BP--It's All Connected

On the Jim Lehrer Newshour last night, both a British and an American reporter discussed BP's dividends. It seems that BP pays into a lot of pension funds both here and in Britain. By asking BP not to pay its dividends this quarter but to put the money into clean-up of the spill, some pension plans would be hurt. That concerns me directly. Guess a lot of Brits are emailing their government concerned about this issue as well. The bigger question, of course, is whether BP has the money to pay both for the clean-up and the dividends. The answer is "of course."

Meanwhile, the ramifications of the oil spill do not just involve the ocean, the ecosystem, the wetlands, the shrimpers, the fishermen, and the entire East Coast. The economic ramifications spread like the ever gushing oil to all of us. Looked at from several angles, this spill potentially threatens to take down parts if not all of both British and American economies.

I have already written Congress asking that we drop our 30,800,000,000 + in government contracts with BP. But, can we do something that dramatic without hurting pension plans? Things are so interconnected that the dimensions of this oil spill extend not only into the grasses of the Louisianna wetlands but seep into the safety nets of many retirees both here and in Britain.

All I can ask at the moment is why haven't Costner's clean-up centrifuges been put to work where they can do the most good? Why haven't microbes been jettisoned onto the spills to "eat" up the oil and restore the waters--as advertised--to their pristine condition? Why didn't the Army Corps of Engineers build the sand barriers in front of the wetlands when they had time? And, what has happened to the BP boss who pushed the drilling into the unsafe practice that led to the explosion and fire?

Gven a Senator' s comment that President Obama is "helpless" in this situation, why haven't we had a national, nondenominational weekend of prayer and ceremony across the United States and Britain to stop this spill? Don't we believe in the ability of a higher power to which we are all connected two fingers below our hearts to bring a conclusion to the spill? Our own inner technology may be just what is needed at this point to eliminate chaos and restore order.

The public needs to employ its considerable power, not remain paralyzed by Them and Their failures. If the threat is to us all, we collectively need to pray or do whatever ceremony seems right to end this spill. Things happen first in higher dimensions either with our intention or because of a lack of it. Ancient peoples understood this fact. We have lost it. Energy follows attention. If we collectively put our attention on stopping the spill, we might get the help we seek.

After all, everything is connected by That.