Oct 3, 2011
American Spring: Brooklyn Bridge shut down by protesters
Thousands of protesters who have been camping out near Wall Street
have spilled out onto the roadway, causing the Brooklyn Bridge to be
shut down. At least 700 people have been arrested, including a New York
Times reporter.
The clash and confrontation between NYPD and thousands of protesters took place on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.
Thousands of protesters who have been camping out near Wall Street have spilled out onto the roadway, causing the Brooklyn Bridge to be shut down. At least 700 people have been arrested, including a New York Times reporter. The clash and confrontation between NYPD and thousands of protesters took place on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. The demonstration started by Wall Street and then protesters rallied toward the Brooklyn Bridge. When they got on the bridge, the police cordoned off both sides of the Brooklyn Bridge and started to move in on the protesters to make arrests for blocking traffic and disorderly conduct. The protesters were banging drums and chanting, “The wis watching!” Police moved in, there were paddywagons brought to the scene, and things got very physical, RT’s New York correspondent Marina Portnaya reported.
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The clash and confrontation between NYPD and thousands of protesters took place on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.
Thousands of protesters who have been camping out near Wall Street have spilled out onto the roadway, causing the Brooklyn Bridge to be shut down. At least 700 people have been arrested, including a New York Times reporter. The clash and confrontation between NYPD and thousands of protesters took place on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. The demonstration started by Wall Street and then protesters rallied toward the Brooklyn Bridge. When they got on the bridge, the police cordoned off both sides of the Brooklyn Bridge and started to move in on the protesters to make arrests for blocking traffic and disorderly conduct. The protesters were banging drums and chanting, “The wis watching!” Police moved in, there were paddywagons brought to the scene, and things got very physical, RT’s New York correspondent Marina Portnaya reported.
The “End” of the Mayan calendar, Solar Flares and Earth Changes
We have now celebrated the Cosmic
Convergence and there is less than one night and one day before the
fulfillment of the evolutionary plan for all of creation (or at least
the attainment of the top level). As predicted the Ninth wave of this
plan, which is coming to a close together with the other waves of the
Mayan calendar on October 28, 2011, has brought a tremendous frequency
increase to the world. This has been experienced on a personal level by
many, but it has also been easily visible in the spread of political and
economical chaos in large parts of the world. The current instability
is evident not only in what is actually happening, but also in the
constant shifts in how events or developments are perceived and
reported. Greece, for instance, is one day said to be bankrupt, another
fully afloat with the help of the troika, and the next day it is again
said to be bankrupt. One day the Ghaddafi regime has fallen and another
it is again fighting only to have fallen the next day again.
In this world of uncertain interpretation of news
alternative media on the Internet have gone in to try to fill the gap
sometimes speaking with total certainty about impending catastrophes.
There, one day the comet Elenin is said to create earthquakes and to set
an end to the world, the next it does not exist and then it is back
again (or was it planet X?). Anything, no matter how crazy or
farfetched, can today find an attentive audience on YouTube and be
presented as if it was serious information. To the instability of the
world has thus been added information chaos and it is a common feeling
among many that they do not know who or what to believe anymore. The
mental framework within which people have understood the world is
eroding and this, as much as the actual course of events, is a sign of
our times. Some reject the meaningfulness of mental understanding
altogether.
This erosion prepares the ground for a new opening
and radical shift in our ways of thinking and relating and attests to
the fact that much of the world has been shaken off its previous balance
by the Ninth wave. Underlying all of this we may find a somewhat
nervous expectation of something unknown and dramatic that is to happen.
It is not surprising that in the minds of many people this expectation
has been largely negative. After all, the development of the Ninth wave
has been essentially predictable according to Revelation 16, where it is
the seven days that bring the most destruction to the old structures of
the world. Thus, progress along the old routes has step by step been
blocked and the experience of a dead end to our current civilization has
spread widely with little to yet show in terms of alternatives. The
novelties that have been generated by the Ninth wave have thus in the
world at large been few and far in between. While many may have had
inner awakenings of oneness the external manifestations of these have
been very marginal.
