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    Default CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

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    Hi, All:

    I featured Ed Kashi's powerful short film CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD in my recent video presentation. His film is about the unseen 40-year old oil catastrophe in Nigeria.





    The film, which I added on to the end of my own video with permission, starts at 16:27 and lasts for 8 minutes. You must see this if you've not yet done so.

    I'm now honored to be in direct touch with Ed. Here is a 30 minute audio interview I've just done with him:

    http://projectavalon.net/Ed_Kashi_Bi..._July_2010.mp3

    Here are two sites to check out: He's a remarkable man. Enjoy this very high quality visual work.

    http://edkashi.com

    http://curseoftheblackgoldbook.com


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    Default CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

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    More images from Ed Kashi's film:

























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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

    Wow, those photos are quite sobering. Thanks for continuing to bring attention to this. I'm definitely going to watch this when I get home this evening.

    It's a shame that such a monumental disaster goes largely unnoticed; I haven't even heard of it until your recent thread.

    It comes as no surprise though. Even many people here in the states are brushing off the Gulf oil disaster as a minor incident that they need not concern themselves with. Unfortunately people don't seem to care until disaster beats down their front door and makes itself at home.
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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

    What a crying shame....thanks for bringing this to us...for I was totally unaware...and I see now that you mentioned it that as of yesterday MSN news tells of one of these spills now in China...it now appears this will be the new plague of the times...could be our downfall....what is it that we can do individually to help in some way? Bombard our elected officals with emails....calls and letters? Stop purchasing gas from said oil companies? Pray...send love.....light....wishes of enlightment to all...in hopes of raising the consciouness level to a higher vibration and rid us of this evil plight? Thank You Bill for opening my eyes even more.
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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

    a learning experience, indeed.
    ed's film is powerful, extremely enlightening and instructive.
    when corrupted government colludes with big business, the citizenry suffer.
    'a hungry man is an angry man.'
    thanks, bill.

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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

    Hello Bill

    Once again many thanks for the enlightenment, I imagine like many others I had no idea of this terrible disaster for the citizens of the Niger Delta. It seems even though I gather my news online through world news organizations, we are never told the full story.

    Ed’s film is really a graphic tragedy of immense proportions and we can only pray for the day when these companies so full of avarice are brought to their knees. Perhaps it’s the time to pose the question: do we really need crude oil and the products thereof to sustain life as we know it? It might just be that we should reconsider ‘life’ as a whole and return to a simpler more caring and sharing society. JP

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    Bill, Thank you very much for share this reality in the Delta Niger whit us. I had never heard of this environmental disaster in Africa before. You're doing a wonderful job. Make me aware about this matter. Congratulations, Monique.
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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

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    Hi, All:

    My 30 minute audio interview with Ed Kashi is now available here - recorded today.

    I think it's a good one: essential listening for anyone who cares about how we continue to systematically trash Planet Earth.

    http://projectavalon.net/Ed_Kashi_Bi..._July_2010.mp3

    Do visit Ed's sites for some powerful and graphic photographs:

    http://edkashi.com
    http://curseoftheblackgoldbook.com

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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

    Thanks, Bill. You certainly don't see this on the local news.

    I pity these people that their greed and lust for money can allow them to do such damage. To allow their fellow man to suffer as they do. To watch the earth that sustains them go to hell in a handbasket.
    In the most profound way they must be poverty stricken indeed.

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    Excellent interview.
    It's about time to shift the thought habits from "them" to "us".
    This is not happening to "them over there".
    It's happening to US, wherever we are.

    Well spoken, you can feel his passion.

    Keep fighting the good fight, Ed.

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    Quote Posted by CuppaJoe (here)
    It's happening to US, wherever we are.
    EXACTLY.

    (Welcome to the forum, CJ!)

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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

    just listened to the nterview, good stuff, he could be useful in bridgeing the gap between the "alternative media" and trhe main stream with regards to the free energy movement. he mentioned nuclear , wind and solar power which is all the general public seem to think we have as an alternative.Wouldnt it be a good time as any to get the information out on hydrogen(water cars) and magnetic motor devices like john searls, even if we jsut get hte general population talking about this stuff and thinking about it thats a good start.

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    Thank you bill,this needs to be spread out big time all over,bill is there a way you can do a video interview with him at all?That would be awesome to put on the youtubes facebooks and the likes.

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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

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    To CNN's credit, the situation in the Niger Delta was reported here today:

    http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...iref=allsearch

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    Just watched it bill tks,i wish there a way to share that video i didnt find an option in there to do so?

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    HELLO BILL... bill i was browsing david ickes website....headlines,,it seems the media is still giving matt simmons credibility on the gulf leak...its a quick video might wanna have alook at it..also i would sincerely like to here your opinion on this vid,what baffles me there is no info regarding this latest video on the oil drum sight,might be worth having a peak at....love light and abundance ....thirdeye....

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    Just watched it bill tks,i wish there a way to share that video i didnt find an option in there to do so?
    Hi there - just send your friends the link!

    http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...iref=allsearch

    (Click on it to open it, and then copy it to get the whole thing....)

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    HELLO BILL... bill i was browsing david ickes website....headlines,,it seems the media is still giving matt simmons credibility on the gulf leak...its a quick video might wanna have alook at it..also i would sincerely like to here your opinion on this vid,what baffles me there is no info regarding this latest video on the oil drum sight,might be worth having a peak at....love light and abundance ....thirdeye....
    Happy to comment, but I can't see the video you were referencing on David's site.

    For the moment, I can offer my fairly well-informed opinion that Matt Simmons is certainly wrong, as I wrote on 20 July on the Project Avalon blog.

    http://projectavalon.net

    By now you will have seen reliable reports that much of the oil in the Gulf is no longer visible. Although Corexit (the dispersant) has done 'taken care' of a lot of that (out of sight, out of mind, and also [probably] allowing BP to escape much heavier financial penalties), this also looks like confirmation that the wild well has indeed been capped and there is no "open hole" anywhere else.

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    Default Re: CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD : what's really happening in the Niger Delta

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    My audio interview with photojournalist and film maker Ed Kashi has been converted into a YouTube video (with a running slideshow of graphic images):

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8i2SdYxaBk

    The original MP3 is here:

    http://projectavalon.net/Ed_Kashi_Bi..._July_2010.mp3



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    Sorry i can't bring the full story but is in "guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 August 2010 18.36 BST"
    Monique.

    Outrage at UN decision to exonerate Shell for oil pollution in Niger delta
    • Oil giant blamed for 10% of 9m barrels leaked in 40 years
    • Report claims rest of leaking oil caused by saboteurs

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