oil in the gulf 2010: May 2010

Sunday, 30 May 2010

Washington's Blog

Washington's Blog

Times of London reports:

[Mike Williams, the chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon, and one of the last workers to leave the doomed rig]
claimed that the blowout preventer was then damaged when a crewman accidentally moved a joystick, applying hundreds of
thousands of pounds of force. Pieces of rubber were found in the drilling fluid, which he said implied damage to a crucial seal.
But a supervisor declared the find to be “not a big deal”, Mr Williams alleged.

Friday, 21 May 2010

Gulf of Mexico oil slick: new Nasa image shows it 'looking like a swan' - Telegraph

Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer | McClatchy

Tony Hayward | Executive director | BP

Tony Hayward | Executive director | BP

Job title: Group Chief Executive

Education: University of Edinburgh PH.D Geology 1982. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Aston University and the University of Birmingham.

Career: Tony joined BP in 1982 and began his career as a rig geologist in the North Sea. Following a series of technical and commercial roles in Europe, Asia and South America, he returned to London in 1997 as member of the Upstream Executive Committee. He became Group Treasurer in 2000, Chief Executive for BP’s upstream activities and member of the Main Board of BP in 2003. In May 2007, Tony was appointed Group Chief Executive of BP p.l.c.

External roles: He is a Member of the Business Council of Britain, a Member of Tsinghua Advisory Board, a Member of MIT Energy Advisory Board, Chair of GLOBE CEO Forum for Climate Change and a Trustee of the Emirates Foundation. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Tony can kiss his knighthood bye-bye too!!!

Too many pies --
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100430/NATIONAL/704299834/1042/MAGAZINE3

These guys are part of a culture -- they bob and weave in and out of too many initiatives and its gone to far
it has to stop --- they have in fact spoiled our world at least spoiled the waters and impacted our ecosystem
which I am not sure can ever be saved they are at war with us, with their reckless behaviour and their devil may care attitudes, eleven men dies because of their indifference and it wa almost three weeks before they told us who those men and their families were. these people, both men and women should be charged with criminal endangerment -- its the only avenue that makes sense to me.

Iain Conn | Executive director | BP

Iain Conn | Executive director | BP

Job title: Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing

Key accountabilities: Iain Conn is a member of the BP board of directors and a member of the BP executive management team.

Other group responsibilities: He is the chief executive of the BP Group's refining and marketing business and also holds regional responsibility for Europe, Southern Africa and Asia Pacific.

Education: Iain was born in Edinburgh, educated in Musselburgh, Scotland and subsequently studied chemical engineering and management at The Imperial College, London.

Career: Iain joined BP oil international in 1986, working in a variety of roles in commercial refining and oil trading and in corporate headquarters before moving to BP exploration in Colombia in 1996.

At the end of 1997, he became senior vice president of BP oil in the US, responsible for retail and commercial marketing operations, refining and supply. On the merger between BP and Amoco, in January 1999 he moved to become vice president of BP Amoco exploration’s mid-continent business unit.

At the end of 2000, he returned to London as group vice president and a member of the refining and marketing segment’s executive committee, with responsibility for BP’s marketing business in Asia, Russia, Africa and Latin America. In 2001, he took over responsibility for BP’s marketing operations in Europe and for the integration of Veba Oel. From 2002 until 2004, he was chief executive of BP petrochemicals.

External roles: Ian is chairman of the advisory board of the Imperial College London Tanaka Business School and a non-executive director of Rolls-Royce Group plc

Robert Dudley | The board | BP

Robert Dudley | The board | BP

Job Title: Managing Director

Key accountabilities: Robert (Bob) Dudley is a member of the BP board of directors and a member of the BP executive management team.

Other group responsibilities: He will assume responsibility for broad oversight of the group’s activities in the Americas and Asia.

Education: Degree in Chemical Engineering (University of Illinois, USA), MIM from Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA) and an MBA from SMU (USA).

