It is my belief we need to prepare ourselves for life after the End*,to become a people who's objective it is not only to survive, but to thrive under the new conditions.

A post-apocalyptic renaissance, if you will.

Life off the grid.
Because there will be no grid.

Two months is not alot of prep time, but it's better than being suprised when the dollar becomes worthless, supermarket shelves become empty, the oceans die, gas prices skyrocket, hurricane season brings toxic rain (Benzene, Corexit) to the land, etc .....



yours for the duration,

johannes ayres esq.



* August 13, 2010

Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico

NEW YORK - In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made "a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico" one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water. The new revelations came to light after government investigators turned up new emails from Goldman employee Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre in which he bragged to a girlfriend that the firm was taking a "big short" position on the Gulf.
"One oil rig goes down and we're going to be rolling in dough," Mr. Tourre wrote in one email. "Suck it, fishies and birdies!"

(The Borowitz Report)

Corexit Is Killing The Gulf (Part I)

Fury and despair as BP admits oil could leak for months

Obama administration warns that the most environmentally disastrous spill in US history may continue until August. An uncontrollable fountain of oil could gush into the Gulf of Mexico until August, the Obama administration warned today, as BP conceded it was moving to a containment strategy after failing to plug the well at the centre of the most environmentally disastrous spill in US history.
As anger and despair grew in the coastal communities of Louisiana, BP began preparations to cut a leaking drill pipe on the ocean floor and attach a containment cap intended to capture at least some of the 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of crude spewing from its Macondo well every day.
The oil company, which has come under withering attack for its handling of the crisis, acknowledged there was "no certainty" of success in the effort, which will take four to seven days and which some experts say could make the leak worse.
A White House adviser said the US government was "prepared for the worst" after efforts to halt the leak by pumping mud, golf balls, tyres and other debris into the well were halted without success yesterday.
Carol Browner, the administration's energy czar, said there may be no solution until two relief wells being drilled into the oilfield by BP are complete later in summer. "There could be oil coming up till August when the relief wells are done," she said. "This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country."
At the weekend, as the failure of BP's latest attempt became clear, President Barack Obama vented his frustration at the situation.
"It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimised by this manmade disaster are made whole," Obama said in a statement.
Another two months of leakage from the site of BP's sunken Deepwater Horizon oil rig would mean that the spill, which already eclipses the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, would cause even more damage to marshland wildlife habitats and to the livelihood of shrimpers, fishermen and tourism workers in southern states. Oil already stretches over a distance of 130 miles by 70 miles.
Browner said: "We are prepared for the worst. We have been prepared from the beginning."
As the crisis moved to its fifth week, both BP and Obama faced attacks for failing to come up with a solution. Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, called for immediate funding to build a network of sand barriers to protect the coastline.
"It's time for BP to step up to the plate – don't wait for the president," said Nungesser. "Every time that oil takes out a piece of the marsh, a piece of Louisiana is gone forever."
Oil has been leaking from a broken drilling pipe on the ocean floor since the rig caught fire and sank on 20 April, killing 11 offshore workers.
At the weekend, BP abandoned a "top kill" operation to fix the leak after engineers were unable to stem the pressure of oil with thousands of tonnes of drilling mud. "We're disappointed that oil is going to flow for a while and we're going to redouble our efforts to keep it off the beaches," BP's managing director, Bob Dudley, told CNN. "We're moving to a containment operation."
BP's new plan involves using underwater robots and a diamond wire-cutter to create a clean cut through the leaking pipe, then attach a "riser" allowing oil to be pumped to the ocean surface and collected by a ship. Experts say it will be difficult to create a watertight seal on a high-pressure gushing pipe at a depth of 1,500 metres (5,000ft).
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell joined calls for the military to take command of the operation from BP. Powell said the problem was beyond the capacity of BP to solve and the government should bring in "decisive force". He said: "The military brings organisation, it brings control, it brings assets."

