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Desperation and Fear Tactics

Part of the problem has been that most of what we needed to know about the spill was kept from us. We were lied to. We were misled. And they are still doing it. "They" are BP and the politicians they have in their pockets. From the local sheriffs who take orders from BP, to the elected in Federal, State and even local politics.

BP has done more to try and protect their image than they ever did to protect the environment in which they operate to extract the product that creates their boundless wealth.

The camera angles we are given are very likely only the ones they want us to have. My suspicion is that there are more and worse leaks surrounding this one, and they are 'out of sight'.

BP has a history of drilling and killing and getting away with it. It has been more profitable to allow operations to run on the very edge of disaster, often falling into it, than to have kept to a practice of safety, for both their workers and the environment.

The deaths of workers results in payoffs to survivors. The stubborn ones can cost a little more, but eventually, they all give in. It's hard to fight Goliath while grieving, go broke pursuing court.

Their environmental damage is always big, newsy but is always then whittled down to a pittance or a small fine. The end result of the litigation wherein they pay only pennies of what they should pay, typically goes unmentioned by a news media that is more interested in celebrity gossip than in substantive information. A media wherein a minute group of hate mongers who represent no one, is completely generated by Right Wing Lobbying Firms, goes to the expense of 'embedding' their reporters into the 'bus tour' to 'cover' the under attended gatherings.

I would bet that more people are attracted to those gatherings by seeing the big shiny CNN bus show up than they are about the asinine leaders of the non-movement and their nonsensical rants.

The same media geniuses ignore even bigger rallies by real people, who are opposed to the hate mongers. They ignore even bigger rallies that are in support of our current Administration.

These are the people that are bringing us the 'news' on the BP spill. I don't trust them either. They may not be carrying BP ads now, but they have benefited in the past from them. And they expect to, again in the future. It is in their best 'corporate interests' to only promote what BP can live with.

To that end, they are doing all they can to make it the fault of the present government, and highlight complaints about the government, and to not carry the logical questions to their viewers: "How does 30 plus years of de-regulation look to you now?" They act as if it became a brand new world and nothing from the past is at play in this disaster.

They are working just as hard to generate fear and desperation (to make the story more dramatic-- as if it needs that) while questioning the demeanor of the President because he is not 'agitated' or 'emotional' enough.

We don't need emotional staging. We don't need more hysteria. We don't need more desperation. We need cool calm collective thinking. We need to know that people who are capable are in charge. We don't need posturing, posing or dramatic rhetoric.

BP knew that "Top Hat" and "Top Kill" would not work. Yet, they went through this exercise as if it stood a chance. Now, what is floating around scares the crap out of me as much as this oil spill. People are thinking that using a 'small nuke' to blow it up... will solve it.

It is an insane, cartoonish "ACME" solution, ala "Wiley Coyote".

First off, this is underwater. A bomb will more than likely create a crater, not a collapse on itself 'hole'. Nukes will create steam and that will rise to the surface as a plume. See Karoli's blog
for some of the details on that.

Secondly, this is not a vertical well head. This is a horizontal drill. That means that the pipe is just under the floor of the ocean and it travels for miles, both deep and afar.

What we know of the initial explosion is that it was preceded by 'kicks'-- gas escaping into the wellhead. And then 'boom'. Okay, the last part, is in the minds of many, a cartoon image where only the top part of the well head, has damage.

Not in my head. I know that explosions in lines create a 'pressure hammer' also called a 'water hammer' or a 'fluid hammer'. This is essentially, the 'echo' of an explosion. And it ruptures the line in multiple places. This is why I am suspicious that this gusher or 'oil volcano' we can view online, is the only, or even the worst breach.

Now, the idea of a bomb is being circulated by the bought and paid for media, as if it is a viable option. If it fails, and it will, it will effectively do many things that BP wants:

• It will damage the crime scene so that BP can argue and theorize in court and deny how much damage there was initially.
  
• It will create a sense that the government is responsible for the leak that can never be stopped. It will make drilling a relief well impossible. And that will take BP off the hook.
• those other leaks that I suspect are even bigger but not shown? Well, it will be impossible to prove after the bomb blows it all to pieces.
  

