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 ++
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angryarab ++
annezook +
antiwar ++
norwegianity
terrorism-news
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politickybitch
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aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
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earthfirstjournal
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granta
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gristmagazine
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huffingtonpost ++
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inthesetimes x
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ivaw
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discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
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counterpunch
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alternet
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4Jul06

21 March 2009

Lovecraft, Eliot, Dora the Explorer

The Shining Trapezohedron
"I remember the twilight, the moon, and soft songs, and the window where I was rocked to sleep. And through the window was the street where the golden lights came, and where the shadows danced on houses of marble. I remember the square of moonlight on the floor, that was not like any other light, and the visions that danced on the moonbeams when my mother sang to me. And too, I remember the sun of morning bright above the many-coloured hills in summer, and the sweetness of flowers borne on the south wind that made the trees sing.

H P Lovecraft

dagonbytes




Eliot
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

tristan Eliot




wikileaks is currently down, even on Tor
Seems the Aus government has threatened them, or anyone who mentions them
kensingtonvictoria Alleged ACMA blacklist...
inquisitr
Wikileaks has upped the ante in its stoush with the Australia Government, warning that any attempts to find the source of the leaked censorship list would cause an international incident, and could see Australian Minister for censorship Stephen Conroy indicted on criminal charges in Sweden.



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Dora the Expolorer New bratz look
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18 March 2009

Old Carbon Stories, Managua, Lizzie Gillett

Carbon
I hate to side with skeptics, but the ocean-acidification leading to no-sea-shells nor coral argument seems rather extreme.
The coral story is confusing, seems that reefs have been building for aeons, but different species...
First it was aragonite, now they say all shells are threatened ... well how many sea shells in the past?
geocraft
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Late Carboniferous to Early Permian time (315 mya -- 270 mya) is the only time period in the last 600 million years when both atmospheric CO2 and temperatures were as low as they are today (Quaternary Period ).
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If 45 ton predators were cruising the Jurassic oceans, then the oceans must have been productive.
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Leedsichthys
Of course down here in Aotaeroa, we are biased, we still see people catching marlin and broadbills on rod&reel, 90% of big fish are gone from the world as a whole.
•Paleoclimatology generally says
•Warm = wet = forests
•Cold = dry = deserts
but the coming 4-6°C rise is supposed to move Hadley cells polewards, drying out current wheat lands, opening out more poleward plains.
Dont know how droughts in North China and Argentina fit this model.

Maybe the world will be net more productive, but the intervening crop disruption looks set to trigger world wars unless we all suddenly get a lot nicer.
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Peas

Watching a video of a pea harvest. Peas to the horizon, a million dollar harvester spewing peas into trucks which speed off to freezing plants. A marvellous system, dont know how much Roundup required. The young harvester driver says, he doesnt eat much peas. He flies to England in our off season, to drive harvesters there.
Huge fields, huge capital. Possibly that harvester would still be economic to drive with oil at $200/bbl. But would the rest of the system still function? ... Tractor tilling, Haber-Bosch Urea, trucks, freezers, supermarkets with high intesity spotlights heating as freezers chill? Cars to drive there?
Or simpler yet .. as oil hits $200, maybe the entire enterprise collapses ... sure seemed that way in the early practise run of 2008.
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nb this is not a Zero based graph, the system may have a bump left - eg if that Cuba field really has 20Gb extractable...
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Six miles deep, 50 miles from the Florida Keys ... expect those embargoes to go ...

Then there's always those "events"...
nature
In the Jurassic period, the Early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (about 183 million years ago) is associated with exceptionally high rates of organic-carbon burial, high palaeotemperatures and significant mass extinction....We propose that—as has been suggested for the Late Palaeocene thermal maximum, some 55 million years ago7—the observed patterns were produced by voluminous and extremely rapid release of methane from gas hydrate contained in marine continental-margin sediments.
An "event" to a geologist may be 10,000 years ... or who knows, maybe a bad month of methane eructations?
4 °C -> ice-free Greenland ->6 to 7 meters sea rise but is that your grand children or your great-great grandchildren who will never see London? Do you care?