Why BP Refuses To Stop Using Chemical Dispersants

Do you wonder why BP refuses to stop using the chemical dispersants the EPA ordered BP to stop using?
Why?
I'll tell you why:
BECAUSE THOSE DISPERSANTS KEEP THE OIL UNDERWATER - AWAY FROM THE NAKED EYE AND SATELLITE VIEW.

Says who?
Scientists studying the massive underwater oil plumes. Some of the oil plumes are over 30 foot deep and 26 miles long.
One scientists said about using dispersants on oil: "You don't want to put soap into a fish tank," Hollander said.

This discovery seems to confirm the fears of some scientists that -- because of the depth of the leak and the heavy use of chemical "dispersants" -- this spill was behaving differently than others. Instead of floating on top of the water, it may be moving beneath it.

That would be troubling because it could mean the oil would slip past coastal defenses such as "containment booms" designed to stop it on the surface. Already, scientists and officials in Louisiana have reported finding thick oil washing ashore despite the presence of floating booms.

It would also be a problem for hidden ecosystems deep under the gulf. There, scientists say, the oil could be absorbed by tiny animals and enter a food chain that builds to large, beloved sport-fish like red snapper. It might also glom on to deep-water coral formations, and cover the small animals that make up each piece of coral.

"It kills them because it prevents them from feeding," said Professor James H. Cowan Jr., of Louisiana State University. "It could essentially starve them to death."

The University of South Florida vessel, the Weatherbird II, used sonar and other devices to sample the water below it. Other scientists have said they have little of the equipment necessary to find oil under the water -- leading to debates about whether the underwater plumes were even there.

Elizabeth Allen 5-28-10

Benzene from Oil Spill is Highly Toxic

Incredible amounts of Benzene are being released into the atmosphere and is a clear and present danger not only for the old and people with respiratory problems but the general Gulf population as a whole. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that benzene is a human carcinogen, and can cause various forms of cancer from prolonged exposure. Exposed to high levels of benzene show association with leukemia cancer; including acute myelogenous leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and chronic myelogenous leukemia. Benzene-related leukemias have been reported to develop in as short as nine months. Benzene evaporates into air very quickly and dissolves slightly in water. Most people can begin to smell benzene in air at 1.5-4.7 parts of benzene per million parts of air (ppm) and smell benzene in water at 2 ppm. If you can smell the oil slick (which many have reported, days before it physically reached the shore line) you are receiving 500 times the maximum safe level. Brief exposure (5-10 minutes) to very high levels of benzene in air (10,000-20,000 ppm) can result in death. Lower levels (700-3,000 ppm) can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. In most cases, people will stop feeling these effects when they are no longer exposed and begin to breathe fresh air. This is much more serious than they are letting on, especially as one of the options here is to burn the escaping oil! Plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area are expected to be announced in the coming days as FEMA prepares for what is now being called the worst oil disaster in the history of the world.

Dr. R. Michael Castle, one of the top independent polymer chemists in the US, has been following "this nightmare of incompetence and greed" as he told me, since the oil rig explosion on April 11. Dr. Castle is also the author of "The Methodic Demise of Natural Earth," a ground-breaking essay on what is happening to our planet's environment with the out-of-control and illegal spraying of highly toxic aerosol Chemtrails over the past twelve years.(6) He is also author of the 2003 Unified Atmospheric Protection Act (now tied up in Congressional committee). With his extensive polymer chemistry background, Dr. Castle clearly understands the enormous ecological chemical devastation that continues right now unabated. The following is my conversation with him on May 25, 2010.

"What can be done?" he said. "Firstly, DON"T SET OFF ANY NUKE! DO NOT DO THAT. This is sheer madness. In no way will this fix anything. It will do irreparable and long-term massive harm." Radiation damage would devastate the immediate area and the rest of our planet. [NOTE: Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors are still monitored 65 years after the US military dropped atomic bombs on civilians.]

