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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Gail Windpower Project in Western Michigan Project Makes No Economic Sense | motorcitytimes.com

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I’ve been on the west side of Michigan for a little R & R for the past week While on vacation, we took a drive up US 31, between Scottsville and Crystal Lake through beautiful rolling hills, picturesque farms and blue lakes.
While driving through the countryside, I noticed giant billboards and hundreds of yard signs for and against the Gail Windpower project.
The Duke energy Gail Windpower project is a wind farm in development that will consist of 108 wind turbines each 538 feet tall. The wind farm will cover 12,000 acres (18.75 square miles) of scenic lake Michigan shoreline. Supporters of the project claim, optimistically, that the wind farm will provide power for 60,000 homes. (When the wind is blowing).
According to Duke Energy:
Duke Energy is currently developing a new commercial wind power project in Benzie and Manistee counties, Michigan. The Gail Windpower Project will consist of wind turbines capable of generating 200 megawatts of clean, renewable electricity – enough to power up to approximately 60,000 homes. The project will encompass approximately 12,000 acres of land.
Duke Energy is working closely with landowners, government officials and other stakeholder groups to make the Gail Windpower Project a reality. As is our standard practice, we are also in contact with all appropriate state, county and local agencies to thoroughly evaluate the potential impacts of construction and windpower operations.
Landowner benefits include steady income from land-lease agreements, wind turbine fees and revenue sharing. In addition, landowners can still use their property for other purposes, including farming, ranching and recreation.
Community benefits include a new source of tax revenue that the community can count on year after year, a large number of construction jobs (and a smaller number of operations jobs), and emissions-free electricity generated locally. Communities with wind energy projects also see an increase in direct and indirect economic activity, particularly during the construction phase, when hotels, restaurants, groceries, pharmacies, parts suppliers, service providers and various other vendors benefit from additional business.
The Gail Windprower project will consume 19.75 square miles of land to provide electricity for 60,000 homes. Compare the Gail Windpower project to a natural gas power plant, such as the Zeeland ‘peaker’ station that occupies a total of 30 acres. Within that 30 acres, the station generates enough electricity to power over 800,000 homes on demand. Rain or shine. Wind or no wind.
Be sure to see the rest of this article here.
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/2011/08/the-gail-windpower-project-in-western-michigan-project-makes-no-economic-sense/
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ezekiel's Spoil Revealed? - Israels Natural Gas & Oil Shale Reserves Valued In The Billions

The Heletz oil field was the location of the f...Image via WikipediaEziekel 38
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9 You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— 12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. 13 Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’

 Up until now. Israel hasn't had much to offer. But in this case and if this is real? Russia and the surrounding Nations will lose billions of dollars due to Israel's new found weath. Check this out.

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=211676
New data suggests Israel may not only have much larger gas resources than believed, but also the 3rd largest deposit of oil shale in the world.
Libyan oil accounts for less than 2 percent of world oil production, yet the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi has managed to shoot up the price of oil to more than $100 per barrel in the last month.

No one knows how long the internal instability in the Middle East will last, but according to the US Department of Energy, its share of the world’s total oil supply is expected to actually increase in the years ahead.


Simply, the world is using up the reserves of non- Middle East oil more quickly. Moreover, of the trillion barrels of proven reserves still left, according to the CIA roughly 800 billion barrels are to be found in the Middle East and North Africa, especially in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq.

The implications for Israel of the West’s growing dependence on Middle Eastern oil are troubling, for obvious reasons. Yet there are two new developments in our energy sector that could well offset these trends and eventually alter our standing in the world, especially with respect to Europe.

First, the gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean, which began to produce commercial quantities of natural gas in 2004, are generally well-known. The Tamar field, which should begin production in 2013, is expected to supply all of Israel’s domestic requirements for at least 20 years. The Economist suggested in November 2010 that the recently discovered Leviathan field, which has twice the gas of Tamar, could be completely devoted to exports.

All the undersea gas fields together have about 25 trillion cubic feet of gas, but the potential for further discoveries is considerably greater, given that the US Geological Survey estimates that there are 122 trillion cubic feet of gas in the whole Levant Basin, most of which is within Israel’s jurisdiction.