As part of the erosion of the current world I had predicted at a relatively early point, quite correctly, that the fifth day of the Ninth wave would be the energy that would precipitate the economic downturn (And the economy may be the best mirror of how humans relate to one another). This was in fact also the time when the so called “markets” truly started to be affected by the global loan crisis, which has since with every new shift point of the Ninth wave continued to deepen. The drawn out nature of this crisis does not change the fact that we are going towards a collapse of the economical and political system of the world and there are no signs that this could be averted. Growth in key countries such as the US and Germany has come to a halt (not to mention Greece and Italy), which in practice blocks all attempts for the repayment of debts.
As part of the erosion of the current world I had predicted at a relatively early point, quite correctly, that the fifth day of the Ninth wave would be the energy that would precipitate the economic downturn (And the economy may be the best mirror of how humans relate to one another). This was in fact also the time when the so called “markets” truly started to be affected by the global loan crisis, which has since with every new shift point of the Ninth wave continued to deepen. The drawn out nature of this crisis does not change the fact that we are going towards a collapse of the economical and political system of the world and there are no signs that this could be averted. Growth in key countries such as the US and Germany has come to a halt (not to mention Greece and Italy), which in practice blocks all attempts for the repayment of debts.
The economic downturn has displayed some
surprising elements such as the expressed desire of a choir of super
rich to be taxed more heavily and the possibility that China will buy
debt from Italy or other Euro countries to keep them afloat. I however
find it hard to believe that any of this would actually happen and the
feeling one gets is that the rulers are running out of tricks. Despite
the dead end, it can however probably be said that life in much of the
world still appears much like business as usual. Thus, no occurrence has
yet been powerful enough to precipitate the collapse that many are
expecting or fearing and it now seems that this will not happen until in
the seventh day of the Ninth wave, October 11-28. If so, the end of the
calendar may become a very marked discontinuity.
What we are witnessing is thus not another
recession, but the end of the world capitalist system and the protests
in the US against “Wall Street” may be an indication as good as any of
this. One however gets the impression that as long as the old system
survives there is no real opening to create a new world to replace it.
To do so would be too much in conflict with the legality of the current
dualist power structure and only after some kind of full collapse has
occurred would people in general be compelled and inspired to create a
new way of living and relating in the realms of politics and economics.
To prevent such a new world from being born we can also be certain that
when the collapse comes this will be presented by the powers that be as
nothing but a temporary downturn. Such an illusion may then come to
dominate many who lack the perspective of the Mayan calendar of an
evolution towards unity consciousness and this also highlights the risk
of believing those that say the calendar ends on December 21, 2012,
which is something that will play right into the hands of those that
want to resurrect the old system.
In addition to the deepened political and
economical chaos the Ninth wave has also brought a marked
intensification of many types of natural disasters sometimes in places
they have never been seen before. This has generated an immense interest
in all such phenomena and a genre of catastrophe fascination has
emerged on the Internet where some are spewing out information of
natural disasters without providing any context or explanation to why
they may be happening now. Such events would include solar flares,
comets, earthquakes, floods, heat waves and extreme winds, many of which
have increased in the Ninth wave.
Some of these natural disasters that have been
intensifying (floods, heat and cold waves, fires, extreme winds) are
partly caused by human effects on the climate, but the same cannot be
said about the seismic phenomena that are outside of our control to
cause or manipulate. This is even more the case for so called Earth
Changes generating altered coastlines etc that were initially predicted
by Edgar Cayce as coming, but erroneously predicted to occur in the
years 1958-98. Given the great interest in such today it is relevant to
ask if they to some extent could be part of the cosmic plan and thus be
predictable from the Mayan calendar. In The Mayan Calendar and the
Transformation of Consciousness (2004) I wrote: “At least some minor
earth changes may thus result from the high frequency change in
consciousness that the cosmos is now undergoing. But the reversal of
cause and effect to generate a doomsday view where such earth changes
are presented as the very purpose of this particular phase of creation
is untenable. Any possible physical effects should be seen only as by
products of changes in the consciousness field […]” and I still consider
this statement as valid and important. Since the high frequency change
in the Ninth wave is operating at several levels of the universe
simultaneously, such as cosmic, galactic, solar, planetary and human, we
would expect to see it manifested at all of these. While it may be hard
to study its manifestation on the cosmic or galactic levels it seems
possible to do so on the level of the sun, which increasingly is
receiving attention for its flares. Are these flares, the largest of
which within the Ninth wave have been summarized below, then related to
the Mayan calendar?
