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July 6th, 2010
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 The BP Offshore Oil Strike game from the 1970s has popped up on eBay recently. A nearly 40-year-old board game is getting a lot of new attention because of eerie similarities between the scenarios of its play and the 78-day-old BP Gulf oil disaster. The game BP Offshore Oil Strike, which came out in the 1970s and is adorned with an old BP logo, revolves around four players exploring for oil, building platforms and constructing pipelines – all in the name of being the first to make $120 million. But like the real-life oil game there are some big hazards, too. Players have to deal with the possibility of large-scale oil spills and cover cleanup costs. You struggle with "hazard cards" that include phrases now part of our daily vernacular, including: "Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick cleanup costs. Pay $1 million." Sound a little familiar? The similarity has led to discussions all over the Web. It's prompted people to dig in their attics and put their old games up on eBay – many of which have promptly been snatched up. One copy of the game was donated to the largest toy museum in England, the House on the Hill Toy Museum in Stansted, Essex. The museum's owner, Alan Goldsmith, told CNN he was shocked when he saw the donated game. "It was sort of uncanny how it was similar to what's happening really," Goldsmith said. "I thought it was odd that it was a game in the '70s, which has basically now come true. The interesting thing is that it was in dollars, even though it was a European game. The cleanup bill was $1 million, which we now know isn't nearly enough, but it is a weird colorful circle." The game came out during the oil crisis of the '70s – and perhaps it was an attempt to drum up support for U.S.-based drilling. Goldsmith said as a part of the game, players work to amass a drilling empire. But the game comes with all of the scenarios of the present Gulf disaster. Even the game board and cover resemble images from the Gulf these days – with rigs attempting to reach far into the ocean depths. The game has many people online remarking about whether it eerily foreshadowed the current BP disaster. "It's strange, you've got this fictitious board game with fictitious drama – but it couldn't be any closer to the reality of what's happening now," Goldsmith said. The world of video games, meanwhile, appears to have a more direct link to the Gulf oil disaster. In "Crisis in the Gulf," which an independent producer released last month for the Xbox, gamers use weapons to zap blobs of oil. The game is available for purchase through Xbox's online marketplace. |
 
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Wait, this is for real??? Thought this was an attempt at Onion-like humor. Kind hoping it would have incorporated a version of "Hangman" as well, if yaknowhutahmsayin'...
Milton Bradly game company need to bring that game out pronto. I would buy it. it would make monopoly second rate
even an on line game should come out. I would but I don't have the knowledge to do it.
Oh hell, this game is nothing! Go to Go to Wikipedia and look up 'Macondo Oil Well!! You'll read ALL kinds of eerie stuff!! Name of the W... and what it means.. where that name came from, etc. VERY EERIE!!
If you think this is interesting.....check out the "Illuminati" card game. It depicts both trade towers being hit by airplanes at the very spot they were actually hit at, the Pentagon being hit and the oil spill disaster. You can take this spill even further and watch the beginning of the movie "Knowing" and you'll see depictions of the oil rig going down that look the same as the actual sinking of the rig not to mention that both spills are in the gulf.
Wow, this is amazing....that it made it to the home page for CNN. Seriously, what next? Larry King doing an interview with the board game. No wonder you guys are behind Fox News, MSNBC and the Joy Behar network (HLN).
If you want an actual interesting story, check this out: http://www.dailygoat.com/2010/07/apple-announces-stunned-iphone-suck/
Sure wish the MEDIA was hell bent on REPORTING the NEWS all in TRUTH- this smells like a Cattle FEED LOT. Remember when they opened a newly discoved tumb in Egypt in CBS ABC or other Sensationalized liberal Socialist media source & WHO does the ANNOUNCER call in to interview??? The Mummy Star- WOW what indepth reporting. Are we OUTSOURCING the MEDIA in USA or dropped the educational level to 8th grade graduate
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AMAZING SCOOP: see the new update of my article with the VIDEO, the REAL image, the model (GXP 2500) the link to the manufacturer's website and the detailed dimensions and specs of the giant idraulic SHEARS used by BP to CUT the 21" strong oil riser "like a piece of butter" and that (with an EASY and QUICK modification) would allowed BP to STOP the oil spill from the EARLY DAYS of May!!!
