Connect the dots…
- Obama dumps BP holdings weeks before last year’s Gulf oil spill.
- Investigative reporters who get ‘too close‘ to the Gulf oil spill face 5 years in prison plus a $40,000 fine.
- Obama bans Gulf oil drilling.
- Obama underwrites foreign offshore oil drilling, primarily in Brazil.
- Obama visits Brazil shortly after awarding Petrobras – Brazil’s state-owned oil company in which George Soros is heavily invested - $2+ billion to finance offshore oil exploration near Rio de Janeiro.
And while vacationing in Rio de Janeiro - perhaps reassuring Brazilians that $ billions more will be made available upon request, as discussed – another massive oil spill in the Gulf is reported just 20 miles north of the Deepwater Horizon gusher.
(Rocky Kistner) The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico [that] was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long. A fishing boat captain said he went through the slick yesterday and it was strong enough to make his eyes burn.
And Friday’s little stock market ‘coincidence‘ should be added to the already connected dots:
(Business Insider) According to Judson Parker at Examiner.com, the potentially leaky rig is the Matterhorn SeaStar owned by W&T offshore. It is interesting that as oil rallied late in the day on Friday, shares of W&T Offshore tanked hard into the close.
Source for the recent Gulf oil spill reports:
(Times Picayune) A helicopter crew and pollution investigators have been dispatched to Main Pass Block 41 in response to two calls to the National Response Center, the federal point of contact for reporting oil and chemical spills, said Paul Barnard, an operations controller for Coast Guard Sector New Orleans.
The first caller, around 11 a.m., described a sheen of about a half-mile long and a half-mile wide, he said.
About two hours later, another caller reported a much larger sheen – about 100 miles long – originating in the same area and spreading west to Cocodrie on Terrebonne Bay, Barnard said.
UPDATE #1 (03.20.2011): Mainstream media is starting to report on the ‘rapidly expanding‘ spill:
(FOX) Coast Guard spokeswoman Casey Ranel says the agency is sending out a cutter Sunday to collect samples of the substance, according to The Associated Press. Ranel says an airplane is also expected to fly over so officials can get a better idea of what’s in the water.
The larger oil slick was spotted Saturday off Grand Isle, Louisiana, and reported by pilot Bonny Schumaker, who heads up the California-based environmental nonprofit “On Wings of Care.” Schumaker told oilspillaction.com that the slick is rapidly expanding, and reports that she will be returning to the site as soon as possible to further investigate the situation.
UPDATE #2 (03.20.2011): Coast Guard confirms they have found new oil slicks in the Gulf
(Examiner) A Coast Guard officer with a command center in Morgan City, LA, said today the Coast Guard has confirmed that the new oil is not coming from the Deepwater Horizon well but that they have found new oil slicks in the Gulf. Their investigation continues.
UPDATE #3 (03.20.2011): What took the Coast Guard so long if the ‘oil’ was this close to shore and skimming operations were already in progress yesterday?
(OilSpillAction) Reports say that skimming operations have been under way for at least 24 hours now. Ms. Schumaker observed the slick roughly 25 miles from where BP’s Macondo well spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf last year.
There are already allegations that the Coast Guard and other authorities are busy trying to cover up the spill.
New Orleans photographer Jerry Moran, who was flying with Bonny Schumaker, took these aerial photographs of the spill:
‘Those long dark red streamers and large sub-surface plumes we had spotted yesterday were now huge sheets of dark red coming right to the beaches of Grand Terre Island. We followed the horrible stuff out nearly 40 miles but did not go farther only because we did not have the coordinates of the allegedly suspect Matterhorn oil rig.’
(courtesy of onwingsofcare)
Let me guess, that’s primarily ‘silt’ and ‘sediment’ we’re seeing in the photographs.
UPDATE #4 (03.20.2011): Coast Guard investigation cut short?
(WSJ) The Coast Guard is testing the substance, which has an associated rainbow sheen similar to that resulting from oil spills, to determine exactly what it is, said spokesman Henry Cambre.
It is possible, Mr. Cambre said, that whatever is causing the sheen was trapped in river bed sediment and was released by the dredging work. The Coast Guard said it expects results from those tests to be available later Sunday.
Officers confirmed the existence of a substance near the water’s surface, but that initial investigation was cut short when their helicopter was diverted to a separate search and rescue mission. The Coast Guard has since dispatched additional aircraft and boats from Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans to the scene.
