posted 06-19-2002 01:28 AM            

this is naught a taking
they say
your rights as a taxpayer are securely wrapped up
in all kinds of legal jargon
readied to trip you up
while you are just trying to live

singing and swinging along
the human spirit more humane than a wolf
cries out in the night

posted 06-19-2002 02:05 AM            

are you brave enough to think for yourself

electrifying thought in a whirled passing by

[Edited 1 times, lastly by mark sky on 06-19-2002]

posted 06-20-2002 12:45 AM            

when souls allow themselves to be sold short of
their true state
mistiefe raises its ugly "head"

posted 06-20-2002 11:50 PM            

George Washington's farewell address is the greatest statement that was ever made about what America's foreign and domestic policy should be. He warned against "passionate attachment" to another nation, which, he said, produces a variety of evils — the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to "ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country." Too bad Bush isn't a reader
from,,,,,http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20020621/index.php

posted 06-22-2002 10:42 PM            

design to manage whole ecospheres
and limit the life within
godless even satanick they turn the discussion
to the "rePATRIATION" of grissley bears
and pump out TV where you would welcome
the de HUMANITY of this very planet

they want "Global ChaNge"
they spray it every day and night
they point to your "sins" and
teach your chieldern
"right"
that they should hate you for
you are global warming fossil fuel burners

posted 06-22-2002 10:56 PM            

of ~saTan~ INC.

posted 06-22-2002 11:02 PM            

creation is a dirty word
to those "who seek to SAVE the earth"

posted 06-24-2002 12:09 AM            

or if you would seek to resist ve half
all oder of half lifes to ensnare
your time is
not ours

posted 06-24-2002 08:57 PM            

LONDON, United Kingdom, September 25, 2000 (ENS) - A leading light in the environmental movement, James Lovelock, declares his support for nuclear power in his autobiography due out Thursday.

Scientist, inventor and author, James Lovelock. (Photo by Brig Klyce, courtesy Gaia)
Lovelock invented the electron capture detector, which revealed the widespread distribution of pesticide residues and inspired Rachel Carson's 1962 best seller "Silent Spring." The book is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement.

The Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), located north of Richland, Washington, is a 400-megawatt thermal, liquid metal (sodium) cooled reactor. Lovelock argues nuclear power's benefits to the planet outweigh its potential harm. (Photo courtesy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Nuclear power, while "potentially harmful," represents a "negligible danger" to the planet as a whole, says Lovelock.

"I hope that it is not too late for the world to emulate France and make nuclear power its principal source of energy," he writes. "There is at present no other safe, practical and economic substitute for the dangerous practice of burning carbon fuels."

the Royal Commission said. "No reactors should be built until the problem of radioactive waste management has been solved to the satisfaction of both the scientific community and the general public."

"Modern science has become as professional as the advertising industry," wrote Lovelock in "The Ages of Gaia."

posted 06-24-2002 09:27 PM            

The inventor of Gaia theory and inspiration behind the modern Green movement discusses the end of our civilisation, his friendship with William Golding, and the benefits of nuclear power

starling5
Are you prepared to accept an ethical dimension to your Gaia theory whereby all lives have equal value? Or are we, as humans, entitled to favour ourselves as we must in everyday life?
James Lovelock:
So far as Gaia is concerned, humans are not special. We're just another species. There is a strong ethic attached to Gaia, and that is that the species that lives well with its environment favours it for its progeny and the species that fouls the environment spoils it for its progeny and goes extinct.
nsalt
Your thoughts on nuclear power are refreshing. For so long it has been singled out as the evil amongst energy sources while conventional power stations the world over continue to belch their polluting gases. But there is a risk factor with nuclear power even if it's smaller than that of coal etc. Renewable fuels, particularly biomass, used locally on a small scale seem better still. Should we be putting more effort into this research?
James Lovelock:
Large-scale nuclear power is the only practical way that we have to solve the greenhouse gas problem.
greenday234
You probably get asked this a lot, but how did you come to know William Golding, who gave Gaia her/its name? What was he like and what did he think of the theory?
James Lovelock:
I knew Bill Golding as a neighbour when I lived in Wiltshire. He was a good friend and we would often talk as we walked to the village post office about half a mile away. When it was something exciting, like Gaia, we would walk well beyond the post office. He liked the theory, perhaps because he had been trained in physics as a student as well as in the arts. He said that if you would put forward a big theory about the earth, you'd better give it a good name and he would call it Gaia.
MORE> http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,6000,375194,00.html
nisaac
I think that Gaia is a great metaphor for processes in the biosphere. However, I've been disappointed to find that other ecologists instinctively recoil at the idea of the Planet Personified. Whilst they are right to argue in favour of rigorous hypothesis testing, we all need some kind of bigger picture. What do you make of this? Where is the halfway house?