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If our presidents played this game we wouldn't be in this current situation.
yeah..fancy that. LIFE imitating a VIDEO GAME, BOARD GAME or MOVIE...mayhaps it was only a forecasting DONE RIGHT. I mean..we are talking DECADES ago things matching REALITY.
THAT SAID...what ELSE out there has ERRIE similarities? Perhaps those things are REAL as WELL.
and about the meteor..youd be right..its a matter of TIME..science has proven this.
Maybe we will be creating TERMINATOR next...or well... some stuff is happening very similary to what is out there...
and mayhaps even BP PLANNED the accident..but no ONE person has solid facts beyond meteor events and the similarities of this being found... WHICH.. I WILL add...uncanningly would predict the event.
Remote Viewers, (the TRAINED ones with HIGH LATENT abilities ) know which MAJOR events happen and which do NOT. Some can even find objects or tell you what is at a location BEFORE anyone gets there to confirm the event.This SCIFI stuff is REAL folks.Maybe not ALL of it, but ENOUGH of it. ENOUGH to REALLY AWAKEN people to the IDEA that THOUGHT (whether in JEST or not) CREATES REALITY, and the fact that LIFE often MIMICS TV show scenarios or similar.
I think that is the point being made. WE are CREATING the REALITY we HAVE SIMULATED so well all these years. The is NO creative effort to make anything different for some reason anymore. WE HAVE the data pad now...and we thought that was just a STAR TREK item.
speaking of TREKKIES... Roddenberry's vision was for a PEACEFUL UTOPIA, NOT a SCIFI show turned REALITY event, though that seems to be the idea we are running with. The tech stuff was all supposed to be disposable PROPS.
OH.. and dont forget the Microsoft table as well..you know the one where you put a camera on it and it reads the contents as if by magic and can see stacked objects in 3D. ...and the new TOUCHY TV that CNN and others are now using. That is Windows Vista or 7 running in the background. WE are creating what we WANT from SCIFI and FICTION. I think we are missing the point really, but the TECH is COOL nonetheless.
Game must have been designed by Nostradamus!
Or anyone who cared about the environment in 1970...
not really considering BP had an Oil spill in the gulf back in the 70's as well.... and they even tried all the same clean up measures and just like this time, they all failed.
An animation of a scale model of the depth of the oil spill:
I would love to own this. But as a decent 2nd best, we made our own BP Oil Spill game ... and it's free! http://www.terrorbullgames.co.uk/blog/index.php?id=215
In a related story, the streets in Monopoly are eerilly similar to the streets in Atlantic City. Years before the Trump's Taj Mahal, you could realistically build a hotel on the Boardwalk. Freaky!!!
The streets in Monopoly ARE the streets of Atlantic City. There is nothing similar. When the game was designed, they used streets that existed.
I thought everyone knew that.
Shewett, you're yet another person that makes me wish there was a universal sarcasm intended symbol for the internets.
Ha! I thought something along these lines when I read this. Seriously, obvious!CNN has outdone itself again.
Anyone up for a game of Jumanji?
"The cleanup bill was $1 million, which we now know isn't nearly enough"
Hey skippy...when was that game made again? Yeah...you're stupid.
I highly doubt a million bucks would have covered it 40 years ago, either. If it has BP's logo on it that means they had something to do with the game and downplaying the costs of a cleanup is something they're very good at doing.
hey your even more stupid because 1 million in 1970 after inflation today is not even 20 million so stop being stupid before you post something
I bet the BP will start selling this game again in hope they can help pay off the clear up and law suits against it
What is wrong with people? This game isn't some kind of magical prophecy, it just shows that people KNEW that all of these problems were real possibilities even back in the 70's and nobody ever did anything about it. The only reason this should be news is to show the negligence on the oil industry's part, not as something magic.
You are right, of course, but it still looks a bit weird because it did use, of all oil companies, BP.
