inthesetimes.. Andy Grove, the founder of Intel, predicted last year that the United States will lose the bulk of its information technology jobs to China and India over the next decade.... ..John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco, is typical of many corporate leaders when he said: ‘China will become the IT center of the world, and we can have a healthy discussion about whether that’s in 2020 or 2040. What we’re trying to do is outline an entire strategy of becoming a Chinese company.’.. General Motors is laying the groundwork for moving the U.S. auto industry abroad by purchasing $4 billion in auto parts from China by 2009, up from $200 million last year. ___________________
blackcommentator . . .The first Black female U.S. Secretary of State will inevitably preside over a general and dramatic decline in American influence in the world, a process that accelerates with each passing week. So bizarre is American behavior – so disconnected from objective facts and from international conversation and evolving human standards of conduct – that Condoleezza Rice cannot escape becoming a caricature of diplomacy.
______________________ hamasonline. . .Video: NEW: Ingenious Iraqi Resistance operation ambusing US occupiers on a bridge. ____________ The Life and Times of Noam Chomsky:.. "Having a Jewish state is a very bad mistake, and the older people who were in the groups that I was sort of the younger part of did treat it as a tragedy." _________________________ ______
Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult" democracynow Let's all forget this word insurgency. It's one of the most misleading words of all. Insurgency assumes that we had gone to Iraq and won the war and a group of disgruntled people began to operate against us and we then had to do counter-action against them. That would be an insurgency. We are fighting the people we started the war against... the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later historians... ..We are systematically bombing that country. There are no embedded journalists at Doha, the Air Force base I think we’re operating out of. No embedded journalists at the aircraft carrier, Harry Truman. That's the aircraft carrier that I think is doing many of the operational fights... bombing is going to be key to it, which means that what happened in Fallujah, essentially Iraq -- some of you remember Vietnam -- Iraq is being turn into a free-fire zone right in front of us....
_________________________ ___________ Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard"
_________________________ ___________ pdfb . . .The Developing Iraqi Insurgency: Status at End-2004 Anthony H. Cordesman CSIS Denial as a Method of Counter-Insurgency Warfare... As late as July 2004, the Administration’s senior spokesmen still seemed to live in a fantasyland in terms of their public announcements, perception of the growing Iraqi hostility to the use of Coalition forces, and the size of the threat...
Converging towards Disaster. Global 11°C, Universal sludge, sex crimes, modest witness
Hubberts Peak: cheap oil no more no more cheap transport, food, industry
Fat cats: wasteful consumption 200m2 houses un insulated, un-aligned, airconned fat cars for fantasy drives across faux nature
Warmongering: Big Old Oil sells war to ignorant mid-Westerners well-head dwellers fight back
Global Warming distorts crops, ports, forests 11° means all major cities abandoned, crop growth uncertain
Coal smoke from China & India covers the globe
Population grows to 9Billion and all want a Pajero and grainfedsteak
nuclear reactors abounding million year guards needed, a plutonium tyranny forever
engineered cells and virii from cheap tiny labs
smart cheap low flying rockets
Habitat destruction causing mass extinction
Funny how 1 to 4 are about oil, 5 & 6 involve oil, 7 & 8 may be weapons in oil wars 4 makes 10 worse 1 & 2 make 3 worse
7 abates 4 but makes 3 worse _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ ____________________ ..Global Warming is 'Twice as Bad as Previously Thought' by Steve Connor nature Biggest-ever climate simulation warns temperatures may rise by 11°C. Professor Bob Spicer, of the Open University, said average global temperature rises of 11°C are unprecedented in the long geological record of the Earth. "If we go back to the Cretaceous, which is 100 million years ago, the best estimates of the global mean temperature was about 6°C higher than present," Professor Spicer said. "So 11°C is quite substantial and if this is right we would be going into a realm that we really don't have much evidence for even in the rock [geological] record."
------------------------- --- What is climateprediction.net? Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. ..we need people around the world to give us time on their computers .. climateprediction.net . .Participating in the Climateprediction.net experiment _________________________ _________________________ _________ Most of the universe is suffused with organic sludge Ice with a smear of "tar-like substances" This morning I decided that humans are determined to bring Earth into line with the rest. Maybe not ice, perhaps a Venusian acid smog. We stand on the shore of a liquid water ocean. How rare and precious, and endangered is that?
..interstellar dust particles ..consist mostly of 3-dimensionally cross-linked organic macro-molecules, so-called polymeric-heterocyclic- aromates. "They rather resemble tar-like substances than minerals" .. "It is the size of these molecular fragments with nuclear masses of up to 2000 .. "Only organic molecules can reach those sizes". The largest molecules found in space so far are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) which reach masses of a few hundred mass units. ..interstellar dust must have about 10% of nitrogen and/or oxygen in addition to hydrogen and carbon. This means that these cannot be pure PAHs, which are planar, but are especially due to the nitrogen extend into all three spacial directions. ............... 1978 Wickramasinghe conducted experiments in the laboratory that showed infrared light passed through dried bacteria was absorbed in a characteristic way between 2 and 4 micrometers. He then confirmed that the infrared spectrum of GC-IRS7 (a powerful infrared light source from the center of the Milky Way galaxy) matched this absorption. This may mean that space is full of dried bacteria, but how can this be?
