was very interested in the teasers shown on Fx for this original production. The catchphrase was “America’s Lifeline Has Been Severed!” After all, I have Fx to thank (blame?_ for some of the best television (and lost sleep) this side of "Deadwood" over the past couple of years.
Television Review: "Oil Storm," on Fx…
Article comments
76 - michael
Man,I thought this was for comments for a movie.As usual the overeducated brain dead liberals have used this site as a soapbox to spew their short sighted crap!Politicians don't control this country.They are bought and paid for by big business.I'm sorry liberals that your guy lost.I would like to say to Comment 50 Ken,good point. when I first came to this site was about a week before Katrina. There were 10 comments and now look. I believe the tv images say alot.Big fat welfare mommas yelling for help from the government. Get off your ass and walk or float out of there.Have your 10 kids loot you a raft. People you do realize that 47% of Americans think(or don't) like Alicia,trut-tella,& cumstick3.
77 - AlwaysNotRight
Hey Mike, I think that scares me more then the fate of America right now, cuz what happens when you put those 47% in control of fixing things, God Help us all!
78 - Maryland
I was just on MSNBC, there aren't a whole lot of details, but they are reporting that they have spotted a "Major Oil Spill" in the Mississippi river right below New Orleans near oil tanks with 2 million barrel capacity. Homeland Security officials are restricting access and have said they are continuing to assess the situation from the air. No further details were given as this was breaking story.
Interesting.......wouldn't you say?
79 - Alicia
To alwaysnotright and all of the other easily impressionable like so: Who said I was a liberal or blamed weather or any of the other problems on the current president. The fact of the matter is that regardless of who (being republican or democrat) is in power petroleum is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. There have been many advancements as far as alternatives to the internal combustion engine in the past 20 years, but why aren't we exploring them with more vigilance? We must all remember that petroleum is a NON-renewable resource and at the current rate of consumption we will exhaust this resource in as early as 30 years. This a theory based upon a scientific study, and not liberal or left wing propaganda. I believe the situation we are in right now due to an unexpected natural disaster could have been somewhat circumvented by exploring alternative sources of energy comprehensively many years ago.
As far as the refugees go I agree with the fact that these LAZY people would not be in this sort of situation if they were not continually rewarded (welfare) for adding absolutely nothing of value to this society. In this day there is no excuse for this. The real victims are the children of these animalistic people.
80 - Ken
I have been watching the news today. Bush is finally touring the disaster areas. The polls at one site rated the government response with a 70% poor rating. I would place the blame of poor response on the Homeland Security! They should have started to respond when they saw Katrina bearing down on New Orleans and the rest of the coastal area. Come on guys, thats your job!!!
81 - gary
Here's a nice little test for everyone. Stop eating and drinking right now. Keep it up for the next four days. Let us know how you're feeling Tuesday. Think this can't happen to you because of who you voted for, or what your skin color is or where you live?Wake up.
82 - ken
Since you thought of this test, let us know how you are doing on Tuesday. We can then try it and let you know how wee did to compare notes. We expect that you have already started.
83 - V
Submitted for your approval!
This is not a joke, this IS absolutely MAD! Hurricane Katrina STEERED for New Orleans? also see this link for more links, since they being limited on here.
Funny thing is George Noory the host of Coast 2 Coast, himself sides with you the doubters, he has been quoted as saying "Why can't we just say it's Mother Nature and leave it at that?" He has a hard time believing this, and even got a fax/email from a listener that said "Your guests, who say this, our all nuts, come on weather manipulation, it's impossible" Response from Oster was, i'm not saying it, the data is available just search for the information. They mentioned "Oil Storm" and how the scenario is now playing itself out, he postured that perhaps the movie was a preview of things to come? One thing I have to ask what are the Odds of a "Hurricane" hitting Port Fourchon, dead on, destroying N.O. and this close to Labor Day, as was in the movie? They have to be astronomical! You have to admit that's a little too damned coincidental!
He made a reference to HAARP and how they, the U.S. military found that not only can it be used for LF com with submarines, but it can create heat in the atmosphere,which can plausibly heat up storm systems. He also said that there is a very good chance this method has been perfected. I did a search for HAARP and russia and look what I found on the web site for "Federation Of American Scientists", more nut jobs, right?
