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[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1371620 Comments:2390
Sometimes I think you work for big oil and you are just trying to scare up prices.
There is no alternative for oil.
There is zero way I can scare up prices faster than 'Israel wants to attack Iran'.
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"It is a game that children usually love and that can last quite some time if the garden is big and the bunny has been a little mean in hiding the eggs in difficult places.
A curious facet of the Easter Egg hunt is that it looks a little like mineral prospecting. With minerals, just as for eggs, you need to search for hidden treasures and, once you have discovered the easy minerals (or eggs), finding the well hidden ones may take a lot of work. So much that some eggs usually remain undiscovered; just as some minerals will never be extracted.
Now, if searching for minerals is similar to searching for Easter Eggs, perhaps we could learn something very general if we try a little exercise in model building. We can use system dynamics to make a model that turns out to be able to describe both the Easter Eggs search and the common "Hubbert" behavior of minerals production. The exercise can also tell us something on how system dynamics can be used to make "mind sized" models (to use an expression coined by Seymour Papert). So, let's try.....
I bet she hates the Dukes of Hazard. Say it aint so ming.
He mocks Jesus while claiming to be a Christian so I don't put much stock in what he says about other stuff. I do prefer Challengers though.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
He mocks Jesus while claiming to be a Christian so I don't put much stock in what he says about other stuff. I do prefer Challengers though.
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"Inordinate power in finance begets great wealth inequality. Deals are consummated behind closed doors, and the sole motive is profit. If some benefits should trickle down to the "little people" who live far down the line, that was only a happy accident. The workings of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" are increasingly harder to discern. Big Finance set free from reasonable constraints on its behavior is among the most undemocratic of human institutions. In addition to great power and wealth, it is exclusivity which defines the banking world. To paraphrase George Carlin, it's a big club and we're not in it."
That jesus would be/is totally freaked out is the sine quo non hypocrisy of this entire cluster fu ck.
The rate of energy emission is equal to the product of the total decay ... resultant rise in the temperature of the calorimeter measurement well. ... portion of the neutrons will escape the calorimeter without depositing their kinetic energy. The ... A heat-flow calorimeter consists of a sample chamber insulated from a constant ...
By measuring the neutron emission rate they know exactly what the temp is and what is happening with the corium.
[quote]In fact, Mr Kimura called the main office of TEPCO in October and he told them that they should measure, interference evaluation as a guideline, the neutron emission rate near the reactor core.
The govt is aiming to bring the reactor temperature down within this year (2011).
But Mr Kimura said that unless TEPCO measures the neutron emission rate, reassurance offered by the government is nothing but the word [...]
HOST #2: I got goosebumps from the warning he made about the danger of tsunami and nuclear power station. I think he had an extremely accurate foresight and predicted the danger of the accident. I am so shocked.[/quote]
("Word of the deaths of officers will bring cheers at troop movies or in bivouacs of certain units," wrote Marine historian Col. Robert Heinl, Jr., in 1971. "In one such division... fraggings during 1971 have been authoritatively estimated to be running about one a week.")
Still, credit must be given. Increasingly poorly remembered, Vietnam is now one for the ages. After so many years, Afghanistan has finally emerged as a quagmire beholden to no other war. What an achievement! Our moment, Afghanistan included, has proven so extreme, so disastrous, that its finally put the unquiet ghost of Vietnam in its grave.
And heres the miracle: it has all happened without anyone in Washington grasping the essence of that now-ancient defeat, or understanding a thing.
The "lessons of Vietnam," fruitlessly discussed for five decades, taught Washington so little that it remains trapped in a hopeless war on the Eurasian mainland, continues to pursue a military-first policy globally that might even surprise American leaders of the Vietnam era, has turned the planet into a "free fire zone," and considers military power its major asset, a first not a last resort, and the Pentagon the appropriate place to burn its national treasure.
After Vietnam, the U.S. at least took a few years to lick its wounds.
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The American Way of War: How Bushs Wars Became Obamas as well as The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com.
If demand is down so sharply then why doesn't the price follow its trend?
Federal Reserve market animation. I used to say manipulation, but this 'turkey' died Thanksgiving 2011. And it's only a zombie now.
Note that Every time the commodities take a dive, they immediately get ramped back up.
With Deflation, the Central Banks are irrelevant. All they can do is talk, and devalue the currency.
And with the massive $1.7 Quadrillion in debt derivatives they can't even devalue anymore....at some point the zombie will just plunge to zero or lock up....anytime now.
If demand is down so sharply then why doesn't the price follow its trend?
If only speculators were required to take physical possession of their purchased commodity.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
The battles fought there (Virginia) after Grant took command of the Army of the Potomac were a close first approximation to the useless slaughter of the western front in the First World War, with one crucial difference: they werent useless, from Grants and the Unions perspective, because they formed one part of a broader strategy.
