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iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
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4Jul06

18 July 2009

Cole, Edward Bernays, Bulgaria

Juan Cole not now radical?
"In Indonesia during the past decade, it is democracy that has gone from strength to strenght, [sic]"
I just added Juan Cole to my RSS feed (where I spend most of my waking hours natch]
I note that JC, who was a great anti-Iraq war writer, now has hitched his wagon to the Iran-election-stolen star and,evidently, Indonesia is fine...
guess I'll delete his rss feed... me, I'm a fan of Ahmadinejad... hes never said a wrong thing... not sure about that 'halo' in the UN but...
must be a free-Papua feed I can replace him with...
re Jakarta, I note the kiwi who got fragged in his luxury hotel was "liked by everyone" - well I guess the JI wasnt on the "everyone" list.


Orwellian...
On Friday, it was “1984” and another Orwell book, “Animal Farm,” that were dropped down the memory hole — by Amazon.com.
In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.


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Hilary as tough cop, not a good look

Citing the disastrous 2003 US invasion of Iraq as an example, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today warned that by continuing to refuse to abandon its civilian nuclear program, Iran was risking the possibility of an invasion by the US or “some other enemy that would do that to them.”

The comments came during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program, and when asked by interviewer and former Clinton-era official George Stephanopoulus, Secretary Clinton reiterated “that’s right, as a first strike.”
antiwar

Unnecessary War, Unnecessary Empire
Pat Buchanan on the folly of U.S. intervention in WWII,,,
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dissentradio

Pilger 15July

...Edward..Bernays, described as the father of the media age, was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. “Propaganda,” he wrote, “got to be a bad word because of the Germans . . . so what I did was to try and find other words [such as] Public Relations.” Bernays used Freud’s theories about control of the subconscious to promote a “mass culture” designed to promote fear of official enemies and servility to consumerism. It was Bernays who, on behalf of the tobacco industry, campaigned for American women to take up smoking as an act of feminist liberation, calling cigarettes “torches of freedom”; and it was his notion of disinformation that was deployed in overthrowing governments, such as Guatemala’s democracy in 1954.
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Bulgaria ...Sofia, though a member of the EU and NATO and a client of Washington, nonetheless signed enery agreements with Moscow. At the time of the gas crisis in January ‘09, well-informed analysts predicted that Washington might seek regime-change in Bulgaria for that very reason.
Sure enough, just a week after the July 5 general elections, Bulgaria signed on to Nabucco.

Empire’s Pet Project
The July 5 vote went overwhelmingly in favor of a new party, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), led by Boyko Borisov. .One of the first things he did, however, was to suspend the existing energy contracts with Moscow,...the South Stream and a nuclear power plant project.

On Monday, July 13, representatives of Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey officially signed the deal to begin the construction of Nabucco. ...The U.S. was represented by Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar and Sen. Richard Lugar..

The fact that Washington has a "special envoy for Eurasian energy" in the first place, and that he was present at the signing, indicates that Nabucco is more than just a project for European energy supply. Nabucco is supposed to provide a mere 10 percent of Europe’s gas needs if and when it is completed – and assuming the conglomerate finds a supplier – and that Washington and Brussels have ruled out Iran as a source, and everything points to the conclusion that Nabucco is not business, but politics.

Pattern of Hostility
..Now Obama comes to Moscow and lectures Russians about sovereignty, democracy, and international law, even though his own country is the prime violator of all three. Meanwhile, the U.S. is sponsoring a pipeline seeking to bypass Russia....


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AT&T has donated handsomely to McCain's International Republican Institute (IRI). McCain chairs this group and though he seldom talks about it, he has gotten much of his foreign policy experience working with the operation that is funded by the U.S. government and private money. The IRI, which receives tens of millions of taxpayer dollars each year, claims to promote democracy worldwide. In 2006, AT&T gave the IRI $200,000. AT&T spokesman Michael Balmoris declined to elaborate on why the international telecommunications provider wrote a big check. "AT&T contributes to a variety of charitable organizations," he said flippantly.

IRI and Telecom Agenda in Latin America

The IRI has fought against regimes in Latin America that resist privatization of the telecom industry. In Venezuela, where the government nationalized the telecom firm CANTV, IRI generously funded anti-Chávez civil society groups that were opposed to the regime. Starting in 1998, the year Chávez was elected, IRI worked with Venezuelan organizations to produce anti-Chávez media campaigns, including newspaper, television, and radio ads.
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John Minto has a blog, but no RSS feed.... zut alors...


NZ credit based on #1Tourism #2 fancy animal protein ..... gosh, those will look good (not) on the national CV After the money's gone..

