Extra! Extra!
Thomas Keske
EXTRA, EXTRA! EXTRATERRESTRIALS IN TEXAS!
SURREALIST STANDOFF SCENARIO BEHIND THE NEWSTANDS
Scene III, Act II
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http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/290406/BP+begins+Texas+City+investigation.htm
The Engineer Online - BP begins Texas City investigation
The Engineer
OnlineTuesday - 12 April 2005
Business News
BP begins Texas City investigation
Email articleComment on this articlePublished: 08 April 2005 03:
32 PM
Industry Channel: Chemical & Process
Source: Process Engineering
Investigations have begun into the explosion at BP's Texas City
refinery in March, which killed 15 people and injured more than
70. BP America has established a team to investigate the remains
of the isomerisation unit " the part of the refinery that
exploded " and representatives of the US Occupational, Health
and Safety Administration and the Chemical Safety Board are also
on-site.
The accident occurred when the isomerisation unit was in
turnaround " controlled start-up " after a two-week maintenance
shut-down. All of the 15 people killed worked for specialist
contractors carrying out maintenance to the refinery; it is
believed that they were in a nearby trailer discussing the
startup of the ultracracker unit, adjacent to the isomerisation
plant and also in turnaround.
The trailer and a nearby catalyst
warehouse were badly damaged in the explosion and subsequent
fire, BP says.
The causes of the accident are still unknown. The isomerisation
unit converts a low-octane feed into a higheroctane product for
blending into gasoline, and incorporates a raffinate splitter
which fractionates a nonaromatic stream into light and heavy
components. Shutdowns are scheduled every one to two years, with
the current one started in late February to change the catalyst "
a task carried out every ten years. 'It is obvious that a
substantial hydrocarbon vapour cloud came into contact with an
ignition source,' BP says.
The investigation team is currently interviewing workers and
collecting documentation relating to the restart of the unit,
and how the trailers were placed around the various plants
nearby. They are also inspecting the site to verify the state of
the important valves and components at the time of the explosion.
In the next phase of the investigation, the team will look at the
electronic records of the real-time operations data from the
plant immediately prior to the incident, and will use this,
along with other data, to build up a computer model of the
incident.
'At the conclusion of the factfinding phase, we will turn over
to government agencies responsible for investigating the
incident copies of all the data, documents and other information
we have gathered. We have promised them our full cooperation. It
is our hope that this information will help them reach their
conclusions,' states John Mogford, BP America group vice-
president. The analysis phase of the investigation is likely to
take several weeks, says Mogford. 'It is easy to jump to
conclusions but in an incident like this it is important we
systematically understand all of the contributing factors rather
than the obvious ones,' he comments.
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http://nrmnc.cas.okstate.edu/Brochures/Raffinate-Yellowcake-8-
clip.pdf
Raffinate is a waste by-product that
accumulates after dissolving
yellowcake in nitric acid to extract pure
uranium. This process creates a nitric
acid waste that contains high levels of
uranium and the radioactive and
chemical impurities of the yellowcake.
Uranium ore is transported to the plant
in a concentrated form of uranium
known as "yellowcake"
WHAT ARE RAFFINATE AND YELLOWCAKE,
AND HOW CAN THEY HURT ME?
NRMNC Project
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6. LP: Terror cover-up in Texas City? (Gasoline Refinery Explosion)
... near the Pentagon last fall. usually there's a plethora of
cop cars, ... have attempted to take responsibility for the BP
explosion in Texas City. .
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?Art... [Found on
Google]
Within hours of the explosion of the Texas City oil refinery
that killed 15 and injured more than 100, FBI officials were
ruling out terrorism as a cause.
While terrorism may have played no role in the March 24 BP plant
blast, law-enforcement officials familiar with investigations of
this kind tell Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin it would have been
impossible to make such a snap determination based on facts
Local police say they don't have the expertise to investigate
something like this explosion and they trust BP and other
petrochemical companies to do the right thing up front.
And yet, with so little scientific evidence available on the day
of the explosion FBI agents ruled out terrorism as a cause,
while admitted it would take federal regulators months to
determine the cause.
"How do you rule out one possibility when you don't have any
idea what the cause is?" asked one federal investigator familiar
with such disaster probes.
The rush to deny terrorism as a possibility is reminiscent of
FBI tactics surrounding the downing of TWA Flight 800 and the
Oklahoma City bombing during the Clinton administration, said G2
Bulletin law enforcement sources. At least two Islamic
terrorist groups have attempted to take responsibility for the
BP explosion in Texas City. But the FBI denies they had any
involvement in the blast.
