Mother of all gushers - BP Oil Disaster in Gulf of Mexico

There are people that are swimming in these effected waters, are theses people not aware or just ignoring the risks? These beaches are supposed to be closed, but I guess people are just ignoring the warnings or there's no effort by the officials to warn the people. Poor kids :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QwsCHd7Lcg&feature=topvideos
 
I can't imagine that people would still be going swimming in the water, or even walking or visiting the beaches. Crazy. There are warnings, signs and such announcing that a particular beach is closed. Unless you live under a rock, or just don't care, or think that the situation is over dramatic, I have no idea.

All I know is that the last time we visited the beach was Sunday April 18th. :(

The kids miss going there, but they know there is an oil spill, I show them pictures of the spill (not the dead animals), and they seem to understand more than many adults. My five year old said "we have a beach here, by the pond."

:)

Really there should be someone out there a true 'life guard' that says "hey, don't swim!" Maybe that is asking too much??
 
Guardian said:
truth seeker said:
Ultra cool chick, Patti Wheeler from fb found me the Australia 60 minutes video Kindra Arnesen was referring to in the recent video posted on Sott. Be warned, it's tiny.

_http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/mobile/media/100613_oilspill_9msn_16x9_Mobile.3gp

edit: By the way, does someone have the capability to capture this video and possibly enlarge it? It would be a shame if it got pulled again. Thanks much. :)
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Ok, I've got a copy. You can double its size in quick time, or I can convert it to a format of your choice?
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Thanks so much Guardian! :love: Quicktime I think is fine for most people. I'm thinking that there are many who would like to or really need see this video. It may light some fires. From there, people can share the link.

By the way, you're DOing something. :) This is probably one of the things you can do to help. It doesn't put your life in danger and is something that is in you to do. Another might be (if you choose) to is to take Laura's suggestion above to Dawn. You may be able to help many, many people who are distraught at this time.

Also, do you enjoy writing?
 
Dawn said:
I can't imagine that people would still be going swimming in the water, or even walking or visiting the beaches. Crazy. There are warnings, signs and such announcing that a particular beach is closed. Unless you live under a rock, or just don't care, or think that the situation is over dramatic, I have no idea.

All I know is that the last time we visited the beach was Sunday April 18th. :(

The kids miss going there, but they know there is an oil spill, I show them pictures of the spill (not the dead animals), and they seem to understand more than many adults. My five year old said "we have a beach here, by the pond."

:)

Really there should be someone out there a true 'life guard' that says "hey, don't swim!" Maybe that is asking too much??
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Hi Dawn,

Hopefully these people realize the risk in being in these waters. It doesn't seem like the government or BP officials will do much, as it seems like there already cutting funds for this disaster, when it seems like there's no relief insight :(. Glad that your kids are understanding about the situation :).
 
Truth seeker and Guardian, hope its okay that I gave it a shot.

http://drop.io/australian60min

I cleared up the video, color-adjusted it, raised brightness slightly and tried to enhance the audio too. (vol+treble+bass)
8mb->63mb


Complete name : C:\Users\Zero\Desktop\Australian 60 min.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 61.5 MiB
Duration : 13mn 51s
Overall bit rate : 621 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-06-27 08:37:21
Tagged date : UTC 2010-06-27 08:37:25
Video #2
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 13mn 51s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 511 Kbps
Width : 590 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.229
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.072
Stream size : 50.7 MiB (82%)
Audio #1
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Duration : 13mn 51s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 104 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Language : English
 
Vectis said:
Back to BP and the Gulf! The terror of it is horrendous. Yet in a unusual way, I have never felt so alive! This is making life so much more real for me, no more sleeping! Let me be a warrior of peace, is this what I have been spending my whole life training for? Let's all get through the Wave together, and have fun doing it! I'm not going to let oil and greed ruin my life or taint my soul....
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When you said that the situation in the Gulf of Mexixo made you more alive, I realized that that is probably what was making me so angry and depressed. The reality of the true effects of the negative energy that is part of this truly dreadful and amazing universe just made me feel overwhelmed and suffocated and paralized. You are so right, Victis, why would I let this negativity taint and weaken my soul. I cannot let that happen. I actually took a few days off, did some thinking, gained little bit of strength and decided that I must go back to EE breathing. I printed Laura's article "All for one and one for all', read it a few times and thought about what she considered to be important for us all to be doing right now so that we will not fall into that pit of desperation that I have fallen so many times before. Even what Laura said about emotional viewpoints in her article just resonated with my own mental thinking. I am just soooooooo emotional like a wounded kid who cannot seem to grow up, even though I am 41. I have met a few petty tyrants/psychos in my life who have devastated my life for a while, but so what, it is in the past, and now we are in this hell together. This hell will not discriminate against anyone, and that includes the psychopaths who think that they have their situation under control, that nothing bad will happen to them and only those whom they wish to destroy will perish.