"Secondly, for emergency clean-up crews exposed to the crude oil's benzene vapors, they must be informed about the consequences of working there. Many of them are neither trained properly, nor know what serious health damage can be done to them. [This is another unfolding scenario like the 9/11 First Responders experienced, when they were told by public officials that it was safe to breathe the toxic air at Ground Zero in New York City.] Dr. Castle urges the following:

"Stay out of the water. Protect yourself from the hazardous vapors and carcinogenic effects of benzene. Benzene cuts off oxygen to the body (it's water soluble) and is a known cause of leukemia ­blood cancer.

"Use organic coconut oil or organic coconut butter. These are safe and natural plant ingredients that are bioactive and will coat the skin and protect it. Rub it on your hands, and face, and neck. It creates a protective film against benzene. Do not rub or wash it off, as it helps reverse the toxins' many effects on the body.

"Also, use a capful of Willard's XXX Dark and rub it on arms and hands. This will also naturally protect the body. This is made of lignite coal in water and is another natural way to shield the body from toxins. [Dr. Castle has no financial ties with this product.]

"I repeat: Do not send any emergency hazard clean-up teams to the Gulf who are uneducated and do not realize the extreme damage these poisons can do ­short and long term.

"AmeriHaz can be safely used to gather up the crude oil that is already causing such ecological damage."

In 1996, Dr. Castle developed an inert product, called "AmeriHaz," to deal in a truly safe manner with cleaning up serious crude oil leaks and out-of-control dispersals of highly dangerous chemicals. "I wanted to create a product that could absorb any devastating 'spill' (it's really the very wrong word for what is happening in the Gulf. A 'spill' is something very minor). This is catastrophic in its scope," he told me. "This is an inert polymer product that will encapsulate this crude oil, so it won't be picked up systemically in anything else. It literally locks up PAHs [polyaromatic hydrocarbons] that are precursors of benzene." See this video :

www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2010/05/17/story-scientist-oil-spill-columbus.html

Also, Dr. Castle recommends "using crushed, pebble-size lignite coal all along beaches, marshes, and estuaries. This will help detoxify the benzene (that is naturally soluble in water) because it is extremely toxic in crude oil.

These are realistic solutions that can actually begin to remedy this effects of this catastrophe, if those people in charge really do care about saving the Gulf (an area still in trauma from the post-Hurricane Katrina debacle where there was really no help for those in most need).(8) Finally, an international boycott of all BP products should be instituted immediately. The untapped power of the consumer pocketbook should be used. When their CEO says this is a "modest" event, the company should not get any more money from already very strapped consumers.

Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri is an environmental writer and the author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Uterine Crisis."

Benzene evaporates into air very quickly and dissolves slightly in water. Most people can begin to smell benzene in air at 1.5-4.7 parts of benzene per million parts of air (ppm) and smell benzene in water at 2 ppm. If you can smell the oil slick (which many have reported, days before it physically reached the shore line) you are receiving 500 times the maximum safe level. Brief exposure (5-10 minutes) to very high levels of benzene in air (10,000-20,000 ppm) can result in death. Lower levels (700-3,000 ppm) can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. In most cases, people will stop feeling these effects when they are no longer exposed and begin to breathe fresh air. This is much more serious than they are letting on, especially as one of the options here is to burn the escaping oil! Plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area are expected to be announced in the coming days as FEMA prepares for what is now being called the worst oil disaster in the history of the world.

Dr. R. Michael Castle, one of the top independent polymer chemists in the US, has been following "this nightmare of incompetence and greed" as he told me, since the oil rig explosion on April 11. Dr. Castle is also the author of "The Methodic Demise of Natural Earth," a ground-breaking essay on what is happening to our planet's environment with the out-of-control and illegal spraying of highly toxic aerosol Chemtrails over the past twelve years.(6) He is also author of the 2003 Unified Atmospheric Protection Act (now tied up in Congressional committee). With his extensive polymer chemistry background, Dr. Castle clearly understands the enormous ecological chemical devastation that continues right now unabated. The following is my conversation with him on May 25, 2010.

