Whale sharks ..appear at Gladden Spit in April and May, when large aggregations of cubera snappers spawn. As fertilized eggs float to the surface in patches like small oil slicks, the whale sharks loll about with wide open mouths, inhaling their meals. Dr. Will Heyman..working in Belize ..for 10 years, counted 25 whale sharks at one point in an area 150 feet in diameter...
Whale shark also turn up in April near Donsol, Sorsogon RP, Alos "March & April" in Ningaloo in WA seems like they all live for that April fling _________________________ _________________________ __________________ cropcircle with non-circular , looks like log spiral.. (circular markings can be done with a rope and a pivot, spirals are problematic) _________________________ _________________________ __________________ A Bruno page (Italian) http://show.supereva.it/jull/giordano/giordano .htm?p" title="http://show.supereva.it/jull/giordano/giordano .htm?p" target="_blank"http://show.supereva.it/jull/... google Bruno Shakespeare gets 2400 results... _________________________ _________________________ __________________ "..Pog Mahones occupies the premises of a former long serving Ponsonby restaurant - The Bronze Goat.. extensive demolition was required ..so that the original character could be truely appreciated". [eh?] . Garth's restaurant - named for the sculpture by his father - ..gone after 30 or so years _________________________ _________________________ ___________ ZIPLESS COUP ..the Governing Council declared it was unanimously backing Allawi, one of its own, for the post of interim Iraqi prime minister. Not that the Council is charged with that decision; that brief lies with U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ..right after the Council resolved to back Allawi, L. Paul Bremer burst in the room to offer U.S. support. .. .. the U.N. essentially conceded the move, and pledged to work with the new prime minister-designate" [nb NOT "prime minister-elect" as the AusABC miss-spoke] ... Allawi's networks supplied 10 Downing Street with the discredited claim that Saddam could deploy his WMD in 45 minutes. After the war, he peddled the absurd story that Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal mentored 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta at the behest of Saddam...." _________________________ _________________________ ___ Sistani brought peace to Najaf on his terms, and not the U.S.'s. Not a bad position to be in. ..a poll released this week by the Iraq CRSS.. 68%.. across seven Iraqi provinces support Sadr... U.S. battles with Sadr have elevated him to "a national hero, even in Sunni areas." _________________________ _______________________ salon.com (not free) "Hours after a deal was struck, armed Mahdi army forces are back in Najaf.. ..the day after a peace agreement with the U.S. forces was announced, armed Mahdi army fighters were occupying all their usual posts. The men had retrieved their rifles and grenade launchers..and were carefully watching people move through the city, asking visiting foreigners for their documents. Failure to produce the correct document can lead to immediate arrest. " _________________________ _________________________ __ Latest 1Jun04 the Mahdi have killed a couple more yanks, Paul B will not be happy...
Sunday at the block. A big Maori presence. Waiata and taiaha. I have this theory that some peoples just love a stage. Sure enough, lots of Maori bands, some Polynesian dancers, a Philippino, even a Senegalese dancer, finally some aborigine youth got to the stage. Aborigines are happier dancing on the ground, I was once told. It was fun flirting with Maori girls. Note the roof missing its iron. This valuable central location was given to the Aboriginals by the Whitlam govt. The current regime now wants them out. Maybe Clover, our new Lord Mayor, can defend the Block. Lots of hammer, Clover wants an injecting room. I reckon the cops should do what they do in lower Manhattan.. allow herb but ban hammer. _________________________ _________________________ _____ a bunch of old posts from blogger are now reposted in mblog.com/campo_de_fiori was I censored for exposing the psy-op? _________________________ _________________________ _____ A New Way to Win Over Iraqis "U.S. hopes to gain support by building sewer systems in localities." _________________________ _________________________ _____
..and the winner is ... Iran?? It looks like the whole war was set up by Tehran, that long series of WMD reports which the Perle shills were delighted to believe... and off we go again, another of tha USAnian adventures..
