Dilettante - by Summer Burkes

F**K THIS IMPERIALIST, GANGSTER PARTY BULLS**T

In New Orleans, The Ladies' Guide to the Apocalypse, art fags, confusion &/or ranting, current events, road trip, shim-sham & flimflam on July 18, 2010 at 12:53 am

“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.” –Alan Watts

Here’s a heavily profane, NSFW bit of catharsis for ya.

And why don’tcha read about Imperialism, if you’d care to indulge in a little 5-minute Wikipedia Big Picture sesh.

So … What do I do with the fact that I keep hearing all this stuff which ends up being true? None of it has not been true, so far. I’m a gal who’s magically been in the right place at the right time, a few times, during this horrific Gulf Coast oilcano adventure. It’s starting to make-a me feel CRAYzay. But I know I ain’t.

What do I do with the images I saw of the cap’s pressure blowing out the ocean floor yesterday morning, just like we all knew it would, and what do I do with the camera-scrambling, looped-footage cover-up my friend Gaspo and I watched unfolding in realtime afterwards? What do we do with that unnanounced Presidential address two hours later in which he vaguely, hurriedly, awkwardly said everything’s fine?

What do I do with the nuclear rumors I hear from an insider friend, who heard it from a Navy man? The rumors could be a fun game of “telephone” Karl Rove plays during disaster-capitalism exercises like this one, in order to whip people into a panic and see what comes out the other end. But at this point, I personally think the rumors are true, because what else could it be? This situation is out of control, the seafloor is F’d, and they’re going to have to try to nuke it to stop the oil from flowing forever. They could’ve tapped into the hydraulic-fluid system of Earth’s tectonic plates. The relief well won’t work if the jaws of Hell are opening up.

What do we do if this threat is real? What about the fact they’re deploying expensive warships and helicopters and 7,000 American troops down to Costa Rica, in such a hasty way and under such false pretenses that the whole nation down there is justifiably freaking out? What about Fidel Castro’s return to public view for the first time in four years, where he’s suddenly warning the world about nuclear war? What if my sources are correct, and the Department of Defense is indeed storming the Navy and taking all their toys and placing their own men on rigs around the Gulf?

What are they planning?

Incidentally, the art has started. It’s beautiful. The Hot 8 Brass Band is SO BAD ASS.

What’s this I hear about a number of nuclear warheads being deployed (Four? Six?), maybe as early as this Tuesday or Wednesday, without anybody warning the American people? I thought when Obama gave that speech yesterday morning, he was going to announce the decision to go nuclear, because the sea floor around the wellhead blew apart. But no. To quote the charming video at post’s beginning, WHAT THE F**K.

The nuclear option worked for the Russians — in bedrock. But we’ve got Mississippi River Delta cottage cheese … not bedrock. And it’s underwater, and the water is full of oil, Corexit (which accelerates oil fires), and methane. And the Earth has so many cracks in it at this point, I’m not sure how they’re going to fix it AT ALL. The scary part is, no mass evacuation has been announced. The Russians DEPOPULATED their areas before they detonated these things, in case the radioactive fallout didn’t stay underground — which it did … in bedrock.

It’s been 80 days that thing has been gushing and eroding, and p.s. the SEA FLOOR ALREADY BLEW UP.

How do I know that for sure? I don’t. Whether the footage I saw was fake, of course I’ll never know, but I saw it happen live, in real time. My history: I used to be an arts journalist who penned the lead A&E column at the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Yes, an arts journalist, not a news journalist, but an erstwhile journalist nevertheless, from a time when newspapers welcomed competition in the name of integrity. Now we’ve got yellow journalists and citizen media, and that’s it.

I tell the truth wherever I see it, just for fun, and and I point out conjectures and theories and connect the dots for other people when disinformation is the norm and there are no real facts anywhere. I also saw this go down with my own eyes.

We in the Gulf Coast saw the writing on the wall about this a long time ago. The terms “news,” “journalism,” and “conspiracy” don’t really apply any more in this situation. That’s what a media blackout is all about. We bloggers and citizen journalists are simply sharing information, trying to spread what we know and what we’ve heard, because BP and the government are LYING TO US ABOUT EVERYTHING. This site, mine, is essentially a glorified diary. Don’t forget that.

