Steve Watson & Paul Watson
Prisonplanet.com
In a shocking, but not unprecedented, turn of events drivers in Florida will be mandated to allow police to jab a needle in their arm and extract blood at DUI checkpoints should they refuse to submit to breath tests.
At what have been described as “no refusal” checkpoints, judges will be on hand to issue a warrant allowing police to demand blood.
DUI defense attorney Kevin Hayslett told 10 News WTSP that the mandatory blood tests are a clear violation of constitutional rights:
“It’s a slippery slope and it’s got to stop somewhere,” Hayslett explained, “what other misdemeanor offense do we have in the United States where the government can forcefully put a needle into your arm?”
Watch the report:
The program is gathering pace and has already been instituted in other States. As we have previously highlighted, police in Texas and Idaho are already forcibly jabbing needles into people’s arms and taking their blood at DUI checkpoints, even if they are merely “suspected” of being drunk.
The Associated Press reported last year that officers in Texas and Idaho are training to withdraw blood from “suspects” as a replacement for the standard breathalyzer test, primarily because police can’t make anyone breathe into a tube but apparently, in the “land of the free,” they can forcibly hold someone down and jab a needle into their arm and take their blood, “a practice that’s been upheld by Idaho’s Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court,”.
Nicole Watson, the College of Western Idaho phlebotomy instructor teaching the Idaho officers, described how the process would unfold.
“Once they’re back on patrol, they will draw blood of any suspected drunk driver who refuses a breath test. They’ll use force if they need to, such as getting help from another officer to pin down a suspect and potentially strap them down, Watson said.”
The practice of cops drawing blood at the side of the road has been in place in some areas since 1995 but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has indicated that the program is ultimately intended to be introduced nationwide.
As Alex Jones exposed over a decade ago, the eventual plan, under a 1993 executive order signed by Bill Clinton, is to institute mandatory blood and urine testing at the DMV:
In October of this year, Washington DC introduced a voluntary program offering free HIV testing at the Department of Motor of Vehicles office in Penn Branch in Southeast Washington for those renewing their licenses. Participants received up to $15 to help defray their DMV costs.
The program was clearly intended to acclimatize drivers to the idea of providing blood samples when applying for a new license.
Of course, once Americans are trained to accept authority figures jabbing them with needles against their will on a whim, programs for mandatory mass vaccination will be all the more easier to implement.
As we covered earlier this year, the government is harvesting samples of DNA from every newborn child in the country, storing them in monolithic bio banks and providing them to outside researchers and other agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, all without the consent or knowledge of parents.
In April 2008, President Bush signed into law a bill which formerly announced the process that the federal government has been engaged in for years, screening the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months of birth.
Described as a “national contingency plan” the justification for the law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of “public health emergency.”
The bill states that the federal government should “continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening” and “maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening… ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the internet and is updated at least quarterly”.
Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests, both by the government and by researchers chosen to handle the DNA samples and the information that goes with them.
Allowing the government to illegally obtain and store Americans’ blood is a total invasion of privacy and completely unconstitutional. Every effort should be made by citizens to resist this tyranny and prevent the bloodsucking state from building their national DNA database.
View Article With Links HERE
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Big Business Of Abortion
The American Dream
Abortion has become very big business in the United States. Since Roe v. Wade was legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, tens of millions of babies have been killed in the wombs of their mothers. In fact, it has been estimated that approximately 50 million babies have been aborted in America since 1973. It is a national horror that will never be erased. Most proponents of abortion will tell you that it is all about giving mothers the "right to choose" whether to end the life of their babies or not, but there is actually a lot more to the big business of abortion than just that. The truth is that abortion in America is also about population control, eugenics, "protecting the environment" and making a ton of money.
Today, Planned Parenthood performs more abortions that anyone else in the United States. For the 2008/2009 fiscial year, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million from the U.S. government.
Just think about that.
The U.S. government is pouring over 360 million dollars a year into the biggest abortion provider in the United States.
Of course by law none of that 360 million dollars is supposed to be used for abortions. It is supposed to be used for things like distributing contraceptives and "family planning" counseling.
But where in the world do you think Planned Parenthood would be without that 360 million dollars from the government?
How many abortions do you think they would be able to perform?
A whole lot less, that is for sure.
So how many abortions does Planned Parenthood perform each year?
Well, according to a fact sheet on Planned Parenthood's Web site, they performed 324,008 abortions in 2008.
It is an unimaginable slaughter. But what else should we expect from Planned Parenthood? They have had a philosophy that babies are bad ever since they were founded. In fact, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once actually stated the following....
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Wow, does that sound like something that the federal government should be funding?
In addition, Planned Parenthood specifically targets the poor. A whopping 72 percent of Planned Parenthood's "clients" have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
But Planned Parenthood is not the only one that finds abortion to be very profitable. In fact, many insurance companies are now openly pushing abortions because they are much "cheaper" than the alternatives.
In an article on the website of Forbes magazine, Baltimore Planned Parenthood CEO John Nugent disclosed that a first trimester abortion costs somewhere between "$300 to $450" and that many health insurance executives are now realizing that it will cost them a whole lot less to pay for an early abortion than to have to pay for a live birth....
"But if the gestational age is higher you're paying for a surgical suite. That's why the insurance companies think they should be offering it. It's cheaper to terminate an unwanted pregnancy rather than taking it to term."
In fact, according to the Forbes article, a live birth can cost ten to twenty times more than an abortion....
"Health Care Blue Book confirms the price difference. An abortion performed in an physician's office typically costs $397. A vaginal delivery costs $5,992, while a c-section is $8,558."
So for greedy health insurance companies looking to bolster the "bottom line", which alternative do you think looks better to them?
But abortion is not just about making money. It is also about population control and eugenics.
This is one of the big, bad secrets about the abortion industry that nobody is supposed to talk about.
But those ruling over us know what is going on. Current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually made the following statement during an interview with The New York Times....
"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."
So just what "populations" is Ginsburg referring to here?
And why did supposedly conservative politicians not call for her resignation for such a comment?
Sadly, the truth is that abortion in America has always been about eugenics.
On page 12 of a book entitled "Woman, Morality and Birth Control" that was published in 1922, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger penned a statement which should leave no doubt about what kind of person she was....
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
Does that sound like what America should stand for?
But instead, Margaret Sanger is lifted up as a great hero in classrooms throughout the United States.
How disgusting is that?
Sadly, virtually everyone in a top U.S. government position seems to believe in population control these days.
For example, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that promoting abortion and other population control measures "will now be "the centerpiece of our foreign policy."
But it is not just our government that is promoting these things. Do you remember all of that money that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are giving away? Well, it turns out that a huge chunk of it is going to promote abortion and other "reproductive health services" around the globe.
