http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/showbiz/ted-turner-recuperating/
Ted Turner says he's 'recuperating well' after surgery in Argentina
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 8:52 AM EDT, Tue March 11, 2014

(CNN) -- CNN and Turner Broadcasting System founder Ted Turner says he's "recuperating well" after falling ill South America.

Turner, 75, confirmed in a statement issued Monday that he "underwent a minor surgical procedure due to appendicitis" during a "brief hospital stay" in Argentina. Turner's spokesman previously declined to reveal why he was hospitalized last Friday, saying only that he was there "for observation."

Argentina's state-run Telam news agency reported Turner was initially treated in Bariloche, a lakeside city near the Chilean border, about 1,500 kilometers (940 miles) southwest of Buenos Aires. He was suffering from acute abdominal pain, according to clinic spokeswoman Paula Redondo.

Turner was flown later that morning to the capital of Buenos Aires to have surgery, according to Telam.

"I'm happy to report I'm recuperating well and looking forward to getting back to business as usual," Turner said Monday in his statement. "The doctors and medical staff at both hospitals in Bariloche and Buenos Aires were amazing and took really good care of me."
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He said he was heading back to the United States

That Big Methane Release In The Southwest USSA [with links at blog]
http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.com/2014/10/that-big-methane-release-in-southwest.html

I just noticed the unexpected news of a surprisingly large methane release in the Southwest USSA.

If you look at the graphic data display you immediately see that it greatly exceeds any other methane release in the continental USSA.

The story says the release of 1.3 million pounds of methane per year is due to leaks in the extraction of natural gas from coal beds in that region.

Could be. Maybe.

But there are other natural gas operations, other coal beds and coal mining regions elsewhere in continental North America, and nowhere else is this huge spike of methane release to be seen.
So is something else going on?

Things That Go Bump In The Night In The Four Corners

I lived in the Southwestern USSA for a big chunk of my previous life and so I have some first-hand knowledge of the New Mexico-Arizona-Colorado region. Just a short distance to the east of this huge, methane outgassing region right along the New Mexico-Colorado border lies the northern New Mexico town of Taos. I mention that, because some years back there were quite a number of stories in local and national news outlets about the so-called "Taos Hum."

Over an extended period of time, a lot of people heard a grinding, droning, humming sound that would go on and on for hours or days at a time, somewhat reminiscent of the sound of a powerful diesel engine idling or working under load.

The source of the infamous "Taos Hum" remains unexplained to this day.

Various explanations have been proffered, including the possibility that many people are hearing the low-frequency, grinding noises of the clandestine TBMs (tunnel boring machines) being used by the Shadow Government to make secret, subterranean tunnel networks. These machines can be quite huge, hundreds of feet long, with a gigantic, slowly rotating cutting head that is 40 or 50 feet in diameter, or even more, with thousands of horsepower. They are monster machines. They are real and they are in use all over the world making everything from subway/metro train tunnels, to railway and automobile tunnels, hydroelectric tunnels, deep mining tunnels, sewer, irrigation and municipal water supply tunnels, and also tunnels for deep underground, military projects.

Based on my research, I am open to the possibility that people are hearing heavy machinery at work deep underground, making secret tunnels and underground bases. I think it could be an explanation for some of these reports.

I document quite a lot of plans for underground excavation and construction of bases and tunnels and various underground and underwater facilities in my three books on the topic of underground and underwater bases and tunnels. The main thing is to understand that the technology and machinery, engineering expertise, funding and trained technical personnel to construct mammoth, highly sophisticated bases and tunnels deep underground and deep undersea have been in place for half a century. There is no science fiction involved. It is hard, engineering fact.

Underground Bases and Tunnels: What Is The Government Trying To Hide?

Underwater and Underground Bases

Hidden in Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files

As regards the topic of clandestine, underground military projects this goes back to the World War II period, at least, and the impressively advanced, subterranean projects of the Third Reich, including the Regenwurmslager, and other major projects undertaken by the Organization Todt in the last part of the war, under the direction of Xaver Dorsch. My documentation, part of which I lay out in Hidden in Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files, reveals that Dorsch was in USSA military custody after the war and was extensively debriefed. I suspect he probably consulted for the USSA military on their own secret, high-tech, massively financed program of clandestine underground bases and tunnels.

I say this because I cite two 1947 Project Paperclip memoranda in Hidden in Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files, that explicitly mention Xaver Dorsch by name and ask for him and and other German underground base specialists to help the USSA military with their own "underground plant program."

I reproduce the Project Paperclip documents in the book. They are real enough. There is no guess work involved. I found them in the NASA historical archives in Washington, DC in 1997. I was actually looking for something else at the time, totally unrelated (as far as I know) to the USSA military's secret underground bases program(s). I guess the operative principle at work is: "Seek and ye shall find."

The memoranda establish that there is historical continuity between the NAZI underground bases program, and the USSA military's underground bases program, beginning in the immediate post-World War II period, via the agency of Project Paperclip, which was about so much more than just NAZI rocket science, though that was certainly one component. 

Almost 70 years after World War II, there is still a great deal we do not know about the war's end and the numerous secret deals cut between various power factions in the collapsing Third Reich and various power factions in the USSA government and military-industrial-espionage-banking complex. What it gets down to is that the present governmental-military-industrial-espionage-banking system is a hybrid NAZI system.

We are under a sort of Neo-Fascist system. Anyone who doesn't recognize that is either in deeply ignorant denial, or willfully sucking hard at the system's bloody teats, or both.

