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Title: Gulf Coast Governors Leaving National Guard Idle; Thousands of Troops Called Up to Fight Oil Spill Haven't Been Deployed
Source: CBS NEWS
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010 ... /eveningnews/main6615414.shtml
Published: Jun 24, 2010
Author: Armen Keteyian
Post Date: 2010-06-24 21:25:32 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 253
Comments: 11

(CBS) All along the Gulf coast, local officials have been demanding more help from the federal government to fight the spill, yet the Gulf states have deployed just a fraction of the National Guard troops the Pentagon has made available, CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian reports.

That's a particular problem for the state of Louisiana, where the Republican governor has been the most vocal about using all resources.

Gov. Bobby Jindal's message has been loud and clear, using language such as "We will only be winning this war when we're actually deploying every resource," "They (the federal government) can provide more resources" and "It's clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here."

But nearly two months after the governor requested - and the Department of Defense approved the use of 6,000 Louisiana National Guard troops - only a fraction - 1,053 - have actually been deployed by Jindal to fight the spill.

"If you ask any Louisianan, if you said 'If you had those troops, do you think they could be put to good use? Is there anything they can do in your parish?' I think they'd all tell you 'Absolutely,'" Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, said.

As of today, the federal government has authorized a total of 17,500 National Guard troops across four Gulf states, all to be paid for by BP.

But CBS News has learned that in addition to Louisiana's 1,053 troops of 6,000, Alabama has deployed 432 troops of 3,000 available. Even fewer have been deployed in Florida - 97 troops out of 2,500 - and Mississippi - 58 troops out of 6,000.

Those figures prompted President Obama to weigh in.

"I urge the governors in the affected states to activate these troops as soon as possible," Mr. Obama said.

It's believed officials in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi and are reluctant to use more troops because their presence could hurt tourism. In hardest-hit Louisiana, however, Jindal is pointing fingers.

"Actually we asked the White House to approve the initial 6,000," Jindal said. "What they came back and said is the Coast Guard and BP had to authorize individual tasks."

But Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander in charge of the government's response to the spill, said Jindal is just flat wrong.

"There is nothing standing in the governor's way from utilizing more National Guard troops," Allen said.

In fact, the Coast Guard says every request to use the National Guard has been approved, usually within a day. Now Jindal's office acknowledged to CBS News the governor has not specifically asked for more Guard troops to be deployed.

Whether it's simple confusion or the infusion of politics into the spill, the fact remains thousands of helping hands remain waiting to be used. Subscribe to *Spill-Baby-Spill*

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#1. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)

Whether it's simple confusion or the infusion of politics into the spill, the fact remains thousands of helping hands remain waiting to be used.

Since 052010.

The US is a Company Town. Unless and Until (fill in the blank) nothing more will be done.

This isn't a One Off Event. It's a Binary Code. Your New Life for Every new Disaster on the Way.

Evacuate the NOGC + FLorida Now.

oil odor Thick smell of oil in New Orleans- mid city

Date Location Verified

2010-06-24 Mid City, New Orleans, LA YES

"Grand Isle is the beginning of the human part of this mega-disaster. New Orleans will be the first large metropolitan area to be affected. Hurricane season is nigh and that spells bad news for residents. Obomba continues giving the green light to BP to poison the Gulf with hundreds of thousands of gallons of Corexit and so New Orleans will be affected. There will be travel advisories coming soon, coming not from the state or federal governments, but from private citizens warning people online about the dangers of walking the streets of New Orleans. The city might even be evacuated sometime in the near future.

The only cleanup going on is the whitewashing of this gigantic catastrophe. The MSM fill you in some of the unfolding tragedy but it fails miserably--that is its job after all--to connect the dots. And when you do that it's obvious DC is a party to the ongoing eco-genocide happening in the Gulf right now. "

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-24   21:36:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: War, Fred Mertz, All (#1)

BP p.l.c. Common Stock (NYSE: BP)

After Hours: 28.80 Up 0.06 (0.21%) 7:59PM EDT Last Trade: 28.74 Trade Time: 4:00PM EDT Change: Down 0.93 (3.13%) Prev Close: 29.67 Open: 30.00

Day's Range: 28.56 - 30.00 52wk Range: 28.56 - 62.38 Volume: 67,936,756 Avg Vol (3m): 48,796,700

The PTB did Everything possible to keep bp above 29.

