Re: [Biofuel] War on the cheap

[D. Mindock]

Fritz,
Well, the sad thing is that 
this illegitimate war is causing needless deaths and suffering
on both sides, especially the Iraqi 
side. It is bankrupting the future of the USA. Now some might say 
that's
good, but not if you're stuck here in the 
USA and will have to pay, one way or the
other. Congess seems to be in fear of 
taking any actions to impeach Bush/Cheney.
BushCo relishes divisiveness, chaos, war, 
debt so huge that it'd fill the
Grand Canyon, etc., as long as he and his 
mega-rich cohorts all make out abundantly.
They (Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice) are 
nothing more than thieves and thugs who've made it to the top of 
the
pecking order. They 
(BushCo/Halliburton/Defense Contractors) are looting the 
country's wealth and it is all done in plain sight, and with the silent approval, thus complicity, of a 
totally confused Congress.
Peace, D. Mindock

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Fritz Friesinger 
  To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:21 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Biofuel] War on the 
  cheap
  
  It seems,Bushes an Co.never learned their 
  Historylessons!
  Same thing happened to Napoleons Armee in cold 
  Russia!
  Hitler made the same Mistake,now its 
  Bushes
  Thanks god the rule works!
  Fritz 
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
D. 
Mindock 
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:31 
PM
Subject: [Biofuel] War on the 
cheap

War on the cheapBy BOB 
KERRProvidence JournalMay 3, 2006, 05:54The Iraq 
war has been the war fought on the cheap - not enough body armor, not 
enough armor on vehicles, not enough night vision equipment.It 
has been the war in which packages from back home have had to fill some 
crucial needs.Now, we have chow call at the Greenwood Credit Union 
in Warwick, R.I. It's the latest in home-front intervention. It's 
partially in response to the unthinkable image of U.S. Marines 
approaching Iraqi citizens and asking for food because they do not have 
enough.There's a big barrel in the lobby of the credit union on Post 
Road in Warwick. It's decorated with ribbons and it's there because 
Karen Boucher-Andoscia's son, Nick Andoscia, called and asked his mother 
to send food.Nick's a Marine corporal. He was in Afghanistan 
last year, where there was enough to eat. He's in Iraq now even though 
his enlistment was up last year.He's one of those Marines who 
can't walk away. His unit, the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Marines, was 
headed for Iraq and he just couldn't head for civilian life while those 
he had served with were heading to their second war."He 
extended," says Karen. "He told me, 'I really have to go. I can't let my 
guys go alone.' "There are a lot of stories like that. We don't hear 
them much. They're kind of personal.So Nick Andoscia went to 
Iraq. And hunger soon followed."I got a letter," says Karen. "And he 
had called me before that. He said, 'Send lots of tuna.' "Nick 
told his mother that he and the men in his unit were all about 10 pounds 
lighter in their first few weeks in Iraq. They were pulling 22-hour 
patrol shifts. They were getting two meals a day and they were not meals 
to remember."He told me the two meals just weren't cutting it. He 
said the Iraqi food was usually better. They were going to the Iraqis 
and basically saying, 'feed me.' "Karen started packing in that 
wartime tradition as old as mothers and sons. She packed a lot of the 
packaged tuna, not the canned.She happened to mention her hungry son 
to people she works with at Greenwood Credit Union, where she is a 
teller and has worked for 30 years.Pounds and pounds of food 
started showing up amid the daily business of loans and deposits and 
withdrawals. Marianne Barao, the branch manager, said it could be done, 
the credit union could become the place where people help feed hungry 
Marines who are risking their lives on a skimpy diet."We sent 
out 51 pounds this week," says Karen. "There are customers coming in 
saying, 'What do you need?' "The credit union is paying the cost of 
packing and shipping.Any packaged food is welcome. So are baby wipes 
because showers are even rarer than a full meal. And foot 
powder.Nick Andoscia, who is 22, is due to come home later this 
year. He wants to study criminal justice, his mother says, then go to 
work for a fire or police department.But for the next few months 
he will be on patrol in western Iraq, dealing with the heat and the dirt 
and the danger.The last thing he should have to worry about is an 
empty stomach. The last thing he should have to do is approach Iraqis 
and ask for food.You have to wonder what the gracious hosts must 
think when a fighting man from the richest country on earth comes to 
their door in search of someth

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider

[Debra]

It's a winner!  By now, even those that voted for him might wear it
- Original Message - 
From: "Jason & Katie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider


> id wear it, no argument at all, whos going to be printing them?
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider
>
>
>> Groovy dude!!! Where can I get the t-shirt?
>>
>>
>> D. Mindock wrote:
>>
>>>  Subject: I'm the Decider
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Bush said the other day, "I am the decider".
>>>
>>>The following is from dailykos.com.
>>>
>>>  Well, it took me awhile, but I finally realized what
>>>  "I'm the decider" reminds me of.  It sounds like
>>>  something a character in a Dr. Seuss book might say.
>>>
>>>  So with apologies to the late Mr. Geisel, here is some
>>>  idle speculation as to what else such a character
>>>  might say:
>>>
>>>  I'm the decider.
>>>  I pick and I choose.
>>>  I pick among whats.
>>>  And choose among whos.
>>>
>>>  And as I decide
>>>  Each particular day
>>>  The things I decide on
>>>  All turn out that way.
>>>
>>>  I decided on Freedom
>>>  For all of Iraq.
>>>  And now that we have it,
>>>  I'm not looking back.
>>>
>>>  I decided on tax cuts
>>>  That just help the wealthy.
>>>  And Medicare changes
>>>  That aren't really healthy.
>>>
>>>  And parklands and wetlands
>>>  Who needs all that stuff?
>>>  I decided that none
>>>  Would be more than enough!
>>>
>>>  I decided that schools
>>>  All in all are the best
>>>  The less that they teach
>>>  And the more that they test.
>>>
>>>  I decided those wages
>>>  You need to get by
>>>  Are much better spent
>>>  On some CEO guy.
>>>
>>>  I decided your Wade
>>>  Which was versing your Roe
>>>  Is terribly awful
>>>  And just has to go.
>>>
>>>  I decided that levees
>>>  Are not really needed.
>>>  Now when hurricanes come
>>>  They can come unimpeded.
>>>
>>>  That old Constitution?
>>>  Well, I have decided
>>>  As"just goddam paper"
>>>  It should be derided.
>>>
>>>  I've decided gay marriage
>>>  Is icky and weird.
>>>  Above all other things,
>>>  It's the one to be feared.
>>>
>>>  And Cheney and Rummy
>>>  And Condi all know
>>>  That I'm the Decider -
>>>  They tell me it's so.
>>>
>>>  I'm the Decider
>>>  So watch what you say
>>>  Or I may decide
>>>  To have you whisked away.
>>>
>>>  Or I'll tap your phones.
>>>  Your e-mail I'll read.
>>>  `cause I'm the Decider -
>>>  Like Jesus decreed.
>>>
>>>  Yes, I'm the Decider
>>>  The finest alive
>>>  And I'm nuking Iran.
>>>  Now watch this drive!
>>>
>>>  ..
>>>  Garret Hinebauch
>>>  8th Grade English
>>>  The American School in London
>>>  One Waverley Place
>>>  London NW8 0NP
>>>  UK
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Biofuel] War on the cheap

[Fritz Friesinger]

It seems,Bushes an Co.never learned their 
Historylessons!
Same thing happened to Napoleons Armee in cold 
Russia!
Hitler made the same Mistake,now its 
Bushes
Thanks god the rule works!
Fritz 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  D. 
  Mindock 
  To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:31 
  PM
  Subject: [Biofuel] War on the cheap
  
