Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton's partnership ends
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton Leaves Yucaipa Business Partnerships .ArticleComments (15)more in
Former President Bill Clinton has ended his high-profile business connection to his friend Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. by walking away from a final payment that was once estimated at up to $20 million.
Ron Burkle
EXCERPT:
[edit] Golden State Foods
Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants.[13]
[edit] Follieri and the Vati-Con scandal
On April 30, 2008, a Delaware judge dismissed Burkle's lawsuit against Raffaello Follieri, ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, after he agreed to repay Burkle more than $1.3 million Burkle loaned him, a small amount of the money Burkle lost in the Vati-Con Scandal.[14]
Pittsburgh Penguins
He is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins[11] National Hockey League team, although his current share is unknown. He co-owns the franchise with Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009.
[edit] Wild Oats
Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By the time Whole Foods Market, a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats.[12]
Raphael De Niro Real Estate connecting the dots
EXCERPT:
But there's trouble brewing below Canal Street. "He has all of the good listings because of his last name!" fumes a competitor. "His father does mailings for him and gives lists of his friends' addresses. If your father is famous, you make it really quick in this business. "
Despite what his detractors say, Raphael, 32, told real estate magazine The Real Deal in 2006: "My name is a hot commodity. [But] I only use it when I can put my integrity behind it 110 percent."
Going above and beyond means assembling a client list that boasts Matt Damon, Naomi Campbell and model Carmen Kass. Recently, he's taken both Jessica Alba and Victoria's Secret mannequin Adriana Lima to check out massive apartments at the Fairchild building in Tribeca.
Linda S. Stein Murdered
EXCERPT:
She began her career as a teacher, but left teaching to manage the Ramones with Danny Fields. She also managed singer/songwriter Steve Forbert.
She was formerly married to and advised Seymour Stein, president of Sire Records and vice president of Warner Bros. Records, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads and The Pretenders. She was a fixture in clubs from Studio 54 to the Mudd Club and later a reliable voice in gossip columns, aided by her quick wit and fanciful way with a four-letter word.
In the 1990s, Stein left band management and became a "real estate agent to the stars". She landed mega-million-dollar apartments for Madonna, Sting, Angelina Jolie, Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley, Bruce Willis, Jann Wenner, Michael Douglas, Steven Spielberg and Elton John.
According to her friend, author Steven Gaines, Stein reportedly inspired two movie characters: the real estate agent (played by Sylvia Miles) who sells a high-rise apartment to Charlie Sheen's character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and a predatory record executive in the 1998 movie 54.[2]
[edit] Death
On October 30, 2007, Stein was found dead in her apartment in Manhattan.[1] The county coroner ruled Stein's death a homicide and attributed the cause to "blunt impact trauma to the head and neck".[3] At the time of her death Stein had been battling breast cancer.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton's partnership ends
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton Leaves Yucaipa Business Partnerships .ArticleComments (15)more in
Former President Bill Clinton has ended his high-profile business connection to his friend Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. by walking away from a final payment that was once estimated at up to $20 million.
Ron Burkle
EXCERPT:
[edit] Golden State Foods
Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants.[13]
[edit] Follieri and the Vati-Con scandal
On April 30, 2008, a Delaware judge dismissed Burkle's lawsuit against Raffaello Follieri, ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, after he agreed to repay Burkle more than $1.3 million Burkle loaned him, a small amount of the money Burkle lost in the Vati-Con Scandal.[14]
Pittsburgh Penguins
He is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins[11] National Hockey League team, although his current share is unknown. He co-owns the franchise with Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009.
[edit] Wild Oats
Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By the time Whole Foods Market, a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats.[12]
Raphael De Niro Real Estate connecting the dots
EXCERPT:
But there's trouble brewing below Canal Street. "He has all of the good listings because of his last name!" fumes a competitor. "His father does mailings for him and gives lists of his friends' addresses. If your father is famous, you make it really quick in this business. "
Despite what his detractors say, Raphael, 32, told real estate magazine The Real Deal in 2006: "My name is a hot commodity. [But] I only use it when I can put my integrity behind it 110 percent."
Going above and beyond means assembling a client list that boasts Matt Damon, Naomi Campbell and model Carmen Kass. Recently, he's taken both Jessica Alba and Victoria's Secret mannequin Adriana Lima to check out massive apartments at the Fairchild building in Tribeca.
Linda S. Stein Murdered
EXCERPT:
She began her career as a teacher, but left teaching to manage the Ramones with Danny Fields. She also managed singer/songwriter Steve Forbert.
She was formerly married to and advised Seymour Stein, president of Sire Records and vice president of Warner Bros. Records, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads and The Pretenders. She was a fixture in clubs from Studio 54 to the Mudd Club and later a reliable voice in gossip columns, aided by her quick wit and fanciful way with a four-letter word.
In the 1990s, Stein left band management and became a "real estate agent to the stars". She landed mega-million-dollar apartments for Madonna, Sting, Angelina Jolie, Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley, Bruce Willis, Jann Wenner, Michael Douglas, Steven Spielberg and Elton John.
According to her friend, author Steven Gaines, Stein reportedly inspired two movie characters: the real estate agent (played by Sylvia Miles) who sells a high-rise apartment to Charlie Sheen's character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and a predatory record executive in the 1998 movie 54.[2]
[edit] Death
On October 30, 2007, Stein was found dead in her apartment in Manhattan.[1] The county coroner ruled Stein's death a homicide and attributed the cause to "blunt impact trauma to the head and neck".[3] At the time of her death Stein had been battling breast cancer.
EXCERPT:
Bill Clinton Leaves Yucaipa Business Partnerships .ArticleComments (15)more in
Former President Bill Clinton has ended his high-profile business connection to his friend Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. by walking away from a final payment that was once estimated at up to $20 million.
Ron Burkle
EXCERPT:
[edit] Golden State Foods
Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants.[13]
[edit] Follieri and the Vati-Con scandal
On April 30, 2008, a Delaware judge dismissed Burkle's lawsuit against Raffaello Follieri, ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, after he agreed to repay Burkle more than $1.3 million Burkle loaned him, a small amount of the money Burkle lost in the Vati-Con Scandal.[14]
Pittsburgh Penguins
He is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins[11] National Hockey League team, although his current share is unknown. He co-owns the franchise with Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009.
[edit] Wild Oats
Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By the time Whole Foods Market, a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats.[12]
Raphael De Niro Real Estate connecting the dots
EXCERPT:
But there's trouble brewing below Canal Street. "He has all of the good listings because of his last name!" fumes a competitor. "His father does mailings for him and gives lists of his friends' addresses. If your father is famous, you make it really quick in this business. "
Despite what his detractors say, Raphael, 32, told real estate magazine The Real Deal in 2006: "My name is a hot commodity. [But] I only use it when I can put my integrity behind it 110 percent."
Going above and beyond means assembling a client list that boasts Matt Damon, Naomi Campbell and model Carmen Kass. Recently, he's taken both Jessica Alba and Victoria's Secret mannequin Adriana Lima to check out massive apartments at the Fairchild building in Tribeca.
Linda S. Stein Murdered
EXCERPT:
She began her career as a teacher, but left teaching to manage the Ramones with Danny Fields. She also managed singer/songwriter Steve Forbert.
She was formerly married to and advised Seymour Stein, president of Sire Records and vice president of Warner Bros. Records, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads and The Pretenders. She was a fixture in clubs from Studio 54 to the Mudd Club and later a reliable voice in gossip columns, aided by her quick wit and fanciful way with a four-letter word.
In the 1990s, Stein left band management and became a "real estate agent to the stars". She landed mega-million-dollar apartments for Madonna, Sting, Angelina Jolie, Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley, Bruce Willis, Jann Wenner, Michael Douglas, Steven Spielberg and Elton John.
According to her friend, author Steven Gaines, Stein reportedly inspired two movie characters: the real estate agent (played by Sylvia Miles) who sells a high-rise apartment to Charlie Sheen's character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and a predatory record executive in the 1998 movie 54.[2]
[edit] Death
On October 30, 2007, Stein was found dead in her apartment in Manhattan.[1] The county coroner ruled Stein's death a homicide and attributed the cause to "blunt impact trauma to the head and neck".[3] At the time of her death Stein had been battling breast cancer.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Petrocanada Limited Company History and Maruice Strong
EXCERPT:
Maurice Strong, who earlier had helped establish Dome Petroleum, served as Petro-Canada's first chairman. It was Wilbert Hopper, more than any other individual, however, who made Petro-Canada a success story. Hopper, with degrees in geology and business administration, started in the oil business as a geologist for Imperial Oil in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he was senior economist for the Canadian National Energy Board, before joining the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based international consulting firm of Arthur D. Little. With a solid reputation in the oil industry, Hopper caught the attention of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who sought Hopper's advice in forming a state-owned oil company. Thus began Petro-Canada. Hopper started his association with the company as a vice president in 1976. Six months later, he was named president and chief executive officer. In 1979 he became chairman as well as CEO.
Maurice Stongs unprecedented rise to power earth charter and the earth council alliance
EXCERPT:
MDJarv — July 05, 2009 — From the CBC documentary ‘Life and Times’ (2004).
This clip takes a look at one of the world’s leading figures behind the New World Order agenda, and someone near the very top of the global warming/global tax/one world government swindle. For the past several years, Strong has been living in China following his exposed involvement in the UN’s Oil for Food scandal.
