Thursday
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What you can't see is worse than what you can
Dig this. H2S, as we all know, smells like "rotten eggs", which is a good thing, because H2S is a very deadly gas. Here is the problem, at the levels we can smell it, it is not going to kill anyone. But, as the levels of H2S rise in parts per million, it reaches a level where is numbs, deactivates the olfactory nerves, preventing humans from smelling it. As levels continue to rise, the higher levels are undetected by the impaired olfactory nerves, and can reach a level, where the gas shuts down the human physiological systems (combo of lungs, heart) and causes loss of consciousness and can cause death.
NOTE: Natural gas is odorless. Gas companies ADD odor to it in the industrial process, in order to make it detectable by human olfactory glands. Natural gas coming out of the BP blowout has no perfume added.
Dance of the Gases
BP can cap the blowout tomorrow, but the gases will continue to come out of the water for some incalculable period of time. The crude and natural gas are made up of hundreds and hundreds of chemicals, atoms (mercury, for example). The compounds are in a dance, where the dancers are constantly changing from gases to liquids to solids and back and forth, changing with temperature, changing with pressure. One's boiling temperature is the other's liquifying temperature. If you could follow one molecule or compound up out of the hole, it might rise through the 5000 feet of water as a liquid and pop out of the sea as a gas, float over to the coast, liquify or solidify, heat up again and float off as a gas. The word "gas" comes from the Greek word "chaos." The constant interchange among the gas, liquid and solid states is the real "chaos." The dance goes on with big changes during the course of a day. The sun heats up the solid tar ball on a beach and out pops a gas. The sun sets, the gas cools and floats up the skeptic's nose.
I hear some try to refute the concern about gas as a problem, but simply noting that the gases "dissipate." What a convenient word. What a denial word. Dissipate? To where? Into a baby's lungs? No more gases. They are all gone now. Where are they? Oh, the babies are carrying them around in their lungs. Hydrogen Sulfide, benzene and others that are much worse. Dissipated for how long? A gas can dissipate for a few minutes or days and reappear as a liquid or solid. So, what does the skeptic call this reappearance of the "dissipated" gas?
Slide Show of Gases
I hear some try to refute the concern about gas as a problem, but simply noting that the gases "dissipate." What a convenient word. What a denial word. Dissipate? To where? Into a baby's lungs? No more gases. They are all gone now. Where are they? Oh, the babies are carrying them around in their lungs. Hydrogen Sulfide, benzene and others that are much worse. Dissipated for how long? A gas can dissipate for a few minutes or days and reappear as a liquid or solid. So, what does the skeptic call this reappearance of the "dissipated" gas?
Slide Show of Gases
Toxic Gases in Air from Crude Oil in Gulf
Beware Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Crude Oil and Gases Associated with Crude
Wednesday
Gas in Air over Louisiana
Today we get the first measurements of air borne chemicals.
These numbers are shocking beyond what I would even have predicted
The concentration threshold for people to experience physical symptoms from hydrogen sulfide is about 5 to 10 parts per billion. But as recently as last Thursday, the EPA measured levels at 1,000 ppb
What is that a factor of, going from 10 (should be) to 1,000 (reality)?
Article at SOUTHERN STUDIES.
They were getting these data weeks ago and only now we see them. This is ethically questionable, not letting the public know how bad this is, when they've been sitting on the data for 3 weeks.
I remember when Dan Rather announced on the evening news that "Hot dogs cause cancer." How long will we wait for perky Katy Curic to announce that the Gulf causes cancer. By delaying the announcement they are subjecting more people to harm, innocent people who are being hoodwinked by Blather Petroleum.
The highest levels of airborne hydrogen sulfide measured so far were on May 3, at 1,192 ppb.
I'll bet that they don't even have the capability to measure the really, really bad toxic chemicals that I know are forming in the cloud.
Some pregnant gal with a bun in the oven, breathing these kinds of levels over the past few weeks is taking in toxic levels of ALL the nastiest, cancer causing chemicals known on the planet and feeding it into a newly developing fetus that does not have a chance of a healthy life. I'd say that nine months from now, the medical hospitals are going to be seeing new borns with deformities and abnormalities that are unimaginable.
Hydrogen sulfide is nowhere near as scary as the killer gases floating in the same air. They just didn't measure for the nasty stuff.
This will be the beginning of a cascade of reports that will tear back the curtain of what is really being hidden by the Wizard of Ooze.
