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"perhaps the husband is the root cause of all this" Now on my third marriage, I can concur with the above statement, the husband is always wrong, though the current missus is the first I've known who has apologised to me, on occasion, when she is wrong. Very unsettling...

It's a question that's often bothered me, why a culture will express dislike and even hatred, for the western way of doing things, but embrace all the western benefits, like cellphones, tvs, police uniforms, guns, automobiles etc.

I guess my experiences are limited to the sky train, no habla representative.

The world's youth, relying on truth by popularity for their education, could be forgiven, after a quick googlie, for thinking Adolph was a performance artist. more...

Generally speaking if a monk comes along I give up my seat, but why don't the Thais? in the same carriage?

and in what some might say, is related news... US deploys first laser cannon for combat At $1 a shot, this may be the first nail in the coffin of the arms industry. The US Navy's first Laser Weapon System (dubbed LaWS) has been mounted on the bridge of the amphibious transport ship USS Ponce and is being used in active duty in the Persian Gulf. It will be used to disable small, fast, attacking boats as well as unmanned and light aircraft. ......... Good video with stirring music at the link

These effects he talks about, are evident, even blatant, in Laos. In Thailand, they still think they invented the world.

I giggled, then googled

And there we have it, "believe" Kong's analysis based on facts seems much more likely than someone's "belief" - no offence intended.

Not arguing, just curious, would enclosing and containing the fire, creating a furnace type arrangement, multiply the heat somewhat?

There must be a disgruntled explosive rigger somewhere that can say "look I was told to do this and that..."

I don't doubt what you say, but no-one has come up with how thousands were killed and no-one has said a word...

see my post - "You'd have to employ hundreds of people to accomplish all of the above, and in the land of 'merica, it is completely out of the national character, that someone has not come forward, to expose all of these terrible doings and claim the 15 minutes of fame, that they feel they deserve."

http://www.livescien...ic-cooling.html Interesting article, highlights are mine: Cooling sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean — a phase that is part of a natural warm and cold cycle — may explain why global average temperatures have stabilized in recent years, even as greenhouse gas emissions have been warming the planet, according to new research. The findings suggest that the flattening in the rise of global temperatures recorded over the past 15 years are not signs of a "hiatus" in global warming, but are tied to cooling temperatures in the tropical or equatorial Pacific Ocean. When the tropical Pacific naturally switches back into a warm phase, the long-term trends in global warming, including more steeply rising global temperatures, will likely increase, said study co-author Shang-Ping Xie, a climate scientist at the University of California, San Diego. ( or the cooling may be part of a natural equilibrium event, like, if (air=hot, water absorbs heat, water≠absorb heat) ) "The engine driving atmospheric circulation on global scales resides in the tropical Pacific," Xie told LiveScience. "When the natural cycle shifts the next time to a warmer state, we're going to see more extreme warming on the global scale." ( is Xie 100% sure? How does he know? ) A climate paradox In early May, a carbon dioxide monitor in Hawaii recorded the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as being more than 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history, breaking a 3-million-year-old record. (Parts per million means that, in this example, for every million molecules of air, 400 of them are carbon dioxide.) But, over the past 15 years, global average temperatures have stabilized rather than sharply increased, as previous predictions suggested they should have, mystifying climate scientists and adding fuel to the fire for climate change skeptics. "We had this puzzle — the concentration of carbon dioxide was over 400 ppm, last year we had record summer heat waves in the U.S., record retreat of Arctic sea ice. All of these things are consistent with the general warming of the climate," Xie said. "Yet, if you plot the global temperature, you see a flattening average over the last 15 years. On the one hand, scientists are saying carbon dioxide is causing the general rise of global temperatures, but on the other hand, in recent years there is no warming, so something very strange is going on." ( maybe warming has peaked? ) Xie and his colleagues set out to solve this mystery using climate models to reproduce the long- and short-term trends based on global climate records from the past 130 years. The researchers found that sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, in spite of anthropogenic or manmade effects of global warming, were key ingredients in creating the flattening global temperatures seen in the past 15 years. "In our model, we were able to show two forces: anthropogenic forces to raise global average temperature, and equatorial Pacific cooling, which tries to pull the temperature curve down, almost like in equilibrium," Xie said. The effect is similar to the El Niño and La Niña cycles, which are parts of a natural oscillation in the ocean-atmosphere system that occur every three to four years, and can impact global weather and climate conditions, Xie explained. El Niño is characterized by warmer-than-average temperatures in the waters of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, while La Niña typically features colder-than-average waters. The warm and cool phases in the Pacific Ocean studied by Xie and his colleagues appear to last much longer than the El Niño and La Niña cycles. Previously, the Earth experienced cooling in the tropical Pacific from the 1940s to the 1970s, before oscillating into a warm state from the 1970s to the 1990s. ( the 70's to the 90's being the time when "activists" and "marketing genii" have been most vocal about warming. In the 70's and prior, they were predicting an imminent ice age. Could they be wrong twice? ) Current scientific models are unable to predict when the current cooling period will end, Xie said, but when the ocean swings back into a warm phase, parts of the planet may experience warmer temperatures. "The equatorial Pacific Ocean is associated with distinct regional patterns, like the Pacific coast of North America," Xie said. "Because of equatorial cooling, this area has not been warming as rapidly as before, but when the equatorial Pacific shifts into a warm state, those regions might expect rapid warming, on the order of 2 degrees Celsius [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit] over 15 years." Implications for a warming planet Scientists have known that the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean takes in a significant amount of heat from the atmosphere, but this new study suggests this small portion of the world's oceans could have a big influence on global climate, said James Moum, a professor of physical oceanography at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., who was not involved with the new study. While the models used in the study rely on some assumptions (for instance, the researchers set the sea-surface temperature to what is observed, rather than computing the temperatures, as would be done in a numerical model), Moum called the research "a brave experiment." ( so this study uses observed temperatures, and the implication is that other studies use assumed computed temperatures rather than observed temperatures, this doesn't sound right to me... ) "It provides a physical basis for the current global mean temperature leveling off, while at the same time, points to this equatorial cold tongue as being the major driver for that," Moum told LiveScience. There are still many unknowns ( my long held assertion, 125 years of temperature record are not enough to predict anything ) about how this warming and cooling in the Pacific Ocean interacts with man-made greenhouse gas emissions to change the Earth's climate. "We had El Niño long before we had anthropogenic forcing — they occur independently of man-made forcing, certainly," ( and take the sting out of it, being more powerful, able to mitigate the man made effects {if they are man made} and the El Niño is stated above to be minor in the scheme of things, so what does that make the supposed anthropogenic effect ) Moum said. "Whether they're amplified by it is another question. The flip side of the story is that if this part of the ocean has an outside influence when it cools, it's going to have an outside influence when it warms. It's definitely suggested in the paper that this is a cause for concern." _____ For me the Jury is still out.

