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THE NUTRIMEDICAL REPORT SHOW --- FRIDAY JANUARY 13TH 2012
HOUR ONE FIRING LINE SPECIAL -- MICHELLE AND DR BILL DEAGLE MD -- ANSWERS TO YOUR WELLNESS QUESTIONS AND MUCH MORE... !!
HOUR TWO WELLNESS NUTRIMEDS -- NEW PROTOCOLS >>
---- PARKINSON'S DISEASE WELLNESS
---- CANCER CACHEXIA SUPPORT WELLNESS
---- BRAIN MEMORY ENHANCEMENT WELLNESS
---- RADIATION AND RF RADIOFREQUENCY PROTECTION WELLNESS
HOUR THREE PREPAREDNESS AND EARTH CHANGES PANEL >>
---- JOHN MOORE WWW.THELIBERTYMAN.COM --- LATEST IN PREPAREDNESS, EARTH CHANGES AND IMPENDING CLOSURE OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
---- ANN MORRISON WWW.HOMELAND-DEFENSE4U.COM --- EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANO UPDATE -- RADIOIODINE AND PLUTONIUM FROM FUKUSHIMA IMPERILING THE OZONE HOLE IN THE ARTIC AND RADIATION DETECTED IN EASTERN EUROPE REPORT JAN 6TH 2012 FROM JAN 1ST 2012 EARTHQUAKE AND MOX 4 REACTOR PIPE BREAK AND NUCLEAR CRITICAL REACTIONS
----- ROBERT FELIX WWW.ICEAGENOW.INFO --- LATEST ON ICE AGE INCREASE GLOBAL RAINFALL AND COOLING DATA SINCE 2000 --- FAMINE AND CROP FAILURES LIKELY WITH DROUGT AND EXCESSIVE RAINS AND MIXED UP WEATHER PATTERNS AROUND THE WORLD
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HOUR ONE FIRING LINE SPECIAL -- MICHELLE AND DR BILL DEAGLE MD -- ANSWERS TO YOUR WELLNESS QUESTIONS AND MUCH MORE... !!
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By James Gallagher Health reporter, BBC News
 Can bacon increase the risk of cancer?
A link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden.
They said eating an extra 50g of processed meat, approximately one sausage, every day would increase a person's risk by 19%.
But the chance of developing the rare cancer remains low.
The World Cancer Research Fund suggested the link may be down to obesity.
Eating red and processed meat has already been linked to bowel cancer. As a result the UK government recommended in 2011 that people eat no more than 70g a day.
Prof Susanna Larsson, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute, told the BBC that links to other cancers were "quite controversial".
She added: "It is known that eating meat increases the risk of colorectal cancer, it's not so much known about other cancers."
The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, analysed data from 11 trials and 6,643 patients with pancreatic cancer.
Hazel Nunn from Cancer Research UK: ''The increased risk was found only in processed meat''
Increased risk
It found that eating processed meat increased the risk of pancreatic cancer. The risk increased by 19% for every 50g someone added to their daily diet. Having an extra 100g would increase the risk by 38%.
Prof Larsson said: "Pancreatic cancer has poor survival rates. So as well as diagnosing it early, it's important to understand what can increase the risk of this disease."
She recommended that people eat less red meat.
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Unexplained weight loss
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Abdominal pain (often described as a dull, gnawing ache that spreads to the back, which may becomes worse if the patient eats)
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Fever and shivering
Cancer Research UK said the risk of developing pancreatic cancer in a lifetime was "comparatively small" - one in 77 for men and one in 79 for women.
Sara Hiom, the charity's information director, said: "The jury is still out as to whether meat is a definite risk factor for pancreatic cancer and more large studies are needed to confirm this, but this new analysis suggests processed meat may be playing a role."
However, she pointed out that smoking was a much greater risk factor.
The World Cancer Research Fund has advised people to completely avoid processed meat.
Dr Rachel Thompson, the fund's deputy head of science, said: "We will be re-examining the factors behind pancreatic cancer later this year as part of our Continuous Update Project, which should tell us more about the relationship between cancer of the pancreas and processed meat.
"There is strong evidence that being overweight or obese increases the risk of pancreatic cancer and this study may be an early indication of another factor behind the disease.
"Regardless of this latest research, we have already established a strong link between eating red and processed meat and your chances of developing bowel cancer, which is why WCRF recommends limiting intake of red meat to 500g cooked weight a week and avoid processed meat altogether."
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HOUR TWO WELLNESS NUTRIMEDS -- NEW PROTOCOLS >>
---- PARKINSON'S DISEASE WELLNESS
---- CANCER CACHEXIA SUPPORT WELLNESS
---- BRAIN MEMORY ENHANCEMENT WELLNESS
---- RADIATION AND RF RADIOFREQUENCY PROTECTION WELLNESS
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Parkinson's Disease Support Wellness Program...