Noted in the New York Times web site 25Jan05.. Two sex stories
1) A Sex offenders tale: group therapy, leader in nice suit & tie "for respect" the central villains crime is playing games involving touching a 12 year old near genital region. Typing some rude suggestions to her on his computer. Punishment: 35 year parole, compulsory group therapy. The central narrative here is the complex humiliation routines in the group. Claims of expectation of the truth when asking about "fantasies" - unless the prisoner produces an acceptable unacceptable fantasy about pre-puberty sex, he is regarded as recalcitrant. The therapist demands a narrative, an obscene narrative. The therapists satisfaction is objectively indistinguishable from a purchaser of pornography. In the recounting of the therapeutic process, the therapist is us, in a nice suit. He elicits and packages obscene fantasy narratives for our uneasy delight. We demand these tales. The process aims to shackle a bunch of men for life. It could be anyone is a sub-text. We have the means of humiliation and control.
2) Journo buys 2 "teenage" girls in Cambodia and returns them to village with $100 B-girls can have no narrative except as "rescued" eg Dennis O’Rourke's film "Good Woman of Bangkok" The narrative of a woman from SEAsia who marries a rich German, gets bored with Germany, returns to the Bar scene. Her daily life, her friends, her son in the province with her mother, her Sicilian boyfriend, parties till dawn. This complex life, with its load of excitement, can never be the subject of a narrative. She would laugh at the offer of $100 to return to her village for a year. She might make $100 in a few days. Those days might involve true affection,true fun. . . .Is this narrative a grotesque fetish of the Journo?. He pays 2 or 3 hundred for the rescue fantasy. Disrupts the family income. ($100 for small shop, expecting the family to go hungry) He gets a grand performance at a very low daily rate. A typical client might pay $100 over a few days. This journo expects a years worth of righteous indignation, followed by a self-satisfied glow - a years performance for $300. This is truly disgusting exploitation. Too mean to give a decent amount of money. To give $100 for a year is so distant, demeaning, disgusting.
Both stories exhibit fantasies of control. "Any man, any girl, can be put through the wringer of our narrative. We are bringing a new definition of free and acceptable, and we have enforcement to hand."
But: To protect children, lets start with a 30kph speed limit on all cars. This would prevent a huge number of deaths and maimings, but we wont have it. We like foolish speed, we are sold it. we buy it
Then: allow imports from poor countries, and cancel repayments of spurious loans that benefitted only a tiny rich class. True comprehensive aid, true development. Not on the agenda.
The agenda is not protection of children, it is a narrative of control.
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Modest Witness Boylefound a number of ways of displaying modesty. One of the most straightforward was the use of the form of the experimental essay. The essay, that is, the piecemeal reporting of experimental trials, was explicitly contrasted to the natural philosophical system. Those who wrote entire systems were identified as "confident" individuals, whose ambition extended beyond what was proper or possible. By contrast, those who wrote experimental essays were "sober and modest men," "diligent and judicious" philosophers, who did not "assert more than they can prove."
.."The U.S. dollar is no longer -- in our opinion is no longer -- (seen) as a stable currency, and is devaluating all the time, and that's putting troubles all the time," Fan said, speaking in English. "So the real issue is how to change the regime from a U.S. dollar pegging ... to a more manageable ... reference ... say Euros, yen, dollars -- those kind of more diversified systems," he said. . ..another 200 million or 300 million people need to move into the cities from the countryside to spur development
_________________________ _- bushspeak .."Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." This is not a request for divine favor; it is a declaration of divine wishes. Such rhetoric positions the president as a prophetic spokesman for God rather than as a petitioning supplicant. .. One is inclined to hope that Bush might recall the words of St. Augustine of Hippo to a student: "I wouldn't have you prepare for yourself any way of grasping and holding the truth other than the one prepared by him who, as God, saw how faltering were our steps. That way is, first, humility; second, humility; third, humility; and as often as you ask, I'll tell you, humility." _________________________ ________________________ Talk across the world for free: skype download _________________________ _________________________ ____________ Airport search & seizure, or fancy a USAnian holiday?
barlow busted hey greeted me with same distaste they'd likely have shown an actual terrorist and treated me accordingly for the remainder of that very long day. On the counter lay small quantities of marijuana (for which I have a physician's recommendation), mushrooms, and ketamine that had allegedly been encountered in my suitcase. That the total volume of this prize was significantly more compact than the amount of high explosive necessary to endanger an aircraft, and indeed, insufficient to merit a felony charge on any count, didn't matter to them. They clearly regarded me as a threat to public safety. When I pointed out to the officials that they only had authority to search for threats to the aircraft, one of them, a bug-eyed, crew-cutted troglodyte, declared that, if I had taken any of these substances, then I would have endangered Flight 310. That such an obviously ungifted person was capable of so imaginative a conceptual leap remains a marvel to me.
halcyondays _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ __ ..what’s about to go down in Iraq. The 1982 Salvadoran elections, artificially imposed by the U.S. in the middle of an internal war, not only failed to bring democracy, but rather stoked the conflict and prolonged the bloodshed. The Salvadoran war lasted a full decade more, taking the lives of another 35,000 people (mostly all civilians, mostly all killed by the "democratic" and "elected" government legitimated by the hollow Potemkin elections). _________________________ ______ No change, no peak, no shortage, no worries, no forsight:
Growing demands for energy .. 2020 will have substantial impacts n geopolitical relations... particularly that of China and India. .. energyconsumed probably will rise by about 50%..compared to a 34 %..from 1980-2000, with an increasing share provided by petroleum. •Renewable energy .. only about 8percent .. The International Energy Agency assesses .. supplies will be sufficient to meet growing global demand..
