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Click Here for the Full Story of the CLG saying the US Govenrment used its HARRP program to Cause the Chili & Haiti Earthquakes... SHOcKING VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/video-was-the-u-s-s-haarp-program-responsible-for-the-chili-earthquake-haiti-too-clg-thinks-so/
In Breaking News today, Lori Price, Managing Editor of Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) has implied with one word in brackets that HARRP could have been involved in Chile’s monumental 8.8 earthquake. CLG highlighting HAARP today concurs with a growing number of scientists and the public aware of the HAARP weapon of mass destruction and its geo-engineering capacity to trigger “natural disasters” for imperialist political gain.Click Here for the Full Story of the CLG saying the US Govenrment used its HARRP... more
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A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early this morning, killing at least 78 and prompting tsunami warnings in areas as far away as the western coast of the United States.
Click Here To See RAW VIDEO of Chilean Earthquake as It Happened.... Raw Footage ......http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/raw-quake-video-8-8-magnitude-quake-rocks-chile-rising-death-toll-tsunami-watch/
The earthquake, which hit just after 3 a.m. local time, was 64 times stronger than the one that devastated Haiti last month but was much deeper, likely making the number of casualties far fewer than those in the Caribbean nation.
The minute-and-a-half-long quake was less than 100 miles north from the southwest coastal city of Concepcion, the second-largest city in Chile, but caused damage as far away as the capital Santiago nearly 200 miles away.A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early this morning, killing at least... more
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A journalist describes her perverse experience watching bullfights in Peru and how it gave her guilty pleasure. Includes graphic photos.A journalist describes her perverse experience watching bullfights in Peru and how it... more
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At least 38 people have been killed and more than 50 others injured in a collision between two buses in Peru, reports say.
The crash took place on the Panamerican Highway, one of Peru's busiest main roads, about 310 miles (500km) north of the capital, Lima.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8529501.stmAt least 38 people have been killed and more than 50 others injured in a collision... more
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Officials claimed customs cops had made the country’s biggest cocaine haul ever.
Lower Austrian public security director Franz Prucher said customs police had seized 206 kilos of cocaine worth 40 million Euros three weeks ago after uncovering drugs in seven sports bags in the freight section of Vienna International Airport (VIA).
Werner Schweighofer, from the criminal police in Schwechat near VIA, said international contacts had informed the police that there would be a large shipment of cocaine from South America and more intense controls had been set up at VIA in response.Officials claimed customs cops had made the country’s biggest cocaine haul ever.... more
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LIMA – The announcement that a Peruvian movie was nominated for the first time for a foreign-language film Oscar sparked excitement in different parts of this Andean nation, the press in this capital reported.
“Peru in the Oscars,” “Peru on Display” and “Nominated to Make History” were some of the headlines run by Lima dailies Wednesday after Claudia Llosa’s “La Teta Asustada” (Milk of Sorrow) was named as one of the five nominees in that category.
The celebration over Tuesday’s nomination extended as far as the poor Lima neighborhood of Manchay, where the project was filmed.
In statements to several newspapers, local residents recalled that a shaman foresaw great success for the movie when, during an offering ceremony to Mother Earth at the start of filming, a rainbow appeared in the sky.
A party-like atmosphere could also be seen in the southern city of Huanta, where the film’s protagonist, 23-year-old Magaly Solier, was given rose bouquets and greeted by dozens of cheering admirers in her hometown when she arrived for a press conference at a local radio station.LIMA – The announcement that a Peruvian movie was nominated for the first time... more
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The CIA today was accused of lying to Congress and covering up its role in the deaths of two innocent Americans, a mother and her infant daughter, at the hands of the CIA and the Peruvian Air Force nine years ago.
"If there's ever an example of justice delayed, justice denied, this is it," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R.-Mich., ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee. "The [intelligence] community's performance in terms of accountability has been unacceptable. These were Americans that were killed with the help of their government, the community covered it up, they delayed investigating."
On April 21, 2001, Jim and Veronica "Roni" Bowers and their two children, six-year-old son Cory and infant daughter Charity, were returning to their home in Peru from a trip to Brazil in a small airplane piloted by Kevin Donaldson.
The Bowers' worked as Christian missionaries along a stretch of the Amazon River near Iquitos, Peru, a remote jungle region near the Brazilian and Colombian borders heavily traveled by drug traffickers.
The CIA and the Peruvian Air Force were working in the same area, trying to interdict the drug smugglers. Starting in 1995, they'd operated a joint program to intercept drug planes, shooting them down if necessary.
On April 21, a CIA spotter plane saw the Cessna in which the Bowers family was flying and alerted the Peruvian Air Force. What happened during the next hour and 49 minutes is captured in a CIA videotape.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH PORTIONS OF THE CIA VIDEO.
The CIA spotter plane, with two operative aboard, sneaked up behind the Cessna as it flew over the Amazon.
"We are trying to remain covert at this point," one of the CIA pilots on the plane can be heard to say on the tape.
