I couldn’t sleep last night. It wasn’t the red fox screeching outside my open window; it wasn’t my lumpy bed; it wasn’t the extra cup of Brazilian coffee I had after dinner.
You keep saying “accident”. How do you know the Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and its subsequent collapse two days before the world was to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day was an accident?
Nobody could claim that 9/11 was an ‘accident’. There were too many witnesses. But everything done since has been to assign ultimate blame to America. Then there was what was widely suspected as the torpedoing of the South Korean naval vessel by North Korea a month ago. If true, this was clearly an act of war, but nobody’s talking. Why? Because chivalry demands a suitable response to an act of aggression and no one is currently in the position to respond to an act of war given the multitude of other concerns nations in general are facing. Bin Laden himself said that he based his murderous campaign against the West on his belief that the West would not respond effectively to the challenge.
Better to sweep this sort of thing under a rug and pretend it didn’t happen. Worry about nickel and dime economies, tea parties, and who’s sleeping with whom…
Just in case nobody’s noticed, the axis of evil has expanded to our own hemisphere since Obama has been in power. Venezuela, for instance, has been palling around with the likes of Russia, Iran, North Korea and Zimbabwe. Notwithstanding the North Korean MO of torpedoing ‘enemy’ ships and now possibly oil rigs, these rogue nations have been paying attention. They’ve seen that we will not retaliate no matter what happens. We’ll try to get away by proposing media lynchings based on Sarah Palin’s sock drawer …and ‘accidents’. The American media/government complex will happily go along with it. Besides, it fits in neatly with their anti-war, anti-oil (energy) Marxist agenda. The public has been suitably trained to immediately assume ‘accident’. Did Obama give it away when mentioning sending in S.W.A.T. teams?
The reason I couldn’t sleep was because I kept wondering: Were we attacked?
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Note: The Deepwater Horizon was built in Ulsan, South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries at a cost of approximately $365 million and entered service in 2001.
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NONE DARE CALL IT SABOTAGE
ReplyDeleteI agree, Peter. Except that you seem to imply the attack came from without. It, just as easily, could have come from within. The proximity to Earth Day may just be a coincidence, but from the start it made me think that extreme, pro-environmental groups may have done this in order to stop off-shore drilling forever -- while never realizing the consequences of their own actions.
Blame-shifting Congress will hold hearings, but the simple fact is that Congress is to blame for not requiring the shut-off valves that most other countries w/ deep of-shore drilling require. Yes, Goldman Sachs may have conflicts of interest. But Congress? Never.
POTUS was quick to blame BP and say they will clean it up. BO seems to think his job consists only of campaigning against and assigning blame -- not doing any of the heavy lifting, himself. Imagine, a community organizer that's not pro-active.
The science-manipulating left is best exemplified by silver-tongued Gordon Brown when he called, Mrs. Duffy a bigot. I'm sure, even today, Mr. Brown doesn't realize that he's the bigot.
Mike - Take a look at the link below. Let me know if it doesn't come up. You may have to cut and paste, but it's there.
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ReplyDeleteAt first, I thought the article/website you referenced was a conspiracy theory similar to the theory that the US attacked itself on 9/11. In other words, I thought it absurd.
However, it made me think: 1) Unlike the attack on the South Korean warship, it may never be known what caused this deep water explosion. i.e. It doesn't seem there will ever be any evidence, like the hull of a ship which can prove a clear entry of a torpedo or the exit of an interior explosion. Thus, if it were sabotage, whoever did it knew that it might be impossible to detect; 2) The N. Korean attack, w/o being answered, makes it possible for other such attacks in the future -- specifically, I thought, of Iran attacking a ship off its coast; 3) If you question who benefits from this explosion by following the money, it's the Chinese.
Why the Chinese? This is because the Chinese are already in the Gulf off the coast of Cuba. There are very well-known reserves already mapped of either oil or gas, off the west coast of Florida. These resources are limited. Because of the relatively new technology of sidewise drilling, China can reach these reserves from Cuban waters. It will not be known if China is drilling in US waters, if we don't drill there ourselves. Thus, if offshore drilling is stopped for several years or decades, as it now seems possible, by the time we drill, China could easily have drained all our reserves off Florida.
Peter, as you know, Florida has never wanted drilling off its coast because it knew that an oil spill might ruin its beaches and, thus, its biggest source of income: The tourist trade. However, in this economy (but before Deepwater Horizon) states need more money than ever and many (like Virginia) have wanted drilling off their shores. The devastation in the Gulf now makes offshore drilling, almost anywhere in the US, an impossibility. It may even kill the drilling for natural gas in shale, which is large enough to make us totally independent of foreign oil. It promotes almost exclusively 'green' energy. Coal is also in trouble because of the W. Virginia mining disaster. And, as you also know, if we try to become all green all the time, we will easily be surpassed by the rest of the world and, inevitably, become third world.
FYI: Everything I've heard is that BP is legally responsible for the Gulf disaster -- even if Transocean, based in Houston, built the rig w/the help of S. Korea and both may also be responsible -- so, in this regard, the article you referenced doesn't make much sense. That is, N. Korea wouldn't/won't be successful trying to weaken S. Korea by blowing up Deepwater Horizon.
Peter -- It appears that Transocean is a Swiss Company with only a PO box in Houston. [Got this off Transocean's website. Maybe the Houston address was changed to a PO box, after the disaster.] Erin Burnett at CNBC on Friday had said it was based in Houston -- probably told so by a producer after she, herself, questioned where the company was HQ'd. Also, Halliburton shares some responsibility in all this, even though BP has primary responsibility.
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