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29 September 2006

Anthrax, waterboarding, AS1404, Billmon, Boondocks, Jatropha, air-conditioning, james tiptree,puki malaki

dissidentvoice
While Congress admirably resisted adopting the odious Patriot Act in the weeks following 9/11, both chambers quickly caved when two Democratic senators’ offices were subsequently targeted with anthrax-laced letters. ..
The big story behind the 2001 anthrax attacks, however, was never properly covered: White House staff had started taking Cipro, an anthrax-treatment drug, a full week before the first attack even occurred. You’ve got to wonder what prior information the Bush administration had -

aaa
waterboarding in action
Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The prison is now a museum that documents Khymer Rouge
atrocities.
______________________________________________________________________________
But back to Bush and his Friday remarks:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.

so there were explosives planted, by GW's brother perhaps?

jpv206
Update Number 2: My mama wrote in with a correction; she claims Auntie A says "Ay, puking malaki!" which a) is absolutley not what I remember, and b) not "sticky vagina" but "huge vagina." Sheesh, I hope this thread dies down soon.

Thailand's coup leaders have banned go-go dancers from performing for troops on the streets of Bangkok, fearing soldiers may be distracted.
A troupe of scantily-clad women danced for soldiers near the Royal Plaza on Monday, as part of entertainments paid for by a local radio station.
But the coup's leaders - who had earlier told soldiers to keep smiling - have now banned all dancing near tanks.

"We have to maintain the seriousness of the coup," a military spokesman said.

goodnewsblog
A trial of AS1404, in 70 patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
lived for 14 months cf 8.8 months for those given chemotherapy alone.
26,000 people in Britain die from NSCLC each year.
..discovered by researchers in New Zealand and developed by the UK biotechnology company, Antisoma..
..vascular disrupting agents
..AS1404 has already been shown to be effective in phase II trials of prostate and ovarian cancer.
Mark McKeage of the University of Auckland,


radioopensource
Another curmudgeon fades out
Billmon at the WhiskeyBar, a trenchant analyst of ailing america, is moving
...up to the Arctic Circle). Which means posts are likely to be few and far between -- or just plain absent -- for the indefinite future....
another blow...
The Boondocks comic strip is halted, at least for now. After six years — a remarkably short run for a strip that found its way into 300-plus newspapers, .. Aaron McGruder.



ecoworld
# Jatropha curcas, also called physic nut,.. non-edible Jatropha oil,.. candles and soap,..biodiesel. ..1600 liters of oil per hectare.
Transesterification plants (Bio Diesel Refineries)
....
According to Gaydou et al (1982), seed yields approach 6–8
MT/ha with ca 37% oil. They calculate that such yields could produce
the equivalent of 2,100–2,800 liters fuel oil/ha (see table under
Energy).
....
per hectare per year is up
to 8.0 tons of Jatropha seed, which contain over 30% oil. At $320
(US$) per ton, this will translate into sales of Jatropha crude oil of
$768 per hectare per year.
....
Using wastelands, however, instead of farmlands, solves the "food or fuel" dilemma-- these lands are unsuitable for growing other crops.
[the question then is: what is the yield on poor soils?]
...
India
http://www.pcra-biofuels.org/jatropha.htm
10 million hectares of waste land: 15 million tones of seeds yield (1.5 Tons/ Hectare) => 4.0 million tons of oil
..1/10th requirement of diesel in our country
..Oil yield per hectare is among the highest of tree borne oil seeds. Seed production ranges from about 0.4 tons per hectare per year to over 12 t/ha. There are reports of getting oil yield as high as 50% from the seed.

altnews
..Prospect Magazine: Politics Essays Argument
..A brief history of air-conditioning September 2006
..James Fergusson

..USA consumed 1/4 of all the electricity in 2003;
1/3 of that.. for air-conditioners.
[Energy Bulletin]..
8% of the world's electricity
..air-conditioners in American vehicles use
7bn gallons of petrol a year,= oil consumption of
Indonesia
1/3 European cars now have air-conditioning.
..83% of US households contain one or more
air-conditioning units
..air-conditioning remains hopelessly inefficient.
3,400 pounds of CO2 are emitted each year to cool the average
American home:
2/3 of the emissions from an average British car.
..in China..air-conditioning
already accounts for 15% of national power consumption annually. In
summer, that figure jumps to as much as 40%.

bookforum
10,000 Light-Years From Home (1973)
james tiptree, jr.: the double life of alice b. sheldon
The writer's bible for Star Trek couldn't be clearer about the colonial echo: "Horatio Hornblower in space." The multicultural crew may look like it's been sent by the United Nations, but its gunship could wipe out a planet.


