- Tropical depression forms over Gulf of Mexico
(Reuters)
www.devhardware.com — Reuters – A tropical
depression formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday on a track likely
to take it near BP Plc’s massive oil spill site before it makes
landfall in Louisiana.. . … View the Entire Article.
Reuters – A tropical depression formed over the Gulf of
Mexico on Tuesday on a track likely to take it near BP Plc’s massive
oil spill site before it makes landfall in Louisiana.
View the Entire Article
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Published: August 11, 2010
- Drilling companies say they are poised to
return to Gulf of Mexico
www.facebook.com — Bromwich is hosting forums this
week with federal, state and local leaders across the Gulf coast to
gather input on deepwater drilling safety reforms, well containment and
oil spill response.
Offshore drilling ban unlikely to be extended, official says
Mobile, Alabama (CNN) — The man who has taken over the
government agency that regulates offshore drilling said Tuesday he
can’t see the Obama administration’s ban on the practice “lasting
longer than November 30.”
“Obviously, we can’t predict everything that we learn or
everything that may happen in the outside world before then, but
[Interior] Secretary [Ken] Salazar thought that was an appropriate
ending point. I see no information so far that would justify extending
the moratorium. … [It's] not impossible but unlikely,” said Michael
Bromwich, the head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation
and Enforcement, the former Minerals Management Service.
Bromwich is hosting forums this week with federal, state and
local leaders across the Gulf coast to gather input on deepwater
drilling safety reforms, well containment and oil spill response. He is
being briefed by panels of experts from academia, the environmental
community and the oil and gas industry so he can evaluate whether to
recommend any modifications to the scope or duration of deepwater
drilling suspensions announced by Salazar on July 12.
Right now, drilling of any sort in the Gulf of Mexico is
coming to a standstill. Drilling on the final 30 feet of a relief well
expected to intercept BP’s crippled oil well in the Gulf was suspended
because of a tropical disturbance in the region, the government’s
national incident commander said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/gulf.oil.disaster/index.html?hpt=T2
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Published: August 10, 2010
- BP oil spill costs pass $6bn mark
www.facebook.com — BP makes $3bn deposit in $20bn
relief fund. … BP has made an initial deposit of $3bn (£1.8bn)
into a $20bn compensation fund for the oil spill, after completing
talks with the US Department of Justice, according to BP officials.. .
BP makes $3bn deposit in $20bn relief fund
BP has made an initial deposit of $3bn (£1.8bn) into a
$20bn compensation fund for the oil spill, after completing talks with
the US Department of Justice, according to BP officials.
The fund, called an escrow account, was set up by the oil
giant to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
BP’s response has cost $6.1bn already.
Meanwhile, BP’s relief well will reach the damaged well by
the end of the week and start the final “kill”, the government’s
incident commander said.
An additional deposit of $2bn will be made in the fourth
quarter by BP, with deposits of $1.25bn being deposited each of the
following quarters until the $20bn has been paid in full.
“The purpose of the escrow account was to assure those
adversely affected by the spill that we indeed intend to stand behind
our commitment to them and to the American taxpayers,” BP’s incoming
chief executive Bob Dudley said in a statement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10917007
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Published: August 10, 2010
- BP oil spill lawsuits sent to Louisiana (AFP)
www.devhardware.com — AFP – Civil lawsuits related
to the BP oil spill were sent to a Louisiana judge Tuesday as an
impending storm delayed efforts to finally kill the runaway well deep
in the Gulf of Mexico.. . … View the Entire Article.
AFP – Civil lawsuits related to the BP oil spill were sent
to a Louisiana judge Tuesday as an impending storm delayed efforts to
finally kill the runaway well deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
View the Entire Article
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Published: August 11, 2010
- BP oil spill lawsuits sent to Louisiana (AFP)
www.devhardware.com — AFP – Civil lawsuits related
to the BP oil spill were sent to a Louisiana judge as an impending
storm delayed efforts to finally kill the runaway well deep in the Gulf
of Mexico.. . … View the Entire Article.
AFP – Civil lawsuits related to the BP oil spill were sent
to a Louisiana judge as an impending storm delayed efforts to finally
kill the runaway well deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
View the Entire Article
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Published: August 11, 2010
- BP’s Gulf Oil Spill Cost is Now Over $6 Billion
www.democraticunderground.com — BP (NYSE:BP)
estimates the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has cost the company US$6.1
billion.. . … Link:
http://www.energyboom.com/policy/bps-gulf-oil-spill-cos…
BP (NYSE:BP) estimates the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has cost
the company US$6.1 billion.
This loss includes the cost of the Gulf response efforts,
oil leak containment measures, relief well drilling, grants to Gulf
states, claims paid to the federal government, and compensation for
citizens affected by the disaster.
Link: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/bps-gulf-oil-spill-cos…
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- BP oil spill lawsuits to be heard by a single
Louisiana judge: ruling (AFP)
forums.devshed.com — AFP – Civil lawsuits seeking
damages related to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be heard
by a single federal judge in New Orleans, Louisiana, a judicial panel
ruled Tuesday.. . … View the Entire Article.
AFP – Civil lawsuits seeking damages related to the BP oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be heard by a single federal judge in
New Orleans, Louisiana, a judicial panel ruled Tuesday.
View the Entire Article
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Published: August 10, 2010
- Last Month Matt Simmons Warned Us Against BP
Oil Spill – Now He Is Dead
www.houston-imports.com — Matt Simmons, a
prominent oil industry expert who lately has been very outspoken about
the BP Gulf Oil Spill coverup, was found dead in his home after
supposedly drowning after apparently suffering from a heart attack.. .
http://current.com/news/92598972_did…-oil-spill.htm
Matt Simmons, a prominent oil industry expert who lately has
been very outspoken about the BP Gulf Oil Spill coverup, was found dead
in his home after supposedly drowning after apparently suffering from a
heart attack.
But did Matt Simmons really die of a heart attack or was he
assassinated?
Matt was very vocal on several nationwide news programs
making claims that have led some people to question his sanity along
with blowing the whistle on BP and Government on several issues.
Matt Simmons was very well connected to other oil
industry insiders and top government officials in charge of regulating
the oil industry.
As a result of those connections Matt has blew the
whistle on several lies BP and Government where telling to the public.
Matt called the claims that only 5,000 barrels of oil were
leaking preposterous and instead conjectured there must be at least a
minimum of 120,000 barrels of oil per leaking into the Gulf.
Matt also reported that there were leaks 5 to 7 miles away
which were later confirmed by a NOAA report issued by the Thomas
Jefferson.
Matt Simmons also revealed that NOAA ships discovered a huge
underwater plume of oil at 1100 meters below the surface which could
possibly cover up to 40% of the Gulf of Mexico at a time when NOAA and
the federal government were publicly denying the existence of
underwater plumes of oil.
Matt made national headlines by stating BP would go bankrupt
because they didn’t have enough money to clean up the Gulf of Mexico as
well as making claims that the well integrity and pressures were so
high that nothing short of a nuke could close this well.
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Published: August 11, 2010
- BP Not Denying, Just Not Paying Nearly 40,000
Oil Spill Claims
www.facebook.com — Hood speculated that BP PLC
would rather wait for Kenneth Feinberg, the federally appointed
administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund BP established at
the behest of the White House, to take over the claims process this
month.
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Sheryl Lindsay’s wedding planner
business is on the brink, crumbling with each cancellation over
concerns about oil. Brides-to-be are walking away from plans for
beachside vows, leaving Lindsay waiting to see whether she’ll be part
of BP’s promise to make whole everyone who’s suffered from its spill.
BP said Monday it had received 145,000 claims from residents
and business owners like Lindsay citing lost income because of the
massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and had paid out $324 million
without denying a single claim.
That sounds pretty good, until frustrated residents and
officials point out that 39,000 claims are in limbo – some of them,
including Lindsay’s, have been there for months. Some that have been
paid are only partial payments, and many of those people are still
fighting for more money.
“Therein lies the problem,” Mississippi Attorney General Jim
Hood said recently. “They don’t deny them. They just hold them open
forever.”
Hood speculated that BP PLC would rather wait for Kenneth
Feinberg, the federally appointed administrator of the $20 billion
compensation fund BP established at the behest of the White House, to
take over the claims process this month. That way, if a claim is
denied, “he’s the bad guy” instead of BP, Hood said.
BP claims director Darryl Willis said the company isn’t
deliberately delaying. Rather, 26,000 pending claims are still being
evaluated and thousands of others need more documentation, the company
said.
“Our intent is to continue paying claims until this process
is handed over to Ken Feinberg,” Willis said. “There’s no intent to
slow this thing down.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/bp-delaying-payment-claims-oil-spill_n_676493.html
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- UPDATE 1-New Orleans judge to oversee oil
spill cases Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:31p
siliconinvestor.advfn.com — . UPDATE 1-New Orleans
judge to oversee oil spill cases. … * Houston judge to oversee
securities lawsuits against BP. . … Aug 10 (Reuters) – A New Orleans
federal judge was chosen on Tuesday to oversee
UPDATE 1-New Orleans judge to oversee oil spill cases
Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:31pm EDT
* Judge Carl Barbier chosen by special judicial panel
* Houston judge to oversee securities lawsuits against BP
Aug 10 (Reuters) – A New Orleans federal judge was chosen on
Tuesday to oversee civil lawsuits brought by injured rig workers,
commercial fishermen and other plaintiffs stemming from the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier of the U.S. District Court
for the Eastern District of Louisiana will handle oversight of the
litigation, according to a special judicial panel.
