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    Picked this up off of CNN about 30 minutes ago.

    Remember when it was 1,000 barrels/day?
    5,000 bbl/day?
    12,000 bbl/day? (this time for sure!)
    Bear in mind that, while this was still BP's "working number" they proudly announced that the "cut & cap" pumping was now getting them 15,000 bbl/day
    Well, announced about 30 min ago on CNN;
    The new current estimate for flow before the cut is 20-40,000 bbl/day!
    And this is a "before the cut" figure. (means add 20% minimum)

    They are still working on a more accurate figure for after the cut, based upon the new "HD footage" the estimating team, only had access to 2 days ago.

    To keep the figures consistent, something BP keeps changing a barrel is 44 gallons, so 40,000 bbl/day is, and means the true problem, growing in the gulf is:
    1,760,000 gallons/day!
    -660,000 pumped thru the cap (15,000 bbls) =
    1,100,000 gallons/day!

    Figures taken from the daily Wolf Blitzer "Situation Room" report.

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    Lindsey Williams ( who talks to, at least one insider ) said tonight that it's 4 million gallons per day.
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    I just came back to add that,
    All of this "estimating flow" is really such a farce.

    They have what... 12 ROV's operating down there?
    1. You stick a flow meter on the end of an ROV's arm,
    2. You stick it in the stream for a second, or two.
    3. You take the velocity (now a known), and the pipe dia. (21 inches) and you can calculate the flow in minutes.

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    http://www.therealnews.com/t2/

    there's a section of oil related news and updates , some interesting stuff


    Spill Threatens Indigenous Communities in Louisiana: Exxon Valdez activists share vast knowledge Pt 1/2

    Rep. Markey: BP Can't be Trusted; MMS Must Become a Watchdog, Not a Lapdog

    Firedoglake.com's Jane Hamsher: BP Oil Disaster is About to Turn in to a Health Crisis

    Planet 100: BP's Ad Campaign Backfires

    'The A-Team' Spill on the Oil Spill

    AP Exclusive: Scuba Diving in the Gulf Oil Spill

    Congressman Nadler Grills BP over Use of Toxic Dispersant and BP's Corporate Relationship to Manufacturer.

    Mike Papantonio: Can we trust Attorney General Eric Holder who worked at one of the biggest corporate defense

    just some of the interviews listed

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    U.S. doubles upper estimate for BP oil leak

    HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists on Thursday doubled their high-end estimate of the amount of crude oil flowing from BP Plc's stricken Gulf of Mexico well.

    They said between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels (840,000 and 1.7 million gallons/3.2 million and 6.4 million liters) of oil flowed from the well before June 3, when BP's remotely operated robots sawed through an underwater pipe to clear the way for a capping procedure.

    The cutting of the pipe likely increased the flow, but BP says it has collected 73,324 barrels (3.1 million gallons/11,7 million liters) of oil since installing the capping system.

    Even at the minimum estimated rate of 20,000 bpd, the well has dumped just over a million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20 -- more than four times the amount that the Exxon Valdez spilled into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.

    The new estimates were made by the so-called Flow Rate Technical Group and announced by U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt. BP had no input into the team's findings.

    The well's average daily rate was 25,000-30,000 barrels, according to the group's findings.

    The new figures are considerably higher than the prior "best estimate" of 12,000-19,000 bpd issued by the flow rate group on May 27.

    Estimates have steadily climbed from the 5,000 bpd level initially cited by U.S. and BP officials, though BP had said that such estimates were unreliable.

    One estimate, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, would imply a flow rate of 50,000 bpd, McNutt said.

    "You probably get to about 50,000 if you make some assumptions that they weren't quite willing to make," McNutt said.

    The wide variation in the figures points to the difficulty in estimating flow of a well that is 1 mile beneath the surface and reachable only by remotely operated robots.

    McNutt admitted the estimate was "still a work in progress" and that the numbers were "all over the board."

    "There is a significant difference between the lowest possible estimate and the highest possible estimate," which the team will try to resolve in future studies, McNutt said.

    Scientists have not estimated the flow since BP sawed through the riser pipe a week ago. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the cut may have increased the rate by 4 to 5 percent.

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    A WORD ABOUT ABIOTIC OIL

    There is some speculation that oil is abiotic in origin -- generally asserting that oil is formed from magma instead of an organic origin. These ideas are really groundless. All unrefined oil carries microscopic evidence of the organisms from which it was formed. These organisms can be traced through the fossil record to specific time periods when quantities of oil were formed.

