Lefty Blogs
williampfaff ++ ++
Russian News ++
seaton-newslinks. USA expat in Europe ++
bilegrip Asu spleen ++
us-rockstroh a rant, not a blog ++
aboutmyplanet eco ++
sfgate ++
crookedtimber ++
onthecommons ++
sjlendman ++
....
abutamam freeiraq ++
airamericaradio +
amygdalagf +
angryarab ++
annezook +
antiwar ++
norwegianity
terrorism-news
blogspot
ourtomorrow
politickybitch
welcome-to-pottersville
aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
dahrjamailiraq
dailywarnews ++
drforbush +
english +
fallujahinpictures
freespeechradio
halcyondays ++
healingiraq
hereticalideas ++
icasualties
maru
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boxspinning boxes

jamaicaobserver newspaper
jameswolcott +
lefarkins +
liberalgirlnextdoor ++
lonehighlander Libya, not lefty
mahablog +++ solid
maruthecrankpot +
indymedia melbourne
messopotamian +7Apr06
monkey ++
motherjones ++
fisk
nocapital +
norightturn +NZ
peakoil ++
pilger +
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raedinthemiddle
rafahtoday Feb05?
rense w= wacko conspiracies
rigorousintuition x
hegemon ++
ruckus ++
rudepundit ++
satiricalpolitical +
scaramoucheblog ++
secretsinbaghdad ++15Ap06
Energring
aliveinbaghdad ++
riverbendblog ++
sideshow +++
signs-of-the-times +++
slashdot ++techy
talkleft ++
thinkprogress ++
thismodernworld +++
uncapitalist ++
velorution ++ bicycles
org ++Brazil peasants
warandpiece +
warfare.ru +russia military
greenpeace
allhatnocattle
alternet ++
americanpolitics
antiwar
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axisoflogic ++
blackcommentator
bobharris +
bradblog +
buckfush +funnies
buggery +
buzzflash ++
changeforamerica
countercurrents
counterpunch +++
crisispapers
crooksandliars ++?
csmonitor
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davidcorn
democracynow
democracyuprising
dissidentvoice
earthfirstjournal
earthstation5
empirenotes
foodfirst
fpif
fromthewilderness
geocities
granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
guerrillanews
gulf
hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
informationclearinghouse
infoshop +
inthesetimes x
iranmania x
ivaw
jihadunspun
juancole ++
kuro5hin ++ notlefty
kurtnimmo ++
lrb ++ Iraqi?
mahablog
lewrockwell ++
marklynas climate change
mnftiu get your war on comics
motherjones
nilemedia
nybooks
occupationwatch
oriononline
palestine
prisonplanet
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ratical
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rollingstone
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socialistworker
spiked
tblog
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truthout +
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zaman + Turkish news
youcantmakeitup + ?
youngfox ????????????
bareknucklepolitics videos?
popdrain videos??
discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
shrillblog +
thinkprogress +
marchforjustice + pictures
messopotamian + Iraqi not so radical, but scared (also see IraqTheModel which was a USA front, but is now also scared)
scaramoucheblog +
counterpunch
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republicoft + black gay parent??
dailykos ++
rawstory ++
democraticunderground ++
atrios ++
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vastleft ++
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politicalwire +
sisterstalk black lesbian?
culturekitchen ++
alternet
wonkette +++
billstclair +
freefreedomtoldhere ++ pipe bomb

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almuajaha defunct
whynot defunct
winstonsmith defunct
samadams dormant
mquinn02 defunct
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iraqicomments most recent: jan2005
iraqidoctor most recent: Aug2005
georgemustgo + moved?
vialls ++Dormant (joe is dead)
warblogging Defunct
hammeroftruth quiescant?
mediastorm quiescant? +
bushwhackedusa defunct
hamasonline defunct
4Jul06

07 May 2004

Having read about GMH in the NYR :

        God's Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

   

a real reading?


karpinski
Trying to think of one woman head of State who did NOT take
her nation to war. Thatcher? Golda Meier?
Seems that old line about "if only women ran the world"
is tripe
I think Bhutto didnt actually go to war?

06 May 2004

The Maya get older, Estrada-Belli has found a second mask at Cival "apparently identical"
to the one he found last year "15 feet by 9 feet, with snake fangs"
"eyes ..adorned with corn husks" 150BC+-100 years no clear pictures so far

But this is the sanbartolo mural, or the bit exposed so far, ca 100BC








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Walt Disneys Miramax wont distribute Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 in USA
- too many Saud secrets?

BruceBruce Sterlings blog
Bruce has a new book out about crypto & satellites...

Axis of Eve, flash for peace

04 May 2004

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aerosondeADF robot planes

"This is the first deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle
on operations by the Australian Defence Force,"
"The Aerosonde is an excellent surveillance and monitoring tool. The stealthy
aircraft is difficult to observe at short range, able to monitor areas with
minimal disturbance to wildlife, and equipped to conduct clandestine
operations, monitoring for illegal activities."

