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BP claims progress on new cap as oil spews in Gulf
Uncapped oil gusher spews into Gulf as BP works on new seal to capture all the crude
Tom Breen, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil was spewing largely unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico as BP crews claimed progress Sunday in the first stages of replacing a leaky cap with a new containment system they hope will finally catch all the crude from the busted well.
There’s no guarantee for such a delicate operation nearly a mile below the water’s surface, officials said, and the permanent fix of plugging the well from the bottom remains slated for mid-August.
“It’s not just going to be, you put the cap on, it’s done. It’s not like putting a cap on a tube of toothpaste,” Coast Guard spokesman Capt. James McPherson said.
Robotic submarines removed the cap Saturday that had been placed on top of the leak in early June to catch the oil and send it to surface ships for collection or burning. BP aims to have the new, tighter cap in place as early as Monday and said that, as of Sunday morning, the work was going according to plan. BP hopes the capping operation will be done within three to six days.
Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president, said during a Sunday morning news briefing he was pleased with the progress but cautioned that unforeseen bumps could lie ahead.
“We’ve tried to work out as many of the bugs as we can. The challenge will come with something unexpected,” Wells said.
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Australian vegetables poisoned as police probe sabotage
Around four million tomato seedlings were poisoned
Police in Australia are investigating the poisoning of seven million vegetable seedlings, including tomatoes, aubergines and melons.
Detectives believe a herbicide was injected into the irrigation system at a nursery in northern Queensland.
The Australian farm minister described the poisoning at a Queensland nursery – the fourth such incident in eight years – as “sabotage”.
Farmers and analysts say the price of vegetables will increase as a result.
The cost of the damage is estimated at AUS $23.5m (£19.7m; $20.3m US), said Denise Kreymborg of the regional growers’ association.
Grudge or vandalism?
Blair African charity run by banker linked to US toxic loan fraud
A charity established by Tony Blair to aid the African poor is being run by a banker who helped to mastermind toxic mortgage investments at the centre of an alleged multi-million-pound fraud.
Paolo Pellegrini, an Italian-born financier, quietly became president last year of the US arm of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, set up to foster economic development on the continent.
The 53-year-old banker is a controversial figure in New York because of his role in devising a scheme to bet on the collapse of the US housing market, which earned his company an estimated £645 million while other investors lost the same amount.
Controversy: Tony Blair on a visit to Sierra Leone
US regulators have charged a London-based broker who marketed the products, Fabrice ‘Fabulous Fab’ Tourre, and the merchant bank that employed him, Goldman Sachs, with fraud.
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A truly toxic issue
Sadhbh Walshe
Modern life is saturated with carcinogenic chemicals. But without regulation, just how are we supposed to avoid them?
Healthful or hateful? Apples can contain any of 42 pesticides, including cancer-causing chemicals. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian
I used to be under the impression that you had a reasonable chance of avoiding debilitating and potentially fatal diseases like cancer if you just took a few simple precautions: ate plenty of fruit and vegetables, gave up smoking, drank in moderation and did a bit of exercise. It’s since become apparent that the world we live in is so overrun with environmental pollutants that it is next to impossible to keep oneself truly healthy.
A report released in the US earlier this year by the President’s Cancer Panel concluded that the risk of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated; that exposure to potential carcinogens is widespread; that the 80,000 or so chemicals used by millions of Americans in their daily lives (mostly inadvertently) are largely unregulated and that, to a “disturbing extent”, babies are being born “pre-polluted”.
Gold keeps rising as panicky investors look for security
Gold price may go beyond record high to top $2,000 an ounce as bullion sales rocket and central banks stock up
Gold bullion in the depository of a Moscow bank. Some buyers are spurning banks and keeping their bullion in vaults such as Switzerland’s ex-military bunkers. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex FeaturesGoldfinger, the villain of the eponymous James Bond film, hatched a plot to increase the value of his bullion by detonating a nuclear device inside Fort Knox, making America’s gold supply radioactive for 60 years. No less exciting, though rather more unsettling, is the real-life drama taking place on the world’s financial markets, where investors have piled into gold on fears that capitalism is about to crumble.
