[Biofuel] Hygroscopy of BD
Hello, We all know that BD is a hygroscopic liquid. I was wondering if BD made from different oils have differ in their hygroscopic properties. I mean, is BD made WVO more hygroscopic then BD made from rapeseed oil? Has anybody got some experience with that? Greetings, Marc ___ 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
you have my vote! please run for office now! From:robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject:Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20Date:Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:36:31 -0800Darryl McMahon quoted an article that included: Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive New technology, not "punitive measures," is the best way to help oil and gas companies in Canada reduce pollution, an Alberta oil executive told a special legislative committee on Tuesday. Gordon Lambert, vice-president, sustainable development for Suncor Energy Inc., said the federal government should set up a new technology fund to help oil and gas companies develop innovative ways to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Let's see if I understand this: 1.Oil companies are making BILLIONS in profits from the recentprice spikes in oil. 2.Consumers are funding those profits. 3.A tacit admission that the responsibility for creating thecarbon pollution lies with the oil companies. 4.The oil companies are asking for a government handout to developnew technology to sequester carbon.In effect, the oil companies want taxpayers to fund their R D. Hmmm . . . Here's what I propose: 1.Use LESS energy! 2.A significant windfall profits tax on the oil companies. 3.Significant financial incentives for consumers to invest inefficiency at home. 4.Significant financial incentives for communities to plan forlowered energy use. 5.A significant tax on energy use that will encourage conservation. 6.Using the carbon as raw material to BUILD THINGS rather than"sequestering," which is geologic nonsense! 7.DO something NOW, rather than keeping to the "business as usual"model. But then, I'm a guest in your country, Darryl, so I don't want tocomplain . . .robert luis rabello"The Edge of Justice""The Long Journey"New Adventure for Your Mindhttp://www.newadventure.caRanger Supercharger Project Pagehttp://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/___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/ ___ 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] US rejects ban on cluster bombs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070224/wl_afp/usnorwayconflict;_ylt=An27 ocIX48AL5xdNHQBsX3uyFz4D US rejects ban on cluster bombs Fri Feb 23, 11:11 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States on Friday rejected an international call to abandon the use of cluster bombs, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. We ... take the position that these munitions do have a place and a use in military inventories, given the right technology as well as the proper rules of engagement, McCormack said. Forty-six countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged to seek a treaty banning cluster bombs by next year, with major user and stockpiler Britain and manufacturer France signing on, Norway said. We, ourselves, have already taken a couple of other steps with regard to technical upgrades to cluster munitions, as well as looking very closely at the rules of engagement, how they are used, said McCormack. So it is something that over the course of the years we have looked at very closely. We have taken very seriously the international discussion with respect to the threat posed by unexploded ordnance to innocent civilians, he said. Japan, Poland and Romania refused to sign the accord, while key nations such as Israel and the United States did not take part in the conference. The 46 countries agreed to commit themselves to ... conclude by 2008 a legally binding international instrument that will prohibit the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians, according to the declaration. A number of leading countries, including Britain and France, had previously said they wanted a ban to be part of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, a process which Norway and a number of other nations consider to be a failure. A cluster bomb is a container holding hundreds of smaller bomblets. It opens in mid-air and disperses the bomblets over a large area. The smaller bombs do not always explode on impact, which means they can continue to kill innocent civilians years later. A recent report by Handicap International claimed that 98 percent of casualties from cluster munitions are non-combatants. * ___ 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Fred Oliff wrote: you have my vote! please run for office now! Sorry Fred, but I've been out of the country too long to qualify . . . You'd have to amend the Constitution. 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] The Redirection (Seymour M. Hersh)
