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ON FEBRUARY 17, 2010, BP SAID THEY HAD ENOUGH OF THE CLIMATEGATE DENIERS TWO MONTHS LATER, THE UNEXPLAINED DISASTER THREATENS TO END THEIR COMPANY FOREVER THERE IS OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THAT IMMEDIATE ATTENTION WAS DENIED AND CONTINUED "SOLUTIONS" ARE COMICAL AT BEST MORE RESEARCH NEEDS TO BE DONE
Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition http://www.globalclimatescam.com/2010/02/defections-shake-up-climate-coalition/February 17, 2010 Posted by Dan McGrath By Stephen Power And Ben Casselman Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won’t renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases. The move comes as debate over climate change intensifies and concerns mount about the cost of capping greenhouse-gas emissions. On a range of issues, from climate change to health care, skepticism is growing in Washington that Congress will pass any major legislation in a contentious election year in which Republicans are expected to gain seats. For companies, the shifting winds have reduced pressure to find common ground, leading them to pursue their own, sometimes conflicting interests. Last week, the head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Billy Tauzin, said he would step down as president of the industry’s main lobby in Washington, amid criticism from some in the industry over the alliance he made last year with the White House to support health-care legislation. The administration had worked hard to persuade industry groups to climb aboard its major legislative initiatives—a tack many business interests saw as sensible following the Democrats’ big gains in the 2008 elections. But “unlikely bedfellows make for breakups,” said Kevin Book, managing director of Clearview Energy Partners, a consulting firm. Spokesmen for ConocoPhillips and BP said the companies still support legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, but believe they can accomplish more working outside USCAP’s umbrella. Caterpillar said it plans to focus on commercializing green technologies. ConocoPhillips’s senior vice president for government affairs, Red Cavaney, said the USCAP was focused on getting a climate-change bill passed, whereas Conoco is increasingly concerned with what the details of such a bill would be. “USCAP was starting to do more and more on trying to get a bill out without trying to work as much on the substance of it,” Mr. Cavaney said. A spokesman for USCAP said it intends to continue its work. More than 20 other large companies, including oil company Royal Dutch Shell PLC and industrial heavyweights General Electric Co. and Honeywell International Inc., remain in the coalition with environmental groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council. The USCAP said it expects to add new members in coming months. “We think there’s momentum to get [a climate bill] done,” USCAP spokesman Tad Segal said. “President [Barack] Obama’s State of the Union address made it clear the administration is behind us.”
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 06:36:32 AM » |
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2010, 06:41:21 AM » |
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And just to be clear, BP contains some of the most devious psychos on the planet. And corporations of this size often has dueling agendas. But BP came together on 2/17 to pull out of cap and trade talks. So most likely much "inside job" stuff going on as well who have bought into the cap and trade system.
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2010, 06:51:38 AM » |
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Interesting angle (again I do not believe everything from these guys and they still push the left/right nonsense, but some good areas to investigate here):
Sabotage of BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig - cat bonds - catastrophic event http://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2010/05/sabotage-of-bp-deepwater-horizon.htmlMay 3, 2010 Dear Lord Pearson: UKIP – Cameron Crony Saboteurs – Boot on Neck of BP Hawks CAFE asks you to investigate the role of David Cameron and his crony associates in HM Treasury, the European Union and the U.S. Senior Executive Service, following the apparent sabotage of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Our KSM agents have evidence that Mr. Cameron and Norman Lamont, a former N.M. Rothschild banker and Cameron's former boss in HM Treasury, transferred Met Office / MOD assets into the custody of the crony members and their customers in the Legal Sector Alliance and authorized the use of the assets to sabotage the Deepwater Horizon, trigger cat-bond insurance frauds and launch a naked short-selling attack on BP's shares. http://www.legalsectoralliance.com/about/members"1970: British Prime Minister Edward Heath makes Lord Victor Rothschild the head of his policy unit. Whilst he is in that role Britain enters the European Community .. N. M. Rothschild & Sons British Newfoundland Corporation, Churchill Falls project in Newfoundland, Canada, is completed. N. M. Rothschild & Sons also create a new asset management part of the company which traded worldwide. This eventually became, Rothschild Private Management Limited .. 1980: The global phenomenon of privatisation starts. The Rothschilds are behind this from the very beginning in order to seize control of all publicly owned assets worldwide. 1981: Banque Rothschild is nationalised by the French government. The new bank is called, Compagnie Européenne de Banque. The Rothschilds subsequently set up a successor to this French bank, Rothschild & Cie Banque (RCB), which goes on to become a leading French investment house .. N. M. Rothschild & Sons advise the British government on the privatisation of British Gas. They subsequently advise the British government on virtually all of their other privatisations of state owned assets including: British Steel; British Coal; all the British regional electricity boards; and all the British regional water boards. A British MP heavily involved in these privatisations is future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, a former Rothschild banker." ""Let me be clear: BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill," said Obama as he visited the area and pledged a "fully coordinated, relentless relief effort" in the region where the coastlines of four Gulf