The CIA pilot describes the aircraft as a high-wing, single –engine float plane, which is accurate, that it has picked up on the border between Peru and Brazil.
But the CIA personnel misidentified the craft as a drug plane. The CIA alerted the Peruvian Air Force, which scrambled an interceptor. Over the next two hours, the CIA personnel would express doubts, but would not correct their error, and would repeatedly violate what the White House believed to be strict rules of engagement.
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From http://ridavio.com/
This short documentary follows a unique group of local leaders starting a community center for gay and transgender individuals in a working class neighborhood of Lima, Peru. I had the opportunity to shoot and edit this piece thanks to a good friend who works on this project. It was a rare opportunity to see a side of Lima that I otherwise never would have witnessed.
In a poor neighborhood of Lima, Peru, five local leaders are trying to start a community center for gay and transgender individuals. The president of the center, Cuti, explains what it’s like to be gay in the neighborhood, how he came to open his own beauty shop and why he decided to participate in the project. The group talks about their activities, challenges they face and what they want to do in the future. The ASOCAHU center is a project of the University Cayetano Heredia and the University of California Los Angeles. Its goal is HIV & STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM).
To support ASOCAHU and similar groups in Peru send an e-mail to: info@epicentro.org.pe.From http://ridavio.com/
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The earthquake that struck Haiti has been particularly disastrous for its high intensity, 7.3 on the Richter scale, and especially because the epicenter was a few kilometers from the capital Port au Prince, whose center and suburbs have nearly 4 million inhabitants. If the dead will be, as is feared, more than 100,000 the earthquake could be one of the most destructive in the history of our planet.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/science/terremotohaiti130110.htmlThe earthquake that struck Haiti has been particularly disastrous for its high... more
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On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a makeshift barge into the chai-colored Tambopata River. He’ll spend the next two hours with his eyes closed, vacuuming up sediment from the river bottom.
On the barge, his partner Borian works the vacuum’s motor and sprays the mixture onto a rug. Once it dries, Borian puts it into a cylinder with mercury, then squirts it into a handkerchief in a crude separation process. Specks of gold – occasionally – emerge.
Welcome to an Amazon gold rush.
Skyrocketing gold prices have spurred hundreds of thousands of small-time entrepreneurs to spend day after day trolling through mud, hoping for that brilliant yellow fleck. For every “Buy Gold NOW” ad you’ve seen, there’s a peasant here who’s decided to go forty-niner. “We’ve been here for a few days, but we haven’t found any gold yet,” Borian smiles. But he’s optimistic. He can make more in days than most of his nonmining peers can make in a month.
But it takes about five grams of mercury to extract a gram of gold. That mercury is usually tossed overboard, poisoning one of the world’s most biodiverse rain forests. And Borian’s form of mining is among the most benign. Illegal cartels with heavy equipment clear-cut and mine huge areas of virgin forest, alarming environmental activists.
But patrolling the remote area is difficult. Just down the river from Borian and Riquelme, government environment officials sit in the shade. “There aren’t enough of us and we have very basic equipment,” says guard Harry Henderson Cooper, pointing to a dug-out canoe with a 5 horsepower engine. It’s no match for faster boats used by the illegal miners.
But the real problem, say most experts, is the local government, which is accused of being part of the illegal gold and timber cartels. “We are proposing the formalization of gold mining, so it can be managed sustainably, but the regional government doesn’t listen,” says Victor Zambrano, who heads a local conservation group. “The miners pool gold to pay off government officials. Everyone puts in a few grams.”
Environment minister Antonio Brack Egg pledges to fight corruption. “I have detailed information on all public officials involved in the corruption. We will take them out one by one,” he says. Mr. Egg and others say that the international community should create a process to certify “conflict-free” gold, as it has done with diamonds through the Kimberley Process.
Meanwhile, more illegal miners are flooding in. Says Egg: “When the price of gold goes up, the ministry of environment trembles.”On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his... more
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In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. These communities, living at the edge of what is possible, face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers.
A consequence is that Quechua-speaking farmers and their families, who have managed to subsist for centuries at high altitude, believe they may not make it through the next southern winter.
There have been warnings from meteorologists in Peru that this month will see the Huancavelica region hit by the worst weather conditions in years with plunging temperatures, floods and high winds. The weather is already claiming lives; last month seven people died and scores were treated in hospital after torrential rain caused flash flooding in Ayacucho, the capital of the neighbouring region.
Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/peru-mountain-farmers-winter-cold
Image: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/1/2/1262466274463/A-farmer-walks-with-her-s-001.jpgIn a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. These communities, living... more
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Apparently, it can happen to former presidents.
President Alberto Fujimori ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000; the country's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld his sentence to 25 years in prison for violations of human rights during his presidency. For some, it's not soon enough.
In the 1990's, Fujimori earned the respect of his people when he put an end to the Shining Path guerillas (Peru's Communist Party better known as Sendero Luminoso), and ended the country's economic crisis.