CORE PROTOCOLS >>
Carnosine one capsule three times per day
NutriDefense two capsules three times per day
ReGENEREX one caspule three times per day
Cell Defense one capsule three times per day
MyCoD2 two capsules two times per day
Cognition ignition two caps three times per day
Synaptin one capsule three times per day
Norival one capsule three times per day
Natural Source Gamma-E with Tocopherols one softgel three times per day
NutriTRALA one tablet three times per day
Cell Detox Glutathione two tablets twice per day
ADVANCED PROTOCOLS >>
OMEGA SUPREME or Omega 3 6 9 two softgels three times per day
NeuroGEN two softgels three times per day
Neuherin one capsule the times per day
Omnicholine two capsules three times per day
CDP Choline one capsules three times per day
AlliThiamine one caspule three times per day
Uridine Monophosphate 300 mg one capsule three times per day
BH4 Biopterin Mood Balance one capsule three times per day
NutriPHOS two capsules three times per day
ChelorMAX two capsules three times per day
GreenTea Supreme one capsule three times per day
COMPLETE PROTOCOLS >>
I.C.E. INFRARED CELLULAR EXERCISE -- LUMEN PHOTON
M.I.C.E. MAGNETIC INDUCED CELLULAR EXERCISE -- PEMF PMT100 PULSE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY
WWW.HYPERBARIC-DIVES.COM -- MILD HYPERBARIC 1.3 ATMOSPHERES DAILY
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Disclaimer: All of the material is not intended to replace the attention or advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare professional. The protocols presented here are one opinion of an integrated approach to investigation and metabolic support with conventional medical approaches to numerous conditions. They should always undertaken with the supervision of physician of other qualified health professional, and I strongly recommend that you verify every recommendation with the current literature and the rapidly evolving art and science of molecular preventive medicine. The biochemical individuality of each human being is paramount. The necessity of blood, urine, stool and tissue testing is essential to tailoring each program to suit the needs of each person who wishes to embark on this journey from a unique state of unwellness and disease to wellness and health. |
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Cancer Cachexia Recovery Wellness Protocols >>
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Cancer cachexia is a result of cancer metabolic production of cytokines that block centrally appetite and cause wasting syndrome.
CORE PROTOCOL >>
AgeLess and Life Support - two scoops each three times per day in fruite smoothie
MalignArrest one packet in smoothie twice per day
MalignaBlock two caspules three times per day
Ellagic Acid three caspules three times per day
NutriDefense two capsules three times per day
VitaMineralMAX two capsules three times per day
Power C PLUS 10 capsules three times per day -- open in smoothie
Full Vitamin K2 6 capsules three times per day -- open in smoothie
BoneGenerator 6 capsules twice per day after largest meals or in smoothie
MyCell D3 20 drops twice per day in smoothie
CollageMAX two capsules twice per day
Mountain Red Deer Velvet four capsules three times per day
OmegaSupreme two softgels three times per day
NutriPHOS two softgels three times per day
MyCoD2 two capsules twice per day
NutriTRALA one tablet three times per day
Cell Detox Glutathione two tablets twice per day
ADVANCED PROTOCOL >>
ImmunoMAX one tspn in smoothie twice per day
Coriolus Versicolor one to two capsules three times per day
GastroZyme one to two capsules three times per day with meals and snacks
DigestEase one capsule before all meals
Living Probiotics two capsules three times per day
Living Probiotic Ultra one capsule every second day
Serraflazyme three to four tablets three times per day
COMPLETE PROTOCOL >>
LUMEN Photon settings 7 and NICO 60 minutes over primary and secondary sites
PEMF PMT100 - Pulse Electromagnetic Field Therapy
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Targets in clinical oncology: the metabolic environment of the patient
Josep M. Argilés, Sílvia Busquets, Rodrigo Moore-Carrasco, Maite Figueras, Vanessa Almendro and Francisco J. López-Soriano
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Figure 1. The metabolic "puzzle" between the tumour cells and the patient. The three main metabolic trends associated with cancer cachexia are: (1) lactate recycling between the liver and the tumoural mass, (2) lipid mobilization from adipose tissue, and (3) muscle waste basically caused by enhanced protein degradation.
Figure 2.Main cachexia markers. Both circulating and tissular parameters can be used as a markers for cachexia. In addition, there are also non-invasive markers which may help to diagnose cancer-associated wasting.
Figure 3.Cancer cachexia: factors involved. Cancer cachexia is a complex pathological condition characterized by many metabolic changes involving numerous organs. These changes are triggered by alterations in the hormonal milieu, release of different tumour factors and a systemic inflammatory reaction characterized by cytokine production and release.
Figure 4.Catabolic mediators in cancer. Both tumour-derived and humoural (cytokines) factors are involved in mediating anorexia and metabolic changes, characteristic of the cachectic state.
Figure 5.Cytokines can mimic most metabolic alterations. Most of the metabolic alterations present during cancer cachexia can be mimicked by pro-inflammatory cytokines. WAT: white adipose tissue.
Figure 6.Interactions between PIF and pro-inflammatory (catabolic) cytokines. Both humoural (TNF and IL-6) and tumoural (PIF) factors have been shown to be able to activate intracellular muscle proteolysis by different mechanisms, possibly sharing common pathways.
Figure 7.Metabolic targets of the different drugs employed for the treatment of cachexia. Therapeutical approaches to fight cachexia are based on either counteracting anorexia, by means of increasing food intake, or neutralizing metabolic abnormalities associated with the cachectic state. Among the optimal targets, blocking protein degradation in skeletal muscle is a promising strategy that will depend on the discovery of specific inhibitors of the proteasome system in skeletal muscle.