Grant is said to have described that strategy in the homely language he preferred: Im going to hold the cat down, and Sherman is going to skin him. That was exactly what happened, too. Grants job was to pin down Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, respectively the Confederacys best general and its toughest army, so that neither one could be spared to the more vulnerable western front.
Meanwhile Grants opposite number, Gen. William T. Sherman, marched an army from Tennessee through Georgia to the sea, and then north through the Carolinas toward Virginia; his job was to shatter the Confederacys economic and agricultural systems, cripple its ability to feed and supply its armies, and make it impossible for the South to keep fighting.
That was why Shermans bummers stripped the country bare, leaving behind memories that are still bitter today, and it also explains a detail that rarely gets mentioned in any but the most technical histories of the Civil War: in the course of a months-long campaign that took him through the heartland of the Confederacy, Sherman fought only two significant battles.
Grant got the glory, and earned it fairly, but Sherman may have been the 19th centurys most innovative military thinker.
When he came face to face with a Confederate army, whenever the strategic situation allowed, he evaded it, slipped past it, got behind it, and threatened its lines of communication and supply, forcing it to retreat in disarray.
Long before anyone else, he grasped that its not necessary to fight a pitched battle to win a war, and that a force that can move fast, get behind its enemy, and target the vulnerable territory behind the lines can cripple the ability of the other side to wage war at all.
Most of a century later, that approach to war came to be called blitzkrieg;
...Finally, to guarantee all these things, the British government would have been forced to accept an occupying force in Britain, and permanent military bases would be signed over to the new imperial power in Britain and its remaining colonies. That, by and large, is what happened to defeated nations in the wars of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Now compare that list to the relations between Great Britain and the United States from 1945 to the present. Thats the thing that cant be mentioned to this day in polite company: the British empire ended in the early 1940s when the United States conquered and occupied Britain.
It was a bloodless conquest, like the German conquest of Denmark or Luxembourg, and since the alternative was submitting to Nazi Germany, the British by and large made the best of it.
Still, none of Queen Victorias prime ministers would have tolerated for a moment the thought of foreign troops being garrisoned on British soil, which is where thousands of US military personnel are garrisoned as I write these words.
Thats only one of the lasting legacies of the Gasoline War.
After an inquiry regarding mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets, we asked Dr. Casey Owens from the University of Arkansas for some clarification. She maintains that this is not the process used to make nuggets.
Best Food Facts: Why is mechanically separated chicken used?
Dr. Owens: "Mechanically separated chicken (MSC) contains proteins that are useful for other products. It takes on a fine, pasty texture, so it can be formed into a desirable shape. Consumers should note that products using MSC typically have a higher fat content."
Best Food Facts: In this video, the people say that the pink in the meat is from blood, that eyeballs are mixed into the paste, etc. What is the truth?
Dr. Owens: "First and foremost - there is NO chance of eyeballs being in the chicken, because the head is removed much earlier in the process. In the Jamie Oliver video, you can see there is no head on the chicken he presents to the children - the same is true in processing facilities. Mechanically separated chicken is made using the meat left after the breast meat and legs are removed - meat found between the ribs, near vertebrae, around joints, etc. as well as some fat, connective tissue and skin (if there is any that remains on the carcass). There will also be trace amounts of bone, which provide calcium - but bone content is monitored closely as only so much calcium is allowed in MSC. Lastly, some of the meat will appear darker in color becasue it either came from legs (dark meat) or is bone marrow (if bones are broken in the process, some marrow can come out)."
Without grinding, crushing or pulverizing the bone itself, a machine removes edible tissue from beef and pork bones. If the resulting bits have more than 150 mg of calcium per 100 grams (indicating the presence of bones) they must be labeled "mechanically separated" meat.
Tyson: We don't need no stinkin' inspectors cause all our chickens are safe to eat.
"In due course, their instinct for self-preservation will become suppressed, as other, opportunistic, idealistic or heroic motivations move to the forefront. The progression is the same everywhere: first the people ask, then they demand, then they come and they take. For now, talk of revolution is restricted to those, both in the West and in Russia, who use it to justify their budgets for fermenting or suppressing revolt, respectively. They are, in both cases, a waste of public money.
The Future is Ours!
But if this dynamic were allowed to develop, then much more would be lost. Under Putin, Russia has become more stable and more prosperous. The cities have become more vibrant, and life has become better for many people, not just the ones at the very top. In striking contrast to the USA or the European Union, Russia is solvent rather than bankrupt. Putin gets the credit for these achievements. The slogan of his "United Russia""The future is ours"is overweening and pompous (and, inadvertently, reminiscent of the Third Reich!) but, in some part thanks to his efforts, Russia does have a discernible future in a way that the US and the EU do not.