Gas = Chaos
The word 'gases' comes from Greek for 'chaos', probably from Gk. khaos "empty space" (see chaos), influenced by Paracelsus, who used khaos in occult sense of "proper elements of spirits" or "ultra-rarified water." Meaning "utter confusion" (c.1600) is extended from theological use of chaos for "the void at the beginning of creation" in Vulgate version of Genesis. The Gk. for "disorder" was tarakhe, however the use of chaos here was rooted in Hesiod ("Theogony"), who describes khaos as the primeval emptiness of the Universe, begetter of Erebus and Nyx ("Night"), and in Ovid ("Metamorphoses"), who opposes Khaos to Kosmos, "the ordered Universe." Chaos theory in the modern mathematical sense is attested from c.1977
1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by air
I sent out press releases about the new video "Survive the Blowout." I uploaded it to YouTube, sent out messages to a few hundred Facebook fans. The reaction is mostly a non reaction. I think people can't believe that there is any problem with the gases, even though EPA is gathering data of 100 times accepted limits for human health for Hydrogen Sulfide H2S on May 3. Data were collected at Venice, a small town on the Gulf coast, approximately 50 miles away from the blowout. How did that gas get there? Why isn't that the lead story on CNN, FOX, etc? Lead story for them is that the oil blob is looking "blacker". Blacker? Because that is what TV cameras can "see".
Remember this phrase: What you can't see, is worse than what you can see. What you can't smell is worse than what you can smell.
Dig this. H2S, as we all know, smells like "rotten eggs", which is a good thing, because H2S is a very deadly gas. Here is the problem, at the levels we can smell it, it is not going to kill anyone. But, as the levels of H2S rise in parts per million, it reaches a level where is numbs, deactivates the olfactory nerves, preventing humans from smelling it. As levels continue to rise, the higher levels are undetected by the impaired olfactory nerves, and can reach a level, where the gas shuts down the human physiological systems (combo of lungs, heart) and causes loss of consciousness and can cause death.
NOTE: Natural gas is odorless. Gas companies ADD odor to it in the industrial process, in order to make it detectable by human olfactory glands. Natural gas coming out of the BP blowout has no perfume added.
I sent press releases to every large metro daily newspaper from Corpus Christi around the northern Gulf to the Keys. I'll let you know tomorrow, if any of them call, print, email or post anything. It will be interesting to see if the big DENIAL mechanism is at work here!
The levels of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) detected by EPA at the Venice site show 4,516 ppb on May 2, where the expected standard is 3.7 (benzene) to 61.25 methylene chloride. That is an increase of a factor of 1,000. THREE WEEKS AGO. There are no published readings since that date. WHY? Where are the environmentalists? Why aren't they all over this? It might reflect badly on their man in the WH? I don't know.
BP can cap the blowout tomorrow, but the gases will continue to come out of the water for some incalculable period of time. The crude and natural gas are made up of hundreds and hundreds of chemicals, atoms (mercury, for example). The compounds are in a dance, where the dancers are constantly changing from gases to liquids to solids and back and forth, changing with temperature, changing with pressure. One's boiling temperature is the other's liquifying temperature. If you could follow one molecule or compound up out of the hole, it might rise through the 5000 feet of water as a liquid and pop out of the sea as a gas, float over to the coast, liquify or solidify, heat up again and float off as a gas. The word "gas" comes from the Greek word "chaos." The constant interchange among the gas, liquid and solid states is the real "chaos." The dance goes on with big changes during the course of a day. The sun heats up the solid tar ball on a beach and out pops a gas. The sun sets, the gas cools and floats up the skeptic's nose.
I hear some try to refute the concern about gas as a problem, but simply noting that the gases "dissipate." What a convenient word. What a denial word. Dissipate? To where? Into a baby's lungs? No more gases. They are all gone now. Where are they? Oh, the babies are carrying them around in their lungs. Hydrogen Sulfide, benzene and others that are much worse. Dissipated for how long? A gas can dissipate for a few minutes or days and reappear as a liquid or solid. So, what does the skeptic call this reappearance of the "dissipated" gas?
Contained Crude vs. Uncaged Commandos
How do we help people understand that the magnitude of this problem is so huge, because this giant monster is uncaged, open, freely morphing its way around the circulations of the Gulf currents and the overhead wind currents. The nasty, poisonous, toxic, killer chemicals in crude have been set free from their cauldron beneath the floor of the Gulf. They are not in an enclosed tank, not in a supertanker, not in a refinery, not in a tanker truck, not in a tank beneath the gas station, not in a can at the hardware store. The gases and chemicals have not gone through a refining process that strips out the worst of the worst, burns off the killers, remixed some with others to make marketable products that are in our clothes and in our foods, in our ice cream and in our cosmetics and lotions.
