At Circular Quay Sydney, find the Quay Deli (tucked away behind another take-away) near pier 3, The best soups you will ever buy. $5 takeaway. Vegetables hand cut, generous chunks of chicken, garlicky bean soup, dark lentil soup, fennel flavoured pumpkin soup. I try to get one every morning. Fennel flavour is my least favourite, since childhood in the Wellington hills, crushed fennel seems un-food-like. Watch out for the bay leaf. My father warned against choking on bay leaves. As a GP he had a list of domestic dangers; slipping in the shower, choking on orange piths, which he would cheerfully warn us about. One he missed, was alpha particles from the radioactive paint on old alarm clocks. As a lad, I took the train to the Hutt, for a few shillings bought a big cake of dry ice. Took it home wrapped in newspaper. Made a Wilson's cloud chamber. The correct construction involves a sudden decompression pump, and a strong vertical electric field. I dispensed with both. Simply inverted a clear plastic jar over a plate on top of the dry ice cake. At the top of the chamber, cotton wool soaked in meths. A piece from the minute hand of a Westclox alarm clock placed at the bottom. Wondrous to behold, every few seconds a tiny track appeared, about 3mm as I recall. For heavens sake be careful with those Westclox, dont ingest even the smallest piece of that luminous paint. This was around 1960, radioactive clock hands are probably scarce now. I believe the trails were alpha particles. Couldnt bend them with the strong magnet which Uncle Googs had found at the DSIR where he was a storeman. Wonder where that magnet went when the shed was demolished in 1988? No evident beta particle tracks, apparatus too crude probably. Father was suitably impressed with the tracks, and we carefully disposed of the clock hands in the rubbish bin. He told us about the "Radium girls" in the 20's who licked the paintbrushes to get a point as they painted clocks. Their exhumed bones 50 years later had 19500 micro curies. Saw "Copenhagen" play last week. Heisenberg was shocked by the original cloud chamber tracks. Under his Uncertainty rules, a particle can't leave a definite track. Then he realised that the condensate drops the eye sees are as big as a country, compared with the alpha particle, so the track is like a series of postcards sent by a travelers from each country on a tour. Position uncertain. Electrons were said to have no radius whatsoever, which even aged 12 I found a preposterous idea. This single point was guarded by a cloud of virtual anti-particles called into existence by Heisenbergs ghost. SuperStrings will sort that out. Doubt anyone will ever see a string nor a Planck particle, even though it has only the energy of a barrel and a half of oil. Or the kinetic energy of a Lear Jet. Heisenberg had the U235 critical mass estimate just 20 times too high, at 1 Ton. He failed to recalculate the diffusion, according to the playwright. Bohr failed to remind him. I read "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" around 1960 and was enamoured of science and socialism by Oppie. Probably will remain so. 6Jun04 Dust & Smoke
prisonplanet Is this Atta? (that well known urban renewal architect) sounds more like a Hebrew accent ... "Qa'ada" is the infinitive of the verb "to sit". .. "Al-Qaeda" is the base or fundament of something. ..A very common and widespread use of the word “Al-Qaeda” ..is for the toilet bowl. ..potty used by small children is called "Ma Qa'adia" or "Little Qaeda Hermes 450 US to Employ Surveillance Drones ..The Border Patrol .. unmanned drone ..thermal and night-vision ..from 15 miles up, read a license plate, ..detect weapons 1,000 lb 35-foot wingspan 100 mph patrol at 12 - 15,000 feet..20 hours. ..as used in 1948 PalastineScores of soldiers were trapped in the rubble of the attack near the illegal Jewish settlement of Gush Katif. Hamas ..at least 15 ambulances rushed to the scene. ..explosives planted in a tunnel..hundreds of kilograms of explosives ..fire from mortars and assault rifles, . . . .Weird Science.. I'm reading the new Brian Greene book, on physics & everything. "The Fabric of the Cosmos" BG reckons it is compulsory to believe everything is both a particle and a wave. However Dick Feynman is insistent that things (photons, electrons) are actually particles, just that they have a weird ampliture... RF gave some great lectures in Auckland Univ in 1979 .. he said he wanted to see if a non-mathematical explanation of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) was possible, but he chose Auckland because it was far from USA and failure wouldnt embarrass him back home. The lectures are great. [Despite being realvideo, & obviously AucklandU has crappy servers] RF's papers on QED were published a week before & a week after my birth. 