That's when things can really go south. When a crisis covers over the real events...such as an impending European implosion.

"Please remember, Sharia Law has spread and increased dramatically in that area with the incurions and interference of America in that region --- an no civilized person would wish to see that!"

Sharia is so common in Northern Britain that routine divorces, murder trials, and most civil cases are handled by Sharia,in ethnic neighborhoods. Sharia is now arrived in the U.S. with many school districts refusing to enforce dress codes and special time-outs for morning and afternoon prayers.

So the question is not so much about Afghan poppies or mineral development conspiracies, but how well the afghanization of the U.S. is proceeding.
My preference is to allow local economies in Asia and make those economies as prosperous as possible locally. Or you could import those economies, like the poppy trade.

I read people stating how flush BP is well they are in an extremely demanding capital intensive business so they are probably always rolling debt over and over again and without that ability they will have to shrink. They can't shrink because their values are distorted right now so they can't get fair market for their assets.

They are screwed but they did it to themselves.

That mud that they wanted to save for the next well?

The most expensive mud ever made.

The BP Escrow Fund was approved.....but who's managing it. Let's see....now how long does it take normally for the government to issue checks?

THINGS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BRITS
BY Dwight Baker
June 16, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE64U0OW20100616?feedType=nl&feedName...

MY TAKE

I am not surprised the Brits want to protect their meal ticket that BP has seen clear to do for them and many others for some time by paying huge dividends. Yet for some of them to call the Kettle Black is a far cry from being civil at this time. And because of that the article in Reuters offends me and maybe you too.

I have been a staunch advocate for the RIGHT and ONLY OIL and GAS SANE WAY to fix the blown out well and my record is clear about that. I have called to task BP many times and the same for the Obama Administration in total for their inane ---laying behind the log----way to allow the free press to wonder off in all kinds of directions for most of us did not have the low down and dirty laundry of the blow out.

I stepped higher than most and studied all I had at my disposal and read between the lines purging out the lies At the end of 400 hours I had finally arrived at my oil and gas engineering conclusion some time before May 13, 2010, when I sent BP Investors Relations my creative patent pending ideas called TAME NATURE with an overshot.

I later found out from friend in engineering oil and gas I missed the con that BP had going on for those who had ideas. The con was by using their PDF form to send the suggestions in it was for free gratis.

Thus I have stood behind my plans for they are the only way to fix the problem that is causing a deep rift between our British friends and us. Because of that seemed abyss I believe in the end the truth will separate the men from the boys. Meaning oil and gas --men early on in their basic training skills learned from the bottoms up know that all must respect Mother Nature or all will surely all die. But with a tear in my eye I remember hearing and reading of the calls that went out that night on the Deep Horizon as the men cried out to each other and the bosses this is going to kick our ass and Mother Nature did.
My GOD forbids such insane acts.

THE BRITS VIEW

BP executives, including Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, CEO Tony Hayward and BP U.S. boss Lamar McKay, were seen walking into the West Wing of the White House just before 10 a.m. ET for talks with Obama that were scheduled to last 20 minutes.

Looking serious, they barely glanced at photographers and camera crews recording their arrival. It was their first meeting with Obama since the start of the nearly two-month old crisis.

The meeting came a day after Obama, in a televised address to Americans Tuesday night, accused BP of recklessness and vowed to fight the spill "with everything we've got."

An April 20 explosion on an offshore rig owned by the British energy giant killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well. The ensuing spill has fouled 120 miles (190 km) of U.S. coastline, imperiled multibillion-dollar fishing and tourism industries and killed birds, sea turtles and dolphins.

Obama wants BP to establish an independently managed fund to guarantee it would cover the billions of dollars needed to clean up the 58-day-old spill and compensate affected individuals and businesses.
Setting the tone for what could be a strong message to BP, Obama said Tuesday he would tell BP to set aside "whatever resources are required" to compensate the workers and business owners harmed by the spill.

"And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party," Obama said.

A LEVEL OF CERTAINTY

Prime Minister David Cameron said BP is eager to face its liabilities from the spill but it should not have to pay claims that were too far removed from the disaster.

Cameron is under intense domestic pressure to stand up for BP, which many Britons perceive is being treated too harshly by the U.S. administration to the detriment of British pension fun funds and other investors with big stakes in BP.

"I know from my conversations with BP that they want to play the fullest possible part in capping the well, in dealing with the clean-up, and yes, in paying compensation to the hotel owners and the fishermen and others who have suffered," Cameron said during a BBC radio phone-in program.

"While it's important that they pay reasonable claims, and BP accept this themselves, they do need a level a certainty, and this is BP's worry, that there won't be claims entertained that are three or four times removed from the oil spill."