"What can be done?" he said. "Firstly, DON"T SET OFF ANY NUKE! DO NOT DO THAT. This is sheer madness. In no way will this fix anything. It will do irreparable and long-term massive harm." Radiation damage would devastate the immediate area and the rest of our planet. [NOTE: Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors are still monitored 65 years after the US military dropped atomic bombs on civilians.]

"Secondly, for emergency clean-up crews exposed to the crude oil's benzene vapors, they must be informed about the consequences of working there. Many of them are neither trained properly, nor know what serious health damage can be done to them. [This is another unfolding scenario like the 9/11 First Responders experienced, when they were told by public officials that it was safe to breathe the toxic air at Ground Zero in New York City.] Dr. Castle urges the following:

"Stay out of the water. Protect yourself from the hazardous vapors and carcinogenic effects of benzene. Benzene cuts off oxygen to the body (it's water soluble) and is a known cause of leukemia ­blood cancer.

"Use organic coconut oil or organic coconut butter. These are safe and natural plant ingredients that are bioactive and will coat the skin and protect it. Rub it on your hands, and face, and neck. It creates a protective film against benzene. Do not rub or wash it off, as it helps reverse the toxins' many effects on the body.

"Also, use a capful of Willard's XXX Dark and rub it on arms and hands. This will also naturally protect the body. This is made of lignite coal in water and is another natural way to shield the body from toxins. [Dr. Castle has no financial ties with this product.]

"I repeat: Do not send any emergency hazard clean-up teams to the Gulf who are uneducated and do not realize the extreme damage these poisons can do ­short and long term.

"AmeriHaz can be safely used to gather up the crude oil that is already causing such ecological damage."

In 1996, Dr. Castle developed an inert product, called "AmeriHaz," to deal in a truly safe manner with cleaning up serious crude oil leaks and out-of-control dispersals of highly dangerous chemicals. "I wanted to create a product that could absorb any devastating 'spill' (it's really the very wrong word for what is happening in the Gulf. A 'spill' is something very minor). This is catastrophic in its scope," he told me. "This is an inert polymer product that will encapsulate this crude oil, so it won't be picked up systemically in anything else. It literally locks up PAHs [polyaromatic hydrocarbons] that are precursors of benzene." See this video :

www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2010/05/17/story-scientist-oil-spill-columbus.html

Also, Dr. Castle recommends "using crushed, pebble-size lignite coal all along beaches, marshes, and estuaries. This will help detoxify the benzene (that is naturally soluble in water) because it is extremely toxic in crude oil.

These are realistic solutions that can actually begin to remedy this effects of this catastrophe, if those people in charge really do care about saving the Gulf (an area still in trauma from the post-Hurricane Katrina debacle where there was really no help for those in most need).(8) Finally, an international boycott of all BP products should be instituted immediately. The untapped power of the consumer pocketbook should be used. When their CEO says this is a "modest" event, the company should not get any more money from already very strapped consumers.

Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri is an environmental writer and the author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Uterine Crisis."

Benzene evaporates into air very quickly and dissolves slightly in water. Most people can begin to smell benzene in air at 1.5-4.7 parts of benzene per million parts of air (ppm) and smell benzene in water at 2 ppm. If you can smell the oil slick (which many have reported, days before it physically reached the shore line) you are receiving 500 times the maximum safe level. Brief exposure (5-10 minutes) to very high levels of benzene in air (10,000-20,000 ppm) can result in death. Lower levels (700-3,000 ppm) can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. In most cases, people will stop feeling these effects when they are no longer exposed and begin to breathe fresh air. This is much more serious than they are letting on, especially as one of the options here is to burn the escaping oil! Plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area are expected to be announced in the coming days as FEMA prepares for what is now being called the worst oil disaster in the history of the world.

