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Vintage ketch sets sail to launch slow cargo movement

New Dawn Traders project intended to find way of bringing goods back from South America under sail

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The sailing ship Irene, which will be used for the New Dawn Traders project, in dock at Plymouth, Devon. Photograph: SWNS.com

It spent years ferrying superstars and millionaires around the West Indies, but on Tuesday the sailing ship Irene will set off from Plymouth on what may turn out to be a more historic, and worthwhile, journey.

Over the next five months, Irene and its crew will carry organic beer from Devon to France, olive oil from Spain to Brazil and then – all being well – bring cocoa, coffee, Amazonian "superfoods" and rum from South America and the Caribbean back to the UK.

Admittedly, the ship's diesel engine will be fired up to allow it to chug in and out of harbours but, apart from that, it will use just the power of the trade winds to cross the Atlantic.

The hope is that, with this symbolic journey, Irene – a lovely wooden ketch built in Somerset in 1907 to transport bricks and tiles – will blaze a trail for wind-powered cargo ships.

The project, New Dawn Traders, was hatched by Jamie Pike, a Bristol environmentalist and champion of the slow food movement. He wanted to find a way of bringing goods back from South America under sail and approached Irene's owner, Leslie Morrish, a retired psychiatrist who spent years restoring the vessel and keeping it at sea.

The finances did not add up: it would have cost Pike £100,000 to charter the boat, a sum he simply did not have, but then Irene's captain, Laurance Ottley, met someone in the olive oil business and came up with the idea of sailing a consignment out to Brazil (which has a growing appetite for luxury goods thanks to a booming economy) and letting Pike fill the boat up with goods for the return trip.

Dropping off 2,500 bottles of organic ale from Devon for beer-loving Bretons was another wheeze designed to add profit to the enterprise.

A 10-strong international crew has been recruited, including a French paramedic and a Finnish shipwright. Morrish, now in his 70s, will be on board, as will Pike. Ottley, more used to dealing with the likes of Mick Jagger and Pierce Brosnan than a load of olive oil, will skipper the vessel.

For Pike, this trip, which begins on Valentine's Day, is about romance but also about getting an important environmental message out. "It's great to be doing this romantic trip on a lovely old ship," he said. "But there's a bigger debate to be had about shipping in general. Is there an alternative to huge polluting cargo ships? We want to help launch that debate."

Pike hopes, on the back of Irene's voyage, to set up a For Sail mark that can be used by traders to show goods were moved by wind.

There are some interesting schemes in the offing aimed at creating wind-powered cargo vessels. A British company called B9 Shipping, for example, is aiming to produce a fleet of Flagships of the Future – cargo ships using wind and renewable energy. Sailors in France and the Netherlands are hatching schemes similar to the New Dawn Traders. On a local level, there are examples in south-west England of goods being moved up river and along the coast by sail.

Another member of Irene's crew, Lucy Gilliam, a former government environmental scientist, said she hoped the voyage could help provide a "narrative" for the story of trade by wind power.

"People aren't really aware of the damage these huge cargo ships are doing to the planet," she said. "There needs to be a great story to get a popular movement going. People are inspired by tall ships. There's something magical in seeing a tall ship in a harbour or at sea."

Ottley pondered whether this particular voyage really can make money. "The bottom line is you are never in profit with this sort of vessel," he said. "It's an exercise in mitigating the cost. If we can make the same amount of money moving these specialist cargoes around as we could taking rich people out sailing, it will have been a success."

The journey is bound to have its discomforts. The beer and then the olive oil will be jammed into the spacious saloon and two of the cabins, meaning less room for the crew. Food will have to be rationed carefully, and there has already been talk of the problems of cockroaches and weevils.

But, unabated, the crew cannot wait to get underway – and some are already imagining a glorious return to the harbourside in Bristol on a June weekend with a cargo that has been brought to the UK under sail across the Atlantic.

