Do we enjoy the common law right to travel in this common law jurisdiction, or not? Freeman-on-the-Land Robert-Arthur of the Menard Family begins his examination and possible legal action concerning this topic.
Friday, May 31, 2013
RIGHT TO TRAVEL
Explains your "Right to Travel" vs a "Privilege to Drive". This is a very serious deception everyone should be aware of. Hope this compels some of you to investigate your freedoms further.
Do we enjoy the common law right to travel in this common law jurisdiction, or not? Freeman-on-the-Land Robert-Arthur of the Menard Family begins his examination and possible legal action concerning this topic.
Do we enjoy the common law right to travel in this common law jurisdiction, or not? Freeman-on-the-Land Robert-Arthur of the Menard Family begins his examination and possible legal action concerning this topic.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
EXPOSED: Angelina Jolie
EXPOSED: Angelina Jolie part of a Clever Corporate Scheme to protect Billions in BRCA Gene Patents, influence Supreme Court decision (opinion)
Angelina Jolie's announcement of undergoing a double mastectomy (surgically removing both breasts) even though she had no breast cancer is not the innocent, spontaneous, "heroic choice" that has been portrayed in the mainstream media.Natural News has learned it all coincides with a well-timed for-profit corporate P.R. campaign that has been planned for months and just happens to coincide with the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on the viability of the BRCA1 patent.
This is the investigation the mainstream media refuses to touch. Here, I explain the corporate financial ties, investors, mergers, human gene patents, lawsuits, medical fear mongering and the trillions of dollars that are at stake here. If you pull back the curtain on this one, you find far more than an innocent looking woman exercising a "choice." This is about protecting trillions in profits through the deployment of carefully-crafted public relations campaigns designed to manipulate the public opinion of women.
The signs were all there from the beginning of the scheme: Angelina Jolie's highly polished and obviously corporate-written op-ed piece at the New York Times, the carefully-crafted talking points invoking "choice" as a politically-charged keyword, and the obvious coaching of even her husband Brad Pitt who carefully describes the entire experience using words like "stronger" and "pride" and "family."
But the smoking gun is the fact that Angelina Jolie's seemingly spontaneous announcement magically appeared on the cover of People Magazine this week -- a magazine that is usually finalized for publication three weeks before it appears on newsstands. That cover, not surprisingly, uses the same language found in the NYT op-ed piece: "HER BRAVE CHOICE" and "This was the right thing to do." The flowery, pro-choice language is not a coincidence.
What this proves is that Angelina's Jolie's announcement was a well-planned corporate P.R. campaign with carefully-crafted messages designed to influence public opinion. But what could Jolie be seeking to influence?
...how about trillions of dollars in corporate profits?
Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision to rule on patent viability for BRCA1 gene
Angelina Jolie's announcement and all its carefully-crafted language had four notable immediate impacts:
1) It caused women everywhere to be terrified of breast cancer through the publishing of false statistics that drove fear into the hearts of anyone with breasts. (See below for explanation.)
2) It caused women to rush out and seek BRCA1 gene testing procedures. These tests just happen to be patented by a for-profit corporation called "Myriad Genetics." Because of this patent, BRCA1 tests can cost $3,000 - $4,000 each. The testing alone is a multi-billion-dollar market, but only if the patent is upheld in an upcoming Supreme Court decision (see below).
3)
It caused the stock price of Myriad Genetics (MYGN) to skyrocket to a
52-week high. "Myriad's stock closed up 3% Tuesday, following the
publication of the New York Times op-ed," wrote Marketwatch.com.4) It drove public opinion to influence the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision to rule in favor of corporate ownership of human genes (see more below).
Women all over the world are being duped into supporting Angeline Jolie, having no idea that what she's really doing is selling out women to the for-profit cancer industry. But to fully understand what's happening, you have to dig deeper...
Myriad Genetics sees stock price skyrocket thanks to Jolie, and Obamacare will funnel billions their way
"Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics (MYGN) holds the patent on the test that determined the actress had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer, as well as the genes themselves," wrote MarketWatch.com.
And that's only the beginning. If the U.S. Supreme Court can be influenced to uphold Myriad's patent, it could mean a trillion-dollar industry over just the next few years. Even more, Myriad Genetics is reportedly "ripe for mergers" according to the financial press, because it's part of the super-hot human genome industry.
"The world's largest maker of DNA testing and analysis tools, Life Technologies Corp. said that it is set to be acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific for a record $13.6 billion," writes MarketWatch.com. "A race that kicked into high gear more than 26 years ago is heating up, with foreign governments and corporations joining the U.S. in funding the quest to map all the human genomes. And even as the recent flurry of mergers and acquisitions in the genomics space has spurred returns, investors still have opportunities to profit from this multibillion-dollar industry."
The higher Myriad's stock price goes, the more profitable a merger becomes for its current owners. So Jolie's P.R. stunt just happened to generate unknown millions of dollars in value for the very people who claim a patent monopoly over the breast cancer genes residing in the bodies of women. Coincidence? Hardly.
Obamacare mandates taxpayers pay for BRCA gene testing: yet another government handout to wealthy corporations
But here's what's even more crooked about all this: You know how Obama likes to talk "free market" but actually engages in so-called "crony capitalism" by handing out money to all his corporate buddies, Wall Street insiders and deep-pocketed campaign donors? Part of Obamacare -- the "Affordable Care Act" -- mandates that taxpayers pay for BRCA1 genetic testing!
Myriad Genetics, in other words, stands to receive a full-scale windfall of profits mandated by government and pushed into mainstream consciousness through a campaign of "medical terror" fronted by Angelina Jolie and the New York Times. Are you starting to see how this all fits together yet?
This is all one big coordinated corporate sellout of women, and it's all being hidden by playing the "women's power" card and using "choice" language to more easily manipulate women. Angelina Jolie, remember, is a key spokesperson for the United Nations, an organization already caught engaged in child sex slavery and drug running. Although Jolie obviously isn't engage in that sort of behavior, her job is to covertly influence American women into supporting a carefully-planned, plotted and executed corporate profit campaign that turns women's bodies into profits.
Here's why the Supreme Court decision puts trillions of dollars at stake...
Details on the upcoming Supreme Court decision
The ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit in 2009, challenging the corporate ownership of human genes. Anyone who believes in women's rights, human rights, civil rights or even the right to eat non-GMO foods should immediately agree that corporations should NOT be able to patent human genes and then use those patents to rake in billions of dollars in profits while stifling scientific research into those genes.
A question to all women reading this: Do you believe a corporation in Utah owns your body? If not, you should be opposed to corporate ownership of human genes. It also means you should oppose Angelina Jolie's P.R. campaign because although she's running a brilliant public relations campaign, behind the scenes her actions are feeding potentially trillions of dollars of profits directly into the for-profit human gene patenting industry that denies human beings ownership over their own genetic code.
The ACLU explains the basics of its lawsuit against Myriad Genetics as follows:
On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are unconstitutional and invalid. On November 30, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear argument on the patentability of human genes. The ACLU argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 15, 2013. We expect a decision this summer.
On behalf of researchers, genetic counselors, women patients, cancer survivors, breast cancer and women's health groups, and scientific associations representing 150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals, we have argued that human genes cannot be patented because they are classic products of nature. The suit charges that the gene patents violate the First Amendment and stifle diagnostic testing and research that could lead to cures and that they limit women's options regarding their medical care.
Got that? If the Supreme Court rules against Myriad Genetics, it will cause a multi-billion-dollar breast cancer genetic testing industry to collapse virtually overnight. This means a huge loss for not just Myriad, but also many other human gene corporations that wish to exploit the human body -- including the bodies of women -- for monopolistic profits. (All patents are government-granted monopolies.) Ultimately, trillions of dollars in corporate gene patents are at stake here.
Patenting human genes is huge business
Today, about 20 percent of your genes are already patented by corporations and universities. As the ACLU explains, "A gene patent holder has the right to prevent anyone from studying, testing or even looking at a gene. As a result, scientific research and genetic testing has been delayed, limited or even shut down due to concerns about gene patents."
This means that when corporations own patents on human genes, it stifles scientific research while granting that corporation a monopoly over the "intellectual property" encoded in your own DNA! (How criminal is that? You decide...)
What this means is that if the Supreme Court rules against Myriad, it would set a precedent that would dismantle the entire human gene patenting industry, affecting trillions of dollars in future profits.
This, I believe, is the real reason behind Angelina Jolie's announcement. It seems designed to invoke women's emotional reactions and create a groundswell of support for corporate-owned genes, thereby handing these corporations a Supreme Court precedent that will ensure trillions in future profits. It's a for-profit PR stunt that tries to trick women into supporting a corporate system of patents and monopolies that claims, right now, to own portions of the bodies of every woman living today.
While most media outlets have no clue about the patent issues at stake here, the Detroit Free Press took notice, saying:
"The Hollywood star's decision to get tested for a breast cancer gene mutation, undergo a double mastectomy and then write about it calls attention to a case now pending before the court. The justices have just weeks to decide if Myriad Genetics' patent on the two genes that can identify an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer is legal. Critics complain that the company's monopoly leaves them as the sole source of the $4,000 tests needed to determine each woman's risk."
Lying with statistics: Jolie's 87% risk exaggeration
There's more to this story than just the patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Angelina Jolie is also using blatantly misleading statistics to terrify women into thinking their breasts might kill them.
In the NYT op-ed piece, Jolie claims her doctor told her she has an "87% risk" of developing breast cancer. But what she didn't tell you is that this number doesn't apply to the entire population: it's actually old data derived almost exclusively from families that were previously documented to have very high risks of breast cancer to begin with.
A study published on the National Human Genome Research Institute website and conducted by scientists from the National Institutes of Health reveals that breast cancer risks associated with BRCA1 genes are significantly lower than what's being hyped up by Jolie and the mainstream media.
In fact, in a large room of 600 women, only ONE will likely have a BRCA mutation in her genetic code. The actual incidence is 0.125 to 0.25 out of 100 women, or 1 in 400 to 1 in 800. I used 600 as the average of 400 and 800.
And out of that 1 in 600 women who has the mutation, her risk of breast cancer is only 56 percent, not 78 percent as claimed by Jolie. But 13 percent of women without the BRCA mutation get breast cancer anyway, according to this scientific research, so the increased risk is just 43 out of 100 women.
