Monday, June 27, 2011
Global Hurricane Activity at Historical Low
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
Maue (2011) Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity:
In his new paper, "Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity", Dr. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist from Florida State University, examined the last 40-years of global hurricane records and found strikingly large variability in both tropical cyclone frequency and energy from year-to-year. Since 2007, global tropical cyclone activity has decreased dramatically and has continued at near-historical low levels. Indeed, only 64 tropical cyclones were observed globally in the 12-months from June 2010 - May 2011, nearly 23-storms below average obliterating the previous record low set in 1977.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Outrageous New Smears Against Wilhelm Reich
http://www.thehalfking.com/calendar/2011/turner.htm
Monday, June 27, 7:00 PM
The Half King, bar and restaurant
505 W. 23rd St.
New York, NY 10011
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/9772
Book launch for Christopher Turner's Adventures in the Orgasmatron
Tuesday, June 28, 7-9 pm
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Recent Noteworthy Articles
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
New Book of Interest on Gravitational Anomalies
Should the Laws of Gravitation Be Reconsidered?
The Scientific Legacy of Maurice Allais.
Edited by Héctor A. Múnera
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Climate-Warmers Fudge Sea-Level Data
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/research-center-under-fire-for-adjusted-sea-level-data/#ixzz1PZYUI1dX
Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for 'Adjusted' Sea-Level Data
Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?
The University of Colorado's Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.
Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied-upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold.
"We have to account for the fact that the ocean basins are actually getting slightly bigger... water volume is expanding," he said, a phenomenon they call glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA).
Taylor calls it tomfoolery.
"There really is no reason to do this other than to advance a political agenda," he said.
Climate scientist John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said that the amount of water in the ocean and sea level were two different things.
"To me sea level rise is what's measured against the actual coast," he told FoxNews.com. "That's what tells us the impact of rising oceans."
Taylor agreed.
"Many global warming alarmists say that vast stretches of coastline are going to be swallowed up by the sea. Well, that means we should be talking about sea level, not about global water volume."
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Interesting New Science
http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1678
Analysis of Experiments Exhibiting Time-Varying Nuclear Decay Rates: Systematic Effects or New Physics?
Authors: Jere H. Jenkins, Ephraim Fischbach, Peter A. Sturrock, Daniel W. Mundy
Abstract: Since the 1930s, and with very few exceptions, it has been assumed that the process of radioactive decay is a random process, unaffected by the environment in which the decaying nucleus resides. There have been instances within the past few decades, however, where changes in the chemical environment or physical environment brought about small changes in the decay rates. But even in light of these instances, decaying nuclei that were undisturbed or un-"pressured" were thought to behave in the expected random way, subject to the normal decay probabilities which are specific to each nuclide. Moreover, any "non-random" behavior was assumed automatically to be the fault of the detection systems, the environment surrounding the detectors, or changes in the background radiation to which the detector was exposed. Recently, however, evidence has emerged from a variety of sources, including measurements taken by independent groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, and Purdue University, that indicate there may in fact be an influence that is altering nuclear decay rates, albeit at levels on the order of $10^{-3}$. In this paper, we will discuss some of these results, and examine the evidence pointing to the conclusion that the intrinsic decay process is being affected by a solar influence.
arXiv:1105.1335v2
Further Evidence Suggestive of a Solar Influence on Nuclear Decay Rates
Authors: Peter A. Sturrock, Ephraim Fischbach, Jere H. Jenkins
Abstract: Recent analyses of nuclear decay data show evidence of variations suggestive of a solar influence. Analyses of datasets acquired at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) both show evidence of an annual periodicity and of periodicities with sidereal frequencies in the neighborhood of 12.25 year^{-1} (at a significance level that we have estimated to be 10^{-17}). It is notable that this implied rotation rate is lower than that attributed to the solar radiative zone, suggestive of a slowly rotating solar core. This leads us to hypothesize that there may be an "inner tachocline" separating the core from the radiative zone, analogous to the "outer tachocline" that separates the radiative zone from the convection zone. The Rieger periodicity (which has a period of about 154 days, corresponding to a frequency of 2.37 year^{-1}) may be attributed to an r-mode oscillation with spherical-harmonic indices l=3, m=1, located in the outer tachocline. This suggests that we may test the hypothesis of a solar influence on nuclear decay rates by searching BNL and PTB data for evidence of a "Rieger-like" r-mode oscillation, with l=3, m=1, in the inner tachocline. The appropriate search band for such an oscillation is estimated to be 2.00-2.28 year^{-1}. We find, in both datasets, strong evidence of a periodicity at 2.11 year^{-1}. We estimate that the probability of obtaining these results by chance is 10^{-12}.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/nm71615v85777272/
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Time-Dependent Nuclear Decay Parameters:
New Evidence for New Forces?