"Title: Russian parliament concerned about US plans to develop new weapon"
Document Number: FBIS-SOV-2002-0808
Document Date: 08 Aug 2002
Division: Russia, North America
Subdivision: Russia, United States
Sourceline: CEP20020808000087 Moscow Interfax in English 1009 GMT 8 Aug 02
Citysource: Moscow Interfax
Language: English"
[FBIS Transcribed Text] MOSCOW. Aug 8 (Interfax) - The Russian State
Duma has expressed concern about the United States' program to develop a qualitatively new type of weapon.
"Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), the
U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the
near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves," the State Duma said
in an appeal circulated on Thursday.
"The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the
transition from cold steel to fire arms, or from conventional weapons to
nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in
that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence
and its component.
These conclusions were made by the commission of the State Duma's
international affairs and defense committees, the statement reads.
The committees reported that the U.S. is planning to test three
facilities of this kind. One of them is located on the military testing
ground in Alaska and its full-scale tests are to begin in early 2003. The
second one is in Greenland and the third one in Norway.
"When these facilities are launched into space from Norway, Alsaka and
Greenland, a closed contour will be created with a truly fantastic
integral potential for influencing the near-Earth medium," the State Duma
said.
The U.S. plans to carry out large-scale scientific experiments, under
the HAARP program, and not controlled by the global community, will
create weapons capable of breaking radio communication lines and
equipment installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents
in electricity networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have a negative
impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions, the
deputies said.
They demanded that an international ban be put on such large-scale
geophysical experiments.
The appeal, signed by 90 deputies, has been sent to President Vladimir
Putin, to the United Nations and other international organizations, to
the parliaments and leaders of the UN member countries, to the scientific
public and to mass media outlets.
Among those who signed the appeal are Tatyana Astrakhankina, Nikolai
Kharitonov, Yegor Ligachev, Sergei Reshulsky, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Viktor
Cherepkov, Valentin Zorkaltsev and Alexei Mitrofanov.
[Description of Source: Moscow Interfax in English -- non-government
information agency known for its aggressive reporting, extensive economic
coverage, and good coverage of Russia's regions]
Apparently this "E.M. Scalar technology can also influence fault lines "
"MOSCOW, Mar 05, 2002 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The earthquake that shook Central and South Asia last Sunday might have been triggered by super-modern weapons intensively used by the US aviation in the seismically dangerous areas of Afghanistan, a source in a Moscow geophysical research center has told Itar-Tass on condition of anonymity. He said the supposition was confirmed by the unusually strong and lengthy tremors (up to one minute) that originated in the Hindu Kush Mountains and spread onto Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India. Even old residents of Kabul do not remember an earthquake similar to the Sunday tremor that exceeded 6 points on the Richter scale."
On Sunday, March 3, the area in which the US is fighting Afganistan Muslim Al-Aqeda forces was suddenly hit by an historically unusual 7.2 Richter Scale earthquake. Let us quickly examine this news report:
No one is saying these storms were created, only that they were taken control of. A caller brought up the so-called hoax "Report From Iron Mountain" from the 60's that says there is just no chance for peace and the only way to control the population is continue to wage horrific wars, with horrific technology. Hell there is even a U.N. treaty that forbids weather modification, why the hell would you have a treaty for something that is impossible? "NEWS BRIEF: "United States and Other World Powers Should Outlaw Tampering With Weather for Use as War Weapon", Editorial by Senator Claiborne Pell, D- Rhode Island, The Providence Journal Bulletin, 1975.
"The U.S. and other world powers should sign a treaty to outlaw the tampering with weather as an instrument of war. It may seem farfetched to think of using weather as a weapon -- but I'm convinced that the U.S. did, in fact, use rainmaking techniques as a weapon of war in Southeast Asia."
Let us stop right here and now and digest just what Senator Claiborne Pell has told us. He said that the United States used Weather as a Weapon during the Vietnam War. We fought the Vietnam War from 1965-74 in a large capacity. Using Weather Weapons in the early 1970's would fit the time frame with which we are familiar.
The U.N. treaty we discussed above was passed one year after this article appeared quoting Senator Pell. Now, let us hear some more from Senator Pell.