No, these chemicals have come directly up the ladder from hell. They haven't been screened, passed through EMA inspections. Some of them are the raw engines of power that cause cancer, deformities, brain damage. These devils from beneath of Gulf floor are now loose on the planet. They are free to fly up human noses, crawl down human throats, penetrate human skin. They are free to land with the force of an invading army upon the open water reservoirs of any municipality they fly over. We fret over terrorists dropping kool aid in our water supplies. This army of cancer causing chemicals now has open access to the fly ways over the precious drinking water stored by cities along the coast beneath the clouds where this enemy "dissipates."
Every day that the blowout is not plugged, is another day that a truck load or a tanker load of these commandos, all designated by some rank of H2S, CO, CO2, H this and H that, enter the borders of the United States. They will be flying into Mexico and Cuba next, riding on a sea breeze or surfing on a wave. Like the volcanic ash carried by the winds from Iceland across Europe, the western breezes will float the little intruders into other lands, where they will be as unwelcome, yet as unstoppable as here.
The administration, the oil companies and the media seem to want to keep the focus of discussion on the engineering problem of plugging the hole. But, really, it is a focus that none of us can do anything about. A handful of government people and engineers have to do whatever they can. There is no value in 300,000,000 Americans following the progress of that problem on a minute to minute, day to day basis. All we can do is which them luck. By focusing on the plug problem, we are treating it like a Superbowl to see which side wins. The problem is that while, we are sitting in front of our TV's and clicking on our websites to see who is winning, we are distracted from the real problem that is swirling around outside our homes, our offices, our personal consciousness. What's that? A threat to our lives. A threat to the lives of those who are most immediately near the source of the largest, cancer causing monster allowed to escape out of the depths of the earth. Almost everyone in other states not near the Gulf has friends and relatives in the immediately affected states. The impact to the economy will be felt by all.
The threat is real. Every minute lost, watching the administration hold its foot on the throat of BP, is a minute that can be used to save another life, educate another person about how to prepare, how to respond and how to survive. The encroachment of the monster into our lives is going to get worse with each passing day. It may be many months before someone can tell us that things are getting better, that we have pushed the monster back into its hole, we have washed it out or our seas and we have scrubbed it out of our air. As the brown entrails of the monster round the Florida Keys and ride the currents up and around the Atlantic, as the darkening blob grows on the floor of the Gulf, as the noxious, nomad molecules dissipate over our water supplies, our farm land and over our homes, we are challenged with the task of mobilizing our lives, rearranging our priorities and reaching out to our loved ones and neighbors to take on this beast, to respond to its challenge and to participate in its defeat. Our quality of life is at stake. The very foundations of our life are in jeopardy. Our food. Our water. Our air. We don't have time to be mislead by a media madness focused on a political joust. We are called to respond to a higher value, one based on our own sense of personal responsibility to look out for and care for our own well being and the well being of those we hold dear, those we call neighbors and friends, and those we meet on the road, who may be from different states or other countries. The monster knows no boundaries in its attack on our lives. We must know no boundaries in our efforts to find common ground, build new bridges, rearrange old behaviors and arrive at innovative solutions in mustering forces we only now may discover to respond to the challenge with courage, compassion, ingenuity and commitment to assure our health, safety and final victory over the monster from hell.
Paul Revere warned of the first British invasion with "One if by land. Two if by sea." The new warning goes up with "One if by land. Two if by sea. Three if by air.
Links to Hi Rez Slides
Here are links to the slide shows with individual slides from the short videos with info (in more Hi Rez) on lists of gases, health effects, etc.
BLOWOUT slides
BLOWOUT Rx slides
A person can find both of these links in right column on BlowOutRx.com
BLOWOUT slides
BLOWOUT Rx slides
A person can find both of these links in right column on BlowOutRx.com
Gulf Story is Locked Down
I sent press releases about my BlowOut videos to ALL major daily metro newspapers print/online and got NO response. I sent from Corpus Christi to the Keys.
Those people actually live there. You'd think there'd be one person at one newspaper who would be curious, who might be concerned for his/her family and want to check out the info. No.
I talked to the writer for WSJ, Examiner, Politico.com. He is going to try to get a story together this weekend for the Examiner. He says the mainline media has the story locked down.
