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Post by dan on May 28, 2010 14:48:56 GMT 4
ANGEL EAGLES CLEANUP TEAM IS NOW REPORTED ARRIVING IN LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA.
FURTHER UPDATES AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. BUZZ, EAGLES, Danny, we are moving through and I am ordering my team toward the Barrier Islands. Is that okay? Est. on time the core in Vegas will be able to respond too? BC  C/U will still be ongoing by then. We will personally respond too, when legally/contractually freed. We have a large team, under you, already on scene, and your pay will continue via NV-TCG, and equipment/supplies via Angel Eagles, for as long as you need to be there.
You are the on scene Commander. We support your decisions 100%.
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Post by owl on May 28, 2010 14:51:02 GMT 4
BUZZ, EAGLES, Danny, we are moving through and I am ordering my team toward the Barrier Islands. Is that okay? Est. on time the core in Vegas will be able to respond too? BC
You are the on scene Commander. We support your decisions 100%.
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Post by satchmo on May 28, 2010 21:22:07 GMT 4
Hi Dan and crew.....I don't envy you with the job that you have at hand.......its a very nasty job cleaning up oil spills...I've had first hand experience having worked at the production end of a large oil company for quite a few years.....and spills were a common occurance!
Hope all goes well for you.
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Post by satchmo on May 28, 2010 21:33:53 GMT 4
www.nalco.com/applications/corexit-technology.htm22-mile oil plume found under Gulf surface
NEW ORLEANS — Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking BP wellhead northeast toward an underwater canyon whose currents feed sealife in the waters off Florida. The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume reported since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20. The find was announced Thursday. The cloud was nearing a large underwater canyon whose currents fuel the foodchain in Gulf waters off Florida and could potentially wash the tiny plants and animals that feed larger organisms in a stew of toxic chemicals, another researcher said. Larry McKinney, executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said the DeSoto Canyon off the Florida Panhandle sends nutrient-rich water from the deep sea up to shallower waters. McKinney said that in a best-case scenario, oil riding the current out of the canyon would rise close enough to the surface to be broken down by sunlight. But if the plume remains relatively intact, it could sweep down the west coast of Florida as a toxic soup as far as the Keys. The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet and is more than 6 miles wide, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at USF. Hollander said the team detected the thickest amount of hydrocarbons, likely from the oil spewing from the blown out well, at about 1,300 feet in the same spot on two separate days this week. The discovery was important, he said, because it confirmed that the substance found in the water was not naturally occurring and that the plume was at its highest concentration in deeper waters. The researchers will use further testing to determine whether the hydrocarbons they found are the result of dispersants or the emulsification of oil as it traveled away from the well. The first such plume detected by scientists stretched from the well southwest toward the open sea, but this new undersea oil cloud is headed miles inland into shallower waters where many fish and other species reproduce. The researchers say they are worried these undersea plumes may be the result of the unprecedented use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil a mile undersea at the site of the leak. Hollander said the oil they detected has dissolved into the water, and is no longer visible, leading to fears from researchers that the toxicity from the oil and dispersants could pose a big danger to fish larvae and creatures that filter the waters for food. "There are two elements to it," Hollander said. "The plume reaching waters on the continental shelf could have a toxic effect on fish larvae, and we also may see a long term response as it cascades up the food web." Dispersants contain surfactants, which are similar to dishwashing soap. A Louisiana State University researcher who has studied their effects on marine life said that by breaking oil into small particles, surfactants make it easier for fish and other animals to soak up the oil's toxic chemicals. That can impair the animals' immune systems and cause reproductive problems. "The oil's not at the surface, so it doesn't look so bad, but you have a situation where it's more available to fish," said Kevin Kleinow, a professor in LSU's school of veterinary medicine www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXrdaztYWC4b-nfTbBOcb6bX0a5gD9FVSOU02Demon's as angels is a very good analogy Dan. satchmo
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Post by auroralaura on May 28, 2010 23:15:33 GMT 4
A PM awaits you SESQ, Sir.  AL  |
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Post by satchmo on May 29, 2010 23:49:34 GMT 4
A put on show for the president and media !
Gulf oilspill 31 years ago, 30,000 barrels a day.
Same methods and terminologies as today,depth 200 feet/cause: BOP failure, the only thing that worked, drilling relief wells- Time: nine months.
Same company that owns the oilrig 1979/2010.
And the deception continues !
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Post by dan on May 30, 2010 10:15:02 GMT 4
Hi Dan and crew.....I don't envy you with the job that you have at hand.......its a very nasty job cleaning up oil spills...I've had first hand experience having worked at the production end of a large oil company for quite a few years.....and spills were a common occurance! Hope all goes well for you.
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Post by nodstar on May 31, 2010 4:37:09 GMT 4
Hi Everyone .. Here are two articles you may find interesting .. For the last ten days or so I've been delving very deeply into the ongoing oil disaster. For me it's like watching a slow motion train wreck .. These articles are only the TIP of this horrible iceberg .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten Things You Need (But Don't Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill[/size] by Daniela Perdomo globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19408 Global Research, May 29, 2010 AlterNet - 2010-05-27  How the owner of the exploded oil rig has made $270 million off the disaster, and nine other shocking, depressing facts about the oil spill.
It's been 37 days since BP's offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, crude oil has been hemorrhaging into ocean waters and wreaking unknown havoc on our ecosystem -- unknown because there is no accurate estimate of how many barrels of oil are contaminating the Gulf.