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
announced the ruling in a written order on its website.
Barbier will be in charge of deciding critical issues that
could decide the future of spill-related lawsuits, such as which laws
should be applied. The cases are in their earliest stages.
Also, the panel said in a separate order that
securities-related lawsuits filed against BP Plc (BP.L) would be
overseen by U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison of Houston.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1015560220100810?rpc=401
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- Drilling companies say they are poised to
return to Gulf of Mexico
www.facebook.com — (Reuters) – The White House oil
spill commission has asked the Interior Department to provide details
on whether any rigs covered by the agency’s blanket deepwater drilling
ban are safe enough to resume operations.. .
U.S. spill panel seeks details about drilling ban
(Reuters) – The White House oil spill commission has asked
the Interior Department to provide details on whether any rigs covered
by the agency’s blanket deepwater drilling ban are safe enough to
resume operations.
In a letter to Michael Bromwich, head of Interior’s Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management, the panel asked for more information about
the safety reviews that have accompanied the department’s drilling
moratorium.
“We are particularly interested in whether individual rigs,
or categories of rigs, subject to the moratorium are sufficiently safe
to allow the moratorium to be lifted with respect to those rigs,” the
commission said in the letter released on Monday.
The commission, charged with guiding the future of offshore
drilling in the aftermath of the BP Plc oil spill, said it plans to
weigh the effectiveness of implementing a drilling moratorium following
a spill as it makes its recommendations.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67855Q20100810
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Published: August 10, 2010
- Obama pays back BP
boards.fool.com — . One thing missed in most of
the bluster about the oil spill is that BP is one of the UK’s most
important companies. … WASHINGTON�The Obama administration and BP PLC
are close to a deal to use
One thing missed in most of the bluster about the oil spill
is that BP is one of the UK’s most important companies. I forget how
big the number is, but BP is their #1 payer of dividends.
Which tells us what? It tells us, if you’re not a brain dead
Obama supporter, that is, that there are a number of citizens in the UK
who are now seeing a lot less money flow into their retirement
portfolios (BP cut its dividend and its stock was hammered with all the
“boot on their neck” rhetoric from the Obama admin).
Which of course makes this a…diplomatic situation. In other
words, those same citizens are going to complain to their government,
and that same government is going to complain to the US about it. So
what can Obama do? Especially in light of 1) BP seems to be holding up
their end of the deal and 2) the Gulf itself seems to be taking care of
most of the oil.
Well, for starters, he can pay BP back. LOL@PA:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405274870438850457541…
WASHINGTON�The Obama administration and BP PLC are close
to a deal to use future revenues from the oil giant’s Gulf of Mexico
operations to guarantee its $20 billion cleanup and compensation fund,
a move that would give both sides an incentive to continue production
in the Gulf, scene of the U.S.’s worst-ever offshore oil spill.
…
However, the administration wanted security in the form of collateral
in the event that BP couldn’t meet its obligation due to financial or
legal problems.
The issue of collateral is the last detail to be ironed
out. It is a prickly political issue because it could make the
administration and BP partners of sorts in developing the Gulf.
Gee, Obama’s in a bind, now. His watermelon supporters (ooo,
here come the racist chants) were thrilled at the possibility of
killing all Gulf drilling. Ooops. Can’t do that, we need to let BP
drill to pay into the compensation fund. All those democrats in
Congress, who are trying to pass resolutions banning BP in particular
from drilling? Gotta tell them to shut up, or else he’ll have a
mad(der) British government to deal with.
So what to do? Looks like MMS is going to be issuing more
leases soon…and BP will likely get a lot of them.
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- Storm delays BP relief well by 2-3 days
(Reuters)
forums.seochat.com — Reuters – An approaching
storm in the Gulf of Mexico will delay BP Plc’s work on a relief well,
the final step in permanently killing the source of the world’s worst
offshore oil spill, by two
Reuters – An approaching storm in the Gulf of Mexico will
delay BP Plc’s work on a relief well, the final step in permanently
killing the source of the world’s worst offshore oil spill, by two to
three days, the top U.S. spill official said on Tuesday.
View the Entire Article
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- Storm delays BP relief well by 2-3 days
(Reuters)
www.devhardware.com — Reuters – An approaching
storm in the Gulf of Mexico will delay by two to three days BP Plc’s
work on a relief well, the final step in permanently killing the source
of the world’s worst offshore
Reuters – An approaching storm in the Gulf of Mexico will
delay by two to three days BP Plc’s work on a relief well, the final
step in permanently killing the source of the world’s worst offshore
oil spill, the top U.S. spill official said on Tuesday.
View the Entire Article
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Published: August 11, 2010
- Is BP Paying the USA citizens?
www.bignewsnetwork.com — Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
… She was referring to the BP oil disaster, but her observation applies
to companies from Toyota to Dell to any number of Wall Street banks:
when a company missteps egregiously,
Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP’s Spillover Effect “When you fool with
trust, you fool with the capital markets.” So warned Marianne Jennings,
a professor of legal and ethical studies at Arizona State University,
in a speech at the Institute of Management Accountants’s annual meeting
last month. She was referring to the BP oil disaster, but her
observation applies to companies from Toyota to Dell to any number of
Wall Street banks: when a company missteps egregiously, the impact to
its reputation is devastating, and the effect on its cost of capital
can be severe. If there is a silver lining to recent corporate
debacles, it may be that companies will now reframe “corporate
sustainability” reporting as a genuine risk-management priority rather
than a hollow public-relations exercise
more info…
Published: August 11, 2010
- WUSTL law dean to oversee $20 billion BP Gulf
fund
www.motownsports.com — WUSTL law dean to oversee
$20 billion BP Gulf fund | Newsroom | Washington University in St.
Louis. . … Kent D. Syverud, JD, dean of the Washington University in
St. Louis School of Law and the
WUSTL law dean to oversee $20 billion BP Gulf
fund | Newsroom | Washington University in St. Louis
My new Dean is now 50% responsible for this money. Let me
know if there’s any complaints or corruption and I’ll pass the message
on. 
Quote:
Kent D. Syverud, JD, dean of the Washington University in
St. Louis School of Law and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University
Professor, has been named a trustee of the $20 billion Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill Trust.
Syverud, who also serves as WUSTL’s associate vice
chancellor of Washington, D.C., programs, is one of two appointees who
will oversee the newly established trust. The other trustee is John S.
Martin Jr., a distinguished retired federal judge in New York.
The trustees will administer the account. Claims processor,
attorney Kenneth Feinberg, will determine eligibility.
The fund is designed to settle legitimate claims against BP
resulting from the Deepwater Horizon explosion April 20, 2010, which
prompted a massive oil and gas spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Syverud called the appointment an honor and a great public
responsibility.
This spill has been a traumatic experience for so many,
Syverud says.
He wants the trust, which was created by BP in negotiations
with the White House, to be responsibly administered for the benefit
of those with legitimate claims.
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?
bbs.clutchfans.net — Originally Posted by thadeus
BP Says It Still Might Drill in Spill Reservoir. … NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
BP PLC says it may in the future drill in the same Gulf of Mexico oil
reservoir that blew its top and caused one of the world’s worst
spills.. .
Quote:
Originally Posted by thadeus
BP Says It Still Might Drill in Spill Reservoir
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:34 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP PLC says it may in the future drill in
the same Gulf of Mexico oil reservoir that blew its top and caused one
of the world’s worst spills.
Officials said Friday at a news briefing in New Orleans that
the company hasn’t closed the door to tapping the reservoir again.
Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles says ”there’s lots of
oil and gas here.” He says ”we’re going to have to think about what to
do with that at some point.”
The company is plugging up the blown-out well with mud and
cement. Officials have also been drilling two relief wells in a planned
effort to plug the hole from the bottom.
BP says it will abandon the blown well and the relief wells
but is leaving open the option of drilling nearby.
______________________________________________
God bless capitalism! It makes the worst cases of greed seem
right and necessary.
That’s not surprising, i remember reading that last week…I am just
surprised they aren’t syphoning off the oil from the the relief wells
they just built…They have to offset the costs of the oil spill somehow,
some $6.1 billion to date and setting up a $20 billion fund…what better
way to do it than by selling the oil from the reservoir…
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- Energy Investment Banker Critical of BP Dies
in ‘Accidental’ Drowning at Home
forum.prisonplanet.com — …Simmons was a frequent
critic of BP’s efforts to stanch its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,
suggesting at one point that the best option would be to detonate a
small nuclear bomb undersea to kill the well.
