Comments on: America’s Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environmental Crime

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:42:20 +0000

This is an invitation to comment (Send e-mails please) regarding my new web-site ” Stop Your Engines! ”

http://www.stopyourengines.com

Should I create a page for “deniers”? Or not?

All ideas / input appreciated!

Thank you.

Daniel J. Lavigne

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:17:55 +0000

http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temperature/

Take a look and the crap is now so deep we can’t even say it is what it is and that’s hot. The girl that made that famous is now out on bail that was not my coke I mean cocaine and I think what’s happening on our Southern border is just awful. What’s going to be awful it appears nobody want’s to face although I think most are now understanding how much crap we are now standing in hence more ads for the prison for the mind. Not me mates as am sure Einstein or Huxley and many more would agree. Get out the vote like so far that will do what? Well maybe it’s not perfect but the best so far, what.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:46:56 +0000

Cruxpuppy well said and this hurricane Earl climate change well yes the oceans a tad bit warm and the job of a tropical storm is to bring heat from the South to the North but the answer is still up in the air. This is a tuff one and so far when the going get’s tuff the tuff go shopping or on holiday and now we are suppose to listen to 100% pure bullshit as to why we should vote and yes it look’s like the Republicans will make a come back get some boot’s although if the other side stayed in power get some boot’s. These so called leaders are somewhat clever in a used car salesman sort of way cap and trade and was only driven to and from church once a week and for you today because I like you the low low price of a planet.

By: cruxpuppy

cruxpuppy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:57:24 +0000

The health of the planet, which is thought of in terms of “climate change” is very difficult to quantify so that it can be studied with the scientific method that lays claim to objectivity. It is very difficult to be objective about something from which we cannot be separate. We are “dissipative structures”, animated dirt, so to speak, arising from the planet and going back into it again. We are not different from any other dissipative structure, which is the nature of all animate creatures, except in one regard. We have the power to alter our environment, and those science creatures most intoxicated with science, like to dream about “terra-forming” another planet like Mars, which is the clear acknowledgment that we do have the power to change things on a planetary scale.

So why is there debate about whether climate change is a man-made phenomenon? We have altered this planet in ways of which we are not even aware. We are more powerful than we even know.

Andrew Marshall is an intelligent guy, but he’s got his head so far up his ass he’s never seen a sunrise. Typical numb nuts white man. Anyone honest with themselves knows we got big trouble. And no one knows what to do about it, consensus or no consensus. Cap & trade? What a joke!

The problem is so big and so unmanageable the debate just drags on. We haven’t even identified the problem yet, so how can we act?

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:43:20 +0000

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Sagan

Earth

By: teafoe2

teafoe2 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:52:13 +0000

Climate Change: Concocting the “Consensus”

By Andrew Gavin Marshall

URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20693

Global Research, August 21, 2010

The debate is over! There is a consensus! The time for discussion has ended and the need for action is paramount!

We have all heard this before.
SNIP…

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:42:21 +0000

On Earth – when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass – the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm’s way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another – particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish.
— Douglas Adams

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:29:41 +0000

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfstc2.cgi?time=2010082906&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=126hr

126 hours out forecast and by Wednesday know more also looks like a few more where that came from.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:16:09 +0000

http://flhurricane.com/sbanimator.php?year=2010&storm=07

By: hayate

hayate — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:19:33 +0000

One wonders why someone like paris hilton would bother staying or visiting the usa any more, given where else she could be.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:52:07 +0000

Let’s see Las Vegas, cocaine, black escalade, the smell of marijuana, Paris Hilton, the Wynn Hotel on the Vegas strip now what’s wrong with this picture there is something missing. I got it a sunburned man on a four wheeler pulling a small trailer with an atomic bomb.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:37:08 +0000

The destruction brought about by the Pakistan flood which began a month ago is not about to let up. The levees meant to protect Thatta, a southern Pakistani city, were breached Saturday causing thousands of residents to flee to higher grounds.
The Associated Press reported that the levee breach is the latest setback caused by the Pakistan flood which began about a month ago at the start of the monsoon rains. The flood started in the country’s mountainous northwest region and moved down south causing extensive damage to property and leaving more than 1,600 people dead.
Saturday’s levee breach could leave the outskirts of Thatta, which is 125 kilometres southeast of Karachi, under water, the AP reported. More than 175,000 people have reportedly left the city, some heading for nearby towns or cities while others fleeing towards an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints which occupies higher grounds. Meanwhile, the Vancouver Sun reported that donor aid agencies appear reluctant in extending aid because of the Pakistan flood. The United Nations appealed for $500 million from the donor community as disaster relief aid. Ten days later only half of the targeted amount was pledged.
The Sun cited several reasons for the reluctance to aid the Pakistan flood victims. It cited the mistrust of Western donors on the “corruption and apparent double-dealing” of the administration of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Gillani. It also cited the “West’s ingrained “Islamophobia”: dislike of Muslims.”
The Sun did say that there may be many reasons why the donor community is hesitant to extend aid in the aftermath of the Pakistan flood, “starting with the nature of the catastrophe itself.” all247news

And in an unrelated story,

(CNN) — Paris Hilton was released from a Las Vegas, Nevada, jail Saturday morning after being arrested late the night before on suspicion of cocaine possession, police said Saturday.

The hotel heiress was riding in a black Cadillac Escalade which was pulled over in front of the Wynn Hotel on the Vegas strip at about 11:30 p.m. after police detected the smell of marijuana coming from the SUV, Lt. Wayne Holman told CNN.

