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Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Pirates in the News
Mood:  rushed
Now Playing: Caribbean? Penzance? What's that?
Topic: Books and Magazines

Apprently theres a lot of difference between a privateer and a pirate. This is one fascinating book ..

 

Successful sea rovers were careful practitioners of a complex profession that sought wealth by stratagem and force of arms. Drawn from the European tradition, yet of various races and nationalities, they raided both ship and town throughout much of the world from roughly 1630 until 1730.

The Sea Rover's Practice Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730

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In the news:

Treasure-hunter plunders pirate booty: report

 


YellAlso on the shelf, this is one funny book. Check it.

Posted by mach1231 at 1:47 PM PDT
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
This just in
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: News on News

Do it your self terrorism, self - taught. Start out with an attitude...

American forged own path into Al Qaeda

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 8:31 PM PDT
Quite a stretch for the imagination...thank god its elastic
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: Travel

Just how does one travel from the modern world of advertising to the temples of classical Greece ....? and to the tombs of ancient Egypt in an effort to solve(?) the mystery of why humans surround themselves with images of the body that are so unrealistic??

This recommended series of shows makes the effort to this so inclined to seek answers beyond the blog

http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/ 

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Also available for viewing in the month of August only on Canadas KNOWLEDGE NETWORK

 Apparently its been shown in England already as its from the Beeb.

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And heres a map that shows Angli and Teutones, somewhere in present day Denmark, who would go on to forge and make the country and land we know of today and call: England.

Apparently there is very little historical information about Britain post-invaded by the Romans.

At least if you ask Wik.

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 8:03 PM PDT
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
The Newlyweds
Mood:  amorous
Topic: Just4Fun

Robert Redford married his German artist girlfriend over the weekend.

The Hollywood actor and director, 71, and artist Szaggars, 51, said ‘I do’ at the posh Louis C. Jacob Hotel on the bank of the Elbe river before some 30 guests on Saturday afternoon.

"The ceremony was very important to them," protestant pastor Frank Engelbrecht, who officiated the marriage, told news agency AFP.

Redford speaks German, so the ceremony was conducted in the local language, Engelbrecht said.

His second wife comes from Hamburg where family members also still live. He has been known to secretly visit the city in the past to see Szaggar's family.

And what a place to be betrothed. The hotel in Hamburg has a somewhat storied history dating back to the year 1791

..and you can just imagine the view of the Elbe below..


Posted by mach1231 at 8:01 PM PDT
The Vikings?
Mood:  down
Topic: Travel

Dont know what this is about but it looks interesting and intriguing..

http://www.raa.se/publicerat/viking/Vikingaresan.htm

 

from:

http://www.thingvellir.is/english

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A site for the worlds first and oldest official government parliament. From what I was told at these early government meetings, beer flowed aplenty :) Undecided...but also supposedly  one of the best places to view the effects of the continental drift, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet and are currently moving away from each other (at about the rate of 2 cm every century)...

but the effect is very productive of geothermal power and Iceland is actively developing this resource and is expected to be the world's first hydrogen economy within twenty years.

So and as if visiting the Blue Lagoon werent enough for any visitors...what else to do for fun on such a barren treeless ice riven place but build a phallic museum, jah?

http://www.ismennt.is/not/phallus/ens.htm

but more thoroughly rough hewn facts and tidbits...

  • 316,2521  -- population of Iceland
  • 4,117,827 -- population of Kentucky (note:Iceland is about the size of the state of Kentucky. )
  • 10 -- percentage of Icelanders who believe elves "definitely" exist4
  • 0 -- number of successful elf surveys conducted in Kentucky
  • 11.5 -- percentage of Iceland that is covered by glaciers
  • 3,240 -- square miles covered by the largest glacier, Vatnajökull
  • 2 -- tectonic plates visible at Thingvellir National Park
  • 2.5 -- centimeters a year by which those tectonic plates separate
  • 1,075 -- years since the world's first parliament was held at Thingvellir
  • 70 -- percentage of national export income derived from fishing
  • 2 -- years since the government announced its intention to resume whaling for "scientific purposes," joining Norway and Japan in defiance of international opinion7
  • 25 -- number of minke whales, out of a native population of 43,000, that Iceland's government planned to hunt in 2004 for such purposes
  • 65,563 -- signers of a Greenpeace petition who pledged to "seriously consider taking a vacation to Iceland" and "be willing to receive an email [about Icelandic tourism]" if the country would stop whaling9
  • 67.3 -- percentage of Icelanders who support whaling, according to a 2004 Gallup poll1
  • 22 -- size, in square miles, of the reservoir that will be created in Iceland's eastern highlands by a dam under construction to power an aluminum smelter owned by American-based Alcoa11
  • 22.7 -- size, in square miles, of Manhattan12
  • 1 -- veto that Iceland's State Planning Agency put on the dam project in 2001 due to "environmental impact"13
  • 1 -- State Planning veto overruled by the country's environment minister
  • 3 -- weeks that pop star Björk's mother fasted in 2002 to protest the project
  • 2,007 -- trees planted by Alcoa in the town of Reydarfjordur to signify the year its facility will start operations, as part of the company's international "Million Trees" project
  • 5 -- rank of Iceland in Yale and Columbia universities' 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index, out of 146
  • 45 -- rank of the U.S.

    • And approximately four-fifths of the country is unpopulated and uninhabitable. Glaciers cover more of the land in Iceland than in all of Europe. Iceland is the westernmost European country.

