This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Oil Gusher Worse Than Ever
- advertisements -
Contact Information:
Tips: tips [ at ] zerohedge.com
General: info [ at ] zerohedge.com
Legal: legal [ at ] zerohedge.com
Advertising: ads [ at ] zerohedge.com
Abuse/Complaints: abuse [ at ] zerohedge.com
Suggested Reading:
Make sure to read our "How To [Read/Tip Off] Zero Hedge Without Attracting The Interest Of [Human Resources/The Treasury/Black Helicopters]" Guide
It would be very wise of you to study our disclaimer, our privacy policy and our (non)policy on conflicts / full disclosure. Here's our Cookie Policy.
A fly-over far out into the Gulf featuing hundreds of dead dolphins and whales
http://www.youtube.com/v/pxDf-KkMCKQ
Here is an interesting take on this subject.
Funny how all the USUAL SUSPECTS come out of the woodwork.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/886.html
For more stuff by Salbuchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgLucVrCVs&feature=related
BP in the Gulf - the Persian Gulf
By Stephen Kinzer
To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!
Does boycotting BP really make sense? Perhaps not. After all, many BP filling stations are actually owned by local people, not the corporation itself. Besides, when you're filling up at a Shell or ExxonMobil station, it's hard to feel much sense of moral triumph. Nonetheless, I reserve my right to drive by BP stations. I started doing it long before this year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
My decision not to give this company my business came after I learned about its role in another kind of "spill" entirely - the destruction of Iran's democracy more than half a century ago.
The history of the company we now call BP has, over the past 100 years, traced the arc of transnational capitalism. Its roots lie in the early years of the 20th century when a wealthy bon vivant named William Knox D'Arcy decided, with encouragement from the British government, to begin looking for oil in Iran. He struck a concession agreement with the dissolute Iranian monarchy, using the proven expedient of bribing the three Iranians negotiating with him.
Under this contract, which he designed, D'Arcy was to own whatever oil he found in Iran and pay the government just 16% of any profits he made - never allowing any Iranian to review his accounting. After his first strike in 1908, he became sole owner of the entire ocean of oil that lies beneath Iran's soil. No one else was allowed to drill for, refine, extract or sell "Iranian" oil.
"Fortune brought us a prize from fairyland beyond our wildest dreams," Winston Churchill, who became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, wrote later. "Mastery itself was the prize of the venture."
Soon afterward, the British government bought the D'Arcy concession, which it named the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. It then built the world's biggest refinery at the port of Abadan on the Persian Gulf. From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
In Iran, nationalism meant one thing: we’ve got to take back our oil. Driven by this passion, parliament voted on April 28, 1951, to choose its most passionate champion of oil nationalization, Mohammad Mossadegh, as prime minister. Days later, it unanimously approved his bill nationalizing the oil company. Mossadegh promised that, henceforth, oil profits would be used to develop Iran, not enrich Britain.
This oil company was the most lucrative British enterprise anywhere on the planet. To the British, nationalization seemed, at first, like some kind of immense joke, a step so absurdly contrary to the unwritten rules of the world that it could hardly be real. Early in this confrontation, the directors of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and their partners in Britain's government settled on their strategy: no mediation, no compromise, no acceptance of nationalization in any form.
The British took a series of steps meant to push Mossadegh off his nationalist path. They withdrew their technicians from Abadan, blockaded the port, cut off exports of vital goods to Iran, froze the country’s hard-currency accounts in British banks, and tried to win anti-Iran resolutions from the United Nations and the World Court. This campaign only intensified Iranian determination. Finally, the British turned to Washington and asked for a favor: please overthrow this madman for us so we can have our oil company back.
American president Dwight D Eisenhower, encouraged by his secretary of state John Foster Dulles, a lifelong defender of transnational corporate power, agreed to send the Central Intelligence Agency in to depose Mossadegh. The operation took less than a month in the summer of 1953. It was the first time the Central Intelligence Agency had ever overthrown a government.
At first, this seemed like a remarkably successful covert operation. The West had deposed a leader it didn't like, and replaced him with someone who would perform as bidden - Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
From the perspective of history, though, it is clear that Operation Ajax, as the operation was code-named, had devastating effects. It not only brought down Mossadegh's government, but ended democracy in Iran. It returned the Shah to his Peacock Throne. His increasing repression set off the explosion of the late 1970s, which brought to power Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the bitterly anti-Western regime that has been in control ever since.
