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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:
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.”
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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.
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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.
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
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.”
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