I haven’t had anything to say about Sarah Palin because she seemed to be a good mother to her children, however, her attitude about oil and energy is, in my opinion, that of an ignorant and greedy individual - not unlike the executives and workers at BP.
Sarah Palin said, “With [environmentalists'] nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you're doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You're not preventing environmental hazards; you're outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”
The Alyaska Company runs the Alaskan pipeline. It is nearly 50 percent owned by British Petroleum. British Petroleum is a foreign corporation.
Therefore the dangerous remarks made by Sarah Palin in this instance can be considered to be remarks in favor of a foreign corporation and in the interests of a foreign nation and against interests of the people of the United States of America.
Does this make her unAmerican? No - but it does seem to make her an agent of a foreign power.
Is Sarah Palin a puppet of British Petroleum?
Isn’t greed such a great destroyer?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
BP - Too Big to Jail
British Petroleum is backed by the British Government - they issued a statement as such.
That is good that the British Government should be held responsible for payments of reparation to the United States for this and other destructive accidents British Petroleum has allowed to happen and caused within the territory of the United States.
What about their partners?
MOEX is owned by MOECO - Mitsui Oil Exploration.
In September 2007, MOEX USA Corporation ("MOEX USA") established MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, its wholly-owned subsidiary. In October 2007, MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC won a open bid and participated in an ultra deep gas exploration project in the Gulf of Mexico together with BP Exploration & Production Inc., the operator.
It is neither here nor there but in November 2008 MOECO established its Hanoi Representavie Office in Vietnam to develop drilling sites off the coast of Northern Vietnam.
Anadarko apparently owns a big chunk of the operation too. They are out of Texas and are currently operating at least 8 deepwater oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is my opinion that Anadarko, Mitsui and British Petroleum should lose their Federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico and vacate their operations and turn them over to more responsible vendors.
…but BP, Anadarko and Mitsui will go on plundering United States oil and the Federal Government will go on selling our resources.
Do you believe that any one or any company is ever ‘Too Big to Jail’ and ‘Too Big to Fail’?
That is good that the British Government should be held responsible for payments of reparation to the United States for this and other destructive accidents British Petroleum has allowed to happen and caused within the territory of the United States.
What about their partners?
MOEX is owned by MOECO - Mitsui Oil Exploration.
In September 2007, MOEX USA Corporation ("MOEX USA") established MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, its wholly-owned subsidiary. In October 2007, MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC won a open bid and participated in an ultra deep gas exploration project in the Gulf of Mexico together with BP Exploration & Production Inc., the operator.
It is neither here nor there but in November 2008 MOECO established its Hanoi Representavie Office in Vietnam to develop drilling sites off the coast of Northern Vietnam.
Anadarko apparently owns a big chunk of the operation too. They are out of Texas and are currently operating at least 8 deepwater oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is my opinion that Anadarko, Mitsui and British Petroleum should lose their Federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico and vacate their operations and turn them over to more responsible vendors.
…but BP, Anadarko and Mitsui will go on plundering United States oil and the Federal Government will go on selling our resources.
Do you believe that any one or any company is ever ‘Too Big to Jail’ and ‘Too Big to Fail’?
British Petroleum and Regional Transmission Organizations
BP is too big to jail.
Marie-Antoinette (1755-93), the Queen consort of Louis XVI is reported to have said, "Let them eat cake."
Randy Prescott, VP Power Origination & Marketing, is reported to have said, “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”
BP isn’t afraid of anyone or anything. They are too big to jail, too big to fail.
For example - BP has fuel oil interests in every major and most minor markets in the United States today. One of the more interesting examples is provided by their participation with ISO New England.
“ISO New England is an independent, not-for-profit corporation. To effectively carry out its charge, the company, its Board of Directors and its 400 employees have no financial interest or ties to any company doing business in the region's wholesale electricity marketplace.”
“ISO New England helps protect the health of New England's economy and the well-being of its people by ensuring the constant availability of electricity, today and for future generations. ISO New England meets this obligation in three ways: by ensuring the day-to-day reliable operation of New England's bulk power generation and transmission system, by overseeing and ensuring the fair administration of the region's wholesale electricity markets, and by managing comprehensive, regional planning processes.”
ISO New England is just one of many ‘Regional Transmission Organizations’ which oversee electric power distribution in the United States. You are serviced by at least one.
Why are ‘public non-profit’ companies allowing foreign corporations like BP to pollute our waters?
Marie-Antoinette (1755-93), the Queen consort of Louis XVI is reported to have said, "Let them eat cake."
Randy Prescott, VP Power Origination & Marketing, is reported to have said, “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”
BP isn’t afraid of anyone or anything. They are too big to jail, too big to fail.
For example - BP has fuel oil interests in every major and most minor markets in the United States today. One of the more interesting examples is provided by their participation with ISO New England.
“ISO New England is an independent, not-for-profit corporation. To effectively carry out its charge, the company, its Board of Directors and its 400 employees have no financial interest or ties to any company doing business in the region's wholesale electricity marketplace.”
“ISO New England helps protect the health of New England's economy and the well-being of its people by ensuring the constant availability of electricity, today and for future generations. ISO New England meets this obligation in three ways: by ensuring the day-to-day reliable operation of New England's bulk power generation and transmission system, by overseeing and ensuring the fair administration of the region's wholesale electricity markets, and by managing comprehensive, regional planning processes.”
ISO New England is just one of many ‘Regional Transmission Organizations’ which oversee electric power distribution in the United States. You are serviced by at least one.
Why are ‘public non-profit’ companies allowing foreign corporations like BP to pollute our waters?
Timothy Geithner in India
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was in India and he decided not to release a report that was supposed to detail the evidence related to the belief that Communist China is manipulating its currency. Timothy Geithner announced that he was not going to release that report because he was going to let the blood-soaked and corrupt Communist Chinese decide what they were going to do about their currency.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for changes in trading rules and laws with Columbia as a reward for…I am not sure what they did to be given preferential treatment, but in any case, he is looking for a handout for the cocaine capitol of the world.
This Administration seems to be at odds with itself. Why are the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Defense acting like the Secretary of State?
In the United States federal government, "Secretary of State" refers to the official responsible for foreign policy. Mrs. Clinton is a very good one.
The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and military matters. Mr. Gates does not seem to be a good one.
The United States of America Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters. Mr. Geithner seems to be the worst one we have ever had.
Does it seem that people in this Administration are acting without regard to the rule of law?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for changes in trading rules and laws with Columbia as a reward for…I am not sure what they did to be given preferential treatment, but in any case, he is looking for a handout for the cocaine capitol of the world.
This Administration seems to be at odds with itself. Why are the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Defense acting like the Secretary of State?
In the United States federal government, "Secretary of State" refers to the official responsible for foreign policy. Mrs. Clinton is a very good one.
The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and military matters. Mr. Gates does not seem to be a good one.
The United States of America Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters. Mr. Geithner seems to be the worst one we have ever had.
Does it seem that people in this Administration are acting without regard to the rule of law?
Senator Brownback
I am concerned for my neighbors in Kansas.
Senator Sam Brownback is running for the office of Governor.
