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Wake Up! Corporate Monsters are Killing You!
By Mary Sparrowdancer
8-29-10
Perhaps the British Petroleum/Nalco event was the wakeup call we needed in order to look more closely at untouchable corporations that began running the whole world 100 years ago. This is a paper about corporate communism, which is otherwise known as "monopolies" that are now rampant in the US. Monopolies always engage in conspiracy, and their first goal is to conspire to eliminate their competition and choices, establish control over prices and the masses by an elite few. The April 20, 2010, BP oil catastrophe in America's Gulf can be described as a monumental corporate conspiracy. BP was permitted by cronies to dig a hole to China off Louisiana's shores without safety measures or concern for the Gulf's marine ecosystem. Rather than immediately corking its gusher, BP quickly tapped a relatively unheard of company named Nalco on the shoulder for millions of gallons of its toxic Corexit dispersant. BP began adding Corexit to the oil-ravaged Gulf on April 23, and thumbed its nose at the US government when it suggested that something less toxic and more effective than Corexit be used.
"Corexit" does not "correct" anything as its corporately cute name implies. It makes the oil less visible on the surface, but making something less visible has never been a way to "correct" anything or change what needs to be changed. In addition, the containers holding Corexit carry a substantial warning about coming in contact with it or inhaling its vapors. Many of those who came in contact with the oil and the version of Corexit used while trying to "clean up" the Exxon-Valdez catastrophe remained sickened for years. Similarly, a number of newly unemployed US fishermen in the Gulf who began taking jobs to help clean up BP's mess have reported illnesses. Low oxygen levels are being reported, and when the water is low in oxygen, it means our air is also low.
According to numerous reports, these fishermen, who are the "first responders" in this most recent manmade disaster, state they have been told the air is safe to breathe, the water is safe to come in contact with despite being filled with chemicals, and that respirators will not be permitted. Numerous journalists and photographers, as well as scientists have been ordered to stay away from the disaster site or face arrest. We have an arrogant British company running things here in the US so sloppily they have shrugged-off having recently killed eleven men whose bodies were never found, and now they are ordering Americans around as though we are presumed British subjects.
Nalco is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, with corporate headquarters in Illinois. Although we "little people" might not have been familiar with Nalco until now, it appears that directors and former directors from notable corporate giants have been quite familiar with Nalco for years. The question of why BP selected Nalco's more toxic, less efficient Corexit instead of other less toxic dispersants has remained basically unanswered by BP. Not even congressmen have been able to extract this answer from BP's reps. All that has been truly known was that BP immediately felt their oil volcano was going to need a mother load of dispersants, and there was only one dispersant manufacturer prepared to step into this windfall opportunity for a dispersant manufacturer: Nalco.
Corexit suspends the oil in a subsurface manner, where oil-eating microbes flock to it, and it is this activity that scientists say leads to depleted oxygen levels in the seas. In addition, the use of subsurface Corexit one mile down was reportedly not based upon any science at all. It was another experiment being conducted by the chemical companies. Despite the "toxic stew" that BP/Nalco have created in the Gulf, news reports continue with conflicting statements in that "it is not known" what caused the subsequent, massive fish kills after the Gulf was filled with oil and dispersant chemicals. Conflicting reports certainly do not end with the fish kills. Nalco, on their website, states, "All of the ingredients contained in Nalco's dispersants are safe and found in common household products" However, the Safety Data Sheet for Corexit 9527A, which was the first dispersant reportedly used in the Gulf, has the following warnings:
"SKIN CONTACT :
Can cause moderate irritation. Harmful if absorbed through skin.
INGESTION :
May be harmful if swallowed. May cause liver and kidney effects and/or damage. There may be irritation to the gastro-intestinal tract.
INHALATION :
Harmful by inhalation. Repeated or prolonged exposure may irritate the respiratory tract.
SYMPTOMS OF EXPOSURE :
Acute : Excessive exposure may cause central nervous system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects.
Chronic : Repeated or excessive exposure to butoxyethanol may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver.
AGGRAVATION OF EXISTING CONDITIONS :
Skin contact may aggravate an existing dermatitis condition.
HUMAN HEALTH HAZARDS - CHRONIC :
Contains ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (butoxyethanol). Prolonged and/or repeated exposure through inhalation or extensive skin contact with EGBE may result in damage to the blood and kidneys."
It is possible that while no trace of Corexit might be found in the dead marine life, the marine life is dying from the effects of depleted oxygen levels caused by the oil and dispersants, or dying from organ damage caused by chemicals that have already passed through their systems, damaging organs on their way out. However, according to Nalco's Corexit EC9500A (the version of Corexit that was primarily used in the Gulf) on the Safety Data Sheet, the Toxicological Information states, "No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product." This means another chemical experiment is in progress.
In a report dated June 1, 2010 from Mobile, Pensacola News, WKRG, a massive fish kill took place sometime the night before June 1. "Josh Edwards, an employee of River Shack Restaurant, said, 'Literally, it looked like the whole river back there behind the restaurant had frozen up. It looked like snow and ice on top of the water,'" he said, describing the millions of small, young, silvery fish called menhaden that were now floating dead on the water's surface. Menhaden reach a length of about one foot as adults if they have the good fortune to live that long, but it appears that nearly all of the menhaden killed recently were juveniles, representing the ocean's future stock of menhaden. While many news stories are dismissing the menhaden as "a baitfish," the truth is that the menhaden are the most important fish in the sea. "Menhaden" comes from a Narragansett word meaning fertilizer, after the Narragansett Indians discovered hundreds of years ago that adding dead, nutrient-rich menhaden to mounds that were to be planted with corn, would produce robust, healthy corn.
According to NASA, the all-important phytoplankton are the very beginning of the marine food chain, providing not only rich nutrients but approximately half of the earth's supply of oxygen. The menhaden swim with their mouths open, absorbing the smallest delicacies of the sea, cleaning the seas of sunlight-blocking detritus and eating the phytoplankton that are high in omega-3 fatty acids. They help bring sunlight in for the photosynthesis process of vegetation, thereby increasing the oxygen levels. Then, the menhaden become the next in line in the marine food chain, providing a highly nutritious and highly sought after source of food for nearly every other type of marine life, including the larger fish whose names we are more familiar with because they are on our menus. Menhaden also provide food for turtles, birds, and marine mammals, including whales. Menhaden are extremity sensitive to oxygen levels, and will die when deprived of sufficient oxygen, thus their lives depend upon their task at hand. Ours might, as well.
In the wake of this Gulf disaster, Barack Obama ordered a six-month ban on dangerous offshore drilling, only to have the ban initially overruled by a federal court. The judge ruled instead for the posturing presidents, directors and CEOs of corporate monopolies rather than favoring the discretion of the person some feel might be the President of the United States. This indicates that a handful of corporate presidents, CEOs and directors have finally formed monstrous monopolies and transmonopolies that are so large they have clearly become a form of controlling government that cannot be addressed by the government of the United States. We are their victims.
If they wish to experiment on us and around us, they have, they can, and they continue doing so at this moment. They reap the benefits of their experiments with profits, and we pay the price either by submitting to their unending price gouging or we pay with our national condition of deteriorating health due in part to the massive chemical contaminations we are forced to endure. Poisoned by our food, our water, and the air we breathe, we are then forced to rely upon our deteriorating, abysmal healthcare industry that stands ready to treat our growing list of symptoms with more chemicals. The healthcare system is being run by insurance and pharmaceutical monopolies.
According to a Consumer Affairs article, a study conducted by the American Medical Association (another monopoly that has eliminated competitors and removed people's choices for medical treatments) found that between 1995 and 2005 there were more than 400 mergers between health insurance companies, resulting in only a handful of insurance monopolies that now provide most of the coverage in the US, thus controlling and driving prices ever higher and fleecing Americans out of billions of dollars. From their offices, insurance personnel make medical decisions affecting patients they have never laid eyes on. In order to help this unnecessary middleman to prosper even more, our government now wants to force Americans to pay the wages of our labor to the insurance industry for protection or face the frightening consequences. This type of activity is otherwise known as extortion when it is carried out by organized crime groups. In forcing us to pay our wages to health insurance monopolies, we will be agreeing to spend part of our work hours each month as slaves, then giving the wages for those hours to corporate monopolies for a "service" that is criminally overpriced, not needed, out of control and has nothing whatsoever to do with actual healthcare.
The US laws, including antitrust laws, were meant to keep cutthroat monopolies from driving and fixing prices, killing their competition, poisoning people, poisoning and killing wildlife, poisoning and destroying the environment, forcing consumers to have unfair enslavement or reliance upon poor quality monopoly products, hiding their activities from view, and engaging in outrageous conspiracies and behaviors. One large monopoly that has its hands firmly gripped on our food supply, and also has a propensity for dragging itself repeatedly through the mud, is Monsanto. Among other unsavory activities it has engaged in, Monsanto dumped millions of pounds of deadly PCBs throughout an Alabama community and then covered it up for 40 years.
An article in the Washington Post states: "For nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. In 1966, Monsanto managers discovered that fish submerged in that creek turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. In 1969, they found fish in another creek with 7,500 times the legal PCB levels."
When Monsanto's managers saw that they had already contaminated everything to such a degree that there would be no easy fix for this mess, their stunning decision, according to internal memos, was that "there is little object in going to expensive extremes in limiting discharges." In other words, they would continue to dump their toxic wastes into the environment and the local community of unsuspecting people.
According to another article in the Washington Post, when Monsanto was finally "caught," a 2002 Alabama jury found it guilty of all charges, including: "negligence, wantonness, suppression of the truth, nuisance, trespass and outrage." The Post goes on to explain, "Under Alabama law, the rare claim of outrage typically requires conduct 'so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society.'"
