The 2010 Blockbuster; British Pterodactyl VS Godzilla!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gFlSGXt_k
Tar balls bring nightmare to life on Alabama coast (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/02249F701A5F8B2B8625771E000C5D51?OpenDocument)
http://news.suite101.com/article.cfm/causes-of-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-a238207"]Causes (http://"

both Transocean and Halliburton, the other two oilfield service companies involved in the spill, blame BP for its instructions to remove drilling mud from the riser prior to capping it (May 12, 2010, “In Senate testimony, oil executives pass the blame for massive gulf spill�). The mud, whose pressure likely helped to contain the well, was replaced with seawater before the well was sealed, possibly contributing to the blowout. It is unclear why this was done.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268302434395796.html?m od=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Mr. Harrell "pretty much grumbled in his manner, 'I guess that is what we have those pinchers for,' " Mr. Brown testified.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490087.shtml

Speaking about what led up to the massive blowout, Mike Williams told Pelley, "I hear the engines revving. The lights are glowing. I'm hearing the alarms. I mean, they're at a constant state now. It's just, 'Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.' It doesn't stop. But even that's starting to get drowned out by the sound of the engine increasing in speed. And my lights get so incredibly bright that they physically explode. I'm pushing my way back from the desk when my computer monitor exploded."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill"]AP: (http://"

...was aborted Saturday after ice crystals encased it, an ominous development as thick blobs of tar began washing up on Alabama's white sand beaches.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/video_air_force_planes_drop_ch.html"]Video: (http://"[url) Air Force planes drop chemical dispersants on Gulf oil spill

The U.S. Air Force is using chemical-dispersing C-130 aircraft from the 910th Airlift Wing, based at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, to drop an oil-dispersing chemical into the Gulf of Mexico as part of the Deepwater Horizon Response effort.
Hydrates stymie oil spill containment box (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6482FI20100509)
http://inhabitat.com/2010/05/11/bp-to-try-junk-shot-to-halt-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill/"]BP (http://"[url) to Try "Junk Shot" to Halt the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

It sounds to us like BP is now grasping at straws trying to outsmart the growing gulf coast oil spill. As their next plan of action engineers will shoot a pile of trash at high speed into the blowout preventer at the site of the leak on the ocean floor. Experts in the oil field call this maneuver the “junk shot�. Not exactly the tactic we’d like to hear them using to fix this catastrophic situation. Which leads us to wonder, why there aren’t more sophisticated solutions to BP’s leaky problem?

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Think that "junk shot" sounds so b-typical it should have been attempted weeks ago?

72hr projected beachfall .pdf

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/book_shelf/2017_TMF72-2010-05-18-2100.pdf

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http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100519/did-deepwater-methane-hydrates-cause-bp-gulf-explosion

Methane hydrates are volatile compounds � natural gas compressed into molecular cages of ice. They are stable in the extreme cold and crushing weight of deepwater, but are extremely dangerous when they build up inside the drill column of a well. If destabilized by heat or a decrease in pressure, methane hydrates can quickly expand to 164 times their volume.

Survivors of the BP rig explosion told interviewers that right before the April 20 blast, workers had decreased the pressure in the drill column and applied heat to set the cement seal around the wellhead. Then a quickly expanding bubble of methane gas shot up the drill column before exploding on the platform on the ocean's surface.

Even a solid steel pipe has little chance against a 164-fold expansion of volume � something that would render a man six feet six inches tall suddenly the height of the Eiffel Tower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPPFcy-3Vo

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White House Covers Up Menacing Oil "Blob" (http://oilprice.com/Environment/Oil-Spills/White-House-Covers-Up-Menacing-Oil-Blob.html)

In an exclusive for Oilprice.com, the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has learned from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sources that U.S. Navy submarines deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast have detected what amounts to a frozen oil blob from the oil geyser at the destroyed Deep Horizon off-shore oil rig south of Louisiana. The Navy submarines have trained video cameras on the moving blob, which remains frozen at depths of between 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Because the oil blob is heavier than water, it remains frozen at current depths.