Dr. R. Michael Castle, one of the top independent polymer chemists in the US, has been following "this nightmare of incompetence and greed" as he told me, since the oil rig explosion on April 11. Dr. Castle is also the author of "The Methodic Demise of Natural Earth," a ground-breaking essay on what is happening to our planet's environment with the out-of-control and illegal spraying of highly toxic aerosol Chemtrails over the past twelve years.(6) He is also author of the 2003 Unified Atmospheric Protection Act (now tied up in Congressional committee). With his extensive polymer chemistry background, Dr. Castle clearly understands the enormous ecological chemical devastation that continues right now unabated. The following is my conversation with him on May 25, 2010.

"What can be done?" he said. "Firstly, DON"T SET OFF ANY NUKE! DO NOT DO THAT. This is sheer madness. In no way will this fix anything. It will do irreparable and long-term massive harm." Radiation damage would devastate the immediate area and the rest of our planet. [NOTE: Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors are still monitored 65 years after the US military dropped atomic bombs on civilians.]

"Secondly, for emergency clean-up crews exposed to the crude oil's benzene vapors, they must be informed about the consequences of working there. Many of them are neither trained properly, nor know what serious health damage can be done to them. [This is another unfolding scenario like the 9/11 First Responders experienced, when they were told by public officials that it was safe to breathe the toxic air at Ground Zero in New York City.] Dr. Castle urges the following:

"Stay out of the water. Protect yourself from the hazardous vapors and carcinogenic effects of benzene. Benzene cuts off oxygen to the body (it's water soluble) and is a known cause of leukemia ­blood cancer.

"Use organic coconut oil or organic coconut butter. These are safe and natural plant ingredients that are bioactive and will coat the skin and protect it. Rub it on your hands, and face, and neck. It creates a protective film against benzene. Do not rub or wash it off, as it helps reverse the toxins' many effects on the body.

"Also, use a capful of Willard's XXX Dark and rub it on arms and hands. This will also naturally protect the body. This is made of lignite coal in water and is another natural way to shield the body from toxins. [Dr. Castle has no financial ties with this product.]

"I repeat: Do not send any emergency hazard clean-up teams to the Gulf who are uneducated and do not realize the extreme damage these poisons can do ­short and long term.

"AmeriHaz can be safely used to gather up the crude oil that is already causing such ecological damage."

In 1996, Dr. Castle developed an inert product, called "AmeriHaz," to deal in a truly safe manner with cleaning up serious crude oil leaks and out-of-control dispersals of highly dangerous chemicals. "I wanted to create a product that could absorb any devastating 'spill' (it's really the very wrong word for what is happening in the Gulf. A 'spill' is something very minor). This is catastrophic in its scope," he told me. "This is an inert polymer product that will encapsulate this crude oil, so it won't be picked up systemically in anything else. It literally locks up PAHs [polyaromatic hydrocarbons] that are precursors of benzene." See this video :

www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2010/05/17/story-scientist-oil-spill-columbus.html

Also, Dr. Castle recommends "using crushed, pebble-size lignite coal all along beaches, marshes, and estuaries. This will help detoxify the benzene (that is naturally soluble in water) because it is extremely toxic in crude oil.

These are realistic solutions that can actually begin to remedy this effects of this catastrophe, if those people in charge really do care about saving the Gulf (an area still in trauma from the post-Hurricane Katrina debacle where there was really no help for those in most need).(8) Finally, an international boycott of all BP products should be instituted immediately. The untapped power of the consumer pocketbook should be used. When their CEO says this is a "modest" event, the company should not get any more money from already very strapped consumers.

Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri is an environmental writer and the author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Uterine Crisis."

Benzene evaporates into air very quickly and dissolves slightly in water. Most people can begin to smell benzene in air at 1.5-4.7 parts of benzene per million parts of air (ppm) and smell benzene in water at 2 ppm. If you can smell the oil slick (which many have reported, days before it physically reached the shore line) you are receiving 500 times the maximum safe level. Brief exposure (5-10 minutes) to very high levels of benzene in air (10,000-20,000 ppm) can result in death. Lower levels (700-3,000 ppm) can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. In most cases, people will stop feeling these effects when they are no longer exposed and begin to breathe fresh air. This is much more serious than they are letting on, especially as one of the options here is to burn the escaping oil! Plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area are expected to be announced in the coming days as FEMA prepares for what is now being called the worst oil disaster in the history of the world.