So what we're really talking about here is 1 in 600 women having a BRCA gene mutation, then less than half of those getting cancer because of it. In other words, only about 1 in 1200 women will be affected by this.
Yet thanks to people like Jolie and the fear-mongering mainstream media, women all across the nation have been terrified into believing their breasts might kill them and the best way to handle the problem is to cut them off!
This, my friends, is the essence of doomsday fear mongering. This issue affects less than one-tenth of one percent of women but is being riled up into a nationwide fear campaign that just happens to feed profits into the for-profit cancer diagnosis and treatment industry, not to mention the monopolistic human gene patenting cartels.
That's the real story of what's happening here. Don't expect to read this in the New York Times.
Corporate media refuses to mention real prevention and treatment options
As
part of the breast cancer fear mongering and treatment scam now being
run across the mainstream media, nearly all media sources are
prohibiting any mention of holistic or natural options for treatment or
prevention.Sure, the media talks about "options," but all those options just happen to lead back to the for-profit cancer industry. As an example, read this story by ABC News, part of the lying mainstream media that misinforms women and pushes a corporate agenda:
If you do test positive for BRCA, you have options, and you don't necessarily have to go the Jolie route. Some women choose not to have surgery. Instead, they increase cancer surveillance with imaging tests. These include regular mammograms to test for breast cancer, and regular pelvic sonograms and blood-tests to watch for ovarian cancer.
Nowhere in this article does ABC News mention ways to suppress the BRCA1 gene by, for example, eating raw cruciferous vegetables containing Indole-3-Carbinol (I3C), a potent anti-cancer nutrient that halts breast cancer in its tracks. Nowhere does ABC News mention vitamin D which prevents nearly 4 out of 5 cancers of all types, including breast cancer.
Nope, the "options" being pushed by mainstream media are nothing more than mammograms, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy -- all owned and run by the for-profit cancer industry that feeds on women and exploits their bodies for profit.
Nor is their any discussion of the total scam of the "pink ribbons" cancer cure industry which is primarily focused on giving women cancer through "free mammograms." As any scientist or physicist already knows, mammograms cause cancer because they emit ionizing radiation directly into the breast and heart tissues. Get enough mammograms done and sooner or later they will detect breast cancer because they caused it! To date, 1.3 million women have been harmed by mammography.
Thanks, Angelina, for keeping the wool pulled over the eyes of women everywhere while selling out to for-profit, monopolistic, corporate interests that incessantly seek to exploit women for profit.
Photo credit: PEOPLE Magazine cover, used under Fair Use for public commentary and education.
Source: Natural News
Related:
- US Government claims 100% Ownership over all your DNA and Reproductive Rights; Genetic Slavery is already here
- The Cancer Industry EXPOSED! Ways to Prevent and CURE Cancer
- Coming in 2013: Burzynski - Cancer Is Serious Business, Chapter 2
- Vaccination Conspiracy. Keeping people sick for Big Pharma
- FDA approves first GMO flu vaccine containing reprogrammed insect virus
- The Corporation (2003) Award-winning Documentary
- What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe (TED Talk)
Source: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/05/exposed-angelina-jolie-part-of-clever-corporate-scheme-to-protect-billions-in-brca-gene-patents.html
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
DEPLETED URANIUM
Depleted uranium: a 4.5 billion year threat to Iraq
By Meer Ako Ali:
Our concept of the consequences of war is of shelled buildings,
barren lands and disfigured men. We rarely think of malformed children,
stillborn babies and raging cancers – although these are the worse
consequences of war.
War-torn countries produce war-torn children. War-torn children are
the ingredients of war-torn societies. The greatest harm war can render
to a community is the damage done to its kids.
We have all heard of club-footed Japanese
babies and the leukemia of Sadako Sasaki of the ‘Thousand Paper Cranes’
fame, caused by radiation from the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. We all remember the chemical attacks on Halabja and the
sharp increase in birth defects and fetal losses that followed. But
perhaps a less familiar source of post-war agony is depleted uranium
(DU). Iraq and its people have been exposed to DU from military weaponry
since 1991.
Depleted uranium is the byproduct of the uranium enrichment process
used to make nuclear fuel. It contains three times less U-235 isotope
than natural uranium. Even though DU is about 60-75% as radioactive as
natural uranium, it has been observed that DU is very toxic and has
potential long-term health effects due to its long half-life which is
estimated at around 4.5 billion years. Dr. Rosalie Bertell, an
environmental epidemiologist, says “The damage [caused by DU] is due to
the length of time of the exposure more than the strength of the
source.”
Depleted uranium has a mass of 19,050 kg/m³ and is 1.67 times denser
than lead. Because of its high density, DU is valued for certain
civilian and military purposes. It is used as counterweight in aircrafts
and as protective material in radioactive settings. It is also used in
ammunition and armors. Depleted uranium can penetrate armors, ignite on
impact, and protect against normal bullets because of its high density.
At impact, 20% of a DU penetrator’s mass turns into dust and can
contaminate miles of land.
About 18 countries make use of DU in their military equipment as it
is relatively cheap and readily available. The United States has used DU
in its military equipment since the 1970s, contaminating Iraq in the
1991 Gulf War and again in the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the Gulf
War, 375 tons of DU ammunitions were used. In OIF, more than 2200 tons
were used a year into the war.
Research conducted since 1990 indicate that exposure to depleted
uranium can affect the function of the organs – including the brain,
liver, kidney, and heart – in addition to causing genetic, reproductive,
and neurological problems. And reports of high birth defect rates have
always followed DU usage, especially in areas where DU munitions have
been fired.
Malformed babies
DU results in dreadfully malformed babies. Anyone who browses Google
Images for “depleted uranium” will either baulk at the images of
hideously misshapen babies or have nightmares for the rest of the week.
During the Gulf War, Iraqi and American troops in the city of Basra
received a total whole body radioactive dosage of 442-577 millisievert
(mSv): the “recommended” yearly dosage is 1 mSv. In 2001, veterans of
the Gulf War were reported to have about 14 times more chromosomal and
DNA abnormalities in their genes and they had 220% more risk of having
children with congenital malformations than their non-veteran peers. In
2004, another study showed that the risk of Gulf War male veterans
having children with malformations was 50% higher than for non-veterans.
It was also reported that even eight years after their brief exposure
to DU in the Gulf War, US troops still had traces of DU in their semen
and 100 times the “recommended” amount of uranium in their urine. Today,
a third of the 1991 Gulf War veterans receive VA Disability Benefits.
The damage was so immense that it is now referred to as the “Gulf War
Syndrome”.
Reports from doctors in Iraq show that birth defects have increased
by 2-6 times and that some types of cancer are 3-12 times more
frequently seen since 1991. The Lancet, the world’s leading
general medical journal, published a report in 1998 stating that around
the world about 500 children die everyday as a result of Iraqi warfare,
and that the mortality rate among Iraqi children under age 5 has
increased from 2.3% in 1989 to 16.6% in 1993. In 2001, a decade after
the Gulf War, doctors in Basra, one of the most contaminated cities in
Iraq, reported sharp increases in the rate of congenital malformations
at birth. 18 out of 1,000 children were born with some kind of defect.
Doctors also reported a horrible new trend: mothers after labor no
longer ask for the gender of their infants, but whether they are “normal
or not.” This trend is likely to continue and become more frequent as
the very genes of the exposed may have been damaged and the DU dust
remains present.
Dr. Chris Busby, a British radiation expert, says:
“I’m horrified. The people out there – the Iraqis, the media and
the troops – risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from
depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It’s going to destroy
the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how
far radiation can travel”.
This radiation expert expresses his concern for troops, reporters,
and Iraqis who might have been contaminated by Depleted Uranium in the
Iraq war.
Six years into OIF, Dr. Busby and two other researchers conducted a
survey in Fallujah, the most contaminated city in Iraq, and concluded
that infant mortality has risen to 8%. In Fallujah, the incidence rate
of leukemia had increased 38 times and breast cancer in females 10 times
by 2009. Shockingly, these figures are higher than the ones reported in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki after 1945.
In the world of politics, depleted uranium is a very sensitive
subject. In 1996-1997, UN Human Rights Tribunals labeled the use of DU
for military purposes as a violation of the Geneva Convention and marked
DU munitions as weapons of mass destruction. Dozens of humanitarian
organizations, like the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (CADU), and
documentary movies, like Poison DUst, raise awareness about the dangers
of DU.
‘Crime against humanity’
Grave accusations were leveled against the coalition forces during
the Gulf War and later during the Iraq War, and the propriety of many of
their actions has been brought into question. Human rights activists
around the world condemn the American and British occupation forces for
using DU. One American veteran says American use of DU is “a crime
against humanity which may, in the eyes of historians, rank with the
worst atrocities of all time. [Iraq Military Veterans] are on DU death
row, waiting to die.” This ex-soldier speaks for the quarter million US
and UK troops who are now gravely ill allegedly because of DU exposure.
To avoid pressure from the UN and humanitarian organizations, the US,
UK, and other coalition forces have refused to release specific
information about the amounts and types of DU they used in Iraq. The US
government’s Veterans Administration maintains that the Gulf War
Syndrome is caused by the biological and chemical effects of the oil
fields in Southern Iraq and, in one instance, it blocked an experiment
by Dr. Asaf Durakovic.
This professor of radiology and nuclear medicine exposed a group of
dogs to depleted uranium in an experiment and found that 84% of the dogs
died of lung cancer. Dr. Durakovic concluded:
“Uranium does cause cancer, uranium does cause mutation, and
uranium does kill. If we continue with the irresponsible contamination
of the biosphere, and denial of the fact that human life is endangered
by the deadly isotope uranium, then we are doing disservice to
ourselves, disservice to the truth, disservice to God and to all
generations who follow”.
By blocking controversial experiments like Dr Durakovic’s, the
militaries of the superpowers communicate to us that they have an
interest in continuing to use depleted uranium and will revert to force
if necessary.
Even though in public the US Veterans Administration denies the
dangers of DU, they privately acknowledge them. A leaked US
administration report in 1995 purportedly admits the dangers of DU but
states that the issue “must be viewed in perspective.” The report
acknowledges that the cost of repairing the damage done would be
“excessive.” They are just not ready to pay for the mistakes made.
Time to act
Even with all the research and international fuss about DU, most
Iraqis are still ignorant concerning the subject of DU. But, just as
someone walking with blindfolds cannot be sure that he will never hit a
wall, we cannot be sure that we will never be affected by DU. Just
because most of us have not yet fallen victim to DU does not mean it
won’t happen. DU is patient: it can strike anytime during its
4.5-billion-year-stay.