FEMA and Corps of Engineers employees are upset that the White House and the Pentagon remain tight-lipped and in cover-up mode about the images of the massive and fast-moving frozen coagulated oil blob that is being imaged by Navy submarines that are tracking its movement. The sources point out that BP and the White House conspired to withhold videos from BP-contracted submersibles that showed the oil geyser that was spewing oil from the chasm underneath the datum of the Deep Horizon at rates far exceeding originally reported amounts. We have learned that it was largely WMR's scoop on the existence of the BP videos that forced the company and its White House patrons to finally agree to the release of the video footage...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3382/4622772310_a4e5f28afa_b.jpg

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Gulf Oil Spill Testimony: Executives- BP, Transocean, Halliburton (http://www.nowpublic.com/world/gulf-oil-spill-testimony-executives-bp-transocean-halliburton-2615749.html)

Transocean's President Steven Newman said BP was accountable for the oil spill but Halliburton was responsible for gulf oil spill

http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/dick-cheeney-753602.jpg

[Horn]

Was trying to find a shot of it expanding to the keys for a while.

Is terrible looking.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-houston-20100522,0,3428621.story

Beside a bustling freeway, in a drab Houston office park bedecked with nearly every name in Big Oil, BP had launched a 21st century version of "Apollo 13."

...Hundreds of engineers from universities, rival oil companies and the federal government immediately went back to work, in shifts lasting 13 hours or more.

"Anyone who we think could make a difference, we brought in," said Kent Wells, BP's senior vice president for exploration and production.

Then came the "dream team" that President Obama had ordered his Nobel-winning energy secretary, Steven Chu, to assemble: out-of-the-box thinkers including a nuclear physicist, a pioneer on Mars drilling techniques, an MIT professor whose research interests include "going faster on my snowboard," an expert on the hydrogen bomb, and a controversial astrophysicist who was later booted over a past essay defending homophobia.

Those involved say they are crafting and deploying in a matter of days what under normal circumstances would take a year or more.

And yet a limitless budget and all that brainpower have failed to fix the pipe 5,000 feet below the sea surface that has leaked oil for more than a month, spewing at least 6 million gallons, possibly far more.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/first-endangered-turtles-found-slathered-in-oil.html
http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0133ee287fc2970b-500wi

[keehah]

Benzene the killer! Plans in place to evacuate The Gulf Population (http://sfawbn.com/news/?p=1923)

Plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area are expected to be announced in the coming days as FEMA prepares for what is now being called the worst oil disaster in the history of the world.

God in Heaven!!! What have these monsters done to us!!

Was tuning my sat dish and picked up ‘The micro effect radio show’ and there is a scientist on there who said they have backup plans to evacuate Florida and eventually the East coast now that the oil is in the loop currents. The slick is releasing huge amounts of Benzene. Benzene will flat out kill ya!! Don’t go down there, stay away!!!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ojCbqfRRr8
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/bp-cut-live-feed-top-kill/

BP informed Rep. Markey’s office that the live feed would be terminated some time early Wednesday morning, and would continue to be offline until after the attempt at the so-called 'top kill' is completed," the statement continued.

The news that the live feed will be cut off has alarmed some environmentalists and bloggers, who have been using the footage to make their own assessments of the oil spill, independently of BP's own reports.

...“It is outrageous that BP would kill the video feed for the top kill," Markey said in his statement. "This BP blackout will obscure a vital moment in this disaster."

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http://scrapingmybarrel.blogspot.com/2008/06/zilla-wafers.html

All Monsters Attack has always had the reputation as the worst of all Godzilla movies. I would concede that IF it was a Godzilla movie, it probably is the worst. When in fact Godzilla mostly makes guest appearances in various dream sequences. This film is much less a Godzilla film, but more a deeper study of the effects of industrialization and modernization on Japanese society. The grim city of the film, with it’s smoggy sunsets through billowing smokestacks, is the background for the story of a latchkey kid who apparently suffers from epilepsy. While in his unconscious dreamstate, Godzilla’s son befriends him and helps him sort out his bully problems, as well as deal with his own anger at being abandoned by his parents! Not the most upbeat Godzilla movie, but at least the kid ain’t annoying, or named Kenny. And it has a smokin’ surfin’ soundtrack unlike any other Godzilla film. I swear you can read reviews of this film where the writers absolutely loath the score. I think they are deaf.