Career: Bob joined Amoco Corporation in 1979, for whom he worked until its merger with BP in 1998. In his early career he held a variety of engineering and commercial posts in the US and UK. From 1987 he worked on the negotiation and development of projects in the South China Sea, following which he was involved in the restructuring of oil and gas research and development activities in the US.

Between 1994 and 1997 he was based in Moscow working on corporate development for both upstream and downstream businesses in Russia.

In 1997 he became general manager for strategy for Amoco and following the Amoco merger was appointed to a similar role in BP in 1999.

From 1999 – 2000 he was appointed executive assistant to the group chief executive officer, following which he was group vice president for BP’s renewables and alternative energy activities, with responsibilities for BP’s global solar business and wind and hydrogen activities. He then took up the role of group vice president responsible for BP’s upstream businesses in Russia, the Caspian Region, Angola, Algeria and Egypt.

In 2003, following the formation of TNK-BP – a joint venture between BP and Russian partners – Bob assumed the role of president and chief executive officer until December 2008.

Bob was appointed an executive director of the BP board on 6 April 2009 and is an executive vice president and a member of the executive management team.

External roles: Member of the Board of Fellows of the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/05/prweb4020714.htm

who are they kidding!!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/19/bloomberg1376-L2P4Q30UQVI9-2.DTL

Byron Grote | Executive director | BP

Byron Grote | Executive director | BP

Key accountabilities: Dr Grote is a member of the BP board of directors and a member of the BP executive management team.

Other accountabilities: He also has group accountability for BP's integrated supply and trading activities.

Education: PhD in Quantitative Analysis from Cornell University.

Career: Dr Grote joined The Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1979 and in 1985 became director of planning for The Standard Oil Company’s mining subsidiary, Kennecott. In 1986, he was appointed vice president, retail marketing.

In 1988, Dr Grote became commercial vice president for BP’s Alaskan North Slope production activities. In 1989, he was appointed commercial general manager of BP exploration, based in London. He became group treasurer and chief executive officer of BP finance in 1992, directing the global finance operations of the BP group. In 1994, he took up the position of regional chief executive in Latin America. He returned to London in 1995 to take up his appointment as deputy chief executive officer of BP exploration.

He became group chief of staff in 1997, with responsibility for a number of corporate areas, including strategy, technology, IT, investor relations and solar. Following the merger of BP and Amoco, in 1999 he was appointed executive vice president, exploration and production. Between 1999 and 2000, he was responsible for directing the acquisition of ARCO and managing the integration of its operations into BP. Prior to his current position, he was Chief Executive of BP Chemicals from 2000 to 2002.

External roles: Byron is a non-executive director of Unilever NA and Unilever plc and a member of the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management Advisory Council.

He was chairman of the Chemicals Innovation and Growth Team, a joint initiative of the UK Chemicals sector and the Department of Trade and Industry (2001 - 2002), vice-chairman of the UK Government's Public Services Productivity Panel (1998 to 2000), a member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the Governor of Guangdong Province (2002-2006), and a member of the UK Government's Asia Task Force (2005-2006).

He is currently a member of the Business – Government forum on Tax and Globalisation.

Cynthia Caroll | The board | BP

Cynthia Caroll | The board | BP

Cynthia Carroll was appointed a non-executive director of BP in 2007. She is a member of the chairman’s and the safety, ethics and environment assurance committees.

Mrs Carroll started her career with Amoco as a petroleum geologist in oil exploration.

In 1989, she joined Alcan, and in 1991 became vice president/general manager of Alcan foil products. In 1996, she was appointed managing director of Aughinish Alumina Limited, a subsidiary of Alcan Aluminium Limited, in Ireland. In 1998, she became president of bauxite, alumina and specialty chemicals and in 2002 was appointed president and chief executive officer of Alcan’s primary metals group and an officer of Alcan, Inc. in Montreal, Canada.