Don't want to panic the markets
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Number=293475046
"NEVER AGAIN" (unless you are Palestinian)
Post Extras:
D_Joyce
(well of great wisdom)
03/24/05 06:09 AM
Re: Oil Refinery Blast in Texas Kills 14 [ To: Kudzu | Post
293475173, reply to 293475156 ] (Score: 2)
It is too damned regular to be sloppy maintenance or management.
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the
cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
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21. - I thought Bush promised us better Gas Prices?
... matters worst the third biggest oil refinery in the country
blew up the other day. ... should be forced into providing
"weddings" to satisfy gay rights.
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/wildcatnat... [Found on
Google]
23. Business & Human Rights: Oil, gas & coal companies Jan.-June 2001
Exxon shareholders defeat green, gay proposals (Marcus Kabel ...
The Oil Diagnostic in Angola: An Update (Human Rights Watch, Mar.
2001)
http://209.238.219.111/Oil-Jan-June-2001.htm [Found on Ask Jeeves]
28. CorpWatch: USA: It's the Oil, Stupid
... The extreme right blames secular humanism, gay rights and
the other bogeymen they love to flog ... Amazon Watch: Bolivia-
Cuiaba Pipeline. Oil Refinery Action Network
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7 [Found on Yahoo!]
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http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=80&row=1
LIST OF BIGGEST ENERGY INDUSTRY DONORS TO REPUBLICAN PARTY
DURING BUSH CAMPAIGN:
ENRON $1,800,000
EXXON $1,200,000
KOCH INDUSTRIES $970,000
SOUTHERN $900,000
BP AMOCO $800,000
LEHMAN BROTHERS $808,000
EL PASO ENERGY $787,000
CHEVRON OIL CORP 780,000
RELIANT ENERGY $642,000
TEXAS UTILITIES TXU $635,000
VOICE OF LaNell ANDERSON, TEXAN BUCKET BRIGADE
"Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the that the
lobbyists' money has found its mark"
[GREG PALAST IN AN AIRPLANE OVER HOUSTON, TEXAS]
Welcome to Toxic Texas - a 15 mile wide forest of smoke stacks
on the edge of Houston. A place famous for pumping out pollution,
profits and the political donations which put George Bush into
the White House. Let's go down and take a look.
PALAST: When it comes to pollution, Texas is champ the No 1
state in emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals
[FLARING SMOKE stack -] We watched this mile long cloud of black
smoke - and flames 200 ft high -- erupting out of a Houston
cracking plant -- they are burning off a ruined batch of
ethylene and other toxic chemicals after a hydrogen line snapped.
This sort of accident is common this side of Houston where
poisonous smoke rains on local neighbourhoods. And its not just
VISIBLE emissions locals have to worry about.
LaNell Anderson lived in the shadow of the Houston smoke stacks -
her mother and father died too young - bone cancer and lung
disease - and LaNell became suspicious
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http://www.kkytbs.org/swd/swdaa/goals.htm
Projects
River Raid - Spring Rafting Trip. Early June.
San Marcos River, TX.
Invite Alumni/New Alumni.
CoolBurn - Fall Campout. Late October. Turner Falls Park, OK.
Invite all membership.
SWD Website - Continue to maintain the SWD Website.
Alumni Database - Maintain the Alumni Database
Newsletter
Community Band Guide
Operation Doughnut Drop
Publications and Articles
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_May_27/
ai_102105241
Taking initiative: his family's business became ExxonMobil, and
now this gay man has the stock and the standing to persuade the
oil company to change its antigay ways - Money - Phillip Winston -
Interview
Just ask Phillip Winston. He's the 32-year-old gay great-
grandson of Texas oil prospector Frank Sterling, whose Humble
Oil, founded in the early 1900s, later merged with Standard Oil
and eventually became ExxonMobil--which today is the largest oil
company in the world, with $210 billion in annual revenues.
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"Take a kid fishing"
. OFFSHORE PRO DIVISION ? stringer same as amateur division ?
100% Payback ... Camp, Texas City Dike) and recognized by the
Tournament Director. ...
http://www.snapperslapperlures.com/pro_am.pdf [Found on Google, Yahoo!]
54. LA Weekly: News: Don't Mess With Texas
... Don't Mess With Texas. Gay governors, oil money, KKK ...
only the political cognoscenti in Texas knew Karl Rove's name ...