After the Leviathan discovery these numbers could go up further. Perhaps for that reason, Greece has been talking to Israel about creating a transportation hub for distributing gas throughout Europe from the Eastern Mediterranean that will come from undersea pipelines.

What is less well-known, but even more dramatic, is the work being done on this country’s oil shale. The British-based World Energy Council reported in November 2010 that Israel had oil shale from which it is possible to extract the equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil. Yet these numbers are currently undergoing a major revision internationally.
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Monday, March 7, 2011

CEO of UK National Grid: “Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable” | motorcitytimes.com

Modern wind energy plant in rural scenery.Image via WikipediaI can see it now. Makes  you wonder how many jobs will fail due to the fact that electricity isn't available. Let alone people freezing in the cold winters, Crops failing, among so much more.
I will post more as this continues on.
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/2011/03/ceo-of-uk-national-grid-electricity-consumers-in-the-uk-will-need-to-get-used-to-flicking-the-switch-and-finding-the-power-unavailable

CEO of UK National Grid: “Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable”

The U.K. is a few years ahead of us in all things green. And wherever The U.K. and Europe goes, the American left wants to follow. Following the U.K. and Europe in their green energy fantasy will lead us to this. Via Financial Post:
Electricity consumers in the UK will need to get used to flicking the switch and finding the power unavailable, according to Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, the country’s grid operator. Because of a six-fold increase in wind generation, which won’t be available when the wind doesn’t blow, “The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030,” he told BBC’s Radio 4. “We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be much smarter than that.
We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
And it gets better. The government will ration power and decide where it will do the most ‘social good.’

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Yet Another Oil Well busted in the Gulf

Seems more and more problems are coming out of the wells. What gets me in this is Nobody knows who owns the well?

Also how is it that a little tugboat can't see a big oil rig.
Hmm? More questions to be answered.
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URGENT: Fox News is being told by the Homeland Security director for Jefferson Parish, La., that a new oil leak has sprung up in the Gulf of Mexico after a boat struck an oil well in the early morning hours on Tuesday.
A tugboat or other workboat collided with the well near Bayou St. Dennis, La., shearing off its valve structure and releasing pressurized natural gas and light oil, DHS official Deano Bonano told Fox News.
Federal officials do not know who owns the well, but a contractor who handles wild wells is also on the way, Bonano said.
Oil is spewing about 20 feet in the air from the severed 4-inch pipe, a contractor who flew over the leak told Fox News. The area has been evacuated and civilian boats are being told not to enter the scene, where "a fair bit of oil" is leaking out, the contractor said.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Breakthrough Solar Energy Technology from Israel

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    [David Feiman, Professor, Ben Gurion University]:
    "As the high technology advance and you came up with cells that are more efficient, you remove the cell, recycling it and put a new one, and you upgrade it in one lifetime of the system."
    How economical is the solar sizzler?
    [Roy Segev, CEO, Zenith Solar]: (Eng.)
    "We will be able harvest a kilowatt/hour by approximately 8.6 cents over a period of 15 years under the consumption of the Israeli sun."
    Photovoltaic cells produce electricity directl...Zenith Solar plans to develop smaller units that can be installed in the backyard or on house rooftops by the end of 2010.




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    The latest star performer in solar cell technology comes from Israel. The developers say their new panels offer an inexpensive way to collect both electric and thermal energy.
    One year ago professor Feiman showed us his pilot plan for an innovative solar panel based on a simple concept: Replace large areas of expensive photovoltaic cells with inexpensive glass and concentrate sunlight onto a very small area of cells.
    The Israeli startup Zenith Solar has now launched its first working power plan based on Feimans technology.
    What could be more suitable for the occasion than a song to the sun?




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    Dow's Powerhouse Solar Shingles promise to turn sunlight into savings. Consumer Reports takes a look at the 2010 International Builders' Show. Learn more about roofing and siding on our web site http://www.consumerreports.org




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    dexim-Santom unleashes the power of the sun with their new solar-powered phone chargers! Check it out!




