¿LAS PIRÁMIDES SON OBRA DE UNA SUPERCIVILIZACIÓN?

Se usaron bloques de 100 y hasta 200 T. traídos de una cantera a 30 km. Están alineadas perfectamente con los puntos cardinales y el Cinturón de Orión. Los egipcios de esa época ni siquiera conocían el Hierro.

SOLUCIONES

Tú no puedes solucionar unos problemas con el mismo nivel de CONSCIENCIA que los creó. -Albert Einstein

EL HOMBRE QUE PIENSA POR SÍ MISMO

El hombre más peligroso para cualquier gobierno es el capaz de reflexionar... Casi inevitablemente, llegará a la conclusión de que el gobierno bajo el que vive es deshonesto, loco e intolerable. -H. L. Mencken

ESTRUCTURA SOCIAL PIRAMIDAL

Nuestro mundo está organizado de tal modo que una pequeña élite controla al resto a través de una jerarquía de jefes sobre otros jefes hasta llegar a los obreros en la base. El nivel de conocimiento separa a unos niveles de otros. -David Icke

GOBIERNO MUNDIAL O NUEVO ORDEN MUNDIAL

El objetivo de las élites es crear un gobierno mundial dictatorial, fascista, donde el Estado Policial es omnipresente y las libertades individuales no existen. -David Icke

NEGACIONISMO O ESCEPTICISMO CÍNICO

Condenar algo sin investigarlo previamente es la cota más alta de la ignorancia. -Albert Einstein

MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN

La Opinión Pública lo es todo. Si está a tu favor, nada podrá salir mal. Si está en tu contra, nada podrá tener éxito. El que moldea la Opinión Pública tiene un mayor poder que el que hace las leyes. -Abraham Lincoln

RESPONSABILIDAD PERSONAL

Tú debes convertirte en el cambio que quieres ver en el mundo. -Mahatma Gandhi

EL PODER DE LA PROPAGANDA

Debe hacerse tan popular y tan simple que hasta el más estúpido la pueda entender. A la gente se la puede convencer de que el Paraíso es el Infierno, o a la inversa, de que la vida más horrible es el Paraíso. -Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"

REPETIDORES

La mayoría de la gente es OTRA gente. Sus pensamientos son la opinión de otros, sus vidas una imitación, sus pasiones una cita de un libro. -Oscar Wilde

CREENCIAS

En religión y política, la gente casi siempre las adquiere, sin examinarlas, de autoridades que tampoco las han examinado y que, a su vez, las han adquirido de unos terceros cuyas opiniones no valen UNA PUTA MIERDA. -Mark Twain

PIRÁMIDE DE PODER

Es fácil que una pequeña élite controle a una amplia mayoria a través de estructuras jerárquicas donde cada uno se está en su sitio sin moverse y sin interesarse nunca por nada. -David Icke

DEBER

La cobardía pregunta si es seguro, la conveniencia si es cortés, y la vanidad si es popular. Pero la Consciencia pregunta si es JUSTO. Y siempre llega un tiempo donde uno debe tomar una postura que no es nada excepto JUSTA. -M. L. King

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!

¿El atentado del 11-S fue ejecutado por el Gobierno en la Sombra de EEUU a través de infiltrados y aliados al más alto nivel en el ejército, los servicios secretos y los medios de comunicación?

¿MAGOS NEGROS CONTROLAN LA ECONOMÍA MUNDIAL?

¿El Dinero es el único Dios de este mundo porque lo controla TODO? ¿Los banqueros son los nuevos sacerdotes? ¿Los símbolos sagrados y ocultistas en los billetes atraen energías adecuadas a los fines de este clero?

¿EL 11-M FUE UN GOLPE DE ESTADO A FAVOR DEL PSOE?

Hay hechos documentados de sobra que demuestran que ciertos policías, miembros del servicio secreto, periodistas y jueces trabajaron para "dar un golpe de estado mediático" mintiendo, destruyendo pruebas o creando pruebas falsas.

¿ESTAMOS SOLOS EN EL UNIVERSO?

¿Otras especies y civilizaciones nos visitan con frecuencia? ¿Algunos son benéficos, otros son malvados, y la mayoría parece neutral o indiferente? ¿Los gobiernos cierran beneficiosos tratos mientras lo niegan todo?

