The Supremes Are Well Oiled - 2

Dredd Blog has done a series of posts concerning the growing neoCon composition of the federal judiciary.

For example, The Supremes Are Well Oiled, A Case of Big Oil vs. Climate Change - 2, Sanity Can't Win For Losing, Foreign Citizens v FEC, and Here Come De Conservative Judges, to name a few.

These cases show how far right the federal courts are, but what really shows it is the number of Oilah Akbar judges in the states now becoming toxic from the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe.

People who have been damaged but not repaid will need to sue BP in the courts, but it seems that the deck is stacked against the people:

More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows.

Thirty-seven of the 64 active or senior judges in key Gulf Coast districts in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have links to oil, gas and related energy industries, including some who own stocks or bonds in BP PLC, Halliburton or Transocean - and others who regularly list receiving royalties from oil and gas production wells, according to the reports judges must file each year. The AP reviewed 2008 disclosure forms, the most recent available.

(Kansas City). The problem this presents is obvious, but not as obvious is that this can corrupt the system of justice.

The Fifth Circuit recently did not have a quorum, so they let a district court judge decision in favor of the oil companies stand, even though three appellate judges had reversed the district court decision and instead had ruled in favor of those suing the oil companies.

Lets hope the cases are consolidated and put before a judge outside of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida who has no ties to big oil.

The Obama Doctrine

Many libertarians and liberals fell out of their chairs laughing when Sarah Palin had no clue what "The Bush Doctrine" was when asked about that on national TV.

Many people laughing then do not know what The Obama Doctrine is now.

The Obama doctrine is wholesale, full on, and no holds barred unleashing of MOMCOM lust upon the environment.

This doctrine which will lead to wholesale, full on, and no holds barred destruction of the environment.

What is telling is that this is not what he wanted, not what democrats wanted, and not what the American people want, thus, we can conclude that our government is impotent, ineffective, and when they do something it is for MOMCOM's benefit instead of for the people's benefit.

Two things he has done already, through his proxy Secretary Salazar, are Opening The Great Tongas For Logging and then deliberately Opening The Great Oceans To Drill Baby Drill.

The economic portion of The Obama Doctrine is larger deficits, to the point that debt will take over GDP in the year of his re-election, 2012, as we pointed out recently in Gates Big Bucks The System.

His policies so far are to continue those things the neoCons were doing under Bush II that led to the destruction of the economy and the environment.

It is as if he thinks as long as democrats are doing the wrong thing it will come out ok anyway.

How democratic is The Obama Doctrine?

From State Secrets To State Propaganda

We are not getting the plume truth from this administration or from the oil barons.

Surprised?

Readers of Dredd Blog know we foresaw the likelihood of the disaster three weeks before it happened.

Dredd Blog also foresaw the clean up propaganda, as well as the plume, size, and other propaganda escapades, that were to come from a government partnering with BP to try to deceive the public about the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

The plume truth has now come home to haunt and expose government secrecy and propaganda, showing that it has metastasised from valid government secrets out into the open public debate as a form of state propaganda designed to deceive the public:

It was in mid-May that independent scientists — not any of the officials or researchers working for any of the government agencies on scene at the Deepwater Horizon disaster, let alone BP — first detected the vast underwater plumes of crude oil spreading like Medusa's locks from the out-of-control gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. BP immediately dismissed the reports, and in late May CEO Tony Hayward flatly declared "there aren't any plumes," stopping just short of accusing the scientists of misconduct. Federal officials called the scientists' claim "misleading, premature and, in some cases, inaccurate." Moreover, continued a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, any oxygen depletion in the surrounding waters due to plumes is not "a source of concern at this time," and critics blaming dispersants for the plumes had "no information" to stand on. NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco, a respected oceanographer when President Obama tapped her to lead the agency, insists there are no plumes, only "anomalies"—though last week she acknowledged the possibility of oil beneath the surface.

Now it is increasingly clear that the initial reports of undersea oil were right, that life-giving oxygen in the water column is indeed being depleted, and that unless the laws of chemistry have been repealed, dispersants are likely worsening the tentacles of undersea crude.

(Newsweek, emphasis added). It is a terribly horrid state of affairs at best, flagrantly criminal at worst, when the government partners with the oil barons to deceive the public.

The conflict of interest is at once obvious when we remember that shortly before the cataclysm Obama made public statements in favor of offshore drilling, and at the same time he instigated policies in that direction.

He even made disparaging remarks about "tired old arguments" of environmentalists who were concerned about the national ecosystems that were endangered by offshore drilling.

Now the plume truth coming out even indicates that the plume truth was to be expected.