    Iceland has unique natural resources and its position on the mid-Atlantic ridge is the source of its many hotsprings and the high-temperature areas where thermophilic bacteria (which thrive on heat) live, which can be utilized in various industries, especially pharmaceuticals. Scientists believe that thermophillic bacteria could lead to the development of better drugs and to more environmentally friendly forms of industry


    Posted by mach1231 at 6:16 PM PDT
    Updated: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 7:19 PM PDT
    Monday, 13 July 2009
    Diversionary tactics but not feeling tactical
    Mood:  special
    Topic: Entertainment

    Gosh I just love this song and singer_____???

     what pipes, don't forget this is LIVE. Hope you have decent speakers...♥KissInnocentMoney mouth


    Posted by mach1231 at 7:37 PM PDT
    Updated: Monday, 13 July 2009 7:51 PM PDT
    Earth Promo : Sun Come Up
    Mood:  not sure
    Topic: Green

    The Carteret Islanders are moving. Virtually all of them. They are being forced to relocate their entire society, and give up much of what makes them unique as a people. Not because of war, famine or disease, but because of climate change...

    An interesting link...

    Sun Come Up, an Intimate Look at the World's First Climate Refugees

    http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/recycling-design-technology/sun-come-up-climate-refugees-460709

     

    The islands were named after the British navigator Philip Carteret who discovered them in 1767.

     In 1896 a Samoan-American woman, known locally as 'Queen' Emma Coe, bought the island for four axes and 4.5 kg of tobacco.

    Under Imperial German protection, she had all the trees chopped down and replaced with coconuts, and she imported Papua New Guineans from New Ireland to work the plantations.

    As of 2005 about one thousand people live on the islands.

     

    And heres another place http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/Tuvalu.html that might be facing the same situation. What then to become of DOT TV one lone Internet user asks, but not me...


    Posted by mach1231 at 7:09 PM PDT
    Updated: Monday, 13 July 2009 7:26 PM PDT
    A coup within a coup..or, the tempest crashes to shore
    Mood:  don't ask
    Topic: News on News

    The appearance of unity within the Honduran military and the de facto government is deceptive, according to statements by Argentine deputy defense minister Alfredo Forti published in the Buenos Aires daily Clarín on July 11.

     

    http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/07/wnu-997-2-honduran-activists-murdered.html

     

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    And also heres someone else yet another who thinks the coup was a good thing. The daughter of late Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet who seized power from elected president Salvador Allende Gossens in a bloody 1973 coup...on September 11, a date that is now synonymous with strikes against democracy...so "you oughta know" is how the Allana Morrissete song goes...

     And btw...

    http://www.trujillobeachecodevelopment.com/business_opportunity.html


    Posted by mach1231 at 4:14 PM PDT
    Updated: Monday, 13 July 2009 4:27 PM PDT
    Friday, 10 July 2009
    Oh so slow a news day

    It is summer after all, isn't it?

    No wonder people hate the MSM. Does anyone HONESTY think anyone gives a shit?

    Friday's mess was not the first time that Harper's staff provided reporters with erroneous information.

    A year ago, also during a visit to Italy, reporters were told that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had decided to remove all conditions on sending troops to Afghanistan following a meeting with Harper.

    When that turned out to be false, every reporter travelling with Harper was given access to his airplane's satellite phone in order to clear the matter up with their newsrooms.

     

    What are the big issues at G8 that everyone should so-o-o un-concern themselves with? Perhaps a new coiffure for the PM and the color of the opposition leaders tie along with a straightening?

     

     

     


    Posted by mach1231 at 5:52 PM PDT
    Updated: Monday, 13 July 2009 4:10 PM PDT
    Thursday, 9 July 2009
    The way we was
    Mood:  bright
    Topic: Green

     

    Oh my god, a brand new reason not to recycle throw away or generally sell old National Geographic magazines at your garage sales for 10 cents each (as if you needed another)

    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/275678

    A new report and press release from the "New Economics Foundation" (you've heard of them,right?) has come up with a "Happy Planet Index," ranking countries with the most contented people using data such as the ecological footprint and overall life expectancy of countries (these are some somehow interrelated?) But the report sez:



    "Costa Ricans report the highest life satisfaction in the world and have the second-highest average life expectancy of the new world (second to Canada),"

    While Britain ranked 74th, the United States snagged the 114th spot, because of its hefty consumption and massive ecological footprint.

    The United States was greener and happier 20 years ago than it is today, the report said.

    Hence, the reason why you might want to hang on some more to those dear old National Geographic magazines.

    As far as nostalgia goes, theres a real future there in the past.

    But I have also heard that Panama is a great place to retire. Never read the whole thread to see if anyone dared put 'prostitution' and 'legal' in the same sentence (as if that ever spelled happiness to anyone) , but happy sailing to them all!

    This year, it passed an anti-trafficking law; trained nearly 1,000 police, immigration agents and health workers to respond to trafficking; launched a national awareness campaign; and improved efforts to identify and care for victims...so reports Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Washington Post.

    Esp important, she remarks, in this economic climate. 

    Hat tip , er, nod, wink, er...low5 to RYP.

    And heres one for him, which I found after looking into Forbes 8 Celebrity Business failures, obviously his is not one of them but them again I wouldn't know if he's considering his self a celebrity ...but it is status no matter what.

    This entry brought top you by The Economist. Where well read minds take the test.


    Posted by mach1231 at 10:22 PM PDT

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