Giordano Bruno

George Lukács, Amenzil, Arporn

2012-01-05T15:11:00.002+11:00

Leo Naphta (The Magic Mountain)... He modeled him on George Lukács, - Gee better check that out... . [Lukacs Minister of Cultural Affairs in the Nagy Government.] "Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann?" of course I read "Magic Mountain" but we are live now at the gates of the Castle, not up the Mountain. I confess I havnt read Lukács. Neither did Lukács read Tales of Genjii (ca 1000CE) and "

Transit of Venus, Centenary of Vitamins

2012-01-04T10:03:00.002+11:00

6 June 2012 last chance to see: Transit of Venus Only six transits of Venus are known to have been observed by humans in 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882 2004. [I reckon Mayans must have used a pinhole in a leaf... they knew Venus better than Spaniards did] ..Venus..round black spot with a diameter.. 1/32nd of the sun... ..entire transit (all four contacts) is visible from .. New Zealand.

Wheat, Environment IQ & retrotransposons

2011-12-30T10:05:00.001+11:00

NZ Wheat a Record NZ imports 46% of its wheat , less than I had thought. total Import+produced = 171kg/person 470g/day (I suppose some is 'feed' A Nth Otago (Canterbury?) farmer got a world record 15+ T/ha yield with 200kg N/ha and a decent 11T/ha with no N applied - so NZ can grow wheat (maybe this was 'feed'?) I reckon NZ should try to grow more wheat, just in case the PRC snap up the

Here On Earth contd...

2011-12-23T04:16:00.001+11:00

More On Here On Earth the Thing I wanted to say, but forgot, about 'Here On Eath', the biggest error: Tim talks twice aboout life "Breaking apart CO2" - into Carbon and Oxygen. This is a basic biochemical blunder. Any first-year undergraduate from 40 years ago would tell you that its H2O that gets split by light. The H is added to CO2 to make live stuff, the O2 comes from the water. This is

Here On Earth

2011-12-21T18:15:00.001+11:00

Here on EarthTim Flannery's new book, a rapid romp through all the usual suspects on Climate. I hasten to add I support his positions almost entirely. Startlingly TF raises "the Great Bill Hamilton.... had he lived to combine ... with the expansive vision of Wallace and Lovelock ... may have become the most revered biologist of all time" Hamilton is, apparently, "the founder of sociobiology"

Lyn Margullis, Claude Shannon, Jacopo de Barbari

2011-11-27T10:14:00.000+11:00

what is fractional reserve lending? facebook __________________________________________________________ scientificamerican How many beings is kefir? by the late great Lyn Margulis (Lovelock invented Gaia with her, Carl Sagan was married to her) __________________________________________________________ Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Nato helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan and

Mandarin Chenpi

2011-11-21T15:00:00.000+11:00

Citrus reticulata Tangerine Peel ('Mandarin' ex USA) Chen pi Tangeritin, a bioflavonoid in tangerine peel,.. shown to strengthen epithelial cell.. inhibits the metastasis of cancer cells (Bracke et al., 1996). Naturopath Bill Mitchell.. the compound increases the functional integrity of E-cadherin, .. adhesive protein found to be deficient in tissue samples of most cancer patients. Tangerine

Masaccio

2011-11-20T09:16:00.000+11:00

Masaccio - the nickname means 'Rough' or 'clumsy' - something about his style.? His actual family name derived from cabinet-maker. Born 1401, which is Early, the important point in this criticism. Died in 1428 "poisoned by a jealous rival" - now, who said art wasnt important? __________________________________________________ Sapphira threatened with death by money-grubbing new death

Fukushima, Pierre Auger Observatory, Wadah Khanfar,

2011-10-30T16:47:00.000+11:00

Fukushima more radiation than Chernobyl . Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ....Stohl and co-authors estimates about 36,000 terabecquerels through April 20. That's about 42 per cent of the estimated release from Chernobyl,.. 30/10/2011 5:28p.m. 1.7E19 Bq of xenon-133, greater than the estimated total radioactive release of 1.4E19 from Chernobyl. If it had rained that day, it could have

Playing with Water

2011-10-26T18:53:00.000+11:00

Ali, ali, namamangka, pasakayin yaring bata; pagdating sa Maynila ipagpalit ng manika. Ali, ali, namamayong, pasukubin yaring sanggol; pagdating sa Malabon ipagpalit ng bagoong. Old woman, old woman paddling your boat, Give this child a ride; When you reach Manila Change it into a doll. Old Woman, old woman, beneath your umbrella, Shelter this child; When you reach Malabon Change it into

2011-10-09T08:53:00.003+11:00

startswithabang annual velocity change as Earth moves against the Cosmic background. Somehow there is an absolute space, a rest frame.