Scientists are pointing out that the deadly toxic islands under the ocean surface are not an anomaly after all:

"The dispersants are changing the chemistry and physics of the oil," says biological oceanographer Ajit Subramaniam of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "They are creating microlayers of oil that are being carried by the deep currents." Even without dispersants, the crude gets broken into zillions of droplets suspended in the water column and corralled there, prevented from rising to the surface. The result is the undersea plumes that oceanographer Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia and colleagues first detected from the research vessel Pelican three weeks after the blowout. Despite years of research showing that undersea oil might form such plumes, BP's Hayward insists it cannot. "Oil floats!" he repeatedly says.

(Newsweek). The selfish conflict of interest cannot be denied, so the new oil spill commission must be independent and must have access to all data available to find out what BP knew and when they knew it; and certainly the same goes for the administration.

In closing, it appears once again that the "W" compass is a toxic oily albatross around the neck of the Obama Administration.

The Plame Truth was covered up by the "W" bushies, and now The Plume Truth is covered up by the lingering "W" personality of the Obama Administration.

The Newsweek article, linked to above, contains a blockbuster of a false statement:

There have been no suggestions that BP intended to keep the worst of the spill out of sight.

(Newsweek). Dredd Blog has not only suggested it, we have come out and stated it in no uncertain terms.

In two posts, Most Deceitful Month On Record?, and The Most Poisonous Months On Record?, we say exactly that in no uncertain terms!

Open Thread

According to BBC News, BP says it is capturing 10,000 barrels a day, or about half or better, leaving 7,000 to 10,000 a day to leak into the gulf.

Quite a trick when 5,000 was originally estimated as the leak size.

Half fixed is not fixed ...

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Yesterday Dredd Blog pointed out that this administration still has not learned the lesson that Prevention beats all cures hands down.

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Oilah Akbar has been to Nigeria and to the Amazon, causing destruction there too:

“As horrible as the gulf spill has been, what happened in the Amazon was worse,” said Jonathan Abady, a New York lawyer who is part of the legal team that is suing Chevron on behalf of the rainforest inhabitants. (NY Times)

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The oil baron CEO mentality must see themselves as better than other people who have to live with the destructive, toxic mess they impose around the world.

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Let's hope BP does not get control of space now:

"A multimillionaire's test rocket blasted off on its maiden voyage Friday and successfully reached orbit in a dry run for NASA's push to go commercial." (HuffPo)

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Robert Reich says double dip recession ahead:

"The Labor Department reports this morning that the private sector added a measly 41,000 net new jobs in May. But at least 100,000 new jobs are needed every month just to keep up with population growth.

In other words, the labor market continues to deteriorate.

The average length of unemployment continues to rise -- now up to 34.4 weeks (up from 33 weeks in April). That's another record."

(Why Double Dip Recession)

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Obama Sued To Avoid Gulf Disaster

Obama Administration Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar is supposed to be very careful in the Gulf of Mexico, and is supposed to be tough on British Petroleum (BP) regarding deep water drilling safety.

At least while the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is the talk of the town, that is.

That is not the case according to plaintiffs BP Contractor Kenneth Abbott and watchdog Food & Water Watch, Inc., who have sued the Obama Administration for injunctive relief in the Federal District Court in Houston, Texas.

Ironically the BP oil rig at issue is named BP Atlantis, which probably would be a good nickname for the Deepwater Horizon that sank beneath the waves like the legendary Atlantis.

In addition to the Complaint, the plaintiffs have filed a Motion For Preliminary Injunction which, if granted, would order the Obama Administration to order BP to cease and desist operations on the BP Atlantis deep water drilling rig until it complies with the law.

Dredd Blog has acquired copies of the Complaint, Motion For Preliminary Injunction (Motion), Exhibits A-F to the Motion, and a proposed Order Granting Preliminary Injunction.

That order has not been granted yet, since the Obama Administration has not yet replied nor has a hearing been held.

If granted, the proposed order would become an actual order, which would have this language:

The court finds as a fact that oil and gas production from the BP Atlantis facility is in violation of the statutes and applicable regulations, and that continued production from the facility constitutes and creates an imminent threat of immediate and irreparable harm to the environment of the Gulf of Mexico and waters of the United States located therein, the court further finds that the violations are so wide-ranging and pervasive that it would be impossible for such violations to be remedied within a short period of time and that an immediate shutdown of production from such platform is necessary for the protection of the environment of the Gulf of Mexico and waters of the United States located therein.