So why are people like Bill Gates giving so much money to these "causes"? Well, for Gates it all goes back to his father. Gates disclosed the following during a 2003 interview with PBS....
"When I was growing up . . . my dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that."
Unfortunately, it is not just Gates that is into population control among the global elite. In fact, an obsession with population control seems to be something that nearly all the wealthiest men of the world have in common.
For example, just consider the following quote from CNN Founder Ted Turner....
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
So how in the world does Ted Turner propose to get the global population down from 6 billion to 300 million?
That is a very good question.
Many of these ultra-wealthy individuals believe that there is a clear link between the growing human population of the earth and our "environmental problems". The following quote from David Rockefeller is one good example....
"The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident."
For many of these elitists, the number one problem facing the world is "global warming", and since all humans produce carbon emissions, the fewer humans we have remaining the better off the earth will be. This very disturbing philosophy is now even being prominently featured in UN documents. For example, a recent United Nations Population Fund report entitled "Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate" actually says the following....
"No human is genuinely 'carbon neutral,' especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation."
So if all of us are part of the problem, then what is the solution?
Well, the solution is to get rid of as many of "us" as possible according to them.
Today, most of those that believe in "global warming" and the radical green agenda also believe in population control (at least to some degree), and most of those that believe in population control also believe in the radical green agenda.
Of course "man-made global warming" is a complete and total myth, but the elitists aren't about to let that ruin their party.
Sadly, the truth is that population control is actually bad for our economy. In the United States our population is rapidly aging and this is causing massive imbalances.
Back in 1950 each retiree's Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 workers. Today, each retiree's Social Security benefit is paid for by approximately 3.3 workers. By 2025 it is projected that there will be approximately two workers for each retiree.
It sure would be great if we had 40 or 50 million young workers that could support all of these retirees, wouldn't it?
Unfortunately, there is an overwhelming consensus among the global elite, among our politicians and among "the scientific community" that the answer to so many of our economic, social and environmental problems is to have less people. Billions of dollars will continue to go to promote abortion and other population control measures around the world.
But can we really keep slaughtering millions of babies around the globe every single year and never experience any consequences? The mass abortion that is going on is truly a great evil, and you have to wonder when God is finally going to decide that enough is enough.
View Article With Links HERE
Abortion has become very big business in the United States. Since Roe v. Wade was legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, tens of millions of babies have been killed in the wombs of their mothers. In fact, it has been estimated that approximately 50 million babies have been aborted in America since 1973. It is a national horror that will never be erased. Most proponents of abortion will tell you that it is all about giving mothers the "right to choose" whether to end the life of their babies or not, but there is actually a lot more to the big business of abortion than just that. The truth is that abortion in America is also about population control, eugenics, "protecting the environment" and making a ton of money.
Today, Planned Parenthood performs more abortions that anyone else in the United States. For the 2008/2009 fiscial year, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million from the U.S. government.
Just think about that.
The U.S. government is pouring over 360 million dollars a year into the biggest abortion provider in the United States.
Of course by law none of that 360 million dollars is supposed to be used for abortions. It is supposed to be used for things like distributing contraceptives and "family planning" counseling.
But where in the world do you think Planned Parenthood would be without that 360 million dollars from the government?
How many abortions do you think they would be able to perform?
A whole lot less, that is for sure.
So how many abortions does Planned Parenthood perform each year?
Well, according to a fact sheet on Planned Parenthood's Web site, they performed 324,008 abortions in 2008.
It is an unimaginable slaughter. But what else should we expect from Planned Parenthood? They have had a philosophy that babies are bad ever since they were founded. In fact, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once actually stated the following....
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Wow, does that sound like something that the federal government should be funding?
In addition, Planned Parenthood specifically targets the poor. A whopping 72 percent of Planned Parenthood's "clients" have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
But Planned Parenthood is not the only one that finds abortion to be very profitable. In fact, many insurance companies are now openly pushing abortions because they are much "cheaper" than the alternatives.
In an article on the website of Forbes magazine, Baltimore Planned Parenthood CEO John Nugent disclosed that a first trimester abortion costs somewhere between "$300 to $450" and that many health insurance executives are now realizing that it will cost them a whole lot less to pay for an early abortion than to have to pay for a live birth....
"But if the gestational age is higher you're paying for a surgical suite. That's why the insurance companies think they should be offering it. It's cheaper to terminate an unwanted pregnancy rather than taking it to term."
In fact, according to the Forbes article, a live birth can cost ten to twenty times more than an abortion....
"Health Care Blue Book confirms the price difference. An abortion performed in an physician's office typically costs $397. A vaginal delivery costs $5,992, while a c-section is $8,558."
So for greedy health insurance companies looking to bolster the "bottom line", which alternative do you think looks better to them?
But abortion is not just about making money. It is also about population control and eugenics.
This is one of the big, bad secrets about the abortion industry that nobody is supposed to talk about.
But those ruling over us know what is going on. Current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually made the following statement during an interview with The New York Times....
"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."
So just what "populations" is Ginsburg referring to here?
And why did supposedly conservative politicians not call for her resignation for such a comment?
Sadly, the truth is that abortion in America has always been about eugenics.
On page 12 of a book entitled "Woman, Morality and Birth Control" that was published in 1922, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger penned a statement which should leave no doubt about what kind of person she was....
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
Does that sound like what America should stand for?
But instead, Margaret Sanger is lifted up as a great hero in classrooms throughout the United States.
How disgusting is that?
Sadly, virtually everyone in a top U.S. government position seems to believe in population control these days.
For example, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that promoting abortion and other population control measures "will now be "the centerpiece of our foreign policy."
But it is not just our government that is promoting these things. Do you remember all of that money that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are giving away? Well, it turns out that a huge chunk of it is going to promote abortion and other "reproductive health services" around the globe.
So why are people like Bill Gates giving so much money to these "causes"? Well, for Gates it all goes back to his father. Gates disclosed the following during a 2003 interview with PBS....
"When I was growing up . . . my dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that."
Unfortunately, it is not just Gates that is into population control among the global elite. In fact, an obsession with population control seems to be something that nearly all the wealthiest men of the world have in common.
For example, just consider the following quote from CNN Founder Ted Turner....
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
So how in the world does Ted Turner propose to get the global population down from 6 billion to 300 million?
That is a very good question.
Many of these ultra-wealthy individuals believe that there is a clear link between the growing human population of the earth and our "environmental problems". The following quote from David Rockefeller is one good example....
"The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident."
For many of these elitists, the number one problem facing the world is "global warming", and since all humans produce carbon emissions, the fewer humans we have remaining the better off the earth will be. This very disturbing philosophy is now even being prominently featured in UN documents. For example, a recent United Nations Population Fund report entitled "Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate" actually says the following....
"No human is genuinely 'carbon neutral,' especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation."