He has a screwy idea concerning ‘The State Office of the Repealer‘. This person‘s job would be to start disposing of laws outside of the regular process in Kansas.
Is he unaware that the State of Kansas has a Kansas Supreme Court?
When a law or case is appealed the Kansas Supreme Court reads the record of the trial and written briefs filed by the parties and hears oral arguments of lawyers. They research and review the law involved in the case and then write an opinion which is usually published in bound volumes. The court announces its decisions by filing them with the Office of the Clerk of the Appellate Courts. Laws may be repealed in this fashion.
“People just love this idea,” Brownback reportedly said. “They feel like they’re getting their brains regulated out of them.”
“…it’s always, ‘Well, we need this, we need that, we need this.’ Nothing is ever subtracted in the system.” How about common sense, Sam?
He reportedly said the Repealer would come from an existing state position reassigned to the task of elimination - instead of a State Trooper he would appoint a State Pooper.
It would be nice to see drug, illegal immigration and abortion laws enforced in Kansas before Brownback goes about repealing them.
Do you think a State Repealer would sound good to drug running illegal immigrants or law abiding Kansas citizens?
Senator Sam Brownback is running for the office of Governor.
He has a screwy idea concerning ‘The State Office of the Repealer‘. This person‘s job would be to start disposing of laws outside of the regular process in Kansas.
Is he unaware that the State of Kansas has a Kansas Supreme Court?
When a law or case is appealed the Kansas Supreme Court reads the record of the trial and written briefs filed by the parties and hears oral arguments of lawyers. They research and review the law involved in the case and then write an opinion which is usually published in bound volumes. The court announces its decisions by filing them with the Office of the Clerk of the Appellate Courts. Laws may be repealed in this fashion.
“People just love this idea,” Brownback reportedly said. “They feel like they’re getting their brains regulated out of them.”
“…it’s always, ‘Well, we need this, we need that, we need this.’ Nothing is ever subtracted in the system.” How about common sense, Sam?
He reportedly said the Repealer would come from an existing state position reassigned to the task of elimination - instead of a State Trooper he would appoint a State Pooper.
It would be nice to see drug, illegal immigration and abortion laws enforced in Kansas before Brownback goes about repealing them.
Do you think a State Repealer would sound good to drug running illegal immigrants or law abiding Kansas citizens?
Special People
Sarah Palin is a well known politician. She has a son with a ‘condition’ known as ‘Down’s Syndrome’. He is a person with special needs.
The television cartoon show ‘Family Guy’ mocked him.
His sister, Bristol Palin, responded to the senseless attack and I would like to repeat her words in this letter.
“When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?
As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people – especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny? Are there any limits to what some people will do or say in regards to my little brother or others in the special needs community? If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks.”
‘Family Guy’ is one of the cartoon programs that your children may be watching.
Do you know what they are teaching?
The television cartoon show ‘Family Guy’ mocked him.
His sister, Bristol Palin, responded to the senseless attack and I would like to repeat her words in this letter.
“When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?
As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people – especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny? Are there any limits to what some people will do or say in regards to my little brother or others in the special needs community? If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks.”
‘Family Guy’ is one of the cartoon programs that your children may be watching.
Do you know what they are teaching?
Tea Party 'Fun'
I have watched and listened as attention has focused on the group that is called ‘The Tea Party’.
‘The Tea Party’ is very different than the men who participated in the raid against the British Empire’s on December 16, 1773.
Boston Patriots raided three tea ships to dump the tea into the harbor to declare that taxation without representation would not be allowed in America and they also proved that individual rights are more powerful than corporate rights.
‘The Tea Party’ remained silent as the Supreme Court of the United States recently declared corporations are equivalent to individual Americans. Of course - we can’t buy and sell each other but corporations can.
Glenn Beck’s book ‘Arguing with Idiots’ is a ‘Tea Party’ Bible. The title of the book has the letter ‘R’ printed in reverse. ‘The Tea Party’ is mocked by the same foreign corporation supporting them.
In my neighborhood is the indignity of an American flag tied to the handle of a garbage can at the house of a ‘Tea Party’ advocate.
I believe in ‘One Nation Under God’ so I offer these words from the real Bible to my neighbors:
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.”
Is ‘The Tea Party’ fun?
‘The Tea Party’ is very different than the men who participated in the raid against the British Empire’s on December 16, 1773.
Boston Patriots raided three tea ships to dump the tea into the harbor to declare that taxation without representation would not be allowed in America and they also proved that individual rights are more powerful than corporate rights.
‘The Tea Party’ remained silent as the Supreme Court of the United States recently declared corporations are equivalent to individual Americans. Of course - we can’t buy and sell each other but corporations can.
Glenn Beck’s book ‘Arguing with Idiots’ is a ‘Tea Party’ Bible. The title of the book has the letter ‘R’ printed in reverse. ‘The Tea Party’ is mocked by the same foreign corporation supporting them.
In my neighborhood is the indignity of an American flag tied to the handle of a garbage can at the house of a ‘Tea Party’ advocate.
I believe in ‘One Nation Under God’ so I offer these words from the real Bible to my neighbors:
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.”
Is ‘The Tea Party’ fun?
Eleven Men Dead
I have an opinion.
In early May, 2010, BP (British Petroleum) had placed a 98 ton plug on top of the failed well pipe that broke in the Gulf of Mexico .
They stuck in a pipe and tried to pump oil to the surface.
Pressure and cold temperatures in the water turns oil into ‘hydrates’.
Gas hydrate looks very much like water ice. It is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 990 feet, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.
When BP (British Petroleum) started sucking oil and gas up to their ships (to sell) the pipe got gummed up.
They took the plug off.
My opinion is they are repairing the well – not plugging it.
They licensed and flagged the platform in the Marshall Islands – which depends primarily on coconut exports.
Did the cap in early May stop the rupture as in a natural case? Because BP could not collect the oil to process did they pull the plug and allow the flow of about 19,000 barrels a day to resume?
Is this Obama’s fault? He’s dealing with Communist lunatics and religious fanatics. Is it your fault? Why are you letting oil companies lie?
Are you actually depending on the Coast Guard to oversee this process?
When will they start pumping?
The current estimate is late August with three supertankers worth of oil swirling around in the Gulf.
…oh, and 11 men dead.
In early May, 2010, BP (British Petroleum) had placed a 98 ton plug on top of the failed well pipe that broke in the Gulf of Mexico .
They stuck in a pipe and tried to pump oil to the surface.
Pressure and cold temperatures in the water turns oil into ‘hydrates’.
Gas hydrate looks very much like water ice. It is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 990 feet, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.
When BP (British Petroleum) started sucking oil and gas up to their ships (to sell) the pipe got gummed up.
They took the plug off.
My opinion is they are repairing the well – not plugging it.
They licensed and flagged the platform in the Marshall Islands – which depends primarily on coconut exports.
Did the cap in early May stop the rupture as in a natural case? Because BP could not collect the oil to process did they pull the plug and allow the flow of about 19,000 barrels a day to resume?
Is this Obama’s fault? He’s dealing with Communist lunatics and religious fanatics. Is it your fault? Why are you letting oil companies lie?
Are you actually depending on the Coast Guard to oversee this process?
When will they start pumping?