And according to Ottley, Irene, at least, is ready for the challenge. He spent seven years on board the boat, pottering around the Caribbean with a cargo of the super-rich on board, and said: "Occasionally I sensed Irene was thinking: 'What is all this rubbish?'

"I believe it'll be happier doing what it's designed to do rather than pampering to the desires of billionaires. It will be doing proper work again."

The history of Irene

Built by FJ Carver and Son in Bridgwater, Somerset, Irene is believed to be the last West Country trading ketch still under sail.

For years she belonged to the Bridgwater Brick and Tile Company, carrying cargoes between Somerset and Ireland.

In 1965 she was found derelict by her current owner, Leslie Morrish. He took Irene to Brentford in Middlesex (colliding with Hammersmith Bridge en route and shutting the bridge in the rush hour), where she was restored and used as a houseboat. She was a charter vessel in the Caribbean until she sank after a fire in 2003.re-floated,

Restored again, she will carry goods, not pleasure-seekers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/13/new-dawn-traders-slow-cargo-sail

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

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Date: Tuesday, 14-Feb-2012 04:18:28

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France 14th February 2012 By Anthony Gucciardi Contributing Writer for Wake Up World In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. The grain grower, Paul Francois, says he developed neurological problems such as memory loss and headaches after being exposed to Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller back in 2004. The monumental case paves the way for legal action against Monsanto’s Roundup and other harmful herbicides and pesticides made by other manufacturers. In a ruling given by a court in Lyon (southeast France), Francois says that Monsanto failed to provide proper warnings on the product label. The court ordered an expert opinion to determine the sum of the damages, and to verify the link between Lasso and the reported illnesses. The case is extremely READ MORE: http://wakeup-world.com/2012/02/14/monsanto-found-guilty-of-chemical-poisoning-in-france/

Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - February 13, 2012

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Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - February 13, 2012

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Date: Monday, 13-Feb-2012 23:18:20

Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - February 13, 2012 Adversity is the challenge many of you are facing today. An obstacle has been placed in your path and we see so many of you making the choice to remove it and continue on in your service, clearheaded and undeterred from the momentary confusion and work stoppage. There are those of you who have chosen to deviate from the course and move around this obstacle by forging a new path for yourself. We salute you as well as we have always assured you we honor and respect each and every choice you make. All paths will eventually lead to the light, there can be no other way, and these individuals too will find their way by way of the new trail they are clearing. We wish at this time to discuss with you, our dedicated Lightworkers, what a great job you are all doing. We see you all giving your tremendous efforts to fulfill your assignments and we say bravo for your efforts to persevere in the face of never ending challenges and tests of your strength and resolve. We believed when you were selected for this mission that you would not let anything stand in your way of its successful completion, and we see this now clearly as a wise choice. Continue on undeterred by seemingly confusing matters around you, as your entire experience through 3D has been rather puzzling and confusing at times, has it not? You are all Masters at navigating this mazelike experience and you have today almost reached the end and will emerge out of it into the light. Nothing can stop you or slow you now, as you have built up a powerful head of steam and many obstacles have already been cleared from your tracks up ahead. Have confidence and faith you will reach the station of your destination. Moving on to matters concerning your nemesis the dark Cabal, we, the Galactic Federation of Light, continue to dismantle their war machine day by day, hour by hour. It is a beautiful sight to behold. Piece by piece their once seemingly formidable cache of soldiers and weaponry has been systematically and assuredly disassembled, leaving but scattered and fragmented pieces in discord and confusion. Those that remain to continue to battle see defeat as an inescapable conclusion to their campaign and wait in fear at when their time will come to face justice, and it will. The leaders of these fighting forces are next after their lines of defense are swept up like so many pieces of broken glass. They too must know their turn is next and today feel less bravado and thirst for war and conquest than fear, worry and shame for their actions. They now worry so about being taken away from their families and friends, yet this is their karma, this is the path they chose to learn the same lessons we all must learn, but for some of us, in different ways. All will be treated fairly and humanely, this is our way, even if it is not theirs. Their bosses too will be rounded up and incarcerated to face justice for the acts, and we will not stop until your world is purified of those who have plotted and schemed to enslave you, our brothers and sisters. This is the way it must be, as the path must be cleared for a peaceful reunion with us as there is so little time left before your big moment and there is still much to be accomplished together. How can we successfully work together with the Cabal continually conspiring against you and us? They must be removed, and we, along with our Earth allies, are seeing to this task at this time. With your continued patience we will succeed in this effort. We edge closer to this inevitable conclusion every moment of every day. We do not take breaks from our mission, and there are no days that are not filled with forward progress although we clearly realize that from your vantage point it may appear matters are not proceeding. This is due to your news media blackouts of the truth of what is transpiring, as well as a need for certain levels of secrecy from our side of the struggle. In the days ahead this veil of secrecy will be lifted and all will be shared with you as no subject will be off-limits. This is the new way of your new world. No secret or mystery large or small will be kept from you any longer. This is but one of the positive attributes of a Galactic society, as the free flow of information is paramount to its proper functioning. Knowledge has been purposely kept from you for eons on orders from the dark ones to keep you under their control, but as their control slips away more each day, you also are experiencing far greater and more efficient means to the free flow of information between yourselves. Do you see how these two events correlate? Do you see how one is affecting the other? This is why the dark fear so greatly the free flow of information and your right of free speech, and this is why slowly over many long years they have chipped away at your rights, and they feared so greatly this day that has now come. Still to this day they desperately try to steal away your rights of free speech and communication, but they are hitting one stonewall after another as you, the people, are no longer willing to barter your rights and your freedoms for their false promises of their protection. So many of you now see that you have never needed their protection as you have no enemies but them. They are the ones who have attacked you time and again and have placed the blame on your brothers and sisters who have also been relentlessly attacked by them, and at you the finger was pointed. So many of you now see this clearly and refuse to be a participant in this game any longer. This game will now be stopped as you command and we will assist you in this regard. This is one of the tasks we are better suited for than you, and this is one of the major reasons we are here at this time in service to you. Keep on the lookout for news of the arrests of leaders of the criminal cabal. We have assured you these arrests will take place, and we will not fail to live up to our word. Our allies are in place to begin these mass arrests and all await the final signal to proceed. As we have said, these events will be covered by certain members of your media and you will find coverage of these events as they transpire. We will make sure of this. We see so many of you monitoring your news outlets and this pleases us greatly as we see so many of you keeping such perfect pace with each and every phase of our mission. We see so many of you informing another of the latest events, and we are so impressed with your teamwork in this, as well as so many other areas. It was not too long ago in your history when so many of you were not able to come together in common cause such as you are now, but we see how greatly you all have advanced individually, as well as a powerful collective force, and we see you gaining momentum and strength every day. We see you not stopping until your new world comes bursting through the surface for you all. We see this day, and we wish for you to visualize it as well, as this is your goal that is so clearly within your reach. Do not stop and do not slow, as you have all the momentum today that you will ever need to bring your new world into your hands. You are almost there, we know so many of you can feel it, and we know you will not let this opportunity and all your many long years of hard work go for naught. We admire greatly your courage and your strength and your will to strive forward in the face of such unrelenting adversity, and we applaud your continued efforts and tell you great beings of immense power are being forged by your will to succeed in your epic struggle against the dark. We are the Galactic Federation of Light. As channeled through Greg Giles http://ascensionearth2012.blogspot.com

A Ben Fulford's Response to the Open Letter

A response from Ben Fulford to: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-letter-to-ben-fulford-from.html

Hi John,

 

Had a chat with Ben... Here is his responses... Go ahead and share with the Blog.

 

D.

Fulford Benjamin to
リサこれを載せてください。

Dear D.