So if all of us are part of the problem, then what is the solution?
Well, the solution is to get rid of as many of "us" as possible according to them.
Today, most of those that believe in "global warming" and the radical green agenda also believe in population control (at least to some degree), and most of those that believe in population control also believe in the radical green agenda.
Of course "man-made global warming" is a complete and total myth, but the elitists aren't about to let that ruin their party.
Sadly, the truth is that population control is actually bad for our economy. In the United States our population is rapidly aging and this is causing massive imbalances.
Back in 1950 each retiree's Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 workers. Today, each retiree's Social Security benefit is paid for by approximately 3.3 workers. By 2025 it is projected that there will be approximately two workers for each retiree.
It sure would be great if we had 40 or 50 million young workers that could support all of these retirees, wouldn't it?
Unfortunately, there is an overwhelming consensus among the global elite, among our politicians and among "the scientific community" that the answer to so many of our economic, social and environmental problems is to have less people. Billions of dollars will continue to go to promote abortion and other population control measures around the world.
But can we really keep slaughtering millions of babies around the globe every single year and never experience any consequences? The mass abortion that is going on is truly a great evil, and you have to wonder when God is finally going to decide that enough is enough.
View Article With Links HERE
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Cop arrests preacher for saying homosexuality a sin
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
Told law bans affirmation of biblical perspective of lifestyle choice
Telling a street preacher that it is against the law to affirm the Bible's teaching on homosexuality is costing a team of British police officers some $11,000 – plus legal fees.
That was the resolution announced by The Christian Institute in a case that it fought on behalf of a street preacher, Dale Mcalpine, who was arrested and detained for nearly eight hours on the basis of the officers' decision that the Bible's teachings violated the law.
Mike Judge, spokesman for the institute, which fights on behalf of Christian and human rights in the United Kingdom, said perhaps the officers should remember the situation developed in Cumbria, not North Korea.
"Mr. Mcalpine was arrested and held in a cell for expressing his Christian views," Judge said of the case, which was resolved just days ago. "Sadly, it's not an isolated case. We have defended a number of Christians wrongfully arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. There is a problem with the law and it needs to be fixed."
The institute report said it was the second such case just this month. On Dec. 8, a court in Birmingham County concluded police in West Midlands broke the law when they arrested, handcuffed and detained street preacher Anthony Rollins.
The court awarded Rollins 4,250 British pounds and ordered police to pay his legal costs. In the case of Mcalpine, police were told to pay him 7,000 pounds, or about $11,000, plus his legal fees.
The U.K.'s Public Order Act includes language that is similar to Barack Obama's "hate crimes" law in the U.S. that he signed more than a year ago in that they ban some statements regarding homosexuality.
That bill became law over the objections of a multitude of Christian organizations who say it grants special protections to those who choose a homosexual lifestyle, creating a form of "thought police" in the United States.
In Mcalpine's case, the U.K. police backtracked over issues of wrongful arrest, unlawful imprisonment and breach of human rights when Mcalpine, 42, of Workington, took them to task for his April arrest.
He was preaching from the Bible in Workington town center and his sermon contained no mention of homosexuality. But when he finished, Sam Adams, who identified himself as an "LBGT Liaison Officer," approached him, the institute reported.
"Even though Mr. Mcalpine had never mentioned homosexuality, [Officer] Adams warned him that he could be arrested if he made homophobic remarks. Mr. Mcalpine replied that he was not homophobic, but he sometimes preaches that homosexual conduct is a sin because that is what the Bible says," the report said.
"Uniformed police officers were called to the scene and wrongly informed Mr. Mcalpine that 'it is against the law' to describe homosexual conduct as a sin," the report said.
In fact the exchange went like this:
Mcalpine said he wanted to abide by the law and the police responded: "What've you been saying, homophobic wise?"
"I spoke to your officer earlier and he was upset that I was saying homosexuality was a sin – which is what the Bible says. I affirm that's what I say because that's in the Bible. And there's no law, there's no law," he said.
The police responded: "Well there is. ... There is. Unfortunately mate, it's a breach of Section 5 of the Public Order Act. ... It is against the law. listen, mate, we're pretty sure. You're under arrest for a racially aggravated Section 5 Public Order offense."
The institute said Officer Craig Hynes arrested Mcalpine, took him to the police detention facility and held him for nearly eight hours.
He was accused of using "threatening, abusive or insulting" words "to cause harassment, alarm or distress," although the charges were later dropped.
The institute reported that the arrest was so egregious that even a "homosexual campaigner," Peter Tatchell volunteered to appear as a defense witness.
Mcalpine told the institute he was pleased with the settlement and held no hard feelings toward police.
"I will pray for them because they have a difficult and sometimes dangerous job," he said.
Such situations have been developing more and more around the world. In one U.S. situation, a street preacher's toe apparently brushed the grass of private property and he was arrested, and in Oslo, authorities have tried to shut down those who would share their Christian believes in public.
At the time the case developed, Liberty Counsel Cultural Affairs Analyst Matt Barber raised the warning that such cases will be seen more and more in America, too.
"We know that what's happening in Europe and what's happening in Canada offers us a window into the future of what will happen here in the United States," he said. "The hate crimes laws and employment sexual orientation laws such as ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act here in the United States, have been the precursor to the more oppressive hate speech laws," Barber explained.
"Make no mistake, those laws we have now for hate crimes and the more present danger with ENDA, these laws are the precursor in the U. S. for the same kind of criminalization of Christianity that's happening in the U. K.," Barber said.
Judge said as in the U.S., British law supposedly protects the freedom of religious expression.
"The law does protect free speech in the U.K. and it is not a crime to express the belief that homosexual conduct is wrong. However, there have been a number of troubling cases where the police have overstepped the law," Judge said.
New Zealand-born evangelist Ray Comfort, who runs the Living Waters ministry in California, said it's tragic that a free country like Britain has taken such a dangerous turn.
"I find it hard to believe that modern England – with its rich Christian heritage (John Wesley, Whitefield, Spurgeon, etc.) would go to the extreme of arresting a man for his beliefs," Comfort said.
"I think that this is a case of two police officers being offended at the gospel, and that was the motive for the arrest," Comfort said.
Barber added that the goal of the radical homosexual lobby is to silence Christians.
"Their goal is to silence any dissent and to silence under any penalty of law the biblical recognition and expression of a traditional Judeo-Christian world view relative to sexual behavior and sexual morality," Barber said.
Read Article With Links HERE
WorldNetDaily
Told law bans affirmation of biblical perspective of lifestyle choice
Telling a street preacher that it is against the law to affirm the Bible's teaching on homosexuality is costing a team of British police officers some $11,000 – plus legal fees.