The current estimate is late August with three supertankers worth of oil swirling around in the Gulf.
…oh, and 11 men dead.
Television Crime Dramas
Television or the present content on television is blocking information getting to people. The type of material that used to be distributed by newspapers is now primarily being transmitted via the internet. Television – through the selection of the programs being broadcast is blocking the normal transfer of this information further.
National broadcasting of ‘crime-dramas’ that deal with child murder or drugs and which are financed by advertisers blocks real coverage and response to real local problems.
What may not be obvious to advertisers like Kellogg’s, Sears, McDonald’s, Walmart, Pfizer and others is that even though they may believe they are getting a bargain by advertising with these trashy, violent and oftentimes psychotic programs – they are missing even more cost savings and profits by not going direct to local markets and so they pass up real, cost-effective entertainment that would be chock-full of good information and good will.
Of course – the larger drug makers who sell drugs which treat depression or other psychological problems and who often advertise during the running of these horrible programs are NOT likely to be interested in stopping the broadcasting of television shows that feed on and support and encourage fear, excessive sorrow, dramatic emotion, violence, rage and other aberrant behavior.
When you watch your television shows are you actually aware of what it is you are watching?
Are you watching it because there is nothing else on or because you enjoy stories about children being murdered, women being raped and men reacting with violent rage?
National broadcasting of ‘crime-dramas’ that deal with child murder or drugs and which are financed by advertisers blocks real coverage and response to real local problems.
What may not be obvious to advertisers like Kellogg’s, Sears, McDonald’s, Walmart, Pfizer and others is that even though they may believe they are getting a bargain by advertising with these trashy, violent and oftentimes psychotic programs – they are missing even more cost savings and profits by not going direct to local markets and so they pass up real, cost-effective entertainment that would be chock-full of good information and good will.
Of course – the larger drug makers who sell drugs which treat depression or other psychological problems and who often advertise during the running of these horrible programs are NOT likely to be interested in stopping the broadcasting of television shows that feed on and support and encourage fear, excessive sorrow, dramatic emotion, violence, rage and other aberrant behavior.
When you watch your television shows are you actually aware of what it is you are watching?
Are you watching it because there is nothing else on or because you enjoy stories about children being murdered, women being raped and men reacting with violent rage?
Long Beach Aquarium and BP
The Long Beach Aquarium in Long Beach, California is a ‘non-profit’ organization. They do actually charge a fee for entry but the enterprise is arranged as a ‘non-profit’. Private individuals and corporations can then take the amount that they donate off their taxes.
British Petroleum is foreign company.
A refinery of theirs in Texas blew up with the force of a small nuclear bomb and the Alasakan Oil Pipeline still leaks frequently and in large quantities. Recently they used technology designed for 50 to 300 feet of water at a depth of over 5,000 feet and a massive oil spill has occurred.
The food chain the Gulf of Mexico has been broken. Until recently 60 percent of American seafood came out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Four years ago BP donated $1 million to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach for a Sea Otter habitat.
BP has killed or maimed Thousands of Pelicans, terns, seagulls, porpoises, dolphins along with interrupting the life cycle of and killing untold millions of fish including but not limited to : pompano, wahoo, sturgeon, red fish, tuna, pompano, shad, anchovy, sheepshead, sea bream, mackerel, triggerfish, catfish, menhaden, spinner shark, silky shark, bull shark, blacktip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, dusky shark, bank sea bass, rock sea bass, black sea bass…
Don’t you think the Long Beach Aquarium should give that dirty money back or donate it to cleaning up an aquatic environment from which they derive the income they use to run their ‘non-profit’?
British Petroleum is foreign company.
A refinery of theirs in Texas blew up with the force of a small nuclear bomb and the Alasakan Oil Pipeline still leaks frequently and in large quantities. Recently they used technology designed for 50 to 300 feet of water at a depth of over 5,000 feet and a massive oil spill has occurred.
The food chain the Gulf of Mexico has been broken. Until recently 60 percent of American seafood came out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Four years ago BP donated $1 million to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach for a Sea Otter habitat.
BP has killed or maimed Thousands of Pelicans, terns, seagulls, porpoises, dolphins along with interrupting the life cycle of and killing untold millions of fish including but not limited to : pompano, wahoo, sturgeon, red fish, tuna, pompano, shad, anchovy, sheepshead, sea bream, mackerel, triggerfish, catfish, menhaden, spinner shark, silky shark, bull shark, blacktip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, dusky shark, bank sea bass, rock sea bass, black sea bass…
Don’t you think the Long Beach Aquarium should give that dirty money back or donate it to cleaning up an aquatic environment from which they derive the income they use to run their ‘non-profit’?
G20 - Who wants it?
What is the G20?
They are sparking protests and riots in Toronto, Canada.
According to the G20 this is what they do : “The G-20 is the premier forum for our international economic development that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability.”
What they do at these meetings is enabling sharing of information.
For instance - the United States now freely shares your tax information with other nations that attend the G20 meetings. Did you know your representatives and senators had done that?
They also work to restrict trade and claim to manipulate the ‘price’ of money or so it seems from what I have read about them (from them).
Because of the outrageous claims they make I think it would be more apt to call them the ‘Geithner 20’ these days. They G20 claims they want to stabilize the world economy and make credit more affordable.
Do you recall Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner saying the same thing in the United States?
The G20 is run by a Troika - a group of three governors - a troika is like the ‘Commission of Three’ in the Soviet Union during the time of Joseph Stalin.
Did you know this new government has supremacy over our government? - here are some other governments the United States has messed around with : G6, G7, G8, G21, G22, G30 and G20+.
Where is our independence?
Who wants this new world order?
They are sparking protests and riots in Toronto, Canada.
According to the G20 this is what they do : “The G-20 is the premier forum for our international economic development that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability.”
What they do at these meetings is enabling sharing of information.
For instance - the United States now freely shares your tax information with other nations that attend the G20 meetings. Did you know your representatives and senators had done that?
They also work to restrict trade and claim to manipulate the ‘price’ of money or so it seems from what I have read about them (from them).
Because of the outrageous claims they make I think it would be more apt to call them the ‘Geithner 20’ these days. They G20 claims they want to stabilize the world economy and make credit more affordable.
Do you recall Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner saying the same thing in the United States?
The G20 is run by a Troika - a group of three governors - a troika is like the ‘Commission of Three’ in the Soviet Union during the time of Joseph Stalin.
Did you know this new government has supremacy over our government? - here are some other governments the United States has messed around with : G6, G7, G8, G21, G22, G30 and G20+.
Where is our independence?
Who wants this new world order?
Joe Biden - Trial Lawyer
I was reading through some information the other day and I happened upon some political donation numbers that caused me to become disappointed - to say the least.
As I looked through the list of donations from political groups and individuals to President Obama’s 2008 campaign I became curious to see who had given him money to get elected to the office of the Senate.
It was heavily reported at the time of the presidential election that he had relied on ‘grass-roots’ donations in order to ‘sweep to victory’.
Well, some sweeping may have been done but it looks like whatever it was ended up being swept under the rug.
Can you tell me why so many New York financial firms took an interest in pushing Barack Obama into a Senate seat for the state of Illinois?
