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    Post  enemyofNWO Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:50 am

    The Movie "Knowing " knew about oil rig explosion .



    http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=11415


    Also to give credit to Kerry Cassidy and Salbuchi they both have mentioned this . Note " Hollywood role " in this . The movies consistently have hints of future events . The inescapable conclusion is that all this is a BLACK FLAG operation .
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    Post  lawlessline Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:06 am

    enemyofNWO wrote:The Movie "Knowing " knew about oil rig explosion .



    http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=11415


    Also to give credit to Kerry Cassidy and Salbuchi they both have mentioned this . Note " Hollywood role " in this . The movies consistently have hints of future events . The inescapable conclusion is that all this is a BLACK FLAG operation .

    You should have another look at Die Hard 4 with Samule L Jackson and B. Willis. Then think of 9/11? Man soooooooooooo close.

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    Post  anomalous cowherd Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:06 am


    I have to laugh, black flag is a roach exterminator spray! or maybe it's ants... Adraian Salbuchi, he's good.
    I watched that movie "Knowing" and was so distracted by hammy Nicolas Cage(!?) that it went right over my head, they picked a good 'un to deliver the message allrighty.
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    Post  enemyofNWO Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:54 am


    Wayne Madsen Report – June 28, 2010
    SNIP
    "A well-placed source in California told WMR that the California Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) has been briefed by its counterpart agencies in the Gulf coast states that there are plans to conduct a mass evacuation of millions of Gulf coast residents due to the catastrophic environmental and public health effects of the BP oil disaster.

    CEMA officials have been briefed on the planned evacuations by counterparts in the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, and the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

    The Gulf states’ emergency planners stressed to their California counterparts that they are dealing with a disaster of unprecedented proportions and that contingency plans are being constantly updated and revised on ways to deal with the transformation of the Gulf of Mexico into a deadly “toxic soup” of oil and Corexit 9500 oil dispersants and the atmosphere into a dangerous mixture of hydrocarbon gases."

    the rest at
    http://beforeitsnews.com/news/87/973/California_Notified_of_Gulf_Evacuation_Plans.html
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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:21 pm

    Astro Physicist Michio Kaku on the oil spill

    Part 1 of 3



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    Post  lawlessline Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:47 pm

    BP Relif wel operations yet to listen to it due to speaker problem but thought good to post.

    http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kwellsreliefwells062710.htm

    Hmmm.

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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:44 pm

    lawlessline wrote:BP Relif wel operations yet to listen to it due to speaker problem but thought good to post.

    http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kwellsreliefwells062710.htm

    Hmmm.

    t

    I watched this .. everything looks so neat and clean there .. The water is amazingly blue ..
    Where is the oil ? Has this been staged elsewhere ?


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    Post  lawlessline Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:51 pm

    mudra wrote:
    lawlessline wrote:BP Relif wel operations yet to listen to it due to speaker problem but thought good to post.

    http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kwellsreliefwells062710.htm

    Hmmm.

    t

    I watched this .. everything looks so neat and clean there .. The water is amazingly blue ..
    Where is the oil ? Has this been staged elsewhere ?


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    As they are mixing dispersants directly at source where the stuff is coming out. It gets weighed down and the currents take it away from the point of the wellhead.
    You would only see the oil further away from the drilling point.

    I have seen many videos of people from the conservation side flying over the relief well points and they show the same thing.

    To tell a lie you need to tell 35% truth. That is how they work and get through alot of false stuff. Keep that in mind when viewing anything.

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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:14 pm

    As they are mixing dispersants directly at source where the stuff is coming out. It gets weighed down and the currents take it away from the point of the wellhead.
    You would only see the oil further away from the drilling point.

    I have seen many videos of people from the conservation side flying over the relief well points and they show the same thing.

    To tell a lie you need to tell 35% truth. That is how they work and get through alot of false stuff. Keep that in mind when viewing anything.

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    Yes ..right Tom .
    Now I have seen many videos too of flights over the Macondo well and the sea looked so grey . The color may be different from a distance then the one you see from the actual oil platform as shown in the video you posted.