Of course they have always known the risks...much more so back then...just like people should know there's a price for driving their cars that goes beyond the pumps. The best they can do is attempt to mitigate those dangers which is why the last time an incident occurred like this in the gulf was 1979.
monopoly is based on atlantic city moron, and they are still building casinos on the boardwalk
lol thanks for fielding that one for me
I believe that was sarcasm, honey.
You have an ad right where I want to send a comment!!!!!
Maybe I can invent a game called "ATHEISM" where all the players try to purge their respective countries of religion, but they come up against fundamentalist types of all creeds, escalating terrorism, and threatening the future of our world. But suddenly, you get "LOGIC" cards and realize that religion is illogical, so you start teaching more science, and your citizens start living better lives until, the ultimate goal of the game, you have purged the world of ALL RELIGION! I'd like to play that game...
Our country was founded upon the Christian religion and the right to express it the way they chose without being under the rule of the Church of England. The founding fathers and many men much braver than you, Tom, died to keep our country free and quite frankly it offends me for you to spit in the face on what this country was founded on. It is your choice to be an athiest, but don't get on here spouting your views when it doesn't even relate to what the article is speaking about. It seems to me that I live in the greatest country in the world and it was founded upon the Christian religion and religious freedom. It is your choice to deny the clear existence of God and I pray that you rethink your decisions as your eternal destination depends on it. I do not make fun of or belittle anyone for their views. I am a Christian and obviously disagree with your view but do not go around making it a point to belittle others who do not share my view.
Me too!
Just keep in mind, the three greatest mass murders in the history of the world were Mao(approx 120,000,000 dead), Stalin(approx 70,000,000 dead), and Hitler comes in third at approx 40, 000,000 dead. A bunch of atheists(Hitler might be better classed as a pagan)
lol good one!
Nachum,
Considering Mao, Stalin and Hitler all had more efficient ways of killing people than most of history's religious mass-murderers, it's important to note that more people TOTAL have still died in the name of religion than in the name of oppressive totalitarianism (which, you are right, is largely athiest). Although, if Hitler was a 'pagen' as you suggested, he doesn't fit the atheist description anymore and drops out of your line-up. You can use numbers to prove anything, if you chose the right numbers and spout them off in the right way; what you just did is a classic example of that. Some people, who happen to be atheists, kill because they're greedy and disturbed. Some are religious and kill because they are greedy and disturbed, and justify it with their religion. The only difference is how they convince people to follow them. Is it fear of themselves, or fear of their god? The real problem with religion is not with these whack jobs, but with the societal implications on a smaller level. Self-righteousness, indignation and bigotry.
As a Christian, I can't understand why Christians can't just worship without pushing beliefs onto everyone else. I also can't understand why those who don't believe in religion can't just keep that to themselves as well. No matter what you believe, once you start pushing it on others or going out of your way to announce your viewpoint to the world...that's when you need to stop. The world would be a MUCH better place.
Wait a minute, aren't those SCIENTISTS in the gulf who are out there making our lives better right this minute? Yeah, thought so.....
Religion isn't illogical. Atheists think believing is illogical, the truth is believeing can be difficult, but the need for believing is inescapable, it is programed into our genes, and it wasn't put there by the nutty professor.
Greg, could you name some examples of Christian values that were put into the ideals behind the creation of our nation?
I'm a non-religious person, but I'm not going to claim that the nation was built on non-religious values just because that's how I like to see the world – so stop doing that yourself, and go learn something.
Also, the big problem with 'atheist' mass murderers is that they did not do these things in the name of 'atheism'. With the case of Stalin, in particular, it had to do with civil religion, the idea of the state (and Stalin) as 'god' and no dissenting opinions allowed. This is not a hallmark of atheist thought. Hitler, on the other hand was a Roman Catholic (we can doubt his sincerity, and he did not appear to do anything in the name of Roman Catholicism, only in German nationalism, which again, can be classified as a sort of 'civil religion'). We have a civil religion here in America, and it is shrouded by the idea of Christianity. Still, the ideals which are followed here are hardly Christian. For one, a real Christian would never use the term 'God and Country'.
