop a long-term Gulf Coast Restoration Plan as soon as possible. The plan will be designed by states, local communities, tribes, fishermen, businesses, conservationists, and other Gulf residents. And BP will pay for the impact this spill has had on the region.

The third part of our response plan is the steps we're taking to ensure that a disaster like this does not happen again. A few months ago, I approved a proposal to consider new, limited offshore drilling under the assurance that it would be absolutely safe - that the proper technology would be in place and the necessary precautions would be taken.

That was obviously not the case on the Deepwater Horizon rig, and I want to know why. The American people deserve to know why. The families I met with last week who lost their loved ones in the explosion - these families deserve to know why. And so I have established a National Commission to understand the causes of this disaster and offer recommendations on what additional safety and environmental standards we need to put in place. Already, I have issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. I know this creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety, and for the sake of the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue. And while I urge the Commission to complete its work as quickly as possible, I expect them to do that work thoroughly and impartially.

One place we have already begun to take action is at the agency in charge of regulating drilling and issuing permits, known as the Minerals Management Service. Over the last decade, this agency has become emblematic of a failed philosophy that views all regulation with hostility - a philosophy that says corporations should be allowed to play by their own rules and police themselves. At this agency, industry insiders were put in charge of industry oversight. Oil companies showered regulators with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations.

When Ken Salazar became my Secretary of the Interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency. But it's now clear that the problems there ran much deeper, and the pace of reform was just too slow. And so Secretary Salazar and I are bringing in new leadership at the agency - Michael Bromwich, who was a tough federal prosecutor and Inspector General. His charge over the next few months is to build an organization that acts as the oil industry's watchdog - not its partner.

One of the lessons we've learned from this spill is that we need better regulations better safety standards, and better enforcement when it comes to offshore drilling. But a larger lesson is that no matter how much we improve our regulation of the industry, drilling for oil these days entails greater risk. After all, oil is a finite resource. We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves. And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean - because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.

For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered. For decades, we have talked and talked about the need to end America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels. And for decades, we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again, the path forward has been blocked - not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.

The consequences of our inaction are now in plain sight. Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be here in America. Each day, we send nearly $1 billion of our wealth to foreign countries for their oil. And today, as we look to the Gulf, we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude.

We cannot consign our children to this future. The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now. Now is the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission to unleash American innovation and seize control of our own destiny.

This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry. As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels. Consumers are buying more efficient cars and trucks, and families are making their homes more energy-efficient. Scientists and researchers are discovering clean energy technologies that will someday lead to entire new industries.

Each of us has a part to play in a new future that will benefit all of us. As we recover from this recession, the transition to clean energy has the potential to grow our economy and create millions of good, middle-class jobs - but only if we accelerate that transition. Only if we seize the moment. And only if we rally together and act as one nation - workers and entrepreneurs; scientists and citizens; the public and private sectors.

When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill - a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses.

Now, there are costs associated with this transition. And some believe we can't afford those costs right now. I say we can't afford not to change how we produce and use energy - because the long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater.

So I am happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party - as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels. Some have suggested raising efficiency standards in our buildings like we did in our cars and trucks. Some believe we should set standards to ensure that more of our electricity comes from wind and solar power. Others wonder why the energy industry only spends a fraction of what the high-tech industry does on research and development - and want to rapidly boost our investments in such research and development.

All of these approaches have merit, and deserve a fair hearing in the months ahead. But the one approach I will not accept is inaction. The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is too big and too difficult to meet. You see, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II. The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon. And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom. Instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is our capacity to shape our destiny - our determination to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if we're unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don't yet know precisely how to get there. We know we'll get there.

It is a faith in the future that sustains us as a people. It is that same faith that sustains our neighbors in the Gulf right now.

Each year, at the beginning of shrimping season, the region's fishermen take part in a tradition that was brought to America long ago by fishing immigrants from Europe. It's called "The Blessing of the Fleet," and today it's a celebration where clergy from different religions gather to say a prayer for the safety and success of the men and women who will soon head out to sea - some for weeks at a time.

The ceremony goes on in good times and in bad. It took place after Katrina, and it took place a few weeks ago - at the beginning of the most difficult season these fishermen have ever faced.

And still, they came and they prayed. For as a priest and former fisherman once said of the tradition, "The blessing is not that God has promised to remove all obstacles and dangers. The blessing is that He is with us always," a blessing that's granted "...even in the midst of the storm."

The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face. This nation has known hard times before and we will surely know them again. What sees us through - what has always seen us through - is our strength, our resilience, and our unyielding faith that something better awaits us if we summon the courage to reach for it. Tonight, we pray for that courage. We pray for the people of the Gulf. And we pray that a hand may guide us through the storm towards a brighter day. Thank you, God Bless You, and may God Bless the United States of America.

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Lightning Strike Oil Spill: BP Says Fire On Ship Halts Containment Effort
06/15/10 14:48:40
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t/lightning-strike-oil-spil_16245275116.html

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from a blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, igniting a fire that halted containment efforts in another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill, the company said.
The fire was quickly extinguished and no one was injured. BP said it hopes to resume containing oil from the well sometime Tuesday afternoon.
The fire occurred on the Discoverer Enterprise, where engineers are siphoning about 630,000 gallons of oil a day through a cap on top of the well.
"At the moment, there's no capture, no containment going on, but we'll start up the Enterprise when it's safe to do so," BP spokesman Robert Wine said.
The fire happened as President Barack Obama was in Florida as part of a two-day visit to the stricken Gulf Coast. It also came a day after the British oil giant announced that it hoped to trap as much as roughly 2.2 million gallons of oil daily by the end of June as it deploys additional containment equipment.
BP has been beefing up its containment efforts with the hurricane season in mind, building a sturdier system that can withstand the volatile weather that is so common in the Gulf in the summer months.
The Coast Guard has taken BP to task for not having enough redundancies in the system to be able to shift gears in events such as Tuesday's lightning strike.
Wine said company hopes to soon start a second containment system - a burner on a semi-submersible drilling rig that could incinerate up to 420,000 gallons of oil a day. The company had hoped to start the system as early as Tuesday.
Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Though the latest cap installed the well has been capturing oil, large quantities are still spilling into the sea.
The company said it would use robotic submarines to survey the entire containment system, including the cap over the well, for possible damage from the fire. The fire occurred in a vent pipe leading from a tank on the Enterprise where processed oil is stored, Wine said.
Louisiana has been hit with several storms and lightning strikes in the past day.

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Oh God and most merciful father. Thank you for this day. The bad guys want hurricanes this year to interfer with containing the Gulf oil spill so they can use hurricanes as a propaganda tool to pass Cap and Trade legislation. God, what the bad guys want I don't. Please make the hurricanes this year not be a threat to the Gulf oil spill. God please remind me to pray hard when hurricanes threaten the Gulf oil spill area. I have asked so I know I have received. Thank you. Thank you. Amen.