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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:17 pm

    AP ENTERPRISE: Spill Relief Well Draws Scrutiny
    by (AP) NEW ORLEANS
    June 13, 2010

    New Orleans, - In the chaotic days after the oil rig explosion, BP engineers and federal regulators desperate to plug the blown-out well scrambled to complete plans for a pair of deepwater relief wells that represent the best chance to end the disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
    But BP didn't begin drilling the relief well until 12 days after the start of the disaster as the company and government rushed through environmental reviews, permits and other plans. The government does not require oil companies to have relief well plans in place ahead of time, and the lack of planning cost the the company valuable time to get the spill under control.
    And the plan ultimately approved by the government offers virtually no details outlining the relief well effort or what dangers might lurk in the depths as the company drills 18,000 feet below the surface the equivalent of 16 Eiffel Towers. Experts say the relief effort could be exposed to the same risks that caused the original well to blow out in catastrophic fashion, while potentially creating a worse spill if engineers were to accidentally damage the existing well or tear a hole in the undersea oil reservoir.
    The gaps in the relief well process mirror other regulatory issues and oversights that have been exposed since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killed 11 workers and sent tens of millions of gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf. The Associated Press earlier found that BP's voluminous spill plans for the Gulf and rig were riddled with omissions and glaring errors, leading to criticism that the company has essentially been making things up as it goes. Among the omissions were a lack of a clear plan for a relief well.
    BP says the relief well has been a success and ahead of schedule, representing a welcome change for engineers who have been attempting one risky, untested maneuver after another. Relief wells are a more proven method in the industry, and engineers are comfortable and confident in the process.
    Engineers plan to dig the well 18,000 feet below the surface and then drill sideways into the blown-out well and plug it with cement. Kent Wells, BP's senior vice president of exploration and production, said this week that more details would be released when the process nears completion in early August.

    U.S. regulations are more lax than other countries when it comes to relief wells. In Canada, for example, energy companies must have plans and permits for relief wells before drilling is approved. These plans must describe exactly how engineers would drill a relief well if required to do so down to identifying the drilling vessel and spelling out how long it would take.

    read more at the link : http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/ap-enterprise-spill-relief-well-draws-scrutiny/895664/Jun-13-2010_1-34-pm/

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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:41 pm

    Thank you for your latest contributions anomalous
    There are still questions marks along the line .
    I don't know if this as been planned all the way but I believe
    they were well aware at some point there were some liabilities
    in the system that could lead to a problem with the well .
    That is clear to me through these reports of BP shares being
    sold just prior to the explosion .
    It is also clear the situation is handled with little care
    for humans and ocean.
    How these people that have been so careless with safety
    measures are still allowed to try to fix a problem of that
    magnitude is appalling.
    And their daily use of corexit just adds to their criminal acts.
    I wish another team would take the operation over as Michio
    Kaku suggested .
    We really need men of integrity and high competence there .
    The best of the best .

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    Post  anomalous cowherd Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:11 pm

    you are more than welcome mudra. When it comes to the globalists I am a very sceptical person, I really feel this is a staged event, nobody at the top is panicking or worried even. I never underestimate their will to do the unthinkable, and that's how they get away with it, nobody in their right mind would want to do these things so few can imagine that they would. urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
    Still ,we are on the right team and thats the best I can come up with tonight.
    Party at my house when it's all over, Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill - Page 28 Icon_sunny 'k?
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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:05 pm

    anomalous cowherd wrote:you are more than welcome mudra. When it comes to the globalists I am a very sceptical person, I really feel this is a staged event, nobody at the top is panicking or worried even. I never underestimate their will to do the unthinkable, and that's how they get away with it, nobody in their right mind would want to do these things so few can imagine that they would. urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
    Still ,we are on the right team and thats the best I can come up with tonight.
    Party at my house when it's all over, Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill - Page 28 Icon_sunny 'k?

    I am welcoming the party anomalous :)
    I believe this one will be a long and enjoyable one Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill - Page 28 Icon_cheers
    Through all the infos and research I did I am coming up with
    something I don't understand . Maybe you can help .
    When you go to the conspiracy sites like Infowars etc... I noticed
    the Green agenda is looked upon as part of the NWO plan.
    It does confuse me . The industrial revolution has brought about
    so much devastation and polution in the span of 100 years that I see
    no sound reason not to support Clean energy.
    Or is it so that PTB bounced on the occasion of the Green ideas
    to take advantage of it and pull the rug their way ?
    I know global warming due to the release of CO2 is controverted
    as is Peak oil theory.
    Apparently we have enough reserves of oil to use for several decades.
    But the very idea of carrying on doing what we have been doing for a
    century makes me think we may very well have plenty of oil for ages
    but that we humans won't last so long .

    Anyone's further insight on this would be welcome .