"We need a treaty now to prevent such actions -- before the military leaders of the world start directing storms, manipulating climates, and inducing earthquakes against their enemies. The basic idea of environmental warfare is simple -- if a nation can learn to trigger natural events it can inflict terrible damage on an enemy through rainfall, flooding, tidal waves, earthquakes, and even climate changes that could devastate an enemy nation's agriculture." [Ibid.] "
An Interesting point Oster made was, why is the response from the Govt. so slow, and late? He theorizes that they the Govt. know this was a "Weather Attack" and that if they had a response team ready to go ala post 9-11 preparedness, I.E. homeland security etc. That they would have to explain themselves, or something like that, I only wish you doubting Thomases could have listened to the interview. So I suppose when Kennedy said "Man will someday go to the moon" you guys would have said "He's a crackpot" well unless your one of those wackos who believes, we never went, guess what not only was it possbile but we went! So are you Mensas ready to say, hmm maybe there is something to this Weather Wars after all, or do we just wait for the next volly and hope another city like N.O. doesn't get decimated?
BTW no one is going to convince me that Katrina was a Cat 3, I have never seen a Cat 3 do so much damage. Are you guys that naive to think that we and the Russians and Chinese don't control these types of W.M.D.? The only thing is the Russians have had the money from the U.S. to work on it a much longer time and perfect it better! If you still doubt all this then, don't be too surprised what comes next! Wink Haven't you guys heard "Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction" and that truth is going bite us all in the ass! Why is this so important to P.O.? because as you can see it's sped up the scenario! Another interesting point, why if we are at peace with Russia we have refused disaster help from them? Others are asking similar questions, but in all fairness Oster brought that up, not me, but it makes you wonder. I suspect the cold war never ended, it just shifted to controling "Mother Nature" As the commerical used to say "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature" Smile
You Have Entered The Hyper Dimensional Zone!
84 - DirtySnipe
I emailed FX today asking them to rerun "OIL STORM". With what is going on down in the southern states, it follows to close to the movie. The one major difference is that New Orlines was untouched in the move, in reality it has been distroyed. I have been telling my co workers and family about the movies, and like most people responses it can never happen. It has and it only the beginning. The hurricane season has only begun. My family has begun to see what we can and can't live with out should prices go beyond the current $3.09 per gallon prices. I have gone as far to purchase 2 6 gallon fuel cans to ensure that is I have enough gas to get to my relatives house should the economy go south in the next 6 months. Winter is less that 2 months away. Fall for other places. Good luck to you all.
85 - peace
Introduced in the US Senate on March 1, 2005, Bill S517 calls for a US "Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board" to officially commence operations in October 2005. When passed as expected, this law will make large-scale chemical alteration of the atmosphere legal across a formerly free and beautiful land called America.
Intended to "develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy," the board is tasked with coordinating state and federal weather modification efforts. It's direct mandate is stepped-up research and development aimed at developing experimental "models, devices, equipment, materials, and processes" to change or control, "by artificial methods" the development of clouds and/or precipitation in the troposphere. This weather-forming region of the atmosphere lies between Earth's surface and the stratosphere, starting around 35,000 feet.
"[W]eather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels."
- Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser, Between Two Ages, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992)
Methods of Artificial Weather Manipulation(AWM) help agriculture, devastate the enemy and control the world economy
Staff Reporter
Mar. 27, 2005:
"Many countries are mastering the science of weather control. As a matter of fact many experts predict that a war game is being played by major powers in the world to demonstrate their capabilities of weather control. Most of these initiatives are classified and shoved off from the public. The only way one can track these initiatives is to look at countries taking actions to shield against weather control experiments."
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2070.asp
86 - peace
FX was the same network that ran "The Lone Gunmen"
The Lone Gunmen
Pilot episode of X-Files spin off an insider 911 warning or sick conditioning?
link
87 - John
This is primarily pointed towards anyone who is ignorant enough to make the assertaion that the government "cannot" control the weather. Below you will find the UN Charter expressly prohibiting member states from using weather modification as a means of warfare.
We will discuss this fascinating subject from two major avenues. First, we shall discuss the proofs from a journalistic point of view that scientists can control the weather and can use its various means as weapons. This line of reasoning is important because the great majority of Americans have passed through a Public School System that has deliberately not taught logic, mathematics, and science.
Secondly, we shall examine the scientific evidence that scientists do control the weather using Tesla Technology, which he developed from 1886-1928 ["The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla", by Nikola Tesla and David H. Childress, 1993.] As you read about our capabilities to control the weather, remember that the brilliant mystic scientist, Nikola Tesla, made the key discoveries almost 100 years ago! We do not know how far advanced Tesla was with his work on controlling the weather and its storms, but we feel fairly confident that the terrible storms and drought in the late 1920's may have been brought on by a deliberate use of Tesla technology.