While the documentary casts an unabashedly favorable and glowing light on Strong, making him out to be a humanitarian of sorts and someone wanting to make the world a better place through his connections in business and government, those who have done the research and have studied Mr. Strong’s background and associations understand that this simply isn’t the case. However, this clip does at least highlight the dizzying speed in which Strong rose to power, as well as his many elite associations.
Despite having little education and almost no credentials, Strong was quickly risen through the ranks of power after being vetted by globalist kingpin David Rockefeller in the mid-40s, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, after Strong landed a job there with the help of people who had connections to the UN.
Strong played a vital role in the rise to power of former Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin, landing him his first real job at Canada’s Power Corporation. The same goes for James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, who also later hired Strong as an adviser.
-Matthew D. Jarvie
EXCERPT:
Maurice Strong, who earlier had helped establish Dome Petroleum, served as Petro-Canada's first chairman. It was Wilbert Hopper, more than any other individual, however, who made Petro-Canada a success story. Hopper, with degrees in geology and business administration, started in the oil business as a geologist for Imperial Oil in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he was senior economist for the Canadian National Energy Board, before joining the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based international consulting firm of Arthur D. Little. With a solid reputation in the oil industry, Hopper caught the attention of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who sought Hopper's advice in forming a state-owned oil company. Thus began Petro-Canada. Hopper started his association with the company as a vice president in 1976. Six months later, he was named president and chief executive officer. In 1979 he became chairman as well as CEO.
Maurice Stongs unprecedented rise to power earth charter and the earth council alliance
EXCERPT:
MDJarv — July 05, 2009 — From the CBC documentary ‘Life and Times’ (2004).
This clip takes a look at one of the world’s leading figures behind the New World Order agenda, and someone near the very top of the global warming/global tax/one world government swindle. For the past several years, Strong has been living in China following his exposed involvement in the UN’s Oil for Food scandal.
While the documentary casts an unabashedly favorable and glowing light on Strong, making him out to be a humanitarian of sorts and someone wanting to make the world a better place through his connections in business and government, those who have done the research and have studied Mr. Strong’s background and associations understand that this simply isn’t the case. However, this clip does at least highlight the dizzying speed in which Strong rose to power, as well as his many elite associations.
Despite having little education and almost no credentials, Strong was quickly risen through the ranks of power after being vetted by globalist kingpin David Rockefeller in the mid-40s, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, after Strong landed a job there with the help of people who had connections to the UN.
Strong played a vital role in the rise to power of former Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin, landing him his first real job at Canada’s Power Corporation. The same goes for James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, who also later hired Strong as an adviser.
-Matthew D. Jarvie
Authorities identify man killed in Simi Valley (VIDEO)
EXCERPT:
Meanwhile, public documents revealed that a man who applied with Larson to patent a method for generating energy from water was recently indicted for allegedly bilking investors out of $6 million using ploys involving a similar alternative
Murder made to look natural
my2cents: If autopsy is delayed murder looks natural, eh?
EXCERPT:
Milosevic was poisoned & blood tests on January 12 2006 revealed the presence of the Leprosy drug 'Rifampicine' in Milosevic's blood, this being a particularly sophisticated drug which destroys heart muscle but would, without the blood sample, have disappeared by the time he died of a heart attack, as he duly did. None of this is disputed though obviously it is ignored by our media. This is a very sophisticated form of poisoning designed to look like natural death & so must have been committed person or persons with very sophisticated knowledge of murder, a strong incentive to make it look natural & the knowledge that the judges weren't going to allow him to receive medical treatment in Russia where it would have likely been spotted. Since the murder was committed by poisoning him over a period of time they must have had access to his food, in the prison, over a long period. That limits it to his ICTY jailers & in particular to secret service agents among them.
Water Fuel research Explosion kills inventor
EXCERPT:
Explosion at California water fuel research company kills inventor
On Thursday afternoon, 28-year-old inventor, Tyson Larson was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in the roof and blew out the back doors to a Simi Valley building of the family member's company, Realm Industries, which was seeking to develop his water fuel technology.
The explosion was likely a result of an attempt to compress hydroxy gas -- never a good idea. Also, it turns out that two associates of the company were indicted in March for "defrauding 300 investors of $7 million with ploys including a process for creating alternative fuel from water."
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2010
Free energy suppression
EXCERPTs:
1) Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory that claims that advanced technology that would reshape current electrical generation methods is being suppressed by certain special interest groups. These groups are usually related to the oil industry, to whom current energy generation technology is profitable.
2) Historic cases
Many inventors have attempted to construct means of "over-unity" or perpetual motion energy production, where power output exceeds power input. Supporters claim that the ones listed below have had work suppressed:
[edit] Thomas Henry Moray
Main article: Thomas Henry Moray
In the 1930s, Thomas Henry Moray reported that he and his family had been threatened and shot at on several occasions and his lab ransacked to stop his free energy research and public demonstrations. The 1975 book The Sun Betrayed claimed solar energy production was being suppressed by the US governmental bureau allocated to help its development.[15]
[edit] Stanley Meyer
Stanley Meyer's Water Fuel Cell Main article: Stanley Meyers' water fuel cell
Stanley Meyer produced nine patents, around 1990, relating to his "water powered" car. He was subsequently sued by two investors and the court found Meyer guilty of "gross and egregious fraud", ordering him to repay the investors their $25,000.[16][17]
Following his sudden death, an autopsy showed that he died of a cerebral aneurysm.[18] Meyer's supporters continue to claim that he was assassinated by 'Big Oil', Arab death squads, Belgian assassins, or the US Government in order to suppress his inventions.[19][20][21] However, Meyer's patents are readily available online.[22]
[edit] Eugene Mallove
Main article: Eugene Mallove
Eugene Mallove was a notable proponent and supporter of research into cold fusion. He authored the book Fire from Ice, which details the 1989 report of table-top cold fusion from Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah.[23] The book claims the team did produce "greater-than-unity" output energy in an experiment, which supposedly was successfully replicated on several occasions.[24] Mallove claims that the results were suppressed through an organized campaign of ridicule from mainstream physicists. He was fatally beaten May 14, 2004 in Norwich, Connecticut by an unknown assailant. His violent death was suspected by some to be related to the nature of his work[25], while the police officially suspected robbery as the motive.[26]
In 2005, two previously-convicted criminals were arrested in connection with the killing.[27][28][29] The case proceeded slowly,[26] and the charges against the two men were dismissed on November 6, 2008, due to there being no forensic evidence linking them to the murder.[30]
Other researchers in the field of cold fusion have been claimed to be subjected to suppression via academic pressure as well as via lack of funding.[31]
[edit] Current cases
[edit] Tom Bearden
Main article: Tom Bearden
In spite of the difficulties and delays in bringing the Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG) to market, Tom Bearden maintains that a number of free energy technologies have been available for well over a century, yet have been actively suppressed by government or private interests.
Bearden and his colleagues have proposed a simple modification to the magnetic Wankel engine (Takahashi Motor[32]) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through asymmetrical regauging. He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by Japanese interests.[33]
He has repeatedly expressed his belief that the key to over-unity systems was present in the original form of Maxwell's Equations, and this potential was realized by Nikola Tesla; however, he claims that part of the equations were deliberately suppressed in their vectorization by Heaviside and Lorentz in the late 19th century. Bearden claims this was orchestrated by industrialist J.P. Morgan, in order to protect his oil interests[34]
He claims that "nuclear power plant consortium" has worked to "ruthlessly suppress" cold fusion, and further that this consortium "is almost certainly to blame for the murder of Gene Mallove, the main proponent and activist for cold fusion".[35]
He has hypothesized that the death of Arie M. DeGeus in Charlotte, North Carolina was actually a murder carried out to suppress his development of a "self-powering battery".[36]
Bearden has published no evidence for any of these claims.
[edit] Gordon Novel
Main article: Gordon Novel
In an interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot, Novel made several claims on conspiracy theories. One of which is the existence of the alleged secret group Majestic 12 with which he claims to be in a complicated conflict. This conflict revolves largely around the conspiracy of free energy suppression. Novel claims he is working with a group of scientists and intelligence agents, calling themselves the Knights Temporal, that aim to break the conspiracy and release free energy technology.[37]
Self powered battery inventor dead
EXCERPT:
Free-Energy Battery Inventor Killed at Airport?
Official statement cites "natural causes" but others familiar with the disruptive potential of the inventor's technology to the existing power structure consider it a probable assassination.
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2007
WBTV reported death as "most likely not a homicide."
On Nov. 11, inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy technology, Arie M. DeGeus of AMDG Scientific Corp was found slumped in his car, totally unresponsive, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina. He was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. The autopsy suggested heart failure, so officials were saying the death was a result of a medical problem or natural causes, and not likely to be a homicide. (Ref.; ref.)
Those who were involved with his research are doubtful, citing, among other things, that he had been in relatively good health. The timing is also suspicious. He was apparently on his way to Europe where he was to secure major funding for the development and commercialization of his technology, which could make oil obsolete as a fuel source.
EXCERPT:
Meanwhile, public documents revealed that a man who applied with Larson to patent a method for generating energy from water was recently indicted for allegedly bilking investors out of $6 million using ploys involving a similar alternative
Murder made to look natural
my2cents: If autopsy is delayed murder looks natural, eh?