As a result, the gold price has soared to record levels, rising 9% this year to reach a peak of $1,264.90 (£834.44) an ounce, with influential names in the world of finance predicting it could top $2,000. Among them is Jim Rogers, the investment guru who called the start of the commodities rally in 1999.
Having narrowly averted a financial Armageddon in 2008, investors are worried the authorities have transferred western indebtedness from banks and consumers to national governments.
The cure for cancer… covered up
The newspaper article provided here was included in a newpaper called The Planet and published February 1986 in the Washington, D.C.. It was delivered to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives and every member of the United States Senate. Not one representative, senator or staff assistant was motiviated sufficiently to investigate further.
The newspaper was also provided free to the George Washington University Medical School students and professors. Again, not one was motivated to investigate further. All while 7,000 to 10,000 Americans died weekly from cancer!
Good examples of public irresponsibility from people in positions of public trust or professions with public trust implied! Shame!
Barry Lynes September 25, 1999
The Cancer Cure That Worked: The Rife Report was published in April 1987, 14 months after the U.S. Congress turned its back on Rife and ignored an incredible opportunity to “jump start” the Rife revival.
The Planet The cure for cancer was covered up
Treatment suppressed since 1930s
Reprinted with permission from Barry Lynes
It has been a secret for many years –more than 50 years in fact. It is a secret that is a shame of the medical profession and another example of complacent press, another example of a scientific conspiracy that resembles more a medieval guild protecting its financial interests than a profession dedicated to public service, and another example of a political system afraid to promote the public good when it clashed with powerful elites.
This story also demonstrates how apathetic, asleep, cowardly and unwilling so many individuals, especially the self-righteous “new agers,” actually are when given the opportunity to take real initiatives which could rectify monstrous wrongs.
The secret is the cancer cure.
Before detailing this fundamental wrong, it is important to emphasize what 50 years of covering up a cancer cure has meant in terms of suffering. Almost every family in America has been touched by the horror of lingering deaths by cancer. Those who haven’t been directly affected have known neighbors and friends who have been the victims of both the disease and the arrogant scientists, government bureaucrats and financial elites who are responsible. Children have been among the many millions who have not only been abandoned to cancer’s excruciating pain and protracted terror, but to existing, stupid, torturous, experimental procedures which don’t work. In a word, the American medical and political “establishment” are guilty of gross misconduct.
Our nation is premised upon democratic procedures, checks and balances, competition, and the correction of abuses through open discussion which lead to institutional change. In the matter of this 50 year old cancer cure, all of the above have not worked. The cancer cure was suppressed. Agencies, both public and private, were not responsive. The cost in human lives and wasted resources has been staggering. A Vietnam War, the countless annual deaths in automobile accidents, or’ the lives prematurely ended because of inferior nutrution caused by poverty together cannot match the number who have died horribly because America’s culture could not expose and then break the vested interests which perpetrated this crime. And if Colorado Governor Lamm’s figures are correct, one-third of Americans now living will die of cancer in the future. Americans tion of committed scientitst, and to promote the needed public education. So perhaps finally -~ if enough of us insist on it — America’s institutional ability to correct this outrage can be demonstrated. But don’t hold your breath. Without a major, on-going, public commitment and a national authority to oversee the effort and report regularly on the progress being. made, it is unlikely that swift, significant remedies will occur.
In another article in this issue (The Timid Press, Page 1), syndicated columnist Mary McGrory’s acceptance speech upon receiving the Lovejoy journalism award is reported. In that talk, Ms. McGrory advocated that readers read their papers “with the idea of doing something.” In a similar vein, the article on the changing weather and the scientific cover up involved, science philosopher Paul Feyerabend is quoted when he calls for “duly elected committees of laymen” to judge the efforts and recommendations of scientists.