  War on the cheapBy BOB KERRProvidence 
  JournalMay 3, 2006, 05:54The Iraq war has been the war 
  fought on the cheap - not enough body armor, not enough armor on vehicles, 
  not enough night vision equipment.It has been the war in which 
  packages from back home have had to fill some crucial needs.Now, 
  we have chow call at the Greenwood Credit Union in Warwick, R.I. It's the 
  latest in home-front intervention. It's partially in response to the 
  unthinkable image of U.S. Marines approaching Iraqi citizens and asking 
  for food because they do not have enough.There's a big barrel in the 
  lobby of the credit union on Post Road in Warwick. It's decorated with 
  ribbons and it's there because Karen Boucher-Andoscia's son, Nick 
  Andoscia, called and asked his mother to send food.Nick's a Marine 
  corporal. He was in Afghanistan last year, where there was enough to eat. 
  He's in Iraq now even though his enlistment was up last year.He's 
  one of those Marines who can't walk away. His unit, the 3rd Battalion of 
  the 3rd Marines, was headed for Iraq and he just couldn't head for 
  civilian life while those he had served with were heading to their second 
  war."He extended," says Karen. "He told me, 'I really have to go. I 
  can't let my guys go alone.' "There are a lot of stories like 
  that. We don't hear them much. They're kind of personal.So Nick 
  Andoscia went to Iraq. And hunger soon followed."I got a letter," says 
  Karen. "And he had called me before that. He said, 'Send lots of tuna.' 
  "Nick told his mother that he and the men in his unit were all about 
  10 pounds lighter in their first few weeks in Iraq. They were pulling 
  22-hour patrol shifts. They were getting two meals a day and they were not 
  meals to remember."He told me the two meals just weren't cutting it. 
  He said the Iraqi food was usually better. They were going to the Iraqis 
  and basically saying, 'feed me.' "Karen started packing in that 
  wartime tradition as old as mothers and sons. She packed a lot of the 
  packaged tuna, not the canned.She happened to mention her hungry son 
  to people she works with at Greenwood Credit Union, where she is a teller 
  and has worked for 30 years.Pounds and pounds of food started 
  showing up amid the daily business of loans and deposits and withdrawals. 
  Marianne Barao, the branch manager, said it could be done, the credit 
  union could become the place where people help feed hungry Marines who are 
  risking their lives on a skimpy diet."We sent out 51 pounds this 
  week," says Karen. "There are customers coming in saying, 'What do you 
  need?' "The credit union is paying the cost of packing and 
  shipping.Any packaged food is welcome. So are baby wipes because 
  showers are even rarer than a full meal. And foot powder.Nick 
  Andoscia, who is 22, is due to come home later this year. He wants to 
  study criminal justice, his mother says, then go to work for a fire or 
  police department.But for the next few months he will be on patrol in 
  western Iraq, dealing with the heat and the dirt and the 
  danger.The last thing he should have to worry about is an empty 
  stomach. The last thing he should have to do is approach Iraqis and ask 
  for food.You have to wonder what the gracious hosts must think 
  when a fighting man from the richest country on earth comes to their door 
  in search of something to eat.(Bob Kerr is a columnist for The 
  Providence Journal. E-mail bkerr(at)projo.com.)
  
  

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Re: [Biofuel] Are Americans torturers or supporters of torture?

[Fritz Friesinger]

Hey Randall,
its greed just greed and again greed and only 
greed!
Fritz

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Randall 
  To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:19 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Are Americans 
  torturers or supporters of torture?
  Hakan,To answer your question:  No.  Your 
  questions imply that ALL Americans have proof about systematic and 
  long-term torture, and quite simply I do not believe that you have the 
  evidence to support that assertion.  What other countries have been 
  reported to and are listed with Amnesty International as having employed 
  torture?    Are you going to issue the same indictment of 
  the citizens of those countries as well?Aren't ALL member nations 
  in the UN responsible for not forcing ALL countries to stop using 
  torture?  Using your assertion, aren't the citizens of all those 
  countries responsible as well?   Yes, I know it is easy to say 
  that the US has a veto on the Security Council...but why not simply change 
  the system??  Sitting back and just saying that they cannot is the 
  same as the comparison to 1930's and 1940's Nazi Germany.Simply 
  having a vote does not imply responsibilty, much less confer the ability 
  to force the action (or non-action) of a government.    This 
  does not excuse torture...but nor does it solve it either.   I 
  believe you need to first figure out what makes humans CAPABLE of torture 
  then you can address the REASONS that humans employ 
  torture.--Randall___<< 
  Heisenberg may have slept here >>"If I had eight hours to chop 
  down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my xe."  --Abraham 
  Lincoln___- 
  Original Message - From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: 
  Sent: 
  Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:19 PMSubject: [Biofuel] Are Americans torturers 
  or supporters of torture?>> US has not stopped torture, 
  according to Amnesty>> http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1519912>> 
  Who belive that they stopped? It casts a shadow over all Americans, 
  who> are responsible for their government. At least republicans are 
  clearly to> identify with what's going on. This especially elected 
  representatives,> who refuse to take a stand and stop their support of 
  this administration.>> Why is there so little public actions to 
  get rid of the current > government?> A massive rejection of its 
  methods, would make them resign, but it is> no signs of it. No actions 
  are the same as compliancy, Americans of> today, must have a very good 
  understanding and sympathy for the> Germans in the 1930's. They only 
  "let it happen" also.>> Was Vietnam not enough, or should future 
  generations have to feel> more guilt of their ancestors 
  behavior.>> Hakan 
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Re: [Biofuel] Electric lynch motors

[Hakan Falk]

Zeke,

Galapagos:
Nothing, if they have not done it the last 8 month. I did not see
any solar, not even on the houses. The tour boats are not small,
generally they take 100 or more passengers, with spacious
dining, entertainment and kitchen areas. I was very surprised
by the contradictions between the vocal care for environment
and the dirty tourist ships. There are many of them, but the
Americans try to keep their mind in rest, by not allowing
smoking. LOL

Hakan

At 01:06 04/05/2006, you wrote:
>Never heard of biscuit tin motors, but I have heard of lynch motors --
>used for all kinds of little electric vehicals.  I've also heard a bit
>about eletric boats and ferries -- they used to have one for president
>Roosevelt (Teddy) I think, for the official launch (equivalent to his
>Marine 1 helicopter now I guess).  As he said, weight is not an
>issue, and nowadays, you can easily (technically, if you can afford
>it) put a kW or so of PV as a shade canopy on the barge and run it
>around all day, pollution free.  I know that the galapagos islands
>were wanting to convert alot of their little tour boats, because they
>just tool around all day belching diesel (which also kills alot of the
>very wildlife the tourists are there to see, in the frequent fuel
>spills).  Not sure how far along they've gotten on this plan.
>
>On 5/3/06, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > A nice person wrote to me from the UK and told me about this, among
> > other things - anyone know about 'biscuit tin motors'?
> >
> > >You may be interested to know that I own a 1936 canal barge which I
> > >have had converted so that the propulsion system is an electric
> > >lynch motor. I dare say you already know about lynch motors but just
> > >in case you don't they are also known as 'biscuit tin motors'
> > >because they are so tiny that they will actually fit inside one.
> > >
> > >The lynch motor happily pushes along my boat which is 72 feet long
> > >and weighs in at over 20 tons 
> > >Fortunately on a boat , batteries are a positive attribute because
> > >they become ballast to keep the hull down in the water. I usually
> > >have 1,650 amp hours of them onboard. The weak link is the fact that
> > >my budget didn't stretch to the kilowatt of photovoltaics needed to
> > >do the propulsion system justice so I don't travel very far at
> > >present : >(
> > >
> > >Hugh, who fitted the lynch motor has a website   www.solarboat.co.uk
> > >which you may find interesting.
> >
> > Also:
> >
> > http://www.lemcoltd.com/
> > L.M.C. Manufacturers of Permanent Magnet DC Motors
> > Lynch Motor Company
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Keith



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Re: [Biofuel] Are Americans torturers or supporters of torture?

[Hakan Falk]

Randall,

US have already proved that they do not want to give up the veto
in UN. This also means that they can veto any change that are
suggested for UN. So it is the old story about what comes first.

Yes, there are some other countries that apply torture, most of
them are countries that US does not want to be compared with and
some of them South Americans that US support and where CIA
have proved to be training the military. To be fair, we must also
mention China, where US have no influence at all.

Yes, I am saying the same about those countries, but unfortunately
torture is an internal matter and used to keep their own population
under control. Are you suggesting that this is the case in US, it
becomes even more worrisome than I thought.

So what you say is, as long as ALL Americans are not aware of
their country's methods, the rest is absolved from taking actions
and are kept in line by torture as other countries.

I never thought that you had such a risky and dangerous environment
in US. It has changed very much the last few years that I did not
visit.

Hakan


At 21:19 03/05/2006, you wrote:
>Hakan,
>
>To answer your question:  No.  Your questions imply that ALL Americans have
>proof about systematic and long-term torture, and quite simply I do not
>believe that you have the evidence to support that assertion.  What other
>countries have been reported to and are listed with Amnesty International as
>having employed torture?Are you going to issue the same indictment of
>the citizens of those countries as well?
>
>Aren't ALL member nations in the UN responsible for not forcing ALL
>countries to stop using torture?  Using your assertion, aren't the citizens
>of all those countries responsible as well?   Yes, I know it is easy to say
>that the US has a veto on the Security Council...but why not simply change
>the system??  Sitting back and just saying that they cannot is the same as
>the comparison to 1930's and 1940's Nazi Germany.
>
>Simply having a vote does not imply responsibilty, much less confer the
>ability to force the action (or non-action) of a government.This does
>not excuse torture...but nor does it solve it either.   I believe you need
>to first figure out what makes humans CAPABLE of torture then you can
>address the REASONS that humans employ torture.
>
>
>--Randall
>
>___
>
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>
>"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my
>xe."  --Abraham Lincoln
>
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>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:19 PM
>Subject: [Biofuel] Are Americans torturers or supporters of torture?
>
>
> >
> > US has not stopped torture, according to Amnesty
> >
> > 
> http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1519912
> >
> > Who belive that they stopped? It casts a shadow over all Americans, who
> > are responsible for their government. At least republicans are clearly to
> > identify with what's going on. This especially elected representatives,
> > who refuse to take a stand and stop their support of this administration.
> >
> > Why is there so little public actions to get rid of the current
> > government?
> > A massive rejection of its methods, would make them resign, but it is
> > no signs of it. No actions are the same as compliancy, Americans of
> > today, must have a very good understanding and sympathy for the
> > Germans in the 1930's. They only "let it happen" also.
> >
> > Was Vietnam not enough, or should future generations have to feel
> > more guilt of their ancestors behavior.
> >
> > Hakan
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Biofuel] Electric lynch motors