Matthew Simmons, Who Said Global Crude Production
Has Peaked, Dies at 67
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/matthew-simmons-investment-banker-peak-oil-theory-advocate-dies-at-67.html
By Edward Klump and David Wethe – Aug 9, 2010 4:47 PM CT
Matthew R. Simmons, an energy investment banker and a
leading proponent of the peak oil theory that claims the Earth is
running out of crude, died yesterday.
Simmons, 67, died in an accidental drowning at his home in
Maine, local officials said…
…Simmons was a frequent critic of BPs efforts to stanch its
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting at one point that the best
option would be to detonate a small nuclear bomb undersea to kill the
well.
More
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- Pittsburgh Zoo Hoping To Help Gulf Turtles
www.democraticunderground.com — Marine life in the
Gulf of Mexico has been hit especially hard by the BP oil spill and the
Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium is hoping to be able to help out.
Marine life in the Gulf of Mexico has been hit especially
hard by the BP oil spill and the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium is
hoping to be able to help out. According to our news partners at the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the zoo is hoping to win $25,000 from the
Pepsi Refresh Project.
The program is giving away $1.3 million in August as part of
its “Do Good for the Gulf” campaign. Should the zoo win the money, they
would be able to take care of some sea turtles that have been affected
by the oil spill.
The Sea Turtle Second Chance program would expand and be
able to provide food, transportation to Pittsburgh and other supplies.
Facilities in the Gulf region would likely continue to care for the
turtles who are covered in oil, but the ones that would come to
Pittsburgh would be in need of long-term care.
Move: http://kdka.com/pittsburghzoo/pittsburgh.zoo.vote.2.185…
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- %%%% WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT %%%%
www.sharejunction.com — . Oil spill costs BP S$8b
Energy giant BP said yesterday that it had spent US$6.1 billion (S$8.22
billion) so far to meet costs from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico, days after plugging the damaged well with concrete.
Oil spill costs BP S$8b Energy
giant BP said yesterday that it had spent US$6.1 billion (S$8.22
billion) so far to meet costs from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico, days after plugging the damaged well with concrete.
AFP
PS: It ALL started on COST CUTTING of a few
million on the drill.
LONDON
The cost of the response to date amounts
to approximately US$6.1 billion, including the cost
of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling, static kill
and cementing, grants to the Gulf states, claims paid, and federal
costs, BP said in a statement.
An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spewed from BPs
ruptured well in the 87 days from the beginning of the disaster until
the leak was finally capped on July 15, the United States has said.
The company revealed on Thursday that it had finished
pumping cement into the damaged well after a five-hour operation.
The MC252 well has been shut-in since July 15; there is
currently no oil flowing into the Gulf, the group said yesterday.
It added: Following the completion of cementing operations
on the MC252 well on Aug 5, pressure testing was performed which
indicated there is an effective cement plug in the casing. BP believes
the static kill and cementing procedures have been successful.
Earlier, President Barack Obamas top energy adviser, Mr
Jason Grumet, warned that BP will pay a large financial penalty
for the oil disaster but refused to say if criminal negligence
charges will be pursued.
With the ruptured Macondo well all but dead on the ocean
floor as engineers shut the well for good, BP is shifting towards
recovery operations including cleaning hundreds of kilometres of
shoreline and restoring the economic health of the region.
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- ~~~~ CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ~~~~
www.sharejunction.com — . Oil spill costs BP S$8b
. … “The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately US$6.1
billion, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief
well drilling, static kill
Oil spill costs BP S$8b
LONDON
The cost of the response to date
amounts to approximately US$6.1 billion, including
the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling,
static kill and cementing, grants to the Gulf states, claims paid, and
federal costs, BP said in a statement.
An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spewed from
BPs ruptured well in the 87 days from the beginning of the disaster
until the leak was finally capped on July 15, the United States has
said.
The company revealed on Thursday that it had
finished pumping cement into the damaged well after a five-hour
operation.
The MC252 well has been shut-in since July 15;
there is currently no oil flowing into the Gulf, the group said
yesterday.
It added: Following the completion of cementing
operations on the MC252 well on Aug 5, pressure testing was performed
which indicated there is an effective cement plug in the casing. BP
believes the static kill and cementing procedures have been
successful.
Earlier, President Barack Obamas top energy
adviser, Mr Jason Grumet, warned that BP will pay a large
financial penalty for the oil disaster but
refused to say if criminal negligence charges
will be pursued.
With the ruptured Macondo well all but dead on the
ocean floor as engineers shut the well for good, BP is shifting towards
recovery operations including cleaning hundreds of kilometres of
shoreline and restoring the economic health of the region.Energy giant
BP said yesterday that it had spent US$6.1 billion (S$8.22 billion) so
far to meet costs from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,
days after plugging the damaged well with concrete.
AFP
PS: It ALL started on COST CUTTING of a few
million on the drill.
more info…
Published: August 10, 2010
- Offshore drilling ban unlikely to be extended,
official says
www.billszone.com — “[It's] not impossible but
unlikely,” he added.. . … Bromwich is hosting forums this week with
federal, state and local leaders across the Gulf coast to gather input
on deepwater drilling safety reforms, well containment and oil spill
response.
Quote:
Mobile, Alabama (CNN) — The head of the government agency
that regulates offshore drilling said Tuesday that it is “unlikely” a
six-month moratorium on the practice will be extended.
“Obviously, we can’t predict everything that we learn or
everything that may happen in the outside world before then, but … I
see no information so far that would justify extending the moratorium,”
said Michael Bromwich, the head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management — formerly the Minerals Management Service.
“[It's] not impossible but unlikely,” he added.
Bromwich is hosting forums this week with federal, state and
local leaders across the Gulf coast to gather input on deepwater
drilling safety reforms, well containment and oil spill response. He is
being briefed by panels of experts from academia, the environmental
community, and the oil and gas industry so he can evaluate whether to
recommend any modifications to the scope or duration of deepwater
drilling suspensions announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on
July 12.
Right now, drilling of any sort in the Gulf of Mexico is
coming to a standstill. Drilling on the final 50 feet of a relief well
expected to intercept BP’s crippled oil well in the Gulf was suspended
Tuesday because of a tropical disturbance in the region, officials said.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/gul….html?hpt=Sbin
more info…
Published: August 11, 2010
- Oil guru Matthew Simmons dies in Maine Mon Aug
9,
siliconinvestor.advfn.com — While Simmons’ views
on peak oil were regarded as somewhat controversial, he drew even more
attention for a June 9 interview with Fortune magazine, in which he
predicted BP Plc would be driven
Oil guru Matthew Simmons dies in Maine
Mon Aug 9, 2:10 pm ET
BOSTON (Reuters) – Matthew Simmons, who rattled the energy
industry by arguing the world was rapidly approaching peak oil
production capacity, died at his home in North Haven, Maine, the energy
research group he founded said on Monday.
He died suddenly on Sunday, his Ocean Energy Institute said
in a statement.
Simmons, 67, a former adviser to U.S. President George W.
Bush, had a heart attack while in a hot tub, local media reported,
citing a report by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
In his 2005 book “Twilight in the Desert,” Simmons argued
Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves were nearing the highest levels of
production they were capable of achieving, after which point the
world’s yearly oil supply would begin to decline.
While Simmons’ views on peak oil were regarded as somewhat
controversial, he drew even more attention for a June 9 interview with
Fortune magazine, in which he predicted BP Plc would be driven bankrupt
in “about a month” as the cleanup costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil
spill mounted.
A week later, Simmons & Co International (SCI), the
investment bank that Simmons founded in 1974, said it was cutting ties
with its founder, who until that point had served as chairman emeritus.
Simmons said he was retiring from SCI to devote his time to
The Ocean Energy Institute, a think tank and venture capital fund
addressing the challenges of U.S. offshore renewable energy.
“Matt Simmons was an innovative thinker who pushed ideas
that have the potential to yield a more environmentally and
economically sustainable future for Maine and the world,” Maine
Governor John Baldacci said in a statement.
“Our state has been viewed as a leader in alternative energy
in part because of the groundbreaking work spearheaded by Matt Simmons
and the Ocean Energy Institute,” Baldacci said.
(Reporting by Scott Malone and Edward McAllister; Editing by
Daniel Trotta and Eric Beech)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100809/us_nm/us_simmons_2
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Published: August 10, 2010
- Informational: worst disasters
www.hometalkentertainment.com — Exxon Valdez and
now BP well—worst disasters in our history.. How can one rank one
disaster as worse than another? … The Gulf oil disaster ranks as the
largest recorded maritime oil spill in U.S.
Exxon Valdez and now BP well—worst disasters in our history.
How can one rank one disaster as worse than another? Isn’t
it a matter of perspective and what elements are being compared? For
ex. BP well = 11 dead; Johnstown Flood = over 2200. No one knows exact
number. Those who died of injuries or typhus later were not counted in
the flood total. Perspective. See?
Here is a cnn.com article describing “worst disasters.” I bring this
just for information, not for argument. Discussion, yes.
Quote:
(CNN) — On June 15, President Barack Obama described the
Gulf oil spill in a prime-time address as “the worst environmental
disaster America has ever faced.”