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global food production, it says, is “very likely to decrease above about 3°C”(16)
. IPCC, 2007b. ipcc pdf 16. ibid, Table 19.1.
ncemag


Nitrogen fertilizer

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For me, the amusing thing about this graph is that in 1962 I was in 4th form (= 9th grade?), the world population was 2.5B. I had a postal subscription to "Scientific American", which has a September special edition on population. I used that issue in our "class project" to give a talk on population growth, typically bolshie behaviour in a priest-ridden school.... if only the world had listened to me then ...

wolfatthedoor
Wolf at the door compares NKorea and Cuba after the collapse ...


Banded Iron seen at 3.46Byears ago?? ciencemag

I recently held in my hand a 'banded iron' rock from WAustralia. The bands are smaller than I thought, only a few mm.
2.7B y old, according to the geologist who collected it. 3.46B is way old for photosynthesis, if it is confirmed.
I wonder about the cycles implied in the bands rather regular ... ages of photosynthesis, interspersed with ages of none? Early Medea/Gaia climactic breathing?


Managua regrets

Managua was like that in those days - a point of extraordinary global convergence, where one went from a meeting of barrio residents organizing local food distribution to hobnobbing with the international political jetset. Next door to the Intercontinental is a military complex where one night I found myself pushing aside Bianca Jagger and Billy Bragg to get to the free salad bar during, I don't remember, some fucking journalists bar-b-queue do. I didn't dare push aside Daniel Ortega, also lingering around the catering stand, with his gang of hardcore guerilla pals. His wife Rosary gave us a lift home that night. No really, now it sounds totally implausible, but so it was -a young anarcho dirt-bag like myself was driven home by the nations first lady!

CentrAm after Reagun
indymedia



Look surprised! ... sexy robot?
jps
nationalgeographic




ageofstupid
ageofstupid
Age of Stupid
Lizzie Gillett is a producer, born Auckland 1978 ... greens


uwmc
Vaccines .. some good graphs ... I had measles, not the vaccine, but I'm an Aspie anyway. Some suggestion that my corugated sub-incisors indicate intra-uterine measles exposure?


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Flechettes
Ensuring maximum casualties in Gaza
electronicintifada.net
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16 March 2009

FMLN, Nilin,Chenrezig

If voters opt for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in Sunday's election.
...FMLN mayors, who say that the support is strengthening democracy by empowering the poor.

"The more revolution, the more democracy," said Carlos Ruiz, an ex-guerrilla mayor and the vice president of ALBA Petroleos de El Salvador, a joint oil venture with Venezuela.



Nilin
13 March 2009:..Tristan Anderson
An American citizen has been critically injured in the village of Nilin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a tear gas canister.
..."40mm bullet special/long range," can shoot over 400 meters..
Tristan Anderson was shot as Israeli forces attacked a demonstration against the construction of the annexation wall through the village of Nilin's land. Another resident from Nilin was shot in the leg with live ammunition.
..Four Nilin residents have been killed during demonstrations against the confiscation of their land.
..Ahmed Mousa (10) was shot in the forehead with live ammunition on 29 July 2008. The following day, Yousef Amira (17) was shot twice with rubber-coated steel bullets, leaving him brain dead. He died a week later on 4 August 2008. Arafat Rateb Khawaje (22), was the third Nilin resident to be killed by Israeli forces. He was shot in the back with live ammunition on 28 December 2008. That same day, Mohammed Khawaje (20), was shot in the head with live ammunition, leaving him brain dead. He died three days in a Ramallah hospital.
..Residents in the village of Nilin have been demonstrating against the construction of the Apartheid Wall, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004. Nilin will lose approximately 2500 dunums of agricultural land when the construction of the wall is completed. Nilin was 57,000 dunums in 1948, reduced to 33,000 dunums in 1967, currently is 10,000 dunums and will be 7,500 dunums after the construction of the wall.
net
. [Wgtn,another holocaust movie, what's the point? I wouldhave thought the point was to learn to take care to avoid perpetrating high-tech, high planned, concentration camps, and systematic racist murders and ghettoisation, but seems that wasnt it ].


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Chenrezig
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USA car regos






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