As for Terror of Mechagodzilla, it was the last Godzilla film directed by Ishiro Honda, the man who started it all. Forgiving it’s first several minutes of reconstituted monster fights, the remainder of the film is quite unique, though on a really tight budget. Where in the past whether it be alien commanders or military Generals, most of the expository scenes took place in massive underground bunkers or spaceships festooned with blinking lights and giant screen video monitors. This time around, I swear it looks like the alien invaders are planning their world domination from a room rented at the Marriott. Instead of being a distraction though, it's the urban sterility that makes the film much more real-world, here and now, and much less the fantasy unreality of the previous 20 years of Godzilla films. With a major “robot in love with a human� subplot taking center stage for much of it’s running time, the whole film has a melancholy mood unlike any other Godzilla film.
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http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S1576512.shtml?cat=11563

Change of Command
Posted at: 05/25/2010 5:50 PM
By: Renee Passal

WASHINGTON - Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr., assumed command as the 24th commandant of the Coast Guard today, relieving Adm. Thad W. Allen during a military ceremony at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D. C.

"I am honored to serve as the 24th commandant of the Coast Guard," said Papp. "When I assumed the duties from Admiral Thad Allen at noon today, it concluded a series of key rotations and marked the setting of a new watch to lead our service."

During the ceremony, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates awarded Allen the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano presided over the change of command and awarded Allen the Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal.

While today's ceremony marks the end of his term as commandant, Allen will continue to serve as the National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, managing an unprecedented response effort.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/us/28spill.html

the head of the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling, S. Elizabeth Birnbaum, resigned under pressure on Thursday after only 10 months in the job.

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Top Kill being attempted right now.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_66prl-8EcKk/SqQaTXxQvfI/AAAAAAAAAGs/7IKX8OgjciQ/s320/Kramer+golf.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nescbncEOZM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ejCbF9_Po

[keehah]

...

It is this or yardwork. 8)

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/gp-0810.jpg

[Horn]

Hmmmm... relevant.

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BP calls on Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot for aid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5c-_js1UM

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http://gold-silver.us/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5115.0;attach=2153 ;image
Hmmmm... relevant.


Are you bullheading (http://oilgasglossary.com/bullheading.html) this thread or just skipping to a conclusion?

http://www.theprovince.com/news/vancouver/Gold+strikes+Vancouver+once+again+billboard/3077978/story.html
http://www.theprovince.com/news/vancouver/3077983.bin

We can call it Sardoomity. Sardoomilumity for the uninactivated.

Tragedy on all the other threads.

We all have our context to deal with.

What's next after the oil sands stampede? (http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=6694e3ba-f363-462f-85db-63044c225e12)

National Post, May 26, 2010 (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto/story.html?id=3070761)

A Thornhill gangster known by the street name "The Black Ghost," a reported millionaire loan shark who disappeared more than two years ago, has been identified as the person found encased in a barrel of concrete at the bottom of Toronto's harbour.

Perhaps I just want to say...
History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man.

[Horn]

Are you bullheading this thread or just skipping to a conclusion?

Never, in fact I find this one very interesting.

You can find a bootleg rip of it out there on torrent, somewhere?

http://nunetherlands.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/fallout3poster1.jpg

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Horn's got game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
Edit to add: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/11/gulf-oil-spills-worst-hit_n_678759.html

BP has also managed to stifle widespread knowledge of a "frightening recipe" of other toxins gushing into the ocean. Along with oil and Corexit is a list of heavy metals from drilling fluid [and in the oil], such as arsenic, lead, mercury, chrome, zinc, and radionuclides.

Never before in human history has the vast food web of the ocean--rooted in the dark, and flowering at the surface--come under so many assaults from below, above, and within the water column: marine warfare masquerading as a cleanup.

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Beware the Spiders, everyone forgets about those.

[Horn]

Rob Roy full.

http://stagevu.com/video/deyafhvqskel

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpXkwyQ9l30

Reuters: BP well disaster stuns hardened oil men (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64Q4LS20100527)

"What I worry about as an energy CEO is what effect this will have on energy policy," he said, noting it may lead people to look more seriously at electric cars, or complicate plans to pump carbon underground. "This BP thing has tentacles."

Along with the public at large, industry players were crossing their fingers on Thursday in hopes the latest attempt to plug the well would be successful.

