US Team Identifies Stunning Trillion $ Mineral Deposits in Afghanistan - Crucial Afghan mining laws up for review within a fortnight

 
According to new calculations from surveys conducted jointly by the Pentagon and the US Geological Survey, Afghanistan is sitting on $1 trillion of untapped minerals. The huge reserves include copper, gold, iron and cobalt as well as vast amounts of lithium, a key c

omponent in batteries of Western lifestyle staples such as laptops and BlackBerry's.

The World Bank writes "the World Bank Group and other partners have been supporting the Government of Afghanistan in establishing the building blocks for developing its mineral resources in an effective and transparent manner".

Miners are saying a reform of Afghan mining laws that is currently being worked on could spark a modern 'gold rush' on the vast deposits and convert Afghanistan in one of the most important and lucrative centres of mining in the world.

To the surprise of diplomats and mining companies, some cabinet members blocked the proposed legislation in July, saying it failed to protect national interests from foreign exploitation.

Redrafted mining laws that Afghan officials and Western donors hope will persuade foreign firms to invest in the country's resource wealth will be submitted to the government for review within a fortnight, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/09/20/uk-afghanistan-mining-idUKBRE88J0KQ20120920

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14942

http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3152/A/

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Who is crazy here ? ...bananas re-packaged in cellophane

Reason we need to radically change our system of living #45,295.

Pre-peeled bananas re-packaged in cellophane-covered foam trays. One of the reasons bananas have been billed as the world's most perfect food is that they come with their own biodegradable packaging straight off the tree. And it's not like you need a knife or some wacky kitchen contraption to peel them—the skin practically falls off on its own.
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New Study FINDS GM CORN AND ROUNDUP CAUSES CANCER IN RATS

New Study FINDS GM CORN AND ROUNDUP CAUSES CANCER IN RATS.

In an alarming new study published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, researchers from The Committee for Research & Independent Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN) reported on the results of a 2-year feeding study in rats given either NK603 Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize, cultivated with or without Roundup,

and Roundup alone, at levels permitted in drinking water and GM crops in the United States.

The authors of the study pointed out that currently no regulatory authority requires mandatory chronic animal feeding studies to be performed for edible GMOs and formulated pesticides, and the only 90-day feeding trials were conducted by the biotech industry.

This study, therefore, was performed in light of this need, and the results were an unprecedented confirmation of the cancer-causing effects of GM food and agrichemicals, reported as follows:

In females, all treated groups died 2–3 times more than controls, and more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs. All results were hormone and sex dependent, and the pathological profiles were comparable. Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before controls, the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments.

In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5–5.5 times higher. This pathology was confirmed by optic and transmission electron microscopy. Marked and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3–2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls which occurred up to 600 days earlier. Biochemistry data confirmed very significant kidney chronic deficiencies; for all treatments and both sexes, 76% of the altered parameters were kidney related. These results can be explained by the non linear endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, but also by the overexpression of the transgene in the GMO and its metabolic consequences. [emphasis added]

Below is an image of tumors induced through the experiment. More can be found at the journal website.

The results of this new study are doubly concerning. Not only has the consumption of a genetically modified food crop now been shown to cause tumor growth and accelerated mortality, but so has the primary herbicide these plants have been engineered to withstand exposure to: Roundup.

GMO plants actually incorporate glyphosate directly into themselves, with the herbicide residues and their metabolites persisting there, making dual exposure to transgenes and herbicide inevitable, and the synergistic amplification of their toxicities likely.

It is a shameful fact of history that Roundup herbicide was once marketed by its creator and original patent holder, Monsanto, as being "safe as table salt." Now, an accumulating body of research shows that glyphosate, Roundup's active ingredient, is genotoxic and endocrine disrupting -- both hallmark characteristic of many carcinogens -- at concentrations several orders of magnitude concentration lower than agricultural application. In fact, Monsanto has gone to great lengths to deny the emerging Roundup-Cancer link by pouring money into contract research companies like Exponent, who deny its well established harms.

