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...IF that's the video I'm thinking of, it is another angle of an accident shown in Discovery Channel's "Carrier:Fortress At Sea". The bird was off the USS Carl Vinson, and was doing a supersonic pass to impress the troops when the compressor on #2 catastrophically failed. Both crew members made it out with no problems.
Mike
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Saudi Arabia has reported the discovery of gas reserves in the Republic of Eastern Arabia, a thin strip of land bordering the western edge of the Persian Gulf eastern part of the kingdom. Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al Naimi said Saudi Aramco discovered gas reserves in the Eastern Province. Al Naimi said the gas surfaced at the Madraka-1 well at a rate of 38 million cubic feet per day. Aramco also reported a find of 1,650 barrels of condensates a day. "Studies show that the permanent production capacity of the well might exceed the current level of production," Al Naimi said. The gas discovery was the first reported since Saudi Arabia signed contracts in March 2004 with companies from China, Italy, Russia and Spain for gas exploration and development. Saudi Arabia has reported gas production of seven billion cubic feet a day.
PD's plan looks more profitable better every day ...
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Hmm... now about that Independent Republic of eastern Arabia. Will this be included?
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Yep - it's well within the 30-40 Km zone. Check this out for the current Saudi production info.
One of the key passages: "Although Saudi Arabia has around 80 oil and gas fields (and over 1,000 wells), more than half of its oil reserves are contained in only eight fields, including Ghawar (the world's largest oil field, with estimated remaining reserves of 70 billion barrels) and Safaniya (the world's largest offshore oilfield, with estimated reserves of 35 billion barrels). Ghawar's main producing structures are, from north to south: Ain Dar, Shedgum, Uthmaniyah, Farzan, Ghawar, Al Udayliyah, Hawiyah, and Haradh. Overall, Ghawar alone accounts for about half of Saudi Arabia's total oil production capacity"
All of the proven fields lie along the coast from Kuwait to Yemen.
National Guard troops arrested two brothers Friday in connection with a state prosecutor's killing, just days after two suspects in the car bombing case were shot dead by police, authorities said. Rolando and Otoniel Guevara, both former police officers, were arrested by troops on a highway near Carabobo state, 93 miles west of Caracas, Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said at a news conference. Chacon confirmed the brothers were arrested in relation to last week's slaying of state prosecutor Danilo Anderson, but didn't call them suspects. However, unnamed National Guard officials earlier called the brothers suspects. Chacon gave no further details on the arrests.
Anderson was in western Caracas when a small bomb exploded under the driver's seat of the SUV he was driving. Officials say Anderson's killing was likely politically motivated. He was investigating some 400 opposition leaders and businessmen who supported a 2002 coup that briefly removed President Hugo Chavez from power. On Tuesday, authorities say, police fatally shot attorney Antonio Lopez after he opened fire on them when they approached his car in Caracas. Two days later, another man, identified as Juan Carlos Sanchez, was killed by police after he shot atn officers when they knocked on the door of his motel room in the town of Barquisimeto, 124 miles west of Caracas, officials say. Police say they discovered Lopez and Sanchez had explosives in their possession similar to those used to blow up Anderson's SUV.
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Federal investigators said Thursday that two Mexico City police and 27 other people face homicide charges in the horrific vigilante killings of two federal agents this week. In a case of mistaken identity, the two agents were seized by an angry crowd, accused of kidnapping and then doused with paint thinner and set ablaze — deaths that were captured on tape and widely broadcast on television news. "There is enough proof to consider them probably responsible for the commission of homicide," said Deputy Federal Attorney General Gilberto Higuera. He said a court will determine if there enough evidence to try the 29 suspects. He didn't say when a hearing would be held. Most of the suspects were arrested during a massive sweep of San Juan Ixtayopan on Mexico City southern outskirts a day after the murders. The two victims and a third plainclothes federal agent went to San Juan Ixtayopan on Tuesday night. They were photographing an elementary school as part of an anti-drugs operation, but townspeople took them for kidnappers and attacked.
"Oops. Sorry. Our bad."
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Speaking of brutal and incompetent kleptocracies that present real security risks to the US....
Japan said today it would continue with its bid to host a global nuclear fusion project and warned the European Union against going ahead without Tokyo. However, EU ministers agreed in Brussels to continue seeking Japan's backing to build the world's first thermonuclear reactor in France - but to go ahead without Tokyo if there was no deal by the end of the year. "It is regrettable that they are talking about taking unilateral action," Satoru Ohtake, director for fusion energy at Science and Technology Ministry, told Reuters. "There is no change in Japan's policy to seek to host the project."