    Likewise, there are two primal energy forces operating on this planet, and all forms of energy descend from one of these two. The first is the internal form of energy heating the Earth's interior. This primal energy comes from radioactive decay and from the heat energy originally generated during accretion of the planet some 4.6 billion years ago. There are no known mechanisms for transferring this internal energy into any secondary energy source. And the chemistry of magma does not compare to the chemistry of hydrocarbons. Magma is lacking in carbon compounds, and hydrocarbons are lacking in silicates. If hydrocarbons were generated from magma, then you would expect to see some closer kinship in their chemistry.

    The second primal energy source is light and heat generated by our sun. It is the sun's energy that powers all energy processes on the Earth's surface, and which provides the very energy for life itself. Photosynthesis is the miraculous process by which the sun's energy is converted into forms available to the life processes of living matter. Following biological, geological and chemical processes, a line can be drawn from photosynthesis to the formation of hydrocarbon deposits. Likewise, both living matter and hydrocarbons are carbon based.

    Finally, because oil generation is in part a geological process, it proceeds at an extremely slow rate from our human perspective. Geological processes take place over a different frame of time than human events. It is for this reason that when geologists say that the San Andreas fault is due for a powerful earthquake, they mean any time in the next million years -- probably less. Geological processes move exceedingly slow.

    After organic matter has accumulated on the sea floor, it must be buried by the process of deposition. In geological time, in order for this matter to be a likely prospect for hydrocarbon generation, the rate of deposition must be quick. Here is an experiment you can conduct to get an idea how slow the rates of deposition are. Place a small stone on the bottom of a motionless pond. Take another stone of about the same size and place it at the mouth of a small stream, a stream where the current is not so great that it will sweep the stone away. Check both of these stones yearly until they have been buried by deposition. You might see the stone at the mouth of the stream covered over within a few years, but it is unlikely that you will see the stone in the pond buried within your lifetime.
    It is a simple geological fact that the oil we are using up at an alarming rate today will not be replaced within our lifetime -- or within many lifetimes. That is why hydrocarbons are called non-renewable resources. Capped wells may appear to refill after a few years, but they are not regenerating. It is simply an effect of oil slowly migrating through pore spaces from areas of high pressure to the low-pressure area of the drill hole. If this oil is drawn out, it will take even longer for the hole to refill again. Oil is a non-renewable resource generated and deposited under special biological and geological conditions.

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    Scientist Awed by Size, Density of Undersea Oil Plume in Gulf

    Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching BP PLC well are unprecedented in "human history" and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life, a team of scientists said today, a finding confirmed for the first time by federal officials.

    Researchers aboard the F.G. Walton Smith vessel briefed reporters on a two-week cruise in which they traced an underwater oil plum 15 miles wide, 3 miles long and about 600 feet thick. The plume's core is 1,100 to 1,300 meters below the surface, they said.

    "It's an infusion of oil and gas unlike anything else that has ever been seen anywhere, certainly in human history," said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia, the expedition leader.
    Bacteria are breaking down the oil's hydrocarbons in a massive, microorganism feeding frenzy that has sent oxygen levels plunging close to what is considered "dead zone" conditions, at which most marine life are smothered for a lack of dissolved oxygen.

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    Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill?




    Despite the vow by President Obama to keep the Gulf oil spill a top priority until the damage is cleaned up, 50 days after the BP rig exploded, a definitive date and meaningful solution is yet to be determined for the worst oil spill in the U.S. history.

    So, you would think if someone is willing to handle the clean-up with equipment and technology not available in the U.S., and finishes the job in shorter time than the current estimate, the U.S. should jump on the offer.

    But it turned out to be quite the opposite. .

    U.S. Refused Help on Oil Spill

    According to Foreign Policy, thirteen entities had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.

    The U.S. response - Thank you, but no thank you, we've got it.

    "..While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future."

    Blame It On The Jones Act?

    Separately, Belgian newspaper De Standaard also reported Belgian and Dutch dredgers have technology in-house to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, butthe Jones Act forbids them to work in the U.S.