James Lovelock:
I think the biologists fight dirty. You have to use metaphor to explain science to people. The biologists have the wonderful metaphor of the selfish gene. No one challenges them, saying 'how absurd - how could a gene take thought and be selfish?'
So why do they dislike my metaphor of a living earth?
It's very expensive to experiment with the earth - as we shall soon find out, for that's exactly what we've been doing with C02s.

rgsharp
How would you sum up the concept of 'Gaia'?

posted 06-24-2002 10:30 PM            

Among those promoting or advocating a re-examination of nuclear energy are French physicist Bruno Comby; former Clinton administration environmental advisor Jerry Mahlman; famed environmental leader James Lovelock; Senator John Kerry (D-Mass); and Clinton's former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.

Nuclear energy is a cleaner energy source than fossil fuels, but has suffered from the stigma of radioactive waste, a "not in my back yard" sentiment relating to nuclear plant location and waste storage, and the risk of nuclear incidents. But changes within the climate change debate and the nuclear power industry have resulted in changes in how more environmentalists and political liberals are warming to the idea of a fission-powered future.
Greening or Glowing?

In the political arena, old rules of environmentalism are also falling by the wayside. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, one of the Senate's most prominent environmentalists, is among those willing to give nuclear power a fresh look.

Kerry, who received a rating of 86 from the League of Conservation Voters in 2000, down from a rating of 100 the year before, boasts on his website that he led the 1993 fight in the Senate to kill the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor program, which he called "environmentally unsafe technology."

However, Kerry recently has been changing his tune. "I will not dismiss the potential for technology to solve the existing problems of nuclear power," said Kerry in a statement to CNSNews.com. "I approach the debate with an open mind and do not discount any technology or policy out of hand"

Adding further to this political mix of greens reassessing nuclear energy is former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who came out strongly in favor of nuclear energy in May.

At the annual meeting of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry advocacy group, Babbitt waded into the controversial issue of using the area around Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a nuclear waste repository, saying, "It's a safe, solid geologic repository," and described environmentalists opposed to nuclear energy as "deeply irrational."

posted 06-25-2002 11:57 AM            

NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS AIR TRAFFIC INFLUENCE ON CLIMATE, CONFOUNDING IPCC GLOBAL WARMING ESTIMATES;

Regional Warming Likely Produced by Ice Particles in Upper Troposphere

FAIRFAX, VA, JUNE 26, 1997---Global temperature data gathered by satellites over the past 18 years--the most reliable data available--have consistently shown a slight downward trend, contrary to climate model forecasts. Analyzing satellite data compiled by scientists John Christy of the University of Alabama and Roy Spencer of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, however, atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer has discovered an unusual and previously unexplained regional warming trend over northern mid-latitudes (which includes Europe and the United States), where commercial airline traffic is at its maximum. In a paper just submitted for publication, Dr. Singer demonstrates that this warming has been increasing in line with the growth of air traffic--a correlation that is particularly striking over the last decade.

Unrelated to carbon dioxide emissions or any large-scale "urban heat island" effect, the mechanism, as Dr. Singer explains it, is this: burning jet fuel releases not only pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, but also large quantities of water vapor, approximately 1.2 pounds for every pound of fuel burned. With airliners routinely flying at altitudes above 30,000 feet, this water vapor condenses into ice particles (contrails) that fade into thin cirrus clouds. These cirrus clouds have radiative properties capable of producing a measurable warming at the Earth's surface.

In a research paper published in Meteorology & Atmospheric Physics (Vol. 38, pp. 228-239, 1988), Singer had already calculated that these thin, virtually invisible clouds could produce a surface warming; direct measurements of infra-red (heat) emissions from cirrus particles appear to support this view. Singer speculates that the same physical mechanism could also explain decreases in diurnal temperature range (the difference between high and low temperatures over a 24-hour period) that have been reported over northern mid-latitudes by Thomas Karl and colleagues at the NOAA Climate Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

posted 06-29-2002 01:58 AM            

undooed dieds

posted 06-29-2002 02:08 AM            

jay and the newly in doctor ated
can
take a bow
good night

posted 06-29-2002 02:17 AM            

YeT~

posted 06-29-2002 06:18 PM            

He refused her request. A photo was supposed to identify, he said. This one wouldn't. One black bag was like another. No, he said. And that was that. Or should have been.

With encouragement from the ACLU Fatima sued, and won on grounds of religious freedom. To insist on a photo would be discrimination, said the justices without noticeable rationality. DMV argued for separation of church and at least the state of Florida, but was told it applied only to conservative Christians.