19 "Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. Romans 1:19-20
We share the Gospel as Christians because Jesus Christ commands us to share the truth in Matt 28:19-20 and Acts 1:8—the Great Commission
As the saying goes, 'There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole'. Just wait until you claim to NEED God, then you will go crawling back to him. Thankfully he only pities you and others who think like you and will welcome you back. ALL ATHEISTS are simply bitter because they have not had someone explain to them properly WHY evil is PERMITTED, WHO is to blame, and WHEN it will end.
To MCR...You are right on there, buddy! They've known for 40 years + the risks and thanks to Dick(head) Cheney and the other bureaucrats, they eventually screwed up large. Now if they could only invent the follow up game, "OIL SPILL RECOVERY."
I would be more interested in asking Hillary how we got this mess.
she lost....get over it
Why are they not all in jail?
Maybe because the government and corporations are tied together.
Ask Panetta?
they arent in jail because if we remove bp from the picture we remove the backroom paydays and large campaign donations they provide to our crooked double standardized legal and governmental systems
Shrek 4 Official Trailer HD
Notice how the Englander in the movie looks a lot like Tony Hayward. Think cartoons are telling another story or hinting at possibilities that the culprits are known in real life and that it was a contracted deal perhaps a attack on American waters all planned by man to give the illusion of the last days. Why did Bush purchase that land in Paraguay? Think he knew what was planned? Is it the Stalin possibilty or a socialist act?
Do movies and cartoons depict life or fantasy?
Wow. I'm all for entertaining the conspiracy theories, "WE", but you're nuts.
Since BP marketed this to drum up support for their drilling in the 70s, it does show they knew the potential for disasters. Their gross negligence and unbelievable greed made this game a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Despite the reply from Emily, I think your theory is quite interesting and might hold fact.
SHREK!?!?! bahahahh. Seriously though, you know who else predicts disasters? Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Yep, that's right. Whenever he bounces around with that perpetual gigantic smile and stares deep into your eyes through the television, he is really hypnotizing you into buying Cheetos. He knows that if every American buys a bag of Cheetos and eats said bag on December 31st 2012 as will be instructed by Lord Barney, the world will be engulfed in a sea of cheese and will explode !
This is why when I see a bag of cheetos in the grocery store I run screaming and crying out of there. Yeah, I get looks but I know what is to befall mankind....and it aint pretty.
Does anyrone remember the late 1980's PC game "Crisis in the Kremlin". It came out 2 or 3 years before the collapse of communisim and had some scenarios that seemed crazy at the time, but a couple of years later we saw real life play out in eeirie simularity... the game predicted the break away of the easter block countries and the Baltic Republics, the hardline coup that topled Gorbechov the followed right down the the "sudden illness", patriotic music on every TV channel in the USSR, and resulting power grabs that brought down the rest of the soviet empire in scary detail... playing it after it was like someone had a crystal ball or something when they wrote it. I guess history is repeating itself with more game designer prophets.
They do have a crystal ball just ask Hillary and that group she has a membership in. Does anyone wonder why we have a president that gets in front of America and makes a statement like choose a side "red or blue". Simular to the east and west walls of Germany isn't it? Besides a nation that is divided will fall that much faster, so who do you think Obama is connected to?
The scenarios didn't seem all that crazy at the time. What happened after Gorbachev was pretty much what all the experts predicted, right down to the war in Yugoslavia.
THey stop selling it when the 1979 gulf oil spill occured?
There were oil spills going on in the 70s, too. The game just reflected the current reality of the time.
Yes, there were offshore rigs during the 1970s too. Imagine that? Al Gore didn't invent everything on the planet.
Anyway, back in the 1970s it was discovered that we could extract oil from oil shale deposits. Now here we are 40 years later and we are still drilling offshore and doing nothing with our 4 trillion barrel supply of oil shale. Why is that?
One thing to ponder, an oil shale mine cannot have a blowout and spew millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
The total carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from extracting and burning oil from oil shale is significantly higher than for conventional oil. We are already emitting way too much CO2 into the atmosphere (Fact: anthropogenic global warming is real). Shale and tar sands are not an answer to our current energy/environment catastrophe in the making.