EXCERPT:
Milosevic was poisoned & blood tests on January 12 2006 revealed the presence of the Leprosy drug 'Rifampicine' in Milosevic's blood, this being a particularly sophisticated drug which destroys heart muscle but would, without the blood sample, have disappeared by the time he died of a heart attack, as he duly did. None of this is disputed though obviously it is ignored by our media. This is a very sophisticated form of poisoning designed to look like natural death & so must have been committed person or persons with very sophisticated knowledge of murder, a strong incentive to make it look natural & the knowledge that the judges weren't going to allow him to receive medical treatment in Russia where it would have likely been spotted. Since the murder was committed by poisoning him over a period of time they must have had access to his food, in the prison, over a long period. That limits it to his ICTY jailers & in particular to secret service agents among them.
Water Fuel research Explosion kills inventor
EXCERPT:
Explosion at California water fuel research company kills inventor
On Thursday afternoon, 28-year-old inventor, Tyson Larson was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in the roof and blew out the back doors to a Simi Valley building of the family member's company, Realm Industries, which was seeking to develop his water fuel technology.
The explosion was likely a result of an attempt to compress hydroxy gas -- never a good idea. Also, it turns out that two associates of the company were indicted in March for "defrauding 300 investors of $7 million with ploys including a process for creating alternative fuel from water."
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2010
Free energy suppression
EXCERPTs:
1) Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory that claims that advanced technology that would reshape current electrical generation methods is being suppressed by certain special interest groups. These groups are usually related to the oil industry, to whom current energy generation technology is profitable.
2) Historic cases
Many inventors have attempted to construct means of "over-unity" or perpetual motion energy production, where power output exceeds power input. Supporters claim that the ones listed below have had work suppressed:
[edit] Thomas Henry Moray
Main article: Thomas Henry Moray
In the 1930s, Thomas Henry Moray reported that he and his family had been threatened and shot at on several occasions and his lab ransacked to stop his free energy research and public demonstrations. The 1975 book The Sun Betrayed claimed solar energy production was being suppressed by the US governmental bureau allocated to help its development.[15]
[edit] Stanley Meyer
Stanley Meyer's Water Fuel Cell Main article: Stanley Meyers' water fuel cell
Stanley Meyer produced nine patents, around 1990, relating to his "water powered" car. He was subsequently sued by two investors and the court found Meyer guilty of "gross and egregious fraud", ordering him to repay the investors their $25,000.[16][17]
Following his sudden death, an autopsy showed that he died of a cerebral aneurysm.[18] Meyer's supporters continue to claim that he was assassinated by 'Big Oil', Arab death squads, Belgian assassins, or the US Government in order to suppress his inventions.[19][20][21] However, Meyer's patents are readily available online.[22]
[edit] Eugene Mallove
Main article: Eugene Mallove
Eugene Mallove was a notable proponent and supporter of research into cold fusion. He authored the book Fire from Ice, which details the 1989 report of table-top cold fusion from Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah.[23] The book claims the team did produce "greater-than-unity" output energy in an experiment, which supposedly was successfully replicated on several occasions.[24] Mallove claims that the results were suppressed through an organized campaign of ridicule from mainstream physicists. He was fatally beaten May 14, 2004 in Norwich, Connecticut by an unknown assailant. His violent death was suspected by some to be related to the nature of his work[25], while the police officially suspected robbery as the motive.[26]
In 2005, two previously-convicted criminals were arrested in connection with the killing.[27][28][29] The case proceeded slowly,[26] and the charges against the two men were dismissed on November 6, 2008, due to there being no forensic evidence linking them to the murder.[30]
Other researchers in the field of cold fusion have been claimed to be subjected to suppression via academic pressure as well as via lack of funding.[31]
[edit] Current cases
[edit] Tom Bearden
Main article: Tom Bearden
In spite of the difficulties and delays in bringing the Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG) to market, Tom Bearden maintains that a number of free energy technologies have been available for well over a century, yet have been actively suppressed by government or private interests.
Bearden and his colleagues have proposed a simple modification to the magnetic Wankel engine (Takahashi Motor[32]) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through asymmetrical regauging. He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by Japanese interests.[33]
He has repeatedly expressed his belief that the key to over-unity systems was present in the original form of Maxwell's Equations, and this potential was realized by Nikola Tesla; however, he claims that part of the equations were deliberately suppressed in their vectorization by Heaviside and Lorentz in the late 19th century. Bearden claims this was orchestrated by industrialist J.P. Morgan, in order to protect his oil interests[34]
He claims that "nuclear power plant consortium" has worked to "ruthlessly suppress" cold fusion, and further that this consortium "is almost certainly to blame for the murder of Gene Mallove, the main proponent and activist for cold fusion".[35]
He has hypothesized that the death of Arie M. DeGeus in Charlotte, North Carolina was actually a murder carried out to suppress his development of a "self-powering battery".[36]
Bearden has published no evidence for any of these claims.
[edit] Gordon Novel
Main article: Gordon Novel
In an interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot, Novel made several claims on conspiracy theories. One of which is the existence of the alleged secret group Majestic 12 with which he claims to be in a complicated conflict. This conflict revolves largely around the conspiracy of free energy suppression. Novel claims he is working with a group of scientists and intelligence agents, calling themselves the Knights Temporal, that aim to break the conspiracy and release free energy technology.[37]
Self powered battery inventor dead
EXCERPT:
Free-Energy Battery Inventor Killed at Airport?
Official statement cites "natural causes" but others familiar with the disruptive potential of the inventor's technology to the existing power structure consider it a probable assassination.
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2007
WBTV reported death as "most likely not a homicide."
On Nov. 11, inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy technology, Arie M. DeGeus of AMDG Scientific Corp was found slumped in his car, totally unresponsive, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina. He was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. The autopsy suggested heart failure, so officials were saying the death was a result of a medical problem or natural causes, and not likely to be a homicide. (Ref.; ref.)
Those who were involved with his research are doubtful, citing, among other things, that he had been in relatively good health. The timing is also suspicious. He was apparently on his way to Europe where he was to secure major funding for the development and commercialization of his technology, which could make oil obsolete as a fuel source.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Bill Clinton to be World Bank's next president?
Could it be Clinton (Bill)? Many of you will remember that Bill Clinton got some backing in 2005 as a potentially clever bi-partisan World Bank president appointment. This time he has had less mention. But now the former US president is back in the frame. Courtesy of ... The Canberra Times.
The paper sets out its argument as follows:
"There is only on appropriate candidate. William J. Clinton, 42nd president of the United States of America should become the 11th president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, also known as the World Bank.
Clearly Clinton fills all necessarily criteria.
His recent work on debt, HIV and climate change indicates that he understands the development process and the importance of achieving sustainable economic growth to improve the lives of the poor.
He also understands that economic growth is not sufficient on its own, but is merely a tool that must be utilised in a responsible and considered manner".
Strangely the article's author Dr Matthew Clarke neglects to mention the difficulties that Bill Clinton got into with female employees while at the White House, and his none too transparent public announcements on that issue.
Regardless of that, we can consider Bill Clinton now to be on the longlist.
Bill Clinton and Enron
EXCERPT:
In 1992, Enron was one of the most popular contributors to Bill Clinton and the DNC. Enron was right next to Bill Clinton from his first days in the White House. In 1992, Enron donated $100,000 to Clinton's inauguration.
WHO scandal exposed advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers
EXCERPT:
WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers
Mike Adams
Natural News
June 6, 2010
A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Could it be Clinton (Bill)? Many of you will remember that Bill Clinton got some backing in 2005 as a potentially clever bi-partisan World Bank president appointment. This time he has had less mention. But now the former US president is back in the frame. Courtesy of ... The Canberra Times.
The paper sets out its argument as follows:
"There is only on appropriate candidate. William J. Clinton, 42nd president of the United States of America should become the 11th president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, also known as the World Bank.
Clearly Clinton fills all necessarily criteria.
His recent work on debt, HIV and climate change indicates that he understands the development process and the importance of achieving sustainable economic growth to improve the lives of the poor.
He also understands that economic growth is not sufficient on its own, but is merely a tool that must be utilised in a responsible and considered manner".
Strangely the article's author Dr Matthew Clarke neglects to mention the difficulties that Bill Clinton got into with female employees while at the White House, and his none too transparent public announcements on that issue.
Regardless of that, we can consider Bill Clinton now to be on the longlist.
Bill Clinton and Enron
EXCERPT:
In 1992, Enron was one of the most popular contributors to Bill Clinton and the DNC. Enron was right next to Bill Clinton from his first days in the White House. In 1992, Enron donated $100,000 to Clinton's inauguration.
WHO scandal exposed advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers
EXCERPT:
WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers
Mike Adams
Natural News
June 6, 2010
A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
JP Morgan and Citibank and ENRON
EXCERPT:
Both Citigroup and J.P. Morgan, two financial giants,
financed transactions for Enron that allowed Enron’s management
to present misleading financial results to shareholders, analysts,
and the marketplace.9 Citigroup and J.P. Morgan primarily used
“prepay” transactions that allowed Enron to disguise loans as
commodities transactions.10
“Prepay” transactions involve triangular deals where an
original company (Enron) enters into a transaction with another
company (a shell corporation) which enters into a transaction with
the financial institution, which enters into a transaction with the
original company.11 “The net effect of these deals [is that the
original company ends up] being the shipper and receiver of the
same commodity, due at the same price on the same day.”12 Under
these transactions, all the multiple deals cancel each other out,
except the original company who receives a large amount of cash,
which must be paid back to the financial institutions with interest.13
The results of these deals are merely loans to the original
corporation disguised as commodities transactions.14 Through
several prepays, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan lent Enron $6.4 billion
dollars.15 These transactions enabled Enron to report non-existent
earnings and conceal the discrepancy between actual and reported
earnings from financial analysts and investors.16
Citigroup and Enron also entered into special purposes
entities (SPEs)17 transactions in which Enron converted cash
Bush said he didn't know Ken Lay(BS)letter here proves differently
Memo details Cheney-Enron links
War in the planning for 4 years
EXCERPT:
Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans in a 1997 Book -- It is "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and NATO Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an Exclusive Interview With FTW.