    A Belgian group--DEME-- contends it can clean up the oil in three to four months with specialty vessel and equipment, rather than an estimated nine months if done only by the U.S. The article noted there are no more than 5 or 6 of those ships in the world and the top specialist players are the two Belgian companies- DEME and De Nul - and their Dutch competitors.

    The U.S. does not have the similar technology and vessel to accomplish the cleanup task because those ships would cost twice as much to build in the U.S. than in the Far East. The article further criticizes this "great technological delay" is a direct consequence of the Jones Act.

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    Pelosi says BP lacks integrity

    US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has strongly criticized BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil leak which has turned into the biggest environmental disaster in the US history.



    "It is clear that there was a lack of integrity on the part of BP," Pelosi told reporters in the White House driveway upon emerging from a congressional leaders meeting with President Obama on Thursday.

    Pelosi questioned BP's authenticity about "the adequacy of their technology, the sufficiency of blowout prevention and the capacity to clean up."

    Pelosi has also called for a suspension of BP's dividend to ensure that compensation is paid to oil spill victims. BP has come under fire by US officials for failing to cap ruptured under water well since April 20.

    The BP oil leak started following an explosion at the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig which left 11 people dead on April 20.

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    Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret as feds colluded with Big Business

    After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve our attention: First, the ingredients that have been disclosed are extremely toxic, and second, why did the EPA protect the oil industry's "trade secrets" for so long by refusing to disclose these ingredients until now?

    As reported in the New York Times, Brian Turnbaugh, a policy analyst at OMB Watch said, "EPA had the authority to act all along; its decision to now disclose the ingredients demonstrates this. Yet it took a public outcry and weeks of complaints for the agency to act and place the public's interest ahead of corporate interests."

    On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic chemical that has long been linked to the health problems of cleanup crews who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill.

    A newer Corexit recipe dubbed the "9500 formula" contains dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, a detergent chemical that's also found in laxatives. What do you suppose happens to the marine ecosystem when fish and sea turtles ingest this chemical through their gills and skin? And just as importantly, what do you think happens to the human beings who are working around this chemical, breathing in its fumes and touching it with their skin?

    The answers are currently unknown, which is exactly why it is so inexcusable that Nalco and the oil industry giants would for so long refuse to disclose the chemical ingredients they're dumping into the Gulf of Mexico in huge quantities (over a million gallons dumped into the ocean to date).

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    Vatican Official Tied To BP, Goldman Sachs
    And Media Censorship In The Oil Fiasco...
    Increasing Evidence Of Foul Play


    By Sherri Kane and Leonard G. Horowitz
    6-10-10

    News unfolding from the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has linked media censorship to investment bankers at Goldman Sachs (GS) stewarding the Vatican's wealth, and increasing evidence that the explosion was intended.

    A near total news blackout from independent sources, and arrests of anyone caught photographing and filming the devastation, show the Halliburton-British Petrolium (BP) oil crisis is being criminally controlled, implicating some of Wall Street's heaviest hitters.

    According to a report issued by frightened, yet faithful, documentary filmmaker, James Fox, interviewed from the Gulf's Grand Isles by Mel Fabregas on the Internet's Veritas Radio Show, "There is a complete media blackout" on news coverage broadcast from the region.

    "They are arresting people with cameras and anyone off camera that is caught talking to a reporter," Fox testified.

    Another reporter told Fox,"You call this a free country? Right here, in the United States of America, there's no freedom of press. There's no freedom of speech. They're closing down the airspace above the oil spill, so reporter's can't fly over to determine how bad these oil plumes really are."

    Suspicious pieces of this deadly puzzle feature Halliburton, the world's second largest oil field services company, headquartered in Houston and Dubai, whose negligence is blamed for the timely and profitable explosion.

    Three weeks before the "natural gas leak," the George Bush/Dick Cheney 9-11-linked Halliburton company negotiated the purchase of the world's largest oil-spill cleanup firm (Boots & Coots) at the exact time keen observers on Wall Street--financial intelligence agents at Goldman Sachs (GS; often called "Government Sachs")--unloaded 44% of their stock in BP.

    These facts parallel the shorting of airline stocks by those in the know prior to the World Trade Center (WTC) 9-11 attacks that new scientific evidence proves were followed by building demolitions, given the red thermite incendiary powder found everywhere around ground zero.

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    U.S. launches criminal probe of BP spill
    Oil found along Miss., Ala. shorelines; fishing ban widened


    NEW ORLEANS - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.

