Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people to choose natural healing and alternative medicine and nutrition. Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater. This is the first part of a series of talks by Dr. Rima Laibow MD, available on DVD from the Natural Solutions Foundation, an non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about how to stop Codex Alimentarius from taking away our right to freely choose nutritional health.

New Approach to solve Oil Spill... a SLICK TRADE OFF!

Why do I feel another 911 experience happening the moment I heard of the Big Oil spill disaster in the coast of Louisiana?... It was a weird feeling and I just ran out of words to describe nor base this feeling.

As the days went by,  we are just realizing that this is not just another oil spill disaster... it is "The Oil Spill Disaster" to it's true sense of the word.

Now a chemical approach is being done without the approval of the public... with an untested chemical... with compositions not disclosed... I have heard of oil eating bacterias that can be used... but this could not be it - since it is declared as a chemical solution. If it is indeed a solution, they should declare its' contents to the world before they even  threw a single drop of it into the sea.

It is indeed a Slick Trade Off for an Oil Slick problem. What can we do?... after all - it is what the masters of the world think that matters... who cares what we think?... who cares what happens to us?... what can our concerns do about it?

How can something bad become the solution to something thats also as bad?...  I know that explosives can be used to extinguish fire. But to use chemical to separate oil from water is just like - Trying to recover used oil and refine it as fuel.

I have always thought that the fuel and oil we put in our cars have this very same chemical... this is the reason why our engines - inspite of it's being fully bathed in oil or fuel... will still rust at the bottom or at areas where oil is not able to reach. Oil and fuel seems to repel from the metal easily... Which of course - leads to accelerated wear and tear.

This chemical ensures the longetivity of the economic cycle of the oil and fuel we put in our cars as well as the guarantee that we will have to buy another car after 5 to 10 years due mainly to this type of chemical.

If the oil can be separated from sea water... then it will be easy for small vessels to recover and recycle the oil.

The picture is now much clearer that how I perceived it a few days ago...

This chemical approach - is not really in the best interest of the environment or humanity, nothing is what it seems...... it is mainly just to serve the best interest of the Big Corp. After the recovery phase.... the chemical will be left into the environment... and will of course - naturally destroy or degenerate the eco-system the way it destroys our engine - systematically.

I see a full scale imbalance of nature ahead in this incident.

What can we do?...

The only clear action I can see is to reduce the demand for fossil fuel... This will reduce the need to produce or drill more... it is not a quick fix for what is apparent... but this particular incident is a lost battle... similar to 911... losing the battle doesn't mean we are going to lose the war. It is just another chapter but a significant one.

This incident justifies the use of chemical means to destroy the planet. The oil slick is already a big one... now this... indeed - it is adding fuel to the fire.

At this point... I feel exasperated.

Let us all pray.

 

Chemicals used to fight Gulf oil slick a trade-off

By JASON DEAREN and RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writers – Wed May 5, 6:46 pm ET

ROBERT, La. – A massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has become the testing ground for a new technique where a potent mix of chemicals is shot deep undersea in an effort to stop oil from reaching the surface, and scientists are hurriedly weighing the ecological risks and benefits.

Crews battling the spill already have dropped more than 156,000 gallons of the concoction — a mix of chemicals collectively known as "dispersant" — to try to break up the oozing oil, allowing it to decompose more quickly or evaporate before washing ashore.

The technique has undergone two tests in recent days that the U.S. Coast Guard is calling promising, and there are plans to apply even more of the chemicals. But the effect of this largely untested treatment is still being studied by numerous federal agencies, and needs approval from a number of them before it can be rolled out in a larger way.

"Those analyses are going on, but right now there's no consensus," said Charlie Henry, a scientific support coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "And we're just really getting started. You can imagine it's something we've never thought about."

A decision on whether to inject the dispersants undersea on a more routine basis could be made late Wednesday or early Thursday, said Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for exploration and production for rig operator BP PLC.

Chemical dispersants carry complex environmental trade-offs: helping to keep oil from reaching sensitive wetlands while exposing other sea life to toxic substances. The concoction works like dish soap to separate oil and water, but the exact chemical composition is protected as a trade secret.

The use of chemicals to break up the oil is just one of many techniques being used to try to prevent as much of the slick as possible from reaching land and contaminating sea life in the Gulf of Mexico since an oil rigexploded April 20 and collapsed, killing 11 workers and posing a hazard to a fragile ecosystem.