Summary
"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD -- American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.
These are the very first words in the book, "Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power." -- p. xiii. Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in his address to a joint session of Congress just days after the attacks of September 11 as the very first place that the U.S. military would be deployed.
As FTW has documented in previous stories, major deployments of U.S. and British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the U.S. Army and the CIA had been active in Uzbekistan for several years. There is now evidence that what the world is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan -- at least four years in the making -- and that, from reading Brzezinski's own words about Pearl Harbor, the World Trade Center attacks were just the trigger needed to set the final conquest in motion.
California "crisis" was entirely manipulated (Enron)
Extorting and racketeering in America
One of Enron's first acts on behalf of the present Bush administration was the manipulation of the California energy grid, which essentially blackmailed the state. California is a Democratic stronghold and "hotbed of liberal dissent" that opposed the installment of George W. Bush. California's once burgeoning economy was derailed, and its damaged Democratic political leadership was sent scrambling into months of damage control. There is evidence that the California "crisis" was entirely manufactured. Several investigations into the scam are underway.
As reported by David Lazarus in the San Francisco Chronicle (1/30/02), memos of conversations between Lay and Dick Cheney provide ample evidence of Lay's insider status in the Bush White House: he essentially dictated the administration's ruthless response to California --- and perhaps the rest of the energy policy.
Today, California remains a hostage to Enron and other Texas utilities, locked into expensive long-term energy contracts that will sap its resources and fleece consumers for years to come.
The California "energy shortage" became George Bush's national rallying cry for deregulation, drilling, building new power plants and the gutting of environmental regulations across the US. The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and other protected lands, and the California coast, have been targeted for drilling.
Not content simply to deregulate national energy markets, Enron pushed for the deregulation of energy futures markets, making itself exempt from government oversight and from fraud laws. This maneuver, headed by Wendy Gramm, and assisted by Senator Phil Gramm (who pushed Enron-friendly changes in legislation in Congress) was tantamount to the company giving itself permission to launder massive amounts of money.
Enron, Bush administration officials, and Enron-funded right-wing "think tanks" such as the American Enterprise Institute, the American Council for Capital Formation (where Ken Lay is a director), the Institute for Policy Innovation (founded by Dick Armey) collaborated to lift restrictions on offshore tax havens. This blocked a multi-year 30-nation crackdown on the abuse of offshore tax havens led by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Today, thanks to Enron, billions of dollars of mystery money are sheltered in thousands of phantom offshore accounts, in 874 Enron subsidiaries.
Arbusto Energy's criminal connections
EXCERPT:
A powerful banker in Saudi Arabia, Mahfouz was one of the largest stockholders in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. BCCI was a corrupt global banking empire operating in 73 nations and was a major financial and political force in Washington, Paris, Geneva, London, and Hong Kong. Despite the appearance of a normal banking operation, BCCI was actually an international crime syndicate providing "banking services" to the Medellin drug cartel, Pamama dictator Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal, and Khun Sa, the heroin kingpin in Asia's Golden Triangle.
The BCCI scandal implicated some of the biggest political names in Washington - both Democrats and Republicans - during the first Bush White House. The bank was accused of laundering money for drug cartels, smuggling weapons to terrorists, and using Middle Eastern oil money to influence American politicians.
The chief of the Justice Department's criminal division under former President Bush was Robert Mueller. Because the major players came out of the scandal with slaps on the wrists, many critics accused Mueller of botching the investigation. Mr. Mueller was recently appointed by President George W. Bush as the new Director of the FBI, replacing Louis Freeh who did nothing while William Jefferson Clinton allowed the Red Chinese to loot our national security secrets.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a division of the Justice Department, reviewed allegations by Bill White in 1992 that James Bath funneled money from wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen to American companies to influence the policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Robert Mueller, the new FBI chief, was in a senior position at the Justice Department at the time of the review.
White told a Texas court in 1992 that Bath and the Justice Department had "blackballed" him professionally and financially because he refused to keep quiet about his knowledge of an Arabic conspiracy to launder Middle Eastern money into the bank accounts of American businesses and politicians.
In sworn depositions, Bath admitted he represented four wealthy Saudi Arabian businessmen as a trustee. He also admitted he used his name on their investments and received, in return, a five- percent stake in their business deals.
Indeed, Texas tax documents revealed that Bath owned five percent of Arbusto '79 Ltd., and Arbusto '80 Ltd. Bush Exploration Company controlled the limited partnerships, the general partnership firm owned by young George W. Bush.
Although George W. Bush's Texas oil ventures were financial failures, his financial backers recovered their investments through a series of mergers and stock swaps. He changed Arbusto's name to Bush Exploration, then merged the new firm into Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation in 1984.
EXCERPT:
Both Citigroup and J.P. Morgan, two financial giants,
financed transactions for Enron that allowed Enron’s management
to present misleading financial results to shareholders, analysts,
and the marketplace.9 Citigroup and J.P. Morgan primarily used
“prepay” transactions that allowed Enron to disguise loans as
commodities transactions.10
“Prepay” transactions involve triangular deals where an
original company (Enron) enters into a transaction with another
company (a shell corporation) which enters into a transaction with
the financial institution, which enters into a transaction with the
original company.11 “The net effect of these deals [is that the
original company ends up] being the shipper and receiver of the
same commodity, due at the same price on the same day.”12 Under
these transactions, all the multiple deals cancel each other out,
except the original company who receives a large amount of cash,
which must be paid back to the financial institutions with interest.13
The results of these deals are merely loans to the original
corporation disguised as commodities transactions.14 Through
several prepays, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan lent Enron $6.4 billion
dollars.15 These transactions enabled Enron to report non-existent
earnings and conceal the discrepancy between actual and reported
earnings from financial analysts and investors.16
Citigroup and Enron also entered into special purposes
entities (SPEs)17 transactions in which Enron converted cash
Bush said he didn't know Ken Lay(BS)letter here proves differently
Memo details Cheney-Enron links
War in the planning for 4 years
EXCERPT:
Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans in a 1997 Book -- It is "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and NATO Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984, in an Exclusive Interview With FTW.
Summary
"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD -- American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997.
These are the very first words in the book, "Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power." -- p. xiii. Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. The key to controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian Republics. And the key to controlling the Central Asian republics is Uzbekistan. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Uzbekistan was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in his address to a joint session of Congress just days after the attacks of September 11 as the very first place that the U.S. military would be deployed.
As FTW has documented in previous stories, major deployments of U.S. and British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the U.S. Army and the CIA had been active in Uzbekistan for several years. There is now evidence that what the world is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan -- at least four years in the making -- and that, from reading Brzezinski's own words about Pearl Harbor, the World Trade Center attacks were just the trigger needed to set the final conquest in motion.
California "crisis" was entirely manipulated (Enron)
Extorting and racketeering in America
One of Enron's first acts on behalf of the present Bush administration was the manipulation of the California energy grid, which essentially blackmailed the state. California is a Democratic stronghold and "hotbed of liberal dissent" that opposed the installment of George W. Bush. California's once burgeoning economy was derailed, and its damaged Democratic political leadership was sent scrambling into months of damage control. There is evidence that the California "crisis" was entirely manufactured. Several investigations into the scam are underway.
As reported by David Lazarus in the San Francisco Chronicle (1/30/02), memos of conversations between Lay and Dick Cheney provide ample evidence of Lay's insider status in the Bush White House: he essentially dictated the administration's ruthless response to California --- and perhaps the rest of the energy policy.
Today, California remains a hostage to Enron and other Texas utilities, locked into expensive long-term energy contracts that will sap its resources and fleece consumers for years to come.
The California "energy shortage" became George Bush's national rallying cry for deregulation, drilling, building new power plants and the gutting of environmental regulations across the US. The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and other protected lands, and the California coast, have been targeted for drilling.
Not content simply to deregulate national energy markets, Enron pushed for the deregulation of energy futures markets, making itself exempt from government oversight and from fraud laws. This maneuver, headed by Wendy Gramm, and assisted by Senator Phil Gramm (who pushed Enron-friendly changes in legislation in Congress) was tantamount to the company giving itself permission to launder massive amounts of money.
Enron, Bush administration officials, and Enron-funded right-wing "think tanks" such as the American Enterprise Institute, the American Council for Capital Formation (where Ken Lay is a director), the Institute for Policy Innovation (founded by Dick Armey) collaborated to lift restrictions on offshore tax havens. This blocked a multi-year 30-nation crackdown on the abuse of offshore tax havens led by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Today, thanks to Enron, billions of dollars of mystery money are sheltered in thousands of phantom offshore accounts, in 874 Enron subsidiaries.
Arbusto Energy's criminal connections
EXCERPT:
A powerful banker in Saudi Arabia, Mahfouz was one of the largest stockholders in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. BCCI was a corrupt global banking empire operating in 73 nations and was a major financial and political force in Washington, Paris, Geneva, London, and Hong Kong. Despite the appearance of a normal banking operation, BCCI was actually an international crime syndicate providing "banking services" to the Medellin drug cartel, Pamama dictator Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal, and Khun Sa, the heroin kingpin in Asia's Golden Triangle.