No, to get the oil from shale deposits, you just have to "frac" it, releasing lots of toxic byproducts into the groundwater and disturbing the streams and ponds for miles around. Really great tradeoff!
Nothing? In PA they're drilling into the Marcellus shale...they'll start in NY soon, too.
There are plently of articles on BP and its use of Colombian militia throughout history, with this fact they should be outlawed to drill off our shores.
I should put my "DEFEND USA FROM THE MARXIST REGIME" board game on ebay. That's got some erie ties to current events.
Now your getting the point of the whole event in a nut shell.
Marxist Regime.. hahaha you fail at this AND life. Better luck next time bub.
Because the reality is that they have almost destroyed our food supply temporarily, destroyed our economy on the shore lines, and put everyone and wildlife at risk for contamination on top of the fact that all of us will eventually be paying for their bad business decisions in the future at the pump.
How about they bring back the game and 100% of the proceeds goes to the people most hurt by the spill - the people whose livelihoods have been destroyed. Maybe some game residuals will help more of them not lose their houses and cars.
JohnT
she lost....get over it
You missed the point completely it is called the BB association and if you still do not know what I am talking about then you are living under a rock. The ultimate control freaks of the world.
I know this has nothing to do with the oil spill but more on the marxist statement, I am just curious why we have Russians belonging to the free mason group in America. Ha ha Stalin knew what he was talking about when he said America will be destroyed from within.
you do realize that our founding fathers were free masons, right?
Has anyone ever noticed the chilling similarities between tick tack toe and the fall of Roman Empire?
Classic!
This isn't strange at all. The hazards of offshore drilling have been known for a long time, and the technology hasn't changed all that drastically since the 70s.
My take-away is that the industry is a fossil, a dinosaur as antiquated as the compressed carbon remains buried deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing has changed since the 1970s other than an exponential increase in hubris and greed from the oil industry, and BP in particular.
Yes, that was interesting, let's play !
Sorry you loose, and so do I .....
unfortunately the planet is doomed once the oil stops leaking something will have to fill in the hole.
Guess what it will be? a giant sink hole...... get it..... sink..... hole.......... hahahahahahahah
This is relavant why?
That's like saying Scuds comming down on the first gulf war and patriots shooting them down was for told by the game Missile Command.
This isn't news...fire this person(s).
Finally, a game that Obama can win !
Hey Chucker,
We're all in this together, be a patriot and back YOUR President!
The clean-up costs? ONE MILLION DOLLARS...
All I can picture are the BP execs rolling dice and basing their actions on the game. Whoever thought that Milton Bradley would be the Nostradamus of the 70s?
Join our Facebook boycott of BP:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=116094405092992
The game was sent from the future. Probably was meant for John Connor.
Check out ancient Hopi prophecies. One of the last signs that we are entering "the purification" and the ending of a major epoch or cycle is "when the seas turn black."
Search: adam dodson card game
The Illuminati card game also has the oil spill card, the twin tower explosion card and the bombed Pentagon card. It came out in the early 90s. The developer was arrested and his computers taken. He had to fight them in court. He won and launched the game in 1995. Coincidence, but odd that the twin tower explosion was in the deck. The oil spill card is a coastal oil spill card, with an oil covered bird pictured on it.
Let's hope "Fortress America" isn't predicting the future. Fun game, though. Like Risk, but angrier.
"The cleanup bill was $1 million (in the game), which we now know isn't nearly enough..." In todays dollars that would be just over $5.6 million. Still not enough. In the end, $56 billion would probably be closer to the mark but, in 1970, people wouldn't be able to rap their heads around the concept of a ten billion dollar cleanup.
Oh, I got this one beat by a long shot!
What we have in the Gulf is actually a 1958 movie with Steve McQueen in "The BLOB!
You young'en can find it and the remake on the net.
that game looks more fun than any nerdy video game!! they should re-release it! i would buy it!
I once played a game called "Life". It predicted the future. I went to college and my sister did not. I made more money than her and have a bigger house. Eerie Huh?