Figure 8. Cytokine balance and the cachectic syndrome. The balance between pro-inflammatory (pro-cachectic), their soluble receptors and the anti-inflammatory (anti-cachectic) cytokines plays a key role in the development of the cachectic syndrome.
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Disclaimer: All of the material is not intended to replace the attention or advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare professional. The protocols presented here are one opinion of an integrated approach to investigation and metabolic support with conventional medical approaches to numerous conditions. They should always undertaken with the supervision of physician of other qualified health professional, and I strongly recommend that you verify every recommendation with the current literature and the rapidly evolving art and science of molecular preventive medicine. The biochemical individuality of each human being is paramount. The necessity of blood, urine, stool and tissue testing is essential to tailoring each program to suit the needs of each person who wishes to embark on this journey from a unique state of unwellness and disease to wellness and health. |
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Brain Memory Functional Performance Enhancement AntiAging Program >>
CORE PROTOCOL >>
Brain Power one capsule two to three times per day
Cognition Ignition Two caps three times per day
Synaptin one cap three times per day
Cell Defense two tablets three times per day
CDP Choline or Omnicholine one to two caps three times per day
Omnicholine one capsule three times per day
Allithiamine one capsule three times per day
Uridine Monophosphate 300 mg one capsule three times per day
NutriPHOS two softgels three times per day
Omega Supreme two softgels twice per day
NeuroGEN three softgels twice per day
ADVANCED PROTOCOL >>
CALMind one to two scoops two to four times per day
VitaMineralMAX one to two capsules with each meal
IndiumEase 1 drop per 50 pounds weight under tongue AM and Bedtimes without food or drink for 20 minutes
VisionMAX one twice per day
AntiAgeMAX one three times per day
SuperNOX one three times per day or VascuNOX 1 tspn three times per day in filtered or distilled water NutriTRALA one three times per day
CoQ10 Supreme one three times per day
Natural Source Gamma-E with Tocopherols one softgel three times per day
Power Methyl B12 one tab twice per day
Super Folate one capsule twice per day
COMPLETE PROTOCOL >>
SAMethyl one sachet twice per day in juice
NutriTRALA one tablet three times per day
Cell Detox Glutathione one to two tablets twice per day
IGA + one capsule three times per day
Neuherin one capsule two to three times per day
Methylation Enzyme Activators one capsule twice per day
ENERGETIC AND STEM CELL THREAPIES >> LUMEN PHOTON SETTINGS 7 AND NICO 30 MINUTES EACH TWICE PER DAY - INFRARED INDUCED CELLULAR EXERCISE AND REGENERATION
PMT100 PEMF PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY - 9 MINUTES TO HEAD DAILY LOW POWER LEVELS WITH BUTTERFLY ELECTRODES
STEM CELL THERAPY -- LIPOSUCTION SEPARATED STEM CELL I.V. INFUSION PERIPHERALLY TO HELP REGENERATE NEW NEURAL CONNECTION - NETWORK OF US CLINICS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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Disclaimer: All of the material is not intended to replace the attention or advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare professional. The protocols presented here are one opinion of an integrated approach to investigation and metabolic support with conventional medical approaches to numerous conditions. They should always undertaken with the supervision of physician of other qualified health professional, and I strongly recommend that you verify every recommendation with the current literature and the rapidly evolving art and science of molecular preventive medicine. The biochemical individuality of each human being is paramount. The necessity of blood, urine, stool and tissue testing is essential to tailoring each program to suit the needs of each person who wishes to embark on this journey from a unique state of unwellness and disease to wellness and health. |
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Disclaimer: All of the material is not intended to replace the attention or advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare professional. The protocols presented here are one opinion of an integrated approach to investigation and metabolic support with conventional medical approaches to numerous conditions. They should always undertaken with the supervision of physician of other qualified health professional, and I strongly recommend that you verify every recommendation with the current literature and the rapidly evolving art and science of molecular preventive medicine. The biochemical individuality of each human being is paramount. The necessity of blood, urine, stool and tissue testing is essential to tailoring each program to suit the needs of each person who wishes to embark on this journey from a unique state of unwellness and disease to wellness and health. |
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HOUR THREE PREPAREDNESS AND EARTH CHANGES PANEL >>
---- JOHN MOORE WWW.THELIBERTYMAN.COM --- LATEST IN PREPAREDNESS, EARTH CHANGES AND IMPENDING CLOSURE OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
---- ANN MORRISON WWW.HOMELAND-DEFENSE4U.COM --- EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANO UPDATE -- RADIOIODINE AND PLUTONIUM FROM FUKUSHIMA IMPERILING THE OZONE HOLE IN THE ARTIC AND RADIATION DETECTED IN EASTERN EUROPE REPORT JAN 6TH 2012 FROM JAN 1ST 2012 EARTHQUAKE AND MOX 4 REACTOR PIPE BREAK AND NUCLEAR CRITICAL REACTIONS
----- ROBERT FELIX WWW.ICEAGENOW.INFO --- LATEST ON ICE AGE INCREASE GLOBAL RAINFALL AND COOLING DATA SINCE 2000 --- FAMINE AND CROP FAILURES LIKELY WITH DROUGT AND EXCESSIVE RAINS AND MIXED UP WEATHER PATTERNS AROUND THE WORLD
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Ahmadinejad: Iran will respond 'firmly' to a U.S. strike
Iranian president returns home after a five-day tour of Latin America; says embargoes and sanctions have had no effect on Iran.
