Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Gulf Disaster More Than an Accident, a Payback!

On April 20th 2010 an unexpected explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 41 miles from the shores of Louisiana. Some estimates placed it by late May or early June, 2010, as among the largest oil spills in the world with tens of millions of gallons spilled to date originating from a deepwater wellhead 5,000 feet (1,500 m) below the ocean surface. The Deepwater Horizon was a 9-year-old semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), a massive floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig built by Hyundai Heavy Industries that could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep and drill down to 30,000 feet (9,100 m). It was owned by Transocean, operated under the Marshalese flag of convenience, and was under lease to BP until September 2013.


My premise has been that this disaster, despite accounts that claim methane gas from the well, under high pressure, shot up and out of the drill column marine riser, expanded onto the platform, ignited and exploded engulfing the platform in fire was not an accident, but caused by a group of people who have conspired in creating this disaster with a twofold purpose: 1) financial gain, and 2) expanding an agenda. I have to admit that it is only a theory backed by at best, circumstantial evidence uncovered in the days and months that followed the events of April 20th 2010. In actuality, we will never find the truth as to who is really behind this ecological catastrophe that led to the death of 11 dead victims and millions of others financially affected. We can however, and should analyze all the relevant evidence that allows us to deduce the truth with or without conclusive facts and question those individuals and corporations who can financially gain from it. At best, the following people and/or their corporations are guilty of suspicious behavior, if not guilty of various crimes including manslaughter and a series of environmental crimes. Remember that human nature is to profit from others at all costs.

NALCO: The manufacturer of the chemical dispersant known as Corexit which holds the oil below the water's surface and breaks up the spill into smaller pools is currently being used in the Gulf in an attempt to disperse the oil before it reaches the shoreline known as the “Top Kill”. BP has long claimed that this is the best manner of dealing with the spill however; it does nothing to stop the flow of oil from its source. Corexit is highly toxic and presently banned in Europe. Nalco also has a deep relationship with the University of Chicago Argonne which received $164 Million Dollars in stimulus funds. In November 2009, Warren Buffett, primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people, and the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2010, one of the most successful investors in the world, and one of president Obama’s senior financial advisors, increased his stock holdings of NALCO.

March 31st 2010, (20 days before the “accident”) President Barrack Obama shifts major US policy by opening vast areas of the east and southern coast of the United States to oil and gas exploration. Although as presidential candidate, Obama clearly stated that he intended to keep in place the moratorium that “prevented oil companies from drilling off Florida’s coast”

Goldman Sachs: Lloyd Craig Blankfein Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. Blankfein is a contributor to Democratic Party candidates and Goldman employees and their relatives contributed almost a million dollars to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, the second most from any one employer, Blankfein has visited the White House at least four times. Former Goldman executives who hold senior positions in the Obama administration include Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Mark Patterson, a former Goldman lobbyist who is chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; and Robert Hormats, the undersecretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs. In September 23, 2008, Berkshire Hathaway agreed to purchase $5 billion in Goldman's preferred stock, and also received warrants to buy another $5 billion in Goldman's common stock, exercisable for a five-year term. Goldman also received $10 billion preferred stock investment from the U.S. Treasury in October 2008, as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. In the first quarter ending on March 31st 2010 Goldman Sachs sells over 4 million shares or 44% of BP stock. Was this an active insider trading and did someone at Goldman Sachs have foreknowledge of this disaster?

Tony Hayward: Chief Executive of oil and energy company BP Group, a multinational oil company and the fourth largest company in the world. Hayward was appointed Chief Executive of BP with immediate effect on 1 May 2007, after Lord Browne resigned. On June 5th 2010, the Daily Telegraph, a newspaper largely distributed in the UK reported that a month prior to the April 20th 2010 explosion of the Deep Water Horizon Mr. Hayward sold 1.4 million Sterling Pounds or one third of his BP stock. Why would the CEO of any oil company dump one third of his shares in a company that has just tapped into one of the world’s largest oil supplies? BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals. In addition, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.

April 29th 2010, President Obama sends SWAT teams to inspect all oil platforms and rigs. SWAT stands for special weapons and tactics. Why would the President or anyone else in this administration send a special weapons and tactics team to the Gulf for the purpose of inspecting the oil rigs? Are SWAT teams trained in the inspection of oil rigs and wells or did this administration believe that the April 20th explosion of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig might have been more than a simple accident and therefore sent the aforementioned SWAT teams to protect the other rigs?