Though BP officially admits to only a few thousand barrels spilled each day, expert estimates peg the damage at 60,000 barrels or over 2.5 million gallons daily. (Perhaps we'd know more if BP hadn't barred independent engineers from inspecting the breach.) Measures to quell the gusher have proved lackluster at best, and unlike the country's last big oil spill -- Exxon-Valdez in 1989 -- the oil is coming from the ground, not a tanker, so we have no idea how much more oil could continue to pollute the Gulf's waters.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster reminds us what can happen -- and will continue to happen -- when corporate malfeasance and neglect meet governmental regulatory failure.
The corporate media is tracking the disaster with front-page articles and nightly news headlines every day (if it bleeds, or spills, it leads!), but the under-reported aspects to this nightmarish tale paint the most chilling picture of the actors and actions behind the catastrophe. In no particular order, here are 10 things about the BP spill you may not know and may not want to know -- but you should.
1. Oil rig owner has made $270 million off the oil leak
Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP, has been flying under the radar in the mainstream blame game. The world's largest offshore drilling contractor, the company is conveniently headquartered in corporate-friendly Switzerland, and it's no stranger to oil disasters. In 1979, an oil well it was drilling in the very same Gulf of Mexico ignited, sending the drill platform into the sea and causing one of the largest oil spills by the time it was capped... nine months later.
This experience undoubtedly influenced Transocean's decision to insure theDeepwater Horizon rig for about twice what it was worth. In a conference call to analysts earlier this month, Transocean reported making a $270 million profit from insurance payouts after the disaster. It's not hard to bet on failure when you know it's somewhat assured.
2. BP has a terrible safety record
BP has a long record of oil-related disasters in the United States. In 2005, BP's Texas City refineryexploded, killing 15 workers and injuring another 170. The next year, one of its Alaska pipelines leaked 200,000 gallons of crude oil. According to Public Citizen, BP has paid $550 million in fines. BP seems to particularly enjoy violating the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, and has paid the two largest fines in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's history. (Is it any surprise that BP played a central, though greatly under-reported, role in the failure to contain the Exxon-Valdez spill years earlier?)
With Deepwater Horizon, BP didn't break its dismal trend. In addition to choosing a cheaper -- and less safe -- casing to outfit the well that eventually burst, the company chose not to equip Deepwater Horizon with an acoustic trigger, a last-resort option that could have shut down the well even if it was damaged badly, and which is required in most developed countries that allow offshore drilling. In fact, BP employs these devices in its rigs located near England, but because the United States recommends rather than requires them, BP had no incentive to buy one -- even though they only cost $500,000.
SeizeBP.org estimates that BP makes $500,000 in under eight minutes.
3. Oil spills are just a cost of doing business for BP
According to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, approximately $1.6 billion in annual economic activity and services are at risk as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Compare this number -- which doesn't include the immeasurable environmental damages -- to the current cap on BP's liability for economic damages like lost wages and tourist dollars, which is $75 million. And compare that further to the first-quarter profits BP posted just one week after the explosion: $6 billion.
BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, has solemnly promised that the company will cover more than the required $75 million. On May 10, BP announced it had already spent $350 million. How fantastically generous of a company valued at $152.6 billion, and which makes $93 million each day.
The reality of the matter is that BP will not be deterred by the liability cap and pity payments doled out to a handful of victims of this disaster because they pale in comparison to its ghastly profits. Indeed, oil spills are just a cost of doing business for BP.
This is especially evident in a recent Citigroup analyst report prepared for BP investors: "Reaction to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is a buying opportunity."
4. The Interior Department was at best, neglectful, and at worst, complicit
It's no surprise BP is always looking out for its bottom line -- but it's at least slightly more surprising that the Interior Department, the executive department charged with regulating the oil industry, has done such a shoddy job of preventing this from happening.
Ten years ago, there were already warnings that the backup systems on oil rigs that failed on Deepwater Horizon would be a problem. The Interior Department issued a "safety alert" but then left it up to oil companies to decide what kind of backup system to use. And in 2007, a government regulator from the same department downplayed the chances and impact of a spill like the one that occurred last month: "lowouts are rare events and of short duration, potential impact to marine water quality are not expected to be significant."
The Interior Department's Louisiana branch may have been particularly confused because it appears it was closely fraternizing with the oil industry. The Minerals Management Service, the agency within the department that oversees offshore drilling, routinely accepted gifts from oil companies and even considered itself a part of the oil industry, rather than part of a governmental regulatory agency. Flying on oil executives' private planes was not rare for MMS inspectors in Louisiana, a federal report released Tuesday says. "Skeet-shooting contests, hunting and fishing trips, golf tournaments, crawfish boils, and Christmas parties" were also common.
Is it any wonder that Deepwater Horizon was given a regulatory exclusion by MMS?
It gets worse. Since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, the Interior Department has approved 27 new permits for offshore drilling sites. Here's the kicker: Two of these permits are for BP.
But it gets better still: 26 of the 27 new drilling sites have been granted regulatory exemptions, including those issued to BP.
5. Clean-up prospects are dismal
The media makes a lot of noise about all the different methods BP is using to clean up the oil spill. Massive steel containment domes were popular a few weeks ago. Now everyone is touting the "top kill" method, which involves injecting heavy drilling fluids into the damaged well.
But here's the reality. Even if BP eventually finds a method that works, experts say the best cleanup scenario is to recover 20 percent of the spilled oil. And let's be realistic: only 8 percent of the crude oil deposited in the ocean and coastlines off Alaska was recovered in the Exxon-Valdez cleanup.
Millions of gallons of oil will remain in the ocean, ravaging the underwater ecosystem, and 100 miles of Louisiana coastline will never be the same.
6. BP has no real cleanup plan
Perhaps because it knows the possibility of remedying the situation is practically impossible, BP has made publicly available its laughable "Oil Spill Response Plan" which is, in fact, no plan at all.