7 Days before my birth the first stored progrm computer ran. 3 Days after my birth Bell Labs unveiled the transistor. . . . . Great Art
Rokia Traoré Bowmboï Still Managed & produced by Thomas Weill, with close in drums, & Kronos on a couple of tracks Rokia grew up a Diplomat Brat, she is definitely not a griot, but she has returned to Mali to live. This disc got WorldMusic2003 from the BBC. mp3 samples His Holiness Dali Lama sampled
Tired of tricyclics? Wandering the halls looking for hanging points? Cell lobat since the wife dont call? No clean shirts in the Erskinville swamp? Missed your train because it was on time, so Missed your Quay Deli bean soup? Air France is now flying direct Paris to Mopti - although I would still chose Bamako for the mbalax Negroponte Another chap who doesnt deserve to live. A Death squad captain, just the man the USA needs in the new satrapy of Iraq Breaking the Silence" New York Times: The 90 photos..do not reveal abuses. They do show Palestinian detainees, blindfolded and handcuffed. There are Jewish children playing in the empty streets of a town where Palestinians have faced extended curfews. "If he saw a group of people standing and talking, he would fire the tear gas just to see them run and cough.. He got a big kick out of it." ..soldiers often used Palestinians as "human shields".. ------------------------- ------------------------- -- ..there was a clinic that soldiers had taken over during the operation. He found a nauseating sight: "Everything was turned upside down. The windows were broken, syringes were scattered on the floor and excrement was smeared over everything." ,..graffiti.."Arabs to the gas chambers." Phoebe 500K jpg diameter 220km density 1602 kg/m³
NASA Data Shows Hurricanes Help Plants Bloom in “Ocean Deserts” Small Hurricane Movie Big Hurricane Movie BMJ Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April 2002 ..recommended comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers of all ages," including preschool children.. ..where are Tom Cruise & John Travolta when you need them?
Tried 5 taxis yesterday, the fifth one agreed to take me, the fourth one was freaky Sped at high speed down deserted streets at 11 pm, saying "I'm going to Police Station, I'm going to say you threaten me, you will have to pay the fare there". I displayed cell phone and persuaded him to stop He had no lights on inside or out, so I got no ID. Sydney Taxis are scary. I know women who wont use them in town in the afternoon. Most drivers look like embittered refugees who have seen their families bombed, and have little left to live for. courtesy of the US Marines Paul Roberts: We won’t really run out of oil,.it will become too expensive to use. ..When will we hit peak production? The estimates range. anywhere from 30 years, to 35 years, to it’s already happened.. ..the one you want to think about is when do we hit production peak outside of OPEC? ..then we have to turn to OPEC .. non-OPEC peak will be in about 10 years. .. Venezuela basically shut down its exports a year and half ago... Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were able to pump up their production ..before the prices went too high. Now if that happened, that would pretty much tap out ..What if production in Iraq fell because the chaos continued to grow and oil companies stopped wanting to send their people there? What if Saudi Arabia has some sort of political upheaval? (PR wrote "The End of Oil")
Best estimate f0r 2003 oil production remains BP 73.08Mbbl/day.. USA uses 20 SaudiArabia produces 10 David Campbell on Aus speech junk , ... he goes yeah-no like what Australians do...