A government report released last week, however, said almost
75 percent of the oil that gushed from BP’s ruptured well into the Gulf
of Mexico has been collected, dispersed or evaporated. The rest remains
on or just below the surface of the water in the form of a light sheen
or weathered tar balls.
Much of the remaining oil is “being degraded and cleaned up
on the shore,” said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
“Many of the doomsday scenarios that were talked about and
repeated a lot have not and will not come to fruition,” White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has said.
So was the oil spill really “the worst environmental
disaster” in U.S. history?
Disasters are hard to rank and tricky to compare, historians
say, but they cite several calamities that rival or surpass the Gulf
oil spill in terms of lives lost or affected.
In 1889, for example, a poorly maintained dam collapsed,
sending a wall of water crashing through Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The
flood killed over 2,200 people and destroyed 1,600 homes.
Historians also cite what happened in blue-collar community
of Love Canal, New York, which was built atop more than 20,000 tons of
chemical waste and linked to high rates of cancer and birth defects.
Hundreds of families were ultimately forced to flee.
In terms of permanently disrupting a way of life for the
largest number of Americans, historians say, nothing compares to the
1930s Dust Bowl, a slow-motion disaster sparked by years of
shortsighted farming practices and serious drought. Native grasses
across the country’s heartland were torn up, leaving little to hold the
topsoil in place. When the winds kicked up, dust storms turning the sky
black could be seen as far away as New York City.
About 2.5 million people fled the Dust Bowl in
one of the largest migrations in U.S. history. Families abandoned
countless farms. That devastated the region’s agriculture economy.
“The entire way of life of the Great Plains moved away from
agriculture for a time,” said Brian Black, an environmental historian
at Penn State.
Historians do not dispute the enormity of the damage caused
by the Gulf oil spill, which killed 11 people, bruised local and
regional economies and caused damage that may not be apparent for years.
It was “plainly the greatest oil spill disaster” in American
history, according to Wesley Warren, director of programs for the
Natural Resources Defense Council, a progressive advocacy group.
Black agreed.
Nearly 206 million gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf of
Mexico after an explosion sank BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in
April, compared with 11 million gallons of crude that seeped from the
Exxon Valdez into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989.
The Valdez spill was devastating, Black said. The local
ecosystem and fishing communities never fully recovered.
Yet “the use of dispersants, the formation of plumes deep
under water, and the unique ecology of the Gulf each make (the BP)
spill more disastrous,” he said.
The Gulf oil disaster ranks as the largest recorded maritime
oil spill in U.S. history — and the largest accidental oil spill into
water in world history, topped only by Iraq’s intentional release of
240 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War.
In 1910 and 1911, though, more oil spilled onto land in
California as a result of the Lakeview Gusher, the consequence of a
1910 well explosion in California’s Central Valley. Nearly 380 million
gallons are believed to have spilled over nearly a year and a half.
That spill, though, directly affected relatively few people and had “a
less complicated ecological impact,” Black said.
So how does the Gulf oil spill compare with the infamous
1889 Johnstown Flood, an event memorialized in American songs and books?
The collapse of South Fork Dam sent about 20 million tons of
water toward the Pennsylvania steel town, built on a flood plain
between two rivers.
It’s tough to compare Johnstown’s broken dam with the Gulf’s
broken oil well, but they’re similar in the sense that they’re both at
least partly the product of a similar sense of ethics — or lack
thereof, Black said.
The 19th century robber barons behind the dam — Andrew
Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — ignored and did not properly maintain
the dam, he said. BP stands similarly accused of placing safety
concerns behind financial considerations, an assertion the company has
denied.
“That’s a very good illustration of the ethics that
predominated then and now,” Black argued. “At times, big oil’s ethical
culture is not too different from Carnegie’s and Frick’s, and it’s
allowed to exist that way because we depend so much on big oil.”
Of course, the long-term impact of the Gulf spill is still
unknown.
Local residents can be optimistic because oil is a naturally
occurring substance, Black said. That means the region eventually will
recover, though recovery may come too late for many businesses.
One neighborhood that may never wholly recover: Love Canal —
now a synonym for environmental disaster in the United States.
Purchased from the Hooker Chemical Company for $1 in 1953,
the community’s contaminated land was linked to unusually high cancer
and birth defect rates, among other things.
The federal government declared an emergency in the late
1970s as hundreds of families were forced to evacuate. The incident led
to the passage of the Superfund Act, designed to make polluters cover
the costs of cleaning up contaminated areas.
Though the EPA declared Love Canal clean in 2004, skepticism
about its safety has lingered.
Fewer people may have been affected by Love Canal than by
the Gulf spill, but petroleum is “not quite as corruptive as the toxins
were at Love Canal,” Black said; chemicals and radioactive materials
can pose a potentially greater long term risk.
The bottom line: it’s tough to rank environmental calamities.
“We can’t appreciate the magnitude of (some disasters) until
their results and implications have had time to play out,” Black said.
“Grand statements” such as Obama’s “miss a very important
point: This very bad situation resulted from doing business as usual in
the petroleum industry. Such events could occur any time the industry
pursues such deep water wells as long as regulation is lax.”
Warren agreed.
“Once something crosses a threshold of being a disaster,
then it’s the worst one of that type in its own way,” he said. “The
lesson should always be how can we prevent it from happening again.”
I highly recommend David McCullough’s book The Johnstown
Flood. He takes one step by step through why a dam was built in the
mountains of PA to the construction of the dam (extremely well built
earthen dam) to each step on poor maintenance and then to the
continuing rains and the flood and events during and after the chaos.
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Published: August 10, 2010
- Would you eat Gulf seafood on Friday?
angelqueen.org — The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) should test seafood from affected Gulf of Mexico
areas for chemicals found in dispersant agents deployed in
unprecedented volumes on the BP spill.
We usually have fish or seafood on Fridays, some of which
probably comes from the Gulf (and we try to avoid that which comes from
China) — now what?
Environmental Health August 2010 – ’sniff test’ EPA’s way to
tell if gulf fish are non-toxic
August 6, 2:26 AMGilbert Environmental Health ExaminerTracy
Lynn Cook
As incredible a story as this may be to some readers, the
’sniff test’ has been mentioned on more that a few occasions by EPA
officials – to the absolute amazement of citizens who are expecting a
higher standard for the safety of the US food supply.
According to a legal petition filed August 4, 2010 by Public
Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER):
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should test
seafood from affected Gulf of Mexico areas for chemicals found in
dispersant agents deployed in unprecedented volumes on the BP spill.
No federal agency is currently screening seafood for signs
of dispersant contamination in tissue, despite mounting concern about
the toxicity of these agents and the effects they may have on the Gulf
food chain.
In the weeks following the massive Deepwater Horizon oil
blowout, the Obama administration approved application of nearly 2
million gallons of chemical oil dispersants to break up oil slicks.
In addition to surface spraying, what has been termed a
“giant experiment” took place when approximately 763,000 gallons of
dispersant were injected a mile underwater at the source of the spill,
a technique that has never been used before.
At those depths, it is not known how long it will take the
dispersants to dissolve. Alarmingly, there is growing evidence that a
suspended oil and dispersant mixture is contaminating an estimated
44,000 square miles of ocean and entering the aquatic food chain.
FDA and other federal agencies have made repeated public
statements that Gulf seafood is safe while conceding that there is no
current testing for the presence of dispersant chemicals and that there
is little scientific certainty about the full effects of dispersants on
seafood, and in turn, humans.
For example, a National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration Assistant Secretary testified that dispersants may
bio-accumulate in fish flesh. Moreover, there is a fear that humans may
also be harmed by eating fish dispersant-soaked fish. One of the
principal dispersant chemicals (2-butoxyethanol) is a fetal toxin that
breaks down blood cells (much as it breaks up oil droplets), causing
blood and kidney disorders.
“FDA cannot say for certain whether the seafood coming out
of the oil spill areas in the Gulf is safe,” stated PEER Staff Counsel
Christine Erickson, who drafted the petition. “The high levels of
uncertainty should dictate a policy of striving to be safe now rather
than having to say you’re sorry later.”
The FDA testing regime currently relies upon inspectors
sniffing seafood for any telltale smells, limiting chemical analyses to
searching for the presence of crude oil in fish and shellfish.
FDA has issued statements that there is unlikely little
public health risk associated with consuming seafood that has been
exposed to dispersants. Yet, the FDA failed to cite a single scientific
study supporting this assertion.
“We are asking FDA to expand its seafood testing to protect
public health and to restore the confidence of the consuming public and
Gulf residents,” Erickson said, noting a recent survey indicating that
even people who make their living off of the Gulf seafood industry have
serious concerns about whether sensory testing ensures the Gulf’s
seafood is safe to eat. “If the people that live in the Gulf and depend
on its waters are worried about the seafood, then we should all be
worried.”
The FDA Commissioner has 180 days to respond to the PEER
petition by either granting or denying it in whole or part or adopting
a “tentative” middle ground. “We would hope FDA responds to this
petition before the deadline,” Erickson added.