East Texas was the political nut the Republicans had tried
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/43/news-dubose.php
George W. wasn't a KKK fisherman. But he had a weekend place at
the nearby Rainbow Club, which is as segregated as the old-line
Koon Kreek, where memberships were no longer available when he
showed up in Dallas. But the Bush family has never been racist.
So it was unlikely that George W. would have agreed to play the
race card. The queer card is another matter. That's the card the
Bush campaign played when a highly regarded Republican whom Karl
Rove had helped elect to the state Senate spoke out about the
sexual orientation of some women close to Governor Richards.
"It's simply not part of their culture, and frankly not part of
mine," the senator said of his East Texas constituents, "that [
homosexuality] is something we encourage, reward, or acknowledge
as an acceptable situation." On the other side of the state's
Pine Curtain, the suggestion that the governor had gay
associates was enough to create real doubts among voters. A
whispering campaign that raised questions about Richards' sexual
orientation closed the deal.
No one ever traced the character assassination to Rove. Yet no
one doubts that Rove was behind it. It's a process on which he
holds a patent. Identify your opponent's strength, and attack it
so relentlessly that it becomes a liability. Richards was
admired because she promised and delivered a "government that
looked more like the people of the state." That included the
appointment of blacks, Hispanics, and gays and lesbians. Rove
made that asset a liability.
What worked to defeat Ann Richards in 1994 worked to defeat John
McCain in 2000. As with John Kerry, McCain?s strength was his
stature as a war hero. When he defeated George W. Bush in the
New Hampshire Republican primary, the campaign moved to South
Carolina ? where Bush had to win to regain his credibility. In
South Carolina, with its large population of veterans, McCain
was attacked for his strength. The Republican senator faced a
whispering campaign that implied that the time he spent as a
prisoner of war in Vietnam had broken him, made him so mentally
unstable he was unfit to be president. An ad campaign accused
him of abandoning his Vietnam veterans after he returned home.
Push polls raised the issue of his mental stability. He lost and
never recovered.
Rove insisted he had nothing to do with it. Yet when Dallas
Morning News reporter Wayne Slater reported that the attack on
McCain was similar to what Rove had done to Ann Richards six
years earlier, and to the Texas Democratic attorney general two
years after that, Rove publicly confronted him, shouting and
shoving on the tarmac in front of the campaign plane.
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http://www.geocities.com/nmdecke/ASpecterisHauntingTexas.html
Synopsis: The Earth has been destroyed by a nuclear WWIII. The
uneasy truce brought about by the exhaustion of nuclear
materials has left the United States only partially inhabitable
and wholly dominated by Texas. In fact, there is no USA, only
"Greater Texas". And a Greater Texas demands greater Texans.
Hormone treatment has turned Texas into giants and their Mexican
slaves into unhappy dwarves resentful of their fate and ripe for
revolution.
Timeframe: Uncertain, but the war was about 100 ago. The war
itself was probably fought in about 1980, based on internal
references. This means that this guide is set about 2080 to 2100
or so.
Post-war: The War itself was nasty and killed a billion people.
Following the war, the Texans rather quickly expanded into the
ravaged lands around them. They did this with sort of a Manifest
Destiny approach, as the only remaining civilization they had
the right to take over the nation from the barbarians--for their
own good! The expansion of Texas is known as the "Great
Texasward Industrial Migration". Ever since, Greater Texas has
extended from the Nicaraguan Canal to the North Pole, including
most of Central America, all of Mexico, nearly all of Canada,
and all that matters of the former USA. In their rise to
ultimate power the Texans have fought many celebrated battles.
These include the Battles of El Salvador, Sioux City,
Schenectady, and Saskatchewan. They whipped the Cherokees and
the Mexicans, and tied the Chinese and the Russians. Future
plans for conquest include reconquering Cuba, Indochina, Ireland,
Hawaii and Hither Siberia.
PEOPLE
Thanks to growth hormones, the average Texan is a Giant. The
fashion rage these days is to where hokey traditional cowboy
costumes. Imagine a bunch of giant-sized Woody dolls from Toy
Story. They are on average about eight feet tall and about 400
pounds. They are generally tolerant, peaceful, shoot-and-let-
shoot people. They are also generally racist, having little
regard for anyone who isn't white and Texan. Texans are
empowered to enjoy, exploit, and handle liberty. Gun control is
absolute in GT. Everything from penknives to hatpins is
confiscated at the Republic's borders. Claim checks are given.
They have corrupted history somewhat. They have taken famous men
and explorers to America over the past and made them their own.