Most emblematic of this farcical plan, BP mentions protecting Arctic wildlife like sea lions, otters and walruses (perhaps executives simply lifted the language from Exxon's plan for its oil spill off the coast of Alaska?). The plan does not include any disease-preventing measures, oceanic or meteorological data, and is comprised mostly of phone numbers and blank forms. Most importantly, it includes no directions for how to deal with a deep-water explosion such as the one that took place last month.
The whole thing totals 600 pages -- a waste of paper that only adds insult to the environmental injury BP is inflicting upon the world with Deepwater Horizon.
7. Both Transocean and BP are trying to take away survivors' right to sue
With each hour, the economic damage caused by Deepwater Horizon continues to grow. And BP knows this.
So while it outwardly is putting on a nice face, even pledging $500 million to assess the impacts of the spill, it has all the while been trying to ensure that it won't be held liable for those same impacts.
Just after the Deepwater explosion, surviving employees were held in solitary confinement, while Transocean flacks made them waive their rights to sue. BP then did the same with fishermen it contracted to help clean up the spill though the company now says that was nothing more than a legal mix-up.
If there's anything to learn from this disaster, it's that companies like BP don't make mistakes at the expense of others. They are exceedingly deliberate.
8. BP bets on risk to employees to save money -- and doesn't care if they get sick
When BP unleashed its "Beyond Petroleum" re-branding/greenwashing campaign, the snazzy ads featured smiley oil rig workers. But the truth of the matter is that BP consistently and knowingly puts its employees at risk.
An internal BP document shows that just before the prior fatal disaster -- the 2005 Texas City explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 170 -- when BP had to choose between cost-savings and greater safety, it went with its bottom line.
A BP Risk Management memo showed that although steel trailers would be safer in the case of an explosion, the company went with less expensive options that offered protection but were not "blast resistant." In the Texas City blast, all of the fatalities and most of the injuries occurred in or around these trailers.
Although BP has responded to this memo by saying the company culture has changed since Texas City, 11 people died on the Deepwater Horizon when it blew up. Perhaps a similar memo went out regarding safety and cost-cutting measures?
Reports this week stated that fishermen hired by BP for oil cleanup weren't provided protective equipment and have now fallen ill. Hopefully they didn't sign waivers.
9. Environmental damage could even include a climatological catastrophe
It's hard to know where to start discussing the environmental damage caused byDeepwater Horizon. Each day will give us a clearer picture of the short-term ecological destruction, but environmental experts believe the damage to the Gulf of Mexico will be long-term.
In the short-term, environmentalists are up in arms about the dispersants being used to clean up the oil slick in the Gulf. Apparently, the types BP is using aren't all that effective in dispersing oil, and are pretty high in toxicity to marine fauna such as fish and shrimp. The fear is that what BP may be using to clean up the mess could, in the long-term, make it worse.
On the longer-term side of things, there are signs that this largest oil drilling catastrophe could also become the worst natural gas and climate disaster. The explosion has released tremendous amounts of methane from deep in the ocean, and research shows that methane, when mixed with air, is the most powerful (read: terrible) greenhouse gas -- 26 times worse than carbon-dioxide.
Our warming planet just got a lot hotter.
10. No one knows what to do and it will happen again
The very worst part about the Deepwater Horizon calamity is that nobody knows what to do. We don't know how bad it really is because we can't measure what's going on. We don't know how to stop it -- and once we do, we won't know how to clean it up.
BP is at the helm of the recovery process, but given its corporate track record, its efforts will only go so far -- it has a board of directors and shareholders to answer to, after all. The U.S. government, the only other entity that could take over is currently content to let BP hack away at the problem. Why? Because it probably has no idea what to do either.
Here's the reality of the matter -- for as long as offshore drilling is legal, oil spills will happen. Coastlines will be decimated, oceans destroyed, economies ruined, lives lost. Oil companies have little to no incentive to prevent such disasters from happening, and they use their money to buy government regulators' integrity.
Deepwater Horizon is not an anomaly -- it's the norm.
Daniela Perdomo is a staff writer and editor at AlterNet. Follow Daniela on Twitter. Write her at danielaalternet [at] gmail [dot] com.
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This article below is very interesting as well ..
Gulf oil gusher conspiracy cover-up[/size] pesn.com/2010/05/27/9501657_Gulf_oil_gusher_conspiracy_cover-up/Was this disaster just an accident, or were other more sinister forces at play in order to further cripple society toward a more manageable population size? Ominous midnight symbolism. BP's "live" feed caught in an obvious short loop shows further evidence of cover-up. click link to this article to see this footage ( I couldn't embed it ) Below I document how BP's "live" feed was actually a brief (less than 15-seconds) loop repeating for more than 8 hours until the image went black at around 4:00 am this morning. The above image, for example, is made using just three frames repeating every 25/100ths of a second. by Sterling D. Allan Pure Energy Systems News The Internet is abuzz regarding the 2008 moving "Knowing" that includes a scene in which actor Nicolas Cage is watching the news on television. The clock shows 11:59 when the anchor announces a devastating fire burning out of control in the gulf. Then the clock flips to 12:00, and the anchor says "that story leads our headlines at the top of the hour."
Midnight has long been associated with end times. With the "doomsday clock", the closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global disaster.
One of the interesting things about the New World Order connivers is that for some reason they believe they must announce what they're going to do before they do it to you. Often, this predictive programming is done through the medium of Hollywood.
Most people would look at this as a coincidence, or maybe a lucky guess. I certainly don't have all the answers, but I do think this is an important question to pose.
