Published: October 23rd, 2012 at 5:45 pm ET
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October 23, 2012 photo showing gap:
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Published: October 23rd, 2012 at 5:45 pm ET
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Look at all of the dying trees to the right of the sinkhole. Is it the VOCs or a sign of how far the sink hole will spread?
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I fund this report
Gulf Disaster Truth – Land Mass Rising in the Gulf
On the Ocean Floor, in the Gulf scientists are becoming aware of what is actually happening there. John DiNardo says that a whole new land mass is now rising out of the ocean floor in the Gulf area.
From Mexico to Florida and to Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico the USGS has been observing evidence of a rising Gulf Ocean Floor and potential Methane Gas Ignitions and Tsunamis that could eventually wipe out millions of unsuspecting Gulf Coast people. BP officials have been watching this evidence pile up. Government Officials may be remaining silent, by design
http://www.morningliberty.com/2010/08/02/gulf-disaster-truth-land-mass-rising-in-the-gulf/
Mark
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Could this have actually caused the BP issue in the first place?
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I'll try to find the youtube of the rise in the sea floor near Australia of 2000 meters under a buoy. They think it might be methane. Climate change? Or many a volcano?
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OCEAN FLOOR RISING BY 13 FEET PER DAY IN AUSTRALIA
http://reinep.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/ocean-floor-rising-by-13-feet-per-day-in-australia/
Tsunami Buoy project boss killed days after a plate adjustment and Java's Buoy live feed is shut down
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/10/19/nation/20121019174956&sec=nation
Sumatran earthquakes in April were part of tectonic plate breakup
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/sumatran-earthquakes-in-april-were-part-of-tectonic-plate-breakup/
[They used to test nuclear weapons in the Indian Ocean].
Earth cracking up under Indian Ocean
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528843.500-earth-cracking-up-under-indian-ocean.html
3MIN News October 20, 2012: Contact the Australian Bureau of Meteorology re:Buoy 53046
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZGGNgIv0-E
buoy 53046
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DylyLnC2RMo
National Data Buoy Center
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
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Great read as always Mark. So to say that the sinkhole AND possible the two weird explosions recently AND the other gas bubbling out of the ground in the region is connected is an understatement. Very concerning. My money is on interaction between gulf oil/gas, the water aquifer in the area and a lot of salt with a swamp perched precariously over it.
One item in the article didn't click for me, maybe you could clear it up. The article said a small bore hole couldn't be to blame but I am not so sure.Even a tiny hole can bring down a dam once water begins to flow. I think of the squirrel on one of the ice age movies breaking a glacial dam with his acorn, then contorting himself to stop the ensuing gusher. I believe it is possible for a disaster to start from the figurative flap of a butterfly wing even if we don't understand the chain of actions which connect cause and effect.
Mark I understand you are not the author of the article I just thought maybe you had some helpful insight.
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Good morning The bore hole was under Massive forces it is possible for the problem when it blew it sent up a massive methane bubble that was the fire on the oil rig it blew pipe out no one wanted to see what was in front of them
Mark
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markww, maybe by design, but, i would also think many remain silent because they cling to old science and theories that never amounted to much anyway and just can't get their heads around that. What they see now shouldn't be happening. They can't throw out what they think makes them smart. What they believe is true and factual, despite the new evidence. Right? Sea floors rising? Sure, but, it's not in the books, so it can't be happening. Not a real conspiracy, unless it's a conspiracy of ignorance.
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VFO typed these pixels of light: " They can't throw out what they think makes them smart. What they believe is true and factual, despite the new evidence."
SP: Truer words were never spoken. Puny humans… Messing with the forces of nature far beyond their comprehension. The inventive machine era of mankind has met its match from mother nature. She will spank the naked apes in numerous way while the fearless intellectuals barely understand the longterm consequences. The destruction of carbon form habitats now approaches the scale of nature's largest natural disasters. It's a one-two punch to the long term survival of bipeds.
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How about that big crack in the earth between the dying trees……wow. Ddoes the video show anything good? I can't play it. Thanks
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Actually, the gap in the upper image is below the frame of the old image. That gap is the new shoreline of the subsidence region to the north of the hole, heading toward Bayou Corne and Highway 70. It might have been cleared previously for access to the right of way from the Texas Brine pads, or it might have formed without man's immediate touch. Hard to say without more photos over time.
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want fed involvement and possibly then media coverage? Sign the petition!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-appoint-federal-team-assume-control-management-sinkhole-disaster-bayou-corne-la/hjBfgFYR
only need 24000 + signatures
Just from the photo I can see where the unofficial shoreline runs along what used to be a grass road and joins the forming gap in the wooded swamp. My money is on that being the current edge of the sink hole. Now if that big chunk of land holds together while it takes the plunge then it might serve to temporarily slow down further expansion.
Hey just came up with a new term: swamp gap!
Used in context: Move along citizen, it is just swamp gap, nothing to see here.
Sorry to joke but I am out of other emotions for this disaster.
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The 'fed' *is* involved, Penny. The DHS Stasi has their local party representative involved. The EPA is working with the LA Dept. of Health, the LA DNR contracted out the thinking to Shaw (nationwide engineering and MOX plant-building services). I don't know who else from the federal government would be of any use.
There isn't an expertise problem here, and tossing in the fed is a guaranteed way to ensure LESS transparency. What did you get with BP – Deepwater Horizon disaster? Lies, obfuscation and heavily-edited ROV 'live' feeds, a billion gallons of Corexit 9500 and those irritating BP "The Gulf is OPEN!" commercials.