BP also is buying time. The minute the leak is stopped, the real criminal investigation and prosecution can and will begin. They need time to buy off people in key positions. They need time to buy off and/or intimidate victims.

Now, back to the bomb. It was floated to me earlier today that it would be a tiny bomb. Maybe only half a kiloton. *facepalm*

Ok, let's say you decide to go with that option. How are you going to get it into a 21" pipe? How big is a 'tiny nuke'? Even if it is the size of a baseball, you have logistical problems.

1. It has to have a protective casing on it. (that would make it way too big to fit down that pipe).
2. How are you going to get it down that pipe? Inject it? With what?
3. It will have to go down several miles, both through the damaged wellhead and the miles of horizontal line before it gets to a vertical drop.
   
4. To do all this, there would be enormous pressure to overcome. The same pressure that is spewing out the oil from the one gusher we are allowed to view. (Oops, I think our baseball just got bigger)
5. It would also have to get through all the crap that has already been sent down that line, including mud and golf balls and whatever else they put in their "Junkshot".
   
6. What if it got stuck part way through? Then what?
   

No, a nuke won't work. It will, however, make this disaster even bigger, more destructive. And it will take BP off the hook.

It is a desperation measure thought of by people who are terrified by what is unfolding before our eyes. Just like 9/11 was used to take away our rights, start a war based on lies, and the ongoing damage from both of those to our nation in the present and the future, desperation is not the way to approach this.

Figure that it is a disaster and it will continue to grow until there is a relief well drilled. That will take months.

Meanwhile, BP should pay for the clean up that works. The use of Elastol, a coagulant, not a dispersant, is the only proven method that works. It is non toxic. The oil can then be recovered and refined. It is solid science and it has been around for decades.

Oil companies don't like to use it because it is green tech. It uses no petrochemical products so, essentially, they cannot make money off it as they use it. It's money out, not money out and then in the side door.

Fishing boats can be easily converted to skimmers. Fisherman can be paid to run them. It would mitigate the damage we see now, create local and regional employment which would relieve a lot of the financial strain on both individuals and states. It would create an economic boon of sorts, while the operation is in process, which will take a few years of clean up.

BP should pay for it. All of it. They have the money. And frankly, I don't give a flying crap about their viability as billionaires in the future. They have done enough damage. We don't need to support them while they are avoiding what works and paying for silence and legislation to protect themselves.

It's time we did what works, and what will also benefit the victims who are being directly affected at this time. Allow those impacted to have a sense of empowerment in that it can be done and they can help protect what they love most. It will give them back the ability to take care of their families and help their waters to heal.

BP loves that people are feeling helpless and desperate. It plays right into their game. People get angry, stock price slumps, but the price of oil goes through the roof. They get richer.

It's time we told them what to do. It's time the media took our side, and quit pandering to the fear and helplessness. It's time.

For even more on Elastol: Here

You can also google or bing "Elastol Coagulent" and get much more information, including the data on skimmers. It is designed to work in all waters, including marshes, and oceans.

Feed It or Starve It

Fear as a Weapon

Sometimes I am slightly synesthetic. I think of it as I do my dyslexia. Dyslexia makes it harder to read, and sometimes, when I am tired or stressed, words make no sense at all; but the upside is that I can solve jumble puzzles, seek and finds, and even cryptographs, faster than most people who are way smarter than I am. The answers just seem to 'show' themselves.

My slightly synesthetic side gives me shape and form to forces, elements in this world, revealing them to me, their symbols and their behaviors, in ways that makes them easier for me to understand.

Under stresses and events of intimidation in my own life, I began to see, recognize fear as something with a shape, form, beginning, and end. An animal complete with gnashing teeth and a fatal flaw. That flaw is the hunger that fear creates that gives it strength and impetus, but which also MUST eat. And when it cannot consume its target, it will consume itself.

I watched as I was growing up, how people were controlled by others. Fear was key to getting people to act against their own best or better interests. Fear was key to keeping people divided by false issues or untruths, to where they would not act, collectively, in their own best interests.

