Turkey defends it's citizens when they're murdered by Israelis, the United States of Israel does nothing when Israelis murder U.S. citizens:
A U.S. citizen of Turkish origin was among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos attacked a Gaza-bound aid flotilla . . . An official from the Turkish Islamic charity that spearheaded the campaign to bust the blockade on Gaza identified the U.S. citizen as 19-year-old Furkan Dogan . . . . Dogan, who held a U.S. passport, had four bullet wounds to the head and one to the chest . . . .
Will the fact that one of the dead at Israel's hands was an American teenager with four bullet wounds to his head alter the Obama administration's full-scale defense of Israel? Does that question even need to be asked? Not even American interests can undermine reflexive U.S. support for anything Israel does; even the Chief of the Mossad acknowledged this week that "Israel is progressively becoming a burden on the United States." One dead 19-year-old American with 4 bullet holes in his head (especially one of Turkish origin with a Turkish-sounding name) surely won't have any impact.
Glenn Greenwald: The Israeli flotilla attack: victimhood, aggression and tribalism
Israel Naval officers say flotilla organisers not to blame
Why the Biggest Killers See Themselves as Victims
What Passes for TV News in America - All Propaganda All the Time - Especially in reports about Israel, a nation that can do no wrong on cable or broadcast news and talk shows, leaving viewers hopelessly misinformed.
US Media Hide Evidence: Did Israeli Troops Execute or Murder the Mavi Marmara Victims?
Israel under fire for doctoring flotilla recordings
AIPAC: We’ll take over Cal’s student government... That's how we operate in our nation’s capitol
Rush Limbaugh has his orders: RUSH to defend Israel when they murder U.S. citizens. Now you know who Rush Limbaugh works for.
Report Shows Increased U.S. Military Spending Slows Economy
For NYT, Killing Civilians Shows How Much You Don't Want To
Economic Hitmen:
BP says they're capturing '10,000 gallons a day' of leaking oil…even though they said only 5,000 total per day was leaking!!!
Oil Might Keep Leaking for Months After Relief Wells are Drilled
Running the corporate blockade at Louisiana's crude-covered beaches.
this drummer is at the wrong gig
Volcanic Smoke Ring
Smoke rings caused by a volcano,.. rare but it happens.
BP knows the flow rate of the oil
ReplyDeleteTo determine the flow rate of the oil, you need to know three things:
(1) The velocity of the material coming out of the BOP
(2) The ratio of gas to oil
(3) The diameter of the exit orifice
BP very likely measured (1) when the riser was removed, creating a single leak atop the BOP, where a flow sensor could have been positioned. The gas/oil ratio (2) has been determined on the surface by the flaring and oil capture processing operation. The BOP pipe diameter (3) has been known from the start.
Thus one can conclude that BP is suppressing accurate information about the magnitude of oil leakage into the GOM in order to protect its profitability and institutional survival. This behavior is contrary to the public interest, and the refusal of the Obama administration to demand this information confirms that corporations dominate our society, both on Wall Street and in the energy sector.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6569#comment-643209
Update on the big "sinkhole" last week - scary stuff!
ReplyDeletehttp://news.discovery.com/earth/dont-call-the-guatemala-sinkhole-a-sinkhole.html
OK, the smoke rings were cool, but if you have a smoke ring generator, you're nuts and you probably don't work:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLop6MIwUU&feature=player_embedded
Hey - kill that CNN video - it starts all by itself. I was at the top of the page - at work - trying to figure out how to silence it.
ReplyDeleteIsrael Naval officers say flotilla organisers not to blame
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http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/53324#comment-203753
ReplyDeleteIn Defense of Helen Thomas
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChjGJZPSXQY&playnext_from=TL&videos=CwdH1vl30fo
Fault Lines - Dying Inside: Elderly in prison
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvqj8hgxRfg&playnext_from=TL&videos=TEHiasCXajI
Israel Rejects Call for International Probe into Attack on Gaza Flotilla
ReplyDeleteWhile international condemnation of Israel continues, inside Israel the mood is quite different. An Israeli parliamentary panel recommended today that the Knesset revoke the privileges of Israeli Arab lawmaker Hanin Zoabi for participating in last week’s Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Right-wing demonstrators targeted a peace protest in Tel Aviv Saturday and reportedly attacked veteran Israeli activist, the eighty-six-year-old Uri Avnery. For more on the fallout of the flotilla attack and the reactions inside Israel, I’m joined now from Jaffa by Max Blumenthal.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/7/israel_rejects_call_for_international_probe
Wilkerson on Cheney
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGNhbc3rgRY&playnext_from=TL&videos=WV2Id9kpV1g
Takeover of US by Israel
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLfBMGBewnI&playnext_from=TL&videos=WAECUZk-m_c
Killed it.
