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We all know Rahm Emmanuel’s famous ‘never let a good crisis go to waste’ line… well it seems they’re not when it comes to the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.
The truth of the matter is, the oil spewing up from the ruptured sea bed is far, far worse than anyone knows. They are grossly under-reporting the barrels-per-day figure, and rightly so. If they were to come clean and tell us what’s really going on, there would be some real action taken. Obama swanning around the Gulf Coast eating seafood is a slap in the face. PR campaigns are a slap in the face. As the oil flows the spin doctors are working harder than ever to turn this to achieve the aims of the globalist agenda.
It is not in America’s best interest to have this thing stopped right now, because it holds the key to getting the new energy policies through and once again pushing the carbon tax scam that is the TOP of the list for globalist bankers, the UN, royalty, traders and corporate scumbags the world over. The lure of a market based on trading carbon is just so juicy and alluring that nothing will stop the oil flow from ushering it in.
Yes, America has plenty of its own oil in Alaska, offshore and in shale that can be safely, effectively and profitably brought to market. But the fact is, this oil is not for us. No, we are going to suffer the crushing blow of subsidized and grossly inefficient ‘green’ power. The longer the oil flows, the more urgency is placed upon passing a green energy bill and cap and trade.
At the same time, billions of debt for a cleanup can and will be made a public burden either by BP filing for chapter 11 or by the same old swindle we see going on in the banking, insurance and car manufacturing industries – private profits, public debts.
And the globalists actually want us poor and dependent on them, so wiping out billions of capitalization from BP with a comment like Obama saying the Gulf oil spill is like 911, only serves to FURTHER their agenda.
What is the agenda? Take over big oil, make it government run, stop offshore drilling, pass green energy bills and the cap and trade scam. And use the EPA and IRS along with smart grid technology to keep everyone in line to make sure we follow the rules.
And no, they’re not interested in cleaning it up, which is why the LA Governor just said enough is enough, we’re going to set up barriers to protect our beaches.
ENOUGH of the reliance on the federal government. They do not want this crisis to go to waste. Your future is in their hands while you listen to the mainstream ‘news’ telling you there are people working on the problem. Lets get motivated while we still can.
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The federal government has given BP until the end of the weekend to find ways to speed up efforts to contain huge amounts of oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a letter released Saturday, as large globs of brown crude coated Alabama’s white sand beaches.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. James A. Watson sent a letter to BP officials on Friday expressing frustration with the overall pace of the effort and ordered the company to identify ways to expedite the process in the coming says.
“Recognizing the complexity of this challenge, every effort must be expended to speed up the process,” Watson wrote in the letter, sent to Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer.
BP has struggled with several efforts to contain the oil. The latest cap installed on the blown-out well is capturing about 650,000 gallons of oil a day, but large quantities are still spilling into the sea.
Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to 109 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
The Coast Guard initially sent a letter to BP on Wednesday asking for more details on its plans to contain the oil. BP responded, saying a new system to trap oil spewing from the well should be complete by mid-July.
That system’s new design is meant to better withstand the force of hurricanes and could capture about 2 million gallons of oil daily when fully built, the oil giant said.
But Watson said he was concerned that BP’s plans didn’t maximize resources or “go far enough to mobilize redundant resources” in the event of an equipment failure or another problem.
“BP must identify in the next 48 hours additional leak containment capacity that could be operationalized and expedited to avoid the continued discharge of oil,” Watson wrote.
BP spokesman Jon Pack said the company received Watson’s letter and would respond to it as soon as possible.
The letter and deadline comes just before President Barack Obama is set to visit the Gulf Coast on Monday and Tuesday. On Saturday, Obama reassured British Prime Minister David Cameron that his frustration over the oil spill in the Gulf was not an attack on Britain, the British government said.
The two leaders spoke by phone for 30 minutes Saturday to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the huge spill. Cameron also has been under pressure to get Obama to tone down the criticism fearing it will hurt the millions of British retirees that hold BP stock.
Cameron’s office said the prime minister “expressed his sadness at the ongoing human and environmental catastrophe,” but stressed BP’s economic importance to Britain, the U.S. and other countries.
It said Obama recognized that BP — which he has pointedly referred to in public by its former name, British Petroleum — is a multinational company, “and that frustrations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity.” Obama said he had no interest in undermining BP’s value. The company’s stock has lost 40 percent of its value since the oil rig fire on April 20 that unleashed the United States’ worst oil spill.
Along the Gulf Coast, Alabama’s beaches took their worst hit yet from the oil spill on Saturday as chocolate-colored oil slathered beaches along the coast.
During a flight over the Gulf, Sean Brumley, an aerial spotter, said he saw an oily sheen and brown patches of oil floating for miles off the Alabama coast. Boats trying to remove the oil before it hit the coast worked about three miles out.
“The Gulf looks like it has chicken pox,” Brumley said.