The rules of fear that I have observed, work on an individual one-to-one basis, exactly the same as they work on the collective, the masses.

For the sake of making this simple to understand and to relate to, we will deal with the personal, one-to-one tactics that make fear work, and at the same time, reveals to us exactly what it is and how to defeat it.

• Fear is used to control people. It is used by people who themselves, fear us. If they did not fear us, they would not need to make us fear them, for them to feel safe. They would have no need to control us.
  
  Essentially, one has to know and understand fear and how it affects others. Fear is such an emotional core sense, that to understand it, one has to have it. Like a gun: You can't shoot it if you don't know how. You have to first know it to then use it. Then you can 'aim it'.
  
  Unlike a gun, Fear cannot affect someone who has none of it in them to begin with. It cannot be used by someone that is not afflicted with it and it cannot afflict someone that does not recognize it. Fear has to be owned, sold and bought or it has no effect.
  
  
• Essentially, they have to take their fear, and sell it to us. For this to work, we have to buy their fear. For this to continue working, we have to ignore where it came from: Their fear of us and what we can do with what we know about them.
  
  
• Fear has to be reinforced in order to stay in control. That reinforcement has to come at closer and closer intervals, increasing, essentially, the frequency in the cycles, in order for it to continue to have the desired effect.
  
  
• We can, if we let ourselves, begin to predict the next installment of 'fear reinforcement'. The pattern becomes predictable. Only the extremes that are required are relative unknowns. However, that each cycle will increase in intensity, is predictable.
  

This leaves the person who is employing fear as a weapon or tool, in a quandary. It becomes a chore. It takes more and more energy to do the wrong thing. It is exhausting. Fear is a limited resource because it has to increase how much it draws from the well each visit. Fear requires more fear.

It also requires timing. One cannot go directly to the worst case and most extreme, because they would have to top it at the next interval. How do you top your best? How do you top that? And then top it again?

Fear is limited. As a tool, it is also limiting.

Fear is utilized by those who have no other skills. It is the worst choice of anyone seeking to lead or control. Fear has no allies. It has servants, but they are never trusted completely.

Every time fear loses its desired effect or performs at less than the optimal level, it backfires. The victim of fear might get an insight or feel empowered and put up more resistance. Or lose their fear of the person bullying them, regardless of what they do.

They might even see the flaws in the Fear Plan. They might see that the person employing fear is doing so 'because they are wrong and they know it.' If they were Right, they would not need fear. It would be obvious.

When fear stops working for the ones who employ it, it does not go away. It goes home. Home is where it came from. Home is where it lives. Home is where it eats. And fear, once it is used, becomes hungry. The person who uses it can't control it. Fear begins to consume them.

This is why bullies and despots become unhinged, paranoid, sleepless. The fear they cannot sell to others, consumes them. Even if they have a majority of people cowed, they still need more. They need it all. All is not enough. Fear either grows or dies. Resources are finite. There is never enough.

Had they opted to deal with their fears in the first place, learned more about themselves and rid themselves of their insecurities, they would be immune from ravenous beast. But they chose, instead, to bully others to bend them to their will, all for the one goal of getting their way, when in fact, their way, and getting it, is what ultimately destroys them.

Fear's Worst Fear

Comedians are Fear's worst Fear. To be a comedian of any worth, any success, one has to be really smart. One has to have a true perception of times, places and events that rings true with their audience. Otherwise, no one would laugh.

People who laugh, rethink, relive that which made them laugh. Laughter is shared amongst all Human Beings. We share jokes, tell funny stories, and repeat those that are told to us.

Comedians defeat fear by showing us how stupid it is. Showing us, comically, how ludicrous the tools of it are. Essentially, we laugh at those who try to use fear on us. We begin to think.

People who are laughing are not, in those moments, in fear. Fear and laughter are mutually exclusive and both cannot reside in the same place at the same time. Laughter can come and go, and remain strong. Fear, as we have seen, must be sustained. Any break in the continuity of fear means it has to be, essentially, rebuilt again.