Nuclear fusion has been touted as a long-term solution to the world's energy problems, ,but 50 years of research have so far failed to produce a commercially viable fusion reactor. The EU would prefer an agreement with all six parties in the project: itself, Japan, China, Russia, the United States, and South Korea. But if no deal was reached, the EU would press ahead and build the 10bn euro reactor in Cadarache, France, with as many partners as possible. "The two sides have different ideas, and therefore we should take time to have good discussions," Ohtake said. "The fact that they are setting a deadline for their rival to make a concession is something like a declaration of war..." "EU Declares War On Japan". Now *that's* a headline.
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11/27/2004 10:08:30 AM ||
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Why don't the US, Japan and South Korea just set up another fusion program in competition to the French one? 10 billion euros (roughly 5 billion quid) isn't that much for that triad of nations - and my money is on US, Japanese and Korean technology to win out.
Also, all this is doing is re-iterating to the US that its future is looking to the pacific rather than the atlantic.
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Ah, those unilateral French are at it again, lol!
Spot-on, Tony (UK) - I like your approach and agree with your assessment... and mebbe the UK will rebel against the unilateralism, heh, and split off. After all, this is clearly the French, again, pretending they speak for and run the EU.
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Tokamaks are a dead-end unlikely to produce an industrially useful reactor, but it seems to have been very good at draining funding from all other approaches over the last fifty years.
Posted by: Phil Fraering ||
11/27/2004 11:34 Comments ||
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Doh! A better analogy just popped into my head:
They're the space shuttle of fusion energy research.
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11/27/2004 11:46 Comments ||
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Phil - You'll like the info at the bottom of the first item, Magnetohydrodynamics, then...
"These studies are motivated by the recent shift in emphasis in the US Fusion program towards research in alternate concepts (i.e., non-tokamak)."
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It's going to be built in mah home state. Gonna call it the Byrd Burner Boiler, so as I will go down in history as KKK BBB.
LSMFT.
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Other alternative fusion concepts I've thought interesting in the past were: Paul Koloc's "Plasmak," the Spheromak, magnetized-target inertial-confinement fusion (or whatever they're calling it these days; I _think_ that's what it was called way back when), and Philo Farnsworth's various electrostatic fusor designs.
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I agree with Phil F., it aint gonna work. The Japanese would be better off spending the dough on ways to harvest methane hydrate.
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On a historical note, back in the 70s stopping nuclear power (fission) development was justified on the basis that cheap safe unlimited fusion was on the horizon. Stopping fusion research (or restarting on a new path) would be tantamount to admitting that 'decison' was wrong. Therefore money continues to be poured into this very hot hole.
By Natalia A. Feduschak THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko yesterday demanded a new presidential election be held after a face-to-face meeting with rival Viktor Yanukovych failed to resolve Ukraine's bitter weeklong political standoff. Turning up the heat on the government-backed Mr. Yanukovych, Mr. Yushchenko told cheering supporters after the nearly three-hour meeting he opposed a proposal to refer charges of massive fraud in Sunday's election to the Supreme Court. "We will only hold talks on staging a new vote," Mr. Yushchenko said. Moments earlier, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma announced he would preside over a working group, including key European envoys who have converged on Kiev, to seek a solution to the crisis and head off growing fears of violence. Massive streets protests and charges of fraud in the Nov. 21 vote have roiled this strategically placed country, the largest state to break from Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and put Moscow and Washington on a collision course over Ukraine's future.
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The World Trade Organization granted authorization Friday to the European Union, Japan, Canada, Korea, Mexico, India, and Chile, to slap retaliatory sanctions if the U.S. fails to repeal the Byrd amendment. Washington insiders close to influential members of Congress, however, say it's not likely the Byrd amendment will be repealed soon. Failure by U.S. to act could, say trade diplomats, escalate trade tensions with major partners and also sour the atmosphere in the Doha round of liberalization talks. It's estimated U.S. products could be, based on the latest year, subject to punitive tariffs totaling $150 million with Japan and the EU accounting for the largest share with about $78 million and $50 million in damages, respectively. U.S. products on the indicative hit lists of Japan, the EU, Korea, and Canada for example, include, among other: textiles and apparel, cement, base metals, paper, electrical machinery and vehicles, crane lorries, prefabricated buildings, photocopying apparatus, paper products, ceramics, furniture, air conditioning machines, beer whiskies, and fish.
The Byrd amendment, named after its sponsor Sen. Robert Byrd, a powerful West Virginia Democrat, penalizes foreign companies that compete unfairly in the U.S. market by dumping goods -- selling at below cost or fair value -- or receiving subsidies. But the measure was found in violation of global trade rules by a WTO panel in September 2002 and upheld in an appellate ruling in January 2003.
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I thought the Democrats were all for international cooperation and "warm and fuzzy" talk. Do you mean that a "powerful Senator (Democrat)" pushed through legislation that was unilateral? Oh, I forgot, National Security is subject to international tests; trade is unilateral (note opposition to NAFTA).
