EUGENE, Ore. Declaring fires set at a police station, an SUV dealer and a tree farm acts of terrorism, a federal judge Wednesday sentenced the first of 10 members of a radical environmental group to 13 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken commended Stanislas Meyerhoff for having the courage to do the right thing by informing on his fellow arsonists after his arrest, but declared that his efforts to save the earth by setting fires were misguided and cowardly, and contributed to an unfair characterization of others working legally to protect the environment as radicals.
It was your intent to scare and frighten other people through a very dangerous and psychological act arson, Aiken told Meyerhoff. Your actions included elements of terrorism to achieve your goal. The fact that your actions were completely irrational doesn't mitigate this. Nor does the fact that no one was hurt.
Meyerhoff, 29, has admitted to being a member of a Eugene cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as The Family, which was responsible for more than 20 arson fires from 1996 through 2001 in five Western states that did $40 million in damage. Meyerhoff was involved in fires at a Eugene police substation, a Eugene SUV dealer, an Oregon tree farm, federal wild horse corrals in Wyoming and California, and a Vail, Colo., ski resort. He also helped topple a high-voltage transmission line tower in Oregon.
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I was ignorant of history and economy and acted from a faulty and narrow vision as an ordinary bigot,
The true qualities of any card carrying leftist. Its what you can expect with an education system that is focused upon pop socialization rather than the classical basics.
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Looks like times are hard for the brave eco fighters of the ELF. Go to their website and you find...
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There is no "membership" in the Earth Liberation Front.
Any individuals who committed arson or any other illegal acts under the ELF name are individuals who choose to do so under the banner of ELF and do so only driven by their personal conscience.
These choices are not endorsed, encouraged, or approved of by this websites management, webmasters, affiliates, or other participant
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As the first Air Greenland flight between the US and the world's largest island prepares for take off today, the airline is announcing some of its best financial results ever, financial daily Børsen reported.
On Thursday Air Greenland will begin service between Baltimore and Kangerlussuaq Airport, the airline's hub in Greenland. The first departure is sold out and airline executives expect that, particularly during the summer months, Greenland will be a hot destination for tourists.
The expected popularity of the American route comes as Air Greenland is already experiencing an updraft in its finances. Increasing numbers of tourists coming to the island and an intense search for minerals and oil has meant that one of the airline's biggest problems is finding enough seats for potential passengers.
Air Greenland, owned jointly by SAS airline, the Danish state, and Greenland's Home Rule government, had forecast 2006 profits of DKK 50 million (EUR 6.7 million). Figures from its annual report show that it nearly doubled that figure, taking home pre-tax profits DKK 91 million on a total revenue of DKK 1 billion.
Many tourists travelling to Greenland come to see first hand the effects of climate change. Though the Home Rule government and the airline have refused to use global warming as a marketing strategy, Niels Feerup of the Greenland Tourism and Business Council accepts the eco-tourism trend and hopes to make the best out of it.
'You can take a trip out to the inland ice sheet and see that it has receded,' he said. 'I hope that seeing such changes with their own eyes will make a big impression on tourists. We can only do something about what is happening when we know about it.'
Alternative headline: Air Greenland Counts On Global Warming For Sky-High Profits
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It may be only a local development, and it may only affect Shell/Motiva stations, but gasoline prices have actually declined. One station hit a peak of $3.02 for regular, and dropped to just under $3; another station a few blocks away peaked at $3.13, dropped to $3.09, and just now dropped again to $3.02.
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The Valero station on Semmes Ave. in Richmond just West of Rt. 1 has been $2.99 for close to two weeks, even as the other stations (including other Valeros and Wawa) have gone to $3.01-$3.03. ("Brand" names, such as Exxon, are higher.) I drive by it every day to & from work, and have been expecting to go up; guess their tank hasn't run dry yet, though I don't know why. I've certainly done my part to empty it.