According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), as the truth began to emerge about the Monsanto's PCB deception, Monsanto underwent a "self-induced identity crisis," eventually claiming that it no longer existed. In September, 1997, Solutia, Inc. was spun off from Monsanto Co. and assumed chemical operations as well as liability. In 2000, Monsanto merged with Pharmacia and Upjohn, becoming Pharmacia, its new name. Later that year, Pharmacia created an agricultural subsidiary, naming it Monsanto Co. Incredibly, "ICIS, the world's largest information provider for the chemical and oil industry," states in its company structure information, "Solutia was founded in St Louis in 1901 as Monsanto Company."
Changing or hiding one's name will do little to alter the real problem if the real problem is accountability. Accountability costs money. There is no accountability when companies and corporations merge into monopolies and overlapping transmonopolies that are so large, not even the government can demand accountability from them. The solution is to break corporations down into smaller, accountable firms and encourage competition rather than allowing competition to be destroyed.
The US government, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), appears to have some pressing work to do, because matters continue to spiral out of hand. The untouchable transmonopolies being quietly formed in boardrooms have borders, boundaries and goals that are not easily understood or demarcated, and as they form and merge they bring in vast riches that for far too long have meant they can buy their way out of true accountability by paying victims off with frequently paltry sums followed by "silence" clauses that prevent the victims from talking about their personal tragedies.
The BP/Nalco affair offers us a glimpse of how a potentially untouchable transmonopoly might be formed.
According to the Guardian, UK, and BP, Peter Sutherland was the chairman of BP from 1997 until he stepped down and was replaced by another person effective January, 2010. According to the UN.org, Mr. Sutherland has also been the chairman of Goldman Sachs International since 1995, as well as associated with the Trilateral Commission. According to InvestorsMorningstar, Goldman Sachs sold almost 400,000 shares of BP at the end of January, 2010.
According to the Telegraph.co.uk, Tony Hayward, the disgraced CEO of BP at the time of the deadly explosion (who seems to have been held singularly to blame for this disaster while all other players have remained hidden from view), also cashed in a portion of his holdings of BP one month before the BP Gulf explosion, disposing of 223,288 shares on March 17, 2010. The Telegraph states, "There is no suggestion that he acted improperly or had prior knowledge" of what was about to happen that the company for which he was then somewhat responsible was about to take down the Gulf ecosystem, and then "finish the job" by adding unprecedented millions of gallons of toxic dispersants into the waters, in another chemical experiment. Mr. Hayward told members of Congress that he was "out of the loop" regarding decisions about the blown well. They were not happy to hear this, but when corporations are allowed to become so large that there can be no reasonable supervision of their affairs and practices, disasters and corruption appear to be inevitable.
The BP/Nalco toxic event happened just as heightened awareness of the health benefits from omega-3 fish oil was creating a very profitable market for the fish oil industry. The rich corporation that corners the market and provides nearly all of the omega-3 fish oil for the United States is Omega Protein, Inc. According to their website, their omega-3 fish oil comes solely from menhaden.
The Omega Protein corporation depends upon their fleets' use of spotter planes to search for the silvery clouds of menhaden glittering and flickering like raindrops on the surface of the sea, and when the planes spot the schools the fishing fleets are alerted and dispatched with large nets to the exact area, sometimes capturing and removing forever entire schools at a time. The omega-3 oil is then extracted from the menhaden to be placed into capsules for human use. The rest of the dead menhaden that are so critically vital to the existence of nearly all marine life, are used as fertilizer and fishmeal that is fed to land animals, including chickens, pigs, cows, dogs, cats, used in the production of lipstick and linoleum, and also fed to large fish farming operations, thus leaving the wild marine life without their most critical source of nutritious food.
According to Greenpeace, the population of menhaden is now at an all-time low. The direness of this critical situation has been brought forth by one of the world's foremost experts on menhaden, H. Bruce Franklin, a Rutgers professor and author of at least 18 books, including "The Most Important Fish In The Sea. Menhaden In America."
In a brilliant article in Mother Jones by Bruce Franklin, Professor Franklin writes of the menhaden: "They are filter feeders that live on phytoplankton, which most other aquatic animals are unable to eat. Dense schools of menhaden, sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, pour through these waters, toothless mouths agape, slurping up plankton and detritus like a colossal submarine vacuum cleaner as wide as a city block and as deep as a train tunnel. Each adult fish can filter about four gallons of water a minute. Purging suspended particles that cause turbidity, this filter feeding clarifies the water, allowing sunlight to penetrate and encourage the growth of aquatic plants that release dissolved oxygen and harbor a host of fish and shellfish.
"Much of the phytoplankton consumed by menhaden consists of algae. Excess nitrogen can make algae grow out of control, and that's what happens when vast quantities of nitrogen flood into our inshore waters from runoff fed by paved surfaces, roofs, wastewater, overfertilized golf courses and suburban lawns, and industrial poultry and pig farms. This can generate devastating blooms of algae, such as red tide and brown tide, which cause massive fish kills, then sink in thick carpets to the bottom, where they smother plants and shellfish, suck dissolved oxygen from the water, and leave dead zones that expand year by year.
"In the natural ecosystem, menhaden cleaned the upper layers while another great filter feeder, the oyster, cleaned the bottom. But as oysters have been driven to near extinction in many Atlantic bays and estuaries by overfishing and pollution, menhaden are left as the only remaining check on deadly phytoplankton explosions."
According to observations made by James Price of the Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation, striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay have been now found diseased, thin and covered with red sores. In examining their stomach contents, he states that the stomachs that were once filled with menhaden can now be found empty. The dwindling numbers of over-fished menhaden have now been further decimated by the recent fish kills that occurred after the Gulf was filled with BP's oil, and Nalco's Corexit.
In looking at who is on Nalco's boards of directors, and at current or former affiliations with other large corporations, one director of Nalco is Douglas A. Pertz. Mr. Pertz was also the CEO of IMC Global, which later merged with part of Cargill forming The Mosaic Company, for which he also served on the board of directors. Mosaic is another extremely large company that many have not heard of because it keeps a highly profitable portion of its business, for the most part, just under the radar.
The Mosaic Company is one of the largest phosphate fertilizer mining operations on earth. From its phosphate fertilizer, Mosaic then "scrubs," removes and captures toxic fluorides along with other pollutants and radioactive wastes found in phosphate rock that has no use by the fertilizer industry. This gaseous slurry that contains fluoride is then distributed and sold throughout North America, largely by the Lucier Company. It is sold to our municipal waterworks companies to be used as "water fluoridation," which is another chemical experiment.
The production of "water fluoridation" from phosphate fertilizer waste materials is a highly profitable, very dependable, but relatively unknown branch of the phosphate fertilizer industry. Common sense will lead one to understand why this profitable and ever-expanding operation throughout theUS is not openly and proudly advertised: Many people are now aware of and opposed to the "fluoridation" lie, but have no voice. Further investigation of why Mosaic is keeping quiet reveals another chemical experiment now conducted on 70% of the US, who have no choice but to submit to their tap water.
An article written by George Glasser, who is a respected investigative environmental journalist, further explains. Although this slurry used in water fluoridation is referred to as "fluoride," it is actually much more. "The product is not 'fluorine' or 'fluoride' as proponents state," Mr. Glasser writes. "It is a pollution concentrate. Fluorine is only one captured pollutant comprising [about 19% to] 23% of the total product," Mr. Glasser writes. Included in the concentrate making up the remaining percentage is whatever else that is not desired by the fertilizer industry, including polonium and other deadly agents.
The municipal waterworks folks have been led to believe that fluorides became something suddenly needed by the human body after the Atomic Bomb Era when fluoride wastes became ubiquitous in the US. The municipalities then add this slurry into our drinking water. Various officials claim that we all need to drink this chemical to prevent cavities in our teeth whether we want it or not, or whether we even have teeth or are as edentulous (i.e., toothless) as the many "optimally fluoridated" people of Kentucky now are. The people of Kentucky have been "optimally fluoridated" at almost 100% for a long time. They have won government awards for being "optimally fluoridated," but those award-winning folks now have one of the highest rates of dental cavities and toothlessness in the US, perhaps because fluoride is known to cause and exacerbate periodontal disease. It has never been found to prevent cavities. Boiling fluoridated water increases the concentration of the fluoride; freezing it does nothing to remove the fluoride. Bathing in fluoridated water it results in dermal absorption.
It is unknown whether the municipal waterworks "officials" perform their own assays on each new shipment of pollutants they purchase from the phosphate fertilizer industry and distributors. Assays would be the only way of determining what else in addition to fluoride, including polonium, is in the tank before disposing of it on behalf of the fertilizer industry into our drinking water. Each shipment contains a unique percentage of pollutants and levels of radioactivity. Concerned lawyers reading this should note that if the municipal "authorities" are not performing individual assays on each shipment of "fluorides," then they can and should be held liable for breaking standing laws by deliberately contaminating public drinking water with unknown pollutants. This is now classified as an act of terrorism. It should also be known that testing should not be done by common Ion Specific Electrodes that only detect the presence of fluoride but cannot accurately report elevated levels. The far more sophisticated test is forensic Ion Chromatography, which gives accurate reading levels of fluoride. At this time, therefore, it is doubtful that most know what level of fluoride waste is being placed in our drinking water or how much is coming out of our taps.
Unlike other chemical pharmaceuticals, no physician will ever check the public citizen who is drinking deliberately contaminated water to see whether he or she is having any detrimental, allergic reactions to their "fluoride" treatment, because professional follow-up services were never a part of the national fluoride treatment plan. The individual and entire household never really received a prescription for their lifelong, daily dosing of fluoride in the first place. No physician would prescribe a life-long chemical pharmaceutical medication and then have no medical follow-up plans to make sure that the patient was doing well on their "medication."