On the beach, pools of crude oil as much as 4 inches deep hit the beach in waves, and the surf was a dark, ugly shade of brown. No one was in the water, and the beaches that normally are packed with people this time of year were virtually deserted.
Stinking, dark piles of oil dried in the hot sun, extending as much as 12 feet from the water’s edge for as far as the eye could see.
“I didn’t think it was a big deal yesterday. This is awful,” said Shelley Booker of Shreveport, La., who was staying in a condominium with her teenage daughter and six of her friends.
The beaches in Florida’s Panhandle were largely free of tar Saturday — but signs of the fight against the spill were everywhere. Officials have said that two wide sections of the slick were just off the shoreline.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, rallied volunteers and employees at Gulf Islands National Seashore on Saturday, preparing them for a long fight against the oil.
But the slow movement of the oil and constant preparations for its arrival were taking toll on beach residents.
“It’s like waiting for someone to die from cancer,” said Greg Hall, who walks the beach each morning.
Hey all, I was reading Phil’s article and yes democrats are on the way out, for the most part, this election. But rather than just simply replacing a Republican for a Democrat or Democrat for a Republican as I have often said, we should hold them all equally accountable.
So many times we get fed up with one party and replace them with another, this needs to stop. We deserve better. We need to get to the root of the problem and fix it there. There has to be an individual accountability.
I won’t lie to you, I am a bit frightened about the whole democratic process ( we currently have a Republic but people still call it a Democratic process) I was looking at the numbers and saw that less than 10% in a lot of instances came out to vote in the primaries. This has me very worried.
We all have a huge stake in our Country and deserve what our Founding Fathers and our families fought so hard to give us. Why is it so many of us would rather watch our favorite sitcom than catch up on the current events or vote for our freedoms?
Why is it so many of us will never miss an American Idol episode and yet despise and cast out a televised political debate? We need political education people. We are fading away. Taxes are consuming us, political figures are betraying us, our freedoms are disappearing, our bankers are making their own rules that we have to pay for, it’s game time. We need to overcome and adapt. We need to stand up and back our party or candidate that we think will have the most effect that benefits the masses.
Where will you be, watching a Hollywood flick or flickin the ole middle finger to Washington saying we want real change, we want true representation that looks out for us? I hope we unplug for a second and come to long enough to fight for our Constitutional rights to survive and thrive.
I know I’m not alone, I know you want it too. Start small, one Congressman at a time if that’s what it takes. There are 435 of them. They are very important and critical to our survival. Back your candidates and elected officials, tell them whats important to you and back them so long as they back you. Back your Senators, two per State or your Candidates, Governors etc… You’ll get there but come on people…… 10%…… we need to stand up for our kids and vote!
November will be here before you know it, start now, tell your people to wake up and become part of something bigger than themselves. We need to change what’s happening. The unemployment levels are rising, America is now known for being the biggest job exporter rather than job importer, we need to fix this quick. The Government tells us the employment has risen by 500,000 people this month. What they don’t tell us is it was all Census workers they hire and fire to manipulate the statistics.
People we need to get involved, we need to overcome and take this on like a Dana White, UFC fight, Cage match style, no holds bared battle. Lets do it verbally of course but lets get involved. 10%…… come on people, our families and freedoms are worth more than that.
Just think at things this way, what would Jefferson do. What will you decide? Get involved or get entertained Hollywood style? I know you will get involved, we all depend on it.
If your a democrat up for re-election a republican will replace ya. Its about time we get Republicans back in office these democrats are killin us! Come November we will get it back! Rise of the Republicans again!
South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene poses for a photo in Manning, S.C., June 9. (AP Photo)
Alvin Greene is the proverbial enigma wrapped in a riddle surrounded by mystery.
He’s also the new Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina.
Greene admits he had no campaign headquarters, no party support, no contributions, no job, no computer and no cell phone.
Yet, somehow, he managed to pull off the most unlikely of victories, and — unless state Democratic Party officials have their way — will face incumbent Republican Sen. Jim DeMint in November.
Greene’s improbable victory over Democratic candidate Vic Rawl, a former state legislator who officials expected would win, has unleashed a flood of questions, including how the unemployed Army veteran managed to pay $10,400 to get on the ballot before running a “low budget” campaign with no ads, website or fundraising.
Voters also are wondering how the 32-year-old Greene, facing a felony charge for allegedly showing pornographic images to a college student last October, managed to capture 59 percent of the primary vote.
In an interview Thursday with FoxNews.com, Greene said he won by “simple, old-fashioned campaigning” that included traveling the state and speaking to voters “wherever I could find them.”
Greene said his “self-managed” campaign was personally funded and cost well under $2,000. He said he held no “formal events” and employed the help of family and friends to promote his platform: job creation, better education and “justice in the judicial system.”
Among his proposals, Greene said he wants to create jobs through Department of Transportation projects, like widening and repairing major interstate highways in South Carolina. He also said he supports President Obama’s massive health care overhaul because “the best minds are behind it.”
