Re: [Biofuel] Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet
Hi Mike Hi Keith and List...of course, those who would suppress the world's freedom will still have it for themselves, with which to do what? Quite! But what can you make of a person who needs (?) more than enough? If it's indeed people we're talking about and not the institutions they work for/are enslaved by. Anyway, we've been through this matter of the continuing attempts by Big Central to control the Internet, quite a few times. Not to say it doesn't bear repeated mention, and eternal vigilance, but various ex(?)hacker list members emerged and were most convincing in their arguments that it just wasn't going to work. They said we could regard the hacker community as our friendly neighbourhood sysops who would ably protect us against nasty viruses like the CIA etc and their corporate lookalike control freaks. I'm inclined to believe them. There was a list posted of how long it had taken the hacker community to break various corporate/govt barriers and codes, laughable. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that just when I thought it was darkest, I realize it's only dusk, in the history of humanity. I don't agree with that. I can understand how it looks that way though, especially in the US, permeated as it is with years of carefully cultivated helplessness on the one hand and stuff like the end times nutters' drivel on the other, such as this: The second advent of Christ will include great wars with terrible suffering, the course of civilization is toward self-destruction. Especially if we leave it to the likes of them (as you Americans have done). I think you can get infected by this stuff by sheer osmosis. I'm still thinking about the book Vonnegut refers to in his memoirs, The Mask of Sanity by Dr Hervey Cleckley, this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort that is making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These were people born without consciences, and suddenly they are taking charge of everything. Maybe having a conscience is actually an outdated evolutionary appendage of some kind that must eventually wither away. Cleckley discusses that concept and dismisses it. Actually, Kurt Vonnegut didn't quite get that right. The people he's talking about who're taking charge of everything are not the people Cleckley talks of in his book. Cleckley's patients are pretty incapable of taking charge of anything much, or not for long enough to make much difference, collateral damage aside, especially not of their own lives, they're unbelievably self-destructive, they lead lives of uncontrolled chaos, without goals or direction. You can download Cleckley's book here: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF Definitely work reading. When you peel off the mask there's nothing there, nothing inside. No values. The maniacs who're rushing us towards Armageddon are either religious extremists (several brands) or, not psychopaths by Cleckley's definition, more like power freaks and control freaks, with, certainly, no conscience and no sanity either by normal terms, but they're very together, very effective, and over the long term. Cleckley's psychopaths are just not capable of that. These people, by contrast, do have values, but their values are malevolent. There's been some discussion of people like this suffering (?) from a sort of sub-acute autism. I'll try to dig it up. This state of mind is not very different from that of a corporate entity for which the bottom line always takes priority. Not compatible with life. Hey, that might even cheer you up a bit, might be a bit of an effort though. :-) I don't think you should let Kurt Vonnegut bid you farewell with such a dark message. There was a lot more to him than that. Think of the things Kurt Vonnegut helped us not only to see and to comprehend, but to laugh at! Good night, and good luck, everyone. Mike DuPree PS This morning, about 5:30, I was awake, reading, listening in the background to the orchestra of birds awakening to a new day. Sounded like a bunch of piccolos and flutes with an oboe tossed in here and there, but mostly higher toned sounds, singing nothing and yet everything at the same time, truly glorious. Then, for a moment, right here in suburbia, for a flash of a moment it became absolutely quiet and an owl hooted, the bassoon?, just three or four notes, that was all, and the orchestra continued as before, but different too being somehow magnificently changed. It's been a glorious day ever since. Nice Mike. Interesting that they all paused for the owl! I was also listening to the dawn chorus at 5am, I quite often do, last thing before I crash. Many birds, including a Japanese nightingale, wonderful (it lives here), and since a few days ago, frogs. Several kinds of owls hoot in the woods, but not at dawn. I do pray our conscience is not merely a historical development that has seen its day,
Re: [Biofuel] Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet
Hi Keith...thanks so much for your refutations and assurances that include not merely opinion but also, if not always verifiable fact, strong evidence. The people vs institutions, friendly hackers, Cleckley and Vonnegut adjustments all very helpful. At heart, I truly am an eternal optimist, and even though I might see dark days yet to come, I do see light at the end of the tunnel, if for no other reason than I observe the infinity of stars in the sky. What I have to accept is that my personal timeframe and the timeframe of the Universe at times can (must, due to my very short timeframe on the planet) be at odds with each other. I'm wondering if what I heard was an owl. I can be absolutely daff along these lines, but when I heard it (fully awake, not dreaming or under any kind of influence except the quiet and birdsong of the morning), I had the distinct impression of an owl. I was thinking too, since we are on daylight savings time, it was actually around 4:30 in the morning by the sun, that period of time that is darkest before dawn. I've done some Googling for the sound I heard and I believe this is it: http://www.junglewalk.com/popup.asp?type=aAnimalAudioID=13044 (click on the Typical Call, Captive Female 'Alice', Houston, Minnesota), a Great Horned Owl, although the recorded sound offers about seven notes, not the three or four I thought I remembered. Note also in the description under Voice that (m)ost calling occurs from dusk to about midnight and then again just before dawn. Thanks for JTF...and Keith, Keith. Mike - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet Hi Mike Hi Keith and List...of course, those who would suppress the world's freedom will still have it for themselves, with which to do what? Quite! But what can you make of a person who needs (?) more than enough? If it's indeed people we're talking about and not the institutions they work for/are enslaved by. Anyway, we've been through this matter of the continuing attempts by Big Central to control the Internet, quite a few times. Not to say it doesn't bear repeated mention, and eternal vigilance, but various ex(?)hacker list members emerged and were most convincing in their arguments that it just wasn't going to work. They said we could regard the hacker community as our friendly neighbourhood sysops who would ably protect us against nasty viruses like the CIA etc and their corporate lookalike control freaks. I'm inclined to believe them. There was a list posted of how long it had taken the hacker community to break various corporate/govt barriers and codes, laughable. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that just when I thought it was darkest, I realize it's only dusk, in the history of humanity. I don't agree with that. I can understand how it looks that way though, especially in the US, permeated as it is with years of carefully cultivated helplessness on the one hand and stuff like the end times nutters' drivel on the other, such as this: The second advent of Christ will include great wars with terrible suffering, the course of civilization is toward self-destruction. Especially if we leave it to the likes of them (as you Americans have done). I think you can get infected by this stuff by sheer osmosis. I'm still thinking about the book Vonnegut refers to in his memoirs, The Mask of Sanity by Dr Hervey Cleckley, this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort that is making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These were people born without consciences, and suddenly they are taking charge of everything. Maybe having a conscience is actually an outdated evolutionary appendage of some kind that must eventually wither away. Cleckley discusses that concept and dismisses it. Actually, Kurt Vonnegut didn't quite get that right. The people he's talking about who're taking charge of everything are not the people Cleckley talks of in his book. Cleckley's patients are pretty incapable of taking charge of anything much, or not for long enough to make much difference, collateral damage aside, especially not of their own lives, they're unbelievably self-destructive, they lead lives of uncontrolled chaos, without goals or direction. You can download Cleckley's book here: http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF Definitely work reading. When you peel off the mask there's nothing there, nothing inside. No values. The maniacs who're rushing us towards Armageddon are either religious extremists (several brands) or, not psychopaths by Cleckley's definition, more like power freaks and control freaks, with, certainly, no conscience and no sanity either by normal terms, but
[Biofuel] [Fwd: Newsweek Hides Global Warming Denier's Financial Ties to Big Oil]
From another list. Original Message Newsweek Hides Global Warming Denier's Financial Ties to Big Oil By Joshua Holland AlterNet.org http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041307EB.shtml Thursday 12 April 2007 A recent Newsweek op-ed by global warming denier Richard Lindzen claims the meteorologist has no industry ties, but his bio is as misleading as his writing. So Newsweek is running an opinion piece about global warming titled: Why So Gloomy? The piece is authored by Richard Lindzen, a well-known meteorologist, and his thesis about the potential melt-down of our climate can be boiled down to this: Don't worry, be happy! At the bottom of the article, is this brief biographical sketch of the author: Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has always been funded exclusively by the U.S. government. He receives no funding from any energy companies. Sounds like he's on the up-and-up, no? After all, the guy's not one of those scientists who denies global warming and then cashes nice checks