We are being medicated by politicians, corporate presidents, directors, and CEOs whose main concern is making money. The CDC, which is a pharmaceutical propaganda mouthpiece, has pronounced water fluoridation as one of the "Ten Great Public Health Achievements" during the 1900s, which is true in a sinister sort of way. Those who are being forced to drink the fluoride wastes are not the ones benefiting from this "great achievement." Fluoridation is a "great achievement" for the corporations selling it, and then fluoridation becomes a "great achievement" for the pharmaceutical industry, which is the largest, most profitable industry in the US. The pharmaceutical industry reaps benefits from fluoridation by treating the resulting national symptoms.
Most physicians have no training regarding fluoride's systemic effects and symptoms. This is despite the fact that virtually all patients now are contaminated with fluoride toxins from water, air, processed foods, fluorinated drugs, dental retardation activities, teas, beverages, wine, grapes, raisins, household cleansers, floor wax, Scotchguard, Stainmaster, insecticides, pesticides, Teflon-coated pans, food packaging, plastics and toothpastes.
Fluoride has been known since the 1930s in Germany to block thyroid function. Some of the symptoms of fluoride poisoning include depression, behavioral problems, aggression, weight gain, aches, pains, tendon/muscle rupture, severe kidney problems, skeletal problems, erectile dysfunction, visual problems, muscle spasms and twitches, connective tissue damage, cancer, heart problems, lung problems, premature aging because of collagen breakdown, declining IQ, severe GERD, mental confusion, gum disease, tooth rot, and Barrett's esophagus, etc. It has been known for years that fluoride forms concretions in the pineal gland, located within the brain. It affects every part of the body because it is a systemic poison, not a nutrient as the propaganda mouthpieces continue to claim. The effect of fluoride on kidney patients is so severe that the use of water containing elevated fluoride levels during dialysis has resulted in patient deaths.
Despite the fact that the Mosaic company keeps a rather low profile, they have shown their own unconscionable activities carried out for money. According to the Miami Herald, St. Petersburg crabber Howard Curd's crab fishing grounds in Tampa Bay were "killed off when HurricaneFrances blew out a retaining wall at a phosphate pit that spewed acidic water into the bay. The fertilizer company, Mosaic, persuaded a trial court and an appeals court that Curd and other fishermen couldn't sue because they didn't own the seafood that was potentially killed, so they weren't technically damaged."
Curd said, "'Crabbing in the bay is bouncing back, but the BP spill is depressing seafood sales even though the oil is nowhere near the western coast of Florida.' He's prepared to sue BP, but harbors no illusions about facing a big corporation in court."
Curd further said, "They've got all the money, and all the attorneys and all the experts on retainer. It really doesn't cost them anything. It's like it's cheaper to pay their attorneys and fight in court than paying the money to people they hurt and doing the right thing."
Another director Nalco is J. Erik Fyrwald, Nalco's CEO, and President. According to Nalco, Mr. Fyrwald is also on the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly and Co., and was Group Vice President of DuPont's "Agriculture and Nutrition" division, a division name that might qualify as an oxymoron to anyone who knows anything about nutrition and the current state of the US petrochemical, agricultural industry.
Also among Nalco's board members is Richard Friedman. According to Bloomberg, Mr. Friedman is the head of Goldman Sachs, as well as on the board of trustees of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, to which he recently gave $20 million for the creation of the Friedman Brain Institute, according to the Wall Street Journal. It should be noted that if one has acute fluoride poisoning in NYC, you cannot have your urine tested for fluoride anywhere in New York or surrounding areas. Your urine will have to be FedExed out of New York to a remote forensic lab for ion chromatography fluoride testing. (Perhaps the Friedman Brain Institute can look into those somewhat troubling pineal gland concretions.)
Also on the board of Nalco is Daniel Sanders. According to Forbes, Mr. Sanders is the former President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company.
Also onboard Nalco is Rodney Frank Chase. According to Bloomberg's BusinessWeek.com, Mr. Chase has been a senior advisor of Lehman Brothers, as well as former Deputy Group Chief Executive of BP, Managing Director, and CEO of BP Finance International.
Also among the list of directors on Nalco is Mary Margaret VanDeWeghe. According to various sources, Ms. VanDeWeghe has been a high-ranking executive with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin emerged after a fusion between Lockheed and Martin Marietta. According to the Lockheed website the corporation is the world's "leading provider of safety-critical nuclear instrumentation & control (I&C) systems for commercial and DoD customers for over 50 years." It now owns several Superfund sites that were at some point contaminated with chemicals. One is near Columbine, where a massacre happened. Another is in Paducah, near another school massacre. We do not know what the chemicals are doing to us.
Also on Nalco's board is Carl M. Casale. Most of us have probably never heard of Carl Casale, but a closer look at corporate affiliations and a comparison of photos indicates that Mr. Carl M. Casale is also the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Monsanto.
In 2005, the EPA and DuPont settled a lawsuit in which the EPA charged DuPont with knowing about the dangers of C8 (perfluorooctanoic acid, another form of fluoride used in the production of Teflon), contaminating a town's drinking water with it and keeping quiet for approximately 20 years. According to the EWG, this hiding allowed "DuPont more than two decades of multi-hundred million dollar annual profits, while guaranteeing contamination of the entire planet with Teflon [fluoride] chemicals, now recognized as persistent global pollutants that nearly universally pollute human blood."
In 2006, BP announced that it was forming a partnership with DuPont in order to create new biofuels. In 2006, Monsanto announced it was going to create a genetically modified (GM) soybean that would have high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Health markets were newly and increasingly profitable for omega-3 products. The primary source of the omega-3 fatty acids had been the menhaden, but Monsanto warned that fish populations were being depleted, and that a more renewable, land-based source of omega-3 fatty acid was needed for our good health. Monsanto said their new GM omega-3 soybeans should be ready by about 2010 or 2011. Monsanto then partnered with Solae, which is primarily owned by DuPont, to bring about new GM soybeans.
"Soy beans represent a renewable, land-based source of omega-3s," said Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President of Monsanto (Sustainability & Corporate Affairs).
According to a 2007 article in Food Navigator-USA.com, "Consumer awareness of the health benefits of omega-3 has sky-rocketed in recent years as the scientific evidence stacks up. Industry experts predict that the market for omega-3 products could be worth as much as $7bn by 2011. But concerns over the sustainability of fish sources, as well as the amount of fish oil available to the nutrition industry as demand for crude fish oil from the aquaculture industry increases." Indeed, this same article goes on to state, "The problem with plant sources like flax, however, is that they yield upALA, a shorter chain fatty acid which is less bioavailable for humans than DHA and EPA, of which fish is the best source. This was the spur for Monsanto and Solae/Dupont to embark on their respective R&D [Research and Development] projects."
At the end of May, 2010, an article in the Chemical and Engineering News carried the following headline: "Gulf Oil Spill Boosts Nalco Sales," and then stated, "Water treatment firm Nalco has told investors that it expects sales of dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will have reached $40 million by May 21."
In June, 2010, NutraIngredients-USA.com announced, "Omega-3 is 'among the most successful functional ingredients ever, with sales of omega-3 ingredients destined for processed foods undented by the global economic turndown,' according to Euromonitor." According to a Monsanto press release dated July 10, 2010, food companies are now testing a new product: "Soymega, the world's first SDA (stearidonic acid) soybean oil, is making it easier for food companies to incorporate more omega-3s into a variety of products." The press release also states, "SDA soybean oil is the result of a collaboration project between Solae and Monsanto Company." The downside of this is that many people feel that the consumption of GM foods, as well as r-BGH/r-BST dairy are more chemical experiments with end-results unknown. The "r" in rBST stands for "recombinant." Monsanto sold its bovine growth hormone to Eli Lilly in 2008, indicating perhaps that Monsanto was giving up on its long battle trying to convince the consumer that engineered dairy was "identical" to non-rBST dairy. The public literally was not buying it.
This tells us how powerful we, as consumers, actually are. We are more powerful than monopolies. Our first line of business at this moment is to call for a moratorium on all "menhaden reduction" fishing activities so that the menhaden can be allowed to replenish their population and act as the oceans' natural filters, and thus increase the world's declining oxygen levels. The earth, in fact, might depend on this act. If the government will not step up and realize it must regulate and protect this important fish, then we consumers can stand up and avoid all menhaden products until the little fish makes a powerful comeback. Then we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Choose another type of fatty fish for omega-3s. .
Our second line of business will require the help of lawyers. We need to sue the hell out of the municipal waterworks companies until they stop putting fluoride wastes and other unknown toxic pollutants into our drinking water. Those responsible for doing this should know they are going to be held criminally accountable for deliberately adding pollutants into drinking water. According to the Nuremberg Code, Directives for Human Experimentation, the first code states: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential." This has never happened. Number 10 states: "During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe . . . the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject." We now have probable cause.
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Mary Sparrowdancer is an investigative journalist and author of two best-selling books, English versions of which are currently sold-out. German and Japanese versions remain available. She is of Narragansett/Five Nations, Irish and Italian descent, and was born near Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. She and her children live in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. Her training was in laboratory sciences including bacteriology, microscopic analysis, veterinary sciences and ornithology. She is the mother of John Shaw, who recently ran unopposed in the Florida Primary Election for Senator. He is a Constitutional Republican, protecting the Constitution rather than corporations. His platform is the reintroduction of industrial hemp as a sustainable, renewable, national fuel and source of new industries and revenue for our economy. John also owns John Shaw Computers. Mary is the mother of Emily Shaw, who is a Deputy Sheriff and a bank fraud specialist. Emily and John are former professional Irish Step Dancers, trained by experts from Riverdance. Mary is the former caretaker of wild animals, having cared for over 20,000 of them, including endangered species and many brown pelicans that were sent to Louisiana to replenish the dwindling number of endangered pelicans in Louisiana. "We do not know how many of our brown pelicans and offspring are now covered in toxic oil and chemicals." Mary wishes to commend all of those who are trying to help clean this mess up. "Please be careful." She extends her sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the eleven men who lost their lives during the BP explosion.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07
/23/AR2010072305419.html?hpid=topnews
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/As-oil-spews-in-Gulf-BP-chief-apf-
1422722456.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/06/09/09greenwire-ingredients-
of-controversial-dispersants-used-42891.html
Monsanto claims it is extinct
http://web.archive.org/web/20060928131949/http://www.
ewg.org/reports/anniston/shells/lowdown.html
Nalco news
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4279.htm
Nalco: our dispersants are safe
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4348.htm
Health Insurance Trends
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/ama_insurance_study.html
Menhaden die-off
http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/thousands-of-dead-
fish-at-local-marina/892412/Jun-01-2010_5-33-pm/
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/14/news/companies/nalco_
macondo_bp_spill.fortune/index.htm
Mosaic leading producer of Fluorosilicic acid for water fluoridation.
http://www.ct.gov/dph/LIB/dph/drinking_water/pdf/NEWSLETTER3_1.pdf
and
http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u3Axn.a.htm#1stPage
Peter Sutherland, chairman since 1997
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/01/oilandpetrol.news
http://business.highbeam.com/436155/article-1G1-186911700/
carl-m-casale-named-director-nalco-holding-company
Gulf Fish Good Source of Omega 3
http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/omega-3/
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/3563.htm
http://www.monsanto.com/features/omega.asp
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/cwf_status.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename
=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31
Casale purchases 8,026 shares Nalco.