This newest study provides clear and convincing evidence that GMO agriculture is contributing to cancer in exposed populations. The timing of this new study -- two weeks before Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) -- is all the more fitting, considering that "In female animals, the largest tumors were in total 5 times more frequent in males after 2 years, with 93% being mammary tumors." They also "...observed a strikingly marked induction of mammary tumors by R[oundup] alone...even at the very lowest dose administered." The annual pinkwashing campaign focuses on equating "prevention" with "early detection" by exposing women's bodies to breast cancer-causing x-rays, rather than to identify and remove the preventable causes, e.g. chemical exposure, carcinogenic foods, of breast cancer.

The precautionary principle requires that if there is indication in a non-human study that a chemical is toxic to those who are forced to ingest it, inhale it, or otherwise be exposed to it, the burden of proving it safe must be on those manufacturing, marketing it and/or releasing it into the environment.

For too long has America -- albeit, unbeknownst to most of the population -- been engaged in a mass chemical and feeding experiment, without the protection of informed consent, or even the right to know what it is eating through truthful labeling of GMOs.

Please help to spread this information far and wide, and to further garnish support for California's Proposition 37 (Just Label It), which could turn the tide against GM agriculture's systemic destruction of the biosphere, and by implication, our health.

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Monsanto and GMO

"Success leaves fingerprints". If you like GMOs, you've got to love Mitt Romney's consulting for Monsanto, which made America the world leader in mad scientist experimentation with food supply control...I mean GMO production.

What brilliant idea did Mitt Romney bring to Monsanto?
A way to have their cake and eat it, too, only with 100,000 tons a year of poisons, and with finding a way to become b

an-proof by using food supply control as camouflage

Mitt Romney said (I'm speculating and summarizing the gist)

"Hey, Monsanto. Here's your multi-million dollar Bain consulting presentation.

You poisoned people for four decades with PCB, and it got banned.

You poisoned people with DDT, and it got banned.

You poisoned US soldier in Vietnam with Agent Orange, got sued, and had to pay big money.

Wake up and smell the toxins: if you're going to sell poisons, you've got to mix them with food, and control 90% of the corn, wheat, soy with genetically modified processes that you own via patenting.

Why? So that government can't ban Monsanto's products without cutting America's food supply, and food exports, in half."

And thus was created the situation that American finds itself in today, with GMOs unleashed, mutating and causing ringworms and other life forms to mutate, as more countries vote to ban GMOs, setting the stage for the US, as with the metric system, or the US embargo of Cuba, to be the odd man out, as the world decides "no, thanks" on GMOs.

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Black and White Patterns Prints

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course 

you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you, 

you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising 

which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. 

To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, 

requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. 

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them." 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, author (1803-1882).

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect 

of intelligent people and the affection of children...

to leave the world a better place...to know even 

one life has breathed easier because you have lived. 

This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo

Emerson, poet (1803-1882)

 

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Portugal September 2012.

On Saturday (15/9) almost 1 milion people took to the streets across Portugal to protest harsh austerity measures and cuts to social services. The protest was mostly organised on the internet, without the participation of major political parties or unions. One protestor stated, "this is the people coming together to say enough, we want change!" It was one of the countries biggest demonstrations since the 1974 Revolution of Carnations, which toppled the dictatorship. photo 15/9/12 TAKEN FROM :

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Symbols related to Alchemy, Masonry, the Knights Templar, and the Rosicrucian

 The Initiation Well, In the town of Sintra, Portugal
A journey of rebirth and self discovery is the concept behind the Initiation or Initiatic Well at Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra.

The 27 metre deep well, resembles an inverted tower, and depending on the direction you choose, either a journey down into the depths of the earth, or a climb out of the darkness into the light, the journey through the earth i

s like a rebirth through mother natures womb, from where all things come and where one day all shall return.

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The owner of Quinta da Regaleira, António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, was a known Freemason, and with the help of Italian Architect Luigi Manini, set about designing and constructing the four hectare estate with its enigmatic buildings, parks and tunnels which are laden with symbols related to alchemy, Masonry, the Knights Templar, and the Rosicrucians.There are obvious Hermetic/Rosicrucian connotations in the well:

'That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing'
Hermes Trismegistus

The well is divided in nine platforms reminiscent of the Divine Comedy by Dante and the nine circles of Hell, the nine sections of Purgatory and the nine skies which constitute Paradise. At the base of the well you will find a Rosicrucian Cross, which also happened to be the coat of arms of Carvalho Monteiro.

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