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Where's Taarna?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wWhCunDKLg

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COMMERCIAUX DE TELEVISION (http://www.sybillesasse.com/z_carole_desbiens_bio.htm)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Heavy_Metal_%281981%29.jpg

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/gulf-oil-spill-runs-a-pipeline-to-our-collective-unconscious/article1584868/

There's ground zero itself, the Spillcam footage of the leaking well, provided by unmanned robot cameras a mile below the surface of the now empurpled waters of the gulf. But there's been only one money shot of thousands of gallons of yellow-brown oil and gas, spewing in a boiling cumulonimbus cloud from the ragged pipe.

The picture's boring, yet strangely hypnotic; calm, but terrifying; unchanging, but unstoppably so. A Washington Post writer, Hank Stuever, was moved to review it as a TV show (“the dread of a horror films with the monotony of Andy Warhol's eight-hour silent movie about the Empire State Building).

The more you've watched the spume, the more compelling it becomes. I began to see it as live footage of a rupture in the world's unconscious, our ever-underwater collective fears of what we're doing to the Earth, boiling away regardless of how much we pretend there's nothing to worry about. BP seemed to understand the picture's primal and damaging power, and tried to shut the video feed down. But the U.S. Congress insisted last Tuesday that it keep cameras rolling.

If you weary of Spillcam, however, you can turn your attention to Who Can Top This Pain?, the non-stop debate over how much oil and gas, exactly, has spilled into the youngest ocean on the planet.

Transocean blames the well's cementing team, which in turn implicates Halliburton, the oil-services giant once run and still closely tied to Dick Cheney, former vice-president to George W. Bush. This week, Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's personal Rottweiler, brought the blame full circle and dubbed the spill “Obama's Katrina in a Wall Street Journal column.

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COMMERCIAUX DE TELEVISION (http://www.sybillesasse.com/z_carole_desbiens_bio.htm)


Isn't she Jim Morrisson's love child? Beautiful.

Some hippie stuff...


"What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBZ-TAxegc

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JIDF: Israeli commandos open fire after being attacked with axes & knives by Gazaflotilla "peace activists" (http://www.thejidf.org/2010/05/israeli-commandos-open-fire-after-being.html)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kwz4BqmMfpo/TANIa1eHNzI/AAAAAAAABT0/lTrEhtMb1nQ/s320/1036a_large.jpg

If Israeli troops would have waited a few more hours and 'battled' the aid workers closer to shore they may have gotten away with it.

Sloppy work in International Waters. Expect a large blow-out.

[keehah]

National Post: Giant sinkhole in Guatemala looks as if it goes to centre of the Earth (http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05/31/giant-sinkhole-in-guatemala-looks-as-if-it-goes-to-centre-of-the-earth/#ixzz0pZjIqqf1)

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/4657053554_ccf901edb5_o.jpg?w=620

The image is not a photoshop-job despite looking as if a giant hole had been punched in the Earth.

[Horn]

Yeah, I saw that, and was scratchin my head as there was only a tiny little caption stating it was a mudslide??

Then I remembered some 2012 prophecy about Blackholes forming on the inside of the Earth.

Remember the Silver surfer in Fantastic 4 perfect circles?? :conf:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbk7faEwt10

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Silver Surfer, Fantastic 4.... I'll keep an eye out.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure if this footage shows prep work before Top-kill and Junk-shot, or current BP recon for Silver Surfer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHEyUkyt9Y&NR=1&feature=fvwp

The old generations had it good. Their mass must see events had sound.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Destruction_of_Leviathan.png/250px-Destruction_of_Leviathan.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan

The Leviathan is mentioned six times in the Hebrew Bible, with Job 41 being dedicated to describing him in detail:

1 Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
10 No-one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12 I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
15 His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make him flee, slingstones are like chaff to him.
29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw, he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing-sledge.
31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is his equal� a creature without fear.
34 He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud.

In Psalm 74 Yahweh is said to "break the heads (sic) of Leviathan in pieces" before giving his flesh to the people of the wilderness; in Psalm 104 God is praised for having made all things, including Leviathan; and in Isaiah 27:1 he is called the "wriggling serpent" who will be killed at the end of time.

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http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2tqlzbshR1qzenl9o1_500.gif

Oil spill crisis mires White House (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012042065_oilpolitics06.html)

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON � In a time of crisis, no resource is so precious, or so perishable, as credibility. Last weekend, the Obama White House discovered that its had sprung another leak.