[Zeke Yewdall]

Never heard of biscuit tin motors, but I have heard of lynch motors --
used for all kinds of little electric vehicals.  I've also heard a bit
about eletric boats and ferries -- they used to have one for president
Roosevelt (Teddy) I think, for the official launch (equivalent to his
Marine 1 helicopter now I guess).  As he said, weight is not an
issue, and nowadays, you can easily (technically, if you can afford
it) put a kW or so of PV as a shade canopy on the barge and run it
around all day, pollution free.  I know that the galapagos islands
were wanting to convert alot of their little tour boats, because they
just tool around all day belching diesel (which also kills alot of the
very wildlife the tourists are there to see, in the frequent fuel
spills).  Not sure how far along they've gotten on this plan.

On 5/3/06, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A nice person wrote to me from the UK and told me about this, among
> other things - anyone know about 'biscuit tin motors'?
>
> >You may be interested to know that I own a 1936 canal barge which I
> >have had converted so that the propulsion system is an electric
> >lynch motor. I dare say you already know about lynch motors but just
> >in case you don't they are also known as 'biscuit tin motors'
> >because they are so tiny that they will actually fit inside one.
> >
> >The lynch motor happily pushes along my boat which is 72 feet long
> >and weighs in at over 20 tons 
> >Fortunately on a boat , batteries are a positive attribute because
> >they become ballast to keep the hull down in the water. I usually
> >have 1,650 amp hours of them onboard. The weak link is the fact that
> >my budget didn't stretch to the kilowatt of photovoltaics needed to
> >do the propulsion system justice so I don't travel very far at
> >present : >(
> >
> >Hugh, who fitted the lynch motor has a website   www.solarboat.co.uk
> >which you may find interesting.
>
> Also:
>
> http://www.lemcoltd.com/
> L.M.C. Manufacturers of Permanent Magnet DC Motors
> Lynch Motor Company
>
> Best
>
> Keith
>
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[Biofuel] films for sustainable living meetings (corrected)

[marilyn]

Hi all

Can someone recommend some good films to tell people about at 
sustainable living meetings? We know about these:

The End of Suburbia
NOVA - the Dimming Sun
CNN Presents - Climate Change
The Corporation
An Inconvenient Truth

I'd like to find out about the film We Feed the World - Essen global. It was 
mentioned in this mailing list (wong name on last email). Where I can get it 
and is it in English? This is the URL for it in Austria:
http://www2.dw-world.de/southasia/germany/1.178686.1.htm

Marilyn

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[Biofuel] Films needed for sustainable living meetings

[marilyn]

Hi all

Can someone recommend some good films to tell people about at  
sustainable living meetings? We know about these:

The End of Suburbia
NOVA - the Dimming Sun
CNN Presents - Climate Change
The Corporation
An Inconvenient Truth

I'd like to find out about the film Eating (up) the World mentioned in this 
mailing list. Where I can get it and is it in English? This is the URL for it 
in 
Austria:
http://www2.dw-world.de/southasia/germany/1.178686.1.html

Any more suggestions?

Marilyn

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Re: [Biofuel] Iogen - Post to List

[Jason & Katie]

Sanity is the ability to doubt your own sanity.

- Original Message - 
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To: 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iogen - Post to List


 > Is this clear...or am I coming 
> off as the probable lunatic I might really be???


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Re: [Biofuel] The Predator State = Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?

[Jason & Katie]

i say LET IT FAIL. let it fail like a drunk acrobat with no net. if anything 
we should try to accelerate the process. the faster we hit bottom, the 
faster we can re-establish something decent. there are very few ways to 
repair this mess without a total demolition and refurbishment.

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To: 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:17 AM
Subject: [Biofuel] The Predator State = Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the 
U.S. government?


> http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12880.htm
>
> The Predator State
>
> Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?
>
> By James K. Galbraith
>
> 04/29/06 "Mother Jones"  -- -- WHAT IS THE REAL NATURE of American
> capitalism today? Is it a grand national adventure, as politicians
> and textbooks aver, in which markets provide the framework for benign
> competition, from which emerges the greatest good for the greatest
> number? Or is it the domain of class struggle, even a "global class
> war," as the title of Jeff Faux's new book would have it, in which
> the "party of Davos" outmaneuvers the remnants of the organized
> working class?
>
> The doctrines of the "law and economics" movement, now ascendant in
> our courts, hold that if people are rational, if markets can be
> "contested," if memory is good and information adequate, then firms
> will adhere on their own to norms of honorable conduct. Any public
> presence in the economy undermines this. Even insurance-whether
> deposit insurance or Social Security-is perverse, for it encourages
> irresponsible risktaking. Banks will lend to bad clients, workers
> will "live for today," companies will speculate with their pension
> funds; the movement has even argued that seat belts foster reckless
> driving. Insurance, in other words, creates a "moral hazard" for
> which "market discipline" is the cure; all works for the best when
> thought and planning do not interfere. It's a strange vision, and if
> we weren't governed by people like John Roberts and Sam Alito, who
> pretend to believe it, it would scarcely be worth our attention.
>
> The idea of class struggle goes back a long way; perhaps it really is
> "the history of all hitherto existing society," as Marx and Engels
> famously declared. But if the world is ruled by a monied elite, then
> to what extent do middle-class working Americans compose part of the
> global proletariat? The honest answer can only be: not much. The
> political decline of the left surely flows in part from rhetoric that
> no longer matches experience; for the most part, American voters do
> not live on the Malthusian margin. Dollars command the world's goods,
> rupees do not; membership in the dollar economy makes every working
> American, to some degree, complicit in the capitalist class.
>
> In the mixed-economy America I grew up in, there existed a
> post-capitalist, post-Marxian vision of middle-class identity. It
> consisted of shared assets and entitlements, of which the bedrock was
> public education, access to college, good housing, full employment at
> living wages, Medicare, and Social Security. These programs, publicly
> provided, financed, or guaranteed, had softened the rough edges of
> Great Depression capitalism, rewarding the sacrifices that won the
> Second World War. They also showcased America, demonstrating to those
> behind the Iron Curtain that regulated capitalism could yield
> prosperity far beyond the capacities of state planning. (This, and
> not the arms race, ultimately brought down the Soviet empire.) These
> middle-class institutions survive in America today, but they are
> frayed and tattered from constant attack. And the division between
> those included and those excluded is large and obvious to all.
>
> Today, the signature of modern American capitalism is neither benign
> competition, nor class struggle, nor an inclusive middle-class
> utopia. Instead, predation has become the dominant feature-a system
> wherein the rich have come to feast on decaying systems built for the
> middle class. The predatory class is not the whole of the wealthy; it
> may be opposed by many others of similar wealth. But it is the
> defining feature, the leading force. And its agents are in full
> control of the government under which we live.
>
> Our rulers deliver favors to their clients. These range from Native
> American casino operators, to Appalachian coal companies, to Saipan
> sweatshop operators, to the would-be oil field operators of Iraq.
> They include the misanthropes who led the campaign to abolish the
> estate tax; Charles Schwab, who suggested the dividend tax cut of
> 2003; the "Benedict Arnold" companies who move their taxable income
> offshore; and the financial institutions behind last year's
> bankruptcy bill. Everywhere you look, public decisions yield gains to
> specific private entities.
>
> For in a predatory regime, nothing is done for public reasons.
> Indeed, the men in charge do not recog

[Biofuel] Biodiesel videos

[Joe Street]

I just watched a biodiesel DVD that was made in eastern Ontario.  It was 
obvious that a pile of money was invested by somebody but everything 
looked brand new and shiny, instead of used and oily like it should.  
There were three hot water tanks in all, one for preheating, one for 
reacting and one for drying. As I watched it became obvious that this 
guy did not have a lot of knowledge.  He had a small automotive style 
cartridge filter for filtering feed stock!  We have just been discussing 
gravity settling on this list and why prefiltration is not needed.  They 
were using bubble washing and heating the fuel and bubbling air through 
the fuel for drying which is a nice recipe for oxidizing.  Then the guy 
fires up the blender for a demo batch and with 200 ml of methoxide 
frothing and spitting away with blender running he takes the lid off to 
pour oil in, and this is also indoors. Yikes!  They then start showing a 
full size batch but completely skip over the process after filling the 
pre-heating tank with what looked to be very well settled or previously 
filtered oil.  When he demonstrates a measuring cup of glycerin he has 
decanted in the background on the sight tube you can see the reactor 
doesn't even have anything in it. There is no pre wash test or anything 
and he doesn't say anything about titration for that matter either. Has 
anybody else seen similar crap?  I wonder how much of this nonsense is 
floating around out there.  It makes me cringe. I have been asked twice 
to be on TV and once approached to help make one of these DVD's and I am 
starting to get the creeps!