What does it take for us to start worrying about DU contamination in
Iraq? Do we all need get lung cancer and have malformed babies before we
start to care?
Unless we start caring, we will all eventually suffer the deadly
consequences of DU contamination, and mortality and birth defect rates
will keep rising at a steady pace for the next 4.5 billion years.
Each and every one of us, as inhabitants of this land, is entitled to
a share in the responsibility for decontaminating it and spreading
awareness about the dangers of DU.
We should also work to:
- secure the banning of DU for military purposes
- convince the US military to submit necessary data about the types, amounts, and locations of all DU expenditures in Iraq
- cooperate with foreign organizations (like the Preemptive Love Coalition that works to provide life-saving heart surgeries for kids who have been born with heart defects, some allegedly from exposure to DU)
- assist local doctors in providing best medical treatment to victims of DU warfare
- allow the UN and humanitarian organizations to do extensive research about lingering DU effects in Iraq and find out if the damage done to the victims can be reversed.
Meer Ako Ali, aged 16, is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Awat Newspaper, an independent English newspaper run by Kurdish youth, and a Kurdistan Tribune columnist
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
BILDERBERG BOMBING CAMPAIGN
Bilderberg Bombing Campaign Exposed By Top Italian Supreme Court Judge
Submitted by cooper11 on Mon, 05/06/2013
Translated by Mario Andrade for www.Deadlinelive.info
NAPLES – “The Bilderberg Group is one of the leading organizations behind the strategy of tension, and therefore the (Operation Gladio) massacres.” This statement is not just mentioned by bloggers or conspiracy theorists, or even Beppe Grillo, but Ferdinando Imposimato, Honorary President of the Supreme Court. The former magistrate, who would be proclaimed by the ’5-Star Movement’ as one of the possible presidential candidates, speaks in Naples during the promotion of his new book.
His words are very clear. “We found the truth about the massacres,” he says in an interview with a journalist. “There has been complicity between the state -or factions of the state- and the Mafia, as well as (black ops) terrorism and freemasonry. These elements came together during Operation Gladio, and consist of multiple international organizations, controlled by the CIA. This is a proven fact, “ he says. The purpose of their actions was to destabilize public order and stabilize the political power.
In his book, Ferdinando Imposimato also speaks of the Bilderberg Group, mentioned in a document written by Emilio Alessandrini in 1967 -more than 40 years ago. “In this document, which I have quoted literally, it is mentioned that the Bildenberg Group is one of the biggest promoters of the strategy of tension, and therefore also behind the massacres. Here’s what Bilderberg does: It rules the world and democracies in an invisible way, influencing the democratic development of these countries.”
It is important for Italians to know this, for some of their countrymen are among the members of this group and the Trilateral Commission, like of Mario Monti, the current Prime Minister, John Elkann, Chairman of Fiat Group, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, former president of Finmeccanica or Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman of Pirelli, also Enrico Letta, vice secretary of the Democratic Party.
Italian Prosecutor Implicates Bilderberg Group and CIA for Massacres in Italy During the Seventies and Eighties
Andrew Puhanic, Contributor - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - Activist Post
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/italian-prosecutor-impli...
The Bilderberg Group has now been directly implicated for the murder of Italian activists during the seventies and eighties.
According to Ferdinando Imposimato, a former prosecutor that investigated the Italian Mafia who is also an honorary president of the Italian Supreme Court, during a speech he delivered at a book launch revealed for the first time that the Bilderberg Group were responsible for massacres of political activists during the seventies and eighties in Italy.
Ferdinando Imposimato not only implicates the Bilderberg Group, he also reveals that the CIA and Bilderberg Group were working in partnership to destabilize the Italian political framework during the seventies and eighties.
While discussing how the Bilderberg Group and CIA tried to infiltrate Italy, Mr. Imposimato was quoted as saying:
The strategy (used by the CIA) was used to shift the political balance from right to center-left and then to left. This was orchestrated by the CIA.
Unknown to many, the Bilderberg Group has a long history of manipulating political frameworks around the world.
Within the last 12 months, prominent members of the Bilderberg Group have been appointed to the upper echelons of the United States and United Kingdom governments. eg Mark Carney: about to be installed as Governor of the Bank of England
Interestingly, Italy has been represented at many Bilderberg Group meetings. In fact, at the last three Bilderberg Group meetings, 17 participants were Italian. On average, Italians make up 5% of the participants list at all Bilderberg Group meetings.
Source: The Daily Paul
NAPLES – “The Bilderberg Group is one of the leading organizations behind the strategy of tension, and therefore the (Operation Gladio) massacres.” This statement is not just mentioned by bloggers or conspiracy theorists, or even Beppe Grillo, but Ferdinando Imposimato, Honorary President of the Supreme Court. The former magistrate, who would be proclaimed by the ’5-Star Movement’ as one of the possible presidential candidates, speaks in Naples during the promotion of his new book.
His words are very clear. “We found the truth about the massacres,” he says in an interview with a journalist. “There has been complicity between the state -or factions of the state- and the Mafia, as well as (black ops) terrorism and freemasonry. These elements came together during Operation Gladio, and consist of multiple international organizations, controlled by the CIA. This is a proven fact, “ he says. The purpose of their actions was to destabilize public order and stabilize the political power.
In his book, Ferdinando Imposimato also speaks of the Bilderberg Group, mentioned in a document written by Emilio Alessandrini in 1967 -more than 40 years ago. “In this document, which I have quoted literally, it is mentioned that the Bildenberg Group is one of the biggest promoters of the strategy of tension, and therefore also behind the massacres. Here’s what Bilderberg does: It rules the world and democracies in an invisible way, influencing the democratic development of these countries.”
It is important for Italians to know this, for some of their countrymen are among the members of this group and the Trilateral Commission, like of Mario Monti, the current Prime Minister, John Elkann, Chairman of Fiat Group, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, former president of Finmeccanica or Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman of Pirelli, also Enrico Letta, vice secretary of the Democratic Party.
Italian Prosecutor Implicates Bilderberg Group and CIA for Massacres in Italy During the Seventies and Eighties
Andrew Puhanic, Contributor - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - Activist Post
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/italian-prosecutor-impli...
The Bilderberg Group has now been directly implicated for the murder of Italian activists during the seventies and eighties.
According to Ferdinando Imposimato, a former prosecutor that investigated the Italian Mafia who is also an honorary president of the Italian Supreme Court, during a speech he delivered at a book launch revealed for the first time that the Bilderberg Group were responsible for massacres of political activists during the seventies and eighties in Italy.
Ferdinando Imposimato not only implicates the Bilderberg Group, he also reveals that the CIA and Bilderberg Group were working in partnership to destabilize the Italian political framework during the seventies and eighties.
While discussing how the Bilderberg Group and CIA tried to infiltrate Italy, Mr. Imposimato was quoted as saying:
The strategy (used by the CIA) was used to shift the political balance from right to center-left and then to left. This was orchestrated by the CIA.
Unknown to many, the Bilderberg Group has a long history of manipulating political frameworks around the world.
Within the last 12 months, prominent members of the Bilderberg Group have been appointed to the upper echelons of the United States and United Kingdom governments. eg Mark Carney: about to be installed as Governor of the Bank of England
Interestingly, Italy has been represented at many Bilderberg Group meetings. In fact, at the last three Bilderberg Group meetings, 17 participants were Italian. On average, Italians make up 5% of the participants list at all Bilderberg Group meetings.
Source: The Daily Paul
Thursday, May 16, 2013
BENGHAZI EVIDENCE- 4 Star Admiral
Retired 4 star Admiral Blows Whistle on Benghazi new Evidence
By Doc Vega
A lot has been said and written, but this promises to break the case wide open!
There have been many theories and accusations about the Benghazi fiasco that not only cost Ambassador J. Christian Stevens his life, but the lives of his staff and one Navy Seal body-guard as well. This action which led to a complete conflagration of terrorist attacks against US diplomatic buildings throughout the Middle East and North Africa still remains largely uninvestigated by the government, unprosecuted by AG Eric Holder’s Depart of Justice, and refuses to bring the guilty parties to justice while many know the truth and are not coming forward. Even though President Obama is implicated in this oversees tragedy still the truth has not emerged.
That has all changed. Finally, an authoritative figure with the proper credentials has stepped up to the plate to tell the true story of what did happen without the lies and cover-ups that have so far kept those guilty of murder from standing trial. The admission on the part of this man will likely blow the Benghazi scandal wide open and lead to arrests if we can get our legal system to act as it should. That, however, is a big if.
Related: Read Letter: Special Ops Vets Demand Benghazi Congressional Investigation
The story as it truly unfolded
According to a report from the Washington Times, retired 4 Star Admiral James Lyons reveals the entire plot that led to the deaths of Americans in Libya that could have been prevented, who gave the orders, and why events took place as they tragically did. Admiral James Lyons is probably the highest ranking figure ever to intervene in a federal government criminal case, and testify. Thanks to this man’s dedication to his country and the truth, we will finally know the truth and who was responsible.
In his words Lyons says that the attack on Benghazi was a bungled kidnapping attempt to be perpetrated upon Ambassador Stevens. This was to appear to be a hostage exchange for a terrorist prisoner who was to be released in trade for a supposedly captured US ambassador. The trade would have been for Omar Abdel Rahman an international prisoner, known as the Blind Sheikh.
This apparent abduction by terrorists of our ambassador and then negotiated trade for the Blind Sheikh would have been the “October Surprise” that would have elevated President Obama’s flagging popularity and boosted his approval ratings for a re-election. A dramatic prisoner exchange that saved our ambassador’s life However, something went horribly wrong. A cunning and illegal bit of treachery by the Obama White House turned into something entirely different. Obama’s October surprise turned into a carnage orchestrated by the White House itself as the President, Leon Panetta, and CIA Director, David Petraeus watched via a UAV real-time feed as a 7 hour attack on the Benghazi Embassy raged. Reportedly, stand down orders were given several times to different units within striking distance.