Mrs Carroll was appointed as chief executive of Anglo American plc, the global mining group, in 2007. She is a director of Anglo Platinum Limited and De Beers s.a.

She is the fifth richest woman in the world in case you missed that --

Andy Inglis | Executive Director | BP

Andy Inglis | Executive Director | BP

Job title, Chief Executive, Exploration and Production

Key accountabilities: Andy is a member of the BP board of directors and a member of the BP executive management team.

Other group accountabilities: He is chief executive of BP’s exploration and production business and holds regional responsibility for Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East, North and West Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and South America, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Education: Andy gained an MA in engineering from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

Career: Andy joined BP Exploration in 1980, working on various North Sea projects. Following a series of commercial roles in exploration, he became chief of staff for BP Exploration in 1997. Later that year, he led BP’s activities in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and in 1999 became vice president of the US western gas business. In 2004, Andy was appointed an executive vice president and deputy chief executive of exploration and production.

Andy succeeded Tony Hayward as chief executive of BP’s exploration and production business on 1 February 2007, and also became an executive director of the BP group.

External roles: Andy is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He was appointed a non-executive director of BAE Systems plc in June 2007.

Andy can kiss his knighthood bye-bye

Paul Anderson | The board | BP

Paul Anderson | The board | BP

Paul Anderson was appointed a non-executive director of BP on 1 February 2010. He is a member of the chairman's and the safety, ethics and environment assurance committees. He is a non-executive director of BAE Systems PLC and of Spectra Energy Corp. He was formerly chief executive at BHP Billiton

http://www.bhpbilliton.com/bb/home.jsp

and Duke Energy where he also served as a nonexecutive director. Having previously been chief executive officer and managing director of BHP Limited and then BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc, he rejoined these latter boards in 2006 as a non-executive director, retiring on 31 January 2010.

BHPBilliton and Rio Tinto sign agreement
On 5 June 2009, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto signed an agreement of core principles to establish a production joint venture covering the entirety of both companies' Western Australian iron ore assets. The companies today signed binding agreements on the proposed JV that cover all aspects of how the joint venture will operate and be governed.
http://www.bhpbilliton.com/bb/investorsMedia/news/2009/bhpBillitonAndRioTintoSignBindingAgreementsOnIronOreProductionJointVenture.jsp

Antony Burgmans | The board | BP

Antony Burgmans | The board | BP

Antony Burgmans was appointed a non-executive director of BP in 2004. He is a member of the chairman’s, the remuneration and the safety, ethics and environment assurance committees.

He joined Unilever in 1972, holding a succession of marketing and sales posts including, from 1988 until 1991, the chairmanship of PT Unilever Indonesia.

In 1991, he was appointed to the board of Unilever, becoming business group president, ice cream and frozen foods, Europe, in 1994, and chairman of Unilever’s Europe committee, co-ordinating its European activities. In 1998, he became vice chairman of Unilever NV and in 1999, chairman of Unilever NV and vice chairman of Unilever PLC. In 2005, he became non-executive chairman of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC until his retirement in 2007.

Mr Burgmans is a member of the supervisory boards of Akzo Nobel NV, AEGON NV and SHV Holdings NV.

Sir William Castell | The board | BP

Sir William Castell | The board | BP

Sir William Castell was appointed a non-executive director of BP in 2006. He is the senior independent director and is a member of the chairman’s and the nomination committees and chairman of the safety, ethics and environment assurance committee.

Sir William spent his early career with the Wellcome Foundation, holding various positions. In 1989, he joined Amersham plc as chief executive. Following Amersham’s acquisition by General Electric in 2004, Sir William became president and chief executive officer of GE Healthcare, and a vice chairman and a director of the General Electric Company. He retired from GE Healthcare in 2006. Sir William remains a director of the General Electric Company. He was appointed as a member of the board of governors of the Wellcome Trust in 2006, subsequently becoming its chairman.

Sir William was knighted in 2000. In 2004, he received the honour Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order.

