Alexander Friedman, Katia Nasser, Vatican on the rag, Zelzal-2, "I think this is a damn input

My Heroes:
Alexander Friedman, St Petersburg Cosmologist, mathematician, Balloonist. Wrote to Einstein to tell him he was wrong, the universe is expanding. What Chutzpah!
Held the world record for highest balloon flight, died aged 37 from the ill-effects of altitude
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Katia Nasser, reporting from the front line in Lebanon
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Vatican on the rag:
telegraph 30/06/2006)
.."Destroying human embryos is equivalent to an abortion. It is the same thing," said Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
"Excommunication will be applied to the women, doctors and researchers who eliminate embryos [and to the] politicians that approve the law," he said in an interview with Famiglia Christiana..

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billmon
First Afghanistan, then Iraq, now Lebanon? Someone needs to explain to Shrub the concept of the tar baby.
[ I caught mice #4 #5 on gluepads. I have to wonder why they put the 2nd 3rd & 4th feet on the pads
see my Kos diary
gbruno
I get a dozen comments, all of whom seem to think I am far far out.
Accused of channeling Syd Barrett - now I can retire!]

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snappingturtle
cep:
Zelzal-2 rocket fired from Bekaa Valley into Tel Aviv/Jerusalem : 700m

So unlike the Iraqi Al-Husayn missile, the Hezbollah Zelzals would have a high probability of hitting a city centre .. with about 20% greater destructive force over the Al-Husayn Scud, and one could anticipate significant Israeli casualties
..in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War .. Iraq fired 189 Al-Husayn-model Scuds into Tehran, Isfahan, and Qom, killing 2000 Iranians and wounding another 6000: an average of 10.5 deaths per rocket.

[flit famously irritated by Fisk in 2003 getting tech details wrong, I suspect Fisk does it deliberately to annoy military-wonks]

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11Sep2001:
vanityfair
08:43:06FOX: I've never seen so much real-world stuff happen during an exercise.
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08:57:11NASYPANY: Think we put the exercise on the hold. What do you think? [Laughter.]
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09:04:50—Is this explosion part of that that we're lookin' at now on TV?—Yes.—Jesus …—And there's a possible second hijack also—a United Airlines …—Two planes?…—Get the fuck out …—I think this is a damn input, to be honest.

The last line—"I think this is a damn input"—is a reference to the exercise, meaning a simulations input.
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As the tapes reveal in stark detail, parts of Scott's and Arnold's testimony were misleading, and others simply false.

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c/o tbogg


Friedman Katia Nasser Vatican on the rag Zelzal-2 "I think this is a damn input"