You are right to be cynical because we still see those crooks on TV every day and they still sit in the public seats of power. However, you need to understand that this situation is restricted to countries still controlled by the Khazarian mob and that includes the US, the UK, France, Italy and Germany. The rest of the world is trying to isolate them. You can see visible evidence in that in the form of the plunge this year in the Baltic Dry Index which measures the price of physically shipping goods. It has plunged due to an international boycott of Khazarian controlled countries. The IMF, the so-called lender of last resort in the world also still has no money, which is also proof that something fundamental has changed at the top of the financial system.
As far as arrests are concerned, when I asked a pentagon "white hat" why people like Kissinger and Bush were still not in jail he said "because they are guarded by 30,000 armed men."
Remember, they want to start WW3 and we want to prevent it. That means that we must use non-violent means. What we are doing is cutting off their money because mercenaries are only mercenary when they are paid to be that way. It is taking a long time and I also feel impatient. That is why I named specific individuals in my latest news letter. I told the pentagon and agency white hats that it is like a rotten stump that just needs a good kick to knock it over. Their answer was they were waiting for it to fall over by itself. Nonetheless, when they least expect it the cabalists will be brought to justice, I guarantee that even though we cannot give an explicit date for this to happen.
The Euro crisis and the 23% unemployment rate in the US are signs it will collapse. You may also notice that Ron Paul put out an article on his site by David Wilcock that talks about the ongoing financial war.
As far as the chemical attacks are concerned remember this is mainly fear-mongering. Do you actually see people sick and dying like you would if there was a real plague? The answer is no because they are just using scare tactics. Fear is their greatest weapon, love is the antidote.

Best regards,

Benjamin Fulford

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Thank you Ben for the response...

I have heard on many occasions that Bush and his bunch are in control of trillions of $$$. We may be waiting for a long long time for them to run out of $$$.

If the IMF is broke.... are the prosperity packages and the RV still going to happen somehow??

Can I share this with John Mchaffie??

My Best,
D.

_______________________________________

 

Hi D.,

 

Please share it if you wish. The problem with Bush and the Nazis is that the black budget and black ops are supported by drug money that is hard to cut off. We are negotiating with these people and trying to integrate the black budget with the public one and get the military industrial complex on board. This is taking time but concrete negotiations are taking place and proceeding well.
We have reached the level where we are dealing with individual personalities. Please remember that if you wish to negotiate the surrender of the Nazis, you have to negotiate with a Nazi. There is no way around this other than to kill them all and that would just start WW3 which is what they want. Nonetheless, we may have to arrest some of these criminals in order to break the logjam.

 

Benjamin Fulford

 

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Hi again Ben,

One last qustion...

Is the prosperity packages, and RV still going to happen somehow??

 

D.

 ____________________________________

 

Hi D,

 

We will try to make something like that happen sooner rather than later.

 

Benjamin Fulford

Perpetrator of Maine Vote Fraud caught red-handed

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Perpetrator of Maine Vote Fraud caught red-handed with faked totals-- Of course the media ignores....

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Monday, 13-Feb-2012 22:36:39

I just called the Maine GOP Submitted by MattMcDonald on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:05. I served as the Chairman of my Caucus in Belfast and I just called the State office to make sure they had the numbers from Belfast and the number they had wasn't not even close to the actually vote [sic]. They said that Romney won, when in fact Ron Paul won. This is happening all over Maine. http://www.dailypaul.com/213628/i-called-maine-gop#comment-2... what I did Submitted by MattMcDonald on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 16:37. What I did was give her the right numbers, and then called the Vice-Chairperson of my caucus to let her know what happened. The person at the Maine GOP office didn't sound really interested in what I had to say until I told her that we publicly counted the ballots in our caucus, then her ears perked up. link: http://www.dailypaul.com/213709/rp-supporting-chairman-of-belfast-caucus-in-maine-calls-state-gop-to-confirm-vote-tally-s-not-even-close-to-the-actual-vo

The Only ONE Who Can Defeat Obama

Subject: The Only ONE Who Can Defeat Obama

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