That was the resolution announced by The Christian Institute in a case that it fought on behalf of a street preacher, Dale Mcalpine, who was arrested and detained for nearly eight hours on the basis of the officers' decision that the Bible's teachings violated the law.
Mike Judge, spokesman for the institute, which fights on behalf of Christian and human rights in the United Kingdom, said perhaps the officers should remember the situation developed in Cumbria, not North Korea.
"Mr. Mcalpine was arrested and held in a cell for expressing his Christian views," Judge said of the case, which was resolved just days ago. "Sadly, it's not an isolated case. We have defended a number of Christians wrongfully arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. There is a problem with the law and it needs to be fixed."
The institute report said it was the second such case just this month. On Dec. 8, a court in Birmingham County concluded police in West Midlands broke the law when they arrested, handcuffed and detained street preacher Anthony Rollins.
The court awarded Rollins 4,250 British pounds and ordered police to pay his legal costs. In the case of Mcalpine, police were told to pay him 7,000 pounds, or about $11,000, plus his legal fees.
The U.K.'s Public Order Act includes language that is similar to Barack Obama's "hate crimes" law in the U.S. that he signed more than a year ago in that they ban some statements regarding homosexuality.
That bill became law over the objections of a multitude of Christian organizations who say it grants special protections to those who choose a homosexual lifestyle, creating a form of "thought police" in the United States.
In Mcalpine's case, the U.K. police backtracked over issues of wrongful arrest, unlawful imprisonment and breach of human rights when Mcalpine, 42, of Workington, took them to task for his April arrest.
He was preaching from the Bible in Workington town center and his sermon contained no mention of homosexuality. But when he finished, Sam Adams, who identified himself as an "LBGT Liaison Officer," approached him, the institute reported.
"Even though Mr. Mcalpine had never mentioned homosexuality, [Officer] Adams warned him that he could be arrested if he made homophobic remarks. Mr. Mcalpine replied that he was not homophobic, but he sometimes preaches that homosexual conduct is a sin because that is what the Bible says," the report said.
"Uniformed police officers were called to the scene and wrongly informed Mr. Mcalpine that 'it is against the law' to describe homosexual conduct as a sin," the report said.
In fact the exchange went like this:
Mcalpine said he wanted to abide by the law and the police responded: "What've you been saying, homophobic wise?"
"I spoke to your officer earlier and he was upset that I was saying homosexuality was a sin – which is what the Bible says. I affirm that's what I say because that's in the Bible. And there's no law, there's no law," he said.
The police responded: "Well there is. ... There is. Unfortunately mate, it's a breach of Section 5 of the Public Order Act. ... It is against the law. listen, mate, we're pretty sure. You're under arrest for a racially aggravated Section 5 Public Order offense."
The institute said Officer Craig Hynes arrested Mcalpine, took him to the police detention facility and held him for nearly eight hours.
He was accused of using "threatening, abusive or insulting" words "to cause harassment, alarm or distress," although the charges were later dropped.
The institute reported that the arrest was so egregious that even a "homosexual campaigner," Peter Tatchell volunteered to appear as a defense witness.
Mcalpine told the institute he was pleased with the settlement and held no hard feelings toward police.
"I will pray for them because they have a difficult and sometimes dangerous job," he said.
Such situations have been developing more and more around the world. In one U.S. situation, a street preacher's toe apparently brushed the grass of private property and he was arrested, and in Oslo, authorities have tried to shut down those who would share their Christian believes in public.
At the time the case developed, Liberty Counsel Cultural Affairs Analyst Matt Barber raised the warning that such cases will be seen more and more in America, too.
"We know that what's happening in Europe and what's happening in Canada offers us a window into the future of what will happen here in the United States," he said. "The hate crimes laws and employment sexual orientation laws such as ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act here in the United States, have been the precursor to the more oppressive hate speech laws," Barber explained.
"Make no mistake, those laws we have now for hate crimes and the more present danger with ENDA, these laws are the precursor in the U. S. for the same kind of criminalization of Christianity that's happening in the U. K.," Barber said.
Judge said as in the U.S., British law supposedly protects the freedom of religious expression.
"The law does protect free speech in the U.K. and it is not a crime to express the belief that homosexual conduct is wrong. However, there have been a number of troubling cases where the police have overstepped the law," Judge said.
New Zealand-born evangelist Ray Comfort, who runs the Living Waters ministry in California, said it's tragic that a free country like Britain has taken such a dangerous turn.
"I find it hard to believe that modern England – with its rich Christian heritage (John Wesley, Whitefield, Spurgeon, etc.) would go to the extreme of arresting a man for his beliefs," Comfort said.
"I think that this is a case of two police officers being offended at the gospel, and that was the motive for the arrest," Comfort said.
Barber added that the goal of the radical homosexual lobby is to silence Christians.
"Their goal is to silence any dissent and to silence under any penalty of law the biblical recognition and expression of a traditional Judeo-Christian world view relative to sexual behavior and sexual morality," Barber said.
Read Article With Links HERE
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Madness
Homeward Bound
Daniel 4:30, “The king spoke, saying, ‘Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”
These were the last words uttered by King Nebuchadnezzar before his descent into madness, and for seven years he wandered the wilderness eating grass, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. His insanity was not a gradual progression, but an instant removal of his reason, logic and humanity. In the blink of an eye, the once proud king, the man who walked about the royal palace glorying in his excess and accomplishments became nothing more than a beast, a mindless animal in human form.
I often wonder if we as a nation are not descending into the selfsame madness, if as a nation we have not abandoned logic and reason altogether all the while contemplating our mighty power and all that we have constructed for the honor of our majesty.
It’s hard to argue the case that we are still sane and in control of our faculties when not a word is uttered in protest by our duly appointed leaders as ‘the pedophile’s guide to love and pleasure’ is published and marketed in this country, but one nativity scene in a public place whips them up into a frenzy, causing them to foam at the mouth in rage, as they decry the obscenity of such a blatant display of religious zealotry.
Men writing books on how to molest children, sure no problem, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and all that good stuff we like to talk about.
A nativity scene on your front lawn, well we can’t have that you know, there are limits even to freedoms, we can’t have anarchy and chaos now can we?
Now before the e-mails start pouring in, this article is not about whether Jesus was born in June or in December, or whether we ought to celebrate the birth of Jesus. This article is about the sheer insanity that is gripping this nation ever more tightly to the point that it is choking of logic and reason altogether.
We stand before the precipice of being silenced, gagged, bagged and tagged, allowed to freely express only preapproved opinions, sanitized, prepackaged, and in lockstep with our betters, becoming a giant amalgam of automatons too fearful of reprisal to step out of line. The mask that is the illusion of freedom is slowly slipping off in this nation, and what lies beneath is a truly frightful thing to behold.