He asked me for links to help him get more info on the world you and I are looking at. I sent him some.
I thought this was suppose to be a free society with free markets and a free press.
What is happening is criminal, that we have to get our information from Russia about oil fallout threats to our American population on the Eastern seaboard.
Surprise. It is not going to be only Eastern seaboard that is potentially in the path of these toxic clouds. How many times have we seen hurricanes sweep across the Gulf and smash into Cancun and the Eastern Mexican border, Veracruz and the Mexican oil fields to its south.
How much do these people get paid to be involved in this cover up? Read what the director of Tulane Public Health says in USA Today a few days ago:
LuAnn White, a toxicologist and director of Tulane University's Center for Applied Environmental Public Health, doesn't believe there's much danger to people, especially those on the coast or inland.
"Oil spills are ecological events, not human health events," she says. The most dangerous gases that come off the hydrocarbons in crude oil, benzene and toluene, will disperse as they come up through 5,000 feet of ocean water and then into the air, she says. And as the entire event "is happening in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico," they won't have much effect on people on land."
"not human events"
"gases will disperse . . . and then into the air" (The AIR?. Is that the same air people breath? Or, different air?)
"won't have much effect on people on land"
WHAT?
With that being the mainline spin, our message cannot get through.
I see that BP is trying again to cap the monster today or next few days. I hope they are successful. BUT, ever if they are successful, the damage has been done. If BP is successful, I am worried that a new sense of satisfaction and complacency will set in that "now we did it, stuffed the monster back in his cave and can go about our lives again." WRONG. I guess that it is like the alcoholic who has to hit bottom before he/she can acknowledge the problem. This addiction to oil is going to demand that this society hits its bottom, delivering truck loads of body bags to the affected areas, packing up the dead, and handing out bags to the undead, asking them to climb into the bags and wait a few more minutes, or hours, or days, until someone with a gas mask can come along and zip them up.
I guess I need to do a video on how to climb into a body bag and zip it up from the inside.
Those people actually live there. You'd think there'd be one person at one newspaper who would be curious, who might be concerned for his/her family and want to check out the info. No.
I talked to the writer for WSJ, Examiner, Politico.com. He is going to try to get a story together this weekend for the Examiner. He says the mainline media has the story locked down.
He asked me for links to help him get more info on the world you and I are looking at. I sent him some.
I thought this was suppose to be a free society with free markets and a free press.
What is happening is criminal, that we have to get our information from Russia about oil fallout threats to our American population on the Eastern seaboard.
Surprise. It is not going to be only Eastern seaboard that is potentially in the path of these toxic clouds. How many times have we seen hurricanes sweep across the Gulf and smash into Cancun and the Eastern Mexican border, Veracruz and the Mexican oil fields to its south.
How much do these people get paid to be involved in this cover up? Read what the director of Tulane Public Health says in USA Today a few days ago:
LuAnn White, a toxicologist and director of Tulane University's Center for Applied Environmental Public Health, doesn't believe there's much danger to people, especially those on the coast or inland.
"Oil spills are ecological events, not human health events," she says. The most dangerous gases that come off the hydrocarbons in crude oil, benzene and toluene, will disperse as they come up through 5,000 feet of ocean water and then into the air, she says. And as the entire event "is happening in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico," they won't have much effect on people on land."
"not human events"
"gases will disperse . . . and then into the air" (The AIR?. Is that the same air people breath? Or, different air?)
"won't have much effect on people on land"
WHAT?
With that being the mainline spin, our message cannot get through.
I see that BP is trying again to cap the monster today or next few days. I hope they are successful. BUT, ever if they are successful, the damage has been done. If BP is successful, I am worried that a new sense of satisfaction and complacency will set in that "now we did it, stuffed the monster back in his cave and can go about our lives again." WRONG. I guess that it is like the alcoholic who has to hit bottom before he/she can acknowledge the problem. This addiction to oil is going to demand that this society hits its bottom, delivering truck loads of body bags to the affected areas, packing up the dead, and handing out bags to the undead, asking them to climb into the bags and wait a few more minutes, or hours, or days, until someone with a gas mask can come along and zip them up.
I guess I need to do a video on how to climb into a body bag and zip it up from the inside.