Chalabi's head .. of intelligence and security..Aras Karim Habib..a Kurdish Shia, is actually a paid agent of the Iranian intelligence service. There was an arrest warrant issued for Karim a few days ago, and he has apparently escaped to Tehran where he is beyond the reach of US law enforcement _________________________ ________________
Thursday 27 May 2004, 20:22 Makka Time, 17:22 GMT US occupation forces have suspended their offensive ..in the city of Najaf.
..US agreed to suspend the warrant for his [Muqtada al-Sadr] arrest ..the Mahdi Army remained in firm control. Black-clad fighters could still be seen stationed on rooftops and at the entrances of all the main roads leading to the shrine. _________________________ __ Salama al-Khafaji .. came under fire in ..Yusufiyah .. her son was missing....she was taken to a ``secret location'' for security reasons _________________________ ________ good stuff: has a Long speech from Al Gore, in your heart you know you ought to read it... bravenet free stuff a neat guest map I would put one here, if I got 15,000 visitors like Adam (his map has only a dozen or so flags) _________________________ ____________ The SMH is being pushed leftwards by the The Australian's lurch to the rascist right... the old SMH [That Irish scumbag Gerry Jackson calls it The Saddam Times (Bunny Champers) is verging on becoming a world class source of war news.
Peter Hartcher Warlike US will shed its Utopian view "The United States is a martial nation. It accounts for 5 per cent of the world's population, 20 per cent of the world economy, and fully 50 per cent of global defence spending. It is structured for war. In the 228 years since it declared independence, the US has made 200 military interventions abroad, says the Congressional Research Service, an average of one every 14 months. It has much less experience in introducing democracy than it does in waging war, incidentally. It has made 16 attempts, of which four have succeeded, says the Washington-based journal Foreign Policy. The journal defines success as the survival of a functioning democratic system 10 years after the first US intervention. The success stories? Japan, Germany, Panama and Grenada. Of the 43 presidents in the history of the US, about a quarter, 11 of them, have been former generals or military leaders"
...well, really, "Panama and Grenada" not much to boast about in the last half century is it? _________________________ _________
Ackland on Downer "As Foreign Minister, Downer has a selective approach to the application of the rule of law when it comes to the interests of Australians. Only on Tuesday he was on the radio saying that the Kurds' continued detention of an Australian citizen has its limits. "If their concerns are sufficient and their evidence is sufficient they should bring charges against him."
Imagine holding an Australian citizen for an extended period without charges. How upsetting is that? The hypocrisy of this befuddled minister never ceases to amaze.
"If there's a political decision as to whether you go into a place like Falluja in a particular way, that has got be done with the consent of the Iraqi government,'' Mr. Blair.. ``That's what the transfer of sovereignty means,'' .. .. Mr. Powell, however, told reporters..if the American military had to act ``in a way that might not be in total consonance with what the Iraqi interim government might want to do at a particularly moment in time, U.S. forces remain under U.S. command and will do what is necessary to protect themselves.'' ..Britain's most senior diplomat in Iraq.. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, said in an interview that the ``coalition had been careless about killing civilians''
As I see it, any talk of "self defence" is crap - the USA put themselves their, they have the obligation to fuck off, not the right to protect themselves, in someone elses place... _________________________ ______________________
NZ to axe private prison It seems that 'Prisons R US' is happy to provide a nicelty nicely if you pay for it. In NZ they had a Maori cultural program in their prison. Seems some conservative types are lauding ACM for their 'rehabilitation' efforts, which they had always scorned in the public sector...