from a bunch of big energy firms, right? Maybe those wing-nuts are right when they deny that there's a scientific consensus about human activities contributing to global warming. Hmmm. Oh, but wait. That name ... Lindzen ... sure does sound familiar. Yes! From that excellent investigative piece in Harper's on the funding behind the climate skepticism industry ... In the last year and a half, one of the leading oil industry public relations outlets, the Global Climate Coalition, has spent more than a million dollars to downplay the threat of climate change ... For the most part the industry has relied on a small band of skeptics - Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Dr. Pat Michaels, Dr. Robert Balling, Dr. Sherwood Idso, and Dr. S. Fred Singer, among others - who have proven extraordinarily adept at draining the issue of all sense of crisis. Lindzen, for his part, charges oil and coal interests $2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus, was underwritten by OPEC. His research may be funded entirely by the government, but Lindzen himself - his kids' college tuition, his mortgage payments - have at least in part been funded by Big Oil and Big Coal, including OPEC for crying out loud! But wait, it gets worse. The positions advocated by Richard Lindzen, the paid-by-OPEC opinion writer commenting in Newsweek - he's also written op-eds for a number of other publications including the Wall Street Journal - appear to be the diametric opposite of those held by Richard Lindzen, the serious meteorologist, when he's writing peer-reviewed scientific texts. Specifically, Lindzen co-authored the 2001 National Academy of Science's report on climate change. It concluded that despite some scientific uncertainties, there is agreement that the observed warming is real and particularly strong within the past 20 years. Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. The report predicts: increases in rainfall rates and increased susceptibility of semi-arid regions to drought. Global warming could well have serious adverse societal and ecological impacts by the end of this century, especially if globally-averaged temperature increases approach the upper end of the IPCC projections. Even in the more conservative scenarios, the models project temperatures and sea levels that continue to increase well beyond the end of this century, suggesting that assessments that examine only the next 100 years may well underestimate the magnitude of the eventual impacts. The NAS study endorsed The [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's] conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, saying it accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue. Here's some highlights of what the IPCC report Lindzen endorsed considered to be virtually certain outcomes of global warming (they list other potential outcomes that were only very likely, but I'm not including them here): * The troposphere warms, stratosphere cools, and near surface temperature warms. * As the climate warms, Northern Hemisphere snow cover and sea-ice extent decrease. * The globally averaged mean water vapour, evaporation and precipitation increase. * Most tropical areas have increased mean precipitation, most of the sub-tropical areas have decreased mean precipitation, and in the high latitudes the mean precipitation increases.
Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel New Process)
Ken, After a bit of poking around, I see the best place to start is (surprise!) Journey to Forever: Amen Brother. Thanks for the reminder. JtF is jam-packed with info.on this, and so many other important topics. However, when I read, I often come away with what I'm ready for at the moment. Questions arise after having read, and I often don't think to re-read. Good Day to You, Tom - Original Message - From: Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel New Process) On Apr 21, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Thomas Kelly wrote: I suspect I'm not done asking for help though. After a bit of poking around, I see the best place to start is (surprise!) Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_manual/ manual6-7.html JtoF really is an amazing resource :-) -K ___ 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] Tamba diary
G'day all Strange weather caused much confusion and fits and starts by broody poultry. Spring started early in February after a very mild winter - only one day of snow, and the ground didn't even freeze, everything went right on growing, though very slowly. But then it got cold again, March and April were as cold as ever, with temps often dipping below freezing at night. The birds kept getting the wrong signals, broody chickens failed to hatch any eggs, and the geese are still toying with the idea, they sit, and then they don't. I guess they'll figure it out once the weather figures itself out, if it ever does. Three Muscovies have been sitting on their eggs very religiously though, and Marilyn finally hatched her first duckling today, and more to come, with any luck, other eggs are cracking. The new one's a cute little guy, as Muscovy ducklings always are, blond and blue-eyed like its mum (hence Marilyn), but with signs of a black tail. So now, with the help of much low cunning gleaned from the Biofuel list, I'll have to kill a crow, else the crows will definitely get a duckling