Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro showed up wearing a full olive green military uniform and spoke to the people outside the University of Havana on Friday.

This was his first appearance after four years when he nearly died. The former president appeared strong as well as evident speaking for about 35 minutes infront of thousands of students from the University of Havana’s historical steps in speech televised by all the channels across the state.

Castro, 84, as he had executed in his numerous public appearances since early July, repeatedly addressed his warning of nuclear devastation against Iran, although he refrain from saying anything regarding the domestic issues on Cuba.

However, Castro’s return has marked a comeback of the two symbols of his nearly 50 years as a president in Cuba that has set aside following an emergency operation in his intestine that nearly left him death back in 2006.

He wore glasses to read his written message; however, it was of using his famous introduction line compañero, which he uses regularly for the past four years, Castro started his message saying, comandante en jefe.

During Castro’s four years recovery period after his operation, he used to wear jogging suits and lately wearing civilian clothing. This summer, he started wearing his traditional olive green military uniform, at first was a shirt and then his jacket, and recently with a cap.

The former Cuban president announced that he has completely recovered and in an interview conducted by a Mexican tabloid this week, Castro said he revive his life saying that his health is doing fine though at some point of his life he nearly did not survive.

South Korea offers 10 billion won ($ 8.4 million) to help in the recovery of North Korea from recent flooding.

South Korea proposes the aid and considers it as the first step in helping the northern neighbor after the event concerning the sinking of a South Korean ship allegedly by a North Korean warship and sanctions made by the U.S. against North Korea. The proposed aid came after the U.S. added new sanctions against the northern country.

The Red Cross in Seoul made the offer. It was communicating with the Red Cross based on Pyongyang to help the flood affected North Koreans. Officials invested the aid in giving relief goods, medicines, and emergency supplies to the people of North Korea. The southern country is waiting if North Korea will accept the offer. Furthermore, they said that they would be providing additional aids as needed with the call coming from North Korea. The South Korea cannot make any action unless the North Korea authorizes it.

The continuous rainfall in North Korea in July and August brought flooding in the low land in the country. The northwestern part of the country and the city of Sinuiju suffered most of the flooding. More than 5,000 people evacuated to the neighbor country of China. Flooding affects mostly agricultural and farming lands. This had brought both economic and health problems to the country.

China had been helping the country with large amount of aids. North Korea considers China as its remaining large ally country. A recent visit of President Kim to China had made many issues including nuclear programs. However, the officials claim that the meeting was rather in economic terms and strengthening the tie between their nations.

The U.S. has expanded its sanctions against North Korea last Monday. U.S. officials claim that they were cutting off the trade between them and North Korea.

Rescue workers started drilling a hole to reach the trapped Chilean miners more than 2,300 feet below.

As a first step for a weeklong digging, rescuers started digging 50 feet into the rock for a “pilot hole” to guide the way for the rescue, using a 31-ton drill. In a process that could take four months, the drillers will replace the drill with larger bits to expand the hole and pull the miners trough.

There are reports that the miners moved nearly 1,000 feet deeper to camp on a drier area. The rescuers presented a new video that showed the miners to be generally positive but emotional about their separation from their families.

Since the cave-in on August 5, the miners have been trapped more than 2,300 feet down inside the San Jose gold and copper mine beneath the Chile’s Atacama Desert. The incident now equals the ordeal in China last year, where only three miners survived, trapped in a loaded mine for 25 days. It was the longest known survival in an underground disaster.

On Sunday afternoon, the miners were each allowed a brief conversation with a family member trough a newly installed telephone line that the rescuers rigged in the mine to link the miners with Camp Hope, a nearby tent village where their relatives gathered.

Omar Reygadas, 56, asked to speak to his youngest son, Luciano, and they had just a minute to talk, said the young boy. “I told him about us, that we’re well, that we’re all supporting him, praying for him,” he said. Omar said that he was doing the same and reassured his son that all the miners were all calm and healthy.

The latest video the miners sent up proved what Omar said. In the video, the miners were seen shirtless and wearing a quick-drying white surgical trousers. The miners said in the video that they are now doing better since they received food and water from the rescuers, add to that the encouragement that they receive from their families trough handwritten notes that both parties passed through a tiny gap hole.

Scientists said that a newly discovered bacteria, that has been in the gulf for ages is consuming plumes of oil in the Mexican Gulf.

A new scientific study said that the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico was ready for something like the Deepwater Horizon blowout to happen.

Experts said that the petroleum-eating bacteria, which had feasted for ages on oil seeping naturally through the seafloor, vastly reproduced in the cloud of oil that went underwater for months after the April 20 incident. Not only that they had beaten fellow microbes in numbers, the bacteria each raised their metabolism to digest the oil as efficiently as possible.

The result was almost unbelievable, a nature-made cleanup crew of bacteria that are capable of reducing the amount of oil in the undersea cloud by half every three days, according to the research published online by the Journal Science, Tuesday.