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Published: August 10, 2010
- Atlantic Hotter Than Before Katrina, Boosting
Storm Forecasts By Brian K. Sul
siliconinvestor.advfn.com — By Brian K. Sullivan –
Aug 9, 2010 9:00 PM PT. . … These will be big- sized hurricanes.” . …
It’s also the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, caused by
the April 20 explosion at BP Plc’s leased rig.
Atlantic Hotter Than Before Katrina, Boosting Storm Forecasts
By Brian K. Sullivan – Aug 9, 2010 9:00 PM PT
William Gray, who pioneered seasonal hurricane forecasting
at Colorado State University 26 years ago, rings a bell each Aug. 20
and tells colleagues, “I have been appointed by Chicken Little to
inform you that the heart of the hurricane season has begun.”
This year, Gray and meteorologists at the U.S. National
Hurricane Center say there’s more reason for concern that the sky will
fall than any time since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New
Orleans. At least 15 more “named” storms with winds of 39 miles per
hour or more will develop before the 2010 season ends, Colorado State
researchers predict.
With two months of the hurricane season gone, the statistics
of the past 15 years show now is the time when it worsens. Forecasters
blame rising temperatures in the Atlantic that feed storm development,
and diminishing wind shear and dust from the Sahara, obstacles to storm
formation.
“This is going to leave the doors wide open for activity
coming off Africa to spin up into cyclones,” said Jim Rouiller, a
senior energy meteorologist at Planalytics Inc. in Berwyn,
Pennsylvania. “The storms we will be talking about in the next few
weeks will be the real deal. These will be big- sized hurricanes.”
Three storms have formed so far this season, a start that
appears slow but is ahead of the statistical average. The second named
storm, which doesn’t normally occur until Aug. 1, came in July, and the
first hurricane, statistically due on or after Aug. 10, appeared in
June. If all the storms forecast by Colorado State materialize, 2010
will be tied with 1969, the fifth-busiest season on record.
Gulf Shutdowns
Energy companies are reacting to the first signs of danger.
They halted 26 percent of oil production and 14 percent of natural-gas
output in June, when Hurricane Alex churned through the Gulf into
Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation
and Enforcement. The operators idled 52 percent of oil and 24 percent
of gas output the following month before Tropical Storm Bonnie
dissolved south of Louisiana.
Five years ago, in the most-active hurricane season on
record, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita killed more than 1,800 people,
caused $91 billion in damage, destroyed 115 energy platforms in the
Gulf, and shut down 95 percent of Gulf oil production and almost 30
percent of U.S. refining capacity, according to government reports.
Gasoline prices soared to as much as $5 a gallon and shortages were
reported across the South.
Lessons Learned
Those two storms changed the way Valero Energy Corp., which
operates six Gulf Coast refineries, prepares for intense storms, said
Bill Day, a spokesman for the company in San Antonio.
“A couple of things that we learned in the wake of Katrina
and Rita was to get electrical equipment fairly high off the ground in
case you get water in the plant from flooding,” Day said. Businesses
also need “secure communication and multiple sources of communication,
including satellite phones,” he said.
The Gulf of Mexico is home to about 31 percent of U.S. oil
output and about 10 percent of gas production, according to the Energy
Department. It’s also the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. history,
caused by the April 20 explosion at BP Plc’s leased rig. The spill is
still being cleaned up.
If all Gulf platforms were closed, the daily production loss
would be $160 million to $170 million, based on current prices,
according to AIR Worldwide, a catastrophe risk-modeling firm.
August
Since 1995, when a cyclical increase in Atlantic hurricanes
began, 89 percent of all storms have formed after Aug. 1, according to
the hurricane center. The hurricanes that do about 85 percent of the
damage when they hit land typically form between Aug. 20 and Oct. 20,
Gray said.
Stockpiles, an increase in the number of rigs and higher
onshore production are moving natural gas prices more than storm fears,
according to Cameron Horwitz, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Inc. in Houston.
“I don’t think the market is just that concerned about it,”
Horwitz said. “The reaction to the early storms was somewhat telling in
that there wasn’t much of a reaction.”
Inventories of gasoline, fuel oil, jet fuel and crude oil
should be sufficient to withstand disruption, said Andy Lipow,
president of consulting firm Lipow Oil Associates LLC.
‘Own It’
“If you were looking at the macroeconomic picture in
conjunction with the heart of the hurricane season coming up, then you
probably want to own it rather than sell it for the next few weeks,”
Lipow said in Houston. If hurricane activity drops after Sept. 10, the
statistical peak of the season, “then you would probably want to be
selling,” he said.
The storms that have formed so far this year have been minor
events compared with what is likely to come, said Jim Rouiller, a
senior energy meteorologist at Planalytics Inc. in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
Pre-season forecasts from Colorado State and the Hurricane
Center were for 2010 to be one of the worst hurricane seasons on record
in the Atlantic in part because of the ocean’s warmth.
Storm Fuel
Sea surface temperatures in the mid-Atlantic between the
Lesser Antilles and the African coast averaged 1.2 degrees Celsius
(about 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal from March to June, warmer
than the 0.92 degrees in 2005, said Richard Pasch, a senior specialist
at the Miami hurricane center.
“That’s the fuel for tropical cyclones, the water vapor
that’s evaporated from warm ocean surface,” he said.
Colorado State, in Fort Collins, forecast 18 storms for
2010, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts
14 to 20 from June 1 through Nov. 30.
Most storms grow out of weather systems known as African
waves, organized masses of thunderstorms that move into the Atlantic
about every three days from June to October, said Gray’s colleague,
Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric
Science. There are about 60 to 70 per season and that number doesn’t
change much from year to year, he said.
“You’ll get some years with three hurricanes and other years
with 10 or 12, but you won’t get one year with 40 waves and one year
with 150,” said Klotzbach, the lead author on the closely watched CSU
seasonal forecasts.
Katrina Retired
A storm receives a name from a list that changes annually
when its sustained winds reach 39 miles per hour. The Hurricane Center
ran out of names in 2005 and used Greek letters instead when 28 storms
developed, including Katrina, which led to the failure of levees around
New Orleans and the flooding of 80 percent of the city. The name
Katrina will never be used for a storm again.
Gray, 80, who began making the seasonal forecasts in 1984,
is emeritus professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State and
founder of the school’s hurricane forecast team. He rings the bell, a
gift from his late wife 15 years ago, in the meeting room where his
team gathers daily starting Aug. 1 to monitor the activity in the
Atlantic.
“People have been saying, ‘Hey, where are the storms?’” said
Klotzbach. “The storms are right where they should be. There have been
none. When the bell is ringing, the storms should be coming.”
With less than 18 weeks left until the hurricane season ends
Nov. 30, the Atlantic will need to produce about one storm a week to
meet Colorado State’s forecast. That’s still possible, Klotzbach said.
“There have been years where six, seven, eight storms form
in September alone,” he said. “Certainly with the way the conditions
are, it wouldn’t surprise us to have multiple storms. Right around the
time that Dr. Gray will be ringing the bell.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/atlantic-hotter-than-before-katrina-makes-gray-boost-hurricane-forecasts.html
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Published: August 10, 2010
- Corporate Media Lies, 2010: If You Hated My
Last Post, You Will Loathe This One Updated at 2:55 AM
www.democraticunderground.com — President Obama’s
oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have been hampered by his
relationship to BP, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah
Palin said Sunday in the opening
This journal is for people who
1. thought that Clintons sex life was their business
2. said that Gore and Bush are the same. And Gore is gonna win, so I
will cast a protest vote for Nader.
3. believe that Hillary Clinton is a bitch
4. call the Vietnam War LBJs War
5. blame Jimmy Carter and/or Ted Kennedy for the Reagan Administration
6. think that anything changed at all after Watergate
7. blame John Kerry for the stolen 2004 election
8. What stolen election?
9. think that Charles Rangel is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party
10. think that Maxine Waters is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party
11. think that gays are an embarrassment to the Democratic Party
12. think that Blacks are responsible for Proposition 8
13. think that Latino immigrants are the reason they can not get a
decent paying job
14. think that womens issues are more important than minority issues
15. think that minority issues are more important than womens issues
16. thought that the Afghanistan War was a good war in 2008 but now
think that it is a bad war
17. are more cautious around Muslims since 9/11
18. think Jewish people are responsible for Israels crimes
19. know that blood diamonds are bad but can not tell you where
blood diamonds come from
20. think that gut belief is more valid than reason
If none of the above apply to you Stop Reading .
Instead, spend the time you save writing a thoughtful letter to your
local newspaper criticizing an instance of journalistic bias.
The rest of you, listen up. Please. The corporate media is
up to its usual tricks this year, in advance of the 2010 midterm
elections. Here are some recent examples of Political Weapons of Mass
Destruction in action. In case you did not read the journal by that
name, here is a link.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Tayl…
I. Divide and Conquer
The all time number one corporate fascist favorite tactic is
number one again! Gays have been told that Obama loves Blacks more then
them. Blacks have been told that if the midterms (and the 2012
election) are lost, it will be because of those whiney gays. And all
those angry Hillary supporters. American workers are being told that
their good jobs have been given to Latino immigrants. White homeowners
have been told that their foreclosure is the fault of minority home
owners. Private industry workers are being told that they are
poor/sick/have no health insurance because greedy teachers and their
unions have taken all the nations money—-
Too smart to fall for any of these lies? Good for you. I
guess that means you were too savvy to bite when the MSM dangled this
Divide and Conquer morsel in front of you today. The one that goes
something like this:
White House unloads anger over criticism from
‘professional left
Wow! Who knew that a building could talk? No, wait.
