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Friday, July 30, 2010

Scientists: BP dispersants have made spill more toxic

Here is what I don't understand. Why is it the NBC is so late on this subject? Most of us that are here on Todays World New Blog have been talking about this for Months now. Not even weeks, but Months. How is is even possible for the Main Stream Media be so late on reporting all this?
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Editor's note: Lisa Myers' report on oil dispersants will air Friday on
NBC Nightly News.
Amid growing concern about the use of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico, a group of scientists working for law firms suing BP says their testing indicates that the dispersants being used to break up the oil are making this spill even more toxic to marine life.
Dr. William Sawyer, a toxicologist, is part of a team of scientists hired by law firms — led by Smith Stag of New Orleans — that are representing Louisiana fishermen and environmentalists.
The scientists collected and analyzed globs of oil, sand, and water from more than a dozen sites in four states along the Gulf.
Sawyer told NBC News that the findings are troubling. "We now have compelling evidence that the dispersant has enhanced and increased the toxicity from the spill," he said.
Spreading the damage?

So far, the federal government has approved use of more than 1.8 million gallons of dispersant in the Gulf. Most of it is Corexit 9500.
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Your request is being processed... Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill SOAKS Wildlife (VIDEO)

Michigan Oil Spill
A state of emergency has been declared in southwest Michigan's Kalamazoo County as more than 800,000 gallons of oil released into a creek began making its way downstream in the Kalamazoo River, the Kalamazoo Gazette reports.
The trouble began Monday at 9:45 a.m., when an oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Liquids Pipelines sprung a leak in Marshall Township. Enbridge Energy is a subsidiary of Calgary, Canada based Enbridge Inc., the Detroit Free Press reports. According to the company, it is the largest transporter of oil from western Canada.
The cause of the leak is under investigation, and the pipeline has been shut down--but not before it did some serious damage. U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer called the spill the "largest oil spill in the history of the Midwest." Officials are suggesting all water activities in the Kalamazoo River be put on hold until the situation is resolved--and some are fearing contamination of local water supplies:
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Pipeline repaired as China works to contain spill

A beach after an oil spill.Image via Wikipedia
While so many are concerned about the Gulf. I often wonder if anyone has heard about China's Oil Spill. The Oil spills seem to be a growing trend lately.
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BEIJING—China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill.
Cleanup efforts—marred by the drowning death of a worker, his body coated in crude—continued over 165 square mile (430 square kilometer) stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. The slick emptied beaches as its size doubled Wednesday.
China Central Television earlier reported an estimate of 1,500 tons of oil has spilled. That would amount roughly to 400,000 gallons (1,500,000 liters)—as compared with 94 million to 184 million gallons in the BP oil spill off the U.S. coast.
But 40 oil-skimming boats and about 800 fishing boats were also deployed to clean up the spill, and Xinhua said more than 9 miles (15 kilometers) of oil barriers had been set up to keep the slick from spreading.
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Oil cap kept shut despite seepage near broken well


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    NEW ORLEANS – The federal government Monday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day despite something seeping near the sea floor.
    The Obama administration's point man for the spill, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said early Monday that the company promised to watch closely for signs of new leaks around the mile-deep well, which has stopped gushing oil into the water since the experimental cap was closed Thursday.
    Late Sunday, Allen said something was detected seeping near the broken oil well and demanded in a sharply worded letter that BP step up monitoring of the ocean floor. Allen didn't say what was seeping. White House energy adviser Carol Browner told the CBS "Early Show" seepage was found less than two miles from the well site.
    The concern all along — since pressure readings on the cap weren't as high as expected — was a leak elsewhere in the well bore, meaning the cap may have to be reopened to prevent the environmental disaster from becoming even worse and harder to fix. An underground leak could let oil and gas escape uncontrolled through bedrock and mud.

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    If the valves are kept closed, as BP wants, it's possible that no more oil will leak into the Gulf of Mexico. Work on a permanent plug is moving steadily, with crews drilling into the side of the ruptured well from deep underground. By next week, they could start blasting in mud and cement to block off the well for good.
    But the government is worried that the cap on the well is causing oil and gas to leak out elsewhere, which could make the sea floor unstable and cause the well to collapse. That's why federal officials want to pump the crude to ships on the surface. That would require opening the well for a few days to relieve pressure before the pipes could be hooked up, letting millions more gallons of oil spill out in the interim.
    It will take months, or possibly years for the Gulf to recover, though cleanup efforts continued and improvements in the water could be seen in the days since the oil stopped flowing. Somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons have spilled into the Gulf since the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 people and touching off one of America's worst environment crises.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital to Gulf Recovery



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    Oil Disaster The Rig The Blew up - The Untold Story

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    Documentary exploring what really happened in the first 36 hours of the biggest environmental disaster in US history - the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Featuring exclusive access and footage, the film follows the salvage team called in to save the burning oil rig Deepwater Horizon, and unravels the desperate story of the men tasked with preventing a catastrophe www.youtube.com/watch?v=So--O0g2860&feature=player_embedded Click Above to view video

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    Oil Disaster: The Rig That Blew Up was never going to win any awards for its less-than-imaginative title, and true to Five's form, this hastily cobbled together documentary about one of the planet's worst ever ecological disasters was less than brilliant.
    If you tuned in expecting an in-depth assessment of the ecological impact of the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, or a look at the subsequent political fallout and President Obama's Brit-bashing in the weeks following, you'd have been seriously disappointed.
    For this is Five, a channel which sticks Ice Road Truckers on at primetime and seems to be courting a target audience of blokes who get their kicks watching massive bits of machinery been driven around by Americans with handlebar moustaches. It takes all sorts.