E. Fischbach · J.B. Buncher · J.T. Gruenwald ·
J.H. Jenkins · D.E. Krause · J.J. Mattes · J.R. Newport
Abstract This paper presents an overview of recent research dealing with the question of whether nuclear decay rates (or half-lives) are time-independent constants of nature, as opposed to being parameters which can be altered by an external perturbation. If the latter is the case, this may imply the existence of some new interaction(s) which would be responsible for any observed time variation. Interest in this question has been renewed recently by evidence for a correlation between nuclear decay rates and Earth-Sun distance, and by the observation of a dip in the decay rate for 54Mn coincident in time with the solar flare of 2006 December 13.We discuss these observations in detail, along with other hints in the literature for time-varying decay parameters, in the framework of a general phenomenology that we develop. One consequence of this phenomenology is that it is possible for different experimental groups to infer discrepant (yet technically correct) results for a half-life depending on where and how their data were taken and analyzed. A considerable amount of attention is devoted to possible mechanisms which might give rise to the reported effects, including fluctuations in the flux of solar neutrinos, and possible variations in the magnitudes of fundamental parameters, such as the fine structure constant and the electron-to-proton mass ratio. We also discuss ongoing and future experiments, along with some implications of our work for cancer treatments, 14C dating, and for the possibility of detecting the relic neutrino background.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Middle-East Humor: Klavan's One-State Solution
Klavan's One-State Solution: Give the Middle East to the Jews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEeiDjdUuU
80% of American Mosques Promote Violence
"Unfortunately, the results of the current survey strongly suggest that Islam-as it is generally practiced in mosques across the United States-continues to manifest a resistance to the kind of tolerant religious and legal framework that would allow its followers to make a sincere affirmation of liberal citizenship. This survey provides empirical support for the view that mosques across America, as institutional and social settings for mosque-going Muslims, are at least resistant to social cooperation with non-Muslims. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of mosques surveyed promoted literature supportive of violent jihad and a significant number invited speakers known to have promoted violent jihad and other behaviors that are inconsistent with a reasonable construct of liberal citizenship.
This survey suggests that, first and foremost, Muslim community leaders must take a more active role in educating their own faith community about the dangers associated with providing a safe haven for violent literature and its promotion-whether that safe haven is the mosque or the social club. These results also suggest that researchers and counterterrorist specialists should pay closer attention to the use and exploitation of classic Islamic legal doctrine and jurisprudence for recruiting and generating a commitment to violence against the perceived enemies of Islam. Finally, these findings should engender at least an interest among researchers to begin to study carefully Muslim attitudes toward citizenship and violence but one that differentiates between those who are Shari'a-adherent and those who are not. And, among Shari'a adherents, this future survey data must be sensitive to the distinction between traditionalism, orthodoxy, and Salafism, along with the more obvious sect distinctions, such as between Sunnis and Shiites."
Dozens of 'incubators' for jihad found in U.S.
'More than 80% of mosques advocate or promote violence'
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=308857#ixzz1OkxUMKmq
Monday, June 06, 2011
California Newspaper Calls for Stoning of Adulterous Women
California Newspaper Calls for Stoning of Adulterous Women
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20110601/OPINION03/106010312/Unfaithful-wives-should-put-death
"... Sleeping around with any man who came along, especially with a married man, must not be something to be proud of and awarded for.
These women not only must not be awarded, but they must pay for destroying the happiness and the future of their victims, especially this woman who lived with the family and had become a member of that family.
These slut women do not know how to say no. To my judgment, these women who freely sleep with married men must be severely punished and put to death.
If the lawmakers do something about it, you will find less stories like Arnold's.
Shamci Rafani"
Left-Islam "AntiFa" Fascist Violence in Germany
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/confrontation-in-germany.html
"Pax Europa had planned a full program featuring Middle Eastern Christian musicians, a Coptic Christian activist, and others, so as to highlight the hollowness of the Islamic supremacist narrative of Muslim victimhood and anti-jihadist racism. But [due to the violent "Antifa" mob] the police ordered the Pax Europa organizers to drastically reduce the scope of their event. Everyone was restricted to ten minutes only. Several participants opted not to appear, in light of the manifest danger. Antifa people were attacking supporters of Pax Europa. I saw several individuals being chased by rabid Leftist gangs. At least one man went to the hospital. ...
The Antifa people [were] moving forward, chanting slogans, banging their drums, and holding aloft the usual Leftist kitsch -- Che Guevara, the hammer and sickle, the Palestinian flag, signs denouncing Islamophobia, etc. ...
