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Post by nodstar on Jun 29, 2010 6:26:26 GMT 4
Hey Everyone .. Here's an Australian 60 mins vid about the oil catastrophe it's beautifully presented and I'm proud to post it here BP demanded that it be removed .. too bad the truth is out Rense describes these videos and as SUPERB Part 1 Part 2 Peace Out Nod
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Post by iris on Jun 29, 2010 23:58:48 GMT 4
Thank you Noddy for posting the videos.
Yes, it is superb!
Lots of Love, Iris
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Post by auroralaura on Jun 30, 2010 17:21:31 GMT 4
www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Scientists+hatch+plan+desparate+race+save+turtle+eggs/3220031/story.html[glow=red,2,300]Scientists hatch plan in desparate race to save sea turtle eggs [/glow] By Steve Gorman, MCT June 30, 2010 9:02 AM LOS ANGELES — U.S. wildlife experts are preparing to collect tens of thousands of endangered sea turtle eggs and move them hundreds of miles away in an unprecedented bid to protect them from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Plans call for relocating 700 to 800 clutches of eggs left newly buried on the sandy beaches of Alabama and northwestern Florida — accounting for the bulk of turtle nests in the northern Gulf, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Charles Underwood said on Monday. "Relocating sea turtle nests on occasion, nest by nest, in very small numbers, has been done before (but) nothing has even been considered at this massive scale," Underwood told Reuters. "It’s never been attempted anywhere in the world." Most of the nests designated for removal are those of the loggerhead turtle, the world’s largest hard-shelled turtle, growing to an average adult weight of 250 pounds (113 kg). The loggerhead is the most prevalent of five species of threatened or endangered sea turtles that inhabit the U.S. Gulf Coast. The project, developed by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the state of Florida, also will include a handful of nests from other species — Kemp’s ridley, leatherback and green turtles. Concerns about the well-being of turtles have run especially high since the spill began because it coincided with the reptiles’ breeding season. While the strategy is largely untested, the grave consequences of leaving the nests undisturbed are certain. If allowed to hatch on their own without being moved, the baby turtles emerging from those nests would likely swim directly into the mass of crude oil spewing into the Gulf since late April from a ruptured BP well and now encroaching on Alabama and the Florida panhandle. "It’s almost certainly a death sentence," Underwood said. "We’d expect to lose most, if not all of them." Later this month, wildlife teams will begin the painstaking process of digging up eggs from the nests, placing them in special containers covered with sand and shipping them by truck to the Atlantic coast of central Florida. There the eggs will be kept in temperature-controlled holding facilities until their incubation is complete and they begin to hatch. The hatchlings will then be carried by hand to the beach and released near the water’s edge, Underwood said. At least 50,000 baby turtles are expected to emerge, assuming roughly 70 eggs from each of 700 nests survive the transfer and incubation period. The clutch size, or number of eggs per nest, generally vary from 100 to 126 eggs, each laid by a single female turtle who may come ashore to nest as many as four times during the spring. Some 4,000-plus turtle nesting sites along the beaches of southwestern Florida and the Florida Keys are being left undisturbed because the spill poses a far smaller threat to them, Underwood said. The success of the relocation remains to be seen, but biologists are taking care to improve the turtles’ odds such as placing the eggs in storage as closely as possible to their exact orientation in the nests, Underwood said. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, more than 550 sea turtles have been found dead and debilitated along the U.S. Gulf Coast to date, about double the number reported a month ago when the agency first began posting daily tallies. Many were found without visible signs of oil exposure, and further tests are necessary to determine if oil was a culprit, said Dr. Michael Ziccardi, a professor at the University of California at Davis who heads the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. He has overseen rescue efforts for sea turtles and marine mammals throughout the Gulf since the spill. One potential spill-related cause of turtle mortality that has raised alarms but remains unconfirmed is the controlled burning of patches of oil slick at the Gulf surface. Ziccardi said some turtles had "likely" perished in the process but "we don’t have any evidence to prove it one way or the other." As a precaution, wildlife observers are being assigned to work with the controlled-burn teams to look for and collect turtles around parts of the slick before they are set ablaze, he said. And no burning is allowed in areas where turtles and other wildlife have been spotted. The controlled burns are still widely regarded as preferable to letting the slick wash into sensitive coastal areas where they do greater environmental harm, he said. "There are trade-offs," he said. "The Coast Guard has been extremely cooperative on the things we’re attempting to do to get turtles out of harms’ way, if possible." © Copyright (c) McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -For images, please click on the link above the headline. AL