Vestic, I thank you so much for helping me through this, I really don't have anyone in flesh and blood who could steer me away from falling into the pit of desperate thinking. My mom helps me a little but I don't want to overwhelm her too much because of her poor health. My friends don't care what is happening in the world, but that is their choice. I thank you again, and I truly hope you and all of you guys here, working so hard to give this Earth a chance to survive, will make it to 4D. You all worked so hard through your lessons in this 3D reality. :flowers:
 
Mona, it sounds like you are on a good path. Glad you took a few days to regroup. "Hell" as a concept has many trap doors. I think it is the STS program to drag the emotions all over the place. Part of that trap is isolation and loneliness. At least here on the forum you are amongst like minded people... For me, I don't think much about 4D as the destination, it is every step on the journey that is most important. I think a great principle of STO is to "treat one another as you yourself want to be treated".... human dynamics are where the greatest lessons are learned. Networking is SO important to help one to get "out" of themselves. Not just on the net, but all around the walk of daily life. Perhaps instead of thinking that people "don't care" you could find something about each individual person that they do care about. It's funny to think that most people are scared, lonely, bashful, insecure - which makes them stern or "i-don't-care-ish" - I find an easy smile and a simple heartfelt "hello" go a long way. Take baby steps to build a support network. I look at my support network as strings on a parachute. the more strings on the parachute, the safer it is. Maybe you could read up on joining FOTCM. I have a good feeling about that as an up and coming support network; it sounds like it is growing quick, especially with the advent of all these new world events such as the Gulf disaster. It gives a true meaning to the saying "All for One, One for all!"

"Ask and you will receive; knock, and the door will be opened"

:)
 
Hi again Mona, I was going to mention in my last post a suggestion of making a list of things you are grateful for, fortunate things that you are thankful for, to help keep your spirits up. Then I picked up Wave 6 and reviewed my readings... aha! Hopefully this is helpful to you and the Gulf situation:

[Wave 6, 150-51] "Warriors take strategic inventories," he said. "They list everything they do. Then they decide which of those things can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of expanding their energy." [...] Don Juan said then that in the strategic inventories of warriors, self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence their effort to eradicate it.
"One of the first concernes of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with it," don Juan went on. "The action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability."
[1.] Holding your own in facing petty tyrants.
2. Facing the unknown with courage.
3. Standing in the presence of the unknowable.
...[We] know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people [...].

[W6, p162] As Don Juan and Gurdfieff tell us, there are untold dangers in the path of knowledge for those without sober understanding. "[In] the life of warriors it was extremely natural to be sad for no overt reason. ...Whenever the boundaries of the known are broken, a mere glimpse of the eternity outside is enough to disrupt the coziness of our controlled awareness. The resulting melancholy is sometimes so intense that it can bring about death... The best way to get rid of melancholy is...
...to make fun of it."

(While the Gulf situation IS serious, it is SO important NOT to take ourselves to seriously)
I think that's the gist of it...
:lol:
 
Laura said:
venusian said:
Could this be part of an effort to increase anxiety and panic?
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Could be. On the other hand, as the Cs once said, STS can be deadly accurate when it suits their purposes.
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Scary how this looks like the preparation of something very wicked, the intervention of some "saviour(s)". Here is an article about a petition initiated by a guy called Jeff Peckman who requests the intervention of extraterrestrials :O. I don´t know if it´s ok to post the link, since could be nothing but trash/disinfo.
 
Hi Álvaro,

Can you check your link again? It doesn't work even after I remove the "ftp" at the front of the link. :huh:
 
GRiM said:
Truth seeker and Guardian, hope its okay that I gave it a shot.
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Thanks much GRIM. :) I'm not sure if it was you or Guardian (or someone else) that posted it, but it's up on youtube now and also posted on Kindra's fb page. Thanks again for your time and trouble.
 
truth seeker said:
Thanks so much Guardian! :love: Quicktime I think is fine for most people. I'm thinking that there are many who would like to or really need see this video. It may light some fires. From there, people can share the link.
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Looks like Grim beat me to it...and did a great job too :)

By the way, you're DOing something. :) This is probably one of the things you can do to help. It doesn't put your life in danger and is something that is in you to do.
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I'm always willing to help with whatever I can, but you have to admit this forum is just chock full of people more talented than I. :)

Another might be (if you choose) to is to take Laura's suggestion above to Dawn. You may be able to help many, many people who are distraught at this time.
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I've been trying to think of a way I could work EE (for others) into my plans ...but Dawn's right, we're talking the buckle of the Bible Belt here. Horoscopes printed in local papers are often protested as being "witchcraft"

Most of the local residents just aren't ready. However, some of the imported workers, especially the environmentalists, may be receptive?

Also, do you enjoy writing?
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Unfortunately, I'm not a good writer. I've got an American High School education...which equates to about a 4-6th grade education in Europe and Asia.

I was reading the "imply" vs "infer" grammar thread, and my first thought was "if anyone implies I can tell the difference, boy are they in'fer a surprise" ;D
 
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