egotopica

hello, dear networking world,

in recent weeks i have been at a camp called ecotopia, it may happen again so mark the name.
i can start with a description of the workings in the camp. (it was a camp)

simply together people pay for having vegan cooking and heaps of incredibly nice and not extremely (apparently) expensive bio-cheese. this time, and it may be so the next, ecotopia was in germany and germans do like cheese. they do like lot's of things ofcourse, like heavy thick soups in the afternoon, well cheese they like as well.

i took some share of cheese there and i enjoyed. so for the beer, pilsner mostly. personally i find that at 4.8 percent the taste of barley is still to strong, 4.9, 5.0 and even 5.2 appear the more tasty solutions in that regard and it could well be natural, ecotopical beers manage 5% easily.
many of the rather commercial greater beers i drank had great quality, but the more regional brews prevailed. trust me i know, i tested at least 40.

the camp has compost closets. however clean and even fresh they were, in effectuating compost
there is still some fortunately somewhat distant room for improvement.
the douches were cold, but as long as the sun shone in the millenia old party place thatseemed a little earth on it's own(the hill has a shape like a slice of a great ball so evrywhere you'd look the horizon is deeper then usually, and the days lasted longer. as long as itshone the douches were great, and there was a backup in warm douches. the nearby 'bad' provided money with a paid opportunity in excess cleansing and sauna, and next to it was a , what i might erronously call victorian park. it really was a german thing with many continental influences (really almost grotesk how parks have been build in such a clichee manner even when driven by a desperate mind as the actual architects. he was a bit of a pathetic dreamer perhaps but certainly he enjoyed building the park. it's nice and to see even the touch of his hands on the whole thing.

i saw it a lot, it was the way to the beer experience.

there were heaps of remnant prehistoric tools, i better describe that in detail for all i disturbed.

(if you don't love stones in general and stone tools in specific, skip the next part.)

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the area is the north west european glacial sanddeposit, it stretches more or less from scheveningen to berlin and probably all the way to minsk. as a resultstone tools of any age can be found (my estimate 500k-now)
but besides that the 17k old hills themselves , and certainly also several of the deposits directly ancestrial to the eventual accumulation of sand, stones and silt (mostly sand) have been pioneer habitats for the people of that time. the concept of partying at a place where the sun lasts longer also seems to have been familiar.
stone tools can for several reasons easily be recognised, for one thing they are usually anatomically shaped, so by holding them in the ways they were once held you should with a relatively undamaged piece usually get at least a grasp of its means.

the second and most reknown and accepted way to recognise such tools is by identifying ripples in the areas where flakes had been taken off. especially for the tools older then (my estimate) 40k years old in the area, that is almost impossible through the naked eye, the typical material is flint (however i noticed several pieces that were not on another occasion, not many by any means.)
flint that is a silicat forming in what are usually hollows, holes in calcite formations (and thus most often of a waterbound sediment) comes in nearly every colour and purity, very pure pieces that are intact and (parts off) exposed pieces of primordial deposits (such as were scraped all but completely of evrything north of the area delineated by the sanddeposits thats general location i have described) are surprisingly rare, the flintstone may loose its calcite coating it usually has, when it has been exposed over time and such pieces are fascinating and beautifull.

however flaked flintstone has newer areas of once barren stone, and these weather out calcite at a certain rate.(20k still a patina but at some 50 k (est.) in a sanddeposit they weather enough to turn white and show little signs of human labouring in the curves. yet studying such , either obvious or suspect specimen certainly giver you a hang of it. certain shapes repeat, esthetically pleasing shapes are prevalent and not rarely attention is payed to fossils and other aspects (colours, inclusions natural shape) is payed. even older laboured stones, that may well have belonged to homo erectus species are also (over) represented. the flinstones themselves and certainly also the tools are hard pieces of stone of high purities commonly, and tend to be among the more persistent for that reason. however not much of that is on the surface.

one way to recognise weathered tools is that even a 200k years old stone tool has been as often as not (at least that certainly seems so) reworked at another much later date. with the eye such tools are distinguishable by the functional shapes , reflaking of the points of edges used, that however takes some study as those are usualy the points where the tool was deemed (again) unusefull when they got damaged. in effect you see 'natural damage' at edges and points that have been used as often as not in many pieces. the reuse aspect however is relevant, stones got reused 100k's of years after another, they were also often just made for using once, when stones where available, and i assume among those are many of the reworked pieces.