_________________________ ______ "America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan" by Norman Mailer The Sunday Times (UK), 23 January 2005 _________________________ ________________ vialls
The Republican Guard provocatively string a couple of American mercenaries up on a bridge in Fallujah, and then sneers "What are you going to do about it?" They already know the answer of course, and some slack-jaw in the Pentagon orders 13,000 out of America's 30,000 front-line combat troops to go and get tied down in Fallujah, while idiot Wolfowitz rubber stamps the order. Now how easy was that? Fine, the U.S. Marines rush through the almost deserted city of Fallujah, shoot a few unarmed civilians in church for fun, while using up huge quantities of incredibly valuable water, food, fuel and ammunition. While they are thus engaged the Republican Guard zaps a few more American convoys, meaning the Marines will have even less water, food, fuel and ammunition. Next up the Republican Guard kills a few more American soldiers further north in Samarra, and predictably sneers "What are you going to do about it?". The same slack-jaw in the Pentagon immediately orders 5,000 more front-line combat troops north to Samarrah, while Wolfowitz gets his rubber stamp ready. Neither man can read a map, so what the hell! Then as if by magic the Republican Guard causes havoc in Mosul, shooting a few dozen collaborators and setting fire to some useless empty buildings. No need to sneer now, because slack-jaw in the Pentagon is already behaviorally conditioned. Quick as a flash he assigns another 4,000 front-line combat troops to Mosul, though he has no idea where it is. Well, it's a heck of a long way north, and even longer coming back if the Republican Guard doesn't want you to.
_________________________ __________________ ____ SpongeBush SquarePants! .. .. We can only hope that Dr. Dobson doesn't pick up on the resemblance. SpongeBob, as his song goes, "lives in a pineapple under the sea/absorbent and yellow and porous is he!" SpongeBush lives in a bubble in D.C./absorbent and shallow and porous is he!
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20 January 2005..The Sharon government intends to strip thousands of West Bank Palestinians of their property in occupied East Jerusalem.. The decision, reached by the Ministerial Committee for Jerusalem Affairs in June of 2004,..has not been publicised until now. ..By some estimates, the total land to be expropriated could add up to half of all East Jerusalem property.
_________________________ ___________________ ..Tipped off by the CPA's covert operatives, the Badr assassination squads killed dozens of Baathists in and around Baghdad... ..History, on the other hand, treats harshly the occupying power which resorts to the use of the tools of terror to subdue an occupied people. In an effort to reverse this trend, Bremer rescinded his de-Baathification programme, and ordered the Badr assassination squads to stand down. ..The Sunni-based resistance, having been targeted by the Badr assassins, struck back with a vengeance. ..In a campaign of targeted assassinations using car bombs and ambushes, the resistance has engaged in its own campaign of terror against the Shia, viewed by the Sunni fighters as being little more than collaborators of the American occupation. ..Having started the game of politically motivated assassination, the US has once again found itself trumped by forces inside Iraq it does not understand, and as such will never be able to defeat. ..History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government. Scott Ritter 20Jan05 ________________________ bushwhackedusa United States is a declining power..from the National Intelligence Council.."Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project." It is unclassified and available on the CIA's Web site. - USAnian decline sped by millennial morons, cant come soon enough.,, _____________________ Sabang Oct02
I have re- posted 8 lost posts from June 2004 in my old blog My Old Blog They got lost when I trashed my template, I am fairly sure, not through any Blogger censorship
Jim Baxter, D H Lawrence, Raymond Firth. Jean Genet, Gunns
Hemi, Jim Baxter, a new Complete Poems" seen in Glebooks I didnt know Jim well, knew some who did, Got taught English by his biographer Father Frank "Taxi" McKay, who remained unphased when I discovered "the Rainbow" in St Pats library and became a DHL acolyte. Others in our atheistic ashphelt yard theological fifth form discussion group had other literary heroes. Simon Crase introduced us to "Murphy" & "Malone Dies" - who else was reading Becket in 1963 Wellington but us 15 year olds? John Sullivan, now curator of images at the National Library, introduced "We the Tikopia" the 1936 Anthropological classic, which, sadly, we read for the sex details. I cant remember if Jean Genet "Our Lady of the Flowers" was on our reading list by then.
High Country Weather
Alone we are born And die alone: Yet see the red-gold cirrus Over snow-mountain shine.
Upon the upland road Ride easy, stranger: Surrender to the sky Your heart of anger.