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Radio ShockJock Alan Jones at 2GB
(Station is named after Giordano Bruno
I believe in the 1930's some Thoesophist Krishnamurti fans named it...)
Anyway AJ boasted about how he instructed the PM to install rightwing
zealot media controllers.
I despise talkbacks, they prey on the isolated,
feeding bigoted anger beneath the guise of democratic discussion...

toilet indecency dropped
Any truth to the rumours of a hasty departure
from a teaching position at a boys school?

Do we need rightist fags running the shop?
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       Weird Science...
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China's grain harvest ..13-year low in 2003,
falling 6% to 430.6 E6 tons. Rice 165 E6 tons ..
(190 E6 tons .. consumes annually)
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Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a fatty acid found in beef and dairy fats.
..a study of rats fed fried hamburger. CLA cannot be produced by the human body,
[is in}..whole milk, butter, beef, and lamb.
..consistently produced antitumor effects..
..the only fatty acid shown unequivocally to inhibit carcinogenesis in experimental animals"
..improve the lean mass to body fat ratio, decreasing fat deposition,
especially on the abdomen, and enhancing muscle growth..enhancing insulin
sensitivity so that fatty acids and glucose can pass through muscle cell
membranes and away from fat tissue...
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Increase no-till farming practices across the planet or face serious climate,
soil quality and food production problems in the next 20 to 50 years.
..warning ..journal Science this week.

No-till farming helps soil retain carbon. Healthy topsoil contains carbon-enriched humus
.. Soils low in humus can’t maintain the carbon-dependent nutrients essential to healthy
crop ..need to use more fertilizers.

..Soil loses most of it carbon during plowing, which releases carbon dioxide gas
.. 78 billion tons of carbon once trapped in the soil have been lost to the atmosphere
.. no-till farming .. on only 5 % of all the world.. ..in the USA.. on 37 % 15Apr04

03 May 2004

Galleries:
coatsl59Liz Coates
in Utopia at Danks St
"The challenge is to maintain concentration.. image field ..crystallography"
A fierce vision at work..I hear that LC has returned to Wanganui.
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          Oil Eaters...cont...
May day, I was feeling remiss, not going to the "Reclaim the Streets"
however, it came to me.
Top of my street blocked by 30 odd ferals.
The idea is to protest against oil-eater car culture.
5 years ago we would block King St, have a street party, drums, happy days
That was a millennium ago.
Now the NSW polize arrive with horses
Violence... so you thought the oil-eaters werent serious?
Check the banal smiles on the woman soldier, under a woman general,
torturing Iraqi men in the name of oil.

Anyway I hate polize horses, used against peaceful protest
the reliance on sentimentality....
Any harm to a horse would get bad press
Actually they would easily be disabled.
A handful of marbles on macadam, and over she goes.

In the middle ages, no European battle was ever won
by horsemen with couched lances against footsoldiers.
[It is said that in 1683 outside Vienna the Hussar lancers routed
Mustapha's Janissaries]

Protesters undoubtedly lack pike-square holding discipline
Duke Wellington was infamous for his sabre charges against English demos.

The oil-eater culture is so persuasive
that protest seems pointless.
I understand car fever...
Once had a mini with twin SU carbs
and freeflow manifold.

Also owned a 2-door Valiant
got lost on the New Jersey Turnpike
("All gone to look for America")
man, I was so happy to find that Lincoln tunnel.
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      The Spike... cont...

I stole the term from Brodericks book.
and Vernor Vinge's notion of the technological Singularity
He reckons all will be changed utterly
around 2030CE
I lack his optimism about nanotech and biotech.
I reckon that about 10 years after Hubberts peak in 2012
no more cheap oil will mean total collapse
of our oil-eater culture.

Nanotech: expect a nano-factory sometime after
a full-sized automated factory with no humans at all
ie its actually a hard problem to run a factory with no
human smarts at all.
I reckon its 2 to 4 generations off (40-80 years)

Biotech: we dont actually know how a cell works, or how an embryo works
Merely reading a DNA sequence is not understanding biology
shotgun splicing does not mean we are close to N-fixing rice.

Genetic engineering wont feed us
We are oil-eaters...
The irrigation pumps burn oil
The Haber-process Nitrogen burns oil.
The trucks and harvesters & plows burn oil

So between Hubbert & Vinge is a 20-40 year gap
when we aint got no answer to that oil hunger.
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      What might be done
grow some kumara?
Maori in Aotearoa grew kumara
using seaweed, ash, burnt shell? but _not_ latrine N?
with careful composting the , latrine nitrogen could be used.

Once kumara were grown and stored,
organised warfare developed
hill forts, wondrous jade and whalebone WahaikaWahaika