I let this through because it's classic CT paranoia. You're out of your mind thinking anyone would sabotage anything to enact environmental laws. Right, people who want to save the planet will destroy the planet with probably the biggest man made disaster coming from at us to date.
That's not even a semi-logical conspiracy theory. There is no "upside".
Seriously, your post implies you have mental illness, specifically paranoia.
The medications are better today and I hope you can find one that works for you.
They are "dillie dicking" around on purpose becaues this whole event was planned. The oil rig was most like torpedod and some kind of foul play was done underneath by a sub that has cause this out of control gusher of oil. It all happened on the pagan eve of "Earth Day" one of the high "holy" days of the witches who run our government. Just like the coal mine explosion that occured one week prior, this whole thing reeks of an "eco" version of 9-11. They could have stopped it by now if they really wanted to. Notice how the media has downplayed the whole thing for the past two weeks. First, there was "no leaking", then it was only 5,000 gallons a day. Then they were saying it would take until June for it to compare to the Exxon Valdez disaster. NOW they are saying it will be next SATURDAY! Can't you people see the pattern? And the reason Obama acts as though this is no big deal is because he is part of it. It's all for the furtherance of the New World Order police state and our enslavement. Every disaster and act of "terrorism" that occurs results in the further loss of our freedoms. Why does hardly anyone make the connection? WAKE UP
LOL! Witty article about your statistically-inclined friend, Maya. However, there is nothing funny about the statistics on December 21, 2012. Actually, it should be of serious concern to all of us humans. The actual significance behind the 2012 Calendar could be ominous. I recommend you do some serious online research or get yourself some reading material on the Mayans and their prophecies. Doomsday 2012 is much more than just a Hollywood story or the butt of end-time jokes. If you devote some study into this bizarre 2012 date, you'll find the science behind the 2012 phenomenon. In actuality, there is a profusion of “coincidences” that come to pass in 2012. There is the sudden conclusion of both the Mayan AND Aztec mesoamerican calendars, a rare galactic arrangement and various other astonishing astronomical events happening in the year 2012. Look into it and think for yourself rather than ridicule or even fear this approaching date.
never ceases to amaze me. Take any pharmaceutical company. Look at their statistics on "sudden death". They claim it's "rare". Well, "rare" might be defined as 1 out of 1000 people or 1 out of 100 people! "rare" events, they see a 0.0001% chance of scenario X occurring. Well, that's 1 in 10000. So, in the case of a drug, while "quote unquote" a random event, every time a person takes that pill, that is there odds. One can claim that's an independent event but eventually, over 10k people, eventually it will happen.
I'm just horrified because this is going to poison so much wildlife.
I wish to God, modern economies and societies were not built on this toxic gooey crap.
Here is more from HuffPo regarding the situation and confirming what I had read earlier today from other sources.
"Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, said it was impossible to know just how much oil was gushing from the well, but said the company and federal officials were preparing for the worst-case scenario.
In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a "worst-case scenario" at the Deepwater Horizon site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout – 6.8 million gallons each day.".
Hmmm, what was that saying about the best laid plans of mice and men?
He's about to turn 76 and he just wants to grow old and enjoy his family, I guess. I remember Bill when he was involved in the Peace Corps back in the 60s and I was just a curious and questioning teenager. I have read his book Moyers on Democracy several times and it never loses its power to inspire. I suppose that all good things must end eventually, but his leaving the broadcast media is a harsh jolt of reality to this follower. He leaves very large shoes to fill, and I don't see any others to fill them.
From what I have read they have failed to cap this manually after sending submersibles down there. Visibility can't be any good and the two emergency shut offs that were installed both failed.
There is a Times article about a third shut off (the primary and deadman switch valves being 1 & 2) that is mandated in 2 countries and used worldwide by a few oil drillers regardless of local regulations but not by BP and of course the US does not mandate whats called an acoustic switch.
It wasn't a blog post, per se, but Bill Moyers aired his last show on PBS this week, and it was a must see (or a must read of the transcript) as usual. I believe this comment by Bill is very much worth pondering:
You've no doubt figured out my bias by now. I've hardly kept it a secret. In this regard, I take my cue from the late Edward R. Murrow, the Moses of broadcast news.
Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix. Plutocracy, the rule of the rich, political power controlled by the wealthy.
Plutocracy is not an American word but it's become an American phenomenon. Back in the fall of 2005, the Wall Street giant Citigroup even coined a variation on it, plutonomy, an economic system where the privileged few make sure the rich get richer with government on their side. By the next spring, Citigroup decided the time had come to publicly "bang the drum on plutonomy."