If this be Jims epitaph, it must be on the other side of this stone
If this be Jims epitaph, it must be on the other side of this stone ______________________ Considering kinship, Steve Sailer has suggested that Arab culture, Iraq in particular, is built on cousin marriage. So Arabs are more closely related to their families than Westerners are related to theirs. Hence clans remain stronger than nations. Arabs have a hard time trusting non-relatives to provide covering fire. Hence Arab military weakness? ..just another point of ignorance on the USAnians side. On Tuesday the Head Military honcho bunkered in Saddams old palace said "seems to be a lull" - an unwise crack, as the next day 37 USA stormin troopers got offed. Makes me cheerful to see invaders die. Good ole GW is weakening the USA with his rapacious idiocy. Cant get weak enough to satisfy me. May all your pension funds wither with Enron, may USAnians experience destitution as the6y have wreaked since 1900 Huk rebellion. _________________________ ______ Putin promises NOT to ship SA-18s to Syria. Wonder what rocket downed that helio yesterday? nice job, whoever did it. _________________________ ______ vic.greens Gunns wood chips (motto "Turn ancient forest giant into toilet paper") proposes to sue forest blockaders for "wilfully, maliciously, recklessly and contumaciously" causing their reputation harm. Gunns are a filthy bunch (chair Rouse was jailed for political bribery in 1989) May I join the ranks of "So Sue me" I hereby malign, libel, calumniate, detract, and spit upon Gunns I call upon all to boycott, blockade, burn, hang, eviscerate, these wood chipper obscenities.
Google mindcontrol, buckfush, Whiskey Bar, collective punishment
Google will control your thoughts... picasa2 is a brilliant way to see all the images on your machine It can send pics to Blogger ie Blogger will host AND display images display is max 400, click that and you see the big version [max 1024 1Meg?] this is OK, the interface is clumsy - another reason to go home to google (google own Blogger & picasa & Gmail] As one journo said "why am I not as worried about this as I should be?
my old blog with some recent pics c/o picasa: _________________________ _________________________ ________
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From where I sit in Iraq, things are not all bad right now. In fact, they are going quite well . . . In the distance, I can hear the repeated impacts of heavy artillery and five-hundred-pound bombs hitting their targets. The occasional tank main gun report and the staccato rhythm of a Marine Corps LAV or Army Bradley Fighting Vehicle's 25-millimeter cannon provide the bass line for a symphony of destruction. Lt. Col. Tim Ryan Tacoma News Tribune January 18, 2005
_________________________ _____________ thepoorman. .BAGHDAD, Jan 18 (IPS) - The U.S. military is resorting to collective punishment tactics in Iraq similar to those used by Israeli troops in the occupied territories of Palestine, residents say. Military bulldozers have mown down palm groves in the rural al-Dora farming area on the outskirts of Baghdad, residents say. Electricity has been cut, the local fuel station destroyed and the access road blocked. The U.S. action comes after resistance fighters attacked soldiers from this area several weeks back. _________________________ _____________
The United States signed and ratified the Geneva Conventions in 1956. In 1996, Congress passed the War Crimes Act, criminalizing breaches of the Conventions. A "grave breach" of Geneva is a federal crime, punishable by imprisonment "for life or any term of years," and Geneva explicitly states that no nation "bound by the Convention can offer any valid pretext, legal or other, for not respecting the Convention in all its parts."
He rubs some DMSO (veterinary grade) onto his back C5 pains prevent cycling, the housebound grouch tends his herbs, mutters about the inhuman decayed culture of this land, grabs an mp3 of the 1980 Sydney Ramone's concert, I want to be sedated. Morning first chortles from Charlie, next door's baby girl. He thanks the fates for N's email safe in Suratthani
B15A not now crashing into McMurdo
. . .on and on to Iran,,,
WTC not so hot, see the video of the girl waving see the video (needs DivX3.11a codec plug-in from here.
. . . Felujah Chemical warfare freespeechradio. . . "he has watched the military use bulldozers to push the soil into piles and load it onto trucks to carry away. This was done in the Julan and Jimouriya quarters.. "At least two kilometers of soil were removed," he explained, "Exactly as they did at Baghdad Airport after the heavy battles there during the invasion and the Americans used their special weapons."
SA-18, which uses a two-color seeker. ..distinguish ..to the spectral differences between the emissions of an engine and those of a conventional pyrotechnic flare.
jihadunspun. . ."From all walks of life diluted brains and weak-minded individuals are answering the call of the beacon of fascism shining bright, from Atlantic to Pacific, from north to south, embracing its dastardly tentacles with the warm acceptance of comfort and submission. Millions of Americans are presently falling prey to a virulent haze gripping the United States, furthered and pursued by a small cabal of corporatist evildoers perched at the upper echelons of governance and power that seek to transform the nation into a black widow’s nest of fascism spiked with the venom of a militarized citizenry acquiescent to imperial hegemony."
_________________________ _________ 1/14/2005 Sharon asked Vladimir Putin to reconsider sale of missiles to Syria.. .. advanced ground-to-air, SA-18 (Igla) ; and the ground-to-ground Iskander-E missile, range 280 km ..within range.. Dimona.. Iglas (might be used ) by the Hizballah?? .. smuggled into Israel in a suitcase??
The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. … It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up. ________________________ Motorbike tour through Chernobyl area, This is a repeat, previous address has changed "It is Predgevalskogo Horses. They are in the red book. Someone brought couple of them from asia a few years ago and they liked it here and now there are 3 herds running in Chernobyl area. Those horses sturdy, always on the move.. Predgevalskogo horses having this prehistoric look around them and when they sweep by, it feels like next herd will be of some ancient pangolins. Zoologists also brought two American Bisons, but idea to breed them didn't work out and bison male run away. I don't know, if he run from radiation or from his bride, but last time bison has been seen in Belorusia, he heading west and may be he just decided to return to America" Przewalski horses 3 herds running in Chernobyl area"
by ending industrialization, deforestation, cultivation and other human intrusions, radiation has transformed the zone into one of Europe's largest wildlife habitats, a fascinating and at times beautiful wildness teeming with large animals such as moose, wolves, boar and deer. "It now is home to 270 bird species, 31 of them endangered , making the zone one of the few places in Europe to spot rarities such as black storks and booted eagles.
