Some sort of Fiji takeover of Australia? ..newly signed Wallaby forward Radike Samo .. mountainous Fijian winger Lote Tuqiri ..hail from neighbouring Fijian villages ...Australian Idol finalist Paulini was at number one on the singles chart ...Trev Big Brother winner http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/29/10 91080376624.html" title="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/29/10 91080376624.html" target="_blank"http://www.smh.com.au/article... ..Major Thomas Neemeyer, head of intelligence for the 1st Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division: .."There's a possibility we'll say we'll protect the Government and keep travel routes open, and for the rest of them, to hell with 'em. To a certain degree we've already done it..." .."The only way to stomp out the insurgency of the mind would be to kill the entire population." What, no statues?... Tourists and locals gather for a meal at Spanos' Family Coffee Center, Crawford's combination gas station, convenience store and cafe, and sit among life-size cardboard cutouts of the Bush family and members of his administration.
All Iraq's oil is just 4 years world supply. Was that worth a Nuclear War? [DU weapons emit more radiation than Hiroshima] Oil Eaters A two-pound bag of breakfast cereal burns the energy of a half-gallon of gasoline in its making. ..the USA food-processing industry uses 10 calories of fossil energy for every calorie of food energy.. That ..does not include..transporting the food from the factory to a store near you, or the fuel used by millions of people driving to ..discount stores on the edge of town.
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This is your rat brain on her cell phone Zit bugs punch holes in cells: Staph Aureus make alpha-hemolysin pore which punches holes in cells Center a DNA hairpin is captured by the nanopore.. Right image: A few milliseconds later the DNA hairpin spontaneously unfolds and is drawn through the limiting aperture of the hemolysin..
big pore picture: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol274/issue5 294/images/large/se496452 5004.jpeg" title="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol274/issue5 294/images/large/se496452 5004.jpeg" target="_blank"http://www.sciencemag.org/con... Scientists are excited by nano-pores, they might be able to slurp a DNA strand through, and sequence at thousands of bases per second: get your own DNA sequenced in one hour! nuclear pores seen via AtomicForceMicroscope Virus runs on rails: HIV uses dynein and the microtubule network to deliver the viral genome to the nucleus ..pathogens that co-opt the host microtubule transport system are observed to be moving bi-directionally, instantaneously reversing course. .. include Herpes adenovirus and HIV the movie
AGNSW has women photographers: Daniela Federici, usually too pretty but this gets an edge
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some ted rall:
Bruce Sterlings rather tedious blog has some gems: this pointer to de Barbari: [the fellow responsible actually gives away his surplus books & CDs if you comment]
this from a set of de Barbari's aerial shot of Venice: barbari venice
more on Soy: I am eating some, caps of phosphatidylcholine, its just too good for you.
Tracy & Robert spend a lot of time looking after visiting Tibetan Monks,who gave them this butter lotus. A test of your attachment to material things, do you try to keep it? The monks themselves regularly burn butter sculptures 29Sept Toutakis, 2.4km asteroid, passes close (0.0104AU), some say 64% chance it will hit see the weird rotation movie Asterix "By Toutatis"...their only fear is that the sky may fall onto their heads. Soy aint all its cracked up to be?
Vandana Shiva says its not good for you. Industrial soy displaces village scale fresh vegetable oils
It now appears that soy does not help bones
"Mothering.com" article by By Kaayla T. DanielMay/June 2004
read this and give up Soy!.. "..the people of China, Japan..eat very little soy. The soy industry's own figures show that soy consumption in China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan ranges from 9.3 to 36 grams per day...Compare this with a cup of tofu (252 grams) or soy milk (240 grams) ..there is no historical precedent for eating the large amounts of soy food now being consumed by infants fed soy formula " ..first person to manufacture soy milk in China was an American Seventh Day Adventist.. ..Soy now lurks in nearly 60 percent of the foods sold in supermarkets and natural food stores.. such as fast-food burgers and Bumblebee canned tuna..." ....phytoestrogens can impair fertility. ..tofu has traditionally been used in Buddhist monasteries to decrease the libido, and by Japanese women to punish straying husbands. ..Soy formula is bad news for girls as well.. blacks experience earlier puberties than whites is not a racial difference but a recent phenomenon. Most experts blame this epidemic of "precocious puberty" on environmental estrogens from plastics, pesticides, commercial meats, etc., but some .. believe that soy is a contributor..Since ..1974, .the federal government..has provided free infant formula to teenage and other low-income mothers while failing to encourage breastfeeding. Because of perceived or real lactose intolerance, black babies are much more likely to receive soy formula than Caucasian babies. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ + give up meat pies because
trans fats in pastry?