May 2nd 2010, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal states in a press release that he requested from the Obama administration large amounts of resources needed by state parishes to handle the situation, including three million feet of absorbent boom, 5 million feet of hard boom and 30 barges. To date, only a fraction of this request has been granted, even though the federal government has all the resources at hand and in storage. Also, immediately after the disaster, several countries including Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway and France offered their vast resources and expertise to help with the clean up only to be declined by the federal government. Why would the government and President Obama drag his proverbial feet on this disaster and not accept foreign help? Frankly, the Jones act that was passed in 1920 to protect the Merchant Marine and unionized ship builders should not be an excuse as this could have easily been waived.

May 27th2010, President Obama initiates a moratorium on all drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet. On June 22nd 2010 this moratorium was overturned by New Orleans federal judge Martin Feldman citing the calamitous impact the measure would have on local economies, ." Although wells already producing oil are not affected by the moratorium, 33 rigs in the process of exploratory drilling are now sitting idle. They employ some 8,000 people. With average weekly oil-rig wages of $1,804, the potential for lost income is about $57.7 million per month. The White House has promised an immediate appeal.




This conspiracy (a secret plan or agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal or subversive act) theory (a set of facts, propositions, or principles analyzed in their relation to one another and used, to explain an occurrence or event) delves in deeper and finds one much bigger shadowy character behind this affair pointing to a much murkier outcome.

The Left’s Green Agenda: Sher Zieve wrote in the Canada Free Press: "Obama is doing the bare minimum so that destruction will be at an all-time maximum -- in order to shove his Cap and Trade bill down our throats." In spite of what President Obama told the American people during his Oval Office address to the nation, he did not adequately respond to this crisis. Clearly this administration has not only failed in terms of organization and the use of resources available to the federal government but this same national address from the oval office was clearly a launching platform for the renewal of this agenda.

Indisputably politicians on Capitol Hill are attempting to exploit this disaster in an effort to push so-called cap and trade legislation. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently revealed: "At the same time as Americans wonder when this gusher will ever be plugged, we hear word that the administration and my good friend the majority leader want to piggy back their controversial new national energy tax -- also known as cap and trade -- to an oil spill response bill that could and should be an opportunity for true bipartisan cooperation.” So here again, we see the administration using a crisis (remember Rahm Emanuel’s words, “never let a good crisis go to waste”—and when there is no crisis, manufacture one. [my words]), in this case the crisis in the gulf, as an opportunity to muscle through Congress another deeply unpopular bill that has profound implications for small business and struggling households. Obama wants to institute a massive new energy tax, masquerading as sound energy policy that will dramatically raise the cost of just about everything you produce or consume, deprive you of income, control your behavior and repress your liberties. Remember that Cap and Trade was one of Obama’s primary campaign positions along with the now passed health care reform bill.

George Soros: a Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist and President Obama’s main money man. He became known as "the Man Who Broke the Bank of England" after he made a reported $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. In an interview with The Washington Post on November 11, 2003, Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death." He said he would sacrifice his entire fortune to defeat President Bush, "if someone guaranteed it." Soros not only has deep pockets but his grip and influence runs far and wide in the “Democratic/Progressive party”.

He has a $3+ million dollar influence in the: Center for American Progress, a liberal “ public policy research and advocacy organization”. The Washington Post reported that "seed money pledged by such deep-pocketed Democrats as financier George Soros. Its President and Chief Executive Officer is John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to U.S. President Bill Clinton, Citing Podesta's influence in the formation of the Obama Administration, a November 2008 article in Time stated that "not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway." The Center for American Progress also publishes a daily global warming blog called Climate Progress. Edited by Joseph J. Romm, the blog discusses climate science, climate technology solutions and political news related to climate change. It is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In April 2008, TIME magazine named this blog one of the "Top 15 Green Websites", writing that it "counters bad science and inane rhetoric with original analysis delivered sharply.... Romm occupies the intersection of climate science, economics and policy.... On his blog and in his most recent book, Hell and High Water, you can find some of the most cogent, memorable, and deployable arguments for immediate and overwhelming action to confront global warming."[12] In March 2009, Thomas L. Friedman, in his column in The New York Times, called the blog "indispensable". Recently obtained, through the Freedom of Information Act, White House E-mails reveal that advice from the Center for American Progress was requested on issues, such as off shore drilling. CAP issued articles calling for Obama to not only shut down all drilling in the Gulf, but also to force BP to pay billions in advance of claims. Nearly every suggestion that the CAP has made since Obama took office has been acted upon. BP is a main client of the lobbying group owned by John Podesta and his brother Tony.