And bang they did, with an "equity strategy" for their investors, entitled, "Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer." Here are some excerpts:
"Asset booms, a rising profit share and favorable treatment by market-friendly governments have allowed the rich to prosper...[and] take an increasing share of income and wealth over the last 20 years..."
"...the top 10%, particularly the top 1% of the US-- the plutonomists in our parlance-- have benefited disproportionately from the recent productivity surge in the US...[and] from globalization and the productivity boom, at the relative expense of labor."
"...[and they] are likely to get even wealthier in the coming years. [Because] the dynamics of plutonomy are still intact."
And so they were, before the great collapse of 2008. And so they are, today, after the fall. While millions of people have lost their jobs, their homes, and their savings, the plutonomists are doing just fine. In some cases, even better, thanks to our bailout of the big banks which meant record profits and record bonuses for Wall Street.
Now why is this? Because over the past 30 years the plutocrats, or plutonomists — choose your poison — have used their vastly increased wealth to capture the flag and assure the government does their bidding. Remember that Citigroup reference to "market-friendly governments" on their side? It hasn't mattered which party has been in power — government has done Wall Street's bidding.
Don't blame the lobbyists, by the way; they are simply the mules of politics, delivering the drug of choice to a political class addicted to cash — what polite circles call "campaign contributions" and Tony Soprano would call "protection."
This marriage of money and politics has produced an America of gross inequality at the top and low social mobility at the bottom, with little but anxiety and dread in between, as middle class Americans feel the ground falling out from under their feet. According to a study from the Pew Research Center last month, nine out of ten Americans give our national economy a negative rating. Eight out of ten report difficulty finding jobs in their communities, and seven out of ten say they experienced job-related or financial problems over the past year.
So it is that like those populists of that earlier era, millions of Americans have awakened to a sobering reality: they live in a plutocracy, where they are disposable. Then, the remedy was a popular insurgency that ignited the spark of democracy.
He was one of a kind in the MSM, and will be sorely missed in the public discourse. IMO, Bill Moyers was one of the great Americans of any generation.
I'll just leave the link, since capping that well is more advanced technology expertise, whereas I'm referring to moving birds, corralling sea turtles and somehow moving nests (which I am sure the animals will abandon because of human interference).
Building barriers, good old fashioned washing with dawn, etc. stuff which is super labor intensive and requires training but that training can be learned fairly quickly.
Although the fisherman, the locals, they should be hired immediately and they should stop diddle dicking around is what the post implies. They are arguing over contracts and crap instead of getting those guys out on their boats. They should have been deployed 4 days ago.
I live by the sea and believe me, it is only the ones who go out every damn day who know all of the twists, turns, depths of harbors, wave patterns, all of that. There is no way someone not from the area is going to know exactly where that oil is going to go, even with a detailed simulation mapping algorithm, I think like a local would.
It's like the government, my fav (cough, cough), Napolitano, as well as the Obama administration really don't get the magnitude happening here.
But trying to cap the well, I think it's 5 miles deep(?), I imagine requires such advanced equipment and expertise at best that's a global effort with possibly the navy involved.
They might be able to build up a larger "ring" of some sort to contain the oil around the leak, but capping the well is the bottom line. maybe they could drain off the leak with another drill but I imagine that would take months.
But in terms of mobilizing the fisherman and the locals, well as longer term hiring planning to do clean up, but right now it's prevention plans, to me they are slow as molasses in terms of what's happening, going to happen.
Who here thinks we need to go to all electric cars immediately. I mean even gas, I don't think it's possible to have such calamity as with oil. Even coal, yes people die, it's filthy but does it add up to this kind of damage? The only thing I can think of that's worse is a nuclear accident.
This has all the makings of a massive international disaster. You might want to add some of these graphical representations to your article. It really brings home the point of the technological difficulties faced in containing this gusher.
This event is growing exponentially and it looks like the best case scenario is that it will last for months!!! I've read some estimates from oceanographic experts that the slick could arrive in the Florida keys by Tuesday of next week. So that will take care of the largest coral reefs in the Northern Hemisphere. From there it will be carried by the Gulf Stream up the Eastern Seaboard by the end of next week.
Surprise, surprise what can happen when the conservative stops politickin' and plain moving.
Jindal is proposing a Hire Local, using immediate Federal Funds.
Very wise idea to use the people who know those wetlands, coastal areas and how the water even flows, and so on.
This is in essence also a "direct jobs" program, and of course first they should be hiring everybody in the local area because they know the land, the issues.