soy filler? which means GM soy filler?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ + [glyphosate (such as the herbicide Roundup) increased the level of plant estrogens of bean crops] ..a window of opportunity for destroying Iran’s main nuclear complex at Bushehr next year that would close if Russia delivered crucial fuel rods. To destroy Bushehr after the delivery would cause huge environmental damage. The rods would allow the Iranians to obtain enough plutonium for many dozens of nuclear weapons.. 7-21-4 FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas have shot down a U.S. helicopter Ramadi and three. killed, says an Iraqi police.. 7-21-4..12 US troops and six Taleban fighters killed in Urozgan Province [central Afghanistan]. 21 July 2004, 9:03 Makka Time ..the college of economics at Baghdad U.. found .. the unemployment .. in Iraq is 70%. ..unemployment ..from bad to worse,..reconstruction..faltering. Is Libya the new Iraq? ..Petroleum Intelligence Weekly ..1.5 E6 bbl/day,.. able to double that .. in a decade ..early 1970's .. 3.3 E6 bbl/day .. 36 E9 bbl reserves, 3% world ..Iraq reserves 112 E9 but security concerns... .................. Libya soon exporting natural gas to Italy ..370-mile pipeline to Sicily $5.6 E9 venture with Eni of Italy. ..oil export to $13.4 E9 in 2003 from $5.9 E9 in 1998. from Rense.com: "neither Churchill, nor Eden, nor Roosevelt, nor Truman, nor Eisenhower, nor de Gaulle, nor Stalin ever cared to mention the "gas chambers" .. No one has been able to find any premises that might have been a genuine execution gas chamber... The "execution gas chambers" shown to tourists have revealed themselves to be Potemkin village contrivances.." 1986 cont...
Maybe its a 1948 thing, but like Gibson, I can get too attached to bombers. Currently its a Levi 70505 0217, A$40, heavy denim, 2nd hand, perfectly broken in. Name of "Bacon" inside, so hi Kevin, love your bomber. Bought at "Rodeo Drive", were on King St with terrific used USA clothes, but alas went broke Previous bomber: Versace brushed navy cotton, unlined. A$400 in 98, I had just sold crypto to two governments, the bubble, I got Lasix in Makati, everything looked great. Gianni was just dead, so it was his jacket, not his sisters. The bomber is still looking great. MA1 continued... The actual MA1 only U$78 but shipping is U$100 so if you want one (in several colours) in Auz, find A$250 This is your brain on shabu After a while, the come-down from shabu is like a vortex of dis-associated thoughts spiraling viciously after every negative idea There seems to be a battle between the life extension crowd and the calorie restriction people, I reckon they both are corker... lef has heaps of scientific abstracts, calorie reduction has lots of diet advice. Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank 20 July 2004, 1:09 Makka Time ..first time a judge has been killed in Israel ..a motorcyclist shot District Court Judge Adi Azar.. outside his home in Tel Aviv, ..two bullet wounds to the chest and head. The ..killer escaped.. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades..claimed responsibility ..according to veteran journalist Uri Avnery, Azar was most likely killed by a professional hitman affiliated with the mafia. ..Ada Ravon..pointed out that the mafia had been responsible for a series of criminal incidents in Israel's urban centres in recent months, including car-bombings, bomb-explosions and mock shootings which killed and injured numerous Israelis. Israel is still considered the primary country dealing in the so-called white slave trade, with thousands of young girls from Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic republics lured to Israel every year and end up working as prostitutes in Israel.
U$435 the black MA1. The real MA1 was green but since Gibson described a black one in Pattern Recog, BuzzRicksons decided to make a black one
The Road to Nowhere blog chap who pointed out this anachronomism also describes "Marlon Brando in "The Wild One", 1954, wearing a Perfecto motorcycle jacket. The jacket, originally manufactured by Irving Schott in 1928 and named for his favorite cigar, was the first motorcycle jacket to feature zippers. It's still made by the Schott company, virtually unchanged since Brando's day,"
What I want to ask you is Who are you? Where are you? Are you dreaming? Are you there? The way I'm here?