By DPATags: Mahmoud AhmadinejadIran USIran threatIran nuclear
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday vowed that Iran would stand up to growing international pressure over its nuclear program and threatened to "respond" to attacks.
"Embargoes and sanctions against Iran have had no effect," Ahmadinejad said in an interview in Quito with Mexican television network Televisa.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to reporters as he departs Quito, Ecuador, Friday Jan. 13, 2012.
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"Naturally, if the United States wants to disturb, damage and strike the Iranian people, the Iranian people also stand very strong. It will respond firmly," he said.
Ahmadinejad left Ecuador Friday to return home after a five-day tour of Latin America, which also took him to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. The trip was seen as an attempt to side-step growing international tensions and find new markets as the European Union considers an outright embargo on Iranian oil.
Over the course of his trip, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied suspicion that Iran aims to make a nuclear weapon, growing concern in the international community after Iran opened a second uranium enrichment site.
"We have shown the best cooperation with the international (Atomic Energy) agency," Ahmadinejad declared. "The Iranian nuclear problem is totally political. It is clear that the United States is looking for a pretext to put a brake on the progress of the Iranian people."
On Thursday, the United States imposed a new round of sanctions on firms in China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with Iran, turning up the heat.
The timing of the move heightened the all-out global push by Washington and the European Union to get Iran to stop enriching uranium and start cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been in China and Japan this week to push for more pressure. Japan has agreed to decrease Iranian crude oil imports in stages, but China was more skeptical.
The European Union is to consider an outright embargo on Iranian oil on January 23.
Iran has retaliated to the growing pressure with threats to block oil transport through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries a large part of Middle East oil to the rest of the world.
Tensions grew even more when an Iranian scientist connected to the nuclear program was killed Wednesday in a car bomb explosion in Tehran, the third scientist to have been killed since 2010. Iran charged that Israel and the United States were behind the killing.
The United States has denied complicity.
While in Latin America, Ahmadinejad met with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and other officials. Correa noted that he believes Iran's denial that they are developing nuclear weapons.
On Wednesday, Ahmadinejad met with Cuban President Raul Castro and with his brother, historic Cuban leader Fidel. On Tuesday, he attended the inauguration of Daniel Ortega for a further four-year mandate as Nicaraguan president, and on Monday he met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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'Iran supplying Assad with arms for crackdown on protests'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
01/14/2012 08:02
Senior US officials say that the recent visit of senior Quds force official to Damascus is "strongest indication" that Iran is supplying Assad with weapons, AFP reports.
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A recent visit of the heads of the Quds force to Syria is the "strongest indication yet" that Iran is supplying the Assad regime with weapons, AFP quoted a senior US official as saying Saturday.
Major-General Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds force, visited Syria this month, AFP reported. "We think this relates to Iranian support for the Syrian government's attempts to suppress its people," the senior US official said.
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“We are confident that he was received at the highest levels of the Syrian government, including by President Assad,” the official said on condition of anonymity. “The US government believes Iran has supplied Syria with munitions” for use in the military crackdown.
The United States has long suspected Iran of supplying Damascus with weapons as Assad struggles to cope with mass protests against his rule.
Earlier in the week, Turkish customs officials intercepted four trucks suspected of carrying military equipment from Iran to Syria.
Iran officially denied reports about arms shipments to Syria. A statement by the Iranian embassy in Turkey obtained by CNN Friday stated: "We deny such claims and we would like to state that the Islamic Republic of Iran sees people's demands to be paid attention to as a way of providing domestic security and stability and believes that dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition is the way out from the current situation."
The United Nations has said that more than 5,000 civilians have been killed in the unrest which erupted in March, inspired by Arab revolts elsewhere. Authorities accuse armed Islamist militants of killing 2,000 members of the security forces.
The crackdown against protest has been ongoing despite an Arab League monitoring mission, now about 165 strong, which began work on December 26. Its task is to verify if Syria is complying with an agreement to halt the crackdown. Some reports indicate that the killing of protesters has actually increased since the arrival of the League monitors.
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Hormuz row between US, Iran heading for ultimate round
By SYED RASHID HUSAIN
Published: Jan 15, 2012 01:05 Updated: Jan 15, 2012 01:05
Consumers are on edge! As the Washington — Tehran theatre gets readied — for the ultimate round, with both using oil as a weapon, a beeline of worried visitors to Riyadh makes an interesting reading. Iran’s traditional crude customers are desperate, seeking guarantees of stepping in — from other major suppliers — in case required.
The US move to strangulate Tehran financially by sanctioning its crude exports for alleged nuclear designs, the military exercises in the Gulf by Iran and the movement of US naval vessels in the area, are all raising fears of a possible confrontation between the two. Iran raised the specter further, threatening to shut the Strait of Hormuz, in case Tehran crude exports are sanctioned. With almost 17 million bpd moving through Hormuz, this could be disastrous.
Thus in the wake of the pressure from Washington, the energy fraternity is busy evolving various combinations and permutations. Consumers are deeply concerned, scurrying at alternatives and making new contracts. Calculations are being made and the arithmetic is being checked and rechecked, as leaders from China, Japan and South Korea are racing to the region.