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Friday, July 9, 2010

Global Cooling Is The New Global Warming

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    Via Greenie Watch:
    The justifiable alarmism will be about shortages in both global food supplies and global energy supply. The food supply will be reduced because of the shortened growing seasons in the "temperate food supplying regions" of the world resulting from this global cooling. This reduction in food supply will only exacerbate the current global food crisis caused by Kyoto "carbon credit initiatives" that have turned "food crops" into "biofuel crops" with the resultant widespread starvation of the poorest people in the poorest nations.
    The potential energy shortages will result from the increased energy demand dictated by the cooler temperatures. This shortage will be far more severe than it should be because of the costly, inefficient, and limited solar and wind power initiatives and the virtual stagnation in expansion of efficient and high volume energy producing facilities for the past decade that have resulted from The Kyoto Protocol initiatives and exorbitant "Carbon Capture and Sequestration" (CCS) requirements that have made expansion of fossil fuel power production facilities economically unfeasible.

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Oil Spill, The dangers, and the potential


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    • As I was skimming through this article earlier. I really found myself very interested in what the write had to say here.
      We hear about the Oil Spill, The dangers, and the potential of how this can be one of the worst disasters in history. But, do you know the rest of it?
      People tend to focus on one thing rather than look around and see more.
      I'm going to highlight some of the PDF file here. But, I would like to encourage you all to read the whole thing.
      Many tend to focus on Fear. Not sure why, maybe they, themselves are scared or just don't want to deal with reality. They don't want to believe that this planet actually has and Evil presence running around it. In turn they also don't want to believe that there is actually a REAL GOD, that warned all about this stuff.
      But, I leave that for you to decide.
      Take a good look at the PDF and take some time to read it. If you can.

