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^ LIFE IS NICE FOR MR. DETROITMETAL, BUT HE KNOWS TO MANY SECRETS THAT COULD DESTROY THE WORLD !!

....SO, LET'S NOT DESTROY OUR WORLD,...TAKE A STAND & DO SOMETHING POSITIVE TODAY :

AN "OPEN LETTER" TO PRESIDENT BARAK OBAMA :

Dear Mr. President,

WE THE PEOPLE, of the United States of America demand that YOU suspend ALL SALES of TOYOTA cars & trucks in the U.S.A. immediately. Due to the DEATH of American Citizens, WE can no longer tolerate the Insults of Toyota being able to continue to sell their defective cars & trucks in the U.S.A.

The continued Arrogance & Boldface Lies put forth by Toyota, ( in that they are spending $1 million dollars an hour on "safety concerns") are not an acceptable response to reconcile the DEATHS of our fellow American Citizens. NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN COMPENSATE FOR THE CURRENT LOSS OF LIVES RESULTING FROM TOYOTA GREED & DECEIT IN MARKETING THEIR PRODUCTS IN AMERICA.

This Corporation NEEDS to be removed from having the Right to sell product in the U.S.A. !!!!

They HAVE not only betrayed the "trust" of unsuspecting consumers, but have caused the DEATH of INNOCENT VICTIMS....for their own profit. The NUMEROUS AMOUNT of "recalls" Prove that Indeed, this company has known for years of the "Inherent Defects" in nearly EVERY MODEL they have sold.

THIS IS NOT an acceptable way of doing business in OUR COUNTRY, rather it amounts to an attack upon the population of the United States of America, equal to any & all TERRORIST THREATS !

WE THE PEOPLE, DEMAND YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PERMANENTLY STOP ALL FURTHER SALES BY TOYOTA, AND TO CONFISCATE ALL FACTORIES IN THE U.S.A., RESIND ALL TAX CREDITS AND LIQUIDATE TOYOTA USA, INC & ALL AFFILIATES....NOW.

BEFORE WE DO IT OURSELVES.

Thank You, in advance for your Understanding & PROTECTION of Americans,

signed,

"WE THE PEOPLE of the U.S.A."

( copy this letter & send it to YOUR congressmen & directly to President Obama @ The White House.

 
 ^  "Police Car State" Have we not seen these characters here before, like 60 years ago ? ...
                                    Yea Think So, time to get rid of them... AGAIN !

The lack of Responsibility of Corporations like BP & Toyota, as well as the complete arrogance of going about "covering up" obvious judgment errors is an unacceptable manner of conducting "business"... Then this "state of mind" has now enabled a STATE to go directly against the Bill of Rights & the U.S. Constitution by enacting a "law" that allows for direct violations against the very fabric of the Country, in that most ALL of the citizens in the USA today, at some point came from "somewhere" else, allowed to become a part of the USA and participate in our way of life. That IS the American way....




  Or maybe you would prefer we acted like this :
 

Officials: Taliban executes boy, 7, for spying

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday.

The execution took place Tuesday in the Sangin district of Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi -- the provincial governor's spokesman.

In the past, militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying, Ahmadi said.

Three years ago, a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations, he said.

During a news conference Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said officials were looking into reports of the execution and said he condemned the act if it is confirmed to be true.

"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Karzai said. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a 7-year-old boy ... is a crime against humanity."

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  Toyota Invests $50 Million in Tesla Venture Despite Project Contention
by: Joel West May 21, 2010

Thursday night, Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors announced that its long-promised Model S electric sedan would be built at the closed NUMMI plant in Fremont. The announcement came with a $50 million investment from Toyota (TM).

Given this 25-year joint venture between Toyota and GM had established infrastructure, and its April 1 closing was a source of great embarrassment to Toyota, this seems like a no-brainer. However, apparently it only dates to an April meeting between the Toyota CEO, Akio Toyoda, and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who made the joint announcement Thursday.

