Mangosteen, Jolo Drone, Mercury

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the purple stuff in the rind (& in Kumera skin)
...alpha-mangostin, beta-mangostin, garcinone B, and garcinone E, which are collectively called xanthones.

Queen Victoria offered knighthood to any subject who could bring her a mangosteen fruit in prime condition. No one succeeded.

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Feb 29, 2012
US drones over the Philippines
By Jacob Zenn

airstrike Abu Sayyaf Jolo first known use of the unmanned aerial assault craft in AFP..
reportedly killed 15 Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah
incl Zulkifli bin Hir (alias Marwan), Gumbahali Jumdail ( Doc Abu), and Mumanda Ali ( Muawayah)
Marwan US$5M reward ..was in JI's central command,..the markaziyah, founder of the Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia,

conspired in 2002, bombings Bali with ..brother, Rahmat,..radios and cash..
In August 2003, Marwan Mindanao,..training Abu Sayyaf members in explosives..

Muawayah Singaporean military officer Indian descent.. 2002 Bali bombing $50,000 reward ..

Doc Abu, Mindanao's Tausug ethnic ..kidnapping, Sipadan, Malaysia in 2000 Dos Palmas Palawan 2001.
..villagers reported to the AFP.. left a sensor at his hideout ..
a separate air strike on October 2011 killed Marwan's aide, Madarang Sali, and three other Abu Sayyaf . ground operations .. "counter-productive" because they "cause locals to have negative perceptions of the military".

October 18, 2011, 100 MILF fighters + Abu Sayyaf ..13 AFP special force killed.

drone tracked the sensor

Luz Ilagan, called for the abrogation of the US Visiting Forces Agreement and an end to US military intervention ..

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See Lotsa Planets (Saturn at midnight?)
For once in my life I have a hig up bedroom facing distant east horizon - sunrises, for tha sodden mind...
hope to see Mercury

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Saturday, May 7, though the mornings before and after should be almost as good. You will need a low, cloudless eastern horizon.

First to rise will be Venus, about an hour before sunrise -- check your local paper for local sunrise time.

Venus will be joined by Jupiter about 5 to 10 minutes later. Jupiter will appear about 4 degrees (half a binocular field) to Venus' left. Your fist held out at arm's length covers about 10 degrees of the night sky.

A few minutes after Jupiter's appearance, Mercury will rise directly below Venus. About 5 minutes after that, Mars will join the other three. The Red Planet will appear another half binocular field to the left of Jupiter. [Skywatching Tips: Viewing Planets in 2011]

Doomer Porn, Putin Fanon

Doomer Porn
I am not in the Olduvai camp. The downshoot surely wont be back to the stone age.

It does seem that Wage-Slave-Labour, ie Capital, depends on surplus, which depends on EROEI ie fossil fuels.

Hard to envisage the post concentrated-energy ie diffuse energy economy

Where I sit the wind blows every day, more or less, and the wind turbines power the entire city. Dams + geothermal + wind do 70% of the countries energy. Fine if the rains persist.
Which it looks like they will.

Unfortunately the populace is gripped by a fierce intensity, a determination not to be human.
Thin on the ground, determined to bar refugees (660 per year permitted!). Triumphant in their weatherboard Cu-Cr-As soaked pine bungalows, still yet worth a dozen years pay,
determined to drive 100kW chariots from their 'driveway', determined not to live next to their kin.
Blissful fugue adoration for Capital. Lockouts of unions, even 'on the waterfront' where the navvies humping sacks were long replaced by a single guy way up in the seat of a massive container crane.

I suppose that on the worlds way down, in the grab for the last drop, some fools will let fly some nukes. I refuse to believe that a mere 50 cities burning will do for a nuclear winter.
Surely at least a third of people will survive.


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‘Few men realise,’ wrote Joseph Conrad in 1896, ‘that their life, the very
essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only
the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.’
uncivilisation




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Shipping Container Architecture
- exactly where in Wellington is that house?


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Putins sensible propoganda
rt.com

the Arab Spring was initially received with hope for positive change. People in Russia sympathized with those who were seeking democratic reform.
However, it soon became clear that events in many countries were not following a civilized scenario. Instead of asserting democracy and protecting the rights of the minority, attempts were being made to depose an enemy and to stage a coup, which only resulted in the replacement of one dominant force with another even more aggressive dominant force.
Foreign interference in support of one side of a domestic conflict and the use of power in this interference gave developments a negative aura. A number of countries did away with the Libyan regime by using air power in the name of humanitarian support. The revolting slaughter of Muammar Gaddafi – not just medieval but primeval – was the manifestation of these actions.
No one should be allowed to employ the Libyan scenario in Syria.

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This just in: Zionists still disgusting, threat to world peace.
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Fukushima

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The explosion leveled the walls, leveled the structure for the Unit 4 spent-fuel pool all the way down to the approximate level of the bottom of the fuels. So, there’s no water in there whatsoever,” an NRC official said on March 16, according to the transcripts. [...]

“If this happened in the U.S., we would go out to 50 miles,” Bill Borchardt, the NRC’s executive director for operations, told NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko on March 16.
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Energy consumption is still increasing rapidly, 550 exajoules (523 Quadrillion BTUs) ..primary energy in 2010.
..80% fossil fuels, 11.3% bio-energy mainly wood 5.5% nuclear, 2.2% hydro, 0.4% other renewable

1 to 10 exajoules time to rise: 12 years nuclear, 33 crude oil, 39 natural gas, 52 coal, and 59 hydro-power.

exajoules (E18 joules) Quadrillion (E15) BTU's ..

1 joule = 9.48 E-4 BTU.
1 boe (barrel of oil equivalent) = 5.45 E6 BTU. = 5.75E9J
1 ft³ of natural gas = 983 BTU. 1.04E5
1 m³ = 3.6E6J??

1 metric ton of coal = 22.72 E6 BTU.
1 exajoule = 174 million barrels of oil equivalent.
1 foot³ = 0.02832 meters³




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