28 September 2006

Fortt's Bath Oliver Crackers, James Hansen , Climate, KG320

Oliver
Fortt's Bath Oliver Crackers
crackers with no trans fatty acids
where can these be found in Aus?
_______________________________________________________________

climate

cllimate2

Sept. 25, 2006 Monday Online PNAS
Temperatures are hotter than they have been in 5000 years....
A further increase of 1° C..will produce dangerous sea level rises and species exterminations..
..James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Inst....past the hottest levels in the current interglacial
warming 0.2° C per decade for the past 30 years.
Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, R. Ruedy, K. Lo, D.W. Lea, and M. Medina-Elizade 2006. Global temperature change. P roc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103, 14288-14293, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606291103.
audubon . pnas . pnas . boston
..More rapid warming in 1975-2005
yields an average isotherm migration rate of 40 km per decade in
the Northern Hemisphere (Fig. 6B), exceeding known paleoclimate
rates of change. Some species are less mobile than others, and
ecosystems involve interactions among species, so such rates of
climate change, along with habitat loss and fragmentation, new
invasive species, and other stresses are expected to have severe
impact on species survival (37).
..a[BusinessAsUsual] BAU global warming of 3°C over
the 21st century could eliminate a majority (60%) of species on
the planet. That projection is not inconsistent with mid-century
BAU effects in another study (37) or scenario sensitivity of stress
effects (35). Moreover, in the Earth’s history several mass extinctions
of 50-90% of species have accompanied global temperature
changes of ?5°C (39).


KG320
Tech Failures
1) GPRS on my LG KG320 - havnt sen it in Aus so far (one day)
Occasionally in RP I could get Yahoo! news - Internet down in the Barrio, at 1985 Internet speeds

2) Java on my KG320 - the Modem cable on XP sees contacts (doesnt Synch, so why bother?)
but doesnt see any jar|jad
- If I can get on, I will venture $5 on a downloading a game at molipo
but If I want to write my own I will have to download from a site, which sucks as the Internet tubes are clogged so far up.

3) Unwired Internet Sydney : we are paying for 1MBit, were getting 300K, now often much less
all those Videos in the Internets, too jerky by half

4) Yahoo! Mail for SMS - get mail via SMS , doesnt work, the CR guy at Vodafone had never heard of it

Still... the KG320 does do MP3 ringtones - never pay for a ringtone suckers! BUT ... it doesnt do MP3 on SMS alert, which is what defines your cool in RP, so Nokia still rules?

I trashed the CD, LG support said download from lgmobile but the 320 is too new I guess. About AUS$300 in MBK. Dont lose the spare battery, Bangkok has none for sale.
It is thin, and it does inspire envy in fat Noia owners.

27 September 2006

Amajan, jatropha, Mike Ruppert, Outfoxed, biovisions, Merkava

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25
Safia Amajan, 65,..chief of the women’s affairs department in Kandahar Province for five years, working for women’s rights and education..
..was gunned down here on her way to work on Monday morning by suspected Taliban gunmen...

aljazeera
24 September 2006.. A car fuelled with oil from the jatropha plant travelled from Atambua in West Timor to Jakarta. ....Bandung Institute of Technology, Manurung..refining oil from the bushy jatropha plant and developing a converter ..cost of subsidised fuel 62.4E12 rupiah ($6.86E9 ) ..We have only 23 to 25 years of oil, 60 years of gas, and 150 years of coal," says Hamdi.
..Jakarta plans to make at least five million hectares ..of former forest land available for palm oil, jatropha, sugarcane and cassava plantations
..hopes that biofuels will supply 10 % of Indonesia's transport and electricity fuel needs by 2010.
.."..please use idle land, don't convert natural forest," urged Elfian Effendi from Greenomics.
..Palm oil..requires fertile ..food-producing land, but jatropha, said Manurung, can grow on dry wasteland. Jatropha is ideal for the drought-prone regions of eastern Indonesia..and establishing a jatropha plantation costs 1/10 of setting up a palm oil plantation.
..Palm oil production from Malaysia and Indonesia, 90 % of global = 3% current demand for fossil fuels. Indonesia 50% global , will struggle to supply even the food industry..
23 years may be a gross overestimate, Citibank depleted Sumatran oil super-fast


zdnetasia SSL signature forgery?

