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The number of the beast.. or how to sell an actuary ..

[link to www.youtube.com]

I know I'm way out of your league here but this 3 part video is the stuff you find just under a rock.
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Interesting vids thanks for the link. rken
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Just as I thought. A list of sustanciated posts will not be forth coming. You are good at dodging th question. But straight up DUDE if you going to make claims at least you should be willing to back them up. Now you have a second list to make. One thats shows the numerous insults I have posted about your or your info. rken
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Just as I thought. A list of sustanciated posts will not be forth coming. You are good at dodging th question. But straight up DUDE if you going to make claims at least you should be willing to back them up. Now you have a second list to make. One thats shows the numerous insults I have posted about your or your info. rken
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This shit is getting serious and you both need to get over the insults. Who really cares? Get on with the research at hand and get over yourselves....
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Thank you alcolyte. Your posts are greatly appreciated.

Stay safe.
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Another ship lost power at sea.

[link to www.foxnews.com]
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Another ship lost power at sea.

[link to www.foxnews.com]
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The ship declared an emergency on Tuesday when it was northeast of the Shetland Islands and about 500 miles from Ushuaia. A massive wave damaged one of the ship's engines, causing an electrical outage that reduced power to the ship.
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Thread: *** China is about to demonstrate their reverse EMP on a military land based vehicle/installation and/or surface vessel
Acolytes new thread.

China is about to demonstrate their reverse EMP on a military land based vehicle/installation and/or surface vessel
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China is about to demonstrate their reverse EMP on a military land based vehicle/installation and/or surface vessel (naval but not a submarine as was the case with Astute)
As with Astute analysts expect the demonstration to be AIMed at a Royal Navy vessel but there is some disagreement.
"They" are preparing for China's Reverse EMP Demonstration and advanced warning of their SI (Solar Initiation Module)

beware of wolves in sheep clothing. rken
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3 Helicopters Crash in Palm Beach County within 1 Hour of each other

Thread: **BREAKING** 3 Helicopters Crash in Palm Beach County within 1 Hour of each other!!

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Beijing (CNN) -- China is all set to give out its own first-ever peace prize Thursday, a move apparently to counter the Norwegian Nobel committee's choice of imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as this year's laureate.
Organizers told CNN they will present the Confucius Peace Prize -- which comes with an award of $15,000 -- in Beijing to promote the ancient sage's philosophy, a day before the Nobel committee honors Liu in Oslo... LINK-> [link to edition.cnn.com]

China is trying to become an alternate to everything.
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snip-

China is trying to become an alternate to everything.
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were you reading my words?

seems we share that point of view
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"China is trying to become an alternate to everything." quoting Hans....

very very perceptive Hans...
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"China is trying to become an alternate to everything." quoting Hans....


very very perceptive Hans...
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Thank you Breezy

I think China's goals are pretty obvious to anyone not in the White House.

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A reverse EMP. now that would really have to suck. lol


giggle it nothing shows up. I guess it new technology rken
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And, if you think that the SEC is any less corrupt

ahhh, isn't that their middle name?

hf

Maybe I read it wrong, I thought it said the place he worked for paid the SEC some bucks...

Of course, you and I know that wouldn't effect their opinion, nope ... not at all

NOT

amiright?

shocked

edit to say: amiright? No response...hmmm Must not be...hmmm
My understanding in the financial realm is greatly lacking in many aspects, especially on the bigger picture. Sorry, this is one area I should have not assumed that I understood what is actually occurring. I'll refrain from making comments until I gain more knowledge.
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Sorry, Isis, I went to bed without saying good night - of course, you're right.
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A reverse EMP. now that would really have to suck. lol


giggle it nothing shows up. I guess it new technology rken
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Ah Hans love a man with a sense of humor. rken
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Beijing (CNN) -- China is all set to give out its own first-ever peace prize Thursday, a move apparently to counter the Norwegian Nobel committee's choice of imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as this year's laureate.
Organizers told CNN they will present the Confucius Peace Prize -- which comes with an award of $15,000 -- in Beijing to promote the ancient sage's philosophy, a day before the Nobel committee honors Liu in Oslo... LINK-> [link to edition.cnn.com]

China is trying to become an alternate to everything.
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bump

to promote the ancient sage's philosophy
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"China is trying to become an alternate to everything." quoting Hans....


very very perceptive Hans...
Quoting breezy



Thank you Breezy

I think China's goals are pretty obvious to anyone not in the White House.
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Everyones goals are better then the goals from those in the white house lolsign
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Ah Hans love a man with a sense of humor. rken
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On ACOLYTE's new thread Thread: *** China is about to demonstrate their reverse EMP on a military land based vehicle/installation and/or surface vessel are many people with humor ...hahahaha !!!