    Holder would not specify which companies or individuals might be the targets of the probe, saying he did not "want to cast aspersions" while investigators come to their conclusions.

    He said federal clean air and pollution laws give him the power to open the investigations, which he added had been going on for "some weeks."

    Federal agencies, including the FBI, are participating in the probe and "if we find evidence of illegal behavior, we will be forceful in our response," Holder told reporters after meeting with state and federal prosecutors in New Orleans.

    The Justice Department has already demanded that the companies involved in the spill, including BP, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Co., preserve records related to the accident.

    The Coast Guard, for its part, said Tuesday that oil was reported reaching Mississippi and Alabama shorelines. That came after officials widened the region under surveillance to include those states and expanded the no-fishing area to include parts of Florida and Alabama.

    Confirmation of the oil came soon after Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told journalists of the reports.

    Red-brown oil was found on Alabama's Dauphin Island on Tuesday, and local officials closed fishing and posted signs warning against swimming as a precaution.

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    Gulf oil spill: 'Everybody's lost hope'

    NEW ORLEANS — Anger and frustration surged across the Gulf Coast on Monday as residents learned that the latest attempt to cap a renegade underwater well had failed and that oil may keep gushing into the Gulf of Mexico until at least August, when relief wells are scheduled to be finished.

    As they entered the 42nd day of the crisis Monday, officials with oil company BP said that over the weekend they had abandoned the so-called "top kill" maneuver to jam drilling mud into the well to stop its flow and were trying a new technique.

    "Everybody's lost hope," said councilman Jay LaFont of Grand Isle, La., where beaches and its fishing industry were closed because of the spill. "As long as you have something to look forward to, a little glimmer of hope, you can move on. But this just drained everything out of us."

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    30 Shocking Quotes About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill That Reveal The Soul-Crushing Horror This Disaster Is Causing

    It is incredibly hard to put into words the absolute horror that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now. The millions of gallons of oil that have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico and BP's efforts to fight the massive leak are turning the Gulf into a lifeless toxic stew of oil and chemicals. The damage caused to wildlife in the Gulf by this spill will be incalculable. Entire species are at risk of being wiped out. Scientists are telling us that the primary dispersant being used by BP ruptures red blood cells and causes fish to bleed. This is by far the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, and there is no end in sight. It is a worse environmental and economic disaster than all of the hurricanes of the past ten years combined. The great wetlands and beaches along the Gulf of Mexico will never be the same in our lifetimes. The seafood and tourism industries in the Gulf are being completely destroyed. The thousands of jobs and businesses being wiped out by this disaster could potentially throw the entire Gulf coast region into a depression. The damage already caused by this oil spill is beyond measure and yet the government tells us that up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) of oil a day continue to flow into the Gulf of Mexico.

    Federal officials have expanded the "no fishing" area in the Gulf of Mexico to 75,920 square miles. That is 31 percent of all federal waters in the Gulf. As the oil continues to spread out there may soon be nowhere to fish.

    And the oil is starting to come ashore in more places. Red-brown oil was found on Alabama's Dauphin Island on Tuesday. As Gulf coast residents slowly watch this oil destroy everything around them they are starting to realize that this is it.

    Life along the Gulf of Mexico will simply never be the same again.

    The following are 30 shocking quotes about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that reveal the soul-crushing horror this disaster is causing....

    #1) Councilman Jay LaFont of Grand Isle, Louisiana:

    "As long as you have something to look forward to, a little glimmer of hope, you can move on. But this just drained everything out of us."

    #2) Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish:

    "They said the black oil wouldn’t come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It’s here to stay and it’s going to keep coming."

    #3) Prosanta Chakrabarty, a Louisiana State University fish biologist:

    "Every fish and invertebrate contacting the oil is probably dying. I have no doubt about that."

    #4) Marine toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw, director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute on BP's use of chemical dispersants:

    "They've been used at such a high volume that it's unprecedented. The worst of these – Corexit 9527 – is the one they've been using most. That ruptures red blood cells and causes fish to bleed. With 800,000 gallons of this, we can only imagine the death that will be caused."

    #5) Dr. Larry McKinney, director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies in Texas:

    "Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species."

    #6) Carol Browner, Barack Obama's adviser on energy and climate:

    "This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response."