¿NUESTRAS ÉLITES NO SON HUMANAS?

Con fama de endogámicos, herméticos, arrogantes, de "sangre azul", ¿nuestros líderes y reyes pertenecen a una raza distinta, con amplios y ancestrales conocimientos sobre la Realidad y lo Oculto?

¿NUESTROS POLÍTICOS SON TÍTERES?

¿Gente tan increíblemente estúpida e incompetente trabaja para "Amos Ocultos" que mueven sus hilos y a los que deben pagar los favores recibidos? ¿El "juego político" es una farsa para anestesiarnos?

¿SUPERTECNOLOGÍA EN LA ANTIGÜEDAD?

Es un hecho científico demostrable que ESTO no lo pudieron hacer tipos con lianas, troncos y herramientas de bronce. Tampoco podemos reproducirlo con nuestra tecnología actual.

viernes, 28 de marzo de 2014

Rockefellers, Crown Cocaine & Haitian Slavery

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http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/rockefellers-crown-cocaine-haitian-slavery/

http://deanhenderson.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/rockefellers-crown-cocaine-haitian-slavery/

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Rockefellers, Crown Cocaine & Haitian Slavery

Thursday 27 March 2014
‘Yesterday the UN’s top envoy to Haiti Sandra Honore reported to the UN Security Council that the cholera outbreak in Haiti is still the worst in the world. Over 8,000 people have died from cholera since the devastating January 2010 Haitian earthquake and another 680,000 have contracted the disease, which scientific studies have shown was introduced to the country by infected Nepalese UN Peacekeepers. Haitians have filed a flurry of class action lawsuits against the UN for their malfeasance, but the UN has claimed diplomatic immunity.
Haitians won’t get any help from their president Michel Martelly, a former musician and club owner know as “Sweet Micky”. Martelly spent most of his years in Miami and developed ties to the Duvalier dictatorship. Haiti’s role as Western Hemisphere wage floor for multinational corporations, combined with its geographic importance to the CIA-orchestrated Columbian cocaine trade, made the November 28th 2010 election fraud which provoked fiery protests and brought Martelly to power all too predictable.
The shortest route from Columbia’s San Andres Island to Miami passes through the island of Haiti, where Bank of Nova Scotia subsidiary Scotiabank dominates finance. The Zionist Bronfman family-controlled Bank of Nova Scotia is the leading gold dealer in the cocaine-infested Caribbean Silver Triangle. It owned the 200 tons of gold recovered beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center in late 2001. Gold is the currency of choice in the British Crown-controlled global narcotics trade.’