Joe


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[Biofuel] War on the cheap

[D. Mindock]

War on the cheapBy BOB KERRProvidence 
JournalMay 3, 2006, 05:54The Iraq war has been the war 
fought on the cheap - not enough body armor, not enough armor on vehicles, 
not enough night vision equipment.It has been the war in which 
packages from back home have had to fill some crucial needs.Now, we 
have chow call at the Greenwood Credit Union in Warwick, R.I. It's the 
latest in home-front intervention. It's partially in response to the 
unthinkable image of U.S. Marines approaching Iraqi citizens and asking for 
food because they do not have enough.There's a big barrel in the lobby 
of the credit union on Post Road in Warwick. It's decorated with ribbons and 
it's there because Karen Boucher-Andoscia's son, Nick Andoscia, called and 
asked his mother to send food.Nick's a Marine corporal. He was in 
Afghanistan last year, where there was enough to eat. He's in Iraq now even 
though his enlistment was up last year.He's one of those Marines who 
can't walk away. His unit, the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Marines, was headed 
for Iraq and he just couldn't head for civilian life while those he had 
served with were heading to their second war."He extended," says 
Karen. "He told me, 'I really have to go. I can't let my guys go alone.' 
"There are a lot of stories like that. We don't hear them much. 
They're kind of personal.So Nick Andoscia went to Iraq. And hunger 
soon followed."I got a letter," says Karen. "And he had called me before 
that. He said, 'Send lots of tuna.' "Nick told his mother that he 
and the men in his unit were all about 10 pounds lighter in their first few 
weeks in Iraq. They were pulling 22-hour patrol shifts. They were getting 
two meals a day and they were not meals to remember."He told me the 
two meals just weren't cutting it. He said the Iraqi food was usually 
better. They were going to the Iraqis and basically saying, 'feed me.' 
"Karen started packing in that wartime tradition as old as mothers 
and sons. She packed a lot of the packaged tuna, not the canned.She 
happened to mention her hungry son to people she works with at Greenwood 
Credit Union, where she is a teller and has worked for 30 
years.Pounds and pounds of food started showing up amid the daily 
business of loans and deposits and withdrawals. Marianne Barao, the branch 
manager, said it could be done, the credit union could become the place 
where people help feed hungry Marines who are risking their lives on a 
skimpy diet."We sent out 51 pounds this week," says Karen. "There are 
customers coming in saying, 'What do you need?' "The credit union is 
paying the cost of packing and shipping.Any packaged food is welcome. So 
are baby wipes because showers are even rarer than a full meal. And foot 
powder.Nick Andoscia, who is 22, is due to come home later this year. He 
wants to study criminal justice, his mother says, then go to work for a 
fire or police department.But for the next few months he will be on 
patrol in western Iraq, dealing with the heat and the dirt and the 
danger.The last thing he should have to worry about is an empty stomach. 
The last thing he should have to do is approach Iraqis and ask for 
food.You have to wonder what the gracious hosts must think when a 
fighting man from the richest country on earth comes to their door in 
search of something to eat.(Bob Kerr is a columnist for The 
Providence Journal. E-mail bkerr(at)projo.com.)
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[Biofuel] Electric lynch motors

[Keith Addison]

Hi all

A nice person wrote to me from the UK and told me about this, among 
other things - anyone know about 'biscuit tin motors'?

>You may be interested to know that I own a 1936 canal barge which I 
>have had converted so that the propulsion system is an electric 
>lynch motor. I dare say you already know about lynch motors but just 
>in case you don't they are also known as 'biscuit tin motors' 
>because they are so tiny that they will actually fit inside one.
>
>The lynch motor happily pushes along my boat which is 72 feet long 
>and weighs in at over 20 tons 
>Fortunately on a boat , batteries are a positive attribute because 
>they become ballast to keep the hull down in the water. I usually 
>have 1,650 amp hours of them onboard. The weak link is the fact that 
>my budget didn't stretch to the kilowatt of photovoltaics needed to 
>do the propulsion system justice so I don't travel very far at 
>present : >(
>
>Hugh, who fitted the lynch motor has a website   www.solarboat.co.uk 
>which you may find interesting.

Also:

http://www.lemcoltd.com/
L.M.C. Manufacturers of Permanent Magnet DC Motors
Lynch Motor Company

Best

Keith


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Re: [Biofuel] Are Americans torturers or supporters of torture?

[Randall]

Hakan,

To answer your question:  No.  Your questions imply that ALL Americans have 
proof about systematic and long-term torture, and quite simply I do not 
believe that you have the evidence to support that assertion.  What other 
countries have been reported to and are listed with Amnesty International as 
having employed torture?Are you going to issue the same indictment of 
the citizens of those countries as well?

Aren't ALL member nations in the UN responsible for not forcing ALL 
countries to stop using torture?  Using your assertion, aren't the citizens 
of all those countries responsible as well?   Yes, I know it is easy to say 
that the US has a veto on the Security Council...but why not simply change 
the system??  Sitting back and just saying that they cannot is the same as 
the comparison to 1930's and 1940's Nazi Germany.

Simply having a vote does not imply responsibilty, much less confer the 
ability to force the action (or non-action) of a government.This does 
not excuse torture...but nor does it solve it either.   I believe you need 
to first figure out what makes humans CAPABLE of torture then you can 
address the REASONS that humans employ torture.


--Randall

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From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: [Biofuel] Are Americans torturers or supporters of torture?


>
> US has not stopped torture, according to Amnesty
>
> http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1519912
>
> Who belive that they stopped? It casts a shadow over all Americans, who
> are responsible for their government. At least republicans are clearly to
> identify with what's going on. This especially elected representatives,
> who refuse to take a stand and stop their support of this administration.
>
> Why is there so little public actions to get rid of the current 
> government?
> A massive rejection of its methods, would make them resign, but it is
> no signs of it. No actions are the same as compliancy, Americans of
> today, must have a very good understanding and sympathy for the
> Germans in the 1930's. They only "let it happen" also.
>
> Was Vietnam not enough, or should future generations have to feel
> more guilt of their ancestors behavior.
>
> Hakan
>
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[Biofuel] Processor maintenance

[Keith Addison]

Just finished a general overhaul of the processor, for the first 
time, after three years. That's this processor:

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor10.html
Journey to Forever 90-litre processor

There wasn't anything wrong with it, but the hoses needed replacing, 
so did the silicon seal under the lid.

I replaced all the hose. I'm quite impressed it lasted that long. 
This is transparent braded PVC hose. It was still strong, no bursts 
like some people's hoses have burst, and it's not stiff and brittle 
either, which happens to some plastic with biodiesel. But it was 
weeping. It's a yellowish colour now, the original and the 
replacement hose has a faint blue tinge. You can see the difference 
in the two-year-old photograph at the web page, after about a year I 
changed the plumbing arrangement for the bottom drains and replaced 
two bits of hose, they're slightly more blue.

What kind of hose won't weep either?

The processor has been in regular use every week or so and sometimes 
much more often than that, for three years, using every process and 
all the chemicals, but mostly acid-base with sulphuric acid and KOH.

These are 90-litre fuel tanks from kerosene water heaters, made of 
plain steel, with no inner coating. There's no rust anywhere, not 
even in the two washing tanks.

This is the second time I've replaced the silicon seal. I also used 
two-part polyester putty in some places (not quick-drying, it takes 
24 hours), and that seems as good as new.

So much for all those horrendous chemicals that eat everything.

Best

Keith

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Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider

[D. Mindock]

Thanks Chris. It's very 
well done. I forwarded it to a gazillion people. Peace, D. Mindock

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  chris 
  davidson 
  To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:30 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the 
  Decider
  I liked poem and thought you all may enjoy this. A good parody 
  of the Beatles. Turn on your speakers!http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
  
  

  
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Re: [Biofuel] From a Congresswoman, Diana DeGette (D-CO)

[DHAJOGLO]

My bad... I figured it was a state level thing.  That's even more odd.  I would 
gather that they are presuming the patriot act will eventually be taken out and 
are trying to put bits and pieces of it here and there.