The BCCI scandal implicated some of the biggest political names in Washington - both Democrats and Republicans - during the first Bush White House. The bank was accused of laundering money for drug cartels, smuggling weapons to terrorists, and using Middle Eastern oil money to influence American politicians.
The chief of the Justice Department's criminal division under former President Bush was Robert Mueller. Because the major players came out of the scandal with slaps on the wrists, many critics accused Mueller of botching the investigation. Mr. Mueller was recently appointed by President George W. Bush as the new Director of the FBI, replacing Louis Freeh who did nothing while William Jefferson Clinton allowed the Red Chinese to loot our national security secrets.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a division of the Justice Department, reviewed allegations by Bill White in 1992 that James Bath funneled money from wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen to American companies to influence the policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Robert Mueller, the new FBI chief, was in a senior position at the Justice Department at the time of the review.
White told a Texas court in 1992 that Bath and the Justice Department had "blackballed" him professionally and financially because he refused to keep quiet about his knowledge of an Arabic conspiracy to launder Middle Eastern money into the bank accounts of American businesses and politicians.
In sworn depositions, Bath admitted he represented four wealthy Saudi Arabian businessmen as a trustee. He also admitted he used his name on their investments and received, in return, a five- percent stake in their business deals.
Indeed, Texas tax documents revealed that Bath owned five percent of Arbusto '79 Ltd., and Arbusto '80 Ltd. Bush Exploration Company controlled the limited partnerships, the general partnership firm owned by young George W. Bush.
Although George W. Bush's Texas oil ventures were financial failures, his financial backers recovered their investments through a series of mergers and stock swaps. He changed Arbusto's name to Bush Exploration, then merged the new firm into Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation in 1984.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
60 Mins. on the oil spill in this blog
History of Oil Companies
Video on Bioremediation
Bioremediation oil spills email addresses
Please make sure this gets to everyone and then please ask them to forward to everyone they know. THIS IS BIG!!!
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
EXCERPT:
from reliable sources. (September 2009)
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (Bengali: আনন্দমোহন চক্রবর্তী), Ph.D. is an Indian-American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE.
Dr. Dach on GMO Food Scandal
EXCERPT:
Using Science for Piracy and Robbery:
Patents for Living Organisms Based on Erroneous Supreme Court Ruling
A patent means that the patent holder has ownership rights and the right to collect royalties. Patents on living organisms were illegal until 1980 when an unprecedented US Supreme Court decision (Diamond vs. Chakrabarty) allowed a patent for a genetically modified bacteria used to clean up oil spills. Lawyers and judges are not trained in science and have limited understanding, so it is not surprising that this Supreme Court ruling was a mistake and a result failure to understand the science. This unprecedented ruling is a disaster and should be overturned as soon as possible. Perhaps a better approach would be for Congress to pass new patent laws which clearly state unequivocally and with no exceptions, that living organisms cannot be patented.
Inalienable Right to Use the Natural World for Survival
There can be no patent for life because Life is not an invention of man, Life is an invention of the Creator given to man as an unalienable Right according to the Constitution of the United States.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence deemed it a "self evident truth" that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". Inalienable (Individual) Rights are: natural rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The term inalienable rights(or unalienable rights) refers to a set of individual human rights that by their nature cannot be taken away, violated, or transferred. They are the most fundamental set of human rights, natural means not-granted nor conditional. They are applicable only to humans, as the basic necessity of our human survival.
Food is life, so therefore, included in these inalienable rights to life is the right to sustain life by planting and harvesting crops for food. In order to fully exercise these inalienable rights, and as a basic necessity for survival, the individual has the inalienable right to the free and open use of the natural plant and aniimal world (also known as farming). Patents grant corporate ownership of seed stock and living organisms, and in essence, revokes from the individual this inalienable human right to life and grants it to multi-national corporations like Monsanto. This is unethical and immoral, and this ruling must be overturned.
CorpWatch
EXCERPT:
General Electric
by Charlie Cray, Crocodyl.org
For the latest company profile on General Electric, visit our corporate malfeasance wiki, Crocodyl.org.
General Electric Co. manufactures electrical equipment, lighting products and household appliances. It also owns the broadcasting network NBC. In terms of market capitalization, GE is the world's second largest company and also second in the BrandZ ranking. In the 1960s, aspects of U.S. tax laws and accounting practices led to a rise in the assembly of conglomerates. GE, which was a conglomerate long before the term was coined, is arguably the most successful organization of this type.
Global Fortune 500 position: 11
Ownership status: Publicly traded
Number of employees worldwide: 315,000
Chief executive officer: Jeff Immelt
Website: http://www.ge.com
Tel: 203-373-2211 Corporate accountability
Accountability overview:
Enronomics
In their 2002 report, ""Titans of the Enron Economy: The 10 Habits of Highly Defective Corporations," United for a Fair Economy gave a "special Lifetime Achievement Award" to General Electric "for scoring the highest average rank across all 10 bad habits, the only company to outrank second-place Enron. GE exceeds Enron’s score by an astonishing 45%."
Defense Contracting Fraud
On July 23, 1992, GE pled guilty in federal court to civil and criminal charges of defrauding the Pentagon and agreed to pay $69 million to the U.S. government in fines — one of the largest defense contracting fines ever. The company said in a statement that it took responsibility for the actions of a former marketing employee who, along with an Israeli Air Force General, diverted Pentagon funds to their own bank accounts and to fund Israeli military programs not authorized by the United States. Under the settlement with the Justice Department over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, GE paid $59.5 million in civil fraud claims and $9.5 million in criminal fines.
GE’s civil and criminal transgressions stemming from the Israeli military program are by no means isolated. GE is a repeat offender when it comes to Defense Department fraud. The company has repeatedly violated the False Claims Act — a measure originally proposed by Lincoln to protect federal coffers. When the Project on Government Oversight surveyed defense contractors, it found that General Electric was responsible for 15 instances of fraudulent activity in just a four year period (1990-1994) — more than any other defense contractor.
On August 10, 1995 the U.S. Department of Justice announced (# 95-438) that GE would pay $7.1 million to settle a contract fraud suit initiated by Ian Johnson, an engineer at GE's Aircraft Engines plant in Evendale, Ohio in 1993. Johnson had alleged that GE "sold several thousand jet engines to the military that did not comply with military electrical bonding and electromagnetic interference testing requirements," according to DoJ. (Subsequently, the Air Force tested the engines and found them to be safe.) Johnson filed the suit on behalf of the United States under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.
On January 10, 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice announced (# 97-012) that GE would pay $950,000 to settle allegations that it fraudulently misrepresented that it had conducted certain test procedures on circuit boards for hundreds of aircraft engine controls when in fact the tests were not conducted.
GE paid $5.87 million (along with Martin Marietta) to settle a qui tam suit associated with improper sales of radar systems to Egypt.
GE paid fines between 1990 and 1994 ranging from a $20,000 criminal fine to a $24.6 million civil fine for a variety of defense contracting frauds, including: misrepresentation, money laundering, defective pricing (2 incidents), cost mischarging (3 incidents), false claims, product substitution, conspiracy/conversion of classified documents, procurement fraud and mail fraud.
On July 22, 1992, GE "... [pled] guilty to diverting some $26.5 million from the U.S. foreign military aid program used to finance General Electric's sale of F-16 jet engines and support equipment to Israel ." (United States v General Electric, Docket #90-CV-792, US DC SD OH, Cincinnati) (See: Defense Contracting: Contractor Claims for Legal Costs Associated with Stockholder Lawsuits, GAO/NSIAD-95-66 (July 1995) GE was convicted on February 3, 1990 in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia of defrauding the government out of $10 million for a battlefield computer system. GE pled guilty on May 19, 1985 to charges of fraud and falsifying 108 claims on a missile contract. GE was convicted of defrauding the Air Force out of $800,000 on the Minuteman Missile Project.
GE was convicted of bribing the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority.
Violations of Securities Laws
On September 24, 2004, the SEC announced (# 2004-135) that it had settled charges against GE for failing to fully disclose in proxy statements issued between 1997-2002 all of the retirement benefits granted to former CEO Jack Welch.
Tax issues:
1975 Times Article
EXCERPT:
Of all industrial accidents, few are messier than oil spills. Floating booms can contain surface oil and keep it from spreading while it is picked up and recovered by giant vacuum cleaners. Straw filters can be used to pick up oil that makes its way into shallow waters. But scientists have been trying for years to develop more effective methods of dealing with spills. Now one team seems to have succeeded. General Electric announced last week that scientists at its Schenectady, N.Y., laboratories have created a microbe that can eat petroleum in quantity.
Bioremediation
EXCERPT:
Bioremediation can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. Bioremediation may be employed to attack specific soil contaminants, such as degradation of chlorinated hydrocarbons by bacteria. An example of a more general approach is the cleanup of oil spills by the addition of nitrate and/or sulfate fertilisers to facilitate the decomposition of crude oil by indigenous or exogenous bacteria.
Microbes that eat oil
Click the url and watch the video
Microbes That Eat Oil Spills
It’s now known our Great White Father in Washington, that is, the United States Government, and its various agencies/departments that are supposed to look out for us and the environment, has been letting Big Oil look out for us instead.
