The video was first posted on YouTube on Wednesday night by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Centre , which said: “This video is from the larger of two existing leaks on the riser. This leak is located approximately 460 feet from the top of the blowout preventer and rests on the sea floor at a depth of about 5,000 feet.”
Posted on May 7, 2010Economy | Leave a Comment
Posted on May 4, 2010General Insanity | 4 Comments
I read a lot of non-MSM websites. This letter to the site http://www.rense.com caught my attention. It is from an Engineer who specializes in oil rig technology. I thought it was worth posting to this site as well:
“Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they’re saying 200,000 gallons a day. That’s over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I’m engineer with 25 years of experience. I’ve worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that’s why this mess is so clear to me. [and is so unclear to the millions without such knowledge]
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they’ve got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I’m not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can’t cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We’re so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren’t recognizing that we’re staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We’re humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that.”
Get ready for serious price inflation for oil and food if this guy is right. I have also been trying to figure out why President Obama has sent Federal SWAT teams and US Navy submarines to the oil rig area. This just made no sense to me as neither would be of any use in containing an oil spill. Both would be of use though if you’re planning on trying to use a nuclear weapon to fix this problem. As this gulf oil spill develops, I think things are going to get very interesting to say the least.
Another link from Pure Energy Systems. http://pesn.com/2010/05/02/9501643_Mother_of_all_gushers_could_kill_Earths_oceans/
Clayton
Posted on April 15, 2010McKeon | Leave a Comment
So I am out in the field with my neighbor discussing how we are going to take out the two large trees growing in the garden area when we spy a kid in a portion of the field with some large trees on the other side of the stream. Since my neighbor has photographic equipment set up in that area that automatically senses motion and takes pictures of the wildlife, we figure the kid is over there to either steal the camera or mess with it. We set off on a run in the general direction where there is a small board across the stream for quick access to the other side. My neighbor (28 years old) nimbly flies across the board to the other side. I did not do so well.
With my first step on the stream bank my foot sank into the muck up past my ankle. Since I was moving forward I attempted to place my next step on the board which immediately went sideways into the mucky water. When I attempted to pull my other foot out of the muck, my shoe stayed there buried in the ground while my foot and stocking went foreward to join the rest of me in the middle of the stream.
So now I am sloshing about in the mucky water with one shoe on and one stocking on, trying not to stumble onto the board and just fall in the water outright. I gradually regained my balance, leaned back and dug my forelorn shoe from the muck, then staggered the rest of the way across the board to the opposite side of the bank. At this stage I was wet, covered in black muck and thoroughly embarrassed at my lack of agility. My neighbor had the good graces to not laugh at me outright. Geez, I hate getting old.
The good news is that the camera equipment was secure. We told the kid he had to stay out of that area of the field and for good measure we removed all the camera equipment and brought it back with us just to be safe. It was not as bad as the experience I had last year when I fell into my pool trying to open it for the summer with all my clothes on, shoes and cell phone included. But once again reality drives home my mortality. Oh, pooh.
Clayton
Posted on March 31, 2010Economy | 1 Comment
I belong to a group called the National Employment Law Project . They sent out an email yesterday telling the membership that Congress has gone into recess without passing the 30-day extension of the UI and COBRA programs. It appears extremely unlikely that the Senate will be called back into session for a vote before April 5th, when the programs expire. It appears our Congress is hard at work again handing us useless Health Bills that will just add to our national bankruptcy woes while ignoring those who actually need help. Another nail in the coffin of our nearly dead Republic.
The email goes on to say, “we have learned that the Senate has scheduled a cloture vote (a vote to end debate on the bill - they must get 60 votes to move forward) for 5:30 pm on Monday, April 12th, at which time they’ll try to move the 30 day extension through as quickly as possible. Simultaneously, and we hope over the recess as well, they will be working with the House to resolve some differences in the bill that would extend these programs through the end of 2010. We are hoping that year-end extension will be firmly in place long before the end of April.”
Come November, remember to vote against ANYONE that is a current member of Congress, regardless of party affiliation. Vote for those people who you know will do the right thing for Americans instead of this bunch of PAC owned politicians who like to put party membership above American values.
Clayton
Posted on March 30, 2010General | Leave a Comment
I have not been posting to this blog lately because I am preparing a new website: www.failedrepublics.com . As most of my friends and relatives know, I read an exceptional amount of news. I study history, economics, warfare and politics having always suffered an overwhelming interest in understanding the human condition. I have now become convinced that what we are seeing here in America is the start of the death throes of the American Republic. Because of this, I am developing a website to look at what has happened to Republics throughout history and how these lessons apply to the American Republic today.