In a trial that lasted sixteen months, the 71-year old 'strongman' was sentenced in April for his role in instigating the massacres of civilians in 1991-92 by death squads. The court announced its decision on its website Sunday.
more: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2086-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2010m1d4-Former-Peruvian-President-Fujimori-gets-25-years#Apparently, it can happen to former presidents.
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While scores of theological scholars have been studying the literal meaning of biblical phrases and the historical facts mentioned therein, leading to an endless stream of interpretations, scientists have studied the scriptures and discovered scientific hidden meaning within them.
Along with our rapid scientific evolution, our understanding of ancient scriptures such as the Vedas and the Upanishads is growing. Now we’re not only rediscovering the scientific significance of Eastern spirituality but also that of the Bible!
Fascinating facts about the Bible have surfaced that are often dismissed or ignored by the Roman Catholic Church because these findings do not fit in with their established dogmas.
However unlike theological discussions, scientific facts can neither be ignored nor can they be debated, they can either be proven right or wrong, there is no in between.
Independently Stan Tenen and Daniel Winter noticed that the characters of the Hebrew alphabet are projections of a ‘special form’ on the faces of a tetrahedron seen from different angles! However it was Daniel Winter who pointed out that this ‘special form’ is actually the Golden Mean or Phi spiral.
The Phi spiral describes the surface of the torus, the basic element of matter. Now if we put the Phi spiral inside a tetrahedron and then slowly revolve it around a pivot axis, and shine a light from behind the Phi spiral, all of the Hebrew characters will show up as the shadows on the inside face of the tetrahedron. Hence, the characters of the Hebrew alphabet are the projections of a Golden Mean spiral.While scores of theological scholars have been studying the literal meaning of... more
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When police in Peru announced that they'd broken up a criminal gang who roamed the Andes killing peasant farmers, draining the fat from their dead bodies, and then selling it to European cosmetics manufacturers for use in expensive anti-aging skin creams, there was widespread shock and revulsion although medical experts were quick to sound a note of skepticism.
A functioning kidney, or liver, is worth thousands of dollars, but there is no black market in human fat, they pointed out. Surgeons carrying out liposuction operations throw away gallons of the stuff each week.
Yesterday, the experts were vindicated. Peru's police chief was forced to sack his top organised crime investigator amid growing evidence that he and several colleagues deliberately invented the elaborate story to cover up evidence of officers being involved in dozens of unlawful killings.When police in Peru announced that they'd broken up a criminal gang who roamed... more
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A sure way to get people riled up in Quince Mil, a sweltering outpost in Peru's southern jungle, is to ask about the origin of the town's uncommon name. There are at least four versions explaining the name, which means "Fifteen Thousand," each more colorful than the one before it. Mayor Mario Samanez claims to have the official version. He says its rains around 15,000 mm (590 inches) each year in the town, hence the name. "This is the spot with the world's second highest amount of rainfall annually. That is where the name comes from," Samanez says.
Actually the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration does not list Quince Mil among the wettest places in the world. The title goes to Mawsynram, India, with 467 inches, followed by jungle spots in Colombia and Hawaii.
Local residents in Quince Mil have their own theories about the name. Some say a group of explorers passing through lost 15,000 pesos where the town now stands. The place was called 15,000 because that's what the explorers would ask for every time they came back to search for the cash. The town's name has become a synonym for bad luck. But malevolence may be at the origin as well. Fernando Farro, a local farmer, says Quince Mil takes its name from the amount of money the Peruvian government gave Russian fortune-seekers at the turn of the 20th century to eliminate Amazonian tribes and open the area for sugar plantations. And that darker explanation may be more relevant now as more and more attention is being paid to the backwater town.
Quince Mil sits at a strategic point on one of the final legs of a new highway that will link Peru's Pacific coast to Sao Paulo on Brazil's southern Atlantic coast. A few years ago it would take a week to get from Cuzco, in the Andes, to Quince Mil, with the road reaching elevations of 14,000 feet and descending fast into thick, tropical forest. The same route, now being paved by a Brazilian construction company, will take around six hours when the road is finished. "The road means radical change for the population. It is a great opportunity for people throughout the valley to get their products to markets," says Samanez, who expects the blacktop to finally reach the town in mid-2010.
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LINK: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AJ2YB20091120
Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.
Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and trafficking in human fat.
The group stored the fat it collected in used soda and water bottles, which police showed reporters.
"We have people detained who have declared and stated how they murdered people with the aim being to extract their fat in rudimentary labs and sell it," said Police Commander Angel Toldeo.
In addition to those taken into custody, police said they were searching for others who bought fat from the gang or might have worked with it.
Remains from some of the victims were found at a rural house in the region of Huanuco where the group worked, according police video.
Police said they were investigating 60 disappearances in the area that might be linked to the gang.
The investigation started this month after police heard about a shipment of fat that arrived in Lima by bus from Peru's mountains.LINK: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AJ2YB20091120
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