The difference between $2.99 & $3.03 isn't enough to go out of your way for, but since I'm passing the station on the way home....
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BP is 3.04 here Down from 3.09 a week ago.
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...A local independent station was at $2.99, dropped to $2.98, and then today went down to $2.89 - and they tend to be a harbinger of prices to come.
Give Congress this - every time they actively start talking about investigating gas prices, they tend to slack off a bit.
Mike
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Mike,
I don't give Congress that much credit. I think it more likely that Congress sees prices are cresting, then makes lots of noise so they can claim credit for bringing them down. I don't trust Big Oil (or Big Business of any kind), but I REALLY don't trust Big Government.
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Exxon/Mobil station on my way home charging $3.79 for regular. This morning it was $3.59 The only thing dropping here in Chicago is the future of our economy.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Customs officers at Cairo's airport have detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said. The officers were stunned when a passenger, identified as Yahia Rahim Tulba, told them his carryon bag contained live snakes after he was asked to open it.
Tulba opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers, who held a safe distance, not to come close. Among the various snakes, hidden in small cloth sacks, were two poisonous cobras, authorities said.
The Egyptian said he had hoped to sell the snakes in Saudi Arabia. Police confiscated the snakes and turned Tulba over to the prosecutor's office, accusing him of violating export laws and endangering the lives of other passengers. According to the customs officials, Tulba claimed the snakes are wanted by Saudis who display them in glass jars in shops, keep them as pets or sell them to research centers. The value of the snakes was not immediately known.
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This is far more common than people might think. International agreement like CITES make it very difficult to move many species across borders. This just raises the price and encourages smuggling.
THE icy weather of snow, hail and heavy rain that has swept across South Africa over the past few days has set 54 weather records. The South African Weather Service said 34 new records were set on Monday and another 20 yesterday. Almost all records were for the lowest maximum and minimum daily temperatures in towns across the country.
Al Gore must have been in the country.
The lowest minimum temperature recorded was -6°C in Welkom, while the lowest maximum temperature was a mere 1.7°C in Barkly East. Both were recorded on Monday night. Kuruman, Kathu and Gariep Dam all recorded their lowest maximum temperatures on Monday and lowest minimums yesterday.
There was snow on all high-lying areas of the Eastern Cape, and on some of the low-lying areas, said Weather SA's regional manager for the province, Hugh van Niekerk. Van Niekerk said there had been snow in "just about the whole of the Eastern Cape" except the coastal region - on the Bamboesberge, at Joubertina, on the Tsitsikamma and Kouga mountains, at Hogsback, on the Outeniqua and Winterberg mountains, in the Barkly East and Molteno area, at Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg.
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exJAG, yes, it's winter in Southern hemisphere.
However, one pesky detail escaped your attention and your sharp mind's eye: 34 new records were set on Monday and another 20 yesterday. Almost all records were for the lowest maximum and minimum daily temperatures in towns across the country.
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One thing about the Southern Hemisphere is our weather is much less variable and unpredictable than the Northern Hemisphere.
I can look at the Indian and Southern Ocean chart and get a pretty good idea what the weather will be like here in Perth 7 to 10 days ahead. It takes about 10 days for a weather system to get from SA to here. If we get record cold or even snow (never happened before) here in Perth I'll let you all know.
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I really cringe when these articles get posted on the 'burg.
What is the purpose of posting articles on an otherwise interesting WOT site about the sodding weather? (The double shame and irony here being that the reproach is from an Englishman...)
Climate scientists claim predicted EXACTLY this type of behaviour, btw.
Please at least can you decide on a semi coherent position (in reverse order of preference, as far as I am concerned)
1) T'aint happnin, maw.
2) Its happening, but it's the sun / moon / Jupiter / earth wobble's fault. A favourite amongst the more rationally inclined Rantburgers. Not one that I, or the majority of the scientific community happen to share, but it is a free society we live in, after all and you are all entitled to your opinions. Please just dont claim them as incontravertable truths.
