The Problem of the Gulf Oil Spill the Mainstream Media Conveniently Skipped Over
This is transcribed from the Caroline Casey Show on KPFA, on which Michael Ruppert was guest. Mike Ruppert, for those of you who don’t know, was a CIA agent and has a credibly in depth knowledge about a great many issues that rarely get any kind of national attention. His website “From the Wilderness” caused him routine death threats, government harassment – to the point of actual intimidation and death threats again – was a call to awareness about the impending collapse of the Western model of civilization, unless we move completely off of fossil fuels. He, of course, has always been treated like a freak by any of the mainstream press, and now, in times of collapse, he is suddenly summoned by the powers that be to give his knowledge. His new movie is called “Collapse”, and there is a website for it here: www.collapsenet.com He was living in seclusion in Mexico until only recently when he recovered from the mental and physical challenges he has had to endure from decades of a life lived under the constant threat of government thugs. Here is what he had to say about the Gulf oil spill on Caroline Casey’s show “the Visionary Activist”. The episode can be heard in its entirety here:
“Let’s be clear about this. What’s happening in the Gulf is potentially an extinction event, for us.”
+
“There’s no way it’s 5000 barrels a day; it’s 75,000 – 100,000 barrels a day.” +
“What we know is that there is a huge geologic event. There is not only one leak. There is at least two, more likely three leaks.” +
“BP was drilling without a casing.” Explanation: A casing is a super strong cement tube that sits around the actual drill bit. It is significantly larger than the bit itself. Dabris and mud is basically vacuumed up through the casing to keep the bore hole from collapsing in on itself. “Because that’s soft sedimentary rock under enormous pressure. You just can’t run naked under there.”+
“One credible source was telling me that BP was drilling without a casing, and what happened was the bore hole collapsed in on itself, and that opened enormous fissures in the soft sedimentary rock, and there were a lot of fissures there already. The oil and gas, under enormous pressure, built up in there like a giant pimple that became so enflamed, but in terms of size, it was much much larger than the bore hole. And when it blew, it blew out probably another well that the mainstream media is not telling us about, and it caused a major geologic event, which is why Matthew Simmons, the world’s largest investment banker, and others, are saying that it may be that the only alternative is to set off a nuclear device deep, deep in the bedrock below all the scattered rock, which now covers maybe twenty, fifty square miles. You can’t plug all those little leaks. But down in the bedrock you could melt the rock to the point where it would seal it off. Absent that, it’s pretty clear that this oil could gush for years from the Gulf.” - Until it is drained.+
“It could be that the only alternative to that [nuke], and if it’s a choice between – the Russians have done this successfully with no release of radiation; it’s done so deep in the Earth’s crust the radiation does not escape. The only other alternative to that might be total extinction of all life in all of the Gulf of Mexico, and a good portion of the Atlantic Ocean.” =
We have really fucked ourselves with this one, either way. If we use the underground nuke option we are going to have to deal with the aftereffects of the rest of the world, especially places like North Korea and Iran, saying “and you want US to cease the development of nuclear energy?” And if we find a way to not use the nuke, we will have to deal with – at the least – years and years of oil leakage, at least according to Michael and most of the scientific community at this point. The real question is, when will we have had enough? When are gas stations going to start becoming a thing of the past?
2 comments:
Imagine that we discovered that the government had discovered that there was a comet on course to hit the Earth two months ago. A comet capable of killing between two million to three hundred million people. And the government has done nothing about it, like look into utilizing a nuclear option against it. Read the following.
June 18, 2010 (LPAC) — Economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche said today that a critical matter of the BP/Gulf of Mexico oil disaster for which President Obama has to be held to account, is that he has taken no steps to clear the most likely ultimate method of ending the oil gusher — a peaceful nuclear explosion (PNE).
LaRouche charged that the President, despite accumulating evidence, has failed to act on the fact that — since this blowout may actually be a systemic blowout of a whole area of leaks, or a single disastrous blowout greater than hitherto acknowledged — in those cases the United States would have to use a peaceful nuclear explosion to end it.
"The President should have been advised of this, and he should have already gone to other signators of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," LaRouche said. "We should have gotten the agreement of the parties, in advance, to prepare an exception for this case, in case it may be necessary, with the implication that it may be necessary in other cases as well."
By seeking such agreement in advance, the President would also have been initiating preparations, LaRouche emphasized, since the United States may ultimately have no other way to stop the blowout. But Obama, on this front as on others in the Gulf crisis, has done nothing.
The competence and experience to design and deploy a device appropriate for use in sealing the blown-out BP well exists within the United States national laboratories. The United States' national laboratories have extensive experience with peaceful nuclear explosions, as well as with hundreds of underground nuclear tests carried out through 1992.
For more details see
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/BP_nuclear-option.pdf
Thanks for the comment Chuck. With all due respect, Lyndon LaRouche is one of the last people I would listen to on this subject, for reasons I won't go into now. But that said, he makes basically all the same points that were made by Mike Ruppert.
Post a Comment