Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
*A LITTLE*? If your name isn't Running Deer I don't want to hear you whining about immigration... besides, they said the same thing about Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews. Old whine in a new bottle. Jason Katie wrote: sounds a little aryan/survivalist/militant to me. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Marylynn Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:46 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
So Marylynn, if this was the position taken before european immigration to the western hemisphere, where would you be today? Marylynn Schmidt wrote: Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
sounds downright racist to me. They are not Western; they are of Aztlan... Just look at the ethnic composition of Mexicans. Other than a small upper class of pure European blood, the vast majority of Mexicans are either Amerindian or Mestizos (mostly Amerindian with a few drops of Spaniard, or African, blood). In short, they are not European. They are Asiatic... Jason Katie wrote: sounds a little aryan/survivalist/militant to me. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Marylynn Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:46 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
Actually, one could argue convincingly that it's a Republican (or whatever they are now) movement - our balance of trade deficit has balloned up Bush to the highest levels ever and we're borrowing more abroad than ever. DHAJOGLO wrote: Hey, at least its a bipartisan movement towards, what was it?, liberal internationalism. What would be the opposite? Conservative Isolationism? I don't think China would allow us to become isolationists since we're they're number one customer! hahaha. Man, I feel like I'm starting to sound like Weaver! Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] qulity tests help please
Hi Golan; Thanks for the kind words. I don't have any data of my own yet on the limits with water in methanol, because I have not yet done the experiments to find those limits. So far I just do everything possible to eliminate water. I think others have said you should have less than 1 or 2% water. To dry the methanol you could use 3A molecular seives. You have to regenerate the seives with heat or heat and vacuum each time they adsorb the water. I am not sure if the castor oil method works for methanol but I am about to test that. Check on journet to forever for other ideas on drying alcohol. I understand corn woks for ethanol. Maybe it works for methanol too? I can use my reactor to double or triple vacuum distill my recovered methanol and get pretty high purity but the process is wasteful of energy and time and I don't want to get into that. Cheers Joe Golan Shmuel wrote: hi Joe i salute u for your beautiful site brilliant to your knowledge does methanol purity has standard or when does it starts to be problem how much (%)water? how u get the water out if u have to much with out getting parts of u all around? blessings Golan On 27/09/06, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Golan; I got the hydrometer for $CDN 15.00 from a lab supply yes. If you do the same calibration method as me you can do it at any termperature. Just make sure the temperature( of the liquids!) is known and is not changing. Now the temps are dropping and my lab temperature is about 20 so I may make another chart soon too. Cheers. Joe Golan Shmuel wrote: thanks Joe u r living in Paradise it was 40c today that's the beginning of the atum i can try at night thow 27c if i will wait aweek or two and all that if i can get that hydrometer of yours laboratory's supply? is it expensive? all the best Golan On 26/09/06, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Golan; You can use a hydrometer in the range of 0.7 to 0.9 to measure the specific gravity of your methanol. The hydrometers are usually calibrated for 16 degrees C though so measuring at room temperature will result in a lower reading. What I did was get some very pure methanol and some water and let them sit at the ambient temperature and then acurrately measure small amounts of water and add to a measured amont of methanol. Take the readings and make a graph to show the percentage water ( volume /volume) at the temperature you are working at. Then you can use the hydrometer as a gauge of your water content. This may not be perfectly accurate but will be good enough to tell you if your methanol is contaminated. If you have a temperature close to 23 degrees you can use my data, it is here: http://www.nonprofitfuel.ca/Reactor.html Best regards. Joe Golan Shmuel wrote: hi tom Causes of soap: 1. Water in oil/chemicals used 2.Too much caustic 3. Glycerine contamination - Is youroil dry/your chemicals pure? - Careful titration, calculations, measurement of caustic - Do you allow the glycerine mix to settle out for 8 hrs? since my caustic is 99% pure at list day say so and i let the glycerin mix to settle for 24-48 hrs. i titrated every batch at list twice, got good scale. that lives us with water in oil or in methanol i let the oil to settle for at list week or two before processing and titration values around 1 it may be methanol any idea how to check methanol for water?? thanks alot Golan - Original Message - From: Golan Shmuel To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:51 PM Subject: [Biofuel] qulity tests help please hi any explanation for passing methanol tests perfectly but steal having third layer 3-4 mm in the wash tests happened to me in 3 last batch's thanks Golan ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