3) Its happening, but being exaggerated by leftist hippies / elitists who have a vested interest in west bashing and or obtaining grants to study Amazonian Eco-forestry, rather than working in an office like normal people.
4) It may well (or may not) be happening, it may well (or may not) be serious. However, it is a great opportunity to boycott Arab oil, support our Nuclear industry / hydrogen economy and start up a potentially massive eco-economic bubble, with sequestration plant construction leading to massive availability of CO2 which can be used to grow more foodstuffs / fuel in greenhouses (again - less petro consumption) and also used to extract adsorbed gas in old coalseams / oilwells / clathrate deposits, for massive subsidies, under the banner of "sequestration". We can also claim loads of carbon credits for millions of other things we have been doing for ages anyway.
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Eh, I think the weather is a fair topic of conversation in any social gathering. Also our Enemies seem to be gathering under two banners - the black banner of Islam and the green banner of Gaia. It's entirely reasonable to examine both.
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Eh, I think the weather is a fair topic of conversation in any social gathering. Also our Enemies seem to be gathering under two banners - the black banner of Islam and the green banner of Gaia. It's entirely reasonable to examine both.
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But Sea - I agree entirely. Every civilised debate should begin with a brief discussion of the weather. However, as usual, you lot over the pond seem to require some instruction in the correct ettiquette. "Bit chilly today?" or "Getting colder, isnt it" generally suffices.
Jumping on reports of cold weather as proof of the moral fortitude of being the biggest CO2 emmiters in the world is considered a faux pas in certain circles.
Global warming is happening. CO2 atmospheric concentrations are increasing. If you want to attribute that to solar variance, based on what is happening in some other part of the solar system, I am happy for you. However, denial of these facts on the basis of a cold snap causes me to cringe with shame at being a regular reader of this site.
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Guess the CO2 explains why at some glaciers in Alaska have been melting for at least a thousand years.
As recently as 1750 a single glacier thousands of feet thick filled what is now a 65-mile long fjord. But with the invention of the SUV in the 1700s things changed... A video 2006 tour here
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My problem is the classic fallacy of arguing from the particular to the general. Glaciers have always retreated AND advanced. What we have seen in recent years is an increase in the overall number / amount retreating.
Are you really saying that the IPCC data are completely wrong? Or that these two small events (glacier / SA winter) disprove their findings of overall temperature increase?
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DoDo - Mr Ackbar says you are entitled to your opinion. Mr Ackbar also said the theories and predictions stemming from the observed facts are up for debate. He absolutely did not suggest any intention to debate facts.
If you wish to debate scientifically observable facts, you will find some like minded people over in the other S.A. (magic kingdom) where a certain book tells them that the sun sets in a muddy puddle.
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Not one that I, or the majority of the scientific community happen to share...
Are you a scientist? I am. And frankly I'm none too sure that the "majority of the scientific community" is convinced that global warming is anthropogenic. For one thing, with so little actual data, predictions of warming disaster are based on computer models. And I've run enough computer models in my day to view them warily (although they're fine for getting that paper published!).
And yet, shamefully, many scientists are lending their backing to a subject they know nothing about. A couple years ago, our professional society issued a policy statement on global warming. The thing is, the vast majority of our members have no business opining on global warming, because they're incompetent to judge the scientific validity of the data and models. We're not climatologists, and -- with a few exceptions -- our areas of expertise are quite remote (ahem) from that subject.
Unfortunately, people who don't feel competent to judge tend to keep their mouths shut, but those with an agenda -- though equally incompetent -- will speak right up. The result is scientific consensus (and no, these are not dirty words) by decibels.
Furthermore, I can (just) remember the time when we were slipping into a new Ice Age, though I don't remember there being a manmade component to that one.
But the reason this comes up on Rantburg so often is that many of the people who promote anthropogenic global warming do so less out of a concern for the environment than out of a hatred of modern (which is to say, Western) civilization. The enemies of Western civilization, whoever they are, are within Rantburg's purview.
