Re: Shenzhou 6 [... and a 'Wallerstein brain' ...]
From: Koyaanisqatsi Fahrvergnugen (koyanisqatsi_at_ziplip.com)
Date: 01/21/05
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Date: 21 Jan 2005 04:28:14 -0800
Thorn Alley wrote:
> January 20
>
> China Plans Next Manned Space Shot
> http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html
> Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Centre (BACC)
> [Project 921]
> http://www.sinodefence.com/space/921/921.asp
> > "If you were offered physical immortality
> > as a 'Wallerstein brain' (a human brain
> > maintained in a jar interfacing to a
> > virtual reality through its sensory and
> > motor neurons), would you accept it?"
> > -- Ray Kurzweil
> > http://www.kurzweilai.net/
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Oil and troubled waters
An explosion of demand, plus international rivalry,
will inevitably lead to confrontation.
By Gerry Van Wyngen
BRW. 20 January 2005
The fight in recent times to secure future oil and
gas supplies is likely to lead to international
confrontation within a few years. It is a danger
that most Western countries, including Australia,
have not grasped fully. Oil prices have receded from
their $US50-a-barrel spike before Christmas but seem
unable to fall below $US40, which most analysts
believe is the top of the appropriate trading range
at the present inventory levels. This surprise is
believed to be shared by Organisation of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (Opec) producers. But there are
other dynamics in train.
Perhaps the first shot in this acquisition contest
was the invasion of Iraq by the US-led "coalition of
the willing". Despite the stated moral and security
imperatives, there was also a large slice of business
pragmatism. Russia and France were heavily involved
in Iraq's oil industry, and America wanted in.
More importantly, George W. Bush's strategists
envisaged a doubling of oil production that would
lower oil prices and pay for the cost of post-war
reconstruction. At the time, Rupert Murdoch, [owner
of FoxNews], an enthusiastic Bush supporter, was
predicting that the increase in oil production would
push prices down to $US20 a barrel.
The invasion was one of this decade's biggest strategy
blunders, and did not work out as planned. Iraq's oil
production is now less than before the war, and exports
from the rich northern oil fields have ceased since
the pipeline to Turkey was sabotaged on December 18.
...
http://news.google.com/news?q=Iraq+Oil+Pipeline
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Oil Rebounds, China's Crude Imports Surge
Fri Jan 21, 2005 05:17 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rebounded from sharp recent
losses on Friday as China reported a fresh record
in crude imports and a U.S. cold snap was expected
to keep up demand for heating fuels.
U.S. light crude climbed 44 cents to $47.75 a barrel,
and London Brent crude was up 40 cents at $44.72.
Prices have eased from 7-week highs close to $50 a
barrel after U.S. government data showed a rise in
fuel supplies in the world's biggest consumer at a
time when inventories usually decline at the coldest
point of winter.
But worries over sabotage attacks on Iraq's oil
industry ahead of Jan. 30 elections, uncertainty over
the outcome of OPEC's ministerial meeting on the same
day, and persistent hitches to world supply have
limited losses.
"Short-term fundamentals are not strong in the United
States as evidenced by this week's stocks data, but
the Iraq election and OPEC's meeting at the end of
the month is keeping the market from selling off,"
said Tony Nunan at Mitsubishi Corp. in Tokyo.
Sharply higher oil demand in China, now the world's
second biggest consumer, was partly behind the surge
in oil prices last year to a record peak above
$55 a barrel.
"We should expect record import volumes from China
every month. Demand growth is slowing but is still
growing faster than domestic production,"
said Gordon Kwan, director of oil and gas research
at CLSA in Hong Kong. ...
http://news.google.com/news?q=Iraq+Oil+Pipeline
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Military Solution to an Economic Crisis
http://www.plim.org/Aspects%20of%20India's%20Economy.htm
Military Solution to an Economic Crisis
Real Reasons for the US Invasion:
Indeed the US [...] plans to reverse ... various
trends ... by seizing the world's richest
oil-producing regions.
This it deems necessary for three related reasons.
1. Securing US supplies: First, the US itself is
increasingly dependent on oil imports--already a little
over half its daily consumption of 20 million barrels
is imported. It imports its oil from a variety of
sources--Canada, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia,
even Iraq. But its own production is falling, and will
continue to fall steadily, even as its consumption
continues to grow. In future, inevitably, it will
become increasingly dependent on oil from west
Asia-north Africa--a region where the masses of
ordinary people despise the US, where three of the
leading oil producers (Iraq, Iran and Libya) are
professedly anti-American, and the others
(Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates) are
in danger of being toppled by anti-American forces.
