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BP Skipped Critical Testing Hours Before Explosion

Smoking Gun? BP Skipped Critical Testing Hours Before Explosion

Huffington Post
May 20, 2010

New revelations about BP’s operations on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on the day of the explosion are being described as the smoking gun that proves the oil giant’s culpability in the disaster.

BP hired a reputable oilfield service company to test the strength of cement linings on the well, but then sent the company’s workers home 11 hours before the explosion on April 20 — “without performing a final check that a top cementing company executive called ‘the only test that can really determine the actual effectiveness’ of the well’s seal,” reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

    A spokesman for the testing firm, Schlumberger, said BP had a Schlumberger team and equipment for sending acoustic testing lines down the well “on standby” from April 18 to April 20. But BP never asked the Schlumberger crew to perform the acoustic test and sent its members back to Louisiana on a regularly scheduled helicopter flight at 11 a.m., Schlumberger spokesman Stephen T. Harris said.

    At a few minutes before 10 p.m., a belch of natural gas shot out of the well, up a riser pipe to the rig above, igniting massive explosions, killing 11 crewmembers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. The rig’s owner, Transocean, blames failed cement seals, installed by Halliburton, for the disastrous blowout.

BP has also come under fire for its safety procedures — crewmember Mike WIlliams told “60 Minutes” that despite damage to the critical blowout preventer, BP ordered the rig operator, Transocean Ltd., to ignore a critical safety measure during the sealing of the well. By failing to use drilling mud, a heavy liquid that keeps oil and gas from coming back up the pipe, to seal the well, BP saved money but may have caused the explosion.

CBS News released an extended interview with Williams today, in which he describes in detail the explosion, subsequent fire and his escape from the rig.

WATCH:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv-d_JSDiDY

Halliburton’s cementing work has already come under scrutiny by investigators and the firm is a co-defendant in several lawsuits.

Drilling experts say that blame probably lies with flaws in the cementing process — plugging holes in the pipeline seal by pumping cement into it from the rig — which was performed by Halliburton on the Deepwater Horizon.

As HuffPost reported last month: “Last year, Halliburton was also implicated for its cementing work prior to a massive blowout off the coast of Australia, where a rig caught on fire and spewed hundreds of thousands of gallons into the sea for ten weeks.

In that incident, workers apparently failed to properly pump cement into the well, according to Elmer Danenberger, former head of regulatory affairs for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, who testified to an Australian commission probing that accident.”

 



Obama Claims He’s Not a Puppet for Big Banks

Obama’s Bullshit-Meter Off The Charts:
“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street”

Zero Hedge
December 13, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-z9jeCi3Bw

Obama goes back to his Wall Street-bashing rhetoric in today’s 60 Minutes on CBS, after he has already doomed this country to tens of trillions in excess debt to make sure that Wall Street not only thrives, but prospers, courtesy of Bernanke’s vertical bond curve and the daily destruction of the dollar. With statements such as “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street” which the WSJ disclosed will be uttered by Obama shortly, only the most clueless viewers will find empathy with Obama’s latest message of banker “anti-hope.”

White House economic adviser Larry Summers also voiced aggravation with Wall Street on Sunday. “Here is what I think they don’t get…It was their irresponsible risk-taking in many cases that brought the economy to collapse,” Mr. Summers, who chairs the National Economic Council, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And they don’t get in some cases that they wouldn’t be where they are today, and they certainly would not be paying the bonuses they are paying today, if their government hadn’t taken extraordinary actions.”

“For them to be complaining about serious regulation directed at making sure this never happens again is wrong. For $300 million to be spent on lobbyists trying to gut serious efforts at financial reform is not how this country should be operating,” Mr. Summers said. “For firms that have benefited from taxpayer support to be complaining about the government burdening them is, frankly, a bit rich.”

And it is not only Obama, but Wall Street protege Larry Summer himself who continues the banker bashing:

    White House economic adviser Larry Summers also voiced aggravation with Wall Street on Sunday. “Here is what I think they don’t get…It was their irresponsible risk-taking in many cases that brought the economy to collapse,” Mr. Summers, who chairs the National Economic Council, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

    “And they don’t get in some cases that they wouldn’t be where they are today, and they certainly would not be paying the bonuses they are paying today, if their government hadn’t taken extraordinary actions.”