How far down the rabbit hole will we descend? How much more madness is yet to be displayed passing itself off as normal? Only time will tell, but I fear by the time enough people have awoken from their stupor, by the time enough people have been jarred awake from their slumber, what now remains of sanity will have been lost and the many will remain subject to the madness of the few.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
View Original Blog Post HERE
Daniel 4:30, “The king spoke, saying, ‘Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”
These were the last words uttered by King Nebuchadnezzar before his descent into madness, and for seven years he wandered the wilderness eating grass, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. His insanity was not a gradual progression, but an instant removal of his reason, logic and humanity. In the blink of an eye, the once proud king, the man who walked about the royal palace glorying in his excess and accomplishments became nothing more than a beast, a mindless animal in human form.
I often wonder if we as a nation are not descending into the selfsame madness, if as a nation we have not abandoned logic and reason altogether all the while contemplating our mighty power and all that we have constructed for the honor of our majesty.
It’s hard to argue the case that we are still sane and in control of our faculties when not a word is uttered in protest by our duly appointed leaders as ‘the pedophile’s guide to love and pleasure’ is published and marketed in this country, but one nativity scene in a public place whips them up into a frenzy, causing them to foam at the mouth in rage, as they decry the obscenity of such a blatant display of religious zealotry.
Men writing books on how to molest children, sure no problem, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and all that good stuff we like to talk about.
A nativity scene on your front lawn, well we can’t have that you know, there are limits even to freedoms, we can’t have anarchy and chaos now can we?
Now before the e-mails start pouring in, this article is not about whether Jesus was born in June or in December, or whether we ought to celebrate the birth of Jesus. This article is about the sheer insanity that is gripping this nation ever more tightly to the point that it is choking of logic and reason altogether.
We stand before the precipice of being silenced, gagged, bagged and tagged, allowed to freely express only preapproved opinions, sanitized, prepackaged, and in lockstep with our betters, becoming a giant amalgam of automatons too fearful of reprisal to step out of line. The mask that is the illusion of freedom is slowly slipping off in this nation, and what lies beneath is a truly frightful thing to behold.
How far down the rabbit hole will we descend? How much more madness is yet to be displayed passing itself off as normal? Only time will tell, but I fear by the time enough people have awoken from their stupor, by the time enough people have been jarred awake from their slumber, what now remains of sanity will have been lost and the many will remain subject to the madness of the few.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
View Original Blog Post HERE
America Has Spit In The Face of God
John McTernan's Insights
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Daily Digest: December 23, 2010
Verse of the Day
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Commentary
I was totally overwhelmed with information today. God is manifesting His mighty power by timing the judgments to touching Israel and promoting sodomy. It is there for all to see. The nuclear war looms with North Korea at the exact time our military was sodomized. The natural disasters are starting to overwhelm entire states and this is just the beginning of the winter. I see no letup now from the LORD.
America has spit in the face of God by rejecting the gospel in the military and exalting sodomy. There will be no letup. The vast majority of the church is silent. America is now all set up for judgment.
There will be nuclear war with North Korea, and the Americas will suffer a crushing military defeat. Remember China and Russia have everything to gain from this war and will see to it that North Korea crushes our military.
America is going to be overwhelmed by natural disasters. This will destroy states and cities economies and send the states into bankruptcy. America is coming under bone crushing poverty for exalting homosexuality.
The enemy is coming in like a flood. The Bible states that God will raise up a standard against it.
The standard is God using you in the battle. There is no one on the sidelines. This is now battle stations and all hands on deck. Do not look to anyone but yourself and the LORD. Everyone pray and cry out to the LORD for an outpouring of His Spirit and mercy for the believers sake.
May the Holy God of Israel bless and protect you.
Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
As America Has Done To Israel
The vicious anti-Israeli mentality on the college campuses has now spilled over into the public. Seattle buses are now carrying signs that attack Israel. This must be confronted. This is going to get worse as America hardens in sin and rebellion against the Holy God of Israel. This is the Hard Left starting to manifest throughout the country. They just won sodomizing the army, and now they are boldly attacking Israel.
'Israeli War Crimes' signs to go on Metro buses 12/17/10
Seattle considers changing policy over anti-Israeli bus ads 12/21/10
Countering an Anti-Semitic Propaganda Assault on Israel in Seattle 12/21/10
God's Final Warning to America
The warnings are all there for everyone to see. The sodomizing of the military coincides with the threat of nuclear war and awesome natural disasters. America is now out of time with the Holy God of Israel. It is very possible that cities in America may burn from nuclear fire. If North Korea can deliver the weapon to hit America, it will.
Watch for America to go deeper and deeper into sodomy right up to the final judgment. The only possible way to alter this is for a massive repentance from the church and crying out to God for mercy.
North Korea warns of nuclear "sacred war" in standoff with South 12/23/10 "North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" on Thursday and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the rhetoric on a day of more military exercises in the South."
Vets protest plan opening military to homosexuals 12/22/10
Widespread flooding reported across region; Qualcomm Stadium flooded; Corona airport submerged 12/22/10 California is being systematically destroyed by fires, drought, rains, snows, landslides, and the collapsing economy. The massive earthquakes are coming. I have said this in the past, and once again to the people living in California, please flee the state. If you decide to stay that is between you and LORD, but the judgment is so clear that He is about to totally destroy this state. I do not think all areas of America are going to be destroyed. Seek where the LORD would want you outside of this state.
Barney Frank: Straight Soldiers Must Shower With Gays, But Not Women With Men 12/21/10 "...that permitting heterosexuals to use separate showers, bathrooms and bunking facilities from homosexuals of the same gender would “stigmatize” homosexuals and be “reminiscent of ‘separate but equal’ facilities for blacks prior to the 1960s.” The working group recommended that separate showers, bathrooms and rooming facilities for homosexuals and heterosexuals be "expressly prohibited" by the military."
Stadiums flooded, streets turned into mud: Stunned California residents wake to devastation after astonishing week of storms 12/23/10
Avalanche Danger Could Be Worst In Colo. History 12/22/10
Richardson: Korean Tension 'the Worst I Have Ever Seen' 12/23/10.
This war cannot be stopped because China and Russia want it. It will happen with their timing which now seems on the fast tract. This will be the first war in American history with the military exalting homosexuality and driving the Christians into the closet. America is going to be crushed and driven out of Asia. Admiral Mullen, Secretary Gates and Obama have now doomed the American army.
As Europe Has Done To Israel
This link was so clear that I had to post it. The European Union is collapsing into a debt-hole with no way out. Its nations are heading in bankruptcy with debt and now China is going to bail them out! I think China is going to lose a lot of money because the Europeans are addicted to socialism and debt. Giving the Europeans money like this, is like giving a drunk alcohol.