Rockefellers, Crown Cocaine & Haitian Slavery

Around the World Trip 2009 232Yesterday the UN’s top envoy to Haiti Sandra Honore reported to the UN Security Council that the cholera outbreak in Haiti is still the worst in the world.  Over 8,000 people have died from cholera since the devastating January 2010 Haitian earthquake and another 680,000 have contracted the disease, which scientific studies have shown was introduced to the country by infected Nepalese UN Peacekeepers.  Haitians have filed a flurry of class action lawsuits against the UN for their malfeasance, but the UN has claimed diplomatic immunity.
Haitians won’t get any help from their president Michel Martelly, a former musician and club owner know as “Sweet Micky”.  Martelly spent most of his years in Miami and developed ties to the Duvalier dictatorship.  Haiti’s role as Western Hemisphere wage floor for multinational corporations, combined with its geographic importance to the CIA-orchestrated Columbian cocaine trade, made the November 28th 2010 election fraud which provoked fiery protests and brought Martelly to power all too predictable.
The shortest route from Columbia’s San Andres Island to Miami passes through the island of Haiti, where Bank of Nova Scotia subsidiary Scotiabank dominates finance.  The Zionist Bronfman family-controlled Bank of Nova Scotia is the leading gold dealer in the cocaine-infested Caribbean Silver Triangle.  It owned the 200 tons of gold recovered beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center in late 2001.  Gold is the currency of choice in the British Crown-controlled global narcotics trade.
(The following is excerpted from Chapter 16: The Mexican Fast Track: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
From the 1970′s until 1986 Haiti was ruled by Jean-Claude (Papa Doc) and son Baby Doc Duvalier.  The dictators were propped up by the US, which sent them over $400 million.  What didn’t end up in Duvalier pockets was used by US corporations to set up factories to take advantage of super-cheap Haitian labor.  Haiti was the centerpiece of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, launched by David Rockefeller’s International Basic Economy Corporation, which aimed to create a low-wage manufacturing platform in the Caribbean for its multinational corporate tentacles.
Real wages in Haiti declined 56% from 1983-1991 after the Caribbean Basin Initiative kicked in.  Haitian exports boomed with companies like Rawlings sending sweat shop manufactured baseballs to the US.  Dallas oilman and Intercontinental Hotels owner Clint Murchison operated meat packing plants in Haiti, which he entrusted to the watchful eye of the later-assassinated CIA agent and Lee Harvey Oswald handler George de Mohrenschildt.  The devastated US textile industry has been largely outsourced to Haiti.  Nowhere in the world is labor cheaper.
Baby Doc Duvalier fell after a popular revolt in 1986 and retired on the French Riviera, alongside other US tin cup dictators.  That year the CIA created the Haitian National Intelligence Service (SIN).  The acronym, which it shares with Peruvian intelligence, is likely a tongue-in-cheek M16 Freemason joke.  SIN was created under the guise of fighting drug trafficking, but its officials simply took over the Columbian coke transshipment trade from Duvalier’s cronies- the Tonton Macoutes.  Haitian gangs took over the drug trade in many US cities.
Despite a US Congressional ban on aid to Haiti, SIN received $1 million/year from the CIA, while the Company set about training and equipping the new Haitian military.  The CIA was trying to put a lid on the leftist revolution which swept Baby Doc from power- the Lavalas Family Movement.  SIN set about on a reign of terror against the Haitian left, taking over where Duvalier’s Tonton Macoutes left off.  In 1989 the head of SIN Colonel Ernesto Prudhomme led a brutal interrogation of progressive Port-au-Prince Mayor Evans Paul.  Former SIN chief Colonel Leopold Clerjeune was also present.  Mayor Paul came away with five broken ribs and serious internal injuries.
A US Embassy official said of SIN, “It was a military organization that distributed drugs in Haiti.  SIN never produced drug intelligence.  The Agency gave them money under counter-narcotics and they used their training to do other things in the political arena.”
One of those “other things” was masterminding the coup that overthrew populist President Jean Bertrand Aristide- the Roman Catholic priest who won Haiti’s first democratic elections in 1991.  Aristide was a leader of the Lavalas Family Movement.  He preached liberation theology, the Catholic left turn that came out of the 1968 Medellin Vatican II Conference, inspiring revolution throughout Latin America.  Aristide had earlier escaped three assassination attempts by Duvalier’s Tonton Macoutes.
Upon taking office Aristide began arresting SIN officials involved in drug trafficking and raised the Haitian minimum wage from $.22/hour to $.37/hour.  US corporations groused and began a smear campaign against Aristide.  USAID came to their rescue, launching a $26.7 million US-taxpayer-funded assault on Aristide’s minimum wage proposal and other progressive initiatives he had implemented.
Andre Apaid, a wealthy Haitian businessman, was hand-picked by USAID to spearhead the anti-Aristide campaign via his export-promotion firm Prominex- a Permindex affiliate in Nazi International’s world trade center global drug trafficking and assassination network.  Permindex was behind both the JFK assassination and the attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle.  It is run by M16 and Israeli Mossad.  Funding comes from wealthy European aristocrats.