Mike, I just thought it was funny that the author actually indicted a few republicans rather than just try to blame the the whole thing on the bleeding heart lets-give-the-country-away-to-brown-people liberals! On Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:17 AM, Mike Weaver wrote: Actually, one could argue convincingly that it's a Republican (or whatever they are now) movement - our balance of trade deficit has balloned up Bush to the highest levels ever and we're borrowing more abroad than ever. DHAJOGLO wrote: Hey, at least its a bipartisan movement towards, what was it?, liberal internationalism. What would be the opposite? Conservative Isolationism? I don't think China would allow us to become isolationists since we're they're number one customer! hahaha. Man, I feel like I'm starting to sound like Weaver! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
Sorry .. I didn't post a position. I found the article INTERESTING!! If you truly want to know what I think about the article I would have to tell you that something like that is written to cause a reaction, not thought. My guess is that those who wrote and published it would not want you to stop and think about it.. they would want you to react in the way they are trying to lead you .. strand up, march to the borders and start shooting. I really don't want to shoot anybody today. Hope that helps you, bob. Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org From: bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:03:15 -0500 So Marylynn, if this was the position taken before european immigration to the western hemisphere, where would you be today? Marylynn Schmidt wrote: Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Massive Yet Tiny
Welcome to Angel Labs The MYT (Massive Yet Tiny) Engine, is a breakthrough of immense proportions that will spawn the next industrial revolution and will rocket the internal combustion engine into the next millennium. Please spread the word. http://www.angellabsllc.com/index.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
You obviously havent spoken with a member of the Aztlan movement. It is a fictitious concept - false history - but that doesnt stop them from believing.The problem is corporations - they want slave labor. The corporate owners dont live there. Just like the "free trade" agreement. More for the wealthy It is class warfare. And no - I am not a Bolshi or Trotskeyite etc. The transfer of wealth is going to destroy society if something doesnt level the playing field soon.KirkJason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds a little aryan/survivalist/militant to me.JasonICQ#: 154998177MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Original Message - From: "Marylynn Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To:Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:46 PMSubject: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
Every dog has his day - and good dogs get two. ;) Kirkbob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Marylynn, if this was the position taken before european immigration to the western hemisphere, where would you be today?Marylynn Schmidt wrote: Interesting article Blankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963 Mary Lynn Schmidt___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
It was a brown country before we got here DHAJOGLO wrote: Mike, I just thought it was funny that the author actually indicted a few republicans rather than just try to blame the the whole thing on the bleeding heart lets-give-the-country-away-to-brown-people liberals! On Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:17 AM, Mike Weaver wrote: Actually, one could argue convincingly that it's a Republican (or whatever they are now) movement - our balance of trade deficit has balloned up Bush to the highest levels ever and we're borrowing more abroad than ever. DHAJOGLO wrote: Hey, at least its a bipartisan movement towards, what was it?, liberal internationalism. What would be the opposite? Conservative Isolationism? I don't think China would allow us to become isolationists since we're they're number one customer! hahaha. Man, I feel like I'm starting to sound like Weaver! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Real Big Brother