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    Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR's federal government sources in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Emergency planners are dealing with a prospective "dead zone" within a 200 mile radius from the Deepwater Horizon disaster datum in the Gulf.
    A looming environmental and population displacement disaster is brewing in the Gulf. The oil dispersant used by BP, Corexit 9500, is seen by FEMA sources as mixing with evaporated water from the Gulf and absorbed by rain clouds producing toxic precipitation that threatens to continue killling marine and land animals, plant life, and humans within a 200-mile radius of the Deepwater Horizon disaster site in the Gulf.
    Adding to the worries of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers is the large amounts of methane that are escaping from the cavernous grotto of oil underneath the Macondo drilling area of Gulf of Mexico.

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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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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Obama Warns World Leaders 'Millions Could Die' From Gulf Oil Disaster


  • At first glance when I saw this I just said, Yeah Right! But, after reading through it all, this really isn't that far fetched at all.
    There are some major toxins coming up out of this. If for some reason it isn't stopped. We may see worse than this.
    Take the time check out all these links for yourselves. If I was to add them all it would become an entire book..


  • A sobering report circulating in the Kremlin today from President Medvedev's meeting with other World leaders at the G8 summit in Muskoka, Ontario states that President Obama has warned his counterparts that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster "will most likely kill millions, perhaps tens of millions" of people during the coming year.
    Fueling Obama's dire assessment of this "Gulf Apocalypse", this report says, are the oil and toxic rains now being reported to be falling throughout the US Gulf Coast region due to the fracturing of the Gulf of Mexico seafloor allowing untold millions of gallons of oil and millions of cubic feet of methane gas to escape unchecked into our World's seventh largest body of water, not to mention the millions of gallons of dangerous disbursements being used that is poisoning everything in its path.

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    Gulf Oil Spill Information for Pregnant Women


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    I'm pregnant. Can the oil harm me or my unborn baby?

    Although the oil may contain some chemicals that could cause harm to an unborn baby under some conditions, the CDC has reviewed sampling data from the EPA and feels that the levels of these chemicals are well below the level that could generally cause harm to pregnant women or their unborn babies. The effects that chemicals might have on a pregnant woman and her unborn baby would depend on many things: how the mother came into contact with the oil, how long she was in contact with it, how often she came into contact with it, and the overall health of the mother and her baby.
    People, including pregnant women, can be exposed to these chemicals by breathing them (air), by swallowing them (water, food), or by touching them (skin). If possible, everyone, including pregnant women, should avoid the oil and spill-affected areas. Generally, a pregnant woman will see or smell the chemicals in oil before those chemicals can hurt her or the baby. The EPA and CDC are working together to continue monitoring the levels of oil in the environment. If we begin to find levels that are more likely to be harmful, we will tell the public. For up-to-date information on monitoring data along the Gulf Coast, please visit EPA's website.

  • Important to note about in this report is that Obama's warning that "millions could die" from this disaster has been further confirmed by the American engineer who helped lead the team to put out the Persian Gulf oil fires set by Saddam Hussein in the first Iraq war and had warned a full 12 months before the April sinking of the Deepwater Horizon that BP was drilling into a huge methane deposit that if released would be beyond catastrophic, it would be biblical in its scale of destruction.


  • Gulf oil spill: Undersea oil masses confirmed in tests

    June 21, 2010 | 11:33 am
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Monday released new data from the agency's latest research trip through the Gulf of Mexico, showing concentrations of oil below the surface at more than 3,600 feet below the surface, about 7.5 nautical miles southwest of the BP's blown-out well.
    The Thomas Jefferson research ship found evidence of depleted oxygen, a potential sign of microbes digesting oil, in the area. Acoustic and fluorometric instruments likewise indicated the presence of oil. Water samples taken on the trip have not been analyzed.
    Since the leak began April 20, attention has been focused on surface oil washing up on environmentally fragile shoreline ecosystems. But "plumes" or "clouds" of oil hovering in the water column below the surface, where myriad marine life eat, breed and swim, has as much or more potential to cause ecological damage to the Gulf, scientists have warned.
    The first evidence of undersea concentrations of oil was revealed by University of South Florida scientists, and was subsequently confirmed by NOAA. Monday's results generally coincide with previous data.


  • Not being explained to the American people about NOAA's findings is that the live video feed of this spill being shown to them of this spill contains oil and methane gas being expelled at pressures estimated to be at 100,000 pounds per square inch (psi) and cannot in any way being associated with the massive underwater oil plumes found by the Thomas Jefferson nearly 8 kilometers away.

  • Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill



  • "We're going to have to evacuate the gulf states," said Matt Simmons, founder of Simmons and Co., an oil investment firm and, since the April 20 blowout, the unflagging source of end-of-the-world predictions. "Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people? . . . This story is 80 times worse than I thought."


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  • To the greatest consequence of this catastrophe upon the American people, an FSB appendix to this report warns that the US Soldiers currently deployed throughout their island territory of Puerto Rico are in fact being trained in how to "suppress and contain" large concentrations of people and being "recycled" to military bases throughout the State of Florida where they will soon be joined by an estimated 28,000 NATO allied troops where both will join up with an estimated 7,000 pre-positioned UN marked vehicles for purposes "still not known or clearly stated by the US".

  • what they aren't willing to find out for themselves, is going to kill them.  Just like all of those who cleaned up the1989 Exxon Valdez spill disaster, ALMOST ALL OF WHOM ARE NOW DEAD.

  • Take the time check out all these links for yourselves. If I was to add them all it would become an entire book..

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