15 July 2009

Monterey Pop, Wellington wind, “L’insurrection qui vient”

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12,000 Kenyan roses resulted in 13,200 pounds of CO 2 ; the equivalent number grown in a Dutch hothouse accounted for 77,160 pounds. (Both examples included energy used in production and delivery to European airports by airplane or truck.) Roses from the Netherlands required artificial light, heat and cooling over the eight- to 12-week growing cycle, whereas Africa’s strong sun provided much of what was needed.


Wellington is the windiest
main centre in New Zealand with a mean annual wind speed of 22 km/h.
• Wellington also has an average of 22 days per year with mean wind speeds over 63 km/h (40 knots).
• Wellington averages 173 days a year with wind gusts greater than about 60 km/h or 32 knots.
• October is generally the windiest month of the year with a mean of 27 days with wind speeds over 15 knots, 19 of those days are over 20 knots.
• North is by far the most common wind direction, blowing from this direction (0 degrees) a massive 37.6% of the time.
• Wellington is one of the windiest cities in the world (possibly the windiest) and is windier than other southern windy cities including Cape Town, Perth, and Geraldton.
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Small wind turbines harmfull?
let’s assume a price of 0.20 euro, the relatively high average electricity price in the Netherlands (that’s 0.29 dollar – three times the price of electricity in the US). If you also assume Home Energy’s optimistic average wind speed of 7 metres per second (which corresponds to an output of 500 kilowatt-hours) then the payback time is 50 years.


The latest cost estimate for a 1,600 gWatt nuclear plant is up to $8 billion ($5/Watt)
France has not completed a new reactor since 1999.
Nuclear energy will at some point have a carbon footprint equal to straight natural gas so its losing its one clean claim very quickly.
lowtechmagazine
(article based on info from International Energy Agency)
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(IEA) a doubling of the price of raw uranium leads to a rise of 6% in the cost price of nuclear electricity (The OECD talks of 10%). In the case of a coal plant, a doubling of the fuel price leads to a rise in the cost price of 40%, for a gas plant it becomes 75%.


billmon is back


“L’insurrection qui vient” .. authored by the mysterious “Invisible Committee,” .. “block everything” ..
This “imaginary collective” considers that a specter haunts the French Republic: that of the November 2005 riots..
The novelty, the authors assert, consists in the total absence of message, leader or demand on the part of the insurgents. Thus have the suburban rioters, according to the authors, set the tone for any new guerilla action. Since “the present has no exit,” it’s useless to seek empty social compromises. Since the catastrophe “has already taken place,” it’s impossible to further an ecumenical ecology that supplies capitalism with its most perfect ideological legitimization. Since everything must be made spectacle, traceable, legible, one might as well become “invisible.”
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Inside Nature's Giants (Mon, 9pm, C4) ???? not seen...
apparently they dissect a whale and an elephant...



Why the fuck are the PRNs (professional rednecks) now against 'chemicals' such as folate in bread?
Folate is a cell extract as organic as vegimite. How wearing is it to have a decent chemical/biochemical education. I dont mind the proleteriat ignorance, fat fools sucking on chili dogs.
I do mind the PRNs, johhny come lately to the labeling schema, half educated sterile idiots sucking on petri-dish embryos to perk up their sterile lives. Newsflash... nature made you infertile for a reason.

13 July 2009

Electoral commision, Tamarins, Ruby

Electoral commision has declared this is illegal humour

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This week on CounterSpin: Coverage of the Honduran coup ousting president Manuel Zelaya has often included the claim that the coup was prompted by Zelaya’s move to change th
ork University history professor Greg Grandin about the real reasons certain parts of Honduran society wanted Zelaya out of the picture.
..non binding referendum nothing to do with term limits...



"managed austerity" - a much better term than my phase"universal poverty"
energy shortage leads to metals shortage???


Not just 2yr old humans...
When tamarins were exposed to words that "broke" the rules they had learned, they looked toward the speaker in a startled manner, observers noted.



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Contemplating altruism:
note that this can lead to insanity:
vs: the buddy of Bill Hamilton who contributed (amateur ) valuable equations of cooperation, then gave his inheritance to homeless bums, then killed self.
Nash himself was famously crazy.
In the early 90s I read in PNAS a 2d model of co-operation colour coded it looked something like a Turkish carpet. Islands of cheaters in a sea of co-operation, could be isolated and swamped by consistent cooperators.
A whole place-time algebra required.



Ruby on Rails
is this the nbt?
DRY dont repeat yourself
A simple ruby web server (WEBrick) and Rake
. Mongrel is generally preferred over WEBrick
Apache is a great full-featured web server, but for highly traffic nginx seems to consistently deliver better throughput at lower memory use.

I wanted a language more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python.
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I got Ubuntu booted on my recalcitrant Vista laptop only to find that Ubuntu still doesnt do NTFS you have to load some extra software which is not guaranteed safe...
A look at Ruby reveals a fascination with reg-expressions and string manipulations.