Also: U.S. developing contingency plan to bomb Iran: Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue. http://snipurl.com/1bb7n US Funds Terror Groups to Sow Chaos in Iran By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17170.htm US generals 'will quit' if Bush orders Iran attack : SOME of Americas most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17172.htm Report: Gulf states give Israel ok to use airspace for strikes against Iran : The newspaper also quoted a Pentagon official said saying that Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan would assist Israeli raids on Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17171.htm Cheney arrives in Persian Gulf for talks: Vice President Dick Cheney landed in the U.S.-allied Arab monarchy of Oman on Sunday and went directly to talks with its foreign minister, Omani government officials said. http://snipurl.com/1bb7t --- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17173.htm The Redirection By Seymour M. Hersh Is the Administration's new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? 02/25/07 New Yorker -- - Issue of 2007-03-05 A STRATEGIC SHIFT In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The redirection, as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda. One contradictory aspect of the new strategy is that, in Iraq, most of the insurgent violence directed at the American military has come from Sunni forces, and not from Shiites. But, from the Administration's perspective, the most profound-and unintended-strategic consequence of the Iraq war is the empowerment of Iran. Its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made defiant pronouncements about the destruction of Israel and his country's right to pursue its nuclear program, and last week its supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on state television that realities in the region show that the arrogant front, headed by the U.S. and its allies, will be the principal loser in the region. After the revolution of 1979 brought a religious government to power, the United States broke with Iran and cultivated closer relations with the leaders of Sunni Arab states such as Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. That calculation became more complex after the September 11th attacks, especially with regard to the Saudis. Al Qaeda is Sunni, and many of its operatives came from extremist religious circles inside Saudi Arabia. Before the invasion of Iraq, in 2003, Administration officials, influenced by neoconservative ideologues, assumed that a Shiite government there could provide a pro-American balance to Sunni extremists, since Iraq's Shiite majority had been oppressed under Saddam Hussein. They ignored warnings from the intelligence community about the ties between Iraqi Shiite leaders and Iran, where some had lived in exile for years. Now, to the distress of the White House, Iran has forged a close relationship with the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The new American policy, in its broad outlines, has been discussed publicly. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that there is a new strategic alignment in the Middle East, separating reformers and extremists; she pointed to the Sunni states as centers of moderation, and said that Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah were
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
I am in Canada, you're in Canada? From:robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject:Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20Date:Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:00:14 -0800Fred Oliff wrote: you have my vote!please run for office now! Sorry Fred, but I've been out of the country too long to qualify . ..You'd have to amend the Constitution.robert luis rabello"The Edge of Justice""The Long Journey"New Adventure for Your Mindhttp://www.newadventure.caRanger Supercharger Project Pagehttp://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/___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/ ___ 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] Torture Is Finally on Trial
http://www.alternet.org/rights/48489/ Torture Is Finally on Trial By Naomi Klein, The Guardian. Posted February 26, 2007. America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners insane. Now it is being held to account in a Miami court. Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to break prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not supposed to happen. The Bush administration's plan was to put José Padilla on trial for allegedly being part of a network linked to international terrorists. But Padilla's lawyers are arguing that he is not fit to stand trial because he has been driven insane by the government. Arrested in May 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare airport, Padilla, a Brooklyn-born former gang member, was classified as an enemy combatant and taken to a navy prison in Charleston, South Carolina. He was kept in a cell 9ft by 7ft, with no natural light, no clock and no calendar. Whenever Padilla left the cell, he was shackled and suited in heavy goggles and headphones. Padilla was kept under these conditions for 1,307 days. He was forbidden contact with anyone but his interrogators, who punctured the extreme sensory deprivation with sensory overload, blasting him with harsh lights and pounding sounds. Padilla also says he was injected with a truth serum, a substance his lawyers believe was LSD or PCP. According to his lawyers and two mental health specialists who examined him, Padilla has been so shattered that he lacks the ability to assist in his own defence. He is convinced that his lawyers are part of a continuing interrogation program and sees his captors as protectors. In order to prove that the extended torture visited upon Mr Padilla has left him damaged, his lawyers want to tell the court what happened during those years in the navy brig. The prosecution strenuously objects, maintaining that Padilla is competent and that his treatment is irrelevant. The US district judge Marcia Cooke disagrees. It's not like Mr Padilla was living in a box. He was at a place. Things happened to him at that place. The judge has ordered several prison employees to testify on Padilla's mental state at the hearings, which began yesterday. They will be asked how a man who is alleged to have engaged in elaborate anti-government plots now acts, in the words of brig staff, like a piece of furniture. It's difficult to overstate the significance of these hearings. The techniques used to break Padilla have been standard operating procedure at Guantánamo