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St Augustine, usury takers, Parade performers, Cuba's Babies, APE 48
On the rattling, no-aircon, gloomy (lights not working) sub-third world city circle train to work, wishing I was on the chill BTS, gazing down on chofahs. Or on the Sabang boat, outriggers monofilament tied, scanning for dolphins. APE born in 1948
Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion. St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim
They also depend on massive air strikes so as to conceal their most prominent point of weakness, which is the fear, cowardliness, and the absence of combat spirit among US soldiers. Those soldiers are completely convinced of the injustice and lying of their government. They also lack a fair cause to defend. They only fight for capitalists, usury takers, and the merchants of arms and oil, including the gang of crime at the White House.
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Parade performers will have security escorts to the bathroom, and they've been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand.
.. .. Now that's imperial. _________________________ ______________________ nocapital If the U.S. had an infant mortality rate as good as Cuba's, we would save an additional 2,212 American babies a year. Yes, Cuba's. Babies are less likely to survive in America, with a health care system that we think is the best in the world, than in impoverished and autocratic Cuba. According to the latest C.I.A. World Factbook, Cuba is one of 41 countries that have better infant mortality rates than the U.S. Even more troubling, the rate in the U.S. has worsened recently. In every year since 1958, America's infant mortality rate improved, or at least held steady. But in 2002, it got worse: 7 babies died for each thousand live births, while that rate was 6.8 deaths the year before. _________________________ ______________________
"I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then say that you're not equally as patriotic if you're not a religious person, I've never said that. I've never acted like that. I think that's just the way it is." gwb
_________________________ _______________________ "Riverbend has posted on her blog again. Like most people in Baghdad she has had problems with the phone and electricity. She gives a link to a new blogger Imad Khadduri the Iraqi nuclear scientist"
financialtimes According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr Powell for his view on the progress of the war. "We're losing," Mr Powell was quoted as saying. Mr Freeman said Mr Bush then asked the secretary of state to leave. _________________________ ______________________ More Shore on Titan
Huygens shore solar shirts, Equador coast Huygens shore more shore
Absent life, organic chemistry will be vastly complicated, On Titan and elsewhere with hydrocarbons, the difference between life and complex organic chemistry may be difficult to determine, particularly if the life" is not like earth's. Lovelock and others suggest 1) life must be all over a world, it won't survive on a small portion. 2) life will produce out-of-equilibrium products (eg Oxygen in earth's atmosphere.
I'm not certain that these points are gospel. If we find life elsewhere it might take years to distinguish from organic chemistry in the absence of 1) & 2)
_________________________ _ I read that tblog is mainly tragic teens. The tblog server is frequently swamped for 5 minutes at a time. Considering moving back to blogspot... _________________________ ________ 19Dec 2004 U.S Coast Guard cutters off Latin America ..over the past two years, they've sunk a dozen emptied migrant boats - setting them ablaze and firing on them with their .50-caliber guns. "pushing our borders out." ..president has authority to secure the borders of the United States..anywhere in the world," ..If foreign armed forces stopped U.S. boats in this way, "we'd call it an act of war," .. _________________________ ________
. Weird Science If this is true it is radical. I dont believe the 30% efficiency claim, havnt read the Nature article but. 14 Jan 2005U Toronto flexible plastic solar cell Ted Sargent..infrared..flexible film on the surface of cloth, paper.. ..30% efficient ..Sunday online Nature Materials
follow-up... what Toronto U actually said - doesnt look like 30% flexible panels soon.. "Our calculations show that, with further improvements in efficiency, combining infrared and visible photovoltaic could allow up to 30 per cent of the sun’s radiant energy to be harnessed, compared to six per cent in today’s best plastic solar cells."
Pipelineistan & Putin Mike Whitney: 'Vladimir Putin and the global realignment'11January2005 Khodorkovsky tried to transfer ownership of Russia's largest oil company Yukos to friends in Israel and put American businessmen in charge of overall operations. It was a clear strategy to shift control of Russia's greatest natural resource to outside of the country. ..Putin responded by arresting him and putting Yukos under state control. In other words, he acted in the public interest
Caspian capers By Sergei Blagov ..26Aug2004 Moscow has been insisting that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is not economically viable, indicating that Russia remains wary of the US-backed project. Last February, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev came to Moscow to reassure Russia that the BTC was not intended to damage Russia's economic interests. Coincidence or not, Kalyuzhny happened to be the BTC's most zealous critic. He threatened to undermine Kazakh crude oil supplies to the BTC, accusing Washington of sponsoring the BTC pipeline in order to bypass Russia. Following Kalyuzhny's removal, it remains to be seen whether Russia can remain opposed to the BTC, as well as the US pursuit of the Caspian's hydrocarbon riches
26Jan 2002 THE ROVING EYE Pipelineistan, Part 2: The games nations play By Pepe Escobar MOSCOW - For a decade Washington has backed the Turkish and Azerbaijan governments to steer the export of Caspian region crude oil away from Russia. Russia's newest riposte has been to ally the Russian and Iranian oil industries, and open up the shortest, cheapest and most lucrative oil route of all, southwards out of the Caspian to Iran. _________________________ __________________ Tsunami pics Gleebruk before & after It looked like a charming place with orchards, fish farms Now even the topsoil has been scoured
ETAN, the perfect earthquake, Negroponte death Kapitan, Tinakori
"So vast is America's looming fiscal crisis, that it is tempting to talk about the fiscal equicalent of the perfect storm - or the perfect earthquake. - Ferguson, a historian of the international bond amrket of the past two hundr4ed years..Colossus The proce of Ameria's empire.
