Happy Harold Camping Day!

Harold Camping failed meet jesus two yeas ago

Today marks Harold Camping is overdue an end of the world by two years.

So lets wish Harold and his cult believers a happy anniversary.

Happy Harold Camping day everybody

The whistleblower, Karthryn Bolkovac

isbn: 9780230108028 is the very much delayed tale of Croatia in 1999 which the lawyers failed to suppress and this book saw its first printing in 2011 which is a bit of a wait, it became news for a few days (my blog) and then the press forgot it..

This is a book about the the more sleazy american members of staff of the un** (my blog).  a us corporation called dyncorp (see dyn-intl.com), and one too bright* us policewomen who had a connection to Croatia so things are just going to end badly and require a barrister or two and some sleaze pointed at the un and dynacorp..

Ms Bolkovac appears to have been honest and when serving in Nebraska got her fair share of interesting events that a country with guns can provide as either news or something that is not reported, and a change of scenery from battle scared Nebraska to Croatia then post civil war after the breakup of Yugoslavia into bonus countries that even i know exist but do not ask me to draw them on a map..

Alarm bells or sirens should have been going off when Ms Bolkovac describes her fellow americans who applied for policing duties***, she appears to have been the only one who was there with the requirements with a then 71 year old southern gentleman makes you wonder if the money meant more than the job.  That is the too bright for her own good problem.

Once there the fun begins and it would have been nice to have names to these people who began not to like Ms B in the beginning of the book as it seems once your in the un you never can do wrong even if it is sexual abuse.  Whether the un hates women or that the people are plain backward is an interesting point.  Whether you deem the un trustworthy, or its suppliers seems to be an issue that there good is better than the reason they are supposed to be in an location.

4/5 bananas

* intelligent police are a curse on police organisations ** usually African peacekeeping troops and the majority of americans contracted  *** the us does not have a national police force, it appears that some of dynacorp stole from american bases too.

Boston Catholics finally get a dose of terrorism they support.

Catholics are an odd species after funding terrorism with attempts to killing royalty from Henry 8 onwards, and with migrating irish to the us funding the ira as late as the 1990′s being reported openly in the msm and films from Hollywood with big names playing on the ambiguity.

Let me also not remind you of Father Patrick Ryan either. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev decided to give Boston catholics a taste of the medicine that they helped fund in Britain.

Whatever Tsarnaev’s motives and reasons where is moot but it seems that intolerance can be exported and funded by Catholics but not tolerated by them.  That is a double standard.  It seems that these Catholics are unwilling to reap what they sow as killing the British apparently is ok so perhaps Tsarnaev is also ok by there catholic logic as they too funded terrorists.

Not all of Bostons population is catholic but i am sure if you asked did you or family  help fund irish liberation you would get a lot of yes’s from Boston.

Its an interesting position being devils advocate.

The buddha in the attic, Julie Otsuka

isbn: 9781905490875 is a short book but gets down to it.  A collection of japanese voices from pre 1940 with a bibliography – she gets a bonus ook for that.

George Takei (non fiction my blog) and PKD (fiction my blog) complete its ending. Very well done.

5/5 bananas and one ook

dnssec’s small problems

gay oxbridge spies perfect government employees!

Dnssec is a solution to a problem that does not yet seem to exist as a problem.  Very few people have it, and yes if you run your own nameservices then its easy.  However  i am unwilling to give up my existing global dns provider who does not support dnssec.

Nobody really supports it unless you have your own dns services and have them in the many global regions.  Its going to cost you, or if you go free then either your up for ‘inspection*’ by our nice american friends or Isreali snooping.

That seems to invalidate dnssec and perhaps explains why nobody uses it.  I would love to setup dnssec but the zoo does not have global dns provision, and yes while i could make nameservers service domain records that sets up a point of failure.

I sort of feel sorry for the dnssec cheerleaders and i would love to have a go it as it looks a bit like dkim.  Maybe next year i can revisit this, but i doubt its going to be doable or many people will even know about it.

* the nsa (my blog)

 

A successful rapist = a talented sports person, sports culture at its best

Rapists we all know of Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond

Steubenville made the headlines when Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond and others in a high school football team bragged about raping. Steubenvile in the US is a small place and when you post pictures and twitter messages and stuff well it deserves a wider airing.

It got that and lots a responsible people all then denied knowing that something nasty happened in there town which i not have had the ‘pleasure’ of visiting.

That brings us to Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond who being talented jocks (that means they dont have brain) got caught with there willies where the sun does not shine.  These are scape goats and I am sure more of the team did the same these be the dumbest of the lot of them.