Certainly, if anything deserves both the individual reader’s commitment as well as participation in oversight committees, it is the investigation into this cancer cure and the development of procedures to bring this cancer cure into practical use as fast as possible.
This story is somewhat technical, but the complicated scientific details will be omitted in order that you, the reader, can grasp the essentials. The specifics can be checked elsewhere and it is hoped that enough of you –including experts capable of initiating action will do so. A mobilization is required, for not only cancer. but AIDS and many other diseases threatening us are potentially capable of being eradicated if we, the people of the United States, get off our collective asses.
In the 1920s a scientist-inventor named Royal Raymond Rife invented a new kind of microscope. In an article New Age Journal March produced little from New readers), the story of Rife’s cancer cure was detailed. Since then, Rife has been nominated for the “Alternative Nobel Prize” which is annually awarded in Europe as a protest to the more established, less risk taking Swedish honor. Yet, little notice of Rife and his miraculous discovery has infiltrated the establishment m consciousness.
Rife’s microscope was a stunning advance. Unlike the electron microscope, Rife’s microscope made it possible to study “living” bacteria, viruses, and so forth. An electron microscope kills its specimens. Rife’s remarkable breakthrough used a new approach to bend light. As a result, Rife was able to prove that bacteria could change their form. In effect, they could become cancer causing viruses.
Rife then implanted his cancer-causing bacteria into rats. Tumors subsequently developed. From here, Rife made the startling discovery that the bacteria could change into a completely different form if the “medium on which they were living” was slightly altered. In other words, Rife’s cancer causing substance was, in some forms and in association with some environments within the body, deadly. But in other forms and in other environments, benign. His cancer causing substance could be changed back and forth from one to the other. The implications of this discovery are obvious. Cancer cells might be transformed to healthy cells again!
Rife then began beaming different frequencies of light on these microorganisms. Up until the early 1950s, Rife perfected this method. As Christopher Bird reported in the New Age article, “many lethal those of tuberculosis, typhoid, leprosy . . . appeared to disintegrate or ‘bIow up’ in the field of his microscope.” This “death ray” was applied to cancers in rats. It worked!
The next step was humans. The result? Here is Rife’s report: “The first clinical work on cancer was completed under the supervision of Milbank Johnson, M.D., which was setup under a special medical research committee of the University of Southern California. Sixteen cases were treated at the clinic for manv tvpes of malignancy. After three months, fourteen of these so-called hopeless cases were signed off as clinically cured by a staff of medical doctors and Alvin G. Foord, M. D., pathologist for the group.
Throughout the 1930′s, Rife and associates continued their work. In 1940, Arthur W. Yale, M.D. reported that Rife’s discoveries were an entirely new theory of the origin and cause of cancer, and the treatment and results have been so unique and unbelievable” that we’ may be able to “eliminate the second largest cause of deaths in the United States.”
But it was not to be!
There were powerful doctors whose careers were based on the theory that bacteria could not change its form. Rife’s discovery threatened their status and their own research. (It was like the invention of the automobile for a horse-drawn carriage driver.)
One of these “authorities” was Dr. Thomas Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute. Another was Harvard microbiologist Dr. Hans Zinsser. The cancer cure was killed by the powerful.
One of Rife’s supporters, Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, a pioneer bacteriologist, sadly commented at the end of his life, “They simply won’t listen.”
Others have followed Rife and have confirmed different aspects of his theory, but since they are few in number and are promoting a cause contrary to the medical establishment’s approved philosophy, they are not supported. Even publishing their findings is difficult if not impossible because of the dominant medical orthodoxy which has reigned since the 1930s!