    “For them to be complaining about serious regulation directed at making sure this never happens again is wrong. For $300 million to be spent on lobbyists trying to gut serious efforts at financial reform is not how this country should be operating,” Mr. Summers said. “For firms that have benefited from taxpayer support to be complaining about the government burdening them is, frankly, a bit rich.”

First you bail them out, and now you bash them? It is one thing to dash criticism upon rhetoric but at least be consistent. If people can not read between the lines of this administration’s endless hypocrisy, they deserve all they get. And if Matt Taibbi’s latest controversial piece in Rolling Stone “Obama’s Big Sellout” needed any final validation, you just provided it Mr. President. Because while your Wall Street-centric policies can be explained by your lack of financial comprehension and private-sector experience (thereby justifying your desire to be “advised” by those who are an integral part of the banker syndicate), your complete disdain for the average American’s intellectual level exemplified by your most recent, upcoming 7 pm TV appearance is what is truly insulting. Maybe you can put Mr. Geithner up there next to you on the TV screen, and he can justify his reasoning for why incremental “fat cat” bonuses are such a bad idea. Come to think of it, why not make it into a round table, and include Larry Summer and Robert Rubin: we are confident they will have no problem distancing themselves from the very bankers they talk to 10 hours a day, telling them (and thus you) how to run national policy.

You say “Some people on Wall Street still don’t get it”… The problem, Mr. President, is that more and more people on Main Street, do get it. They now realize just whose agenda you have at heart. And said Main Street expects nothing but merely more theatrics during your upcoming meeting with Wall Street “fat cats” tomorrow.

 

Obama’s sellout to Wall Street creates ‘permanent bailout’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4it-Fs8RLw

 

Obama turns to Big Bankers for campaign cash

WSWS
October 21, 2009

Under conditions of growing unemployment and deepening social misery for working people throughout the US, President Barack Obama flew into New York City Tuesday to raise millions of dollars in campaign donations from America’s financial elite.

He was expected to clear at least $3 million, largely from a Manhattan bash with an entry fee of $30,400 per couple—the maximum contribution allowed by law.

According to the Los Angeles Times, four of the seven co-chairs of the event and about a third of the guests come from the big banks and Wall Street.

Behind all the rhetoric about “change,” this is Obama’s most important constituency. In his run for the presidency in 2008, he captured the lion’s share of donations from Wall Street, taking in $15 million from securities and investment firms, $3 million from commercial banks, and $6 million from other financial institutions.

Under conditions of growing unemployment and deepening social misery for working people throughout the US, President Barack Obama flew into New York City Tuesday to raise millions of dollars in campaign donations from America’s financial elite.

He was expected to clear at least $3 million, largely from a Manhattan bash with an entry fee of $30,400 per couple—the maximum contribution allowed by law.

According to the Los Angeles Times, four of the seven co-chairs of the event and about a third of the guests come from the big banks and Wall Street.

Behind all the rhetoric about “change,” this is Obama’s most important constituency. In his run for the presidency in 2008, he captured the lion’s share of donations from Wall Street, taking in $15 million from securities and investment firms, $3 million from commercial banks, and $6 million from other financial institutions.

Rolling Stone: Obama’s Big Sellout

Top contributors to Obama and McCain are big banks

Giant Banks Are Trying to Make Bailouts Permanent

The Big Banks Get Bigger Under Obama

 



US and Israel preparing to bomb Iran

Ritter: US will target Iran next

Press TV
April 29, 2008

Former UN weapons inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter claims the United States is undoubtedly planning a military strike against Iran.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that the United States is planning right now, as we speak, a military strike against Iran. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and almost every senior US military official has pretty much acknowledged the same,” he told Democracy Now on Monday.

“We take a look at the military buildup, we take a look at the rhetoric, we take a look at the diplomatic posturing, and I would say that it’s a virtual guarantee that there will be a limited aerial strike against Iran in the not-so-near future-or not-so-distant future, that focuses on the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps,” Ritter claimed.

Earlier in April, Ritter asserted that there was an 80 percent chance of a US war with Iran.