But, notice the same day the European Union is giving huge amounts of money to the Palestinians, they are pushing for a Palestinian state! The Holy God of Israel is grinding Europe in poverty as these nations interfere with His prophetic plan for Israel. Europe is getting the same treatment from the LORD that He is giving America!
Notice the headlines were Eurozone humiliated the very same day they announced the money to the Palestinians! God really does have a sense of humor!
Fresh humiliation for eurozone as China says it will bail out debt-ridden nations 12/23/10 "China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7trillion overseas investment fund."
Massive EU Aid to PA; US Omits Aid to Israel 12/23/10 "European Union foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton announced on Wednesday an initial 100-million-euro ($131.3 million) aid package to the Palestinian Authority for 2011. Sixty million euros will enable the Palestinian Authority "to cover wages and pensions for essential civilian workers, particularly medical and teaching staff," Ashton said, and the remainder will be channeled through United Nations relief programs"
Ice and snow hit Christmas getaway in Western Europe 12/23/10 The LORD is in the process of using the weather to destroy Europe. The more the weather destroys Europe: the greater the collapse of the economy. The judgments of the LORD are wide open and pouring out onto the nations.
Israel and the Middle East War
New Gaza war 'only a question of time' 12/23/10 and Israel warns Gaza missiles could provoke new offensive against militants 12/22/10 Any small spark could ignite the all-out war. I still believe it will start over Jerusalem and rapidly spread or Jerusalem will ignite a smoldering war into the all-out battle. This all-out war has to be so close. Just looking at it politically, I cannot see how this war can be held off much longer.
Iranian Guards to upgrade Hizballah fortifications in Lebanon 12/23/10 They are putting the last touches on their defenses before the war. When the smoke clears, Lebanon will no longer exist as a nation.
After Freeze, Settlement Building Booms in West Bank 12/22/10 The Hard Left wants Israel to give up the land. The Israelis are spreading out on the covenant land. Is Obama going to try and force Israel to give up this land? I would say he is going to make one more major effort to do it.
"In the three months since Israel ended its settlement construction freeze in the West Bank, causing the Palestinians to withdraw from peace talks, a settlement-building boom has begun, especially in more remote communities that are least likely to be part of Israel after any two-state peace deal. This means that if negotiations ever get back on track, there will be thousands more Israeli settlers who will have to relocate into Israel, posing new problems over how to accommodate them while creating a Palestinian state on the land where many of them are living now."
Iran recruiting nuclear scientists for weapons programme 12/22/10
Palestinians draft UN resolution against settlements 12/23/10 This is going to ignite a war. The Palestinians will demand Jerusalem as their capital. With most of the world behind them, they will feel a real boldness to challenge Israel. This also might encourage Hamas and Hezbollah to attack Israel.
Jordan winds down military-intelligence ties with Israel 12/23/10 I have written in my book and on the DVD, and on this blog that Jordan is going to turn against Israel and be one of Israel's worst enemies. This is all part of the process.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Read Article With Links HERE
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Daily Digest: December 23, 2010
Verse of the Day
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Commentary
I was totally overwhelmed with information today. God is manifesting His mighty power by timing the judgments to touching Israel and promoting sodomy. It is there for all to see. The nuclear war looms with North Korea at the exact time our military was sodomized. The natural disasters are starting to overwhelm entire states and this is just the beginning of the winter. I see no letup now from the LORD.
America has spit in the face of God by rejecting the gospel in the military and exalting sodomy. There will be no letup. The vast majority of the church is silent. America is now all set up for judgment.
There will be nuclear war with North Korea, and the Americas will suffer a crushing military defeat. Remember China and Russia have everything to gain from this war and will see to it that North Korea crushes our military.
America is going to be overwhelmed by natural disasters. This will destroy states and cities economies and send the states into bankruptcy. America is coming under bone crushing poverty for exalting homosexuality.
The enemy is coming in like a flood. The Bible states that God will raise up a standard against it.
The standard is God using you in the battle. There is no one on the sidelines. This is now battle stations and all hands on deck. Do not look to anyone but yourself and the LORD. Everyone pray and cry out to the LORD for an outpouring of His Spirit and mercy for the believers sake.
May the Holy God of Israel bless and protect you.
Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
As America Has Done To Israel
The vicious anti-Israeli mentality on the college campuses has now spilled over into the public. Seattle buses are now carrying signs that attack Israel. This must be confronted. This is going to get worse as America hardens in sin and rebellion against the Holy God of Israel. This is the Hard Left starting to manifest throughout the country. They just won sodomizing the army, and now they are boldly attacking Israel.
'Israeli War Crimes' signs to go on Metro buses 12/17/10
Seattle considers changing policy over anti-Israeli bus ads 12/21/10
Countering an Anti-Semitic Propaganda Assault on Israel in Seattle 12/21/10
God's Final Warning to America
The warnings are all there for everyone to see. The sodomizing of the military coincides with the threat of nuclear war and awesome natural disasters. America is now out of time with the Holy God of Israel. It is very possible that cities in America may burn from nuclear fire. If North Korea can deliver the weapon to hit America, it will.
Watch for America to go deeper and deeper into sodomy right up to the final judgment. The only possible way to alter this is for a massive repentance from the church and crying out to God for mercy.
North Korea warns of nuclear "sacred war" in standoff with South 12/23/10 "North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" on Thursday and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the rhetoric on a day of more military exercises in the South."
Vets protest plan opening military to homosexuals 12/22/10
Widespread flooding reported across region; Qualcomm Stadium flooded; Corona airport submerged 12/22/10 California is being systematically destroyed by fires, drought, rains, snows, landslides, and the collapsing economy. The massive earthquakes are coming. I have said this in the past, and once again to the people living in California, please flee the state. If you decide to stay that is between you and LORD, but the judgment is so clear that He is about to totally destroy this state. I do not think all areas of America are going to be destroyed. Seek where the LORD would want you outside of this state.
Barney Frank: Straight Soldiers Must Shower With Gays, But Not Women With Men 12/21/10 "...that permitting heterosexuals to use separate showers, bathrooms and bunking facilities from homosexuals of the same gender would “stigmatize” homosexuals and be “reminiscent of ‘separate but equal’ facilities for blacks prior to the 1960s.” The working group recommended that separate showers, bathrooms and rooming facilities for homosexuals and heterosexuals be "expressly prohibited" by the military."
Stadiums flooded, streets turned into mud: Stunned California residents wake to devastation after astonishing week of storms 12/23/10
Avalanche Danger Could Be Worst In Colo. History 12/22/10
Richardson: Korean Tension 'the Worst I Have Ever Seen' 12/23/10.
This war cannot be stopped because China and Russia want it. It will happen with their timing which now seems on the fast tract. This will be the first war in American history with the military exalting homosexuality and driving the Christians into the closet. America is going to be crushed and driven out of Asia. Admiral Mullen, Secretary Gates and Obama have now doomed the American army.