At a public briefing May 29, BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, described the company's latest maneuver to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: hacking the gushing pipe at the bottom of the Gulf so a cap could be installed over it. Twice, Suttles said shearing the riser would have little effect on the size of the leak.

Obama administration officials could not believe what they were hearing. The administration's analysis suggested the opposite, that cutting the riser could increase the flow of oil by 20 percent, at least temporarily.

For weeks, federal officials had stood alongside BP executives at the briefings, reinforcing doubts about who was in charge and putting the government in the position of vouching, by its mere presence, for BP's veracity. No longer. The administration told BP it was ending the joint appearances.

The administration is scrambling to take control of the crisis.

The new normal at the Obama White House has required that a new schedule be laid on top of the old one. There is a daily oil-spill conference call for Cabinet officers, one for their deputies, another with the governors of affected states, and sometimes three briefings a day that include the president.

"It's not as herky-jerky as it may come across," said Carol Browner, Obama's energy and climate adviser. "It's much more systematic."

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LOQXkAmBm4Q/1.jpghttp://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Ogu1hPkbQvk1bM:http://www.gan.ca/images/hooks/armadillo1.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQXkAmBm4Q

And the black gold started flowing
Just like Boston tea

[keehah]

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/06/checkmate.html

As one should expect from a natural phenomenon, failure is fractal, �observable at every scale. The same pattern of maladaptive strategy leading to untimely demise constantly replays itself at the level of viruses and bacteria, and all the way to individual plants and animals, populations, societies, countries and civilizations. Nature moves forward by canceling its unsuccessful experiments, which far outnumber its successes. Most people have come to terms with the theory of natural selection, and can understand individual and group failure. But over the last few decades, quite recently in fact, �it has become unacceptable to speak of accepting the failure of very large corporations, societies and countries as a terminal state. They are always considered to be in need of bail-out, reorganization, aid, reform, reconstruction, development and so forth. Perpetual degradation and decay followed by a headlong plunge into merciful oblivion is simply not on offer. Haiti will one day be prosperous, Somalia a model democracy, and perhaps even low-lying coastal and island nations can have a bright though wet future, provided the people there are fitted with snorkels to help them cope with rising ocean levels. When attempting to come to terms with the regularly observable demise of civilizations, and the forthcoming demise of this one, our failure to cope is complete: ancient pagan archetypes take over our thinking, our unconscious mind takes over, and we are transported to a realm of second-rate fantasy films.

Societal extinction doesn't make any noise when it finally happens. Survivors simply move on. Non-survivors might as well have not existed, and the more gullible survivors come to believe the extravagant ruins they left behind to have been the work of extraterrestrials.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/photo/2010-06/54408202.jpg

British Ptero fights back. Universal Orlando Resort opened The Wizarding World of Harry Potter June 18.

Harry Potter Set to Rescue Florida Tourism From Oil Spill Gloom (http://news.suite101.com/article.cfm/harry-potter-set-to-rescue-florida-tourism-from-oil-spill-gloom-a250287)

It seems that Harry Potter 4 and 5, Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix gain most favour although the Hippogriff family roller coaster ride reaches back to number 3, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Dragon Challenge is a high speed coaster ride on the theme of the Triwizard Tournament, but the high-tech ride is said to be Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Here visitors will journey through several of the most iconic scenes from the movies, passing through Dumbledore's office to get there and then travelling through the wonderful Room of Requirement, the Forbidden Forest and a Quidditch game.

Florida's Tourism Future Riding on Harry Potter as Oil Spill Hits

Part of the Islands of Adventure complex at Universal Orlando Resort, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is the biggest new Florida theme park in over a decade. As the recession hit, Islands of Adventure made an estimated loss of 13.8% last year, reports Lorna Blount, 'Florida Hopes Harry Potter Boosts Tourism' Sky News UK online 17June 2010, and now Florida's economy is threatened by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. After an investment estimated at well over $200 million, a Harry Potter boost to the local economy is hoped for this summer.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/photo/2010-06/54408938.jpg

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"Simmons & CO. founder announces retirement one week after BP comment" (http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/06/14/daily32.html)

Houston Business Journal, June 16, 2010

Matthew Simmons, founder of Simmons & Co. International, announced Wednesday he would retire from the investment bank. The announcement comes one week after he very publicly predicted the bankruptcy of BP Plc.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Simmons & Co said its founder would retire from his role as chairman emeritus on June 30 and devote his full focus to the Ocean Energy Institute, a renewable energy think-tank and venture capital fund he started in 2007. The Rockland, Maine-based Ocean Energy Institute, which Simmons also founded, focuses on developing the infrastructure needed to generate power offshore, such as using wind turbines. “In the three years since I founded Ocean Energy, my passion for renewable energy R&D and investment has continued to grow and this venture requires my full attention," said Simmons in an official statement.