states are being menaced. The oil firm said it was doing its best to shut off the well nearly one mile (1.6 km) underwater on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, but described an extraordinarily complicated operation that could take weeks or months. It was like performing "open heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark with robot-controlled submarines," BP America Chairman and President Lamar McKay told ABC News .. "We a dealing with a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster," Obama said. Many of the coastal communities in the path of the oil slick, including Venice on the west bank of the Mississippi River, were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. "It's just like Katrina, catastrophic," Frances Lacross, a local resident, told Reuters. Desperate efforts above and below the ocean surface -- using boats, planes and even an underwater robotic vehicle -- to check the oil flow and disperse and contain the spreading slick were being hampered by high winds and rough seas. "BOOT ON THE NECK" OF BP A team of government agencies is working on relief, but Obama and his deputies made it clear BP would be on the hook for what could be billions of dollars in cleanup costs. "Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on CNN. The final bill for cleaning up the spill could be $7 billion (4.6 billion pounds), said Neil McMahon, analyst at investment firm Bernstein in London. Analysts at Morgan Stanley put the figure at $3.5 billion .. Attorneys-general from five U.S. Gulf states met in Mobile, Alabama on Sunday and said they would draft letters to Obama and to BP, seeking the swiftest possible delivery of federal aid and compensation to those affected. The officials said they wanted clarification from BP on the firm's commitment to cover the cost of the cleanup and paying legitimate compensation to those affected. "We need to make sure if BP is picking up the check, they do so in a pretty big hurry," said Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell." As to our allegations re Mr. Cameron and the Legal Sector Alliance's role in generic carbon-footprint and cat-bond insurance frauds, please refer to the lawsuit "Hawks CAFE v. Global Guardians" and related links below. http://www.hawkscafe.com/107.htmlhttp://abeldanger.blogspot.com/
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2010, 09:38:15 AM » |
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And just to be clear, BP contains some of the most devious psychos on the planet. And corporations of this size often has dueling agendas. But BP came together on 2/17 to pull out of cap and trade talks. So most likely much "inside job" stuff going on as well who have bought into the cap and trade system.
Perhaps a big boycott of BP is in order. There are other sources available... Yes, they all suck, but.. what the heck. http://www.citizen.org/boycott-bp
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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2010, 09:53:35 AM » |
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A BIG EXPOSURE OF THE CARBON BANKSTERS FRAUD IS IN ORDER. These guys are Al-Carbon-duh
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2010, 12:04:54 PM » |
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"The central challenge of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global political awakening. That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing."-Zbigniew Brzezinski
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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2010, 12:17:04 PM » |
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There ya go. 
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2010, 02:14:44 PM » |
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hahaha, that's awesome.
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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2010, 02:16:58 PM » |
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That's awesome, registered and Thanks for the link 
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2010, 02:18:49 PM » |
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seriously, I don't like BP that much either, but Where do I get my gas from? They have one of the finest quality gases around. Better than Exxon, Sunoco, or local stations.
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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2010, 02:53:40 PM » |
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seriously, I don't like BP that much either, but Where do I get my gas from? They have one of the finest quality gases around. Better than Exxon, Sunoco, or local stations.
Well, here's what people should do. I worked for two different gas chains - big ones. MOST of their profits do not come from Gas - at least at the 'store level'. The vast majority of their profits are all the 'little extras' - mostly coffee, colas, snacks.. So buy whatever gas, just don't get anything else there. But yeah, I agree; I usually get gas at Shell - pretty much the same thing.
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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2010, 03:11:20 PM » |
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Well, here's what people should do. I worked for two different gas chains - big ones.
MOST of their profits do not come from Gas - at least at the 'store level'. The vast majority of their profits are all the 'little extras' - mostly coffee, colas, snacks..
So buy whatever gas, just don't get anything else there.
But yeah, I agree; I usually get gas at Shell - pretty much the same thing.
interesting stuff, Overcast. And I won't get anything else at Corporate Fueling Stations, I never do, unless it's an emergency. So you also recognize quality gases around your township? that's pretty cool man.From my observation BP gas lasts longer(much better mileage, and for some reason the engine responds stronger even with the same level of 87% Octane. And no, I am not a spokesman or employee for BP. But still, in view of what Sane has enlightened me about BP, I will never allow my future child, or spouse splurge on or work for BP if possible( I mean the Queen of England is the freaking owner, that's all that needs to be said). And frankly, I, need to be more self-sufficient. It would be nice if my family could build our own house, build a bike, farm my food, barter with neighbors.