The US of course doing its best to tie up or seize
supplies from other regions--west Africa, northern
Latin America, the Caspian region. And yet the US
cannot escape the simple arithmetic.
2. Maintaining dollar hegemony: Secondly, if other
imperialist powers were able to displace US dominance
in the region, the dollar would be dealt a severe blow.
The pressure for switching to the euro would become
irresistible and would ring the death knell of dollar
supremacy. On the other hand, complete US control of
oil would preserve the rule of the dollar (not only
would oil producers continue to use the dollar for
their international trade, but the dollar's international
standing would rise) and hurt the credibility of the euro.
3. Oil as a weapon: Thirdly, direct American control
of oil would render potential challengers for world
or regional supremacy (Europe's imperialist powers,
Japan and China) dependent on the US. It is clear the
US is following this policy.
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Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
(And You Know THEY Never Lie!) http://eia.doe.gov/
TOTAL ENERGY
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/totalenergy/totalenergynjava.html
Need Help?
phone: 202-586-8800
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Energy Information Administration, EI 30
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/totalenergy/totalenergynjava.html
Annual Energy Outlook 2005 with Projections to 2025
(Full Report Available January 2005)
The Early Release of the Annual Energy Outlook 2005
is available in HTML and PDF formats at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/earlyrelease.pdf
Summary tables for the reference case are available
in PDF format at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/appa.pdf
Tables with reference case results for all years
are available in PDF and Excel formats at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/yearbyyear.pdf
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/aeoref_tab.html
(links to individual excel and PDF files)
Tables with current futures case results for all
years are available in PDF and Excel formats at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/pdf/current_yearbyyear.pdf
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/currentfuture_tab.html
(links to individual excel and PDF files)
The Annual Energy Outlook 2004 Report has been archived
and is available at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/archive/aeo04/index.html
Annual Energy Outlook 2005 (Early Release) - Overview
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/production.html
Energy Production and Imports
Figure data
Total energy consumption is expected to increase more
rapidly than domestic energy supply through 2025.
As a result, net imports of energy are projected to
meet a growing share of energy demand...
Net imports are expected to constitute 38 percent of
total U.S. energy consumption in 2025, up from
27 percent in 2003.
Projected U.S. crude oil production increases from
5.7 million barrels per day in 2003 to a peak of
6.2 million barrels per day in 2009 as a result of
increased production offshore, predominantly from
the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Beginning in
2010, U.S. crude oil production begins to decline,
falling to 4.7 million barrels per day in 2025.
Total domestic petroleum supply (crude oil, natural
gas plant liquids, refinery processing gains, and
other refinery inputs) follows the same pattern as
crude oil production in the AEO2005 forecast,
increasing from 9.1 million barrels per day in
2003 to a peak of 9.8 million barrels per day in
2009, then declining to 8.8 million barrels per day
in 2025...
In 2025, net petroleum imports, including both crude
oil and refined products, are expected to account for
68 percent of demand (on the basis of barrels per day),
up from 56 percent in 2003. Despite an expected
increase in distillation capacity at domestic
refineries, net imports of refined petroleum products
account for a growing portion of total net imports,
increasing from 14 percent in 2003 to 16 percent
in 2025 (as compared with 20 percent in AEO2004).
The most significant change in the AEO2005 energy
supply projections is in the outlook for natural
gas, particularly domestic lower 48 onshore
production and LNG imports. Domestic natural gas
production increases from 19.1 trillion cubic feet
in 2003 to 21.8 trillion cubic feet in 2025 in the
AEO2005 forecast; AEO2004 projected 24.0 trillion
cubic feet of domestic natural gas pr oduction
in 2025. ...Continued at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/production.html
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Women's situation much worse than before the fall of Hussein.
Since the fall of the Ba'ath regime women have been under siege.
They now live in constant fear of abduction, assault and death.
Abductions are now so common that daughters are being kept home
from school and women cannot leave the house without the
accompaniment of male relative. Women who have been abducted are
often quietly killed by their families to clear the shame.
There are also no statistics because reporting to the police
would often times mean death. Those who are not released after
abduction are often sold into the flourishing business of
prostitution. The poverty that has been afflicted upon these
women has left them no other options but prostitution, but those
who are thought to be prostitutes are often beheaded.