Ritter added that the preparations for such a conflict has been steadily developing and involves Congress as well as the Bush administration.

According to Ritter, a war with Iran would speed up the ongoing decline of US standing in the world subsequently leading to Russia and China’s readiness to take advantage of the resulting power vacuum.

 

’Israel preparing to bomb Iran N-sites’

Press TV
April 29, 2008

The commander of the Israeli Air Force says the regime’s decision makers have been preparing plans to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities.

General Eliezer Shkedi, who also heads the Israeli task force on Iran, made the remarks in an interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday.

A large portion of Shkedi’s service has been dedicated to the preparation for a possible mission that was never discussed in public; an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, should international economic sanctions fail, Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on Monday.

Shkedi spoke of a mission in 1981, when Israeli war planes attacked a nuclear reactor in Iraq.

He went on to say that today the Israeli decision makers are faced with a similar choice about Iran’s nuclear program.

Israeli and US officials accuse Iran of seeking nuclear bombs.

Iran, a member of the IAEA and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), maintains that its nuclear activates are solely aimed at peaceful purposes.

Tehran has warned Tel Aviv of a crushing response, in case the regime launches an attack on the Islamic Republic.

 

’All options on table against Iran’

Press TV
April 28, 2008

The Zionist regime says it is pondering all options against Iran, accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

The Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said late Sunday Iran must be prevented from gaining nuclear weapons, adding that all options were on the table against Tehran, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Mofaz made the remark as he headed a delegation to Washington for talks on the Israel-US Strategic Dialogue.

“Teheran leads the axis of evil, poses a threat to the entire world, is up to its neck in the Middle East and is even trying to get a foothold in the West Bank,” he claimed.

Iran says that as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which allows its members to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, it is following a peaceful nuclear program within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and NPT regulations.

This is while the Zionist regime has so far refused to join the NPT and refused to allow any inspections whatsoever of its vast nuclear facilites by competent international agencies such as the IAEA.

Furthermore, the Zionist regime happens to be up to its neck in causing all the problems, conflicts and human sufferings in the Middle East.

Hundreds of innocent men, women and children in occupied Palestine are ruthlessly murdered every year by its indiscriminate use of the most lethal weapons ever used against a defenseless civilian population in human history.

Recent News:

Israel: Allies won’t oppose Iran strike
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53585&sectionid=351020101

Leave Taliban alone, Afghan president tells West
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/27/afghanistan.usa

Gates: 2nd Carrier In Gulf A Reminder To Iran
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2008..WYsXCbbQlmSKEBpJrdIaWwvIE

Intel on Iran actions in Iraq ’faulty’
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53305&sectionid=3510203

FEMA To Help Run 8-Day Disaster & Terror Drill
Questions Linger on Scope of Iran’s Threat in Iraq

Iran says Iraq situation makes U.S. attack unlikely
Iran discusses “serious” nuclear ideas with Russia

Britons kidnapped in Iraq are ‘held by Iran’
Al Qaeda wouldn’t hesitate to blow away a city: That’s why we need 42-day detention, says ex MI6 boss

IRGC watchfully protects Iran waters

 



Gore to spend $300M on global warming campaign

Gore to spend $300M on global warming campaign

San Fransisco Chronicle
April 1, 2008

Al Gore believes the road to solving the climate crisis winds through American pop culture, from “American Idol” and “The Biggest Loser” on through “The Daily Show” and “The 700 Club.” The former vice president and the beneficiary of his Nobel Prize, the Palo Alto-based Alliance for Climate Protection, want Washington politicians to act faster to solve the climate crisis. And they think the way to do this is to create a popular movement that appeals to Americans through the pop culture that unites them, rather than political issues that divide them.

Their three-year public advocacy campaign – estimated to cost $300 million – called “We” premieres Wednesday night with a 30-second ad on “Idol,” the nation’s top-rated TV show, where 30 seconds of advertising time costs roughly $700,000. The “We” effort aims to create an army of 10 million activists, twice the size of the group that drove the civil rights movement.