It’s now known the British Petroleum (BP) department of Big Oil did not use the most modern or safest drilling equipment or practices on its Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the Louisiana coast. It’s now known the reason BP did not use the most modern or safest drilling equipment is because that equipment’s safety device, once engaged, plugs a well instantly and permanently. Meaning, no more oil can be obtained from that rig. Meaning, no more money can be made from that rig.
It’s now generally believed BP and our Great White Father in Washington have consistently and purposefully understated the amount of oil gushing out of the seabed where BP’s Deepwater Horizon well blew up and was not sealed immediately, because it it not have the safety device that would seal it immediately, because that safety device would terminate that oil rig’s oil recovery forever.
BP and our Great White Father in Washington still have not plugged the seabed gusher, and their efforts to mitigate the oil already on the loose are pretty much not doing a very good job, to doing an awful job, all of their rhetoric to the contrary notwithstanding.
What is only just now becoming known to slow-minded people such as myself is there has been for some time now a microbe technology that is hugely successful in cleaning up oil spills on land and on water, including saltwater. BP and our Great White Father in Washington know about these microbe oil gobblers, which work a hell of a lot better and cost a hell of a lot less than the methods BP is now using. As far as is known, these oil gobbing microbes cause no collateral damage and themselves die off and become fish food after they have no more oil to gobble.
Down below is a youtube link presentation of this microbe oil gobbling technology, which State Attorney Dennis Ward forwarded to a lot of people yesterday after he received it from someone else. The microbe oil gobblers were tested by the State of Texas for oil spills. Texas then decreed oil gobbling microbes would be the first and central defense response to all oil spills in Texas, and all oil companies in Texas would make these oil gobbling microbes their first and central defense response to oil spills.
As you watch the video, ask yourself why the State of Texas hasn’t been screaming to high heaven for it to be allowed to intervene and put its oil gobbling microbes to work gobbling up this devastating oil spill Big Oil and our Great White Father in Washington have unleashed on us. Also wonder why BP and our Great White Father in Washington did not already adopt and use “the Texas solution” on this terrorist oil attack. Also wonder why Big Oil and our Great White Father Washington did not already require all oil drilling companies to incorporate the “Texas solution” as their central defense response to oil spills.
Tell your elected city and county officials about the “Texas solution.” Maybe if they scream loud enough to Tallahassee and Washington, somebody with sense and say-so will do something with it.
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Microbes that eat oil
11 March 2009
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Microbes eat oil and grease
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They’re too small to be seen without a microscope and they certainly don’t wear uniforms. But when they’re provided with a highly oxygenated work environment at an ambient temperature of 41°C, the micro-organisms in Bio-Circle fluid are happy to support the CF by chowing down on grease, oil and other residues.
The Air Force is exploring the possibility of using this water-based enzyme cleaner, infused with micro-organisms, to clean grease and oil from various airplane parts as an alternative to harsh chemical solvents. “The military land component is already using this system on their vehicles,” explains Ed Alvarez, the environment officer for the Director General Aerospace Equipment Program Management. “The Air Force components are more complex, though, so we have to test them carefully to make sure the cleaning fluid will not have a deleterious effect on the parts.”
The Quality Engineering Test Establishment (QETE) is doing the testing. QETE is already familiar with the product because it has replaced the use of solvents such as Varsol in several of its laboratories, including the Fluids lab and the Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants lab.
The testing process is crucial, particularly considering the consequences if the cleaning solution corrodes any of the multitude of parts that keeps the airplane in the sky. As Mr. Alvarez points out,“If a part fails on a truck, it just pulls over. If a part fails on a plane, it falls down.”
Provided it passes the tests, Bio-Circle will offer a number of advantages over traditional chemical solvents, many of which are quite flammable and can be very harsh on the user and on the environment.
The Bio-Circle system is self-contained with the cleaning solution held in a tank topped by a sink.A pump directs the solution through a hose with various brush attachments to aid in cleaning and then the fluid returns to the tank through the sink’s drain and filters. Once back in the tank, the micro-organisms produce an enzyme to “digest” the grease and oil.
This digestion process is known as bioremediation and is often used on a larger scale to help clean up oil spills that threaten the environment. As the micro-organisms digest the oil, they break down the hydrocarbons that make up the fluid to water and carbon dioxide.
With a similar process occurring inside the tank of the cleaner, any oil and grease removed from the parts will be “digested” into harmless by-products. As a result, there is very little waste produced by the process. In fact, while the cleaner solution must be topped up on occasion to make up for what is lost through evaporation, it has to be replaced only once a year, unlike chemical solvents which must be replaced much more frequently. Not only could this process reduce the amount of waste produced by the Forces, but disposing of it would be significantly easier as it is not considered hazardous waste.
“Whatever is being separated from the part, it can be disposed of properly without affecting the environment,” Mr. Alvarez says. Bio-Circle causes none of the health concerns associated with many chemical solvents, making it a safer choice for the CF as well as for the environment.
If QETE’s tests prove the Bio-Circle solution to be effective with no negative effects on airplane components, then it will be carefully phased into use. “Even once we have completed the testing,” says Mr. Alvarez, “we will start its use in a limited area so we can make sure that everything is okay.”
US regulators sued over BP's Atlantis platform
U.S. regulators sued over BP's Atlantis platform 17 May 2010 23:23:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Interior Secretary Salazar named in complaint
* Complaint says government regulations not enforced
* BP says claims are without substance
HOUSTON, May 17 (Reuters) - A consumer group and a whistle-blower asked a U.S. federal court on Monday to stop production at BP Plc's Atlantis platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico until safety documents are produced.
The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Houston alleges the British oil giant, who operates the ruptured well gushing oil off the Gulf Coast, lacked proper final engineering documents for key subsea equipment for Atlantis.
The Atlantis platform, a major facility operated by the British oil giant in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, is more than 150 miles south of New Orleans, in Green Canyon at a water depth of 7,070 feet (2,150 meters). The company produces oil and gas from more than 20 fields in the Gulf.
U.S. Secretary for the Interior Ken Salazar is named in the complaint, which accuses the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) of failing to enforce its own regulations.
BP's nearby Deepwater Horizon platform exploded on April 20 and its Macondo well has since been spewing massive amounts of crude oil into the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, threatening the rich coastlines of four U.S. states.
"A similar spill from the BP Atlantis Facility would have a calamitous effect on marine life, endangering the public health and the economic viability plaintiffs," said the complaint filed by Food & Water Watch Inc, a nonprofit coastal environmental group, and former BP contractor Kenneth Abbott.
Abbott's efforts to bring BP into compliance with MMS regulations resulted in his termination from the company, the complaint said and alleged violation were first reported to the Inspector General for the DOI in March 2009, the lawsuit said.
BP said in a statement that it thoroughly investigated the claims when they were first made in 2009 and found them to be without substance. After a second investigation into the same allegations, the company said it made some procedural changes in its project execution plan, but those changes have no connection with the safe operation of the platform, BP said.
Representatives for the MMS were not immediately available to comment.
The Atlantis, a moored floating production platform, first began producing oil in 2007. The facility has a production capacity of 8.4 million gallons (31.8 million liters) of oil per day, and 180 million cubic feet (5 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day, according to the lawsuit.
The case is Food & Water Watch, Inc & Kenneth Abbott v Kenneth Salazar, U.S. Secretary of the Interior et al, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, No. 10-01759.
(Reporting by Anna Driver in Houston, Editing by Sandra Maler)
History of Oil Companies
Video on Bioremediation
Bioremediation oil spills email addresses
Please make sure this gets to everyone and then please ask them to forward to everyone they know. THIS IS BIG!!!
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
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from reliable sources. (September 2009)
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (Bengali: আনন্দমোহন চক্রবর্তী), Ph.D. is an Indian-American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE.
Dr. Dach on GMO Food Scandal
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Using Science for Piracy and Robbery:
Patents for Living Organisms Based on Erroneous Supreme Court Ruling
A patent means that the patent holder has ownership rights and the right to collect royalties. Patents on living organisms were illegal until 1980 when an unprecedented US Supreme Court decision (Diamond vs. Chakrabarty) allowed a patent for a genetically modified bacteria used to clean up oil spills. Lawyers and judges are not trained in science and have limited understanding, so it is not surprising that this Supreme Court ruling was a mistake and a result failure to understand the science. This unprecedented ruling is a disaster and should be overturned as soon as possible. Perhaps a better approach would be for Congress to pass new patent laws which clearly state unequivocally and with no exceptions, that living organisms cannot be patented.
Inalienable Right to Use the Natural World for Survival
There can be no patent for life because Life is not an invention of man, Life is an invention of the Creator given to man as an unalienable Right according to the Constitution of the United States.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence deemed it a "self evident truth" that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". Inalienable (Individual) Rights are: natural rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The term inalienable rights(or unalienable rights) refers to a set of individual human rights that by their nature cannot be taken away, violated, or transferred. They are the most fundamental set of human rights, natural means not-granted nor conditional. They are applicable only to humans, as the basic necessity of our human survival.
Food is life, so therefore, included in these inalienable rights to life is the right to sustain life by planting and harvesting crops for food. In order to fully exercise these inalienable rights, and as a basic necessity for survival, the individual has the inalienable right to the free and open use of the natural plant and aniimal world (also known as farming). Patents grant corporate ownership of seed stock and living organisms, and in essence, revokes from the individual this inalienable human right to life and grants it to multi-national corporations like Monsanto. This is unethical and immoral, and this ruling must be overturned.
CorpWatch
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General Electric
by Charlie Cray, Crocodyl.org
For the latest company profile on General Electric, visit our corporate malfeasance wiki, Crocodyl.org.