On Tuesday, May 02, 2006  4:25 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote:

>This isn't at a state level.  Diana DeGette is a US rep, not a state
>rep, unless I'm all confused about who the bozos here in Colorado have
>elected.  If you think the democrats from Colorado are bad, try to
>republicans -- Wayne Allard, Tom Tancredo, and Marilyn Musgrave, to
>name a few

>
>On 5/2/06, DHAJOGLO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I was under the impression that the patriot act already pretty much covered 
>> this type of records "mandating."  I wonder what they gain by inacting it at 
>> a state level.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:26 PM, D. Mindock wrote:
>> >
>> >Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:26:59 -0500
>> >From: D. Mindock
>> >To: 
>> >Subject: [Biofuel] From a Congresswoman, Diana DeGette (D-CO)
>> >
>> >"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society,
>> >they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that
>> >authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
>> >Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1850)
>> >
>> > =
>> >
>> >It is getting difficult to distinguish a Democrat from a neo-con Repug these
>> >days. The attack on
>> >our Internet usage and privacy continues...  Peace, D. Mindock
>> >
>> >---
>> >
>> >Original is at:
>> >http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Markups/04262006/degette_001_XML.PDF
>> >
>> >AMENDMENT TO THE COMMITTEE PRINT
>> >OFFERED BY MS. DEGETTE OF COLORADO
>> >
>> >Records retention by ISPs
>> >
>> >At the end of the bill add the following new title:
>> >1 TITLE VI$BM3(BECORDS RETENTION
>> >2 SEC. 601. RECORD RETENTION REGULATIONS REQUIRED.
>> >3 Title VII of the Communications Act of 1934 (47
>> >4 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is further amended by adding after
>> >5 section 718 (as added by section 501 of this Act) the
>> >l6 following new section:
>> >7 $BAq(BSEC. 719. RECORD RETENTION BY PROVIDERS OF INTER8
>> >NET ACCESS SERVICE.
>> >9 $BAq(B(a) REGULATIONS REQUIRED.$BM8(Bithin 90 days
>> >10 after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission
>> >11 shall prescribe regulations requiring each provider of
>> >12 Internet access services to retain records to permit the
>> >13 identification of subscribers to such services for appro-
>> >14 priate law enforcement purposes. Such records shall, in
>> >15 accordance with such regulations, be retained for not less
>> >16 than one year after a subscriber ceases to subscribe to
>> >17 such services.
>> >
>> >18 $BAq(B(b) DEFINITION.$BM'(Bor purposes of this section:
>> >
>> >F:\SAC\109TEL\CABLE\DEGETTE_001.XML
>> >F:\V9\042506\042506.106
>> >April 25, 2006 (11:47 AM)
>> >

>> >

>> >2
>> >
>> >H.L.C.
>> >
>> >1 $BAq(B(1) INTERNET.$BM5(Bhe term $BA*(Bnternet' means
>> >2 the combination of computer facilities and electro
>> >3 magnetic transmission media, and related equipment
>> >4 and software, comprising the interconnected world
>> >5 wide network of computer networks that employ the
>> >6 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol or
>> >7 any successor protocol to transmit information.
>> >8 $BAq(B(2) INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE.$BM5(Bhe term
>> >9 $BA*(Bnternet access service' means a service that enables
>> >10 users to access content, information, electronic mail,
>> >11 or other services offered over the Internet, and may
>> >12 also include access to proprietary content, informa-
>> >13 tion, and other services as part of a package of serv-
>> >14 ices offered to consumers. Such term does not in-
>> >15 clude telecommunications services.''.
>> >
>> >F:\SAC\109TEL\CABLE\DEGETTE_001.XML
>> >F:\V9\042506\042506.106
>> >April 25, 2006 (11:47 AM)
>> >


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[Biofuel] Are Americans torturers or supporters of torture?

[Hakan Falk]

US has not stopped torture, according to Amnesty

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1519912

Who belive that they stopped? It casts a shadow over all Americans, who
are responsible for their government. At least republicans are clearly to
identify with what's going on. This especially elected representatives,
who refuse to take a stand and stop their support of this administration.

Why is there so little public actions to get rid of the current government?
A massive rejection of its methods, would make them resign, but it is
no signs of it. No actions are the same as compliancy, Americans of
today, must have a very good understanding and sympathy for the
Germans in the 1930's. They only "let it happen" also.

Was Vietnam not enough, or should future generations have to feel
more guilt of their ancestors behavior.

Hakan 



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Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider

[chris davidson]

I liked poem and thought you all may enjoy this. A good parody of the Beatles. Turn on your speakers!http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/___
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Re: [Biofuel] Iogen - Post to List

[M&K DuPree]

Hi Keith...thanks so much for the links to info on Iogen and cellulosic 
ethanol generally.  This whole area is very new to me.  Somehow I have been 
blind for most of my 54 years to the extent that my lifestyle and general 
"world view" have been dependent upon and propped up by my dependence upon 
oil as an energy source.  All of sudden I am seeing how out of my control my 
life really is.  And to tell you and everyone the truth, I'm damned 
frightened, and angry, and depressed, and then...is that my .38 over 
there???  Somehow I have been able to keep the madness of this world at bay, 
but no more, all because of rising oil prices and my subsequently felt 
urgency to research and find alternative energy sources.  This research has 
led me into the politics of the whole energy arena and ultimately a world 
view that, when I include not just me and mine, but the whole freakin 6.5 
billion of us (and growing exponentially), has me pretty much freaked.  Just 
another suburban kid gone over the edge (or perhaps, more accurately, come 
back from having been over the edge into dreamland into the reality of 
limited resources and the need for a stripped down lifestyle that takes into 
account the full extent of my actions).  This side of the edge, however, 
isn't something I can easily make my own, because, it appears to me, if I am 
going to be able to truly regain what little sense of my self I might truly 
possess, I must be willing to put my tent on my back and just simply begin 
to wander and then keep wandering until I fall over dead (can't stop by the 
local Salvation Army for refreshment...that would only be dipping my toe 
back over the edge into dreamland again).  Is this clear...or am I coming 
off as the probable lunatic I might really be???
 Anyway, so I am curious about your own comments.  I'm still reading 
through all the articles connected to the links you have shared, so maybe my 
questions will be answered along the way.  Nonetheless, I want to ask them 
here: 1) in regards to "how well industrial-scale processes fit rational 
biofuels production," would you please explain in more detail? Also, perhaps 
lead me to a model industrial-scale process that DOES fit rational biofuels 
production?  My immediate response to this has to do with a main point I 
have observed in my own interest in making biofuel: that this is not 
something me and all of my neighbors can do individually for various 
reasons, but especially because of limited feedstock and difficulty of 
distribution.  Democracy does not extend to the realm of limited resources. 
I believe packaging of product for individuals has promoted this appearance. 
Consequently, it appears to me (and I could still be very blind on this 
point), we need some level of industrial-scale processes; and 2) will you 
please explain further how "gobbling up crop wastes" is done "at the expense 
of soil fertility maintenance?"  Please understand, I am in NO WAY trying to 
be argumentative.  I really am profoundly concerned about our world 
situation today and how I can be on the helpful side of it all (knapsack and 
all???).  I don't have that much time left on the planet, and I'd like to go 
down swinging.  Thanks.  Mike

- Original Message - 
From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iogen - Post to List


> Hi Mike
>
>>Hi...I'd like to hear the list's opinion about the process developed
>>by Iogen to produce "cellulosic ethanol."  Goldman Sachs announced
>>yesterday (May 1) an investment of $30million Canadian in the
>>company.  Royal Dutch/Shell, Petro-Canada, and the Canadian Gov't
>>have also all partnered with or are supporting Iogen.
>> The first article below, by Sam Jaffe, an editor with The
>>Scientist magazine, discusses cellulosic ethanol as well as a fuel
>>cell developed by Lanny Scmidt.  The second link is to the Iogen
>>website itself.  Thanks.  Mike
>>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0407.jaffe.html
>>http://www.iogen.ca/
>
> Here's some previous discussion:
>
> http://snipurl.com/pxs2
> biofuel
> Search results for 'iogen'
> 94 matches
>
> Ethanol from cellulose
> http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol_link.html#cellulose
>
> Maybe it'll get off the ground now, it's been around for years and
> nothing happens. Like all the other ethanol-from-cellulose projects.
>
> What bothers me about it, other than how well industrial-scale
> processes fit rational biofuels production anyway, is that cellulose
> is widely regarded as "waste", but the soil that produced it might
> not think so. There's often plenty of cellulose about that isn't
> utilised and could/should be harvested, but if Iogen et al start
> gobbling up crop wastes at the expense of soil fertility maintenance
> then clean, green and sustainable biofuels won't be the result.
>
> Best
>
> Keith
>
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Re: [Biofuel] The Predator State = Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?

[Doug Turner]

It seems that James K. Galbraith is following in the footsteps of his late
and very great father John Kenneth.  It's delightfully ironic that James
teaches at the Lyndon B. Johnson school.


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Subject: [Biofuel] The Predator State = Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the
U.S. government?


http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12880.htm

The Predator State

Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?