The findings of a team of scientists led by Terry C. Hazen of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, help explained one of the biggest mysteries, “Where has all the oil gone?”.

“What we know about the degradation rates fits with what we are seeing in the last three weeks,” Hazen said. “We’ve gone out to the sites, and we don’t find any oil, but we do find the bacteria.”

Alan Mearns, a senior staff scientist in the emergency response of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, called the new Berkeley team study “critical to the understanding of the fate of what remains in the Gulf. This study shows that microbes are quickly degrading some components of subsurface oil found in the deep ocean without creating hazardous dead zones.”

Two weeks after the well was plugged, federal scientists argued that half of the oil was gone from the water and the rest was disappearing. The claim looked unreasonably good to many experts.

However, Hazen’s calculation of how fast the bacteria consumed the oil, combined with his recent findings that oil is absent in deep gulf waters, supports the credibility of all those findings.

“We were all right,” he said.

The researchers continued collecting deep-water samples finding plumes aged two weeks after the well was plugged. However, the team cannot find plumes that are from the past three weeks

Sea World Orlando was fined by the Federal job safety agency because of the three violations that are uncovered during the investigation of a trainer who was grabbed by a killer whale and dragged under the water last February.

Sea World Orlando was fined by $75,000 on Monday because of the violations that are uncovered during the investigation. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), they categorized the incident as the most serious violation. They said that it is willful, showing indifference or intentional disregard to the safety of the workers inside the workplace.

Based on the citation, the $70,000 penalty is due to the exposure of the trainers to drowning hazards when they make interaction with the killer whales. The Federal job safety agency proposed that the trainers and workers must not be allowed to have physical contact with Tilikum, the whale that is involved in the death of Dawn Brancheau, trainer. They said that they will be allowed to make contact with the whale if the workers are protected by a barrier.

OSHA reported that Tilikum, the killer whale, has aggressive tendencies. After the death of the trainer, other trainers of Sea World are prohibited to go in the water with Tilikum. According to reports, the killer whale grabbed the long hair of Brancheau as she lay on her stomach in a concrete stab. The cause of death is traumatic injuries and drowning.

The second citation carried a $5,000 fine because of failing to place a stairway railing system close to the stage in the Shamu Stadium. The third citation did not have any fine. It was for not placing a weather protected electrical receptacles at the Shamu Stadium.

According to Fred Jacobs, spokesman of Sea World, the company did not agree to the allegations made by OSHA.

Iran unveiled Karrar, a long range unmanned bomber on Sunday as an addition to its military advances.

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the weapon “messenger of glory and salvation for humanity” but an “ambassador of death” for Iran’s enemy, in a ceremony to mark the country’s Defense Industry Day.

According to the reports of the media owned by the stae, the “destroyer” as its name means, can carry up to four cruise missiles and has a range of 620 miles.

The announcement was made a day after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Iran’s first nuclear plant. Iran always stated that their nuclear program is not meant to harm other countries or states. However, Israel and other Arab and western nations expressed deep concerns the possibility of Iran making bombs using its nuclear.

The unmanned bomber is the third military aircraft announced this year. Iran also unveiled new submarines, long range missiles, and showed plans to launce high-altitude satellites. Israel and the United States both said that they would not rule out an airstrike to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb.

Iran held the unveiling ceremony at Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, which American Intelligence community suspects to have links with the controversial Revolutionary Guard; which is a branch of Iran’s military. President Ahmadinejad used provocative language to call on Western powers to engage Iran in dialogue.

“They tell us all options are on the table. We also say to them, all options are on the table,” he said in comments broadcast on state television. “The first option is for you to come down from your tower of pride and sit like polite children and talk.”

“Come down,” he repeated. “If you do not, the hands of the peoples of the world will bring you down.”

Rescuers found the 33 Chilean miners trapped for 17 days in a collapsed copper mine in San Jose, Chile.

The rescue team found the miners after drilling down 2.257 feet to the bottom of the San Jose mine that collapsed. The miners managed to send back a handwritten message saying “Estamos Bien En El Refugio los 33” meaning, “all 33 of us are well inside the shelter”.

“Never have so few words brought such happiness to an entire nation,” said Sebastian Piñera, the president of Chile, as he read out the note.

A second note the miners sent back indicated that they managed to build a makeshift refuge where they are staying right now. They created a canal of fresh water using a bulldozer down in the mine and managed to fix the lighting in the dark and dangerous copper mine using electricity from a truck engine.

The bad news is it would take about four months to set the miners free from the collapsed mine. “A shaft 66cm in diameter will take at least 120 days,” said Andre Sougarret, lead engineer on the rescue operation. Help from around the world in form of rescue equipments arrived to build a tunnel reaching 700 meters underground that will serve as the escape route for the miners.

The roof of the mine collapsed last August 5 trapping the 33 miners. For two weeks, rescuers continually tunneled trough the mine hoping to find the shelter that the miners made. Missing their target, rescue officials blamed the mine operators for operating without using modern safety equipments and an updated map.