natural breaks in flintstone ( for example from cars passing over them and ice) are hard to distinguish when they are very old. still it is not so hard, the difference is mainly that even
very old natural damages will not turn into shelllike abbresions, for the very very old tools, you often see only one side of a stone is worked,(a (very) strong rolling pebble from a river or flow being the usual origin.

it is obvious that such finds are rarely of the best quality's they are nevertheless revealing as to how incredibly many stones have once or even more often been used by humans.

on top of all this there is the more recent deposit(s). in the park at some 500 m distance at a path remnants of an old flow surface, and with every rainfall more tools pop up. it appears a special place, many of the tools i saw there where tiny , little were very precise, but the assemblee was impressive, it appeared to include arrowheads, of rather specific kinds, (one model that i could not think of a more logical use then cuttinga rope (a kind of beaked arrowhead, that at least in a metal version has been produced for that specific target) it also included a heap of 'probably arrowheads' and random and less random sharp (pocket)knife like implements
most of it rather small. a lot of the stuff appeared made for or by woman, (usually males tools would fit ok- okish in my hand, female (and/or kids) tools tend to be 'somewhat to small-really small). there were also several small pieces i perceived as experiments or training materials of kids. (becus the more woman like pieces, that were usually quite beautifull, were of a good or at least very decent quality. in all i am now talking about some 150-300 stones most of the nice ones are collected. however few of the finds were spectacular let alone very spectacular.

yet there is at least one more story to tell about the tools of ecotopia, the ones around the camp were different from the ones at the former flow, where i could recognise tools made with similar skill in very similar manner, ie. made by the same individual, the flow appeared to represent a settlement or camp, for that reason, altho i assume many stories have passed there, because the nr of tools was far to great for some 15 m2 and a single camp. a large part however of the tools appeared rather typical in a similar state of erosion. the most spectacular thing i found, was several tools that can only be interpreted as tools for making cloths or even decorations.

i liked that very much,

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there we were, with cold showers and hot days, singing (not quite good enough perhaps) and celebrating on the exact place people had done that from the moment it became possible, 17k years ago. i felt almost like decorating myself.

i still do actually.

what else can be said, the actual name of the camp was ecotopia, meditation was an important aspect, and i think you can say almost so was music. there were somewhat to little people, a pitty that, and i would have liked a somewhat big and visible project to spend the odd hour a day, probably for somewhat older people (then even me) a tad more luxury would do well. abodes for example, or a seatmaking workshop, a natural kind of longhouse even. that last however would have been to much work. germans tended to stay only a while. logical at it, we remained a rather international company all the way, keep in mind for me a german is an international phenomenon.

less then ever it became obvious luxury is in the ecological lifestyle already, and good to see is how that is also less then voluntairy.the love for ecological luxury as a contrast is also a wonderfull thing to see.

to a slight extend hypocrasy is trump, thorough through microscopic review of the garbage revealed not a few had set out on expeditions unlike me for beer and fish, but for wuerstchen even of the cheapest and saddest kind. without the footlights the lowbudget lowprofile addictions easily beat the profiled ones in hypocrasy as usual. how so smoking area;)

drugs were fortunately abundant, albeit in short supply, what else can you expect in a developed nation. any idea how ecological a good joint really is, can be?

nearly incalculable. i sleep better also.

the chill at nights however nearly killed me, at least i looked like i had been nearly killed most of the evenings, next time i am sure to arrange extra blankets and thick cloths in wich i don't look like an idiot. camous are fine but you kind of need sth. to hide them somewhat, at my warmest at best i looked like sth of a decorative cactus, i suppose, and at worst like a complete shim in the night (i usually try without the battery rubbish and pocketlights) with horseshoes.

i enjoyed greatly, breathed deeply, smoked happily, and talked with many nice people on diverse subjects. i quickly discovered i wasn't that bad of a shaman after all. perhaps i should even write about it. fortunately there usually were some traveller, rainbow people. these people are fine, they look like hippy's that are thrown out of a squatted appartment , that is now destute, falling apart and a cause for the next hypocredicy crises. 'rather sooner then later' sometimes they look like victims of an eviction that succesfully moved into a motorhome, in that case they usually are.

the company was rather constructive, i felt like i should try to contribute more, yet things went how they go, and i am not disappointed. an old injun turned up, he is a shaman.

he is also an ecologist in the real sense, someone who supported the more wordly ecological cause for a long time. he is a funny daring fascinating man, and when he first spoke to the circle, an eagle arrived to look over his head. he is very friendly and refered to me in person.