Major Solar Flares
|
Cosmic Energy Change
|
|---|---|
X 1.5 – March 9, 2011
|
Beginning of First day (March 9)
|
M 9.3 – July 30, 2011
M 9.3 – Aug 4, 2011 X 6.9 – Aug 9, 2011 |
Beginning of Fifth day (July 31)
|
X 2.1 – Sept 6, 2011
X 1.8 – Sept 7, 2011 |
Beginning of Sixth day (Sept 5)
|
X 1.4 – Sept 22, 2011
|
Beginning of Sixth night (Sept 23)
|
This is a complex question that would require data
accumulated over large periods of time to be analyzed that is
essentially missing. Yet, it is noteworthy in the list above that there
was a large solar flare at the beginning of the Ninth wave on March 9 as
well as those at the beginnings of the fifth and sixth days.
Hypothetically there might then exist a link between these flares and
the Ninth wave of the Mayan calendar. Even though an intensification of
solar activity is expected as part of any regular solar cycle, what is
unexpected in the current one is that this activity seems to have been
delayed for several years and is made evident only now in apparent
synchrony with the Ninth wave. If this is true an intensification of
solar flares would be expected towards the end of the Ninth wave in its
the seventh day beginning October 11.
When it comes to seismic activity on our own
planet, the link to the Mayan calendar is more clear as I have discussed
in The Purposeful Universe. Thus, the continental drift is caused by
pulses from the planetary tree of life in the Mammalian Underworld and
this drift (also called Plate Tectonics) is the cause of all earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions on our planet. Since the calendar is now about
to come to an end we may thus also ask if the continental structure of
the Earth, the global brain, will now be completed and if this will
affect the stability of the Earth’s crust. If it does then maybe, the
increased seismic activity in recent times derives from the fact that
the inner core of the Earth, is now being fine-tuned for the
transmission of the new unity consciousness from the Cosmic Tree of
Life. Such a fine tuning may however from the perspective of us who live
on its surface be experienced as particularly “fine” and could in fact
have quite dramatic consequences. Regardless it is important to see that
these are part of a purposeful plan.
This is the only reasonable explanation I have
heard for why there would be an intensification of seismic activity at
this particular time, an intensification which was certainly evident at
the seeding of the Ninth wave through the earthquake and tsunami in
Japan. If there is an increased seismic activity at the current time it
would in other words be because the calendar is coming to an end. While
this is speculative I will on my part chose to be at a seismically solid
place as the calendar approaches its end.
As this most likely is my last communication
before the Mayan calendar comes to an end on October 28, 2011, it may
now also be in its place to discuss somewhat what this “end” may mean
and of course is a question that has been discussed for some time. My
basic answer would be that the universe attains its highest quantum
state and creates a new stage for life (at the top of the nine-storied
pyramid). It is thus a common misunderstanding that a “new” cycle will
begin after the calendar comes to an end. This is a misunderstanding
because what is coming to an end is not a cycle to begin with, but nine
linear directed evolutionary waves. The only aspect of the prophetic
Mayan calendar system that may be described as cyclical is the 260 day
tzolkin and this is the only cycle that will come to an end. Yet, even
if this cycle is important as a matrix of the energies of creation and
personal resonance with day signs, it plays no role in driving the large
scale evolution of the universe or its evolution of consciousness.