The first ad tells viewers that Americans didn’t wait to storm the beaches of Normandy in World War II, or to overcome segregation or to put the first man on the moon. “We need to act now” to solve the climate crisis, the ad says, and refers viewers to http://www.wecansolveit.org.

Later TV ads will present “unlikely pairs,” who disagree on many issues but appear together to help thwart climate change. The pairs lined up so far include conservative televangelist Pat Robertson and the Rev. Al Sharpton; John Kerry-supporting country rockers the Dixie Chicks and George W. Bush-endorsing country singer Toby Keith; and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

They’ve even enlisting the nation’s 2.7 million Girl Scouts, and their 900,000 parents and adult leaders, to spread the word through their social networks.

Read Full Article Here

 

Al Gore Seeks Earth Worship Cult Of Millions

Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
April 2, 2008

The establishment continues to hype the non-existent threat of global warming as part of an effort to establish a global carbon tax and a dangerous cult like army of new age earth worshipers. This past weekend, the World Wildlife Fund a known front for the eugenics and depopulation movement launched an effort called Earth Hour in which people around the world shut off their lights to fight global warming. Google even changed the color of their home page to black in order to symbolically promote the event. In addition, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has announced that he is going to spend $300 million to recruit a so called green army of 10 million people. Gore is also calling on the youth of the world to get involved to fight this phony environmental threat. Even though Gore won’t say so, this is all designed to establish a global carbon tax and to push a one world religion based off of earth worship.

First let’s look at the evidence showing the fraud surrounding this phony threat of man made carbon emissions causing global warming. Scientists have seen evidence of global warming on Mars and other planets in the solar system. Now unless there is man made carbon emissions occurring on Mars and other planets in our solar system it seems pretty clear that if the Earth is getting warmer it is because of solar activity. In the 1970s, the media attempted to scare the general public that global cooling was taking place and that we were facing a new ice age. How is it possible that only 30 years later that the threat has changed from global cooling to global warming? This past winter had temperatures of -40 degrees Fahrenheit in Minnesota, an unusually rough winter in China as well as near record amounts of snowfall in New Hampshire. So where did the global warming go? Not only that, but there are many scientists who refute the science that Gore uses to convince people that man made carbon emissions are the cause of this so called global warming. The founder of the Weather Channel has even said that Gore should be sued for promoting the global warming fraud and that it is one of the biggest scams of all time. On top of all of this, carbon dioxide which the elites are blaming this phony problem on, is a gas that allows life to exist on this planet and is something that human beings emit. On its face, the whole thing is absurd.

There is a great deal of scientific data and anecdotal evidence indicating that man made carbon emissions causing global warming is simply not factual. However, that doesn’t stop the establishment from hyping this phony threat because they wouldn’t be able to achieve their great dream of a global carbon tax without creating this phony problem to blame on man made carbon emissions. It is simply an excuse for them to extract more wealth from the people to fund their system of global government.

Here in the United States, Senator Joe Lieberman has introduced S 2191 which will establish a carbon credit system here in the United States. The bill would also give the Environmental Protection Agency draconian powers to enforce it. Businesses would actually be forced to report their carbon footprint to the EPA much like businesses and people are forced through the barrel of a gun to report their income to the IRS. Similar programs are being proposed in other regions of the world. There is no question that the elites are attempting to implement this program on a global scale.

Evidence of this can be seen with staged events like Earth Hour and last year’s July 7th, 2007 Live Earth Concert. Through Gore and assorted staged events, they are attempting to propagandize people to convince them that man made carbon emissions are causing global warming and global warming is destroying the planet. This is the furthest thing from the truth, but if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth. That is exactly what the establishment is trying to do and this lie will be used to establish large monopolies through the carbon tax and put smaller businesses out of business.

On top of this, Gore is pumping millions into a campaign to recruit an army of brainwashed cult followers that will promote this agenda. Instead of focusing in on real environmental problems like the spraying of pesticides over California, the military use of depleted uranium in the Middle East, the disappearance of bees around the world, the merger of human and animal DNA and other horrors taking place, Gore would prefer to focus in on a fake problem. The reason for this is because Gore is poised to profit off of this whole scam and he’s an establishment hack that supports the objective of enslaving humanity.