Climate scientists claim predicted EXACTLY this type of behaviour, btw.
You have a cite handy, right? One that notes that winters in southern Africa specifically will become more severe? Here's one that says otherwise. The IPCC states that southern Africa will become drier, though it doesn't specifically mention winters. This one does, though.
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However, as usual, you lot over the pond seem to require some instruction in the correct ettiquette.
That, my dear Admiral Ackbar, is a classic example of Euro-snob rudeness. Not to mention a complete lack of appreciation for a culture different than your own. A pity -- I'd thought so well of you up till now. I can only hope it was a momentary aberration.
Oh, and while I am not a scientist myself, I grew up in a household of academic researchers, married another (although subsequently Mr. Wife turned to the dark side -- business), and my brother the perfesser has been involved on the computer side of weather prediction modelling. Dear Dr. Angie Schultz is spot on, I'm afraid. A pity you don't regularly read the newspapers on this side of the pond, too -- there've been easily half a dozen articles in my local rag in the past month about big name scientists, formerly outspoken advocates of the Global Warming Theory, who've changed their minds based on the data they themselves generated while attempting to determine the actual range and scope of global warming. Outlying points, even setting new records at an extreme, do not determine trend lines statistically speaking, nor even mark a significant change in variability. That was one of the things I learnt during my several few years developing new products for manufacture.
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A.S. - I am a scientologist, does that count?
I got my datas from "The day after tomorrow".
Actually, you have got me bang to rights on that one, I was thinking of the thermohaline whatnot & the gulf stream which we are told is going to go north & plunge Europe into an irreversable ice age, not SA., so my sincere apologies are offered.
Furthermore, I agree entirely that there is a great degree of alarmism around the subject (something that rantburgers could never be accused of ;-) and that many of the "scientists" are probably gender studies professors.
What I am talking about is overall warming of the planet. It is happening.
Sadly, no. (I was so disappointed when I discovered that.)
...I was thinking of the thermohaline whatnot...
Right, which only applies to Europe. Though the other day there was an article which threw skepticism on the idea that the predicted melt would be enough to disrupt the current. Can't remember where I saw it now.
I'll point out that, in the summer, any little local heat wave or hurricane infestation is often heralded in the press as global warming, come at last! And it is with this in mind that Rantburgers post counter-examples.
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I believe it's getting warmer, overall. I think Mars is, too. I read that the human contribution is either significant or trivial.
I think there is cause for concern. I do not think there is cause for alarm.
Ms.Wife - I recall now why I inquired about your status once - you one sharp cookie! Although I think Ms. Schultz has been keeping a low profile.... Lotta sharp cookies around here; I learn a little bit every day!
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Admiral: the mods include these articles for the reasons noted by Seafarious: the green-left-progressive-anarchist-commies intend to use 'climate change' as a way to force the rest of us to bow to their will. We need to be aware of that, and we need to know the facts.
There's another reason, the same reason why we comment on Paris Hilton, etc -- this is what the MSM focuses on instead of the WoT. It's useful for us to know that and to see where their priorities are.
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Justice, I'm sure everybody here supports the retarded and would like to accomodate them, even the psychotic Muslim retarded, but there's a time and a place.
And, ss hard as it is, lay off banging the farm animals. I hear it only makes it worse...
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Oh, don't tell me someone is trying to besmirch the stellar and righteous record of Al-Shiraq now that he has stepped down. The manners, please, the manners.
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Around 50 milllion dolars in one account. PS: In his 12 years of presidency his total earnings as president were far inferior to 5 million dollars so even if we assume that he didn't spend a cent there are 45 millions who have materialized out of thin air. Thin iraki or saudi air.
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Good God. You have an incriminating bank account, so you call up the head of the spook department, point him to the docs, and ask him for help?