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126218/0001298341
10000008/xslF345X03/primary_doc.xml
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?ticker=NLC:US
http://people.forbes.com/profile/carl-m-casale/54821
http://www.tracked.com/person/j-erik-fyrwald/
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/
2010/06/15/20100615oil-spill0615.html
Highly questionable BP activities before blowout
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/27/94963/
doomed-rigs-manager-says-bp-tried.html
Rodney Frank Chase
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/
person.asp?personId=394476&ticker=LEHMQ:US&previousCapId=
25990742&previousTitle=Presidio%20International%20Inc.
Richard Friedman
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/
people/person.asp?personId=68912&ticker=GS:US&previousCapId=
4069317&previousTitle=Mosaic%20Phosphates%20Co.
Halliburton Buys Boots & Coots, two weeks before blowout
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/halliburton-snaps-up-boots-and-coots/19435689/
Peter Sutherland
http://www.nndb.com/people/086/000112747/
BP Dumps Peter Sutherland, Goldman Sachs Dumps BP Stocks
http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-
selling.html?t=BP®ion=USA&culture=en-US
Hayward Dumps BP Stocks, too
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/
7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
http://www.monsanto.com/products/seeds_traits/food_platform/omega3_soybeans.asp
Daniel Sanders
http://people.forbes.com/profile/daniel-s-sanders/7022
Mary Margaret VanDeWeghe
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.
asp?personId=11181598&ticker=LMT:US&previousCapId=290733&previous
Title=NALCO%20HOLDING%20CO
Monsanto: Land-based omega-3, not fish
http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=59872
Monsanto: non-marine sources of omega 3
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/Monsanto
-Solae-joint-forces-for-omega-3-from-GM-soy
The Packaged Facts report indicates however that consumers still associate omega-3 with fish oil. Which may be an indication that ingredients manufacturers trying to sell their non-fish versions of DHA will have to take marketing efforts up a notch.
The report highlights the issue of potential contaminants as a factor that could nudge consumers away from fish-derived omega-3 ingredients.
"Worries about environmental pollutants and contaminants like heavy metals, however, may prompt some consumers to shy away from marine sources of omega-3s," says the report.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Consumer-
Trends/Omega-3-foods-market-bucks-recession
http://maya12-21-2012.com/2012forum/food-health/monsanto-and-agent-orange/
Monsanto sold its bovine hormone to eli lilly
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0118/americas-best-
company-10-gmos-dupont-planet-versus-monsanto.html
Monsanto PCBs cover-up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54914-2002Feb22?language=printer
Demand for Corexit "most unusual."
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=382521
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7018942
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=382521
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/environment/88/8821busc7.html
Friday, August 27, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Obama's Trip to Florida Beaches: Part Vacation, Part Sales Pitch
Obama's Trip to Florida Beaches: Part Vacation, Part Sales Pitch
Part Vacation, Part Sales Pitch 100% Bullshit
If it wasn't safe would I be swimming in it?
more like
If BP wasn't my boss would I risk my health (and my daughters) with such a stunt?
Part Vacation, Part Sales Pitch 100% Bullshit
If it wasn't safe would I be swimming in it?
more like
If BP wasn't my boss would I risk my health (and my daughters) with such a stunt?
Hundreds of Thousands of DEAD FISH on NEW JERSEY SHORE AUG 12 2010 - BP...
and they actually pretend to not know what could have possibley
killed, more like millions, of fish! Really? I mean Really?
Friday, August 13, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Diagrammatic Illustration of BP’s Deepwater Horizon Blowout
http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/30/4781973-why-is-bps-macondo-blowout-so-disastrous-beyond-patch-up-
These dramatic diagrams are the best I've seen describing the Geography of the Crime Scene.. you'll get a sense of how disastrous
the capping of this nightmare well will be.... things are not as peachy as BP is making it appear to be.... it won't be long before the bottom of the sea-floor blows-out and if people think the well
was disastrous just wait till the whole Gulf bottom explodes.......
These dramatic diagrams are the best I've seen describing the Geography of the Crime Scene.. you'll get a sense of how disastrous
the capping of this nightmare well will be.... things are not as peachy as BP is making it appear to be.... it won't be long before the bottom of the sea-floor blows-out and if people think the well
was disastrous just wait till the whole Gulf bottom explodes.......
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Is WikiLeaks Blackmailing the Pentagon?
Is WikiLeaks Blackmailing the Pentagon?
Why are the Power Elite so worried about Wikileaks? Whistlerblowers are the servants of Truth and Justice right? What is in the file labeled "Insurance" that the Pentagon is so worried about? The new Lady GaGa CD? I don't think so...
Friday, July 30, 2010
What Some Bloggers Knew All Along & Many Others Loudly Denied
What Some Bloggers Knew All Along & Many Others Loudly Denied
Or, We Told You So,
Or, Who's Paranoid Now?
Being pp. 19 - 26 of a report by James Kinniburgh & Dorothy Denning, published by the United States Joint Special Operations University Press, Florida, in 2006. Herein posted as a teasing invitation to download the selfsame PDF, or else its Quick View counterpart.
All emphasis – italic, bold, and highlight – thoroughly, completely, and decidedly mine. (For references please consult original PDF). May the Gentle & Observant Reader benefit therefrom.
Blogs and Military Information Strategy
...blogs that serve a small community, or that fill a specific niche may be useful for monitoring and targeting select elements. People may and do serve in more than one social capacity; they may represent a class of community or peer opinion leaders—useful as both targets of influence operations and as vehicles for disseminating strategic communications.
[snip]
In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital. Sometimes numbers can be effective; hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering. On the other hand, such operations can have a blowback effect, as witnessed by the public reaction following revelations that the U.S. military had paid journalists to publish stories in the Iraqi press under their own names. People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.
An alternative strategy is to “make” a blog and blogger. The process of boosting the blog to a position of influence could take some time, however, and depending on the person running the blog, may impose a significant educational burden, in terms of cultural and linguistic training before the blog could be put online to any useful effect. Still, there are people in the military today who like to blog. In some cases, their talents might be redirected toward operating blogs as part of an information campaign. If a military blog offers valuable information that is not available from other sources, it could rise in rank fairly rapidly.
Any blogs and bloggers serving an IO mission must be coordinated and synchronized with the overall influence effort in time and message. However, they must be prepared to argue and debate with their audience successfully and independently on behalf of the U.S. policy stance. In this sense, bloggers must be able to “circumvent the hierarchy” as blogger George Dafermos put it. This means that they must be trusted implicitly to handle the arguments without forcing them to communicate “solely by means of marketing pitches and press releases.”
There are certain to be cases where some blog, outside the control of the U.S. government, promotes a message that is antithetical to U.S. interests, or actively supports the informational, recruiting and logistical activities of our enemies. The initial reaction may be to take down the site, but this is problematic in that doing so does not guarantee that the site will remain down. As has been the case with many such sites, the offending site will likely move to a different host server, often in a third country. Moreover, such action will likely produce even more interest in the site and its contents. Also, taking down a site that is known to pass enemy EEIs (essential elements of information) and that gives us their key messages denies us a valuable information source. This is not to say that once the information passed becomes redundant or is superseded by a better source that the site should be taken down. At that point the enemy blog might be used covertly as a vehicle for friendly information operations. Hacking the site and subtly changing the messages and data—merely a few words or phrases—may be sufficient to begin destroying the blogger’s credibility with the audience. Better yet, if the blogger happens to be passing enemy communications and logistics data, the information content could be corrupted. If the messages are subtly tweaked and the data corrupted in the right way, the enemy may reason that the blogger in question has betrayed them and either take down the site (and the blogger) themselves, or by threatening such action, give the U.S. an opportunity to offer the individual amnesty in exchange for information.
There will also be times when it is thought to be necessary, in the context of an integrated information campaign, to pass false or erroneous information through the media, on all three layers, in support of military deception activities. Given the watchdog functions that many in the blogging community have assumed—not just in the U.S., but also around the world—doing so jeopardizes the entire U.S. information effort. Credibility is the heart and soul of influence operations. In these cases, extra care must be taken to ensure plausible deniability and nonattribution, as well as employing a wellthought-out deception operation that minimizes the risks of exposure. Because of the potential blowback effect, information strategy should avoid planting false information as much as possible.
This brings us to an even more fundamental issue. Because the U.S. military is prohibited from conducting information operations against U.S. persons, it is reluctant to engage in Internet IO operations that might be characterized as PSYOP or deception. Once information is on the Internet, it can reach anyone, including those in the U.S. Thus, while the military offers factual news on the Internet through Public Affairs, it generally stays away from commentary and IO. At least initially, this challenge might be addressed by sticking with accurate, factual information of value to readers. Blogging can support PA and focus on improving communications and building trust with local communities and the public. A blog can be used to solicit and respond to questions and concerns from target populations. In addition, military leaders might offer personal commentary on nonmilitary blogs, with the usual disclaimers.