Could it be that this Gulf oil volcano disaster was planned ahead of time for some nefarious purpose? What possible benefit could such a breach have for the oil industry, whose image is already suffering from an increasing abhorrence to its pollution and the wars it fosters? You would think that such an unfolding would only galvanize people in favor of cleaner alternative fuels and energy sources.
It's hard to fathom their possible reasons when we look at it from our perspective that has the betterment of humanity as the driving motivation. But if you look at this from the perspective of those who seek to reduce human population down to half a billion – a much more manageable size for control – then the possible motivations begin coming more clearly into focus.
That this particular forecast tucked away in the movie Knowing was associated with the midnight hour is something that shouldn't be taken lightly, especially considering the far-reaching impact that this unfolding disaster could yet have on civilization. That midnight and the black of oil would be paired up serves no small paradox.
But whether or not they actually somehow planned this disaster, guiding the human incompetency and possibly adding in some proactive measures of sabotage; or whether the event was purely an act of human error or of humans getting in over their heads; we do know that the NWO types are going to use an event such as this to their best advantage.
Though the explosion happened on April 20, the sinking of the rig and the commencement of the gusher occurred on April 22 -- Earth Day.
In addition to the fouling of the waters, beaches, marshes and estuaries; the economic ramifications could escalate as the Mississippi export/import artery is affected, additional livelihoods are decimated; harm to fish, animals, and humans becomes more pronounced; and oil prices climb to respond to the true cost of oil and clean-up. Homeland security is on high alert for civil unrest – one of the desired objectives of the NWO plotters. They've been wanting some kind of social disruption catalyst to get people upset and moving into unrest so they have a reason to install their martial law. If it wasn't this, then it might have been a "rogue" (actually false flag) nuke event or more. If I had my choice of bad things they might have done to us to get the population to go into civil unrest; I would have preferred the nuke event inasmuch as it wouldn't have effected other life forms nearly so much as the Gulf disaster, which primarily upsets nature.
Several things about this disaster are blatantly obvious to most people.
- BP is profoundly downplaying the volume of oil gushing from the oil volcano they created. They have public image reasons as well as legal liability reasons for such minimizing.
- The U.S. government has been assisting in the cover-up of the gravity of this situation, and they exhibited gross negligence in preventative measures (a | b). They are allowing BP to self-regulate their operations before and after the disaster, and they are helping keep media attention away.
And no, it wasn't just a comedian's joke that Goldman Sachs placed shorts on TransOcean stock days before the explosions rocked the rig in the Gulf of Mexico sending stocks plunging while GS profits soared -- benefitting once again from a huge disaster, having done the same with airline stocks prior to 911 then again with the housing bubble. Who knew what, and how?
Here's a video I shot this evening showing the supposed "live" feed by BP, yet for nearly eight hours now, it has been the same short (less than 15 seconds) loop playing over and over, even as the clock continues to roll as if its live. What are they doing that they don't want us to see?
BP "live" feed of Gulf gusher actually in loop for 8+ hours -- what are they hiding?
I first noticed this loop at around 8:00 pm Mountain time, and I shot this video at around 10:30 pm. I then composed the story on this page, staying up until past 3:45 am to post it, and the loop was still repeating at that time. If you happen to be reading this story and notice that the live feed is still in a loop, do me a favor and post a comment down below to that effect, as a witness. Shortly after I finally posted a link to this story in my news, the BP live feed went off-line to a black screen. It was down by 4:00 am. It was still down until around 11:30 am. Then by 11:48 am, the image was back up and still appearing to loop, but with a different configuration of the mechanism in front of it. At 11:53 am, the image was frozen. At 11:56 am, the image went blank. According to TreeHugger, the above footage shows equipment being used to try to plug the gushing oil well.
It could be that the AV or IT guys who knows how to address this are off sleeping and will fix it in the morning when they get up. But what is suspicious about it is that the time stamp clock continues to proceed, even as the image continues to loop. You would think that with the amount of attention this is getting during this "kill shot" procedure being under way, that they would be very particular about what image the thousands, if not millions of viewers are seeing; yet for the past nearly 8 hours, it's been this short looped segment.
Again, it begs the question, what are they doing that they don't want us to see?
Within hours of the now famous fly-over by John Wathen on May 7 (ref.) , the FAA imposed a no-fly zone over much of the Gulf spill area. Apologists say this was to avoid mid-air collisions from all the people wanting to take a look, but one account I read today about a boat that went out (against Coast Guard restrictions) said they could only see two other boats on the horizon, and one was towing the other – hardly a scenario of congestion, especially considering the vast amount of work that is supposed to going on for protection and clean-up.
A NASA satellite page gives the superficial appearance of disclosing the size of the oil slick. But in fact it is very difficult to track changes from one day to the next because the settings are so different from one image to the next, making comparison nearly impossible. It seems to me that NASA is participating in the cover-up by making it look like they are helping when in fact they are obstructing. In order to be useful, such time lapse photos should show the same area, using the same camera settings.
So while there are all these actions of cover-up, meanwhile the oil gusher continues to wreak its (intended?) havoc.
So some information is leaking out and making the public irate. I was at a tire shop on the 19th when a CNN segment showed a time lapse satellite image showing a huge chunk of the oil slick being carried off by the Loop current. Yet days later, other reports were wondering if and when the oil was going to go into the Loop current.
Here's a video of Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famous explorer Jacques Cousteau, who went underwater off the Gulf Coast to see first-hand what the Deepwater Oil Disaster looks and feels like. And the answer to the question "What doesn't BP want you to see," he came back with: "This is a nightmare." The ABC News segment of relevance begins at around time stamp 45 seconds.