By James K. Galbraith

04/29/06 "Mother Jones"  -- -- WHAT IS THE REAL NATURE of American
capitalism today? Is it a grand national adventure, as politicians
and textbooks aver, in which markets provide the framework for benign
competition, from which emerges the greatest good for the greatest
number? Or is it the domain of class struggle, even a "global class
war," as the title of Jeff Faux's new book would have it, in which
the "party of Davos" outmaneuvers the remnants of the organized
working class...

The doctrines of the "law and economics" movement, now ascendant in
our courts, hold that if people are rational, if markets can be
"contested," if memory is good and information adequate, then firms
will adhere on their own to norms of honorable conduct. Any public
So, how can the political system reform itself? How can we
reestablish checks, balances, countervailing power, and a sense of
public purpose? How can we get modern economic predation back under
control, restoring the possibilities not only for progressive social
action but also-just as important-for honest private economic
activity? Until we can answer those questions, the predators will run
wild.

James K. Galbraith  teaches economics at the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. He previously
served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress,
including executive director of the Joint Economic Committee.

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Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer

[fox mulder]

--- Ryan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>From what I remember from my botany courses,
> plant leaves are also very 
> tightly regulated to reduce water loss.  A leaf is
> basically a large, flat 
> surface coursing with fluid; exactly what you would
> do to promote 
> evaporation.  To slow evap., most leaves have
> passive pores that close in 
> dry conditions as well as a secreted waxy surface. 
> If the FFA were 
> disrupting the waxy surface or causing the pores to
> open or both, you would 
> get rapid fluid loss, browning, wilting, etc., but
> the plant would repair 
> and recover in a short time.
> 
>Gooeyness...hmmm...surface gooeyness?  Or the
> whole leaf is a spongey 
> mess?  Maybe the waxy seal balling up like oil drops
> in water?
> 
>Ryan
> 
> 
> >From: "Thomas Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
> >To: 
> >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer
> >Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:25:47 -0400
> >
> >Bob,
> >  In response to my note: "One day later
> ~24hrs, the leaves were 
> >browning
> >and wilted."
> >  You wrote:
> >" I sure would like to see some references on the
> mechanism of this 
> >effect."
> >
> >  I wonder if the FFAs are disrupting the
> structure of cell membranes.
> >All cell membranes are phospholipid bilayers with
> hydrophobic fatty acids
> >pointing inward towards each other and away from
> water. The hydrophilic
> >phosphates are on the inner and outer surfaces
> interacting w. water. 
> >Replace
> >water w.FFAs and this structure could be
> compromised.
> > After 24 hrs the leaves are more than wilted,
> they are gooey (for lack
> >of a better word).
> > I'd be interested in knowing the mechanism as
> well. I dug up a few
> >treated dandelions 3 - 4 days after treatment. The
> roots seemed fine. This
> >morning, a week after treatment, some of the
> sprayed plants are sprouting
> >new leaves and the sickly-looking dandelions have
> sent up new flowers. The
> >effect does not seem to be systemic.
> >I like that. It seems very effective against a
> variety of "weeds" that lack
> >tap roots or runners.
> >  
> Tom
> >
> >
> >- Original Message -
> >From: "bob allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: 
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:49 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer
> >
> >
> >
> >Howdy
> >
> >Thomas Kelly wrote:
> > > Hi Bob,
> > > What do you mean  "a dilute solution"?   I
> sprayed the FFAs, full
> > > strength, on the leaves of some "weeds".
> >
> >I guess my assumption was wrong- when I recover
> ffa's I get a very
> >viscous liquid which would be hard to spray. but
> then my wvo is about
> >half saturated fat.
> >
> >
> > > One day later ~24hrs, the leaves were browning
> and wilted.
> >
> >I think todd also mentioned such an effect.  I sure
> would like to see
> >some references on the mechanism of this effect.
> >
> > >  How would I test the pH of FFAs? I use wide
> range pH paper to test 
> >my
> > > wash water. I don't think they'll work on FFAs.
> >
> >try taking a gram or so of your ffa's and add it to
> about 100ml water.
> >Free fatty acids will not dissolve well and should
> not change the pH
> >paper reading.  I just tried it with a sample of
> oleic acid. pH of the
> >solution/emulsion was unchanged after adding the
> oleic acid.
> >
> >
> > >  It appears as though some of the weeds I
> sprayed last week are
> > > sending
> > > up new shoots.
> >
> >I'll try spraying some oleic acid on a plant or two
> (as soon as it quits
> >raining) and see what happens.
> >
> >
> > > 
>Tom
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "bob allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: 
> > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:34 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer
> > >
> > >
> > >   howdy Thomas
> > >
> > > I am a little surprised that a dilute solution
> of ffa's would have any
> > > impact on plant life over a 24 hour period. My
> guess is that your
> > > solution contains more than ffa's.  What is the
> pH ? how about total
> > > dissolved solids, ie salts ?  Do you have any
> idea of the concentration
> > > of the ffa (in water I assume)?
> > >
> > > Thomas Kelly wrote:
> > >>I've been gardening for over 30 years by
> essentially "building dirt"
> > >> and caring for my plants from the ground up.
> > >> I've been know to chop off a weed's head now
> and again or yank them 
> >from
> > >> the ground. I've squished "bugs" by the
> thousands and lured others to
> > >> deadly traps. I've never used a spray that has
> any real obvious results
> > >> (dead insects or "weeds").
> > >>I've been splitting my glycerine co-product
> into FFA's, potassium
> > >> (and some sodium) phosphate, and crude
> glycerine.
> > >>Yesterday I sprayed FFA's on some weeds in
> an area of the garden 
> >that
> > >> hasn't been turned yet. Today they appear to be
> dying. It didn't s

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider

[Joe Street]

well keep your eyes peeled here

http://www.neilyoung.com/

It is a different song but the same idea.I'm listening to the
first track as I write

Joe

Mike Weaver wrote:

  T-shirt? We need a song!

Jason & Katie wrote:

  
  
id wear it, no argument at all, whos going to be printing them?
- Original Message - 
From: "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider


 



  Groovy dude!!! Where can I get the t-shirt?


D. Mindock wrote:

   

  
  
Subject: I'm the Decider




  Bush said the other day, "I am the decider".

  The following is from dailykos.com.

Well, it took me awhile, but I finally realized what
"I'm the decider" reminds me of.  It sounds like
something a character in a Dr. Seuss book might say.

So with apologies to the late Mr. Geisel, here is some
idle speculation as to what else such a character
might say:

I'm the decider.
I pick and I choose.
I pick among whats.
And choose among whos.

And as I decide
Each particular day
The things I decide on
All turn out that way.

I decided on Freedom
For all of Iraq.
And now that we have it,
I'm not looking back.

I decided on tax cuts
That just help the wealthy.
And Medicare changes
That aren't really healthy.

And parklands and wetlands
Who needs all that stuff?
I decided that none
Would be more than enough!

I decided that schools
All in all are the best
The less that they teach
And the more that they test.

I decided those wages
You need to get by
Are much better spent
On some CEO guy.

I decided your Wade
Which was versing your Roe
Is terribly awful
And just has to go.

I decided that levees
Are not really needed.
Now when hurricanes come
They can come unimpeded.

That old Constitution?
Well, I have decided
As"just goddam paper"
It should be derided.

I've decided gay marriage
Is icky and weird.
Above all other things,
It's the one to be feared.

And Cheney and Rummy
And Condi all know
That I'm the Decider -
They tell me it's so.

I'm the Decider
So watch what you say
Or I may decide
To have you whisked away.

Or I'll tap your phones.
Your e-mail I'll read.
`cause I'm the Decider -
Like Jesus decreed.

Yes, I'm the Decider
The finest alive
And I'm nuking Iran.
Now watch this drive!

..
Garret Hinebauch
8th Grade English
The American School in London
One Waverley Place
London NW8 0NP
UK



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Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider

[Mike Weaver]

T-shirt? We need a song!