To use blogs effectively for an information campaign may require a new intelligence tool, one that can monitor and rapidly assess the informational events occurring in a specific portion of the blogosphere and their effects (if any) on the three layers of the local infosphere.
Blogs and Intelligence
Weblog derived intelligence can be considered a subset of both communications intelligence (COMINT) and open-source intelligence (OSINT). We would expect to see it used primarily in support of information operations, although it does offer a broad range of possible applications. It may consist of computer network exploitation (CNE) done in support of integrated PSYOP, PA, PD, MILDEC, and CA/CMO operations. The value of using blogs and blogging in support of a military information strategy depends heavily on the target region’s Internet penetration and regulation (especially censorship). Further, if the number of Internet users is small, it is necessary to determine who is using the capability and why. Again, this very basic information should be collected as a part of the initial intelligence preparation of the environment, but once obtained it becomes a significant part of the baseline assessment for determining the need for, and the value of, conducting blog-based information operations.
If assessment of the information environment indicates the presence of blogging activity, the next step is to look at the bloggers and their audiences, determine the blogs’ functions (per Nardi et al.), and construct a preliminary analysis in terms of the metrics (blog visits and incoming links and references) and indicators of quality and credibility (design, utility, accuracy, and currency) identified earlier.
Questions that must be answered include:
* How large is the blogging community?
* Who are the bloggers? And what are their positions and status within their communities and within the country as a whole (their general public roles and reputations)?
* Who is the target community or audience for each blog?
* Do the blogs address issues of social and political importance to the community they serve?
* What biases are observed in each blog? Do they reinforce or challenge the biases of their audience?
* Do any bloggers invite and engage in free and open interaction with their audience?
Answering these questions will require appropriate responses from intelligence agencies at all levels. National level agencies are perhaps best suited to conduct comprehensive media, human factors and social network analyses to identify and characterize the prominent and/or influential bloggers within their social networks, and their connections to the larger community of traditional media journalists. These agencies should also examine the frequency with which each blog is referenced in the other media in the target region, and perhaps engage in CNE to study reactions and references in the micro layer. Certain other existing assets, most notably the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and the Armed Forces Information Service (AFIS), already cull through thousands of broadcast and print news pieces from around the world, based on topic, and could with relative ease look for blog references as well.
The importance of interactivity to a blog’s influence is proportional to the size of the blog’s potential audience. In areas where Internet access is limited to top government officials only, interactivity may be of relatively low importance. In areas where a ruling or elite social class has access, interactivity can be more important. In countries where Internet access is widespread, but free exchange of ideas is limited and/or discouraged, interactivity becomes golden. Again, the application of the general theory and principles must be flexible enough to account for differing political, social, and cultural conditions. Social network analysis and human factors analysis must be combined and correlated to craft specific messages to target specific bloggers and members of their audiences. Combined with a good sociological, psychological and cultural framework for interpreting and predicting attitudes, behaviors, communications and actions, intelligence derived from and/or about blogs can be highly effective in supporting influence and counterinfluence campaigns.
The entrenched inequality that characterizes the blogosphere has some implications for intelligence analysis and assessment. On the positive side, the fact that the most influential blogs generally will be the most authoritative (i.e., have the highest number of links) limits the number of blogs that must be read to glean the key or most widely held perspectives, concerns, attitudes and knowledge that motivate the audience. A survey of only these blogs can provide a rapid method for assessing the effectiveness of other influence operations in much the same way that a Civil Affairs soldier can assess general attitudes and mood by reading the graffiti on the walls. On the down side, in heavily Internetted regions, the tendency toward monopoly that results from systemic self-optimization will result in increasing homeostasis. Authors of top blogs in these environments may become disconnected from the content of their blogs and the concerns of their audience. This is because the needs of maintaining the blog may override the ability of the blogger to survey other blogs, conduct research and maintain interactivity. Because of this tendency, and in areas where only the elites or the government have Internet access, the content of the top blogs may not correlate well with majority concerns/opinions. As always, intelligence drawn from blogs may be invalid without confirmation from other sources.
Analysts working with blog intelligence must have access to the operational disciplines that they support; the closer the better. We recommend the creation of small special operations units with operational authority and integrated intelligence collections and analysis to conduct blog-based operations.
Recently, analysts at the Open Source Center (OSC) under the auspices of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) have been monitoring and following significant foreign blogs and bloggers with the primary goal of exploiting them as sources of intelligence. A February 2006 posting on the organization’s “Blog on Blogs” about Iranian expatriate blogger Hossein Derakhshan (“Hoder”), described him as “one of the most influential Iranian bloggers.” OSC analysts used Traffic (based on Reach and Page Views) from Alexa; Authority (Inbound Blog Links) from Technorati; and frequency of postings from Blog-Pulse. All three sources share the advantage of ready availability, but are limited for reasons discussed earlier.
Besides these and other metrics described earlier, there are other tools that can help the intelligence analyst. BlogPulse’s Conversation Tracker and TalkDigger (www.talkdigger.com), for example, track conversations as they spread through the blogosphere. TouchGraph (www.touchgraph.com) provides a tool for visualizing links among sites.
Blog-Based Operations
To function most effectively, units conducting blog-based operations must be staffed appropriately. Ideally, such units would be drawn from the special operations and intelligence communities, because of their historical experience in and ability to conduct (when tasked) sensitive operations. Linguists and intelligence analysts (preferably analysts who are also linguists), who are commanded or advised by qualified PSYOP or IO officer should form the core of such a unit. These capabilities must be augmented through liaison relationships with the other influence organizations, those responsible for planning and conducting PSYOP, PA, PD, CA/CMO and MILDEC. Because of the unique nature of blog-related intelligence, comprising both open and highly classified sources and producing an output intended for open distribution, a blog operations unit should have solid information, operations, and network security programs in place. It also needs oversight.
In order to act and react efficiently in managing bloggers and blogs, the intelligence specialists and planners who have the knowledge should be the ones running the actual blog. Or, in cases where indigenous bloggers and their blogs have been identified and recruited, the blog operations cell should also house the case officer managing the asset, having done the work to cultivate and recruit him or her. The same metrics used to select a blog can also serve as indirect measures of effectiveness; for example:
* Once blog operations have begun, does the blog attract new inbound links?
* Is there an increase over time in the blog’s ranking via various metrics?
* Through polling and media analysis, can a change in public opinion be correlated with growth in the blog’s indicators?
* What does content analysis of the interaction that occurs with the blogger on the site reveal (change in opinions posted by readers? positive or negative?)
* Do the comments on the blog correlate with public opinion results obtained by polling and/or portrayed in the mainstream media?
* Does the blog get referenced by the mainstream media in the target country, and with what degree of frequency?
* Do other sources of intelligence confirm these indicators?
*
Like any other influence operation, blog operations must be given time to work. There are no magic bullets. We would suggest quarterly reviews of the blog’s effectiveness along these lines and then adjusting fire to reverse any negative trends and accelerate positive trends.
This fusion of intelligence and operations is the cost of and the requirement for operating in a medium that rewards the efficient distribution of knowledge and information above all other considerations, and is also in the best traditions of the intelligence and special operations communities. Pushing operational authority out to those best equipped to receive, analyze and act in a dynamic information environment maximizes both efficiency and effectiveness. Although a blog-based operations unit could be based either domestically or in theater, the best option is to forward deploy it as a cell, just as we deploy our PSYOP analysts and production and dissemination capabilities. • • • • • •
What I want to know is, is that 'domestically' merely based?
Or, We Told You So,
Or, Who's Paranoid Now?
Being pp. 19 - 26 of a report by James Kinniburgh & Dorothy Denning, published by the United States Joint Special Operations University Press, Florida, in 2006. Herein posted as a teasing invitation to download the selfsame PDF, or else its Quick View counterpart.
All emphasis – italic, bold, and highlight – thoroughly, completely, and decidedly mine. (For references please consult original PDF). May the Gentle & Observant Reader benefit therefrom.
Blogs and Military Information Strategy
...blogs that serve a small community, or that fill a specific niche may be useful for monitoring and targeting select elements. People may and do serve in more than one social capacity; they may represent a class of community or peer opinion leaders—useful as both targets of influence operations and as vehicles for disseminating strategic communications.
[snip]
In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital. Sometimes numbers can be effective; hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering. On the other hand, such operations can have a blowback effect, as witnessed by the public reaction following revelations that the U.S. military had paid journalists to publish stories in the Iraqi press under their own names. People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.
An alternative strategy is to “make” a blog and blogger. The process of boosting the blog to a position of influence could take some time, however, and depending on the person running the blog, may impose a significant educational burden, in terms of cultural and linguistic training before the blog could be put online to any useful effect. Still, there are people in the military today who like to blog. In some cases, their talents might be redirected toward operating blogs as part of an information campaign. If a military blog offers valuable information that is not available from other sources, it could rise in rank fairly rapidly.
Any blogs and bloggers serving an IO mission must be coordinated and synchronized with the overall influence effort in time and message. However, they must be prepared to argue and debate with their audience successfully and independently on behalf of the U.S. policy stance. In this sense, bloggers must be able to “circumvent the hierarchy” as blogger George Dafermos put it. This means that they must be trusted implicitly to handle the arguments without forcing them to communicate “solely by means of marketing pitches and press releases.”