One laugh leads to another. People lose their fear of tyrants. Tyrants and their minions sense their own failure. They turn on one another. They begin to consume one another. Once they start feeding on one another, to survive, to consolidate their power; they become smaller. Smaller becomes weaker. The bellows and roars that used to instill quakes and shudders in their victims, become squeaks and shrieks... and fade from weapon, to ineffective implements, to vague curiosities, as victims stand up, and walk away.

Using the tools, training and skills of non-violence, we overcome those who bully us. We overcome them by not becoming them. By not employing fear or violence, both of which need to be sustained, we build a more lasting ever increasing unity.

But first we have to remember who we are: Especially in those dark moments when we are being beaten down, bullied and intimidated: We are, in ways we may not know or realize, something that they fear. Knowing that, we are already armed with several facts:

• They fear us so much they are now engaging in what will be their downfall.
  
  
  
• Whatever it is, it must be powerful in us. So powerful that they want us to be afraid of who we are and what we can do.
  
  
• One laugh can undo all their efforts and they have to start over.
  
  
• They will have to spend every waking moment, and many a sleepless night, worried that we will see through them. Afraid of us.
  
  
• It is nothing we have done wrong that causes them this fear and panic. It is what is in them that causes this fear and panic.
  
  
• All we have to do is survive or die. If we die, they have to start over on someone else. And they have to fear that they will be found out on this. If we live, we live to tell the story, and their weaknesses, fears, all that they were afraid would be found out-- is revealed.
  

Fear is High Maintenance

The one thing I have seen that bullies fear the most is Truth. Truth is their undoing. It reveals them to us. It reveals them to their minions. It reveals them to themselves. Whatever that is, or means to them, it is something they cannot face. It is the demon they flee while tethered to it.

Fear relies on lies. Lies that create a general mindset that is other than the truth. An alternate reality of sorts. Alternate realities require constant construction and maintenance as the gaps, contradictions and flaws, all bring it down.

Like hoards of plasterers, minions carry the mortar and try to cover the flaws. More and more are created. Mortar is whipped up faster and with less thought, becoming thinner and less supportive, some of it, towards the end, won't even stick, much less dry.

It gets louder, but it fails. The more it fails, the weaker it becomes, the more the minions and their masters become afraid. The more they become afraid, and with fewer people to impose that on, and FEAR being the only skill or tool they have, they begin to turn against one another.

Blame is all they know, so they blame one another. They then cannot reglue those alliances as they see each other as the reason for their failures.

Truth is Low Maintenance

Truth is unchanging. More and more Truth can be revealed, but Truth itself, exists whole. Lies have to be manufactured and the recipes are flawed.

Speaking Truth to Lies, even the really loud lies, even the really bad-tempered lies, is all it takes to keep the lies from sticking, drying, becoming part of the scene as anything except a work of fiction, and of little enduring relevance.

One Truth, spoken over and over again, can undo the lies of history. One Truth, unchanging, more and more revealed, can crumble the lies that have fundamentally created a false history.

In this day and time, we can, by speaking Truth to Lies, prevent a false history from ever solidifying.

We have no enemies. We are all brothers and sisters in this Human Race. We have opposition, and that can be dealt with by laughing at fear merchants, speaking Truth to Lies. They can continue to divide us, and we can continue to appeal to that we all have in common: The Truth. They have it too. They just choose to ignore it.

It is more powerful than all their lies, and it reveals the core of their fears, from which they have chosen to deal, for far too long.

Once we realize we have Truth, we have already won. It just will take time to get there. Meanwhile, they and their minions, their plaster and their noise, are running from the beasts they created and are tethered to, until they let it go.

As long as they are feeding the fear, it will consume them. Fear must feed or starve. That is the way of Fear.

As long as we stand in Truth, we are sustained by Truth.

This is why the opposition is failing. They want us to believe we are failing, but we are winning. We are gaining. Their voices are everywhere, carrying their lies... but the Truth is unchanged, unmoved, unharmed. It is there for us to see, to know and to take sustenance from.

We have done good work. We have told the truth. We have not sold fear to anyone. Those who have it chose to feed it, and it is not our fault they can't let go as it is devouring them.

Their lies starve in our presence.