STEPHEN A. BALDWIN vs. KEVIN M. COSTNER ET AL
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excerpt:Beaumont, Texas lawyer Brent Coon caused a bit of a stir during Friday's status conference for the multi-district litigation (MDL) regarding the BP oil spill when he introduced around seven million documents from a previous class action against BP.
Coon, who serves on a plaintiffs discovery committee, spoke at the end of a hearing in U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier's courtroom at the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans.
Wearing a brown blazer and jeans, Coon said that the plaintiff steering committee asked to go through the files from discovery he conducted while representing plaintiffs in a suit regarding an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery.
The files were contained on an external computer hard drive that Coon brought to the hearing.
"I'm not sure what just happened," Barbier said after Coon had presented the hard drive. ~ read more
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link to video watch/download pagelouisiana governor piyush "bobby" jindal calls a press conference (began at 12:43 pm cdt) on the mariner energy inc oil rig explosion to say over and over again "we've not independently verified that."
====UPDATE: new york times: offshore oil platform in the gulf of mexico explodes
a nonproducing mariner energy rig exploded thursday morning injuring one worker. all 13 workers are accounted for.
mariner energy, inc., is headquartered from houston, texas with an office in lafayette, la. as well as midland, texas and calgary, alberta.====
photo: cenlamar.comexcerpt:
On Thursday, I boarded a Coast Guard reconnoissance (sic) plane, an HC-144A, with around five members of the mainstream media and about a dozen or so coast-guardsmen. From Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, it took about 45 minutes to finally arrive at the site .... read more
(CNN) -- The one really big question hanging over President Obama's weekend vacation to Panama City, Florida, now has an answer.
Will he or won't he dive into the water to send a message that the Gulf Coast is back?
The answer: He will, and sooner than expected.
"I think we're going to go tomorrow and as I just said Ed, I'm not going to let you guys take a picture of me with my shirt off," Obama jokingly told CNN Saturday. "You guys will tease me just like last time. I was on the front page ... People commenting."
But just hours later, a photo was published on the White House Flickr page showing a smiling President Obama and his daughter Sasha taking a dip in the Gulf waters off Alligator Point in Panama City Beach, Florida.
No reporters or press cameras were present for the swim, but the image will nonetheless send a message that the White House has sought to convey with the first family's trip: the Gulf Coast is open for business. ~ read more emphasis added
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russian news-babe, natalie sedletska, reports that the russian wildfires are causing big trouble for russian citizenry and the government.
many fear that the fire at chernobyl will stir up radioactive particles in the ground and send them into the atmosphere.
apparently, pootie poot and his side-kick dmitry medvedev, have ordered the russian media and medical establishment to under-report or misreport the threat to russia's nuclear facilities and the high mortality rate because of the fires.
so far, the russian government will only own up to 53 deaths directly attributable to the fires.
the wildfires also threaten another russian nuclear installation near the "secret nuclear town of sarov."
the russian government is facing a severe credibility crisis because of its perceived "mishandling of the situation."
sounds like this russian wildfire is their version of our deepwater horizon oil catastrophe. the release of nuclear particles from the burning of forests laden by radioactive fallout of the chernobyl disaster and the possibility of other nuclear sites burning seems to correlate to all the reports and speculations about the release of benzene, methane and other poisonous volatile organic compounds from the deepwater horizon oil catastrophe.
UPDATE: 5:16 pm cdt wednesday 11 august 2010BULLETIN
TROPICAL DEPRESSION FIVE ADVISORY NUMBER 5
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052010
400 PM CDT WED AUG 11 2010...DEPRESSION DISSIPATES...THIS IS THE LAST ADVISORY.....
POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG THE GULF COAST REMAINS...
RAINFALL...TOTAL RAIN ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FROM SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA TO THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING.
STORM SURGE...A STORM SURGE COULD RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 1 TO 2 FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST IN AREAS OF ONSHORE WIND.
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THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC ADVISORY ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER ON THIS SYSTEM. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE POTENTIAL RAINFALL THREAT CAN BE FOUND IN FORECASTS ISSUED BY THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER AND LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICES.
SUMMARY OF 400 PM CDT...2100 UTC...INFORMATION
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FORECASTER BROWN
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george galloway the real deal program
joined in studio by guest seumas milne, associate editor, guardian uk newspaper to discuss his recent column in which he said that the afghan war exposed the weakness of america's global power.
on the phone is colin butfield, head of campaigns at the world wildlife fund to talk about the lasting damage to wildlife from the deepwater horizon oil catastrophe.
mr. butfield points out that "oil is, of course, a naturally occurring substance, it will breakdown over time -- the key question is what happens to it between now and the point that it does breakdown and it will be different in the deep-water environment and to it washing up on shore.""i think that you have to fall into two categories: one is the immediate on the ground stuff that they can do in terms of both the clearing up and stopping of the oil that's immediately there. as well as paying for regeneration on the ground of areas of wetlands and things like that.