There are certain to be cases where some blog, outside the control of the U.S. government, promotes a message that is antithetical to U.S. interests, or actively supports the informational, recruiting and logistical activities of our enemies. The initial reaction may be to take down the site, but this is problematic in that doing so does not guarantee that the site will remain down. As has been the case with many such sites, the offending site will likely move to a different host server, often in a third country. Moreover, such action will likely produce even more interest in the site and its contents. Also, taking down a site that is known to pass enemy EEIs (essential elements of information) and that gives us their key messages denies us a valuable information source. This is not to say that once the information passed becomes redundant or is superseded by a better source that the site should be taken down. At that point the enemy blog might be used covertly as a vehicle for friendly information operations. Hacking the site and subtly changing the messages and data—merely a few words or phrases—may be sufficient to begin destroying the blogger’s credibility with the audience. Better yet, if the blogger happens to be passing enemy communications and logistics data, the information content could be corrupted. If the messages are subtly tweaked and the data corrupted in the right way, the enemy may reason that the blogger in question has betrayed them and either take down the site (and the blogger) themselves, or by threatening such action, give the U.S. an opportunity to offer the individual amnesty in exchange for information.
There will also be times when it is thought to be necessary, in the context of an integrated information campaign, to pass false or erroneous information through the media, on all three layers, in support of military deception activities. Given the watchdog functions that many in the blogging community have assumed—not just in the U.S., but also around the world—doing so jeopardizes the entire U.S. information effort. Credibility is the heart and soul of influence operations. In these cases, extra care must be taken to ensure plausible deniability and nonattribution, as well as employing a wellthought-out deception operation that minimizes the risks of exposure. Because of the potential blowback effect, information strategy should avoid planting false information as much as possible.
This brings us to an even more fundamental issue. Because the U.S. military is prohibited from conducting information operations against U.S. persons, it is reluctant to engage in Internet IO operations that might be characterized as PSYOP or deception. Once information is on the Internet, it can reach anyone, including those in the U.S. Thus, while the military offers factual news on the Internet through Public Affairs, it generally stays away from commentary and IO. At least initially, this challenge might be addressed by sticking with accurate, factual information of value to readers. Blogging can support PA and focus on improving communications and building trust with local communities and the public. A blog can be used to solicit and respond to questions and concerns from target populations. In addition, military leaders might offer personal commentary on nonmilitary blogs, with the usual disclaimers.
To use blogs effectively for an information campaign may require a new intelligence tool, one that can monitor and rapidly assess the informational events occurring in a specific portion of the blogosphere and their effects (if any) on the three layers of the local infosphere.
Blogs and Intelligence
Weblog derived intelligence can be considered a subset of both communications intelligence (COMINT) and open-source intelligence (OSINT). We would expect to see it used primarily in support of information operations, although it does offer a broad range of possible applications. It may consist of computer network exploitation (CNE) done in support of integrated PSYOP, PA, PD, MILDEC, and CA/CMO operations. The value of using blogs and blogging in support of a military information strategy depends heavily on the target region’s Internet penetration and regulation (especially censorship). Further, if the number of Internet users is small, it is necessary to determine who is using the capability and why. Again, this very basic information should be collected as a part of the initial intelligence preparation of the environment, but once obtained it becomes a significant part of the baseline assessment for determining the need for, and the value of, conducting blog-based information operations.
If assessment of the information environment indicates the presence of blogging activity, the next step is to look at the bloggers and their audiences, determine the blogs’ functions (per Nardi et al.), and construct a preliminary analysis in terms of the metrics (blog visits and incoming links and references) and indicators of quality and credibility (design, utility, accuracy, and currency) identified earlier.
Questions that must be answered include:
* How large is the blogging community?
* Who are the bloggers? And what are their positions and status within their communities and within the country as a whole (their general public roles and reputations)?
* Who is the target community or audience for each blog?
* Do the blogs address issues of social and political importance to the community they serve?
* What biases are observed in each blog? Do they reinforce or challenge the biases of their audience?
* Do any bloggers invite and engage in free and open interaction with their audience?
Answering these questions will require appropriate responses from intelligence agencies at all levels. National level agencies are perhaps best suited to conduct comprehensive media, human factors and social network analyses to identify and characterize the prominent and/or influential bloggers within their social networks, and their connections to the larger community of traditional media journalists. These agencies should also examine the frequency with which each blog is referenced in the other media in the target region, and perhaps engage in CNE to study reactions and references in the micro layer. Certain other existing assets, most notably the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and the Armed Forces Information Service (AFIS), already cull through thousands of broadcast and print news pieces from around the world, based on topic, and could with relative ease look for blog references as well.
The importance of interactivity to a blog’s influence is proportional to the size of the blog’s potential audience. In areas where Internet access is limited to top government officials only, interactivity may be of relatively low importance. In areas where a ruling or elite social class has access, interactivity can be more important. In countries where Internet access is widespread, but free exchange of ideas is limited and/or discouraged, interactivity becomes golden. Again, the application of the general theory and principles must be flexible enough to account for differing political, social, and cultural conditions. Social network analysis and human factors analysis must be combined and correlated to craft specific messages to target specific bloggers and members of their audiences. Combined with a good sociological, psychological and cultural framework for interpreting and predicting attitudes, behaviors, communications and actions, intelligence derived from and/or about blogs can be highly effective in supporting influence and counterinfluence campaigns.
The entrenched inequality that characterizes the blogosphere has some implications for intelligence analysis and assessment. On the positive side, the fact that the most influential blogs generally will be the most authoritative (i.e., have the highest number of links) limits the number of blogs that must be read to glean the key or most widely held perspectives, concerns, attitudes and knowledge that motivate the audience. A survey of only these blogs can provide a rapid method for assessing the effectiveness of other influence operations in much the same way that a Civil Affairs soldier can assess general attitudes and mood by reading the graffiti on the walls. On the down side, in heavily Internetted regions, the tendency toward monopoly that results from systemic self-optimization will result in increasing homeostasis. Authors of top blogs in these environments may become disconnected from the content of their blogs and the concerns of their audience. This is because the needs of maintaining the blog may override the ability of the blogger to survey other blogs, conduct research and maintain interactivity. Because of this tendency, and in areas where only the elites or the government have Internet access, the content of the top blogs may not correlate well with majority concerns/opinions. As always, intelligence drawn from blogs may be invalid without confirmation from other sources.
Analysts working with blog intelligence must have access to the operational disciplines that they support; the closer the better. We recommend the creation of small special operations units with operational authority and integrated intelligence collections and analysis to conduct blog-based operations.
Recently, analysts at the Open Source Center (OSC) under the auspices of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) have been monitoring and following significant foreign blogs and bloggers with the primary goal of exploiting them as sources of intelligence. A February 2006 posting on the organization’s “Blog on Blogs” about Iranian expatriate blogger Hossein Derakhshan (“Hoder”), described him as “one of the most influential Iranian bloggers.” OSC analysts used Traffic (based on Reach and Page Views) from Alexa; Authority (Inbound Blog Links) from Technorati; and frequency of postings from Blog-Pulse. All three sources share the advantage of ready availability, but are limited for reasons discussed earlier.
Besides these and other metrics described earlier, there are other tools that can help the intelligence analyst. BlogPulse’s Conversation Tracker and TalkDigger (www.talkdigger.com), for example, track conversations as they spread through the blogosphere. TouchGraph (www.touchgraph.com) provides a tool for visualizing links among sites.
Blog-Based Operations
To function most effectively, units conducting blog-based operations must be staffed appropriately. Ideally, such units would be drawn from the special operations and intelligence communities, because of their historical experience in and ability to conduct (when tasked) sensitive operations. Linguists and intelligence analysts (preferably analysts who are also linguists), who are commanded or advised by qualified PSYOP or IO officer should form the core of such a unit. These capabilities must be augmented through liaison relationships with the other influence organizations, those responsible for planning and conducting PSYOP, PA, PD, CA/CMO and MILDEC. Because of the unique nature of blog-related intelligence, comprising both open and highly classified sources and producing an output intended for open distribution, a blog operations unit should have solid information, operations, and network security programs in place. It also needs oversight.
In order to act and react efficiently in managing bloggers and blogs, the intelligence specialists and planners who have the knowledge should be the ones running the actual blog. Or, in cases where indigenous bloggers and their blogs have been identified and recruited, the blog operations cell should also house the case officer managing the asset, having done the work to cultivate and recruit him or her. The same metrics used to select a blog can also serve as indirect measures of effectiveness; for example:
* Once blog operations have begun, does the blog attract new inbound links?
* Is there an increase over time in the blog’s ranking via various metrics?
* Through polling and media analysis, can a change in public opinion be correlated with growth in the blog’s indicators?
* What does content analysis of the interaction that occurs with the blogger on the site reveal (change in opinions posted by readers? positive or negative?)
* Do the comments on the blog correlate with public opinion results obtained by polling and/or portrayed in the mainstream media?
* Does the blog get referenced by the mainstream media in the target country, and with what degree of frequency?
* Do other sources of intelligence confirm these indicators?
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Like any other influence operation, blog operations must be given time to work. There are no magic bullets. We would suggest quarterly reviews of the blog’s effectiveness along these lines and then adjusting fire to reverse any negative trends and accelerate positive trends.
This fusion of intelligence and operations is the cost of and the requirement for operating in a medium that rewards the efficient distribution of knowledge and information above all other considerations, and is also in the best traditions of the intelligence and special operations communities. Pushing operational authority out to those best equipped to receive, analyze and act in a dynamic information environment maximizes both efficiency and effectiveness. Although a blog-based operations unit could be based either domestically or in theater, the best option is to forward deploy it as a cell, just as we deploy our PSYOP analysts and production and dissemination capabilities. • • • • • •
What I want to know is, is that 'domestically' merely based?
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
BP whistleblower tells it like it is....
It's these interviews with real people and through video posts by people who's lives are directly fucked-over that we get the real info on just what's going on in the Gulf. Imagine if you lived there and you began to see that everything you knew and loved was
going, going, gone and never coming back.... that your government is on the side of the
perpetrators of this catastrophe.... god bless our brothers and sisters on the front lines....
Monday, July 12, 2010
Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event
Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.
251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world. [2]
55 million years later another methane bubble ruptured causing more mass extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM).
