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thepartyline
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4Jul06

14 December 2007

Lawson, Climate Chaos, Solomons, Ortega, Capital & Coast DHB

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Why the world is cooked
This Lawson chap, supposedly good at sums, probably better at ancient greek. He reckons that: since Singapore is 20° warmer than Finland, and they get along alright, the world can handle a few degrees warming.
What a fatuous, dangerous fart. Some Northern climes may benefit from the first 1.5° ,, while reefs and jungles wither, so some rich countries may cheer while poor regions starve... for a while. But any resulting inaction will hasten the 5.5° where human existence will be imperiled.
Its not like moving to Singapore, Nigel, you twerp, you innumerate ex-chequer.

former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, they’d tax them. And he wouldn’t mind all that much.
This seems rather off-message from someone who is (a) the driving force behind the Thatcherite and many subsequent low-tax regimes in various countries, including our own, and (b) a prominent sceptic about the likely impact of global warming.
But Lord Lawson, here recently to give the annual Sir Ron Trotter lecture...
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Its about time that the effects of Nuclear weapons was re-examined. Peak Oil is going to trash nations (Zimbabwe) and lead to invasions of others (Iraq, Timor)\
These tensions are likely to see nuclear detonations. A couple of decades later, ClimateChaos is really going to stir the pot. It seems likely that nukes will get involved. What is the effect of a few years nuclear winter superimposed on a few centuries of CC? US weapons apparently go "phut" if you try to crack them open without the right code. Sort of ready-made dirty bombs. j Depleted Uranium around the well-heads, ensures that only the extremely desperate or ignorant will volunteer for the military occupation force
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realclimate
the deepest dregs of greenhouse gas concentration data from the EPICA ice core in Antarctica, extending the data back to 800,000 years ago.
...The lowest CO2 value ever measured in an ice core is now 172 ppm, from 667 kyr ago. If you average over the glacials and interglacials, there appears to be a very long-term cycle in atmospheric CO2, low from 600-800, peaking around 400 kyr ago in stage 11, the 50 kyr-long “super interglacial” when the Earth's orbit was nearly circular as it is now, and then subsiding a bit since then. Perhaps this variability is driven by variations in rock weathering, the longest-term geological carbon cycle. Interestingly, there is no corresponding million-year cycle in Antarctic temperatures, when they are averaged in a similar way. CO2 is a dominant controller of global climate, but it is not the only game in town.

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Maori in Manhattan?
maori
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wsws
will Rudd carry on little johnny's mini-imperium?
Australian police and heavily-armed soldiers were deployed yesterday and today to strategic locations around Honiara. The authorities claimed that this was for security reasons but there is little doubt that the show of force is intended to strengthen the opposition. Australian troops wearing camouflage gear are currently guarding the gated entrance to Honiara Hotel, where opposition parliamentarians have based themselves. Government MPs earlier accused opposition leaders of locking away their supporters to prevent them switching over to the government side.

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coha
Ortega born again?? - he used to be an athiest, now he's in bed with RomanCatholic women killers..
The HRW report on the abortion ban cited the Center of Reproductive Rights’ research, which says that, along with Chile and El Salvador, Nicaragua is one of only three countries in the world with an entire “blanket ban” on abortion.
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Wellington Hospital NZ
something is rotten in the administration of Wellington Hospital
The board is allowed too stay on board, including Ken, that old red firebrand... I dont know if Ken contributed to, or fought against, the chaos.
".Capital & Coast DHB former union boss Ken Douglas would also remain as deputy chair."
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guardian
Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt
Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities
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11 December 2007

Led Zeppelin

Zeppelin, who I saw at Western springs 1972, under orange barrel, perhaps the last of the Owsley acid. (by 72 it probably wasnt AOS3?) 707 full of speakers, before sound restrictions had been imagined, the peak of something - the 70s - eco-feminism-gay-indigenous-human liberation ?? such a beautiful vision that I remain damaged to this day by its brightness. Since then I have learned to work for fortune500 corporations, but not wholly burned conviction, tambourine man, vanishing now, how bright we burned.
Zepplin
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aljazeera
Rarely does the rhythm section have the space to take the music to a higher dimension.
But Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham did just that. The interplay between all four musicians linked Zeppelin to the great chain of Sufi inspired improvisers, from the Gnawa slaves of the Maghreb in North Africa to the qawwali of North India.
It was this pedigree that separated Led Zeppelin from the rest of the rock 'n' roll universe, reminding those with the right ears of a time when the distinctions between East and West, Islam and Europe, were still fuzzy.
It's no wonder the band was signed by Turkish music impresario and Atlantic Records founder, Ahmet Ertegun.
Ertegun passed away in 2006 and it is to honour him that Led Zeppelin reunites as a band next week.
Muslim rock and metal artists today have been powerfully influenced by Led Zeppelin. The band's music echoes their own history and culture, helping them create new hybrids of rock, metal and Islam, and through it, some of the world's lus

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Page had developed a new approach to rock, based on a multilayered "guitar army" (his words), ragalike uses of sevens and fives in meter, insistent drones drawn from folk music, and hypnotic, shifting cycles that swirled around you (during the elongated endings to "Celebration Day" and "Out On the Tiles" on Led Zeppelin III), and which sometimes sucked you right under (the sublime closing minutes of "When the Levee Breaks"). The notion of a new magic art—trance rock based on non-Western scales and nonstandardized song architecture coupled with odd bar structures—had already occurred to Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, to George Harrison of the Beatles, and to the Grateful Dead. But Jimmy Page was the first to harness these ideas to the tantric possibilities of the modern recording studio.
...Does "Stairway to Heaven" possess these qualities? Absolutely not. The guitar army, yes, that is there. But this song is not just atypical of Zeppelin's music, it is unique among their epic tracks in that it privileges melodic/lyrical development at the expense of rhythmic exploration and timbral/psychoacoustic experimentation.