Fight back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfs_btGsNiY ;)Kirk"D. Mindock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3 Minute Video: Real Big Brother: Over 4 million cameras, being retro-fitted w/speaker systems. Yelling outorders to people like a concentration camp.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAuZi8ZiJOgeurl=Real%20Big%20Brother___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
Aztlan doesnt want to immigrate. They want your white skin out of town. They are serious and if you underestimate them it will go hard on you.KirkMike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *A LITTLE*?If your name isn't Running Deer I don't want to hear you whining about immigration...besides, they said the same thing about Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews. Old whine in a new bottle.Jason Katie wrote:sounds a little aryan/survivalist/militant to me.JasonICQ#: 154998177MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Original Message - From: "Marylynn Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To:Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:46 PMSubject: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby Interesting articleBlankhttp://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=159963Mary Lynn Schmidt___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 ___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] [NVIC] Rattled Vaccine Regulators, Injured Children
An interesting article. Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org NVIC comment on http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060918-015001-1961r National Vaccine Information Center Newsletter e-NEWS September 18, 2006 FDACDC Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary: The National Vaccine Information Center has been calling for reform of the mass vaccination system for the past 25 years. The FDA, CDC and NIH separately and together cannot be given the conflicting responsibilities of researching, developing, regulating, making policy for and promoting mandatory, mass use of vaccines. In addition, DHHS cannot be totally in charge of choosing, designing, and conducting or monitoring the implementation of studies investigating vaccine risks. These federal agencies have a too-cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and have turned into nothing more than public relations and advertising agencies for drug companies using taxpayer money to foot the bill. No wonder many federal public health officials retire from the FDA and CDC and go on to lucrative second careers as drug company employees or consultants. Sometimes they don't even wait to retire to dip into the Big Pharma cash register. Some M.D./Ph.D. vaccine policymakers personally own patents on the vaccines they persuade the FDA to license and the CDC to label universal use' vaccines so the states will mandate them and profit making will be immediate and unlimited. And the MD/Ph.D. researchers working for HMO's like Kaiser Permanente, which is often paid by the CDC and/or vaccine manufacturers to study vaccines and publish studies discounting vaccine risks, are just as guilty (see the recent study below whitewashing whole cell pertussis vaccine and measles vaccine risks, a piece of junk science that cannot hold a candle to the large, prospective case controlled National Childhood Encephalopathy Study, which found a statistically significant correlation between brain damage in children and receipt of these two vaccines). Will Congress take a look into the dark corner of conflict of interest at federal health agencies and deal with it or did the IOM report skip this part? We don't need to hold a pity party for rattled regulators. Pity the poor families whose children's futures have been stolen from them by public health officials with their heads in the sand, their hands in the cookie jar and their conscience in the freezer. Pity a nation too afraid to hold MD/Ph.D. officials accountable for writing off millions of chronically ill and disabled vaccine injured children as expendable in the name of disease control and the greater good. http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060918-015001-1961r The Age of Autism: Rattled regulators United Press International September 26, 2006 By Dan Olmsted UPI Senior Editor ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