Am I a “reliable source”? That’s funny. Yes, Gaspo, and I were watching the live feed on CNN.com and/or BP’s official site … but there are NO reliable sources in this crapstorm. I wouldn’t consider my cap-no-worky announcement a rumor, since I bore witness to it, and I wasn’t the only one who saw it. But you be the judge. Gaspo grabbed the pictures and, later, the film. He missed filming the good explosion shot because he was so dumbfounded. I trust Gaspo with my life. We have nothing to gain by lying about this. I only want to give people all the information coming in, so they can pick and choose what they’d like to believe, and act — not react — accordingly.

Noooo, the U.N. would never “allow” America to detonate a nuclear weapon. But BP supplies almost the entire US military with their fuel. And the military has been in on it from the beginning, because of the corporate military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about. And don’t forget how America is the most “whatever, I do what I want” country on the planet.

Still. I know more about the Gulf oilcano situation than most people in America, simply because I’ve chosen to wake up and stare it in the face. I know I’m not alone, but today, I feel like Gaspo and I are the only ones in the world who saw what we saw. Weren’t there more people watching, and connecting the dots? What the crap? … Anyway, you now know everything I know, if you’ve been reading along and clicking all the links. So consider the nuclear possibility … and think about leaving. Gaspo suspects the President lied that everything’s OK because he’s stalling for time while the troops are deployed.

Oh look! Wait! Gaspo found another person online who filmed some footage right after his, which shows the ROV high-tailing it to the surface after the eruptions. Check the “DPTH” in meters in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

One of a number of things may be going on here.

The Gangster party gets to sterilize the old, infirm, welfare-gettin’, mouth-breathin’, self-sufficiently-livin’, and/or colored folks of the Gulf Coast while they clear out the land for drilling. Bonus: They get to swing America’s nuclear dick while they’re at it. Just to show North Korea and Iran how big it is, and how bigga’ balls they got. They’ll take this chance to sit on their Southern peasants like a mama dog suffocates a lame puppy, just to prove to the “renegade nations” they’re still #1. Like Kaiser Soze. And then they’ll blame it on whichever nation they want to get in the ring with.

Who was Kaizer Soze? Why, he was the fictional Super-Gypsy-Gangster character in the movie The Usual Suspects who, when confronted with invading competitive forces, opted to slit the throats of his whole family rather than let them fall into enemy hands. That’s how Gangster Party of a murderer Kaizer Soze was. That’s how gangsters think.

This happened on Earth Day. Keep that in mind. It’s too scary to be a coincidence. This is a Halliburton / Goldman Sachs / Blackwater / BP death sentence. Like the beautiful Hot 8 Brass Band says in the video above: What about Halliburton being connected to all three of the biggest disasters in American history?

So let’s say they won’t have to detonate. The information may be false. BP may not be readying a ‘Super Weapon’ in a bid to avert the escalating Gulf nightmare and/or light up the ocean in a fiery nuclear methane-bomb. They may not be bribing scientists and universities to keep their mouths shut. I might not need to research nuclear-scenario preparation and order potassium iodide pills online. Who knows what kind of moles the Gangster Party has, and where. It could all be part of the hype designed to demoralize everyone for disaster-capitalism profiteering by the Reptilian Carpetbaggers from Hell. We’ll be so mentally exhausted we will roll over for anything. Either that, or we’ll be dead.

the ROV ran away, so should we?

Maybe they’ll drill the relief well and it will all be fine. Meanwhile they’ve gotten some folks to clear out, and scared more into leaving, and poisoned and sterilized the rest. That’s our new oil factory, then. The Gulf Coast will be the condemned industrial area of the United States.

Or maybe my beautiful house on the Mississippi River in New Orleans will be irradiated before long. Whether they’re playing Kaizer Soze as the Gangster Party ramps up for World War Three … that remains to be seen.

War is an industry. So is disaster. Let’s not forget that. Let’s equate the world’s military-industrial complex as a WWF match, where the wrestlers get together backstage to discuss how they’re going to choreograph the show. They parade out into the ring, chests puffed, pumping up the emotional crowd in the heat of the moment, and flipping each other around with nary a care if bones get broken or tendons get crushed, because after the show, they’re all going to pat each other on the back and go spend up the money they made.

Oh, who knows. i hate all those guys. The worst part is feeling so patriotic, like I have been all my life, and knowing we let the boogeyman into our own house. This is exactly what our founding fathers warned us about.

THIS GUY for President. Seriously.