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Post by nodstar on Jul 1, 2010 5:58:01 GMT 4
Whistle blower to testify on oil spill worst fear:BP deliberately sinks oil with Corexit as cover up[/size] June 30, 1:38 PM Political Spin ExaminerMaryann Tobin click here for CNN video at bottom of page www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m6d30-Whistle-blower-to-testify-on-oil-spill-worst-fearBP-deliberately-sinks-oil-with-Corexit-as-cover-upTestimony before a Senate investigative panel this week is expected to reveal what many have suspected about BP all along; they don’t care about the environment, the animals that are dying, and the lives that are being destroyed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In a shocking interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on June 29th, Allegiance Capitol Corporation V.P. Fred McCallister said that BP is deliberately sinking oil with the toxic chemical disbursant Corexit, to hide the size of the oil spill. By sinking the oil before it can be collected, BP won’t have to pay fines on it. McCallister said, “Everybody in Europe, where the standard practice is to raise the oil and collect it, is scratching their heads, and quite honestly laughing at what’s happening in the Gulf.” He added, “Everyone is looking at us and wondering why we’re allowing this to happen.” McCallister is set to appear before a Senate investigative panel on Thursday and testify that BP’s only interests regarding the Deepwater Horizon spill is protectimg their own financial interests. His statements explained why BP has been refusing offers of help from additional foreign skimmers. BP’s fear is that independent skimmers would be able to count the number of gallons collected, and thus provide the US government with data to assess spill rate financial penalties against BP, according to McCallister. “BP is in control of this situation and they are doing what’s in the best interests of BP and their shareholders,” McCallister said.
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Post by nodstar on Jul 1, 2010 6:03:40 GMT 4
BP buys Google, Yahoo search words:Is it to keep people from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster?[/size] June 6, 1:48 AM Political Spin ExaminerMaryann Tobin www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m6d6-BP-buys-Google-Yahoo-search-engine-words-to-keep-people-away-from-real-news-on-Gulf-oil-spill-disasIn their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in US history, BP has purchased sponsored links at the top of internet search engines, Google and Yahoo. The top listed links direct people to BP's official company website for news and information on the catastrophe. BP spokesman Toby Odone confirmed to ABC News that the oil giant had in fact bought internet search terms. The words ‘oil spill’, 'BP oil spill', 'Deepwater Horizon' and 'oil spill response' are among several other related search terms that all lead to the top listed sponsored links purchased by BP. BP has not been completely forthcomming with information on the oil spill, which has damaged the companies public image. Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, BP executives quickly underestimated the size of the disastrous oil spill. Some suggest they did it to avoid costly EPA per-gallon spill fines. The less oil spilled, the lower the fines. A month into the spill, the public learned through independent science, that the spill was in fact a million gallon a day gusher. BP got caught in their own lie when the used a syphon pipe in one of the broken riser pipes and proudly proclaimed that they were capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day. With the oil obviously still gushing, they had to up their spill rate to explain the reported discrepancy in their earlier estimates. As the dead bodies of birds, turtles and dolphins began showing up on land, BP used a private security company as their ‘oil spill police’ to try to keep photographers and reporters away from the true death toll from their spill. Tides of black goo lapping a shore lined in corpses did not portray the company image Tony Hayward wanted for BP. The world is watching the Gulf of Mexico from airplanes, boats and satellite images. Buying the links listed first on internet search engines, which direct people to the BP company website, will not hide or erase the horrors of the apocalypse unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Yet the question remains: If BP were not trying to influence information on the Gulf oil spill, why would they buy sponsored links?
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Post by satchmo on Jul 1, 2010 8:11:12 GMT 4
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Post by satchmo on Jul 1, 2010 19:15:31 GMT 4
BP sued for burning turtles aliveAnimal welfare groups are suing BP for burning endangered sea turtles and are asking a US court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill. The lawsuit filed on Wednesday says BP is violating the Endangered Species Act and other laws with their "controlled burns" in the Gulf of Mexico. The complainants, Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Centre for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Animal Legal Defence Fund, have asked the federal court for a temporary restraining order to stop all burning activities "until ... mechanisms are implemented that will prevent any additional sea turtles from being burned alive." "It is horrifying that these innocent creatures whose habitat has already been devastated by the oil spill are now being burned alive," AWI president Cathy Liss told the court in Louisiana. Containment efforts put in place since a BP-leased offshore oil rig exploded April 20 unleashing the worst oil spill in US history include "controlled burns", in which oil is gathered by ship-towed floating booms and set on fire. "Endangered sea turtles, including the Kemp's ridley, one of the rarest sea turtles on Earth, are caught in the gathered oil and unable to escape when the oil is set ablaze," the animal welfare groups said. They said some 430 sea turtles from endangered species have perished so far in the oil spill. "While cleaning up the catastrophic oil spill is critically important, so too is doing it in a way which doesn't destroy wildlife in a flagrantly unlawful manner," said Liss. The groups said BP should remove all turtles from the oil gathered for a controlled burn before it is set on fire. AFP www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hRz23rCz-6Ud3aCE1De_5x7L-5Cgsatchmo
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Post by caspa on Jul 2, 2010 0:17:32 GMT 4
BP sued for burning turtles aliveAnimal welfare groups are suing BP for burning endangered sea turtles and are asking a US court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill. The lawsuit filed on Wednesday says BP is violating the Endangered Species Act and other laws with their "controlled burns" in the Gulf of Mexico. The complainants, Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Centre for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Animal Legal Defence Fund, have asked the federal court for a temporary restraining order to stop all burning activities "until ... mechanisms are implemented that will prevent any additional sea turtles from being burned alive." "It is horrifying that these innocent creatures whose habitat has already been devastated by the oil spill are now being burned alive," AWI president Cathy Liss told the court in Louisiana. Containment efforts put in place since a BP-leased offshore oil rig exploded April 20 unleashing the worst oil spill in US history include "controlled burns", in which oil is gathered by ship-towed floating booms and set on fire. "Endangered sea turtles, including the Kemp's ridley, one of the rarest sea turtles on Earth, are caught in the gathered oil and unable to escape when the oil is set ablaze," the animal welfare groups said. They said some 430 sea turtles from endangered species have perished so far in the oil spill. "While cleaning up the catastrophic oil spill is critically important, so too is doing it in a way which doesn't destroy wildlife in a flagrantly unlawful manner," said Liss. The groups said BP should remove all turtles from the oil gathered for a controlled burn before it is set on fire. AFP www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hRz23rCz-6Ud3aCE1De_5x7L-5Cgsatchmo Make sense to me. Their proxies, the USCG, ordered my husband to put an oil covered pelican back into the water to drown. He told them to shove it. So do I. F
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Post by caspa on Jul 2, 2010 0:28:12 GMT 4
I have been getting letters requesting I release the contents of the Tau-IX treaties I posted about on Eagles Disobey. Let's re-read what I posted about them: www.eaglesdisobey.net"To be clear:
I am not in control of one specific vault that Marci has. While Dr. Marci handed control of Eagles Disobey to me, she kept total control a large walk in vault -the contents of that vault (which I can tell you I saw this morning in Las Vegas, and which I know the real location of but cannot reveal) include:
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-- A copy of the last 2 Tau-IX treaties, in full
.."Uhhh? Fran
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Post by caspa on Jul 2, 2010 2:51:23 GMT 4
I got a couple letters calling me "arrogant" because I changed my official name to my real official name. The people writing didn't bother to ask why, they called names. No wonder they are learning less and less and not in the conversation anymore? To the people I love: I am using my official real name because throughout my whole career, many jobs mostly in IT, I was treated like crap. I was treated like crap for decades. Some of you will know what I am saying, you've been there? I worked for others and they treated me like I was an expendable piece of property, replaceable any time they felt like it? Well, no more of that. I now have a position, a real career, thanks to Dan and Marci, and near them close enough where no one on this side of the "veil" better ever treat me like crap. So, I am using my full real name to tell the world I AM HERE AND I AM BACK! It's not me being arrogant, it's me proclaiming ME, for once. After a little while I will change my name to just "Fran" or "Caspa" but for the time being I like seeing my name where so many said I could never go. Love to you and kisses F