Tesla Technology that makes control of the weather possible, is a fact of history that rivals any other single fact; the Illuminati made Tesla a very wealthy man for the rest of his life once he signed over his work, his discoveries, and the capabilities of his system to them.
From that moment on, Tesla virtually disappeared from the textbooks of American education, keeping us from becoming acquainted with the man who had discovered how to deliver free electricity to every home in America, among many other things. But, the Illuminati was driven by their occult beliefs and goals; therefore, they kept Tesla's technology secret, readying it for that day and hour when it could be used to set the stage for their coveted Masonic Christ, the Biblical Antichrist. It is toward this end we discuss that aspect of Tesla technology that controls the weather.
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88 - John
Sorry for posting the extended version. Here is a link to the full article.
89 - T3Dem
What are we going to do?
90 - Lainey
*What are we going to do?*
Guess we're just gonna sit around and wait for the next disaster. Either our government will fail us miserably or they will have their finger pointed so fixedly at each other that they'll take little notice of their "people".
Either way.......we're screwed!
91 - ken
It is great to have aid from other countries! Let's give a salute to our allies and other contributors we did not ever expect to help. We especially appreciate help from our friends in Mexico!
92 - Media Spy
I unfortunately have the job of watching American media full time. That's my job. So I know just about everything they've been feeding us about this terrible tragedy.
I never did see the movie Oil Storm but only one of the exactly 78 hours of hurricane footage mentioned this movie, Inside Edition. I thought to myself, how ironic that FX would have predicted a hurricane in New Orleans, one weekend off, no less.
The Republicans keep justifying their blind trust in their all great and powerful leader by saying, don't play the blame game, help people. Well, thank goodness that is finally getting done. The media was doing more help than the federal government during the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday following the hurricane.
This is a FACT:
Three years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with University of Louisiana-Lafeyette sent President Bush and his office a request for funding for the levees to be reinforced. The U of Louisiana knew that there was an 87% chance of a category 4 hurricane hitting the gulf within the next 6 years and the studies showed that would be (is a) catastrophe. With the request for funding to fix the levees, they sent a CD, demonstrating what would happen if a category four storm hit the levees. The animation showed exactly what happened when hurricane Katrina hit. New Orleans was flooded, thousands trapped. Because of the fact that 37% of the city lives in poverty, many would not able to evacuate and the high death toll was predicted. Instead of giving the Army Corps of Engineers the $26.7 million dollars asked to upgrade the levees to withstand a hurricane, they cut their funding to $3 million (although give props to the Congress, they raised it up to $5.7 mil, not enough to fix it though). Congress and Senate just passed a $60 billion aid for the Katrina damage this week. Kind of makes that $26.7 million look like mere pocket change. Think of how many homes would not have been flooded if the levees had been fixed. FX was not the only entity to have predicted this catastrophe. The Bush Administration knew it was coming.
I've read a lot of people complaining about the media playing politics, blaming the Bush administration for delay in aid when they could have been helping. The reporters were helping with what they could, but they are not an army of National Guard troops. Each network has about ten reporters in each area. That means that if you in New York turn on your local NBC affiliate and see Steve Handelsman reporting in New Orleans, guess what, people in Los Angeles watching KNBC also get to see Steve reporting on New Orleans events. They did what they could, but the American news media does not have the resources of the National Guard (the Louisiana National Guard is mostly in Iraq.) Often I see the same reporters reporting for Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Miami, etc. One might think there is a reporter in New Orleans for every news station in America. Not so.
I read someone complaining about how other countries have not sent us aid. :::snort chuckle laugh::: Not only have other countries sent us aid, they are doing so and laughing. Here is a short list of countries who have donated $100,000 or more: Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela, France, and many others that aren't really important cause they're are friends. I mean, we have Venezeula and Iran offering us aid. Afghanistan? I thought they still needed aid for their election coming up this fall.
Of course the aid packages are going to friends of the Bush administration like Bechtel. This is the Bechtel wet dream. They got the (no bid naturally) contract for rebuilding all those houses. It would be a shame to try to use the money to find local construction crews to come back and work on the houses or train people to repair the houses, being as there are a large amount of unemployed people.