June 3 1979. Exploratory well Ixtoc 1 blew out releasing 140 million barrels into the Gulf of Mexico. Not well publicized since it was a Pemex well and the crude didn't hit shore, but it is the fourth largest spill. Once again the BOP failed to work. This isn't the first time and probably won't be the last.
what's a board game?
When art imitates life...
Does anyone even read these articles or look at the photos first? It clearly says "Europe" right there on the cover of the game. It also took only a few minutes to find a picture of the game board online, which is of the North Sea, not the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/103504/offshore-oil-strike
i like turtles
Eerie predictions? Oh, come on, CNN. That's just sensationalism gone crazy.
Dacques comment is spot-on, and it made me LOL.
You can start finding "eerie predictions" in everything if you look hard enough. Donald Trump probably thinks Monopoly predicted his future. Kirstie Alley and Candy Land. Lindsey Lohan and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. Tiger Woods and Sorry!. John Gosselin and UNO. Heidi Montag and Operation. Sandra Bullock and Guess Who?. I could go on all night!
Does anyone else think this is fake as hell? Does anyone have a real version of this game? Cmon, I think this is a photoshop hoax.
Beans! Beans! Beans! and Lassie too.
it lookls like nostra damus prediction. Does that mean we will be seeing Zombies eating flesh soon? everyday new weird thing happens.. a weirdest story about half man half horse on http://www.mentalmania.com surprised everyone.. we have to see what is next...
why is no news channel talking about the Iranian offer to help stop the leak?
Just because they are under sanctions for whatever reasons sponsored by the US goverment does not mean they are barred to even help on matters that are now beyond the capacity of US government or BP.
This is a Global Disaster. Stop being cynical about the Iranians and take their help. They are experts in this subject whether or not the US government agrees. Let political ego not compromise the interest of the ordinary Americans and the humanity at large.
By refusing or rather not even acknowledging the help offered by Iran, the crisis is not going to be resolved anyways. It’s only worsening by the hour.
The help offer by Iran is so strictly censored by the government that not even the so-called free press/media is talking about it.
For more information Visit http://www.presstv.ir
or simply search Google/Yahoo/bing for more on this help offer from Iran.
share this information with as many people as you may
People have been predicting this disaster all the time but were ignored. Mostly by Republicans.
Agreed. Let the specialists deal with the problem. In this case, the Iranians are the specialist, believe it or not. But we simply choose to overlook and ignore their offer to help bcoz they are under sanctions for nukes sponsored by US government.
Lets leave behind ego and political machoism for once and accept their offer to help.
Lets see if Ahmedinejad is sincere about this help offer and if the Iranians can really do the job they claim to have the expertise for.
Obama and Hillary, you have failed. Now let the sense prevail and accept international assistance. God help America
Why is every fantasy being turned into reality lately? What does it mean?
This is really strange. US can welcome Netanyahu who only wants to take from America viz. money, security guarantees, technology, defense equipment, charity etc. but is estranged with Ahmedinejad who wants to give help and expertise to stop this spill that has turned into an environmental disaster threatening global ecology.
May good sense prevail and US accept the help offer from Iran.
US is so obsessed with Israel that it can see nothing beyond. Not even nations who want an opportunity to be friends of America.
That be the case, Iran does not get any audience with the US government, media and planners.
Otherwise, no wise government or nation would refuse Iranian help in containing this oil spill disaster.
Iranians are willing to help. Are Americans willing to be friends?
Gandolf: Go back to eating mushrooms in trees your smurf.
In the movie "The Knowing", A piece of paper found in a time capsual predicts an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico...funny huh?
Can anyone predict who is going to win tonight's World Cup match? Paul the octopus says Spain.
YAWN
BP needs to wake up and stop playing games with this real life disaster.
Wow.
How is this a news story? Seriously? Why no mention of Risk as an 'eerie' precursor for all the nation-invading that's been going on in the last decade? Turns out Monopoly really had that banking crisis thing figured out... Twister, well that obviously predicted the scandal involving Catholic priests.
Please CNN, find your journalistic heart again.