The Future is... Oops!
Given that this is the case, one would expect the more thoughtful people in the US and in Europe to simply stand back and watch, hoping to learn something. Yet mindsets are slow to change, and some of them are still operating with their illusions of imperial power intact. Some of them are seeing orange, and thinking that there might be an opening to smuggle a neocon like Gary Kasparov into the Kremlin. But to a great many Russians their ruse of promoting "freedom and democracy" is already transparent: what they want to do is to destroy Russia's sovereignty. They almost succeeded in destroying it in the 1990s; they won't get that chance again. Now is not their time to try to influence Russian politics; now is their time to shrivel up.
On the other side of May 2005, the financial move to make is extinguishing debt....;}
"City alleges bank misrepresented risk By Brian Duggan - RGJ.com
Reno is suing Goldman Sachs, alleging fraud against one of Wall Streets largest investment firms. The city claims Goldman persuaded Reno to issue $210 million in bonds in a specialized market that the bank claimed was safe even though it knew it could turn toxic.
Reno is seeking arbitration against the bank through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, basically a private court for financial institutions.
New dissident crusher vehicle introduced for the D&R conventions...
This recently reorganized, months-old ICE Homeland Security Investigations (formerly known as ICE Office of Investigations) should really be on the radar of anyone because this year they are apparently 'filling in the gaps for the Secret Service' at NSSEs like G20, NATO summits and the Republican and Democratic national conventions. (unfortunately the Secret Service is now a part of DHS, not Treasury.) The Federal Protective Service, which likes to take photos around the Twin Cities (see my 2010 Fort Snelling Undercover Fail video, classic times) is now part of some weird directorate but briefly passed through ICE after being removed from the General Services Administration.
The HSI Special Response Teams are seemingly the top layer of a lot of things, from the war on terror / war on drugs motif, to the Super Bowl, to whatever the hell they are planning to do to immigrants [illegal alien invaders] on the I-5 near LA, which was where this pic was taken according to Copblock. ICE has a large number of staff on the Joint Terrorism Task Forces that do statistic-generating police state busywork around the country, and interestingly this HSI group is now officially becoming publicly distinguished from the rest of ICE -- and the theory of course is HSI would be spun out of ICE to become a freestanding 'directorate', a more modern and insane paramilitary FBI or whatever.
The USSA/Israel/NATO/GCC can not attack Iran until it has both the Caucasus and the Syrian/Lebanon Coastlines secure.
Azerbaijan has stated that Israel can not use it's air bases. Turkey the same. Same with the Saudis. And Iraq.
Russian warships heading for Syria: Russian military source A Russian soldier is seen on Smetlivy warship (file photo) Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:35AM GMT Share20 A high-ranking source in the Russian defense ministry says several Russian warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea to guard Syrian coasts for the foreseeable future.
A decision has been made to deploy Russian warships near the Syrian shores on a permanent basis, the state-run RIA news agency quoted the source as saying on Friday.
The source added that the Russian destroyer Smetlivy, which is patrolling waters off Syria now, will be replaced by another warship from Black Sea Fleet in May.
The official says several warships are on their way to the Mediterranean.
Israels supposed left newspaper had a piece published today by their resident
right wing scholar, Avi Shavit. For years he has written critical articles about Israels zionist left, I imagine thinking of himself as an expert for simply sharing office space with a handful of them .. *
BUT,
* He always seems to be wrong about whatever topic he decides to write about. THIS article from +972 gives a pretty good picture of the man I am talking about and his writings.
* Today he outdid himself, both in literary style and content; in other words he has no idea what he is talking about. His article is based on the premise that Grass profound moral failure and the Zionist lefts profound failure to respond are a bad sign. They show that leading intellectuals in the West and Israel are no longer capable of defending Israel. Perhaps he should accept the fact that even the zionist left has opinions that differ from his own. Perhaps they are not defending Israel because Israel is WRONG. Its mighty pompous of him to speak for a group that he obviously abhors. Its also mighty confusing to try to understand why he is not on the payroll of the Jerusalem Post rather than HaAretzs.
Print US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan US soldiers take positions after racing off the back of a UH-47 Chinook helicopter during an operation in Khost Province, Afghanistan. Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:18PM GMT Share120 LAST UPDATE An American helicopter belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in troubled eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
According to local Afghan officials, the chopper crashed on Thursday night in the countrys eastern province of Khost.
ISAF has also confirmed the incident. However, no further information has been released concerning the cause of the accident or possible causalities.
"US spy drone goes down in eastern Afghanistan Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:0AM GMT Share An American spy drone has crashed in Ghazni province in the east of war-ravaged Afghanistan, Press TV reports.