A plot of pure deception
With what should have been only a staged kidnapping of Ambassador J. Christian Stevens, instead, Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty refused a stand down order and began doing their job of protecting the ambassador using force. Immediately the well-trained Seals began inflicting heavy casualties upon the terrorists who thought they were merely in a cake walk to abduct Ambassador Stevens without mishap. As a result of the plan going awry, a massive attack arose from the anger of the terrorists who felt they had been betrayed by President Obama. In the aftermath of the battle which saw Navy Seal Glen Doherty was killed after the embassy had been overrun along with the ambassador’s staff. Ambassador Steven’s whose body showed up 5 hours later at a Benghazi hospital supposedly overcome by smoke as the initial press reports indicated was, in fact, raped, tortured, and dragged around Benghazi in retaliation for the botched Obama White House plan.
Obama hands over Libya to Al Qaeda
Was this just a freak occurrence that belies the true nature of dealings in Libya with American diplomatic efforts, just one glitch in normal standard operating procedure? No, according to former Admiral Lyons and many others such as Glen Beck, who have all uncovered evidence that lead to much more sinister deeds being undertaken. Evidence of a working relationship between the US and its alleged terrorist enemies had already delivered Libya to the Al Qaeda terrorist organization through infiltration of the government, media, and general society prior to the rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi that toppled the dictator last year. That the US has worked with Al Qaeda awarding them security contracts for all US embassies and consulates as well as border protection has instead allowed Libya to become a haven for numerous terrorist operators who have automatic access to Libya’s territory to carry out their training. All this with the support and blessing of the Obama administration. This is not only unthinkable, but beyond excuse or rationalization. There should already be indictments for many in the state department, in the DOJ, all the way up to the oval office, yet, so far nothing has been done.
Treason plain and simple
It goes even farther than that. Evidence indicates that Ambassador Stevens was being used as an arms dealer to supply Jihadists in the region to support yet another uprising in Syria. Just prior to the murder of our ambassador, he was trying to locate guns that had been walked across Libya’s border to other countries just as the ATF had done in operation Fast and Furious on the border of Mexico. These are not the actions of inexperience or bad intelligence. They are the actions of traitorous intention. President Obama will, no doubt, be linked to these deaths and operations if Congress will only act, and do its duty in prosecuting a treasonous president who is endangering national security.
There is no where else for a Congressional investigation to turn other than naming the conspirators, determining when officials knew, and assembling the evidence that murder was committed on behalf of the White House to silence those who knew and could testify. Through out the Obama presidency over the last four years the administration has master minded operations that have caused numerous controversies and crises.
When will the GOP take action?
The Republicans have missed opportunities to discredit the President, to impeach Obama in the wake of waging war against Libya without Congressional approval, and allowed executive privilege to quash subpoenaed demands for evidence on Fast and Furious never released by AG Eric Holder. John Boehner, Speaker of the House, has refused to exercise initiative whenever the GOP could have used much-needed momentum to stem the tide against the incessant assaults against state’s rights, constitutional rights, and the traditional institutions of America. Will the recent damning evidence now uncovered over the Benghazi fiasco thanks to Admiral James Lyons be implemented to convict the President of potential high treason, or will we see yet another case of criminal acts ignored and hidden at the expense of the American people? If you bother to take interest and act as a responsible citizens contact your congressman and demand action!
A lot has been said and written, but this promises to break the case wide open!
Ambassador
Stevens carried through the streets of Benghazi for 5 hours while US
media alleged he was being helped to the hospital?
More White
House lies!
There have been many theories and accusations about the Benghazi fiasco that not only cost Ambassador J. Christian Stevens his life, but the lives of his staff and one Navy Seal body-guard as well. This action which led to a complete conflagration of terrorist attacks against US diplomatic buildings throughout the Middle East and North Africa still remains largely uninvestigated by the government, unprosecuted by AG Eric Holder’s Depart of Justice, and refuses to bring the guilty parties to justice while many know the truth and are not coming forward. Even though President Obama is implicated in this oversees tragedy still the truth has not emerged.
That has all changed. Finally, an authoritative figure with the proper credentials has stepped up to the plate to tell the true story of what did happen without the lies and cover-ups that have so far kept those guilty of murder from standing trial. The admission on the part of this man will likely blow the Benghazi scandal wide open and lead to arrests if we can get our legal system to act as it should. That, however, is a big if.
Related: Read Letter: Special Ops Vets Demand Benghazi Congressional Investigation
The story as it truly unfolded
According to a report from the Washington Times, retired 4 Star Admiral James Lyons reveals the entire plot that led to the deaths of Americans in Libya that could have been prevented, who gave the orders, and why events took place as they tragically did. Admiral James Lyons is probably the highest ranking figure ever to intervene in a federal government criminal case, and testify. Thanks to this man’s dedication to his country and the truth, we will finally know the truth and who was responsible.
In his words Lyons says that the attack on Benghazi was a bungled kidnapping attempt to be perpetrated upon Ambassador Stevens. This was to appear to be a hostage exchange for a terrorist prisoner who was to be released in trade for a supposedly captured US ambassador. The trade would have been for Omar Abdel Rahman an international prisoner, known as the Blind Sheikh.
This apparent abduction by terrorists of our ambassador and then negotiated trade for the Blind Sheikh would have been the “October Surprise” that would have elevated President Obama’s flagging popularity and boosted his approval ratings for a re-election. A dramatic prisoner exchange that saved our ambassador’s life However, something went horribly wrong. A cunning and illegal bit of treachery by the Obama White House turned into something entirely different. Obama’s October surprise turned into a carnage orchestrated by the White House itself as the President, Leon Panetta, and CIA Director, David Petraeus watched via a UAV real-time feed as a 7 hour attack on the Benghazi Embassy raged. Reportedly, stand down orders were given several times to different units within striking distance.
A plot of pure deception
With what should have been only a staged kidnapping of Ambassador J. Christian Stevens, instead, Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty refused a stand down order and began doing their job of protecting the ambassador using force. Immediately the well-trained Seals began inflicting heavy casualties upon the terrorists who thought they were merely in a cake walk to abduct Ambassador Stevens without mishap. As a result of the plan going awry, a massive attack arose from the anger of the terrorists who felt they had been betrayed by President Obama. In the aftermath of the battle which saw Navy Seal Glen Doherty was killed after the embassy had been overrun along with the ambassador’s staff. Ambassador Steven’s whose body showed up 5 hours later at a Benghazi hospital supposedly overcome by smoke as the initial press reports indicated was, in fact, raped, tortured, and dragged around Benghazi in retaliation for the botched Obama White House plan.
Obama hands over Libya to Al Qaeda
Was this just a freak occurrence that belies the true nature of dealings in Libya with American diplomatic efforts, just one glitch in normal standard operating procedure? No, according to former Admiral Lyons and many others such as Glen Beck, who have all uncovered evidence that lead to much more sinister deeds being undertaken. Evidence of a working relationship between the US and its alleged terrorist enemies had already delivered Libya to the Al Qaeda terrorist organization through infiltration of the government, media, and general society prior to the rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi that toppled the dictator last year. That the US has worked with Al Qaeda awarding them security contracts for all US embassies and consulates as well as border protection has instead allowed Libya to become a haven for numerous terrorist operators who have automatic access to Libya’s territory to carry out their training. All this with the support and blessing of the Obama administration. This is not only unthinkable, but beyond excuse or rationalization. There should already be indictments for many in the state department, in the DOJ, all the way up to the oval office, yet, so far nothing has been done.
Treason plain and simple
It goes even farther than that. Evidence indicates that Ambassador Stevens was being used as an arms dealer to supply Jihadists in the region to support yet another uprising in Syria. Just prior to the murder of our ambassador, he was trying to locate guns that had been walked across Libya’s border to other countries just as the ATF had done in operation Fast and Furious on the border of Mexico. These are not the actions of inexperience or bad intelligence. They are the actions of traitorous intention. President Obama will, no doubt, be linked to these deaths and operations if Congress will only act, and do its duty in prosecuting a treasonous president who is endangering national security.
There is no where else for a Congressional investigation to turn other than naming the conspirators, determining when officials knew, and assembling the evidence that murder was committed on behalf of the White House to silence those who knew and could testify. Through out the Obama presidency over the last four years the administration has master minded operations that have caused numerous controversies and crises.
When will the GOP take action?
The Republicans have missed opportunities to discredit the President, to impeach Obama in the wake of waging war against Libya without Congressional approval, and allowed executive privilege to quash subpoenaed demands for evidence on Fast and Furious never released by AG Eric Holder. John Boehner, Speaker of the House, has refused to exercise initiative whenever the GOP could have used much-needed momentum to stem the tide against the incessant assaults against state’s rights, constitutional rights, and the traditional institutions of America. Will the recent damning evidence now uncovered over the Benghazi fiasco thanks to Admiral James Lyons be implemented to convict the President of potential high treason, or will we see yet another case of criminal acts ignored and hidden at the expense of the American people? If you bother to take interest and act as a responsible citizens contact your congressman and demand action!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
UN DECLARES ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER
July 29, 2010 - BROADCAST
Clean Water is a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. In a historic vote Wednesday, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over forty countries abstained from voting, including the United States, Canada and several European and other industrialized countries. There were no votes against the resolution. We speak with longtime water justice activist, Maude Barlow. [includes rush transcript]
Transcript
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
Nearly one billion people lack clean drinking water, and over two-and-a-half billion do not have basic sanitation.
Bolivia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Pablo Solon, introduced the resolution at the General Assembly Wednesday.
- PABLO SOLON: [translated]
At the global level, approximately one out of every eight people do not
have drinking water. In just one day, more than 200 million hours of
the time used by women is spent collecting and transporting water for
their homes. The lack of sanitation is even worse, because it affects
2.6 billion people, which represents 40 percent of the global
population. According to the report of the World Health Organization and
of UNICEF of 2009, which is titled
"Diarrhoea: Why Children Are [Still] Dying and What We Can Do," every
day 24,000 children die in developing countries due to causes that can
be prevented, such as diarrhea, which is caused by contaminated water.
This means that a child dies every three-and-a-half seconds. One, two,
three. As they say in my village, the time is now.
- AMY GOODMAN: Bolivia’s
ambassador to the United Nations, Pablo Solon, urging support for the
resolution Bolivia introduced recognizing access to clean water and
sanitation as a fundamental human right.
For more on this historic vote, we’re joined now here in New York by longtime water justice advocate Maude Barlow. She’s the chair of the Council of Canadians, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project and board chair of Food and Water Watch. Last year she served as senior adviser on water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
MAUDE BARLOW: So glad to be here.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the significance of this. If you asked people in this country, they would have no idea this has passed.