A lot of the issue has been about the wrong message the media sent out first by ignoring the whole issue, and after smelling the social meedia $ then had the cheek to call it a loss of sports talent.

Thats a little vile, although with rape being seen as a ‘womens’ problem in the us, certainly among republicans.  I have never understood sport but if your forced drink, driven to places you dont want to be and then get the bonus prize of a home run and losing your underwear in the process perhaps the message that sports people are rapists like Ched) will make sport a less attractive thing for a lot more people.

This is good example of what sport does to people

The omnivors dilemma,Michael Pollan

isbn: 0747586756 talks about food corn and High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or. glucose-fructose syrup and how it became crop with many benefits and health issues.

Modern farming is something i had a go at here (my blog) and efficiency is something famers want and with chemistry animal feed becomes sweet so corn might replace sugar, feed chickens, make batter for the same chickens and thats how one plant becomes the majority item in a fried chicken restaurant.

Nixon changed many things while us president, from the gold standard, to farming policy he with the invention of syntetic nitrogen fertilizer which is credited to Fritz Haber who has been airbrushed from history.and commercialized by Carl Bosch.

Nixon as a republican is an interesting example of hurting his own party, and being for big state, and creating welfare queens in industry.

1. Automation in farming towns [republican voter areas]  has seen a reduction in the rural economy imagine that 6000 people leave a town of 16000.
2. By over producing and making it the only way he sold rops to russia  – causing food price inflation in the us
3. Lobbying by food industry, storage elevators means donations to political party funds at the detriment to farmers.
4. Race to the bottom capitalism is created.

The problem for farmers is that the science  and processing can make more with less, after all food is x and y set of nutrients.  Corn has been an issue for americans no corn no cheap booze and no prohibition (my blog) although fresh clean water as safe that is relatively new invention.

fat

Are fat people a morality issue like alcoholics are ? David Wallerstein (my blog) invented the supersize concept to increase profits in mcdonalds.- the healthy olympic food sponsors too.

The problem is that humans cant process the HFCS and stuff that leads to health problems – Richard Nixon might have been a crook and also is trying to kill you even today.

It also makes an interesting comment on gun ownership, while you might be able to buy an rifle in minutes in the us, you have to have a hunting licences to shoot anything that is not a human.

The later chapters of foraging and hunting seem to be going through the motions but this book does a lot of the work with gusto and clearly de-marks the zones between factory food and farming.  As i have never eaten a chicken nugget i am not going to now.

Very much worth a read 5/5 bananas.

What would Professor Iain Cockburn do?

Oracle has screwed up java again so i was musing to myself what would Iain Cockburn (my blog)) do, clearly suing somebody not a billionaire is an top option from this wrong expert , but who ? It does rather shoot a few holes in the argument that Cockburn promoted that Oracle is a good firm with innovation.

No viagra required

Java’s ‘safe’ design and sandbox seem completely fucked whether that is through too many processor implementations or that ‘fib’/pork pie got so big it finally fell of a puppets face

Clearly the professor and his champion have a few issues and somebody to sue  – way to go Iain Cockburn..

The populist movement, Lawrence Goodwin

isbn: 0195024176 is a look at economics when banks run out of money controlled by a gold standard.  The gold standard is not beyond creating crisies and this book focuses on farmers who despite efficiences found that the money was not there.

Farmers in 1870 helped to introduce the idea of the federal reserve, and although the politics of both republican and democrat was extremely corrupt these people shone a light into the seedy world of monopolists whom the gold standard link to currency worked for them.

A book all should read 5/5 bananas.

An interesting fictional read to this would be the moon is a harsh mistress by robert heninlein

Octopus, Guy Lawson

Samuel Israel bit of crook

isbn: 9781851689781 is a look into the world of the wall street ponzi,’s and madoff who Samuel Israel makes those famous names look rank amateurs as crooks.

This crook begins with many of the right credentials who being  a college dropout, a family with the right connections and the over performing product whom took the worlds economy for the small sum of $450 million.

Despite being ‘smart’* Israel was outsmarted by smarter crooks and an exclusive and elusive hidden debt** market which goes against all of economic values but might make sense to a insider trader like Isreal being as el dorado where gold or eternal youth are just over that next mountain..

The Israel’s are not poor manipulating commodity prices (my blog) and keeping america’s dictators in power meant that insider knowledge from the spooks mean that  honesty are not traits that he has.

Wall street has a perception of gambling and mix that with the secret world and alleged power of the bilderbergs means this could be fiction except its non fiction   5/5 bananas.

* in fooling people ** expect to meet the aliens from roswell and see footage of the Kennedy assassinations