China is about to demonstrate their reverse EMP on a military land based vehicle/installation and/or surface vessel
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What is "reverse EMP"?
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1dunno1 does it repair electronic equipment and make it work better? the opposite of a real EMP? 1dunno1
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What is "reverse EMP"?
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PME ?
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Seismologists have conducted a planetary ultrasound and found evidence that light elements such as oxygen and sulphur collect at the edge of Earth's core. The finding, if confirmed, could help to explain what keeps Earth's magnetic field going, and might also shed light on how the planet formed billions of years ago.
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Planetary dynamo

Helffrich says that the lighter elements may be getting concentrated in the outer core as the inner core solidifies. What's more, he speculates that as the light elements rise to the surface of the core, their motion drives a dynamo that powers Earth's protective magnetic field. Researchers have worried in the past about what keeps the dynamo going, says Helffrich. But the rise of light elements "releases a huge amount of gravitational potential energy".
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Models of the Earth's core may need to be modified, says Buffett, and further observations could help to clarify Helffrich's result. "The fact that you can't think of an explanation right away doesn't mean that it's not right," says Buffett.

[link to www.nature.com]
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-More than 100,000 BP oil disaster claims denied since Thanksgiving
Wed, 2010-12-08
[link to bpoilslick.blogspot.com]

Since Thanksgiving, more than 100,000 emergency claims from Gulf Coast residents and business have been denied by Ken Feinberg’s Gulf Coast Claims Facility.
Feinberg’s facility administers the $20 billion fund established by BP to compensate individuals and businesses for economic losses caused by the oil disaster. Feinberg has spoken of “generous” settlements and quick turnaround on claims, but many locals find fault with his process, especially now that so many claims have been turned down en masse over the past several days. 


All in all, Feinberg has denied 173,000 emergency claims, and compensated 158,000 (though often not at the full amount requested), totaling more than $2.3 billion paid out so far. 80,000 more emergency claims remain under review, and will be approved or denied by December 15th.
November 23rd was the deadline for filing these short-term emergency claims, which cover up to 6 months of lost income. Feinberg waited until after that deadline to reject more than 100,000 claims that had been "under review," which explains the surge in rejected claims since then.



@ BHD ... this next story reminded me to your note of that white border of something on the seafloor ... only this is not white but oil ... (so its not the same)

-Oil mat cleanup under way in Orange Beach
Sunday, December 5, 2010
[link to bpoilslick.blogspot.com]

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama -- City officials were checking out a mat of oily material found this week on the sea floor just off the beach in about 3 feet of water.
A BP PLC test crew found the substance just east of the Cotton Bayou public beach access ...
The mat was about 600 feet wide and very narrow, Tim Tucker, Orange Beach public works director, said.




-In an other story at that page
[link to bpoilslick.blogspot.com]
there is an image that shows BP drilled the pipe/hole next to a saltdome ...
Image: [link to www.newsvine.com]



-Obama bans eastern Gulf drilling for 7 years
Thursday, December 2, 2010
[link to bpoilslick.blogspot.com]

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will not be allowing new drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday.
The exploration of drilling possibilities in sensitive areas of the Arctic will proceed "with utmost caution," he said.
Obama's decision effectively reverses White House plans announced at the end of March to open the Gulf region -- along with other large swaths of U.S. coastal waters -- to oil and natural gas drilling.
Under the plan, roughly two-thirds of available oil and gas resources in the eastern Gulf would have been opened to drilling. Areas located within 125 miles of the Florida coast would have remained off limits


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-The gulf between press release and reality
December 8th, 2010
[link to numero57.net]

SNIPPET:
...the conclusions reached by Dr. Termotto are startlingly extreme.

He alleges that large sections of the seabed beneath the Gulf of Mexico have been destabilised by the extensive oil and gas drilling operations taking place there. Furthermore, the Deepwater Horizon explosion created numerous fractures in the already unstable rock strata and now, in his words, “the Gulf of Mexico is slowly but surely filling up with oil and gas”.