Those glasses I don’t need them anymore.

By: cruxpuppy

cruxpuppy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:51:15 +0000

I agree, Don Hawkins, the whole charade is mind boggling, and if stared at for too long, can give one a headache…..

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:24:50 +0000

Where to start ok Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), better known by only his last name Liberace was a famous American entertainer and pianist. … I forget the year many moons ago and I was watching the tube and I saw Liberace get out of a limo he was wearing one of those costumes appeared to have make-up on and the part I always’ remember was the street he was on looked like tract housing somewhere in LA he was walking into this house maybe a 2 bedroom no trees a small lawn and there were 5 or 6 people taking pictures of him. When I think of Elm street I seem to remember that well years later I was in Tallahassee, Florida for the big count Bush, Gore in front of the library selling a T-shirt that read a ballot in the hand is better than two in the Bush and we were all waiting for the supreme count ruling as I sold those T-shirts to Republicans who I guess didn’t get it. I remember the busses pulling up and all the good little Republicans got out dressed in the polo shirts with bullhorns as we on the other side watched in horror you see we were not dressed as well and were not as organized. Toward the end of the day the lawyers started to show up 5,000 dollar suits every hair in place and weak hands my first thought was these people don’t look real. The ruling came down from the highest court in the land well let’s see today how’s it going to me Michael Jackson was a good example of non reality I mean hooked up to a IV with brain medicine so as to get some rest from what? It looks like some who step into the light make it others just do commercials for reverse mortgages. Oh when I say make it differing views on that part. The crap people are made to believe is important and how we should be is amazing to watch at times. I live in a small house and have a bait shop 200 square feet and help my son with his small farm I also have these glasses that if worn to long can give you one hell of a headache and I also play this little game I call finding the truth. I still look at the Stars the Sun not for to long the moon and have these thought’s you know thought’s. Anyway I watched the Hannity show on TV last night one hour on why climate change is a hoax and a giant conspiracy from people who what to rule the World and most of the guests were from a little group called the American Enterprise Institute must be headquarters for human’s who think always’ scrunching up there face is fun. Just on the off chance the change over will not be boring.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:12:51 +0000

We are in conflict with reality you said cruxpuppy let me have a cup of coffee I’ll give it a try.

By: cruxpuppy

cruxpuppy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:34:02 +0000

It is shocking to see a calculated propaganda offensive in action: officials sworn to defend the public interest boldly lying to the public in a vain attempt to create a new reality. They know that nothing like 75% of the oil has been “cleaned up”, yet as good Obama team players, they lie in the name of the greater good. There was even a television “documentary” this evening titled “The Gulf is Back!” to reinforce the preferred view of reality.

And it is not simply the Obama/BP view. It the the Chamber of Commerce view in every municipality along the Gulf. The truth is being sacrificed. But a significant, perhaps majority, number of Gulf residents are lying to themselves and want to be lied to as well. The greater good, they believe, is served by “positive thinking”. The many stories of BP thugs preventing journalists from photographing the crime scene is not simply a corporate attempt to limit liability, it also reflects the public wish to not see the oiled birds and dead dolphins. It is painful, pure and simple, so it is best to ignore such images. Everything that can be done is being done, so accentuate the positive and the situation will improve. Don’t kill tourism and drive down property values! Declare victory and then act as though you’ve won, and you’ll be a winner!

This is the American way, this mindless positivity. Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, and a slew of others down to the present, began the American success movement in earnest during the Great Depression, when the native can-do American spirit was greatly distressed by its failure to cope and needed reinforcement.

With great exuberance, Americans killed off the Indians and raped their environment as they built collosus America in pursuit of personal success and national progress. When something awful happens, there is no self-examination, no reflection on motives, methods, ultimate goals. The strategy is to think positively, overcome the obstacles, and soldier on. This is just denial of reality.

We are in conflict with reality, and the traditional coping mechanism won’t work. Nature has been very generous, but no longer. Many Gulf residents are sick and many more will get sick, particularly when the inevitable hurricane enters the Gulf, stirs up the toxic stew and broadcasts it over the land.

But even then the denial will persist.

And it is logical enough. We don’t know what to do. We don’t know any other way to live that does not involve the destruction of our environment. Nature has always been kind. But no any longer.

We have to change, radically. The Great Depression is already upon us, the classical approach/avoidance conflict. What we most desire is also our source of pain and self-destruction. Very depressing. No anti-depressant drug can help. The only way out is to radically change how we think, what we do, and where we’re going.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:37:15 +0000

Mary and the dumping think bigger like a planet a little slower for effect’s but not much.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:45:59 +0000

The subject has disappeared completely from the British media apart from this newspaper, the only socialist newspaper and one which carries no advertising.

They write that the black people are suffering the most from the dumping of the waste from the ‘clean up’.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/94562

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:45:44 +0000

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/08/26/the-smearing-of-an-innocent-man/

The deciders deciding with knowledge, reason I think not. Anybody see the pictures out of Pakistan today not good and those people the poor did the least and the Capitalist system doesn’t take kindly to that embrace the system and just think you could be the last human standing. Maybe they could put that whole last human standing on the stock market make bet’s on it.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:54:11 +0000

By giving the all-clear, declaring “mission accomplished and what planet might that be certainly not Earth, hurry hurry the Collider fire it up the answer it’s there right before our eye’s we just can’t see it yet.