The LPTM lasted 100,000 years. [3]
Those subterranean seas of methane virtually reshaped the planet when they explosively blew from deep beneath the waters of what is today called the Gulf of Mexico.
Now, worried scientists are increasingly concerned the same series of catastrophic events that led to worldwide death back then may be happening again-and no known technology can stop it.
The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.
The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane mega-bubble.
Ryskin’s methane extinction theory
Northwestern University's Gregory Ryskin, a bio-chemical engineer, has a theory: The oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has documented the scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible for the mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago. [4]
Many geologists concur: "The consequences of a methane-driven oceanic eruption for marine and terrestrial life are likely to be catastrophic. Figuratively speaking, the erupting region "boils over," ejecting a large amount of methane and other gases (e.g., CO2, H2S) into the atmosphere, and flooding large areas of land. Whereas pure methane is lighter than air, methane loaded with water droplets is much heavier, and thus spreads over the land, mixing with air in the process (and losing water as rain). The air-methane mixture is explosive at methane concentrations between 5% and 15%; as such mixtures form in different locations near the ground and are ignited by lightning, explosions and conflagrations destroy most of the terrestrial life, and also produce great amounts of smoke and of carbon dioxide..." [5]
The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the surrounding water.
Such occurrences can lead to the rupture of the methane bubble containment—it can then permit the methane to breach the subterranean depths and undergo an explosive decompression as it catapults into the Gulf waters. [6]
All three warning signs are documented to be occurring in the Gulf.
Ground zero: The Gulf Coast
The people and property located on the greater expanse of the Gulf Coast are sitting at Ground Zero. They will be the first exposed to poisonous, cancer causing chemical gases. They will be the ones that initially experience the full fury of a methane bubble exploding from the ruptured seabed.
The media has been kept away from the emergency salvage measures being taken to forestall the biggest catastrophe in human history. The federal government has warned them away from the epicenter of operations with the threat of a $40,000 fine for each infraction and the possibility of felony arrests.
Why is the press being kept away? Word is that the disaster is escalating.
Cracks and bulges
Methane is now streaming through the porous, rocky seabed at an accelerated rate and gushing from the borehole of the first relief well. The EPA is on record that Rig #1 is releasing methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases. Workers there now wear advanced protection including state-of-the-art, military-issued gas masks.
Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage workers in the region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean floor is succumbing to greater and greater pressure. That pressure is causing a huge expanse of the seabed-estimated by some as spreading over thousands of square miles surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet.
The fractured BP wellhead, site of the former Deepwater Horizon, has become the epicenter of frenetic attempts to quell the monstrous flow of methane.
The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi. According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi.
Another well-respected expert, Dr. John Kessler of Texas A&M University has calculated that the ruptured well is spewing 60 percent oil and 40 percent methane. The normal methane amount that escapes from a compromised well is about 5 percent.
More evidence? A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go down miles into the earth.
That gash too is hemorrhaging oil and methane. It’s 10 miles away from the BP epicenter. Other, new fissures, have been spotted as far as 30 miles distant.
Measurements of the multiple oil plumes now appearing miles from the wellhead indicate that as much as a total of 124,000 barrels of oil are erupting into the Gulf waters daily-that’s about 5,208,000 gallons of oil per day.
Most disturbing of all: Methane levels in the water are now calculated as being almost one million times higher than normal. [7]
Mass death on the water
If the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big as 20 miles wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf, every ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will immediately sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel and marine biologists participating in the salvage operation will die instantly.
Next, the ocean bottom will collapse, instantaneously displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami annihilating everything along the coast and well inland. Like a thermonuclear blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening everything in its path before the water arrives.
When the roaring tsunami does arrive it will scrub away all that is left.
A chemical cocktail of poisons
Some environmentalist experts are calling what’s pouring into the land, sea and air from the seabed breach ’a chemical cocktail of poisons.’
Areas of dead zones devoid of oxygen are driving species of fish into foreign waters, killing plankton and other tiny sea life that are the foundation for the entire food chain, and polluting the air with cancer-causing chemicals and poisonous rainfalls.
A report from one observer in South Carolina documents oily residue left behind after a recent thunderstorm. And before the news blackout fully descended the EPA released data that benzene levels in New Orleans had rocketed to 3,000 parts per billion.
Benzene is extremely toxic and even short term exposure can cause agonizing death from cancerous lesions years later.
The people of Louisiana have been exposed for more than two months—and the benzene levels may be much higher now. The EPA measurement was taken in early May. [8]
Doomsday
While some say it can’t happen because the bulk of the methane is frozen into crystalline form, others point out that the underground methane sea is gradually melting from the nearby surging oil that’s estimated to be as hot as 500 degrees Fahrenheit.
Most experts in the know, however, agree that if the world-changing event does occur it will happen suddenly and within the next 6 months.
So, if events go against Mankind and the bubble bursts in the coming months, Gregory Ryskin may become one of the most famous people in the world. Of course, he won't have long to enjoy his new found fame because very shortly after the methane eruption civilization will collapse.
Perhaps if humanity is very, very lucky, some may find a way to avoid the mass extinction that follows and carry on the human race.
Perhaps.
…………
Sources
[1] The Permian extinction event, when 96% of all marine species became extinct 251 million years ago.
[2] “The Day The Earth Nearly Died,” BBC Horizon, 2002
[3] Report about the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM), which occurred around 55 million years ago and lasted about 100,000 years. Large undersea methane caused explosions and mass extinctions.
[4] Ryskin Theory
Huge combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped under the seas and explosively released could have killed off the majority of marine life, land animals, and plants at the end of the Permian era—long before the dinosaurs arrived.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
“OPERATE TO FAILURE”: How BP’s MO & The US Addiction To Oil Caused The Catastrophe Of The Millennium
Really, why has it been so difficult to put this GENIE (Oil & Gas) back into the bottle (Macondo Prospect, Gulf of Mexico)? Or at least keep any more of him from coming out?There are many reasons, on many different levels, but let’s start with BP and the culture of corporate superiority that has evolved at this multi-national behemoth since its founding in 1908. We’re talking about the granddaddy here – the Anglo-Persian Oil Company – which was the first to develop the oil and gas reserves discovered in the Middle East. Simply put, when you’re the biggest and the oldest in that neck of the woods, you get used to doing it your way, and ONLY your way.Well, British Petroleum’s way of developing oil and gas throughout their planetary stomping grounds (Planet BP — a BP online, in-house magazine) is known to many insiders and outsiders alike by the catchphrase that goes like this – “OPERATE TO FAILURE”. This British Petroleum modus operandi has been confirmed by former BP employees and contractors, and verified by many insiders, deep contacts and whistleblowers throughout the Oil & Gas Industry. Much of this testimony was received directly by this author in the process of setting up interviews with CBS 60 Minutes, as they complete their production of a followup Gulf Oil Spill segment to the season’s last: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=related;photovideoIt doesn’t take much understanding or knowledge to apprehend the enormity and gravity of the potential consequences of such a standard operating principle in the oil and gas exploration and drilling business. Especially when you’re drilling 5000 feet underwater, and between 22,000 and 32,000 feet (they won’t tell us how deep) through the Earth’s crust and mantle. When you throw in the likes of Transocean and Halliburton into the mix, it’s not a matter of what, or if, or when, the greatest disaster of all time is going to happen. IT’S A MATTER OF JUST HOW CATASTROPHIC IT WILL BE FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET!Incidentally, this piece in no way excuses the US Federal Government for their huge part in this global calamity. They have, in fact, variously acted as enabler, co-dependent and full-time accomplice in the execution of this crime against humanity and the planet, Herself. By its actions and inaction, the US Gov’t (EPA, Departments of Energy, Interior & Homeland Security, US Congress, US Judiciary and the White House) has been identified by many as an indicted co-conspirator in this unprecedented crime against a whole region of the USA. Rather shocking, but true as the evidence which currently exists in the public domain bears out.Back to the GENIE. He’s out in more ways than one and we speak particularly of the raging debate regarding the abiogenic origin of petroleum. Let’s let the real experts tell us the real story about where oil and gas really come from. Highly esteemed Russian researcher, Dmitri Mendeleev, is described as follows by Wikipedia. Perhaps we ought to listen carefully to him.