ReplyDeletebtw...something I had open kept bringing windows down. I'm not sure what it was.
Inside Iraq - Are Bush and Blair above the law?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Zg-OwnvWA&playnext_from=TL&videos=-fTKG4clzSU
Doctors group says Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees
ReplyDeletehttp://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0607/doctors-group-bush-administration-conducted-medical-experiments-detainees/
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
ReplyDeleteThe chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOil leaking from the sea floor around the outside of the well casing!
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/06/07/senator-nelson-says-bp-well-integrity-may-be-blown/
Soooo..................
ReplyDelete...it turns out the head of BP cashed in his stocks right before the "oil spill":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html... See More
AND
Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of their BP stocks right before the oil spill:
http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/03/goldman-sachs-sold-250-million-of-bp-stock-before-spill/
Any comments? Can you say Reichstag fire???
ONE could be a coincidence, but TWO and counting dumped BP stocks???
Insider Trading
Pre-9/11 Put Options on Companies Hurt by Attack Indicates Foreknowledge
http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html
These are FACTS, not "conspiracies". You're an ostrich with your head in the sand, if you deny what's going on.
Better put someone from the Bush cabal back in power because of the "oil spill":
ReplyDeletePoll: Obama administration gets low marks on oil gusher response
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0607/poll-obama-administration-marks-oil-gusher-response/
That's the elevator shaft to BigDan's wine cellar.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0133efa1341c970b-800wi
Kidnapped by Israel and Abandoned by Britain
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PA Dealing With Own Drilling Disaster
ReplyDeleteNatural Gas Well Leaks Gas In Western PA
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/PA_Dealing_With_Own_Drilling_Disaster
The most important information has been suppressed
ReplyDeleteBP now has controlled apertures on the top hat to which it can affix instrumentation and/or capture mechanisms. Please tell me why flow rate cannot be measured at these apertures or at the end of piping attached to them. The oil/gas ratio will be the same at all of these tap points, and it is already being monitored at the surface, so the only value that needs to be measured is the velocity of the flow, and this can be crudely established by timing the filling of a large bladder or tank attached to one of the top cap outlets.
Every other comment on TOD concerns estimating the flow. There is ample theoretical and technical capability for measuring the flow. Yet there is no reliable measurement of the flow of this disastrous leak. The absence of this measurement is a calculated decision to protect political and financial interests, not a failure of technology.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6569#comment-643324
Verrrry Interesting ... but NOT peculiar!
ReplyDeleteAnd Limbaugh blaming it on the environmentalists!
Yup - all per plan!
That drummer is a hoot! LMAO!
ReplyDeleteAt my High School some of the guys got together and formed a band that played at the dances etc.
They wore yellow sparkly Tuxedos like the guys in that band. Called themselves The Mustard Men!
Photos from the gulf,.. brace yourself it ain't pretty.
ReplyDeletehttp://andylevin.com/2010/06/catastrophe-in-the-gulf-the-hot-zone/
One more data point on April 20th
ReplyDeleteobtained a three-page signed statement from a crew member on the boat that rescued the burning rig's workers. The sailor, who Buzbee refuses to name for fear of costing him his job, was on the ship's bridge when Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell, a top employee of rig owner Transocean, was speaking with someone in Houston via satellite phone. Buzbee told Mother Jones that, according to this witness account, Harrell was screaming, "Are you f*cking happy? Are you f*cking happy? The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen."
Contradicted by sworn testimony by Harrell later.
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/06/rigs-fire-i-told-you-was-gonna-happen
BigDan's backyard,..
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Pilly Enquirer: Gas spews from N.W. Pa. well rupture
from Friday ( & nothing since):
Gas spews from N.W. Pa. well rupture
By Amy Worden
Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG - Natural gas and polluted wastewater blasted out of a well in Northwestern Pennsylvania for 16 hours before being contained Friday in what officials say was the state's most alarming drilling-related accident in recent years.
No injuries were reported and no fire broke out, a grave risk with large amounts of airborne natural gas.
The well ruptured at 8 p.m. Thursday, sending a gas plume 75 feet into the air and wastewater cascading into the ground just as the gas contractor was preparing to begin production at the well, the officials said.
The accident happened as EOG Resources Inc. of Houston was preparing to start production at a deep well in the Marcellus Shale, the rich gas reserve underlying most of the state. The site is on private land at the edge of the Moshannon State Forest. The nearest house is more than a mile away.
State officials said they were still trying to determine exactly what happened, but said unexpectedly high gas pressure caused drilling crews to lose control of the well. They also said a safety device known as a blowout preventer had failed.
Workers at the site were evacuated, and contaminated wastewater, a by-product of the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process used to extract underground gas, was eventually contained, according to Department of Environment Protection officials.
