NZ: Power of the Sea Waits to be Harnessed
October 30th, 2007Via: New Zealand Herald:
In just a decade New Zealand may be drawing on the sea to supplement its energy supply.
Marine energy technology, also known as blue energy, is being developed overseas and there is growing interest in it here.
Our large coastline means the country would be well placed to draw on the power of the sea and marine energy could contribute significantly to energy supply needs.
Waves generated by the “roaring forties” winds in the Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea hit the western and southern coasts and it is estimated they could produce an average wave power of more than 100 kilowatts per metre of wavefront.
Energy Minister David Parker has called for applications for funding to investigate potential wave and tidal generating devices for use here.
A marine energy deployment fund would offer grants of up to $2 million a year for the next four years.
Mr Parker said the intention was to get wave and tidal energy generating devices in the water to get some practical experience of what worked and its impact in the marine environment.
He said technological developments were making it more practical to harness solar and wind energy so he was confident of finding practical ways to harness marine energy.
“We’re pushing the development of this technology because marine energy is the next logical step in the development of new sustainable and renewable energy sources.”
A wide range of options for marine energy generation was being developed internationally, and most were offshore and underwater.
Mr Parker expected the first devices to be working by 2010.
Research Credit: Bruce
Bush Fundraiser Linked to CIA Drug Plane
October 30th, 2007Via: Mad Cow Productions:
A MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered links between the ownership of the drug-running Gulfstream (Cocaine Two) and the other American-registered plane busted carrying a multi-ton load of cocaine in Mexico recently, the DC9 (Cocaine One) airliner caught with 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico 18 months ago.
Recently-released FAA records from the Gulfstream II business jet that went down in Mexico a month ago with four tons of cocaine reveal that before it was “parked†in the name of a New York real estate developer with ties to the Russian Mob, the plane was owned by a secretive Midwestern media baron and Republican fund-raiser, who had a business partner who, incredibly, owned the other American drug plane, the DC9, recently busted in Mexico.
Adams was in business with Miami attorney Michael Farkas, who founded SkyWay Aircraft, which owned the DC9 busted in Mexico 18 months ago with 5.5 tons of cocaine aboard.
Moreover at the same time the Bush Ranger extraordinaire Stephen Adams owned the Gulfstream (N987SA) in 1999 and 2000, he was personally buying over $1 million of billboard ads for George W. Bush for his 2000 Presidential election bid.
U.S. State Department Promised Blackwater Mercenaries Immunity from Prosecution for Their Role in the Massacre of 17 Iraqi Civilians
October 30th, 2007Via: AP:
The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 killings and could undermine any effort to prosecute security contractors for their role in the incident that has infuriated the Iraqi government.
“Once you give immunity, you can’t take it away,” said a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.
State Department officials declined to confirm or deny that immunity had been granted. One official — who refused to be quoted by name_ said: “If, in fact, such a decision was made, it was done without any input or authorization from any senior State Department official in Washington.”
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd and FBI spokesman Rich Kolko declined comment.
FBI agents were returning to Washington late Monday from Baghdad, where they have been trying to collect evidence in the Sept. 16 embassy convoy shooting without using statements from Blackwater employees who were given immunity.
Three senior law enforcement officials said all the Blackwater bodyguards involved — both in the vehicle convoy and in at least two helicopters above — were given the legal protection as investigators from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security sought to find out what happened. The bureau is an arm of the State Department.
New Alex Jones Documentary: End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement
October 30th, 2007About two dozen people have sent me emails about the new Alex Jones film, End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement.
My Internet access is A) slow and B) metered. I need to wait until I visit my mother and father in laws’ place to download videos like this.
Yes, I want to watch it. No, I haven’t had a chance to yet. I typically don’t link to videos I haven’t been able to watch. Maybe I should have with this one… Maybe not. I don’t know. But here it is:
More: Main Endgame Page
More: Very High Quality Version of Endgame
Chomsky on Who Was Really Behind the JFK Murder and 9/11: “Who Cares?”
October 30th, 2007To any of you who still think that the limousine liberal industrial complex isn’t in on it, here’s the high priest himself on two of the most significant political events in recent history.
Translation: Just go to another shit-for-brains protest and listen to these lectures for a few more decades.
Alan Greenspan Talking Up Gold on Fox News
October 29th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument.
I just picked myself up off the floor.
Brace yourself:
Bubbles Greenspan Speaking Favorably About Gold + Fox News + Gold Just Under $800?
I just wrote about the Money Honies talking up gold. Now, Alan Greenspan is doing it… On Fox Financial.
Bubbles Greenspan is a friend of goldbugs!?
Holy sh*t.