With this in mind I see three possible
alternatives that may follow after the universe has attained its highest
state: The first, and most dramatic alternative, is that all waves - as
well as the tzolkin cycle - come to an end. This would likely mean an
abrupt end to all future energetic regulation of our lives and actions
and a sort of freedom shock. Life would be lived fully moment by moment
by moment and each moment would be an eternity that would not be
organically linked to other moments. The second alternative, which I am
currently leaning towards, is that the waves end, after having
accomplished their evolutionary purposes, but the tzolkin continues to
provide some energetic background variation. This would still mean
living moment by moment without any waves directing our evolution, but a
daily variation of tzolkin energies could prevent us from experiencing
life as completely timeless. The third alternative is that not only the
tzolkin, but also the nine creation waves (Underworlds) continue
indefinitely and the total of peaks and valleys not limited to thirteen.
This would still mean that we would no longer be subordinated to
directed processes going from seed to mature fruit, but it would not
mean that life would be like an eternal now. Rather, all the waves that
are currently driving our evolution would continue after the attainment
of unity consciousness, but really without any end.
The latter view seems to have been held in the
site of Palenque in ancient times, since calendrical dates deep into the
future are mentioned there even if the dates in question cannot be
considered as prophetic. I feel at this point it is not possible to tell
with certainty which one of the three alternatives that will play out
after the calendar comes to an end, but either one would amount to a
fundamental discontinuity and a significant, if not total,
transformation of our experience of life. Either one of them would mean
the end to directed evolution and the freedom to just be. Maybe it is
because they hear this call from the “future” that, despite the
concurrent presence of some negative omens at the current time, I find a
noticeable group of people who at this very time are coming home to
themselves and are truly beginning to appreciate life exactly the way it
is. Maybe after all there is a shift to unity consciousness going on
and that the universe is now starting to allow us to just be whatever we
are.
Carl Johan CallemanParis, September 30, 2011 (11 Eb)
8th day of the sixth night of the Ninth wave
Detroit SWAT team assaults African American mom who refused to medicate her daughter with antipsychotic drugs
(NaturalNews) The medical police state is alive and well in Detroit
today, where Child Protective Services (CPS) called in the police to aid
in their kidnapping of a 13-year-old daughter from an African American
mother who refused to medicate her with dangerous psychiatric drugs. As
this case is clearly showing, refusing to medicate your children with
Big Pharma's mind-altering drugs is now being treated as a felony crime.
Here are the facts of the case:
• Maryanne Godboldo is an African American mother of a teenager daughter. She lives in Detroit. (http://www.prisonplanet.com/swat-at...)
• Child Protective Services (CPS) personnel attempted to kidnap Maryanne's 13-year-old daughter. They accused her of not giving her child psychiatric medication prescribed by her doctor.
• Maryanne says the medication caused side effects in her daughter and made her condition worse, which is why she refused to give her daughter the medication.
• The medication was Risperdal, a neuroleptic antipsychotic medication known for causing serious side effects such as abdominal pain, vomiting, aggression, anxiety, dizziness and lack of coordination (http://www.risperdalsideeffects.com).
Watch the true video of the shocking side effects of Risperdal here: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3...
See a complete list of side effects of psychiatric medications from CCHR:
http://www.cchr.org/sites/default/f...
• When Maryanne refused to let CPS take her daughter away, CPS personnel then called the police, who then smashed down her front door and attempted to raid her home to kidnap her daughter by force.
• The police did NOT have a warrant or any court documents whatsoever granting them any right to enter Maryanne's home, according to Godboldo's attorneys.
• Police say that after they smashed in the front door, Maryanne opened fire on them. (Who wouldn't open fire on a group of armed assailants trying to kidnap their daughter, by the way?)
• A SWAT team was then called in, carrying semiautomatic rifles and sniper gear. A 12-hour standoff ensued.
• Maryanne eventually surrendered to the SWAT team, and the state took her daughter to a psychiatric hospital where she is now being molested by the staff there, her mother says.
• Maryanne Godboldo now faces multiple felony charges: firing a weapon in a dwelling, felonious assault, resisting and obstructing an officer, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
• CPS lied about the child's father's ability to take care of her as a tactic to kidnap her from her mother.
• Community groups in Detroit are now rallying on behalf of the family there, shouting "Free Arianna" (the daughter).