but you're right in saying that some of [the environment] just wont recover, obviously a dolphin cant sue. so one of the things that we're particularly concerned about is the impact on bp and on the other oil companies future operations. obviously this is only one of their deep-sea offshore drilling operations and there's numerous others and numerous plans to have several more including up in the arctic which is a far more difficult environment to contain an oil spill -- far less infrastructure than there is in the gulf of mexico -- a far more difficult sea -- far worse environmental conditions in terms of the impact.
and we'd like to see far greater restrictions placed upon the drilling that companies like bp can do both in terms of the immediate on the ground impact but also in terms of moving away from our oil dependency and using this as a catalyst to start to direct things towards lower carbon, less risky both in terms of environmental and financial impact sources of generating energy." colin butfield, wwf. emphasis added.
naples, florida daily news 2 hours ago
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TROPICAL DEPRESSION BONNIE ADVISORY NUMBER 10
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL032010
400 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2010
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rally for economic survival - lift the moratorium, sammy kershaw opening set 21 july 2010, cajundome, lafayette, louisiana;
this clip was captured live from the rally for economic survival internet stream;
the video and audio tracks arent in sync most of the time and the video is jerky;
a possible reason for this might be because the livestream server was receiving a tremendous amount of traffic;
hopefully, before long the rally organizers will post a good clean copy.
we attempted to record the entire rally live from off the rally for economic survival website and everything was going well until our computer locked up and then crashed in the middle of the speech by plaquemines parish, president billy nungesser.
http://www.rallyforeconomicsurvival.com/
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====for they that are such serve not our lord jesus christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. ~ romans 16:18 kjv
UPDATE 22 july 2010: the youtuber thevladimirrs added a clip here from which this clip was derived.====
maybe someone out in the audience got some hi-res snaps or video of lt. gov. scott angelle repeatedly giving the mano cornuto as he was introducing pi.
when we logged on about 10 - 15 minutes before the rally began there were already 700+ viewers and shortly before our crash the view counter had shot up to over 3,000 so there were a lot of interested people out here
we're not for any moratorium or putting people out of work or anything like that.
for one reason or another, the government hasnt done a very good job with explaining that the deepwater horizon was drilling from a floating platform in water 5,000 feet [1524 meters] deep drilling down between 25,000 - 30,000 feet [7,620 - 9,144 meters] beyond that and on the edge of human technology.
Rally for Economic Survival Agenda
UPDATE: 2102 CDT [0202 19 july 2010 UTC/GMI]sunday 18 july 2010: deepwater horizon oil catastrophe: official: seep found near bp's blown out oil well
==== UPDATE 15 july 2010:UPDATED at 2:45 p.m.CDT [1945 GMT/UTC]:
BP says new cap on well fully closed, no oil going into Gulf
ASSOCIATED PRESS • July 15, 2010
NEW ORLEANS —BP says oil from its broken well has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.
The announcement Thursday came after company officials said all valves had been shut on a new cap over the busted well in an experiment to stop the spill.
Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT. [1925 GMT/UTC]
It was a long-awaited milestone in one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters. While not a permanent solution to plug the busted well, the success in capturing the oil spewing out was welcome news.
The crisis began when BP’s deepwater rig exploded, killing 11 workers.
The cap is not a permanent fix. BP is drilling two relief wells so it can pump mud and cement into the leaking well in hopes of plugging it for good. ~ view original====this is a clip from a bp camera recorded from 2150 - 2229 CDT 12 july 2010
(0250 - 0329 GMT/UTC 13 july 2010}
audio track from 14 june 2010
video source:
http://jtnog.org/
third row down -- middle cam====live cam
note: adjust vid screen setting: right-click video > zoom > drop-down box choose > full screen or 50 100 200%video source link:
http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:46245.asx?bkup=46260====UPDATE: 1910 utc/gmt sunday 06 june 2010via whatreallyhappened.com====
bp youtube channel====
UPDATE: saturday 28 may 2010 utc 1818 for more latest news please see our deepwater horizon oil catastrophe feeds.====UPDATE: friday 28 may 2010 | 1538 utc u.s. official: flow of oil from spill has stopped but bp official says that it will be 48 hours before success of 'top kill' will be known ====UPDATE: hmmm BP's "live" feed was actually a brief (less than 15-seconds) loop repeating for more than 8 hours====UPDATE: thursday 27 may 2010 | 2100 utcSetback Delays ‘Top Kill’ Effort to Seal Leaking Oil Well in Gulf
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, JOHN M. BRODER and LIZ ROBBINS
Published: May 27, 2010
HOUSTON — BP had to halt its ambitious effort to plug its stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping along with the leaking crude oil.