When I heard this, however, it reminded me of all the previous places that Tesla had promised to build a factory:

* Albuquerque (promised 2007, abandoned 2008)
* San José (a greenfield site, promised 2008, abandoned January 2009)
* Palo Alto (a former HP factory, promised August 2009 — and apparently still on)

Runaway Bride (Widescreen Edition)This reminded me of the Julia Roberts movie “Runaway Bride,” about a woman who kept planning weddings but then abandoning them at the last minute.

Most recently, the company had been negotiating with Long Beach (the former Douglas Aircraft plant for making DC-9s) and Downey (a former NASA site) in the LA area. Musk said:

It's gonna be a tough decision, because I think frankly both Long Beach and Downey would be great locations.

Downey officials had approved nearly $9 million in incentives to attract the factory. The facility had been once listed in Tesla’s proposal for a $465 million “advanced technology” federal loan. Needless to say, city officials were upset. Downey City Councilman, Mario Guerra, said:

We are shocked, upset and betrayed. We can see why the public is so upset with corporate America.

He adding that Tesla had told the city it would sign the lease for the Downey plant on Friday.

According to proponents, the plant would create 1,000 jobs. The company has cumulative losses exceeding $200 million on sales of about 1,000 cars and total revenues around $100 million. For such a tiny car company — selling a niche product — it had been tremendously successful getting publicity and promises of subsidies from local governments.

Or as a Councilman Mario Guerra said:

I couldn’t be more disappointed. Ifeel like I was stabbed in the back. We were promised all along that we weren’t being used and this is what happens. Elon Musk personally gave me his word that we weren’t being used. Somebody is a very good poker player and I guess that’s how you become a billionaire.

Tesla had also been promised as the salvation of the American auto industry, which has lost 100,000s of jobs in the past three years. Now, with the strategic investment by Toyota, there is the possibility that its exit strategy will be to become a subsidiary of Japan’s (and the world’s) largest auto company.
 
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APNewsBreak: BP giving financial help to stations

HOUSTON — Oil giant BP PLC is floating a financial lifeline to the owners, operators and suppliers of the gas stations around America that bear its name and have been struggling because of boycotts prompted by the Gulf spill.

The head of a trade group that represents distributors of BP gasoline in the U.S. told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the company is informing outlets that they will be getting cash in their pockets, reductions in credit card fees and help with more national advertising.

The cash component will be based on distributors' volume and will be higher for outlets along the Gulf Coast than for those elsewhere in the country, said John Kleine of the BP Amoco Marketers Association.

"They are going to get a check," Kleine said. "They're being given these dollars for use in their business."

He estimates the total package BP is offering at roughly $50 million to $70 million.

Some BP-branded gas stations have reported sales declines of 10 percent to 40 percent from Florida to Illinois since the April 20 rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP owns just a fraction of the more than 11,000 stations across the U.S. that sell its fuel under the BP, Amoco and ARCO banners. Most are owned by local businessmen whose primary connection to the oil company is the logo and a contract to buy gasoline.

Distributors would still be free to sue BP and seek compensation from the $20 billion compensation fund if they choose, Kleine said.

BP spokesman Scott Dean confirmed in an e-mail to the AP that the package includes volume allowances and reductions in credit card fees that merchants pay when customers use their credit cards to buy gasoline and items in station stores.

"Teams of BP staff are also being deployed to help these independent businesspeople activate consumer loyalty programs at their sites to help retain consumers and to educate them on BP's response plan in the Gulf of Mexico," Dean said. "BP will continue to evaluate the programs and offers as the situation and environment evolves."

Dean added that BP is rolling out a marketing and advertising package that includes "Locally Owned, Locally Operated" media and marketing support such as point of purchase signage, radio, flyers, posters and postcards.

As to the compensation fund, BP spokeswoman Debra Reed said previously that the overseer of the fund has stated that anyone is welcome to file a claim.

Whether or not it is valid is up to the administrator.