Back To The Southwest USSA Anomalous Methane "Burp"

All of which, of course, brings up the issue as to whether the massive Southwest USSA methane release is possibly somehow related to an enormous clandestine, underground complex that the secret, Neo-Fascist, governmental-military-industrial-espionage-banking system may have constructed deep beneath the New Mexico-Colorado border.

I don't know. I simply raise the question. There are certainly a lot of rumors about secret underground bases and tunnels in that very region. I have heard my share.

Because of the scope of my research, it is clear that unknown trillions, not billions, but trillions of dollars (a trillion being a thousand dollars times a million dollars times another thousand) have disappeared into secret, Black Budget programs. My research also reveals that many thousands of trained personnel, advanced technology and advanced engineering capabilities for underground construction have been in play for the last several decades. Couple that with a sprawling, huge, so-called "national security" apparatus that operates on a rigidly compartmentalized, "need to know" basis, and almost any scenario is possible.

I cannot tell you with confidence everything that is happening underground. No one can, especially not the personnel in highly compartmentalized, secret programs. The mere fact of working within a rigidly controlled, highly compartmentalized, secret program severely restricts their information flow and their ability to communicate with other people.

Given the nature of contemporary society in the USSA I certainly just described a large number of people.  When the secrecy dam breaks, and I hope that it will, the masses of the people will be astonished at the enormity of what has been hidden from them.

We're living in a science fiction world, that's all I can tell you. That's the clear direction in which my research points. I doubt that we know even one percent of what is going on underground and undersea.

Another Possibility

I would be remiss if I did not point out that Arizona and New Mexico have many extinct and not-so-extinct volcanic sites. As you travel around both states you can find a great deal of evidence of past volcanic activity. There's a lot of it.

So, could this huge methane release possibly be deep underground outgassing related to deep Earth activity, potentially leading up to a major volcanic event in the Four Corners region?

I don't know, but given the plentiful evidence of past volcanic activity in that region of the continent, who can exclude the possibility of more volcanic activity in the future?

Stay tuned. We'll all find out together.

My Current Situation in Ecuador
 
After more than a year and a half, the shaman who assaulted me has been indicted and arraigned. In the first court hearing in August the presiding judge determined that there was sufficient evidence to proceed to a trial, which will occur next week. If my assailant is found liable for causing me bodily harm he is likely to be jailed.   

I have no illusions about what I am up against. I was almost killed. I was hurt very badly. I was hospitalized for more than four months. I am still recuperating and receiving therapy more than twenty-one months later.

What happens in the Amazon is vitally important to what happens on this planet. The shamans of the region theoretically have an essential role to play in healing the Amazon and showing the way for humanity to deeply bond with the natural world -- but not if they themselves are abusive to the very people who come to the region to consult the sacred power plants in search of hyper-conscious communion with Mother Nature.

And so I gratefully accept your assistance. This is what I do. I write. I comment on the big issues of the day. I am an activist. That is why you come here. I certainly do need your support. For USA dollar contributions please e-mail me at: dr.samizdat1618@gmail.com  and I will tell you how to send a donation.

Oh forgot to mention there's an ocean of water down there .... has anyone tapped it? And is that the reason for the unusual locations of recent earthquakes?  Notice that they've been "searching for decades"

http://www.livescience.com/1312-huge-ocean-discovered-earth.html
Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth
Ker Than   |   February 28, 2007 08:28am ET


Scientists probing the Earth's interior have found a large reservoir of water equal to the volume of the Arctic Ocean beneath eastern Asia. The left figure is a slice through the Earth, taken from the figure on the right, showing the attenuation anomalies within the mantle at a depth of roughly 620 miles. In both images, red shows unusually soft and weak rock believed to be saturated with water, and the blue shows unusually stiff rock (yellow and white show near-average values).
Credit: Eric Chou

Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.

The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet's deep mantle. [The World's Biggest Oceans and Seas]

The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will be detailed in a forthcoming monograph to be published by the American Geophysical Union.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface
Earth may have underground 'ocean' three times that on surface
Scientists say rock layer hundreds of miles down holds vast amount of water, opening up new theories on how planet formed
Melissa Davey
Thursday 12 June 2014 23.53 EDT

After decades of searching scientists have discovered that a vast reservoir of water, enough to fill the Earth’s oceans three times over, may be trapped hundreds of miles beneath the surface, potentially transforming our understanding of how the planet was formed.

The water is locked up in a mineral called ringwoodite about 660km (400 miles) beneath the crust of the Earth, researchers say. Geophysicist Steve Jacobsen from Northwestern University in the US co-authored the study published in the journal Science and said the discovery suggested Earth’s water may have come from within, driven to the surface by geological activity, rather than being deposited by icy comets hitting the forming planet as held by the prevailing theories.

“Geological processes on the Earth’s surface, such as earthquakes or erupting volcanoes, are an expression of what is going on inside the Earth, out of our sight,” Jacobsen said.

“I think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades.”

Jacobsen and his colleagues are the first to provide direct evidence that there may be water in an area of the Earth’s mantle known as the transition zone. They based their findings on a study of a vast underground region extending across most of the interior of the US


http://www.livescience.com/44057-diamond-inclusions-mantle-water-earth.html
Rare Diamond Reveals Earth's Interior is All Wet
By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer   |   March 12, 2014 02:00pm ET

A battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water.

"It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large amount of water that's trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth," said Graham Pearson, lead study author and a geochemist at the University of Alberta in Canada. The findings were published today (March 12) in the journal Nature.

The worthless-looking diamond encloses a tiny piece of an olivine mineral called ringwoodite, and it's the first time the mineral has been found on Earth's surface in anything other than meteorites or laboratories. Ringwoodite only forms under extreme pressure, such as the crushing load about 320 miles (515 kilometers) deep in the mantle.