Buildings dont talk. Guess they mean Obama the most famous man in
the White House unloaded his anger. Looks like the right wing was
correct all along. That is one angry Black man!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/113431-white…
If you did more than note in passing The corporate media
wants to divide and conquer us again you are still too
gullible. By now every American should know that something does not
becomes news because it is newsworthy. It becomes news because GE
or Rupert Murdoch wants it to be news. Like this tidbit
from this spring:
President Obama’s oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
may have been hampered by his relationship to BP, former Republican
vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday in the opening
salvo of a verbal cage match with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Palin suggested that the White House is
too cozy with the oil industry because of contributions to candidate
Obama during the 2008 presidential race.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/23/palin-links-…
/
According to Politico, Obama raked in a gazillion dollars
from BP. Or rather, he got $77,051, which is a drop in the bucket
compared to the millions the company (and the industry) donates.
However, the amount was enough for Politico to declare (in monster
sized headlines):
Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html
And another wedge gets driven into the Democratic Party,
this time between Democrats in Washington and Democrats in the Gulf.
You think you decided on your own that Obama is a big fat
lying promise breaker? Even though he always said he was going to
increase the military in Afghanistan and he was always against gay
marriage and squeamish about abortion and defended the telecoms’ right
to wiretap us and rejected Rev. Wright for being too left wing ? Are
you sure you did not have some help making up your mind on this one?
The day after the 2008 November election, the right wing began to
create lists of “Obama’s broken promises”. A bunch of corporate media
outlets picked up on the theme. I think it is one of the registered
trademarks of the 2010 RNC Congressional Election committee.
II. Apathy and Despair
Another all time favorite strategy. This one works by
persuading Democrats that there is no way they can win. The system is
stacked against them. The only meaningful vote is one cast in protest,
for a third party candidate. Or better yet stay home.
If you want to get 15 minutes of fame this year from the
mainstream media, tell some Democratic constituency that they will
achieve their political goals by staying home .
From The Hill (which brought us todays Divide and Conquer
feature)
A congressman from the presidents home state is threatening
that he will urge Latino voters to stay home this
November if the Democratic Party does not make a concerted effort to
pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.) is arguably President Barack Obamas biggest
Democratic critic in Congress. And hes not fond of Obamas top
advisers at the White House, either.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/93183-dem-to-obama-pu…
Politico is carrying the Stay home! banner:
Labor groups are furious with the Democrats they helped put
in office and are threatening to stay home this fall
when Democratic incumbents will need their help fending off Republican
challengers
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32781.html#ix…
Ed Schulzt at MSNBC has even told us stay home
The best way for the 99ers to get the attention of the
Congress is to form an unemplyed coalition and tell the Democrats We
are not voting in the midterm.”
To the delight of readers at Breitbart:
Oooh Oooh, good – let’s hope it spreads through Lib-land.
http://www.breitbart.tv/msnbc-host-boycotts-2010-electi…
/
I am sure that it will spread through Lib-land. There are
probably an army of RNC trolls tying away at their computers at this
very moment reminding those of us who read the Internet Stay home!
Hard to tell which people advising Democrats to stay home are GOP
moles and which are real honest to God Democrats riding the political
wave. But here are some examples of things your impressionable 19 year
old child may read:
If Democrats want to act like Republicans and keep in place
the Bush tax cuts for the very top of the economic ladder, then theyve
given a great reason for core Democratic voters to skip the polling
places on the first Tuesday in November. Youll remember that before he
was curtsying for the right-wing vote this year, even John McCain
opposed these tax cuts because they were so skewed to the rich.
From Time to Stay Home
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/07/22/time-to-stay-hom…
/
The Moderate Voice says
But all of this boils down to this question: whether some Democrats
will decide to stay home because they are not totally
happy with their own party and/or want to teach it a lesson. As I
noted in my Cagle.com column two weeks ago, there are already rumblings
on the Internet and elsewhere by some Democrats that theyll sit this
one out to teach their own party that their own party and Obama in
particular needs to be more progressive.
http://themoderatevoice.com/82408/gallup-democrats-bett…
/
And, of course conservative propaganda outlets like the
Washington Times are really promoting this story:
Few pieces of the mosaic that is the Democratic Party seem
happy.
Labor and gays are restless. Blacks and Hispanics are grumbling.
Liberals and moderates are battling. Even some in Hollywood are
disappointed.
Mr. Obama must bring together – and fire up – the many Democratic
coalitions if he hopes to minimize expected losses for his party this
fall in his first midterm elections. The risk if he doesn’t is that
Democrats could become so disaffected that they stay home
in November.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/16/like-go…
/
Looks like the hip, with it, no mans fool Democrat in the
know will be staying home this November—if the corporate media has
anything to say about it.
Somewhere in Washington, scribbled on a cocktail napkin at a
GOP strategy session, are the words stay home .
Maybe the phrase was scrawled with the same pen that wrote
Gore is a Liar . We are going to be hearing a lot more of
this one before November. All they need is a few celebrities to make it
hot, hot, hot.
For those that say But the system is stacked against
us. Elections can not make a difference please look up the 1934
and 1964 elections. Through skillful campaigning, FDR and LBJ were able
to get filibuster proof majorities in the Senate. The results—the New
Deal and the Great Society crafted some of the most remarkable pieces
of social legislation in US history including Medicare, Social Security
and the Civil Rights Act. And they did it despite the presence of a
bunch of Southern Conservative Democrats every bit as bad as the modern
Blue Dogs.
Remember this one? The stakes are too high for you to
stay home. Fear mongering? Maybe. Effective? You bet. And what
were the stakes, after all? Equal voting rights for all Americans.
Equal opportunity. Health care for the nations elderly. Those were
pretty high stakes.
more info…
Published: August 11, 2010
- Really Good Time Consuming Article
forums.gunbroker.com — On June 12, 2010, The
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) released ?Risk of
Global Climate Change By BP Oil Spill?, a document detailing how the BP
spill may cause irreparable
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Everything Is A Lie: The Deliberate Intent To Deceive People Is At An
All Time High
Marco Torres
Prevent Disease
August 10, 2010
From pollution to politics, the era of deception and
duplicity has reached new heights and hijacked almost every form of
media in the world. In the last frontiers for truth such as the
internet, disinformation operations are in full swing to discredit and
destroy any semblance of authentic and factual information available to
the public.
From pollution to politics, the era of deception and
duplicity has reached new heights and hijacked almost every form of
media in the world.
How many more lies will people around the world accept as
truth? Some say a global awakening is taking place, but at what cost?
Will it take the destruction of most of the earth and its resources
before people are enlightened?
The escalating media and political reports are so far
fetched, cunning, and so beyond reality, it?s as if each is trying to
top the other with one sinister plot after the next. To demonstrate the
outright lies by national governments and the media, let?s take three
examples from the last year alone, including the H1N1 scandal, airport
body scanners and the BP oil disaster.
The H1N1 Scandal
Last year, the H1N1 scandal reached its pinnacle in the fall
of 2009 when the world united on the internet with a consensus and
practical understanding of the World Health Organization?s
orchestratration to deceive the masses. From radio, internet,
television, newspapers, magazines, outdoor posters, signage and
promotions, you could not escape the flu hype campaigns so diligently
pursued by all the malicious agendas at play who only wanted one thing
? to promote a dangerous H1N1 vaccine. After hundreds of reports
exposed the criminal activity by all levels of government, we left the
same people in power to do it all over again.
According to preliminary reports, another round of pandemic
vaccine campaigns are scheduled for the 2010/2011 season and they?re
already underway. However, there appears to be a recombination that has
changed the H1N1 lab created virus into a more lethal form and it is
not a hoax, but it may be yet another CDC lab experiment.
The CDC has recently issued a Health Advisory in connection
with two summer outbreaks of H3N2 in Iowa. Other reports from Russia
and India indicate that a real epidemic may be upon us if the virus
steadily recombines and acquires new genetics. Even though a new strain
may have accidentally evolved in eggs, reassortment of H1N1-H5N1 has
been a legitimate concern for years. The WHO first suggested the
reassortment of H1N1-H5N1 in 2004.
If this is really the case, how will the public react after
all the lies from health agencies who have sworn to protect us? Will
they hype another vaccine and if so, will the public even respond?
Body Scanners
They?ve been approved all over the world and marketed as the
next greatest airport scanning technology. The U.S., U.K., Russia,
Australia, Europe and Canada have all installed airport body scanners
which have potentially devastating health effects.
Many of these scanners are reportedly using terahertz (THz)
waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic
spectrum between microwaves and infrared. Evidence suggests that
although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz
waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double
strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene
expression and DNA replication.