Gases in the Gulf
Gases are moving north from the Gulf. Readings by EPA of Hydrogen Sulfide and Benzene in Venice, LA on the coast are 100 times greater than EPA standards for human health. Standard = 5 to 10 ppb. Readings were 1,192 ppb on May 3, three weeks ago. What are they today? You want to get scared. Look up hydrogen sulfide and what it can do. Yes, it smells like 'rotten eggs', but, at higher concentrations, it numbs the olfactory nerves, making it undetectable, and as concentrations increase, it's more dangerous and ultimately deadly. Breathing a little over a long time is the same (actually worse) than breathing a alot at once. People near the blowout have been breathing these increased levels since April 20. We are 35 days into this. How many reports have you seen warning about the gases? All the cameras are focus on the globs floating around on the beaches. REMEMBER THIS: What you can't see, is worse than what you can. What you can't smell is worse than what you can.
Video
Forget the oil. The gases are the killers. Oil kills fish. Gas kills everything that breaths. View the videos on the BlowOut Rx links below. The media has us lulled into mass hypnosis on this, watching Obama and BP doing some kind of a sick arm wrestling routine. If BP plugs the "hole to hell" today, it won't stop millions of cubic feet of toxic gases from forming clouds above the Gulf over the next months and from getting blown into the next wind gust, wherever it is headed. Toward you. Toward your relatives. The media doesn't want us to get scared. WRONG. Get scared. Rattle somebody's cage. If we don't get shaken from our stupor fast, we are going to be lulled into a deeper sleep we'd rather avoid.
Video
I sent our press releases on this to every major metro daily on the Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to the Keys. Not one nibble. Those people live under this cloud. You'd think that one reporter in one town would see this and maybe be worried about his family's health. No. There is a lock on this story by the mainline propaganda machine. Oil controls the Gulf. They can handle this.
The operative word for what is going on is DENIAL. The is the family of addicts denying any problem. What would the neighbors think? We can handle this. It's not really so bad. Everything will be OK.
How do I know the dangers of the gases? I worked in San Antonio, Texas for Dona Carolina Distillers and edited the book, Alcohol Distillers Manual for Gasohol and Spirits. Distilling oil and alcohol is the same process, separating the different gases from the crude or the mash. That is what an oil refinery s, a giant distillery. Right now the Gulf is a giant still, a 5000 feet high fractionating tower, spewing out gases coming up from the devil's cauldron. No one knows what percentage is natural gas, which is actually odorless. Refineries add an odor in the manufacturing process to help us detect it, before it can kill us. No one is adding perfume to what's coming out of the hole from hell.
BlowOut Rx Prescriptions for Recovery
Prescriptions for recovery after blowouts for wildlife and human communities affected by the oil disaster caused by sinking of PB oil rig Deepwater Horizon in Gulf of Mexico April and May and June 2010
Video
Forget the oil. The gases are the killers. Oil kills fish. Gas kills everything that breaths. View the videos on the BlowOut Rx links below. The media has us lulled into mass hypnosis on this, watching Obama and BP doing some kind of a sick arm wrestling routine. If BP plugs the "hole to hell" today, it won't stop millions of cubic feet of toxic gases from forming clouds above the Gulf over the next months and from getting blown into the next wind gust, wherever it is headed. Toward you. Toward your relatives. The media doesn't want us to get scared. WRONG. Get scared. Rattle somebody's cage. If we don't get shaken from our stupor fast, we are going to be lulled into a deeper sleep we'd rather avoid.
Video
I sent our press releases on this to every major metro daily on the Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to the Keys. Not one nibble. Those people live under this cloud. You'd think that one reporter in one town would see this and maybe be worried about his family's health. No. There is a lock on this story by the mainline propaganda machine. Oil controls the Gulf. They can handle this.
The operative word for what is going on is DENIAL. The is the family of addicts denying any problem. What would the neighbors think? We can handle this. It's not really so bad. Everything will be OK.
How do I know the dangers of the gases? I worked in San Antonio, Texas for Dona Carolina Distillers and edited the book, Alcohol Distillers Manual for Gasohol and Spirits. Distilling oil and alcohol is the same process, separating the different gases from the crude or the mash. That is what an oil refinery s, a giant distillery. Right now the Gulf is a giant still, a 5000 feet high fractionating tower, spewing out gases coming up from the devil's cauldron. No one knows what percentage is natural gas, which is actually odorless. Refineries add an odor in the manufacturing process to help us detect it, before it can kill us. No one is adding perfume to what's coming out of the hole from hell.
BlowOut Rx Prescriptions for Recovery
Prescriptions for recovery after blowouts for wildlife and human communities affected by the oil disaster caused by sinking of PB oil rig Deepwater Horizon in Gulf of Mexico April and May and June 2010
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