Jason & Katie wrote:

>id wear it, no argument at all, whos going to be printing them?
>- Original Message - 
>From: "Appal Energy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:57 PM
>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: I'm the Decider
>
>
>  
>
>>Groovy dude!!! Where can I get the t-shirt?
>>
>>
>>D. Mindock wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Subject: I'm the Decider
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   Bush said the other day, "I am the decider".
>>>
>>>   The following is from dailykos.com.
>>>
>>> Well, it took me awhile, but I finally realized what
>>> "I'm the decider" reminds me of.  It sounds like
>>> something a character in a Dr. Seuss book might say.
>>>
>>> So with apologies to the late Mr. Geisel, here is some
>>> idle speculation as to what else such a character
>>> might say:
>>>
>>> I'm the decider.
>>> I pick and I choose.
>>> I pick among whats.
>>> And choose among whos.
>>>
>>> And as I decide
>>> Each particular day
>>> The things I decide on
>>> All turn out that way.
>>>
>>> I decided on Freedom
>>> For all of Iraq.
>>> And now that we have it,
>>> I'm not looking back.
>>>
>>> I decided on tax cuts
>>> That just help the wealthy.
>>> And Medicare changes
>>> That aren't really healthy.
>>>
>>> And parklands and wetlands
>>> Who needs all that stuff?
>>> I decided that none
>>> Would be more than enough!
>>>
>>> I decided that schools
>>> All in all are the best
>>> The less that they teach
>>> And the more that they test.
>>>
>>> I decided those wages
>>> You need to get by
>>> Are much better spent
>>> On some CEO guy.
>>>
>>> I decided your Wade
>>> Which was versing your Roe
>>> Is terribly awful
>>> And just has to go.
>>>
>>> I decided that levees
>>> Are not really needed.
>>> Now when hurricanes come
>>> They can come unimpeded.
>>>
>>> That old Constitution?
>>> Well, I have decided
>>> As"just goddam paper"
>>> It should be derided.
>>>
>>> I've decided gay marriage
>>> Is icky and weird.
>>> Above all other things,
>>> It's the one to be feared.
>>>
>>> And Cheney and Rummy
>>> And Condi all know
>>> That I'm the Decider -
>>> They tell me it's so.
>>>
>>> I'm the Decider
>>> So watch what you say
>>> Or I may decide
>>> To have you whisked away.
>>>
>>> Or I'll tap your phones.
>>> Your e-mail I'll read.
>>> `cause I'm the Decider -
>>> Like Jesus decreed.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm the Decider
>>> The finest alive
>>> And I'm nuking Iran.
>>> Now watch this drive!
>>>
>>> ..
>>> Garret Hinebauch
>>> 8th Grade English
>>> The American School in London
>>> One Waverley Place
>>> London NW8 0NP
>>> UK
>>>
>>>
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[Biofuel] Armed Madhouse - Palast

[Keith Addison]

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12876.htm

Armed Madhouse

By Greg Palast

04/29/06 "ICH" -- -- For the past two years, I've nearly disappeared 
from BBC Television screens and from newspapers so my team could 
focus on our most important investigation yet. I've put it in a book: 
Armed Madhouse. The book travels from Beijing to New Orleans to 
Caracas to Baghdad to New Mexico ... a five-part investigation of 
global economic piggery so deep, dark and devious you just have to 
scream or cry -- or laugh.

Don't be fooled by the fact that 'Armed Madhouse' is entertaining -- 
this is my most serious reporting yet -- connecting oil panic, 
Hurricane Katrina, Chinese currency, Venezuela's petrodollars, 
disappearing ballots, Thomas Friedman, more oil, and the murder of 
General Motors. These are dispatches from the front lines of the 
class war.

Here is our new world of militarized greed, where America's panic 
over lunatics with box-cutters has metastasized into a billion-dollar 
fear industry; where Republicans sucking on Super-sized Slurpies(r) 
are hunting dark-skinned voters to eliminate their rights; where 
James Baker's fixer in alligator boots sets up the grab for Iraq's 
oil on her way to the rodeo; where miners are suffocated by the same 
investment bankers who are siphoning off auto workers' pensions. I 
add 50 illustrations, including those intriguing ones marked 'secret' 
by the State Department and the World Bank, plus a brilliant recipe 
for shrimp curry -- and Dick Cheney.

There are five sections:

THE NETWORK: The World as a Company Town. The weird and frightening 
facts about the tidal flow of international currency -- the real 
story of China's rise and the death of Detroit. Plus a report from 
the future on the assassination of Hugo Chavez -- and explain why it 
had to be done.

THE CON: Kerry Won -- but two million of his votes were never 
counted. They can't take away your Social Security until they take 
away your vote. In the 2008 race, four million ballots will go 
missing. Here's how it will be done.

THE FEAR: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? Turning Ground Zero into a 
Profit Center. Why does Southold, New York, have machine guns on SUVs 
at the casino ferry? Investigations of health insurance and suicide 
bombings -- in other words, the fun chapter.

THE FLOW: Trillion Dollar Babies. If you thought George Bush had a 
secret plan to seize Iraq's oil -- you're wrong. He had TWO plans, 
and Armed Madhouse has both of them.

THE CLASS WAR: I go deeper into George Bush's crude system of 
educational terror ("No Child's Behind Left"), Ken Lay's REAL crimes 
for which he won't be tried and the story of New Orleans you won't 
get on Fox Schnews. Here you'll get some complex economics and a free 
ticket to the circus -- and the core issue of the book: the war of 
the movers and shakers against the moved and shaken.

Asia Times says, "Greg Palast, the man widely considered as the top 
investigative journalist in the United States, is persona non grata 
in his own country's media." But it's not ME that's 'non-grata' -- 
it's the information about the Washington regime that is shut out of 
the mainstream press in the USA.

I'm writing to ask you to order the book right NOW for delivery the 
week of its release, June 6. Here's why. These early sales are 
crucial to convincing mainstream media that America really wants to 
know what the hell is going on. My last book, The Best Democracy 
Money Can Buy, helped open the forbidden topic of vote theft in 
America. Now, we need break the media's omerta, the silencing of talk 
of class war.

I'm asked again and again, What can we DO? The answer is, we can't do 
anything until we're INFORMED. We can't prevent the theft of the '08 
election until you know the crazy details of the theft of '04. We 
can't stop the coming war in Venezuela until we learn the weird story 
of how Big Oil mapped out Iraq's petroleum destiny. We can't shield 
ourselves from economic onslaught until we have the hard, if hidden, 
facts of class conflict from the Sino-dollar panic to the 
privatization of hurricane planning. That's why I wrote this book.

Soon you can download Jim Hightower, Larry David, Randi Rhodes, Amy 
Goodman and other friends reading from Armed Madhouse at 
www.GregPalast.com

When the inmates are running the asylum, arm yourself with the facts.

Greg Palast & Team - New York | London


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Re: [Biofuel] The Predator State = Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?

[Keith Addison]

"His book is a wake-up call for everyone who believes that market 
forces alone will keep companies and their owners honest."

The only question is who owns whom, or rather, do they run their 
companies or do their companies run them?

On the one hand, you find yourself trying to use human nature to 
explain humans doing completely inhuman things as a matter of course, 
so human nature takes a downgrade, on the other, it's just a 
mechanism that's out of control, and that's how it works. Slaves will 
do slavish things but that doesn't make them inhuman, it's because 
they don't have any choice. Then they go home to their wives and 
families, who don't blame them for it. Especially not if they've got 
a $400 million golden handshake in their pocket, for instance.

"A company does not have a heart"
http://snipurl.com/pyog
Re: [Biofuel] Eating (up) the World

See also:
"For Richer", by Paul Krugman (8,100-word NYT article, good read)
http://www.pkarchive.org/economy/ForRicher.html



http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blabes.html
Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, University of Texas Press

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry

By William K. Black

"This is an extraordinary bookNo other account gives a complete 
picture of the control fraud that occurred in the S&L crisisThere 
is no one else in the whole world who understands so well exactly how 
these lootings occurred in all their details and how the changes in 
government regulations and in statutes in the early 1980s caused this 
spate of lootingThis book will be a classic."

-George A. Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley, winner of the 
2001 Nobel Prize for Economics

"This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand one of the 
darkest chapters in financial history in America. As Black clearly 
and expertly shows, the lessons we never learned are still 
importantHis book more than stands on its own against any other 
published on the S&L crisis and is the most definitive account 
available."

-Henry N. Pontell, University of California, Irvine, coauthor of 
Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America

"William Black hits the bull's eye with his development of the 
concept of 'control fraud' in The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own 
One. Calculated dishonesty by people in charge is at the heart of 
most large corporate failures and scandals, such as the savings and 
loan debacle, as Black points out. While people chase around for 
other explanations, these control fraud criminal acts are right there 
for all to see. Black does a great service by making us focus on this 
reality. We will better understand and possibly prevent the scandals 
as we see them in the spotlight of control fraud."

-Elliott Levitas, former Commissioner, National Commission on 
Financial Institution Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement (FIRREA), and 
former Member of Congress

"At its root the S&L scandal is about corrupting self-interest, 
political and economic. Bill Black's seminal treatment of the subject 
amounts, in effect, to a clarion call for the return to an 
old-fashioned notion of public interest. Without such an ethic, 
analogous transgressions will take place again and again. In this 
context, the story Black weaves is both historical and prophetic."

-Congressman Jim Leach, R-Iowa

The catastrophic collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, 
ImClone, and Tyco left angry investors, employees, reporters, and 
government investigators demanding to know how the CEOs deceived 
everyone into believing their companies were spectacularly successful 
when in fact they were massively insolvent. Why did the nation's top 
accounting firms give such companies clean audit reports? Where were 
the regulators and whistleblowers who should expose fraudulent CEOs 
before they loot their companies for hundreds of millions of dollars?