As the path toward rolling out wider use of whole-body
scanners in U.S. airports ran through the White House, Obama expedited
their deployment because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) didn?t need legislation
from Congress to start using the devices at any of the 560 U.S.
airports.
The White House ignored all the scientific evidence
presented which suggested negative health effects. Politicians and
regulatory agencies then covered up the bad publicity on naked body
scanners and focused on the presumed benefits under the guise of public
safety.
Privacy commisioners and airport authorities have also
insisted that there were no risks of images being stored or personal
details being revealed to security screeners. Now there?s new evidence
to show that the scanners can do just that.
According to a CNET report, another federal agency, the U.S.
Marshall?s service, admitted that it had actually stored over 30,000
images recorded by a full-body scanner used at a Florida courthouse.
A watchdog group called the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC) obtained over 100 of the images and states on its web
site that, ?The images, which are routinely captured by the federal
agency, prove that body scanning devices store and record images of
individuals stripped naked.? The group has filed a lawsuit to suspend
the deployment of body scanners at airports.
EPIC also discovered that the TSA actually specified to
manufacturers that the machines have the ability to send and store
images. The TSA says that these functions are only for testing and
training and insists on its web site that the airport body scanners are
delivered to airports with storage and recording functions disabled.
Again, the upper levels of the echelon are caught lying and
deceiving, yet they are still left to their own devices to further
manipulate and continue misrepresenting facts to the gullible public.
BP Oil Disaster
When news unfolded about the April 20, 2010 BP oil disaster,
it went from bad to worse. Instead of immediately mobilizing for action
in the face of a massive public health threat, the response was to
cover-up, deny and respond with ignorance. After all the public will
always believe them, or so they thought.
The Obama administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar,
U.S. Coast Guard commandant admiral Thad Allen, energy and
climate-change policy adviser Carol Browner, BP and all their
contituents conspired to deliberately mislead the public from the
inception of the disaster to present day. What?s worse is they all
agreed to further disseminate toxins in the Gulf by spraying 1.8 to 2
million gallons of the neurotoxin Corexit which was exposed by over a
hundred scientists, toxicologists and other experts who have
unequivocally classified the irresponsible aerial spraying of the
chemical dispersant as a large-scale, uncontrolled non-consensual human
and environmental experiment is being conducted in the Gulf region.
The media was grossly censoring the extent of the
devastation in the Gulf. The poisons?oil and corexit are destined to
spread globally, but honest reporting was and still is restricted, and
many independent investigators have been arrested. Read 30 Facts
Evidencing that The Gulf Oil Crisis Was Planned.
On June 12, 2010, The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and
Climate (ISAC) released ?Risk of Global Climate Change By BP Oil
Spill?, a document detailing how the BP spill may cause irreparable
damage to the Gulf Stream global climate thermoregulation activity.
Read Gulf Loop Current Destroyed: May Lead To Shut Down of Atlantic
Thermoregulation, Rapid Cooling.
According to Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, an Italian theoretical
physicist, and major complex and chaotic systems analyst at the
Frascati National Laboratories in Italy, the Loop Current in the Gulf
of Mexico has stalled as a consequence of the BP oil spill disaster.
Zagari notes that the effects of this stall have also begun to spread
to the Gulf Stream. This is because the Loop Current is a crucial
element of the Gulf Stream itself and why it is commonly referred to as
the ?main engine? of the Stream.
The concern now, is whether or not natural processes can
re-establish the stalled Loop Current. If not, we could begin to see
global crop failures as early as 2011.
Zangari?s assessment is based on daily monitoring of
real-time data oceanographic satellite public data feeds called
?Real-Time Mesoscale Altimetry? from the Jason, Topex/Poseidon, Geosat,
Follow-On, ERS-2 and Envisat satellites.
These satellite feeds are captured and made publicly
available by NASA, NOAA and by the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics
Research (CCAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The CCAR is now being accused of scientific fraud and
tampering of data directly associated with the events surrounding the
Loop Current phenomenon and its current anomalies. Various reporters
have spear-headed the charge including radio personality Dr. Bill
Deagle who has featured Dr. Zangari on his radio show The Nutrimedical
Report where he detailed the events leading up to the destruction of
the Loop Current in the Gulf.
Dr. Zangari has stated that he will no longer use CCAR data
due to its unreliability.
Organized and Professional Disformation Operations
Well-funded and highly-organized disinformation operations
are in full-swing throughout the internet. From forums to comment
boards and even professional websites that have only one purpose:
Defame, distract, and destroy the truth.
However organized, the tactics are very predictable in a
world filled with lies and half-truths. This, sadly, includes every day
news media, one of the worst offenders with respect to being a source
of disinformation.
Disinformation campaigns are launched against those seeking
to uncover and expose the truth and/or the conspiracy. The H1N1 scandal
was a prime example of how hundreds of operations can be launched to
sway opinions on the facts. For every fact-based article on the
realities of the H1N1 vaccine, there were both very primitive and
sophisticated counters on message boards, comment forums and hundreds
of alternative and mainstream websites.
Stephen Barrett?s Quackwatch.com and supporters such as
skeptic.org.uk and skepticblog.com are examples of websites who promote
both synthetic and organic disinformation on almost any topic that does
not concur with mainstream thought.
There are specific tactics which disinfo artists tend to
apply, as H. Michael Sweeney has brilliantly detailed. Also included
with this material are eight common traits of the disinfo artist which
may also prove useful in identifying players and motives. The more a
particular party fits the traits and is guilty of following the rules,
the more likely they are a professional disinfo artist with a vested
motive. People can be bought, threatened, or blackmailed into providing
disinformation, so even ?good guys? can be suspect in many cases.
A rational person participating as one interested in the
truth will evaluate that chain of evidence and conclude either that the
links are solid and conclusive, that one or more links are weak and
need further development before conclusion can be arrived at, or that
one or more links can be broken, usually invalidating (but not
necessarily so, if parallel links already exist or can be found, or if
a particular link was merely supportive, but not in itself key) the
argument. The game is played by raising issues which either strengthen
or weaken (preferably to the point of breaking) these links. It is the
job of a disinfo artist to interfere with these evaluation? to at least
make people think the links are weak or broken when, in truth, they are
not? or to propose alternative solutions leading away from the truth.
Often, by simply impeding and slowing down the process through
disinformation tactics, a level of victory is assured because apathy
increases with time and rhetoric.
It would seem true in almost every instance, that if one
cannot break the chain of evidence for a given solution, revelation of
truth has won out. If the chain is broken either a new link must be
forged, or a whole new chain developed, or the solution is invalid an a
new one must be found? but truth still wins out. There is no shame in
being the creator or supporter of a failed solution, chain, or link, if
done with honesty in search of the truth. This is the rational
approach. While it is understandable that a person can become
emotionally involved with a particular side of a given issue, it is
really unimportant who wins, as long as truth wins. But the disinfo
artist will seek to emotionalize and chastise any failure (real or
false claims thereof), and will seek by means of intimidation to
prevent discussion in general.
It is the disinfo artist and those who may pull their
strings (those who stand to suffer should the crime be solved) MUST
seek to prevent rational and complete examination of any chain of
evidence which would hang them. Since fact and truth seldom fall on
their own, they must be overcome with lies and deceit. Those who are
professional in the art of lies and deceit, such as the intelligence
community and the professional criminal (often the same people or at
least working together), tend to apply fairly well defined and
observable tools in this process. However, the public at large is not
well armed against such weapons, and is often easily led astray by
these time-proven tactics. Remarkably, not even media and law
enforcement have NOT BEEN TRAINED to deal with these issues. For the
most part, only the players themselves understand the rules of the game.
Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Regardless of what you know, don?t discuss it ? especially
if you are a public figure, news anchor, etc. If it?s not reported, it
didn?t happen, and you never have to deal with the issues.
2. Become incredulous and indignant.
Avoid discussing key issues and instead focus on side issues
which can be used to show the topic as being critical of some otherwise
sacrosanct group or theme. This is also known as the ?How dare you!?
gambit.
3. Create rumor mongers.
Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges,
regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations.
Other derogatory terms mutually exclusive of truth may work as well.
This method which works especially well with a silent press, because
the only way the public can learn of the facts are through such
?arguable rumors?. If you can associate the material with the Internet,
use this fact to certify it a ?wild rumor? from a ?bunch of kids on the
Internet? which can have no basis in fact.
4. Use a straw man.
Find or create a seeming element of your opponent?s argument
which you can easily knock down to make yourself look good and the
opponent to look bad. Either make up an issue you may safely imply
exists based on your interpretation of the opponent/opponent
arguments/situation, or select the weakest aspect of the weakest
charges. Amplify their significance and destroy them in a way which
appears to debunk all the charges, real and fabricated alike, while
actually avoiding discussion of the real issues.
5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule.
This is also known as the primary ?attack the messenger?
ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach.
Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as ?kooks?,
?right-wing?, ?liberal?, ?left-wing?, ?terrorists?, ?conspiracy buffs?,
?radicals?, ?militia?, ?racists?, ?religious fanatics?, ?sexual
deviates?, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of
fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.