    #7) Richard Charter of the Defenders of Wildlife:

    "It is so big and expanding so fast that it's pretty much beyond human response that can be effective. ... You're looking at a long-term poisoning of the area. Ultimately, this will have a multidecade impact."

    #8) Reverand Mike Tran:

    "We don't know when this will ever be over. It's a way of life that's under assault, and people don't when their next paycheck is going to be."

    #9) Louis Miller of the Mississippi Sierra Club:

    "This is going to destroy the Mississippi and the Gulf Coast as we know it."

    #10) Dean Blanchard, Oil-leak-an-environmental-crime owner of a seafood business:

    "I hold Obama responsible for not making BP stand up and look at the people in the face and fix it."

    #11) Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal:

    "The day that we’ve been fearing is upon us."

    #12) Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, about BP CEO Tony Hayward:

    "We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him 'What's that all over your face?"

    #13) Former Clinton adviser James Carville:

    "The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it."

    #14) An anonymous Louisiana resident:
    "A hurricane is like closing your bank account for a few days, but this here has the capacity to destroy our bank accounts."

    #15) U.S. Representative Edward Markey:

    "I have no confidence whatsoever in BP . I think that they do not know what they are doing."

    #16) Gulf coast resident Marie Michel:

    "Immediately, it's no more fishing, no more crabbing, no more swimming, no more walking on the beach."

    #17) Brenda Prosser of Mobile, Alabama:

    "I just started crying. I couldn't quit crying. I'm shaking now. To know that our beach may be black or brown, or that we can't get in the water, it's so sad."

    #18) Qin Chen, BP-oil-spill-could-make-Gulf-hurricane-season-devastating an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on the possibility that a hurricane could push massive amounts of oil ashore along the Gulf:

    "A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico this year would be devastating."

    #19) Retired Army General Russel Honore on the effect this spill is having on residents of the Gulf coast:

    "I'm sure, every time they hear a negative word, their skin crawls, 'cause they need these jobs. ... This is what's going to put their kids in school, and what pays the rent."

    #20) A group calling itself "Seize BP":

    "The greatest environmental disaster with no end in sight! Eleven workers dead. Millions of gallons of oil gushing for months (and possibly years) to come. Jobs vanishing. Creatures dying. A pristine environment destroyed for generations. A mega-corporation that has lied and continues to lie, and a government that refuses to protect the people."

    #21) Louisiania Governor Bobby Jindal:

    "There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president."

    #22) BP’s chief operating officer, Doug Suttles:

    "This scares everybody — the fact that we can’t make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven’t succeeded so far."

    #23) Doug Rader, chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund:

    "You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait."

    #24) Public Service Commissioner Benjamin Stevens:

    "You get hit by a hurricane and you can rebuild. But when that stuff washes up on the white sands of Pensacola Beach, you can't just go and get more white sand.''

    #25) Wilma Subra, a chemist who has served as a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency:

    "Every time the wind blows from the south-east to the shore, people are being made sick."

    #26) Hotel Owner Dodie Vegas:

    "It's just going to kill us. It's going to destroy us."

    #27) Louisiana resident Sean Lanier:

    "Until they stop this leak, it's just like getting stabbed and the knife's still in you, and they're moving it around."

    #28) White House energy adviser Carol Browner:

    "There could be oil coming up until August."

    #29) Marine toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw, director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute:

    "We'll see dead bodies soon. Sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, whales: the impact on predators will be seen in a short time because the food web will be impacted from the bottom up."

    #30) Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser:

    "We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore."

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    Corexit Linked to the Blackstone Group & Lord Jacob Rothschild

    Regardless of whether the Deepwater Horizon Disaster is an accident or a False Flag Event, the inescapable truth is that the United States is faced with a disaster of unprecedented proportions. The quantity of oil being released into the Gulf of Mexico is uncertain, although it is safe to say that it is in the millions of gallons and covers thousands of square miles.

    The purpose of this article is to inform, educate and warn the reader of what is probably about to take place, and what steps might be taken to deal with this emergency as it may develop over the next few weeks and months.

    The statements within this article are factual, but by no means complete, and there will be updates when possible. One thing is for certain, the Gulf of Mexico region now contains millions of gallons of oil that IS going to spread to other parts of the Gulf of Mexico as well as along the East Coast of the United States.

    Computer animation models created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which at the time of this article is off-line, predicts probable flow paths; scenarios of the oil dispersal in the region.