Bay since the first prisoners arrived five years ago. They wore blackout goggles and sound-blocking headphones and were placed in extended isolation, interrupted by strobe lights and heavy metal music. These same practices have been documented in dozens of cases of extraordinary rendition carried out by the CIA, as well as in prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many have suffered the same symptoms as Padilla. According to James Yee, a former army Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo, there is an entire section of the prison called Delta Block for detainees who have been reduced to a delusional state. They would respond to me in a childlike voice, talking complete nonsense. Many of them would loudly sing childish songs, repeating the song over and over. All the inmates of Delta Block were on 24-hour suicide watch. Human Rights Watch has exposed a US-run detention facility near Kabul known as the prison of darkness -- tiny pitch-black cells, strange blaring sounds. Plenty lost their minds, one former inmate recalled. I could hear people knocking their heads against the walls and the doors. These standard mind-breaking techniques have never faced scrutiny in an American court because the prisoners in the jails are foreigners and have been stripped of the right of habeas corpus -- a denial that, scandalously, was just upheld by a federal appeals court in Washington DC. There is only one reason Padilla's case is different -- he is a US citizen. The administration did not originally intend to bring Padilla to trial, but when his status as an enemy combatant faced a supreme court challenge, the administration abruptly changed course, charging Padilla and transferring him to civilian custody. That makes Padilla's case unique -- he is the only victim of the post-9/11 legal netherworld to face an ordinary US trial. Now that Padilla's mental state is the central issue in the case, the government prosecutors are presented with a problem. The CIA and the military have known since the early 1960s that extreme sensory deprivation and sensory overload cause personality disintegration -- that's the whole point. The deprivation of stimuli induces regression by depriving the subject's mind of contact with an outer world and thus forcing it in upon itself. At the same time, the calculated provision of stimuli during interrogation
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
robert and benita rabello wrote: Darryl McMahon quoted an article that included: Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive SNIP Let's see if I understand this: SNIP Hmmm . . . Here's what I propose: 1. Use LESS energy! 2. A significant windfall profits tax on the oil companies. Here I don't agree, don't agree at all. All that is needed, if for the oil companies, and the ilk that empowers them, to 'put their money where their collective mouths are' viz a viz Free Market Enterprise. No need to come up with a punitive windfall profit tax, that just sounds like 'punishing success'. Rather, make them pay their own way, like you or I would have to do, were we in business. *If* they need a world power to go to war to secure their resources, then they pay for that war, outright, out of pocket. DING watch renewable resource energy take off like a rocket! Note, the principal on the public debt incurred by the first gulf war hasn't even been touched yet. 3. Significant financial incentives for consumers to invest in efficiency at home. Again, not really needed, just remove all the handouts large monolithic monopolistic multinational energy companies are receiving on the backs of large scale future deficit funding by the taxpayers. I think efficiency upgrades would compete rather well in a 'Free Market Economy' 4. Significant financial incentives for communities to plan for lowered energy use. same same 5. A significant tax on energy use that will encourage conservation. Again, I really don't think increasing taxes is the answer, any more than is further drilling in the gulf or opening ANWR. 6. Using the carbon as raw material to BUILD THINGS rather than sequestering, which is geologic nonsense! 7. DO something NOW, rather than keeping to the business as usual model. But then, I'm a guest in your country, Darryl, so I don't want to complain . . . 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 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Fred Oliff wrote: I am in Canada, you're in Canada? Oh, ok--I thought you were writing from the US. I'm not a Canadian citizen, so I don't think I can actually HOLD an office here. My dream job is to get appointed to the Canadian Senate, where I can do absolutely NOTHING for five years, then live on a government pension, write books and tinker with combustion for the rest of my life . . . : - ) All joking aside, I find Canadian politics very strange. I like your country, but I don't really GET how your government works. 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/
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. - Original Message - From: robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Fred Oliff wrote: you have my vote! please run for office now! Sorry Fred, but I've been out of the country too long to qualify . . . You'd have to amend the Constitution. 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 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . 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/
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Robert, Getcherself on the ballot and I will vote for you...especially since you don't want the job! :-) --Randall - Original Message - From: robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . 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 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] Truth or Propaganda?