As these lines are being written, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is in Riyadh. His visit comes amid signs that tighter economic sanctions may stop Iran, OPEC’s second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia, from selling its oil. The regional trip is also taking Wen to energy rich Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Although there are now signs that an EU embargo on purchases of Iranian crude, to be decided on Jan. 23, will probably be delayed for at least another six months to let countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain, accounting for 68.5 percent of EU oil imports from Iran in 2010, find alternative supplies, yet China and other Asian countries importing large volumes of crude from Iran are not ready to take chance. They are stacking their cards.
China is the biggest importer of Iranian crude, buying 22 percent of the Iranian oil in 2010, while Iran is China’s third-largest supplier, shipping it about 556,000 barrels a day, or about 11% of China’s total crude imports.
But now the pressure on Beijing to shun Tehran — and its crude — is growing. US seems determined to isolate Iran. Hence its largest oil customers — China, Japan and South Korea — and indeed others are preparing themselves for the eventuality — if at all. Last Wednesday, the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on China to dramatically reduce crude purchases from Iran. Yet during his trip to Beijing, he found little clarity from Chinese officials here on the request. Chinese officials have been reluctant to link the economic ties with Iran to the nuclear issue, saying publicly the two matters should be kept separate.
After Geithner’s call, a front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the People’s Daily newspaper on Thursday said China wouldn’t “blindly follow the US’s steps” unless the Iran issue was taken up as a UN resolution.
But despite the bravado, Beijing is not oblivious of the realities. Reportedly, negotiations to reach new long-term contracts to replace Iranian oil have been initiated and that could take a month or more to take shape, analysts believe. And this makes one feel that Tehran has some breathing space.
Geithner had more receptive ears in Tokyo. Japan wants to take “concrete steps” to reduce petroleum imports from Iran, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said at a joint press conference. However, there were contradictory signals too. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said the government hasn’t made a final decision on cutting imports, and that Azumi’s pledge “is just one of several opinions.” Koichiro Gemba, the Japanese foreign minister, too, said on Friday that the Japanese government had come to no conclusions on the sanctions issue.
Japan has been gradually reducing imports from Iran and from January to November 2011, it bought only 9 percent of its crude from Iran, corresponding to almost 14 percent of the total Iranian crude exports.
With the US pressure growing, Japanese foreign minister Koichiro Gemba too dashed to Riyadh and other Gulf Arab OPEC capitals last week. Japan has asked Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to supply it with more oil, Japanese Foreign Minister underlined last week. A spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Masaru Sato, declined to discuss the quantities of extra oil sought by Japan but said a team of technical experts was to travel to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to discuss the details.
Japan imports around 25 percent of its oil from the UAE, 30 percent from Saudi Arabia and around 10 percent from Qatar.
In the meantime, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp., Japan’s largest refiner by capacity, has also been in talks with Saudi Arabia and other oil producers about possible purchases in case of a ban on Iranian crude, a JX spokesman said last week. The oil refining unit of JX Holdings Inc. currently buys 90,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Iran.
In the meantime, the South Korean prime minister also has been visiting Oman and the UAE. News media in South Korea have been reporting that the Seoul was considering cutting crude purchases from Iran. And it too needed to talk to possible partners to fill in the gap.
And though the United Kingdom is not under any pressure to diversify away from Tehran, as the relations between the two countries are already at an ebb, yet the visit of the British Prime Minister David Cameron to Saudi Arabia was also not completely unrelated to the evolving theater, analysts believe. After all, Britain more than often coordinates its steps with Washington and Cameron’s visit to Riyadh may also be seen in the perspective of the growing pressure on Tehran.
In India, which imports about 300,000 to 350,000 bpd of crude, refiners who process 13 percent of Iranian crude exports are also gradually turning away from Iran. Indian government has reportedly told refiners to reduce oil imports from Iran. New Delhi also clarified it was not seeking a waiver from US sanctions. Consequently India was also seeking a much greater energy based relationship with Riyadh — as was indicated to the visiting Saudi trade delegation.
And to be able to cope with the situation, senior executives of the International Energy Agency (IEA) are also reportedly discussing a plan to release up to 14 million barrels per day (bpd) from the strategic reserves of the OECD. Action on this scale would be more than five times the size of the biggest release in the agency’s history — made in response to Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
But the picture is not complete yet. Despite the threat, the ongoing European Union talks on blocking imports of Iranian oil are reportedly bogged down. Greece, Italy and Spain are trying to soften a UK push for a blanket ban, on concern that a supply shock would add to the economic woes of Europe, while a few EU members are also finding it difficult to cope with the emerging scenario.
As the theater in this war of nerves enters the final stages of preparation, remains who is going to blink first — Washington or Tehran? Billion dollar question indeed!
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Iran Could Make Silver Bugs Filthy Rich (SLV, PSLV, AGQ, GLD, ZSL, SLW)
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 Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: If the first year of the Iraq War of 2003 offers up some clues to the potential move in the silver price (NYSEARCA:SLV) following an invasion of its neighbor Iran, then grab as much of the white metal as you can and enjoy the ride. This ride could be for the record books. Get my next ALERT 100% FREE
On the official day of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on Mar. 20, 2003, silver traded at the lowly price of approximately $4.35. On the first anniversary of the invasion, the silver price (NYSEARCA:PSLV) reached nearly $8.00, for an 83 percent return (see graph, below).