I appreciate the panic remarks of Empire loyalists.. Ferguson believes the world needs a "liberal" empire viz the USA, but he doesnt thing the US people can hack it, nor afford it. _________________________ _________________ Pentagon may place kidnapping, assassination teams in Iraq This was on the cards when Empire sent Death Squad Capitan Negroponte to Iraq. - Thing is, Death squads work best under Empire Old Style - where you pay a local Generalissimo and his Georgia trained local death squads to wipe out entire villages Guatemala style. In Iraq, Neo-Zion has displaced the Generalissimo, in the Faith-based belief they could sieze everything personally. Aint gonna happen. GW has taken to demanding only good news, so we have the classic tectonic build-up.
_________________________ _________________________ ___- Understanding the U.S. War State by John McMurtry
. No rogue state in modern history has remotely matched this continuous and systematic violation of international law
he military is also impeding the flow of aid. They’ve commandeered a hanger at the Banda Aceh airport, where they are taking control of internationally shipped in supplies. We just got a report this afternoon that the distribution of supplies is being done in some towns and villages only to people who hold the ‘red and white,’ which is a special ID card issued to Acehnese by the Indonesian police. You have to go to a police station to get one of these ID cards, and it is only issued to people who the police certify as not being opponents of the army, not being critics of the government. Of course many people are afraid to go and apply for such a card. big mainstream charities. There’s a major problem. Those agencies and charities all have contracts with the Indonesian government, contracts which oblige them to either channel funds through the government or work in concert with the government, which means that government officials and army officers can steal the aid, and there are already indications that this is happening. And even that aid which is not stolen may be used in a way to consolidate military control over the population.
_________________________ ________ ETAN is giving donations directly to the Aceh people (Nim Chimpsky endorses them) ..You can donate on-line via credit card _________________________ ________
to let the world know that aid that they send to Indonesia is not received by people in need. So -- and according to my family and one -- and an activist that I called to contact to in Banda Aceh, and they said that, no, Indonesian military asked people to show their ID, and a letter from the administrator in order to have -- to get food -- to get aid.
_________________________ ________ _________________________ ________ Tinakori Hill, under whose Eastern shade I grew up. We used to gaze with childish horror into the gravel pit, under the sloping roof a worker had died as if in quicksand. The cement works in the lane of workers houses in Kate Mansfields "Birthday Party" Swooping magpies and rabbits in the firebreak. Pine needle forts, steep teritory.
Children swarmed. When the Sheridans were little they were forbidden to set foot there because of the revolting language and of what they might catch. But since they were grown up, Laura and Laurie on their prowls sometimes walked through. It was disgusting and sordid. They came out with a shudder. But still one must go everywhere; one must see everything. So through they went.
Step back Jakarta The TNI, army of the Jakarta regime, despised throughout the archipelago has declared that foreign aid workers "were restricted to the provincial capitals of Banda Aceh and Meulabohi" This hideous, murderous, secrecy cannot stand. It is absurd to suggest that GAM is a danger. It is clear to all that TNI is the danger. Now is the time for Documentary makers (like Winston Cuthbert) and human rights investigators to get on board aid planes, get to Aceh, get to the hills and disclose the atrocious murders and tortures that the TNI has been perpetrating for decades. The only other slight danger might be if a foreigner stumbled upon a ganga crop. Aceh grows some of the best gang in the world, a trade is reputed to be guarded with force.
Jakarta has proved by its ghastly delays that it cannot care for Aceh. It has proved for years that it does not care for Aceh Arm the Aus troops and state simply that he who pays the piper calls the tune. No more actions against Acehenese.
The military last week killed the two unarmed rebels as they tried to assist relatives, said Tengku Jamaica, a rebel spokesman speaking by cell phone from Aceh. General Suwarya confirmed the restrictions. He said that if a US helicopter wanted to take relief stores to Aceh's second-biggest town of Lhokseumawe, it would need his permission to do so.
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_________________________ ____________________ Infinite Orgasms Cycling down King St on New Year's eve "You ve got a nice face" says a girl in 711 - well it ought to be after 2K spent on Keratotomy and 1.2K spent on Blepharoplasty "What are you doing tonight?" from another group of girls. Its so nice to receive flirtations. Somehow he has lost the touch in this town. On the Aspie spectrum, solitary in this mean continent (mean despite millions pledged for tsunami victims) But two weeks with a Silom girl, cute, warm, sexy, gorgeous, funny, loving, shows he isnt incapable of human contact, just incapable on this continent.