Keith Addison wrote: (living over the line.) I know. It happened to me when I was 23 and a little blue-eyed boy in the eyes of my family and so on because of my stellar progress up the rungs of the journalism career ladder, but then I went and altogether blew it by chucking aside a great job on a national paper and joined a black paper instead. Then it all changed, they always knew there was something basically unsound about Keith... It was never discussed, an unmentionable. When I was with them (where I wasn't quite a pariah, immediate family and a few others) I had to pretend it just didn't exist, and, very considerately I'm sure they thought, so did they. Polite, you know. Ah, that sounds like an important experience for you, Keith! I had black teachers in elementary school, so I had the good fortune of long term exposure to their intellect and humanity. My best friend is a dead ringer for the actor Will Smith. We've been friends since we were 13, but unlike your story, my family was openly hostile to him. They even went as far as to accuse us of being gay! (Good, upstanding, church-attending people that they are!) I don't think of him as black. He's my friend. I don't care WHAT color he is. But the common thread between your story and mine is that attitudes and beliefs which were imparted to us as children didn't hold up when examined critically. Sometimes that process happens quickly, as it did with me in rejecting racism (though I still suffer from my upbringing), and other times the change is much more gradual. I feel I've been going through this with respect to my beliefs about what it means to be an American. I'm finding it very hard to let go of attitudes I've cherished over the years. It's strangely irrational. So the gap grew, as there was more and more I didn't and couldn't talk about. Though I was ever more deeply involved in them, it was not possible to discuss any of the huge issues challenging life in South Africa with anyone in my family or any of the people I grew up with. That never changed, even though South Africa did, bringing what you'd've thought would be vindication. But then, it just occurred to me that they'd probably have behaved exactly the same way if I'd turned out to be gay. Not the only such example, and not only with those people. I understand--maybe not to the same extent that you do, but I hear a harmonic resonance in what you've written that blends well with my own experience. Never did like ladders. Ever noticed how the higher you go the narrower the rungs get? I've never been one for climbing ladders anyway. I've always found trees much more satisfying!!! Maybe with that bit of background you can understand why I think it's kind of useless to complain to senators and so on. Er, excuse me Mr Vorster... LOL! Not much different anywhere else, just a matter of degree. Yes, I'm beginning to hear you more clearly now. That death of cherished values to which I referred earlier is in progress as I write and think on these things. I've habitually contacted senators and congressmen concerning my views on a wide variety of issues, and in some instances they've been helpful. Once, for example, the dreaded Immigration and Naturalization Service wanted to deport my sweetheart when we were living in California because they'd mucked up her immigrant application. I simply couldn't make progress with the INS people, so I contacted my senator, whose staff promptly lit a fire beneath someone's posterior and the paperwork sailed through without difficulty. We still had to go to the deportation hearing because it took time to straighten everything out. When the judge looked at us she said: What are YOU doing here? I have an Hispanic name, and Benita's name means blessed in Spanish. (Though I'm the one who is blessed!) My family is from Brasil. Portuguese is my native tongue, and I grew up eating rice and beans. But my skin is so pale that it creates glare on a sunny day. When I was in the California Boy's Choir, singing Carmen and der Rosencavalier with the New York City Opera Company on tour, the make up ladies used to joke that if they didn't put the darkest shade of base color on my face, I'd simply disappear in the stage lighting . . . So the INS assumed that my wife was in the United States illegally. My senator's staff straightened that out for me, and that's one instance where the government actually worked in my favor. There was no such thing as a peace network, nor even a left wing, they were all in jail, in exile or dead, or living secret lives and very bothered about the spies among us. The so-called left wing was a right of centre party backed by Anglo American. All a little isolating, yes. My situation is not that extreme, but over here it doesn't have to be in order to marginalize opposition. (strenuous
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Yes, voting for you Robert! --- robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . Jesse Frayne itsdinner.ca Neighbourhood catering and general joie de livre __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
ill take the job, if only to make the other politicians look even dumber than they do now... - Original Message - From: Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Robert, Getcherself on the ballot and I will vote for you...especially since you don't want the job! :-) --Randall - Original Message - From: robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . 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 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: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 3:16 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 3:16 PM ___ 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Jesse Frayne wrote: Yes, voting for you Robert! I just talked to one of my clients during a lesson, and she said: You can only run for office if you promise to keep teaching my son to read! 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/
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curbclimate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
better an oxymoron than the alternative From: Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curbclimatechange:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:09:18 -0600 ill take the job, if only to make the other politicians look even dumber than they do now... - Original Message - From: Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Robert, Getcherself on the ballot and I will vote for you...especially since you don't want the job! :-) --Randall - Original Message - From: robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change:oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . 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 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: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 3:16 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 3:16 PM ___ 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Fellas, Review that again. Nobody alive today meets that 14 year residency requirement. You would have to be as old as the adoption of the Constitution PLUS 14 years. Bottom line is, if weren't born here you can't be, top dog. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. robert and benita rabello wrote: Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . 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 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
Only one problem with the statement below... Government and Work don't belong in the same sentence - it's a contradiction of terms... All joking aside, I find Canadian politics very strange. I like your country, but I don't really GET how your government works. 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 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] Harsh laws?