or two or more. Marilyn didn't do all that hard work sitting there for weeks keeping each egg just right only for her ducklings to be murdered by crows, else I'd be failing in my duty. I'll try a variation of Jason's suggestion, the E-Z Catch Bird Trap: http://www.critterridders.com/pigeon_trap.htm Just been talking with Mike DuPree about the joys of the dawn chorus and here I'm after killing a crow. :-( On the other hand crows don't exactly contribute much to the dawn chorus either. I was chatting offlist with Kirk about traps and stuff, and decided to bring it back onlist: ... we'll have anything from 100 to 150 baby birds scooting around here soon, and the predators are gathering. Apart from the crows, I've just been watching a couple of raccoons carrying off a feeder full of grain so they can skarf it among the trees. Here's a pic: http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/raccoon2-1.jpg Nice animal. Been watching them for awhile, so far (this time round) they only come at night when the birds are all safely shut up in their hutches, but of course they'll get more daring. Given some good rubber I can catch one of them and, probably, educate it a little, they're smart, they can learn. Then let it go. Worth a try anyway. Otherwise I'll have to kill one (again), and I really don't want to. Raccoons - major PITA. Here they shoot them. They roost in trees at night. Not these ones, they can climb, but they prefer being on the ground. More burrowers than climbers. Japanese variety, somewhat different. Just like the birds. Spotlight them and bang. They are very destructive given half a chance. Yes, but you can negotiate with them. This is the third wave of them. The first ones killed a chicken and I killed a raccoon, then I had a long talk with an old raccoon, both of us sitting on the drive about two yards apart, amazing. We didn't have any further problems with raccoons for two years. They were around, but they kept away from the birds. But they were old, and died off, and the second wave arrived in late autumn to fill the niche, young and strong and brash. They held off and sounded me out for a few weeks, then they attacked, eight of them altogether, and we lost five chickens before I managed to kill another one. They really tested our defences! Formidable! Taught me a lot about raccoons in particular (I'd never encountered raccoons before I came here) and about predators in general. But the dead one hanging from the corner of the chicken shed (as promised in the first place) kept them away, until a few weeks ago, when this lot arrived. First one, then another, now a third. So, kill on suspicion? Or jeopardise the birds? Difficult. What about this guy? http://journeytoforever.org/bflpics/weasel6-4-072.jpg OMG a weasel!!! Yup, an itachi, Japanese weasel, like all other weasels, pretty much. Kill a coop of birds in 1 night. Yes, that happened to us in England, all chickens killed. Sickening. Happened recently to someone on one of the homesteading lists, 15 dead chickens, one survived. And then it all came out, all the difficulties other members had had with predators. People usually don't talk about it much (maybe because when it happens you feel such a shit), but I think it happens to everybody, there's no doubt predators are one of the major problems or the major problem with keeping backyard poultry. I use 1/2 inch mesh to keep them out. The floor has to be weasel tight if they are in the area. That's what it takes, and it probably still won't be effective if it's the kind of old shed we have here, like so many people have. So what to do? Any thoughts? Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
Re: [Biofuel] Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet
Hi Mike What's so cool about it is that I live on the edge of a mountain forest, but you're in suburbia, and yet we can share that experience. A Great Horned owl, no less. I don't think nature knows many barriers, it doesn't stop at the city limits. Trouble is cities and suburbia get people looking the wrong way, so they don't see it. Hi Keith...thanks so much for your refutations and assurances that include not merely opinion but also, if not always verifiable fact, strong evidence. The people vs institutions, friendly hackers, Cleckley and Vonnegut adjustments all very helpful. At heart, I truly am an eternal optimist, and even though I might see dark days yet to come, Well I'm sure you're right about that. I do see light at the end of the tunnel, if for no other reason than I observe the infinity of stars in the sky. :-) Good enough. What I have to accept is that my personal timeframe and the timeframe of the Universe at times can (must, due to my very short timeframe on the planet) be at odds with each other. I'm wondering if what I heard was an owl. I've heard a lot of different owls in a lot of different places, but they all sound like owls. Some owls screech though, but that's different, not what you heard. Heh... I was leaning against a gatepost late one starry night out in the English countryside taking in the scene and generally minding my own business in a peacable sort of way when with no warning at all an owl, claws outstretched, made a high-speed landing on top of my head - the damn thing thought I was the gatepost, and of course owls fly in silence - and my head wasn't particularly well-thatched on top, even