George David | The board | BP

George David | The board | BP
George David was appointed a non-executive director of BP in 2008. He is a member of the chairman’s, the audit and the remuneration committees.

Mr David began his career in The Boston Consulting Group before joining the Otis Elevator Company in 1975. He held various roles in Otis and later in UTC, following Otis’s merger with UTC in 1977. In 1992, he became UTC’s chief operating officer. He served as UTC’s chief executive officer from 1994 until 2008 and as chairman from 1997 until his retirement on 31 December 2009.

Mr David is a former director of Citigroup Inc. and is vice chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Mr David was awarded the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation in 1999 and admitted to the French Légion d’Honneur in 2002.

Ian Davis| The board | BP

Ian Davis| The board | BP

Ian Davis joined the board as a non-executive director of BP on 2 April 2010. He is a member of the chairman's, the remuneration and the audit committees.

Mr Davis spent his early career at Bowater, moving to McKinsey & Company in 1979. He was managing partner of McKinsey’s practice in the UK and Ireland from 1996 to 2003. In 2003, he was appointed as chairman and worldwide managing director of McKinsey serving in this capacity until 2009. During his career with McKinsey, Mr Davis has served as a consultant on a range of global organizations across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He will be retiring as senior partner of McKinsey & Company in July 2010.

He is a member of the Mayor of Beijing International Business Leaders’ Advisory Council, and is an advisory director of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre.

Douglas Flint | The board | BP

Douglas Flint | The board | BP

Douglas Flint was appointed to the board of BP as a non-executive director in 2005. He is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the chairman’s and the nomination committees.

He began his career with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) and was made a partner in 1988. In 1995, Mr Flint joined the HSBC Group as group finance director of HSBC Holdings plc and in 2009 his role was broadened to chief financial officer, executive director risk and regulation.

He was chairman of the Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control and served on the Accounting Standards Board and the Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board between 2001 and 2004. He also served on the Shipley Working Group on Public Disclosure and co-chaired the Group of Thirty Report on Enhancing Public Confidence in Financial Reporting.

Mr Flint was awarded a CBE in 2006.

Dr DeAnne Julius | The board | BP

Dr DeAnne Julius | The board | BP

DeAnne Julius was appointed a non-executive director of BP in 2001. She is chairman of the remuneration committee and a member of the chairman’s and the nomination committees.

Dr Julius began her career in 1975 working for the World Bank. In 1986, she became director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and in 1989 she was appointed chief economist at the Royal Dutch Shell Group becoming chief economist at British Airways PLC in 1993.

Between 1997 and 2001, Dr Julius was an independent member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. Since 2001, she has held a variety of non-executive appointments and, in 2003, she was appointed chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. She is a non-executive director of Roche Holdings SA and Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.

Dr Julius was awarded a CBE in 2002.

White House aims to use Deepwater disaster to win votes for US climate bill | Environment | guardian.co.uk

BP’s oil spill fight plagued by methane hydrates, a hazard of deep water | FT Energy Source | FT.com

British Petroleum and friends: The face of the enemy » peoplesworld

British Petroleum and friends: The face of the enemy » peoplesworld

The Chairman of the Board of British Petroleum is a Swede, Carl-Henric Svanberg,
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article6579474.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/13/bp-chairman-svanberg-comment

Forbes ranks Ms. Carroll as the fifth richest woman on the planet, sh has four children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Carroll

http://cms.skidmore.edu/ctw/participants.cfm?passID=128

and is currently Executive Director of Anglo American PLC, as well as sitting of the board of DeBeers and BP.
For those who don't following mining matters, Anglo-American and DeBeers are the two ugly twins of South African mining. Both companies are heavily implicated in oppressive labor conditions in South Africa and its neighbors. Historically, Anglo-American ran the gold mines of the Transvaal, while DeBeers is of course world famous for its diamonds. Ms. Carroll became Executive Director of Anglo-American in March 2007, and has been sharply criticized in South Africa because of her company's labor practices. She was also formerly associated with the aluminum mining giant, Alcan, and other corporate behemoths. Her salary at BP is said to be about $2 million per year