A technician at the BP command center said that pumping of the fluid had to be stopped temporarily while engineers were revising their plans, and that the company hoped to resume pumping by midnight, if federal officials approved. ~ read more====
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originally posted
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905 pm cdt
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UPDATE: U.S. Tells BP to Prepare for Reopening Oil Well After Seep Found
source linkvia: what really happened
matthew r. simmons is with the ocean energy institute. according to its website:The Ocean Energy Institute, founded in 2007 by Matthew R. Simmons, is a think-tank and venture capital fund addressing the challenges of U.S. offshore renewable energy.
OEI approaches energy R&D and investment from a systems point of view; not just generation, but usage, storage and transmission all together as an interdependent set of opportunities and the next driving force of the international economy.
dean blanchard of dean blanchard seafood, inc. talks about some of the things he's seen happening to grand isle since the deepwater horizon oil catastrophe and the ensuing governmental response."the military got here about thirty days ago. all my life i couldnt figure out why all these foreign countries hated us so much; but if thats the way the military treats them when we send them out there, i can see why now...."
video clips produced and uploaded by youtuber projectgulfimpact.
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TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO ADVISORY NUMBER 1
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL022010
1000 PM CDT WED JUL 07 2010
...SECOND TROPICAL DEPRESSION OF THE ATLANTIC SEASON FORMS OVER THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO...TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS ISSUED...
SUMMARY OF 1000 PM CDT...0300 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...23.9N 93.9W ABOUT 265 MI...425 KM ESE OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS ABOUT 245 MI...395 KM E OF LA PESCA MEXICO MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...35 MPH...55 KM/HR PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 310 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/HR MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1005 MB...29.68 INCHES
WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY...
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED ALONG THE TEXAS COAST SOUTH OF BAFFIN BAY TO THE MOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE...AND THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING ALONG THE COAST OF MEXICO FROM RIO SAN FERNANDO TO THE MOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE.
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT...
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR...* FROM SOUTH OF BAFFIN BAY TEXAS TO RIO SAN FERNANDO MEXICO
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA...IN THIS CASE WITHIN 24 HOURS.
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA IN THE UNITED STATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA OUTSIDE UNITED STATES...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.
DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK
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AT 1000 PM CDT...0300 UTC...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 23.9 NORTH...LONGITUDE 93.9 WEST. THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 14 MPH...22 KM/HR...AND THIS GENERAL MOTION ACCOMPANIED BY A SLIGHT DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED IS EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS OR SO. ON THE FORECAST TRACK...THE DEPRESSION IS EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL NEAR THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER THURSDAY AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 35 MPH...55 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME GRADUAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST AND THE DEPRESSION COULD BECOME A TROPICAL STORM BEFORE LANDFALL OCCURS ON THURSDAY.
THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE BASED ON NOAA AIRCRAFT RECONNAISSANCE DATA IS ESTIMATED TO BE 1005 MB...29.68 INCHES.
HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
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RAINFALL...THE DEPRESSION IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAIN ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES OVER PORTIONS OF FAR NORTHEASTERN MEXICO AND COASTAL TEXAS...WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 10 INCHES.
WIND...TROPICAL-STORM-FORCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH THE COAST WITHIN THE WARNING AREA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
NEXT ADVISORY
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NEXT INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY...100 AM CDT.
NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY...400 AM CDT.
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FORECASTER STEWART/CANGIALOSI
excerpt:TIMBALIER ISLANDS, La. – Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.
The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian shell midden mounds, World War II casualties, pirate colonies, historic hotels and old fishing villages.
Researchers now fear this treasure seeker's dream is threatened by BP PLC's deepwater well blowout. ~ read more
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TROPICAL DEPRESSION ALEX ADVISORY NUMBER 26
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012010
1000 PM CDT THU JUL 01 2010
america has just announced after more than 70 days that its ready to accept assistance from 12 foreign countries.
danny schechter, with mediachannel.org says that after all the experiments they tried to cap the well ... failing, "their faith in the relief wells is now being tested."
however,
"red tape, including bp's stance, is preventing other companies who volunteered oil collection boats are being rebuffed, by bp and the coast guard according to a french company as reported in new orleans.
even as local officials complain that not enough boats or vessels have been deployed to collect the oil in water before it hits land. this is a big issue about whether to reach out to people in other countries."
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HURRICANE ALEX ADVISORY NUMBER 18
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012010
1000 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2010
...ALEX BECOMES THE FIRST HURRICANE OF THE 2010 SEASON AND THE FIRST JUNE ATLANTIC HURRICANE SINCE 1995...
SUMMARY OF 1000 PM CDT...0300 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...23.1N 94.8W
ABOUT 195 MI...315 KM ESE OF LA PESCA MEXICO
ABOUT 255 MI...415 KM SE OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...75 MPH...120 KM/HR
PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 280 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/HR
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...973 MB...28.73 INCHES
~ hurricanes.gov