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    Post  newel Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:03 pm

    mudra wrote:When you go to the conspiracy sites like Infowars etc... I noticed
    the Green agenda is looked upon as part of the NWO plan.
    It does confuse me . The industrial revolution has brought about
    so much devastation and polution in the span of 100 years that I see
    no sound reason not to support Clean energy.

    The conspiracy sites are not trying to stop clean energy, but to prevent the old criminal gang, or a new one, from perpetuating tyranny during the shift.
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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:03 pm

    Thank you metaw .
    I researched this more and think I am understanding this topic much better now .
    I came across this site tonight which is bringing lenghy information on the Green agenda :
    http://green-agenda.com/index.html

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    Post  mudra Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:20 pm

    National Guard Training For Riot Control, Mass Detentions
    Author: Mac Slavo- June 15th, 2010


    In a previous story we noted that Reports Surfacing of Multi-State National Guard Mobilizations.

    Further information made available after our report, much of which was published in the comment section by contributors who scoured the web for more information on the subject, suggests that the report was true and that national guard units had indeed been called up for training and possible deployment for domestic emergencies.

    With the BP oil leak heating up (literally), there is a distinct possibility of noxious fumes and toxic hurricanes hitting our coasts over the coming months. Because there is minimal research on the subject available to the public, it is difficult to establish what is or is not a threat. Nonetheless, we advise those of our readers on or near the coast to remain aware of any developments regarding the possibility of emergencies or evacuations in their areas.

    For those who may think we are overreacting to the possibility that the federal government would respond to an emergency, specifically mandatory evacuations on the gulf coast with the use of National Guard troops, we direct you to the article below, brought to our attention by Worldwide Wake Up Now and originally published at Public Intelligence.

    In the event of a mass evacuation event, be it on the Gulf coast or as a result of an earthquake, chemical attack, biological attack, or other national emergency, we fully expect National Guard troops to be deployed. There will be mass chaos, violence, rioting, and looting, and local law enforcement simply will not have the capability to handle such a disaster.

    The National Guard trains specifically for this, as depicted in the following article.

    Vigilant Guard 2010 Riot Control, Detention Drills

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    Soldiers and Airmen from the Idaho National Guard lineup outside Wildwood Correctional Facility in Kenai, Alaska, for a natural disaster training exercise during the Alaska National Guard’s Vigilant Guard 2010, April 29. The Soldiers were at Wildwood to simulate assisting local authorities transfer prisoners to the correctional facility due to any type of emergency. Alaska NG VG-2010 is an exercise sponsored by the National Guard Bureau that allows Joint Force Headquarters, Joint Task Forces and various field units to improve command and control and to exercise operational relationships with local, state, regional and federal partners. (NCNG Photo by Army Sgt. Zach Otto; Joint Task Force-Tarheel, North Carolina National Guard)

    Read full article here : http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/national-guard-training-for-riot-control-mass-detentions_06152010

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:52 am

    Whale sharks unable to avoid oil spill

    June 30, 2010

    Last week, scientists cheered the discovery of one of the largest groups of whale sharks ever sighted in the northern Gulf of Mexico -- about 100 animals feeding on the surface over a deepwater feature off Louisiana called the Ewing Bank.
    This week's report: Three whale sharks swimming in heavy oil four miles from the gushing Deepwater Horizon wellhead.

    "Our worst fears are realized. They are not avoiding the spill area," said Eric Hoffmayer, the University of Southern Mississippi scientist who found the large aggregation last week. "Those animals are going to succumb. Taking mouthfuls of oil is not good. It is not the toxicity that will kill them. It's that oil is going to be sticking to their gills and everything else."
    Whale sharks, the largest fish on earth, feed by filtering plankton and tiny fish from the water through sieve-like mechanisms in their mouths.

    "Based on all the information I'm getting, they are doing the normal things regardless of the oil. The idea that sharks have these evolved senses that will protect them -- well, they haven't evolved to detect oil," Hoffmayer said.
    He tagged whale sharks on the Ewing Bank in June of last year. The satellite trackers showed that some of the animals spent that July migrating hundreds of miles toward the Alabama coast and Florida Panhandle. If they follow the same route this year, it would carry them straight through the heart of the spill.

    View full size(Press-Register/Ben Raines)
    A whale shark feeds at the surface six miles off Orange Beach last fall. The enormous sharks filter plankton through massive gills and can swallow nothing larger than a tennis ball. A school of 25 large cobia traveled with the animal.