William Gibson Pattern recognition Odd how Gibson fiction is not much good, at the same time, seems better than any other fiction around. Most fiction is about: 1) Girl does adultery to gain status: Wuthering heights, War & peace, Mme Bovary, or (or Tales of Genji, to go back 1000 years) 2) Boy grows up and leaves town : Dubliners, Sons & lovers 3) Hornblower hoists sail, or the SciFi clones of, with space ships
Gibson writes flat, detail obsessed studies of people in culture. In the area I am expert in (Cryptography) he actually gets details slightly wrong, so I guess he may be slightly wrong about Vodun, or designer luggage or other areas he details. Somehow it doesnt matter, his air of fascinated resignation, melancholy abstraction, loving attentive indifference, is weirdly compelling (I actually pay money for his work) He famously defined "cyberspace" on a manual typewriter, so I suppose he wrote this work about branding wearing Kmart boat shoes. I read it wearing a 1986 pulsar digital watch, the one with the black metal band, with a new faceplate which has no logo.
the Kennedy administration sought to bring ‘the terrors of the earth’ to Cuba, as Arthur Schlesinger recounted in his biography of Robert Kennedy, who ran these terror operations as his highest priority. State Department planners warned that the ‘very existence’ of the Castro regime was ‘successful defiance’ of US policies. censored
1. Anti-Personnel Calmative Agents 2. Anti-Personnel Chemical Immobilizers 3. Demonstration of Chemical Immobilizers 4. Biological Infared Sensor to Ascertain Human Targets and Determine their Physical Characteristics 5. Controlled Lachrymating Agents
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"Leapers aren't so hard to give up," he told me. "I mean, I sleep almost constantly when I'm off, but you get over that. But everything is so damned boring without the pills." I asked him if he knew many amphetamine users who have given up the pills. "For good?" I nodded. "I haven't known anybody that's given it up for good." He reached out and took a few pills from the candy dish in the middle of the coffee table, then washed them down with some Coke. .. As the pills took effect something happened to the muscles of his face, and the whole assembly seemed to go rubbery. His features settled lower and more loosely on the bones of his head. He began to talk with considerably more verve.
Zionist agents hopeless failures in Aotearoa 1926-2002 Ivan Illich hero of the Cultural Rev, now forgotten (my 50 something boss & coworker did not know his name...) Something you genX cant get: it aint about 40mpg, its about 25kph
THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF ACCELERATION
"It should not be overlooked that top speeds for a few exact a different price than high speeds for all. Social classification by levels of speed enforces a net transfer of power: the poor work and pay to get left behind. But if the middle classes of a speed society may be tempted to ignore discrimination, they should not neglect the rising marginal disutilities of transportation and their own loss of leisure. High speeds for all mean that everybody has less time for himself as the whole society spends a growing slice of its time budget on moving people. Vehicles running over the critical speed not only tend to impose inequality, they also inevitably establish a self-serving industry that hides an inefficient system of locomotion under apparent technological sophistication. I will argue that a speed limit is not only necessary to safeguard equity; it is equally a condition for increasing the total distance traveled within a society, while simultaneously decreasing the sum total of life-time that transportation claims. "
[*the cultural rev: 1966-1974 brought you ecology, feminism, equal rights, racial equality, free love, trips, no war, rock music, tribal fusion,...dont blame us boomers if you threw it all away for celebrity worship and cities without sidewalks] George Bush , mass murderer of 20 million, merely to preserve patent profits: ..the Bush administration is "the greatest barrier to access to cheap AIDS medicines for the world." ..the administration has impeded the widespread use of cheaper generic versions of patented antiretroviral medications, ....The Bush money favors .. programs that support sexual abstinence over.. condoms, and opposes funding.. that ..even indirectly allow abortion." Anne-Christine d'Adesky :"Moving Mountains"
18Jun04 On Auz teev, an Iraqi pediatrician says the supply of medecines has never been worse... thats including before SH, during SH, during sanctions, wars, its worst right now. videos of American occupation soldiers sodomising Iraqi boys ..Seymour Hersh said the Bush administration was holding the tapes .. "The boys were sodomised with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. 1948 Palestine's Jewish .. immigration..1990 200,000 .. the vast majority from the collapsing Soviet Union. ..Last year.. 25,000, a 15-year low. .In recent years, immigrants from India, Peruetc have been placed in West Bank settlements..on Thursday, 50 French families will be arriving and moving to the West Bank Mahmud Khalaf Allah, 75, was killed early on Monday during an invasion in Khan Yunus refugee camp when soldiers razed his home while he was still inside,
johnhowardlies JohnHowardLies is about to be "removed from the Internet" (que?) See it now before it goes This man Howard represents the worst aspect of Australia, the greediest, most selfish, filthiest people on earth. . . . More food exported, more arable land per head, while locking up refugee children in desert concentration camps for years. By far the biggest coal burners per head in the world. By far the worst indigenous health figures of any "advanced" nation. Do I need to mention wars of aggression? (Vietnam,Iraq) Extinctions of mammals? (no one comes close)
Deeper still, between girls under fathoms of water,
finally found this Neruda poem in penguinfairy been looking for 30 years..