Deltas Maraini, Bamboo

2011-10-05T08:42:00.001+11:00

Deltas One thousand years from now, 18 of the 27 megacities 0f 2025 (Chap 2) partially or wholly beneath ocean water ... once blue ice in Greenland. 'The New North' Laurence C Smith 2011 especially Osaka-Kobe, Lagos, Manila,Shanghai also Buenos Aires,Chennai, Dhaka Guangzhou, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi , Los Angeles, Mumbai, Ny,Rio,Shenzen & Tokyo I guess its fatuous to be concerned about

Iwase

2011-10-02T10:12:00.001+11:00

OK its Iwase ,not Iwasi Once, as a nervous schoolboy, furtively browsing the photobooks section of Smith's 2nd hand bookstore in Bond St, I came upon a copy of Iwase's book of Ama photos. Sadly I was too shy to purchase what is now a collectors item. wordpress ________________________________________________________________________________ Zimmerman filches independent flickr flickr

Microfluidics, Google energy, Planets , Griff

2011-09-28T10:08:00.002+10:00

Microfluidics tiny cheap lab-on-a-chip now lab-on-a-postage-stamp. Diagnostics are much quicker to market than therapeutics , because they dont require years of safety tests. In the near future diagnostic chips ( paper strips) are gonna be everywhere thousands of "wells" with DNA sequences will report on your genic susceptibilities, your tumours genetic pathways,your infectious agents and their

Twitter talk back, Karl Marx

2011-09-25T04:25:00.001+10:00

All the chatter about 'SocialMedia' Its just talk-back radio without the sound, people, a sad substitute for actual polity. As likely to engender red-necked rabble deluded into fanatic service of their overlords, or soon-to-be overlords than it is likely to free them of their mind forged manacles, Twitter has Bibi squatting in a paid position over the #palestine thread .... .raboinu shel oylim

Water Companies Artillary/Marketing campaign

2011-09-23T07:36:00.001+10:00

GDF Suez Water Company artillary fireing indiscriminately into civilian areas in Libya. "First we bomb the water distribution, then we terrorise the civilians. In case they get ideas that water belongs to them. All done on borrowed money. Its great sport. Its an example to people all over the world - the GDF Suez is coming to privatise your cul"

Funny Bone on Luzon, Habitable zone in Vela, HistoryPIN

2011-09-19T11:28:00.000+10:00

Funny Old Bone Tue, 2010-06-22 06:26 -- John Hawks [seems like a thoroughgoing in depth academic kind of blog] .. a funny-looking foot bone from a 67,000-year-old site on an island, ... ..Journal of Human Evolution, Arnand Mijares.. a third metatarsal from Callao Cave, on .. Luzon... the oldest human bone known from the Philippines, or indeed from anywhere not reachable by land from Asia --

Khan al Ahmar, Anthrax

2011-09-08T07:55:00.000+10:00

Wikipedia article on Khan al Ahmar. Note the Passive voice: Khan al Ahmar is "slated for destruction" "slated for" is one of those Hokey folky expressions that tend to end up on the sports desk. - I think its more used on US tv than in English polite conversation A better expression might be : "The Zionists are illegally conspiring to destroy Khan al Ahmar" - in the active rather than the

Escobar, Vespula vulgaris, Doi Sutep

2011-08-30T08:58:00.003+10:00

Pepe Escobar ... keep up people... a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli. The militia is the so-called Tripoli Brigade, trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. ... all the top military rebel commanders are LIFG, from Belhaj in Tripoli to one Ismael as-Salabi in Benghazi and one Abdelhakim al-Assadi in Derna, not to mention a key asset, Ali Salabi, sitting

Libya

2011-08-23T08:50:00.001+10:00

Libya joins the IMF/WTO ..Only 4 nations left without a Rothschild controlled central bank .. Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba Now the Crisis Capitalists move in (after the usual 2 days of petty looting) Privatise the Oil, and in particular the 'Great Manmade River Project' GMR Then privatise everything else. Libyans will feel free, even as their food and housing prices soar sans subsidies Free

Ephebiphobia Cold Fusion dsRNA-binding

2011-08-16T08:29:00.000+10:00

The Ephebiphobic Teenage Dole Card looks like its mag stripe. OK Yooth, order your mag-stripe writer now tyner Welfare Working Group released its loopy agenda of reform proposals – which included the option of sterilising welfare miscreants .. As usual, the target audience . the wider population of voters who think the young have had it too easy for too long. ‘Ephebiphobia’ is the term for

Ikea on fire, Seal bodies unidentifiable.

2011-08-09T09:53:00.001+10:00

TheWestLondoner Ikea on fire No police in #croydon...strange...maybe its got something to do with #camerons stupid ass cuts google London Map - a bunch on the streets in TelAviv also... that strategy of "Guest Jews" from CCCP to replace those pesky Palestinians as cheap labour.... seems to be falling flat... _____________________________________________________________ Seal team 6 -

Disgusting things, cont... BedBugs Boils

2011-08-05T15:03:00.000+10:00

BedBugs and other Disgusting things I'm glad that the ChaingMai six mystery deaths are not now thought to be chlorpyrifos. ChaingMai would be about my favourite town on Earth, and I'm not sorry that tourists may be discouraged. Since the boom (the bridge over the MaeKong?) the ring road has been barely passible on foot. I've never had a moments discomfort from any market food in Thailand. The

Gaddafi, Abduction, JellyFish, Palm Oil

2011-08-04T15:08:00.001+10:00

Libya On July 31, Phelan reported "breaking news" that Libya's Al Fatah revolution (Gaddafi's 1969 bloodless coup, ousting King Idris from power, establishing the Libyan Arab Republic) regained power in Benghazi. She confirmed that Libya's largest Warfalla tribe was marching to the rebel capital, as well as Libyan armed forces already there, adding: sjlendman Gaddafi's "green flag is (again)