    The Press-Register videotaped Hoffmayer, who works from the USM Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, as he tagged a whale shark about six miles off Orange Beach last August. He said little is known about their migration habits and life histories. For instance, scientists don't know how many of the sharks call the Gulf of Mexico home.
    The best way to follow their wanderings is using pictures of the spots and bars on their sides. Each animal's patterning is as distinctive as a human fingerprint.

    "Last year we had two sighted off Florida and Alabama that were from Honduras and Belize," Hoffmayer said. "That means these oil impacts are not only for the Gulf population, but for the Caribbean and maybe even further. The implications are pretty big here."

    He said that high Gulf temperatures and the position of the offshore Loop Current mean conditions this year are similar to those that drew the sharks to the area last summer.
    "If that migration pattern holds true this year, the sharks will have to travel through the oil to get to Alabama," Hoffmayer said. "That's a serious concern. These guys are surface feeders. They swim at the surface with their mouths open. Will they be ingesting oil?"
    Hoffmayer said that there will be no way to determine the spill-related toll on the overall population. Like all sharks, whale sharks do not float to the surface when they die.
    "They are dense animals," Hoffmayer said. "They don't have a swim bladder. They have this liver. When they succumb, they are going to sink to the bottom."

    Hoffmayer said he has already had a few reports of whale sharks off Pensacola.

    Read more at the link plus video:

    http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/whale_sharks_unable_to_avoid_o.html

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:56 am

    Louisianans Hurt By Spill Queue For Free Groceries
    by TAMARA KEITH

    June 19, 2010

    In areas hit hard by the Gulf oil spill, some families are already in desperate financial straits. Even before the spill, many were living near the edge, their savings depleted by Hurricane Katrina.

    For those who fish for a living, the spill has cut off both their source of income and a major source of food.

    At St. Anthony's Church in Lafitte, La., people started lining up at 4 a.m., even though the doors weren't set to open until 9 a.m. They were there for free $100 grocery gift cards.

    "You think we'd be sitting in these lines for five hours for $100 in food if we didn't need it? None of us would be here," Diane Poche says.

    Until a month ago, Poche, 61, worked with her husband, who has been a commercial fisherman all his life. But now they can't fish, and Poche says they're forced to rely on the BP claims process for their entire income.

    "I don't have any money coming in my house, period," she says. "My June bills have been due and past due. It don't look like BP cares about our June bills."

    You think we'd be sitting in these lines for five hours for $100 in food if we didn't need it? None of us would be here.
    - Diane Poche
    So, she brought a lawn chair and lined up early. Poche sits with a group of women who all seem to know each other. They're well put together and you could easily imagine them sitting on the sidelines at a kids' soccer game, but instead, they're in the church cafeteria waiting for a handout.

    "They're not used to getting help, assistance," says Steve Lenahan with Catholic Charities of New Orleans, the group coordinating the giveaway. "They're usually self-sufficient. But this is a new situation for them and something that — it's just frustrating for them."

    Money Running Out

    Catholic Charities has set up five community assistance centers in southern Louisiana to deal with the fallout of the spill. The grocery cards are paid for in part by a $1 million grant from BP. Company spokesman Curtis Thomas says it's a safety net.

    "If they need immediate assistance, and they need groceries for today, and if the claim process doesn't work for them for some reason — either they don't have the paperwork or they haven't gotten a number yet — please come down and get a voucher from Catholic Charities," Thomas says. "They are in place so that people do have emergency assistance."

    The BP grant ran out last week and hasn't yet been renewed. But Catholic Charities is still giving away food cards, offering counseling services and paying up to $200 toward a bill per family. Lenahan says the group has helped nearly 10,000 people since May 1. But every time it gives out food cards — once a week at each site — it runs out and has to turn people away.

    "We have limited resources," he says. "Unfortunately, we can't help everybody, but they can come back again next week and reapply."

    He says the demand just keeps growing. Rod Thomassie is holding a piece of paper with the number 77 on it, indicating his place in line.

    "They're only giving 75 out," he says. "I might get lucky, I don't know."

    Thomassie has three kids to feed. He used to bring Gulf seafood home from his job as a deckhand, but because of the spill he hasn't worked in seven weeks.

    "To tell a child that you know that you don't have no food. I don't have no work ..." he says. "Last week, they turned around, they cut my lights off, my water. I haven't had any work. Good thing for these people here, and my mom and my dad. They turned around and forked up a little money to help me turn my lights and my water back on."