I would argue that it was *many* brown nations... but that's just splitting hairs. On Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:59 AM, Mike Weaver wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:59:40 -0400 From: Mike Weaver To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby It was a brown country before we got here DHAJOGLO wrote: Mike, I just thought it was funny that the author actually indicted a few republicans rather than just try to blame the the whole thing on the bleeding heart lets-give-the-country-away-to-brown-people liberals! On Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:17 AM, Mike Weaver wrote: Actually, one could argue convincingly that it's a Republican (or whatever they are now) movement - our balance of trade deficit has balloned up Bush to the highest levels ever and we're borrowing more abroad than ever. DHAJOGLO wrote: Hey, at least its a bipartisan movement towards, what was it?, liberal internationalism. What would be the opposite? Conservative Isolationism? I don't think China would allow us to become isolationists since we're they're number one customer! hahaha. Man, I feel like I'm starting to sound like Weaver! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Tainted Spinach is just another sign of sick Food /farm system
Another interesting article. Personally, I prefer to purchase locally. My super market purchases seem to be mostly bottled water and paper products. I have a small generator and make my own Colloidal Silver and/or EIS (electrically isolated silver) with a silver source and distilled water. What I make is generally about 12 ppm. I normally spray any raw foods with this before eating. Factory Farms are not just in California .. they are here in New Jersey and every other state and country. This is truly a world wide problem. ISE, a large chicken factory is located one town over from me and in the fall and again in the spring, you can watch as huge dump trucks carry tons of this factory farm, dis-ease filled droppings and spread it all over the fields as fertilizer. Over and above this is the sludge that's brought out from distant cities that is also spread on fields prior to planting the food you eat. Loads that are traveling to a dump need every load tested .. loads that are to be spread on farmers fields are checked 1 out of 5 .. there have been some deaths directly connected to this practice with very, very little news coverage concerning it. If you travel the highways and see the dump truck in front of you steaming, you will usually be correct if you say it's carrying sludge destained for the fields instead of the dump. Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:39:04 -0800 Blankhttp://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060922155256820 Post your comments to this on web site and also has anyone heard on the news what caused this. Or is there a Media Blackout on the Cause to protect the big boys Friday, September 22 2006 @ 03:52 PM PDT Contributed by: John Peck Views: 332 When Tommy Thompson gave his farewell speech as outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary under Pres Bush in Dec. 2004, he shocked many by admitting he couldnt understand why terrorists had not attacked our food supply yet, since it would be so easy to do. Little did he realize that the worst threat to U.S. agriculture is homegrown. After a decade of repeated outbreaks and warnings, vegetable growers in the Salinas Valley of CA are now reaping a deadly harvest. Over 120 people nationwide have fallen victim to the deadly O157:H7 strain of E. coli bacteria, with one death confirmed in WI, and a voluntary recall of bagged spinach is now underway. While distant DC officials say it is still OK to eat suspect spinach after cooking at 160 degrees for 15 seconds, those CA health experts on the ground are telling consumers to throw it all out. After a decade of repeated outbreaks and warnings, vegetable growers in the Salinas Valley of CA are now reaping a deadly harvest. Over 120 people nationwide have fallen victim to the deadly O157:H7 strain of E. coli bacteria, with one death confirmed in WI, and a voluntary recall of bagged spinach is now underway. While distant DC officials say it is still OK to eat suspect spinach after cooking at 160 degrees for 15 seconds, those CA health experts on the ground are telling consumers to throw it all out. Recent budget and staff cuts at the federal level have left the majority of food safety inspection and enforcement in the hands of city, county, and state agencies. Ironically enough, the Bush administration is now trying to railroad through Congress the National Uniformity for Food Act that would takeaway this local control over food safety and labeling. Infectious disease specialists such as Prof. Lee Riley at UC-Berkeley are right on target when they remark that such food-borne outbreaks do not occur in Africa or Asia since this type of disaster was basically created by corporate agribusiness practices. Academic studies have shown time and again that livestock force-fed grain in confinement have up to 300 times more pathogenic bacteria in their system as compared to cows allowed to freely graze on grass outdoors. And one of the dirty little secrets behind Californias new found status as the number one dairy state is that it is literally awash in factory farm manure, which enters as runoff into channels designed to irrigate vegetables and blows as clouds of dust onto nearby produce fields. It was actually under Pres. Clinton that food safety began to take a real nosedive in the U.S. as genuine public oversight shifted to ineffectual feel-good self-policing programs. Demoralized federal inspectors derided the new Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