(Case 4:10-cv-01759, Document 2-7, Filed in TXSD on 05/17/10, Page 1 of 2). The Motion points out some interesting facts about BP Atlantis:

First producing oil in 2007, the BP Atlantis Facility is one of the deepest moored floating dual oil and gas-production facilities in the world. It has a production capacity of 8.4 million gallons of oil per day and 180 million cubic feet of gas per day.

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In August 2008, Plaintiff Kenneth Abbott, a BP contractor who had been hired to supervise the BP’s databases that maintain critical project documentations, became aware that BP did not have a large number of “as-built” drawings for the subsea components of the BP Atlantis Facility, and specifically, that it did not have accurately coded and complete “as-built” drawings for its producing subsea components, including “as-built” risers and Piping and Instrument Diagrams (“P&IDs”). Engineering projects such as the BP Atlantis Facility involve multiple phases of engineering documents, beginning as design concepts and ending with “as-built” engineering documents.

(Case 4:10-cv-01759, Document 2, Filed in TXSD on 05/17/10, Page 2 of 21). Those with engineering or construction experience will at once realize the danger of not having as-built blueprints and supporting documentation.

It is at once clear how vital they are when we consider how Plan A (the original plan) can become Plan D, like it has in the Deepwater Horizon calamity as BP tries Plan A, then B, then C, and now Plan D.

Without actual drawings and specifications showing the final results, as compared to the original proposed drawings and specifications, one can only hope they were able to build exactly to original drawings and specifications.

It is not usual for that to happen, so the following words in the Motion ring true:

Because engineering documents may change drastically from the first phase “issued for approval” documentation to the final phase “as-built” documentation, “as-built” engineering documents are critical to operations as they reflect precisely the design of the component and system, and can be likened to vital “blueprints” for an incredibly complex structure involving millions of moving parts and systems. Simply put, without properly maintained “as-built” engineering documents, persons operating the BP Atlantis Facility are flying blind, and have no way to assure the safety of offshore drilling operations, and no way to assure that another calamitous oil spill, like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, will not reoccur.

(Case 4:10-cv-01759, Document 2, Filed in TXSD on 05/17/10, Page 3 of 21, emphasis added). There have been enough Atlantis events of late, so lets hope they prevail against BP.

If anyone wants a free copy of any of the documents in the case that were mentioned above, email Dredd Blog and I will send you a PDF of the document.

Hateful Oilboarding For Oilah Akbar

The worshippers of Oilah, the greatest drug peddler on this planet, are confused by the picture of reality.

The blood of their "savior", oil, which flows through the toxic blood veins of the god Oilah to fuel the weapons systems targeting millions of people around the world, ready to deliver nuclear winter at the drop of a hat, now covers birds, fish, ocean, beaches, the air, and marshes.

The truth is out for all to see, to embrace, or to cover with oil and reject once again.

When we explain that global warming is being caused by the blood of Oilah (oil and hardened oil, a.k.a. coal) the Inhofe, Palin, Jindal crowd cannot fathom it because it still snows in the winter months.

Will the pictures they see now, which will get much worse and spread, induce some of them to want to help shake the deadly toxic addiction?

Oilah's blood is also also lumbering under the surface of the gulf, out of their sight, forming island sized scabs of toxic plumes looking for more victims deep in the underwater dark alley ways far from our sight.

This is the real Oilah Akbar! Oilah Akbar!, the harbinger of death, the drug peddler of oil, which the whole world is a slave to and is deceived by.

Now the oil god Oilah has become angry and is trying to make us all blood worshippers by spraying bloody toxic oil on us far and wide while demanding our continued loyalty.

And Oilah's Priests are getting loyalty because freedom from the Oilah doctrine, the Oilah addiction, is not easy.

Even when our loved ones are tortured by oilboarding, then killed before our very eyes, we are told mantra style once again what we were told in 1973 concerning "going green", "these things don't happen overnight".

After they told us that in 1973 the addiction marched on, and marches against us still 37 years later.

Only the disasters seem to happen overnight; they happen in an instant, in a flash of exploding oil and gas, to spread flames and fumes of death into the life giving Earth.

Attending to the damage is what does not happen over night, shaking the addiction is what does not happen overnight, soothing the millions of victims is what does not happen overnight.

Yes, after Oilah Akbar has the temper tantrum and goes on a killing spree, it takes tankers full of time to stop the pain inflicted on innocent people, if the pain ever does stop at all.

Extinction of Earth species is accelerating, destruction of critical ecological cycles is increasing, to the point that scientists are not sure whether we have already passed the tipping point.

Meanwhile, "we" want our freedom from Oilah, "we" who are citizens of the good Earth, but all the government offers us is triage.

The Bleep Goes On - Land Ho! - 3

The fate of Florida beaches near Pensacola may be blowing in the wind.