The oil company rebranded itself as British Petroleum, BP Amoco, and then, in 2000, BP. During its decades in Iran, it had operated as it pleased, with little regard for the interests of local people. This corporate tradition has evidently remained strong.
Many Americans are outraged by the relentless images of oil gushing into Gulf waters from the Deepwater Horizon well, and by the corporate recklessness that allowed this spill to happen. Those who know Iranian history have been less surprised.
Stephen Kinzer is a veteran foreign correspondent and the author of Bitter Fruit and Overthrow, among other works. His newest book is Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future.
(Copyright 2010 Stephen Kinzer.)
there are more than petrochemical, pharma and other
industrial ways to skin a cat. and your petro chemical ignorance
does not equate to modern enlightenment. do your own research
and neglect terroristic tendencies. that is what is there ,
it was/is generally called an organic movement. yes, a deep mystery,
unfathomable. my gosh, my golly, what could it be?
http://www.businessinsider.com/warning-to-gulf-cleanup-workers-almost-ev...
"In fact, the expert that CNN had on said that the life expectancy for those who worked to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill is only about 51 years. Considering the fact that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now many times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster, are you sure you want to volunteer to be on a cleanup crew down there? After all, the American Dream is not to make big bucks for a few months helping BP clean up their mess and then drop dead 20 or 30 years early."
you know looking at that picture i am getting a great idea for an animated super villan named wellhead.
Conspiracy buffs, consider this.
Last year we had Climategate, which attacked the falsified science of man made Global Warming.
This year not only does Al Gore, the biggest public proponent of man made global warming, get divorced but is rumored to have been banging Laurie David.
To top it off someone in the Portland Oregon pd dusted off Gores sexual assault charges from 2006! Uber liberal Portland re-examining a five year old sexual assault charge filed by a masseuse.
One would think that TPTB is changing the game. Ripping the very foundation out from the warming fanatics.
Or at the very least throwing Gore to the wolves as they did Edwards.
Gore was never anything more then a paid face man, he clearly never believed his position based on his lifestyle. Personally I think they could have found a better actor, but that's just me. He has been hated for a while. I've been in the trenches against academics and intellectuals and they HATE him. Not for his position, but because his lifestyle makes attacking him and through him his position so easy. He for a while was my favorite whipping boy to force people on the defensive.
However a global tax on energy is a must be. The system has been built around it. A global currency must have some backing, a global currency is desired. The preferred backing would be carbon credits, another form of fiat. If needed they could choose oil or gold, but those are problematic as they cannot wizard up a barrel of oil or ounce of gold out of thin air. I still think they will let this spill go till a carbon tax in some form can be slide in. Also remember we will have a lame duck congress, a congress hungry for bribes. Expect a wild ride after the election.
Apocalypse in the Gulf: Could a Sinkhole Swallow the Deepwater Horizon Well -- And BP?
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10005034/apocalypse-in-th......
BP Spill, Day 72: Could the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Destroy the Gulf?
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/513460/BP-Sp......
One geologist reportedly wrote that unless they immediately drill 100 wells into this producing formation to relieve the pressure soon, this thing will soon swallow Cincinnati. I'm not sure I believe that, but who could argue with a geologist who is quoted by the WMR.
Geo Wash has written that there will be Carribean earthquakes as a result of tapping into the 65' payzone with 12,500 psi pressures. Wait, possibly he wrote that the pressure was 100,000 psi because this is drilled into an adibiotic mud volcano with a reservoir connected to that well in India. Still there will be earthquakes that will destroy the subsurface 3% slopes that the well is drilled on. The reason BP has reported problems with finding enough BOPs is that they really are setting them on the leaks comming through the seabed all over the gulf. The hurricane was called up by the government controlled weather to make the spill worse. When Berry Soretoe takes over BP it will bankrupt England and that is his real goal in creating the leak in the first place.
At least BP seems to be paying claims pretty well. I picked up my first checks today with less hassle than I thought. The claims center in FWB was pretty packed but they were passing out checks pretty efficiently. No bad mouthing in the waiting room to speak of, the reps here seem like they want to help, I'll give them that. If they would let me open a bar outside the claims center I wouldn't have the need to charge BP for anything, I'd be printing money. Just a thought.