~snip~
Eleven months after the BP rig blast that killed 11 rig workers, federal investigators are looking into what BP officials knew about the rate of oil spilling into the ocean in the days just after the April 20 blowout, according to the Times-Picayune.
BP officials initially said just 1,000 barrels a day were spewing from the damaged well and then later revised that estimate to 5,000 barrels, but the New Orleans-based newspaper said congressional investigators have found documents indicating BP knew as much as 14,000 barrels could be spilling each day. Government scientists eventually determined the actual spill at 62,000 barrels a day.
UPDATE #5 (03.20.2011): US Interior Department Gives Final Approval For Petrobas To Use Deepwater Floating Production Storage Facility In The Gulf Of Mexico
(Reuters) The facility will be used when the company begins oil and natural gas production at its Chinook-Cascade project in the near future, the department said. Petrobras is based in Brazil.
A Petrobras official who asked not to be identified told Reuters that production would begin in May.
UPDATE #6 (03.21.2011): Oil Slick – This fella flew over the Gulf and has a ‘slightly’ different story than what the Coast Guard finally published (more photos at the link).
(BP Slick) I flew over the Gulf again yesterday. It was hard to believe I was seeing as much oil in the So. Louisiana area again. This disaster is far from over. It was even harder to believe that our so called government watchdogs have not CLOSED these fishing grounds!
More later, I am exhausted. Been at this for nearly 24 hours straight. Had to get this out though. WAKE UP AMERICA, YOU ARE STILL BEING LIED TO!!!!!
UPDATE #7 (03.21.2011): Wall Street Journal, ‘Oily Matter Washing Ashore In Louisiana’
(WSJ) An oily substance of unknown origin is washing ashore in parts of Louisiana that were among the hardest hit by BP PLC’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year, the U.S. Coast Guard and local government officials said Monday.
The Coast Guard and a Jefferson Parish spokeswoman said they have mobilized oil-spill-response equipment, and the Coast Guard has hired a contractor to lay containment boom in hopes of stopping the substance from penetrating inland waters and ecologically sensitive shorelines.
“We’re not clear where this is from,” said Coast Guard Capt. Jonathan Burton, who is based in Morgan City, La. “We don’t have an identifiable responsible party.”
Photos taken by Jefferson Parish officials show globs of reddish matter coming ashore on Elmer’s Island, a state wildlife sanctuary.
Other photos, taken off Port Fourchon, show stretches of the Gulf’s surface coated in a thin film and streaked with bright orange streams of thick matter.
The Coast Guard said it didn’t suspect the matter was residual oil from the BP spill. The agency’s scientists said they would have expected a different trajectory for the substance if it had been left over from last year’s spill. And what’s coming ashore doesn’t look like crude that has been sitting in the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a year, according to Capt. Burton.
Still, the Coast Guard is using analysis of chemical properties to compare samples from BP’s runaway well with material collected from Louisiana beaches this weekend to see if they match. Results from those tests should be available Tuesday, Capt. Burton said.
The Coast Guard is also investigating whether the oily substance could be related to crude released by a hurricane-damaged platform Saturday, but there is no evidence that the incidents are related, Capt. Burton said.
UPDATE #8 (03.21.2011): Fresh Oil Hits Louisiana Coast — March 21, 2011
(Examiner) In what some officials are preliminarily considering a second incident, fresh crude oil began washing in on Grand Isle, Louisiana Sunday afternoon. The oil has a similar appearance to the long, orange ribbons of crude seen in last year’s Deepwater Horizon blowout. There is no confirmation of a spill source to date, although many are looking to a rig named the Matterhorn SeaStar 20 miles north of the site of last years spill.
Local residents have been quick to document the fresh crude oil washing in on the coast, and are working hard to make sure the new oil is not ignored in light of the confirmed oil/silt plume spreading along the coast.
UPDATE #9 (03.22.2011) [h/t: Jim R]: Obama told a group of Brazilian businessmen at a CEO Summit during his trip to South America over the weekend they should begin drilling in their offshore oil reserves so the United States can be a paying customer in the future, adding that the United States would help them do it.
(Townhall) “We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers. At a time when we’ve been reminded how easily instability in other parts of the world can affect the price of oil, the United States could not be happier with the potential for a new, stable source of energy.”