The fate of the oil addiction is not so uncertain, however, because it seems that our government is bound and determined to keep oil addiction safe from extinction, but the same cannot be said for Earth life.

The winds are blowing on shore toward Florida from the Gulf of Mexico, meaning oil may foul Florida beaches over the weekend.

Meanwhile the federal government has approved new offshore drilling:

Federal regulators approved Wednesday the first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since President Barack Obama lifted a brief ban on drilling in shallow water, even while deepwater projects remain frozen after the massive BP spill.

The Minerals Management Service granted a new drilling permit sought by Bandon Oil and Gas for a site about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana and 115 feet below the ocean's surface. It's south of Rockefeller State Wildlife Refuge and Game Preserve, far to the west of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that triggered the BP spill.

(ABC News). It is as if they are doubling down on the oil addiction in the same area where the greatest ecological disaster in U.S. history still spews toxins and is still out of control.

Out of control addiction has a future right up to the end in Bullshitistan, because the toxic oil pushers keep giving federal officials a taste:

As Congress investigated its role in the doomed Deep Horizon oil rig, Halliburton donated $17,000 to candidates running for federal office, giving money to several lawmakers on committees that have launched inquiries into the massive spill.

The Texas-based oil giant’s political action committee made 14 contributions during the month of May, according to a federal campaign report filed Wednesday — 13 to Republicans and one to a Democrat. It was the busiest donation month for Halliburton’s PAC since September 2008.

Of the 10 current members of Congress who got money from Halliburton in May, seven are on committees with oversight of the oil spill and its aftermath.

(Politico, emphasis added). Flagrant and open bribery is their understanding of "open government" I suppose.

Open bribery for all to see.

Honest People Shine In This Darkness

It is way past time that true heroes are recognized in this false-hero infested nation.

It has been too long that murderous mob-type thugs, who are murdering our reputation as well as murdering innocent people around the globe, have been sold by the used car salesman media as heroes.

The Gulf Oil Blog with its honest scientists shines through in this darkness like a breath of fresh air from the old Gulf of Mexico years B.C. and years BP (before petroleum).

Dredd blog predicted that we (human civilization) were moving closer to disaster on the day that President Obama announced offshore drilling expansion.

Later, when the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe began, we reflected on our suspicions that the oil barons and media of MOMCOM, including the federal government, would at first try to propagandise their way out of what their own ignorance of reality had brought upon Americans.

Even to this day BP is denying the existence of oil plumes below the surface, but some sharp scientists at Gulf Oil Blog are shining through that BP darkness.

Open Thread

It is getting crazy out there ...

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The Wars Continue:

N.Korea vs. S.Korea
Israel vs. Aid/Relief Workers, 10 dead
U.S. vs. Afghanistan
U.S. vs. Iraq
Turkey vs. Israel

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Civilization vs. Earth Continues:

Hurricane Season "Opened" Yesterday

First Tropical Storm Agatha Kills 175

Giant Sinkhole 100' x 200' sucks in 3 story bldg, guard dies

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BP vs. The Gulf of Mexico Continues:

Obama Regrets His Embrace of Drill Baby Drill?

BP Incompetence

U.S. Attorney General Holder Opens Criminal Investigation

BP To Try Again To Stop The Bleeding

**Deepwater Horizon Blog Begins**
(to track the massive plumes that BP denies)

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The Mythology Of Hope

When President Elect Obama went to the White House to visit Bush II hope was in the air.

The bubble had burst on every major policy of the neoCon bushies.

The political landscape looked like it was the aftermath of a massive destructive force.

The Audacity of Hope had charisma and the future could be seen as light at the end of the tunnel.

We were sure we were going to move out of the tunnel and into the light of day once again.

But that light at the end of the tunnel began to move further away as it began to dawn on those of us in the greater majority who voted for Obama, that he seemed to have been given a compass that led to all the wrong places Bush II had already been and polluted.

Now that light is a pinhole, and we seem to be going backwards.

The main stream media is all over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, as one of the larger circulation newspapers shouts:

'Everybody's lost hope'

"Everybody's lost hope," said councilman Jay LaFont of Grand Isle, La., where beaches and its fishing industry were closed because of the spill. "As long as you have something to look forward to, a little glimmer of hope, you can move on. But this just drained everything out of us."

(USA Today). This comes at a time when U.S. citizens have had their fill of endless war, massive financial failures, millions losing homes and jobs, inept government, and loss of reputation in the world at large.

The Attorney General has been sent to sniff out crime at the disaster scene, but we have already seen Holder's heart too.

He let AIG off so BP will not soon be shaking in their boots.