On top of that, because of the depth of the oil and gas deposits, they contain high concentrations of radioactive isotopes. To add to the problems, the chemical dispersants — which he claims are still being used underwater near the well head (see image, below) — are making a very serious problem a lot worse. These chemicals are themselves highly toxic, but even worse… they are reducing the oil droplets to a “micronized or nano-sized state”. This significantly increases the likelihood that large quantities of mildly radioactive crude oil is entering the food chain. As Dr. Termotto says, this is turning “an extremely serious regional disaster into an unmitigated global catastrophe”.
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Spotted words: AIM & the Falklands ....


-Desire Petroleum provides update on North Falkland Basin
[link to www.scandoil.com]
Published Dec 7, 2010

Snips:
Desire Petroleum plc, the AIM listed oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, provides the following update on the latest logging results from the 14/15-2 Rachel North well which, following additional wireline data, will be plugged and abandoned with oil shows.
...

Commenting on the well, Stephen Phipps Chairman of Desire said, "Having seen the highly encouraging results from the first logs, the LWD, PEX and CMR, on this well, plus accompanying oil shows, it is extremely disappointing that the subsequent wireline logs and fluids sampling have dashed all the earlier promise of this being Desire's first oil discovery in the North Falkland Basin. Despite this setback, the presence of hydrocarbons and good reservoir development have been identified in a number of the Rachel fan sands and we therefore continue to believe in the prospectivity of the East Flank Play fairway for future oil discoveries."

Subsurface support is provided to Desire Petroleum by Senergy (GB) Ltd and the results reported today are based on the work of the Senergy operations team.
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One thing leads to an other think ... ;)

Saw this article:
-Origin commences drilling Offshore Tasmania
[link to www.scandoil.com]
Published Dec 6, 2010


Lat and Long of that article give the Bass strait
[link to maps.google.nl]

Hmmm Tasmania ... wasnt there something with Tasmania and oil, seafood or bacteria ?
And I had to think back to that article I posted that connected Antartic and the GOM.
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So, here we have a scientifically confirmed new oil-eating species of bacterium in the Gulf of Mexico that’s closely related to a bacterium only found in Rod Bay and the Ross Sea, Antarctica (OA), and another one only found in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand (OH). )



Bass strait and Tasman sea are near but also not near ...lol... one is south of OZ and the other about south-east ...
So at first sight The bacterium wouldnt be there.
Then I found this on gigles:


1 -[PDF] The 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill -
29 Oct 2010 ... The levels of oil in the Bass Strait are at about an ... Oceaniserpentilla haliotis and Thalassolituus oleivorans [13]. ...
bookboon.com/dk/studie/petroleum-gas.../the-2010-gulf-coast-o​il-spill.pdf


And this:
2 -Oceaniserpentilla haliotis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium ... - 2008 -
Abalones were harvested by the fishery industry near Hobart, Tasmania (4 ° 55' .... Fatty acid compositions (%) of Oceaniserpentilla haliotis DSM 19503T and ...
[link to ijs.sgmjournals.org]



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Abalones were harvested by the fishery industry near Hobart, Tasmania (4 ° 55' S 14 ° 20' E), in February 2006.

An aerobic, Gram-negative bacterial isolate, strain DSM 19503T, was isolated from haemolymph serum of the blacklip abalone Haliotis rubra. Cells of strain DSM 19503T were vibrioid to spiral, motile and were able to pass through sterile filters with a pore size of 0.2 µm, indicating the small width of the bacterium. The isolate was psychrophilic, with the ability to grow at 2–8 °C. Oxidase activity was present, whereas catalase activity was absent. The nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain DSM 19503T was obtained and phylogenetic sequence analysis showed that it formed a distinct genus in the family Oceanospirillaceae with highest sequence similarity of 92.9 % to Oleispira antarctica RB-8T. The cellular fatty acid composition was dependent on the growth medium used for cultivation. During growth on seawater agar, the fatty acid composition was most similar to that of Oleispira antarctica DSM 14852T, with mainly C16 : 0 (90.3 %). In contrast, Columbia blood agar/NaCl-grown cells exhibited mainly C10 : 0 3-OH (11.8 %), C12 : 1cis5 (8.2 %), C16 : 1cis9 (29.6 %), C16 : 0 (19.3 %) and C18 : 1cis9 (13.1 %) fatty acids. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic data, strain DSM 19503T is considered to represent a novel species in a new genus for which the name Oceaniserpentilla haliotis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Oceaniserpentilla haliotis is DSM 19503T (=LMG 24225T).