In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of 
the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs 
and CFOs-in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of 
their industries-use to defraud companies for their personal gain. 
Recounting the investigations he conducted as Director of Litigation 
for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Black fully reveals how Charles 
Keating and hundreds of other S&L owners took advantage of a weak 
regulatory environment to perpetrate accounting fraud on a massive 
scale. He also authoritatively links the S&L crash to the business 
failures of the early 2000s, showing how CEOs then and now are using 
the same tactics to defeat regulatory restraints and commit the same 
types of destructive fraud.

Black uses the latest advances in criminology and economics to 
develop a theory of why "control fraud"-looting a company for 
personal profit-tends to occur in waves that make financial markets 
deeply inefficient. He also explains how

[Biofuel] The Predator State = Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?

[Keith Addison]

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12880.htm

The Predator State

Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government?

By James K. Galbraith

04/29/06 "Mother Jones"  -- -- WHAT IS THE REAL NATURE of American 
capitalism today? Is it a grand national adventure, as politicians 
and textbooks aver, in which markets provide the framework for benign 
competition, from which emerges the greatest good for the greatest 
number? Or is it the domain of class struggle, even a "global class 
war," as the title of Jeff Faux's new book would have it, in which 
the "party of Davos" outmaneuvers the remnants of the organized 
working class?

The doctrines of the "law and economics" movement, now ascendant in 
our courts, hold that if people are rational, if markets can be 
"contested," if memory is good and information adequate, then firms 
will adhere on their own to norms of honorable conduct. Any public 
presence in the economy undermines this. Even insurance-whether 
deposit insurance or Social Security-is perverse, for it encourages 
irresponsible risktaking. Banks will lend to bad clients, workers 
will "live for today," companies will speculate with their pension 
funds; the movement has even argued that seat belts foster reckless 
driving. Insurance, in other words, creates a "moral hazard" for 
which "market discipline" is the cure; all works for the best when 
thought and planning do not interfere. It's a strange vision, and if 
we weren't governed by people like John Roberts and Sam Alito, who 
pretend to believe it, it would scarcely be worth our attention.

The idea of class struggle goes back a long way; perhaps it really is 
"the history of all hitherto existing society," as Marx and Engels 
famously declared. But if the world is ruled by a monied elite, then 
to what extent do middle-class working Americans compose part of the 
global proletariat? The honest answer can only be: not much. The 
political decline of the left surely flows in part from rhetoric that 
no longer matches experience; for the most part, American voters do 
not live on the Malthusian margin. Dollars command the world's goods, 
rupees do not; membership in the dollar economy makes every working 
American, to some degree, complicit in the capitalist class.

In the mixed-economy America I grew up in, there existed a 
post-capitalist, post-Marxian vision of middle-class identity. It 
consisted of shared assets and entitlements, of which the bedrock was 
public education, access to college, good housing, full employment at 
living wages, Medicare, and Social Security. These programs, publicly 
provided, financed, or guaranteed, had softened the rough edges of 
Great Depression capitalism, rewarding the sacrifices that won the 
Second World War. They also showcased America, demonstrating to those 
behind the Iron Curtain that regulated capitalism could yield 
prosperity far beyond the capacities of state planning. (This, and 
not the arms race, ultimately brought down the Soviet empire.) These 
middle-class institutions survive in America today, but they are 
frayed and tattered from constant attack. And the division between 
those included and those excluded is large and obvious to all.

Today, the signature of modern American capitalism is neither benign 
competition, nor class struggle, nor an inclusive middle-class 
utopia. Instead, predation has become the dominant feature-a system 
wherein the rich have come to feast on decaying systems built for the 
middle class. The predatory class is not the whole of the wealthy; it 
may be opposed by many others of similar wealth. But it is the 
defining feature, the leading force. And its agents are in full 
control of the government under which we live.

Our rulers deliver favors to their clients. These range from Native 
American casino operators, to Appalachian coal companies, to Saipan 
sweatshop operators, to the would-be oil field operators of Iraq. 
They include the misanthropes who led the campaign to abolish the 
estate tax; Charles Schwab, who suggested the dividend tax cut of 
2003; the "Benedict Arnold" companies who move their taxable income 
offshore; and the financial institutions behind last year's 
bankruptcy bill. Everywhere you look, public decisions yield gains to 
specific private entities.

For in a predatory regime, nothing is done for public reasons. 
Indeed, the men in charge do not recognize that "public purposes" 
exist. They have friends, and enemies, and as for the rest-we're the 
prey. Hurricane Katrina illustrated this perfectly, as Halliburton 
scooped up contracts and Bush hamstrung Kathleen Blanco, the 
Democratic governor of Louisiana. The population of New Orleans was, 
at best, an afterthought; once dispersed, it was quickly forgotten.

The predator-prey model explains some things that other models 
cannot: in particular, cycles of prosperity and depression. Growth 
among the prey stimulates predation. The two populations grow 
together at first, but

[Biofuel] 'People power' proves effectiveness in Nepal

[Keith Addison]

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=37475
ABS-CBN Interactive
'People power' proves effectiveness in Nepal

KATHMANDU - "People power" in a continent with 60 percent of the 
world's population proved its potency in Nepal after street 
demonstrations forced the king to hand over absolute rule of the 
country.

While hardly representing rebellion-sweeping Asia, it is the latest 
concession after crippling protests forced the premier to step down 
in Thailand and the government to give ground over fuel prices in 
Malaysia.

In the Philippines tens of thousands took to the streets on Labor Day 
calling for the ouster of President Arroyo - as they achieved with 
her predecessor Joseph Estrada in 2001.

Some analysts said events indicated a stronger desire by the public, 
particularly in Asia's newer democracies, to play a key part in the 
future of their nations.

In Nepal parliament sat for the first time in four years on Friday 
following three weeks of street protests against the king's absolute 
rule.

In Nepal academics and diplomats said the Maoists - who effectively 
control large parts of the countryside - were crucial in mobilizing 
support and bringing villagers into the capital Kathmandu for 
protests.

But in Thailand, Bangkok's middle class arose in February against 
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in a movement that eventually 
drove him from office.

The protests began in anger at a $1.9-billion stock sale by Thaksin's 
family, which his critics said highlighted their claims that he had 
used his five years in office to benefit his vast business empire.

The movement was led largely by a handful of rich and influential men 
who opposed Thaksin, and who managed to successfully tap in to middle 
class discontent in Bangkok.

He finally stood down after an April 2 election highlighted a sharp 
divide in the country.

But Thaksin could still stand in new elections. His party remains the 
dominant force in Thai politics, raising questions about what - if 
anything - has changed after months of turmoil.

The differences between the two nations could be seen by the roles 
played by the two kings, with Nepalese King Gyanendra forced to 
recall parliament after calling for the opposition to name a new 
prime minister following weeks of street protests.

In Thailand the hugely influential king rebuffed calls for him to 
appoint a new premier.

"In Thailand, even when people asked the king to interfere he said 
no. He said it will endanger the political process," noted political 
scientist Rabindra Khanal of Kathmandu's Tribhuwan University. AFP

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1513242.cms
Nepal students now target politicians
Keshav Pradhan
[ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:26:18 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

KATHMANDU: After having fought against Gyanendra unarmed, Nepal's 
pro-democracy students on Tuesday came out in the streets with lathis 
to discipline politicians fighting over plump ministerial posts over 
the past one week.

Prime minister G P Koirala has not yet been able to constitute a 
full-fledged council of ministers owing to differences within the 
Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) over portfolios. Hundreds of Tribhuvan 
University students, with sticks in hands, marched to Singh Durbar, 
where parliament is located.

As security personnel stopped them from entering the House, which was 
then in session, the students pulled down police posts and shouted, 
"If you leaders don't overcome your greed for power and work 
according to wishes of the people, we will gherao your houses."

Reports said students took out similar rallies in central Nepal's 
Chitwan district too. Most pro-democracy activists feared that 
constant wrangling among the politicians would enable the palace to 
re-consolidate its position.

-

http://snipurl.com/pyr2
25 April 2006
Dateline Kathmandu: Gyanendra blinks, announces revival of parliament
With the democratic opposition's promised million-person march on the 
Nepalese capital less than 12 hours away, King Gyanendra has finally 
stepped back from the brink. The question now is how quickly the 
parties can press ahead with a Constituent Assembly.

http://snipurl.com/pyr3
25 April 2006
The Hindu
In Nepal, novel forms of protest and familiar ones too
 From a peoples' referendum to clashes with the police and even talk 
of petrol bombs, Nepal today is seething with anger.

http://snipurl.com/pyr4
April 22, 2006
Nepal on the Verge of Bastille
By Sudhanva Deshpande

http://snipurl.com/pyr5
Nepal Maoists
The American Connection And More
Rajinder Puri
The Statesman

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/nic/maoist.htm
Exclusive interview with Prachanda, Maoist leader
This is a complete verbatim transcript of Nepali Maoist leader 
Prachanda's interview with Siddharth Varadarajan of The Hindu, 
conducted at an undisclosed location in the first week of February 
2006. Highlights and excerpts from the interview were published in 
the print edition of The Hindu