Apaid’s company supplied numerous US multinationals, including Honeywell, IBM, Remington and Unisys.  Meanwhile, CIA agents Brian Latell and James Woolsey- later Clinton CIA Director- marched out a report they wrote citing Aristide’s “mental health problems”.  Miami DEA Chief Thomas Cash even tried unsuccessfully to link Aristide to the Columbian cocaine business.
In 1991, just months after Aristide took office, the groups that USAID funded led a military coup.  A military junta headed by Army Chief Raoul Cedras was installed.  Cedras was a CIA informant in charge of Haiti’s military.  SIN was renamed FRAPH and embarked upon another bout of political terror against Lavalas, peasant groups and unions.  Wages decreased further, with one apparel firm supplying US contractors paying $.14/hour.
USAID point man Andre Apaid definitely then got paid, becoming a Washington lobbyist for the Cedras regime.  He told a crowd in Miami that if Aristide returned to Haiti, “I’d strangle him”.  But it was FRAPH that was doing the bulk of the strangling.  Amnesty International reported 2,000 civilians murdered in Haiti within eighteen months of the Cedras coup.  CIA agent Brian Latell, whose phony report helped topple Aristide, visited Haiti in 1992.  He praised Cedras and said he saw “no evidence of oppressive rule or mass killings”.  Amnesty International called his assessment “absurd”.
Aristide went into exile in the US.  He eventually cut a deal with the World Bank which allowed him to return to Haiti.  The deal involved leaving FRAPH members in government, privatizing 300 state-owned companies, slashing Haiti’s tariffs and import duties, and rewriting Haiti’s corporate tax and investment laws.  Aristide’s Lavalas Family Movement was banned from politics and wages would be frozen at a rate of $.11-$.18/hour- lower than under the Duvalier dictatorship.  Haiti was to establish a World Bank price floor for wages in the Western Hemisphere.
Once the deal was cut, President Clinton intervened in Haiti to bring Aristide back.  In 1993 the USS Harlan County sailed into Port-au-Prince to lay the groundwork for Aristide’s return.  The ship was met by violent demonstrators led by Emmanuel (Toto) Constant, who was on CIA payroll as founder and head of the murderous FRAPH.  Toto attended Clinton’s inaugural ball.  His father General Gerard Constant was Papa Doc’s Army Chief of Staff and “internal adviser” to US Ambassador Alvin Adams.
Constant formed FRAPH out of the remnants of SIN at the behest of Colonel Patrick Collins- US Military Defense Attaché at the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince.  Constant claims Collins and the CIA Chief of Station in Haiti were inside Haitian military headquarters as the 1991 Cedras coup was unfolding.  Now Toto was told to be a good dog and welcome the World Bank-reformed Aristide back to Haiti.  At a meeting with US Army General Hugh Shelton, Constant was told, “Here’s your chance.  Either you do it or we’ll hunt you down like a dog.”
One day before Constant called a press conference announcing that Haitians were welcoming back Aristide, he met with CIA Haiti Chief of Station John Kambourian.  He was told that while Aristide would return, FRAPH would remain in charge of Haiti.  Toto’s first mission was to indoctrinate Haitian Army troops on the evils of liberation theology.
The Clinton Administration reneged on its promises to Aristide.  Clinton NSA Anthony Lake bragged to Congress that CIA and USAID were going to handpick a new Haitian Parliament to “balance Aristide”.  Many FRAPH killers were left in power including General Jean-Claude Duperval, a CIA asset who led the 1991 coup alongside an ex-Tonton Macoute boss.
FRAPH continued in the drug business as well.  In 1997 Haitian Colonel Michel Francois, who served as Police Chief of Puerto Principe during Cedras’ junta, was extradited from Honduras to stand trial for cocaine and heroin trafficking.  Francois fled to the Dominican Republic after Aristide discovered he was also behind a plot to destabilize Haiti.  Francois worked with CIA favorite Pablo Escobar and used a private airport controlled by Haitian Colonel Jean Claude Paul as transshipment point for Miami-bound Escobar cocaine.
Permindex quickly tired of Aristide’s interference in the drug business.  In 2000, after Aristide again won the Haitian elections, the US deemed the count fraudulent and cut off all aid, effectively relegating the island to slow death.  A few years later, in a bizarre bit of spook theatre, Aristide was kidnapped by the CIA and flown into exile in Africa.  IMF puppet Rene Preval was installed as President.
James Woolsey, who co-wrote the pack of lies that helped topple Aristide and was rewarded with the job of CIA Director, soon found more lucrative work.  His Dyn Corporation of Reston, VA contracted with CIA to train and deploy the new Haitian National Police, which replaced the Haitian Military as part of the World Bank deal.  When UN troops pulled out of Haiti, DynCorp advisers remained.  Human Rights Watch says the Haitian National Police that DynCorp trained has been involved in “extra judicial executions, disappropriate use of lethal force and beatings”.
The barricades are back up in the modern-day slave nation of Haiti, as a long-suffering people once again rise up to battle Rockefeller monopolies, British Crown drug lords and their Illuminati banker financiers.  Maybe this time Haitians will run the bastards out once and for all.  Viva la Revolucion!  Viva Haiti!

