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| World leaders are not renowned
for their modest wine selections or reticence at the G8 summit's cheese
board. True to form, discussing the global food crisis – spiralling
grocery prices in the developed world and starvation in Africa – was
clearly hungry work that left their stomachs rumbling. Shortly after calling for us all to waste less food, and for an end to three-for-two deals in British supermarkets, Gordon Brown joined his fellow G8 premiers and their wives for an eight-course Marie Antoinette-style "Blessings of the Earth and the Sea Social Dinner", courtesy of the Japanese government. The global food shortage was not evident. As the champagne flowed, the couples enjoyed 18 "higher-quality ingredients", beginning with amuse-bouche of corn stuffed with caviar, smoked salmon and sea urchin pain-surprise-style, hot onion tart and winter lily bulbs. With translations helpfully provided by the hosts, the starter menu (second course) read like a meal in itself. A folding fan-modelled tray decorated with bamboo grasses carried eight delicacies: kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef shabu-shabu, with asparagus dressed with sesame cream; diced fatty flesh of tuna fish, with avocado and jellied soy sauce and the Japanese herb shiso; boiled clam, tomato and shiso in jellied clear soup of clam; water shield and pink conger dressed with a vinegary soy sauce; boiled prawn with jellied tosazu-vinegar; grilled eel rolled around burdock strip; sweet potato; and fried and seasoned goby with soy sauce and sugar. That was followed by a hairy crab kegani bisque-style soup and salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with a vinegary water pepper sauce. The main course brought the "meat sweats" – poele of milk-fed lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard, as well as roasted lamb with black truffle and pine seed oil sauce. For the cheese course, the Japanese offered a special selection with lavender honey and caramelised nuts. It was followed by a "G8 fantasy dessert" and coffee served with candied fruits and vegetables. This was washed down with Le Reve grand cru/La Seule Gloire champagne; a sake wine, Isojiman Junmai Daiginjo Nakadori; Corton-Charlemagne 2005 (France); Ridge California Monte Bello 1997 and Tokaji Esszencia 1999 (Hungary). |
The G8 leaders had earlier made
do with a "working lunch" of white asparagus and truffle soup; kegani
crab; supreme of chicken; and cheese and coffee with petit fours. The
lubrication of choice, for those drinking, was Chateau Grillet 2005. The TV cameras were sadly not allowed to loiter long enough to discover whether Mr Brown practised what he preaches by not wasting any of his food. The Prime Minister has been shocked by the finding that an average British household could save about £420 a year by not throwing away edible food. It is a fair bet that much more than that was wasted last night at the opulent Windsor Hotel in Toya, 30 miles from the general public and with 20,000 special police officers for security. Sixty chefs were flown in for the occasion, foremost among them the Michelin-starred Katsuhiro Nakamura. The total cost of staging the event on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido is estimated at £285m, enough to buy 100 million mosquito nets, and dwarfing the £85m Britain spent on the Gleneagles summit three years ago. "If it costs this much for them to meet, they had better make some serious decisions to increase aid to poor countries," said Max Lawson, senior policy officer at Oxfam. "If they are just going to sit around and eat, while millions of people face starvation, that is not good enough. They must act– not eat." While the dinner went on, officials from the G8 nations haggled late into the night over the summit declaration on aid to the poorest nations. Pressure groups fear the G8 is trying to water down the commitment it made at Gleneagles to double aid to poor countries to $50bn by 2010. They want the figure included in this week's statement, rather than a restatement that Africa will receive $25bn by then, and single out France and Italy for criticism. "It's 50-50," one aid campaigner said. Andrew Mitchell, the Conservatives' international development spokesman, said: "Surely it is not unreasonable for each leader to give a guarantee that they will stand by their solemn pledges of three years ago at Gleneagles to help the world's poor. All of us are watching, waiting and listening." |
Attached is the Report of the Special Study Group established by you in August, 1963, 1) to consider the problems involved in the contingency of a transition to a general condition of peace, and 2) to recommend procedures for dealing with this contingency. For the convenience of non technical readers we have elected to submit our statistical supporting data, totaling 604 exhibits, separately, as well as a preliminary manual of the "peace games" method devised during the course of our study.
| Journey
to The
Absolute Elsewhere: A new look at the world and our projected
reality.