Re: [Biofuel] Taking Oil Out Of The Equation
Kieth Have you worked out the following(?): The US will use the last drop of oil from where-ever else: (North sea, mid east, Khazakstazhn, Nigeria, Venezuala, etc.) before we (the US) use the last drops of oil in the US and territories. Think of that particular foreign policy as the ultimate well secretified hidden foreign policy of the Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush and future Admins. and the true underpinning of US military adventures in every country or land mass. The future depends on OIL, as if colonialism wasn't/isn't enough. If and when biofuels take the majority energy and lube dependency expect no-less from foreign policy, than to follow suite. Irv -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2006 6:31 AM To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] Taking Oil Out Of The Equation http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/21/taking_oil_out_of_the_equation.php TomPaine.com - Taking Oil Out Of The Equation Michael T. Klare September 21, 2006 Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Owl Books). In his September 11 address to the nation, President Bush declared that the war against on terror is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, pitting the ideals of Western civilization against a perverted vision of Islam. Bush is certainly correct that ideology plays a critical role in the war on terror and that this struggle cannot be won if Washington fails in the battle of ideas (which its abysmal record in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo is helping to ensure). But ideology is only part of the equation. Just as significant, if far less acknowledged, is the relationship between oil and Islamic extremism. If it weren't for our dependence on Middle Eastern oil, we wouldn't project such a conspicuous and over-bearing presence in the Middle East-and it is this presence, more than anything else, that has generated the toxic anti-Americanism on which al-Qaida feeds. Doing better in the battle of ideas is not enough; if we ever hope to prevail in the war on terror, we must also remove oil from the strategic equation. To fully appreciate the relationship between America's oil dependency and contemporary Middle Eastern terrorism, it is necessary to know something about the historical trajectories of both. Prior to World War II, the United States had very little official presence in the Persian Gulf area-at that time we were self-sufficient in oil, and in any case were content to allow Great Britain to control the region. But President Franklin D. Roosevelt correctly surmised that the United States would eventually become dependent on imported oil as our domestic reserves were drained, and so he set out to establish American control over a major foreign source of supply-eventually selecting Saudi Arabia to assume this role. On February 14, 1945, he met with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud aboard a U.S. warship in the Suez Canal and forged an oil-for-protection arrangement under which the United States pledged to defend the Saudi royal family in return for privileged access to Saudi petroleum reserves. All else that has occurred in the Gulf, including 9/11, has followed from this fateful encounter. To carry out the terms of the 1945 Roosevelt-Ibn Saud agreement, successive American presidents deployed an ever-larger U.S. military presence in the region and helped establish both the Saudi Royal Army and the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG), responsible for internal security. The growing U.S. military presence was coupled with the growing presence of American oil companies, which helped turned Saudi Arabia into the world's leading producer. With fields in most other parts of the world in decline-the United States reached its peak, or maximum sustainable output in 1971-production from the Persian Gulf became increasingly essential for the smooth operation of the global economy. The conspicuous presence of American soldiers and oil company personnel in the Gulf area was not without its detractors, however. Many devout Muslims saw this as an unwelcome intrusion of non-believers in the Islamic heartland, and others saw it as a form of imperialism. America's close association with Israel was also a source of irritation for many. Still, it was the British who first experienced the intractable wrath of Islamic militants: when state-controlled British Petroleum (BP) refused to cede control over its refinery at Abadan in southwestern Iran, the company's vast Iranian assets were nationalized by Prime Minister Mossadegh in 1951 with strong support from the Muslim clergy. London responded to this perceived affront by persuading President Eisenhower to spearhead a
[Biofuel] Afghanistan - let them eat hams.......