Go to: http://peoplesworld.org/british-petroleum-and-friends-the-face-of-the-enemy/

Tony Haywood

U.S. agency let oil industry write offshore drilling rules | McClatchy

U.S. agency let oil industry write offshore drilling rules | McClatchy

"MMS is the most corrupt, inept, industry-dominated agency I have dealt with in 20 years," said Kieran Suckling, the executive director and founder of the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group in San Francisco. "They are incapable of regulating the industry. Maybe it's time to put them out of their misery."

All images for Explosion, Leak at Gulf of Mexico Oil Well : Natural Hazards

All images for Explosion, Leak at Gulf of Mexico Oil Well : Natural Hazards

Earth Observatory
Sequence from April 28 2010. to May 18 2010.

Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico : Image of the Day

Gulf Oil Slick Approaching Loop Current : Image of the Day

YouTube - Entrepreneurial Spirit Needed: Tony Hayward, British Petroleum

Gulf oil spill: BP has a long record of legal, ethical violations - More News - MiamiHerald.com

Gulf oil spill spreads west toward Texas | Reuters

BP working hard to keep the damage hidden - Greenpeace USA Blog

Local News | BP's trail of accidents, scandals stretches to Alaska | Seattle Times Newspaper

Local News | BP's trail of accidents, scandals stretches to Alaska | Seattle Times Newspaper

The British oil company BP produced the largest oil spill ever on Alaska's North Slope, faced criminal charges for intentionally dumping hazardous waste near Prudhoe Bay and was excoriated by Congress for a string of oil-pipeline leaks on the tundra.

Members of Congress — Republicans and Democrats alike — have accused the company of everything from profiteering at the expense of employee safety to pressuring government contractors to whitewash draft reports that criticized its upkeep of worn-out Alaskan oil pipelines.

"BP's policies are as rusty as its pipelines," Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, told BP executives during a heated September 2006 hearing. "I'm even more concerned about BP's corporate culture of seeming indifference to safety and environmental issues. And this comes from a company that prides itself in their ads on protecting the environment. Shame. Shame. Shame."

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: giant dome sent to capture leaking crude - Telegraph

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: slick threatens coast | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Video: BP deploys dome to control oil spill | Environment | guardian.co.uk

BP stems one of three Deepwater Horizon oil leaks, US coastguard says | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The US coastguard says BP has managed to cap one of three leaks from its stricken deepwater oil well, but the work is not expected to reduce the overall flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The work should reduce the number of leak points that need to be fixed on the ocean floor, making it easier to drop a containment dome to bottle up the disastrous oil spill threatening sealife and livelihoods along the Gulf Coast.

Since an explosion on 20 April, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the Deepwater Horizon well has been spewing at least 800,000 litres a day.

Experts say the best short-term solution is to drop a specially built giant concrete-and-steel box designed to siphon the oil away over the breach.

Crews for Wild Well Control, a contractor, are putting the finishing touches on the 100-ton containment dome, which is expected to be taken to the leak site today. John Curry, a BP spokesman, said it would be deployed on the seabed by tomorrow.

It's the latest attempt by BP engineers to stem the oil from the rig, which killed 11 workers when it exploded. It sank two days later, and oil started pouring into the Gulf. BP is in charge of the cleanup and President Barack Obama says the company is responsible for the costs.

Disaster Plans Lacking at Deep Rigs - WSJ.com

Video: Oil rig Deepwater Horizon sinks

Video: Oil rig Deepwater Horizon sinks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/05/20/VI2010052003413.html

26 hours later and the rigg is still burning -- coastguards comments

Feds demand that BP provide confidential Gulf oil spill data - CSMonitor.com

Feds demand that BP provide confidential Gulf oil spill data - CSMonitor.com

BP has yet to comply with federal requests to produce confidential internal data regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Nor is it providing direct answers to an order that it use another, less toxic dispersant to mitigate the oil.