Things snowballed. About seven thousand Mohammedans lived in Florida, most of them studying crop-dusting. Skeptics pointed out that they came from countries that didn't have crops. The Moslems said this was because their crops hadn't been dusted. The State Department accepted this explanation, saying it showed initiative and would result in self-sufficiency in vegetables in the Sahara.

Anyway, the Muslims all demanded photos of textiles on their licenses. The hooded look was in. One of the crop-dusting students, who was studying pesticide chemistry in night school, said he wanted a bagged photo too. Not to allow it would be sexual discrimination, he said. The courts agreed. Florida, they said, would not countenance special privilege.

Soon dark blobs were everywhere behind steering wheels. The police, notoriously insensitive, began referring to them as BBJs, for "Black Bag Jobs." This led to agitation by the civil-rights apparatus. "Black" might offend African-Americans, "Bag" would damage the self-esteem of the digestively incontinent, and "Job" would cause intense distress, perhaps panic, among the welfare population. Besides, it was the name of a book of the Bible, and banned from public discourse.

But this was minor compared to what was coming.

Unexpectedly the black Muslims in the penitentiary at Calhoun filed suit, saying they wanted to wear bags too. The real reason was that they were engaged in ongoing warfare with the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist organization noted for its shankwork. Wearing masks, thought the incarcerated Muslims, would be a tactical advantage.

But they weren't women, objected the warden, who didn't read the papers and wasn't aware of the unisex decision. The Muslims were irate. "Man, you discriminate because we be guys, just like we be black. Can't nobody git no justice no how. Damn."

This made no obvious sense and thus qualified for judicial review.

It got worse, or at least stranger. Months later the jailed faithful, no dummies, discovered that their beliefs required the wearing of gloves during fingerprinting. It was, they said, a tenet of their religion that had never been written down. Western civilization lacked respect for Oral Tradition, they said. This too began working its way through the courts.

Unaware of the searching revision of jurisprudence begun by her case, Fatima Ali Reza returned to Fort Myers, where she lived with her husband Abdul and three teenage daughters. They were in most respects a normal American family, except that they spoke English. Abdul was a branch manager at a local bank and gardened as a hobby. In the interest of economy, he had bought two tons of ammonium-nitrate fertilizer and kept it in the garage. The girls, good students, served as crossing guards at their school (where they became known as the Safety Rezahs.) Every morning Fatima made breakfast, made sure that Abdul had a clean towel, and got the girls off to school.

More trouble ensued. There were, as it turned out, implications for airport security. One Saturday at Miami International, the personnel at a security gate were strip-searching a 93-year-old woman in a wheel chair. Next in line, ignored by security, was a bearded Arab wearing a turban and carrying a briefcase marked "Bomb."

A woman in line behind him repeatedly tried to get the attention of the security people. It took a while because the woman in the wheelchair was struggling, which distracted the searchers. Finally her gesticulation roused the suspicion of a supervisor.

"Don't you see? He's got a bomb. Do something. Search him."

"Ma'am, we can't profile. It's illegal. We search at random."

"Yes, but it says Bomb, for God's sake. Look."

The guard made a mental note to search the complaining woman, who had an Alabama accent and was therefore probably bigoted against Moslems. He explained to her that the man had a First-Amendment right to write anything he chose on his luggage. To suspect a Moslem male with a bomb of bad intentions was stereotyping, he said, bordered on racism, and could lead to prosecution for Hate Thought.

The woman was so infuriated that she stormed off, muttering that she was going to move back to the United States, if she could find it. Her luggage was never found among the debris.

National attention grew. Newsweek picked up the story, running a cover, "Mass Murderers: Victims or Martyrs?" Dr. Saxa Prolimet-Mantequilla, who taught Lesbianism and Tantric Symbology at Yale, argued that Muslims had a history of oppression in the West. Challenged, she made the peculiar assertion that Anglophone peoples had used Moslems in dark sacrifices and even in cannibalism; why, she said, nursery rhymes proved it.

Anyone but a reporter would have had the sense to let this one pass. One of them asked. Prolimet-Mantequilla answered:

"Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her Kurds in Hue. That's cannibalism. Note that she says her Kurds. Indisputable evidence of slavery."

The idea was silly enough that several campus organizations began campaigning for reparations for enslaved Kurds, correctly thinking that it would annoy their parents. The Atlantic solemnly picked up the story. Hillary Clinton was then running surreptitiously for president, hoping to finish off the country. She flew to Gainesville and said that she favored reparations for mistreated female Kurds of color. These came to be called Reparations H. Her approval rating rose to 76% among the functionally illiterate, which pundits said assured her the Democratic nomination.

Fatima Ali Rezah was blissfully unaware of all of this. She made supper for her husband, who was downtown renting a truck, and got the Safety Rezahs ready for bed. America after all was built on immigration.