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International trade agreements are not something I keep up with, but I suspect there is more to this than the surface issue. The last round of WTO failed completely and there is little prospect of further trade liberalisation under WTO. It looks to me like WTO has served its purpose and is now surplus to requirements. So it is trying to justify its further existence and of course playing to the multilateralist gallery.
"Alexander often seems a couple of heartbeats away from turning into a gay porno film..." "But," says Hollywood, "we don't understand. This movie is just filled with oh-so-trendy bisexuality and homoeroticism. America should have just loved it!"
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What else would you expect from Oliver "It's a conspiracy I say!" Stone? Had it been directed by someone with Talent, likely it might have been a movie I'd want to see. The moment Oliver Stone's name comes up, I mark that movie as one to avoid like the Black Death.
(2004-11-27) -- Inspired by a public pledge from Ukrainian TV journalists to provide unbiased reporting from now on, CBS News has launched an internal investigation to assess the potential impact of such a move.
"If it tests well in our focus groups, you can bet that Dan Rather will break the story," said an unnamed spokesman for CBS. "We're always looking to improve our bronze-medal broadcast, but you can understand why were cautious. This new theory of news coverage would require massive re-staffing here and at our bureaus around the world."
The CBS source added that if the other U.S. networks didn't follow suit, and begin removing the bias from their newscasts, "we're going to look like a bunch of liars, and we'll be virtually alone. Other than Fox News, we have no empirical evidence to suggest that integrity and balance is a profitable marketing position to own. The concept is too new, too cutting edge."
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By RODRIGO ANGUE NGEUMA MBA Associated Press Writer
A court in Equatorial Guinea convicted 24 accused European and African mercenaries and opposition leaders on Friday and sentenced them to prison for an alleged coup plot in the oil-rich nation, but it waived the death penalty for two top figures. The court's rejection of death penalties requested by prosecutors potentially strengthens Equatorial Guinea's bid to extradite an alleged financier of the plot: Mark Thatcher, son of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. President Teodoro Obiang's 25-year regime accuses Mark Thatcher and other, mostly British, financiers of commissioning scores of mercenaries in a takeover plot in the isolated West African nation which is the continent's third-largest oil producer. The financial backers intended to install an opposition figure as a puppet leader, Equatorial Guinea claims. The alleged plot was exposed by South African intelligence services in March, days before it was to have been carried out, leading to the arrests of roughly 90 alleged mercenaries in Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe.
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I would like to have been in on this epic adventure, but I can't venture too far from my opthamologist.
Not all the whack-jobs in the world are Moose-limbs.
Hindu girls who went out with Moslem boys would have their noses chopped off, a rightwing Hindu group warned, according to a news report on Friday. The diktat was issued in a letter sent out by the rightwing Hindu Bajrang Dal to its cadre in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest Moslem population in the country. At first, Dal members would attempt to dissuade Hindu girls from dating Muslims. But if beating them the gentle persuasion didn't work, their noses would be cut off, the Dal warned.
The warning said nothing about Hindu boys going out with Moslem girls. The group said the step was necessary to prevent marriages between the two groups, according to a report in the Hindustan Times. In the past the Bajrang Dal has protested, often violently, against Valentine's Day celebrations and college-going girls wearing jeans, both of which it said symbolized "the onslaught of immoral western culture".
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Native American men used to bite the noses off their wives if they offended. This and similar attitudes resulted in a lot of Native American women marrying white settlers.
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Cashews and pecans are poor substitutes for noses, though in a pinch Brazil nuts are a reasonable facsimile.
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symbolized âthe onslaught of immoral western cultureâ.
The only thing that keeps me from lumping these yahoos in with the Izzoids is the fact that the Hindus are not quite as aggressive and expansionist as the Izzoids. Building Purity in one country, as opposed to world wide Purity, to borrow a phase from Stalin.
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And for the Muslim boys who are caught with these Hindu girls; What of their's gets chopped?
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The more I think about it (and I think about it a lot) we may be making a mistake in thinking the problems the US faces originate with Moslems in particular instead of all cultures where people are seen not as individuals but as extensions of their extended family, and property of the clan elders.
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Well, the nose-chopping is extreme, but I would have serious problems with my daughter dating a Muslim too. The Hindus are very familiar with the problems caused by Muslims, and probably would not want their child contributing to the problem in the role of baby-factory.
I wouldn't chop my daughter's nose off, but I would disown my children for:
1) Converting to Islam;
2) Contributing in the spread of Islam; or
3) Contributing in the birth of a child who would be raised as a Muslim.
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Hindu girls who went out with Moslem boys would have their noses chopped off, a rightwing Hindu group warned, according to a news report on Friday. The diktat was issued in a letter sent out by the rightwing 