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    • Abiotic Oil
      Most of us believe that oil is the remains of dead dinosaurs and vegetation that somehow
      went from being organic to the mineral state over thousands of years under pressure in their
      grave yards.
      However, you have been wondering how many dinosaurs per second are coming out of the
      Gulf Gusher right now? How many were buried in what is now known to be such an immense
      oil field that 4000 rigs are doing their best to pump it out, make gasoline and make money?
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    • Picture Oil near Gulf   State Pier Photo
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    • Seems like that belief is due for a revamp don't you think? Yes indeed, and you're not the first
      to think so. Writing in National Review in 2004 Bruce Bartlett pointed out that " in the 1950s,
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    • Russian and Ukrainian scientists developed a new theory about petroleum's origins called the
      abiotic or abiogenic theory. According to this view, oil is fundamentally inorganic and has no
      relationship to dead plant or animal life. Rather, oil originates deep in the Earth's crust from
      inorganic material that is part of the planet's origin."
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    • Picture Horn Island Photo
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    • "Perhaps that's how the earth has been handling our addicted oil-sucking society, putting up
      with our habit of behaving like blood thirsty mosquitoes, drilling into her body wherever there
      is a hint of what we need for a fix. She has put up with us so far, because she has been able
      to self-replenish her bloodstream. However, unlike addicts who inject their drug of choice into
      their bodies, we use our hypodermics (drilling rigs) to dig a well so we can hit a vein and suck
      out that black fluid that we have become so totally dependent on....we're just a bunch of
      mother suckers...
      "Unfortunately, this
      time we really bleeped
      up...or at least, that
      British corporation from
      across the pond
      bleeped up so badly
      that not even Dick
      Cheney is willing to
      give them a free pass
      any more.
      "This is truly
      astounding.
      But wait..there's
      more...and worse.
      Think - BP.
      Think "Big Oil."
      Think - and this'll surprise you - think "you and me."
      "Now think about mosquitoes. Mosquitoes don't think too far ahead. They fill their little bodies
      wherever they can, then fly around until they run out of gas, so they pull into another service
      station (think blood donor) unaware that they're under surveillance until "splat" - end of story.
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    • Let's Be Clear.
      Let's face the fact that this gusher is going to go on gushing every second of every day for
      months to come.
      BP and the government are batting 100 per cent failure when it comes to stopping it.
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    • Having been brought up to expect someone
      else to be responsible for fixing problems in our lives (or to be blamed for them) we are not in
      the habit of trusting our own judgment. It's easier to run with the pack and think like the herd
      than it is to distance ourselves from their collective finger pointing, bleating, and subservience
      to authority.
      It's easier to wait till the last minute - despite all the warnings that a hurricane is coming (for
      example) - and expect God to pluck us off the roof in a helicopter or send us a Zodiac dinghy
      and take us to a shelter somewhere until the danger is over.
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    • Those who shook themselves awake ahead of the hurricane had their lives thoroughly
      disrupted for sure. But they were most certainly a lot better off than those who chose to ignore
      the first rescue device God ever gave them - the ability to think and act for themselves.
      Even so, those who can think but don't act, are no better off than those who can't think at all.
      So what is there to think about?
      Information is Key One
      How We Deal With It Is Key Two
      Many messengers throughout history have been hung drawn and quartered, even crucified or
      burned at the stake because their messages were upsetting.
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    • Scenario One
      No End In Sight
      The oil and the over-amillion
      gallons of
      dispersants that have
      been released, are not
      going to stop traveling
      any time soon.
      We know that it's
      impossible to stop this
      stuff from getting into the
      Loop Current in the Gulf,
      then finding its way
      wherever those currents
      lead. Cuba for example.
      The Caribbean? And up
      the US East Coast via
      the Gulf Stream, which
      feeds (or is a feeder for)
      the Atlantic Current - which influences the climate in Europe.
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    • Is that an over-the-top scenario?
      No.
      It's just information - which cannot be refuted or rebutted, and it should not be. It's not a
      scenario worth arguing over. It's a scenario that is a potential.
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    • Scenario Two
      Blast Off And Tsunami
      This one is short and bitter.
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    • This is allowing the oil to escape into the surrounding strata,
      where it is blasting its way through the cracks and fissures. It's
      as if there's a giant chicken down there trying to bust out of an
      egg, and the shell is cracking in all directions.
      This could first of all release methane gas which has the
      property of altering the buoyancy of water. In that event, boats
      of all sizes would find themselves - and their crews - literally
      disappearing into the deep. Instantly.
      Eventually, as the cracking continues in the sea bed, without
      warning it could be weakened to such a degree that the gas and oil trapped in that Everestsized
      cavity will explode with such force that there are no words to describe it. We could
      however say that the Hiroshima atomic bomb would be like a firecracker in comparison.
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    • Scenario Three
      Storms - Hurricanes - Acid Rain
      It is inevitable that storms and hurricanes will add to the devastation.
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    • Orange Beach Gulf Shores   Flyover
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    • Scenario 3a: Oily water = No Drinking Water.
      Desalination plants that provide city water are going to have to be shut down.
      They rely on filters down to the nano level - but oil will clog them as soon as it finds them.
      Likewise, nuclear power plants that cool themselves with sea water, are going to go off line as
      well.
      It's all very well for state governments to suggest that people drink bottled water instead, but
      how long will supplies last?
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    • Killer Earthquake/s - New Madrid Fault
      In this scenario, the gusher relieves enough pressure on surrounding
      rocks and tectonic plates that there is a sudden massive earthquake
      affecting the New Madrid Fault. This in turn collapses the cavity and
      stops the gusher. That's the good news.
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    • Orange Beach Oil Washing In
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    • That was written 26 years ago. Coincidentally, or not, another study commissioned by FEMA
      was released this week. "A study commissioned by (FEMA) indicates that a major earthquake
      on the New Madrid fault would kill 3,500 people and leave millions homeless. It found that
      more than 80,000 people would be injured by a 7.7-magnitude quake...."
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    • Really Thick
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    • How does this tie in to the Gulf
      of Mexico?
      It does so via the work of a
      retired geologist-geophysicist,
      Jack M. Reed.
      "(He) studied the Gulf and the
      New Madrid Fault for something
      like 40 years (and) believes the
      origin of the earthquakes lies
      beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
      "(He also) says the accepted
      theory of a quiet geologic
      evolution of the Gulf of Mexico
      Basin is fundamentally flawed
      and needs to be revised."
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    • "Other estimates from the report include:
      • 715,000 buildings damaged
      • 7 million people homeless
      • 2.6 million households without power
      • $300 Billion economic impact
      "The two towns most at risk because of their
      proximity to the fault zone are St. Louis, and
      Memphis, though towns in Illinois, Indiana,
      Kentucky, Arkansas and Alabama will also see
      damage, according to the report."
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    • Scenario Five
      Mass Evacuations
      Under any of the above scenarios, mass evacuations could quite conceivably be
      mandated by the government.
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    • Not what you want to see
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    • Inevitably, oily rain will ruin as much on land as it has in the ocean.
      Hurricanes will do even worse damage than any of their predecessors.
      The oil will continue to spill, gush, erupt and pollute until
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    • Solution - Two Revolutions
      As upsetting as it might be, facing these several previously unthinkable scenarios
      arising from the BP Disaster leads to some life-changing ideas, and on to thoughts of
      the future.
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    • The second revolution?
      This is nothing more than supposition. But, suppose those folks in the Gulf states and up the
      East Coast whose lives are going to hell right now, start to question how it all happened.
      Their lives went to hell because politicians took money from corporations and in turn
      turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the way those corporations defied the law.
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    • Addendum:
      From an article titled "Methane and Martial Law In The Gulf of Mexico,"
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    • Ed. Note:- Such articles can be written off as "alarmist" if you choose. Or else they can be
      seen as additional information - of the sort you will never see in the Mainspin Media.
      However you look at it, the truth is that there are people who in their insatiable greed and love
      of power and profit are literally destroying our planet.
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    • Bottom line - evaluate all information for yourself. Trust your own instincts. Decide what to do
      that is best for you - prudent, sensible, even if very difficult decisions must be made. It is your
      life, and other people will only offer very predictable opinions, usually contrary to what you
      feel in yourself is what you should do.
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    • Again take the time and look into more details of this post by clicking on the link.
      We can sit back do nothing and just let Higher officials who think they know it all take over and continue destroying our planet and blame us for it.
      Ooops did I say that? YES I DID!
      Or we can wake up to the reality of it all take a good look at our own history and those who took so much time to write out what they saw and knew would happen if everyone just let their Governments just do as they please.
      The scenario's above are not that far fetched. If anyone today has actually ever taken anytime at all to sit down and read the Bible. A lot of this fits exactly to what God said would happen.
      See people tend to live in fear of the Bible for some reason. The Reality of it all though is the hope that comes with the end of all this.
      Peace in Christ and in the entire world for the very first time in history.
      If you don't know Christ. I'm sure all this really scares the heck out of you.
      For those of us that do? We know it's finally time to see ALL Evil destroyed on this planet. And we get to finally all have true peace in God.
      His promises stand true. Always has and always will.
      Maybe it's time to make a choice? But like the article says. It's your free will.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