noauthority
From the Wilderness founder Mike Ruppert has left the country. Good on him. In true Ruppertian fashion, his parting shot is a grandiloquent broadside, and I mean that in a good way. Ripping good reading.
Good luck, Sir.
My country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny, and in so doing, they have become tyranny’s primary support group; its base constituency; its chief defender. Every day they offer their endorsement of tyranny by banking in its banks and spending their borrowed money with the corporations that run it.


fromthewilderness
As the human race enters the first stages of inevitable collapse resulting from Peak Oil, it does so ass-backwards, in complete denial, and in the one way most certain to guarantee the greatest amount of suffering and death for future generations.
- Michael C. Ruppert
Mike R , Joe Bageant, Joe Viallis (RIP) how the world needs these grumpy 50+ men

McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner said the company was implementing a new restaurant operating system that would finally make selling breakfast all day possible.

newscientisttech
A British nuclear plant recently constructed to make plutonium fuel for power reactors in Japan and Europe has been plagued with so many breakdowns that it may have to be shut down.
.. at Sellafield has suffered 37,000 minor and 100 major equipment failures in a year. These have prevented production for about 70% of the time.
..designed to recycle the plutonium extracted from spent reactor fuel at Sellafield by combining it with uranium to make mixed oxide fuel..
The aim..26 tonnes of foreign plutonium stockpiled at Sellafield into 520 tonnes of MOX fuel, ..hoped ..the remaining 77 tonnes of British plutonium at Sellafield to be burnt in a new generation of British reactors.
..In 2001 BNFL, predicted ..72 tonnes of MOX fuel a year. Last year..< color="#006600" size="2" width="60%">
boingboing
Robert "Outfoxed" Greenwald's new documentary, "Iraq For Sale," which documents the disgraceful profiteering of private contractors in Iraq, like Halliburton, CACI and Titan.
Greenwald's film talks with military personnel, past employees of military contractors, and the families of contractors who were killed in Iraq. He builds a compelling, damning case that the use of these contractors is putting American soldiers in harm's way, hurting US military effectiveness in Iraq, bilking the US taxpayer out of billions,

biovisions
biovisions harvard
inside a cell
- A beaut video. Actually the cell is much more crowded than it looks here. And the "walkers" and various polymers act from diffusion. ie. the 'left' foot 'right' foot stepping motion should actually look something like a drunk staggering, not a regular stepping motion. Its amazing to us 10^8 Angstrom monsters, but diffusion in a 10u cell gets it all done.
video
astroshack why_im_brown aes






More on Anti-Tank warfare, the new hope for the worlds peoples, against Empire.

shrapnelcommunity
"The anti-tank threat emerged as the most serious challenge to the IDF. Operating Kornet-E and Metis-M anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), Hizbullah successfully destroyed 14 Israeli Merkava Mk 2, 3 and 4 main battle tanks (MBTs). In response, the Israeli MoD has ordered Rafael Armament Development Authority to accelerate preparations for production of its Trophy active protection system (APS) for future IDF procurement. Israel Military Industries (IMI) has also been asked to complete development of its APS, dubbed Iron Fist, for IDF evaluation."
'JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY - AUGUST 23, 2006'

zaman
By using Russian-made Metis-M and European-made Milan anti-tank missiles by Hezbollah, according to reports more than 100 Merkava tanks had been destroyed, including killing or injuring their crews. The AP (AP, Saturday August 5), was reported to have circulated that, during two days only, Thursday August 3rd and Wednesday August 2nd , Hezbollah fighters had fired anti-tank missiles at three Merkava tanks. They were immediately pierced and 7 soldiers of its squads had been, killed.
taoofdefiance
Israeli sources claim that during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict 50 Merkavas were hit and damaged, with 30 crew members killed and 100 injured, including two battalion commanders [2].

One-tenth of the Israeli tanks that took part in the Lebanon war were destroyed or disabled, a military study found.
According to Armored Corps data published Thursday, Hezbollah anti-armor missiles penetrated 20 Israeli tanks during the monthlong war, killing 17 crewmen. Another 13 crewmen were killed when land mines destroyed or disabled their tanks. ..

..anti-tank weapons against our armoured vehicles. One of the most effective is the Kornet which was supplied by Russia to Iran and then to Hizbullah,” said Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Rafowicz.
..In a statement Aug. 9, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah insisted that Hezbollah had destroyed 60 Israeli Merkava tanks. The IDF acknowledged only 30 tanks destroyed or seriously disabled...