i was the only one who watched the sky, and didnt want to interrupt his story , Story is one of his names, his injun name is manitonkwat, i am not sure about the last t, and it's pronounced without it afaik. could be a german language thingy, kwat does not sound tasty in the least in german.
means nothing immediatly altho perhaps in a dialect, like "polnish" deutsch.

they have a lot of dialects and speak these well and exceptionally quickly, each of them has a different applied vocabulary, and they strive for completeness and originality. the negative thing is a collection of germans can be as hard to understand as a herd of dolphins the positive thing is u can make random sounds and usually end up saying something that means something else in one or another dialect. it's completely confusing however much priviliged i am as a dutch to have an applicable lexionairy of instinctive sounds that the exact to be expected nr of dialects in german default to specifically dutch words, they neither know or pronounce.

fortunately in such cases every german knows how to apply two different dialects to english and they do that all at once. give them a chance and they will practice their english untill you understand you shouldn't. it is a better idea to lead a morning circle if you want to give people such a lesson. english is the primary language in ecotopia.

it's called continental english, and in such morning circles the result is ok. their english at slow speed and intensity and one for one really is not bad.

morning circles are boring btw. it has been different for me, and perhaps i just know to well how such things roll and get organised, i am not very social besides, no matter how much i like socialising, lest i had it for me just not to speak as much as i am used to, well if i take a minute to decide on sth. it's much, when it takes me 3 i may consider the whole subject a waste of time, i tend to dislike plenums, and even people in plenums, more then i care to admit. i liked the daycircle.

people are at their best in the daycircle, usually it takes them only a second, but in other a day, sometimes two can make a lot of difference.
a lot of the people were quite exceptionally lovable and fascinating anyways. the good intends
so completely overrepresented at times the thought of a traumatical reaction arrived.

(smokes a joint)

manitonkwah did a lot to lift my moods, but he also made my problem more clearly,
bluntly put: wtf should i do about all the extra religious etc.('spiritual') luggage people have.

his solution is rather positive, take it on facevalue and try to work despite of it, mine has allways been a bit more evasive. i rather have none of that then st.h that can easily be misinterpreted and misrepresented, if even remotely correct once over and more.

otoh the myth is ok. all people are born equal, naked and lovely. if you don't see the light of the day in someones eyes, or if they are blind, hearts, just remember once it was a lovable baby. a small child. ok there is anguish but whose is that? the tribe's.

for that simple survivalist or darwinist reason we are one tribe, the hopi's have and allways had a name for that, "the rainbow tribe" , because of the spectral spacetravel ofcourse.

oh no, it's because kin comes in so many colours. chicken or egg. doesnt matter. it still suits, we are a worldwide tribe, tattoos are called tribals, and without a thick ring through your nose you are hardly allways candy.

none of that is the reason tho. the reason of that is spaceship, some call it mother, earth. or the sun perhaps, or who knows perhaps the kosmos, that is the most true ofcourse. at least at some point the kosmos i perceive as majesticall, why would a black hole generate such a mass of matter for example, ok its all them particles getting confused, but on a macroscopic level there is an element of surprise. why would for example a confused particle happen to end up as a part of a flower?

shit happens you will say, but still for shit it looks good, the incidental flower.
i love confused particles for one thing because they make that happen: flowers.
don't cut them, these flowers are having the time of their particles. it's bad karma to persecute confused particles. i am not exactly sure as to how bad, usually it depends the particles, who else will decide. however don't start worrying about the end of the world immediatly, there are so many confused particles, only in the visible part of the universe that you don't see on starmaps, it will take them ages to make a collective decission that would threaten house or hearth.

worry about ecology instead, i must admit that thanking the earth, the ecology, and even the ancestors and a lot more ofcourse, feels good and true, and even makes eagles spy (or it may have been the fbi)

it's the same as that animals like it when you think with them, absorb their communication for what you can and absolutely respect it, listen instead of that you talk to your human self.
that's with children that (cannot) yet talk also.

since talking with them implies thanking them, why not thanking them before talking rubbish to ourselves first?

i dunno what would happen. something i am quite sure.

that's a bit nasty then, i don't see any rational ground to thank the earth or the sun, where i see a rational ground to thank the ecology, since if you want to communicate (with) it. the least one could do is to feel thankfull and be thankfull for the daily massacre of plants and animals.

nevertheless i think it would work, nasty, i feel like a confused particle suddenly,

oops
there is one.....