Alberto Rojas Jimenez Come Flying by Pablo Neruda
Between terrified feathers, between nights and magnolias and telegrams, between southerly winds and winds from the sea blowing West, you come flying.
Under grave-plots and ashes, under the ice on the snail, under the remotest terrestrial waters, you come flying.
Deeper still, between girls under fathoms of water, blind plants and a litter of fish heads, deeper, still deeper, among clouds once again you come flying.
Further than blood or the bones, further than bread; beyond wines, conflagrations, you come flying.
Beyond vinegar's sting and mortality, between canker and violets, in your heavenly voice, with the wet on your shoes, you come flying.
Over drugstores, committees, over lawyers and navies, wheels and the reddened extraction of teeth, you come flying.
Over cities with roofs under water where notable ladies uncouple the braids of their hair with lost combs in the span of their hands you come flying.
Close to the ripening wine in the cellars, with hands tepid and turbid, quiet, with gradual, wooden, red hands you come flying.
Among vanishing airmen by the banks of canals and the shadows, beside lilies now buried, you come flying.
Among bitter-hued bottles, rings of anise and accidents, lamenting and lifting your hands, you come flying.
Over dentists and parishes, cinemas, tunnels, and ears, in your newly bought suit, with your eyeballs effaced, you come flying.
Over that graveyard unmarked by a wall, where even the mariner founders, while the rains of your death fall, you come flying.
While the rain of your fingertips falls, while the rain of your bones falls, and your laughter and marrow fall down, you come flying.
Over the flint into which you dissolve, flowing fast under time, under winter, while your heart falls in droplets, you come flying.
You are no longer there in that ring of cement, hemmed in by the black-hearted notaries or the horseman's maniacal bones: you come flying.
Oh, sea-poppy, my kinsman, bee-clothed guitarist, all the shadows that blacken your hair are a lie: you come flying.
All the shades that pursue you, a lie: all the death-stricken swallows, a lie: all the darkening zone of lament: you come flying.
A black wind from Valparaiso spreads the charcoal and foam of its wings sweeping away the sky where you pass: you come flying.
There are mists and the chill of dead water, and whistles and months and the smell of the rain in the morning and the swill of the fishes: you come flying.
There's rum, too, between us, you and I and the soul that I mourn in, and nobody, nothing at all but a staircase with all the treads broken, and a single umbrella: you come flying.
And always the sea, there. I go down in the night and I hear you come flying, under water, alone, under the sea that inhabits me, darkly: you come flying.
I listen for wings and your slow elevation, while the torrents of all who have perished assail me, blind doves flying sodden: you come flying.
You come flying, alone, in your solitude, alone with the dead, alone in eternity, shadowless, nameless, you come flying without sweets, or a mouth, or a thicket of roses, you come flying.
- Pablo Neruda
I have made a vey big decision I am going to address my alcohol problem by adding: Selenium (as L-Se-Methylselenocysteine ) Silimarin +Dandelion,Burdock,Parsle y root,picrorhizia kurroa black radish,trimethylglycine,( ALA) N-acetyl-cysteine Phosphatidylcholine S-allyl-cysteine garlic extract) folate Balanced EFA oil w3:w6 (flax + safflower) (could probably do straight flax, as I get lots of w6 from sesame) Already doing : Vit A,B,C,D,E Fish Oil (w3 DHA EPA) SeMethionate rooftop protest Frances Milne, of the Coalition for the Protection of Asylum Seekers, said the removals were not voluntary. She said: "The children were screaming and their parents were upset. They had all asked not to be removed." Fathers and sons older than 18 were taken to Baxter detention centre in South Australia while women and children under 18 were taken to Port Augusta, 10 minutes' drive away, in effect putting them under house arrest. Merlin Luck, the 24-year-old former Big Brother contestant, who staged his protest about confinement of children at the time of his expulsion from the show, said: "They are supposed to be moving voluntarily. But the administrators have found it necessary to bring in more security guards." Three reporters were escorted out of the Villawood complex by security guards. cute tigercub picture homebush shoemaker West Australia
"I helped hijack an airplane. I helped blow up a nightclub. So what if it gets 11 miles to the gallon. I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country. It makes me feel safe. I helped our enemies develop weapons of mass destruction. What if I need to go off-road? Everyone has one. I helped teach kids around the world to hate America. I like to sit up high. I sent our soldiers off to war. Everyone has one. My life, my SUV. I don't even know how many miles it gets to the gallon." thedetroitproject His shirt lay beside him on the bed. He pulled his hands together into his lap, fingers and knuckles twisted around one another—scratched his dark, creased stomach with his thumb. “Look, about…being nuts.” He felt self-righteous and shy, looked at the doubled fist of flesh, hair, horn and callous pressed into his groin; it suddenly seemed weighted with the bones in it. “You’re not, and you never have been. That means what you see, and hear, and feel, and think…you think that is your mind. But the real mind is invisible: you’re less aware of it, while you think, than you are of your eye while you see…until something goes wrong with it. Then you become aware of it, with all its dislocated pieces and its rackety functioning, the same way you become aware of your eye when you get a cinder in it. Because it hurts…Sure, it distorts things. But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you’re lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense—stranger than the hallucinations, or the voices, or the anxiety—is the way you begin to experience the edges of the mind itself…in a way other people just can’t.” He pushed his shirt down to the foot of the bed, pushed his sandal free of his foot with his other toes. “You see?” He was far more conscious of the texture of the floorboards with the foot that had been bare.