What kind of idiot does that? Wouldn't the head spook's first instict be to feather his own nest with a little blackmail-worthy material? And ol' Jack couldn't see that coming?
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Good God. You have an incriminating bank account, so you call up the head of the spook department, point him to the docs, and ask him for help?
What kind of idiot does that?
Chirac is that kind of idiot. In 1969 he was tresaurer for George Pompidou's presidential campaign. Pompidou was lagging in teh polls so donators saw no reason to give to someone who was going to lose. That is when Chirac told Pompidou the Saudis had offered several suitcases full of money and he had accepted. Pompidou nearly had a heart attack (money from foreign power specially one not particularly palatable) and had the deal cancelled. (Not sure Chirac obeyed the order hower). Unfortunately Pompidou didn't terminate Chirac's carreer who by then was still unknown.
Second example: He provided nuclear technology to Saddam despite the strong possibility that Saddam could use it against France, threaten other Arab countries with it and get a monopoly on oil (not in the intesrest of France) or proliferate it to other Arab countries (Saddam was panarabist) who could have been unfriendly to France. That is what he was ready to do in order to get a slighht improvement on France's foreign deficit.
The former commander of a notorious paramilitary unit was today convicted of assassinating Serbia's first democratically elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic. A Serbian court said Milorad "Legija" Ulemek, who once headed the Red Berets, a special unit of Serbia's secret police, and his deputy, Zvezdan Jovanovic, conspired with 10 other paramilitary and underworld figures in the shooting of Djindjic in 2003 in Belgrade.
Ulemek and Jovanovic each received the maximum sentence of 40 years. "It was all prepared by Ulemek. Jovanovic fired the shots," said the judge, Nata Mesarevic.
Most of the 12 accused in the murder conspiracy were members of the Zemun mafia gang. Many had fought in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as paramilitaries backed by Slobodan Milosevic. As a pro-western prime minister, Djindjic reformed the Serbian economy and strongly favoured cooperation with UN trials of alleged Serbian war criminals. Djindjic earned the enmity of hardliners when he ordered Milosevic's arrest and extradition to The Hague. A former philosophy teacher, Djindjic led the popular demonstrations in October 2000 that toppled Milosevic, and became prime minister in January 2001.
The indictment said the defendants killed Djindjic to bring hardliners back to power, to avoid being sent to The Hague, and because they feared a crackdown on organised crime.
Djindjic was gunned down in the stairway of the main Serbian government building on March 12 2003. He was hit in the chest and died one hour later.
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LONDON - A British court on Wednesday upheld a ruling letting families return to their Indian Ocean island homes, from where they were forced out 30 years ago to make way for a US military base. The Court of Appeal backed a High Court ruling in May last year that allowed the families to return to the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, a launchpad for US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The British government was expected to seek a final challenge at the highest court in the land, in the House of Lords.
Britain expelled some 2,000 people from the Chagos Islands, 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of the Maldives, to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 1960s and 1970s, allowing it to lease Diego Garcia to Washington for 50 years. Lawyers for the Chagossians had argued in court that, although they cannot live on the main island of Diego Garcia, they should be allowed to return to the other 64 islands of the Chagos archipelago.
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Foolish islanders. If they had adopted islam the UN would have been on their side all this time. Along with leftist undergrads, the French and other potent allies.
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Ford or GM should give this guy whatever he wants and git moving on mass production, post haste.
Now that global warming will keep the water lines from freezing in the winter, we are ready for the steam engine.
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I've been interested in the Stirling engine as an efficient engine. Apparently, it will burn just about any kind of fuel. However, I cannot find anything about the commercialization of this engine. Anyone have any info?
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The idea I'd like to hear the follow-up on was a Toyota ceramic turbine engine that could burn just about anything made up of hydrocarbons. You could put cooking oil in the tank and it was happy.
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One advantage of steam power is that anything that will generate enough steam can be used as a source of propulsion, even sunlight.