General Electric Co. manufactures electrical equipment, lighting products and household appliances. It also owns the broadcasting network NBC. In terms of market capitalization, GE is the world's second largest company and also second in the BrandZ ranking. In the 1960s, aspects of U.S. tax laws and accounting practices led to a rise in the assembly of conglomerates. GE, which was a conglomerate long before the term was coined, is arguably the most successful organization of this type.
Global Fortune 500 position: 11
Ownership status: Publicly traded
Number of employees worldwide: 315,000
Chief executive officer: Jeff Immelt
Website: http://www.ge.com
Tel: 203-373-2211 Corporate accountability
Accountability overview:
Enronomics
In their 2002 report, ""Titans of the Enron Economy: The 10 Habits of Highly Defective Corporations," United for a Fair Economy gave a "special Lifetime Achievement Award" to General Electric "for scoring the highest average rank across all 10 bad habits, the only company to outrank second-place Enron. GE exceeds Enron’s score by an astonishing 45%."
Defense Contracting Fraud
On July 23, 1992, GE pled guilty in federal court to civil and criminal charges of defrauding the Pentagon and agreed to pay $69 million to the U.S. government in fines — one of the largest defense contracting fines ever. The company said in a statement that it took responsibility for the actions of a former marketing employee who, along with an Israeli Air Force General, diverted Pentagon funds to their own bank accounts and to fund Israeli military programs not authorized by the United States. Under the settlement with the Justice Department over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, GE paid $59.5 million in civil fraud claims and $9.5 million in criminal fines.
GE’s civil and criminal transgressions stemming from the Israeli military program are by no means isolated. GE is a repeat offender when it comes to Defense Department fraud. The company has repeatedly violated the False Claims Act — a measure originally proposed by Lincoln to protect federal coffers. When the Project on Government Oversight surveyed defense contractors, it found that General Electric was responsible for 15 instances of fraudulent activity in just a four year period (1990-1994) — more than any other defense contractor.
On August 10, 1995 the U.S. Department of Justice announced (# 95-438) that GE would pay $7.1 million to settle a contract fraud suit initiated by Ian Johnson, an engineer at GE's Aircraft Engines plant in Evendale, Ohio in 1993. Johnson had alleged that GE "sold several thousand jet engines to the military that did not comply with military electrical bonding and electromagnetic interference testing requirements," according to DoJ. (Subsequently, the Air Force tested the engines and found them to be safe.) Johnson filed the suit on behalf of the United States under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.
On January 10, 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice announced (# 97-012) that GE would pay $950,000 to settle allegations that it fraudulently misrepresented that it had conducted certain test procedures on circuit boards for hundreds of aircraft engine controls when in fact the tests were not conducted.
GE paid $5.87 million (along with Martin Marietta) to settle a qui tam suit associated with improper sales of radar systems to Egypt.
GE paid fines between 1990 and 1994 ranging from a $20,000 criminal fine to a $24.6 million civil fine for a variety of defense contracting frauds, including: misrepresentation, money laundering, defective pricing (2 incidents), cost mischarging (3 incidents), false claims, product substitution, conspiracy/conversion of classified documents, procurement fraud and mail fraud.
On July 22, 1992, GE "... [pled] guilty to diverting some $26.5 million from the U.S. foreign military aid program used to finance General Electric's sale of F-16 jet engines and support equipment to Israel ." (United States v General Electric, Docket #90-CV-792, US DC SD OH, Cincinnati) (See: Defense Contracting: Contractor Claims for Legal Costs Associated with Stockholder Lawsuits, GAO/NSIAD-95-66 (July 1995) GE was convicted on February 3, 1990 in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia of defrauding the government out of $10 million for a battlefield computer system. GE pled guilty on May 19, 1985 to charges of fraud and falsifying 108 claims on a missile contract. GE was convicted of defrauding the Air Force out of $800,000 on the Minuteman Missile Project.
GE was convicted of bribing the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority.
Violations of Securities Laws
On September 24, 2004, the SEC announced (# 2004-135) that it had settled charges against GE for failing to fully disclose in proxy statements issued between 1997-2002 all of the retirement benefits granted to former CEO Jack Welch.
Tax issues:
1975 Times Article
EXCERPT:
Of all industrial accidents, few are messier than oil spills. Floating booms can contain surface oil and keep it from spreading while it is picked up and recovered by giant vacuum cleaners. Straw filters can be used to pick up oil that makes its way into shallow waters. But scientists have been trying for years to develop more effective methods of dealing with spills. Now one team seems to have succeeded. General Electric announced last week that scientists at its Schenectady, N.Y., laboratories have created a microbe that can eat petroleum in quantity.
Bioremediation
EXCERPT:
Bioremediation can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. Bioremediation may be employed to attack specific soil contaminants, such as degradation of chlorinated hydrocarbons by bacteria. An example of a more general approach is the cleanup of oil spills by the addition of nitrate and/or sulfate fertilisers to facilitate the decomposition of crude oil by indigenous or exogenous bacteria.
Microbes that eat oil
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Microbes That Eat Oil Spills
It’s now known our Great White Father in Washington, that is, the United States Government, and its various agencies/departments that are supposed to look out for us and the environment, has been letting Big Oil look out for us instead.
It’s now known the British Petroleum (BP) department of Big Oil did not use the most modern or safest drilling equipment or practices on its Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the Louisiana coast. It’s now known the reason BP did not use the most modern or safest drilling equipment is because that equipment’s safety device, once engaged, plugs a well instantly and permanently. Meaning, no more oil can be obtained from that rig. Meaning, no more money can be made from that rig.
It’s now generally believed BP and our Great White Father in Washington have consistently and purposefully understated the amount of oil gushing out of the seabed where BP’s Deepwater Horizon well blew up and was not sealed immediately, because it it not have the safety device that would seal it immediately, because that safety device would terminate that oil rig’s oil recovery forever.
BP and our Great White Father in Washington still have not plugged the seabed gusher, and their efforts to mitigate the oil already on the loose are pretty much not doing a very good job, to doing an awful job, all of their rhetoric to the contrary notwithstanding.
What is only just now becoming known to slow-minded people such as myself is there has been for some time now a microbe technology that is hugely successful in cleaning up oil spills on land and on water, including saltwater. BP and our Great White Father in Washington know about these microbe oil gobblers, which work a hell of a lot better and cost a hell of a lot less than the methods BP is now using. As far as is known, these oil gobbing microbes cause no collateral damage and themselves die off and become fish food after they have no more oil to gobble.
Down below is a youtube link presentation of this microbe oil gobbling technology, which State Attorney Dennis Ward forwarded to a lot of people yesterday after he received it from someone else. The microbe oil gobblers were tested by the State of Texas for oil spills. Texas then decreed oil gobbling microbes would be the first and central defense response to all oil spills in Texas, and all oil companies in Texas would make these oil gobbling microbes their first and central defense response to oil spills.
As you watch the video, ask yourself why the State of Texas hasn’t been screaming to high heaven for it to be allowed to intervene and put its oil gobbling microbes to work gobbling up this devastating oil spill Big Oil and our Great White Father in Washington have unleashed on us. Also wonder why BP and our Great White Father in Washington did not already adopt and use “the Texas solution” on this terrorist oil attack. Also wonder why Big Oil and our Great White Father Washington did not already require all oil drilling companies to incorporate the “Texas solution” as their central defense response to oil spills.
Tell your elected city and county officials about the “Texas solution.” Maybe if they scream loud enough to Tallahassee and Washington, somebody with sense and say-so will do something with it.
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Microbes that eat oil
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They’re too small to be seen without a microscope and they certainly don’t wear uniforms. But when they’re provided with a highly oxygenated work environment at an ambient temperature of 41°C, the micro-organisms in Bio-Circle fluid are happy to support the CF by chowing down on grease, oil and other residues.
The Air Force is exploring the possibility of using this water-based enzyme cleaner, infused with micro-organisms, to clean grease and oil from various airplane parts as an alternative to harsh chemical solvents. “The military land component is already using this system on their vehicles,” explains Ed Alvarez, the environment officer for the Director General Aerospace Equipment Program Management. “The Air Force components are more complex, though, so we have to test them carefully to make sure the cleaning fluid will not have a deleterious effect on the parts.”
The Quality Engineering Test Establishment (QETE) is doing the testing. QETE is already familiar with the product because it has replaced the use of solvents such as Varsol in several of its laboratories, including the Fluids lab and the Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants lab.
The testing process is crucial, particularly considering the consequences if the cleaning solution corrodes any of the multitude of parts that keeps the airplane in the sky. As Mr. Alvarez points out,“If a part fails on a truck, it just pulls over. If a part fails on a plane, it falls down.”
Provided it passes the tests, Bio-Circle will offer a number of advantages over traditional chemical solvents, many of which are quite flammable and can be very harsh on the user and on the environment.
The Bio-Circle system is self-contained with the cleaning solution held in a tank topped by a sink.A pump directs the solution through a hose with various brush attachments to aid in cleaning and then the fluid returns to the tank through the sink’s drain and filters. Once back in the tank, the micro-organisms produce an enzyme to “digest” the grease and oil.
This digestion process is known as bioremediation and is often used on a larger scale to help clean up oil spills that threaten the environment. As the micro-organisms digest the oil, they break down the hydrocarbons that make up the fluid to water and carbon dioxide.