ecology

up late

it's a wonderfull weather, weeks on end. to dry. the whole world is heating up, saw pictures of noctilucent clouds that scared me to death, oil spill came to a grinding halt.

we saw some great sunsets (not many) motley clouds (the gulf oil?) and wednesday a once in 3 years complete (double) rainbow. however the cops stole my acculoader last year, so no pics.

since i spend every day since my friends X. birthday browsing an oilcatastrophe and have become rather vocal at points i should condense some of my findings here.

the first, most eyespringing, detail is the extent to what media and (corporate) policy makers converge in projecting myths, exquisite naivety, straight nonsense and limited knowledge.
so about from the very start of the reporting, a rather to huge flow of myths but also of facts obscured after having (accidently) become public started. it enticed several campaign items like for example when day in day out associated press in the united states started publishing articles that said: you are dependend on oil! thou ar'st depenedth on oil! without oil no jobs! etc.

just like it is mindless that aljazeera or bbc repeat that 20 ppl (1) have died when the well blew up in every article. (rather a waste of bandwith , and thus energy/oil) it is mindless to think that even people that eat gentech food have forgotten these are packed in plastic. or that cars drive on oil. or jobs thrive on oil. that we wouldn't understand that is quite the "projection".

do you remember bp locked the survivors in for 24 hours? even wounded ones? guarded them, i think with assault rifles, and forced them to sign waivers? forgot it? didn't need to be repeated 3 times a day? in each paper?

that the only guys that were launched with a lifeboat were the fatheads that had been 'celebrating the safety record', (it hadn't nearly sunk for a whole year).
to be honest i payed little attention when it was burning,

all the sensation, as if i can't guess that a burning rig looks like a dirty mess. i kinda assumed the problem would be over once the thing had sunk. but not so, so the next subject became the blowout prevention stack.

i think it is due that i describe what i read about the bop. it was reportedly broken, so broken some even spend most of the day before to try and improvisedly fix it.
i don't want to say it must have been sabotaged, or that they coud have properly maintained or improvisedly fixed it, but how should i be sure it was not?

that trail had the usian media 'stumble' upon 'the ideal spill's'(2) bop maintainance records.
that hellburnedon and transocean appeared complicit but outside the stockexchange also was an early impression, the lousy cementing, the use of the wrong kinds of drilling fluids, but also the catatrophic and econ0omical potential of the spill wouldn't have went unnoticed to them.

however the maintainance reports implicated bp as much as any. the whole bop, was shipped in a testing configuration. even if it hadn't been broke chances it would have functioned 'well' would not have been great , let alone perfect.

i think with half of the 'shears' in a testing configuration the other half would not really be the most set to blow. all of that is besides the point, since the thing plainly was not checked for integrity by the responsible party for the drilling operation. bp.

you could think transocean was at that point complicit by letting the bop go like that. but the exact details of corporate and subsidiary ties are complex and plenty. not sure if it was here that by then i had for me decided the others (cheney, hellburnedon, transocean) were not free of blame. (3)

by then it also became clear tony hayward (..) and others had sold shares in the days and sometimes weeks ahead. again a subject that investigating it soon gets me sleepy, so that i have to take reports to that mostly on facevalue. on facevalue it is scary. democrat and republican, corporate and governmental have all been implicated. i have to assume information like this will be subject to the same mechanisms of censoring as other informations in the media, so the real scale and to some extend who actually knew about it (m pretty sure tony did) when their shares were sold by financial investors i am not very sure. transparance is a nice ideal, but for now something applied on the poor and privvy to the rich.

in some points i strayed into informations beyond that, but we are now once week into the gusher. i payed attention to the wildlife and saw some reports of massmortality in fish.

i had great hopes the 'containment dome' could be a help. but it had no pump, scrapers anything more versatile or anchors so the ill understood(?) mechanism of icing had it's hayday.

tony whined about his. my hay ! he must have thought. people kept collecting hair and throwing oil and straw in water. black people appeared in the clean up pictures, it takes about a dozen black people about a day to collect an immense pile of plastic bags full of oilwaste.
solidarity is everywhere, it takes 30-50 white people about a day to collect 150 ( it would weigh aprox a fourth plastic bag) turttle eggs to an incubator. guess who is better?

the first time i saw a really mixed crew on the beach was when obama visited it first. in the upperclass case at least he was a minority. 't was still the black people to get the physical contact with the oil ofcourse.

