[Biofuel] 'Cove' debut draws mixed reactions
Any comments? http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20090927a3.html Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 'Cove' debut draws mixed reactions By MINORU MATSUTANI Staff writer The Cove, a film about dolphin slaughters in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, drew a mixed response from an audience of 150 that included foreign journalists in Tokyo on Friday evening, the first time the award-winning movie has been screened in Japan. The 92-minute film, which was first screened in Los Angeles July 31 and is now being shown in other parts of the United States, Australia and some European countries, was screened at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. The film contains footage of dolphins being brutally killed and reveals that dolphin meat has high levels of methyl mercury, a toxic substance. It also explains how Ric O'Barry, a dolphin protection activist and the main character of the film, fell in love with dolphins, how local fishermen and police tried to block movie crew from filming the slaughters and how the crew used ingenious high-tech devices to secretly record the slaughters. The movie, directed by Louie Psihoyos and filmed with hidden cameras over a five-year period, won several awards, including the Audience Award in the Sundance Film Festival in January. It's about contaminating people with mercury, not about animal rights, O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer for the 1960s TV show Flipper, said in a news conference after the film. Most Japanese people don't know what's going on in Taiji. They need to know. However, some in the audience thought the film makes an emotive appeal against the slaughters based on their brutality, rather than the danger of consuming methyl mercury. Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia editor of British paper The Times, said after the movie and news conference that (O'Barry) said it's not about animal rights, but obviously it's about animal rights. David Wybenga, an American who runs Japan Cat Network to save abandoned cats, agreed with Parry. The film is more about his compassion about dolphins than mercury, he said. Tetsuya Endo, associate professor in the department of environmental chemistry and toxicology of the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, who appears in the movie, said he was disappointed because he had heard the movie would adopt a scientific tone but instead found it to be more like a drama. If the movie is about the high mercury level in sea food, the focus should be on tuna rather than dolphins because many more people eat tuna, he said. As a researcher on mercury poison, tuna should be highlighted, not dolphins, he said. Tuna's methyl mercury level can be higher than some types of dolphins, according to a Fisheries Agency's study. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry acknowledges the high mercury level of dolphins and other large fish and sea animals and advises pregnant women not to eat an 80-gram serving of bottlenose dolphin, a type caught in Taiji and one of the most toxic dolphins, more than once in two months. The movie shows former Taiji councilman Junichiro Yamashita saying in front of a video camera that dolphin meat should be pulled out of school lunches in the town because a test he initiated found high levels of mercury in the animal. Consequently, the town stopped serving the meat for school lunches. Endo defended Yamashita's action on the grounds that parents have the right to oppose dolphin meat in school lunches because they can't choose what is in the lunches, unlike supermarket customers who can choose not to buy dolphin meat. He added that everybody, not only pregnant women or children, should refrain from eating an excessive amount of dolphins. He did not specify how much he considered an excessive quantity. The Tokyo International Film Festival is planning to show The Cove in October. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Bullet makers can't keep up with demand
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6633316.html Bullet makers can't keep up with demand By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Sept. 23, 2009, 2:20PM NEW ORLEANS - Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition. Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress will pass antigun legislation - even though nothing specific has been proposed and the president last month signed a law allowing people to carry loaded guns in national parks. Gun sales spiked when it became clear Obama would be elected a year ago and purchases continued to rise in his first few months of office. The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported that 6.1 million background checks for gun sales were issued from January to May, an increase of 25.6 percent from the same period the year before. That is going to cause an upswing in ammunition sales, said Larry Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association representing about 5,000 members. Without bullets a gun is just a paper weight. The shortage for sportsmen is different than the scarcity of ammo for some police forces earlier this year, a dearth fueled by an increase in ammo use by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are working overtime and still can't keep up with the demand, said Al Russo, spokesman for North Carolina-based Remington Arms Company, which makes bullets for rifles, handguns and shotguns. We've had to add a fourth shift and go 24-7. It's a phenomenon that I have not seen before in my 30 years in the business. Americans usually buy about 7 billion rounds of ammunition a year, according to the National Rifle Association. In the past year, that figure has jumped to about 9 billion rounds, said NRA spokeswoman Vickie Cieplak. Jason Gregory, who manages Gretna Gun Works just outside of New Orleans, has been building his personal supply of ammunition for months. His goal is to have at least 1,000 rounds for each of his 25 weapons. I call it the Obama effect, said