But an attack on Iran could make an 83 percent return seem minuscule.
Backing up for a moment, however, an obviously important question, first, should be: how likely is an imminent attack on Iran?
With reports of American troop movements into Israel, along with Reuters reports of two U.S. aircraft carriers headed to the Persian Gulf and a lot of chatter from Washington command appearing on television as salesmen for an attack, a military strike on Iran is likely, according to Jim Rickards, adviser to government personnel on U.S. national security issues and frequent guest of King World News.
“Eric, this really could not be more serious,” Rickards told Eric King’s KWN. “The fact that we, meaning the United States, are on a path to a war with Iran is very clear at this point. It does seem the countdown has begun and it’s coming to a head sooner rather than later.”
And following Iran’s announcement that it will no longer accept U.S. dollars for Iranian oil, the U.S., really, must respond (1). If not, OPEC gets the green light to dump the dollar and it’s game over for the U.S. without a shot being fired.
Consider, too, recent data from the Fed, which show clearly that foreigners aren’t buying enough Treasuries to even remotely match the increase to the central bank’s balance sheet. In fact, according to the chart, below, a war with Iran is a most likely stab at coaxing global money back into preventing a waterfall in the dollar after bond vigilantes are done with Europe.
Source: zerohedge.com, Foreigners Sell Record $85 Billion In Treasury’s In 6 Consecutive Weeks – Time To Get Concerned?
But here’s why the silver price could triple, or more!
The difference between the Iraq War and a war with Iran is: Iran isn’t Iraq! Saddam Hussein’s regime had no friends in the region, and certainly didn’t attract meaningful help from Russia or China before, or during, the conflict.
Hussein was essentially a rogue operator, according to William Clark, author of Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq, and the Future of the Dollar, which, by the way, offers a good foundation to Jim Rickard’s book, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.
Because of the well-known and long-standing commitment from Russia and China to defend Iran, a war with Iran could turn into a proxy for WWIII, a notion widely offered in the public domain.
In other words, if Iran is attacked, the move in the silver price (NYSEARCA:AGQ) could be monstrous—with two and three-bagger returns very likely, with oil and other commodities soaring to unthinkable levels as China utilizes one of its financial weapons in response to military aggression.
The cost of a war with Iran will soar off the charts to an already hopeless U.S. debt level. In fact, a planned dollar devaluation could be the motive behind an Iranian attack.
According to a policy paper penned by Felix K. Chang and Jonathan Goldman for the U.S. Army and posted on the U.S. Army Web site, titled Meddling in the Markets: Foreign Manipulation, the threat by China, Russia and sympathetic nations against U.S. aggression, a war with Iran will not be a cakewalk by any stretch of the imagination. Link to document file, here.
According to Chang and Goldman, Iran puts at risk the U.S. dollar in a very meaningful way.
The simultaneous dramatic devaluation of the U.S. dollar and a sharp increase in oil prices would immediately unsettle global equity and bond markets. During such times of uncertainty, institutions and investors normally seek a safe haven where their assets will hold value. For much of the twentieth century, that haven has been the dollar. In this hypothetical, however, the dollar would be at the epicenter of uncertainty, as China unloads its U.S. Treasury securities in favor of gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) or euros. Aggravating the situation, institutions and investors of all stripes would magnify the selling pressure as they tried to shed their own devalued U.S. assets—liquidity would rapidly disappear. [emphasis added.]
While many of traditional media may repeat the mantra that precious metals are risky investments, the facts about war and money show otherwise. At risk here is the dollar.
Footnote:
(1) The Invasion of Iraq: Dollar vs Euro: Re-denominating Iraqi oil in U. S. dollars, instead of the euro
The unprovoked “shock and awe” attack on Iraq was to serve several economic purposes: (1) Safeguard the U.S. economy by re-denominating Iraqi oil in U.S. dollars, instead of the euro, to try to lock the world back into dollar oil trading so the U.S. would remain the dominant world power-militarily and economically. (2) Send a clear message to other oil producers as to what will happen to them if they abandon the dollar matrix. (3) Place the second largest oil reserve under direct U.S. control. (4) Create a subject state where the U.S. can maintain a huge force to dominate the Middle East and its oil. (5) Create a severe setback to the European Union and its euro, the only trading block and currency strong enough to attack U.S. dominance of the world through trade. (6) Free its forces (ultimately) so that it can begin operations against those countries that are trying to disengage themselves from U.S. dollar imperialism-such as Venezuela, where the U.S. has supported the attempted overthrow of a democratic government by a junta more friendly to U. S. business/oil interests.
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 By Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul From Beacon Equity Research
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Middle East may destabilise because of "intensifying" Iran nuclear crisis, warns William Hague
William Hague has warned that "intensifying" tensions with Iran could escalate into a crisis that destabilises the entire Middle East unless the country abandons its nuclear enrichment programme.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the Foreign Secretary expressed concerns that Iran'sactions could spark a nuclear arms race, and called on the Iranian government to negotiate a peaceful resolution of the growing confrontation.
"We do have to confront this problem, because Iran has embarked on a course which threatens the whole region of the Middle East with nuclear proliferation," Mr Hague said.