Looks like the cap just blew. Meanwhile, LINKS to the Deepwater debacle

In New Orleans, The Ladies' Guide to the Apocalypse, cars, confusion &/or ranting, current events, road trip, shim-sham & flimflam on July 16, 2010 at 8:17 am

Actually, to be specific, it looks like the earth all around the cap just blew. The cap did its job — rather, the job we all knew it would do — it caused ruptures in the ground around the wellhead. Very large ruptures, according to sonar. Or maybe very large pockets of methane, or plumes of oil. Can’t say for sure.

It’s almost 7am on Friday, July 16, 2010. I haven’t slept yet. Couldn’t stop watching the Deepwater live-feed, after a tip-off from my friend Gaspo that things were starting to look shaky down there. The streaming seafloor video feeds all bounced, in succession, and then WHOOSH, big clouds of oil billowed and enveloped jangly cameras, which were all pulled up to the surface with a quickness. Looked like a series of ruptures and explosions — who knows how big. Seven of the 12 video feeds on CNN’s live-feed are shut down now, and the remaining 5 are being looped.

I wonder — if I go to sleep now, will the world will still be here when I wake up? Will it be forever changed? What about tomorrow, or soon, when we get the “our only option is nuclear” speech?

Here’s Gaspo’s still photo index of the event, and the Youtube and downloadable video of the rupture starting — right before, according to his readings from the ROV, the camera got blown 350 feet off the sea floor.

Gaspo got these screengrabs:



… and then I tuned in and saw it do that some more, and then the camera was pulled up through the black and brown sea, and surfaced at sunrise. More bouncings and explosiony-looking disturbances in the water caught by another camera were quickly removed from the public eye when that one also retreated to the surface, where it’s still filming the ship’s hull as I type this.

UPDATE: The CNN live feed suddenly and quietly announced an address from the President for this morning, which according to the Internets was NOT pre-planned, and he got on TV looking more nervous, agitated, and possibly angry than I’ve ever seen him. This is what he said. WTF?!?

Six hours later, CNN’s “live feed” still only has the one looped camera-footage window, as opposed to its usual 12, with sonar and all that. They’re not even doing a good job of trying to hide the discrepancies. Why would Obama say the cap’s working and everything’s OK, but that everything may NOT be OK? … Maybe to stall for time while the troops are deployed for the mass evacuation. Whispers on the wind even say the Dept of Defense is currently taking all the Navy’s toys and planning to detonate 6 nuclear warheads in the Gulf — maybe as early as this Tuesday or Wednesday — without telling anyone or evacuating people at all. Sure, the nuclear option worked for the Russians in bedrock, but what about for us, when the integrity of the oilbed and seafloor is heavily compromised, in cottage-cheese limestone Mississippi silt? YOU do the math.

Here’s Gaspo’s video feed. It looks like it could be silt or oil … but he was too thunderstruck to record the actual explosion-part where the camera flew 350 feet above the sea floor. Point is, the camera never recorded stuff like this before. One thing is for certain: There was definitely an “event” which led to big white heat spots on sonar, cameras being hastily pulled to the surface, live feed being replaced with loop footage, and an unannounced Presidential address cavalcade of bullshit. What the hell Obama? You’re LYING.

Oh and there was a 3.0 earthquake in Washington, D.C. AND a 3.0 earthquake in Puerto Rico this morning.

Red pill! Yum yum! LINKS:

Is rain damage to plants in Ohio a result from Gulf oil disaster?

More Evidence of BP Corexit chemical rain blown into Fort Worth, TX, July 3, 2010

Forget Conspiracy Theory, Follow The Data

CBS News: BP Spill Health Hazards

Chemicals Used on Spills

Gulf Oil Spill Flu? (yeah right. Lotsa specifics here)

Wikipedia on 2-butoxyethanol, a major component / the active ingredient of Corexit

Does EPA Test for Endocrine Disruptors in Corexit Tell Us Anything?

Commenter on a blog gives inside dirt on BP’s use of Corexit (Yep, I include both hearsay AND mainstream media, because what’s the difference any more?)

Marine Toxicologist: Oil/Corexit Mix Caused Heart Palpitations, Liver, Kidney Damage and Bleeding from the Rectum

MSNBC: Massive Hole Spewing Oil Miles Away from Well

Gaspo grabbed this sonar image, right before it started flashing and went all streaky white and finally offline. Sonar don't lie. What are those light spots? Why, they're bubbles of gas or oil

Gulf Coast Must Act Now! – cleanthegulfnow.org

GOOOH: Get Out of Our House. A Non-Partisan Plan to Evict Career Politicians by Nov. 6, 2012

Senate Bill S510 Could Give Monsanto Unlimited Power over all US Seed, Food Supplements, Food, and Farming
(p.s. Obama the Spineless just invited his third Monsanto executive to join him in the White House… on staff.)