MARTIAL LAW ALERT: Gulf Coast Evacuation Scenario Summer/Fall 2010

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Be sure to read the entire post here. I would like to hear from anyone who lives down and around the gulf to know if they have heard anything on this yet.
Check out the link below.
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SoCal Martial Law Alerts (SCMLA) has been in existence for a year and a half and this is our first MARTIAL LAW ALERT.
We have withheld putting out information on the Gulf oil spill for a variety of reasons, but there is now enough evidence for us to put together a fairly clear picture of what really happened, what may result and to warn people who live in the area.
If you live, or if you know people who live on, or within 200 miles of the Gulf Coast area, we recommend that they immediately relocate to at least 200 miles inland (i.e. the farther away, the better). If people living within this 200-mile zone do not relocate voluntarily (i.e. on their own initiative), it appears likely that a forced evacuation through a martial-law scenario may occur within the coming weeks and (possibly) months.
Our country has been in a state of national emergency since September 11, 2001, which means that martial law (i.e. military rule) can be declared by the President at any time, for any reason
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

BP MEDIA BLACKOUT - JAMES FOX REPORTING

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We have been hearing that the BP oil spill is pretty bad. I've been personally wondering why we are not seeing more photos and coverage on this myself.

The more I do see I can tell it is pretty bad. If you happen to have more information on this or you live in the area. Feel free to give me any information you can give on this oil spill, Pictures and Video if possible.  If all this is actually true in this interview below.

I don't like to post hear say. I like the facts. We all deserve to know the truth and the fact.
Check out what this reporter is saying about all this. Hopefully we will here more tonight.



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June 09, 2010

BP MEDIA BLACKOUT - JAMES FOX REPORTING

OIL SPILL DESTROYS THE OCEAN KILLS ALL WILDLIFE
THIS IS AN EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT. A CATASTROPHE OF AN UNIMAGINABLE MAGNITUDE. PLANET CHANGING.
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