Gregory, 37, of Terrytown, La. It always happens when the Democrats get in office. It happened with Clinton and Obama is even stronger for gun control. Ammunition will be the first step, so I'm stocking up while I can. So far, the new administration nor Congress has not been markedly antigun. Obama has said he respects Second Amendment rights, but favors common sense on gun laws. Still, worries about what could happen persist. Demand has been so heavy at some Walmarts, a limit was imposed on the amount of ammo customers can buy. The cutoff varies according to caliber and store location, but sometimes as little as one box - or 50 bullets - is allowed. At Barnwood Arms in Ripon, Calif., sales manager Dallas Jett said some of the shortages have leveled off, but 45-caliber rounds are still hard to find. We've been in business for 32 years and I've been here for 10 and we've never seen anything like it, Jett said. Coming out of Christmas everything started to dry up and it was that way all through the spring and summer. Nationwide, distributors are scrambling to fill orders from retailers. We used to be able to order 50 or 60 cases and get them in three or four days easy, it was never an issue, said Vic Grechniw of Florida Ammo Traders, a distributor in Tampa, Fla. Now you are really lucky if you can get one case a month. It just isn't there because the demand is way up. A case contains 500 or 1,000 bullets. At Jefferson Gun Outlet and Range in Metairie just west of New Orleans, owner Mike Mayer is worried individuals are going to start buying by the case. If someone wants to shoot on the weekend you have to worry about having the ammunition for them. And I know some people aren't buying to use it at the range, they're taking it home and hoarding it. With demand, prices have also risen. Used to be gold, but now lead is the most expensive metal, said Donald Richards, 37, who was stocking up at the Jefferson store. And worth every penny. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] [no-forced-vaccination] surprized there was no comment re Andrew Moulden
Funny how often it turns out that you could have reached that conclusion just by looking at the url. With a name like that what else could it be but yet another fact-checker no-go zone? And it ain't benign, very few of them are. Never any shortage of ever-simplistic magical miracle cures eh? And a customer every minute. By the way, does anyone know, is snake-oil a biofuel? Can you run your motor on it? Or is it just a sort of nasty FFA that screws up the reaction? Best Keith Why would he be your choice ? It's a professional lying scumbag, an opportunist; he recently left the party he was leading, the CAP, Canadian Action Party ( he got in his district 200 from the 40.000 votes. ;-) Why would you vote for a weasel who is only in it for the money and his own glory? Maybe you should not only look to those Utube vids, but do a much more revealing G search for Andrew Moulden and combine it with one of these terms: Quack Scam crank Fraud And even if you only look into the first 5 hits, it will hit you; this full-of-himself--full-of-shit, quack (with his pseudoscience); is beyond any doubt, only in it for the money ( the money of the gullible and the desperate), and his own glory, thinking of himself as being a sort of Columbus; and a profound lover of conspiracy and suppression theories. Not my kind of guy; he belong behind bars, or at least separated from society, in a white jacket with long sleeves; where he could cause no harm to anymore. Keep your eyes open folks; and I mean realy open, Kirk an Nadiyah. ;-) Grts Bruno M. At 16:24 25/09/2009, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://media.abovetopsecret.com/media/2374/Dr_Andrew_Moulden/ Actually to see Mouldens material you have to go to utube or Googlevideo and put his name in the search window. Links are proving unreliable - they didnt used to be. If I was in Canada he would be my choice. Kirk --- On Thu, 9/24/09, Nadiyah Gayles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nadiyah Gayles [EMAIL PROTECTED] WOW. My husband and I watched that Video and we were very frustrated to say the least. I sent it to everyone in my other address book. I hope people do not get offended but have the courage to open their eyes. I appreciate all the information here.I do not think I have done this much research since I was in college. === ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] UPDATE: H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Test Infects Entire U.S. Naval Vessel, Kills Capt
UPDATE: H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Test Infects Entire U.S. Naval Vessel, Kills Captain and Chief Petty Officer - also THREE OTHER U.S. NAVAL SHIPS reported to be under similar at-sea quarantine (NOW CONFIRMED) _http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/h1n1-vaccine-infects-entire-naval- vessel-kills-captain-and-chief-petty-officer/_ (http://labvirus.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/h1n1-vaccine-infects-entire-naval-vessel-kills-captain-and-chie f-petty-officer/) [Ed note: We are waiting to see just exactly *what* these Navy sailors were injected with. also - Just now on IRN Radio news - 6 million doses of the H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine [DEATH AND STERILIZATION SHOT] will be ready in first week of October – young children should be FIRST to get them. WHAT A WITCH. -a.s.] Courtesy of Bob Chapman of _The International Forecaster_ (http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342site=labvirus.wordpress.comurl=http://www.theinternati onalforecaster.com/) Subject: Vital data about US Navy results of swine flu vaccine on ship Data gleaned indirectly from anonymous testimony of Navy wives of the affected crew via the internet radio show A Marine Disquisition _http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1362067_ (http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1362067) : -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090927/3278082c/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