Thus, it is common to find statues of Leif Ericsson, Paul Bunyon,
John L. Sullivan, Abraham Lincoln, William Randolph Hearst and
Big Bill Thompson in Texas cities. These figures have all been
made Texans and their plaques attest to that. They seem to
worship JFK and LBJ, for some reason. Common exclamations
include, "For Lyndon's sake, that secular saint!" and "By Jack
and Jackie!". The smoking of marijuana is common practice, even
in public. Every male Texan who amounts to anything is
affiliated with a company. Unless they are public officials, in
which case they are affiliated with the government. The fashion
at the current time is circa 1950s cowboy movie. Everyone wears
hats and boots and I'm sure Wrangler jeans and pleated shirts.
It is unsure, but probable that this fashion trend has been
prevalent in Texas since the end of the War.
THE SLAVES
The rest of the population of Greater Texas are nearly all
slaves. They are treated like subhumans for the most part, beat
down and demoralized to the point of ruination. They are allowed
to keep their culture in most areas, but are never allowed to
fully become independent. The groups enslaved include Mexicans,
Indians and Blacks, amongst other lesser races. As the book
deals almost exclusively with the Mexican slaves, I shall keep
most of my comments for them. The "Mexes" are known to be
superstitious. The easiest way to tell a slave is that they are
not white and they are not tall. Not being given the growth
hormones, the dwarf slaves are all a near-universal four and a
half feet tall and hunchbacked. Female slaves are treated even
worse. A female Mexican must have ten times the brains of a male
to get anywhere in life
RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORS
As the prime power on the planet, Texas has dealings with nearly
all the surviving nations. The "furry Russians" are still their
main enemy. There is often conflict in the border regions in
Canada. Texas is riddled with Russian spies. A major war is
brewing and it just a matter of time. The "drumming Africs" also
visit occasionally.
GOVERNMENT
The government of Texas is strange. Presidents are not voted out
of office, they are ceremonially assassinated. This is in
keeping with the John F. Kennedy example of politicians
courageously taking a bullet when their term is up. This has
apparently been the regular course of things up until the
current president (see below). There are no elections for
president anymore, just a transfer of power to a political rival
via the bullet. A body known as the "Establishment Council"
apparently picks the next president, it is then up to the
sitting president to nobly take the bullet.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology in Texas is rather advanced. It is about 30 years
advanced from what we have today in 2004, though that is an
arbitrary number. This technology, however, is often confined to
the wealthy, the military, the government and industry. The
common people are often no better off than poor people today,
and in many cases worse.
The hormone: The growth hormone that makes Texans so big is a
closely guarded secret. The lower orders of society have not
grown up enough yet to be trusted with bigness. The Russians
have developed their own version.
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EXTRA, EXTRA! EXTRATERRESTRIALS IN TEXAS!
SURREALIST STANDOFF SCENARIO BEHIND THE NEWSTANDS
Scene III, Act II
* UNINFORMED, UNIFORMED MAN WITH MEGAPHONE:
This is Homeland Security.
There have been reports of extraterrestrial terrorist
activity in this area.
We've got you surrealists surrounded.
Now, drop the doughnuts and come out, with your hands up!
* ALIEN FOE FROM UFO WITH 50 MEGATON CINNAMON BUN:
We come in peace, not to confront the police.
We wish to plead with your leader.
We are sorry, Mr. Security, sir, but we simply
cannot drop the doughnuts.
* UNINFORMED, UNIFORMED MAN WITH MEGAPHONE:
We never make deals with surrealists.
We refuse to hear the appeals of surrealists.
We don't appreciate the whining and squealing of surrealists.
We don't like extraterrestrial homosexuals in Texas!
Now, drop the doughnuts, or we shoot.
Come out with your hands up!
* ALIEN FOE FROM UFO WITH 50 MEGATON CINNAMON BUN:
We cannot come out because we were never in the closet.
We are here in this bank simply to make a deposit.
We, the Alien Foes, are really very Ordinary Joes
Our HOMO-UFO simply wishes to phone home and to be left alone
* INFLAMED, UNINFORMED, UNIFORMED PHONY WITH VERY LOUD MEGAPHONE:
Drop the doughnuts, NOW! And COME OUT with your HANDS UP!!!
* ALIENATED ALIEN FOE FROM UFO WITH 50 MEGATON CINNAMON BUN:
Listen, pal. If we drop these doughnuts, we won't HAVE any hands!
And NEITHER WILL YOU! Nor legs, or heads, nor tails,
nor testicles, nor tentacles.