Paul Sheehan in smh quotes .., approvingly, since PS is a PRN (professional red neck, one of those journos who went to uni, but makes his living worming out red neck views so he can boost them) ..Robert Kaplan of The Atlantic Monthly..chaplain, Navy Lieutenant Wayne Hall 'Today is Palm Sunday. The day of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where he broke the bounds of hell. Tonight commences your triumphal entry into Falluja, a place in the bounds of hell. This is a spiritual battle, and you Marines are the tools of mercy.' . . . . weird science... Stealth wallpaper .. panels..prevent outsiders from listening in on .. Wi-Fi ..but let other radio and mobile phone traffic get through. ..FSS (Frequency Selective Surface)..same way as printed circuit boards .. copper on Kapton ....used on stealth bombers....50 - 100 microns .. ..to most surfaces .&. glass.
national facts&figures: Australia is the filthiest country in the world, by a long margin The Rightist Government just announced slashing of taxes on Diesel in a depressingly short sighted Energy policy.
. . . Coal tons per year 1. Australia 7.30 per person 2. Greece 6.60 per person 3. Korea, North 4.61 per person 4. South Africa 3.98 per person 5. United States 3.65 per person 6. Germany 3.21 per person 7. Taiwan 2.34 per person 8. Canada 2.08 per person 9. Russia 2.06 per person 10. Ukraine 2.02 per person
. . . . Evil Science.. If my thought dreams could be seen... functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner .. 14 people as they learned to distinguish a bad hunch from a good omen. ..certain combinations were followed by a painful electrical shock delivered to the back of the hand, whereas others prompted a less painful jolt.
After a few trials, subjects were subconsciously able to predict the arrangements that spelled trouble. As ..the insula cortex,..process emotions.. ventral striatum ..motivation centre ..astounding," ..Peter Dayan. "There was an almost perfect match between the brain signals and the numerical functions used in machine learning," .. Nature, 429, 664 - 667 Jingangshan...first pterosaur embryo ever found..53 millimetres long..27-centimetre wingspan..able to fly ..soon after it hatched blog on blogs Michaels Wheel How Microsoft Lost the API War Joel Spolsky
EU voting in Roma: Lilli Gruber, Italy's most famous newsreader who ran for the Olive Tree opposition coalition, got more than 236,000 votes - roughly twice as many as the premier in the capital, Rome. La Repubblica spoke of.. "the military occupation of TV screens". ..It also blamed the premier's poll setback on the 57m SMS mobile phone messages which he sent to Italian citizens .. Jim D Watson Genes and Politics 1997
"...extreme poverty...the major origin of antisocial behaviour ..among its many bad consequences the breeding {sic} of criminal violence"
. . . .JDW says he is against State involvement in eugenics, but thats a nasty sentence Jim. I see more violence from rich Texan oilmen than from extremely poor peasants. If one mutation in a family in Holland is associated with "aggression" it is not logical to assume that aggression in general is associated with single or even a handful of mutations.
You need genes to make a brain, and a brain to behave, but the causations are not typically simple. One base pair error, giving one enzyme malfunction may cause behaviour that is antisocial, but the vast preponderance of "anti-social" behaviour comes from complex brains, in complex people, making the complex decisions that present society is arranged for the benefit of others. . . . .I deeply suspect those who propose State benefits or punishments for good or bad couples' babies. Both because its hard to define good and because the popular "good" this year may be "bad" the next.
".. too low a mutation rate will not generate sufficient gene variants to allow species to compete effectively with those species evolving faster.."
JDW here falls into two of the most common errors regarding evolution. I had expected more from Jim, one of my heroes among biologists. Organisms, particularly big ones, spend a lot of energy on DNA repair. Once you have evolved over aeons, you want to stay the same, not to evolve. Thats what evolution is about. Being fit. Not plans for next year. Its true that sex is maintained as a way of swapping proven parasite remedies, but its not for "faster evolution". Sex is to combat specific attacks from organisms with shorter life spans, ie parasites. If speed of change was all, then its easy, just drop some DNA repair enzymes.
And its bizarre in 1997 for JDW to talk about "species competing". Group selection hasn't been the main course in evolution since the 20s, if ever.