With a similar process occurring inside the tank of the cleaner, any oil and grease removed from the parts will be “digested” into harmless by-products. As a result, there is very little waste produced by the process. In fact, while the cleaner solution must be topped up on occasion to make up for what is lost through evaporation, it has to be replaced only once a year, unlike chemical solvents which must be replaced much more frequently. Not only could this process reduce the amount of waste produced by the Forces, but disposing of it would be significantly easier as it is not considered hazardous waste.
“Whatever is being separated from the part, it can be disposed of properly without affecting the environment,” Mr. Alvarez says. Bio-Circle causes none of the health concerns associated with many chemical solvents, making it a safer choice for the CF as well as for the environment.
If QETE’s tests prove the Bio-Circle solution to be effective with no negative effects on airplane components, then it will be carefully phased into use. “Even once we have completed the testing,” says Mr. Alvarez, “we will start its use in a limited area so we can make sure that everything is okay.”
US regulators sued over BP's Atlantis platform
U.S. regulators sued over BP's Atlantis platform 17 May 2010 23:23:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Interior Secretary Salazar named in complaint
* Complaint says government regulations not enforced
* BP says claims are without substance
HOUSTON, May 17 (Reuters) - A consumer group and a whistle-blower asked a U.S. federal court on Monday to stop production at BP Plc's
The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Houston alleges the British oil giant, who operates the ruptured well gushing oil off the Gulf Coast, lacked proper final engineering documents for key subsea equipment for Atlantis.
The Atlantis platform, a major facility operated by the British oil giant in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, is more than 150 miles south of New Orleans, in Green Canyon at a water depth of 7,070 feet (2,150 meters). The company produces oil and gas from more than 20 fields in the Gulf.
U.S. Secretary for the Interior Ken Salazar is named in the complaint, which accuses the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) of failing to enforce its own regulations.
BP's nearby Deepwater Horizon platform exploded on April 20 and its Macondo well has since been spewing massive amounts of crude oil into the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, threatening the rich coastlines of four U.S. states.
"A similar spill from the BP Atlantis Facility would have a calamitous effect on marine life, endangering the public health and the economic viability plaintiffs," said the complaint filed by Food & Water Watch Inc, a nonprofit coastal environmental group, and former BP contractor Kenneth Abbott.
Abbott's efforts to bring BP into compliance with MMS regulations resulted in his termination from the company, the complaint said and alleged violation were first reported to the Inspector General for the DOI in March 2009, the lawsuit said.
BP said in a statement that it thoroughly investigated the claims when they were first made in 2009 and found them to be without substance. After a second investigation into the same allegations, the company said it made some procedural changes in its project execution plan, but those changes have no connection with the safe operation of the platform, BP said.
Representatives for the MMS were not immediately available to comment.
The Atlantis, a moored floating production platform, first began producing oil in 2007. The facility has a production capacity of 8.4 million gallons (31.8 million liters) of oil per day, and 180 million cubic feet (5 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day, according to the lawsuit.
The case is Food & Water Watch, Inc & Kenneth Abbott v Kenneth Salazar, U.S. Secretary of the Interior et al, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, No. 10-01759.
(Reporting by Anna Driver in Houston, Editing by Sandra Maler)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Kitchen Table
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ee videos:
Brian Viziondanz talks about "The Kitchen Table" - JUNE 6TH On the web
& SUNRISE CELEBRATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfK4wMxVJyk
JUNE 6 Unique LIVE GLOBAL DEBATE INTERACTIVE WEBCAST - "The Kitchen
Table" merging theatre and discussion.
Where: -
On the WEB @ http://www.thekitchentable.tv J
When: - June 6th 1pm - 8pm BST
Live FROM The Sunrise Celebration (june 3rd - 6th)
-----------------
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please help network
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See Contact Info @ bottom of the page
============================
"Pregnant with possibility" is how Brian Viziondanz has described The Kitchen
Table, "a fully interactive participatory event",
"an experimental discussion forum"
" The Kitchen Table" will be a blending of theatre and discussion and
the internet, where there
is no audience as such as everyone is welcome to be involved.
For those unable to attend the event at the sunrise celebration, The
Kitchen Table Debate
can be watched at:
http://www.thekitchentable.tv/
Those who are watching on the web wll be able to interact with the discussions
through twitter which will be projected on a large screen in the venue,
these contributions will be fed into the ongoing discussions and back out
through the webcast maximising the potential synergy of the event
----------------------------------------------------------
The Format
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
The kitchen table will be situated in the centre of the floor surrounded by "the
audience", there will be 16 chairs at the table which will be occupied by
whoever wants to be there.
There will be an "ideas box" in which we can put our subjects for
discussion at the
table. Every 30 minutes, one new subject will be randomly selected.
Each person at the table can discuss the subject for 60 seconds then allow
someone else to take it up if anyone wants to.
At the end of 30 minutes a 5 minute summing up of the discussion will take
place, then a new subject will be selected.
If the table is full and someone wishes to participate someone at the table will
be requested to surrender their place - we will draw straws if necessary
we would like to create the feeling of your home kitchen table and invite you to
bring snacks food etc etc to share - there will be a bottomless coffee pot and
teapot.
This is the first of a series of experimental events in this genre and it will
be videoed by 5 cameras and broadcast live over the internet.
The video will also be edited down and distilled into capsuals to be shown on
PositiveTV.tv, youtube and the gungho media website
The kitchen table organisers are also encouraging people to host and
video kitchen table events in
their home town and upload them
See videos:
Brian Viziondanz talks about "The Kitchen Table" - JUNE 6TH On the web
& SUNRISE CELEBRATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfK4wMxVJyk
Last phase of The Kitchen Tables Show Live webcast from Glastonbury UK
Easter sunday 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9PMDe8FrA
"Pregnant with possibility" -The Kitchen Table -webcast & Live @ Glastonbuy UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=627BpGQg7Cw
Follow on twitter https://twitter.com/kitchentabletv
This is a joint project between Gungho Media, positive TV
see:
http://www.positivetv.tv
http://gunghomedia.co.uk.
Contact:
Brian Viziondanz (project oraganiser)
viziondanz@.infinitepossibility.org
44 {0} 7886009153
....................................
Dana Amma Day
dana@positivetv.tv
44 {0} 7742449395
ee videos:
Brian Viziondanz talks about "The Kitchen Table" - JUNE 6TH On the web
& SUNRISE CELEBRATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfK4wMxVJyk
JUNE 6 Unique LIVE GLOBAL DEBATE INTERACTIVE WEBCAST - "The Kitchen
Table" merging theatre and discussion.
Where: -
On the WEB @ http://www.thekitchentable.tv J
When: - June 6th 1pm - 8pm BST
Live FROM The Sunrise Celebration (june 3rd - 6th)
-----------------
OK Guys here's the game, Please Help Us Reach 1,000,000 followers for
our GLOBAL WEBCAST INTERACTIVE DEBATE JUNE 6 - WE CAN DO IT!
please help network
http://www.thekitchentable.tv/
-http://twitter.com/kitchentabletv
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123781184318459&ref=ts1
See Contact Info @ bottom of the page
============================
"Pregnant with possibility" is how Brian Viziondanz has described The Kitchen
Table, "a fully interactive participatory event",
"an experimental discussion forum"
" The Kitchen Table" will be a blending of theatre and discussion and
the internet, where there
is no audience as such as everyone is welcome to be involved.
For those unable to attend the event at the sunrise celebration, The
Kitchen Table Debate
can be watched at:
http://www.thekitchentable.tv/
Those who are watching on the web wll be able to interact with the discussions
through twitter which will be projected on a large screen in the venue,
these contributions will be fed into the ongoing discussions and back out
through the webcast maximising the potential synergy of the event
----------------------------------------------------------
The Format
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
The kitchen table will be situated in the centre of the floor surrounded by "the
audience", there will be 16 chairs at the table which will be occupied by
whoever wants to be there.
There will be an "ideas box" in which we can put our subjects for
discussion at the
table. Every 30 minutes, one new subject will be randomly selected.
Each person at the table can discuss the subject for 60 seconds then allow
someone else to take it up if anyone wants to.
At the end of 30 minutes a 5 minute summing up of the discussion will take
place, then a new subject will be selected.
If the table is full and someone wishes to participate someone at the table will
be requested to surrender their place - we will draw straws if necessary
we would like to create the feeling of your home kitchen table and invite you to
bring snacks food etc etc to share - there will be a bottomless coffee pot and
teapot.
This is the first of a series of experimental events in this genre and it will
be videoed by 5 cameras and broadcast live over the internet.
The video will also be edited down and distilled into capsuals to be shown on
PositiveTV.tv, youtube and the gungho media website
The kitchen table organisers are also encouraging people to host and
video kitchen table events in
their home town and upload them
See videos:
Brian Viziondanz talks about "The Kitchen Table" - JUNE 6TH On the web
& SUNRISE CELEBRATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfK4wMxVJyk
Last phase of The Kitchen Tables Show Live webcast from Glastonbury UK
Easter sunday 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9PMDe8FrA
"Pregnant with possibility" -The Kitchen Table -webcast & Live @ Glastonbuy UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=627BpGQg7Cw
Follow on twitter https://twitter.com/kitchentabletv
This is a joint project between Gungho Media, positive TV
see:
http://www.positivetv.tv
http://gunghomedia.co.uk.
Contact:
Brian Viziondanz (project oraganiser)
viziondanz@.infinitepossibility.org
44 {0} 7886009153
....................................
Dana Amma Day
dana@positivetv.tv
44 {0} 7742449395
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