As Europe Has Done To Israel
This link was so clear that I had to post it. The European Union is collapsing into a debt-hole with no way out. Its nations are heading in bankruptcy with debt and now China is going to bail them out! I think China is going to lose a lot of money because the Europeans are addicted to socialism and debt. Giving the Europeans money like this, is like giving a drunk alcohol.
But, notice the same day the European Union is giving huge amounts of money to the Palestinians, they are pushing for a Palestinian state! The Holy God of Israel is grinding Europe in poverty as these nations interfere with His prophetic plan for Israel. Europe is getting the same treatment from the LORD that He is giving America!
Notice the headlines were Eurozone humiliated the very same day they announced the money to the Palestinians! God really does have a sense of humor!
Fresh humiliation for eurozone as China says it will bail out debt-ridden nations 12/23/10 "China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7trillion overseas investment fund."
Massive EU Aid to PA; US Omits Aid to Israel 12/23/10 "European Union foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton announced on Wednesday an initial 100-million-euro ($131.3 million) aid package to the Palestinian Authority for 2011. Sixty million euros will enable the Palestinian Authority "to cover wages and pensions for essential civilian workers, particularly medical and teaching staff," Ashton said, and the remainder will be channeled through United Nations relief programs"
Ice and snow hit Christmas getaway in Western Europe 12/23/10 The LORD is in the process of using the weather to destroy Europe. The more the weather destroys Europe: the greater the collapse of the economy. The judgments of the LORD are wide open and pouring out onto the nations.
Israel and the Middle East War
New Gaza war 'only a question of time' 12/23/10 and Israel warns Gaza missiles could provoke new offensive against militants 12/22/10 Any small spark could ignite the all-out war. I still believe it will start over Jerusalem and rapidly spread or Jerusalem will ignite a smoldering war into the all-out battle. This all-out war has to be so close. Just looking at it politically, I cannot see how this war can be held off much longer.
Iranian Guards to upgrade Hizballah fortifications in Lebanon 12/23/10 They are putting the last touches on their defenses before the war. When the smoke clears, Lebanon will no longer exist as a nation.
After Freeze, Settlement Building Booms in West Bank 12/22/10 The Hard Left wants Israel to give up the land. The Israelis are spreading out on the covenant land. Is Obama going to try and force Israel to give up this land? I would say he is going to make one more major effort to do it.
"In the three months since Israel ended its settlement construction freeze in the West Bank, causing the Palestinians to withdraw from peace talks, a settlement-building boom has begun, especially in more remote communities that are least likely to be part of Israel after any two-state peace deal. This means that if negotiations ever get back on track, there will be thousands more Israeli settlers who will have to relocate into Israel, posing new problems over how to accommodate them while creating a Palestinian state on the land where many of them are living now."
Iran recruiting nuclear scientists for weapons programme 12/22/10
Palestinians draft UN resolution against settlements 12/23/10 This is going to ignite a war. The Palestinians will demand Jerusalem as their capital. With most of the world behind them, they will feel a real boldness to challenge Israel. This also might encourage Hamas and Hezbollah to attack Israel.
Jordan winds down military-intelligence ties with Israel 12/23/10 I have written in my book and on the DVD, and on this blog that Jordan is going to turn against Israel and be one of Israel's worst enemies. This is all part of the process.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Read Article With Links HERE
Saturday, December 25, 2010
The Oil BP Tried To Hide Has Been Discovered, In Thick Layers On The Sea Floor Over An Area Of Several Thousand Square Miles
Washington's Blog
BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared.
But as I've noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean.
I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied massive amounts of dispersant to the Gulf Oil Spill in an effort to sink and hide the oil. Many others said the same thing.
BP and the government denied this, of course.
But the oil is not remaining hidden.
Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal noted on December 9th:
A university scientist and the federal government say they have found persuasive evidence that oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill is settling on the ocean floor.
The new findings, from scientists at the University of South Florida and from a broad government effort, mark the latest indication that environmental damage from the blowout of a BP PLC well could be significant where it's hardest to find: deep under the Gulf's surface.
Scientists who have been on research cruises in the Gulf in recent days report finding layers of residue up to several centimeters thick from what they suspect is BP oil.
The material appears in spots across several thousand square miles of seafloor, they said. In many of those spots, they said, worms and other marine life that crawl along the sediment appear dead, though many organisms that can swim appear healthy.
Tests now have started to link some oil in the sediment to the BP well could add to the amount of money BP ends up paying to compensate for the spill's damage.
The test results also raise questions about the possible downsides of the government's use of chemical dispersants to fight the spill.
Under federal direction, about 1.8 million gallons of dispersants were sprayed on the spilled oil in an effort to break it up into tiny droplets that natural ocean microbes could eat up. At the time, officials said the dispersants shouldn't cause oil from the spill to sink to the seafloor. However, more recently, a federal report said dispersants may have helped some spilled oil sink to the sediment.
Scientific teams have reported in recent months finding a strange substance on the Gulf floor, in some cases as far as about 80 miles from BP's ill-fated Macondo well, which blew out in April and spilled an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before it was capped.
"The chemical signatures are identical," said Mr. Hollander, who found the contaminated samples in an area of the Gulf floor off the Florida Panhandle. Although it's conceivable the tests could show a false match with the BP oil, "the statistical probability of something like that is unimaginable," Mr. Hollander said.
The federal government also has found oil matching Macondo oil in Gulf sediment, Steve Murawski, a top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, said in an interview. He declined to disclose how much sediment contamination the government found, or exactly where in the Gulf it was, saying experts still are analyzing the test results.
Samantha Joye, a University of Georgia oceanographer, also has found what she believes to be evidence of BP oil in Gulf sediment. She is awaiting lab results tracing the chemical fingerprints of sediment samples she took.
On a research cruise in the Gulf that ended Friday, she saw worms that crawl along the Gulf floor "just decimated," she said. But eels and fish, which can swim away, often appeared fine, she said.
The Journal noted on December 18th:
Oil from BP PLC's blown-out well has lodged in the sediment of the Gulf of Mexico at levels that may threaten marine life, according to a federal report released Friday.
There is no practical way to clean up the spilled oil that has settled deep in the Gulf, officials said, adding that microbes in the water could eventually eat it up.