"It is an intensifying problem that we have over their nuclear programme. And so there is a risk that this will become a greater crisis as 2012 goes on."
Mr Hague's comments came as the European Union prepares to agree an embargo on Iranian oil in eight days' time, in response to Iran's decision to step up its efforts to produce the materials for a nuclear weapon.
They followed last week's assassination of a fourth Iranian nuclear scientist in two years, blamed by Iran on Mossad, the Israeli security service; recent missile tests by Iran; and continuing threats by its clerical regime to close the narrow marine artery through which more than a third of the West's seaborne oil reserves pass.
Later this month, a senior team of inspectors from the UN's atomic watchdog is due to visit the country, but officials with long experience of Iran do not expect to make significant progress.
Iran maintains that its nuclear programme is peaceful, and has vowed to retaliate to any oil embargo by blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
"It's because we don't want to see an intensifying crisis that we favour negotiations – if Iran will come to meetings or negotiations – and we will apply stronger and stronger sanctions to try show negotiation is the only way forward," Mr Hague said.
The Foreign Secretary said Britain was not calling for military action, but stressed: "We don't take any options off the table in the long term... We believe in intensifying the peaceful, legitimate pressure on Iran – so that's what people will see much more of over the coming weeks."
He added: "We must not be starry-eyed about sanctions – sanctions policies do not always succeed. But this is the best means we have of increasing the pressure. And Iran is getting itself into a more and more difficult situation, steadily losing friends and support around the world.
"Its economy is in a more and more fragile position, and of course what it is doing on its nuclear programme will only increase these tensions and difficulties."
Asked about discussion of a no-fly zone to protect opposition groups in Syria who are trying to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad, Mr Hague said it was not "on the table at the moment", but declined to rule it out entirely. "We are not contemplating, at this moment, military intervention in Syria," he said.
Mr Hague is due to travel to Latin America on Wednesday - a week after the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, toured the region to drum up support for his increasingly isolated regime. Mr Ahmadinejad visited the staunchly anti-American rulers of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, but Mr Hague will instead be meeting political and business leaders of Brazil.
"Latin America is a region of the world which is proud of not having nuclear weapons – an entire continent - despite a country like Brazil, which could pursue nuclear weapons technology if it chose to. But it doesn't. It complies with the non-proliferation treaty," he said.
"Iran is not complying with the non-proliferation treaty. The way in which Latin American countries exercise their international responsibilities is in sharp contrast to Iran."
Mr Hague's visit to the continent, just ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, comes at a time of heightened tension with Argentina over the islands, but he was unapologetic about planned events in the spring to mark their successful recapture by Britain.
"It is important that what happened is appropriately commemorated, and we remember the people who lost their lives in that conflict," he said. "So of course it does draw attention to it – but it doesn't change any of the merits of the issue.
"This is about the self-determination of the people of the Falkland Islands – many of whom have been there for many generations."
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A grim outlook for both intervention in Syria and sanctions on Iran
U.S. and allies face opposition to sanctions from nations dependent on Iranian oil; Syrian opposition strapped for cash.
With Less than a week left on the Arab League observer mission’s timetable, it is already clear that their mission to Syria had been a failure. On Friday, one of the observers, Anwar Malek of Algeria, who has withdrawn from the monitoring team, said the Syrian regime pressured him and his colleagues, interrupted their work, planted cameras in their rooms, listened in on their conversations and even attempted to entice them to give a favorable report in various ways, including by providing them with women.
11 of the observers, including two Kuwaiti officers, were hurt when they were pelted by stones in Deir al-Zour.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after a visit to Latin American countries.
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A second observer mission slated to leave for Damascus, has meanwhile been postponed, while the Arab League awaits guarantees on their safety.
The Syrian opposition has reported the Assad regime, which has yet to be affected by the observers’ presence, is planning to escalate its crackdown on demonstrators, warning tens of thousands may be slaughtered.
In the face of this looming escalation, the opposition doesn’t have much to offer other than ask more sanctions be placed on the Syrian regime such as the denial of entry to Western countries to the wives of regime leaders, including Bashar Assad's wife Asma, who holds a British passport, and the wife of Maher Assad, Bashar Assad's brother who is orchestrating the military campaign against demonstrators.
With no serious international measures in sight and with the Arab League still dawdling and in no hurry to ask the UN to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, the Syrian military is operating completely freely in its drive to equip itself for the next round of fighting.
According to reports coming in from Lebanon, where over 500 defectors from the Syrian army have found refuge, the main problem facing the Syrian opposition is with obtaining weapons. Turkey isn’t allowing weapons through its border with Syria, and the Iraqi-Syrian border, through which the passage of goods and persons goes largely unfettered, is apparently not enough to provide the rebels need for weapons, perhaps because Iraqis are arming in preparation for an additional round of violence in the country themselves.
Lebanon is still the main supply depot for the Syrian opposition, and it looks as if business is booming. The price of a Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifle has recently skyrocketed from USD 1,200 to 2,100 a piece. A hand grenade now costs USD 500, and a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher’s price is now USD 900. These prices require steady and substantial funding and it’s not clear who will provide the sums needed to arm not only the defectors but also the droves of civilians who wish to join in the fight.