Make no mistake: What's happening today is that the state is now breaking down the doors, assaulting, arresting and imprisoning parents who refuse to medicate their children. This is being accomplished with the use of armed force against innocent victims.
This unholy alliance between Big Pharma, CPS and the police has gone too far. It has become the weapon of medication compliance.
When medicine has become so dangerous, so forceful and so utterly harmful to the People that the state must use bullets and guns to force people to take it, you know it's all gone way too far.
It makes you wonder: What kind of system of medicine is so bad that prescriptions have to be enforced at gunpoint?
That this is happening is not just an assault on Maryann Godboldo, but an assault on our rights and freedoms as sovereign human beings. Do we not have the right to say NO to a medication we don't want our children to take? Do we not have the right to protect our children from kidnappers? Do we not have the right to use firearms in the defense and protection of our homes from armed invaders who are conspiring to kidnap our children?
The real criminals in this case are the CPS workers. They should be brought up on attempting kidnapping charges as well as a criminal conspiracy to commit kidnapping. The gun-toting cops who broke into Maryanne's home and attempted to kidnap her daughter should be arrested and brought up on charges of armed robbery, breaking and entering and conspiracy to commit the felony crime of kidnapping.
And yet, instead, Maryanne is now facing multiple felony charges while the CPS criminals and cops who raided her home are charged with nothing.
Where is the justice in America today? How did medication become something to be enforced with bullets and SWAT teams? And more importantly, how far will this go before this tyranny ends?
Next, will they just line everybody up against a brick wall, and those who can't produce a receipt for medication get a bullet in their heads?
Read about Daniel Hauser (http://www.naturalnews.com/026305.html), the gunpoint vaccinations in Maryland (http://www.naturalnews.com/022267.html), the jailing of Francisco Santos (http://www.naturalnews.com/021997.html) and the forced poisoning of Abraham Cherrix (http://www.naturalnews.com/019617.html) with toxic chemotherapy.
Learn the truth or you will surely be crushed by it. Big Pharma will stop at nothing to force their drugs onto your children. They will use guns, SWAT teams, kidnapping, the breaking down of your front door... anything it takes!
If you really want to learn the truth about the psychiatric industry and its war on children, visit www.CCHR.org and www.CCHRint.org
You can also search the database of psychiatric drug side effects at: http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdan...
And please, forward this article to everyone you know. Spread the word about reading NaturalNews.com to stay informed about health freedom. We must protect ourselves from these medication tyrants who use kidnapping, armed assaults and the threat of violence to force us to drug our children.
Here are the facts of the case:
• Maryanne Godboldo is an African American mother of a teenager daughter. She lives in Detroit. (http://www.prisonplanet.com/swat-at...)
• Child Protective Services (CPS) personnel attempted to kidnap Maryanne's 13-year-old daughter. They accused her of not giving her child psychiatric medication prescribed by her doctor.
• Maryanne says the medication caused side effects in her daughter and made her condition worse, which is why she refused to give her daughter the medication.
• The medication was Risperdal, a neuroleptic antipsychotic medication known for causing serious side effects such as abdominal pain, vomiting, aggression, anxiety, dizziness and lack of coordination (http://www.risperdalsideeffects.com).
Watch the true video of the shocking side effects of Risperdal here: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3...
See a complete list of side effects of psychiatric medications from CCHR:
http://www.cchr.org/sites/default/f...
• When Maryanne refused to let CPS take her daughter away, CPS personnel then called the police, who then smashed down her front door and attempted to raid her home to kidnap her daughter by force.
• The police did NOT have a warrant or any court documents whatsoever granting them any right to enter Maryanne's home, according to Godboldo's attorneys.
• Police say that after they smashed in the front door, Maryanne opened fire on them. (Who wouldn't open fire on a group of armed assailants trying to kidnap their daughter, by the way?)
• A SWAT team was then called in, carrying semiautomatic rifles and sniper gear. A 12-hour standoff ensued.
• Maryanne eventually surrendered to the SWAT team, and the state took her daughter to a psychiatric hospital where she is now being molested by the staff there, her mother says.