Can you send your copy of the claim contract you signed with BP so that ZHers can examine it?
What's that?
Oh...I see. The contract forbids talking about the contract. Yes, unfortunate, that.
Dude, chill out. I didn't sign a contract, didn't sign a waiver, I didn't sign anything. As a matter of fact, when they handed me my checks I asked if I had to sign anything as was told no since is was ongoing. Sorry guys, the truth is a little less sensational that the herd on this site is making it out to be. BP has done right by me and the majority of businesses in my area by replacing lost income without too much hassle. There are no contracts, no releases, and I can talk as much as I want to about it. I know it's more fun to dream up the ways they are trying to screw us, but that's just not the truth, sorry.
Yeah, kinda like Fight Club.
Please expand on your post. How does one calculate his or her damages at this stage of the game?
I'm betting they're equally efficient in passing out waivers, barring future claims.
On the 4th of July there will be many parades in towns and cities across this country. I am sure I could show up and be in our parade without much of a problem...what kind of protest or awareness campaign could be mustered at this time? Oil spill, wall street (Goldman) assholes...give me some inspiration ZHers...
Just present yourself as a regular turnip. No prep necessary.
After you receive and accept some inspiration on this matter from ZHers you MIGHT actually find that joining the parade is not so simple...Just a guess.
I'll just sit back and eagerly await the forthcoming suggestions for your parade costume.
PLEASE SEND PICS.
if you are into flag waving the thing to do is hang it upside
down as a sign of / call of distress. that is the only way to display
the flag at this time or actually for the last 40 years or so, no, maybe
200 years. imho.
ps. but then again, i'm blind and would not see said flag. ?
but i could hear the people crying. etc/.......
BP is just following our lead when it comes to disasters. (Union Carbide)
We're lucky they the Brits did not fly Tony out of the country in the middle of the night, mail the dead oil workers relatives a check for 2,200 dollars and have their high court tell us to "suck it!"
I'm not sure which is more grotesque, the oil leak, or the Palinites still chanting "drill baby drill".
My guess is that your analysis is motivated by plans for profits from selling pulling goats. It will go hand in hand with the Berry Soretoe plan to create more jobs in the US by bringing them back from China. Have you applied for a grant?
No need for "pulling goats". Have you noticed that everyone drives a pickup truck or SUV? Ever thought about reverting back to the 55 mph speed limit? There are plenty of practical ways to reduce oil consumption without returning to horse drawn buggies, or opening ANWR to drilling.
Palinites however, demand that they be allowed to drive whatever the hell they want (mainly pickups), as fast as they want, because by god, they're Americans!
Idiot Savant
"Have you noticed that everyone drives a pickup truck or SUV?"
My family have been involved in three separate accidents over the last few years. That includes being rear ended by a semi while stopped waiting to make a turn. I will never buy a small car again. I will buy the largest vehicle that receives the least amount of damage.
My family chooses to live.
Well, at least you got your moniker half right.
+ 1
I'm surprised I don't hear any accusations that Obama blew up the well on purpose. You know, like Bush ordered the planes to fly into the WTC. Maybe I missed it.
You've got your history a little mixed up, sir. It was Cheney who ordered the planes to fly into the WTC. Bush blew up the levies in New Orleans.
*grins*
(do you ever listen to Harry Shearer's Le Show? he's done some great work / interviews around the levies, broadcasts from New Orleans most weeks - hella funny, but also insightful - if you haven't listened, podcast link: http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ls - pretty sure you'll like him)
Why did the rig collapse? We know steel doesn't melt at such low temperatures. Sadly we will never know... Giuliani had all the wreckage hauled off to a landfill in New Jersey. Cheney told him to do it of course.
There will always be people who believe that man never stepped on the moon, no matter how much evidence you give them. Literally anything could be true if you want to believe hard enough. One of these days I'm going to wake up from this odd dream and realize that this whole planet Earth experience was just a figment of my imagination.
ahh, i see it. wtf is it? from where? when? etc.....
lava f... ing lamp for the new mess age! what is the composition
of depicted materials and what is the scale? sizes and like that?
i have noticed, curiously, the closer I am to any phenomena the larger,
relatively, it manifests in "my" particular consciousness. leave these
elements out, scale, and pretty much, you have the lava lamp.
plus the link cuts out and crashes, bp genius. and we move on......
further deterioration of attention span, deflation, looting and mind numbing
curiosity ensues....
before long we will be so frustrated we will curse the day man spoke
or uttered a sound, word, music, not far my fiends and then ...........
no one will much care concerning ...... humanity.. almost there.
no, we have arrived . again, we are pure beasts, or if you will princes
and princesses, free and lovely. have a fine day / evening.
