Here's the REAL story: Expert estimates peg the damage at 60,000 barrels, or over 2.5 million gallons daily. Measures to stop the gusher are futile, since the oil is coming from the ground, and not a tanker, as in the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989. Though the economy of the Gulf region is "in the tank", the oil rig owner has so far made $270 million from the oil leak. After a 1979 disaster in the Gulf, Transocean decided to insure the "Deepwater Horizon"rig for about twice of what it was worth. Hence the $270 million profit from this new disaster. BP's record of oil-elated disasters includes a long and gory record: In 2005, BP's Texas City refinery exploded, killing 15 "expendable" workers and injuring another 170. Then, one of its Alaska pipelines leaked 200,000 gallons of crude oil, and BP paid $550 million in fines. With 'Deepwater Horizon', the company chose not to equip the rig with an acoustic trigger, which would have shut down the well even if it were badly damaged. In most civilized countries, this is a requirement, to protect their eco-system. Since the politicians of our country care so little about out eco-system, this protection was not installed on that rig.
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2010/05/29
2010/05/28
Obama's irrational Flip-Flop Leadership Style
War is necessarily a sea of hard choices, as I found out when I was tasked with more operations than my advisory team and I could handle in Vietnam: However, I have found that keeping my mind clear, and concentrating on the most important missions first, our side of the war would prevail, and our casualties could be vastly reduced. General Stanley McChrystal knows whereof I speak, when he calls his attempt to drive the Taliban out of Helmand Province as "a bleeding ulcer", and he has my profound sympathy. As we survey the carnage in that totally unnecessary war, we find our operation in Kandahar already showing signs of faltering, and there is NO alternative plan. Meanwhile, 'our' Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half -brother Wali Karzai, Kandahar's major powerbroker, a man reputedly deeply involved in the drug trade, and a former "asset" of the CIA, assures that the whole military effort in the province is locked into Karzai's political strategy for maintaining his grip on power! The whole situation is now a disgusting mess, and the only solution is to abandon Karzai to his fate, whatever that it might be!
2010/05/27
Listen to one of North America's leading writers on North America's leading writers!
The Soviet intervention into Afghanistan was a 'golden' opportunity for our CIA to transfer the tribal resistance into a 'holy' war, an Islamic jihad to expel the 'godless' communists from Afghanistan. Over the years, the United States and Saudi Arabia expended about $40 billion on the war in Afghanistan. The CIA and its allies recruited, supplied, and trained almost 100,000 radical Mujahideen from forty Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, and Pakistan. Among those who answered the call was Saudi-born millionaire right-winger Osama bin Laden. The most prolific writer who stepped forward to advise the citizens of our United States of our folly in being lured into accepting the follies of our corrupt politicians has written several vital books which we will desperately need. He is, in fact, one of North America's leading radical writers on US imperialism, fascism, democracy (if you like that sort of thing) if one of our goals includes the understanding of our system of government. He has written for 250 major magazines and 15 excellent and incisive books, which will certainly astonish you and your family, especially the young men in your family, which are about to be crippled for life in our nation's unnecessary wars! Please look him up on U-tube, where he is a constant contributor!
2010/05/26
Petraeus (read Obama) has ordered US spies to prepare for a nuclear strike on Iran
This is as serious as it gets, folks. In order to kowtow to our unruly ally Israel, Obama has decided to completely abandon his loyalty oath to the United States, and buckle under the dictates of Israel, our silly client state and human rights abuser in the middle east, so that the entire world will understand our subservience to that den of pirates, but I digress: According to Giles Whittell and Michael Evans in Washington, American special forces, whose soldiers will soon be presented to their grieving families in body bags, have been authorized to conduct spying missions intended to pave the way for a military strike on Iran, in case our renegade President Obama orders one, US government sources have confirmed: The military units would penetrate Iranian territory to reconnoitre (I love that word, because I used to do that shit in Vietnam, until I began to realize that I could come home to my family in a body bag. Of course, I was not concerned, because I knew that the country I was defending had an enormous number of these in stock.) And so it will be with our Special Forces men, and officers, who will soon be mourned by the families who trusted our "president" to make a rational analysis of the Iranian situation, before involving them in a slaughterhouse, from which their mangled bodies will never return!! A POX on "our" President - May he truly experience the depths of his degradation!
2010/05/25
Rabbi Dov Zakheim: The Jewish Mastermind of 911?
Rabbi Dov Zakheim was Chief Executive Officer of System Planning Corporation's International Division until President George W. Bush appointed him Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon. Before he accepted that office, Rabbi Zakheim co-authored an article entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century" which was published by The Project for a New American Century in September 2000, exactly a year before 9/11. On page 51, it states that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". Let me again explain that before he got his job in the Pentagon, Rabbi Zakheim's company was renowned for the design, manufacture, and distribution of highly sophisticated technology that enables an operator to fly by remote control as many as eight different airborne vehicles at the same time from one position, either on the ground, or airborne. The hardware is only about the size of a small refrigerator, and, now that everyone knows its availability, and usefulness in destroying our world through the sabotage of our airlines, it might even be on a close-out sale at System Planning, where terrorists shop, to create a "New American Century". Please click on the heading to place your order now: Operators are standing by!!
2010/05/24
He was our friend, faithful and just was he, yet the CIA said he was ambitious, and they are honorable men!
From President Kennedy's final speech to our nation, His commencement speech at American University, on June 10, 1963: "John Masefield wrote that he admired the splendid beauty of a university, because it was a 'place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see'. Our president continued: "What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women-not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time. I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all of the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn."
Please order a copy of James W. Douglass's outstanding book: "JFK and the Unspeakable" from Amazon.com. You have nothing to gain or lose but your immortal soul, and your intervention against the idiotic military policy of our idiotic government, if you or your neighbors can thwart it in time, may actually prevent our planet from early destruction!!!!!
Please order a copy of James W. Douglass's outstanding book: "JFK and the Unspeakable" from Amazon.com. You have nothing to gain or lose but your immortal soul, and your intervention against the idiotic military policy of our idiotic government, if you or your neighbors can thwart it in time, may actually prevent our planet from early destruction!!!!!
2010/05/23
How Hidden Pools of Government Money Could Save Our Economy!
For over a decade, accountant Walter Burien has been trying to alert the American Public about a massive conspiracy and cover-up, involving trillions of dollars squirreled away in funds maintained at every level of government. These funds exist, as evidenced by the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs), required at every level of government. Burien notes that the government is composed of 54,000 different state, county, and local government entities, including school districts, public authorities, etc., and that these entities all keep their financial assets in liquid investment funds, bond financing accounts and corporate stock portfolios. The only income that must be reported in government budgets is that from taxes, fines and fees, but the investments of government entities can be found in official annual reports, which must be filed by local, county, and state governments. Burien maintains that these slush funds have been kept from taxpayers. Unlike private businesses, which have bank credit lines they can draw on if they miscalculate their expenses, local governments are required by law to balance their budgets, and if they run short, public services and government payrolls may be frozen until the voters get around to approving a new bond issue.
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