This list looks like a rogue’s gallery - and it was repeated for his Presidential bid.
Here are some of the names - can you recognize them?
‘JP Morgan Chase and Company’, ‘Goldman Sachs’, ‘Credit Suisse’, ‘Citigroup’, ‘Bank of America’, ‘UBS’…even ‘Fannie Mae’.
Now for that last one : “Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.”
I am inclined to believe and hope - that change will come to Washington once again.
I like Barack Obama - he seems like a real nice guy.
I don’t think he should be President again.
Do you?
As I looked through the list of donations from political groups and individuals to President Obama’s 2008 campaign I became curious to see who had given him money to get elected to the office of the Senate.
It was heavily reported at the time of the presidential election that he had relied on ‘grass-roots’ donations in order to ‘sweep to victory’.
Well, some sweeping may have been done but it looks like whatever it was ended up being swept under the rug.
Can you tell me why so many New York financial firms took an interest in pushing Barack Obama into a Senate seat for the state of Illinois?
This list looks like a rogue’s gallery - and it was repeated for his Presidential bid.
Here are some of the names - can you recognize them?
‘JP Morgan Chase and Company’, ‘Goldman Sachs’, ‘Credit Suisse’, ‘Citigroup’, ‘Bank of America’, ‘UBS’…even ‘Fannie Mae’.
Now for that last one : “Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.”
I am inclined to believe and hope - that change will come to Washington once again.
I like Barack Obama - he seems like a real nice guy.
I don’t think he should be President again.
Do you?
Banks
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson -1802
Timothy Geithner was the ‘President’ of the Federal Bank of New York while American, Swiss, German, British and Chinese banks plundered our treasure.
He is now the Secretary of the Treasury.
These banks must be dissolved for what they have done. Their Boards, Executives and a good part of the army of immoral and ignorant workers in New York who tore this country apart should be thrown out of work - not miners, grocers, truck drivers, clerks, teachers, engineers, mechanics, factory workers, textile workers…
This is our nation and the people that stole billions and billions of dollars and undermined our way of life right now are the ones the government gave money to and bailed out.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy ate roast beef, this little piggy had none - and this little piggy went ‘Hee, hee, hee, as he stole your home.’.
Why won’t you write a letter to your senators and represenatives?
Timothy Geithner was the ‘President’ of the Federal Bank of New York while American, Swiss, German, British and Chinese banks plundered our treasure.
He is now the Secretary of the Treasury.
These banks must be dissolved for what they have done. Their Boards, Executives and a good part of the army of immoral and ignorant workers in New York who tore this country apart should be thrown out of work - not miners, grocers, truck drivers, clerks, teachers, engineers, mechanics, factory workers, textile workers…
This is our nation and the people that stole billions and billions of dollars and undermined our way of life right now are the ones the government gave money to and bailed out.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy ate roast beef, this little piggy had none - and this little piggy went ‘Hee, hee, hee, as he stole your home.’.
Why won’t you write a letter to your senators and represenatives?
HUD
I bought a house from HUD (Housing and Urban Development).
I paid 104,000 dollars for it.
I got a 30 year loan with normal levels of interest to pay on it.
I bought it in a small city in Michigan which is across the street from a large Ford plant, two blocks away from gigantic garbage dumps and within walking distance of a major east-west freight train route (that also hosts Detroit-Chicago rickety old Amtrak trains).
Within a couple of months of buying the house the mortgage ‘industry’ fell apart and real estate prices returned to normal levels. I am now living in a house that is worth about 30,000 dollars.
When I got the house I had to repair it. New furnace, new bathroom, new kitchen, new windows - I even had to repair the fences because the company the government used to cut the grass knocked them all down.
I worked hard on this house to make it livable for myself, my wife, my wife’s handicapped aunt and my handicapped mother-in-law.
I paid what the government and banks coerced me to.
I feel the banks and government committed fraud in millions of cases across the United States - both in private and commercial real estate.
Tens of millions of citizens like me (and corporations) should not have to ‘reapply’ to get mortgage rates adjusted.
Don’t you think that mortgage payments across the United States should be immediately reset to match real estate values?
Is this government a bank?
I paid 104,000 dollars for it.
I got a 30 year loan with normal levels of interest to pay on it.
I bought it in a small city in Michigan which is across the street from a large Ford plant, two blocks away from gigantic garbage dumps and within walking distance of a major east-west freight train route (that also hosts Detroit-Chicago rickety old Amtrak trains).
Within a couple of months of buying the house the mortgage ‘industry’ fell apart and real estate prices returned to normal levels. I am now living in a house that is worth about 30,000 dollars.
When I got the house I had to repair it. New furnace, new bathroom, new kitchen, new windows - I even had to repair the fences because the company the government used to cut the grass knocked them all down.
I worked hard on this house to make it livable for myself, my wife, my wife’s handicapped aunt and my handicapped mother-in-law.
I paid what the government and banks coerced me to.
I feel the banks and government committed fraud in millions of cases across the United States - both in private and commercial real estate.
Tens of millions of citizens like me (and corporations) should not have to ‘reapply’ to get mortgage rates adjusted.
Don’t you think that mortgage payments across the United States should be immediately reset to match real estate values?
Is this government a bank?
Hydraulic Fracturing - With Attention to New York
“EPA announced four public information meetings for the hydraulic fracturing study in the Federal Register (75 FR 35023) on June 21, 2010.”
Preamble
This is a set of comments listed as ‘Items’ intended to be public comments to be considered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. These remarks are against and critical of the practice of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a process whereby a hole is drilled into the earth at a location where it has been determined or is believed to contain natural gas in such quantities that it might be commercially viable to attempt to extract it.
The process has not been settled into established specific practice but does have a general process which can be outlined. That process is that the locations for the possible gas quantities are determined, a hole is drilled to the layers that are the target and then a horizontal pipe bore will be extended in one or many ways from the original vertical hole. In this horizontal bore then liquid chemicals, high pressure water or steam or explosives (sometimes a combination of these or a succession of these) will be inserted into the bore and allowed to carry out their intended purpose.
Strictly speaking of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ the practice involves forcing high pressure water or steam into the hole in order to ‘fracture’ or put cracks in the layer or seam of material that it is believed contains commercial amounts of natural gas.
Oftentimes the introduction of high pressure steam or water is not enough to fracture the material sufficiently and other chemicals must be added to the mix.
In the case of the Marcellus Shale or sandstone deposits in question the chemicals that can be added to hurry along this process are varied and many are very dangerous because they are poisonous to humans and other forms of life.
At this time the Environmental Protection Agency either does not know what chemicals are being used or have been used or is keeping that information to themselves during secret proceedings to ‘determine’ the actual safety of these dangerous chemicals after being released into the environment by irresponsible and often poorly trained field technicians working for the companies intent on establishing working natural gas wells at these locations.
Item 1 - Social
The proposition has been put forth by various individuals in the gas industry that ‘a million wells have been drilled’. This may be the case and may be a reliable fact but it is a true statement and the truth to state that no one knows how many ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells have been drilled in total. For that matter there is no reliable figure for the number of CO2/Sand Fracturing wells that have been drilled, nor are their figures for the number of wells that have used explosives for fracturing, nor figures for how many times the technique for ‘Formation Refracturing’ has been used. (‘Formation Refracturing’ is when the fracturing needs to be done again, either because it didn’t work the first time or because the hole began to close or became obstructed.