Israel has so far lost more than 80 soldiers in combat...
Hizbullah's older anti-tank weapons have been effective against armoured personnel carriers and buildings used by soldiers for shelters. Its newer weapons such as the Russian Kornet and US TOW missiles have been highly effective succeeded in piercing the armour of Israel's main battle tank, the Merkava
.....
nyrb asks why Israel didnt use attack helicopters in South Lebanon. They say maybe it was fear of being shot down, which means that HA defeated the IAF helicopters without firing a shot.
(actually they did shoot one down)


25 September 2006

Gog exists, climate chaos, ethanol musings

George Monbiot September 21, 2006 guardian
..Friends of the Earth, in conjunction with a consortium of NGOs and with increasing cross-party support from MPs, have been lobbying hard for the introduction of a 'climate change bill' ... [The bill] is founded essentially on a correlation of 2C with 450 parts per million of CO2."
In other words, Friends of the Earth had already set the target before it asked its researchers to find out what the target should be. I suspect that it chose the wrong number because it believed a 90% cut by 2030 would not be politically acceptable.

engineer-poet
I think it is absurd to take a bunch of natural gas, turn it into ammonia and then nitrate, add a bunch of petroleum as diesel fuel and chemicals, use it all to grow maize, ferment and then add more natural gas (or coal) to yield perhaps 30% more as ethanol.
alertnet
15 September (IRIN) - Soldiers are being deployed to seize Zimbabwe's grain harvest from farmers, in what appears to be a tacit acknowledgement that the government's projected 1.8 million tonne crop will not be met.

[the story is: Zimbabwe-crash is not entirely caused by PeakOil, but provides one picture of life after PO
- Cuba provides another picture?]

cee
last month the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) predicted that world wheat could decline by as much a 10m tonnes throughout the year.
In addition, the US Department of Agriculture cut its global wheat forecast to around 116m tonnes last week - its lowest level in 24 years.
IGC wheat output predictions lowered from 596m tonnes to 593m tonnes and overall grain production was cut from 1577m tonnes to 1575m tonnes.. a total fall of 51m tonnes from the previous year.
..poor harvests, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, where adverse weather conditions throughout both the summer and winter ..such as the recent summer heatwave.


dont neglect joebageant joebageant
AW, SHUT THE FUCK UP BAGEANT! NO MORAL ISSUE EVER GOT "EXPLORED" IN THIS COUNTRY. NEVER! THEY JUST GET EXPRESSED IN LOATHESOME SHORTHAND AT DISGUSTING LENGTH BETWEEN G.O.P. CRETINS WHO, IN THEIR HALF-WITTED SELF-DELUSIONS BELIEVE THAT RONALD REAGAN SHOOK HIS FIST AT THE BERLIN WALL AND ENDED THE COLD WAR . . . AND FAGGOT DEMOCRATS, A MISERABLE LOT NOW FORCED TO PRETEND THEIR VOTES WILL EVER BE COUNTED AGAIN!


bbc "deforestation diesel",
* The grain required to fill the petrol tank of a Range Rover with ethanol is sufficient to feed one person per year. Assuming the petrol tank is refilled every two weeks, the amount of grain required would feed a hungry African village for a year
* Much of the fuel that Europeans use will be imported from Brazil, where the Amazon is being burned to plant more sugar and soybeans, and Southeast Asia, where oil palm plantations are destroying the rainforest habitat of orangutans and many other species. Species are dying for our driving
cnn
early September a consortium of Chevron , Devon, Statoil announced it had struck oil at the Jack No. 2 well, some 170 miles southwest of New Orleans and 29,000 feet down through water and earth. ..anywhere from three billion to 15 billion barrels.
..at the upper end of that range ..the largest U.S. oilfield. (Alaska's Prudhoe Bay..12 billion barrels produced.)..increase U.S. reserves, now at about 29 billion barrels, by 50%
.. More than five miles below the surface of the gulf, the wells will be the deepest on earth. Less than a decade ago this oil would have been considered untouchable.

so its the end of very cheap oil, not the end of cheap oil? meanwhile Mexico is over the oilshed?

Proof that Gog exists.
This structure couldnt possibly have evolved, because it is all needed, so Gog, or Magog, must have miraculously poked his|her transcendent finger into the spirochete genome, and instantaneously inserted the requisite DNA
motor
sciencemusings
nature
..using electron cryotomography of whole cells, the in situ structure of the complete flagellar motor from the spirochaete Treponema primitia at 7 nm resolution. Twenty individual motor particles were computationally extracted from the reconstructions, aligned and then averaged. The stator assembly, revealed for the first time, possessed 16-fold symmetry and was connected directly to the rotor, C ring and a novel P-ring-like structure.
..it uses an electrochemical ion gradient to drive rotation at speeds of up to 300 Hz [humming can cure syphilis?]