Sam Champion and Philippe Cousteau Jr. diving into the Oil Spill
This Gulf oil gusher situation is like 911 in slow motion. The world is watching, but the events are playing out in days and weeks rather than minutes; and the impact could be even more severe, both for enabling the emergence of the New World Order power, as well as in awakening people and galvanizing them to oppose the New World Order and opt for something the more closely resembles freedom and distributed energy, rather than centralized power.
One of the things the NWO conspirators seem to be forgetting here is that the world now is much more environmentally-conscious, some of which is due to their own agenda of using environmentalism and the bogeyman of "global warming" as impetus to set up world government and taxation. So the mainstream media, which usually serves as the NWO mouthpiece, is slow to defend and cover up these deplorable acts. They've been trained well. Perhaps this is a manifestation of the axiom: the sword of their own hands shall fall upon their own heads. The environmentally-conscious media, who usually do the master's bidding, will not roll over and play dead on this one.
So if BP's "top kill" procedure ends up being successful in stopping this gusher, it may be because the political ramifications to their overall agenda are too grave, so they'll have to opt for some other way to foment social breakdown and martial law.
Hopefully, if some new free energy technologies emerge in time, that could provide a significant boost of hope and economic confidence to prevent the extent of meltdown that the money manipulators are planning.# # # |
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Post by nodstar on May 31, 2010 4:43:50 GMT 4
Gulf Oil Spill: BP Trying To Hide Millions of Gallons of Toxic Oil?
BP Embraces Exxon’s Toxic Dispersant, Ignores Safer Alternative[/size] www.protecttheocean.com/gulf-oil-spill-bp/It has been confirmed that the dispersal agent being used by BP and the government is Corexit 9500, a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, IL. Their stock took a sharp jump, up more than 18% at its highest point of the day today, after it was announced that their product is the one being used in the Gulf. Nalco’s CEO, Erik Frywald, expressed their commitment to “helping the people and environment of the Gulf Coast recover as rapidly as possible.” It may be that the best way to help would be to remove their product from the fray. Take a look at some of the facts about Corexit 9500: A report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. entitled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” states that “Corexit 9500, Corexit 9527, and Corexit 9580 have moderate toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans and mollusks (LC50 or EC50 – 1.6 to 100 ppm*). It goes on to say that decreasing water temperatures in lab tests showed decreased toxicity, a lowered uptake of the dispersant. Unfortunately, we’re going to be seeing an increase in temperatures, not a decrease. Amongst the other caveats is that the study is species-specific, that other animals may be more severely affected, silver-sided fish amongst them. Oil is toxic at 11 ppm while Corexit 9500 is toxic at only 2.61 ppm; Corexit 9500 is four times as toxic as the oil itself. Sure, a lot less of it is being introduced, but that’s still a flawed logical perspective, because it’s not a “lesser of two evils” scenario. BOTH are going into the ocean water. The lesser of two evils seems to be a product called Dispersit, manufactured by Polychem, a division of U.S. Polychemical Corporation. In comparison, water-based Dispersit is toxic at 7.9-8.2 ppm; Dispersit holds about one third of the toxicity that Corexit 9500 presents. Dispersit is a much less harmful water-based product which is both EPA approved and the U.S. Coast Guard’s NCP list. So why isn’t it being used? We spoke with Bruce Gebhardt at Polychem Marine Products, asked him if Dispersit was being used in the Gulf Oil Spill situation. “Very little,” he replied. When asked why, the impression was that the government had used Corexit 9500 in the past, and was going with what they know — no matter how dangerous that might prove to be. Dispersit has a demonstrated effectiveness of 100% on the lighter South Louisiana crude, and 40% on Pruhoe Bay’s heavier crude. Exxon’s Corexit 9500 is just 55% effective on SL and 55% effective on PB. On an average, Dispersit is 70% effective, and may prove 100% effective, while 9500 is an average of 50% effective, with a maximum effective use of just 55%. Corexit 9500 is a harsh petroleum-based solvent which is dangerous to people and sea life. Dispersit’s human health effect is “slight to none.” Whether or not a dispersal agent is a wise move, the question remaining unanswered is: Why is Corexit 9500 is being used at all, when the water-based Dispersit is available, markedly more effective and less toxic? Follow the money. Dispersal of the oil does not eliminate it, nor does it decrease the toxicity of the oil. It just breaks it up into small particles, where it becomes less visible. It’s still there, spewing toxicity at an even greater rate (due to higher surface area.) But now it’s pretty much impossible to skim or trap or vacuum or even soak up at the shoreline, because most of it will never make it to the shoreline. Instead, that toxic crude oil AND the dispersant will be spread all over the ocean’s waters. This is why introducing such a product into the crude oil as it comes out from the pipe is a very bad idea for the ocean. It may not be pretty, but if the oil makes it to the shore, it can be soaked up, cleaned up. To “disperse” it means it will NEVER be cleaned up. It will just stay out there, polluting and poisoning the ocean, her inhabitants, and all the food we take from it. It’s unwise to be using Corexit 9500 at all, but introducing it to the oil as it leaves the broken pipe is approaching madness. Mr. Gebhardt agrees that the oil should be contained, and what has been leaked should be allowed to come to shore where it can be removed from the ocean by less toxic means. BP’s use of Corexit 9500 on the oil before it rises to the surface seems to be a deliberate attempt to mask the poison, to cover up that it continues to flow out from the ocean’s floor, while making it impossible to recover. In short, BP and Exxon want to spread the toxic oil throughout the oceans of the world, pollute everywhere, rather than allow it to be seen coming to shore where BP would have to pay for its containment and clean-up. It’s our job to keep them from getting away with sweeping this ugly mess under the surface.