MAUDE BARLOW: I
know, I know, which is why you matter, I just have to say. This is
very, very distressing to know something this important happened and
it’s been blanketed. There’s no media here; it’s just like it didn’t
happen. It’s had media in other places.
There’s no human — there has been on human
right to water. It wasn’t included in the 1948 Declaration of Human
Rights. And then, more recently, when people have realized that it
needed to happen, there were very powerful forces against it — powerful
countries, powerful corporate interests and so on. But Ambassador Solon
and a number of developing countries decided that they were going to
move this, countries from the Global South, that they were going to move
this through, and they just tabled it a month ago, and yesterday, at
the vote at the United Nations, they won. Not one country had the guts
to stand against them, even though lots of them wanted to do it.
And basically, for the first time, the
United Nations General Assembly debated the right to water and
sanitation — it’s very important both were included — and acknowledged
and recognized the right of every human being on earth to water and
sanitation. And this matters because — as you know, because we’ve talked
so many times — we are running — a planet running out of water. Brand
new World Bank study says that the demand is going to exceed supply by
40 percent in twenty years. It’s just a phenomenal statement. And the
human suffering behind that is just unbelievable. And what this did was
basically say that the United Nations has decided it’s not going to let
huge populations leave them behind as this crisis unfolds, that the new
priority is to be given to these populations without water and
sanitation.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And
the countries that abstained, could you talk about — did any of them
talk about why they were not voting "yes," or did they just remain
quiet?
MAUDE BARLOW: Oh,
it was the usual gang. It was the United States and Canada, the
European — not the European Union — the United Kingdom — some of the
European countries voted to abstain; some were wonderful — Australia,
New Zealand. So it was all of the Anglophone, neoliberal, you know,
bought into this whole agenda that everything is to be commodified,
countries who are able to continue to supply clean water to their
citizens, which makes it doubly appalling that they would deny the right
to water to the billions of people who are suffering right now.
They used procedural language about this
and that. There’s another process in Geneva with the Human Rights
Council, which we support, and they used the excuse that we have to wait
for that. But that’s a long-term process, and it could or could not end
in something very specific. So they just cut through it. A bunch of
brave countries from the Global South said, "We can’t wait. We need this
now." And it’s not a surprise that it came from Bolivia, because,
remember, Bolivia is suffering double whammy with a, you know, dearth of
water, dearth of clean water, but also melting glaciers from climate
change.
AMY GOODMAN: Well,
let’s go back to Bolivia. I want to go back to Bolivia’s UN
representative, Ambassador Pablo Solon, at a speech he gave in Toronto,
the event that you organized, Maude, last month, shortly before the G20
meetings. He outlined the need to support a UN declaration on the human
right to water, referencing the long struggle for water rights in
Bolivia, which successfully fought against Bechtel’s water privatization
efforts ten years ago.
- PABLO SOLON: In
those days, I was a water warrior. Now I’m a water warrior ambassador.
We have to have water declared as a human right in the UN. It is not
possible to see that we have declared in the UN food, the right to food,
the right to health, the right to education, the right to shelter, the
right to development, but not the right to water. And we all know that
without water, we can’t live. So nobody can argue that it’s not a basic
and fundamental and universal human right. But even though, until now,
it’s not recognized as a human right. So, we have presented, two weeks
ago, a draft resolution so that this coming month, in July, we expect to
have a vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations. And we want
to see which countries are going to vote against that resolution. We
want to go to vote to see which governments are going to say to the
humanity that water is not a human right.
AMY GOODMAN: That
was Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Pablo Solon, speaking
in Toronto. Which nations are not going to say that water is a human
right? Well, you said the United States didn’t vote for this. Canada
didn’t, though they didn’t vote against. What is their rationale?
MAUDE BARLOW: Well,
it depends on the country. The United Kingdom says they "don’t want to
pay for the toilets in Africa." That’s a direct quote from somebody who
wouldn’t be quoted, from a senior diplomat in the government of Great
Britain, that was in — quoted in a Canadian paper.
Canada hides behind the false statement
that we might have to share our water, sell our water to the United
States, which is nonsense. We’re in way more danger from NAFTA, which declares water to be a commodity.
The United States, as you know, has not
been supporting rights regimes for decades now, so this is just a
continuation. And I have to tell you, listening to the statement from
the United States yesterday at the United Nations, I wouldn’t have
thought there was any difference between George Bush and Barack Obama’s
administrations. It was haughty language. They scolded Bolivia. Bolivia
came under a lot of heat, a lot of insults yesterday from these
countries.
New Zealand and Australia are both going
private. Australia has privatized its water totally, and basically it’s
now for sale. And there’s a big American investment firm that’s actually
buying up water rights. It was supposed to be, originally, just to get
the farmers of the big farm conglomerates to share, to trade, but now
it’s all gone private and international, so they’re hardly going to
support something that says that water, you know, is a human right, when
they’ve commodified it and said it’s a market commodity.
So, really, what you’re seeing is a split
between those countries that see water as a public trust, although that
wasn’t in the language of the legislation, but that see water as a
public trust and a human right and that should belong to all, as opposed
to those who are going to move to a market model. And I think that’s
the truth behind what happened.
And it’s very important for you to know
that they did not allow the inclusion of the words "access to," and that
was one of the demands. I think some of those countries would have said
yes to something that said "access to." And it’s very important. It’s
not semantic, because if you say you have access to it, then all the
country — all the government has to do is provide you access. Then they
can charge you, or they can have a private company come in and deliver
it and charge you. And if you can’t afford it, they provided you access,
it’s not their fault if you can’t pay it. So it’s very important that
Bolivia and the other sponsoring countries held on to the language of
the human right to drinking water and sanitation. They wouldn’t drop
sanitation. They wouldn’t add the words "access to." And those were the
sticking points.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And
in practical terms, what will be the impact of this resolution on those
efforts to continue to commodify or privatize water supplies in
countries around the world, especially in the third world?
MAUDE BARLOW: It’s
a fight we’re in. You know, I’m not going to say that suddenly
everything is going to be fine tomorrow or today, today being the day
after the vote, that anybody woke up in a different situation today,
anybody had more water today than they did yesterday, or more access to
sanitation.
What it is is a moral statement, a guiding
principle, of the countries of the world — and basically the UN is the
closest thing we have to a global parliament — that they have taken a
step in a direction of saying that water is a human right and a public
trust and that no one should be dying for lack of water, and they
shouldn’t have to watch their children die a horrible death for lack of
water because they cannot pay. And that was a statement that has taken
us years and years to get the UN — they hadn’t even debated the water
issue. They hadn’t even debated it in the past. They’ve done all this
work on climate and absolutely no work on water. So it was a huge step
forward to establishing some principles that we need if we are to avoid
the crisis that I honestly see coming, that I think is going to be worse
than anybody can imagine, in terms of the suffering.
AMY GOODMAN: Maude
Barlow, talk about the connection between lack of water and global
warming. June 2010 is the hottest June ever recorded on earth.
MAUDE BARLOW: Yeah,
two connections. One is that climate change from greenhouse gas
emissions and other causes is impacting water. So it’s melting glaciers.
It’s melting ice packs, so that places like the Great Lakes don’t have
the thick ice pack that they used to, so that the evaporation takes
place more quickly. The water is eroding and evaporating far too
quickly. So we know that global warming is having an impact on water.
Conversely, our thinking that water is just a resource for our
convenience and our profit has made us act as if there’s no tomorrow
with water, so we move it all over the place. We take big pipes, and we
move water from aquifers and watersheds, where it is maintaining a
healthy hydrologic cycle, maintaining the rain cycle, maintaining
vegetation that’s needed for the retention of water in the soil, and we
move it to grow crops we shouldn’t in deserts. We move massive amounts
of water into huge cities. And when they’re finished with it, they dump
it in the ocean as garbage. A colleague in — a scientist colleague in
Slovakia who estimates that we send — trying to do the math from liters
to gallons —
AMY GOODMAN: And we have ten seconds.
MAUDE BARLOW: Trillions
and trillions of gallons of water from land-based systems into the
ocean every year. So we’ve got to change. This resolution is the first
step towards a different attitude, towards nature and towards one
another.
AMY GOODMAN: And this UN resolution that’s just been passed says water is a basic human right, we will link to at democracynow.org [draft resolution].
Maude Barlow, thank you very much, head of the Council of Canadians,
considered the most important water justice activist in the world.
Thanks so much.
WATCH THE BROADCAST HERE
SOURCE: Democracy Now
Sunday, May 12, 2013
UNMASKING THE CORPORATE STATE
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
HISTORY OF WWW
History of the World Wide Web
See also How It All Started presentation materials from the W3C 10th Anniversary Celebration and other references.from 1945 to 1995
1945
Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche
1960s
Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. He invents the mouse for this purpose. See the Bootstrap Institute library.
Ted Nelson coins the word Hypertext in A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate. 20th National Conference, New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 1965. See also: Literary Machines. Note: There used to be a link here to "Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography" by Terence Harpold, but the site hosting the resource did not maintain the link.
Andy van Dam and others build the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS in 1967.
1980
While consulting for CERN June-December of 1980, Tim Berners-Lee writes a notebook program, "Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything", which allows links to be made between arbitrary nodes. Each node had a title, a type, and a list of bidirectional typed links. "ENQUIRE" ran on Norsk Data machines under SINTRAN-III. See: Enquire user manual as scanned images or as HTML page(alt).
1989
- March
- "Information Management: A Proposal" written by Tim BL and circulated for comments at CERN (TBL). Paper "HyperText and CERN" produced as background (text or WriteNow format).
1990
- May
- Same proposal recirculated
- September
- Mike Sendall, Tim's boss, Oks the purchase of a NeXT cube, and allows Tim to go ahead and write a global hypertext system.
- October
- Tim starts work on a hypertext GUI browser+editor using the NeXTStep development environment. He makes up "WorldWideWeb" as a name for the program. (See the first browser screenshot) "World Wide Web" as a name for the project (over Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine).
- Project original proposal reformulated with encouragement from CN and ECP divisional management. Robert Cailliau (ECP) joins and is co-author of new version.
- November
- Initial WorldWideWeb program development continues on the NeXT (TBL) . This was a "what you see is what you get" (wysiwyg) browser/editor with direct inline creation of links. The first web server was nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web page we know of, last changed Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT (though the URI changed.)
- November
- Technical Student Nicola Pellow (CN) joins and starts work on the line-mode browser. Bernd Pollermann (CN) helps get interface to CERNVM "FIND" index running. TBL gives a colloquium on hypertext in general.