The point being here in Item 1 that arbitrary numbers associated with drilling holes into the earth being used as an underlying basis on which to build a logic allowing wide scale ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a flawed idea and any of these individuals putting forward such logic should not be considered to be reasonable sources of information regarding the relative safety or usefulness of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
Item 2 – Science
Fracturing can cause ‘quickening’ immediately or lead to ‘quickening’ after some period of time after the underground destruction has been performed.
In some locations there are high concentrations of liquids under conditions of extremely high heat and pressure. When certain strata in the rock is fractured it can release pressure on overlying or underlying layers which can lead to pools of trapped liquids, sometimes of very great size, to be released from their current chambers and speed unimpeded at the speed of sound to other areas where the pressure is less.
The path of these seams that are opened to these chemicals may lead to drinking water tables many miles away – anywhere from a few miles to over a hundred miles. This material will remain poisonous and can cause ‘sweet water’ to go ‘sour’ whether it be salt brine or salt brine heavily contaminated with arsenic or other poisonous chemicals – including any used in the ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ process.
Local seismic imaging will not reveal these faults and cracks before the fracturing begins and they will be hard if not impossible to locate after the fracturing is completed because after evacuating the chamber of their liquids the seams will close again nearly instantaneously.
‘Quickening’ is a feature of mining, drilling and petroleum recovery as well as high-pressure injection operations that is familiar to offices of the Environmental Protection Agency and needs to be publicized before approving destructive process like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ or fracturing ‘technology’ of any type.
Item 3 – Economic
The State of New York’s Environmental Protection Office has not, it seems, fulfilled its duties as an independent environmental protection agency and so the State of New York is at fault in accordance with its agreement with the Federal EPA to meet certain standards when attempting to protect the environment from destructive practices such as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In this case, as it relates to ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ in rural areas of the State of New York, the New York State Environmental Protection Agency has put profit before duty and appears to have been heavily influenced by so-called ‘Upstate Politicians’. Upstate New York, especially the area targeted for the destructive and unreasonable process referred to as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a source of drinking water for millions of Americans downstream of the hills, mountains, slopes and valleys that are about to be assaulted.
The Natural Gas industry and local politicians as well as the New York State Environmental Protection Agency itself may be unduly profiting while at the same time causing a shift of payments to the people, communities and businesses which have become dependent upon this water over the past century and a half.
The past 150 years has seen a great increase in growth and population in the region downstream of these proposed destructive operations and the costs associated with ill health, increased water treatment, increased environmental testing, loss of business, loss of quality of life are astronomical in comparison to the short-term profits that may be produced by allowing this type of brute force drilling across the area.
Item 4 – Social and Economic
There are long standing agreements between New York City and New York State explicitly and implicitly protecting water rights for the city and its many suburbs. These have not been visited and New York City itself, under Mayor Bloomberg, has, in my opinion, not taken due diligence in regards to his fiduciary duty as Mayor to protect and uphold the laws of the City and State of New York as well as to protect the people and children of the City of New York.
Governor Paterson, likewise, in my opinion, locked in political battles and unaware or willfully neglecting the importance of clean, fresh water to an increasingly polluted state has not apparently performed his fiduciary duties in this case to ensure that one region of New York does not unduly profit at the expense of the rest of the state as well as its neighbors.
The states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania also, apparently, have interests in this issue though in this case because of the location of many of the properties many of the remarks concerning the State of New York also apply to the State of Pennsylvania which historically has neglected its duty towards quality of life for its citizens in the face of even the barest opportunity of profit or cash savings.
Item 5 – Economic
There is no guarantee that the profits that have been promised by the drillers will materialize. In fact, some aspects of the entire scheme and gigantic parts of it at that, appear to be nothing more than a house of cards.
For example, if two competing companies, or even the same drilling company, arranges financing to purchase mineral rights for an area and drills and starts to produce – there is no guarantee how long those wells will produce or even if they will produce at all.
It is possible that during this destructive practice that much of the gas that is being sought will be lost through the same cracks that are being opened to collect it. In that case the gas can then cause additional problem through the poisoning of the soil or by mixing with heavy metals already present in the soil to produce even more exotic and dangerous environmental chemicals.
Issues in Western New York involving the poisoning of entire valleys and large portions of the region because of 19th century tanning and mining operations is well known throughout New York State. A problem with veracity is encountered when we consider these other poisons because not speaking about them does not make them go away – in fact – this is a possible case of lying by omission by the New York State Environmental Protection Agency if they did not inform the drillers themselves the high stakes game they were entering into.
If the New York State Environmental Protection Agency did not report these potential problems to the greedy speculators then they would be at fault.
Item 6 – Environmental
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have a mandate to protect drinking water tables – this drilling and destruction will take place far below the drinking water tables but will impact American citizens close to and very far from the work.
It appears that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency may be pretending to be able to license or permit this activity when, in fact, the process is being abused by the greedy speculators in order to get permission to carry out these backward plans.
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have no jurisdiction over the area in which the activities are going to take place.
It is misleading to Americans then for the Federal Environmental Protection Agency or the New York State Environmental Protection Agency to ‘permit’ activities for which they have no control over.
These issues should be left up to local governments as well as the State government of New York which needs to rein in the out-of-control New York State Environmental Protection Agency.
Item 7 – Economic and Science
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States permits ‘High Pressure Injection Wells’. These wells are put at risk when fracturing takes place near them or around them. There are so many of these types of chemical disposal wells in the United States that the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States doesn’t even know where they are.
These wells are drilled into and store chemicals at the same levels or just above or just below the area where these ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells are to be drilled. If these chambers of noxious chemicals are disturbed or allowed even the smallest pathway back to the surface then permits and agreements that the EPA has had to guarantee that those wastes will not move for ten-thousand (10,000) years will become invalid.
The chemicals thus released will become a danger to generations to come and may be undetectable in the horrors they wreak for 10, 20 or 30 years or more.
Item 8 – Economic
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ appears to be a dangerous sham.
It can be likened to a Pyramid Scheme in its financial arrangements.
There is no guarantee for profits nor guarantees for a more secure source of domestic energy.
There is guaranteed danger, however, with disaster waiting in the wings.
In the end it appears that this technique will not only NOT increase the available supply of domestic natural gas for consumption domestically in the United States but will cause disruptions in already established and strained supply lines and ultimately raise home heating, energy generation and transportation costs.
Item 9 - Economic
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, if it should go ahead and permit ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ will succeed in crippling another industry which promised to be far more long-lived and profitable for many Americans.
Rather than the uneconomical destruction of real estate, water supplies and farmland the other industry which the Environmental Protection Agency stands ready to destroy is the renewable energy industry.
Solar panels, wind power and alternative uses of generators in rivers will be curtailed if not destroyed if money, time and effort is uneconomically channeled into the destructive and wasteful acts associated with ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
The Environmental Protection Agency will impede progress and interfere in the industrial development of locations far away from the locations it will apply its narrow set of powers.