A $5+ million dollar influence in MoveOn.org, an American progressive/liberal[2], public policy advocacy group and political action committee which has raised millions of dollars for candidates it identifies as "moderates" or "progressives" in the United States. A 2004 e-mail composed by Eli Pariser, the former Executive Director of MoveOn.org, and the organization's current Board President stated that, in regards to the Democratic Party: "Grassroots contributors like us ... bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.”

…and $10 million dollar influence in the now defunct America Coming Together (ACT), a liberal, political action, 527 groups dedicated to get-out-the-vote activities.

These groups worked to support and influence Democrats in the 2004 and 2008 presidential election.

In addition, Soros is invested $811 Million Dollars deep in Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company who is also engaged in deep off-shore drilling. In September 2009, just days after Soros increased his stake in Petrobras, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration had committed up to $10 billion to Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance oil exploration off Brazil’s coast. Historically, Obama has opposed expanded oil drilling. This was not only a strategic decision, aimed at pleasing the environmental Left, but also a personal choice, since Obama sincerely believes that drilling is deeply destructive to the natural environment. Thus, as a Senator, Obama voted against permitting the U.S. to drill for oil and natural gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the grounds that it would be a crime to despoil such “beautiful real estate.” Similarly, during last year’s presidential campaign, he warned of the “environmental consequences” of oil drilling, and insisted that “we cannot drill our way out of the [energy] problem.”

But apparently George Soros can. The president has elected to help another nation with the same type of drilling that he opposes so vehemently for this country, and the reason seems to be Soros’ investment in Petrobras. The company just happens to be the largest holding in Soros’s investment fund next to Gold. Soros’s connection to the company is no secret; he has been investing in Petrobras since 2007. A profitable venture, Petrobras has estimated recoverable reserves for the so-called Tupi oil field of between 5 and 8 billion barrels. With his billion-dollar loan, Obama has taken patronage politics to striking new level. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U.S. could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security. Federal data from the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of Interior says the U.S. has enough oil and natural gas to fuel more than 65 million cars for 60 years, and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. In fact, the government estimates that there are 30 billion barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil on federal lands currently closed to development. But rather than investing in the country’s energy future, the administration seems to be offering an expensive kickback to a political ally in a time of economic recession and high unemployment.

If the Obama administration wins the drilling moratorium battle with the courts, Petrobras will be leasing the drilling platforms in the Gulf and moving them off of the coast of Brazil and who is to profit from this? George Soros who owns $811 Million Dollars in Petrobras and coincidentally also was along with “Big Labor” unions the force and finances behind Obama’s rise to power. Let’s also not forget that, Andy Stern, one of Obama’s supporters and now also advisor, one of labor's most powerful figures declared regarding his expectations for the Obama presidency, according to a WSJ article on December 6th, 2008: "I expect nothing less than what he said he was going to do, and we should hold him accountable." This is no empty warning; organized labor invested $450 million to get Democrats elected. SEIU and Mr. Stern was the biggest contributor in the 2008 election with $85 million. The SEIU also set aside an additional $10 million in emergency funds to get people un-elected if necessary. "We would like to make sure people appreciate that we take them at their word and when they don't live up to their word there should be consequences." Stern also added.

So, could this have been a manufactured crisis created as a payback for past and even future political support and who would gain from this disaster?

Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway: Hold stock in NALCO manufacturers of the chemical dispersants used and financial advisor to President Obama. Suspicious - Gaining

Goldman Sachs: Contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign, dumps BP stock weeks prior to rig fire. Suspicious - Gaining

Tony Hayward: BP CEO dumps BP stock weeks prior to rig fire. Suspicious

President Barrack Obama: Uses crises to push “His” green agenda and drags feet on clean-up efforts and coming up with a solid solution while finger pointing at BP. Suspicious & Common denominator

George Soros: One of Obama’s primary financial and organizational backers, stock holder in Petrobras Brazil’s state run oil company benefiting from disaster by moving US oil industry to Brazil. Gaining

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