They started throwing things: bottles, eggs, excrement and more. One bottle narrowly missed the Coptic activist's head and crashed onto the stage -- other bottles crashed at our feet. Several speakers were hit with eggs. The manure they threw was all over the stage floor."
Ugliness and beauty in Germany
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/ugliness-and-beauty-in-germany.html
"I have learned that the fascist Antifa and/or Islamic supremacist thugs have burned the truck belonging to the company that set up the stage for Pax Europa's Thursday rally. Then last night they found out the hotel that the courageous anti-jihad politician René Stadtkewitz was planning to stay in when he came to Stuttgart to announce the founding of the local branch of his new Freedom Party; they broke the hotel's windows and painted threatening messages on its walls. Also yesterday, I spoke to a Pax Europa meeting at a location in Stuttgart; Antifa thugs found out the location after the meeting had ended, and stormed and surrounded the place. Thirty-six were arrested."
Spencer versus the Leftist/Islamic alliance, Stuttgart, Germany, June 2
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/spencer-versus-the-leftistislamic-alliance-stuttgart-germany-june-2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqm65mqEl3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RFmmxVw5jQ
Egyptian cleric: We ask non-Muslims to convert, but if they don't convert or pay jizya, we fight them
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/egyptian-cleric-we-ask-non-muslims-to-convert-but-if-they-dont-convert-or-pay-jizya-we-fight-them.html
Learn Your Islam Note Of The Day: Jizya is the Islamic "existence tax" all infidels must pay when living within Islamic societies ruled by Sharia Law. Consider it as similar to the Obama-care individual mandate existence tax (and maybe, that's where the Obamites got the idea?!), except that if you don't pay the Islamic tax, then you can legally be taken as a slave or be murdered, by any "good Muslim"!
Land-Stealing by Genocidal Sudanese Muslims; The World Yawns.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/sudan-on-un-calls-to-pull-out-of-disputed-region-it-invaded-no.html
Palestinian Authority presidential adviser: "refugee" assaults on Israel's borders are the "new Palestinian nuclear weapon"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/palestinian-authority-presidential-adviser-refugees-are-the-new-palestinian-nuclear-weapon.html
Saturday, June 04, 2011
New "Free" Egyptian Leaders: Slave Trade Can Balance State Budget
New, Free Egypt: Prominent Cleric Says Financial Problems Can Be Solved By Conducting Jihad Raids To Capture "Slaves, Women And Children To Sell Like Groceries"
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/new-free-egypt-prominent-cleric-says-financial-problems-can-be-solved-by-conducting-jihad-raids-to-c.html
American Muslims Should Buy Guns, Start Shooting People
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/new-al-qaeda-video-american-muslims-should-buy-guns-start-shooting-people.html
Moderate Muslim Fatah: "We Have Never Recognized Israel's Right to Exist And Will Never Do So"
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/moderate-muslim-fatah-we-have-never-recognized-israels-right-to-exist-and-will-never-do-so.html
All Eyes on Holland: Geert Wilders Final Remarks in Trial of the Century
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/all-eyes-on-holland-geert-wilders-final-remarks-in-trial-of-the-century.html
All Eyes on Holland: Geert Wilders Final Remarks in Trial of the Century
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/all-eyes-on-holland-geert-wilders-final-remarks-in-trial-of-the-century.html
YouTube of the Final Remarks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjZEZggkkA&feature=youtu.be
Mister President, members of the Court,
I am here because of what I have said. I am here for having spoken. I have spoken, I speak and I shall continue to speak. Many have kept silent, but not Pim Fortuyn, not Theo Van Gogh, and not I.
I am obliged to speak. For the Netherlands is under threat of Islam. As I have argued many times, Islam is chiefly an ideology. An ideology of hatred, of destruction, of conquest. It is my strong conviction that Islam is a threat to Western values, to freedom of speech, to the equality of men and women, of heterosexuals and homosexuals, of believers and unbelievers.
All over the world we can see how freedom is fleeing from Islam. Day by day we see our freedoms dwindle.
Islam is opposed to freedom. Renowned scholars of Islam from all parts of the world agree on this. My witness experts subscribe to my view. There are more Islam scholars whom the court did not allow me to call upon to testify. All agree with my statements, they show that I speak the truth. That truth is on trial today.
We must live in the truth, said the dissidents under Communist rule, because the truth will set us free. Truth and freedom are inextricably connected. We must speak the truth because otherwise we shall lose our freedom.
That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.
The statements for which I am being tried are statements which I made in my function as a politician participating in the public debate in our society. My statements were not aimed at individuals, but at Islam and the process of islamization. That is why the Public Prosecutor has concluded that I should be acquitted.