There won't be any quick solutions with respect to mass production, unfortunately. Existing improvements have not been implemented, e.g., my 1983 Ford 6.9 L diesel will burn cooking oil. A 5000 lb vehicle, it gets 25 mpg empty, and the fuel is selling for 40 to 70 cents a gallon less than gasoline at the moment. I am now using it for all my errands & leaving my gas buggy parked in the drive. The small diesel engines so popular in European auto transport have never been available in the USA.
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Nifty--I just wonder what happens when you run out of water while operating the engine though?
I like the Velcro replacement invention at the site as well.
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Additionally, as I recall water does not compress, which seems to indicate that any residual moisture would need to be blown out of the cylinders before starting the thing up, like steam locomotives do before engaging the drive rod, or bad things will happen!
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The problem with Stirling engines for mass transportation is the same problem that all steam-powered vehicles have faced : the sudden release of steam during accidents, and the attendant scalding injuries/deaths. Imagine a minor car crash that results in the scalding death of a baby in an SUV : liability lawsuits would bankrupt any maker almost immediately.
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Of course Papa Schimmelhorn informs me that steam power is the secret to anti-gravity! Flying cars for everyone! Just make sure your steam engine is certified black hole free.
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Estonia has created a stir with its accusations that Kremlin-based hackers targeted government web sites. But it is not alone in grappling with cyber attacks. Hackers in recent months have targeted outspoken pro-Kremlin youth groups, opposition forces, ultranationalist organizations and media outlets, crashing their web sites with DDoS attacks -- the same type of attack that Estonia says was launched against its sites. And by all appearances, cyber attacks are becoming a popular means of silencing political opponents, and some observers see the recent wave of attacks as a rehearsal for upcoming State Duma and presidential elections. Targeted organizations almost without exception blame political opponents.
Not only political organizations have been attacked. Two of the country's last independent-minded media outlets -- the Kommersant newspaper and Ekho Moskvy radio -- both had their web sites targeted earlier this month. The radio station has appealed to the Interior Ministry to open a criminal investigation into the attacks. But experts say there is little chance that the hackers will be brought to justice in these attacks, or those on Estonian sites.
At the height of the Russian-Estonian dispute this month over the relocation of the Soviet monument, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet issued a sharply worded statement that "cyber terrorist attacks" against Estonian government web sites had been traced to computers in the Russian presidential administration. NATO has since sent a computer expert to Estonia to assess the ongoing attacks, which Estonia says started April 27, and Estonian Defense Minister Madis Mikko has likened them to military strikes.
The Estonian claim that the attacks came from the Russian presidential administration "may have some grounds and may not," said Mikhail Polyakov, who, when reached by telephone, identified himself as a top adviser in the administration. Polyakov's name appeared as a contact on a list of IP addresses from which Estonia says the DDoS attacks have been conducted, a copy of which the Estonian Foreign Ministry provided to The Moscow Times. The list includes the names, phone numbers and the work addresses for people who had registered with the IP addresses, and one of the addresses included is 4 Staraya Ploshchad, where the headquarters of the presidential administration are located. The IP addresses in the Estonian list belong to various Russian government structures, including the Duma and the Federation Council, Polyakov said. But even that doesn't mean Duma deputies or senators were somehow associated with the attacks, experts said.
Political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky suggested that Vladislav Surkov, the powerful deputy head of President Vladimir Putin's administration, was running a "special department" orchestrating the attacks in order to "block information" ahead of the Duma elections in December and the presidential vote in March. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov firmly denied such possibility, however.
Commenting on the information about attacks on Estonian web sites coming from the Russian president's administration, Peskov said: "I've repeatedly said that it doesn't represent the facts. These are very serious accusations. Estonia should have proof of them." Peskov could not explain, however, why web sites of the Russian president's administration were detected by the Estonian security systems. Asked whether hackers could have used the presidential administration web sites like that, he said: "That's impossible."
