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A local Chinese newspaper, The Beijing Times, revealed some of the staggering fireworks at the opening of the Beijing Olympics were actually not fireworks, but computer graphics. According the the newspaper a 55-second sequence, which included a series of 28 giant footsteps made by fireworks, was created by a visual effects team.

One could argue this was a wise decision: unlike real fireworks visual effects don’t pollute the already smoggy Beijing atmosphere any further. However, confusingly the sequence of 28 footprints actually took place in the real ceremony. The organisers decided to fake the sequence because it would not ‘be accurately captured’ live.

To emulate the shot, the visual effects team even spoke to the Beijing meteorological office to ask them how to recreate the Beijing smog.

via http://www.nextnature.net/?p=2661

Source: Novosti.
Four vessels were shipwrecked in the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Azov Sea this Sunday. The bodies of three sailors have been found, and at least eight others are still missing.

The ships were loaded with more than 4,000 tons of crude oil containing sulfur. Spokesman of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies Viktor Beltsov announced the launch of a major operation to contain the spill.

With 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil and about 6,800 tons of sulfur spilled into the sea, it is one of Russia’s worst environmental disasters in recent years, and it would take months to clear up the environmental pollution.

The oil “glues” birds’ feathers together, clogs fishes gills, and blocks out sunlight. Oil pollution also slows down coral reefs growing and their reproduction. Coral reefs are also very sensitive to oil, especially crude oil.

The worst spill in Italy history was from the Haven, which leaked 144,000 tons of crude oil , Genoa, in 1991.

More recently the tanker Erika spilt 20,000 tons of heavy fuel oil off the coast of France in 1999, and the Prestige leaked 63,000 tons of heavy fuel oil off northern Spain in 2002, according to the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation .

Since 1974 ITOPF has maintained a database of oil spills from tankers, combined carriers and barges, which is amongst the most comprehensive of its kind. It is used to generate statistics on numbers and sizes of spills, and to identify causes of spills. Long-term trends can be analysed.

Major Oil Spills Since 1967

Shipname – Year – Location – Spill Size (tonnes)

1 Atlantic Empress 1979 Off Tobago, West Indies 287,000
2 ABT Summer 1991 700 nautical miles off Angola 260,000
3 Castillo de Bellver 1983 Off Saldanha Bay, South Africa 252,000
4 Amoco Cadiz 1978 Off Brittany, France 223,000
5 Haven 1991 Genoa, Italy 144,000
6 Odyssey 1988 700 nautical miles off Nova Scotia, Canada 132,000
7 Torrey Canyon 1967 Scilly Isles, UK 119,000
8 Sea Star 1972 Gulf of Oman 115,000
9 Irenes Serenade 1980 Navarino Bay, Greece 100,000
10 Urquiola 1976 La Coruna, Spain 100,000
11 Hawaiian Patriot 1977 300 nautical miles off Honolulu 95,000
12 Independenta 1979 Bosphorus, Turkey 95,000
13 Jakob Maersk 1975 Oporto, Portugal 88,000
14 Braer 1993 Shetland Islands, UK 85,000
15 Khark 5 1989 120 nautical miles off Atlantic coast of Morocco 80,000
16 Aegean Sea 1992 La Coruna, Spain 74,000
17 Sea Empress 1996 Milford Haven, UK 72,000
18 Katina P 1992 Off Maputo, Mozambique 72,000
19 Nova 1985 Off Kharg Island, Gulf of Iran 70,000
20 Prestige 2002 Off the Spanish coast 63,000
35 Exxon Valdez 1989 Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA 37,000

Some people are reporting what they describe to be unusual activity in the sky, including jets leaving trails at low altitudes, spray lines creating X’s, S’s and parallel lines, lines that slowly spread to create a canopy of haze, and reports of unusual smells, tastes, and even illness related to the trails.

Chemtrails are streaks of chemicals created in the air by spray systems on airplanes at any altitude. Chemicals are sprayed via planes for many purposes including crop dusting and mosquito control. Also fuel is sometimes dumped to reduce weight before landing. But within the Chemtrail observer community Chemtrails are the product of an active large scale operation.