6. Hit and Run.
In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or
the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be
fielded, or simply ignore any answer. This works extremely well in
Internet and letters-to-the-editor environments where a steady stream
of new identities can be called upon without having to explain
criticism reasoning ? simply make an accusation or other attack, never
discussing issues, and never answering any subsequent response, for
that would dignify the opponent?s viewpoint.
7. Question motives.
Twist or amplify any fact which could be taken to imply that
the opponent operates out of a hidden personal agenda or other bias.
This avoids discussing issues and forces the accuser on the defensive.
8. Invoke authority.
Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and
present your argument with enough ?jargon? and ?minutia? to illustrate
you are ?one who knows?, and simply say it isn?t so without discussing
issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources.
9. Play Dumb.
No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered,
avoid discussing issues except with denials they have any credibility,
make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic,
or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect.
10. Associate opponent charges with old news.
A derivative of the straw man ? usually, in any large-scale
matter of high visibility, someone will make charges early on which can
be or were already easily dealt with ? a kind of investment for the
future should the matter not be so easily contained.) Where it can be
foreseen, have your own side raise a straw man issue and have it dealt
with early on as part of the initial contingency plans. Subsequent
charges, regardless of validity or new ground uncovered, can usually
then be associated with the original charge and dismissed as simply
being a rehash without need to address current issues ? so much the
better where the opponent is or was involved with the original source.
11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions.
Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the ?high
road? and ?confess? with candor that some innocent mistake, in
hindsight, was made ? but that opponents have seized on the opportunity
to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which,
?just isn?t so.? Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later, and
even publicly ?call for an end to the nonsense? because you have
already ?done the right thing.? Done properly, this can garner sympathy
and respect for ?coming clean? and ?owning up? to your mistakes without
addressing more serious issues.
12. Enigmas have no solution.
Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the
crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair
as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the
matter to begin to loose interest more quickly without having to
address the actual issues.
13. Alice in Wonderland Logic.
Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards or
with an apparent deductive logic which forbears any actual material
fact.
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14. Demand complete solutions.
Avoid the issues by requiring opponents to solve the crime
at hand completely, a ploy which works best with issues qualifying for
rule 10.
15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions.
This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned
with contingency conclusions in place.
16. Vanish evidence and witnesses.
If it does not exist, it is not fact, and you won?t have to
address the issue.
17. Change the subject.
Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed
here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or
controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more
manageable topic. This works especially well with companions who can
?argue? with you over the new topic and polarize the discussion arena
in order to avoid discussing more key issues.
18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents.
If you can?t do anything else, chide and taunt your
opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to
make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their
material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the
issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response
addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing
on how ?sensitive they are to criticism.?
19. Ignore facts presented, demand impossible proofs.
This is perhaps a variant of the ?play dumb? rule.
Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public
forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is
impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his
disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed
or withheld, such as a murder weapon.) In order to completely avoid
discussing issues, it may be required that you to categorically deny
and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses
are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or
other authorities have any meaning or relevance.
20. False evidence.
Whenever possible, introduce new facts or clues designed and
manufactured to conflict with opponent presentations ? as useful tools
to neutralize sensitive issues or impede resolution. This works best
when the crime was designed with contingencies for the purpose, and the
facts cannot be easily separated from the fabrications.
21. Call a Grand Jury, Special Prosecutor, or other
empowered investigative body.
Subvert the (process) to your benefit and effectively
neutralize all sensitive issues without open discussion. Once convened,
the evidence and testimony are required to be secret when properly
handled. For instance, if you own the prosecuting attorney, it can
insure a Grand Jury hears no useful evidence and that the evidence is
sealed an unavailable to subsequent investigators. Once a favorable
verdict is achieved, the matter can be considered officially closed.
Usually, this technique is applied to find the guilty innocent, but it
can also be used to obtain charges when seeking to frame a victim.
22. Manufacture a new truth.
Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or
influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific,
investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes
favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do
so authoritatively.
23. Create bigger distractions.
If the above does not seem to be working to distract from
sensitive issues, or to prevent unwanted media coverage of unstoppable
events such as trials, create bigger news stories (or treat them as
such) to distract the multitudes.
24. Silence critics.
If the above methods do not prevail, consider removing
opponents from circulation by some definitive solution so that the need
to address issues is removed entirely. This can be by their death,
arrest and detention, blackmail or destruction of their character by
release of blackmail information, or merely by destroying them
financially, emotionally, or severely damaging their health.
25. Vanish.
If you are a key holder of secrets or otherwise overly
illuminated and you think the heat is getting too hot, to avoid the
issues, vacate the kitchen.
Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
1) Avoidance
They never actually discuss issues head-on or provide
constructive input, generally avoiding citation of references or
credentials. Rather, they merely imply this, that, and the other.
Virtually everything about their presentation implies their authority
and expert knowledge in the matter without any further justification
for credibility.
2) Selectivity
They tend to pick and choose opponents carefully, either
applying the hit-and-run approach against mere commentators supportive
of opponents, or focusing heavier attacks on key opponents who are
known to directly address issues. Should a commentator become
argumentative with any success, the focus will shift to include the
commentator as well.
3) Coincidental
They tend to surface suddenly and somewhat coincidentally
with a new controversial topic with no clear prior record of
participation in general discussions in the particular public arena
involved. They likewise tend to vanish once the topic is no longer of
general concern. They were likely directed or elected to be there for a
reason, and vanish with the reason.
4) Teamwork
They tend to operate in self-congratulatory and
complementary packs or teams. Of course, this can happen naturally in
any public forum, but there will likely be an ongoing pattern of
frequent exchanges of this sort where professionals are involved.
Sometimes one of the players will infiltrate the opponent camp to
become a source for straw man or other tactics designed to dilute
opponent presentation strength.
5) Anti-conspiratorial
They almost always have disdain for ?conspiracy theorists?
and, usually, for those who in any way believe JFK was not killed by
LHO. Ask yourself why, if they hold such disdain for conspiracy
theorists, do they focus on defending a single topic discussed in a NG
focusing on conspiracies? One might think they would either be trying
to make fools of everyone on every topic, or simply ignore the group
they hold in such disdain. Or, one might more rightly conclude they
have an ulterior motive for their actions in going out of their way to
focus as they do.
6) Artificial Emotions
An odd kind of ?artificial? emotionalism and an unusually
thick skin ? an ability to persevere and persist even in the face of
overwhelming criticism and unacceptance. This likely stems from
intelligence community training that, no matter how condemning the
evidence, deny everything, and never become emotionally involved or
reactive. The net result for a disinfo artist is that emotions can seem
artificial. Most people, if responding in anger, for instance, will
express their animosity throughout their rebuttal.
But disinfo types usually have trouble maintaining the
?image? and are hot and cold with respect to pretended emotions and
their usually more calm or unemotional communications style. It?s just
a job, and they often seem unable to ?act their role in character? as
well in a communications medium as they might be able in a real
face-to-face conversation/confrontation.
You might have outright rage and indignation one moment,
ho-hum the next, and more anger later ? an emotional yo-yo. With
respect to being thick-skinned, no amount of criticism will deter them
from doing their job, and they will generally continue their old
disinfo patterns without any adjustments to criticisms of how obvious
it is that they play that game ? where a more rational individual who
truly cares what others think might seek to improve their
communications style, substance, and so forth, or simply give up.
7) Inconsistent
There is also a tendency to make mistakes which betray their
true self/motives. This may stem from not really knowing their topic,
or it may be somewhat ?freudian?, so to speak, in that perhaps they
really root for the side of truth deep within.
I have noted that often, they will simply cite contradictory
information which neutralizes itself and the author. For instance, one
such player claimed to be a Navy pilot, but blamed his poor
communicating skills (spelling, grammar, incoherent style) on having
only a grade-school education. I?m not aware of too many Navy pilots
who don?t have a college degree. Another claimed no knowledge of a
particular topic/situation but later claimed first-hand knowledge of it.
Time Constant
There are three ways this can be seen to work, especially
when the government or other empowered player is involved in a cover up
operation:
? ANY NG posting by a targeted proponent for truth can
result in an IMMEDIATE response. The government and other empowered
players can afford to pay people to sit there and watch for an
opportunity to do some damage. SINCE DISINFO IN A NG ONLY WORKS IF THE
READER SEES IT ? FAST RESPONSE IS CALLED FOR, or the visitor may be
swayed towards truth.
? When dealing in more direct ways with a
disinformationalist, such as email, DELAY IS CALLED FOR ? there will
usually be a minimum of a 48-72 hour delay. This allows a sit-down team
discussion on response strategy for best effect, and even enough time
to ?get permission? or instruction from a formal chain of command.
? In the NG example 1) above, it will often ALSO be seen
that bigger guns are drawn and fired after the same 48-72 hours delay ?
the team approach in play. This is especially true when the targeted
truth seeker or their comments are considered more important with
respect to potential to reveal truth. Thus, a serious truth sayer will
be attacked twice for the same sin.
Remarkably, not even media and law enforcement have NOT BEEN
TRAINED to deal with these issues. For the most part, only the players
themselves understand the rules of the game.
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