Didn't work. 20 the next target.

The US will have to seize bp.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-24   21:44:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: mcgowanjm (#2)

Didn't work. 20 the next target.

I'll watch and see.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-06-24   22:38:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: mcgowanjm (#2) (Edited)

Gentleman's bet...we see $40 on BP before we see $20...

By "seize" do you mean seize BP's US assets?

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-25   7:53:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: war (#4)

Gentleman's bet...we see $40 on BP before we see $20...

You bet!

TPTB will do Everything to keep bp floating. Way too many derivative CDS's tied into this monster.

"By "seize" do you mean seize BP's US assets?"

Right now. Yesterday was too late.

Within 200 miles of the NOGC+Florida, you won't find one bp sign. Right now. Unless it's guarded by mercs.

The NO judge getting death threats for siding with BigOil is unheard of Down South.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   9:24:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Fred Mertz (#3) (Edited)

Didn't work. 20 the next target.

I'll watch and see.

Salazar's being forced to go after ALL of bp's Criminal Syndicate activities:

Like claiming a 5 acre manmade gravel pad in the Arctic Ocean is viable:

Published on Friday, May 21, 2010 by ProPublica EPA Officials Weighing Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations

by Abrahm Lustgarten

Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its drilling in federally controlled oil fields.

The most serious, sweeping kind of suspension is called "discretionary debarment" and it is applied to an entire company. If this were imposed on BP, it would cancel not only the company's contracts to sell fuel to the military but prohibit BP from leasing or renewing drilling leases on federal land. In the worst cast, it could also lead to the cancellation of BP's existing federal leases, worth billions of dollars.

Like I've said, the DeepS hit Horizon has started the Binary Code deterioration; the fuse has gone into the box.

Every move is immediately exposed as helping the corporation or helping the people.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   9:31:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Fred Mertz (#3)

Like this:

"Getting statistics on worker illness related to the Gulf oil spill is proving to be difficult, as federal agencies continually refer requests either to another federal agency or to BP."

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   9:33:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: All (#7)

Like this:

"The company's survival may also be in doubt if the financial hit from the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion approaches $100 billion, as some analysts suggest is possible.

Such a scenario would destabilize U.S. energy policy at home and abroad. President Barack Obama recognized as much when he said on June 16 that "BP is a strong and viable company, and it is in all of our interests that it remain so."

Why the U.S. Can't Turn Its Back on BP The Gulf Oil spill aside, U.S. energy security could suffer if BP fails or is significantly reduced in size

By Stanley Reed BW Magazine

With public anger off the charts over BP's role in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, there's not much sympathy about the financial burden the British oil company faces from future legal claims and cleanup costs.

Kill 'em now. 8D

Before they destroy even more of the planet. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   9:36:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: All (#8) (Edited)

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_27/b4185013837191.htm

to the above post.

bp's a Criminal Syndicate and Obama's an Uncle Tom.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   9:37:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: All (#9) (Edited)

"Some 7,000 of BP's 23,000 U.S. employees work in the Houston area, many in a suburban office park just off the Katy Freeway. From there the company runs its Gulf of Mexico offshore operations with a phalanx of engineers, geologists, and computer scientists. "These are highly compensated people," says J. Robinson West, chairman of Washington-based consultants PFC Energy."

And not one of those people was monitoring the Well From Hell when Mud was replaced with Seawater and Schlumberger was getting the Hell off that rig as fast as their helo could get there.

Obscene Insanity

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   9:58:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: All (#10) (Edited)

And like I've said, the Only reason I've heard for not 'imploding that well' is Protocol.

The USbP is ecociding the GoM to protect protocol.

Chinese and Russian oil companies less in sync with Washington could step in as buyers, changing the geopolitics of the oil industry. "Companies will be interested in buying assets in Azerbaijan, Angola, Brazil, and potentially also Norway," says Gudmund Halle Isfeldt, an analyst at DnB Nor, Norway's largest bank.

The bottom line BP controls strategically sensitive energy assets. Selling them may jeopardize U.S. energy security interests in the Middle East and Asia."

Hell ain't half full. You kill my dolphins? Hell ain't half full 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   10:01:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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