My

My way.

My love.

Waiting

sign

waiting

conceive

meeting

the

memories

illusions

love you dear

loved

beauty

life

feeling the wind

unspoken.

Last few days retro

It’s the season for peaches

“Wag The Dog”, or how showbiz makes politics

Thirsty rabbits run and groan, night patrol comes to their rescue

Possible collaboration work in good Kumpany

Little frictions, big mountains get dissolved

Sadness seen as being just a waste of time

France in semis

Sculptures in a room

Huge fires to lie around

Spiritually opening talks

“March Of The Penguins”, their amazing lives

Second pause for the blog, maybe definitive

Free expression as revolution could look like something like this:

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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

Victor Borge

A Love Song for Bobby Long

Beautiful, honest, sensible and courageous.

Let yourself be enchanted.

Thx Cat

Preview from imdb

The Misfits of Ultra Neo-Liberalism in a post 9/11 era

I feel like Neo. I’ve felt for a long time that something’s not quite right with our society.
Now I can sharply put my finger on it.
The biggest problem with liberalism when, as nowadays, pushed to its full range, is that it sets people one against each other, to my point of view.

It may just be a temporary point of view.

But this is what I’ve observed, and it doesn’t really make me smile much

Through means of money and possessions people are set to think of each other as rivals, enemies, “others” to take or get stuff from, based on this old idea of survival, which is, nowadays, totally obsolete, as we have made it possible to have enough to survive and live comfortably. And after all, we all come from a woman’s womb and have all peeed in our nappies as babies. So what’s so different between people, but an illusion created and set into minds at an early age to ensure a hierarchical system of some working for the benefit of others making thus sure the former remain enslaved in a bundled construction of oppressive lies?

Tomorrow I’m going to the pictures to watch “Good Night and Good Luck”, by George Clooney. I’m so glad he dared to open his mouth and heart as the parallel between the McCarthysm era and the filthy present Bushism are so obvious. Clooney clearly affirmed that he wouldn’t be told what to think as some stated him as “unpatriotic”, the new label to ensure this post-modern crusade put upon us. Beware of the “solutions” you ask from your government that will ultimately bring out a worse society to live in. We all know this is happening, the big challenge is figuring out how to stop it.

So, indeed, good night, and good luck.

thursday evening notes

Wonder how far humanity would have come without HUMOUR. Right-wingers are just as corrupt as left-wingers but they’re OPEN about it. We’re on the VERGE of a bird flu pandemic. Iraq is on the VERGE of civil war. Another antisemitic crime in FRANCE. Roof of a building collapses under WEIGHT of snow in Russia, killing people. Sunny DAY today but cold. Improving my EDITING skills. “SYRIANA” out next week in the Netherlands. Betancourt still held hostage after 4 years, send her a THOUGHT. Rubbish piling up in streets in Germany as workers are strinking against new law PROPOSAL for longer working days meant to boost the economy. No NEWS from Sagas yet. Moby’s latest song/VIDEO is really cool. Anette Bening is a great ACTRESS and I’d like to work with her one day. My film SCRIPT is not advancing much. Fairfood.org is an initiative to inform consumers (in the Netherlands) if the products in the supermarkets come from FAIR trade; this in order to fight people starving in the world. MASSIVE Attack released a new single, very good. One thought at a TIME. The more it goes, the less I try and make SENSE of it all, and somehow, this makes me feel more free; at least, more calm.

Sea Levels Likely to Rise Much Faster Than Was Predicted

(from Organic Consumers Association )

Global warming is causing the Greenland ice cap to disintegrate far faster than anyone predicted. A study of the region’s massive ice sheet warns that Sea levels may – as a consequence – rise more dramatically than expected. Scientists have found that many of the huge glaciers of Greenland are moving at an accelerating rate – dumping twice as much ice into the sea than five years ago – indicating that the ice sheet is undergoing a potentially Catastrophic breakup.

The implications of the research are dramatic given Greenland holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by up to 21ft, a disaster scenario that would result in the flooding of some of the world’s major population centres, including all of Britain’s city ports.

Satellite measurements of the entire land mass of Greenland show that the speed at which the glaciers are moving to the sea has increased significantly over the past 10 years with some glaciers moving three times faster than in the mid-1990s.

Scientists believe that computer models of how the Greenland ice sheet will react to global warming have seriously underestimated the threat posed by Sea levels that could rise far more quickly than envisaged.

The latest study, presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in St Louis, shows that rather than just melting relatively slowly, the ice sheet is showing all the signs of a mechanical break-up as glaciers slip ever faster into the ocean, aided by the “lubricant” of melt water forming at their base.

Eric Rignot, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said that computer models used by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change have not adequately taken into account the amount of ice falling into the sea from glacial movements. Yet the satellite study shows that about two-thirds of the sea-level rise caused by the Greenland ice sheet is due to icebergs breaking off from fast-moving glaciers rather than simply the result of water running off from melting ice.

“In simple terms, the ice sheet is breaking up rather than melting. It’s not a surprise in itself but it is a surprise to see the magnitude of the changes. These big glaciers seem to be accelerating, they seem to be going faster and faster to the sea,” Dr Rignot said.

“This is not predicted by the current computer models. The fact is the glaciers of Greenland are evolving faster than we thought and the models have to be adjusted to catch up with these observations,” he said. The Greenland ice sheet covers an area of 1.7 million sq km – about the size of Mexico – and, in places, is up to 3km thick. It formed over thousands of years by the gradual accumulation of ice and snow but now its disintegration could occur in decades or centuries.

Over the past 20 years, the air temperature of Greenland has risen by 3C and computer models suggested it would take at least 1,000 years for the ice sheet to melt completely. But the latest study suggests that glaciers moving at an accelerating rate could bring about a much faster change.

“The behaviour of the glaciers that dump ice into the sea is the most important aspect of understanding how an ice sheet will evolve in a changing climate,” Dr Rignot said. “It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes. Climate warming can work in different ways but, generally speaking, if you warm up the ice sheet, the glacier will flow faster,” he said.

The ice “balance sheet” of Greenland is complex but – in simple terms – it depends on the amount of snow that falls, the amount of ice that melts as run-off and the amount of ice that falls directly into the sea in the form of icebergs “calving” from moving glaciers.

Satellites show that the glaciers in the south of Greenland are now moving much faster than they were 10 years ago. Scientists estimate that, in 1996, glaciers deposited about 50 cubic km of ice into the sea. In 2005 it had risen to 150 cubic km of ice.

Details of the latest study, published in the journal Science, show that Greenland now accounts for an increase in global sea levels of about 0.5 millimetres per year – compared to a total sea level rise of 3mm per year. When previous studies of the ice balance are taken into account, the researchers calculated that the overall amount of ice dumped into the sea increased from 90 cubic km in 1996 to 224 cubic km in 2005.

Dr Rignot said that there are now signs that the more northerly glaciers of Greenland are beginning to adopt the pattern of movements seen by those in the south. “The southern half of Greenland is reacting to what we think is climate warming. The northern half is waiting, but I don’t think it’s going to take long,” he said.

© 2006 Independent News and Media Limited

original article here

One of those days

Today’s one of these days in which nothing computer-related works. Except maybe writing this post. Therefore it feels like a wasted day.
Feel like throwing Microsoft & mob out the Windows. (sorry, couldn’t resist that one).

Ah, I just need to let go… and remember to breathe in… quit computing, its addiction, and relaaax…
change my habits.

Anyway, a good day to all of you out there, cheers.