A tale so unusual to the common incredulous perspective as to seem a
flight of fantasy. Had those early choices been more clearly
understood, the winding road traveled within this fragment of time
would not have been so linearly defined, nor the thought of it not
nearly so constrained by convention these many years. Click here: Blood Groups Why are over 85 percent of humans Rh-positive? The remaining 15 percent are Rh-negative. Rh-negative Type 'O' represent less than 8 percent, and are known as Universal Donors. Take a look at these pages and participate in the growing body of individuals seeking answers. This research may be crucial to the survival of the human race as global and solar changes become of major concern. Click Here: Self Discovery You can now see why the Ten Commandments, Aristotle's Golden Mean (i.e., “Moderation in all things”), and the Golden Rule are quite impossible for anyone to follow. Habits of mechanicalness will always cause people to “violate” codes of laws, rules, and religious doctrines. Only self-observation can direct you to living the “right life,” and you will not need written rules, commandments, or ethical codes, you will function intuitively and spontaneously according to your connection with universal mind. This is true freedom without license. Click here: Instant Evolution INSTANT EVOLUTION: Priests and philosophers are the founders of beliefs. On the other hand, organizations such as the Rosicrucians teach that all beliefs are taboo. That we should believe in nothing we cannot prove by observation to be true. Fair enough? Maybe not. Beliefs that become true and accepted are predicated upon the principles of scientific investigation. Not at all a bad thing if you are content dealing with mental constructs founded upon precedence, peer review, and accepted methodology. Recognize the trap? Sure you do! These are the standard-bearers of society. Nothing may become true and accepted but through the corridors of orthodoxy. This may be be worthily exampled in a truly evolved species, one beyond the limitations of personal aggrandizement and tenured (obedient) lifestyles. However, here on earth it represents restriction and controlled, unnatural evolution. Click here: German Flying Saucers W.W.II German Flying Saucers |
| Comets
(Extended ver) Plasma Cosmology Electric Universe http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5QPY_XgPruI |
| Has Electrodynamics Solved the
Mystery of Saturn's Dual Hotspots? It is generally believed that falsifiability and predictive ability are two cornerstones of science. As a corollary, the critical experiment (experimentum crucis) is a widely accepted method of determining which of two mutually exclusive theoretical viewpoints hits closest to the mark. Recent data from Saturn may provide just such a critical experiment, but the answer doesn't appear to be what many scientists expected. Opposing viewpoints were registered back in 2003 with respect to a peculiar feature at Saturn's south pole. The issue stems from a 2003 Keck Observatory press release that noted a strange hot spot at Saturn's southern pole. The issue was not the hot spot itself, according to the Keck team, but that fact that its structure did not conform to that predicted by a solar heating model. The puzzle isn't that Saturn's south pole is warm; after all, it has been exposed to 15 years of continuous sunlight, having just reached its summer Solstice in late 2002. But both the distinct boundary of a warm polar vortex some 30 degrees latitude from the southern pole and a very hot "tip" right at the pole were completely unexpected. “If the increased southern temperatures are solely the result of seasonality, then the temperature should increase gradually with increasing latitude, but it doesn't,” added Dr. Orton. “We see that the temperature increases abruptly by several degrees near 70 degrees south and again at 87 degrees south.” Source: www2.keck.hawaii.edu Read the full article here: http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/has-electrodynamics-solved-mystery-saturns-dual-hotspots |
| Enceladus,
comets and electric moons Recent reports about Saturn’s
mysterious moon, Enceladus, have supported the advance claims of the
Electric Universe view of the shared origin of planets and comets while
requiring post hoc, implausible adjustments to the conventional theory
of origin of planets and moons from a nebular disk — a problematic
200-year-old theory lacking any successful predictions. Gravitational
collapse of a rotating proto-solar nebula has problems; accretion of
large bodies from smaller bodies has not been shown to work; and up to
99 percent of the matter in the imagined original solar nebula, having
formed the planets, has then to be removed! "The disk from which the
Sun and planets formed has now vanished, reminding one of the Cheshire
Cat in Alice in Wonderland that disappeared, leaving only its smile
behind." |
| THUNDERBOLTS
OF THE GODS (The Electric Universe) -Click |
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THE
COSMIC POWER GRID |
| Electric
Universe Continues to "Baffle" Astronomers - Click |
| X-rays Betray Giant [Electrical] Particle
Accelerator in the Sky. A
recent news release has just come to light that cannot but reinforce
the position of Electric Universe model advocates, and highlight the
misunderstanding of typical astronomers, astrophysicists and
commentators. X-rays betray giant particle accelerator in the sky A very simple question lies at the heart of this post. How do you power a particle accelerator? |
| Greenland
ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say. Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. Startlingly, the Greenland ice core evidence showed that a massive "reorganization" of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two years, said the study authors. The new findings are expected to help scientists improve existing computer models for predicting future climate change as increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere drive up Earth's temperatures globally. The team used changes in dust levels and stable water isotopes in the annual ice layers of the two-mile-long Greenland ice core, which was hauled from the massive ice sheet between 1998 to 2004, to chart past temperature and precipitation swings. Their paper was published in the June 19 issue of Science Express, the online version of Science. The ice cores -- analyzed with powerful microscopes -- were drilled as part of the North Greenland Ice Core Project led by project leader Dorthe Dahl-Jensen of the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Neils Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen. The study included 17 co-investigators from Europe, one from Japan and two from the United States -- Jim White and Trevor Popp from the University of Colorado at Boulder. "We have analyzed the transition from the last glacial period until our present warm interglacial period, and the climate shifts are happening suddenly, as if someone had pushed a button," said Dahl-Jenson. Read full article here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uoca-gic061808.php |
The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is “Dead”—What Does it Mean for Earth? Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be indicating for our future. Although periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, this current period has gone on much longer than usual and scientists are starting to worry—at least a little bit. Recently 100 scientists from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America gathered to discuss the issue at an international solar conference at Montana State University. Today's sun is as inactive as it was two years ago, and solar physicists don’t have a clue as to why. "It continues to be dead," said Saku Tsuneta with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, program manager for the Hinode solar mission, noting that it is at least a little bit worrisome for scientists. Dana Longcope, a solar physicist at MSU, said the sun usually operates on an 11-year cycle with maximum activity occurring in the middle of the cycle. The last cycle reached its peak in 2001 and is believed to be just ending now, Longcope said. The next cycle is just beginning and is expected to reach its peak sometime around 2012. But so far nothing is happening. "It's a dead face," Tsuneta said of the sun's appearance. Tsuneta said solar physicists aren't weather forecasters and they can't predict the future. They do have the ability to observe, however, and they have observed a longer-than-normal period of solar inactivity. In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period coincided with a little ice age on Earth that lasted from 1650 to 1700. Coincidence? Some scientists say it was, but many worry that it wasn’t. Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory also show that there are currently no spots on the sun. He also noted that the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C. "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman noted in The Australian recently. Read the full article here: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html |
| Perhaps
the climate change models are wrong They drift along in the
worlds' oceans at a depth of 2,000 metres -- more than a mile deep --
constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, pressure and velocity
of the upper oceans. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=394939 Then, about once every 10 days, a bladder on the outside of these buoys inflates and raises them slowly to the surface gathering data about each strata of seawater they pass through. After an upward journey of nearly six hours, the Argo monitors bob on the waves while an onboard transmitter sends their information to a satellite that in turn retransmits it to several land-based research computers where it may be accessed by anyone who wishes to see it. These 3,000 yellow sentinels --about the size and shape of a large fence post -- free-float the world's oceans, season in and season out, surfacing between 30 and 40 times a year, disgorging their findings, then submerging again for another fact-finding voyage. It's fascinating to watch their progress online. (The URLs are too complex to reproduce here, but Google "Argo Buoy Movement" or "Argo Float Animation," and you will be directed to the links.) When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before. No longer would scientists have to rely on measurements mostly at the surface from older scientific buoys or inconsistent shipboard monitors. So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys' findings? Because in five years, the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters' hypotheses, must be wrong. |
| The
Inconvenient Truth:The Sun Varies in Intensity (Jan. 20, 2008) For the last twenty days there have been no sunspots (January 1 to 20 2008). Ultraviolet radiation has dropped to extremely low ratings and coronal holes have opened sending high levels of solar winds and making the aurora borealis larger. Siberia is suffering a cold snap and in a few weeks Canada may become colder than it has been in decades. Global Warming? ----Read more by clicking the above link. |
| Russian
scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age - Click here for full
story: - ST.
PETERSBURG, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - Temperatures on Earth have
stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a
new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an
interview with RIA Novosti Tuesday. |
| More snow looms for
China amid transport crunch "The overall transport situation is still
relatively grim, especially problems of capacity and demand emerging in
railway transport," the State Council's command centre for dealing with
the disaster said in a statement. |
| Snow
storms destroy one tenth of China's forests: report China has lost about one tenth
of its forest resources to recent snow storms regarded as the most
severe in half a century, state media reported Sunday. A total of 17.3 million hectares (43 million acres) of forest have been damaged across China as the result of three weeks of savage winter weather, the China Daily website said, citing the State Forestry Administration. More than half the country's provinces have been affected, and in the worst-hit regions, nearly 90 percent of forests have been destroyed, according to the paper. As of the end of last month, disastrous winter weather had levied a toll of 16.2 billion yuan (2.2 billion dollars) on China's forestry sector, the report said, citing the most recent data available. |