for some reason for a while hands with oil had appeared in the papers, i had been wondering why, (2nd and 3rd week into the disaster) only now i understand. not that i want to say you can't clean oil with your hands, far from that, there must be ways to do that in a safety kind of way.

k those were publicitary hands. the odd thing is maybe so much doesn't go for obama's well groomed beach, i think he was curious to have a look when they pointed him where to look at the right look of tarballs. i would be, what would the quasidispersed gulf oiltarball on a recreational facility look like?

by now he felt the need to play his own game of gulf btw. both literally (like tigerwoods) and as commander in chief. mh, he did better then mcchrystal, perhaps he should give it a try in afghanistan himself;) where the times bomber had just celebrated the 999th casualty in the afghanistan war today was celebrated the 1000th. i warned them to stop feeding a daily dose of dead soldier meat. helped a bit. detractors became hard to find, north korea for example didn't really hit the mark yesterday. that stupid cold usian war ...

was also a bit quick after pakistan that had complained all the promises of billions were nice but they'd rather get a couple of millions really. that was the day before that.

perhaps i have to say what i think about the 'incident'. to my knowledge recent deaths had been among the northkoreans in recent months. i wasn't shocked nor certain of northkorean involvment. there will be a probably more reliable russian investigation into the subject.

the investigation into the gaza boat incident was another one of wich i severely doubted it's impartiality. otoh, awaiting russian confirmation it did much to highlight a possible exterior cause, suggesting a rather modern means. they said it exploded at 150 mtrs under it. there is a marked possibillity old mines would do that, and without being convinced of impartiality the remains of the torpedo tell me nothing at all, and even appear notably suspect for looking like they have been outside for years (not under the sea for weeks). also ofcourse the claim for their genuine northkorean origin (that goes metalurgically unchecked), is a very onesided one. that is a claim from the northkorean branchvariety of the cia , the military information service.

with a great history of cia provocations in the far-east , the general trending with japan and last but not least the recent agressions towards northkorea, i don't have radical opinion on the matter. so after having been distracted, and a small break, on with the catastrophe.






(1) i know, i know it was 9-11;)
(2) bp in the media day 3 or 4.
(3) i am not so sure about anadarko, but i think these bore little or no executional responsibility.
thats only my impression and one that could or could not be correct as a result of getting it from (after all corporate) journalism.

residual murky black goo

willfull misconduct, so much the little people may say, a coastguard accepting skimmers 6 weeks late. the trajectory maps show at some point when hitting 300 km from louisiana shores all oil just disappears. the blobs of oil that are dead animals are not an indication something might be deadly wrong with oil on birds or turtles. now and then the odd fisher or beachgoer reports a couple of 10000 dead animals, but most of it doesn't. just today i read it again, the nr of possible animal victims of oil.., could be zero..

such great insights in what is going on and the immense harmlessness of oil don't cast the slightest doubt on all the rest we are reported. basically, how much oil is still escaping and how long will it circulate. today some additional equipment is supposed to have arrived and upped the 'containment capacity'. my guess is they are now collecting about half. however by now vessels from all over the world are on their way to the gulf, so either there is plenty of oil floating about to be sure they all have a job for july, or perhaps they are collecting much less then half afterall.
yesterday i read one more of the 'hopefull' statements the flow hadn't abaided in a meaningfull way yet.

the oil is expected to start flowing somewhat more gently whenever the gas that drives it looses some pressure. the whole well is rather deep, so deep i would think there is no real danger in sealing it in an explosive way, allthough you would want to be sure of the exact depth and sedimentary layer of your effort. and at that depth (and with the apparent 60-40% oil gas mix)
usually there is rather more then less gas then expected. i know that because you can make use of the feature to get extra gas production.

so altho i must admit the idea that gas flowing at such a rate would somehow run out at some point is an attractive one, it's quite as probable the turtles died from birds flue.

good news about the turtles is a 100 are saved, of wich btw a whole 3 got rereleased, i wonder why in fact, i suppose to see the effect of oil on a life turtle. if they swim straight into it eg.

talking about turtles, the newssites don't make an estimate about the nr of animal that died and somehow went out of sight. apparently they sink, and hide to die, but not one estimate of nr's.

i have no idea myself, it should be a really simple estimate to make, x percent of birds sink, x percent hit the beach. x percent hide an die, there are some 1000 oilcovered naturally dead birds recovered, thats a ridiculous and random estimate btw, perhaps it is in reality 10 or even 100 times as much.
perhaps 8 times more of them sank? and 10 times more of them hid?
a bit less i guess. in the ordre of 100000s dead birds then.