then. I don't know who got the bigger fright, me or it, we both yelled like banshees and the owl took off and vanished. What a world, where (a) an owl suddenly claws holes in your scalp and (b) the gatepost you're used to perching on suddenly screams and runs away clutching its head. LOL! I can be absolutely daff along these lines, but when I heard it (fully awake, not dreaming or under any kind of influence except the quiet and birdsong of the morning), I had the distinct impression of an owl. I was thinking too, since we are on daylight savings time, it was actually around 4:30 in the morning by the sun, that period of time that is darkest before dawn. I've done some Googling for the sound I heard and I believe this is it: http://www.junglewalk.com/popup.asp?type=aAnimalAudioID=13044ht tp://www.junglewalk.com/popup.asp?type=aAnimalAudioID=13044 (click on the Typical Call, Captive Female 'Alice', Houston, Minnesota), a Great Horned Owl, although the recorded sound offers about seven notes, not the three or four I thought I remembered. Note also in the description under Voice that (m)ost calling occurs from dusk to about midnight and then again just before dawn. I think you can claim one Great Horned Owl or close cousin. Nice! Unless maybe the paranoid control-freaks in the original yarn are right after all and that's not birdsong at that website it's coded messages from AlQaida and a threat to CAWKI that has to be stopped in its tracks before we're all murdered in our beds. Thanks for JTF...and Keith, Keith. :-) You're most welcome Mike. All best Keith Mike - Original Message - From: Keith Addison mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet Hi Mike Hi Keith and List...of course, those who would suppress the world's freedom will still have it for themselves, with which to do what? Quite! But what can you make of a person who needs (?) more than enough? If it's indeed people we're talking about and not the institutions they work for/are enslaved by. Anyway, we've been through this matter of the continuing attempts by Big Central to control the Internet, quite a few times. Not to say it doesn't bear repeated mention, and eternal vigilance, but various ex(?)hacker list members emerged and were most convincing in their arguments that it just wasn't going to work. They said we could regard the hacker community as our friendly neighbourhood sysops who would ably protect us against nasty viruses like the CIA etc and their corporate lookalike control freaks. I'm inclined to believe them. There was a list posted of how long it had taken the hacker community to break various corporate/govt barriers and codes, laughable. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that just when I thought it was darkest, I realize it's only dusk, in the history of humanity. I don't agree with that. I can understand how it looks that way though, especially in the US, permeated as it is with years of carefully cultivated helplessness on the one hand and stuff like the end times nutters' drivel on the other, such as this:
[Biofuel] uTube: Dave Deppner and Trees for the Future
Hello everyone. It's a ridiculously beautiful day here in Southern Ontario and here is a happy video for all to enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdoe_gI_fSs Best. Jesse Frayne itsdinner.ca Neighbourhood catering and general joie de livre Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca ___ 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] Tamba diary
Keith Addison wrote: G'day all Strange weather caused much confusion and fits and starts by broody poultry. Spring started early in February after a very mild winter - only one day of snow, and the ground didn't even freeze, everything went right on growing, though very slowly. But then it got cold again, March and April were as cold as ever, with temps often dipping below freezing at night. It's been strange over here, too. We've had LOTS of rain, but it's warmed up enough for the trees to begin blossoming. The cherry and young peach trees (which we planted from seedlings two years ago) are showing signs that they'll have lots of fruit. My saintly mother-in-law thinks our peaches will be about the size of almonds, though . . . Our plum trees are ablaze with blossoms, and even the pear, which has been sick since we got it, looks vigorous compared to how it usually looks . . . But I haven't seen any bees. It's still cold, but there ARE bugs out already. The songbirds are busy hunting in our garden, but the bees and wasps are curiously absent. I'm very discouraged about the state of my composting. The new bin isn't working out very well, and most of what it produces smells awful and has the consistency of slime from the bottom of a swamp! (Only the stuff I've taken from the middle of the bin is close to being finished--as it was hot when I last checked--but without worms I'm sure I'd have a hopeless situation on my hands right now.) I have SOME good compost, but not enough for what I need, and most of what I have has now gone into the containers my sweetheart uses for growing herbs on our deck. snip interesting discussion of roosting birds because the only birds around my house are wild Just been talking with Mike DuPree about the joys of the dawn chorus and here I'm after killing a crow. :-( On the other hand crows don't exactly contribute much to the dawn chorus either. It's