- Christmas
- Line mode browser and WorldWideWeb browser/editor demonstrable. Acces is possible to hypertext files, CERNVM "FIND", and Internet news articles.
1991
- February
- workplan for the purposes of ECP division.
- 26 February 1991
- Presentation of the project to the ECP/PT group.
- March
- Line mode browser (www) released to limited audience on "priam" vax, rs6000, sun4.
- May
- Workplan produced for CN/AS group
- 17 May
- Presentation to "C5" Committee. General release of WWW on central CERN machines.
- 12 June
- CERN Computer Seminar on WWW.
- August
- Files available on the net by FTP, posted on alt.hypertext (6, 16, 19th Aug), comp.sys.next (20th), comp.text.sgml and comp.mail.multi-media (22nd). Jean-Francois Groff joins the project.
- October
- VMS/HELP and WAIS gateways installed. Mailing lists www-interest (now www-announce) and www-talk@info.cern.ch (see archive) started. One year status report. Anonymous telnet service started.
- December
- Presented poster and demonstration at Hypertext'91 in San Antonio,
Texas (US). W3 browser installed on VM/CMS. CERN computer newsletter announces W3
to the HEP world.
Dec 12: Paul Kunz installs first Web server outside of Europe, at
SLAC.
1992
- 15 January
- Line mode browser release 1.1 available by anonymous FTP (see news). Presentation to AIHEP'92 at La Londe (FR).
- 12 February
- Line mode v 1.2 annouced on alt.hypertext, comp.infosystems, comp.mail.multi-media, cern.sting, comp.archives.admin, and mailing lists.
- April
- 29th April: Release of Finnish "Erwise" GUI client for X mentioned in review by TimBL.
- May
- Pei Wei's "Viola" GUI browser for X test version dated May 15.
(See review
by TimBL)
At CERN, Presentation and demo at JENC3, Innsbruck (AT).
Technical Student Carl Barker (ECP) joins
the project.
- June
- Presentation and demo at HEPVM (Lyon). People at FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), NIKHEF (Nationaal Instituut voor Kern- en Hoge Energie Fysika, (NL)), DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, (DE)) join with WWW servers.
- July
- Distribution of WWW through CernLib, including Viola. WWW library code ported to DECnet. Report to the Advisory Board on Computing.
- August
- Introduction of CVS for code management at CERN.
- September
- Plenary session demonstration to the HEP community at CHEP'92 in Annecy (FR).
- November
- Jump back in time to a snapshot of the WWW Project Page as of 3 Nov 1992 and the WWW project web of the time, including the list of all 26 resoanably reliable servers, NCSA's having just been added, but no sign of Mosaic.
1993
- January
- By now, Midas (Tony Johnson, SLAC), Erwise (HUT), and Viola (Pei Wei, O'Reilly Associates) browsers are available for X; CERN Mac browser (ECP) released as alpha. Around 50 known HTTP servers.
- February
- NCSA release first alpha version of Marc Andreessen's "Mosaic for X". Computing seminar at CERN. The University of Minnesota announced that they would begin to charge licensing fees for Gopher's use, which caused many volunteers and employees to stop using it and switch to WWW.
- March
- WWW (Port 80 HTTP) traffic measures 0.1% of NSF backbone traffic. WWW
presented at Online
Publishing 93, Pittsburgh.
The Acceptable Use Policy prohibiting commercial use of the Internet
re-interpreted.,
so that it becomes becomes allowed.
- April
- April 30: Date on the declaration by CERN's directors that WWW technology would be freely usable by anyone, with no fees being payable to CERN. A milestone document.
- July
- Ari Luotonen (ECP) joins the project at CERN. He implements access authorisation, proceeds to re-write the CERN httpd server.
- July 28-30
- O'Reilly hosts first WWW Wizards Workshop in Cambridge Mass (US).
- September
- WWW (Port 80 http) traffic measures 1% of NSF backbone traffic. NCSA
releases working versions of Mosaic browser for all common platforms: X,
PC/Windows and Macintosh.
September 6-10: On a bus at a seminar
Information at Newcastle University, MIT's Prof. David
Gifford suggests Tim BL contact Michael Dertouzos of MIT/LCS as a
possible consortium host site.
- October
- Over 200 known HTTP servers. The European Commission, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and CERN start the first Web-based project of the European Union (DG XIII): WISE, using the Web for dissemination of technological information to Europe's less favoured regions.
- December
- WWW receives IMA award. John Markov writes a page and a half on WWW and
Mosaic in "The New York Times" (US) business section. "The Guardian" (UK)
publishes a page on WWW, "The Economist" (UK) analyses the Internet and
WWW.
Robert Cailliau gets go-ahead from CERN management to organise the First International WWW Conference at CERN.
1994
- January
- O'Reilly, Spry, etc announce "Internet in a box" product to bring the Web into homes.
- March
- Marc Andreessen and colleagues leave NCSA to form "Mosaic Communications Corp" (later Netscape).
- May 25-27
- First International WWW Conference, CERN, Geneva. Heavily oversubscribed (800 apply, 400 allowed in): the "Woodstock of the Web". VRML is conceived here. TBL's closing keynote hints at upcoming organization. (Some of Tim's slides on Semantic Web)
- June
- M. Bangemann report
on European Commission Information Superhighway plan. Over 1500
registered servers.
Load on the first Web server (info.cern.ch) 1000 times what it has
been 3 years earlier.
- July
- MIT/CERN agreement to start W3 Organisation is announced by Bangemann in Boston. Press release. AP wire. Reports in Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe etc.
- August
- Founding of the IW3C2: the International WWW Conference Committee, in Boston, by NCSA and CERN.
- September
- The European Commission and CERN propose the WebCore project for development of the Web core technology in Europe.
- 1 October
- World Wide Web Consortium founded.
- October
- Second International WWW Conference: "Mosaic and the Web", Chicago. Also heavily oversubscribed: 2000 apply, 1300 allowed in.
- 14 December
- First W3 Consortium Meeting at M.I.T. in Cambridge (USA).
- 15 December
- First meeting with European Industry and the European Consortium branch, at the European Commission, Brussels.
- 16 December
- CERN Council approves unanimously the construction of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) accelerator, CERN's next machine and competitor to the US' already defunct SSC (Superconducting Supercollider). Stringent budget conditions are however imposed. CERN thus decides not to continue WWW development, and in concertation with the European Commission and INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, FR) transfers the WebCore project to INRIA.
1995
- February
- the Web is the main reason for the theme of the G7 meeting hosted by the European Commission in the European Parliament buildings in Brussels (BE).
- March
- CERN holds a two-day seminar for the European Media (press, radio, TV), attended by 250 reporters, to show WWW. It is demonstrated on 60 machines, with 30 pupils from the local International High School helping the reporters "surf the Web".
- April
- Third International WWW Conference: "Tools and Applications", hosted by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, in Darmstadt (DE)
- June
- Founding of the Web Society in Graz (AT), by the Technical University of Graz (home of Hyper-G), CERN, the University of Minnesota (home of Gopher) and INRIA.
- How It All Started presentation matierals from the W3C 10th Anniversary Celebration
- T. Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web" , Harper Collins 1999
- History of Internet
and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History
1995-1998 by Gregory R. Gromov - ... List of Internet Histories (from ISOC)
CHICO CALIFORNIA - BROWN RAIN EVENT
MRG Report: The ‘Brown Rain’ Event
The ‘Brown Rain’ Event
Remember the odd “rain” that
left Chico’s cars streaked with brown ash-like residue? What follows is
MRG’s report from Marla Crites and Betty Credit:
The Weather Event of May 14, 2012
In the words of one of our members who was awake during the night of the strange rain…
“It was called rain, however, myself, my son, and others I have spoken to, did not feel the wetness of the drops. The water seemed to dissipate at touch. At 2:30 a.m., my son woke me up to tell me of the powder that had covered my car. At the time, I thought it was pollen from the trees, blown off from the rain. However, upon morning, I definitely had questions about what had actually happened the night prior. My car, and all others I saw in my immediate area, were covered with a tan-colored light ash. It was such a fine powder; yet, I could not drive my car without washing my window. One of the creepiest experiences was driving to the store. Every car I passed, that had obviously been exposed was covered with the same thing. Then, to top things off, I had to go to the car wash to clean my car, because it looked like it was covered in volcanic ash!! When I got to the car wash, there was a line of cars that was unprecedented. Every car was covered with the same thing. By the time I exited the wash, the cars in line were uncountable. No explanation, no one seemed bothered by this ‘EVENT’.”
Adding to her description: Each car was not only covered in a fine tan powder, but there were often streaks through the powder as if made by water. The “ash” was not easy to scrape off the windshields, but I managed to obtain several samples for testing.
The Official Explanation
The Enterprise Record newspaper ran a story the next day in which Anthony Watts, longtime local meteorologist, was interviewed. He surmised that agricultural activity had raised a great deal of dust which an updraft carried to the upper atmosphere from where it fell as the “brown rain”. It is true that plumes of dust did rise as farmers worked the dry fields. (although this happens every year) I enquired of the Air Quality Board and the Public Health Environmental people as to what they thought had caused this strange event. They all lined up behind Anthony’s explanation and had no plans to test any of the resulting powder.
Chico Sky Watch Tests
A ranch manager in Durham tasted (yes!)
the powder, said it was vile and not dirt or pollen. A CSW member poured
purified water on her solar panel, caught it at the bottom in a clean
bowl, and took it to Basic Lab. Results were 52,000 ppb aluminum, 480
barium and 413 strontium. To put these numbers in perspective, aluminum
should be 0.5 ppb and 1,000 ppb is the EPA Maximum Contaminant Level and
Mandatory Action Level. There should be no barium or strontium in rain.
So these numbers are exceedingly and alarmingly high.
We sent a sample of the powder to Larry
Meyer in Oregon who cultured it and sent the growths on to Pro-Lab in
Florida. Results were that 6 different, not uncommon molds were present.
The molds are known to cause asthma, hay fever and allergies. Links to
both lab reports follow.
Basic Lab Report
Unanswered Questions:
1. Is there any way to distinguish natural soil based aluminum from the aluminum oxide that is a component of aerosol spray?
2. How likely is it that dust from farming activities would account for the 52K ppb in the rain?
3. How abnormal for rainfall is the type and amount of molds identified by Pro-Lab?
4. Is there mold in “normal” rainwater?
See http://www.chicoskywatch.org/tests for more information.