Worms, Sealevel, BitCoin

2011-06-27T07:33:00.000+10:00

WWW Worst Weekend in a While Worms. Typhoon Falcon has apparently trashed my clothes, TV & Turkish carpet? in my house in B-Silang(Caloocan) Hope the toilet (Septic Tank) still works. We were smugly confident it would last for years. Even with 6 girls in the household, Wash not wipe meant no paper, so the system would last for yonks. Wash is also much more friendly when youre dealing with a 3yr

Holographic Principle

2011-06-02T10:47:00.001+10:00

Continuing the theme Xenophanes' Cosmos: "Being one, it is like all over, seeing and hearing and having the other senses all over" Pondering the holographic principle, in Leonard Susskind "The Black Hole Wars" 2008 In 1976 Stephen Hawking proposed that information gets lost in Black Holes. Gerald 't Hooft and Leonard S were aghast, since this meant that physics would not now be reversible.

Blackcurrant powder, Drinking Stories

2011-05-26T12:08:00.000+10:00

Blackcurrants feral on the steep bank behind my house, inaccessable without powertools and protective clothing So I lashed out on SUJON Blackcurant powder $40.50 for 189g Apparently blackcurrants have the highest in anthocyanins antioxidant activity blackcurrants 100g 12,881 blueberries 6,341 green tea 250ml 1,500 Sujon says New independent research suggests that SuJon New

DSK Stockhausen Xenophanes

2011-05-20T09:38:00.001+10:00

DSK: sometimes the world does something so typical. A fat Jewish international banker rapes a devout Muslim chambermaid. How just to see the IMF dragged through the mire. DSK looks older than me, particularly after a night at Rikers, although not by much. The original crime was to suppose that inequality is permissible that allows $3000 pre night hotels. __________________________________

Mana Party etc

2011-05-04T12:01:00.001+10:00

Hone Harawira says his Mana party is the party of/for intellectuals. Thats as may be but its a lazy intellectual grammar. When the "values" party started in Auckland in the 70s I said to some of the founders that the title begged the question "which values"? You cant just assume that compassion, equal opportunity, feminism, racial-equality, anti-imperialism etc are "natural" values which

Qaddafi, Radiation, Palin, Predator

2011-04-28T07:25:00.000+10:00

Qaddafi NYRBooks replete with PsyOps jargon Qaddafi's crime is that he has not taken money from the IMF Impressive how heavy food subsidies haven't prevented a mob from taking the "Western" shilling "The consequences of a takeover by Qaddafi" since when is putting down an insurrection a "takeover"? "local liberation from the Arab world’s most psychotic tyrant" - love that "local"

Libya, niqabs & balaclavas\

2011-04-15T10:26:00.000+10:00

Libya more Pepe E. The "official" Libyan opposition ... Interim National Council...And what about the INC's new military commander, Khalifa Hifter - a former Libyan army colonel who spent nearly 20 years in Vienna, Virginia, not far from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley? Progressives will love to learn that the romantic "rebels" are now led by a CIA asset. atimes Pepe has Qatar in

FukuShima, Libya

2011-04-09T13:22:00.002+10:00

Fukushima Yesterday, the NY Times obtained a copy of a confidential memo, prepared by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which also refers to unintended consequences. United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are

Fuck-You-Shima

2011-04-03T11:17:00.000+10:00

From the wonderful wry Russian Kollapsnik Take a look around: there is no longer the money or the political power or even the technical expertise to immediately shut down and properly dismantle all of these installations and to store the nuclear waste in a way that will require zero maintenance for the thousands of years it will stay lethal. The best we can do now is evacuate ourselves ahead of

Omega-3 Virolution Zinc Finger

2011-03-18T11:23:00.003+11:00

Omega-3 A new study out of Iran [!] says that daily supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids EPA DHA .. significant improvements in depression scores in seniors with mild to moderate depression. .. web4health.com least 10-25% of all elderly people show clear symptoms of depression. ... two to eight percent suffer from loneliness and melancholy. [Only 8%? is that Iran? ...sounds like happytown!

Father 1920-1991

2011-03-09T08:31:00.001+11:00

Thinking of father, 20 years after his death. The most fun we had was firing up the incinerator. The 40 Gallon drum version. The drum would be pre-punctured (Father always 'knew a guy') with slots that let in air and held a grill. Loaded with paper and corrugated cardboard (in the days before plastic packaging) it would go off like an explosion. Chunks of glowing cardboard would loft over

Poor Choices

2011-02-28T07:27:00.002+11:00

Poor Choices In Christchurch, people are walking into WINZ/welfare and being giving money because THEY NEED IT. This is seriously radical. (Wasn't there a C19 author who proposed "to each according to his need"?) Modest Proposal: Let us adopt the philosophy of our dear leader, El-Supremo-Money-Changer John: viz: "The poor are poor because they made poor choices" So, the poor in ChCh are

2011-02-13T11:14:00.000+11:00

from churchofnobody ll. Oh, and the author of the book I discuss there, Amy Chua, is the same woman currently embroiled in her silly Chinese-Mums-Are-Superior brouhaha. .,... ............................. World on Fire by Amy Chua. Not all of it. By the time I got half way through I'd had enough. I got it. The book was ostensibly about economics, racism and populations in turmoil. It specifically

Kepler, Frank Wisner, ILG,Muriel Rukeyser

2011-02-09T14:59:00.000+11:00

Kepler Feb 2 ~60 candidates with sizes ranging from Earth-size to larger than that of Jupiter which are in the Habitability Zone of their host star. This is obviously one of the most remarkable results of this survey. ..75% of the Kepler catalog exoplanets are smaller than Neptune, with a peak of exoplanets only 2-3 times larger than Earth. ..extrapolated that 6% of the stars in our Milky way

Who is Frank Wisner jnr?

2011-02-01T13:42:00.000+11:00

Who is Frank Wisner jnr? A former US ambassador to Egypt is in Cairo and "has the ability" to talk [gosh, that beats grunting and gesturing anyday] to Egyptian leaders, ... .. He also said the Washington believed Egypt should revoke emergency law brought in following mass protests against the government. [um, I think they were 'brought in' in the 70s] ..Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman,

PA, John Key anti-anti-Mubarak, Omega-3, Ammonia

2011-02-01T10:13:00.001+11:00

Palestinian Authority has yet again obstructed and threatened anyone who will show up at the peaceful protest (i3tisam) scheduled to happen today in front of the Egyptian embassy in Ramallah, Sunday February 1 at 4 pm. This is the second time that the PA refuses to let the Palestinians express solidarity with first our Tunisian brethren and sisters in their popular uprising and now in

Mubarak, Auckland Transport

2011-01-27T16:50:00.000+11:00

Fisk: In Egypt, the future of Hosni Mubarak looks ever more distressing. His son, may well be his chosen successor. But there is only one Caliphate in the Muslim world, and that is Syria. Hosni's son is not the man who Egyptians want. He is a lightweight businessman who may – or may not – be able to rescue Egypt from its own corruption. Hosni Mubarak's security commander, a certain Mr Suleiman

Jumblatt, Lester R Brown, Market

2011-01-25T08:09:00.000+11:00

Jumblatt has,it seems, ended his flirtation with Bushism 'nation building' and swung Druze behind Hezb backed pm Makati. Michel Aoun's Christians are also inline. Hezb ascendant. Netanyahoo will feel the need to invade. Palestinian papers may have finished the PA. Iran rules OK. .................... News: Aoun's bloc nominated Mikati for premiership iloubnan ...................... Walid

Tunisia, Rent

2011-01-17T11:29:00.000+11:00

The Tunisian intifada has succeeded in collapsing the dictatorship," Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the banned Ennahdha, said by telephone from London. "Now is it for the political parties to try to replace a dictator's regime with a democratic one. I'm preparing myself. I'm preparing my return," the 69-year-old activist declared. ......... Moncef Marzouki, head of the outlawed party, Congress for

Drones, Leaks, Suicidal Farmers

2011-01-13T16:15:00.000+11:00

Tariq Alli on Drones Serious Pakistani newspapers, Dawn and the News, claim that 98 per cent of those killed in the strikes over the last five years – the number of deaths is estimated to be between two and three thousand – were civilians, a percentage endorsed by David Kilcullen, a former senior adviser to General Petraeus. The Brookings Institution gives a grim ratio of one militant killed for

Hojatoleslam Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, Black Holes (not), UAV

2011-01-07T10:33:00.002+11:00

Hojatoleslam Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr Back from 3 years of studying in Qom, now truly Hojatoleslam returned to oversee Iran's rule over Iraq. He doesnt need a cabinet post. Maliki is his man NYTimes approves, 'grey in his beard' Those old accusations that he was immature, unschooled in theology, now void.... ________________________________________________________________________________________

Paleo-Cllimate, 23 Things, Sweden

2011-01-05T07:53:00.000+11:00

Morning dandelion in our concrete backyardstruggles to attain turgour pressure to open itspointless parthenogenic petals.Honeybee checks for pollen, leaves in a beeline of disgust.We are disseminated on this sphere,battling it out for piles of gold.Western horizon clouds rush South.Overhead barely moving.The illusion that the world is spinningabout me._____________________________________________

drauma, Climate

2010-12-23T14:13:00.005+11:00

draumaI am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. You are a poorjoist, unctuous to polise nopebobbies and tunnibelly soully when 'tis thime took o'er home, gin. We cannot say aye to aye. We cannot smile noes from noes. Still. .... where in the waste is the wisdom? ... Say it with missiles then and thus arabesque the page.

Gay Soldiers,Kornet, Good books

2010-12-23T08:46:00.002+11:00

Gay SoldiersSeems a natural fit.Invasion by Alexander's Macedonian Phalanx rather like a tour by a particularly nasty Gay dancing troupe. They arrive, set up a concert/battle in a field outside town entertain/kill a lot of young men, then leave the country soon after. If you're lucky they rename a town with a Girlie title ("Alexandria"?)______________________________________________Kornet"On Dec

Tetanus, Yew, Acai

2010-12-21T07:56:00.002+11:00

bean-ghluineOn St Kilda 56 babies between 1855 & 1876 41 died, most from neonatal tetanus.. the midwife or bean-ghluine ( knee woman) used red fulmar oil to anoint the cut umbilical.. .. the oil stored for years in a goose stomach ... Rev Fidde halted this practice.. but the population had already sunk too low (?) .. the last 35 inhabitants evacuated in 1930Bernard Dixon How Microbes rule the

Serco, Puccinia path, The Freezing Point of Industrial Society

2010-12-15T15:16:00.009+11:00

Serco is brutal. Their children's detention facility at Hassockfield in the northern UK has an appalling record of children injured at the hands of guards. In 2004 a child at the centre killed himself after being subjected to a "nose distraction technique" (AKA "being punched in the face") by Serco goons. Its guards at refugee detention centres in the UK have been involved in assaults and

Sex , Police and Assange

2010-12-13T07:48:00.002+11:00

Impressed by the rigourous analysis and thorough exposition of Emah's exposition on Rape and Julian Assange.facebookTrying to locate the feeling of unease she caused.I was perturbed by the minutiae of sexual positions, motions, and actions which Emah listed, all to be subject to judicial review.Thats where I part ways with her analysis. The great mass of people in this world, hence the great

wikileaks, Howrd, ultrafast broadband

2010-12-10T13:53:00.002+11:00

wikileaksUS embassy staff complain that Rudd was too quick to announce, eg anti nuclear bomb policies, without asking them, then complain that Foreign Minister Smith was too slow to support Zioist invasion of Gaza.- those PESKY wikileaks, ... obviously simultaneously trivial and serious...I dont know Assange, but with Jemima Khan Ken Loach, John PilgerNoam Chomsky Mungo MacCallum, Peter Singer,

Mushrif Tipene, Turing, Skylifter

2010-11-22T07:47:00.002+11:00

Mushrif Tipene"the return of the Mark Hotchin - dubbed the Prince of Auckland's "Parasite Drive" - has finally prodded one of our watchdogs into saying they will make a decision before Christmas whether to lay criminal charges against directors of the Hanover Finance companiesIt goes without saying that investors - who were angered by the "partying up large" style of the fabulously thick-skinned

The Wire, Warren Tate, Petroleum Nut

2010-11-15T11:28:00.002+11:00

The Wire (allright, its years ago I know, but people are still commencing to watch it)Its newness as a narrative art form is underscored most convincingly by its power on DVD, where it can be watched all at once, over sixty hours: ...so engrossing, heart-tugging, and uncertain are the various story arcs that watching in this manner one becomes filled with a kind of mesmerized dread.nybooksIn

Comparison, Stroke,

2010-11-08T15:14:00.003+11:00

ComparisonGot some argument with Verner Vinge, & his "Singularity is coming"(..wife Joan is the better SF writer - "Eyes of Amber" a classic which probably stimulated interest in Titan)VV reckons that faster machines will, by 2025?, take off, smarter than humans and ever smarter,I reckon he's wrong,.... What is an individual?"..outside of biology, there are no individuals, only stuff.... Pictures

Hobbit, Trans Fats, LSST

2010-10-21T08:36:00.002+11:00

Hobbit1960 Brother Camillus every Friday, would squeeze standard 5 into stnd 6 and read great books.Best memory : "Pit and the pendulum" E A PoeSecond best was The HobbitGreat for 12 year-oldsLater I read LOTR , got bored with the tedious repetitive battlesOnce it was de-constructed for me by folks from Lit dept Auckland University... Hobbitts are working class English, ..teaching us to know our

Java is the new Cobol, VMT

2010-10-05T10:39:00.000+11:00

Java is the new Cobol__________________________________________________Vehicle Miles Travelledan earlier version og this image seemed to show the cleanest picture of the peakng of twawkiNow it shows a struggle to recover ... __________________________________________________

Towel Planes, No Pressure, Marina Silva, Shack chic

2010-10-05T09:56:00.002+11:00

No Pressure350.org strongly denounces the "No Pressure" video released in the UK by the 10:10 Campaign. 350.org works with over 500 organizations in 180 countries and neither we nor any of our partners saw the video before 10:10 released it live on the internet. Once we viewed it, we immediately urged 10:10 to take it off the web. The video is diametrically opposed to everything we and this

Swansons Recognition

2010-08-31T07:44:00.002+10:00

Swansons, what a mighty mailorder savour.My package arrived... vitamins about 1/5 the local price.SW144 Swanson Premium Natural Vitamin E Sgels 100 1,000 IU Sgels 2 $8.25 $16.50SW058 Swanson Premium Balance B-50 Caps 250 Caps 3 $7.99 $23.97 SWU171 Swanson Ultra SeMSC Selenium Caps 120 Caps 2 $5.99 $11.98 JR079 Jarrow Formulas, Inc. Citicoline CDP Caps 60 250 MG

Last chance Texaco...

2010-08-18T13:15:00.002+10:00

Russian state firm Rosatom announced last week that the Bushehr facility would be starting up on Aug. 21______________________________________________________________________________________"IDF -- best time of my life."cnn

Orina Fallaci, Pipelinestan

2010-08-17T06:48:00.004+10:00

Belatedly got a $1 copy of "A Man" by Oriana Fallaci, she of the infelicitous name, as she used to say.I first read her in "If the Sun Dies" a 60's book about the Mercury/Gemini astronauts. Which made them seem human ish. She most liked Gus Grissom, who seemed a funny guy. He burned on the Pad.Panagulis, Orianas great love... (Zi Zi Zi)... a fascinating read (havnt finished it) great torturer

Pakistan floods 100+year event?

2010-08-10T11:08:00.002+10:00

Pakistan floods 100+year event? "can't ascribe one disaster to Anthropogenic Climate Change"- this is a phrase we will be using more and more this centuryso lets agree on a shortcut acronym "caodtacc"Disaster Capitalism:Will the Pakistan floods provide opportunity fot Capital to win control?NW frontier is not a place calling out for tourist hotels. Ladakh ? apparently got choppers in to '

Paid work, Slavery, Commerce

2010-07-29T06:52:00.001+10:00

Oliver Sacks nybooks (paywall) tells how from the late 60s, Lunatic Asylums prevented inmates from doing useful work. Kitchen work, gardens, cleaning, all were regarded as infringing their rights. So they sat (still) all day in front of TV.Conversely, in recent years, prisoners have been put to work for a pittance. Local plant nursery owners have complained that Rimataka prison is producing

mother made me a homosexual

2010-07-23T09:22:00.004+10:00

(If I gave her the wool would she make me one too?)..New Zealand Mental Health Survey, ..13,000 people aged over 16 between 2003 and 2004.... less than 1% identified themselves as homosexual, but 3% had a same-sex encounter...the more "adverse events" experienced in childhood..including sexual assault, rape and domestic violence...the more likely the person identified with one of the

Lake Palin, Kandahar to hard, Gorillas need Guards

2010-05-20T10:56:00.008+10:00

Lake Palin cont...An American Chernobyl...The Chernobyl disaster was caused more or less directly by political ppointeesm: the people in charge of the reactor control room had no background in nuclear reactor operations or nuclear chemistry, having got their jobs through the Communist Party. They attempted a dangerous experiment, executed it ncompetently, and the result was an explosion and a

Schedule 4, Lake Palin

2010-05-06T08:27:00.002+10:00

Schedule 4Test post to see if its still center (centre) alligned.. yes it is, how tedious (IEx v8??)OK.. I changed every center in the Template to LeftText is now left aligned in IEx 8 (ugh)oddly images are still centered...Mining Permit 42024: Granted to the Broken Hills Gold Company Limited on 2 August 2000 to undertake underground mining for gold, silver, quartz and clay by traditional mining

Lake Palin, Black SUVs,NZ mines in National Parks House... what is a ..., "Crazy Response Unit,"

2010-05-04T09:42:00.005+10:00

OK Blogspot seems to be crapping outwhats with thcente silly Center alignment,no header...was I wrong in returning??OK so photobucket is blocked here,but center aligned???Lake Palin Welcome to what may turn out to be the worst single human-caused environmentaldisaster ever. (Unless you regard global warming in general as a single event.Semantics.)CosmicVarianceExxon Valdez was ...40 million

Anna Comnena, The God Forsakes Antony, Dangerous Thoughts, Constantine P Cavafy

2010-02-17T19:20:00.003+11:00

Anna ComnenaAnna Comnena in her Alexiad's prologue,laments her widowhood.Her soul is in a dizzy state. "And Iwet my eyes," , she tells us, with rivuletsof tears. . . Alas for the waves" in her life,"alas for the revolutions." Pain burns her"to her bones and her marrow and the cleaving of her soul."More like the truth, however, is that this ambitious womanknew only one mortal sorrow;she had only

Turquoise Mountain

2010-02-08T19:48:00.007+11:00

Turquoise Mountain"Three foreign kings have subdued India. one of those was Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni ... the second was Sultan Muizuddin the Ghorid... and for many years his slaves and descendants swayed the specter of these realms. I am the third"- Emperor Babur 1483-1530 born in Samarkand (uzbekistan?) buried in Kabul?1st Mughal EmperorJust read Rory Stewart "The Places Inbetween" c2004About

Vaclav Smil, Avata

2010-01-05T16:36:00.002+11:00

AvatarI hasnt planned to get the $2 bootleg , until I saw this kunstler reviewBy James Howard Kunstleron December 21, 2009 7:05 AM As the end-credits rolled for James Cameron's new movie, Avatar, the audience burst into rowdy applause. It seemed to me that they were applauding the sheer computerized dazzlement of the show -- but in the story itself they had just watched the US suffer a

Mattanza

2009-12-29T18:45:00.003+11:00

Mattanzathe Ancient Sicilian ritual of bluefin Tuna fishing. byTheresa Maggio 2000I cant reproduce the feel of this book, TM is startlingly open about her affairs, but some factoids are fascinating...Her grandparents from Santa Margharita Belioce, which features in "theLeopard" - cant get more Sicilian than that.thynnus lives 20-30 years. Since classical times, They were caught from Spain to

Volpine Suite continued

2009-12-06T20:22:00.003+11:00

Volpine Suite continuedJules Antoini published a review (rather tepid) saying "among the nine exhibitors ... 17 works by Gauguin": "Unless I am mistaken,M.Gauguin, too, is a Synthetiste"The excellent "Gauguin : a retrospective / edited by Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey 1987 is the source of most of these quotes... including Volpine contributors:Louis Roy b63, L. Faurte b68, Daniel de

Volpini Suite

2009-12-03T20:44:00.007+11:00

Volpini SuiteThe remnants of my library. after the great crackup, miraculously include several exhibition catalogs.Pierre Bonnard Observing Nature ........National Gallery Aus Canberra 2003Post Impressionism .................................Royal Acadamy London 1979Paris in the late 19th Century ...................National Gallery Australia Canberra 1997Not such a bad save... catalogues

Ampatuan

2009-11-29T19:05:00.002+11:00

AmpatuanOK the Ampatuan clan is a 'Muslim' clan , which makes sense in the ARMM (autonomous region Muslim Mindanao)I guess Mangudadatu clan is Muslim also... the press here seems reluctant to mention it [paralysed with fear?]The poor read no newspapers, and dont distinguish between Gangsters, Police,Political, and Random violence...I salvaged the remnants of my copy of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Collapse Feudalism

2009-11-26T10:47:00.003+11:00

Massacre in Philippineshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_hostages_killedAMPATUAN, Philippines – Officials found 11 more bodies Wednesday at the site of an attack on an election caravan in the south, bringing the death toll in the massacre to 57, and police said they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the president's administration.Six of the

Ondot Flood

2009-10-07T12:38:00.004+11:00

Ondoy Floodphotos atpicasaweb.google.com/gbrun77/Rp09www.flickr.com/photos/43181710@N07/________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________No sign or expectation of official help. The local guys rigged ropes and carried children on their

Food, locus coeruleus, Lovecraft

2009-09-06T14:38:00.003+10:00

Food...: It is true that grain production has expanded faster than population, from 249 kilograms per person in 1950 to 342 kg/p..in 1984. But since then, it has fallen to..320 kg/p[.. this year...U.S. corn yields an average of 10 tons per hectare, but U.S. wheat yields are under < href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=letters-sept-09">scientificamericanFertiliser...University of

Ono No Komachi, Venezuela ,when the levees broke:

2009-09-02T07:41:00.002+10:00

Ono No Komachi Though I go to youceaselessly along dream paths,the sum of those trystsis less than a single glimpsegranted in the waking world.yumeji ni waashi mo yasumezukayoedomoutsutsu ni hitomemishigoto wa arazuA lineby-line translation:in [my] dreams / along dream pathswithout resting my legs[I] go often [to you]in the real world, a single glimpseis different.kayoedomo is from kayou "to

Palm-Oil, hunger insurance, Smacking, Vincennes

2009-08-26T11:55:00.003+10:00

Palm Oil pressed cake extractNZ farmers getting sloppy seconds in rape of Indonesian forests1 million tons of palm-oil-seed cake imported into NZ in '08nb Its not Fonterrra that does the importing, 2008 was a drought on the East side of NZ.I do wonder if co-ops were involved?so farmers companies/ associations (?) bought the cake to feed cows (just cows?)Two points:1) Climate change says the

All your Base are belong, Rational Medicine

2009-08-21T16:17:00.001+10:00

All your Base are belong__________________________________________________http://lh3.ggpht.com/_6RT_99Bk0N4/So438l_-i5I/AAAAAAAAA8Y/-Ml3ebYj5qg/Aybabtu.pngall your base__________________________________________________OK it seems its NOT a lean year for tornados in USAStages of medicine• 1 magic• 2 Herbal eg aspirin• 3 Stimulus: ie provoke the bodies immune system with dead virus, oil, etc..

Montana, Point Blank, Dentistry

2009-08-20T11:55:00.004+10:00

Point BlankTired of life?Walker (Lee Marvin) made it to 63, so I guess I have to hang around for a couple of yearsOppenheimer, Wittgenstein, Hemmingway, checked out at 61, seems like a good time.blogsomecomicsreporter__________________________________________________Point Blank turned up, oddly, on a Chinese bootleg DVD with about 20 recent crap movies,, in a street market in Phase 1 Bagong

Corporations, Fonterra, Xe, Aid (not)

2009-08-18T12:27:00.003+10:00

Corporations are NOT corpulent persons...But a good place to start would be with the legal enshrinement in the late 1800s of a concept called "corporate personhood." In essence, this means a business institution has the same -- indeed, currently enhanced -- legal rights as individual American citizens....Thom Hartmann outlined this brilliantly in his under-appreciated book of a few years back, "

Afghanistan, Vietnam, Madagascar, Measles

2009-08-15T12:45:00.003+10:00

Afghanistan why?if we take the logic of the “no safe haven” doctrine to its ultimate conclusion, then we must be willing to occupy the entire world – anywhere al-Qaeda could possibly find a “safe haven.” Something tells me such a strategy isn’t going to be all that workable – although I’m glad no one suggested it to the Bush administration, because they would probably have jumped at the chance

Corruption, de Freitas, Vaillant

2009-08-06T08:33:00.002+10:00

corruption:In NZ: Samoan MP convicted of corruption:Seems he let some Thai men stuck in Samoa stay in his house. They did some tiling work as a thankyou.Somehow one guy didnt get a visa, got angry and called the NZ police.Meanwhile in England:"contributing to the democratic life of the country through trade union activities or canvassing for a political party" - could reduce the [visa] process

Cory, Hoki, Trees, Heartland

2009-08-01T11:44:00.005+10:00

Cory Aquino dead at 76 Colon cancerCorazon Cojuangco.... I guess its a relative who cut trees in Palawan...the Cojs richer even than the Aquinos?“The answer to the terrorism of the left and the right is not social and economic reform, but police and military action.”15,000-acre sugar plantation,1986 , people power, I wasnt in Manila, got there a few weeks later, got in the queue to walk through

Sierra UAV, Folate, Hoki Hokum

2009-07-23T15:16:00.005+10:00

Sierra UAVThe Science Instrumentation Environmental Remote Research Aircraft (SIERRA) is a medium class, medium duration UAS originally designed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center developed a partnership with NRL to evaluate the utility of this class of aircraft to the NASA earth science community. The relatively large payload (~100lbs) coupled