I'm all upset about the imminent death of wildlife at the moment. I am an animal/wildlife freak and it just pisses me off to no end that this was allowed to happen and on top of it, the response...well, they have to be f**king kidding me at the lame response in comparison to what's happening right now!
If Iran blew up a nuclear test missile, they'd be all over that like flies on s**t, yet when a toxic lake the size of Puetro Rico (which is a pretty damn big area!) is about to engulf the gulf...
This is a national emergency, a national and international disaster so why are they not doing rapid deployment and logistics. It's going to require the management of a military operation and require speed, training, immediate training to deal with coordinating the effort required here..
"Manpower" jobs, are they kidding me? Those Fishermen are going to know what to do, they should be out on the water pronto, not playing legal games to screw with 'em or deal with delayed payment. Give 'em all a retainer check and MOVE BP!
Unreal "contract negotiations", stupid Legal dept., while you argue liability clauses 150k animals are gonna die.
yeah, that's no joke!! I saw that last night and why I wrote this one up, even though I'm burnt out on reporting the latest bank seizures. That would be a nice metric so see a map of FDIC costs.
Assuredly the FDIC is going busted soon, that's a serious chunk of change but it seems every Friday we get another billion. I haven't kept up because this is a never ending Friday event, like "pizza and a movie". (Unreal! It's unreal what one gets used to as an everyday thing!)
Civilization is based on a barter economy. The artificially created currencies have become more than what they were designed to barter.
The money itself is the end game now not the barter for things that people actually want and need and thats a big part of the problem here.
Horrendous for people that have no real world skills. It would be great for people that actually create things that people want and need. Things are out of whack when money is the end game rather than what the money is being provided for. When the money handlers make more than those that create things people want and need.
Just to add that it was Bernanke and Paulsons 'the sky is falling' scenarios that prompted the bailout in the first place. The failure of a few big banks were going to cause riots in the streets and starvation among the masses. I call BS on that.
The bailout, which was paltry in comparison to what the Fed did for its owners, was cover for the Feds actions. While the masses complained about three quarters of a trillion in taxpayer funds trillions and trillions were made available for those same banks. Now they are hiding inflation in any way possible. That will change once they assume its safe that inflation can't be tied back to the bailout and inflation will roar here like never before.
That's what the site is about, digging around in the theory and statistics, going to the gov. databases, releases and trying to understand them. I find some things obscure, such as the definitions on some of the categories and locating the details. Gov. is improving, esp. the Federal Reserve, on publicly accessible data. I love the St. Louis Fed site, they just rock, make it so easy for the public.
One thing also, this just isn't strong enough or "Right" enough (need way more investment, non-structures) to drive the job growth the country needs. it's about ~2% just to maintain the status quo and then growth needs to be the "right" kind to generate jobs. This just isn't it.
It's just unreal, with all of the billions thrown at "Stimulus" so much was wasted and we could never get a real direct jobs program and/or business investment, startups/manufacturing policy/trade to jump start the real (read production) economy.
I think it's high time to focus on other policy areas, although financial reform monitoring push is probably job #1 right now for the site...
but other areas to build up a U.S. middle class again.
Home equities are tapped out but it looks like Visa/MC are stepping up to the plate again.
I let this through because it's classic CT paranoia. You're out of your mind thinking anyone would sabotage anything to enact environmental laws. Right, people who want to save the planet will destroy the planet with probably the biggest man made disaster coming from at us to date.
That's not even a semi-logical conspiracy theory. There is no "upside".
Seriously, your post implies you have mental illness, specifically paranoia.
The medications are better today and I hope you can find one that works for you.
They are "dillie dicking" around on purpose becaues this whole event was planned. The oil rig was most like torpedod and some kind of foul play was done underneath by a sub that has cause this out of control gusher of oil. It all happened on the pagan eve of "Earth Day" one of the high "holy" days of the witches who run our government. Just like the coal mine explosion that occured one week prior, this whole thing reeks of an "eco" version of 9-11. They could have stopped it by now if they really wanted to. Notice how the media has downplayed the whole thing for the past two weeks. First, there was "no leaking", then it was only 5,000 gallons a day. Then they were saying it would take until June for it to compare to the Exxon Valdez disaster. NOW they are saying it will be next SATURDAY! Can't you people see the pattern? And the reason Obama acts as though this is no big deal is because he is part of it. It's all for the furtherance of the New World Order police state and our enslavement. Every disaster and act of "terrorism" that occurs results in the further loss of our freedoms. Why does hardly anyone make the connection? WAKE UP
No, but you need to look at the entire picture. This is a grey area.