“Mendeleev made other important contributions to chemistry. The Russian chemist and science historian L.A. Tchugayev has characterized him as “a chemist of genius, first-class physicist, a fruitful researcher in the fields of hydrodynamics, meteorology, geology, certain branches of chemical technology (explosives, petroleum, and fuels, for example) and other disciplines adjacent to chemistry and physics, a thorough expert of chemical industry and industry in general, and an original thinker in the field of economy.” Mendeleev was one of the founders, in 1869, of the Russian Chemical Society.”Here’s what Dmitri (credited with the creation of the original Periodic Table of Elements) has to say about the abiogenic source of hydrocarbons in his tract entitled THE ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM:“The capital fact to note is that petroleum was born in the depths of the Earth, and it is only there that we must seek its origin.” (D. Mendeleev, 1877){{ref|Mendeleev}}Mendeleev, D., 1877. L’Origine du pétrole. Revue Scientifique, second series, VIII, p. 409–416Following is a very brief history of the Abiogenic Theory of Petroleum, which can be found at the following link:http://tripatlas.com/Abiogenic_petroleum_originHISTORY OF ABIOGENIC THEORY:“The abiogenic petroleum theory was founded upon several old interpretations of geology which stem from early 19th century notions of magmatism (which at the time was attributed to sulfur fires and bitumen burning underground) and of petroleum, which was seen by many to fuel volcanoes. Indeed, Wernerian appreciation of basalts at times saw them as solidified oils or bitumen. While these notions have been disabused, the basic notion that petroleum is associated with magmatism has persisted. The chief proponents of what would become the abiogenic theory were Mendeleev[5] and Berthelot.Russian geologist Nikolai Alexandrovitch Kudryavtsev was the first to propose the modern abiotic theory of petroleum in 1951. He analyzed the geology of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada and concluded that no “source rocks” could form the enormous volume of hydrocarbons (estimated today 1.7 trillions barrels), and that therefore the most plausible explanation is abiotic deep petroleum. However, humic coals have been proposed for the source rocks by Stanton (2005).Although this theory is supported by geologists in Russia and Ukraine, it has recently begun to receive attention in the West, where the biogenic petroleum theory is accepted by the vast majority of petroleum geologists. Kudryavtsev’s work was continued by many Russian researchers — Petr N. Kropotkin, Vladimir B. Porfir’ev, Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk, Vladilen A. Krayushkin, Georgi E. Boyko, Georgi I. Voitov, Grygori N. Dolenko, Iona V. Greenberg, Nikolai S. Beskrovny, Victor F. Linetsky and many others.Astrophysicist Thomas Gold 1 was one of the abiogenic theory’s most prominent proponents in recent years in the West, until his death in 2004. Dr. Jack Kenney of Gas Resources Corporation[6][7][8] is perhaps the foremost proponent in the West. The theory receives continued attention in the media as well as in scientific publications.”FOUNDATIONS OF THE HYPOTHESIS:“Within the mantle, carbon may exist as hydrocarbon molecules, chiefly methane, and as elemental carbon, carbon dioxide and carbonates. The abiotic hypothesis is that a full suite of hydrocarbons found in petroleum can be generated in the mantle by abiogenic processes,8 and these hydrocarbons can migrate out of the mantle into the crust until they escape to the surface or are trapped by impermeable strata, forming petroleum reservoirs.Abiogenic theories reject the supposition that certain molecules found within petroleum, known as “biomarkers,” are indicative of the biological origin of petroleum. They contend that some of these molecules could have come from the microbes that the petroleum encounters in its upward migration through the crust, and that some of them are found in meteorites, which have presumably never contacted living material, and that some can be generated by plausible reactions in petroleum abiogenically.Another important exposition on the matter comes from Samar Abbas, Institute of Physics, as well as the Dept. of Physics at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India and his paper entitled:NON-ORGANIC THEORY OF THE GENESIS OF PETROLEUM, which can be found at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9610011v1The following blog presents additional information which invalidates the conventionally held “fossil fuel” hypothesis. After having been artificially propped up for so many years by scientists, academics and especially oil and gas industry geologists, who have known the obvious truth about the source and nature of oil all along, the aforementioned Russian and Ukrainian scientists have debunked it with finality.http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Theory/SustainableOil/The blog below entitled “Abiotic Oil – The Secret of the BP Oil Spill” ought to have gone one step further to point out that all oil is abiotic in nature. And that those deposits found in the more shallow areas of the earth’s crust, where most of the drilling and extraction have been conducted historically, are not any different in nature or source because of their more superficial geological location.The very notion of Peak Oil is also completely upended with this new understanding. However, it is very important that these discoveries do not cloud our vision for the future. Just because Mother Earth’s lifeblood is much more voluminous and readily available than previously thought, does not mean that we have any more license to steal it from Her.Western Civilization, more than ever, must attain a vision of the future which respects Mother Earth with the utmost reverence and awe. Until this posture is assumed by every living thing, She will continue to teach us in so many dramatic and captivating ways.***************** Abiotic Oil – The Secret of the BP Oil Spill *****************“As usual, here is the place where you get the unfettered truth about what’s going on in the world, and today I will pull back the curtains on the BP oil leak and what will go down as one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century – that oil is abiotic – produced inside the Earth and is not simply rotting dinosaurs and old plants (aka “fossil” fuel).The amount of oil seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, at this very moment, emerges from an *ocean* of oil that is almost as large as the Gulf itself! This ocean of oil didn’t appear there because it was a giant fish graveyard. It was not a prehistoric jungle 20 miles high and 500 miles wide. This oil is abiotic oil and is produced by geological actions in the earth itself. Abiotic oil is created by intense pressures on carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur. The sort of pressures required to create oil are natural as one gets down a certain depth under the heavy crust and in the upper layers of the mantle. In some ways oil is the natural lubrication system for the crust and the upper layers of the mantle as it shifts and orbits the planet’s core.The best think-tanks have known this for several decades now and have kept it hush hush to keep prices of oil high and help the oil industry. This was necessary because oil companies have huge assets and those assets are put to good use in infrastructure, research and development in more than simple oil production. Capitalism requires that certain commodities be given a value above and beyond the cost of procurement. Now that we have a leak which will not be able to be plugged, it’s time to prepare and explain what exactly is going on with the Deep Horizon well and why it is almost impossible to cap that Genie back in the bottle.
“They’ve Literally Punched A Hole Into Hell: We Need A Crash Alternative Energy Program Now, Assuming We Even Survive”
There is no verbal hyperbole sufficient to express the magnitude of
the environmental catastrophe now known as Deepwater Horizon. It is
nothing short of an Armageddon of Oil. Assuming we even survive this
one, we must immediately mobilize a crash program for truly renewable
alternative energy resources. Despite the gusher of lies we’ve heard trying to minimize the planetary scale disaster now in progress in the Gulf, the terrifying
truth is available for those who will hear it. First they told us the
“leak” was only 1,000 barrels a day, when in fact it is at least 5
times that much. Of course it’s hard to pretend an oil slick the size
of New Jersey isn’t there. And it could easily blow out to 50,000
barrels a day (2,000,000 gallons) in a heartbeat, according to a “not
for public” NOAA emergency report.
This is not just a leak, it’s a monster underwater oil geyser, under
upwards of 100,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, enough force
to lift 50 tons with your thumb. And unless it is somehow stopped, it
may spell the end of all marine life on the planet. We are not
talking about just one Exxon Valdez size tanker spill, we are talking
about one of largest oil fields ever discovered completely venting
its entire contents into the ocean, thousands and thousands of
tankers. It’s THAT cataclysmic.
But assuming we miraculously dodge the literal end of the world this
one time, we need to finally do what should have been done 20 years
ago, and throw everything we’ve got into a crash program for
alternative renewable energy, and stop burning fossil fuels before
they kill us all.
Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1043.php
And after you submit the action page, please consider picking up one
of the timely “350 ppm or catastrophe” caps from the return page,
emphasizing the urgency of immediately reducing worldwide carbon
dioxide emissions. It is not as if we have not had every warning
already. Or you can get one directly from this page.
350 PPM Or Catastrophe Caps:
http://www.peaceteam.net/message_items.php
It should have been done twenty years ago. Stop all new oil
exploration. Forget about insanely expensive nuclear plants. End
immediately the lunatic military occupations that have cost us
trillions. And put everything we’ve got into an all out push to
develop and bring on line truly renewable alternative energy sources.
The burning of fossil fuels was already slowly killing the planet,
causing inexorable rises in greenhouse gas levels that have done
nothing but accelerate, despite the rampant disinformation campaign
waged by oil industry toadies pretending to be real scientists. Now
unless we find some way to stop the venting of the entire contents of
a gigantic oil field in the Gulf, under 100,000 pounds per square
inch of pressure, we may be looking at the end of all marine life on
this planet. We have literally punched a hole into hell.
Please add whatever personal comments of your own you like, and
emphasize it is time for our politicians to stop serving only oil
company and nuclear lobbyists paying the off to continue to pursue
bad energy policy, but to start doing something to save our country
and our world instead.”
From: www.peacteam.net
the environmental catastrophe now known as Deepwater Horizon. It is
nothing short of an Armageddon of Oil. Assuming we even survive this
one, we must immediately mobilize a crash program for truly renewable
alternative energy resources. Despite the gusher of lies we’ve heard trying to minimize the planetary scale disaster now in progress in the Gulf, the terrifying
truth is available for those who will hear it. First they told us the
“leak” was only 1,000 barrels a day, when in fact it is at least 5
times that much. Of course it’s hard to pretend an oil slick the size
of New Jersey isn’t there. And it could easily blow out to 50,000
barrels a day (2,000,000 gallons) in a heartbeat, according to a “not
for public” NOAA emergency report.
This is not just a leak, it’s a monster underwater oil geyser, under
upwards of 100,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, enough force
to lift 50 tons with your thumb. And unless it is somehow stopped, it
may spell the end of all marine life on the planet. We are not
talking about just one Exxon Valdez size tanker spill, we are talking
about one of largest oil fields ever discovered completely venting
its entire contents into the ocean, thousands and thousands of
tankers. It’s THAT cataclysmic.
But assuming we miraculously dodge the literal end of the world this
one time, we need to finally do what should have been done 20 years
ago, and throw everything we’ve got into a crash program for
alternative renewable energy, and stop burning fossil fuels before
they kill us all.
Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1043.php
And after you submit the action page, please consider picking up one
of the timely “350 ppm or catastrophe” caps from the return page,
emphasizing the urgency of immediately reducing worldwide carbon
dioxide emissions. It is not as if we have not had every warning
already. Or you can get one directly from this page.
350 PPM Or Catastrophe Caps:
http://www.peaceteam.net/message_items.php
It should have been done twenty years ago. Stop all new oil
exploration. Forget about insanely expensive nuclear plants. End
immediately the lunatic military occupations that have cost us
trillions. And put everything we’ve got into an all out push to
develop and bring on line truly renewable alternative energy sources.
The burning of fossil fuels was already slowly killing the planet,
causing inexorable rises in greenhouse gas levels that have done
nothing but accelerate, despite the rampant disinformation campaign
waged by oil industry toadies pretending to be real scientists. Now
unless we find some way to stop the venting of the entire contents of
a gigantic oil field in the Gulf, under 100,000 pounds per square
inch of pressure, we may be looking at the end of all marine life on
this planet. We have literally punched a hole into hell.
Please add whatever personal comments of your own you like, and
emphasize it is time for our politicians to stop serving only oil
company and nuclear lobbyists paying the off to continue to pursue
bad energy policy, but to start doing something to save our country
and our world instead.”
From: www.peacteam.net
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