Another reluctant eugeneticist was Bill Hamilton, famously described as the "greatest theoretical biologist since Darwin" BillH forced biological theorists to accept the "Red Queen" "sex is for anti-parasites" theory. Since 1990 it is not respectable to talk about "too low a mutation rate..."
Bill feared the "Hospital Society" where accumulated bad mutations in humans forced huge medical costs on society. He mumbled some sort of "voucher" proposal for "good gene" parents. I maintain confidence in natural selection, even in Modern day Newtown.
Bill had a snide attack on S J Gould in "Narrow road to Geneland" vol2. SJG is another of my heros, but there was evidently bad blood between him & BillH, which may explain the single tiny reference to BH in SJG's big book on evolution. BillH points out that "gene therapy" may never be possible. The gamete DNA is hidden in a coiled coiled coil, beyond feasible manipulation. We are left with abortion of embryos or foetus that shed cells betraying bad base pairs.
SJG stuck to his leftwing principles, even under the big guns of BH & JDW. I agree with him that neither the State, nor any committee can measure the potential worth of a complex person by scanning a list of base pair anomalies. Ice Core ..new ice core in Antarctica ..740,000 years..nearly twice as long as any other..U Colorado.. June 9 .. European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, or EPICA Prof James White.Jwhite@colorado.edu ..White said. "In the past 430,000 years, the percentage of time that the climate was as warm as it is today is quite small, about 5 percent to 10 percent, and before that time, it appears to never have been that warm." [??? I think the professor is quite wrong here... eg "For most of the Phanerozoic Era (the past 600 million years) the Earth has been warmer than it is at present."] Want a good Cracker?
Trans fatty acids: very bad for you... Crackers - A very tough category; virtually all crackers have trans fats, including saltines, goldfish and wheat thins. Except for hefty whole grain ones like:
- Ryvita Sesame - Wasa - AkMak - Finn Crisp - Lavasch - Fortt's Bath Oliver Crackers - these delicate traditional English crackers are perfect for cheese (made with butter oil and beef fat!).. distributed by Carr's (all their other crackers and cookies have trans, though), so if you have Carr's products in your store, ask the manager to stock Bath Olivers, which come in a white paper cylinder.
Bread Oddly enough, everything from English muffins to pita bread to refrigerated biscuit dough to white bread has trans fat - probably just because it's cheap... [I think that boutique breads eg "D'opugh!" may be sans trans...]
KelsenBisca..100% organic water cracker .. NO HYDROGENATED OILS! The Bisca {but Ryvita GI is 69...) Pure dark chocolate has more antioxidant compounds than any food we’ve ever analyzed,”
. . . .To Iraq and back... The pipeline from Kirkuk to Ceyhan in Turkey has barely been in operation since the war thanks to repeated sabotage. .."After the sabotage attack..exports stopped from Basra oil terminal and Khor al-Amaya." cost $60m a day ..exports have been.. 1.7m bbl a day now cut by ..two thirds. supply of electricity in the country has fallen from 12 hours a day to six hours. On Canal Street yesterday, occupationwatch close to the bombed-out UN headquarters, there was a two-mile long queue of cars waiting to buy petrol.
Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, a group of retired ambassadors and senior military officers, ..Morning Newsmaker news conference ..June 16, at 8 a.m. EDT..National Press Club Saddam Hussein, currently in US custody, is to be handed over to the interim government within two weeks.
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told Aljazeera on Monday .. "All the current detainees, without exception, will be handed over to the Iraqi authority. The handover will take place within the next two weeks."
Its possible that USA is that stupid, in which case what are the odds that SH will be busted out within days? Why are 10 US carriers at sea with 93% of th US fleet? "unprecedented" Why has the Federal Reserve gone into m3 liquid at 22% annualised rate? typically thast would indicate an emergency...
minutes after the first bombing, a crowd of young men flooded into the streets and rushed toward the wreckage.