’Knowledge Pills’ That You Eat To Automatically Learn Anything

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http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/knowledge-pills-that-you-eat-to-automatically-learn-anything/

http://www.businessinsider.com/knowledge-pills-2014-3

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’Knowledge Pills’ That You Eat To Automatically Learn Anything

Thursday 27 March 2014
‘Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, appeared on stage in Vancouver at TED’s 30th anniversary event last night and made a number of predictions about what technology will do over the next 30 years.
Via Ars Technica, here’s his most startling one:
In 30 years, Negroponte said, we’re going to be able to literally ingest information. Once information is in your bloodstream, some kind of mechanism could deposit the information in the brain. You could take a pill and learn English or the works of Shakespeare. He said little else on the subject, but Negroponte assured the audience that the idea is not as ridiculous as it seems.
Negroponte is basically hypothesizing a pill you can swallow to instantly learn French or computer programming or anything else, something akin to the moment in “The Matrix” when Neo “learns kung fu” by interfacing his brain with a computer.’

Coming Soon, Maybe: 'Knowledge Pills' That You Eat To Automatically Learn Anything

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The Matrix
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, appeared on stage in Vancouver at TED's 30th anniversary event last night and made a number of predictions about what technology will do over the next 30 years. Via Ars Technica, here's his most startling one:
In 30 years, Negroponte said, we’re going to be able to literally ingest information. Once information is in your bloodstream, some kind of mechanism could deposit the information in the brain. You could take a pill and learn English or the works of Shakespeare. He said little else on the subject, but Negroponte assured the audience that the idea is not as ridiculous as it seems.
Negroponte is basically hypothesizing a pill you can swallow to instantly learn French or computer programming or anything else, something akin to the moment in "The Matrix" when Neo "learns kung fu" by interfacing his brain with a computer.
Negroponte's prediction has more basis in reality than you likely expect — scientists can already watch memory-forming molecules come together in the brain as a physical representation of new knowledge. Negroponte is merely talking about doing it without the human being consciously involved. Many smart people have made reasonable links between quantum physics and theories of consciousness that suggest that weird quantum principles like entanglement can help explain how we learn and remember things (see our previous reporting on transhumanism for much more on this).
Negroponte's hypothetical "knowledge pills" would only need to be an expression of applied quantum physics.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/knowledge-pills-2014-3#ixzz2xGqZvQ9z

The Spoils of the War on Afghanistan, One Trillion Dollars of Lithium: The Future of Silicon Valley may lie in the Mountains of Afghanistan

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http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/the-spoils-of-the-war-on-afghanistan-one-trillion-dollars-of-lithium-the-future-of-silicon-valley-may-lie-in-the-mountains-of-afghanistan/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-the-war-on-afghanistan-one-trillion-dollars-of-lithium-the-future-of-silicon-valley-may-lie-in-the-mountains-of-afghanistan/5375266

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The Spoils of the War on Afghanistan, One Trillion Dollars of Lithium: The Future of Silicon Valley may lie in the Mountains of Afghanistan

Thursday 27 March 2014
‘The future of Silicon Valley’s technological prowess may well lie in the war-scarred mountains and salt flats of Western Afghanistan.
United States Geological Survey teams discovered one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of lithium there six years ago. The USGS was scouting the volatile country at the behest of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations. Lithium is a soft metal used to make the lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries essential for powering desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. And increasingly, electric cars like Tesla’s.’

The Spoils of the War on Afghanistan, One Trillion Dollars of Lithium: The Future of Silicon Valley may lie in the Mountains of Afghanistan