In the firm's statement, Simmons & Co. Chief Executive Officer Mike Frazier said he was grateful to Simmons for his leadership and wished him well. But on June 14, the company issued a statement dated May 12 in which Frazier distanced himself from the founder, saying that the former chairman's views were not those of Simmons & Co. Frazier referred to Simmon's comments related to the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the implications for the industry and the individual companies. “While our respective views, historically, have often been in harmony, over the past year they have significantly diverged on some important fronts,Frazier said in the official statement.

Simmons first founded the company in 1974. The energy expert and author is known for being controversial and his often gloomy outlook.

http://www.trunews.com/Audio/6_28_10_monday_trunews2.mp3
Interviewer of Matt Simmons is Rick Wiles.
"trunews- the only newscast counting down to the second coming of jesus christ"...

http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,70827.0.html

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1116630/pg1

I found the link to it here. I would have posted the direct link to the interview, but it's on a website with limited capacity, and I can't even get into the site right now. Someone with time needs to try and get through an dYoutube this.


Here is a synopsis from the other website from listeners as to what he said

BOP Gone since day 1
Casing Gone since Day one
Everything BP is showing now is staged
DOOM is knocking on the door!

Huge plume to hit Grand Isle Today or tomorrow

Total Furnace of fire coming out of the floor"!

Worse than Mustard Gas
Worse case scenario comes Thursday

THEY NEED TO START PASSING OUT GAS MASKS NOW

Hurricane Alex projected landfall is Thursday. The Gas that it will pull up will be deadly. He says Alex will go much further north than forecast says.

He said it will be much worse than anything Saddam Houssein sprayed in Iraq

On a good note he said he does not think there will be tsunami and the east coast of Florida will be fine

matt says basically everyone should leave or have a gas mask
and that the rovs are perpetrating "the biggest scam in history"
as the main leak is down the block... oh yeah we also have to
nuke this thing....

Simmons does think the east coast of Florida will be fine. Everybody on the Gulf Coasts, leave asap


From another poster's summary:

The government now knows now that BP is lying, and they don't know what to do about it.

Matt Simmons thinks that manslaughter charges will come out of this.

There is no more casing left in the bore. It's just a hole now.

Most industry people think that it's spewing at minimum, a 100-120,000 barrels a day.

There is a monstrous oil/gas lake contained at the hole location because of extremely cold temps.

Simmons says the methane bubble is about 120 miles wide and extends from 4500 feet in depth to about 400 feet.

He says that if they don't fuse the strata with a nuclear device, they'll never stop this.

BP believed that this was a 25 billion barrel oil field.
They were going for broke.

50 % of the GOM is dead.

We're seeing less than 1% of the oil.


Simmons says that because there is no well bore, they're not even sure where the hole is. He's calling it a cauldron, and he's saying fire is coming out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGRNEJiD3PY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQryVQxQ7bE

[keehah]

http://gizmodo.com/5592836/bp-photoshops-another-official-image-again-terribly

Now Wired gets it....

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/bp-reader-photoshop/

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/07/bp_1a.jpg

We asked you last week to help us show BP that when hiring unethical photographers (or photo editors) in the future, they should look for Photoshop proficiency on their resumes.

In response, you put the company’s pathetic photo-doctoring of oil-cleanup press photos to shame. Your work was not only more skilled, it was far more imaginative. Why just remove the ground beneath a parked helicopter when you could put that chopper on the moon instead?

[Horn]

Maybe you should quit the day job, and submit your resume to Cosmo. for chief editor, keehah? ;D

[keehah]

They pay for good denials not reality.
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http://fuelfix.com/energywatch/2010/10/04/matt-simmons-remembered-at-mfah-event/

Hundreds of people gathered at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today (Monday) to remember energy banker, author and pundit Matthew Simmons, who died unexpectedly at his home in Maine in August.