Harsh laws? HARSH YOU SAY?? There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, all government business will be conducted in our language. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here. Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If foreigners do come and want to buy land, that would be allowed, BUT options will be restricted. They are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country. Foreigners may not protest -- no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. Violators will be sent home. People who come to this country illegally will be hunted down and sent straight to jail. Harsh, you say?. The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of MEXICO ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. - Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. - Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. - It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.___ 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] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oilexecutive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
yknow, if someone not born in ameri-co. were to be VP, and the prez died or quit, how would they handle that? - Original Message - From: Doug Younker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oilexecutive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20 Fellas, Review that again. Nobody alive today meets that 14 year residency requirement. You would have to be as old as the adoption of the Constitution PLUS 14 years. Bottom line is, if weren't born here you can't be, top dog. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. robert and benita rabello wrote: Randall wrote: Robert, Unless I am just missing something basic...if you are over 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the US, and have lived in the US for 14 years, you are qualified. I don't read anywhere that it says that you have to be a resident for the last 14 years prior to running for election. Plus, don't forget...there are other national offices. :-) --Randall US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Ok, I looked at my copy of the Constitution and you're right. I'd read the 14 years' residency requirement to mean 14 years immediately prior to running for office. Vote for me!!! Although, I don't really WANT the job . . . 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 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: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 3:16 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 3:16 PM ___ 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] This commercial was removed from TV in Australia
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6GfdyIZcRH4 Evidently 80 people complained they were afraid of copycat. I se it as 80 people who should not be allowed to breed. Somewhere 80 villages are looking for their idiot. And I thought the US was screwed up. Kirk - Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through 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] Fw: Fake Drug, Fake Illness People believe it!
Very instructive article. We're in search for anything that will make us feel better, it seems. But we look in all the wrong places. This is the way Big Pharma wants us to behave. They want us to believe that they, and only they, have the answers, most likely in the form of a pill. Reuters: Fake Drug, Fake Illness People believe it! http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSL165119520070216? src=021607_1724_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuterspageNumber=1 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A media exhibit featuring a campaign for a fake drug to treat a fictitious illness is causing a stir because some people think the illness is real. Australian artist Justine Cooper created the marketing campaign for a non-existent drug called Havidol for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD), which she also invented. But the multi-media exhibit at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York, which includes a Web site, mock television and print advertisements and billboards is so convincing people think it is authentic. They didn't get the fact that this was a parody or satire. But Mahmood said it really took off over the Internet. In the first few days after the Web site (www.havidol.com) went up, it had 5,000 hits. The last time he checked it had reached a quarter of a million. The thing that amazes me is that it has been folded into real Web sites for panic and anxiety disorder. It's been folded into a Web site for depression. It's been folded into hundreds of art blogs, he added. The parody is in response to the tactics used by the drug industry to sell their wares to the public. Consumer advertising for prescription medications, which are a staple of television advertising in the United States, was legalized in the country in 1997. Cooper said she intended the exhibit to be subtle. The drug ads themselves are sometimes so comedic. I couldn't be outrageously spoofy so I really wanted it to be a more subtle kind of parody that draws you in, makes you want this thing and then makes you wonder why you want it and maybe where you can get it, she added. Mahmood said that in addition to generating interest among the artsy crowd, doctors and medical students have been asking about the exhibit. I think people identify with the condition, he said. Regards, Carol Ann ~ Reign of The Mayberry Machiavellis ends in 2008.___ 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/