Women in Iraq once were much better off, and held an enviable
status in the Middle East. The Iraq constitution declared the
equality of women in 1979, and in the early 80's women were
40% of the work force. Equal pay and benefits were mandated,
but in 1991 at the time of the invasion of Kuwait, women's
rights began to erode. In 1990, a new penal code was enacted
to allow honor killings of women. Article 409 permitted men
to kill female relatives who were raped to restore family
reputations and any women who were suspected of adultery or
engaging in premarital sex could be murdered.
Since the fall of the Ba'ath regime, Islamic fundamentalist
groups have emerged with the intent of imposing their views
and taking control of Iraq. They are not allowing women to
go to work, forcing them to wear veils, and making them
second-class citizens. The U.S. government chose the members
of the puppet government in Iraq, effectively placing the
fundamentalists in power and imposing these sanctions on the
women of Iraq. If the Iraqi people had been able to vote and
choose their government these people never would have come
to power, because few people would have voted for them.
America has put Iraqi women in this position, and as long as
profits are insured for western investors, change for them
is unlikely. A government like the one that has been imposed
is less threatening to western profits, with little regard
for the women and other people it is ruining.
Source: Covert Action Quarterly Spring 04
"Assault on Iraqi Women"
By Gregory Elich
Synopsis by Amanda Pyle
http://www.plim.org/IraqWar.html
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Computer Chips in your Drivers License
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Oct. 6th
urged Virginia not to become the first state in
the nation to place radio frequency identification
chips in its driver's licenses. RFID tags are
computer chips attached to tiny antennae that are
capable of broadcasting their data wirelessly to
anyone with an RFID reader. They are currently
used for "contactless" applications such as
tollbooth speed passes. Almost everyone carries a
driver's license, and RFID chips allow people to
be tracked. This proposal would allow anyone to
set up a reader and capture the identities and
personal information of every person who comes
within range. FBI agents, for example, could
sweep up identities of everyone at a political
meeting, protest march, gun show or Islamic
prayer service.
Source: Asheville Global Report
"ACLU against Chips in VA Driver's: Licenses"
Credit ACLU October 14-20
Synopsis by Allison Lewis
> China Great Wall Industry Corp.
> http://www.cgwic.com
>
> China's Space Launch Center
> http://www.cgwic.com/launch/center1.html
>
> Janes Aerospace
> http://www.janes.com/aerospace/
>
> Kai Tuozhe-1, Taiyuan launch site, China [Long March]
> http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/lonmarch.htm
>
> North Korea Musudan-ri Test Range (Pekdosan)
> http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/facility/nodong.htm
>
> Oberg's Pioneering Space
> http://www.jamesoberg.com
>
> Shenzhou
> http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shenzhou.htm
>
> Sino Defence Today
> http://www.sinodefence.com/space/facility/ttc.asp
>
> Traversing Singularity Barriers ^ Aeronautics
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/travel04.htm
>
> Xichang Space Launch Center
> http://www.cgwic.com/launch/center1.html
>
> > INFLATION-THEORY IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITATION
> > J. Deardorff, B. Haisch, B. Maccabee and H.E. Puthoff
> > Journal of the British Interplanetary Society,
> > Vol 58, pp. 43-50, 2005.
> > http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/publicB2.htm
> > http://www.earthtech.org/publications/index.html
> > http://www.ufoskeptic.org/home.html
> > [][][]
> > t i t a n : http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMTKR71Y3E_index_0.html
> > [][][]
> >
> > Jennifer Van Bergen, J.D., is the author of
> > The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America
> > (Common Courage Press, 2004).
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567512925/counterpunchmaga
> > She has written and spoken extensively on civil liberties,
> > human rights, and international law. She is currently organizing a
> > major Forum on Dissent Since 9/11 in Miami from March 11-13.
> > See http://www.partnersinprotest.org .
> >
> > _/-_/-_/-_/-_/
> >
> > Saint Monica's Quantum Electrodynamic Lift
> > http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/st_moni2.htm
> >
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > Incunabula & Obscuranta
> > http://www.levity.com/eschaton/archive.html
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Mysteries of Siberia's "Valley of Death"
Eyewitness reports suggest that an ancient high-tech
"Installation" in remote Siberia was responsible for
sending guided plasma sphere weapons to destroy a
meteorite over Tunguska in 1908.
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Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 12, Number 1
(December 2004-January 2005)
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia.
editor@nexusmagazine.com
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280;
Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
>>From our web page at:
www.nexusmagazine.com
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by Dr Valery Uvarov © 2004
Department N13
National Security Academy
St Petersburg
Russia
Telephone: +7 (812) 237 1841
Email: nsa@homeuser.ru
Email: departament13@mail.ru
Part 1
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/installation1.html
Part 2
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/installation2.html
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