Having found the refuge, rescuers now plan to send down food, water and medicine through the hole created by the rescue mission to keep the miners alive and healthy while rescue and mining experts debate the options for building an escape route.

Two related films about Bilderberg group reveals reality behind global politics and U.S. President Obama.

Recently, two films created by Alex Jones were release titled “Endgame” and “Obama Deception”. These films claim to expose facts behind deception made by Bilderberg Group, which is about monopoly on world politics, economics, and culture, and the other tackles about the supposedly “real” background of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement is an American documentary film created by Alex Jones in 2007, aims to show to the public the 2006 meeting took place in Ottawa, Canada. Bilderberg Group is known as an unofficial, invitation-only conference held annually for around 130 participants. Most participants on this activity are people who have great influence in the fields of banking, politics, media, business and military. All of this group’s conference is normally closed to the public, but now it will be exposed and bares everything on this film.

As for the the other film “Obama Deception”, it focuses much on the attempt to dispel the true identity of U.S. President Barack Obama as a homegrown man of the people favoring another trickery of him as among of the puppets for Bilderberg. Here, it will feature why President Obama was specifically chosen for office by Bilderberg personalities.

Now, the question is, what does these videos try to imply? Are these made to degrade people’s reputation and use against them? Does Alex Jones really on to something and attempting to reveal what kind of world we are living in? According to the prisonplanet.com, it is the latter that’s the case, and these two films presented to the public have really blown Bilderberg’s conspiracy. However, the only way you can decide on what these films about is by watching it personally; both of which can be found in full version at prisonplanet.com

The provisional electoral council of Haiti rejected Wyclef Jean’s presidential candidacy for the November 28 election.

The 40-year-old international hip-hop star, although popular in his home country, did not make it to the list of candidates approved by the electoral council to run for president of Haiti.

The Haiti provisional electoral council approved only 19 out of 34 considered candidates to run for the presidency.

Before the announcing of the list, U.N and Haitian Police guarded the provisional electoral council headquarters in Port-au-Prince as intense expectations raised over which of the 34 candidates would be in the list of approved candidates for the November elections.

Some officials feared that Jean’s and that of the other candidate’s exclusion from the list could bring up political tension and possibly, violence.

One of the key factors that caused Jean’s exclusion was that a candidate should have resided in Haiti for five consecutive years.

Wyclef Jean left Haiti with his family to live in New York at the age of 9 and started his music career in the United States presented argument and showed a “constant presence” said his lawyers.

Wyclef’s show of interest in Haitian politics gave the country’s widely unemployed youth to see him as a symbol of hope, sending an alarm to traditional Haitian politician.

Creole musical and youth groups already showed support for Jean. Posters saying, “Youth supports Youth” and “Wyclef means change” spread throughout the city.

The announcement of the list was made live on radio. The listeners remained calm, except for one man who screamed “viv, Wyclef jean!”

“It is not Clef who will lose. It’s an entire generation that will lose out,” said Lord Kinomorsa “King Kino” Divers, a slum activist, singer and Jean’s personal consultant.

“Clef will return to his beautiful home in New Jersey. The people in the tents, the people in misery, the people who have no jobs, they are the ones who will lose out. He came here with a good heart.”

Jean, despite being turned down by the Haiti provisional electoral council, said that he, with the help of youth and political groups would still be willing to work with any administration to help Haiti children.

“That’s something that we’re going to push on whether … I make it or not,” he said.

British Petroleum (BP) is hoarding information and test results regarding the Deepwater Horizon blowout, said a Transocean’s official on a signed letter.

The letter, signed by the acting co-general of Transocean, Steven L. Roberts, states that the Transocean’s investigation on what caused the oil spill that killed 11 people including nine Transocean employees, is being held back by BP’s refusal to deliver “even the most basic information” about the event.

“[I]t appears that BP is withholding evidence in an attempt to prevent any entity other than BP from investigating the cause of the April 20th incident and the resulting spill,” the letter states, and it goes on to demand a long list of technical documents and lab tests.

BP denied the charge. “We are disappointed that Transocean has opted to write a letter with so many misguided and misleading assertions,” spokesperson Elizabeth Ashford said. “We have been at the forefront of cooperating with various investigations commissioned by the U.S. government and others into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy.”

The risks are high for the two companies. The Justice Department targets the companies on a criminal investigation. Both companies sent witnesses before an investigatory panel led by the Coast Guard, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (formerly the Minerals Management Service). A presidential commission is also looking into the oil spill investigation, and is expecting a report on the accident from BP.

Throughout these events, in an effort to plug and kill the well, BP continues to lease a Transocean ship and two Transocean drilling rigs. The situation has become more complicated. After extensive debates, government scientist and BP engineers decided to remove the infamous blowout preventer on top of the well. In that case, BP can assure the government that it can recover the massive contraption without creating new problems with the well.