• Maryanne Godboldo now faces multiple felony charges: firing a weapon in a dwelling, felonious assault, resisting and obstructing an officer, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
• CPS lied about the child's father's ability to take care of her as a tactic to kidnap her from her mother.
• Community groups in Detroit are now rallying on behalf of the family there, shouting "Free Arianna" (the daughter).
Why Health Freedom is more important now than ever
What you are witnessing here with Maryanne Godboldo is the tyranny of the medical police state and the wicked criminality of Child Protective Services workers who are now front-line enforcers of Big Pharma's deadly agenda to drug our children.Make no mistake: What's happening today is that the state is now breaking down the doors, assaulting, arresting and imprisoning parents who refuse to medicate their children. This is being accomplished with the use of armed force against innocent victims.
This unholy alliance between Big Pharma, CPS and the police has gone too far. It has become the weapon of medication compliance.
When medicine has become so dangerous, so forceful and so utterly harmful to the People that the state must use bullets and guns to force people to take it, you know it's all gone way too far.
It makes you wonder: What kind of system of medicine is so bad that prescriptions have to be enforced at gunpoint?
That this is happening is not just an assault on Maryann Godboldo, but an assault on our rights and freedoms as sovereign human beings. Do we not have the right to say NO to a medication we don't want our children to take? Do we not have the right to protect our children from kidnappers? Do we not have the right to use firearms in the defense and protection of our homes from armed invaders who are conspiring to kidnap our children?
The real criminals in this case are the CPS workers. They should be brought up on attempting kidnapping charges as well as a criminal conspiracy to commit kidnapping. The gun-toting cops who broke into Maryanne's home and attempted to kidnap her daughter should be arrested and brought up on charges of armed robbery, breaking and entering and conspiracy to commit the felony crime of kidnapping.
And yet, instead, Maryanne is now facing multiple felony charges while the CPS criminals and cops who raided her home are charged with nothing.
Where is the justice in America today? How did medication become something to be enforced with bullets and SWAT teams? And more importantly, how far will this go before this tyranny ends?
Next, will they just line everybody up against a brick wall, and those who can't produce a receipt for medication get a bullet in their heads?
Resistance is necessary to achieve freedom
I hope you see where this is headed. I've been warning you about this for years, urging you to resist the rise of the medical police state... warning you about what I called "gunpoint medicine" back in 2006 (http://www.naturalnews.com/019512.html).Read about Daniel Hauser (http://www.naturalnews.com/026305.html), the gunpoint vaccinations in Maryland (http://www.naturalnews.com/022267.html), the jailing of Francisco Santos (http://www.naturalnews.com/021997.html) and the forced poisoning of Abraham Cherrix (http://www.naturalnews.com/019617.html) with toxic chemotherapy.
Learn the truth or you will surely be crushed by it. Big Pharma will stop at nothing to force their drugs onto your children. They will use guns, SWAT teams, kidnapping, the breaking down of your front door... anything it takes!
If you really want to learn the truth about the psychiatric industry and its war on children, visit www.CCHR.org and www.CCHRint.org
You can also search the database of psychiatric drug side effects at: http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdan...
And please, forward this article to everyone you know. Spread the word about reading NaturalNews.com to stay informed about health freedom. We must protect ourselves from these medication tyrants who use kidnapping, armed assaults and the threat of violence to force us to drug our children.