Just as the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently at first, and, heavy handedly in present times, uprooted, undermined and destroyed the recycling chemical industry, by encouraging this short-sighted assault on our national resources, the EPA will once again act as agent of economic retardation and reversal. The EPA should act as it is intended to act and not as a cog in the wheel of some hair brained schemes that ultimately leave us all the poorer.
In Quebec, Canada the recycled chemical industry is profitable and busy. There are many jobs and they do fine work keeping the price of chemicals down while quality high.
In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency has destroyed the recycled chemical industry by ‘permitting’ high-pressure injection wells. These wells are used to inject chemical waste into the earth. More than eighty percent (80%) of the chemical waste in the United States is disposed of in this manner. Until recently the EPA even allowed nuclear waste to be disposed of in this manner.
It is time for the EPA to leave the economic arena and step back into its regulatory position or it must be disbanded altogether as its original mandate has been corrupted and perverted beyond recognition. It should stop regulating trade and encoring uneconomic and wasteful practices. The EPA should stop putting Americans out of jobs.
Item 10 - Economic
The petroleum industry to this day burns off most of the natural gas it extracts from the earth when it is drilling for oil.
In a famous case just recently the ‘Deepwater Horizon’, owned by a foreign national corporation, exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico because the people running advanced drilling apparatus could not control the natural gas that they were extracting.
They had been burning it off in a giant flare.
When you see a refinery and the flares are burning hot, white, blue, orange and bright - that is a symbol of waste.
It is uneconomical to burn the fuel that could heat homes and power machinery but the petroleum industry does it because the Environmental Protection Agency allows them to do it.
Even though the gasses that they are burning would be more economically used by being trapped and stored the companies involved in that work continue to burn it off into the air because they don’t know how to handle the billions of square feet of natural gas that they collect when they are pumping mud and oil up out of the ground.
There is no economical need for ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ right now.
It would be more economical to harness the wasted energy and power that is burned into the atmosphere without a care and without a price tag rather than to pursue wasteful and destructive practices like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In Closing :
The State of New York has made a serious mistake by allowing this process to go forward.
It should be apparent to the United States Environmental Protection Agency that is has strayed into territory beyond its mandate and it would be the truthful and scientific thing to admit this fact now before further mistakes are made.
Preamble
This is a set of comments listed as ‘Items’ intended to be public comments to be considered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. These remarks are against and critical of the practice of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a process whereby a hole is drilled into the earth at a location where it has been determined or is believed to contain natural gas in such quantities that it might be commercially viable to attempt to extract it.
The process has not been settled into established specific practice but does have a general process which can be outlined. That process is that the locations for the possible gas quantities are determined, a hole is drilled to the layers that are the target and then a horizontal pipe bore will be extended in one or many ways from the original vertical hole. In this horizontal bore then liquid chemicals, high pressure water or steam or explosives (sometimes a combination of these or a succession of these) will be inserted into the bore and allowed to carry out their intended purpose.
Strictly speaking of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ the practice involves forcing high pressure water or steam into the hole in order to ‘fracture’ or put cracks in the layer or seam of material that it is believed contains commercial amounts of natural gas.
Oftentimes the introduction of high pressure steam or water is not enough to fracture the material sufficiently and other chemicals must be added to the mix.
In the case of the Marcellus Shale or sandstone deposits in question the chemicals that can be added to hurry along this process are varied and many are very dangerous because they are poisonous to humans and other forms of life.
At this time the Environmental Protection Agency either does not know what chemicals are being used or have been used or is keeping that information to themselves during secret proceedings to ‘determine’ the actual safety of these dangerous chemicals after being released into the environment by irresponsible and often poorly trained field technicians working for the companies intent on establishing working natural gas wells at these locations.
Item 1 - Social
The proposition has been put forth by various individuals in the gas industry that ‘a million wells have been drilled’. This may be the case and may be a reliable fact but it is a true statement and the truth to state that no one knows how many ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells have been drilled in total. For that matter there is no reliable figure for the number of CO2/Sand Fracturing wells that have been drilled, nor are their figures for the number of wells that have used explosives for fracturing, nor figures for how many times the technique for ‘Formation Refracturing’ has been used. (‘Formation Refracturing’ is when the fracturing needs to be done again, either because it didn’t work the first time or because the hole began to close or became obstructed.
The point being here in Item 1 that arbitrary numbers associated with drilling holes into the earth being used as an underlying basis on which to build a logic allowing wide scale ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a flawed idea and any of these individuals putting forward such logic should not be considered to be reasonable sources of information regarding the relative safety or usefulness of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
Item 2 – Science
Fracturing can cause ‘quickening’ immediately or lead to ‘quickening’ after some period of time after the underground destruction has been performed.
In some locations there are high concentrations of liquids under conditions of extremely high heat and pressure. When certain strata in the rock is fractured it can release pressure on overlying or underlying layers which can lead to pools of trapped liquids, sometimes of very great size, to be released from their current chambers and speed unimpeded at the speed of sound to other areas where the pressure is less.
The path of these seams that are opened to these chemicals may lead to drinking water tables many miles away – anywhere from a few miles to over a hundred miles. This material will remain poisonous and can cause ‘sweet water’ to go ‘sour’ whether it be salt brine or salt brine heavily contaminated with arsenic or other poisonous chemicals – including any used in the ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ process.
Local seismic imaging will not reveal these faults and cracks before the fracturing begins and they will be hard if not impossible to locate after the fracturing is completed because after evacuating the chamber of their liquids the seams will close again nearly instantaneously.
‘Quickening’ is a feature of mining, drilling and petroleum recovery as well as high-pressure injection operations that is familiar to offices of the Environmental Protection Agency and needs to be publicized before approving destructive process like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ or fracturing ‘technology’ of any type.
Item 3 – Economic
The State of New York’s Environmental Protection Office has not, it seems, fulfilled its duties as an independent environmental protection agency and so the State of New York is at fault in accordance with its agreement with the Federal EPA to meet certain standards when attempting to protect the environment from destructive practices such as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In this case, as it relates to ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ in rural areas of the State of New York, the New York State Environmental Protection Agency has put profit before duty and appears to have been heavily influenced by so-called ‘Upstate Politicians’. Upstate New York, especially the area targeted for the destructive and unreasonable process referred to as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a source of drinking water for millions of Americans downstream of the hills, mountains, slopes and valleys that are about to be assaulted.
The Natural Gas industry and local politicians as well as the New York State Environmental Protection Agency itself may be unduly profiting while at the same time causing a shift of payments to the people, communities and businesses which have become dependent upon this water over the past century and a half.
The past 150 years has seen a great increase in growth and population in the region downstream of these proposed destructive operations and the costs associated with ill health, increased water treatment, increased environmental testing, loss of business, loss of quality of life are astronomical in comparison to the short-term profits that may be produced by allowing this type of brute force drilling across the area.
Item 4 – Social and Economic
There are long standing agreements between New York City and New York State explicitly and implicitly protecting water rights for the city and its many suburbs. These have not been visited and New York City itself, under Mayor Bloomberg, has, in my opinion, not taken due diligence in regards to his fiduciary duty as Mayor to protect and uphold the laws of the City and State of New York as well as to protect the people and children of the City of New York.