I strongly suggest re-reading my recent post on hedging your long gold positions.
Extreme overbought stochastics and RSI for weeks… And now Alan Greenspan is on Fox Noise talking up gold…
If this doesn’t qualify as a great disturbance in The Force, I don’t know what would.
The video is also at the bottom of this page.
How Much of Cryptogon Has Google Disappeared?
October 29th, 2007Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that Google has been dropping Cryptogon material from their index. I’ve also noticed fewer referrals from Google searches.
Google is a particularly evil organization, but, for a long time, search worked well (unless you happened to be in China).
Not anymore. Well, not for people looking for information on Cryptogon.
Say, for example, that you wanted to find the Cryptogon page that contained the phrase:
“kicks evil people in the nuts”
Woops. It’s not there, according to Google.
I remembered that phrase, so I knew it was on my site… Somewhere. Luckily, the WordPress search engine doesn’t forget. Neither does Dogpile metasearch, which has the Cryptogon page in question indexed properly. [UPDATE] Google indexed a recent story (“We’re Inching Dangerously Close to the Point Where Consumers Run for the Hills”) that contains the phrase “kicks evil people in the nuts,” but not the original article from which the quote was taken (MEXICO GAS LINE EXPLOSIONS FORCE MAJOR FACTORIES TO CLOSE DOWN).
Maybe you wanted to find the Cryptogon story that contained the phrase:
Woops. Google doesn’t like that one either.
Of course, the Cryptogon story is here. Dogpile metasearch reveals “Heavy on the PSYOP” indexed properly in three other search engines, but not on Google. Ironically, Google indexed the story on a different website, but not on mine.
I could go on, but you get the point.
I suppose that it’s just a coincidence that Google previously refused to take paid advertising from me because of my anti fascist perspective and now some amount of Cryptogon’s content is missing from their index.
I’d really like to know what other information Google is disappearing and who or what draws up the tasking list for their memory hole operations.
Cheney Receives Email Addresses of Over 150 Justice Department Whistleblowers
October 29th, 2007How many of the whistleblowers who used throw away email addresses have ever heard of the NarusInsight Intercept Suite?
I’m sure that Cheney won’t be able to determine who the senders actually are… for a few minutes, at least.
Via: TPM Muckraker:
This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee’s website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the “strictest confidence.”
But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the “to:” field — instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or “bcc:”.
Only the email addresses were exposed; none of the names or other identifying information of the whistleblowers was revealed. The blunder, however, was noticed by a number of people who had used the website form and received today’s email. One disgruntled recipient replied to the entire list of whistleblowers angrily complaining about the snafu; two others forwarded the committee email to TPMmuckraker with similar complaints.
Compounding the mistake, the committee later sent out a second email attempting to recall the original email; it, too, included all recipients in the “to:” field, according to a recipient of the emails.
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It’s not immediately clear whether the mistake will lead to the exposure of those who had contacted the committee. There are more than 150 recipient addresses revealed in the email. Some of the email addresses appear to be transparently fake, but there’s also, much more troubling, a vice_president@whitehouse.gov carbon copied on the email, which is the public email address for Vice President Dick Cheney. In other words, an email containing the email addresses of all the whistleblowers who had written in to the committee tipline was sent to public email address of Vice President Cheney.
World’s Largest Wind Farm Slated for South Dakota
October 29th, 2007Via: AP:
Plans for the world’s largest wind farm, proposed to be built in South Dakota, have become more grandiose.
South Dakota is officially rated No. 4 in the nation for the potential capacity to make electricity from wind, although the ranking is more than a decade old. Many industry officials believe the Great Plains state is the windiest of all.
Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria, Calif., intends to erect enough wind turbines in several South Dakota counties to produce up to 6,000 megawatts of electricity, said Bob Gates, the firm’s senior vice president of commercial operations.
That would be eight times larger than the biggest wind farm in the world, a 735-megawatt FPL Energy facility with 421 turbines stretching across three Texas counties.
Travelers: Homeland Security is Googling You
October 29th, 2007Via: Cleveland Leader:
Andrew Feldman, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who’s currently a psychotherapist in Vancouver, was recently detained for four hours, fingerprinted, and then barred entry into the United States after Homeland Security googled him and found an article he wrote in a literary and scientific journal in which he talked about using LSD and various other drugs in the 1960’s. And even though he has no criminal record and says he hasn’t used drugs since the 1970’s, Feldmar must now get formal permission from the U.S. consul before entering the U.S.
Feldmar has been accustomed to visiting the U.S. about five or six times per year to visit his children, but last summer when he was pulled over for a random search, border patrol turned up online evidence that he had experimented with drugs for therapeutic research in the past.
Related: U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
Research Credit: PD