Bacteris grown in BLOOD ????? (I didnt know...)
Related to antarctica strain ..

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How cruel ...
first save the animal out of the GOM and then after recovery release it back in a toxic soup that will kill it agian !
...
People dont know what they are doing, and the severity of the situation !
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-Rescued turtles returned to gulf waters
The release is a milestone in helping wildlife recover from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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thought id just post this link over here from the breif case thread, in case it gets deleted. its about an incident with [link to www.newyorker.com] a spy plane eves dropping near china that gets taken by the chinese and the intel and tech that ends up in chinese hands. many thanks to the a/c who posted.
"People were allways getting ready for tomorrow.I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there." Cormac Mccarthy
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Dead coral found near BP well site
[link to www.latimes.com]

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Scientists use underwater cameras to film stricken coral colonies seven miles from the Gulf of Mexico wellhead. Samples will be analyzed for evidence of hydrocarbons and chemical oil dispersants.

Image: [link to www.latimes.com]
Coral, with attached brittle starfish, seen several miles from the site of the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is apparently covered with brown material. (Associated Press)
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A colony of hard coral at a depth of more than 4,000 feet was sloughing off tissue and producing mucus, while a nearby community of soft corals had extensive bare areas. A type of starfish associated with the coral was also in bad shape.
...

But when the ship crew focused underwater cameras on colonies seven miles southwest of the BP leak, images of stricken corals, covered with a brown substance, popped up on the screen.
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Fisher said the lab results may not be conclusive. "A plume of toxic dispersant or oil blowing through this community could have caused damage that resulted in the slow death of the corals without leaving any trace on the seafloor near the corals," he said. "No one even knows if dispersant accumulates in the tissues that it kills."
...
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-Arctic waters open for "cautious" leasing after 2012
December 1, 2010
[link to latimesblogs.latimes.com]

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The proposal has been greeted with cheers by many in Alaska who've been waiting to move into the new offshore frontier of the Far North, but conservationists warned that more studies should have been done before including the Arctic in the administration's 2012-17 Outer Continental Shelf leasing plan.

“It is disturbing that Interior proposes to evaluate including the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the 2012-2017 five-year plan, despite a severe lack of information and an inability to clean up oil spills in Arctic conditions,” a coalition of the nation’s biggest environmental organizations said in a statement.

“We will proceed with utmost caution,” Salazar said, adding that “cautious, limited exploratory activities” can help improve scientific understanding of the remote, little-known region. He said no new leases would be offered before 2013, and even then, they would proceed only after comprehensive studies of environmental impacts and oil spill cleanup capabilities.

In one of the most closely watched developments, Officials also said they were proceeding with a final environmental assessment for Shell Oil’s proposal to drill at least one exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea as early as next summer, which would be the first substantial new drilling in U.S. Arctic waters in many years.

That announcement was applauded by Shell, whose more ambitious program to drill several wells in both the Beaufort and Chukchi seas has been held up in the courts by conservation and Native Alaska groups concerned that oil operations in one of the world’s most fragile environments could lead to disaster.


...

The Arctic has been one of the most important battlegrounds for future new domestic oil development. On one hand, it contains what the U.S. Geological Survey has described as possibly the “largest unexplored prospective area for petroleum remaining on Earth.”

Yet the risks of an oil spill in its icy, often-stormy waters are formidable, and conservationists are concerned that taking areas of the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf of Mexico off the table will lead the oil industry inevitably northward.

There is now more pressure on the Arctic Ocean,” said Marilyn Heiman, director of the U.S. Arctic program for the Pew Environment Group, which along with other groups has called for more study of how the cleanup technologies that worked only partially in the Gulf of Mexico can be brought to bear in a frozen region that is 1,000 miles from the nearest Coast Guard base.

“I think the question is, what is the pace at which they will do it, and where. The decision about if, when and where to hold these lease sales will be key,” she said.
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Goodnight all

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