Chemtrails are said to vary from contrails in their length of persistence.
According to Jeff Rense, “chemtrails (CTs) look like contrails initially, but are much thicker, extend across the sky and are often laid down in varying patterns of X’s, tic-tac-toe grids, cross-hatched and parallel lines. Instead of quickly dissipating, chemtrails expand and drip feathers and mares’ tails. In 30 minutes or less, they open into wispy formations which join together, forming a thin white veil or a ‘fake cirrus-type cloud’ that persists for hours.”

And the disinformation about it it’s strong and well prepared, if as Jeff noticed, while watching the film “Cars“, produced by Disney and Pixar, when a race takes place between two cars in the desert, in the sky anyone can clearly see chemtrails slashing through the sky with normal clouds around them. The brainwashing is starting pretty early these days.

The United States Air Force describes the chemtrail theory as a “hoax”, stating that “The “Chemtrail” hoax has been investigated and refuted by many established and accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media publications.”. They answer each claim in the theory:

* Contrails can remain visible for very long periods of time with the lifetime a function of the temperature, humidity, winds, and aircraft exhaust characteristics.
* Contrails can form many shapes as they are dispersed by horizontal and vertical wind shear.
* Sunlight refracted or reflected from contrails can produce vibrant and eye-catching colors and patterns.
* Observation and scientific analysis of contrails and their duration date back to at least 1953.
* The National Airspace System of the United States is oriented in an east-west and north-south grid with aircraft flying at designated 2000 foot increments of elevation (1000 feet after the introduction of Reduced Vertical Separation Minima in 2002-2004).
* Contrails formed by aircraft may appear to form a grid as the winds disperse the contrails.
* More contrails are seen in recent years due to the growth in the civil aviation market.

But, the US Air Force declared in a report: “Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, … and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power. (US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ emphasis added).

So the US Air Force admit that has the ability to do it, at least they should have tried this new weather controlling techonlogies…meeanwhile the Pentagon, while recognizing its ability to modify the World’s climate for military use, has joined the global warming consensus

and has even realized a detailed report called “Climate Change Scenario” to analize the impact of major changing in the climate for the national security but there’s not even aword about the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokona, Alaska –jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy.

Aerial Photo of the HAARP Alaska Site

Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating “controlled local modifications of the ionosphere“.

HAARP Antenna Array

Il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il DDL presentato in agosto che obbligava l’iscrizione al Registro Operatori Comunicazione (ROC) per tutti i blog.

La legge Levi-Prodi prevede che chiunque abbia un blog o un sito debba registrarlo al Roc, un registro dell’Autorità delle Comunicazioni, produrre dei certificati, pagare un bollo, anche se fa informazione senza fini di lucro.

La legge Levi-Prodi obbliga chiunque abbia un sito o un blog a dotarsi di una società editrice e ad avere un giornalista iscritto all’albo come direttore responsabile.

Il 99% chiuderebbe.

FIRMA!!

The Iraqi health officials announced on friday the first case of death of Cholera in the city of Baghdad. The infection is originated from the northern part of Iraq, where it started this summer affecting 7000 people.

The International Herlad Tribune reports that Dr. Ryadh Abdul Ameer, director of the Basra Health Ministry said that some city waterworks are entirely without chlorine and continued sayng that “The carrier for this disease is 99 percent water, and chlorine is essential to disinfect the water,”.

Cholera (or Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is a severe diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans is by ingesting contaminated water or food. The major reservoir for cholera was long assumed to be humans, but some evidence suggests that it is the aquatic environment.

In order to raise awareness for global warming, Greenpeace and the photographer Spencer Tunick got hundreds of naked people to pose for photos on a melting glacier.

Spencer Tunick was on a ladder with a mega phone as he directed the massive crowd of nearly 600 people from all over Europe who were concerned for the environment.

Spencer Tunick then photographed them on a rocky outcrop overlooking the glacier, which is the largest in the Alps.The volunteers also had to pose for photographs by Spencer Tunick on the ice as he took photos of them lying down.