Deepwater Horizon survivor describes horrors of blast and escape from rig | Environment | The Guardian

First article I've seen on the workers plight, has taken a month to come out.
No surprises there then, all focus on economics and potential environmental disaster, the deaths of 11 workers is obviously just a stat.

2006, explosion in BP facility, Texas. 15 dead, 170 injured. The same year BP spent over $3million on lobbying to influence safety regulations.

http://thetbf.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/oil-rig-explosion-kills-11-leaves-oil-spill-that-can-be-seen-from-space/

decent article on BP...

Blogger comment from the Guardian

BP says study due Saturday on size of Gulf spill - MarketWatch

Deepwater Rig Explosion: Never-Before-Seen Footage Of The Fire From National Geographic (VIDEO)

Deepwater Rig Explosion: Never-Before-Seen Footage Of The Fire From National Geographic (VIDEO)

I've got a serious question for anyone who wants to answer this and I would appreciate any response to my question. I'm sure there are lots of folks who know more about steel strength to fire/heat. One of the commentators in the film said the fire/heat on the rig on a scale out of 10, would be 9.5. The video stated that it took over 34 hours for it to collaspe. I'm not sure of the size of the rig, but I would presume it would be pretty high too. So, my question is this, but let me preface that I'm not into conspiracy theories, BUT, the Twin Towers with far less fire/heat collasped within an hour if I recall. Can anyone explain that to me?
From comments on Huffington Post

Gulf Oil Spill | National Geographic Channel

Gulf Oil Spill | National Geographic Channel

It's one of America's biggest environmental disasters and the largest oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico since 1979. Now, as experts scramble to stop the oil leak, NGC will reveal what happened to the Deepwater Horizon as a blowout tore it apart, killing 11 of the 126 men on board, sending oil toward the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The special will contain never-before-seen video shot by salvage crews as they battled to get close to the burning rig.

No deep-water rigs shut after inspection - Upstream Online

Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster - 60 Minutes - CBS News

". . .the trouble was just beginning: when drilling resumed, Williams says there was an accident on the rig that has not been reported before. He says, four weeks before the explosion, the rig's most vital piece of safety equipment was damaged."

RIGZONE - Rig Detail

Rig Data: Deepwater Horizon

RIGZONE - Rig Detail

Transocean | Deepwater Horizon Condolences

Remembering the guys lost off the Deepwater Horizon (photos)
It took to long to let us know who these men were - Peace

Jason Anderson
Aaron Dale Burkeen
Donald Clark
Stephen Curtis
Roy Wyatt Kemp
Karl Kleppinger
Gordon Jones (M-I SWACO)
Blair Manuel (M-I SWACO)
Dewey Revette
Shane Roshto
Adam Weise

Transocean | Deepwater Horizon Condolences Page

Transocean :: Home

Transocean Owner of the rig Deepwater Horizon
Transocean :: Home

BP stems one of three Deepwater Horizon oil leaks, US coastguard says | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Rig owner scrapped bonuses over safety concerns - Times Online

Thomas Paine's The Crisis

December 25, 1776 General George Washington ordered readings to the assembled troops from Thomas Paine's The Crisis, with its famous passage, "These are the times that try men's souls." "The Crisis" had just been published December 23 1776 in Philadelphia. "These are the times to try men's souls."

December 23, 1776

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. Read at:Thomas Paine If you replace the word "Britain, with Corporation, so, the more things change the more they stay the same! Please sign the Motion to Amend Petition + find a Environmental - Social Justice - Human Rights - Animal Rights organization to work with -- our lives the lives of our children + grandchildren depend on how we look after our planet -- our earth -- our Pachamama See the video Paul Hawkins, below -- peace --

Over Rule the Courts -- Sign the Petition

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