Christopher Bird’s 1976′ New Age Journal article contained a, summation of the political coverup as perceived by the Lee Foundation of Nutritional Research in Milwaukee. According to Bird, the Lee Foundation “maintains that Rife, his microscope and his life work were tabooed by Ieaders in the U.S. medical profession and that any medical doctor who made use of his practical discoveries was stripped of his privileges as a member of the local medical society.”
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still bans treatments similar to those of Rife.
And how many millions of dollars are annually “invested” in the establishment’s preferred quackery and toururous gimmicks?
Those interested in pursuing this matter, which as a first step means forming a national committee of scientists, administrators, “can-do-types” and laymen to monitor and correct this crime are encouraged to contact The Planet. Perhaps citizen action is not entirely dead in this country yet.
Or have we truly lost our nerve, our fighting spirit, and our 1776 contempt for aristrocracy assuming dictatorial rights over our bodies and minds?
Barry Lynes
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Holy mackerel! Church mission preaches Christians must love and defend Israelis
By Stuart Littlewood
Stuart Littlewood exposes the contradictions, hypocrisy and un-Christian essence of a “Christian” Zionist body known as “the Church’s Ministry among Jewish People”, which despite being an apologist for Israeli crimes against Palestinian Christians and Muslims, is an official ministry of the Church of England – in effect its official Zionist wing.
Ever heard of the CMJ (the Church’s Ministry among Jewish People)?
Neither had I until I saw a parish magazine recently announcing a talk by the CMJ’s director of advocacy to a local Church of England study group about “God’s purpose for the Jewish people and Great Britain’s involvement in the formation of modern Israel”.
Apparently, the CMJ has a proud 200-year history and is a worldwide ministry sharing with Jewish people its belief that not only is Jesus the Saviour of the world, but he is the Jewish Messiah. CMJ is “propelled by devotion to God and the fulfillment of His promises to His people Israel”, and it feels a need to provide in-depth teaching on the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.
CMJ’s USA website talks of “the spiritual rebirth of the Jewish people and the education of the Christian church in its call to take the Gospel to ‘the Jew first’.”
And in its statement of faith the CMJ says Christians have “a special responsibility to love, defend and share the Gospel with God’s historic, chosen people, the Jews”.
Opinion Maker: Where Truth is The News and Readers are The Opinion Makers
Sitting close but yet strangers!
What does it takes to write the truth? Regular Ordinary Citizens now days are engaged in the writing process and the dissemination of the truth. Be my truth or your truth is up to the Opinion Makers.
In this complex society that we are living, a world ravaged by wars, disperse by religions, divided by ideas, segregated by colors, is amazing that we can reunite in a virtual world where we chat as old friends, a virtual coffee shop where we drink a picture in your wall, where your ideas are spread, judged, misjudged, argued, deleted and at the end of the day and after a long day of differences you still be friend of your worse enemy.
The opinion makers are you, your opinion is my worse nightmare, my opinion distasteful to your morning coffee. We all become opinion makers.
We write what we feel, what we know, what we want, what we search, what we discover and we enjoy this non pay job that we do with an almost addiction, with a religious everyday observance. We the Opinion Makers are obsessed with the truth, we can’t take the main stream news any more as news, but as propaganda. We the Opinion Makers has discovered the way to make our opinion count, even thought is just in the social networks, we feel the satisfaction of have done a great justice to truth, when we sit for hours writing, posting, commenting in every single wall of our countless friends. We have become the active Opinion Makers of the world, when before, the broadcasting networks saw us as a clients of their advertisements adds, now we become the Opinion Makers, and we are seen as important as the Adds.
How this become to be?, we the public blogger, the free writers, the video editors, the photographers, and publishers are just Opinion Makers. We do not generate one penny for the Social Network that we subscribe, but in the long run we will be the writers of History as never written before, we will write our story and History will be just his-story.
The Truth is the News and can not be cover by beautiful and crafty words. The Truth is destined to survive the most entertaining fictional story of the editor of Fox or CNN, these networks are struggling to keep us hooked to their lies.
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