Kleine said the 475 BP distributors in the U.S., many of whom own or operate BP-branded gas stations, were being notified directly by the company. Calls began Monday and would likely continue through Wednesday, Kleine said.

The cash will be used by the distributors how they see fit, according to Kleine, who said the money could result in discounts to consumers at BP-branded pumps. Some distributors may use the money to bolster their bottom lines, which have been affected because of the boycotts.

"There's a lot of variance in terms of the business effect of this incident," Kleine said. "To try to manage this nationally, it's just too big of an elephant. They recognized that the people that have the best knowledge and can apply the resources best are the local distributors."

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST :

If You Spill It, They Will Come: Costner, Cameron, Redford Solve the Gulf Oil Catastrophe?

Ready for this one? We may have Kevin Costner to thank for solving the Gulf Coast's oil spill crisis. Of course, Mr. Dances With Wolves isn't working alone. James Cameron and Robert Redford are also lending some much needed (albeit curiously qualified) hands to the cause…

Here's the deal: Earlier this month, Costner unveiled an oil-cleaning device to which he has devoted 15 years and $24 million to a mightily impressed and, let's be honest, somewhat flabbergasted, public. Costner came up with the device, which basically filters oil out of water—novel idea, huh?—while filming Waterworld.

(He purchased the technology, first developed by the Department of Energy after the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill.)

This week, since it has no other ideas, BP OK'd preliminary testing on "the Costner solution." The company and the U.S. Coast Guard will test six of the oil separators next week.

"It's not anymore about talk," Costner said this month while unveiling the project his team of scientists have spent the better part of two decades finessing. "It's about doing the walk, and that phrase was probably invented down here."

And lest you think Costner is just the bizarrely-chosen face of this project, think again.

"Yes, Kevin is a star, but he took his stardom and wrote all the checks for this project out of his own pocket," business partner and Louisiana attorney John Houghtaling told the Los Angeles Times .

Still confused? You're in good company. Well, company.

"It certainly is an odd thing to see a 'Kevin Costner' and a 'centrifugal oil separator' together in a place like the Gulf of Mexico," Stephen Baldwin, who himself is making a documentary about the oil spill, told the paper.

Yeah, almost as odd as seeing a "Stephen Baldwin" and a "documentary about the oil spill" together in one place. His funding alone boggles the mind .

"But, hey, some of the best ideas sometimes come from the strangest places."

Like, say, the biggest movie of all time?

Cameron has also offered up the use of his underwater vessels should they prove helpful in cleaning up the environmental disaster, while Redford has pitched in to help, too, appearing in a commercial for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is hoping to use the horrific disaster as a wake-up call for the government to get real on finding and using clean energy sources.

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BP OK's test of Costner's oil-cleaning device

by Bradley Handwerger / Eyewitness News

wwltv.com

Posted on May 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM

Updated Wednesday, May 19 at 11:27 AM

NEW ORLEANS ? Kevin Costner's oil cleaning device is in the wilderness no more.

BP approved a test of Costner’s Ocean Therapy device to help the company attempt to clean up the Gulf of Mexico after its Deepwater Horizon drill rig exploded, sank and began gushing copious amounts of oil into the water.

The machine, described as a centrifugal processing device that separates oil from water, was developed by a consortium of scientists hired by Costner following the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989.

“The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates,” Ocean Therapy Solutions CEO John Houghtaling said. “They were developed from older centrifuge technology.  Normal centrifuge machines are very slow and sensitive to different ratios of oil to water mixtures at intake.

“Costner has been funding a team of scientists for the last 15 years to develop a technology which could be used for massive oil spills.”

BP watched the machine at work this past Thursday, taking it for a test-run before saying yes or no to the group.

According to Costner and Houghtaling’s company, one machine can clean up to 210,000 gallons of water per day. The company also says the oil can be separated and stored into tanks, leaving the water clean.


                        ^ Here is what BP ( BUSH PETROLEUM ) dose NOT want you to see !!