Jun 19, 2010
Matt Simmons Believes Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface
Matt Simmons Believes Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface
Matt Simmons was on Bloomberg earlier, adding some additional perspective to his original appearance on the station, in which he initially endorsed the nuclear option as the only viable way to resolve the oil spill. Simmons refutes even the latest oil spill estimate of 45,000-60,000 barrels per day, and in quoting research by the Thomas Jefferson research vessel which was compiled late on Sunday, quantifies the leak at 120,000 bpd. What is scarier is that according to the Jefferson the oil lake underneath the surface of the water could be covering up to 40% of the entire Gulf of Mexico. Simmons also says that as the leak has no casing, a relief well will not work, and the only possible resolution is, as he said previously, to use a small nuclear explosion to convert the rock to glass. Simmons concludes that as punishment for BP’s arrogance and stupidity the government “will take all their cash.” Now if only our own administration could tell us the truth about what is really happening in the gulf…
Video on Vodpod: http://vodpod.com/watch/3846451-matt-simmons-believes-oil-covers-40-of-gulf-beneath-the-surface
and another one here : http://peakoil.com/enviroment/matt-simmons-believes-oil-covers-40-of-gulf-beneath-the-surface/
Matt Simmons was on Bloomberg earlier, adding some additional perspective to his original appearance on the station, in which he initially endorsed the nuclear option as the only viable way to resolve the oil spill. Simmons refutes even the latest oil spill estimate of 45,000-60,000 barrels per day, and in quoting research by the Thomas Jefferson research vessel which was compiled late on Sunday, quantifies the leak at 120,000 bpd. What is scarier is that according to the Jefferson the oil lake underneath the surface of the water could be covering up to 40% of the entire Gulf of Mexico. Simmons also says that as the leak has no casing, a relief well will not work, and the only possible resolution is, as he said previously, to use a small nuclear explosion to convert the rock to glass. Simmons concludes that as punishment for BP’s arrogance and stupidity the government “will take all their cash.” Now if only our own administration could tell us the truth about what is really happening in the gulf…
Video on Vodpod: http://vodpod.com/watch/3846451-matt-simmons-believes-oil-covers-40-of-gulf-beneath-the-surface
and another one here : http://peakoil.com/enviroment/matt-simmons-believes-oil-covers-40-of-gulf-beneath-the-surface/
Gulf oil full of methane, adding new concerns
The
oil damaged shoreline in the Northern reaches of Barataria Bay is seen
amidst work boats in oil polluted waters as Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal's t AP – The oil damaged shoreline in the Northern reaches of
Barataria Bay is seen amidst work boats in oil polluted …
By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press Writers Matthew Brown And Ramit Plushnick-masti, Associated Press Writers – 58 mins ago
NEW ORLEANS – It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem.
The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer who is studying the impact of methane from the spill.
That means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
"This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.
Methane is a colorless, odorless and flammable substance that is a major component in the natural gas used to heat people's homes. Petroleum engineers typically burn off excess gas attached to crude before the oil is shipped off to the refinery. That's exactly what BP has done as it has captured more than 7.5 million gallons of crude from the breached well.
A BP spokesman said the company was burning about 30 million cubic feet of natural gas daily from the source of the leak, adding up to about 450 million cubic feet since the containment effort started 15 days ago. That's enough gas to heat about 450,000 homes for four days.
But that figure does not account for gas that eluded containment efforts and wound up in the water, leaving behind huge amounts of methane.
BP PLC said a containment cap sitting over the leaking well funneled about 619,500 gallons of oil to a drillship waiting on the ocean surface on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a specialized flare siphoning oil and gas from a stack of pipes on the seafloor burned roughly 161,700 gallons.
read more : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill
By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press Writers Matthew Brown And Ramit Plushnick-masti, Associated Press Writers – 58 mins ago
NEW ORLEANS – It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem.
The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer who is studying the impact of methane from the spill.
That means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
"This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.
Methane is a colorless, odorless and flammable substance that is a major component in the natural gas used to heat people's homes. Petroleum engineers typically burn off excess gas attached to crude before the oil is shipped off to the refinery. That's exactly what BP has done as it has captured more than 7.5 million gallons of crude from the breached well.
A BP spokesman said the company was burning about 30 million cubic feet of natural gas daily from the source of the leak, adding up to about 450 million cubic feet since the containment effort started 15 days ago. That's enough gas to heat about 450,000 homes for four days.
But that figure does not account for gas that eluded containment efforts and wound up in the water, leaving behind huge amounts of methane.
BP PLC said a containment cap sitting over the leaking well funneled about 619,500 gallons of oil to a drillship waiting on the ocean surface on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a specialized flare siphoning oil and gas from a stack of pipes on the seafloor burned roughly 161,700 gallons.
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