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4Jul06

20 October 2005

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Wellington Hospital being demolished

19 October 2005

Fauzi Hasbi transcript, English torture, murder, Ganja OK, Sahel wet

the lost sbs transcript
(images of documents removed from sbs site not located so far)
"Hambali and co would have known their colleague Fauzi Hasbi had been captured in 1978 by this Indonesian military special forces unit but they wouldn't have known that he became a secret agent for Indonesian military intelligence. The commanding officer that caught him was Syafrie Syamsuddin, now a general and one of Indonesia's key military intelligence figures. These documents obtained by Dateline prove beyond doubt that Fauzi Hasbi had a long association with the military. This 1990 document, signed by the chief of military intelligence in North Sumatra, authorised Fauzi Hasbi to undertake a special job. And this 1995 internal memo from military intelligence HQ in Jakarta was a request to use brother Fauzi Hasbi to spy on Acehnese separatist, not only in Indonesia but in Malaysia and Sweden. And then this document, from only three years ago, assigned him the job of special agent for BIN, the national intelligence agency. Security analyst John Mempi says Fauzi Hasbi alias Abu Jihad played a crucial role within JI in its early years.
JOHN MEMPI (Translation): The first Jemaah Islamiyah congress in Bogor was facilitated by Abu Jihad, after Abu Bakar Bashir returned from Malaysia. We can see that Abu Jihad played an important role, he was later found to be an intelligence agent. So an intelligence agent has been facilitating the radical Islamic movement."

smh unsil
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English torture story
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English murder mystery
n Saturday 15 October 2005, the body of Captain Ken Masters was discovered in his accommodation in Waterloo Lines, Basra," the ministry said in a statement.

"He had been responsible for the investigation of all in-theatre serious incidents, plus investigations conducted by the general police duties element of the theatre investigation group."
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Ganja Safe
..one of marijuana’s active ingredients actually helps produce new brain cells, while apparently reducing anxiety.
..another study has found that marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than cigarette smoke.
..Journal of Clinical Investigation.. Xia Zhang U Saskatchewan ..rats getting regular doses of an artificial version of a potent marijuana ingredient grew new brain cells faster than other rats.
The new cells grew in the hippocampus.. less anxiety- and depression- like behavior.. November issue.
The second, separate study found marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.
Robert J. Melamede of the U Colorado..although cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke are chemically very similar, evidence suggests that their effects are very different.. Harm Reduction Journal..Monday ..
..cancer-promoting effects of smoke are increased by nicotine, while they are reduced by THC
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..Bayer .moxifloxacin , be tested against tuberculosis..sells in the United States as Avelox and elsewhere as Avalox, Avelon, Megaxin, Actira and Izilox.
..ciprofloxacin, a related antibiotic ..patent will soon expire.
..Four old antibiotics with expired patents - isoniazid, ethambutol, rifampicin and pyrazinamide - are the mainstays of first-line tuberculosis treatment.. six months.
..moxifloxacin's..relatives ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin ..for a decade to treat multidrug-resistant strains of TB. ..

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17 October 2005
.."Climate change models suggest the Sahel should be getting drier but observations suggest it is currently getting wetter," Jon Lovett of the U York .. conference on climate change in Johannesburg.
.."It has cycles.. green during the 1940s - 1960s, but since then it has gone into a dry phase that seems to be ending...research done more than a decade ago linked a wetter Sahel to increased hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico..
It includes Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Chad.
..Niger experienced a famine this year brought on by poor rains and locust swarms..
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Siemens ..graphic displays onto paper or foil.
..Minority Report showed people reading a newspaper on a single electronic sheet which changed as news broke.. Siemens ..prototype at the Plastic Electronic Trade fair in Frankfurt ..
..The displays are powered using printable batteries which are already available, but they only last a few months, making the screens unsuitable for fast moving content such as video.
..Siemens also says it could be possible to update displays or draw power from localised energy sources using printed antennas.
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18 October 2005

Seditious intention, Abu Jihad,dams,ice

Anti-terra laws in Aus. bye-bye Habeas corpus & presumption of innocence & hello disappearance: indefinite secret detention, arbitrary search, and banning, RSA style.
Section 30A b ii states that "Seditious intention means an intention to .. urge disaffection against.. the Government of the Commonwealth."

Let me be the first to so urge, I urge everyone against affection for this Government. Walked through a fake demo this morning, part of anti-terra exercises I'll be bound. Especially if the anti-terra laws apply retrospectively.
Yesterday SBS repeated their program detailing how Indonesian so-called "Islamic terra" is broadly led by provocateurs. Fauzi Hasbi aka "Abu Jihad" from Aceh, was a well documented agent of the TNI until he was outed and gutted. His son died in a plane crash last month.
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The Brits are whining that the IR beams that trigger shaped charges in Basra must have come from the IRA, who aparently got some English gear in a botched sting years ago.
Well duh! its obvious to any high-school electronics freak that IR beams are the way to trigger, and any avid reader of Jane's "how to sell killing devices world-wide" can grasp the idea of shaped charge.


Mad Science

Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, journalist Jacques Leslie examines the modern battles over dams. His route into this broad and complex topic is a wonky one, but it works. Five years ago, the independent World Commission on Dams published a report titled Dams and Development; it acknowledged, to the surprise of many observers, that large dams are typically less profitable than predicted, cause irreversible environmental damage, and lead to "the impoverishment and suffering of millions."
[ -in NZ dams on the Waikato were rather well received in the 50s & 60s and continue to power the place. Importantly, Lake Taupo was not drowned, indeed it became protecteed against lows. Later Hyrdo schemes drowned a lovely Southern lake, and sold subsidised power to RioTinto. Not so well received]
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NASA chief Michael Griffin has drunk the Bush Kool-Aid. This week he called the last three decades of NASA effort a "mistake":
Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said, "My opinion is that it was.... It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Asked whether the space station had been a mistake, he said, "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in."
..let's hear Griffin articulate a convincing scientific and technological reason why we're going back to the Moon--other than that our President says so.
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..Ted A. Scambos.. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo...consecutive record-low extents make it pretty certain a long-term decline is underway." ..the new summer low Sept. 19th, was 20% below the average minimum ice extent 2000 - 1978.. difference between the average ice area and t this summer .. 500,000 square miles.. This summer was the fourth .. sharply below the long-term average

- what odds on a mass extinction like the Permian, where 95% of lifeforms in the oceans & three-quarters of land species went under?
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What is the $100 Laptop , really?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. These rugged laptops will be WiFi- and cell phone-enabled, and have USB ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel.