Kudo's. I eat very very little meat. My uncle is 88 and farmed, well, I can at his house. But there is just this total disconnect. When I was running a homeless shelter farm, the guys couldn't believe that I was going to take in the 13 year old cow, but we only had forage for two. I enjoyed cooking it, even though I did not eat it (I am not a total dickwad - we took the bulk of it into town for the free food pantry).
If you are going to eat meat, I really think that you should be killing some of it yourself. That is the reality.
They are truly dickwads with guns anyone who points a gun over the internet to kill some semi penned animal.
I have and use urpmi. I like the PLF stuff for mplayer, etc.
I always try urpmi first, but according to EPS - Mandrake - Mandriva chooses not to cooperate with them for placement.
And there is also a conflict at times versus Mandriva's print set up app and the http://localhost:631 of cups for installations.
Side note - Mandriva's bit torrent in Canada slower than molasses. They really need to get some more bandwidth over here from somebody. It is pathetic.
The way I understand it is the EPS software is reponsible for a lot of cups. I bought the.targz of their single computer license to etry to get a recalcitrant Brother laser printer to behave better.
It is rpm dependency hell to get it installed. EPS says that Mandrake does not set it up the way they want it to.
So, the new 10.2 Mandrake being so abysmally slow via bit torrent - I will be starting out to use Kubuntu. Much faster via Bit torrent here in Canada.
Maybe/. should ask someone from EPS software and maybe someone from Epson to talk about the next things in Linux printing.
Speaking of cups. There is a company sells software that spins the rest down as cups. EPS print pro. I bought a single computer version to try and get a printer to work better.
Mandrake chooses to be so different that it is an absolutely rpm dependency hell to install - I gave up. I needed to go with the rpm -e -nodep or something option.
This is exactly the things that need to be standardized. The people who are throwing large amounts of code into Linux need to be able to sell their.tgz to willing Linux users of all distro flavors.
BTW - bittorrent for Mandrake 10.2 way slower than ever before. Kubuntu maybe for me.
I am sick to death of rpm hell, giving up and then having to go with prefix-/usr/local with.tgz
Very difficult to get EPS (I bought it) onto Mandrake. Cups very difficult to not install. Dependency hell to unistall one dependency of Cups - tied into everything. So - back to rpm and forget dependencies. EPS has some drivers for some printers that their freeware cups does not have.
Also, on two different computers, and on both distro 10.0 and 10.1 the gui find does not work for me. I put it up as a question twice (I belong to Mandrake club) and no reply except to check locate (yes locate works well for me in a console).
I have people from all over the world in my L'Arche house. Presently people are from Edinburgh, Melbourne, Vancouver via Phillipines, and South Korea). I do attempt to subvert the Windows paradigm, Mandrake comes close, but more attention to detail to standardize against other distro's for software that you pay for and a functioning gui for find is what I need more than KDE 3.3.
Also a couple hundred meg of software updates within a couple of months is a little ridiculous. I have a laptop hard drive on the p-4 U-buddy that is only 10 GB. I need to keep/usr below two gig.
I hope it doesn't suck as much as it sounds. I would really like to see a 10.11 or else a rock solid 10.2 with the option of staying with the present KDE if the bloat of KDE continues and/or it slows things down, I still use a 350 mhz puter a lot.
The predicted largest warming globally is forecast for the arctic and antarctic regions. So, if this preliminary model is true, that might have a semi positive effect on the very fast paced arctic warming that is occuring.
Sidebar, talking about greenhouse gases, what about all the leakage of fluorine in the Uranium hexafluoride in the gaseous diffusion concentration to get 235 percentatges boosted in the fuel.
The wind has to be part of the solution. Reducing usage is another part.
YMMV 0 for one for me. Voltage regulater, 12 weeks w/out down time (had to use my personal puter for usage via the entire Residential Care facility lot of work getting all of my personal data off and burned to cd's). Yeah, I really liked my 733 mhz VIA even though it was hell to get started - well, I finally compiled a linux kernel (a bit harder than a buildworld in FreeBSD). I really did like it though, it really ran smooth with never a hiccup until the fan started making noise - and I took it in.
But, I can live with the 2.4 mhz P-4 that replaced it with more memory and a bigger hard drive. ECS does not seem to have anything more to do with C-3.
Actually my friend Sam Day, ex editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was involed in the writing up of several articles about South Africa's bombs.
It was no secret about the S.A and Israeli collusion on it, and was very probable US/ UK aid to Israel which went to SA.
Side note, the US has sold to Israel a sub which is nuclear weapon capable for cruise missiles - so much for the US and the NPT treaty. More recently Germany also sold a nuclear capable sub via cruise missiles to Israel also. Not sure if it has been delivered yet though.
I really loved the Chequ Forest up by Ashland, the Black Cat vegetarian cafe in Ashland, and the jail was not that bad a place compared to many. The Ashland deputies win my vote for the best people to take you into custody in my experience.
25 years of glorious civil disobedience up at ELF, and it is decommisioned. It only took us 10 years up in the Grand Forks missile silo fields to get those nukes removed, but of course, they left a few fields in Minot, Malmstrom, and Colorado-Nebraska.
Well, I guess it is all off to Alliant technology (antipersonell mines and depleted uranium weapons) in Minneapolis land now where many arrests do not make it to court and some people have even been found innocent by juries.
Nice news.
Makes you wonder about what is up with HAARP in Alaska though.
Yup, you can just go and take all of that waste depleted uranium and just drop it on Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Heck, you can even use military waste stream depleted uranium (probably from subs) with Americium, Neptunium and Plutonium mixed in and get rid of that too. (Although the UN studies on civilian populations in Afghanistan found no transuranics utilizied in the bunker busters there, the transuranics were found in nine year old piss of GWI veterans in studies from Canada and England),
Over 600 tonnes of DU so far utilized so far, 999,400 tonnes to go.
In the Caribbean, people are starting to set up solar photovoltaics and 12 v car batteries to run cell phones. If someone in the semi isolated village sets it up, then others can pay them to use the cell phone for a call. Eventually it pays for itself. And maybe hook it up to a washing machine.
This is happening in Kenya also.
Photovoltaics are finally at that breakeven point that getting them in and in use will spur much more usage.
And the great thing about photovoltaics is that once you go that route, you are constantly lookng at keeping your wattage down. "Vampire" appliances and other power hungry items are deprecated in favor of lower wattage and 12 and 5 volt dc items.
Read article.
In Winnipeg, CANADA, many many stores do not accept $100 Canadian bills. Some might take a $100 UD$, but, hey, no obligation to.
Anyway, US laws, so far thank God, are not enforced in Canada.
This is one Yank from Iowa who really never wants to go back to the US.
why use gphoto when you can use mc to transfer.
ImageMagick and Perl.
Besides, some things, like GTK-gallery use glib and gtk+2 2.4 Looks to be awhile before that gets into Mandrake. Whole slew of dependencies.
Update.png stuff for security
I have such a difficult time getting into the US at times it isn't even funny. I crossed once with my car, one bag, and a 20 year old fishing tackle box missing the plastice innards and containing 12 years of auto maintenace receipts.
I was treated like a scum bag the whole entire time. I did not mind the intense look over of my car, that is acceptable, but opening my mail to the IRS and looking at my tax form, and holding a photographic negative on the flat side putting fingerprints onto the negative of a woman I loved really pissed me off.
Finally they barked at me that I could get out of the locked room, still treating me like I was a meth dealer or something.
So I said to "Say hello to A and B." 90 seconds later those two six footers wheeled around to me and barked at me why I said that, what did i mean by that. I retiterated that I had told them what my visa to work in Canada was for, intentional community living with the mentally challenged. I said that I had memorized the home phone number of A and B as I daily called that number for someone I took care of in my house. A and B being border guards on the Canadian and US sides respectively. Supervisor on the US side actually. They said I could go real quick then.
I can name 5 other times I have been rudely treated by US border guards. They are equally rude to Canadians and Germans I have seen.
I always have a very easy time getting into Canada, even with a carloard of my stuff. Very professional.
US border agents are ignorant and rude. To expect anything more out of privatized TSA hacks is nonsensical.
I am not looking forward to my next border crossing for a bi-national leadership conference to be held in Washington state.
The federation of intentional communities that I am in (over 120 communities in 30 countries) has decided that no more International Federation meetings will be held in the US due to visa difficulties.
Very dark days indeed in the US. This US citizen is very happy to be working and paying taxes to Canada.
It is the dull stuff that is easiest implemented. And reduction is the best way of adding more energy to the pie.
Fluorescent incandescents.
Wind power will not save us, and some birds will die, but from Oklahoma to Saskatchewan, quite cost effective means of supplementing. Yeah, the wind doesn't always blow, but then so Manitoba lost $436 million last year due to low water levels (hydro), the rains do returns as does the wind.
As far as solar, one of the easiest and most effective routes is for heating water. This should have happened in Arizona, southern California, etc. years ago. No, you don't have to do it all by solar, but you require a much smaller water heater that is used less often.
My friends off the grid via photovoltaics (over 10 years now) designed their houses - cabins to need as little electricity as possible. However photovolatiacs is tailor made to topping off banks of 12 volt batteries in third world countries for cell phones, computers, refrigerator (dc refrigerator). That is more where technology adding in a tiny bit more efficiency and lowering cost to manufacture could really have a big input.
You still have to store the hydrogen for fuel cells.
And you still have to figure out what you are going to run your tractors on and the energy sources for the fertilizer (lots of electricity to take N out of the air), farming chemicals, etc.
It isn't the flashy things that are going to do it. It is a lot of people doing dull things.
Amen. When you get right down to it, they have very little difference between them in the way they speak. And the corporations do not have much to fear from either of them. So Kerry might ameliorate some of the corporate rapaciousness.
There are war crimes being committed in Iraq - specifically the usage of depleted Uranium in Iraq and other countries. It is in aniti-tank ammo,bunker buster bombs and recently also added to those little bundles of joy called cluster bombs. This depleted Uranium is contaminated with trans-uranics since it comes from military and not commercial waste stream fuel.
Is slightly fewer war crimes and not as egregious raping of the environment all that important?
I may be a us citizen, but I am very, very happy to be living in Canada.
About the only difference I can relate to after having sheltered homeless veterans for six years back in the 1980's (after I left the lab job) is that I believe that Kerry will take better care of the walking wounded that come back home after the nightmare that is present day Iraq. I'll be voting via mail in Iowa, I don't think I will vote for either.
That's the point. The pentagon lied for about 10 years and stated that all the DU came from commercial stream.
It didn't. It has transuranics and fissile products from probably submarine fuel rods. Submarine fuel rods have a higher percentage of Ur235 and are kept in for much longer periods.
The point is that these men are guinea pigs again and the Pentagon lies at every turn.
Mass spectroscopy does not lie.
well, if you have transuranics in your urine, you have transuranics in your sperm. Radiation around gametes is a cause of mutation.
Go google Dr. Helen Caldicott. She did a fund raiser for a Senator I helped elect in 1984. Google Rosalie Bertell. She wrote the book on low level doses.
military waste stream DU that contains transuranics
And, one micron particles that are easily ingested
It contains transuranics. This has been confirmed by mass spectroscopic studies in urine of Gulf War one solidiers years after leaving the theatre.
Before you label me a fear monger - why don't you go visit that pediatric oncology ward in Basra. If not there, go to Vieuqes or talk to oncologists in Okinawa.
It is ok to flog this horse one more time. I have been reading about it for 30 years.
But there have been new atomic veterans and civilians for the last twenty years due to the usage of military stream (contaminanted with Americium, Technicium, Neptunium and various isotopes of Plutonium) depleted Uranium (238) anti-tank ordinance. Tonnes and tonnes onto western states. Vieques Island and parts of Okinawa severely contaminated with Ur238 that has a half life of 4 plus billion years.
Yes, veterans, like the 15 homeless Korean war vets I lived with for 3 1/2 years and the two to five mentally ill Vietnam war vets I also lived with during that time.
The chemists always chuckled at the physcicists at Los Alamos whenever they stuck a metal shovel into uranium. An intense fire starts. When depleted Uranium ordinance strikes metal, it ignites so hot that 90+% can oxidize to one micron particles. These exhibit brownian motion - they do a devils dance in the atmosphere for years, decades in arid environments, and can return as aerosol with a whisper of the wind.
One micron particles of DU 238 ingested give off alpha. That size is almost tailor made for efficacy. This resulted in a spike of specific leukemias and kidney cancers in Basra (Southern Iraq) from 1996 on. I have 6 (5 us and one Mennonite Canadian) friends who saw that cancer ward from 1996 to 2002, and two in June 2003. All came back changed from viewing that pediatric oncology ward.
Of course, contrary to Pentagon statements in the early 1990's, military instead of commercial Ur238 was used. Plutonium and Neptunium are almost as toxic as botulism toxin. The tie ins between the chemical toxicities and the radioactive mutagenic activity probably has some very strong synergistic effects. Unknown however, it hasn't been studied much.
It hasn't been studied much in veterans is the case again. There were some mass spec studies done in Canada and Italy on the first Gulf war veterans. That is how the military waste stream was identified, they were not only pissing DU, but also transuranics two years after leaving the theatre.
For Vietnam war vets - Agent orange and all dibenzofuranes and their ilk have an affinity for DNA (especially after hitting the cytochrome P-450 enzyme chain - arene oxides) and are transmitted via sperm into the next generation. If these new vets are pissing DU it is also going into their sperm.
No, DU is not the entire answer to Gulf War syndrome. Adrenaline and stress, the touch of nerve gases that went up from bombed chemical arsenals, the anthrax vaccine, some of the insects that bit soldiers and the parasite they vector, etc., etc., all played a factor in Gulf War Syndrome. But DU explains many many symptoms that in retrospect were not exhibited by say, non atomic WWII vets.
Birth defects and still borns are way way up in all people exposed to DU, including males vets.
Just as Agent Orange was dismissed for years, and not studied in the US (and the de facto isolation of the nmost promising studies by the isolation of Vietnam) until the later 1990's - depleted Uranium is not being studied seriously here.
No one else is using DU yet, just the US and UK (and Israel), and now it is probably being added to the new bunker buster bombs (five letters from the Senate Finance chair to me state that the Pentagon hasn't gotten back to him yet whether DU is in the bunker buster bombs). Russia is all set to start bringing on line DU antitank ordinance for sale to any and all however, not quite yet - give them six months to start competing with Alliant Technology.
No, we have a new generation of atomic vets starting up. How many more?
You google it, Nukewatch is a good place to start.
Easiest way into Canada is via L'Arche, living and working with mentally disabled individuals. You get in on a "voluntary charitable - religous" visa. No HRDC hoops, hurdles or requirements. And no - the US government doesn't have anything to do about approving you.
Processing fees are waived for voluntary charitable visas also
And best of all, you do not pay taxes to Washington DC.
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Yeah, The First Circle is one of my favourite all time novels.
We don't drown in the ocean, we drown in the puddle.
Peace,
Mark
Kudo's. I eat very very little meat. My uncle is 88 and farmed, well, I can at his house. But there is just this total disconnect. When I was running a homeless shelter farm, the guys couldn't believe that I was going to take in the 13 year old cow, but we only had forage for two. I enjoyed cooking it, even though I did not eat it (I am not a total dickwad - we took the bulk of it into town for the free food pantry).
If you are going to eat meat, I really think that you should be killing some of it yourself. That is the reality.
They are truly dickwads with guns anyone who points a gun over the internet to kill some semi penned animal.
Peace,
I have and use urpmi. I like the PLF stuff for mplayer, etc.
I always try urpmi first, but according to EPS - Mandrake - Mandriva chooses not to cooperate with them for placement.
And there is also a conflict at times versus Mandriva's print set up app and the http://localhost:631 of cups for installations.
Side note - Mandriva's bit torrent in Canada slower than molasses. They really need to get some more bandwidth over here from somebody. It is pathetic.
The way I understand it is the EPS software is reponsible for a lot of cups. I bought the .targz of their single computer license to etry to get a recalcitrant Brother laser printer to behave better .
/. should ask someone from EPS software and maybe someone from Epson to talk about the next things in Linux printing.
It is rpm dependency hell to get it installed. EPS says that Mandrake does not set it up the way they want it to.
So, the new 10.2 Mandrake being so abysmally slow via bit torrent - I will be starting out to use Kubuntu. Much faster via Bit torrent here in Canada.
Maybe
Peace,
Mark
Speaking of cups. There is a company sells software that spins the rest down as cups. EPS print pro. I bought a single computer version to try and get a printer to work better.
.tgz to willing Linux users of all distro flavors.
.tgz
Mandrake chooses to be so different that it is an absolutely rpm dependency hell to install - I gave up. I needed to go with the rpm -e -nodep or something option.
This is exactly the things that need to be standardized. The people who are throwing large amounts of code into Linux need to be able to sell their
BTW - bittorrent for Mandrake 10.2 way slower than ever before. Kubuntu maybe for me.
I am sick to death of rpm hell, giving up and then having to go with prefix-/usr/local with
Peace
Mark
Very difficult to get EPS (I bought it) onto Mandrake. Cups very difficult to not install. Dependency hell to unistall one dependency of Cups - tied into everything. So - back to rpm and forget dependencies. EPS has some drivers for some printers that their freeware cups does not have.
/usr below two gig.
/or it slows things down, I still use a 350 mhz puter a lot.
Also, on two different computers, and on both distro 10.0 and 10.1 the gui find does not work for me. I put it up as a question twice (I belong to Mandrake club) and no reply except to check locate (yes locate works well for me in a console).
I have people from all over the world in my L'Arche house. Presently people are from Edinburgh, Melbourne, Vancouver via Phillipines, and South Korea). I do attempt to subvert the Windows paradigm, Mandrake comes close, but more attention to detail to standardize against other distro's for software that you pay for and a functioning gui for find is what I need more than KDE 3.3.
Also a couple hundred meg of software updates within a couple of months is a little ridiculous. I have a laptop hard drive on the p-4 U-buddy that is only 10 GB. I need to keep
I hope it doesn't suck as much as it sounds. I would really like to see a 10.11 or else a rock solid 10.2 with the option of staying with the present KDE if the bloat of KDE continues and
Peace
A child born in Cuba has a better chance of making it to two years of age than a child born in the United States of America.
Why don't the yanks do something about that, other than trying to subvert another foreign government?
Thank God this us citizen is living in Canada. 15% of the US 's health care costs gets eaten up in paperwork!
The predicted largest warming globally is forecast for the arctic and antarctic regions. So, if this preliminary model is true, that might have a semi positive effect on the very fast paced arctic warming that is occuring.
Sidebar, talking about greenhouse gases, what about all the leakage of fluorine in the Uranium hexafluoride in the gaseous diffusion concentration to get 235 percentatges boosted in the fuel.
The wind has to be part of the solution. Reducing usage is another part.
Shalom,
YMMV
0 for one for me. Voltage regulater, 12 weeks w/out down time (had to use my personal puter for usage via the entire Residential Care facility lot of work getting all of my personal data off and burned to cd's). Yeah, I really liked my 733 mhz VIA even though it was hell to get started - well, I finally compiled a linux kernel (a bit harder than a buildworld in FreeBSD). I really did like it though, it really ran smooth with never a hiccup until the fan started making noise - and I took it in.
But, I can live with the 2.4 mhz P-4 that replaced it with more memory and a bigger hard drive. ECS does not seem to have anything more to do with C-3.
YMMV
Actually my friend Sam Day, ex editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was involed in the writing up of several articles about South Africa's bombs.
It was no secret about the S.A and Israeli collusion on it, and was very probable US/ UK aid to Israel which went to SA.
Side note, the US has sold to Israel a sub which is nuclear weapon capable for cruise missiles - so much for the US and the NPT treaty. More recently Germany also sold a nuclear capable sub via cruise missiles to Israel also. Not sure if it has been delivered yet though.
Shalom,
I really loved the Chequ Forest up by Ashland, the Black Cat vegetarian cafe in Ashland, and the jail was not that bad a place compared to many. The Ashland deputies win my vote for the best people to take you into custody in my experience.
25 years of glorious civil disobedience up at ELF, and it is decommisioned. It only took us 10 years up in the Grand Forks missile silo fields to get those nukes removed, but of course, they left a few fields in Minot, Malmstrom, and Colorado-Nebraska.
Well, I guess it is all off to Alliant technology (antipersonell mines and depleted uranium weapons) in Minneapolis land now where many arrests do not make it to court and some people have even been found innocent by juries.
Nice news.
Makes you wonder about what is up with HAARP in Alaska though.
Shalom,
Yup, you can just go and take all of that waste depleted uranium and just drop it on Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Heck, you can even use military waste stream depleted uranium (probably from subs) with Americium, Neptunium and Plutonium mixed in and get rid of that too. (Although the UN studies on civilian populations in Afghanistan found no transuranics utilizied in the bunker busters there, the transuranics were found in nine year old piss of GWI veterans in studies from Canada and England),
Over 600 tonnes of DU so far utilized so far, 999,400 tonnes to go.
Shalom,
Mark
In the Caribbean, people are starting to set up solar photovoltaics and 12 v car batteries to run cell phones. If someone in the semi isolated village sets it up, then others can pay them to use the cell phone for a call. Eventually it pays for itself. And maybe hook it up to a washing machine.
This is happening in Kenya also.
Photovoltaics are finally at that breakeven point that getting them in and in use will spur much more usage.
And the great thing about photovoltaics is that once you go that route, you are constantly lookng at keeping your wattage down. "Vampire" appliances and other power hungry items are deprecated in favor of lower wattage and 12 and 5 volt dc items.
Peace, Mark
Read article. In Winnipeg, CANADA, many many stores do not accept $100 Canadian bills. Some might take a $100 UD$, but, hey, no obligation to. Anyway, US laws, so far thank God, are not enforced in Canada. This is one Yank from Iowa who really never wants to go back to the US.
why use gphoto when you can use mc to transfer. ImageMagick and Perl. Besides, some things, like GTK-gallery use glib and gtk+2 2.4 Looks to be awhile before that gets into Mandrake. Whole slew of dependencies. Update .png stuff for security
And all the bash scripts that you can name with funny ha ha names to input, mogrigfy out of .jpg, etc.
Amen!
I have such a difficult time getting into the US at times it isn't even funny. I crossed once with my car, one bag, and a 20 year old fishing tackle box missing the plastice innards and containing 12 years of auto maintenace receipts.
I was treated like a scum bag the whole entire time. I did not mind the intense look over of my car, that is acceptable, but opening my mail to the IRS and looking at my tax form, and holding a photographic negative on the flat side putting fingerprints onto the negative of a woman I loved really pissed me off.
Finally they barked at me that I could get out of the locked room, still treating me like I was a meth dealer or something.
So I said to "Say hello to A and B." 90 seconds later those two six footers wheeled around to me and barked at me why I said that, what did i mean by that. I retiterated that I had told them what my visa to work in Canada was for, intentional community living with the mentally challenged. I said that I had memorized the home phone number of A and B as I daily called that number for someone I took care of in my house. A and B being border guards on the Canadian and US sides respectively. Supervisor on the US side actually. They said I could go real quick then.
I can name 5 other times I have been rudely treated by US border guards. They are equally rude to Canadians and Germans I have seen.
I always have a very easy time getting into Canada, even with a carloard of my stuff. Very professional.
US border agents are ignorant and rude. To expect anything more out of privatized TSA hacks is nonsensical.
I am not looking forward to my next border crossing for a bi-national leadership conference to be held in Washington state.
The federation of intentional communities that I am in (over 120 communities in 30 countries) has decided that no more International Federation meetings will be held in the US due to visa difficulties.
Very dark days indeed in the US. This US citizen is very happy to be working and paying taxes to Canada.
Hate to be dullsville but,
It is the dull stuff that is easiest implemented. And reduction is the best way of adding more energy to the pie.
Fluorescent incandescents.
Wind power will not save us, and some birds will die, but from Oklahoma to Saskatchewan, quite cost effective means of supplementing. Yeah, the wind doesn't always blow, but then so Manitoba lost $436 million last year due to low water levels (hydro), the rains do returns as does the wind.
As far as solar, one of the easiest and most effective routes is for heating water. This should have happened in Arizona, southern California, etc. years ago. No, you don't have to do it all by solar, but you require a much smaller water heater that is used less often.
My friends off the grid via photovoltaics (over 10 years now) designed their houses - cabins to need as little electricity as possible. However photovolatiacs is tailor made to topping off banks of 12 volt batteries in third world countries for cell phones, computers, refrigerator (dc refrigerator). That is more where technology adding in a tiny bit more efficiency and lowering cost to manufacture could really have a big input.
You still have to store the hydrogen for fuel cells.
And you still have to figure out what you are going to run your tractors on and the energy sources for the fertilizer (lots of electricity to take N out of the air), farming chemicals, etc.
It isn't the flashy things that are going to do it. It is a lot of people doing dull things.
shalom,
mark
Amen. When you get right down to it, they have very little difference between them in the way they speak. And the corporations do not have much to fear from either of them. So Kerry might ameliorate some of the corporate rapaciousness.
There are war crimes being committed in Iraq - specifically the usage of depleted Uranium in Iraq and other countries. It is in aniti-tank ammo,bunker buster bombs and recently also added to those little bundles of joy called cluster bombs. This depleted Uranium is contaminated with trans-uranics since it comes from military and not commercial waste stream fuel.
Is slightly fewer war crimes and not as egregious raping of the environment all that important?
I may be a us citizen, but I am very, very happy to be living in Canada.
About the only difference I can relate to after having sheltered homeless veterans for six years back in the 1980's (after I left the lab job) is that I believe that Kerry will take better care of the walking wounded that come back home after the nightmare that is present day Iraq. I'll be voting via mail in Iowa, I don't think I will vote for either.
Shalom
Hallelujah! Eats! Shoots! Leaves!
That's the point. The pentagon lied for about 10 years and stated that all the DU came from commercial stream. It didn't. It has transuranics and fissile products from probably submarine fuel rods. Submarine fuel rods have a higher percentage of Ur235 and are kept in for much longer periods. The point is that these men are guinea pigs again and the Pentagon lies at every turn. Mass spectroscopy does not lie.
well, if you have transuranics in your urine, you have transuranics in your sperm. Radiation around gametes is a cause of mutation. Go google Dr. Helen Caldicott. She did a fund raiser for a Senator I helped elect in 1984. Google Rosalie Bertell. She wrote the book on low level doses.
military waste stream DU that contains transuranics And, one micron particles that are easily ingested It contains transuranics. This has been confirmed by mass spectroscopic studies in urine of Gulf War one solidiers years after leaving the theatre. Before you label me a fear monger - why don't you go visit that pediatric oncology ward in Basra. If not there, go to Vieuqes or talk to oncologists in Okinawa.
It is ok to flog this horse one more time. I have been reading about it for 30 years.
But there have been new atomic veterans and civilians for the last twenty years due to the usage of military stream (contaminanted with Americium, Technicium, Neptunium and various isotopes of Plutonium) depleted Uranium (238) anti-tank ordinance. Tonnes and tonnes onto western states. Vieques Island and parts of Okinawa severely contaminated with Ur238 that has a half life of 4 plus billion years.
Yes, veterans, like the 15 homeless Korean war vets I lived with for 3 1/2 years and the two to five mentally ill Vietnam war vets I also lived with during that time.
The chemists always chuckled at the physcicists at Los Alamos whenever they stuck a metal shovel into uranium. An intense fire starts. When depleted Uranium ordinance strikes metal, it ignites so hot that 90+% can oxidize to one micron particles. These exhibit brownian motion - they do a devils dance in the atmosphere for years, decades in arid environments, and can return as aerosol with a whisper of the wind.
One micron particles of DU 238 ingested give off alpha. That size is almost tailor made for efficacy. This resulted in a spike of specific leukemias and kidney cancers in Basra (Southern Iraq) from 1996 on. I have 6 (5 us and one Mennonite Canadian) friends who saw that cancer ward from 1996 to 2002, and two in June 2003. All came back changed from viewing that pediatric oncology ward.
Of course, contrary to Pentagon statements in the early 1990's, military instead of commercial Ur238 was used. Plutonium and Neptunium are almost as toxic as botulism toxin. The tie ins between the chemical toxicities and the radioactive mutagenic activity probably has some very strong synergistic effects. Unknown however, it hasn't been studied much.
It hasn't been studied much in veterans is the case again. There were some mass spec studies done in Canada and Italy on the first Gulf war veterans. That is how the military waste stream was identified, they were not only pissing DU, but also transuranics two years after leaving the theatre.
For Vietnam war vets - Agent orange and all dibenzofuranes and their ilk have an affinity for DNA (especially after hitting the cytochrome P-450 enzyme chain - arene oxides) and are transmitted via sperm into the next generation. If these new vets are pissing DU it is also going into their sperm.
No, DU is not the entire answer to Gulf War syndrome. Adrenaline and stress, the touch of nerve gases that went up from bombed chemical arsenals, the anthrax vaccine, some of the insects that bit soldiers and the parasite they vector, etc., etc., all played a factor in Gulf War Syndrome. But DU explains many many symptoms that in retrospect were not exhibited by say, non atomic WWII vets.
Birth defects and still borns are way way up in all people exposed to DU, including males vets.
Just as Agent Orange was dismissed for years, and not studied in the US (and the de facto isolation of the nmost promising studies by the isolation of Vietnam) until the later 1990's - depleted Uranium is not being studied seriously here.
No one else is using DU yet, just the US and UK (and Israel), and now it is probably being added to the new bunker buster bombs (five letters from the Senate Finance chair to me state that the Pentagon hasn't gotten back to him yet whether DU is in the bunker buster bombs). Russia is all set to start bringing on line DU antitank ordinance for sale to any and all however, not quite yet - give them six months to start competing with Alliant Technology.
No, we have a new generation of atomic vets starting up. How many more?
You google it, Nukewatch is a good place to start.
Shalom,
Mark
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