According to brigadier general Mustafa Ahmed El-Sheik, the highest ranking officer to defect from the Assad’s army thus far, the free Syrian army will need at least a year, possibly a year and a half to topple the Syrian dictator.
The free Syrian army is planning to conscript 30 thousand defectors from the Syrian army, and deploy them in small six to seven person squadrons which will fight the Syrian regime employing tactics of a war of attrition.
Judging by Friday’s demonstrations held under the banner “For the Free Syrian Army,” in which at least 25 people were killed, the army of deserters will be able to achieve its objective if it will find a way to provide the equipment and ammunition required to arm such a large force.
Meanwhile, weapons and munitions continue to pour in to Syria. On Friday a Russian ship laden with about 60 tons of military equipment arrived at the Tartus port, on the Syrian Mediterranean coast. Russia claims it isn’t violating any sanctions on the rogue regime since the deal was signed before they were imposed. Cyprus, in which the ship had stopped to fuel en route, claimed that it couldn’t stop the shipment as it didn’t have the authority to inspect the cargo.
Russia will apparently oppose all international measures to impose further sanctions or attack Syria, and while the west tries to obtain the support of Syria and China for further action, it will be the Syrian demonstrators who will pay the price.
Who will impose the sanctions?
While the U.S. tries to garner support for more sanctions on Iran, it and its European allies know that even if they agree on more robust sanctions and circumvent the Security Council, they will still be short some key countries’ cooperation. Japan, for example, is still ‘mulling’ its participation; India had already announced it will not stop trading with Iran; and Turkey, which obtains a third of its oil supply from Iran, said it wouldn’t impose further sanctions unless impelled to do so by UN resolution. China, which imports 25 million tons of its oil from Iran annually, and whose dependence on Iranian oil is only expected to grow, as its consumption increases by 7.5 percent every year, could also be added to the list.
Turkey has been offering its services as negotiator between Iran and the Security Council’s five permanent members and Germany. The group had agreed to hold meetings in Turkey later this month, in an attempt to stop Iran’s uranium enrichment.
Iran on its part has been exhibiting “unusual” willingness to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into its facilities, trying to convince the world it isn’t perusing a military nuclear program. But this is an empty gesture because even if inspectors are allowed into all of its facilities, at most, they will only be able to inspect its centrifuges and uranium enrichment procedures as it is generally believed Iran currently does not hold any nuclear weapons.
Turkey, which is trying to avoid the perception it working against the west on this issue, tried to convince the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larigani, who was on a state visit in Ankara and who in the past himself had been responsible for holding the negotiations with the west, to agree to a deal that would prevent another round of sanctions, but according to the statements coming out from Turkey, in the last few days, no real progress has been made.
A big question looming is how the Iranians would respond to the imposition of further sanctions. Will they realize their threat to blockade the straits of Hormuz or simply offer its remaining customers substantial discounts?
Saudi Arabia and its oil producing neighbors had already expressed their willingness to substantially raise the production of oil to make up for any shortage the sanctions may cause.
Washington sent a resolute and direct message to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warning him not to order the closing of the Hormuz Straits.
Despite this, the question remains, will Iran back down in the face of international pressure, with elections to the Iranian parliament slated for March. Is it conceivable that the incumbent Iranian ruling party will show signs of weakness in the face of the “Great Satan,” while a political campaign is ensuing in the country?
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UPDATE 1-China denounces U.S. sanctions on company dealing with Iran
Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:46pm EST
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BEIJING Jan 15 (Reuters) - China critised U.S. sanctions on a Chinese company selling refined petroleum products to Iran, calling Washington's punishment an unreasonable step beyond international sanctions on Tehran's nuclear programme.
On Thursday, the Obama administration invoked U.S. law to sanction China's state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, which it said was Iran's largest supplier of refined petroleum products.
"Imposing sanctions on a Chinese company based on a domestic (U.S.) law is totally unreasonable, and does not conform to the spirit or content of U.N. Security Council resolutions about the Iran nuclear issue," the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in a statement issued on the ministry's website (www.mfa.gov.cn) late on Saturday.
"China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and adamant opposition," said Liu.
The Obama administration said its sanctions against the Chinese company and two other firms are part of a broadening effort to target Iran's energy sector and press Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions, which Western governments say appear aimed at developing the means to make atomic weapons.
Iran says its nuclear activities are legitimate and entirely for peaceful ends.
The U.S. sanctions threat is a worry for China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, followed by India and Japan. Only Saudi Arabia and Angola sell more crude than Iran to China.
As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China can veto resolutions mandating sanctions. But Beijing has voted for them, while working to ensure its energy ties are not threatened.
China has, however, also long criticised the United States and EU for imposing separate, unilateral sanctions on Iran and said they should take no steps reaching beyond the U.N. resolutions.
"Like many other countries, China and Iran maintain normal energy and trade and economic cooperation," said the foreign ministry spokesman Liu.
Analysts have said the U.S. move was largely symbolic, given that China's Zhuhai Zhenrong was unlikely to have much U.S. business, but that it sent a warning to Beijing and its state-run oil giants such as China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec Corp) and China National Offshore Oil Corp. .
These companies have invested billions of dollars in the U.S. energy sector, and are much more exposed to the impact of potential sanctions. (Reporting by Chris Buckley, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)
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