    A shocking discovery reveals that the dispersant COREXIT is a product of Nalco Holding Company which in turn is owned by The Blackstone Group, who has as a member of its International Advisory Board, Lord Jacob Rothschild – so much for conspiracy theories. An excerpt from The Blackstone Group site:

    Lord Jacob Rothschild is a Member of the International Advisory Board.


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    Overwatch Report: June 10, 2010

    Report #1 – It appears there has been a military build up that is out of the ordinary according to our source. These pictures were sent to our Overwatch Program, From one of FYO1’s contacts. They were taken at 15:00 PST today at the 32nd St. base in San Diego, CA. The contact said that five U.S. Coast Guard war ships equipped with SAM’s, 30mm AA gatling guns, and 5″ Sea-Wiz guns pulled into port.

    A-10 Warthogs “Fully Armed” were flying in, which is against the Posse Comitatus Act and out of the ordinary.

    Not to mention the five flatbed rigs that showed up with Up-Armored HUMVEE’s (UAH) three of which were fully outfitted. The pictures provided are the actual pictures from the scene. The contact was even chased inside the base and managed to flee the area evading detention.

    Report #2 – Two Chinooks “Black” over Toledo Ohio.

    Report #3 – New York, upstate “Fully Armed” Blackhawk flying very fast 500′

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    BP Now has an online form for submission of Alternative Technological Solution Idea's for the Spill:

    http://www.horizonedocs.com/artform.php

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    This just came in ...

    http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/11/qu...me-alert-gulf/


    From Steve Quayle.....

    "The operational name for the Gulf Coast Evacuation is “Swift Fox”. Yesterday morning at around 8:30 Mountain time, I received information that specific towns, in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia were having hotel rooms rented in mass by different named “Societies” using Federal government credit cards. The block hotel room rentals are for half the available rooms in hotels with a minimum of 120 rooms. Specific conversations were “overheard” that would indicate that the planned Gulf Coast evacuation is soon to be implemented. The only scenario I hear that may force the government to evacuate the coast is a multiple plume situation. Apparently, the unmitigated oil spilling has caused a pressure flux which, ironically, has caused a spider web network of Gulf seabed fissures, which has caused at least one other confirmed oil plume. NOAA is searching for two more suspected ones”. This quote is from an insider who is really concerned as he should be. Here’s additional info he provided. His comments in the following quote: “I know FEMA has already scoped out FEMA camp locations, i.e. vacant lots and swaths of land that can be leased temporarily in Texas and Georgia”. "

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    BP faces fresh questions over the cause of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after it emerged that problems with the type of equipment that led to the disaster were first reported a decade ago.

    In June 2000, the oil giant issued a "notice of default" to Transocean, the operator of the rig that blew up last month. The dispute was over problems with a blowout preventer, a set of iron slabs that should close out-of-control wells. It failed on the Gulf of Mexico rig, triggering the explosion and oil spill.

    Transocean acknowledged at the time that the preventer did "not work exactly right". The rig in question, the Discover Enterprise, was unable to operate for extended periods while the problem was fixed.

    The preventer was made by Hydril, now owned by GE's oil and gas arm, and Cameron International, a Houston company. Cameron also made the preventer on the Deepwater Horizon, the rig that exploded. Its preventer was fitted at about the same time BP was complaining of problems with its sister vessel.

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    Obama to Reopen Oil Drilling
    New Rules on Shallow-Water Exploration Expected as Economic Woes Mount


    WASHINGTON—The Obama administration, facing rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, said Monday that it would move quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters.

    Gulf Coast residents, political leaders and industry officials said delays in releasing the new rules, along with the administration's six-month halt on deepwater drilling—both issued amid public pressure—threatened thousands of jobs.

    Well-owner BP PLC, meanwhile, faces penalties "in the many billions of dollars," for the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster that has been spewing an estimated minimum 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. The costs of the spill will "greatly exceed" the amount BP could recoup by selling any of the captured oil on the market, he said Monday.

    Retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who heads the federal response, said BP's latest emergency containment system is on track to capture as much as 15,000 barrels of oil per day, which is the maximum amount of oil the drill ship on the surface can process. BP's latest update on the rate of recovery late Monday implies that the containment procedure is approaching that limit. Any leakage beyond 15,000 barrels per day will continue to go into the sea until a second ship arrives, likely in mid-June.

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