As more than 50 Iraqi policemen stood by, the mob stomped on the hoods of the crushed vehicles, doused them with kerosene and set them alight, creating a huge fireball in the middle of a crowded neighborhood.
Even as angry men ran past, hurling bricks at the squad of American soldiers who responded, few of the Iraqi policemen intervened. rense makes sense Virtually every significant problem facing the American people today can be traced back to the policies and people that came from the Reagan administration. It is a laundry list of ills, woes and disasters that has all of us, once again staring apocalypse in the eye. ... Reagan's old bosses at General Electric own three of the most-watched news channels
Lurking though the web, on an Alchemical search (as one does on a Friday winter evening) for the first of seven steps, in the emerald transformation Calcination
I came upon this image of Calcination from the vulgar world: Is it just me, or is this image vulgar in another, somewhat anatomical sense?
First rain in weeks, loud on my new house low iron roof Cans on to hear teev, thunder felt as shudders in my chair arm. Seems like poverty, to hear the rain so loud. Childhood under a slate roof, double brick,double story, on the Wellington fault. After that silent building, noisy roofs remind me of clapboard cottages in Freeman's bay, Typhoon torrents in Novaliches. Building now a ply & fibre insulated iron roof, to live amidst all that life carless, mapless, lawless sparrows still thriving there. the gasoline here has killed them all, (when did you last see a sparrow?) _________________________ _________________________ ________ Ron Reagan Jr: "My father was a man - that's the difference between him and Bush. To paraphrase Jack Palance, my father crapped bigger ones than George Bush."
[plus: Reagan wiped out 200,000 Mayans, entire villages vanished from the face of the earth a serious attempt to compete Cortez's genocide. BushII is merely sending a dozen tanks into Fallujah for the day, then handing the place back to a General Latif.] _________________________ _________________________ ________ Earth Pilgrim, click the picture, take the flash trip Sacha Dean Biyan
watching the GBushII video ad, which ostensibly attack K for not supporting body armour, The images have stealth deltas blue-screened in in a cinenatic-Lucas kind of fakely realistic way. The latent message is that K is against Luke Skywalker and Obi-wan wheras GII is modern and will _win_ the (video) game
real spoken Attack = Defence Resistance = terrorism
Moqtada al-Sadr..banned yesterday from standing in Iraq's .. elections. "Paul Bremer..signed an order..with immediate effect, members of illegal militias "will be barred .." I love that "immediate effect" touch, things change in Iraigon from day to day... aint democracy grand? _________________________ ________________
Yet more Iranam blogs
seetheforest "..talk that there will be an "October Surprise," or that the voting machines will refuse to count Democratic votes, or that the Republicans might just cancel the election. Unfortunately there is reason to fear. In 1968, fearing an end of the Vietnam War would mean a Humphrey victory, the Republicans sabotaged the pending peace agreement,
In 1980 there is every reason to believe the Republicans made a campaign deal with the terrorist government of Iran to keep the American hostages -- and keep Carter looking bad -- in exchange for post-election arms shipments..." yes,yes this is old stuff, well known, or.. it oughta be
Whiskey Bar this time next year....And what I see coming is failure – the most spectacular U.S. foreign policy failure since the last helicopter lifted the last marine off the roof of the American embassy in Saigon. _________________________ ______ Melora Kuhn Melora Kuhn
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OttoReich, another man who doesnt deserve to live... but has been brought back from the Reagan terror years to terrorise anew... bbb ..the most dangerous axis that has ever penetrated the United States of America, the Axis of Deceit,.. One of them works in the White House. He is Otto Reich, currently assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs in other words, the U.S. government’s Number One man in Latin America.