really nice to have the birds back. We've got these little, tiny songbirds nesting in our hedges that really sing up a storm! About two weeks ago I found a dead robin on my driveway. It looked perfectly healthy, but it was stone dead, and one of my clients (who owns a chicken farm) suggested that I simply bury it quietly rather than contacting the Ministry of Agriculture about a possible bird flu case. They'll quarantine your whole property, she said. I don't know how that would work, given that I live in a subdivision and the birds who hunt on my lot are free to go anywhere they want. I took her advice, however, and simply buried the bird. I was chatting offlist with Kirk about traps and stuff, and decided to bring it back onlist: Any thoughts? If you think these creatures will respond to some persuasion, have you considered leaving a chemical signal for them that informs them whose territory they're infringing upon? I find that dogs will sniff my compost pile, then leave it alone, whereas before using my compost enhancement liquid they tended to pee all over it. At the very least, your mammalian intruders will know that they're trespassing and might learn to associate your scent with an unpleasant experience. I've never tried this, but I've often wondered whether or not it would work. robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ 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] WP Article - Criminal Probe Opened in Pet Food Scare
now in human food Kirk WP Article - Criminal Probe Opened in Pet Food Scare This article can be found online at: _http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR20070420020 16_pf.html_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042002016_pf.html) * * * * * * * *Begin Article* * * * * * * * Criminal Probe Opened in Pet Food Scare FDA Says Charges Possible; Tainted Pork Confirmed in Calif. By _Patricia Sullivan_ (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/patricia+sullivan/) Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 21, 2007; Page A10 The _Food and Drug Administration_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=U.S.+Food+and+Drug+Administration) has opened a criminal investigation in the widening pet food contamination scandal, officials said yesterday, as it was confirmed that tainted pork might have made its way onto human dinner plates in California. More than 100 hogs that ate contaminated food at a custom slaughterhouse in _California_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=California) 's Central Valley were sold to private individuals and to an unnamed licensed facility in Northern California during the past 2 1/2 weeks. The hogs consumed feed that contained rice protein tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical that has sickened and killed dogs and cats around the world. Almost a dozen companies have found that they have used melamine-contaminated ingredients from _China_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=China) in their animal foods, either wheat gluten, corn gluten or rice protein concentrate. In the _United States_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=United+States) , more than 60 million containers of cat and dog food have been pulled from the market in the past five weeks. People who bought pork from the American Hog Farm, a 1,500-animal facility in _Ceres_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=Ceres) , Calif., between April 3 and April 18 are being advised not to eat the meat, California health officials said yesterday, although there have been no reports of illness in either people or the hogs. Authorities are tracking down all the purchasers. We are making the recommendation out of a preponderance of caution, said Kevin Reilly of the _California Department of Health Services_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=California+Department+of+Healt h+Services) . The risk is minimal, but the investigation is very early on. Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said criminal charges are a possibility, but he declined to say whether there is reason to believe any individual or organization intentionally adulterated pet food. Late Thursday, _Royal Canin USA_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=Royal+Canin+SA) became the most recent company to recall pet foods. Some of its brands were contaminated with rice protein concentrate. Its _South African_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=South+Africa) subsidiary said contaminated corn gluten had been linked to the deaths of 30 pets there. Five companies received the contaminated Chinese rice protein concentrate. Three firms have identified themselves by announcing recalls; the other two are not publicly known because the FDA will not name them until the companies say they used contaminants in their products. More than six other companies, some of which make pet food under a variety of labels, have announced recalls because melamine-contaminated wheat gluten was used in their products, starting with a March 16 recall. Wheat gluten is by far the larger ingredient in American pet food, the FDA said. Although Banfield Pet Hospitals, a large nationwide chain, is working with the FDA to develop a tally of how many pets have died because of melamine in their foods, the company would not say what their survey shows. The FDA will say only that more than 16 cats and dogs have died; other reports from _Oregon_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=Oregon) and _Michigan_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=Michigan) veterinarians alone put the confirmed toll at 96. * * * * * * * *End Article* * * * * * * * Dianne Ravette-Jodevin Collies Owner/Co-Founder: _JstSayNo2Vaccs_ (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jstsayno2vaccs/) @ yahoogroups.com Owner/Founder: _HolisticGroomer_ (http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HolisticGroomer/) @ yahoogroups.com - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Re: [Biofuel] Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet
And here I have been suspecting a network, not accessible to the general public, has been in operation all this time. Did everyone save their software from the telephone BBS days? Where currently the focus is on the internet, I wonder how many, if any, subversive groups are currently using a BBS for their cause? In general I wonder how many general interest groups, subversive or not are prepared to move to a BBS, if circumstances, suggest such a move may be needed. Of course operating one now is going to be cheaper than back when,it will still cost. Participant will be required to put in a few dollars a month, but that can only weed out the less serious. The fact of the matter is their are still plenty of people in the U.S. who still don't own a computer, much less use the internet. Even if they have an aversion to big brother, they aren't likely put any effort into keeping any networks payed for by public dollars open to the public. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. Keith Addison wrote: Lots of hotlinks in the Web version. - K -- http://snipurl.com/1hemw April 21, 2007 Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The Internet Seeking further funding from Congress for clean slate projects by Steve Watson Global Research, April 18, 2007 Infowars.net Researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over, citing the fact that at the moment there are loopholes in the system whereby users cannot be tracked and traced all the time. Time magazine has reported that several foundations and universities including Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are pursuing individual projects, along with the Defense Department, in order to wipe out the current internet and replace it with a new network which will satisfy big business and government: One challenge in any reconstruction, though, will be balancing the interests of various constituencies. The first time around, researchers were able to toil away in their labs quietly. Industry is playing a bigger role this time, and law enforcement is bound to make its needs for wiretapping known. There's no evidence they are meddling yet, but once any research looks promising, a number of people (will) want to be in the drawing room, said Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor affiliated with Oxford and Harvard universities. They'll be wearing coats and ties and spilling out of the venue. The projects echo moves we have previously reported on to clamp down on internet neutrality and even to designate a new form of the internet known as Internet 2. This would be a faster, more streamlined elite equivalent of the internet available to users who were willing to pay more for a much improved service. providers may only allow streaming audio and video on your websites if you were eligible for Internet 2. Of course, Internet 2 would be greatly regulated and only appropriate content would be accepted by an FCC or government bureau. Everything else would be relegated to the slow lane internet, the junkyard as it were. Our techie rulers are all too keen to make us believe that the internet as we know it is already dead. Google is just one of the major companies preparing for internet 2 by setting up hundreds of server farms through which eventually all our personal data - emails, documents, photographs, music, movies - will pass and reside. However, experts state that the clean slate projects currently being undertaken go even further beyond projects like Internet2 and National LambdaRail, both of which focus primarily on next-generation needs for speed. In tandem with broad data retention legislation currently being introduced worldwide, such clean slate projects may represent a considerable threat to the freedom of the internet as we know it. EU directives and US proposals for data retention may mean that any normal website or blog would have to fall into line with such new rules and suddenly total web regulation would become a reality. In recent months, a chorus of propaganda intended to demonize the Internet and further lead it down a path of strict control has spewed forth from numerous establishment organs: * In a display of bi-partisanship, there have recently been calls for all out mandatory ISP snooping on all US citizens by both Democrats and Republicans alike. * Republican Senator John McCain recently tabled a proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards. It is well known that McCain has a distaste for his blogosphere critics, causing a definite conflict of interest where any proposal to restrict blogs on his part is concerned. * During an appearance with his wife Barbara on Fox News last November, George