Dr. R. Michael Castle, one of the top independent polymer chemists in the US, has been following "this nightmare of incompetence and greed" as he told me, since the oil rig explosion on April 11. Dr. Castle is also the author of "The Methodic Demise of Natural Earth," a ground-breaking essay on what is happening to our planet's environment with the out-of-control and illegal spraying of highly toxic aerosol Chemtrails over the past twelve years.(6) He is also author of the 2003 Unified Atmospheric Protection Act (now tied up in Congressional committee). With his extensive polymer chemistry background, Dr. Castle clearly understands the enormous ecological chemical devastation that continues right now unabated. The following is my conversation with him on May 25, 2010.

"What can be done?" he said. "Firstly, DON"T SET OFF ANY NUKE! DO NOT DO THAT. This is sheer madness. In no way will this fix anything. It will do irreparable and long-term massive harm." Radiation damage would devastate the immediate area and the rest of our planet. [NOTE: Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors are still monitored 65 years after the US military dropped atomic bombs on civilians.]

"Secondly, for emergency clean-up crews exposed to the crude oil's benzene vapors, they must be informed about the consequences of working there. Many of them are neither trained properly, nor know what serious health damage can be done to them. [This is another unfolding scenario like the 9/11 First Responders experienced, when they were told by public officials that it was safe to breathe the toxic air at Ground Zero in New York City.] Dr. Castle urges the following:

"Stay out of the water. Protect yourself from the hazardous vapors and carcinogenic effects of benzene. Benzene cuts off oxygen to the body (it's water soluble) and is a known cause of leukemia ­blood cancer.

"Use organic coconut oil or organic coconut butter. These are safe and natural plant ingredients that are bioactive and will coat the skin and protect it. Rub it on your hands, and face, and neck. It creates a protective film against benzene. Do not rub or wash it off, as it helps reverse the toxins' many effects on the body.

"Also, use a capful of Willard's XXX Dark and rub it on arms and hands. This will also naturally protect the body. This is made of lignite coal in water and is another natural way to shield the body from toxins. [Dr. Castle has no financial ties with this product.]

"I repeat: Do not send any emergency hazard clean-up teams to the Gulf who are uneducated and do not realize the extreme damage these poisons can do ­short and long term.

"AmeriHaz can be safely used to gather up the crude oil that is already causing such ecological damage."

In 1996, Dr. Castle developed an inert product, called "AmeriHaz," to deal in a truly safe manner with cleaning up serious crude oil leaks and out-of-control dispersals of highly dangerous chemicals. "I wanted to create a product that could absorb any devastating 'spill' (it's really the very wrong word for what is happening in the Gulf. A 'spill' is something very minor). This is catastrophic in its scope," he told me. "This is an inert polymer product that will encapsulate this crude oil, so it won't be picked up systemically in anything else. It literally locks up PAHs [polyaromatic hydrocarbons] that are precursors of benzene."

See this video :

www.10tv.com/live/content/onnnews/stories/2010/05/17/story-scientist-oil-spill-columbus.html

Also, Dr. Castle recommends "using crushed, pebble-size lignite coal all along beaches, marshes, and estuaries. This will help detoxify the benzene (that is naturally soluble in water) because it is extremely toxic in crude oil.

These are realistic solutions that can actually begin to remedy this effects of this catastrophe, if those people in charge really do care about saving the Gulf (an area still in trauma from the post-Hurricane Katrina debacle where there was really no help for those in most need). Finally, an international boycott of all BP products should be instituted immediately. The untapped power of the consumer pocketbook should be used. When their CEO says this is a "modest" event, the company should not get any more money from already very strapped consumers.

Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri is an environmental writer and the author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Uterine Crisis."