“All right.” Tak spoke gently and appeasingly. “Why don’t you take the rest of your clothes off?”
“Look, I’m awfully dirty, man—” He raised his eye. “I probably stink like hell. If you don’t want—”
“I know just what you stink like,” Tak said. “Go on.”
He took a breath, suddenly found it funny, lay back on the hard pallet, unhooked his belt, and closed his eyes. Samuel Delany Dhalgren 1974 get your wwr on
rockpapersaddam Good news out of Baghdad: the Program Management Office, which oversees the $18.4 billion in US reconstruction funds, has finally set a goal it can meet. Sure, electricity is below prewar levels, the streets are rivers of sewage and more Iraqis have been fired than hired. But now the PMO has contracted with British mercenary firm Aegis to protect its employees from "assassination, kidnapping, injury and" -- get this -- "embarrassment." ,,.,. It turns out that Aegis's CEO, Tim Spicer, has a bit of an embarrassing past himself. In the 1990s, he helped put down rebels and stage a military coup in Papua New Guinea and hatched a plan to break an arms embargo in Sierra Leone. Bacterial flagella resolved at 4A the movie: flagella
weta The smaller Stephens Island giant weta weighs 30 grams, which is twice the weight of some mice. In Wellington we used to find the 15g varieties in the woodpile, suitbly scary... The biggest insect ever weighed: a weta at 71g,
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Eventually the need for simulators will be so great, that most of the earths crust will be converted to simulators. We will live on the green surface, surrounded by huge cooling towers. intro
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Redfern Police say they weren't near TJ when he died, ..claim they weren't chasing him. Fact is TJ made it through a gate, the police wagon on the footpath behind him couldnt get through.. Thanks TJ for showing me an escape route. Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski says she met Zionist torturers in Baghdad "I was really kind of surprised" From 1948 Palestine a statement that shes wrong, "its just an urban legend" - The kind of urban legend that tests your faith, when those Zionist experts arrive with their pain syringes. americanpolitics ..his son Marvin is a front man for the Saudi and Kuwaiti ruling families, his son Neil was a major force in the savings and loan scandals that ripped apart the American financial community during the 1980s and is now a shady international dealmaker, playboy and whoremonger, his son Jeb is an election thief and lousy dad, and his son GWB is so miserably bad, so monumentally incompetent and dangerous that it makes his father's administration seem like a lost golden age by comparison Aisha Qadhafi, t Al-Qadhafi's daughter is said to have joined the defence team aljazeera images may not be archived, so may vanish MP3 cont... By Hard Drive, I dont mean proprietary like Sony NW-HD1 .. only plays ATRAC format not..MP3 Be wary of any Sony recorder, eg rumour has it their MiniDisc blocks even your own recordings at the 3rd generation.
112 tracks on 1 CD MP3 technology, aint it grand? Started on 3 hour video tapes, edited down to C90s Jaslyn Halls "World Music" 1991-2000 128K sampling is good enough for C90 tapes Soon we will have HardDrives, and no one will buy a single again The fun part is: Once you have ripped the MP3s Make a MP3 cd as a "data" CD , one directory deep ("Albums") and a $65 DVD player will deal with it. Flashback to Christine Anu "No-one I have to follow, Cos Im Free" the tattoo on Cathy Freemans arm, In the circle of fire, This place gone downhill fast this millenium Zadoc Legend has it laser cut, the initial effect is of whimsy, casual brushstrokes transferred effortlessly to steel plate but the large pieces are handsawn, which dilutes the whimsey The small pieces are etched I believe. Here, by pier 4, the best soups.
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