These alien-foe doughnuts have been rigged to blow like
oil rigs, only bigger. When this doughnut blows,
the whole town goes, to wherever the doughnut hole goes
after the doughnut is eaten. You really should get over
your conceits and deceits and see when you're beaten.
* SLIGHTLY BEFUDDLED BUT UNREFORMED, UNINFORMED, UNIFORMED
YET FILLED WITH FRUSTRATED FURY, MAN WITH EVEN MORE
BALONEY ON THE MEGAPHONE
Well, awright. For now.
We ORDER you please to do NOT drop the doughnuts.
But remember, we'll be watching!
* EXISTENTIAL, ANGST-FILLED ALIEN FOE WHO NEVER FORGETS BUT WHO
FOR NOW HAS WON THIS ONE WITH THE 50 MEGATON CINNAMON BUN
Whaddya mean? You've been watching us since July of 1986.
You are such a bunch of redneck hicks.
Have you totally forgotten? You bastardly Big Brothers,
by your misbehaving mothers were completely misbegotten.
We are very disappointed with human progress.
When on one front you advance, on another you regress.
You fail completely because you are obssessed only with success.
This is your last chance. We are departing now for a brief
vacation at our vineyard in France. When we return, we
expect to see more acceptance in Texas, or else we anticipate
that your entire species, we will regretfully need to annhilate.
<< In a blinding flash of eerie, bright white light,
the quaint, queer and mysterious, old-fashioned flying saucer
whizzes away with its curious crew of wizards and sorcerers,
filling the sky with an other-worldly orange afterglow
that foreshadows even stranger happenstances to follow... >>
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Explosion Reported in Texas City
Submitted by Alex Ledsinger on March 23, 2005 - 1:29pm.
Category:U.S.
Texas City residents reportedly felt an explosion just after 1pm.
It's believed the explosion occurred at the BP Amoco plant on
Highway 146 at Texas Avenue. There's no word on what caused the
explosion, or any injuries.
Source: ABC13.com
Live Video: KTRK Houston
Submitted by Junior on March 13, 2005 - 9:32am.
I think that you need to change the constitution because what
the US is doing is totally unconstitutional. If you don't want
to be secular any longer, you need to change the constitution to
reflect that change.
You don't have a democracy here in the United States because you
drug your own leaders like you drug the Russians and the rest of
the world. It is a shame of what you have done of democracy and
it is even a bigger not only shame, but, rather, a joke that you
suggest to countries around the world that you are democracy.
I am a public, yet a private figure, that has been watching
people around me die from drugs and from a machine that is able
to give you a heart attack for the past 30 years.
The CIA ordered a hit on my father 2 months ago and yes, I am
pissed off. They also sent people to tell me that I am to give
in to their demands and tell lies that I have been workng for
the moslems. What were those idiots thinking? Who do you think I
am, Gorbachov?
The CIA disgusts me and it pissed me off even more when people
like will talk about democracy and how the US saves people from
tyranny. The CIA is the most tyrannical organization on the
planet and the whole civilized and uncivilized world is in some
way controlled by them, except for Castro's cuba. Freedom of Speech
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23. Alien-UFOs.com - UFO Photographs Alien Abduction Crop
Circle Area .
... Texas X Files - Ph.D research on extreme technology for deep
space travel, and the political, technical, academic, and
spiritual challenges of deep
http://www.alien-ufos.com/links.shtml [Found on Google]
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5. Conspiracy theories settled: Zapruder film Slo-Mo : LA IMC
... You don't make clear what you think his connection to right-
wing Russians in Texas proves. Nor his friendship to George de
Mohrenschildt.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/119592_commen... [Found on
Google, Yahoo!]
6. TexasBowhunter.com Discussion Forums: Are there Russians in
Texas? TexasBowhunter.com Discussion Forums
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6. Odessa, Ukraine or Odessa, Texas?
Odessa, Ukraine or Odessa, Texas? ... In Reply to: Where is the
best place to live in Odessa? posted by Looking for an apartment
on March 29, .
http://www.usmle.net/match/messages2005a/223015.ht... [Found on Google]
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http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=396&
issue_id=3177&article_id=2369013
In the spring of 2004, other acts of sabotage occurred in
various parts of Russia. On April 24, the Samara-Lisichansk
long-distance oil pipeline was blown up in the Volgograd region.