The first suspected resistance attack occurred about 50m from the Assassins Gate, one of the main entrances to the so-called Green Zone _________________________ ______________________ ............ Enmore Walls 2004
10 jpgs, 35 more if I get around toit _________________________ ______________________
Weird Science
..Luna - the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics ..Gran Sasso mountain in Italy. ..Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics and the U Bochum.. are reproducing..- the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle -.. tiny fraction of our Sun's energy. It is far more important in larger stars. ..suggests that the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle takes place at half the rate as was believed. ..mplications are that massive stars live longer than was believed,..affects estimates of the age of the Universe based on the ages of the oldest stars. ...It means that estimates of stellar lifetimes are too short. A readjustment gives the Universe an age of 14.7 instead of 13.7 billion years. _________________________ ______________________ ..The Lancet.."..there is no strong evidence that use of cannabis of itself causes psychological or social problems,"..Dr. John Macleod of the University of Birmingham ..reviewed 48 long-term studies, 16 of which provided the highest quality information about the association between illicit drug use reported by people 25 years old or younger and later psychological or social problems.. _________________________ ______________________ British polar explorer Ben Saunders was even forced to a abandon an attempt to ski solo from northern Russia across the North Pole to Canada on Monday, saying he had been amazed at how much of the ice had disappeared. ..planned to set off from Russia's..Arctic islands in March but instead of ice, he discovered a 70km open stretch of water... ,...Last month, ..-6C, compared to -17 just three years ago. Bad news for bears ..the almost complete absence of polar bears on the Russian side.
Sawing the Bougainvillea which gows in a thicket shadowing my front yard, guiltly dragging the spiny remnants round the back lane, Stopped to check with the neighbours (nice pommie couple, new infant) but they dont want any more removed... "we like it" so I merely saw off the woody section which has invaded their guttering. Red on green is not such a thrill for LRCD (low red cone density) types like me. I never got excited by Pohutokawa, thin red stamens against green, New Zealand Christmas. _________________________ _________________________ ________
Last chance Texaco cont... The oil overlords and their zionist minions going berserk.. "Collective genocide at this moment. No food and no water. People are getting slaughtered, the numbers of the dead is increasing from one minute to the next, and people are getting slaughtered at this moment. Water supplies have been demolished, no water, no food, and tens of people are yelling for ambulances, but the ambulances can't move anymore to bring the injured or the dead bodies because the medical team is surrounded by tanks and bulldozers at this moment. ..... There is no milk for babies in Rafah. The screams are increasing now, many yelling - pregnant women who are about to give birth but don�t have the ability to go to the hospital because many bodies are still spread in the streets and ambulances can't get them into the hospital because the Apaches warplanes are targeting the ambulances.. " _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _____________ Israeli forces have fired on thousands of Palestinians peacefully protesting in the occupied Gaza Strip, leaving up to 20 dead and dozens injured..Israeli helicopters fired missiles and occupation soldiers fired tank shells and machineguns at demonstrators in . Rafah on Wednesday _________________________ _________ US occupation forces have reportedly killed at least 40 Iraqi civilians in an air raid that targeted the village of Makr al-Dib on the Syrian border. _________________________ ____
The world will have little sympathy for whatever harm happens next to the Christian/Jewish Empire.
Meanwhile in the USA itself, people have never had any realistic picture of the rest of the world. When I lived there, most people believed that the USA "shouldn't give so much aid money to other countries". The rulers, like Walter Wriston, knew that the flow of money was inwards not outwards. "Around here, Jakarta pays the bills" said Walt. ...And now, the uneducated bulk of the USA somehow believe that GeorgeII is protecting them... "A GrassRoots Index shows who has received small contributions from all over America (President Bush is first); a Devotion Index shows who inspires repeat giving and financial sacrifice, (Mr. Bush is first again); and a FatCats Index ranks who gets large contributions from the wealthiest Americans (Senator John Kerry is tops)." fundrace _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _________
Belated boat reports: Round the world record was broken in April by Steve Fossett (who is retiring from the sea) in Cheyenne "..Cookson Boats of New Zealand to build the (originally) 105-foot catamaran. ..lengthened. to 125' (38.1m). ..under the direction of Kiwi master boat builder Sean Regan " 58d 9h 32m 45s Feb-April 2004 _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ Rival trimaran Geronimo (3D Model) ..crossed the Jules Verne Trophy finish line ..29 April04 ..circled the globe in 63 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes and 46 seconds
Hope to bring you the actual comix 2moro _________________________ _______________________
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Beat Infra-Red cameras. step 1: umbrellas, cloaks, gloves, masks stored outside at ambient temperature step 2: for extra protection, gold foil has the lowest IR emission, so cover masks and gloves with gold foil.