LOL! Witty article about your statistically-inclined friend, Maya. However, there is nothing funny about the statistics on December 21, 2012. Actually, it should be of serious concern to all of us humans. The actual significance behind the 2012 Calendar could be ominous. I recommend you do some serious online research or get yourself some reading material on the Mayans and their prophecies. Doomsday 2012 is much more than just a Hollywood story or the butt of end-time jokes. If you devote some study into this bizarre 2012 date, you'll find the science behind the 2012 phenomenon. In actuality, there is a profusion of “coincidences” that come to pass in 2012. There is the sudden conclusion of both the Mayan AND Aztec mesoamerican calendars, a rare galactic arrangement and various other astonishing astronomical events happening in the year 2012. Look into it and think for yourself rather than ridicule or even fear this approaching date.
never ceases to amaze me. Take any pharmaceutical company. Look at their statistics on "sudden death". They claim it's "rare". Well, "rare" might be defined as 1 out of 1000 people or 1 out of 100 people! "rare" events, they see a 0.0001% chance of scenario X occurring. Well, that's 1 in 10000. So, in the case of a drug, while "quote unquote" a random event, every time a person takes that pill, that is there odds. One can claim that's an independent event but eventually, over 10k people, eventually it will happen.
I'm just horrified because this is going to poison so much wildlife.
I wish to God, modern economies and societies were not built on this toxic gooey crap.
Here is more from HuffPo regarding the situation and confirming what I had read earlier today from other sources.
"Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, said it was impossible to know just how much oil was gushing from the well, but said the company and federal officials were preparing for the worst-case scenario.
In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a "worst-case scenario" at the Deepwater Horizon site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout – 6.8 million gallons each day.".
Hmmm, what was that saying about the best laid plans of mice and men?
He's about to turn 76 and he just wants to grow old and enjoy his family, I guess. I remember Bill when he was involved in the Peace Corps back in the 60s and I was just a curious and questioning teenager. I have read his book Moyers on Democracy several times and it never loses its power to inspire. I suppose that all good things must end eventually, but his leaving the broadcast media is a harsh jolt of reality to this follower. He leaves very large shoes to fill, and I don't see any others to fill them.
From what I have read they have failed to cap this manually after sending submersibles down there. Visibility can't be any good and the two emergency shut offs that were installed both failed.
There is a Times article about a third shut off (the primary and deadman switch valves being 1 & 2) that is mandated in 2 countries and used worldwide by a few oil drillers regardless of local regulations but not by BP and of course the US does not mandate whats called an acoustic switch.
Acoustic Switch
This whole episode begs the question 'Where are the drill baby drill' chants now from McCain and Palin and that crowd?
I saw he had on Bill Black, but I've done so many Black FMN and videos I decided to skip it. Why is he quitting (again)?
So many truth tellers, so often ignored?
It wasn't a blog post, per se, but Bill Moyers aired his last show on PBS this week, and it was a must see (or a must read of the transcript) as usual. I believe this comment by Bill is very much worth pondering:
He was one of a kind in the MSM, and will be sorely missed in the public discourse. IMO, Bill Moyers was one of the great Americans of any generation.
I'll just leave the link, since capping that well is more advanced technology expertise, whereas I'm referring to moving birds, corralling sea turtles and somehow moving nests (which I am sure the animals will abandon because of human interference).
Building barriers, good old fashioned washing with dawn, etc. stuff which is super labor intensive and requires training but that training can be learned fairly quickly.
Although the fisherman, the locals, they should be hired immediately and they should stop diddle dicking around is what the post implies. They are arguing over contracts and crap instead of getting those guys out on their boats. They should have been deployed 4 days ago.
I live by the sea and believe me, it is only the ones who go out every damn day who know all of the twists, turns, depths of harbors, wave patterns, all of that. There is no way someone not from the area is going to know exactly where that oil is going to go, even with a detailed simulation mapping algorithm, I think like a local would.
It's like the government, my fav (cough, cough), Napolitano, as well as the Obama administration really don't get the magnitude happening here.
But trying to cap the well, I think it's 5 miles deep(?), I imagine requires such advanced equipment and expertise at best that's a global effort with possibly the navy involved.
They might be able to build up a larger "ring" of some sort to contain the oil around the leak, but capping the well is the bottom line. maybe they could drain off the leak with another drill but I imagine that would take months.
But in terms of mobilizing the fisherman and the locals, well as longer term hiring planning to do clean up, but right now it's prevention plans, to me they are slow as molasses in terms of what's happening, going to happen.
Who here thinks we need to go to all electric cars immediately. I mean even gas, I don't think it's possible to have such calamity as with oil. Even coal, yes people die, it's filthy but does it add up to this kind of damage? The only thing I can think of that's worse is a nuclear accident.
