gsvol compendium thread

#29
#29
I think the US has pretty good NG reserves ... plus, Israel needs more help surviving that we do .....
 
#31
#31
Rasputin_Vol said:
A LNG pipeline between India and Israel or Israel to Cyprus will not be cheap.
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What is really funny though was that after the Gaza flotilla fiasco the Russian and Turks announced the canellation of the gas pipeline to Isreal it turns out that Israel doesn't need their gas anyway. :p
 
#32
#32
a defense department run by the likes of Bwaney Fwank.

Task force seeks $1 trillion cut in defense budget - MarketWatch

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#37
#47
#47
MG1968 said:
what a bunch of racists
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One of the best descriptions of Repbulican Party philosophy I've ever heard was from a young black guy from Mississippi, looks like he may be getting his message across these days.
 
#48
#48
Does the 'disclose' bill sound really weird to anyone but me??

How Dems' NRA loophole backfired - Kenneth P. Vogel and Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com

Van Hollen responded to similar concerns on Thursday, lowering the membership threshold to 500,000 for groups to qualify for the exemption, which brought in a handful of other top special interest groups, including the Sierra Club, the Humane Society and the AARP.
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Opposition from business groups, including the Chamber, the National Federation of Independent Business and National Association of Realtors has, in fact, made conservative Blue Dog House Democrats antsy about supporting the DISCLOSE Act. Many already are likely to be targeted in their reelection campaigns for supporting aspects of Obama’s legislative agenda opposed by the business community, and have tried to avoid antagonizing business groups further.


Pelosi paid a visit to their caucus as well Thursday, but reportedly left without assurances of support for the DISCLOSE Act.
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#49
#49
http://www.east-asia-intel.com/eai/login.asp

A North Korea submarine crew member has gone public for the first time to disclose details of Pyongyang's submarine operations.

Lee Kwang Soo, 46, is the sole crew member remaining from the captured North Korean Sango class submarine that ran aground on a South Korean beach during an espionage mission in September 1996.

North Korean submarine captured by South Korea in 1996. Lee broke his silence after the international investigation revealed Pyongyang’s role in the torpedo attack against the South Korean ship Cheonan.

"I have seen 130-ton Yeoneo class submarines several times," he explained, refuting the North Korean claim to possessing no such vessels. "I received helmsman training for submarines from Romeo class down to midget subs; the Yeoneo class sub is a modified version of the Yugo class."

North Korea’s submarines are based on Mayang Island, South Hamkyung Province, where repairs are made.

Lee said Cubans visited a submarine and hovercraft manufacturing plant next to Shinpo Dockyard in South Hamkyung Province, which he says is disguised as Bongdae boiler factory. The Cubans were interested in buying submarines, he said.

Lee said North Korea has human torpedo brigades that ride torpedoes to their targets.

"North Korea's assertion that a 130-ton submarine cannot carry a 1.7-ton torpedo in a 'C' formation to attack and then retreat is false," he said bluntly.

He said that “for a 130-ton submarine to penetrate the West Sea by sailing alone through the East Sea and to return; that is impossible. However, if it travels with a command vessel disguised as a trawler, then even that is not difficult.
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Reports (including pictures) are that NK has sold submarines to Iran also, here is a blurb from a couple of years ago:

World Tribune — Report: North Korea to sell minisubs to Iran
 
#50
#50
With lots of other questions answered by knowledgeable people.

The Oil Drum | What Were the Causes That Led to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout and Explosion? - and Open Thread

I've never been in favor of using the chemical dispersant at all, here is what one man says;

Corexit Rain...

Plenty to look forward to from BP's special gift that keeps on giving.

via The Examiner

When you pour more than a million gallons of toxic chemical dispersants on top of an oil spill, it doesn’t just disappear. In this case, it moves to the atmosphere, where it will travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles from the site of the BP oil spill, in the form of toxic rain.

BP’s oil spill-fighting dispersant of choice is Corexit 9500. It has been banned in Europe for good reason. Corexit 9500 is one of the most environmentally enduring, toxic chemical dispersants ever created to battle an oil spill. Add to that the millions of gallons of oil that have been burned, releasing even more toxins into the atmosphere, and you have a recipe for something much worse than acid rain.

Oil in the environment is toxic at 11 PPM (parts per million). Corexit 9500 is toxic at only 2.61 PPM. But Corexit 9500 has another precarious characteristic; it’s reaction to warm water.

As the water in the Gulf of Mexico heats up, Corexit 9500 goes through a molecular transition. It changes from a liquid to a gas, which is readily absorbed by clouds and released as toxic rain. The chemical-laden rain then falls on crops, reservoirs, animals and of course, people.

What makes ‘Corexit rain’ so frightening are the carcinogens it will leave behind on everything is touches. Acid rain will be considered genial after it is inevitably replaced by the far more virulent ‘Corexit rain.’
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