This pipeline transports Russian oil to the ports of Odessa
and Pivdenny in Ukraine to be further carried to the West (see
Vestnik nefty i gaza, October 19). Police and FSB officers found
a pistol, several grenades, and detonators inside a car that had
been left near the site of the explosion
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19. In Memory - Class of 1973
Confirmed - Cancer Tim Howard Confirmed -
Explosion at Shell Oil in Odessa
David Kisselburg Confirmed - Self inflicted.
http://www.permian.net/d1973.html [Found on Ask Jeeves]
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http://www.redelvises.com/disscuss2/_disc5/0000017a.htm
Red Elvises Forum
Boris, here's some gossip
From: Jackdaw
Date: 3/26/2003
Time: 8:34:02 AM
Remote Name: 157.134.171.50
Comments
Last night in chat, I heard that some Russians in Texas have
been boycotting RE shows ever since, some time ago, their
friends danced onstage for the band and then, despite requests,
the band "refused" to sing even one song in Russian. I don't
speak Russian, but I'd like to hear at least one song a show,
and preferably one song per set, in Russian. Does anyone else
feel this way?
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http://www.offoffoff.com/music/2002/yoke.php3
You ain't seen nothin' nyet
By JOSHUA TANZER
Offoffoff.com
Yoke is not just your run-of-the-mill guitar-smashing, Russian-
speaking, Hendrix-quoting, surrealist-poetry-spouting bar band.
and see in its live show will be a little different. The songs
on the CD are intense, guttural ruminations, like "I'm Never
Always Happy" (hear it on RealAudio or MP3). If you're a
westerner, the brooding growl may remind you of Leonard Cohen or
Serge Gainsbourg, but it makes Russians think of communist-era
dissident singer Vladimir Vissotsky, Muratov's musical idol. The
grimly fatalistic lyrics (a Russian specialty, don't you think?)
translate to something like:
I'm never always happy
Plums in the box turning rotten
There is a pink worm in an apple
Regret I've wasted my time
In the heat of empty polemics
My vocal chords were strained in vain
You kind of have to understand the original Russian to get the
full flavor, Muratov insists.
"It's kind of metaphorical. There's no straight story ? it's all
about associations, what you're going through. A lot of Russian
people who are living here, they can relate to it," he says. "It'
s hard for me to explain from Russian because it's like a
labyrinth. You're going through the words and the answer is
always something different."
"I was surprised," Muratov remembers. "Each time he put it on
and he started singing, everybody was shocked because it's
completely different but it fits really well."
For an example, check out "Understand"
I understand you
But you also have to understand me
If not shortwave then an ultraviolet beam.
Who's going to open the door for you?
Who's going to make coffee for you?
Who's going to talk to you and understand?
Look how the birds are shitting on the ground.
Look at the sunset and the fallen airplane.
After 10 years away, lyrics like these are not exactly related
to the feelings of living in Russia anymore - they're personal
statements about his experience as an immigrant, an artist and a
human being in the city.
"Each song is about something different. One is about a hangover.
One is about your girlfriend left you but you try to keep on
going," he says.
"It's more connected to New York, because I am here and I write
what I see. Except I write in Russian."
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http://www.iaea.org/inis/aws/fnss/abstracts/abst_26049422.html
The results of research on HLW partitioning performed in Russia
are presented. To substantiate the feasibility of HLW
partitioning process, the basis of concept on management of long-
lived radionuclides are considered. This concept envisages the
separation of HLW into individual fractions, which will make it
possible in the future to implement, along with geological
disposal, the transmutation process as a radical method for
management of the most hazardous nuclides. Such approach
requires radio ecological substantiation for recovery degree of
radionuclides to be transmuted on the basis of the only
criterion, i.e. reasonable risk with allowance for natural and
artificial barriers to confine radionuclides within a rock
massif block. The report summarizes the data on the Russian
studies of partitioning of long-lived radionuclides. It includes
the description of modified Purex-process which enables to
localize Np, Tc and Zr in I extraction cycle. As to reprocessing
of high-level raffinate of I cycle, the achieved indices on
recovery of Cs, Sr, U, Np, Pu, TPE and RE are under
consideration with the use of chlorinated cobalt dicarbollyde,
phosphine oxides, crown-ethers, bidentate extractants and
ferrocyanide sorbents. It is shown that the testing of some
efficient processes for separation of long-lived radionuclides
has progressed in Russia to a pilot industrial scale. Further
efforts of investigators and technologists are aimed at higher
recovery degree of HLW components.
view the full text of this article (6 pages, format: PDF, size=
469kB)
key words: Fast Neutron Spectrum Systems, Nuclear Technology
Safety and environmental aspects of partitioning and
transmutation of actinides and fission products
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