Solar Eclipse, Gas,

2009-07-22T10:45:00.004+10:00

Solar Eclipse and GodIn about 1.5 hours Shanghai will experience a solar eclipse... more people will see this eclipse than any other in historyRight now video feeds from Shanghai (UT 00:46)seem overloadedMy advice.. check the dappled light beneath a tree, the spots of light are actually pinhole images of the sun, you realise this as the moon takes a chunk out of the suns disc, and beneath the

Cole, Edward Bernays, Bulgaria

2009-07-18T14:23:00.003+10:00

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,

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

2009-07-15T11:06:00.002+10:00

Monterey Popjbhs1967____________________________________________________________________________________________________sea level heat sensitive mugs__________________________________________________lensing 1 galaxy, 4 images...__________________________________________________12,000 Kenyan roses resulted in 13,200 pounds of CO 2 ; the equivalent number grown in a Dutch hothouse accounted for

Electoral commision, Tamarins, Ruby

2009-07-13T08:05:00.002+10:00

Electoral commision has declared this is illegal humour_____________________________________________________________________________________________________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 thork University history professor Greg Grandin about the real reasons

Why Sex?, Agri-Energy Kitegen

2009-07-09T10:43:00.004+10:00

Why Sex?Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a snail common in fresh water lakes in New Zealand,..The snails exist in both sexual and asexual versions,..Researchers Jukka Jokela, of the Swiss FIAST, Mark Dybdahl,.. and Curtis Lively .. began observing several populations of these snails for ten years beginning in 1994...They found that while clones were plentiful at the beginning of the study, they became

Zelaya, the Folding, Migaloo

2009-07-06T10:07:00.004+10:00

the next day Anthony made it snow, which killed off half the crops—but it was a good day.Zelaya'According to the CID-Gallup Poll, Zelaya's job-approval rating dropping steadily from 2007 to just 38 percent in October, though a February poll showed it had rebounded to 53 percent.googlerecent media reports have repeated the claim that "Zelaya's support has sunk to 30%", which is loosely (very)

Kouchnerism, SOFA, , Manas

2009-07-04T09:24:00.004+10:00

Intervention as PR .....sans frontières...UN Resolution 43/131. There was something sneaky about the way the measure was implemented: it calls for intervention in case of ‘natural disasters and similar emergency situations’. Political turmoil turned out to be similar enough to storms or earthquakes, and in 1990 and 1991 the UN Security Council invoked 43/131 to open a ‘humanitarian corridor’ for

Afghanistan, peak CO2, Thai cooking

2009-07-02T09:01:00.002+10:00

Why are we in AfghanistanOK, I was called on the Iraq war- some redneck said where is your dated opposition. Well in 2003 I was in a huge march in SydneyBut resistance was so obvious that I merely quoted others (Billmon. Villiers, others now dead or silent)So lets get it clear: I oppose the Afghan war as an illegal invasion by USA.NZ, etc.1)This despite having inside knowledge: A close relative

Michael, Swarming, Gouled Hassan Dourad

2009-06-26T12:32:00.002+10:00

MichaelguardianFarahthe 80s truly over...__________________________________________SwarmingReviewing F. William Engdahl's "Full Spectrum Dominance:""Swarming" is a RAND Corporation term referring to "communication patterns and movement of" bees and other insects and applying it to military conflict by other means. It plays out through covert CIA actions to overthrow democratically elected

al-Shabab, Ipilimumab, XBD173

2009-06-20T16:06:00.004+10:00

al-Shabab back in MogadishuPolice chief, Security minister & former Ambassador to Ethiopia killed in 2 daysI dont know if ICU promotes schools for girls, or midwife training - essential features of any state. I will ask my Somali friends, when I get to know them a little better. ...I distrust USA backed regimes, such as Ethiopia, and ARPCT.....Adan Hashi Ayro was described in USA as ElQaida,

Iran, McChrystal, Flint

2009-06-18T09:23:00.004+10:00

Iranlots of spooky rumours ... But:An independent, objective poll was conducted in Iran by American pollsters prior to the election. The pollsters, Ken Ballen of the nonprofit Center for Public Opinion and Patrick Doherty of the nonprofit New America Foundation....The poll results, the only real information we have at this time, indicate that the election results reflect the will of the Iranian

N-Acetyl-Cysteine, Humpback Whales

2009-06-15T17:24:00.002+10:00

NACCancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce. ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2008) — sciencedailyI used to take NAC for protection

Peak Food , Alan Garcia, Nitrogenase

2009-06-14T08:56:00.003+10:00

Peak FoodOne of the recent economic behaviors an economy is never supposed to exhibit is the way the prices of food and fuel ...began a rapid exponential divergence from their prior stable level for the 6 years from 2002 to 2008. They increased at ~25%/yr, until the world economy collapsed. They seemed to be following some altogether new “law of unlimited price” instead of the usual “law of

Senseless Sentencing, GRB 090423, Titikowaru

2009-06-12T15:48:00.005+10:00

Senseless SentencingKatherine Ryan's interview with Jennifer Walsh: JW said there is no connection between crime and economics -this absurdity should have been caught - JW then said something about low crime states being 'rural'.JW said 'a few' then said 7000 people had these 25yr sentences. KR asked about non-violent offences being included, JW said something like 'absolutely not' then