Monday, February 21, 2011

Gulf Oil - Gone Away or Not? ---- In a Word...Not!

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Judge Martin Feldman, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, ordered the Obama administration to move quickly on permits for new deepwater oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, saying that the government could no longer justify long delays in allowing new projects to go forward.
Judge Tells Government to Resume Permits for Drilling

Meanwhile, oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia, whose video and slides at a science conference in Washington demonstrated that the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

What’s wrong with this picture?

What’s wrong is that we have two camps of opinions:
  • The gulf oil has “gone away.”
  • The gulf oil has not gone away. 
Honest reporters and researchers are unable to fathom the truth because of restrictions placed on researchers since the Deepwater explosion occurred in April 2010. Heavy restrictions have been put in place largely by BP Oil and the Obama Administration, and a massive cover-up has been in operation ever since. It seems that no one in powerful and influential positions is willing to admit the widespread disastrous effects of this spill, preferring instead the opinion that if the oil cannot be seen, then it has gone away.

Thanks to all the Corexit dumped in the gulf, much of the oil has shape-shifted, turning into more colloidal form as it slowly sinks to the bottom and remains until it is stirred up again. In the meantime, it is strangling bottom-feeding marine life and interfering with the Gulf Stream. In addition, floating oil islands wash up on shore along with unfortunate birds, fishes and other creatures that have gotten caught in them.

Moreover, stories of coastal citizens getting sick are not reported on mainstream patsy news stations and papers. Have the gulf oil sicknesses also “gone away?” Or are greater numbers than before just now displaying symptoms of  ingested Corexit and oil?

If Samantha Joye is to be believed, (along with others of shared opinion) the oil spill has not “gone away.” It is still there, and still doing damage.

Here are two videos featuring crusader Samantha Joye:

White House will try to silence me again on oil spill, says marine scientist



Dr. Samantha Joye at the UGA Oil Spill Symposium 1.26.11


*For an astrological take on the gulf oil spill, see: 
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

How the World Works - Economic Hitmen

An excellent short video - based on "Economic Hitmen" by John Perkins
How the world works - an interesting video in light of recent "revolutions" in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, and other economically depressed countries where revolutions are easily managed or created by the world banks and corporations that finance the ruling dictators from behind the scenes.

The more people of the world realize the truth of this video, the more genuine "revolutions" there will be, and the swifter they will occur. (Except perhaps in the USA, but who knows?....hope I'm wrong...) 



"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world, no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-Woodrow Wilson, 1916 (after signing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913)

“If the American people really knew what we had done, we would be chased down the street and lynched.” - President George H.W.Bush to White House correspondent Sara McClendon, 1992


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgPTd_A7vc

Monday, February 14, 2011

"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto - Awesome... & Unsettling

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(orig. post here)
"A Japanese artist named Isao Hashimoto has created a series of works about nuclear weapons. One is titled "1945-1998" and shows a history of the world's nuclear explosions.

Over the course of fourteen and a half minutes, every single one of the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 is plotted on a map.

A metronomic beep every second represents months passing, and a different tone indicates explosions from different countries. It starts out slowly, with the Manhattan Project's single test in the US and the two terrible bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II.

After a couple of minutes or so, however, once the USSR and Britain entered the nuclear club, the tests really start to build up, reaching a peak of nearly 140 in 1962, and remaining well over 40 each year until the mid-80s.

It's a compelling insight into the history of humanity's greatest destructive force, especially when you remember that only two nuclear explosions have ever been detonated offensively, both in 1945. Since then, despite more than 2,000 other tests and billions of dollars having been spent on their development, no nuclear warheads have been used in anger.

Born in Japan in 1959, Hashimoto worked in the financial industry for 17 years before studying in Tokyo in the department of Arts, Policy and Management, and then getting a job as a curator at the Lalique museum in Hakone, Japan.

He began the piece in 2003, with the aim of showing, in his own words, "the fear and folly of nuclear weapons". Hashimoto says: " I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

As the timescale on the animation only reaches 1998, it doesn't include North Korea's two nuclear tests in October 2006 and May 2009."


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