This has all the makings of a massive international disaster. You might want to add some of these graphical representations to your article. It really brings home the point of the technological difficulties faced in containing this gusher.
This event is growing exponentially and it looks like the best case scenario is that it will last for months!!! I've read some estimates from oceanographic experts that the slick could arrive in the Florida keys by Tuesday of next week. So that will take care of the largest coral reefs in the Northern Hemisphere. From there it will be carried by the Gulf Stream up the Eastern Seaboard by the end of next week.
Vox Populi crys out for financial reform. Its about time. I'll round up some links with petitions.
Surprise, surprise what can happen when the conservative stops politickin' and plain moving.
Jindal is proposing a Hire Local, using immediate Federal Funds.
Very wise idea to use the people who know those wetlands, coastal areas and how the water even flows, and so on.
This is in essence also a "direct jobs" program, and of course first they should be hiring everybody in the local area because they know the land, the issues.
I'm all upset about the imminent death of wildlife at the moment. I am an animal/wildlife freak and it just pisses me off to no end that this was allowed to happen and on top of it, the response...well, they have to be f**king kidding me at the lame response in comparison to what's happening right now!
If Iran blew up a nuclear test missile, they'd be all over that like flies on s**t, yet when a toxic lake the size of Puetro Rico (which is a pretty damn big area!) is about to engulf the gulf...
This is a national emergency, a national and international disaster so why are they not doing rapid deployment and logistics. It's going to require the management of a military operation and require speed, training, immediate training to deal with coordinating the effort required here..
"Manpower" jobs, are they kidding me? Those Fishermen are going to know what to do, they should be out on the water pronto, not playing legal games to screw with 'em or deal with delayed payment. Give 'em all a retainer check and MOVE BP!
Unreal "contract negotiations", stupid Legal dept., while you argue liability clauses 150k animals are gonna die.
yeah, that's no joke!! I saw that last night and why I wrote this one up, even though I'm burnt out on reporting the latest bank seizures. That would be a nice metric so see a map of FDIC costs.
Assuredly the FDIC is going busted soon, that's a serious chunk of change but it seems every Friday we get another billion. I haven't kept up because this is a never ending Friday event, like "pizza and a movie". (Unreal! It's unreal what one gets used to as an everyday thing!)
Almost all of that money is going to Puerto Rico, and it went through with almost no one noticing.
Civilization is based on a barter economy. The artificially created currencies have become more than what they were designed to barter.
The money itself is the end game now not the barter for things that people actually want and need and thats a big part of the problem here.
Horrendous for people that have no real world skills. It would be great for people that actually create things that people want and need. Things are out of whack when money is the end game rather than what the money is being provided for. When the money handlers make more than those that create things people want and need.
Just to add that it was Bernanke and Paulsons 'the sky is falling' scenarios that prompted the bailout in the first place. The failure of a few big banks were going to cause riots in the streets and starvation among the masses. I call BS on that.
The bailout, which was paltry in comparison to what the Fed did for its owners, was cover for the Feds actions. While the masses complained about three quarters of a trillion in taxpayer funds trillions and trillions were made available for those same banks. Now they are hiding inflation in any way possible. That will change once they assume its safe that inflation can't be tied back to the bailout and inflation will roar here like never before.
where comments can go that you don't know how to categorize.
That's the "Must Read Posts" which are links and blurbs of other sites/articles.
I wrote up this awhile ago, but I will try to put together a China's latest post up along with more on currency manipulation today.
Thanks for the heads up the are "issuing rules". I'm telling ya, China is out to kick the U.S. ass, it's always been and it's as simple as that.
That's what the site is about, digging around in the theory and statistics, going to the gov. databases, releases and trying to understand them. I find some things obscure, such as the definitions on some of the categories and locating the details. Gov. is improving, esp. the Federal Reserve, on publicly accessible data. I love the St. Louis Fed site, they just rock, make it so easy for the public.
One thing also, this just isn't strong enough or "Right" enough (need way more investment, non-structures) to drive the job growth the country needs. it's about ~2% just to maintain the status quo and then growth needs to be the "right" kind to generate jobs. This just isn't it.
It's just unreal, with all of the billions thrown at "Stimulus" so much was wasted and we could never get a real direct jobs program and/or business investment, startups/manufacturing policy/trade to jump start the real (read production) economy.
I think it's high time to focus on other policy areas, although financial reform monitoring push is probably job #1 right now for the site...
but other areas to build up a U.S. middle class again.
Home equities are tapped out but it looks like Visa/MC are stepping up to the plate again.
Pages