What we are seeing is an attempt by the establishment to form a one world religion based off of earth worship which will be supplemented by their carbon enslavement tax. Gore is playing the role of a cult leader who is attempting to spread a new age religion of earth worship to the masses through one of the biggest scams in the history of mankind. Gore and the sicko eugenics freaks in the World Wildlife Fund who are promoting this earth worship agenda are disturbing individuals who should be held liable for this giant hoax.

 

Al Gore: Climate Change Skeptics are Flat Earthers

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.net
March 29, 2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HSh1WuN_dnc

If you have problems with the United Nations’ scheme to frighten the rabbits and herd them into global warming ghettos, take heed in the words of Mr. Green, Al Gore.

On Sunday, Leslie Stahl will interview Gore on 60 Minutes, an interview that coincides with Gore’s “major advertising campaign to raise awareness of global warming,” according to David Edwards and Muriel Kane of Raw Story. In a teaser for the show (see video here), Gore compares those of us who have big problems with dismantling civilization — in other words, forcing millions to accept a New Stone Age lifestyle — with “the ones who still believe that the Moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat.”

In fact, the enviro-crusaders, funded over the years by the Rockefeller foundation, are the flat-earthers, unable to accept alternative theories to their junk science. Instead of debating the opposition, followers of the climate change orthodoxy continue to slander and attempt to minimize them.

Somebody needs to question the “solutions” proffered to mend climate change proposed by the enviro-fascists. One such “solution” entails “geoengineering,” that is the deliberate change of the climate with sulfate aerosols, the same stuff that comes out volcanoes (see Can We Offset Global Warming By Geoengineering The Climate With Aerosols?). Such a harebrained scheme, even if possible, would increase “global dimming” and reduce the amount of light and solar energy that reaches the planet. Never mind the resultant acid rain and massive impact of agriculture. Starvation is an effective way to scale back carbon emissions, as there will be a lot less people breathing.

Another crazy idea is ocean iron fertilization, also known as the “Geritol solution,” and involves seeding the oceans with iron to increase phytoplankton populations. The thought here is that the iron will encourage phytoplankton growth and the phytoplankton will suck up the CO2 as part of photosynthesis. Nobody knows if this will work but why let that stop the eco-fascists from polluting the oceans with heavy metals?

“Other wacky ideas under consideration include artificial trees, giant space mirrors, painting city buildings / roads white, etc., etc.,” notes Global Warming Hoax. “Some of these ideas are scarier than others as some are easy to undo. However the earth warms over time and once we spend a trillion dollars on a space mirror and cool the earth 5°C it will take time to rewarm the oceans, it will also be so embarrassing that it could take decades to convince politicians to scrap such an expensive system. Painting all buildings and roads white would take far longer to undo. Ocean fertilization has unknown consequences and could trigger a chain of events that could go on for decades.”

Read Full Article Here

Recent News:

Sixth-Graders Reveal Global Warming Indoctrination
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/56321

Al Gore’s Buys His Own (Green) Private Army
http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2008/0..s-own-green-private.html

Junk Science: Global Smearing
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342276,00.html

Ted Turner: Inaction on Global Warming “will be catastrophic” those who survive “will be cannibals”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-b..s-inaction-warming-cannibalism

States Sue EPA Over Global Warming
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402..RyWcBZqfSiVdw1y2HSs0NUE

Earth Hour To Plunge Millions Into Darkness
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080..MWbi4jk8.FWGOrgF

ABC Smears Scientist For Questioning Global Warming “Consensus”
http://infowars.net/articles/march2008/240308Singer.htm

Ice Cap Alarmists Cherry Pick Science To Fit Carbon Emissions Theory
http://infowars.net/articles/march2008/270308Ice.htm

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Americans Oppose Paying Global Warming Gas Taxes, New Poll Finds
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Climate Change ’Experts’: We Will Need Camps
The Sloppy Science of Global Warming
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NPR Snowjobs Evidence Of Global Cooling
EU threatens sanctions on CO2 rebels

Global Warming Hoax News Archive

 



Iraq War Planned First Day of Bush’s Presidency

A Buried 60 Minutes Interview – Iraq War Planned 8 Months Before 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inyCkCvqRO0