Governor Paterson, likewise, in my opinion, locked in political battles and unaware or willfully neglecting the importance of clean, fresh water to an increasingly polluted state has not apparently performed his fiduciary duties in this case to ensure that one region of New York does not unduly profit at the expense of the rest of the state as well as its neighbors.
The states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania also, apparently, have interests in this issue though in this case because of the location of many of the properties many of the remarks concerning the State of New York also apply to the State of Pennsylvania which historically has neglected its duty towards quality of life for its citizens in the face of even the barest opportunity of profit or cash savings.
Item 5 – Economic
There is no guarantee that the profits that have been promised by the drillers will materialize. In fact, some aspects of the entire scheme and gigantic parts of it at that, appear to be nothing more than a house of cards.
For example, if two competing companies, or even the same drilling company, arranges financing to purchase mineral rights for an area and drills and starts to produce – there is no guarantee how long those wells will produce or even if they will produce at all.
It is possible that during this destructive practice that much of the gas that is being sought will be lost through the same cracks that are being opened to collect it. In that case the gas can then cause additional problem through the poisoning of the soil or by mixing with heavy metals already present in the soil to produce even more exotic and dangerous environmental chemicals.
Issues in Western New York involving the poisoning of entire valleys and large portions of the region because of 19th century tanning and mining operations is well known throughout New York State. A problem with veracity is encountered when we consider these other poisons because not speaking about them does not make them go away – in fact – this is a possible case of lying by omission by the New York State Environmental Protection Agency if they did not inform the drillers themselves the high stakes game they were entering into.
If the New York State Environmental Protection Agency did not report these potential problems to the greedy speculators then they would be at fault.
Item 6 – Environmental
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have a mandate to protect drinking water tables – this drilling and destruction will take place far below the drinking water tables but will impact American citizens close to and very far from the work.
It appears that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency may be pretending to be able to license or permit this activity when, in fact, the process is being abused by the greedy speculators in order to get permission to carry out these backward plans.
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have no jurisdiction over the area in which the activities are going to take place.
It is misleading to Americans then for the Federal Environmental Protection Agency or the New York State Environmental Protection Agency to ‘permit’ activities for which they have no control over.
These issues should be left up to local governments as well as the State government of New York which needs to rein in the out-of-control New York State Environmental Protection Agency.
Item 7 – Economic and Science
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States permits ‘High Pressure Injection Wells’. These wells are put at risk when fracturing takes place near them or around them. There are so many of these types of chemical disposal wells in the United States that the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States doesn’t even know where they are.
These wells are drilled into and store chemicals at the same levels or just above or just below the area where these ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells are to be drilled. If these chambers of noxious chemicals are disturbed or allowed even the smallest pathway back to the surface then permits and agreements that the EPA has had to guarantee that those wastes will not move for ten-thousand (10,000) years will become invalid.
The chemicals thus released will become a danger to generations to come and may be undetectable in the horrors they wreak for 10, 20 or 30 years or more.
Item 8 – Economic
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ appears to be a dangerous sham.
It can be likened to a Pyramid Scheme in its financial arrangements.
There is no guarantee for profits nor guarantees for a more secure source of domestic energy.
There is guaranteed danger, however, with disaster waiting in the wings.
In the end it appears that this technique will not only NOT increase the available supply of domestic natural gas for consumption domestically in the United States but will cause disruptions in already established and strained supply lines and ultimately raise home heating, energy generation and transportation costs.
Item 9 - Economic
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, if it should go ahead and permit ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ will succeed in crippling another industry which promised to be far more long-lived and profitable for many Americans.
Rather than the uneconomical destruction of real estate, water supplies and farmland the other industry which the Environmental Protection Agency stands ready to destroy is the renewable energy industry.
Solar panels, wind power and alternative uses of generators in rivers will be curtailed if not destroyed if money, time and effort is uneconomically channeled into the destructive and wasteful acts associated with ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
The Environmental Protection Agency will impede progress and interfere in the industrial development of locations far away from the locations it will apply its narrow set of powers.
Just as the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently at first, and, heavy handedly in present times, uprooted, undermined and destroyed the recycling chemical industry, by encouraging this short-sighted assault on our national resources, the EPA will once again act as agent of economic retardation and reversal. The EPA should act as it is intended to act and not as a cog in the wheel of some hair brained schemes that ultimately leave us all the poorer.
In Quebec, Canada the recycled chemical industry is profitable and busy. There are many jobs and they do fine work keeping the price of chemicals down while quality high.
In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency has destroyed the recycled chemical industry by ‘permitting’ high-pressure injection wells. These wells are used to inject chemical waste into the earth. More than eighty percent (80%) of the chemical waste in the United States is disposed of in this manner. Until recently the EPA even allowed nuclear waste to be disposed of in this manner.
It is time for the EPA to leave the economic arena and step back into its regulatory position or it must be disbanded altogether as its original mandate has been corrupted and perverted beyond recognition. It should stop regulating trade and encoring uneconomic and wasteful practices. The EPA should stop putting Americans out of jobs.
Item 10 - Economic
The petroleum industry to this day burns off most of the natural gas it extracts from the earth when it is drilling for oil.
In a famous case just recently the ‘Deepwater Horizon’, owned by a foreign national corporation, exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico because the people running advanced drilling apparatus could not control the natural gas that they were extracting.
They had been burning it off in a giant flare.
When you see a refinery and the flares are burning hot, white, blue, orange and bright - that is a symbol of waste.
It is uneconomical to burn the fuel that could heat homes and power machinery but the petroleum industry does it because the Environmental Protection Agency allows them to do it.
Even though the gasses that they are burning would be more economically used by being trapped and stored the companies involved in that work continue to burn it off into the air because they don’t know how to handle the billions of square feet of natural gas that they collect when they are pumping mud and oil up out of the ground.
There is no economical need for ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ right now.
It would be more economical to harness the wasted energy and power that is burned into the atmosphere without a care and without a price tag rather than to pursue wasteful and destructive practices like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In Closing :
The State of New York has made a serious mistake by allowing this process to go forward.
It should be apparent to the United States Environmental Protection Agency that is has strayed into territory beyond its mandate and it would be the truthful and scientific thing to admit this fact now before further mistakes are made.
TSA Searches
My mother is 80 years old.
My father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, passed away in April of this year.
My mother now travels on occasion to visit her children, some of whom live in states other than her own.
She has never been arrested.
She votes each election and attends church regularly.
She raised 5 American children to adulthood.
One branch of my family has been in this country since 1621 – the Native American branch of my family has been in this country since before it was a country.
Raised in Germany because her parents could not afford to feed her in the US during the Depression she was there during World War II and witnessed the oppressive actions of a paranoid government raging out of control from fright, addiction to power and stupidity.
My eighty year old, law-abiding and loving, apple-pie baking AMERICAN mother was pulled out of line at an airport X-RAYED and physically body checked.
She stated that the she was stunned by the experience and will refuse travel by air in the future if confronted again at an airport screening.
A murdering 36 year old Tanzanian terrorist was given a pass by a cowardly jury in New York (after affording the right to innocent until proven guilty) while 80 year old American women are being treated as if guilty until proven innocent.