.
someone once said " hold on to your sanity while it lasts." sounds like
good advice to me. sanity involves the other as an equal and meaningful
agent in the ecologic or environmental or communal reality but some do don't
accept this basic notion, look around you will see. i think it is a condition
that is treatable, not to be ignored or compensated for but confronted and
corrected. think children and candy. take it away. period.
what was this all about? oh yea, what is spewing here?
"
i have noticed, curiously, the closer I am to any phenomena the larger,
relatively, it manifests in "my" particular consciousness
"
So, does this mean that you are not in the Gulf Of Mexico vicinity - therefore this is a problem not worthy of your concern? I am not a "deep thinker", so forgive me if all of that prose you spewed missed the target.
yes, i am not in the gulf region. it is worthy of my concern but a
non functioning video of an unterminated, nondescript, visual field
taken from an underwater camera at some undisclosed location
of objects undefined does not cause much appreciation on my
part no matter how hysterical i might enjoy being. thinking
more than deeply. fuck. the people of that region have spent
decades being destroyed by petrochemical pollution. the rates of
disease, cancer etc., were/are off the charts before this "spill" and
this particular video of the gulf whatnot does not even begin to tell
the story or even "display". plus there is no narrative of what the fuck
is supposed to be exhibited! so ......fuck it. if these people refuse
to rise up and demand some shit they deserve the shit they are fed?
just like you and me. live with it or reject it and make some noise.
i refuse to fight for zombies who do not give a shit and love their
zombie shit. fucj them, let them have their enslavement, sorry to
report. if you do not rebel you will be used by those who are brought
up to use you. get it? it is an individual responsibility to be ugly in the
face of those who are, from birth, expecting you to serve them. i cannot
help you beyond this comment. ?
do it.
i think it is a condition that is treatable, not to be ignored or compensated for but confronted and corrected.
time to take the bones out of the closet and into the compost.
greetings from the zone.
peas.
I no longer think "blindman" is an act.
hello. what exactly do you mean "act"? blindman is
a state of being that is characterized by being uninformed
by the univers' means of informing mankind and other sighted
light sensitive self organizing life forms. we are narrative informed
now, as well as light informed. conscious. we could then call words and narratives
as light, truth. but this happened centuries ago, documented.
so blind, yes, no act. narratives and words have been perverted,
every step of the way. but, .... hello. what do you mean, "act"?
ps. i hear more harmonic resonance than dissonance here? but
, dissonance is nice too. chuckles.
i do not "know" what you mean to say. ? uninformed and..
i remain, no act, blind. man.
Kind of has Velo's rhythm and flow...
Anyone seen Velo?
In person?
Just what we need, another Deconstructionist on the loose.
archie, or richard?
what is a deconstructionist? can you construct the narrative for
me? if it's too much trouble i will understand and move on.
the world is your "meat head", i get it. funny stuff. i forget
which producer/production company created that series.
have a cupcake.
It would take 30 pages to describe Deconstruction, but your posts had that kind of ring to them. I liked your posts, by the way.
My moniker refers to an episode of All in the Family where Archie mistakenly calls his hero the President "Richard E Nixon." That's why I chose Archie as the avatar. I had been drinking heavily at the time I did this, not that I'm using that as an excuse.
10s of thousands of sea life - DEAD!!!
R.
I.
P.
I just used bug spray on my lawn. I didn't want to but the meat woman made me do it. Chiggers like her. Weep for those misquitos and chiggers too, if you really, really care.
- obviously, you really, really, don't care, do you Augustus?
I think you're the one who owes me some doughnut holes
I would care but I'll be damned if I can find the word "chiggers" in Revelations.
I was going to reply to your comment, but I'll be damned if I can find the word "Jim_Rockford" in Revelations.
Yeah, one thing about you Rusty, you're no Biden.
8And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.