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Post by emeraldsun on Jul 2, 2010 3:18:46 GMT 4
I got a couple letters calling me "arrogant" because I changed my official name to my real official name. The people writing didn't bother to ask why, they called names. No wonder they are learning less and less and not in the conversation anymore? To the people I love: I am using my official real name because throughout my whole career, many jobs mostly in IT, I was treated like crap. I was treated like crap for decades. Some of you will know what I am saying, you've been there? I worked for others and they treated me like I was an expendable piece of property, replaceable any time they felt like it? Well, no more of that. I now have a position, a real career, thanks to Dan and Marci, and near them close enough where no one on this side of the "veil" better ever treat me like crap. So, I am using my full real name to tell the world I AM HERE AND I AM BACK! It's not me being arrogant, it's me proclaiming ME, for once. After a little while I will change my name to just "Fran" or "Caspa" but for the time being I like seeing my name where so many said I could never go. Love to you and kisses F Thank you Fran for posting this!!!! You have my full support. I am super proud of you and wish for you only the best of the best from this point forward. Emeraldsun
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Post by caspa on Jul 2, 2010 7:33:00 GMT 4
I got a couple letters calling me "arrogant" because I changed my official name to my real official name. The people writing didn't bother to ask why, they called names. No wonder they are learning less and less and not in the conversation anymore? To the people I love: I am using my official real name because throughout my whole career, many jobs mostly in IT, I was treated like crap. I was treated like crap for decades. Some of you will know what I am saying, you've been there? I worked for others and they treated me like I was an expendable piece of property, replaceable any time they felt like it? Well, no more of that. I now have a position, a real career, thanks to Dan and Marci, and near them close enough where no one on this side of the "veil" better ever treat me like crap. So, I am using my full real name to tell the world I AM HERE AND I AM BACK! It's not me being arrogant, it's me proclaiming ME, for once. After a little while I will change my name to just "Fran" or "Caspa" but for the time being I like seeing my name where so many said I could never go. Love to you and kisses F Thank you Fran for posting this!!!! You have my full support. I am super proud of you and wish for you only the best of the best from this point forward. Emeraldsun Thank you! F
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Post by galaxygirl on Jul 2, 2010 14:29:19 GMT 4
I got a couple letters calling me "arrogant" because I changed my official name to my real official name. The people writing didn't bother to ask why, they called names. No wonder they are learning less and less and not in the conversation anymore? To the people I love: I am using my official real name because throughout my whole career, many jobs mostly in IT, I was treated like crap. I was treated like crap for decades. Some of you will know what I am saying, you've been there? I worked for others and they treated me like I was an expendable piece of property, replaceable any time they felt like it? Well, no more of that. I now have a position, a real career, thanks to Dan and Marci, and near them close enough where no one on this side of the "veil" better ever treat me like crap. So, I am using my full real name to tell the world I AM HERE AND I AM BACK! It's not me being arrogant, it's me proclaiming ME, for once. After a little while I will change my name to just "Fran" or "Caspa" but for the time being I like seeing my name where so many said I could never go. Love to you and kisses F Ohhh Fran . . . . congratulations on taking a stand for your Self. You probably know that the word in the song above is an acronym: Being In Total Control of HerselfLotsa love and support for being a B*T*H! GG
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Post by forevernyt on Jul 2, 2010 18:10:56 GMT 4
Hi Fran,
Been lurking here for awhile, but decided to chime in and first say congrats to you on your new position. Looks like the site is in good hands.
Secondly, why would anyone bother to bust your chops about changing your name?? Do these people have nothing better to do with their lives and rag on your about your decision?
The ignorance, self-centeredness and idiocy of people never cease to amaze me.
Anyway, you do whatever you want to do, whatever makes you happy and whatever is best for the site. To hell with everyone else.
Good luck!
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Post by nodstar on Jul 3, 2010 2:50:36 GMT 4
For Francis M.G. Ortiz[/size] Shakin' The Tree !!!! ;D with respect Nod
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