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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20100605_Gas_spews_from_N_W__Pa__well_rupture.html#ixzz0qCIYql6l
7 hurt in W.Va. gas well explosion
ReplyDeleteMOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. -- Seven people were injured early today in an explosion at a two-day-old gas well that had recently started drilling to the deep Marcellus shale formation in rural West Virginia.
Thomas Hart, director of emergency services for Marshall County, said crews from 20 fire departments are on the scene in a remote area outside Moundsville as flames continue to shoot 50 feet into the air. Fire crews are keeping the flames from spreading to equipment on the drilling site, but they are waiting for experts to be sent from well owner Dallas-based Chief Oil & Gas of Wexford, Pa., for help with extinguishing the fire. The rigging was extensively damaged.
Ms. Gittins said the well, the second to be drilled on that pad, was still "flaring," or burning, gas at noon, "which is what you want to happen." She said she didn't know how long the well flaring would continue.
Photo,..
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/201006/20100607brk_ds_moundsville_gas_fire_500.jpg
The West Virginia explosion is the second major accident at a Marcellus shale drilling operation in four days. On Friday, natural gas and drilling fluids escaped from a Marcellus shale well operated by EOG Resources in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, Pa., for 16 hours, threatening to pollute a nearby stream.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10158/1063830-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml#ixzz0qCKs0akX
EOG Resources, formerly known as Enron Oil & Gas Co, based out of Texas???
ReplyDeleteThere's a huge gas well explosion in Granbury Texas
ReplyDeleteas well -still on fire and shown on GEM$NBC.
A large explosion at at gas well has caused a large fire. Residents could feel the ground shake and see flames shooting very high in the air. The fire can be seen from 30 miles away. The fire is near Granbury, Texas in Hood County. The fire was reported about 3 p.m. CDT at 2101 County Road 1120 in Hood County.
Fire department tanker trucks and brush trucks are responding to the scene along with regular fire equipment.
http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2010/06/07/gas-well-explosion-near-granbury-texas-southwest-of-dallas-texas/
Showing a policeman the door turned out -- inadvertently -- to be a good business decision for the Red and Black Cafe in Southeast Portland.
ReplyDeleteThe vegan establishment was deluged with customers in the two days after news came out last week that one of the co-owners had served coffee to a Portland police officer, then kicked him out.
"We had a couple of really busy days over the weekend," said John Langley, the co-owner who served Officer James Crooker and asked him to leave. "We had two $1,100 days, which is maybe double a typical day."
The story sparked a fiery response, with national coverage and about 600 comments posted on oregonlive.com. Along with a boost in customers, the cafe has received five threats of arson and other violence.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/business_increases_at_southeas.html
Mr Fish on Helen Thomas,..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.clowncrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LetThemEatMe.jpg
Witness the mainstreaming of Orly Taitz?
ReplyDeleteThe longtime Birther agitator and dentist who is now running for the GOP secretary of state nomination in California was a "special guest" of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the group's "annual summer bash" at the Beverly Hills Hilton Sunday. Also in attendance: GOP heavyweights Karl Rove, former Senator Norm Coleman, and California Senate candidates Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina.
The program for the event, touted by Taitz on her website, lists about 15 "Special Guests" including Coleman, Reps. Connie Mack (R-FL), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Edward Royce (R-CA), and Taitz. Speakers included Rove, who gave the keynote and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) (with whom Taitz is already acquainted).
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/republican_jewish_coalition_hosts_birther_taitz.php?ref=mblt
Colbert shows Obama how to get angry at the pollution BP executives caused.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/311927/june-07-2010/oil-s-well-that-never-ends
BigDan holds this special patent,..
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Polymer-based Filter Successfully Cleans Water, Recovers Oil...
Source: Univ Pittsburgh
Pitt Researcher Says Simple Polymer-based Filter Successfully Cleans Water, Recovers Oil in Gulf of Mexico Tests
Developed by Pitt engineering professor Di Gao in response to the “Deepwater Horizon” oil leak, the technique combines an ordinary cotton filter with a solution that repels oil while allowing water to pass through
PITTSBURGH-In response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Pittsburgh engineering professor has developed a technique for separating oil from water via a cotton filter coated in a chemical polymer that blocks oil while allowing water to pass through. The researcher reports that the filter was successfully tested off the coast of Louisiana and shown to simultaneously clean water and preserve the oil.
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A video of Gao testing his filter with oil and water samples from the Gulf of Mexico spill is available on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfRKjiOXVWE
Gao's filter hinges on a polymer that is both hydrophilic-it bonds with the hydrogen molecules in water-and oleophobic, meaning that it repels oil. When the polymer is applied to an ordinary cotton filter, it allows water to pass through but not oil. The filter is produced by submerging the cotton in a liquid solution containing the polymer then drying it in an oven or in open air, Gao explained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfRKjiOXVWE