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March 7, 2013 (LD) – Hundreds of heavily armed terrorists have crossed from the Philippines and landed in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Dozens are already dead, and the Malaysian military has brought in aircraft and armor to confront the audacious, bizarre invasion, scattering militants into the jungles of Borneo island.
9/1/13 3:20 PM Anonymous said… Apologies for being a bit off-topic, but since the New Year is often a time for catching up with the goings-on among friends like ol’ Bish, perhaps it’s worth an update on a certain Peter Wood, with whom John Mashey and other readers are familiar, whose ignorant and defamatory anti-science essays appeared at the blog Innovations , formerly hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Late last month, Kyle Bass, managing partner of Hayman Capital, shared his thoughts in a video at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Investing Conference with Professor Ken Eades. It is a fantastic interview that echoes many of the things I have been saying about Japan for quite some time.
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The fully expected consequence is Student-Loan Delinquencies Now Surpass Credit Cards .
VoltarieNet’s Thierry Meyssan reported in an article titled, " The many faces of Sheikh Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib " that:Â Completely unknown to the international public only a week ago, Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib has been catapulted to the presidency of the Syrian National Coalition, which represents pro-Western opposition in the Damascus government. Portrayed by an intense public relations campaign as a highly moral personality with no partisan or economic attachments, he is in truth a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an executive of the Shell oil company. Indeed, al-Khatib had worked at the al-Furat Petroleum Company for six years, according to the BBC , which is partnered with Shell Oil .
Solution is Sometimes the Solution to Pollution There has been quite a bit of worry about what happens when the methane hydrates on the Arctic shelf go blooie, but a factor not thought of by many is that since these hydrates are underwater, a fair amount of the methane will never reach the surface, but will first go into solution in the sea water, and later be oxidized to CO 2 , hydrogen carbonate and carbonate ions. The same issue confronts anyone (Ian, Ian Plimer, are you out there), who rants about all of the carbon dioxide coming from underwater volcanoes. In point of fact, you read it here on Rabett Run, that if such volcanoes really were the source of so much CO2, the easy mark would be to go look for acidic plumes in the ocean. Plimer’s hound of the Baskervilles as it were, because they are not found. Biastoch, et al (eleven of them, including Latif, and Wallman at the University of Kiel, have thought about the fate of the methane hydrates, and in an article entitled "Rising Arctic Ocean temperatures cause gas hydrate destabilization and ocean acidification" conclude that the major effect will be a decrease of pH, near the Arctic Ocean coasts. Since the Arctic has and will be warmed considerably, Arctic bottom water temperatures and their future evolution projected by a climate model were analyzed.