Mister President, members of the Court,
I am acting within a long tradition which I wish to honour. I am risking my life in defence of freedom in the Netherlands. Of all our achievements freedom is the most precious and the most vulnerable. Many have given their lives for freedom. We have been reminded of that in the commemorations of the month of May. But the struggle for freedom is much older.
Every day the armoured cars drive me past the statue of Johan de Witt at the Hofvijver in The Hague. De Witt wrote the "Manifesto of True Freedom" and he paid for freedom with his life. Every day I go to my office through the Binnenhof where Johan van Oldenbarneveldt was beheaded after a political trial. Leaning on his stick the elderly Oldenbarneveldt addressed his last words to his people. He said: "I have acted honourably and piously as a good patriot." Those words are also mine.
I do not wish to betray the trust of the 1.5 million voters of my party. I do not wish to betray my country. Inspired by Johan van Oldenbarneveldt and Johan de Witt I wish to be a politician who serves the truth end hence defends the freedom of the Dutch provinces and of the Dutch people. I wish to be honest, I wish to act with honesty and that is why I wish to protect my native land against Islam. Silence is treason.
That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.
Freedom and truth. I pay the price every day. Day and night I have to be protected against people who want to kill me. I am not complaining about it; it has been my own decision to speak. However, those who threaten me and other critics of Islam are not being tried here today. I am being tried. And about that I do complain.
I consider this trial to be a political trial. The values of D66 [a Dutch leftist liberal party] and NRC Handelsblad [a Dutch leftist liberal party] will never be brought before a judge in this country. One of the complainants clearly indicated that his intentions are political. Even questions I have asked in parliament and cooperation with the SGP are being brought as allegations against me by Mr Rabbae of GroenLinks [the leftist Dutch Green Party]. Those on the Left like to tamper with the separation of powers. When they cannot win politically because the Dutch people have discerned their sinister agenda, they try to win through the courts.
Whatever your verdict may be, that is the bitter conclusion of this trial.
This trial is also surrealistic. I am being compared with the Hutu murderers in Rwanda and with Mladic. Only a few minutes ago some here have doubted my mental health. I have been called a new Hitler. I wonder whether those who call me such names will also be sued, and if not, whether the Court will also order prosecution. Probably not. And that is just as well. Because freedom of speech applies also to my opponents.
My right to a fair trial has been violated. The order of the Amsterdam Court to prosecute me was not just a decision but a condemning verdict by judges who condemned me even before the actual trial had begun.
Mister President, members of the Court, you must now decide whether freedom still has a home in the Netherlands
Franz Kafka said: "one sees the sun slowly set, yet one is surprised when it suddenly becomes dark."
Mister President, members of the Court, do not let the lights go out in the Netherlands.
Acquit me: Put an end to this Kafkaesque situation.
Acquit me. Political freedom requires that citizens and their elected representatives are allowed to voice opinions that are held in society.
Acquit me, for if I am convicted, you convict the freedom of opinion and expression of millions of Dutchmen.
Acquit me. I do not incite to hatred. I do not incite to discrimination. But I defend the character, the identity, the culture and the freedom of the Netherlands. That is the truth. That is why I am here. That is why I speak. That is why, like Luther before the Imperial Diet at Worms, I say: "Here I stand, I can do no other."
That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.
Mister President, members of the Court, though I stand here alone, my voice is the voice of many. This trial is not about me. It is about something much greater. Freedom of expression is the life source of our Western civilisation.
Do not let that source go dry just to cosy up to a totalitarian ideology. "Freedom," said the American President Dwight Eisenhower, "has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
Mister President, members of the Court, you have a great responsibility. Do not cut freedom in the Netherlands from its roots, our freedom of expression. Acquit me. Choose freedom.
I have spoken, I speak, and it is my duty - I cannot do otherwise - to continue to speak.
Thank you.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Why Islam Must be Opposed
Photo: Muslim girl stoned to death for participating in beauty contest, "Justified Under Islam"
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/photo-muslim-girl-stoned-to-death-for-participating-in-beauty-contest-justified-under-islam.html
Muslim girl, 19, "stoned to death after taking taking part in beauty contest," Muslim Youths killed her Claiming Death was Justified under Islam
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/muslim-girl-19-stoned-to-death-after-taking-taking-part-in-beauty-contest-muslim-youths-killed-her-c.html
Iran cleric: Killing Israeli children OK
Iranian Ayatollah endorses evil: Radical religious cleric known as President Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor says attacks on Israeli civilians permissible, suicide bombings a Muslim duty
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4076176,00.html
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