As for FEMA director Michael Brown, I am not going to repeat all the allegations about his credentials, only why he got the job. He is a close friend of George Bush and worked with him on the campaign trail. Which explains why even after waiting 4 days before responding to a terrible flood and hurricane, Michael Chertoff and Scott McClellan can still express full confidence in him. Even if pressures force the administration in him to make him the fall guy and he is replaced, there will always be a place in the administration for Brown.
You can write me off as a liberal if you want to, but that would be wrong. I am a registered Republican, however, I am educated, so I do not vote that way. I was raised Republican, by Republican conservative parents. I vote independent, because both parties do not care about the American people. They care about the big corporate donors. Please, American people, wake up. I am watching the middle class, good paying jobs, god-given rights, and education being flushed down the toilet by this administration every night. Even FOX News can't hide it anymore.
93 - Go George
I don't get where you people are coming from. George Walker Bush is the champion of the average American. Since 911 we haven't been hit with anything. We're safe now and now it's time to free other countries where their people are under the control of the same animals that attacked us. President Bush has erased the Iraqi threat and now it's time to deal with Korea and Iran. I'm sure our leaders are on Bin Ladin's heels and now he'll deal with New Orleans. God Bless you President Bush. P.S. I just thought an extreme radical comment might offset this site. I have little trust in our government to do anything right. Well, except to spin us into socialism controlled by the big business czars. Democrat or Republican, it's all the same. If any of our politicians really care about this country they would address our bad trade agreements, open southern border, and a bloated government that is mired in it's own bureaucracy. Maybe if they all immitated lemmings would help also."Oil Storm Rocks"
94 - alen
i found the movie using TorrentSpy.
95 - Tom
It did happen, and is probably not over. The first twenty minutes of the movie did happen almost exactly as predicted (?). Two major hurricanes supposedly DID do major damage to the oil infrastructure, which may take years to recover.
Supposedly the reason why we are not seeing the nasty remainder of the film happen (yet?) is because we are currently relying on oil reserves from Europe and the SPR. These reserve drains cannot continue indefinitely. If the damage was as bad as some on the net are saying, we may be facing the actual events of the remainder of the film very soon.
Whether this actually happens or not will be something that only time will tell. However, it would be a fools game to think we are safe, so we can forget about it. The bottom may soon fall out if we are indeed sucking reserves dry in a foolish attempt to maintain a fantasy of normality in a fatally wounded supply chain.
The residents of New Orleans would never have believed that their city would ever be as damaged as it was, the same rule holds true for the rest of America. People simply cannot tolerate more than they are comfortable with.
The historical figure of Cassandra had a gift here. She was always right, but never believed because people could not tolerate the truth as harshly as she told it. Don't be a fool and think we are DEFINITELY safe, so you can return to your normal life with a gurarantee of a quiet retirement.
At least PREPARE for the possibility that the bottom could fall out at any time. If we are really living on reserves, it could. At least keep your eyes opened, I suspect that a sudden surge in the price of gasoline will be a red flag that should not be ignored. Do not trust explanations that the media gives, as the media is well known to be corporate controlled, and very friendly to the administration.
At the very least, you should always stockpile two weeks of food, water and supplies. The people who were stuck in The Big Easy would attest to the benefits of this. The next time you are stuck without power for a week because of a severe winter storm, so will you. Common sense that is, just don't go overboard or paranoid, be safe that is all.
96 - lew
where can I buy this movie
97 - liz taylor
yes, where can we buy this movie if we missed it???
98 - Gregg35mm
The Funny thing about this movie is it happended within a few months of it airing the Hurricane Katrina, the pipe line damaged in the gulf, china bidding on oil, the fall of the US dollar rising gas prices.
Hmmmmmmm.........
99 - patton
where can i buy a copy of oil storm?
100 - Arnold Zyffel
Where can I buy a copy of Oil Storm?
The made-for-TV movie was SO CLOSE to actual events surrounding Katrina, that I CAN NOT BELIEVE that FOX has not repeated this program 13 times.......The biggest error in the movie is that the economy went to crap at only $8.50/gallon. Now we are over $4 and things are not slowing down that much yet. In order to generate the chaos & anarchy that was depicted in the movie, we would need gas to top $12/gallon.....
Did somebody in a high place BUY OFF Fox to not re-run OIL STORM?