Ben Franklin, one the greatest American thinkers in our history had an opinion on this issue. “In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, — if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.“ Speech to the Constitutional Convention (June 28, 1787)
Since my non-compete contract has now expired with the company that purchased my Internet business, I can now develop websites for profit. While I will continue to run this site as a free blog site for family and friends, I will be putting considerable effort into this second new site. I will be using advertising on the site to help offset the costs of maintaining the servers and Internet feed so anyone visiting this site should be prepared to see such ads. The new website is not fully functional yet so clicking on the above link right now will not likely do much for you. I hope to have this new site up and running in the next few weeks.
I will continue to post to this blog about things in general that interest me. The new website will concentrate on only those developments both political and economic that I think are moving us farther down the path of despotism. Unfortunately, the death of our republic has been a slow and torturous process. If these same loss of freedoms ever occurred in a quick fashion, it would lead to mass revolt and civil war. In order to avoid this consequence, those who have the most to gain by taking away our constitutional rights, must do so slowly, step-by-step so that we become accustomed to the last change before experiencing the next.
Clayton
Posted on March 21, 2010Economy | Leave a Comment
All I can say is it’s about time!
“On Thursday afternoon, President Barack Obama signed the $17.6 billion jobs stimulus bill passed by the Senate the day before. Officially known as the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, the bill is meant to encourage private sector hiring, in part, through a series of tax incentives.
“Since the recession began, the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that employers have shed 8.4 million jobs. Though the job loss rate has slowed in recent months, creating jobs still remains a puzzle for lawmakers, who foresee this bill as a first step in dealing with the nation’s 9.7% unemployment rate.” http://www.examiner.com/
“On Thursday the Labor Department reported new claims for unemployment insurance benefits dipped only marginally last week, with 457,000 Americans beginning to ask the government for help.” http://hotpoliticians.com/president-obama-signs-multi-billion-dollar-jobs-bill-into-law/
“The centerpiece is a new program giving companies a break from paying Social Security taxes for the remainder of 2010 on any new workers they hire who had been unemployed for at least 60 days. Employers would also get a $1,000 tax credit for each of those workers who stays on the payroll for at least one year. The measure includes a one-year extension of the law governing federal transportation funding and would transfer $20 billion into the highway trust fund.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Clayton
Posted on March 13, 2010General Insanity | Leave a Comment
Every now and then I like to post a feel good video. These guys are the 2009 International Quartet Champions. That is barbershop quartet music and they are very good. The song is “Lucky Old Sun (1949).” Enjoy.
Posted on March 8, 2010General | 1 Comment
Hyrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) or better known as MSG is contained in a variety of foods. The Food and Drug Administration is recalling HVP products containing paste or powder distributed by Basic Food Flavors, Inc . This includes dips and dip mixes from McCormick and Great Value (Marzetti) commonly found in Walmarts. For a complete list, visit this FDA website: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/HVPCP/
The most interesting part of this is that Hyrolyzed Vegetable Protein including Hyrolyzed Soy Protein is just another term for Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). At the end of this posting I have included a list of common names for MSG that I suspect many people, like myself, did not realize was the case. Add to this the fact that MSG has many bad side effects most notably, causing obesity and you have a national health problem as a result.
“Glutamic acid is a neurotransmitter that excites our neurons (not just in our tongues). This electrical charging of neurons is what makes foods with added free glutamic acid taste so good. Unfortunately, the free glutamic acid can cause problems in many people. Actually, our brains have many receptors for glutamic acid and some areas, such as the hypothalamus, do not have an impermeable blood-brain barrier, so free glutamic acid from food sources can get into the brain, injuring and sometimes killing neurons. At least 25 per cent of the U.S. population react to free glutamic acid from food sources.”
“Exposed laboratory animals suffer brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders. Scientists studying retinal degeneration in mice treated with free glutamic acid have noted that these mice also became grotesquely obese following administration of free glutamic acid. The vulnerable hypothalamus in our brains regulates weight control, as well as other endocrine functions.” http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/
I try to avoid foods with MSG and high density corn syrup in them as I think this combination of chemicals is one of the great contributors to the obesity problem confronting many Americans and Europeans.
“The glutamate industry is fully aware of the harmful effects of MSG, that it is a toxic substance. They know that ingesting their toxin can cause diabetes, adrenal gland malfunction, seizures, high blood pressure, excessive weight gain, stroke and other health problems. If you eat MSG and experience any of these conditions, then you need to immediately eliminate MSG from your diet.” http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/
As I stated earlier, there are many terms for MSG besides MSG: (from http://www.msgmyth.com/ )
MSG
Gelatin
Calcium Caseinate
So hurray for the FDA on recalling these products for the sake of the public health. I recommend in all your future food buys you read the labels of all processed foods and see if they contain any of the pseudonyms for MSG. Your waistline will thank you.
Clayton
Posted on March 5, 2010General | Leave a Comment
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