Estimates Suggest Spill Is Biggest in U.S. History

By TOM ZELLER Jr.

Published: May 27, 2010

Far more oil than they originally estimated was probably pouring into the Gulf of Mexico on a daily basis since the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Multimedia

The government has been harshly criticized by scientists for underestimating the rate of the flow and for what appears to be its reluctance to force BP, the oil giant that owned the lease on the well, to more precisely measure the rate at which oil was gushing from the pipe into the gulf. The company’s liability is in part determined by the extent of the spill.

President Obama, speaking at a White House news conference on Thursday, admitted that his administration, in dealing with BP officials, “should have pushed them sooner,” to release images that would have helped in estimating the flow rate.

“There was a lag of several weeks that I think — that I think shouldn’t have happened,” Mr. Obama said.

But he also stressed that the lower estimates “didn’t change what our response was.”

“As I said from the start, we understood that this could be really bad,” he said.

If the new estimate is accurate, as much as 30 million gallons of oil may already have poured into the gulf over 37 days — nearly triple the amount spilled when the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska in 1989. But that amount is still smaller than the nearly 140 million gallons of oil spilled into the gulf over nine months by the Mexican rig Ixtoc I in 1979, the world’s largest accidental release of oil. That fact, however, will do little to allay fears that a massive cloud of oil swirling below the surface of the gulf will continue to wreak environmental and economic damage for months, if not years to come.

The National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group, a collection of government and independent researchers formed last week in response to criticism of the lower estimates, based its new figures on an analysis of surface oil, undersea video of the leaks, computer modeling and other data.

Outside scientists said Thursday that the new estimate did not surprise them. “That range is an interval that many people have long been thinking the magnitude really is,” said Jeffrey Short, a former scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who now works for the environmental group Oceana.

He said the continuing fallout from the spill, which has already begun fouling beaches along the Louisiana coast and devastated the local fishing industry — will depend on the extent and behavior of giant plumes of oil and water that appear to be suspended deep below the surface.

A team of scientists from the University of South Florida, which has been studying the underwater plume, said Thursday that they had identified dissolved oil throughout a wide area of the deepwater of the gulf and suggested that a “limb” of an undersea plume was spreading northeast toward the continental shelf.

In the worst case, scientists say, the cloud could threaten precious coral reefs along the Florida Keys, contaminate the food web and affect a variety of species forced to migrate through it.

“Much depends on where the oil goes,” said Dr. Short, who added that there was meager data on how such plumes behaved. “This is pretty new territory,” he said.

Criticism of the official estimates began within a week of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20. For several days, government and BP officials claimed that the leak from the well was about 1,000 barrels a day.

On April 27, the group SkyTruth, which uses satellite images to monitor environmental problems, estimated the flow rate to be at least 5,000 barrels a day — and probably much higher.

Over objections from BP, the government quickly raised its own estimate to 5,000 barrels a day — but based the measurement on techniques that other scientists said were not suitable for measuring large undersea spills. Both the government and BP have since said that the early figures were just estimates.

In Washington, Congressional investigators said Thursday that an internal BP document suggested that the company had used the lower-end estimate of 1,000 barrels a day when the upper end was 14,000 barrels per day — roughly the flow rate federal researchers have now arrived at more than a month later.

At a hearing of a house subcommittee, Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, asked BP America’s chairman, Lamar McKay, if the company had a financial interest in maintaining the impression of a smaller leak.

Mr. McKay said that he did not know, but that it did not matter, and that BP would pay for all legitimate claims and clean up all the oil it could, no matter what the flow had been.

In a telephone interview after the hearing, Mr. Markey noted that under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, companies face fines of up to $1,000 per barrel, or up to $3,000 per barrel in the case of gross negligence. For BP, he said, the potential fine for 1,000 barrels per day over 37 days of spillage would be on the order of $37 million at $1,000 a barrel, compared with $1.5 billion in fines for the upper estimate of 14,000 barrels per day at $3,000 a barrel.

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