Chico Rain Lab Report
(Gratitude to Larry Meyer, MRG Senior Research Associate)
Recently, Morgellons Research Group
(MRG) received an interesting specimen from Chico Skywatch, collected
from a most unusual rainstorm which fell over a sizable area of Butte
County, California. Marla Crites of Chico Skywatch in submitting the
specimen wrote that “brown rain” had fallen on this locale on May 14,
2012.
Chico Sample As Received by L. Meyer
Chico sample as it began to bloom in agar (L. Meyer)
The Chico sample as sent to Pro-Labs (L. Meyer)
MRG performed a microscopic
examination/photography of the brown finely granular sample and placed a
portion in agar to observe what might grow. The resulting “bloom” was
sent to our laboratory for identification. Six varieties of fungal
material were identified.
The ProLab Report
Dr. Richie Shoemaker, MD of Pocomoke, Maryland, in his book MOLD WARRIORS, states that there is evidence several fungal varieties that may have been “weaponized”.
At this time, Morgellons Research Group wishes to initiate a research project to study rain and snow precipitates and is pleased to invite you to precipitate. It is our desire to collect data from the various areas where Skywatch groups are active. Data obtained would be shared with participating groups and published on MRG’s website.
The Second Collection Sent to the Lab
by Larry Meyer
On June 28th, I used a clean petri dish
to capture the first five raindrops to fall that day at my location on
the Oregon Coast. Agar was added and a bloom began within a day. Shown
is one of several varieties of Fungus from that rain:
THE FINDINGS
ProLab Report sent to L. Meyer
In July 2012, Larry Meyer also collected this specimen from rain. An artifact found in rain on the Oregon Coast- July 3, 2012 – 0.5 x 0.5mm.
Image Credit to Larry Meyer
Six (6) species of Fungi and One (1) yeast were found in both of these samples:
Cladophialophora was found in Portland, Oregon
For comparison, one can
see that a mixture of these could be devastating, not only to crops,
ocean life but human life as well. How did these spores and mycelia come
together and form a brown rain? Yellow rain is very similar. Red rain
is from an algae.
I. Cladosporium, (found in both Samples of Brown Rain) Examples of Cladosporium
A . Cladosporium …..C Herbarum
Allergen Exposure
Spores of Cladosporium spp.
probably occur more abundantly worldwide than any other spore type and
are the dominant airborne spores in many areas, especially in temperate
climates. (1, 2, 3, 4) Although C. cladosporioides may be the most prevalent airborne species, C. herbarum frequently
dominates indoor and outdoor air and is a major source of fungal
inhalant allergens. (3, 5)There are about 500 species of Cladosporium.
Many are saprophytic on plant litter.
C. herbarum is widely distributed in our environment and is a major source of fungal inhalant allergen. (4) C. herbarum
is one of the most common environmental fungi to be isolated worldwide.
It occurs abundantly on fading or dead leaves of herbaceous and woody
plants, as a secondary invader on necrotic leaf spots, and has
frequently been isolated from air, foodstuffs, paints, textiles, humans
and numerous other substrates. It is also known to occur on old
carpophores of mushrooms and other fungi and as a common endophyte,
especially in temperate regions. Under favourable climatic conditions C. herbarum also germinates and grows as an epiphyte on the surface of green, healthy leaves. (6)
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B. Cladosporium: C. carrionii and C. yegresii
Fig. 7. Conidial morphology in selected branches of (upper row: A-C) C. carrionii, strain CBS 260.83; (lower row: D-F) C. yegresii, strain CBS 114405. In this respect the two species are identical. Scale bar = 10
C. Cladosporium elatum, Cladosporium herbarum, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and Cladosporium cladosporioides.
Cladosporium is the
genera most frequently encountered in both outdoor and indoor air. It is
frequently found in elevated levels in water-damaged environments. Some
species may be resistant to certain types of treated lumber.
Cladosporium appears gray to black or very dark green and can have a
powdery appearance. The genus Cladosporium includes over 30 species. The
most common ones include Cladosporium elatum, Cladosporium herbarum,
Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and Cladosporium cladosporioides. http://www.mold-help.org/content/view/414/.
D. Other Forms of Cladosporiums
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Cladosporium
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Scientific classification |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Capnodiales |
| Family: | Davidiellaceae |
| Genus: | Cladosporium Link: Fr. |
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Species
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| Cladosporium caryigenum Cladosporium cladosporioides Cladosporium cladosporioides f.sp. pisicola Cladosporium cucumerinum Cladosporium herbarum Cladosporium musae |
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E. More information on Cladosporiums
Cladosporium is one of the molds that
cause the most allergy symptoms, producing a positive skin reaction in
allergy-sensitive individuals. In certain people, a high concentration
of mold is not needed to trigger a reaction. Those most at risk to
develop allergic reactions are infants, children, pregnant women, and
the elderly.
http://www.moldunit.com/cladosporium.html
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms most common to Cladosporium
mold are: congested or runny nose, sinus problems, red and watery eyes,
skin irritation, fatigue, sore throat, cough and hoarseness. Over time,
more serious symptoms may develop such as, ear inflammation; nose bleeds
and joint pain, without swelling
C. herbarum produces enzymes which are used in the transformation of
steroid intermediates such as pregnenolone and progesterone,
biologically important hormones used in the industrial production of
oral contraceptives.
http://www.emlab.com/app/fungi/Fungi.po?event=fungi&type=primary&species=13
Pathogenicity and Clinical Significance Cladosporium spp. are causative agents of skin lesions, keratitis, onychomycosis, sinusitis and pulmonary infections.
II. Epicoccum, the second Fungi found in Brown Rain (Examples)
A. Fungus of the Month: Epicoccum – By Dawne Yates
Epicoccum
(phonetic: Epp-ee-cock-um) is a very common fungus that is an early
secondary invader on all sorts of plants, particularly damaged plant
tissue, and is often found on leaf spots with other fungi. It has been
isolated from air, moldy paper, plant materials, animals, insects,
foodstuffs, textiles, soil, and occasionally occurs in house dust. It is
mostly saprophytic (obtaining food from dead or decaying organic
matter), or weakly parasitic. It is ubiquitous in nature (found
everywhere) and is commonly found in outdoor air. It is known to be very
resistant to changes in water activity; having been known to resume
growth after long periods of drying.
Figure 1: Drawings of Epicoccum
Copyright © 2006 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Inc.
Copyright © 2006 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Inc.
Spores are produced very quickly and our MoldRange™
data shows the highest recovery rate, of about 30% to 35%, in the
summer and the lowest recovery rate, of about 10% to 15%, in the winter.
See Figure 2 below.
Figure 2: Frequency of detection and spore density by month for Epicoccum.
The gray bars represent
the frequency of detection, from 0 to 1 (1=100%), graphed against the
left axis. The red, green, and purple lines represent the 2.5, 50, and
97.5 percentile airborne spore densities, when recovered, graphed
against the right hand axis. (Source: EMLab™ MoldRange data. Total sample size for this graph: 39,878.)
Morphology
In culture, Epicoccum is fast
growing on general fungal media, and produces colonies which are woolly
and/or downy in appearance. Colony colors include yellow, orange, red or
brown. As the colony ages they usually become darker and black dots
(spores growing on colonies) may be observed on the colony surface.
These are tufts of hyphae that are cushion-shaped, non-convoluted and
are called sporodochium (a cushion-like mass of conidiophores, conidia
and conidiogenous cells produced above the substrate).
When observed on spore trap samples, immature Epicoccum
spores may look round, non-septate, and may be pale in color, whereas
when they are mature, can appear rough, warty-looking and brown to black
in color, with both transverse and oblique septa, which makes them
resemble a soccer ball. The broad attachment area at the base is often
visible. Mature spores are most commonly 15-25 µm in diameter, but are
also seen smaller and much larger (up to 50 µm diameter). Intact spores
are distinctive, however young immature spores may be confused with Ulocladium, Stemphylium or possibly Alternaria. On a tape lift, Epicoccum is easily distinguishable providing the growth is mature enough to include the conidiophores and conidia.
Figure 3: Single Epicoccum spore in air sample.
Copyright © 2006 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Inc.
Copyright © 2006 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Inc.
Health Effects
Epicoccum has been known to cause Type 1 allergies (hay fever and asthma). Rarely, it can cause infections in the skin due to its ability to grow at 37°C. http://www.emlab.com/s/sampling/env-report-09-2006.html
B. Non-Food Allergy — fungus, Epicoccum
An Epicoccum fungus allergy is an adverse reaction by the body’s
immune system to spores produced by a fungus called Epicoccum.
Epicoccum tends to be found in grassland and agricultural areas.
Symptoms tend to occur in a seasonal pattern as spore production by
molds tends to increase and decrease with changes in seasons. The
specific symptoms that can result can vary amongst patients. http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/n/non_food_allergy_fungus_epicoccum/intro.htm
C. Epicoccum Purpurascens
Epicoccum is a dematiaceous mitosporic
mould widely distributed and commonly isolated from air, soil and
foodstuff. It is found also in some animals and textiles. It is the
common causative agent of leaf spots of various plants. The genus
Epicoccum contains a single species, Epicoccum purpurascens.
Epicoccum grows rapidly and produces
woolly to cottony or felty colonies on potato dextrose agar at 25?C.
From the front, the colonies are yellow to orange, orange to red or pink
initially and become greenish brown to black by aging. From the
reverse, the same color is observed but is usually more intense than in
the front view. Epicoccum may produce a diffusable pigment which turns
the color of the inoculated medium to yellow, orange, red or brown.
Black dots (100-2000 ?m in diameter) may be observed macroscopically on
the colony surface. These are the tufts of hyphae which have
conidiophores on their surface. These tufts of hyphae are cushion-shaped
and nonconvoluted and are called sporodochia. http://www.mold-help.org/content/view/416/
III. Fusarium: The Third Fungus Found in Brown Rain
Is this where the Fungal Agent crosses the Border to Bioweapon Agent?
A. Fusarium sporotrichoides
Contamination was found
in affected grain in 1932, spurring research for medical purposes and
for use in biological warfare. … The Soviets were accused of using the
agent, dubbed “yellow rain“, to cause 6,300 deaths in Laos, Kampuchea, and Afghanistan … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_infections
B. 5 types of Fusarium
Fungal microbiota from rain water and pathogenicity of Fusarium species isolated from atmospheric dust and rainfall dust.
Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology » Fungal microbiota from rain water and pathogenicity of Fusarium…
Summary
In order to determine the presence of Fusarium spp. in atmospheric dust and rainfall dust, samples were collected during September 2007, and July, August, and October 2008. The results reveal the prevalence of airborne Fusarium species coming from the atmosphere of the South East coast of Spain. Five different Fusarium species were isolated from the settling dust: Fusarium oxysporum, F. solani, F. equiseti, F. dimerum, and F. proliferatum. Moreover, rainwater samples were obtained during significant rainfall events in January and February 2009. Using the dilution-plate method, 12 fungal genera were identified from these rainwater samples. Specific analyses of the rainwater revealed the presence of three species of Fusarium: F. oxysporum, F. proliferatum and F. equiseti. A total of 57 isolates of Fusarium spp. obtained from both rainwater and atmospheric rainfall dust sampling were inoculated onto melon (Cucumis melo L.) cv. Piñonet and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cv. San Pedro. These species were chosen because they are the main herbaceous crops in Almeria province. The results presented in this work indicate strongly that spores or propagules of Fusarium are able to cross the continental barrier carried by winds from the Sahara (Africa) to crop or coastal lands in Europe. Results show differences in the pathogenicity of the isolates tested. Both hosts showed root rot when inoculated with different species of Fusarium, although fresh weight measurements did not bring any information about the pathogenicity. The findings presented above are strong indications that long-distance transmission of Fusarium propagules may occur. Diseases caused by species of Fusarium are common in these areas. They were in the past, and are still today, a problem for greenhouses crops in AlmerÃa, and many species have been listed as pathogens on agricultural crops in this region. Saharan air masses dominate the Mediterranean regions. The evidence of long distance dispersal of Fusarium spp. by atmospheric dust and rainwater together with their proved pathogenicity must be taken into account in epidemiological studies.
1. Fusarium Oxysporum
Fusarium solani. Mature
macronidia showing the truncate foot cell at the attachment end, and
immature macronidia still attached to the phialides. × 1000.Photograph
by Merton F. Brown and Harold G. Brotzman from the APS Press slide
collection, Phytopathogenic Fungi: Scanning Electron Micrographs http://www.apsnet.org/publications/imageresources/Pages/phyto31.aspx
3. Fusarium Equiseti
Fusarium equiseti 1 Submitted by Paul Cannon on Mon, 02/27/2012 – 18:17
4. Fusarium Dimerum
5. Fusarium Proliferatum
(a) Wet mount of abscess
fluid, stained with Fungi-Fluor, showing septate branching hyphae with
parallel walls and hyphae that are irregular in diameter (original
magnification, ×200). (b) Tip of the plant spine, which had been
inoculated directly into a 12B Bactec bottle upon removal from the
abscess, covered with mold after 2 days of growth. (c) Smear of plant
spine culture, stained with lactophenol aniline blue, showing abundant
clavate to pyriform microconidia and rare, slightly bent, sickle-shaped
macroconidia (original magnification, ×400). (d) A differential
interference contrast microscopy image of F. proliferatum
demonstrates slender, branched septate hyphae with conidiophores arising
laterally from hyphae (original magnification, ×640); conidiogenous
cells bear apical falcate or nearly straight, septate macroconidia. http://jcm.asm.org/content/48/1/338/F2.expansion.html
IV. The Fourth Fungus found in Brown Rain
A. Rhizopus/Mucor
Title: Rhizopus
Text: Rhizopus
is a common bread mold. The pink lines are the hyphae, the dark pink
ovals are individual zygosporangia, that are produced when two
individuals (a positive and negative mating type) meet. This is shown in
more detail under high magnification. (400x)
V. The Fifth Fungi Found in Brown Rain: Ulocladium
A. General Information about Ulocladium
9+ species
What are some of Ulocladiums molds characteristics?
Grows well on general cellulose surfaces.
Where does Ulocladium grow outside?
Often found growing in soil, dung, paint, grasses, fibers, wood, decaying plant material, paper, and textiles.
Where does Ulocladium grow inside?
Grows indoors on cellulose containing
materials such as gypsum board, paper, paint, tapestries, jute, other
straw materials. Ulocladium has a high water requirement.
Is Ulocladium “black mold”?
The term black mold (also “toxic black
mold”) is not scientific but is widely used by the media to usually
reference Stachybotrys molds.
Health Concerns about Ulocladium
Is Ulocladium a potential allergen?
Some people may experience hay fever or
asthma. This type of mold cross reacts with Alternaria, adding to the
allergenic burden of Alternaria-sensitive patients.
Does Ulocladium present any unique human risks? (as pathogen, opportunist or contaminant)*
Rare cases reported of subcutaneous tissue infection.
Can Ulocladium produce toxins?*
Unknown.
Identification of Ulocladium
Can Ulocladium be identified via Air Sampling?
May be confused with spores of Alternaria and Pithomyces.
Can it be identified via Direct Sampling?
May be confused with spores of Alternaria.
OTHER:
What are some of Ulocladium’s industrial uses?
Unknown.
*Other types of disease not listed in this description may also result from exposure.
**Indicates potential toxin production by given species of this genus. Not all toxins are produced by all species and the extent is highly dependent on environmental conditions. List may not be all inclusive due to new discoveries in research.
http://www.environix.com/mold-iaq-library/mold/ulocladium/
VI. The Sixth Fungi found in the “Brown Rain”: Sependonium Example
Genus:Sepedonium
Species:
Disease(s):None associated
Image Type:Microscopic Morphology
Title:Slide culture
Species:
Disease(s):None associated
Image Type:Microscopic Morphology
Title:Slide culture
Image Legend: Large conidia morphologically similar to Histoplasma capsulatum, potato glucose agar, 25C.
Genus:Sepedonium
Species:
Disease(s):None associated
Image Type:Microscopic Morphology
Title:Conidia
Species:
Disease(s):None associated
Image Type:Microscopic Morphology
Title:Conidia
Image Legend:Large
aleuroconidia that can be easily confused with the macroconidia of
Histoplasma capsulatum. Phase contrast microscopy, potato glucose agar,
400X.
Genus:Sepedonium
Species:
Disease(s):Hyalohyphomycosis
Image Type:Microscopic Morphology
Reference #: GK 435
Species:
Disease(s):Hyalohyphomycosis
Image Type:Microscopic Morphology
Reference #: GK 435
Image Legend:Microscopic morphology of Sepedonium
sp. showing hyaline, nonspecialized conidiophores, resembling short
branches of the vegetative hyphae. Conidia are terminal, solitary, or in
clusters, one-celled, globose to ovoid, 7 to 17�m, hyaline to amber,
smooth to verrucose and usually with a thick wall.
VII. Yeast Cells and conversion to myclial (fungal) form depending on Temperature
A. Yeast converts to Fungi
“The fungal infection taught me many
different things. I discovered a two slide culture technique that
allowed me to observe the conversion of yeast cells to a mycelial form
that developed as the yeast cells cooled to room temperature. This
culture method gave me ample opportunity to watch the mycelial growth. I
also recorded interactions among my immune cells and the infecting
yeast cells by examining stained slides of fresh sputum samples.
In this report, I have included a
description of the 2 slide culture and a collection of photomicrographs
that I took over several months. The medical care I received was
disappointing. I am concerned for others who develop this infection. It
is unlikely that they will be diagnosed. See my reflections on an illness.
The following photomicrograph show
white, unstained yeast cells of different sizes and dark stained
lymphocytes that often attach to yeast cells. In other slides, dense
clusters of macrophages and neutrophils are also seen. The immune
defense involves the coordinated attack of different cell types with
different jobs. The yeast cells are apparently difficult to kill.”
My lymphocytes (with dark
stained nuclei) attacking blastomycosis cells 1000 X Fresh sputum
sample. One giant yeast cell is obvious, other small, recently budded
yeast cells are more numerous.
See Image library for detailed study of this dimorphic fungal pathogen.
B. Title : Saccharomyces (yeast)
X1000 Text : A
large group of single celled yeast are shown here. Yeast is an
ascomycete, but it reproduces almost exclusively by asexual reproduction
(budding). Each cell just divides in two. This genus of yeast is used
for baking (it makes the carbon dioxide that helps dough to rise) and
also beer and wine making (in anaerobic conditions yeast produces
alcohol). The genome of yeast was recently sequenced. http://www1.fccj.org/dbyres/images/yeast1000.jpg
C. Candida Yeast
Candida albicans chlamydoconidia, grown on cornmeal agar with 10% tween, Dalmau method
This species is the most
commonly-isolated yeast in human disease. It has been implicated in both
superficial and systemic disease. Recent reports of infections include
corneal [192], ear [1328], and bloodstream [430].
Although this species continues to be the most common species isolated
in bloodstream infections, reports show that the incidence is decreasing
and the resistance is rare in neonatal populations [1013]
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Morgellons Artifacts comparable to some of these yeasts and fungi:
Many more images of the Morgellons Syndrome Artifacts found here:
http://www.morgboard.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=41
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Information and Images compiled by Kathryn Augustyn, with credit to Larry Meyer, Lee Riddle, Yvette Richard, (entire MRG), and especially Marla Crites and Betty Credit (Chico Skywatch)
Many Thanks to all who participated
in the material collection for this report. MRG, Chico SkyWatch,
ProLabs, and special thanks to Lee Riddle for supplying fungi
information and images Yvette Richard for contacting the SkyWatch Groups
and Larry Meyer for culturing specimens from Brown Rain. A special
thanks to Toni Starr for keeping this website operating and to Dr. Wil
Spencer who has said that Fungi is involved in Morgellons. We also wish
to thank our President, who has been in the background tooting our horn
and for two others, one who is attempting to isolate the spirochete that
is involved with fungi as well and the other is looking for an enzyme
that will break down this fungi and its related symbionts. A special
thank you and appreciation goes out to Marla Crites and Betty Credit for
“The Brown Rain Story”, basic lab reports and sending specimens for
culture to Larry Meyer. MRG is grateful for fine friends and those who
are members of various SkyWatch Groups and are Geoengineering and
Bioengineering WatchDogs. We could not move forward without the help of
those who care about Our Earth and every life form upon it.
SOURCE: Morgellons Research Group
http://morgellonsresearchgroup.com/mrg-reports-on-on-the-brown-rain-story/
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