The massive application of dispersants to hide the amount of oil spilled has caused major problems to the Gulf:
•The use of dispersants prevented clean up of the oil by skimming, by far the easiest method of removing oil from the water
•Dispersants make the toxins in crude oil more bioavailable to sealife, and scientists have found that applying Corexit to Gulf crude oil releases many times more toxic chemicals into the water column than would be released with crude alone (and see this)
•Dispersant might have caused some of the chemicals in oil to become airborne (and see this and this)
•The crude oil which does not become aerosolized sinks under the surface of the ocean, and can delay the recovery of the ecosystem by years or even decades (see the Wall Street Journal article quoted above)
•The overwhelming majority of studies find that dispersants slow the growth of oil-eating microbes
•Dispersants cause Gulf fish to absorb more toxins and then make it harder for the fish to get rid of the pollutants once exposed
•Dispersants may bioaccumulate in seafood
•Blood tests show elevated levels of toxic hydrocarbons in Gulf residents
Extend-And-Pretend Will Fail
As I noted in May - shortly after the spill started - the responses of the government to the Gulf Oil spill and to the financial crisis are remarkably similar, as both have focused on covering up the problems, instead of actually fixing them. Because the financial system was never really reformed, the next financial shock will send the economy reeling. Because the oil was never properly cleaned up, the next hurricane will stir up immense quantities of oil now lying on the sea floor.
Extend-and-pretend is being attempted in both cases, and - in both cases - it will fail, because nothing has been fixed, and the fundamentals can only remain hidden for so long.
Moreover, in both cases, the government used "highly toxic" measures to try to hide the real problems. The government has used "emergency measures" and virtually all of its resources to prop up the giant banks instead of using the proven methods of restructuring insolvent banks and prosecuting the criminals who caused the crisis, which has caused major problems for the real economy.
Similarly, the government applied close to 2 million gallons of highly toxic dispersant to hide the amount of oil instead of using it's resources to deploy tried-and-true clean up methods, which has caused significant problems for the Gulf.
Finally, new and potentially bigger crises will take place, because regulation hasn't been put in place to prevent them. Regulation of the financial system - including international agreements like Basil III - have been gutted (and see this). And as Time magazine notes:
Congress never managed to pass legislation that would have overhauled drilling safety.
View Article With Links HERE
BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared.
But as I've noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean.
I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied massive amounts of dispersant to the Gulf Oil Spill in an effort to sink and hide the oil. Many others said the same thing.
BP and the government denied this, of course.
But the oil is not remaining hidden.
Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal noted on December 9th:
A university scientist and the federal government say they have found persuasive evidence that oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill is settling on the ocean floor.
The new findings, from scientists at the University of South Florida and from a broad government effort, mark the latest indication that environmental damage from the blowout of a BP PLC well could be significant where it's hardest to find: deep under the Gulf's surface.
Scientists who have been on research cruises in the Gulf in recent days report finding layers of residue up to several centimeters thick from what they suspect is BP oil.
The material appears in spots across several thousand square miles of seafloor, they said. In many of those spots, they said, worms and other marine life that crawl along the sediment appear dead, though many organisms that can swim appear healthy.
Tests now have started to link some oil in the sediment to the BP well could add to the amount of money BP ends up paying to compensate for the spill's damage.
The test results also raise questions about the possible downsides of the government's use of chemical dispersants to fight the spill.
Under federal direction, about 1.8 million gallons of dispersants were sprayed on the spilled oil in an effort to break it up into tiny droplets that natural ocean microbes could eat up. At the time, officials said the dispersants shouldn't cause oil from the spill to sink to the seafloor. However, more recently, a federal report said dispersants may have helped some spilled oil sink to the sediment.
Scientific teams have reported in recent months finding a strange substance on the Gulf floor, in some cases as far as about 80 miles from BP's ill-fated Macondo well, which blew out in April and spilled an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before it was capped.
"The chemical signatures are identical," said Mr. Hollander, who found the contaminated samples in an area of the Gulf floor off the Florida Panhandle. Although it's conceivable the tests could show a false match with the BP oil, "the statistical probability of something like that is unimaginable," Mr. Hollander said.
The federal government also has found oil matching Macondo oil in Gulf sediment, Steve Murawski, a top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, said in an interview. He declined to disclose how much sediment contamination the government found, or exactly where in the Gulf it was, saying experts still are analyzing the test results.
Samantha Joye, a University of Georgia oceanographer, also has found what she believes to be evidence of BP oil in Gulf sediment. She is awaiting lab results tracing the chemical fingerprints of sediment samples she took.
On a research cruise in the Gulf that ended Friday, she saw worms that crawl along the Gulf floor "just decimated," she said. But eels and fish, which can swim away, often appeared fine, she said.
The Journal noted on December 18th:
Oil from BP PLC's blown-out well has lodged in the sediment of the Gulf of Mexico at levels that may threaten marine life, according to a federal report released Friday.
There is no practical way to clean up the spilled oil that has settled deep in the Gulf, officials said, adding that microbes in the water could eventually eat it up.
The massive application of dispersants to hide the amount of oil spilled has caused major problems to the Gulf:
•The use of dispersants prevented clean up of the oil by skimming, by far the easiest method of removing oil from the water
•Dispersants make the toxins in crude oil more bioavailable to sealife, and scientists have found that applying Corexit to Gulf crude oil releases many times more toxic chemicals into the water column than would be released with crude alone (and see this)
•Dispersant might have caused some of the chemicals in oil to become airborne (and see this and this)
•The crude oil which does not become aerosolized sinks under the surface of the ocean, and can delay the recovery of the ecosystem by years or even decades (see the Wall Street Journal article quoted above)
•The overwhelming majority of studies find that dispersants slow the growth of oil-eating microbes
•Dispersants cause Gulf fish to absorb more toxins and then make it harder for the fish to get rid of the pollutants once exposed
•Dispersants may bioaccumulate in seafood
•Blood tests show elevated levels of toxic hydrocarbons in Gulf residents
Extend-And-Pretend Will Fail
As I noted in May - shortly after the spill started - the responses of the government to the Gulf Oil spill and to the financial crisis are remarkably similar, as both have focused on covering up the problems, instead of actually fixing them. Because the financial system was never really reformed, the next financial shock will send the economy reeling. Because the oil was never properly cleaned up, the next hurricane will stir up immense quantities of oil now lying on the sea floor.
Extend-and-pretend is being attempted in both cases, and - in both cases - it will fail, because nothing has been fixed, and the fundamentals can only remain hidden for so long.
Moreover, in both cases, the government used "highly toxic" measures to try to hide the real problems. The government has used "emergency measures" and virtually all of its resources to prop up the giant banks instead of using the proven methods of restructuring insolvent banks and prosecuting the criminals who caused the crisis, which has caused major problems for the real economy.
Similarly, the government applied close to 2 million gallons of highly toxic dispersant to hide the amount of oil instead of using it's resources to deploy tried-and-true clean up methods, which has caused significant problems for the Gulf.
Finally, new and potentially bigger crises will take place, because regulation hasn't been put in place to prevent them. Regulation of the financial system - including international agreements like Basil III - have been gutted (and see this). And as Time magazine notes:
Congress never managed to pass legislation that would have overhauled drilling safety.
View Article With Links HERE
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