P holds his cock and stretches the opening like a tiny mouth "Fuck me now" in a tiny voice. She makes cutting movements with her fingers chop chop "Help me, help me" in a little squeak. How could he not fall for such a girl? P washes so often that he tries to catch her before a shower to see what she tastes like. She struggles so much he lets her go. In the bath, with a litre bottle of conditioner, a luxurious amount to a poor girl used to expensive tiny bottles, Carefully slip a ring finger past her smooth strong anus. She likes that, but she cant say so. Its good to be clean there. Later, tongue flicking her clitoris barrel, finger in her newly clean arse, Every time he moves from flicking her clit to press her Urethra, she comes once, a single pulse, the firm band of her anal sphincter grips his finger. Like the childish first pulse of pleasure felt when swinging on a knotted rope hung from a pine in the town belt P can come with this single pulse again and again. An infinite Orgasm. Older women come more like men, a sequence, then refractory, Where he has to stop flicking because "I've come twice and it feels like electricity" But this young woman has something that Masters and Johnson never found, She can come again and again, in single pulses. Tireseus had it right. an infinite infantile erotic capacity, infinitely endearing,
Aceh Its difficult to predict what will happen in Aceh. The Jakarta govt can no longer keep out foreigners, which means video cameras and interviews with massacre survivors. The free Aceh movement may grow, or Jakarta control may strengthen. If the Jakarta crowd are more militantly Islamic, they may prevail. This would make for some head-scratching in the USA - they like Jakarta ("Around here Jakarta pays the bills" - Walt Wriston, boss of CityBank 1980) In 1999 Clinton cut some military links when Jakarta mercs went ape in Timor. GWBush hasnt restored ties, but he isnt averse to troops going ape. So USA may end up supporting Islamic fundies in Aceh. With newly porous borders, there may be some nasties like JI percolating into Aceh. _________________________ __ History: Sumatra had an independence movement in the 57 which was crushed by Soekarno Sumatra has oil, which is being depleted at a furious rate. in the late 1970s Sumatran oil production equaled Kuwait. By now the peak is probably past. ExxonMobil is getting a lot of gas in Sumatra, they hire Javanese mercenaries, who add to the violence perpetrated by the Indonesian army. Timber is a big money spinner. Like many tropical despotic regimes, Jakarta rewards loyalty by handing out forest "concessions". Combined with illegal logging, the result is flash floods - as at Bukit Lawang in 2003, and the loss of habitat for Orang Utans. There was a successful OrangUtan rehabilitation program near Bukit Lawang which I visited in 79. Seeing the apes swinging in to the feeding platform was fantastic. The leading primatologist was a woman (Regina Frey?), as are most field primatologists. She had some fascinating gossip about Jane Goodall. The global ecosystem of female primatologists has its own culture.
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GAM not fundamentalist?
GAM leadership itself (which is nationalist and left-wing in orientation) has always kept its distance from Al Qaeda. When Al Qaeda leaders Al Zwahiri and Mohammad Atef.. visited Aceh in June 2000, GAM leaders rebuffed their efforts to embrace GAM. After the 11 September 2001 .. Abdullah Syafiah, the GAM military commander shot dead by Indonesian forces in early 2002, is said to have sent a message of condolence to the US Ambassador in Jakarta. When the Indonesian militant group, Laskar Jihad later attempted to rally support for a radical religious agenda in Aceh, GAM called on Acehnese to stay away, a call heeded by most Acehnese. GAM has thus reaffirmed its nationalist and territorial objectives, and its refusal to get involved in a wider religious war. When the Dutch declared war on Acheh in 1873, the sovereignty over the whole of Sumatra was universally and formally recognized to be belonging to Acheh (There are two Treaties with England that proved that: the Treaty of 1603, and the Treaty of 1819. Both still valid)
_________________________ _____ Sydney Morning Herald.. ..At Banda Aceh's airport, trucks .. unloaded by members of Bashir's group, the MMI, including one man proudly wearing an Osama bin Laden T-shirt. .. Members of the FPI (Islamic Defenders Front), famous for its attacks on nightspots in Jakarta, are now living in Banda Aceh in tents provided by the army and the Ministry of Social Affairs. ..250 members had come to Aceh with tickets provided by the Government; 800 more on board an Indonesian warship would help clean up the devastated province. ..Early yesterday 50 of his troops wearing FPI shirts went through a series of military drills before heading off to the city to help collect corpses.. .. Dr Almascaty ..said he was determined to ensure the arrival of foreign soldiers and aid workers did not lead to a breakdown in the system of syariah,.. "You cannot build a bar here. If you go to your room to drink that is no problem, but you can't drink in a public area," he said... "Don't go with Acehnese women, with Muslim women... .. The head of the MMI contingent, Salman al Furizi, said his group of 50 young men from central Java had flown to Banda Aceh on a military aircraft...
_________________________ _____________ World Forum of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity, held in Caracas on December 2-3 , Hugo Chavez spoke of the need to return to the ideas of Leon Trotsky ,,pledged to provide an office and resources in Venezuela to initiate a ‘network of networks' of social organisations and institutions around the world working to build alternative models of development in the face in globalisation.. "Let's take this network everywhere we go, in the valleys, the mountains, the barrios, the workplace, the study halls, the military barracks and extend this network across the planet Earth"
jameswolcott.. ..they fire on vehicles encroaching with 30 metres, sometimes they fire at 20 metres: 'If anyone gets too close to us we fucking waste them,' says a bullish lieutenant. 'It's kind of a shame, because it means we've killed a lot of innocent people.'" Kind of a shame, killing the people you're trying to democratize, but after awhile, says the same lieutenant, "It gets to the point where you can't wait to see guys with guns, so you start shooting everybody.. ------------------------- ----------------- 05-01-5 Seven Palestinian youths working in a strawberry field, ages 11 to 17, were killed, Mahmoud Abbas "We are praying for the souls of the martyrs who were killed today by the shells of the Zionist enemy."