BP said in a statement its executives looked forward to a constructive meeting. "We share the president's goal of shutting off the well as quickly as possible, cleaning up the oil and mitigating the impact," the company said.

James Guiang, senior portfolio manager at Millennium Global Natural Resources Fund, said BP needed to cut a deal with Obama. "Whenever you go up against a government, you're not going to win," he said.
BP STOCK Shares in BP, which have lost nearly half their value since the spill began, were down 1.2 percent in trading in London, under performing a flat European oil sector index. In New York, BP's U.S.-listed shares were down more than 4 percent.

The cost of insuring BP debt against default rose, with five-year credit default swaps hitting a record wide of 600 basis points, according to Market.

Rating agency Fitch downgraded BP's rating by six notches Tuesday. Dutch bank ING said it expected other agencies to follow suit.

A team of U.S. scientists raised their high-end estimate of the amount of crude oil flowing from BP's stricken well by 50 percent to between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels per day, the second major upward revision in less than a week.

(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Writing by Caren Bohan and Ross Colvin; Editing by Will Dunham)

Oil and Gas Lamebrains might be the term used to describe those who say they are in control of the BP blow out!
By Dwight Baker
June 15, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

The Executive staff did a poor job finding out the facts before putting their seal of approval on the speech. One thing we have far more of the worlds oil than 2 percent. The Bakken shale in North Dakota rivals most of the oil finds in history. Now on the green note that has seemed to slip peoples minds---- to re-tool the automotive business and the high end trucking business and all the other shippers who use oil products for fuel would take 30 to 40 years and cost a kings fortune to do. Natural gas might be an answer for the large truck trailer shippers and for us to as long as pipelines were laid to the major markets to bring about the supply lines for consumers.

Getting some feed back after the President Speech looks as if the goal set out to save his Presidency and save our Gulf was missing.
Good intentions by the President and his staff showed through but the greater dimensions as mentioned were missing for one reason or another. The greater goals of stopping the oil and gas was not addressed head on and that is just what the American public wanted to hear.

Thus as in the title are those assigned the great job of getting this blow out plugged --- oil and gas lamebrains? I have no sympathy at all for folks who pretend to know and simply do not. Move over step out of the picture and let those who know oil and gas do the job at hand.

What many of us are too tired of the pundit political media hype type huckster's that spin and spin. And our poor citizens on the Gulf have had enough of them too, they are down to the earth working folks like some in Boston and they are tired of hearing this and that come out of the mouths of those who have no clue what to do and when.

I meant no harm to come to those I inferred rightly so that they had not the oil and gas common sense and reason to understand the simplicity of stopping all the oil.

But, some do and I am one of them an oil and gas engineer with the plan to stop the oil and gas in 3 to 4 days after the plan is adopted. It is appropriate to include that the plan has been passed around in the oval office, the boardroom of BP and most the media sources in the world. It is easy to see just google Tame Nature with overshot and there you will find the work of laying out the plan.

Now what can the American Public do? Learn about the TAME NATURE overshot plan to plug the blown out well then continue to publish that message so that many more will know. Contact me Dwight Baker dbaker007@stx.rr.com to receive a copy of the Plan FREE OF CHARGE

One wrinkle: what about the influence of old-time industrial capital: Olin, Scaife, Cargill, Koch? That's industrial, but if anything, more authoritarian than the managerial regime.

British Petroleum should serve to educate the American people and all corporate victims just how unworthy and incompetent corporate executives are to receive their unprecedented wealth of the last 30 years for their looting through the SHAREHOLDER SYSTEM that has shoved the American people down into the muck of limitless debt, penury and poor health.

Today's corporate executives serve an average 3 years it has been reported at any one company, often with no particular industry experience other than Wall Street SHARE MANIPULATION savvy.

Notice that BP and other giant oil company execs KNOW NOTHING about their own businesses. Talk about smoke and mirrors. How do they get into these positions? CRONYISM among the unholy ivy league globalist cartel and they understand stock market share manipulation PR.

Unfortunately the facts of increasing medical costs - costs that were normally covered by employers/insurance/medicare - are not being factored into U.S. income statistics.

If I received a $1000 raise this year, but my medical insurance increased $600 per year ($50 more out of my monthly paycheck) and higher copays resulted in an additional $150 in out-of-pocket medical expenses, then that $1000 raise actually becomes a $250 raise.

If the employer had covered all of the increased medical costs then I would have received a much smaller wage increase.

My point is that I don't believe government statistics that track wages take increased medical costs into account. Thus, it might appear Americans are taking home more pay - and the politicians and Chamber of Commerce might tout how workers are so much better off ... when all that's happening is that medical costs are being shifted from employers to employees.

So be skeptical the next time you read about average worker pay increases.