One Month Without Monsanto: A Blog

Can We Feed Our World Without Monsanto?

BP Gulf Oil Spill Photos Show What BP Doesn’t Want You To See, The Real Reason Constitution Has Been Suspended

Capitalist “Reconstruction” of Haiti

MSNBC: Oil spill reaches breaking point

CBS: Gulf Residents Grow Desperate in BP Claim Wait

They’ll Make You Invisible: Lessons from Norco



Doomsday: How BP Gulf Disaster may have triggered a world-killing event

Methane bubble “doomsday” story debunked

The Oil Spill is an Illusion … It’s All A Setup (?!)

Gassed in the Gulf: New Gulf War Syndrome

Media Clampdown in the Gulf Coast: Government and BP Place More Restrictions on Journalists Covering the Oil Spill

BP’s Brave Fight Against Camera-Wielding Terrorists

Chevron Tries to Restrict 1st Amendment in Latest Twist in Ecuador Crude Saga

NOAA Hoarding Key Data on Oil Spill Damage

CBS News: Lessons from Exxon Valdez Went Unheeded

BP Spill: This Was No Accident – Infoshop News

6’4” Cop Bullies 4’11” videographer as she videos a BP worker taken away in ambulance

Pensacola Beach Before and After the Gulf Oil Disaster

How Bush’s DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe into BP that Threatened to Net Top Officials

60 Minutes: “All in the Family” – Wherein Halliburton’s slimy tentacles are proven to be strong, far-reaching, and covered in bling stolen from American taxpayers

Andrew Napolitano: Bush and Cheney Should Have Been Indicted for Torturing, for Spying and Arresting Without Warrants

Anger in Costa Rica over deal to ‘invite 46 US warships

NATO orders 7,000 US Marines to Costa Rica as Gulf Oil Disaster Quake Fears Grow

Fox News: Russian Scientists Urge BP to Nuke Gulf Oil Leak

BP Republicans

Gustav Meyrink: Petroleum, Petroleum
(prophetic — perhaps inspirational? — short story from 1903)

RFK, Jr., on how we save the environment

CNN: Highly Emotional LA Woman Pleads for Obama’s Help

Action: The Gulf Speaks Out STREET RALLY, July 22-24 (DO IT!! Make it a fun thing in your town! Make some art, get a costume, stand outside in a thoroughfare and get cars to honk at you! It’ll be fun!)

… and finally … words from a pen pal named Jack. This passage may be squishily vulnerable to the point of hippieness, but I’ll tell you one thing right now: It’s no lie.

“i’m so sorry, as we all are for this tragedy, but it is up to us to change this. you asked for suggestions on transforming your sickness and anger into something else, i assume you mean something positive. (obv) and i think the only way is to maintain loving hearts and minds. i recently read that one way to heal negativity is to consciously breathe in all that negativity, pain, confusion, and greed, in hopes to transform it into love, healing, and compassionate selflessness. and then breathe out just that, love, compassion, healing, and selflessness, in hopes that we may change the karma of the individuals who are choosing such evil thoughts, as they are clearly lost. and we wouldn’t scold a child for being lost, we would only try to teach her. so i think we must all try to keep a positive mind, and we must keep our hearts pure. that’s all i know. and it seems more important than ever.”

Corexit and Agent Orange: not so different (just ask Monsanto)

In New Orleans, The Ladies' Guide to the Apocalypse, art fags, cars, confusion &/or ranting, current events, recipes, road trip, shim-sham & flimflam on July 16, 2010 at 6:15 am

Heavy.

This is HEAVY, man.