ttt now 650 wide...was still too wide the Apollonian and the Dionisiac Girl from Martinique (Matisse) Which litho, the moment I saw it in Brisbane last millennium flashed a picture of that girl in Jamaica, big like Grace Jones, the pair of us on that tiny motorbike, in the Hills above Mo Bay, finding a little chocolate factory. I had forgotten her, I had forgotten that Franz Fanon came from Martinique, (Black Skin, White Masks; The Wretched of the Earth) I remembered the terror filled nights, watching fireflies flashing around my room, hearing imagined or real threats of revenge for a killing, the Ford Zephyr? pulling up beside me, 4 detectives, "We thought you'd left the Island". Tiny hummingbirds with impossibly long tail feathers, Ital fish from tiny tin shacks booming on the beach "If I could only reach the border, I would surely step across" The relief when I escaped the Island, even if it was to death-squad ridden Guat city.
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Paglia 1993 You need to pay homage to both Apollo and Dionysus. Both are great gods. Both must be honored. We need a balance between the two. That's all.
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _____ axis of deceit ISBN: 0975076922 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0975 076922/ref" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0975 076922/ref" target="_blank"http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...%3Dnosim/bookssites-20/10 3-6256444-3041450 Andrew Wilkie resigned from Australia’s senior intelligence agency, ..in protest over the looming Iraq war. He was the only serving Intelligence Officer from..the US, UK and Australia--to do so, and his dramatic action was reported throughout the world. .. Wilkie assesses how the case for war was made in Washington, London and Canberra and explains how the three governments routinely skewed, spun and fabricated the relevant intelligence.
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _____ CUBA’S Hotel Nacional..declared Best Hotel in the World by ..elmundoviajes.com ..displaces last year’s winner, La Mamounía (Marrakech, Morocco)
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _____ Pollution in N. America falls 10 percent _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _____ Dylan in Victorias Secret Ad Aint gonna work for Maggies Bra no more _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _____ Shetlands
Arthur Iles Photos none on the web Auckland Museum has some. Regarded as non PC, the WMIRG (White Male Imperialist Racist Gaze) I maintain that Iles subjects have their own space and power, but this view may never regain popularity. Half Coconut bras are perhaps the most prototypical absurd WMIRG idea, except when adopted by Polynesian women themselves, in an ironic reference perhaps? (see 30May04 pics below)
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"I express my deep regret because Reagan died before facing justice for his ugly crime that he committed in 1986 against the Libyan children," Kaddafi
On Reagan's watch 200,000 Mayans were massacred in Guatemala, with the connivance of Negroponte, who is still around, (http://www.buzzflash.com/cont...) and the assistance of Israeli and Argentinean torture trainers. US backed terrorists overthrew the Sandinista in Nicaragua. A hundred thousand died at the hands of death squads in El Salvador with Reagans blessing.
I left the USA shortly after Reagan came in. Didnt bother waiting for my green card. Not going back in this lifetime. _________________________ ________________________ Wash. Times: "Sedition laws almost surely would be found unconstitutional, currently -- although things may change after the next terrorist attack in America. _________________________ _________________________ ___________________ 3 of the past 4 CENTCOM commanders
General Joseph Hoar, 1991-1994: "I think that the neo-conservatives had their day, by selling to the President the need for invasion of Iraq. I think it's now time for a clean sweep and it has been for some time, in my judgment, to get rid of these people."
General Anthony Zinni, 1997-2000: (believes Wolfowitz and Feith, the undersecretary of defense, have hijacked U.S. foreign policy:) "In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption."
General Tommy Franks, 2000-2003: Doug Feith is "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."
General Binford Peay III, CENTCOM commander from 1994-1997, seems to have maintained a studious silence..chairman..of a..contractor that,.. provides ammunition for the Army's Stryker brigades. _________________________ _________________________ _________________- _________________________ _____________- "Five Special Forces soldiers have committed suicide during the war on terrorism . ..four of the five had been taking mefloquine just prior to their suicides."
