http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i-yfHJzPLDeBIhG5JDEF6VbaPR8QD9GIJJSO5A summary of events Friday, June 25, Day 66 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well.
RELIEF WELL
BP said its effort to drill a relief well through 2 1/2 miles of rock to stop the Gulf spill is on target for completion by mid-August. The relief well is considered the best hope of halting the crude that has been gushing since April 20 in the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The crew that has been drilling it since early May ran a test to confirm it is on the right path, using a tool that detects the magnetic field around the casing of the original, blown-out well.
STOCK PRICE
Despite the encouraging news about the relief well, BP stock tumbled 6 percent in New York to a 14-year low on news that the oil giant has now spent $2.35 billion dealing with the disaster. BP has lost more than $100 billion in market value since its deep-water drilling platform blew up, and its stock is worth less than half the $60 or so it was selling for on the day of the explosion.
TROPICAL WEATHER
The first tropical depression of the Atlantic season formed in the Caribbean, raising concerns about what might happen to efforts to contain the oil if bad weather forces BP to abandon them. It's still too early to tell exactly where the storm might go and how it might affect oil on and below the surface of the Gulf. But BP would have to secure or move its equipment there if a storm blows in.
COURTS
A financial disclosure report shows the Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deep-water drilling in the Gulf has sold many of his energy investments. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman still owns eight energy-related investments, including stock in Exxon Mobil Corp. Among the assets he sold was stock in Transocean, which owned the rig that exploded. The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Friday to delay Feldman's ruling "to preserve the status quo" during the government's appeal.
LABOR SECRETARY
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis slammed BP — along with Massey Energy, owner of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in an explosion in April — saying they need better safety measures. "We are not saying go out of business," she said. "Do your job better. Make an investment in your employees. We want you to make a profit, but not at the expense of killing your employees."
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Vice President Joe Biden will head to the Gulf on Tuesday to visit a command center in New Orleans and the oil-fouled Florida Panhandle.
TAXES
The IRS said payments for lost wages from BP's $20 billion victims compensation fund are taxable just like regular income. Payments for physical injuries or property loss are generally tax-free.
NO SHRIMP
Vicki Guillot has served her last seafood po-boy. The local bounty of fresh shrimp and oysters that once kept things bustling in the only restaurant in the rural Louisiana town of Gheens can no longer be harvested from the Gulf of Mexico because of the massive oil spill that has fouled the water. All her distributors can offer her now is imported shrimp at twice the price she was paying 10 weeks ago.
GEEK FIELD DAY
Louisiana State University's Edward Overton once published a research article with the tongue-tangling title, "Effectiveness of Phytoremediation and Bioremediation of n-Alknaes as a Function of the length of the Carbon Chain in Wetland Environments." He also holds a patent for something called a "Microstructure Chromatograph with Rectangular Column." But recently, the professor emeritus reached another milestone: He appeared on David Letterman's "Late Show" to talk in plain language about oil. Overton is one of scores of scientists who have toiled for years in obscurity and now find themselves in the middle of a media frenzy, trying to explain the Gulf oil spill to the public.
http://www.apocalipsis.org/rev-16.htm1.2. Second bowl (16:3)
16:3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
v3 - Blood is used to denote death, everything died in the sea compared with the trumpets in which only a third died, Rev 8:9. Note that in the Egyptian plagues it was literal blood. The two witnesses also have the power to turn the waters into blood, 11:6. See the similarity to the first plague on Egypt, Exo 7:17 ff., in which the Nile turns into blood. This also reminds us of the lake of blood from the winepress of God's wrath in Rev 14:19. Every living thing in the sea died compared with the second trumpet in which a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and third of the ships were destroyed (8:8-9).
meaning that when the angel pured his bowl into the sea turning the colour of the water the colour of blood like that of a dead man and every living thing in the sea died meaning the fish died and risen to the shores of countries.
1.4. Fourth bowl (16:8)
Rev 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. 9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him. we all know about global warming right ?
v8 - The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. - Notice that the angels sphere of influence extends to the sun and not just the earth. There is no corresponding plague on Egypt, although the fourth trumpet affects the sun, the sun is darkened, Rev 8:12, this plague seems eschatological. This is the heavenly counterpart to the beast out of the earth who caused fire to come down from heaven in full view of men and deceived mankind (13:13-14). Compare with Deu 28:22; 'The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish'.
v9 - They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him. - They were seared by the intense heat of the sun, this is in contrast to the saints who will not be scorched by the sun, Rev 7:16, compare with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who were not scorched by the blazing furnace. Notice the explicit statement that these plagues are under the control of God. The indictment of man is that they refused to repent and glorify him. The angel had already given mankind one last chance in Rev 14:7 to repent before these plagues. Note that they cursed the name of God, they had taken on the character of the beast who is covered in blasphemous names, Rev 13:1, 13:5-6, 17:3. Despite this mankind still refuses to repent and glorify God. They did at least recognise God as the ultimate cause of these plagues but not the immediate cause in their own sin (Sweet).
will add more stuff if you interested.
all revalations can be read here if your interested in reading it
http://www.apocalipsis.org/rev-1.htmalso being the forth bowl eventually this is meaning the solar maxium which is suppose to be 2012.
http://2012wiki.com/index.php?title=Solar_MaximumThis post was edited by dylan33 on Jun 25 2010 07:02pm