If I’m wrong on any of this, or leaving out anything important, feel free to correct me and/or elaborate in the comments, because I’m refining my pitch:

Corexit — the “dispersant” with which BP/Halliburton/Rothschilds/The Antichrist is gassing American citizens against their will and without their knowledge in this oil “spill” debacle in the Gulf of Mexico — is a very bad, only-40-percent-effective way to go. Corexit eats away at the fatty deposits around your liver, kidneys, central nervous system, and other important organs … it punches holes in your brain … it destroys the alveoli in your lungs … and it generally explodes the fatty layer around your red blood cells, which lose their shape and fall apart so that you bleed from the inside out. Victims of Corexit poisoning cough up blood, manifest persistent nosebleeds, and even bleed from the rectum. And that’s just for starters.

i love the smell of 2-butoxyethanol in the morning

Corexit causes hives, blisters, and sores — even inside the mouth (true story, friend of mine). It also bleaches animals and plants when / as it kills — Corexit’s ingredients supposedly include paint thinner and other toxic slurry they couldn’t get rid of, so they spray it on the Cajuns and inject it into the wellhead gusher instead. And Corexit mixes with crude and gets sucked up in tiny particulates into the clouds, even though “they” say it doesn’t. Corexit rain is starting to kill crops as far away as Kentucky, Ohio, and North Carolina. Get ready.

Monsanto … the company that helped bring Agent Orange into the world … Monsanto’s CFO, Carl Casale, is also a director at NALCO. Corexit is owned by NALCO, but really, by BP / Halliburton, somewhere in there. Incidentally, BP supplies a big portion of the fuel for America’s military, while Halliburton provides exclusive-multibillion-dollar-contract-style “logistical support” Good buddies, them!

Monsanto, who owns an inordinately large percentage of all the crops in America, produces genetically modified foods — which are known to cause rats to explode and hamsters to grow hair inside their mouths. And like I said, Monsanto is one of the companies behind Agent Orange. What’s Agent Orange, you ask? … If you don’t know already, then read on, from Wikipedia:

Agent Orange was by far the most widely used of the so-called “Rainbow Herbicides”. Between 1965 and 1970 close to 12,000,000 US gallons (45,000,000 l; 10,000,000 imp gal) of Agent Orange were sprayed in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia by the US military to defoliate rural/forested land, depriving guerrillas of food and cover, and as part of a general policy of forced draft urbanization by destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside.[1]

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.[2]

I was going to put up a picture of a person who was born with birth defects due to Agent Orange ... but you can't really un-see those images. They're horrific. Google it yourself if you want a good cry

Monsanto owns owns 90 percent of soy, 85 percent of corn, and 95 percent of sugar beets in the United States of America — and it’s all genetically modified. They say it’s only genetically modified so it can resist their proprietary Roundup pesticide. My tinfoil hat says that’s a load of crap. My tinfoil hat wonders if this acid Corexit rain is going to kill everything BUT Monsanto crops. What a bonus, to corner the market while starving out all the peasants … er, Cajuns, black people, pesky white Southerners, Cubans, Creoles, Native Americans, and old folks … in a long-term profit plan to seize the richest soil in the country, and the oil beneath it.

Mmm, lookit all the blank space above those dots (oil wells) and lines (pipelines). Why can't we drill there, so we can be free from our pushermen in the Middle East? ... Oh, what? PEOPLE live in that blank space? Well FIX THAT, and bring me my afternoon chalice of babies' blood

A whisper on the wind I hear is that the Gangster Party prefers using Corexit because it gets rid of the oil’s chemical record. Every gallon counts, when you’re facing potential fines and an international court … So the Corexit mixes with the crude and erases its fingerprints. It ruptures crude cells so when the tar balls start washing up in Antarctica, chemists won’t be able to prove which oil “spill” the tar balls are from. And that’s what it does to your insides, as well. All the protective coatings from the inner workings of your body, organs, cells, and nerve endings similarly dissolve and explode.

And this is why half the people I was working with in Grand Isle are also GONE from the Gulf. We know what’s up. Now that that cap’s on there, everything could be about to explode, so it’s time to pack up the car and head farther West. Rumors of nuclear … whispers of DOD stormtroopers overpowering the Navy and beefing up oil rigs and foreign countries along the blast / tsunami site … who knows what’s true. Who knows how far they will go.

In summary, if anyone doubts at this point that “they” are spraying Corexit for reasons other than “dispersing the oil” for the good of the planet, yall should just turn your books back to the first chapter and see me after class.

Why they’re seemingly inviting the Earth to rupture, blow up, and cave in is beyond me. Unless the whole thing is a Wag the Dog kind of ruse designed to get us to leave our homes because there’s nothing left, because they poisoned all living things and sterilized the population in a slow-kill takeover. Just like the Vietnamese.

Tran Anh Kiet's deformities have been blamed on Agent Orange. (BBC)

LINKS:

BBC News: Vietnam’s War against Agent Orange

Agent Orange Wikipedia