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by Richard Byrne Reilly
The future of Silicon Valley’s technological prowess may well lie in the war-scarred mountains and salt flats of Western Afghanistan.
United States Geological Survey teams discovered one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of lithium there six years ago. The USGS was scouting the volatile country at the behest of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations. Lithium is a soft metal used to make the lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries essential for powering desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. And increasingly, electric cars like Tesla’s.
The future of Silicon Valley may lie in the mountains of Afghanistan
Above: An Italian helicopter flies over western Afghanistan during an international operation. Lithium reserves have been found in the western part of that country.
Image Credit: ISAF Media
The vast discovery could very well propel Afghanistan — a war-ravaged land with a population of 31 million largely uneducated Pashtuns and Tajiks, and whose primary exports today are opium, hashish, and marijuana — into becoming the world’s next “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” according to an internal Pentagon memo cited by the New York Times.
That was the conclusion of a USGS survey report on Afghanistan that detailed the findings. In addition to lithium, the survey also found huge deposits of iron ore, gold, cobalt, copper, and potash, among many other valuable minerals.
“The mineral wealth there is astonishing,” said professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Montreal-based Center for Research and Globalization, who has written extensively on Afghanistan.
A conservative estimate of the riches is $1 trillion. In some circles, it’s as high as $5 trillion.
A typical lithium "button" cell found in many small electronic devices.
In Silicon Valley and beyond, tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Sony, and Tesla rely on continual, and uninterrupted, access to lithium, as lithium-based batteries are the primary power storage devices in their mobile hardware.
Without these batteries, MacBooks, iPads, iPhones, Kindles, Nooks, Galaxy IIIs, Chromebooks, and, yes, Tesla Model S cars would be largely worthless. If forced to use older, nonlithium batteries, their battery lives would certainly be much shorter.
The world’s current lithium heavyweight is Bolivia, the biggest exporter of the element. There, in the swamps and marshlands of the southern region of the country near where the borders of Chile and Argentina meet, are the biggest deposits.
Canada, China, Australia, and Serbia also have varying amounts of lithium, but not as much as Bolivia.
Or apparently, Afghanistan.

Enough to last a lifetime

Depending on who you talk to, the current lithium global reserves are adequate for at least another generation of lithium-ion battery manufacturers to produce them.
But not everybody thinks so, and some say the light metal compound may someday run dry. That could in turn spell trouble for any company whose business depends on light and portable mobile electronics — unless someone comes up with an alternative to lithium batteries before then.
The experts VentureBeat interviewed pointed to sharp year-on-year increases in the demand for lithium. That’s putting heavy pressure on existing stockpiles.
According to Lithium Americas, a Canadian lithium-mining company with significant business interests in Argentina, lithium demand will more than double in the next 10 years, while lithium prices have nearly quadrupled during the same timeframe.
Tesla, for its part, is in the process of investing up to $5 billion to build its own lithium-ion Gigafactoryin Texas, a plant capable of churning out 500,000 expensive battery packs a year by 2020 for its line of zero-emission, all-electric cars.
Tesla predicts that its "Gigafactory" will produce more lithium batteries (by capacity) in 2020 than the entire global production of such batteries in 2013.
A Tesla spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.
As a potential source to feed that demand, enter Afghanistan.
“At some point, if present trends continue, demand [for lithium] will outstrip the supply. And again, at some point, the market for lithium-ion could get so big that it actually affects the supply chain,” said Donald R. Sadoway, a professor of the Materials Chemistry Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.
Looking at Afghanistan, Sadoway says the war-ravaged nation, which has no effective mining infrastructure in place, may well be attractive to the world’s mining outfits.
“In this regard,” Sadoway, one of the world’s foremost experts on energy sources, says, “the deposits in Afghanistan could be important.”
Andrew Chung, a venture capitalist with Khosla Ventures in Silicon Valley who has invested in multiple startups producing alternative batteries, says lithium-ion batteries are limited in their lifetime cycles, scalability, and cost. Despite this, Chung says, he can understand how the untapped reserves of Afghan lithium are now an increasing focus.
“It is an issue of the supply chain, whether it’s Afghanistan or other [countries]. There is a finite supply, and lithium-ion will continue to be the [power] choice for the next decade,” Chung said.
Some of the Valley’s biggest and most powerful tech companies either declined to comment for this story or never returned calls. But they didn’t deny the importance of lithium-ion batteries.
For instance, an Apple spokesperson declined to comment for this story but provided VentureBeat with a 2014 “Suppliers List” of the 200-plus vendors it uses to produce its products. A related post made the Cupertino, Calif.-based company’s commitment to lithium batteries clear, at least in the short term.
“Rechargeable, lithium-based technology currently provides the best performance for your Apple notebook computer, iPod, iPhone, or iPad,” the Apple post says.
Sony Energy Devices Corp. invented the lithium-ion battery in 1994. It was hailed as a breakthrough, providing longer battery life and without the “memory effect” that gradually reduced the effective capacity of previous types of batteries.
Since then, companies have gradually refined lithium battery technology but have not succeeded in moving beyond it. Indeed, early Tesla cars are actually powered by large packs of industry-standard lithium-ion battery cells — the same type of cells found in many laptop batteries.
And here is where it gets interesting.