UPDATE #10 (03.30.2011): Commerce Department Forbids Releasing Data Regarding Dolphin Deaths In Gulf
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Obama says, ‘There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalization as a threat, and those who accept it’: HERE
Obama + George Soros + Petrobras + $ Billions USD: HERE
Gulf oil drilling moratorium + job killing + $2 billion sent to Brazil: HERE
Obama’s BP holdings sold just weeks before the Gulf oil spill, then underwrites foreign offshore drilling: HERE
Gulf oil spill reporters and investigators face prison: HERE
Where’s the oil?: HERE
Pain at the pump — media lap dogs silent: HERE
The Gulf oil spill is ‘brilliant’: HERE
Obama gets tough on oil: HERE
Obama dipstick: HERE
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Why are you bothering us with these trivialities? Obama is busy learning how to samba. Get your priorities in order.
Oh Ali, ‘maybe you’re right, maybe you’re wrong’… — Bart’s People and Cat Stevens
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This undersea oil is just too darned much. Somebody ought to stick a pipe in there and suck it all out before it contaminates more beaches. If Obama won’t approve drilling for fuel, perhaps he will approve of a carefully worded hazardous waste disposal system, where this icky sticky stuff could be extracted from its unstable dirt disposal site, and processed by special disposal sites called “Refineries” which would then be placed in special storage containers called “cars”, at a very low price to taxpayers. As a matter of fact, it might even be able to contribute revenue to the Government.
/sarc
Oh no Georg,… there you go again. Thinking an’ all. Stop it! Efficiency and true progress require effort and sometimes more thought. Waste of time if you ask me. Now where did I put the remote?…
Hmmm. I see you’re still running with this story. Excellent. Since I linked it I’ve been using it to forestall any actual effort on my part and am satisfying myself by using your well thought out and articulately phrased article as the basis for a hilarious tirade, thus negating the need for me to post anything of worth myself.
Excelsior!!!
I better mix it up soon. Starting to burn out on the ‘sediment’.
So last week the Death Knell was rung for nuclear energy in the USA and this week the Death Knell will be rung for petroleum power in the USA. Such a coincidenece, huh, and with Barocky being out of the country too, touting the oil production in his buddy George’s oil producing country Brazil..
Grrr!
Sad make that a double Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Yeah, I gotta get off this article, but good night the updates are strange.
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Since I don’t have cable and spend much of my day behind a Pina Colada, I was just curious. Is there any mention of this on the T.V.?
Ali,
I haven’t found a thing on TV about it, recognizing this ‘never happened’ unless MSM decides to report on it. In all fairness though, I don’t watch much TV.
Watching the Coast Guard, however, take nearly 48 hours to ‘reach the spill’ (that was right along the shore), then 12 more hours to provide an ‘analysis’, then say it’s ‘silt’ with small traces of oil/petroleum, then 14 hours later tell WSJ, ‘Oops! -- we found another spill along the shore that’s not related to BP’. Well, we’ve been down this road before. My favorite line from one of the WSJ snippets being…
‘BP officials initially said just 1,000 barrels a day were spewing from the damaged well and then later revised that estimate to 5,000 barrels’, then congressional investigators indicating BP knew as much as 14,000 barrels … eventually determined the actual spill at 62,000 barrels a day.
I don’t know,…
Hey, thanks for checking in.
Checking in? Oh Hell no. I’m just looking for more stuff to copy and paste. I can’t run the blender and come up with witty junk to type at the same time you know.
Cheers!
Writing from the grave we share, I do recall the stories of ‘public gatherings’ surrounding TV stations over the years, as well as civic centres, in foreign countries facing domestic turmoil. I also recall my namesake, Patrick Henry, stating the following -- sorry if his remarks are long, but they are remarkably fitting:
MR. PRESIDENT: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do, opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely, and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfil the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offence, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these war-like preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free² if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending²if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable²and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace²but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
“Fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country.”
“There is no longer any room for ‘hope’.”
Thank you Patrick and Patrick.
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Wow, so many conclusions to draw from this damning information….Waiting for the connections to the UK and BP to come out along with this, I guarantee they are there.
Has anyone seen the upclose pic of Obama’s freemason ring? Well, it’s out there. It explains much if you know your history
It explains that he stole the damn ring.
Check it out, Masons for Obama…
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/PrinceHallMasonsandStarsforObama
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