War nerd Gary Brecher's blog is my favourite reading space. I thought this latest was too good not to share. Cheers, Bob. http://www.exile.ru/2006-September-22/war http://www.exile.ru/2006-September-22/war_nerd.html Issue #247 - War Nerd - Afghanistan: Let 'Em Eat Hams - By Gary Brecher ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) FRESNO, CA -- If your exterminator says he just killed 200 rats down in the basement, is that good news or bad news? On the one hand, it's good those rats are dead. On the other hand, I thought we got rid of them years ago, and now there's hundreds? What's going on? That's the Big Question everyone should be asking in Afghanistan. NATO's claiming we killed 500 Taliban near Kandahar this month. That's a mighty impressive body count, sure, but if Nam taught us one thing, it's that body counts are a bad sign. For all sorts of reasons, starting with basic common sense: if we're killing that many, how many more are running around out there? They say with rats that if you see one, that means there's about 40 more in the vicinity. I suspect you can use the same ratio for Taliban. That's what Mohamed Arbil, a former Northern Alliance commander, said the other day: If [NATO] killed that many, the Taliban must have thousands of fighters on that front. Afghanistan is now enemy territory again. The Taliban have re-formed (as opposed to reformed) and according to one Brit officer who's fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the fight against the Talibs is already WAY hotter than the war in Iraq. The truth is, Afghanistan's been slipping away for some time now. I'll own up; I should've been doing more columns on it myself, because I could feel vaguely it was going bad. But other places were hotter or funnier, and I let it go. Besides, as hard as I've been on my country's war leadership, I didn't really believe that we could possibly be so stupid as to blow the one thing we did right. But as far as I can tell that's what happened to the US command: they lost interest in Afghanistan, Iraq's got them paralyzed, and any energy left over is going into finding a way to invade Iran. Which won't be easy, seeing as how we have exactly zero troops left over from Iraq. So it's like our command got one of those brain puzzlers Captain Kirk used to use to fry alien computers: how do we pacify Iraq (impossible) while invading Iran at the same time (double impossible, does not compute, frying noises, smoke coming out of computer). Right now there's so much smelly smoke coming out of the Pentagon it looks like another Boeing hit the place, but it's just the DI sections' brains frying. There just isn't a lot of high-command brain power left to pay attention to Afghanistan. That's the key here: paying attention. I'm starting to think that we just don't have the patience and focus to do CI warfare. It's much easier to deal with enemies who know when they're beaten. Who know the rules, as laid down in history books. You pound them into the ground, shake hands, dump a few planeloads of foreign aid on them, and everybody's friends again. It's like a nice clean boxing match. CI warfare is more like that style of fighting the Brazilians introduced into the UFC: the game only starts when you've got the guy down. You know how those guys like Royce Gracie fight? If you've never seen it, it's like this: you throw a punch at him, and the next thing you know he's on his back kicking you in the legs. If you're expecting a stand-up fight, you're doomed. Your only choice is to jump onto him and grapple it out, which will take a half hour at the very least. That's why they don't run UFC on TV much any more: too damn boring and slow. It's more like watching bad gay porn, two guys lying on top of each other sweating. Except they don't even move enough to make good porn. It's all in the wrists, slow as molasses, getting a little advantage until the other side taps out. We were spoiled by initial success in Afghanistan; we got the Taliban down and then just stopped paying attention. Dunno if you remember this far back, but after 9/11, when it was obvious we had to go in there and root out Osama, everybody was saying Afghanistan was unwinnable, the graveyard of empires, etc. And the campaign seemed to stall at first, till we took Mazar-I-Sharif and sent the Northern Alliance rolling into Kabul. Boom, game over, victory party, let's go home. Except the new wars just don't work that way. The tough part was really just beginning. The biggest problem once we took Kabul was tribal. Reporters are always calling the Taliban Islamic extremists, but it's way simpler than that: the Talibs are Pushtun, and our allies in the Northern Alliance were their old tribal enemies the Tajiks, Uzbeks and a few free-agent Hazaras. The Pushtun are the biggest tribe in the country, if you can call it that, by far. Afghanistan is 42% Pushtun, and the second-biggest group, the Tajiks, are only 27%. Pushtuns are -- now how can I say this nicely? -- insane. The craziest Taliban
Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby
This is the countery of immegrants. Some came early, other are still comming. without new immigrants, for big business, there is no cheap labour force. for high end research, not enough brain power. Half of the people writting in this column will be hardpressed to find difference between Democrats and republican. They all want same thing, to aceive it, there metod is different.most of people have delageted there thinking power to other people. They can't see what is wright and what is wrong. some body got to tell them. quite a few people think all republican are next to god and other half think only democrat are good. They vote straight party line and forget that this politician in both party are there to make them fool. both party have there quota of good bad and ugly. Vote for the peole, not for the party.Keep your mind open, Don't be resist or fasist. Nick From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Illegal Immigration: The Treason Lobby Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:59:40 -0400 It was a brown country before we got here DHAJOGLO wrote: Mike, I just thought it was funny that the author actually indicted a few republicans rather than just try to blame the the whole thing on the bleeding heart lets-give-the-country-away-to-brown-people liberals! On Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:17 AM, Mike Weaver wrote: Actually, one could argue convincingly that it's a Republican (or whatever they are now) movement - our balance of trade deficit has balloned up Bush to the highest levels ever and we're borrowing more abroad than ever. DHAJOGLO wrote: Hey, at least its a bipartisan movement towards, what was it?, liberal internationalism. What would be the opposite? Conservative Isolationism? I don't think China would allow us to become isolationists since we're they're number one customer! hahaha. Man, I feel like I'm starting to sound like Weaver! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Fwd: 911-No Arabs on Flight 77
Subject: 911-No Arabs on Flight 77No Arabs on Flight 77http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/02/article_tro.htmAUTOPSY: NO ARABS ON FLIGHT 77By Thomas R. Olmsted, M.DNow Updated: No Arabs on Flight 77: Part II-The PassengersI am an ex Naval line officer and apsychiatrist in private practice in NewOrleans, a Christian and homeschool dad. Ittroubled me a great deal that we rushed offto war on the flimsiest of evidence. Iconsidered various ways to provide a smokinggun of who and why Sept 11th happened. Astuteobservers noticed right away that there wereno Arabic sounding names on any of the flightmanifests of the planes that crashed onthat day.A list of names on a piece of paper is notevidence, but an autopsy by a pathologist,is. I undertook by FOIA request, to obtainthat autopsy list and you are invited to viewit below. Guess what? Still no Arabs on thelist. It is my opinion that the monsters whoplanned this crime made a mistake by notincluding Arabic names on the original listto make the ruse seem more believable.When airline disasters occur, airlines willroutinely provide a manifest list for anxiousfamilies. You may have noticed that evenbefore Sep 11th, that airlines are prettymeticulous about getting an accurateheadcount before takeoff. It seems veryunlikely to me, that five Arabs sneaked ontoa flight with weapons. This is the listprovided by American of the 56 passengers:On September 27th, the FBI published photosof the hijackers of Flight 77:Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the ArmedForces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), does amiraculous job and identified nearly all thebodies on November 16th 2001.The AFIP suggest these numbers; 189 killed,125 worked at the Pentagon and 64 werepassengers on the plane. The AA list onlyhad 56 and the list just obtained has 58.They did not explain how they were able totell victims bodies from hijacker bodies.In fact, from the beginning NO explanationhas been given for the extra five suggestedin news reports except that the FBI showed usthe pictures to make up the difference, andthat makes it so.Now, being the trusting sort, I figured thatthe government would want to quickly dispelany rumors so we could get on with the choreof kicking Osama/Sadaams butt (werent theseoriginally two different people?). It seemedsimple to me. . .produce the names of all thebodies identified by the AFIP and compare itwith the publicized list of passengers.So, I sent a Freedom ofInformation Act (FOIA) request to the AFIPand asked for an expedited response, becausewe were getting ready to send our boys to waron the pretext that Osama/Sadaam had done thedeed. Fourteen months later, a few USsoldiers dead, many Iraqi civilians pushingup daisies, and I finally get the list.Believe me that they werent a bit happy togive it up, and I really have no idea whythey choose now to release it.No Arabs wound up on the morgue slab;however, three ADDITIONAL people not listedby American Airline sneaked in. I have seenno explanation for these extras. I did giveAmerican the opportunity to revise theiroriginal list, but they have not responded.The new names are: Robert Ploger, ZandraPloger, and Sandra Teague. The AFIP claimsthat the only passenger body that they werenot able to identify is the toddler, DanaFalkenberg, whose parents and young sisterare on the list of those identified. Thesatanic masterminds behind this caper may befeeling pretty smug about the perfect crime,but they have left a raft of clues tyingthese unfortunates together. Stay tuned forpart two to take a much closer look of thecast of characters on this ill-fated flight. Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Taking Oil Out Of The Equation