I have only just got around to reading about the Goats. Another more likely reason for lower average body weights in the Chamois, is, very few natural predators these days, likely declining over the same period that "Global Warming" is supposed to have been in effect, few or no wolves, mountain leopards or lions etc. So the population of Chamois goes up, the food supply remains the same, more goats, less food, slimmer goats.

And, it's not working, the world's population is still climbing

But you would then have to believe, that the owners of the buildings, went to the trouble of: 1/ Organising a bunch of Middle Eastern Men, to fly a bunch of planes into the various targets. 2/ Pre-wiring the buildings with the necessary explosives required and employing demolition specialists to ensure the explosives were in the right place to achieve the desired 'drop straight down' implosion. 3/ Paying enough people, enough money, to never say, any of this was done. 4/ Being completely indifferent to the fate of thousands of people. I think (personal view) that that is a bit steep for Insurance Fraud. You'd have to employ hundreds of people to accomplish all of the above, and in the land of 'merica, it is completely out of the national character, that someone has not come forward, to expose all of these terrible doings and claim the 15 minutes of fame, that they feel they deserve.

Well in the warped Machismo that is inherent in the Asian male's psych, perhaps having a girlfriend/wife/daughter with a black eye is a social status symbol. In NZ you'd be arrested, even if she did fall on a door knob or similar. I had a friend whose triathlete mad wife had slipped an fallen in one of the events and gained a bruise on her cheek. The next day the police were on the door step courtesy of a nosy neighbour. The police took a lot of persuading to go away. The NZ police have a default position in domestic violence incidents, arrest the male*. Doesn't matter who is at fault. * This is true, source is a longstanding police officer. "We let the judge sort it out".

On the one hand, the article referencing the clip: "a big turning point for me" "questioning the world we live in". "I remember the feelings I had as I walked home from school talking with my friends" "as time went on I started to realize" "It was during these times that Collective Evolution was born. Along with my passion for questioning the world I was also going through a personal transformation spiritually. My perceptions about life and who we are, the type of world we live in etc was all changing" "could be the doorway to a immensely radical but positive change in our world. I feel we are on the cusp of having the truth about 9/11 become mainstream and in turn I believe our world will change in ways some of us never thought was possible." Sounds as wishy washy as they come.... On the other hand, the video in the article looks really credible, I watched about 50% of it in bits and was impressed by the logic. If the assertions in the vid are true (they may not be) then there is a question to be asked. "Why would anyone (apart from the terrorists blamed) want to destroy three buildings and three? planes and all the people in them?

Should'a told me, I could have brought my axe and broad sword

Still half Viking by blood, answer to the name Erik, like axes, strong women.

Here's a tip for the dissatisfied women footballers of the world. If Fifa is the misogynist devil you portray it to be, set up your own world football organisation and get on with making the women's game all you think it can be. If you are free to think and act for yourselves, women's football can find avenues Fifa is incapable of travelling down. Design your own future, and maybe even redesign the actual game. More

And more on this theme of women lying - Source After duping Irish and Canadian authorities with horrific tales of being a child sexual abuse victim, serial troublemaker Samantha Azzopardi is returning home to Australia this week. The 26-year-old from Sydney, who has used more than 40 aliases, was considered a flight risk and so devious Canadian authorities decided to keep her locked up until she boarded a flight back to Australia on Tuesday. A Canadian Border Security Agency officer will escort Azzopardi on the flight, the Calgary Herald reported. "Ms Azzopardi has a long history of impersonating others, lying and committing fraud," hearing officer Rhonda Macklin, at immigration proceedings in Calgary, said. When Azzopardi was found wandering the streets of Dublin, Ireland, last year she led authorities to believe she was a teenage sex-trafficking victim from eastern Europe...............................

And in Laos, I've often seen women in the markets sporting a black eye. Though it's conjecture how they may have got them...