but they admitted.. managed to make the nation and world believe (or at least not rise up in protest) a whole ZERO, just today.

i won't touch mammals, dolphins have a very sensitive skin. they flock so close to beach now it would be a bad example. i learned one more thing, the gulf and it's wildlife are widely promoted as splendid (and these days as unaffected) but it is actually poor, there arent so many dolphins, and really few turtles, i bet, just like the english catches, the fish caught is neither bountyfull nor as tasty as it was 100 years ago. you could even tell that when the spill hadn't started.

so my guess is after this is all over and by when we hopefully switch to cleaning the niger delta,
there is an interesting ecological project to start in the gulf of mexico, involving no fishing for a decade for starters, it may sound farfetched, but it would be nice to see some of the oil money reserved to observe the ecology as it develops.

unreported

it's somewhat of a tradition, in the campaigns, for me to do my say, so i wll.

here.

we have a dutch elections coming (stress on dutch..) but i would like to gamble a bit about the latest semipostponunciated stoppages. jamaica for example got blasted from the mediteranean one day ahead, and listen up all, submarines are cake.

yet it almost makes you think in a melancholical way about the future of the past future of the past comintern.

poor jamaicans.

so far europe nor dutchieland have noticed agathe, or the local pinutabu, wich in it's own is quite remarkable for it's absence of observations, the sole seismograph is since some time missing, and probably became used to predict cenotaves in guatemala city. otherways someone stole it, or it broke down and before taking blame it was taken from the books. some million aid package or so, and real seismographs should be feasible for about 7k. there's other usefull and interesting media as well.

although the general interesse of gualtemaltecs in vulcanoes and earthquakes is certainly there the webpage appears illupdated or the whole department appears underfunded, the usual
corporate collapse notwithstanding. a real educational problem besides.

poor turks.

the whole turks play pretty much the sitting oilcovered rare species in the whole proces, middle class advancement not to the point you would ask for a coffeeshop at every policeman they never realised the last opportunities for the slightest riot have been innocently killed on the media stage long.

the painfull show of palestinean indignification. so this is this thoroughly controlled, observed and anticipated entente, a social aproach?

therefore, the dutch elections thingy, i thought about just going straight bright red, with a rotten tomato, but i have noticed the manouvres around the flag. ofcourse i sympathise for the full 100% with that intention.

it is something that stands out over quite some political wriggling.

yet? is that so realist, what is with this concesion culture? what is there to generalise about europe?

i see a mondially quite fluid electorate, that hardly expresses and nowhere manages.
loads of people confuse authority with governance, and hardly anyone even considers how that is judgemental.

what is more worrying is that we have these outstanding moral issues evrywhere, and how parlementary burocracy could hardly even function without great leaps of confidence.

evrything if you just don't have you made it redder?
green like a lemon.

there is also it's not done, undone, will not, does lean kind of policy going, over a left as theoretical as rare. quite the commonest.

as a further subethical splinter, there's a more pragmatical spectrum that favours going round with axes untill all else stopped moving, it has something to do with camels i think and it is really dangerous because it is superstitious.

so kind regards from a woodenshoefull dutchieland see you in the next fairytale.

oil rigged donkey's

bit of a tough time. hard to stay serious about things, international developments?
i am not so sure, not to many, the oil spill?

actually i know a lot about the oilspill, i didn't trust it in the first place, and sure enough a bp executive assured us this was the best possible oilspill the day after it materialised.

currently i think it is an attack on cuba's healthy environment, a corporate one. obama wants to make peace with cuba, but not so wants big money.

i am quitte sure a hurricane effect contra obama had also been anticipated. he really has a tough job. next, so good as nothing is correct in the whole affair. the machines are disfunctional (a bop in a testing configuration) 1000 barrels are 5000 barrels are 25000 or more barrels a day, bp gets authority not to supply informations that could lead to a proper estimate of the leak,

todays news is the research labs are bp affiliates (wich for some odd reason is said to be better for the birds, forgot why, i guess because ppl think more about birds then causes.)

oddball taraccumulations are 'found to be unrelated' as are the initial turtoise and dolphin victims
not so much for the turtoise anymore since to many fisherman seen them about floating foaming.

meanwhile the feds are making a problem about the dispersants (could be they ran out of stock),
wich ofcourse there is, but they really didnt bother to make in the first place.