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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2010, 03:20:36 PM » |
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Listen up folks its sabotage. An old friend of mine, an engineer sub sea -BOP- who has been in the profession about 30 years, he is raising helll with the superintendent and the sub sea crew who were on the rig and those sent to to stop the flow of oil. he initiated an invetigation within the ranks to find out why they did not take these steps, there are 11 engineers involved in this internal questioning. Turn it Off! BOP Isolation WILL Stop the Oil This guy has sent constant e mails to the rig on site, he is sorely pissed of and on a roll, the solution is a remote sent to to do an isolation on the BOP. When he finally spoke with the superintendent in charge he was stonewalled. he is not a truther, just a man in a professional position who can not understand why the powers have not authorized this method. it is a solution that they have avoided. The point here is this guy is not into conspiracy theories, he is however a professional and realizes this is a sabotage and is fighting it. 11 of their own big dogs are up in arms about this sham.
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2010, 03:35:31 PM » |
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Of course it's sabotage.
The the BP spill fits perfectly with the planned agenda of reduced Oil consumption in the Post Industrial Age. Suddenly a crisis in the Gulf of Mexico will stymie the crude oil production around Louisiana and Gasoline prices will increase 10 percent as a result of the catastrophe. That is how the oligarchy think. Rising gasoline prices will REDUCE consumption, which is exactly what is on the agenda.
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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2010, 07:33:53 PM » |
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« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2010, 10:01:12 AM » |
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NINE MONTHS BEFORE 9/11, THE TALIBAN BURNED THEIR OPIUM FIELDS
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer. A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year. "We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies. A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated. Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet. Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam. The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops. The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies. This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean. "We have to look at the situation with careful optimism," said Sandro Tucci of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna, Austria. He said indications are that no poppies were planted this season and that, as a result, there hasn't been any production of opium -- but that officials would keep checking. The State Department counternarcotics official said the department would make its own estimate of the poppy crop. Information received so far suggests there will be a decrease, but how much is not yet clear, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We do not think by any stretch of the imagination that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been eliminated. But we, like the rest of the world, welcome positive news." The Drug Enforcement Administration declined to comment. No U.S. government official can enter Afghanistan because of security concerns stemming from the presence of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Poppies are harvested in March and April, which is why the survey was done now. Tucci said it would have been impossible for the poppies to have been harvested already. The areas searched by the U.N. surveyors are the most fertile lands under Taliban control. Other areas, though they are somewhat fertile, have not traditionally been poppy growing areas and farmers are struggling to raise any crops at all because of severe drought. The rest of the land held by the Taliban is mountainous or desert, where poppies could not grow. Karim Rahimi, the U.N. drug control liaison in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province, said farmers were growing wheat or onions in fields where they once grew poppies. "It is amazing, really, when you see the fields that last year were filled with poppies and this year there is wheat," he said. The Taliban enforced the ban by threatening to arrest village elders and mullahs who allowed poppies to be grown. Taliban soldiers patrolled in trucks armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. About 1,000 people in Nangarhar who tried to defy the ban were arrested and jailed until they agreed to destroy their crops. Signs throughout Nangarhar warn against drug production and use, some calling it an "illicit phenomenon." Another reads: "Be drug free, be happy." Last year, poppies grew on 12,600 acres of land in Nangarhar province. According to the U.N. survey, poppies were planted on only 17 acres there this season and all were destroyed by the Taliban. "The Taliban have done their work very seriously," Frahi said. But the ban has badly hurt farmers in one of the world's poorest countries, shattered by two decades of war and devastated by drought. Ahmed Rehman, who shares less than three acres in Nangarhar with his three brothers, said the opium he produced last year on part of the land brought him $1,100. This year, he says, he will be lucky to get $300 for the onions and cattle feed he planted on the entire parcel. "Life is very bad for me this year," he said. "Last year I was able to buy meat and wheat and now this year there is nothing." But Rehman said he never considered defying the ban. "The Taliban were patrolling all the time. Of course I was afraid. I did not want to go to jail and lose my freedom and my dignity," he said, gesturing with dirt-caked hands. Shams-ul-Haq Sayed, an officer of the Taliban drug control office in Jalalabad, said farmers need international aid. "This year was the most important for us because growing poppies was part of their culture, and the first years are always the most difficult," he said. Tucci said discussions are under way on how to help the farmers. Western diplomats in Pakistan have suggested the Taliban is simply trying to drive up the price of opium they have stockpiled. The State Department official also said Afghanistan could do more by destroying drug stockpiles and heroin labs and arresting producers and traffickers. Frahi dismissed that as "nonsense" and said it is drug traffickers and shopkeepers who have stockpiles. Two pounds of opium worth $35 last year are now worth as much as $360, he said. Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, the Taliban's top drug official in Nangarhar, said the ban would remain regardless of whether the Taliban received aid or international recognition. "It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country," he said. "Whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country.
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