    Thomassie did luck out. He got a grocery card. But he says he really just wants to get back to work. He dropped out of high school to start working on a boat — fishing is all he knows. And the oil spill has taken that away, at least for now.

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:38 am

    Gulf Oil Spill Workers Report Health Problems

    By Amanda Gardner

    June 3

    With the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico now in its sixth week, reports of clean-up workers falling ill are on the rise.

    "Within the past week, we've seen a number of workers hospitalized. That's new," said Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

    More than a dozen workers have been treated at local medical centers for flu-like symptoms ranging from chest pain to dizziness, nausea and headaches, presumably due to exposure to different chemicals emanating from the slick, according to news reports.

    The Unified Command in Louisiana -- a coalition of government agencies that includes the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of the Interior and the National Parks Service -- last week called back to shore 125 boats helping with the clean-up after medical complaints from crew members.

    "The reports that we've heard from hospitals and doctors have been [that the symptoms are due to] inhaled irritant exposure, but they've not gone so far as to say what exactly they think the responsible agent might be," Solomon said. "The workers are widely blaming the dispersants."

    Dispersants are chemicals used for the oil clean-up. The solvent used after the massive 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the Alaska coast, for example, was limonene, which can cause skin inflammation and asthma, said Robert Emery, vice president for safety, health, environment and risk management at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

    "There's no doubt that people are getting sick out there [in the Gulf of Mexico]," Emery said. "The key question is what is it that is causing them to get sick."

    BP's Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles south of Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers and spewing an estimated 21 million to 45 million gallons of crude oil into the water.

    BP and the U.S. Coast Guard have said dehydration, heat, food poisoning or other unrelated factors may have caused the workers' symptoms. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is investigating, the Associated Press reported.

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that "air quality levels for ozone and particulates are normal on the Gulf coastline for this time of year." But, the agency added, it has detected some "odor-causing pollutants associated with petroleum products along the coastline at low levels." These chemicals could cause headache, nausea and throat irritation.

    There have been few studies that have examined the long-term health risks of exposure to oil. Brief contact with small amounts of light crude oil and dispersants aren't thought to be harmful, the AP reported. But, extended exposure to dispersants can cause central nervous system problems, or damage to the blood, the kidney, or the liver, and leave a metallic taste in the mouth, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    More at the link : http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=116864

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:48 pm

    Intel Hub radio
    Sheperd Ambellas

    False flag or coincidence ?

    Oil spill overdrive

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theintelhub/2010/06/21/intel-hub-radio-gulf-oil-spill-overdrive?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a50:g12:r1:c0.397312:b35197238:z0

    Greg Evenson

    brings us his latest updates regarding the BP Oil Spill and the possible evacuation of the Gulf

    ( skip the first 10' of the show , audio problems )

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theintelhub/2010/06/26/notforsales-intel-hub-radio-with-special-guest-gre


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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:43 pm

    Health of Exxon Valdez cleanup workers was never studied

    june 29, 2010

    ANCHORAGE — You'd think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill.

    You'd be wrong.

    "We don't know a damn thing," said Anchorage lawyer Michael Schneider, whose firm talked with dozens of Alaska cleanup workers following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in preparation for a class-action lawsuit that never came.

    In New Orleans last week, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin delivered a similar, if more subtle, message to a gathering of health experts meeting to talk about how to protect people working on the massive BP oil spill still gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.

    "Current scientific literature is inconclusive with regard to the potential hazards resulting from the spill," Benjamin said. "Some scientists predict little or no toxic effect . . . while other scientists express serious concerns about the potential short-term and long-term impacts the exposure to oil and dispersants could have on the health of responders and our communities."

    That lack of published, peer-reviewed study of the Exxon Valdez cleanup workers has made protecting the growing number workers in the Gulf of Mexico all the more difficult and has Alaska watchdogs warning that BP and government regulators are repeating mistakes that made people sick a generation ago.

    "We don't have the good answers that we could have had from the Exxon Valdez to either know that there are problems or to reassure people that there were not," said Mark Catlin, an industrial hygienist who visited the cleanup in 1989 and says some Gulf workers aren't receiving enough training to protect themselves.

    Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/29/96782/health-of-exxon-valdez-cleanup.html#ixzz0sMpKVoTA

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:18 pm

    Forecasts: Tropical Storm Alex heading away, but oil is nearing Gulf Shores
    Published: Sunday, June 27, 2010, 5:10 AM

    It was a tale of two forecasts.
    Early National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projections Saturday showed Tropical Storm Alex heading south toward Mexico and avoiding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, where it could delay cleanup operations by some two weeks.

    But the same agency predicted that the northern edge of the main oil slick would push toward barrier islands and coasts from western Mississippi to the Florida-Alabama line, possibly beaching more oil across Alabama's southernmost shores today and Monday.
    Meanwhile, officials reported finding more than 3,000 pounds of oil on the western end of Dauphin Island late Friday and scattered oil on Alabama shores Saturday.

    Cleanup officials picked up 2,400 pounds of oil and 400 pounds of oily debris from Dauphin Island on Friday but left a 300-pound blob of thick oil on the beach to be disposed of Saturday, according to a report obtained by the Press-Register.
    Nearly 200,000 pounds of contaminated sand and more than 144,000 gallons of oily water have been removed from Alabama beaches and waters in recent days, a Saturday news release from the Incident Command Post in Mobile said.
    A separate release from cleanup officials detailed a plan to place eggs from 700 turtle nests in individually packaged Styrofoam boxes and move them to the east coast of Florida, so the turtles can incubate unaffected by the spill and cleanup efforts. The nests, collected from Alabama beaches and the Florida panhandle, belong mainly to loggerheads turtles but could also include Kemp's ridley, leatherback and green turtles.

    "In developing this plan, we realized early on that our expectations for success needed to be realistic," Sandy MacPherson, national sea turtle coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a written statement. "On the one hand, the activities identified in the protocols are extraordinary and would never be supportable under normal conditions.
    However, taking no action would likely result in the loss of all of this year's Northern Gulf of Mexico hatchlings."
    Officials plan to mark nests to help prevent cleanup operations from damaging them and to collect the nests when transportation is less likely to kill the eggs, the release said.

    The eastern beaches of Gulf Shores were among the areas hardest hit by oil in Alabama on Saturday, reports indicated.
    A flyover by Baldwin County officials Saturday revealed large patches of thick oil lurking in waters south of the county. Oil in various forms -- with a metallic sheen, in brown streaks, and thick, brownish red patches -- was spotted between 5 and 15 miles south of the shores.
    Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier said he saw oil near the mouth of Mobile Bay, stretching eastward to Fort Morgan and Gulf Shores, during a separate flyover. Collier reported little oil around Dauphin Island, but added that the oil forecast for coming days has him worried.

    Read more at the link : http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/forecasts_tropical_storm_alex.html

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:03 pm

    From Suffering to Opening our Heart

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    Post  mudra Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:12 pm

    06/30/10: Hurricane Alex to make landfall in NE Mexico tonight.
    Jun-30-10 11:15pm

    http://www.zimbio.com/Tropical+Storm+Fay/articles/SuDG62GE6Xz/06+30+10+Hurricane+Alex+make+landfall+NE+Mexico

    From: space.gs
    HURRICANE ALEX ADVISORY NUMBER 21
    NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012010
    400 PM CDT WED JUN 30 2010
    ...ALEX HEADING TOWARD NORTHEAST MEXICO WITH 90 MPH WINDS...
    SUMMARY OF 400 PM CDT...2100 UTC...INFORMATION
    ----------------------------------------------
    LOCATION...24.5N 96.8W
    ABOUT 80 MI...130 KM NE OF LA PESCA MEXICO
    ABOUT 105 MI...170 KM SSE OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
    MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...90 MPH...150 KM/HR
    PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 270 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/HR
    MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...959 MB...28.32 INCHES


    WATCHES AND WARNINGS
    --------------------
    CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY...
    NONE.
    SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT...
    A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR...
    * THE COAST OF TEXAS SOUTH OF BAFFIN BAY TO THE MOUTH OF THE RIO
    GRANDE
    * THE COAST OF MEXICO FROM THE MOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE TO LA CRUZ
    A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IN IN EFFECT FOR...
    * THE COAST OF TEXAS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT OCONNOR
    * THE COAST OF MEXICO SOUTH OF LA CRUZ TO CABO ROJO
    FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA IN THE UNITED
    STATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE
    MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
    FORECAST OFFICE. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA OUTSIDE
    UNITED STATES...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL
    METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.
    DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK
    ------------------------------
    Credit: NOAA
    - courtesy of NOAA National Hurricane Center


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