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Post by nodstar on May 31, 2010 4:56:27 GMT 4
Senators demand Transocean investigation[/size] By JAKE SHERMAN | 5/25/10 11:03 AM EDT www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37740.htmlTransocean announced it will dole out $1 billion dividend payout, which triggered a call for inquiry. AP Eighteen Democratic senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate the operator of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig after the company announced it would dole out $1 billion to shareholders as oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. Transocean, according to the letter from the senators, plans to distribute dividends to its stockholders. And the senators are concerned that the payments might make it harder to collect liability payouts related to the massive oil spill. Transocean, according to the letter, also says it will make a $270 million profit on the insurance policy for the rig. And the senators claim the rig was insured for more than it was worth. A wide swath of the Democratic Caucus — about 30 percent — signed the letter, including Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Chuck Schumer of New York, Patty Murray of Washington, Bill Nelson of Florida, Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet of Colorado, Max Baucus of Montana, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Begich of Alaska, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. The call for an investigation ramps up tensions between Congress and Transocean. Much of the ire has recently been directed toward BP, which hired Transocean to operate the rig. Transocean might have been unfairly spared, congressional aides say. BP has alleged that Transocean was responsible for the safe operation of the equipment and has largely dodged blame while the oil giant has taken its lumps. “Families of those who died in the disaster, the fishing industry that has been devastated by the oil spill and the governments that have worked full time to clean up this spill deserve better,” the senators wrote in the letter.
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Post by nodstar on May 31, 2010 5:13:37 GMT 4
Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.[/size] Added: Sunday, May 30th 2010 at 10:48am by JoAnneMor www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico As you know, the Deep Water Horizon has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It has been spewing oil from a ruptured wellpipe for over a month. BP and the US Government has said they are trying everything possible to stop that multi million gallon oil from continuing to flow into the Gulf. I am about to dispute that claim and offer an expose' as to why that story about them doing everything possible is a lie and a profitable enterprise to those who would make money from this disaster. The Top Kill method was started and suspended several times. It was being attempted only half heartedly. The reason is, there is no money to be made with a solution that simple. The real money is in the use of dispersements. There is a company called NALCO. They make water purification systems and chemical dispersements. NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia. NALCO is associated with UChicago Argonne program. UChicago Argonne received $164 million dollars in stimulus funds this past year. UChicago Argonne just added two new executives to their roster. One from NALCO. The other from the Ill. Dept of Educaution. If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire. Warren Buffet /Hathaway Berkshire increased their holdings in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything). The dispersement chemical is known as Corexit. What it does is hold the oil below the water's surface. It is supposed to break up the spill into smaller pools. It is toxic and banned in Europe. NALCO says they are using older and newer versions of Corexit in the Gulf.. (Why would you need a newer version, if the old one was fine?) There is big money and even bigger players in this scam. While they are letting the oil blow wide open into the Gulf, the stakes and profit rise. The Dolphins, Whales, Manatees, Sea Turtles and fish suffocate and die. The coastal regions, salt marshes, tourist attractions and the shore front properties are being destroyed, possibly permanently.The air quality is diminished. The Gulf of Mexico fishing industry is decimated. All to create a need for their expensive and extremely profitable poison. Some friends and I have compiled extensive articles and reports to support this claim. Thank you: Sir_Templar. He brought this to our attention and hs supplied links and articles. Spongedocks. She tirelessly searched through mountains of information & supplied valuable links & resources.. Bobbi85710 She has contributed links articles and uncovered the Stimulus funds. The Research: 'This is NALCO: www.nalco.com/index.htmGoldman Sachs was part of a three-pronged group that purchased NALCO: bit.ly/8Z3Ai6Buffett’s Bet On Water, NALCO (NLC is trade code): www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3095068'Blackstone, Apollo and Goldman Sachs to acquire Ondeo NALCO' (COREXIT 9500): bit.ly/bVHQkRThe Milken Institute - Leon Black of Apollo Management LLC (i.e. NALCO): bit.ly/vJLzBP plc, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs, NALCO Holding Co., Halliburton Co: yhoo.it/amEhiSThe Chicago, NALCO, Arab, Blago, Rezko Connection: bit.ly/d88x31Obama's Economic Adviser Buffet,= Berkshire Hathaway Inc - NALCO Holding Co: bit.ly/ati3ALNALCO and the China Connection: bit.ly/daKYmk'NALCO eyes doubling of sales in China: bit.ly/bi7BZwBerkshire the second-largest shareholder in NALCO: bit.ly/cvHDAlCompany Profile 'NALCO Holding Co: bit.ly/9qeTkd'96 "partnerships with enviro products thru 2010"! Attendees: Gore M. Strong & NALCO: is.gd/ctV7pGore/Strong EPA Conference '96: is.gd/ctVfNBP Embraces Exxon’s Toxic Dispersant, Ignores Safer Alternative It has been confirmed that the dispersal agent being used by BP and the government is Corexit 9500 , a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, IL. Their stock took a sharp jump, up more than 18% at its highest point of the day today, after it was announced that their product is the one being used in the Gulf. Nalco’s CEO, Erik Frywald, expressed their commitment to “helping the people and environment of the Gulf Coast recover as rapidly as possible.” It may be that the best way to help would be to remove their product from the fray. Take a look at some of the facts about Corexit 9500: A report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. entitled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview ” states that “Corexit 9500, Corexit 9527, and Corexit 9580 have moderate toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans and mollusks (LC50 or EC50 – 1.6 to 100 ppm*). It goes on to say that decreasing water temperatures in lab tests showed decreased toxicity, a lowered uptake of the dispersant. Unfortunately, we’re going to be seeing an increase in temperatures, not a decrease. Amongst the other caveats is that the study is species-specific, that other animals may be more severely affected, silver-sided fish