i am getting more and more convinced dispersants mostly provide a cosmetical measure, evrything dies but it happens underwater so we will be to dull to notice, and although it still destroys coastal environments, we don't see it happening so much.

i don't want to be pessimist, but i know dispersed products may be more harmfull then oil still.

well thats mid and longterm effects, but there is not much we can do about it now. wait and see how worse it gets. there are also a lot of other questions to be answered, halliburton is oil related company.. that got all these 'contracts' in irak.. transocean is 'cameron', but it is also just another clueless partner in the same network of company's escaping responsibility's. a 'legal construct'.

there are quitte some questions to be answered left, why and how is such a rig productional, what did the executives actually say about it's remaining value beforehand? why are we not told deepsea drilling (and accident) actually happens more then the news has been suggesting? why do they make a huge catastrophe, when actually a smaller one is more common, if it had been a smaller one, would they just have done nothing? how much are these rigs actually leaking on average?

do they keep the oil under more often perhaps even?

and then the position of the usian government in it all, they have no say in anything apparently,
bp blows up the scene, next they have their citizens be coerced, have to admit conflict of interest in their own and facilitairy organisational structures, allow bp to keep all and everything secret,
don't seem to much push for openess about the environmental damage (or the usian news had not been influenced to neglect the impact on animals so much), and they say they will do evrything about it, and evrything about it next.

there is a saying for that, even a donkey does not trip over the same stone thrice.

remembrance day

yesterday it was remembrance day, today is actually a day with a more appealing name overhere, liberation day. but thats a liberation of one thing only day, i rather have it a liberty day,

so yesterday, admittedly naively i decided to once again have a peek about what netherlands is doing on a day like that. its been decades since i joined in on any of these themes and now i again know why..

i was tired as a dog since i hadnt slept in 29 hours by the time i arrived at the scene, a small and pretty park in a city close. it features a memorial and it was burning 3 huge flames of petrochemicals. i had actually been having a small nap of half an hour short ahead so i was silly sleepy.

before the time i had been pondering, who will i remember.. who do we need to think of most..
who do we forget, what is a decent way to look at the masses and masses of dead caused by armed violence, etc. in short i had been worrying a whole lot about what i were to be thinking there.

i can be an unreasonable optimist, and assumed it might have changed in 30 years, that would have people being serious about , i don't know, todays dead, iragi deaths, jugoslav even or maybe the russians. so many things changed in 30 years, i used to primary associate days like these with sectarism, and sectarism has gotten of a much lesser importance. perhaps, i thought, we will remember all the dead.

so it went on, loads of people arrived, some crowds of them in suits, with a 10 percent odd representation of coloured people in netherlands it was a pretty white scene, i accidently counted the relations and they were only a factor 100 off. (we are not even a division i thought but a bombardment here would make an incredible scene)

so i got suspicious, i assumed we were not going to repent the 100000s or millions we killed in indonesia after all, but lets wait and see, after a lone and sad trumpet blew we had our two minutes silence.

rather impressive, altho i hadnt said a thing a couple minutes in advance for fear of disturbing the occasion wich is a thing that seems to come more natural to me then joining in.

i remember i thought it was a hypocrit event for decades, but i kinda had forgotten why, and remembering the dead is sth i think is usefull. it happens to often people get killed in bunches and noone really notices.

there we stood, and i tried to remember whom i would be remembering, the iraqi's? communists? serbs? russian? dutch? polish? jewish? ooh now i seemed to get in tune with the masses, it was mostly the jewish victims of ww2 they were thinking of besides the dutch..

well ofcourse i agreed, that is a very terribly sad example, yet, except for acute dutch selfpitty, it has allways been the great recurrent theme of celebrations like this,

and actually it showed it hadnt moved up the slightest in all the time i'd stood aside uncompromisingly. but i didn't want to think of the jewish, if there is one genocide i am overly confronted with it is that one, and it is just not even close to thinking of all death , hurt and maim we keep causing.

so thought very loudly .. no i don't want to think of that, and someone thought, how about the polish. ok ok the polish..
well the minutes were over, ppl did the "church scrape of throats", amazingly how so many non smokers have to clear their throats, and soon starting singing..

the national hymn, i don't like it, but that besides it wasn't saying a thing about any dead at all, exactly the monarchy went unscathed, (quite contrary to the text) and i am anti-monarchistic. antifeudalist.. antinationalist besides.