My mother hopes this never happens to any other older people.
Do you believe it possible to stop terrorists by terrorizing Americans?
My father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, passed away in April of this year.
My mother now travels on occasion to visit her children, some of whom live in states other than her own.
She has never been arrested.
She votes each election and attends church regularly.
She raised 5 American children to adulthood.
One branch of my family has been in this country since 1621 – the Native American branch of my family has been in this country since before it was a country.
Raised in Germany because her parents could not afford to feed her in the US during the Depression she was there during World War II and witnessed the oppressive actions of a paranoid government raging out of control from fright, addiction to power and stupidity.
My eighty year old, law-abiding and loving, apple-pie baking AMERICAN mother was pulled out of line at an airport X-RAYED and physically body checked.
She stated that the she was stunned by the experience and will refuse travel by air in the future if confronted again at an airport screening.
A murdering 36 year old Tanzanian terrorist was given a pass by a cowardly jury in New York (after affording the right to innocent until proven guilty) while 80 year old American women are being treated as if guilty until proven innocent.
My mother hopes this never happens to any other older people.
Do you believe it possible to stop terrorists by terrorizing Americans?
Senator Lindsay Graham
I was sorry to read that Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina had made some statements about permanent military bases being established in Afghanistan by the United States.
He reportedly said, "Under the right circumstances I think it would really secure the gains we made to have a U.S. presence in Afghanistan, two airbases that would be beneficial to the Afghan security forces."
He continued, "Only if the Afghans want it as a way to make sure this country never goes back into the hands of the Taliban. I think that would be a good way to end the Afghan conflict."
Afghanistan is an unnecessary conflict for the United States.
It has been and continues to be a waste of life, time and money.
It is unfortunate that Senator Lindsay Graham has fallen under the spell of President Barack Husein Obama’s vision of Afghanistan as a ‘just’ war.
Mexico has been and continues to be a source of unrest and a point of invasion into the United States. The drug trade and illegal immigrant trade is fueled by cash from terrorist organizations and Communist China.
The United States military forces need to be withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately. The United States Army needs to enter Mexico and destroy the corrupt and inept government there along with the entire drug trade infrastructure.
Individually illegal immigrants are not a problem but in total they are undermining our way of life and economy.
Why does Senator Graham think that the Legislative Branch handles diplomacy?
He reportedly said, "Under the right circumstances I think it would really secure the gains we made to have a U.S. presence in Afghanistan, two airbases that would be beneficial to the Afghan security forces."
He continued, "Only if the Afghans want it as a way to make sure this country never goes back into the hands of the Taliban. I think that would be a good way to end the Afghan conflict."
Afghanistan is an unnecessary conflict for the United States.
It has been and continues to be a waste of life, time and money.
It is unfortunate that Senator Lindsay Graham has fallen under the spell of President Barack Husein Obama’s vision of Afghanistan as a ‘just’ war.
Mexico has been and continues to be a source of unrest and a point of invasion into the United States. The drug trade and illegal immigrant trade is fueled by cash from terrorist organizations and Communist China.
The United States military forces need to be withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately. The United States Army needs to enter Mexico and destroy the corrupt and inept government there along with the entire drug trade infrastructure.
Individually illegal immigrants are not a problem but in total they are undermining our way of life and economy.
Why does Senator Graham think that the Legislative Branch handles diplomacy?
French Ship Sale to Russia
Recently President Sarkozy of France announced that our ally, France, would sell advanced assault ships to Russia .
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Hunger
I see celebrities beg on television for money to feed the children. There is the ‘Feed the Children’ charity which is competing with UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund ) to get money to feed children.
A disturbing figure I have seen is that 31 cents will feed a child three meals a day.
I wonder why celebrities are being broadcast on national television to ask people struggling to get by to send money to folks who are being wronged by an international system of fraud sponsored by crooked banks and stockbrokers working together to ensure that everything stays the way that it is. What’s up?
I give what I can - so don’t get me wrong. I am just wondering why someone earning 5 million dollars for one movie that takes three months to film (with guarantees for a share of future revenue) would go on national television and use their acting abilities to try and get me to feel guilty.
How many people would be fed with the money they throw away on television ads?
I am not the one burning mountains of wheat because I can’t get them to market or I can’t get the price I want for it. I am not the one destroying millions of eggs because the market won’t pay what I want for them. I am not the government who through absurd price supports has created a welfare system of gigantic farm management companies that kill livestock to control prices.
Why the Hollywood treatment?
A disturbing figure I have seen is that 31 cents will feed a child three meals a day.
I wonder why celebrities are being broadcast on national television to ask people struggling to get by to send money to folks who are being wronged by an international system of fraud sponsored by crooked banks and stockbrokers working together to ensure that everything stays the way that it is. What’s up?
I give what I can - so don’t get me wrong. I am just wondering why someone earning 5 million dollars for one movie that takes three months to film (with guarantees for a share of future revenue) would go on national television and use their acting abilities to try and get me to feel guilty.
How many people would be fed with the money they throw away on television ads?
I am not the one burning mountains of wheat because I can’t get them to market or I can’t get the price I want for it. I am not the one destroying millions of eggs because the market won’t pay what I want for them. I am not the government who through absurd price supports has created a welfare system of gigantic farm management companies that kill livestock to control prices.
Why the Hollywood treatment?
Friday, January 07, 2011
Mount Soledad
I was shocked to find that a court ruled that a Cross displayed at a Veterans’ Memorial at Mount Soledad, California near San Diego is unconstitutional. Apparently the judge plans to smash it down with a bulldozer.
The United States Navy received the land for free so now it should give it up since it cannot care for it.
Why allow the Cross to be removed from the site? It has been established. It is now a historical marker indicating the life and spirit of the United States at the time of the Korean War - which was a war against Godless Communism.
If it is removed then put it up again and again and again.
I hope they appeal the appeal or do whatever it is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of religion and speech. We must not allow the government to strike down a symbol of religion and faith for which those men and women have DIED for so that others can live without concern.
Separation of Church and State also means that the state can not suppress religions.
The concept that Christianity is a religion of exclusion is quite confusing. Tolerance should be the order of the day. That court order is an attempt to muzzle, crush and destroy religious practices and moderate them the way that Communist China moderates reincarnation.
Why allow them to drag that Cross down into the dust the way that the statues of Lenin and Stalin and Sadam Husein were?
The United States Navy received the land for free so now it should give it up since it cannot care for it.
Why allow the Cross to be removed from the site? It has been established. It is now a historical marker indicating the life and spirit of the United States at the time of the Korean War - which was a war against Godless Communism.
If it is removed then put it up again and again and again.
I hope they appeal the appeal or do whatever it is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of religion and speech. We must not allow the government to strike down a symbol of religion and faith for which those men and women have DIED for so that others can live without concern.
Separation of Church and State also means that the state can not suppress religions.
The concept that Christianity is a religion of exclusion is quite confusing. Tolerance should be the order of the day. That court order is an attempt to muzzle, crush and destroy religious practices and moderate them the way that Communist China moderates reincarnation.
Why allow them to drag that Cross down into the dust the way that the statues of Lenin and Stalin and Sadam Husein were?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)