Sharply increasing demand

The custom battery pack Tesla uses for its Tesla Model S. Inside are hundreds of lithium cells.
If electric car manufacturers begin ramping up production of lithium-ion battery-powered cars, the global demand for lithium will skyrocket. This could potentially come about at the same time for increasing demand for handheld consumer goods like tablets and laptops, Chung said, thus creating a perfect storm.
“So you want to start looking at other sources producing it with current supplies being called into question, if we move more toward production of electric cars,” Chung said.
Which is why, increasingly, eyes are turning to Afghanistan and its new purported lithium reserves, a country long referred to as the “graveyard of empires.” The U.S. invaded Afghanistan after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and according to iCasualties, 2,315 American servicemen and women have been killed there.
Analyst Jay Jacobs of Global X Funds in New York, which has interests in lithium mining, said demand for the compound is growing, and that “there are two regions that have been revealed to contain huge lithium reserves: Afghanistan and Bolivia.”
William Tahil, a respected lithium expert who lives in France and is the general director for Material International Research, argues that lithium deposits in Bolivia will at some point be depleted.
Jacobs was sanguine about safely extracting lithium from Afghanistan. He said political risks there were considerable.
“With that being said, should there be a substantial and sustained increase in demand for lithium, lithium miners may become increasingly interested in the country as it has an abundance of the resource,” Jacobs said.
It was the Soviets who first discovered the country’s deposits when they invaded in 1979. Soviet geologists began mapping Afghanistan’s lithium, gold, and potash fields but abandoned their efforts after the former communist superpower pulled out of the country in 1989.
But with a weak and corruption-plagued “central government,” Afghanistan is now ripe for the picking, Chossudovsky said. Indeed, the country is still very much divided into fiefdoms, with the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban, warlords, and drug traffickers controlling large swaths of the country — and using violence to advance their interests.
“There’s no question the mining companies will go in there. No question. There’s no real functioning government there to reap the foreign investment of the mineral deposits. This makes it all the more enticing to the mining companies because nobody in the government of [President] Hamid Karzai will be regulating the bonanza of lithium, so they can do what they want,” he said.

Jockeying for position

A lithium processing plant in Chile. Lithium is typically refined from vast piles of salts.
For its part, the U.S. government, which helped locate the lithium deposits using flyovers with a sensor-filled Lockheed P-3 Orion and teams of geologists fielding soil samples, knows a potential gold rush when it sees one. And it has no intention of being left on the sidelines. Especially since the Chinese are now — and quickly — making deals with Afghan pols for mineral rights to copper deposits.
The USGS did return multiple calls seeking comment. Nor did the Pentagon.
Despite what some say are the shortcomings of lithium-ion batteries, venture capitalists and investors continue pouring money into them. Amprius, a lithium battery maker based in Sunnyvale, Calif., snared a $30 million infusion round of investor cash in January.
Over at the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C., the Afghans are licking their lips at the potential lithium and mineral windfall despite the country’s continued conflict with a resurgent Taliban. What this may portend for the impoverished and war-torn nation is anybody’s guess. But the Afghans are playing up the finds — or they were, until recently.
“In recent years, headlines from the Afghan mineral sector have competed to outdo each other in scale: from the landmark $3 billion Chinese investment in the Aynak copper concession to the astounding survey work of the U.S., Afghan, and British Geological Services estimating anywhere between $1 trillion and $3 trillion in mineral potential, to the historic $11 billion deal now being finalized with an Indian consortium for the Hajigak iron ore concession,” said a posting on the Afghani Washington DC website.
The post has since been removed.
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S., Eklil Hakimi, presided over a press conference at the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C., on March 10, where he talked about the untapped deposits, along with reps from the USGS and other U.S. politicians.
But Hakimi, through a spokesman, told me he simply didn’t have the time to talk.
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jueves, 20 de marzo de 2014

JOHN TITOR VIAJERO DEL TIEMPO 2036 TODA LA INFORMACION

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