The undersea well has been spewing 200,000 gallons a day since the explosion aboard the drilling rigDeepwater Horizon. BP has been unable to shut off the well, but crews have reported progress with using chemicals to reduce the amount of oil that reaches the surface.

During a test over the weekend, the dispersant was shot into the well at a rate of 9 gallons per minute, according to authorities. About 3,000 gallons total were dispensed during the experiment.

More than 230,000 gallons of dispersant is available, and more is being manufactured by Nalco Company of Naperville, Ill., for use in the Gulf. Neither Nalco, BP, rig owner Transocean Ltd. or the Coast Guard have specified how much of the chemical brew will be needed to handle this spill.

One of the chief agents being used, called Corexit 9500, is identified as a "moderate" human health hazardthat can cause eye, skin or respiratory irritation with prolonged exposure, according to safety data documents.

According to the company, Corexit contains no known carcinogens or substances on the federal government's list of toxic chemicals.

Even some of the most ardent environmentalists, while concerned about the potential effects, aren't suggesting that the chemical concoction shouldn't be used in this case.

"It's basically a giant experiment," said Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser with Defenders of Wildlife. "I'm not saying we shouldn't do it; we have no good options."

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry, the federal on-scene coordinator, called the tests so far "very promising, very promising." Sonar and camera images from the first test last week appeared to show a reduction in oil on the surface, although federal officials said they want more information from planes that will examine the leak site from the air.

If deep water spraying is approved, Landry said crews would scale back their use of dispersant on the ocean surface, except to treat pockets of oil that escaped the well before the undersea injections started. Corexit is included on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's official list of products that can be used to fight spills in an emergency. To qualify for the list, manufacturers must complete specific tests to demonstrate a chemical's effectiveness, ingredients and aquatic toxicity. Charles Pajor, a Nalco spokesman, declined to provide the ingredients for Corexit, saying that was proprietary. The company's website says the agent has "low toxicity" and is "biodegradable."

Environmental tests on Corexit indicate it can be stored in the tissue of organisms, or bioaccumulate, and that more than half of the agent in tests wound up storing in sediment, with less absorbing into the water and a smaller amount evaporating into the air. Even so, Corexit is classified as having a "low" potentialenvironmental hazard.

The use of dispersants is also worrying shrimpers, who voiced concern Wednesday that they could help thin and spread the oil on the seafloor, where shrimp larvae and other organisms could be affected. The shrimpers said injecting the dispersant deep undersea would "guarantee" it reaches critical shrimp habitat.

"Dispersants do not remove oil. They relocate the oil from the shores to the water column and seafloor where it is not seen or easily accessible," said John Williams, executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance.

Such chemicals have been used for decades to break up oil slicks, including the 11 million gallons dumped in the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, but federal officials say they have not been used at such a great depth, and do not understand the short- or long-term effects on life on the sea floor or in the water column.

When used on the surface, dispersants remove oil from where birds, turtles and other sea creatures could eat it or breathe in the poisonous fumes. Marine scientists say they also keep the oil balls suspended in the water, where they are eventually consumed by bacteria, which can pass toxins up the food chain.

"They're talking about using dispersants in the deep water where the oil is coming out that would prevent it from hitting shore, but would actually put it into the water column and possibly force it to the bottom of the ocean," said Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of the New Orleans-based Gulf Restoration Network.

"The environmental impact of that is totally unknown. It could end up killing everything at the bottom of the ocean."

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Associated Press Writer John Flesher contributed to this report from New Orleans.

Nashville Flood 05/01/10 (Belle Meade) Man rescues girl

US oil spill explained

The Untold Story behind the Offshore Oil Rig Disaster

Hello all,
Some people wonder about motivtaion.