Ya, we had ours out the other night. The kids didn't put it away when done and I slipped on the board during the night.
I'm not impressed. It's a game folks. I can make a prediction today that "an asteroid will one day hit earth," and one day I'll be proven correct. It may be tomorrow, next year, or hundreds of years from now. "But mark my word, it will happen."
Hey, does this mean that Candyland really does exist somewhere??????????
Maybe it was so easy to make the game because this happened back in June 1979...
What's funny is this board game presents a scenario that BP denied in its environmental impact filing with MMS. BP claimed any possibility of an accident would be extremely remote and in any event minor and easy to clean up. What did '70s board game manufacturer's know that BP and the government agencies that signed off on their drilling plan (and failed to inspect adequately) did not? It's like the US government and the oil companies were in a Mad Hatter's tea party mindset where their version of reality couldn't even imagine the real reality.
Believe in Jesus Christ. Call on His Holy Name. Experience His peace, Love and forgiveness right here and now.
IRAN offering help to stop the oil leak. These guys have the real skills and expertise for this job.
For more information Visit http://www.presstv.ir
or simply search Google / Yahoo / Bing for more on this help offer from Iran.
share this information with as many people as you may.
Wake up Mr. President
hows it goin folks, id like to say hi and i just wanna start talking on this forum looks like ill have some interesting subjects..
Why is no news channel talking about the IRANIAN offer to help stop the oil leak?
Just because they are under sanctions for whatever reasons sponsored by the US goverment does not mean they are barred to even help us on matters that are now beyond the capacity of US government or BP.
This is a Global Disaster. Stop being cynical about the Iranians and take their help. They are experts in this subject whether or not the US government agrees. Let political ego not compromise the interest of the ordinary Americans and the humanity at large.
By refusing or rather not even acknowledging the help offered by Iran, the crisis is not going to be resolved anyways. It’s only worsening by the hour. The relief well and dispersents and etc etc are all lies. Neither US government nor BP knows wat to do about the leak. Eventually Mr. Prseident may decide to nuke the well. But that's even worse than the leak. The Gulf coast and its ecology would change for the next 10000 yrs if nuked. If the oil spill reached the northern parts of the Atlantic, it could disrupt the flow of ocean currents thereby adding to the global warming effects viz. El Nino, hurricanes etc.
If the well is nuked, it will destry all ocean life in the gulf of mexico. So, the only logical way out is to take foreign help from nations that have the necessary skill, be it the enemy, for the greater good of humanity.
The help offer by Iran is so strictly censored by the government that not even the so-called free press/media is talking about it.
For more information Visit http://www.presstv.ir
or simply search Google/Yahoo/bing for more on this help offer from Iran.
share this information with as many people as you may
Why is no news channel talking about the IRANIAN offer to help stop the oil leak?
Just because they are under sanctions for whatever reasons sponsored by the US goverment does not mean they are barred to even help us on matters that are now beyond the capacity of US government or BP.
This is a Global Disaster. Stop being cynical about the Iranians and take their help. They are experts in this subject whether or not the US government agrees. Let political ego not compromise the interest of the ordinary Americans and the humanity at large.
By refusing or rather not even acknowledging the help offered by Iran, the crisis is not going to be resolved anyways. It’s only worsening by the hour. The relief well and dispersents and etc etc are all lies. Neither US government nor BP knows wat to do about the leak. Eventually Mr. Prseident may decide to nuke the well. But that's even worse than the leak. The Gulf coast and its ecology would change for the next 10000 yrs if nuked. If the oil spill reached the northern parts of the Atlantic, it could disrupt the flow of ocean currents thereby adding to the global warming effects viz. El Nino, hurricanes etc.
If the well is nuked, it will destry all ocean life in the gulf of mexico. So, the only logical way out is to take foreign help from nations that have the necessary skill, be it the enemy, for the greater good of humanity.
The help offer by Iran is so strictly censored by the government that not even the so-called free press/media is talking about it.
For more information Visit http://www.presstv.ir
or simply search Google/Yahoo/bing for more on this help offer from Iran.
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