My house is down a narrow path in the township. No jeeps with 25mm guns can get there, only men on foot. We have defence in depth: lots of eyes & cell phones watching the path steel doors, coco lumber staves a Kris (which has already killed a man) a Japanese WWII military sword An undisclosed number of 38s I am considering a 45 (laser sighted) for extra stopping power.
_________________________ _________________________ Weird Science 17May04 Today Stockholm convention comes into effect 12 POPS (persistent organic poisons) are now banned Australia has applied for an exception for Myrex which is sprayed on Mangoes (why?) associated with breast cancer _________________________ _________________________ Chris Field at Sydney U has noise filtering bricks tubes of lengths to interfere with sound fresh air gets in , sound does not I want mine now! _________________________ _________________________ 3D prototyping: $5 eye-glasses for Kenyans in 10 minutes Automatic goggles measure eyes - machine makes lenses on the spot... inject plastic between sheets... rapid prototyping 3D printer inkjet - hard plastic 10 minutes - lens Soon everything will be made by your desktop 3D printer... _________________________ _________________________ Sci 19Mar04 Photosynthesis the PSII centre imaged at 3.5A? A distorted cube of 3 Mn 4O and 1 Ca, another Mn on a vertex This is where Water is split, so that the Hydrogen can be used to reduce CO2 - that's life.
They think they have a handle on this, but they still argue about which side the proton (H) exits...
I wish there was more video about this.. the guys doing the actual science use fancy animation packages, but then they print it in SCIENCE and its _really_ hard to follow, even with stereo illustrations.
Barely a blink, despite the evidence of children's suffering
Late on Thursday.. Philip Ruddock, quietly tabled the .. report into the mandatory detention of asylum-seeker children.. ..it tells, for example, the story of a boy who was sent with his family to Woomera in April 2001. At the time he was 12. After a year in detention, the boy, on many occasions, threw himself onto the razor wire or tried to hang himself. He explained his action like this: "We came for support and it seems we're being tortured." ..
... "Between 1999 and 2004 a serious offence against innocent children took place in Australia. The offence was committed by the Government. While it happened, the consciences of far too many Australians were asleep."
Barely a blink, despite the evidence of children's suffering - Robert Manne
Moving here from blogger/blog*spot who threw me out for being too political. Hope I can stay here
here is teh blog that got me fired:blogger.com, who host this blog are evidently allowing themselves to be used in a psy-op to whit: they prominently feature a fake blog "iraqthamodel" (even the name is obviously a psy-op construct) which has a crude question and answer format featuring an Iraqi "dentist" you know the sort of thing: "what sort of job is the USA doing in Iraq. Mohhamad?" "A superb job, my cousin" I put a comment there, saying it smelled like a psy-op which was still there when I went back but I have been banned by "the webmaster" (funny how a blog has a webmaster) From a brief textural analysis I surmise the writer is a male, 30-45, not an Arab, residing on the East Coast of the USA who is consulting with an Iraqi who is not a permanent resident of Iraq ...its that bad. So how close am I "webmaster"?
They have a lot of comments, obviously not critical ones, since the "webmaster" bans criticism. Mostly the usual jejune jerkoff redneck "waste the Arabs" stuff.
So I obviously should find a new host for my blog, but I cant be bothered. I will probably stop blogging immediately after my blogspot is trashed which cant be far off (eh "webmaster"?) _________________________ ____________________
1948 Palestine cont.. "In the second deadly ambush against its forces in as many days, an Israeli armoured vehicle was blown up on Wednesday by Palestinian resistance fighters in Rafah, killing five soldiers" There can now be hardly a street in Gaza which doesnt have a buried bomb.
Last year: Nightmare in Rafah 2003 "telltale sound of a small motor soared overhead. It was the lawn-mower buzz of an Israeli spy drone. I alerted the others to the fact that while they planned a means to move around the gun battle to the vicinity of the mosque that the drone would see them. My fear was that while a tank may not notice us slip by in the dark, a drone's infrared eye would see us coming and could tell the tank to open fire even before it realized we weren't combatants."
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