amongst them. www.protecttheocean.com/gulf-oil-spill-bp/Here is the Stimulus money: Awards in Lemont , Illinois Below are the stimulus contracts, grants, and loans in this city. You can click on an award to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the award and vote on whether you are satisfied with it or not. For a more local view, you can drill down to awards in a particular city. Just choose a city from the following list. The total of cost of all the projects submitted by Lemont is $164,030,462.00 more from the link at top of the post of the article ... there is a LOT MORE info .. recognizable names like HALIBURTON GOLDMAN SACHS  Warren Buffet etc etc  Science magazine features Mines hydrates research GOLDEN, Colo., Oct. 12, 2009 – Science magazine has published a paper by Colorado School of Mines doctoral graduate student Matthew Walsh, and faculty and co-directors of the Center for Hydrate Research (CHR), Carolyn Koh, E. Dendy Sloan, Amadeu Sum, and David Wu — “Microsecond Simulations of Spontaneous Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth.” The article was recently featured on "Science Express," the magazine’s web site that highlights selected articles that will appear in upcoming print issues. Wu explains gas hydrates as vast untapped energy reserves found in the ocean and the permafrost that are also a potential storage medium for hydrogen fuel or sequestering carbon dioxide. Hydrates currently pose the greatest challenge in the delivery of oil and gas in pipelines, which can be plugged by the formation of hydrates, he said. The Mines research reported in Science helps explain how hydrates form, and could eventually lead to ways to control their growth. "Methane hydrates form at high pressures and low temperatures, and have an unusual crystalline structure in which water molecules form cages around individual methane molecules, " Wu said. "How such complex structures form is notoriously difficult to study since the process of nucleation is a rare random event that happens in a few nanoseconds and at a random location over a few nanometers." This study was supported by the National Science Foundation-Renewable Energy Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and CBET Division, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Mines Hydrate Consortium, which is presently sponsored by BP, Champion Technologies, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Multi-Chem Group, Nalco, Petrobras, Schlumberger, Shell, SPT Group, StatoilHydro, and Total. www.mines.edu/Science-magazine-features-Mines-hydrates-research-rest of the article here .. www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico
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Post by nodstar on Jun 1, 2010 8:21:44 GMT 4
BP Was Concerned About Well Control Six Weeks Before Incident[/size] www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/31/bp-concerned-control-weeks-incident/By Joe Carroll May 31 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc told regulators six weeks before its well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded that workers were having trouble maintaining control, according to e-mails released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the spill. A March 10 e-mail to Frank Patton, the U.S. Minerals Management Service’s drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, from BP executive Scherie Douglas said the company planned to sever the pipe connecting the well to the rig and plug the hole. “We are in the midst of a well control situation on MC 252 #001 and have stuck pipe,” Douglas wrote, referring to the subsea block, Mississippi Canyon 252, of the stricken well. “We are bringing out equipment to begin operations to sever the drillpipe, plugback the well and bypass.” Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, and Representative Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the panel’s oversight subcommittee, released the documents related to oil-well design, and e-mails from March, February and November 2009. The documents “raise questions, but their connection to the blowout, if any, require additional investigation,” the lawmakers said. The e-mails shows that as early as the second week of March, BP was enlisting help from J. Connor Consulting Inc., a Houston-based firm that advises some of the world’s biggest energy companies on how to respond to oil spills. Federal regulators gave BP permission to cement the well at a shallower depth than normally would have been required after the hole caved in on drilling equipment, the e-mails showed. Verbal Approval Douglas or BP, the senior regulatory and advocacy adviser for the company’s exploration and production unit, received verbal approval from an unnamed MMS official at 11 p.m. on March 11 to insert the cement plug about 750 feet (229 meters) above the bottom of the hole, the e-mails showed. The House committee is investigating the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, sank Transocean’s $365 million Deepwater Horizon rig, and triggered a spill that threatens the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida. The panel also is probing equipment meant to prevent spills at deepwater wells and whether human error played a role. The New York Times reported yesterday that internal BP documents showed “serious problems and safety concerns” with the rig prior to the explosion that triggered the largest oil spill in the nation’s history. Waxman and Stupak sent letters on May 28 to clean-up consultants working for BP and Transocean, seeking documents including contacts and emergency-response plans. Letters were sent to O’Brien’s Response Management Inc. of Spring, Texas; Marine Spill Response Corp. of Herndon, Virginia; and the National Response Corp. of Great River, New York. National Response is a unit of Seacor Holdings Inc. All three companies have service agreements with BP or Transocean, the committee said in a statement. To contact the reporter on this story: Joe Carroll in Chicago at jcarroll8@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: May 31, 2010 00:17 EDT
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Post by nodstar on Jun 1, 2010 8:36:23 GMT 4