The BP people have repeated their mistakes.
Years ago, I was scheduled to be at the Texas City, Texas, USA oil refinery that blew up.
Several "unusual events" occured that prevented me from getting there.
An old man of 70 years, a stranger to me, watching from the sidelines, came up to me 3 days after the disaster, showed me a newspaper clipping and asked me,
"Is this where you were going?"
"Yupper, that is a fact, I was" I replied.
"Young man," he stated, "I apologize for the all the ill thoughts I had about you, thinking you were just being lazy and not getting to your job.
I have heard and read about people like you, having close calls, not being able to get there, for unknown reasons.
This is the first time I actually witnessed the events, that you have been experiencing.
I am 70 years old this year, and I have lived to see "divine intervention in action" ...restored my shaken faith ,since my wife passed away, some time back.
There is no doubt in my mind,
it just wasn't your time,
something planned for you down the road.
Would you accept my apology and shake my hand?
I want to tell this story among my friends who need inspiration."
I shook his hand, told him, "Tell anyone you want to, if you think it will help them."
Then, he walked away, and all I could do, was sit down and wonder, "who else is watching?"
I stayed home for a couple of months, just getting my nerve back up to go do my job again, getting past the mourning time, clearing my head.
That is when the "Legend" began...being told.
I hadn't thought much about that old man, that day, that apology.
I met strangers, later on I worked the oil refineries, that said, I know of you...who I know I never met prior.

In telephone communications...2 weeks prior to that disaster..I told them(management) to reduce production by 35% to prevent the stress load on the system... a particular safety valve that was due to be replaced in the upcoming re-fit.
Yupper, that what I did for a living, rebuild oil refineries.
They pushed for more production...a few thousand barrels of oil...instead.
Now, as it stands, one woman, has not settled out of court over losing BOTH her parents that day.
If she decides to use public courts, all the information leading up to that disaster becomes public knowledge.
If she does that...civil charges of 2nd degree neglegent homicide can be entered/levied, in regards the people making the decisions...all the way to the top executives...
It could have been prevented.
I lost 10 friends that day, good experienced non-replaceble people.
I never told my side of this disaster, publicly, to outsiders.

I figure it is the right time.

This off shore oil rig disaster is due to BP not using... installing... a decades old..proven hydralic powered shut-off valve at the head of the well.
It cost too much?
Wonder who told them this could occur with with valve they installed?

I sort of made a personal vow to always "be at war with BP" that day,
as I still miss my friends,who did their job...the job I sent them to...in good faith they would go home at the end of the shift.
Had BP heeded my warnings...???
Go Figure !!!

Yupper, the Hull Effect has deeply rooted motivation...for me.

Robert W Hull

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NOTES:

What is the Hull Effect?

the HULLEFFECT was discoverd by Robert .W. Hull and Nathan .R. in early 2009.
the hull efect utilises torsion physics to turn the motor into a plasma reactor.
sounds complicated but its not. 

Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez

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VENICE, La. – An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes.

The spill was bigger than imagined — five times more than first estimated — and closer. Faint fingers of oily sheen were reaching theMississippi River delta, lapping the Louisiana shoreline in long, thin lines.

"It is of grave concern," David Kennedy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told The Associated Press. "I am frightened. This is a very, very big thing. And the efforts that are going to be required to do anything about it, especially if it continues on, are just mind-boggling."

The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life. Thicker oil was in waters south and east of the Mississippi delta about five miles offshore.

The leak from the ocean floor proved to be far bigger than initially reported, contributing to a growing sense among many in Louisianathat the government failed them again, just as it did during Hurricane Katrina. President Barack Obama dispatched Cabinet officials to deal with the crisis.

Cade Thomas, a fishing guide in Venice, worried that his livelihood will be destroyed. He said he did not know whether to blame the Coast Guard, the federal government or oil company BP PLC.

"They lied to us. They came out and said it was leaking 1,000 barrels when I think they knew it was more. And they weren't proactive," he said. "As soon as it blew up, they should have started wrapping it with booms."

The Coast Guard worked with BP, which operated the oil rig that exploded and sank last week, to deploy floating booms, skimmers and chemical dispersants, and set controlled fires to burn the oil off the water's surface.

The company has requested more resources from the Defense Department, especially underwater equipment that might be better than what is commercially available. A BP executive said the corporation would "take help from anyone."

Government officials said the blown-out well 40 miles offshore is spewing five times as much oil into the water as originally estimated — about 5,000 barrels, or 200,000 gallons, a day.

At that rate, the spill could eclipse the worst oil spill in U.S. history — the 11 million gallons that leaked from the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989 — in the three months it could take to drill a relief well and plug the gushing well 5,000 feet underwater on the sea floor.

Ultimately, the spill could grow much larger than the Valdez because Gulf of Mexico wells tap deposits that hold many times more oil than a single tanker.

Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for BP Exploration and Production, had initially disputed the government's larger estimate. But he later acknowledged on NBC's "Today" show that the leak may be as bad as federal officials say. He said there was no way to measure the flow at the seabed, so estimates have to come from how much oil rises to the surface.

Mike Brewer, 40, who lost his oil spill response company in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina nearly five years ago, said the area was accustomed to the occasional minor spill. But he feared the scale of the escaping oil was beyond the capacity of existing resources.

"You're pumping out a massive amount of oil. There is no way to stop it," he said.

An emergency shrimping season was opened to allow shrimpers to scoop up their catch before it is fouled by oil. Cannons were to be used to scare off birds. And shrimpers were being lined up to use their boats as makeshift skimmers in the shallows.

This murky water and the oysters in it have provided a livelihood for three generations of Frank and Mitch Jurisich's family in Empire, La.

Now, on the open water just beyond the marshes, they can smell the oil that threatens everything they know and love.

"Just smelling it, it puts more of a sense of urgency, a sense of fear," Frank Jurisich said.

The brothers hope to get all the oysters they can sell before the oil washes ashore. They filled more than 100 burlap sacks Thursday and stopped to eat some oysters. "This might be our last day," Mitch Jurisich said.

Without the fishing industry, Frank Jurisich said the family "would be lost. This is who we are and what we do."

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday so officials could begin preparing for the oil's impact. He said at least 10 wildlife management areas and refuges in his state and neighboringMississippi are in the oil plume's path.

The declaration also noted that billions of dollars have been invested in coastal restoration projects that may be at risk. He also asked the federal government if he could call up 6,000 National Guard troops to help.

As dawn broke Thursday in the oil industry hub of Venice, about 75 miles from New Orleans and not far from the mouth of the Mississippi River, crews loaded an orange oil boom aboard a supply boat at Bud's Boat Launch. There, local officials expressed frustration with the pace of the government's response and the communication they were getting from the Coast Guard and BP officials.

"We're not doing everything we can do," said Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, which straddles the Mississippi River at the tip of Louisiana.

Tension was growing in towns like Port Sulphur and Empire along Louisiana Highway 23, which runs south of New Orleans along the Mississippi River into prime oyster and shrimping waters.

Companies like Chevron and ConocoPhillips have facilities nearby, and some residents are hesitant to criticize BP or the federal government, knowing the oil industry is as much a staple here as fishing.

"I don't think there's a lot of blame going around here. People are just concerned about their livelihoods," said Sullivan Vullo, who owns La Casa Cafe in Port Sulphur.

A federal class-action lawsuit was filed late Wednesday on behalf of two commercial shrimpers from Louisiana, Acy J. Cooper Jr. and Ronnie Louis Anderson.

The suit seeks at least $5 million in compensatory damages plus an unspecified amount of punitive damages against Transocean, BP, Halliburton Energy Services Inc. and Cameron International Corp.

In Buras, La., where Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005, the owner of the Black Velvet Oyster Bar & Grill couldn't keep his eyes off the television. News and weather shows were making projections that oil would soon inundate the coastal wetlands where his family has worked since the 1860s.

It was as though a hurricane was approaching, maybe worse.

"A hurricane is like closing your bank account for a few days, but this here has the capacity to destroy our bank accounts," said Byron Marinovitch, 47.

"We're really disgusted," he added. "We don't believe anything coming out of BP's mouth."

Signs of the 2005 hurricane are still apparent here: There are schools, homes, churches and restaurants operating out of trailers, and across from Marinovitch's bar is a wood frame house abandoned since the storm.

A fleet of boats working under an oil industry consortium has been using booms to corral and then skim oil from the surface.

BP conducted a test burn on Wednesday, but abandoned a plan to set fire to more oil after weather conditions deteriorated. The attempt to burn some of the oil came after crews operating submersible robots failed to activate a shut-off device that would halt the flow.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was briefed Thursday on the issue, said his spokesman, Capt. John Kirby. But Kirby said the Defense Department has received no request for help, nor is it doing any detailed planning for any mission on the oil spill.

Obama dispatched Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar andEnvironmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson to help with the spill. The president said theWhite House would use "every single available resource" to respond.

Obama has directed officials to aggressively confront the spill, but the cost of the cleanup will fall on BP,White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

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Mohr reported from Jackson, Miss. Associated Press writers Janet McConnaughey, Kevin McGill, Michael Kunzelman and Brett Martel in New Orleans, and Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge also contributed to this report.