The Democratic candidate said he got no help from the South Carolina Democratic Party.
“From day one, they just didn’t have confidence in my campaign,” he said, adding that the state party wrote him off as a serious candidate because he had no funds and was unknown.
In fact, the South Carolina Democratic Party is so dumbfounded, one leading elected official is wondering if Greene is one of theirs at all.
U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., called Greene a “plant” and has demanded an investigation into his candidacy.
“There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary,” Clyburn told the Bill Press radio show on Thursday. “I don’t know if he was a Republican plant. He was someone’s plant.”
The South Carolina Board of Elections told FoxNews.com that it has no plans to investigate how Greene pulled off the upset, even though the South Carolina Democratic Party now wants him off the ballot because of a pending felony charge that he allegedly showed obscene Internet photos to a 19-year-old college student.
Camille McCoy, a chemistry student from Summerville, said she told police that a man, whom she later identified as Greene, approached her last October in an on-campus computer lab at the University of South Carolina and showed her dozens of pornographic images from a computer.
“He just sat down next to me and asked if I liked football,” McCoy told FoxNews.com. “He then said ‘well look at my computer’ and it was porn.”
McCoy said after she told Greene that the images were “offensive,” he said, “Let’s go back to your room.”
Greene, who received a degree in political science from USC in 2000, refused to comment on the incident to FoxNews.com, saying only, “I’m innocent until proven guilty.”
“Right now I am innocent,” he said. “The people of South Carolina have spoken. They’ve chosen me as their nominee and we have to be pro-South Carolina — not anti-Greene.”
The candidate, who lives with his father in Manning, S.C., and has been receiving unemployment benefits for nine months since leaving a 13-year career with the U.S. Army, said he’s not quitting the race.
Under South Carolina law, convicted felons are prohibited from holding state office, but they can serve in federal office — though the U.S. House or Senate can vote to expel or not seat him if he wins election in November.
Like Clyburn, McCoy’s mother said she wonders how Greene qualified to be on the ballot.
“It’s ridiculous and a mockery of the voting process,” Susan McCoy said in an interview with FoxNews.com. “He was given a public defender and certainly didn’t have $10,400 at his bond hearing.”
Among the few requirements for candidates to get on the ballot is a $10,400 registration fee collected by the parties and a statement of an intention to run. The South Carolina Democratic Party also requires candidates to pledge that they are Democrats.
Greene told FoxNews.com that he got the registration fee from his personal funds and he was not given the cash.
“That was my money,” he said, adding that no one paid him or approached him about entering the race.
South Carolina Democratic Party Communications Director Keina Page said Greene told the party when he filed that “it was his personal money — that he had been saving it.” She said he originally brought a personal check but was told by party officials that he needed to file using a campaign check. He left and returned with a campaign check.
Party officials said Thursday that if Greene stays in the race, he will be on his own. They will not provide assistance.
Greene’s history is also little known. He was discharged from the Army in August 2009 after being promoted to specialist. He signed up for the Army for a three-year stint in February 2007, and his discharge came six months short of his military obligation.
“It was an honorable discharge, but it was involuntary,” Greene said. He declined to elaborate, saying, “Things weren’t working out … it’s a long story.”
The Army did not disclose the reason for his discharge because of Privacy Act rules. It confirmed that Greene was awarded several service medals and ribbons, including an Air Force Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon and Army Service Ribbon.
Greene, who was last stationed with the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., served with the South Carolina Air National Guard from July 1995 to June 2002 and in the South Carolina Army National Guard from July 2006 to February 2007.
On Wednesday, South Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler cited the pending court case in calling for the candidate to withdraw from the race.
“Today, I spoke with Alvin Greene, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, and asked him to withdraw from the race,” Fowler said in a statement. “I did not do this lightly, as I believe strongly that the Democratic voters of this state have the right to select our nominee. But this new information about Mr. Greene would certainly have affected the decisions of many of those voters.”
YEP! You read it right. David Harmer wins the primary. It was no small feat let me tell you. I can’t even tell you how many hours I and my people put in. David had some very formidable competition that hung in there fighting for our votes tooth and nail. It was truly a cage fight. I hope the other candidates will now rally behind David so we can remove McNerney from office and get us some real representation?
I would also like to Congratulate Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Ken Vogel, Steve Moore, Tom and Bill Berryhill, Abram Wilson, Abel Maldanado, Jim Willet, Susan Eggman and Jack Sieglock just to name a few. Some may have been unopposed, but still quite the accomplishment none the less.
It’s great to see the people come out and tell Uncle Sam what they think. We should cherish these days. The incumbents however, should fear them if they haven’t been looking out for us.
Thank you all for supporting your candidates and showing up to vote. Now please rally behind the primary winners so we can win in November. Especially rally behind David Harmer so we can get our district back. Please go to www.HarmerforCongress.com and see how you can help.
By on June 16th, 2010