Scientists Warn Of Unseen Gulf Oil Disaster - Sperm Whales, Other Deep Sea Creatures At Risk[/size] www.kcci.com/news/23742747/detail.htmlNEW ORLEANS - Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton. Researchers have said they have found at least two massive underwater plumes of what appears to be oil, each hundreds of feet deep and stretching for miles. Yet the chief executive of BP PLC -- which has for weeks downplayed everything from the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf to the environmental effect -- said there is "no evidence" that huge amounts of oil are suspended undersea. BP CEO Tony Hayward said the oil naturally gravitates to the surface -- and any oil below was just making its way up. However, researchers say the disaster in waters where light doesn't shine through could ripple across the food chain. "Every fish and invertebrate contacting the oil is probably dying. I have no doubt about that," said Prosanta Chakrabarty, a Louisiana State University fish biologist. On the surface, a 24-hour camera fixed on the spewing, blown-out well and the images of dead, oil-soaked birds have been evidence of the calamity. At least 20 million gallons of oil and possibly 43 million gallons have spilled since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank in April. That has far eclipsed the 11 million gallons released during the Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska's coast in 1989. But there is no camera to capture what happens in the rest of the vast Gulf, which sprawls across 600,000 square miles and reaches more than 14,000 feet at its deepest point. Every night, the denizens of the deep make forays to shallower depths to eat -- and be eaten by -- other fish, according to marine scientists who describe it as the largest migration on earth. In turn, several species closest to the surface -- including red snapper, shrimp and menhaden -- help drive the Gulf Coast fishing industry. Others such as marlin, cobia and yellowfin tuna sit atop the food chain and are chased by the Gulf's charter fishing fleet. Many of those species are now in their annual spawning seasons. Eggs exposed to oil would quickly perish. Those that survived to hatch could starve if the plankton at the base of the food chain suffer. Larger fish are more resilient, but not immune to the toxic effects of oil. The Gulf's largest spill was in 1979, when the Ixtoc I platform off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula blew up and released 140 million gallons of oil. But that was in relatively shallow waters -- about 160 feet deep -- and much of the oil stayed on the surface where it broke down and became less toxic by the time it reached the Texas coast. But last week, a team from the University of South Florida reported a plume was headed toward the continental shelf off the Alabama coastline, waters thick with fish and other marine life. The researchers said oil in the plumes had dissolved into the water, possibly a result of chemical dispersants used to break up the spill. That makes it more dangerous to fish larvae and creatures that are filter feeders. Responding to Hayward's assertion, one researcher noted that scientists from several different universities have come to similar conclusions about the plumes after doing separate testing. No major fish kills have been reported, but federal officials said the impacts could take years to unfold. "This is just a giant experiment going on and we're trying to understand scientifically what this means," said Roger Helm, a senior official with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2009, LSU's Chakrabarty discovered two new species of bottom-dwelling pancake batfish about 30 miles off the Louisiana coastline -- right in line with the pathway of the spill caused when the Deepwater Horizon burned and sank April 24. By the time an article in the Journal of Fish Biology detailing the discovery appears in the August edition, Chakrabarty said, the two species -- which pull themselves along the seafloor with feet-like fins -- could be gone or in serious decline. "There are species out there that haven't been described, and they're going to disappear," he said. Recent discoveries of endangered sea turtles soaked in oil and 22 dolphins found dead in the spill zone only hint at the scope of a potential calamity that could last years and unravel the Gulf's food web. Concerns about damage to the fishery already is turning away potential customers for charter boat captains such as Troy Wetzel of Venice. To get to waters unaffected by the spill, Wetzel said he would have to take his boat 100 miles or more into the Gulf -- jacking up his fuel costs to where only the wealthiest clients could afford to go fishing. Significant amounts of crude oil seep naturally from thousands of small rifts in the Gulf's floor -- as much as two Exxon Valdez spills every year, according to a 2000 report from government and academic researchers. Microbes that live in the water break down the oil. The number of microbes that grow in response to the more concentrated BP spill could tip that system out of balance, LSU oceanographer Mark Benfield said. Too many microbes in the sea could suck oxygen from the water, creating an uninhabitable hypoxic area, or "dead zone." Preliminary evidence of increased hypoxia in the Gulf was seen during an early May cruise aboard the R/V Pelican, carrying researchers from the University of Georgia, the University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi. An estimated 910,000 gallons of dispersants -- enough to fill more than 100 tanker trucks -- are contributing a new toxin to the mix. Containing petroleum distillates and propylene glycol, the dispersants' effects on marine life are still unknown. What is known is that by breaking down oil into smaller droplets, dispersants reduce the oil's buoyancy, slowing or stalling the crude's rise to the surface and making it harder to track the spill. Dispersing the oil lower into the water column protects beaches, but also keeps it in cooler waters where oil does not break down as fast. That could prolong the oil's potential to poison fish, said Larry McKinney, director of the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. "There's a school of thought that says we've made it worse because of the dispersants," he said.
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Post by Eagles Disobey on Jun 1, 2010 17:12:27 GMT 4
We have been asked in hundreds of emails what we are doing in the Gulf? Many are complaining because they can't see the Eagle team's back and forth communications. Sorry, but that is how it is right now. We have been asked what measures we are taking if any? We are taking measures.
Yes we have a team there to help in the clean up. We are also using extreme techniques to do whatever we can to help. All of the Eagles' companies are literally being stressed to the bone to continue fighting.
Deployments are underway. We are not at liberty to openly declare exactly what those deployments are. We are not at liberty to declare why we aren't at liberty to declare what measures are being taken.
Those who can see inside of the Eagles subboard know that we are working around the clock (especially including Dr. Dan) in this effort. Seeing posts from him at 11:00am, 4:00am, 6:00pm, and 10:00pm are not unusual right now. He's sleeping in the Grotto near the communications equipment.
We are fighting with everything we have available and just don't have the time enough to report to the public all the time.
Love,
Eagles Disobey
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Post by Eagles Disobey on Jun 1, 2010 17:17:16 GMT 4
CALL OUT TO ALL FORMER MAJ OPERATIVES WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF THE GULF COAST.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
WE DO NOT HAVE A LARGE ENOUGH TEAM TO COMPLETE WHAT HAS BEEN ORDERED BY THE COMPANY DIRECTOR, DR. DAN.
PLEASE CONTACT THE IC AS SOON AS YOU CAN!
THANK YOU.
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C/U will still be ongoing by then. We will personally respond too, when legally/contractually freed. We have a large team, under you, already on scene, and your pay will continue via NV-TCG, and equipment/supplies via Angel Eagles, for as long as you need to be there.