Sorry – (my opinion:) petitions are useless. You can't force psychopaths to feel bad about insignificant peon-citizens, and you don't have enough money to own the press or government.
They WANT you to petition, protest and occupy. That's the useless opposition they're comfortable with. Plus, they can always send out the jack-boots to beat your head in if you become irritating.
Know your exploiters – knowledge is power.
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I humbly disagree. People in positions of power do NOT want people agitating in any way. They prefer mindless masses. People, don't give up – agitate, agitate, agitate. No your exploiters – yes, and include ourselves in the bargain as colluders by the daily choices we all make regarding what we buy, what we consume, what we drive. This is not "us and them", this is WE. One of my favorite quotes – "i'd rather die resisting than live on my knees".
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Paveway!!! Petitions do make a difference. Politicians are still beholden to the voters and to negative publicity. If this weren't true the huge amounts of money spent on campaigns would be spent different way. The huge amounts of money prove the huge amount of power involved, and the attempt to influence voters' opinions.
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Petitions do not work. Millions of signatures have not stopped wars, the erosion of our civil liberties, the bailouts, BP's drilling in the Gulf…. The majority of people are opposed to war and yet in the US both of the pre-selected Presidential candidates are pro-war, pro-drones, pro-Patriot Act, pro-everything nasty. Elections are bought and sold without any regard for the masses. It isn't that different in Europe. Despite that the majority of Europeans overwhelmingly wanted nothing to do with Afghanistan and Iraq, their governments sent troops to assist the US in these illegal, immoral wars.
I believe in agitation. I believe in a national strike. I believe that people should refuse to pay taxes and refuse to leave their homes when foreclosed. The only way to stop this is for the masses to stop paying for their enslavement. A signature on a petition means nothing unless the signatory is willing to stand behind his beliefs The people of this planet cannot afford to sit back and allow their "elected" sycophants and psychopaths and to handle the situation.
My personal opinion is that we need ten Markww's to take over these operations by any means necessary.
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Sorry, Anne. I saw too many of my older brothers and sisters friends come back from Vietnam in an aluminum coffins. I may have agreed with you in 1975 – an entire DECADE of opposition seemed to help end that illegal, pointless war.
But no less than five years later, we're funding Iran and then Iraq to kill each other, all cheered on by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the rest of the UAE oil cronies. Pointless.
By 1993, we started getting aluminum coffins once again, but this time from Iraq. Once again, this seems to be for the UAE oil cronies benefit, not mine.
Soon, it will be aluminum coffins from Syria, Lebanon and (ultimately) Iran. That will be for Israel's benefit, not mine.
I'm glad that people protest and start petitions and march and vote. All that is important. I'm more interested in the recipients of all that – the people already paid to represent you.
A government infested with parasites and psychopaths is not part of any democracy. A protest or petition should be delivered to rational, healthy people for consideration – not sick ones in a psychopathic organization filled with other ill people that could care less.
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If this thing explodes I am booking a flight to get in someone's face; a petition won't even be on my mind if I have to bury someone I love.
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Glad we have experts on site, I feel very safe. I am not an expert, but, certainly you could tell on the 19th, even untrained, that the whole area was in trouble..exactly the area I spoke about, (at the bottom left of the frame, at the very beginning and end of the video, you see the grassy area) and as I predicted, that whole area is involved.
Certainly this is the new outline of the sinkhole, as it has sunk, as sinkholes are known to do, to the point of allowing the fluid in the middle to seek the lowest place..
It made a nice little outline for yall experts..
..and by my degree of common sense, I now come to the conclusion, this is the new outside edge of the sinkhole..
Cataclysmic
October 19, 2012
wow, the drilling pad is surrounded, and the pad further back occurs to be sinking on the right.. the grassy area, with holding pond thing.. has puddles to the right and above it, and I predict, all of the trees between there and the bigger sinkhole site will slough into the hole. be sure to watch..carefully as they skirt this and I had to go back a few times to be sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7DTEcGz9xI&feature=plcp
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Hi Penny. Media. Media. Media. Check this out, the Assumption Parish Blog. Press release start 6/26 & ramp up to sometimes 2x/day. Then taper to every few days, then every few weeks. Last one 9/25. One would think that as urgency increases the PR would respond in kind. Not so with bad / badder / baddest case. No noose is good noose. Move along now, y'hear?
http://www.assumptionla.com/bayoucorne/media
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Experts? Experts like the ones who say the fire beneath Centralia, PA can never be extinquished? When will the experts admit the same is true here?
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We have to look at the big picture here, yall. The sinkhole is above a HUGE salt dome which is many miles wide. Louisiana's own Avery Island for instance, is actually a huge dome of rock salt, three miles (5 km) long and two and a half miles (4 km) wide, and tens of miles deep.
Many domes are tens of miles wide as well. This ar as dome may go as f
The drilling looks to have breached the salt dome. This therefore leads me to the next questions:
What is the water doing to the dome, and how much of the dome is affected.
What else is stored in these domes? oil?
Is the dome cracked due to recent earthquakes in area? earthquakes shift rock tens of miles down, and could have fractured, or sheared the narrow portion of the dome.
Can the Wiggins and Monroe seismic uplift scenarios be involved? Is the new Madrid fault(crack) involved?
Browse:
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2002/11nov/rift_map.cfm
Feedback, Discussion?
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I'm guessing that the "crack is actually an entire fracture line delineating the approximate edge of the dome…
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