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I've read that a lot of the auto-spam comments originate from there also. The barely literate ones advertising everything from prescription pharmaceuticals to pr*n.
Reason enough to nuke them from orbit, just to make sure.
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Yeah, Sgt.Mom, just look at your spam filter (if you don't have one, you better get one) and see how many of the spams come from .ru email addresses. Good luck asking Pooty to do anything about it.
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There is pain at the pump. I can see where oil industry is not enthused about building refinery capacity if the country is moving towards hybrids, hydrogen fuel-cell cars, electric, and other fuel souces. Damn though, the fuel increases all get passed on to the consumer through higher prices for everything transported.
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This is why I am a big advocate of algae biodiesel. It has a lot more energy than ethanol, it can be made about anywhere, and as diesel, retooling and refueling is a LOT cheaper. On top of everything else, its manufacture recycles a LOT of waste CO2 and nitrous oxides.
It beats both hydrogen and ethanol by a lot of miles.
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I think this is article is part of a FUD campaign to defuse anger over high gasoline prices and limited refining capacity. "If you threaten to develop alternate auto fuels, we will threaten to continue to limit refining capacity." The existing situation works just fine for the oil industry, whose goal is NOT to supply adequate refined products to the community, but to generate the highest possible profits. An alternate view is that refinery capacity is not being increased since the industry knows world oil production has peaked and will decline in the future.
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Oh, and the future of biofuels is extremely limited. There's no way the world can substitute them for more than a small fraction of fossil fuels being consumed. Internal combustion engines will play an ever-decreasing role in transportation as the decades unfold, barring a miracle.
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Actually no new refineries have been built in this country for like 30 years, primarily due to NIMBY and treehugger lawsuits. The only major refinery work permitted anymore is expansion (very limited), improvements, and reconstruction/rebuilding. The state of Oregon has NO refineries whatsoever in it, and every time one is proposed, the treehuggers get it killed. The lack of refinery capacity is one reason that Oregon's gas prices are 5-7 cents a gallon higher than other states, since it is all pumped in from refinery locations, and we get to pay the transportation costs.
About the only way to get a refinery built today would be to have an Indian tribe vote for it and have it built on a reservation.
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Curious thing about the refinery situation. The state of New Mexico both produces crude oil & has at least one oil refinery, yet its cost for gasoline is above average. Makes no sense at all.
Philanthropist and retired hedge-fund manager Robert W. Wilson said he is giving $22.5 million to the Archdiocese of New York to fund a scholarship program for needy inner-city students attending Roman Catholic schools.
Wilson, 80, said in a phone interview today that although he is an atheist, he has no problem donating money to a fund linked to Catholic schools. ``Let's face it, without the Roman Catholic Church, there would be no Western civilization,'' Wilson said. . . . ``It was a chance for a very modest amount of money to get kids out of a lousy school system and into a good school system,'' . . . . Proving, once more, that God does too have a sense of humor, but it's very subtle.
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Sounds to me like this guy's a sane atheist, not a nutbag atheist like the ones who file lawsuits against the Pledge of Allegiance.
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There are no atheists in foxholes in confessionals.
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There's a difference betwen an Atheist (someone who does not believe in God) and someone who practices Atheism (a religion which goes about trying to prove God doesn't exist, sometimes in very devout and militant ways). I'm glad this guy belongs to the former camp.
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There's a difference betwen an Atheist (someone who does not believe in God) and someone who practices Atheism (a religion which goes about trying to prove God doesn't exist, sometimes in very devout and militant ways)."
Those in the latter camp can be called a lot of things - antitheists, secular fundamentalists, atheist evangelicals, anti-Christian bigots etc., all of which more or less describe what they are and what they believe.
Being in that latter camp is the great shibboleth of the cultural elite in the West these days.
It is indeed refreshing to see someone like this guy or Orianna Fallacci or Camille Paglia - folks who though thy are atheists in practice are Christians culturally, at least.
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