_________________________ _________________ Earthquakes inc. I grew up in a two story double brick slate roof house in Thorndon, on the fault line Occasional earthquakes, once or twice as the family was seated at dinner. We would admire the progress of th cracks in the walls. Father would plaster over the worst of them. Wellington had few other fears. No mosquitos, no air pollution, no sunburn. Strong winds once lifted the garage roof and hurled it towards mother who was standing in the rather fine curve of the front bay windows. Infrequently ropes would be rigged between power poles so pedestrians could make headway against the wind. The brick house was demolished at the tail of the 80's. I will never again sleep in such style so close to the railway station of a capital city.
The biggest known quake in New Zealand was the magnitude 8.2 Wairarapa earthquake of 1855...The maximum uplift was 6.4m near Turakirae Head, east of Wellington population 6000 .. four-fifths of the chimneys fell down. a two-storey (brick) hotel which collapsed, killing the owner. This was the only death in Wellington
The Alpine Fault, which runs for about 600km up the spine of the South Island.. has ruptured ..1717AD, 1620AD, 1450 AD, and 1100AD. .. horizontal movement.. 30m per 1000 years.....In 12 million years..uplifted by 20,000m, ..erosion has kept their highest point below 4000m. (A rupture may cause a Tsunami for Eastern Aus)
Tsunami Before & After, Curcumin, PV at 1 euro per Watt, GAM flag lag again
Tsunami Before & After, Curcumin, PV at 1 euro per Watt, GAM flag again The GAM flag had vanished from tripod, so here it is again
Tsunami Before & After:before & after Others: _________________________ _____ 04-01-5 "The U.S. agenda was being set by the Indonesian government. For now, the helicopters are flying only as far south as Meulaboh. Pilots said damage farther south could be even worse."
Weird Science...
1 euro per Watt H-Alpha Solar (H-AS)...solar panels..mass-produced in rolls .. wrapped around clothes..rooftops.. Current best solar cells.. 20% ..H-AS only 7% efficient.. ..4 and 10 millimetres) The H-AS ..similar but 1 micron ..polymorphous silicon ..deposited onto aluminium foil. .. plastic carrier layer..aluminium is removed.. ..a protective plastic layer.. continuous production on rolls of plastic film. ..Akzo-Nobel..pilot plant..rolls of silicon cells 40 cm wide . full-scale manufacturing = 1 euro per watt A4-size panel sewn onto the back of a jacket .. 10 euros _________________________ ___________ curcumin, the yellow pigment in curry spice, inhibits the accumulation of destructive beta amyloids in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and also breaks up existing plaques. curcumin has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.. ..anti-inflammatory ..Indian traditional medicine.. ..some cancer treatments _________________________ ______ . . . . . . . . . . .
GAM under attack, MFDC sign peace deal, Fallujah follies cont,,
Gerakin Aceh Merdeka acehnet January 4, 2005 smh .. Indonesia's military is ..denying aid to anyone it suspects of sympathising with their cause.. ..rebel sympathisers in refugee camps were harassed and tortured. Troops killed three ..in northern Aceh on Saturday, .. ....Colonel Basuki, acknowledged operations against the rebels were continuing ...reassigned two-thirds of all the troops to disaster relief. "The Government of Indonesia has to end the military approach to resolve the conflict that creates the suffering of the Acehnese," - SIRA, a student group
Fallujah follies:
Fallujah follies ...As they drew closer, however, Atiya and his brothers began to curse. A gaping hole in the two-story house appeared to have been caused by a tank, whose tracks were visible in the mud, he said. Most of the furniture was smashed. "Half my house was demolished," Atiya said. .."Every dish was broken, every cup, every plate, as if someone had just stood there breaking one dish after another," said Atiya's brother Raaid Abbas, 37. "Why?" ..they blame American troops, who they say left muddy boot prints. .. "Our forces never intentionally damage structures or homes," said Wilson, the deputy operations officer. " - oh thats all right then, its not intentional damage - I guess they sprinkle stardust, and whisper"go to sleep, everything is alright" _________________________ ______________ Our Maginot Lines today are our satellites, our huge bombers, our willingness to destroy a city such as Fallujah without even knowing who's there. Our Maginot minds refuse to see that the Germans sneaking around the French through Belgium to destroy them is disturbingly analogous to the insurgents in Iraq moving in cells from city to city and letting us think we are "winning." ___________________
Guardian.. Ian Traynor of The Guardian, U.S. agencies have perfected an operation , "engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience" , "so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people's elections." ..While the operation failed to unhorse Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, it succeeded in replacing Milosevic in Serbia, our old friend Edouard Shevardnadze in Georgia and now Kuchma-Yanukovich in Ukraine. ___________________ 30 December 2004 Senegal's government has signed a peace deal with rebels in the lush southern province of Casamance. ....Father Diamacoune Senghor, a 76-year-old Catholic priest who is the historic leader Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), signed the deal for the rebels..low-level insurgency for greater autonomy in the largely Christian and animist region since 1982. Hundreds have been killed. senegal.com/decouvrir Cap Skirring, on the southern coast, has an airfield and its beaches are among the most beautiful in West Africa. biking in Casamance: Casamance VTT
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