Asawa problems. Her phone not working, txt only, so I sent $ for a new phone but spent on windows (?) and 800 for police(?) So I sulked and no txt until Sat. Now Asawa is sulking, no txt for 10 days. I lie awake wondering. Call my hipag sister. Cell answered in Sabang by Riza. Both sisters are down at the beach. A. assures me that Asawa is still up in Town. Gives me another # to txt, but not in service. Bad situation, Feel like jumping on a jetplane. My little brother anonces he is dropping out from his job. Im just a jealous guy
ps: OK just got a TXT, no rice, so its off to WU - I wish my baby could keep a PIN secret, ATM fees are so much lower...
Iraqi Blogs... _________________________ _________________________ _____ raedandtheirani Islam for me, as a secular leftist, is more than a mere religion Islam is my cultural heritage that I will protect and maintain until the last moment of my existence.
Islam is the small ornaments in my architecture, the small details of the doors of Al-Mustansiryya school in Baghdad, the arches of the Abbasi palace, the domes of Al-Kathum shrine and the wooden windows of my grandfathers’ courtyard house.
Islam is the small kids playing in the narrow streets of the crowded neighborhoods in Baghdad and Cairo, it is the charming smell of the mosques of Najaf and Karbala, the spicy taste of the Iraqi Dolma, the colorful pigeons flying at the time of dawn in Al-Hamedyyah market in Damascus, the warm palm trees surrounding Shatt Al-Arab in Basra.
Islam is the genius poetry of Quran every morning, the strong voice of Um-Kalthum every evening, the soft sound of Athan every sunrise.
Islam is the shy smile of my woman. _________________________ _________________________ _____
asked if I could have a ‘go’ on his AK 47 when we got to Baghdad. I don’t know why. And I never expected to actually be given the chance. It was the kind of comment that I would normally make on the kind of building site where I often work. Wanting a ‘go’ on someone’s big drill / grinder / power tool.
So I fired an AK. Magazine removed, into wasteland that followed the trajectory of the bullet. It was a big, powerful, wall – breaking, spark – flying, dangerous, noisy, fantastically engineered tool. _________________________ _________________________ _____________________ raedinthemiddle Saturday, May 29, 2004So yeah Finally, we have a president and a prime minister So "they" selected our president and prime minister in a small meeting, But they couldn’t even announce the place of their meeting!!! Haha! What a great strong authority! Hiding in a dark smelly shelter someplace in the "green zone', and announcing fake governments
_________________________ _________________________ _____________________ riverbend Tuesday, June 01, 2004 The Roof... Hot. It's hot, hot, hot, hot. The weather is almost stifling now. The air is heavy and dry with heat. By early noon, it's almost too hot to go outside. For every two hours of electricity, we have four hours of no electricity in our area- and several other areas. The problem now is that the generators in many areas are starting to break down due to constant use and the bad quality of the fuel. It's a big problem and it promises to grow as the summer progresses. _________________________ _________________________ _____________________ Iran duped hawks into Iraq war Julian Borger Guardian Weekly
"It's pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner," said an intelligence source in Washington on Monday. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi."
Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said: "When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy."
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _________ weird science... Scots Wind Turbines "Even in Altamont Pass in America, where 7,000 turbines were erected on a migratory route, it was only 0.2 birds per turbine per year. Compare this with the number killed by cats, cars and by flying into windows, or even by global warming..
.. In the 17th century we had 90,000 windmills in Britain. They were a part of life. What we're looking to do is install perhaps 4,000, making 5,000 in total. Roughly half will be onshore and half offshore. If 4,000 turbines sounds a lot, compare Germany, where last year alone they installed more than 2,500MW of capacity and now have 7,000 turbines."
_________________________ ______ Hokan Colting lover of all things dirigible _________________________ ______________________ Geobacter NASA-supported researchers are working to develop a fuel cell that can extract electricity from human waste. Geobacter metallidreducens. isolated from the Potomac River..1987 ..the first organism found to oxidize organic compounds to carbon dioxide with iron oxides as the electron acceptor.....may explain.. the massive accumulation of magnetite in ancient iron formations Thats one tough bug...
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