Irv, I think you might want to change that equation to: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and likely most future presidents...perhaps even going back a bit futher even... --Randall - Original Message - From: Irwin Levinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Taking Oil Out Of The Equation Kieth Have you worked out the following(?): The US will use the last drop of oil from where-ever else: (North sea, mid east, Khazakstazhn, Nigeria, Venezuala, etc.) before we (the US) use the last drops of oil in the US and territories. Think of that particular foreign policy as the ultimate well secretified hidden foreign policy of the Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush and future Admins. and the true underpinning of US military adventures in every country or land mass. The future depends on OIL, as if colonialism wasn't/isn't enough. If and when biofuels take the majority energy and lube dependency expect no-less from foreign policy, than to follow suite. Irv -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2006 6:31 AM To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] Taking Oil Out Of The Equation http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/21/taking_oil_out_of_the_equation.php TomPaine.com - Taking Oil Out Of The Equation Michael T. Klare September 21, 2006 Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Owl Books). In his September 11 address to the nation, President Bush declared that the war against on terror is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, pitting the ideals of Western civilization against a perverted vision of Islam. Bush is certainly correct that ideology plays a critical role in the war on terror and that this struggle cannot be won if Washington fails in the battle of ideas (which its abysmal record in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo is helping to ensure). But ideology is only part of the equation. Just as significant, if far less acknowledged, is the relationship between oil and Islamic extremism. If it weren't for our dependence on Middle Eastern oil, we wouldn't project such a conspicuous and over-bearing presence in the Middle East-and it is this presence, more than anything else, that has generated the toxic anti-Americanism on which al-Qaida feeds. Doing better in the battle of ideas is not enough; if we ever hope to prevail in the war on terror, we must also remove oil from the strategic equation. To fully appreciate the relationship between America's oil dependency and contemporary Middle Eastern terrorism, it is necessary to know something about the historical trajectories of both. Prior to World War II, the United States had very little official presence in the Persian Gulf area-at that time we were self-sufficient in oil, and in any case were content to allow Great Britain to control the region. But President Franklin D. Roosevelt correctly surmised that the United States would eventually become dependent on imported oil as our domestic reserves were drained, and so he set out to establish American control over a major foreign source of supply-eventually selecting Saudi Arabia to assume this role. On February 14, 1945, he met with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud aboard a U.S. warship in the Suez Canal and forged an oil-for-protection arrangement under which the United States pledged to defend the Saudi royal family in return for privileged access to Saudi petroleum reserves. All else that has occurred in the Gulf, including 9/11, has followed from this fateful encounter. To carry out the terms of the 1945 Roosevelt-Ibn Saud agreement, successive American presidents deployed an ever-larger U.S. military presence in the region and helped establish both the Saudi Royal Army and the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG), responsible for internal security. The growing U.S. military presence was coupled with the growing presence of American oil companies, which helped turned Saudi Arabia into the world's leading producer. With fields in most other parts of the world in decline-the United States reached its peak, or maximum sustainable output in 1971-production from the Persian Gulf became increasingly essential for the smooth operation of the global economy. The conspicuous presence of American soldiers and oil company personnel in the Gulf area was not without its detractors, however. Many devout Muslims saw this as an unwelcome intrusion of non-believers in the Islamic heartland, and others saw it as a form of imperialism. America's close association with Israel was also a source of irritation for many. Still, it was the British who first experienced the intractable wrath of Islamic