Family, friends and colleagues spoke during the memorial of Simmons’ intellect, competitiveness, sense of humor and voracious appetite for history and art.

Longtime friend Bob Allen Street said Simmons often went where others wouldn’t, be it his concerns over Peak Oil – which culminated in his book “Twilight in the Desert” – to more recent statements about the damage to the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon accident.

John Mellencamp - Just Another Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g92vl5lsWVM

[keehah]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

Darth Vader-like creature “is replacing red crabs in the habitat we have sampled” (http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/darth-vader-like-creature-replacing-red-crabs-habitat-sampled)

We found fewer numbers and at one of our productive sites, we didn’t find any red crabs,” [Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Researcher Harriet Perry has been studying red crabs since the 1980's] said.

Perhaps more unusual than the absence of crabs, was the abundance of another species.

“This is the deep sea isopod, bathenomis,” Perry said, while holding one of the strange looking creatures, “And it is replacing red crabs in the habitat we have sampled so far.”

This bizarre looking creature, with a face like Darth Vader, has always been there though little is known about it.

[Horn]

That looks like something that would be flowing out of a horror show toilet?

[keehah]

Another year, another ocean, another corporate culture....of failure.

Even if things are still getting worse, is it OK post as if a two week mourning period is complete?

Godzilla has the neutron beam, and baby-zilla the photon rays. The ocean gets trashed.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QKvShm7j1pE/TD8g76wfFeI/AAAAAAAAC5o/HDQMUvGZv7M/s1600/Godzilla%27s_Revenge_1969.jpg
http://demotivatorsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/1108845-godzilla_facepalm_godzilla_facepalm_face_palm_epic _fail_demotivational_poster_1245384435_super.jpg

[keehah]

That looks like something that would be flowing out of a horror show toilet?

Uh huh. It reminds me of the NWO metaphor in Southland Tales. ;D
http://www.firstshowing.net/img/southlandtales-blimp.jpg

UPDATE: Giant Bin Laden Destroys New York, Washington (http://www.theonion.com/articles/update-giant-bin-laden-destroys-new-york-washingto,20536/?utm_source=recentnews)
500-Foot Terrorist Emerges From Sea To Wreak Havoc On U.S.
MAY 25, 2011 | ISSUE 47•21

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/20536/Enraged_500-Foot_R_jpg_250x1000_q85.jpg

NEW YORK—Just weeks after his body was buried at sea, Osama bin Laden burst forth from the ocean depths early this morning, rising to the monstrous height of 500 feet and rapidly making his way down the East Coast of the United States in a rampage expected to leave hundreds of thousands dead and easily eclipse 9/11 as the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history....

"Our nation faces its gravest challenge yet," a visibly shaken President Obama said, interrupting his prepared remarks to both houses of British Parliament in London. "I cannot say that we will prevail, only that we will fight to the last."...

He seemed to feed off our weaponry," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen said.

"Everything we did to hurt him only seemed to nourish him. We pounded him with enough shells to destroy a small country, and it just made him stronger."

"I don't know how we stop him," Mullen continued. "I just don't know."...

Maria Kushner, one of the lucky few to escape via the Coast Guard vessels arrayed along the East River, told reporters she looked back to land and saw bin Laden using the Empire State Building as a club to pulverize the U.N.'s headquarters.

"There were all these soldiers shooting at him, but he was relentless," Kushner said. "Just smashing and smashing. It's like he killed 3,000 people on 9/11 and finally came back for everyone else."

"Isn't that fucker supposed to be dead?" added Kushner, who told reporters she would never forget looking out her office window on the 72nd story of a Midtown skyscraper and seeing nothing but bin Laden's enormous eye looking back at her. "Why isn't he dead?"...

In a statement posted on a militant website, al-Qaeda celebrated the devastation and said the United States was paying the price for not heeding its warning.

"We have said that Osama bin Laden, may God have mercy on him, would be far mightier dead than alive," the statement read. "Did you fools really think we were talking about martyrdom or something? Really, how could you not see this coming?"

[The Onion]

[Horn]

Like the Interactive Map too,

http://www.theonion.com/interactive/bin-ladens-path-of-destruction,20539/