so off i went, after years still forced to comply a remembrance were i wasn't in a position to remember the dead in a human way. still subject of nationalist indoctrination and authoritarianism.

i could guess to the rest, a speech about nationalism, heroism and afghanistan perhaps, well i was glad to leave. i had tried, and 40 years after we still remember the same racially biased things, still keep the mouths shut about our crimes and the numberless victims since that period.

what should be about all those many faceless victims was still about the promotion of a class system.

crustdash and dustcrash

some of my postings over the net have illustrated i am interested in seismology, tectonics, earthsciences, earthquake's and vulcano's. logically i am having a time of my life.

there are a few good conspiracy theory's about why the ejafjalla started smoking like this. ha! one was (well the most "conspiraciest" i saw) usia blew that vulcano, to take a profit from weak european economical stability. haha, as if any essential economical mechanism can be hurt through people making use of fuel and luxury less superfluously.

no, then the media, ever since day two of the event , you don't see anymore what the airlines are doing, (flying low, producing extra noise and pollution) no you read they need to be pittied, that they loose 200 m a day. as if anyone gets a revenue from that but the same people that for once can't destroy the ozonlayer more acutely.

meanwhile the subject is closely monitored by the services apparently, or would it be just my name? my remark the earth was an efficient terrerist for example, , wich i consider a rather sharp and funny pun, was removed from fora, even when i based it on quite metric inferences in a discussion about "belief" in the "punishment by gods".

ya know, if you are the right kind of religious nuthead you can publish, if you make a good and true joke you are censored. ridiculous.

the same forum (there are not to many topical forums in netherland with some reach about actuality) is trying to obscure our views on rightwing polish politics, and doesnt mind at all to be full of hate, prejudice and xenophobia.

well but that besides, altho by censoring a joke about a vulcanic event they showed there is not even a "natural" topic that you can freely express about.

today i read the vulcano got more active again, i have a webcam aimed for it to provide me with realtime information about it's activity, and i read enough about it by now to know chances are the worst is over. the reaction with the ice produces the heaps of finegrained dusts, and since most of the ice near has melted, the effect can only dimm somewhat, unless an exceptional seismic event would continue to be taking place. from the earthquake map you can tell the iceland hotspot is very active atm. under many a vulcano there is some earthquake activity.

yesterday i read the hekla started erupting, i have a webcam for that to, and its not much. anyhow the hekla isnt icecovered. not that efficient an aviation blocker. maybe katla goes, katla does have a great quantity of ice, and its a tradition it erupts after this one.

it seems possible with the rather high geologic activity over iceland as a whole.
i can't say i hope it will. there are bound to be problems if an even bigger vulcano starts to emit even more of a more noxious dust. even now the temperatures went back to the level of two months ago almost. i have been wondering, the past few cold months, they did they have anything to do with the earlier eruptions there by any chance? it certainly seems so. so we are only told when the airlines need to be grounded.

why? and then that great panic... every day, from the headlines to the wikipedia, it's: "the poor airlines" (not' the eruption', or 'the vulcano's on iceland' anymore). why?

i'll tell you why, they have probably been seeing this coming, and decided for their pleasure (the travels) and pretences (that flying helps bussiness) to provide us with even more hinder, more noise. so we need to be readied, stewed in a way, to panic about this ikarus economy.

well thats what i think, altho honestly i doubt they planned it months ahead, and it could even be an improvisation instead of a scenario.

also i assume the actual damage and dangers had been recognised before they quit flying, perhaps even a few of the things went down and it's kept out of view, but u read not the slightest remark, not a single line, about the actual effect the dust already has had on planes, wich it probably did.
why?

i'll tell you, when something goes dramatically wrong, they want to be sure they will not publicly be regarded liable. and they want to understate the dangers and effects, so that people will eat the 'economy story' more readily.

at least i am not as stupid to belief they hadn't had effects on the planes of the past month of eruptions . or the day's until they stopped jetting cargo's of humans into clouds of dust.

well its full of that sheet, we are supposed to pitty the people that can't wait to hop another plane, eagerly staying at airports to stampede aboard the first available flight.

i just don't pitty, these are high income, high consumption, high pollution "class" people, for the most. and there is not a better environmental effect then to change their egoist habits.


yesterday i got evilly censored (in a way that allows room only for a suspicion of fascism, once again, like more often appears to be the mainstream media regulation)
meanwhile having to see the hate roam freely,

next the vulcano starts erupting again,

the best friend is a good terrerist.

down with censory and ozone burning!

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