archaebacteria

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Hi everyone,

Have had this a while and after reading it I was prompted to do a

search on archaebacteria. few sites I had gone to reminded me of when

I had canoed on the Colorado river, and saw the hot springs and molds

of such florescent colors. Many of these molds, despite others

comments, live on little/no moisture.

As most of you know, I have been fighting the mold in here for over a

year. No thanks to a supposed liscensed mold remediator who took a

tape test on white mold growing on the walls/woodwork and said it was

non viable. Then the stuff starts growing on the concrete, my gas and

oil can. I owe over $900 for nothing! But the tests supposedly show

aspergillus and penicillum. Black molds are growing on the brick and

concrete here also. Neighbor next to the people with the pool, have

it also. The guy is 32 and has developed severe arthritis. When told

by a person from one of these supposed non for profit orgs on here

they had talked to the guy and said he was sooo nice. I pay for the

testing and she is sent a report. My report has been distributed. I

should try and get him on confidentiality release. Was told could get

help if I had the place tested. :-( Not to count all the other

expenses. As most of you also have. The EPA, CDC, GOV, won't listen

to any of us, as there is a big coverup. Gets me how someone's

swimming pool can bust and over 25,000 gallons of water run here, and

no one will do anything. Farmers Group Flatly denied the claim. Have

called them, only to get phone slammed down. Already being on

disability for MCS, MS, Fibro, CFS, arthritis. had called the Social

Security Office to see if they could help any. Phone hung up loudly

there also. , I still have the post where you also have most of

these fun ailments. from MoldsAcrossAmerica was kind enough to

take the time to send my local television station a letter. Did they

respond? Nope!...This station BTW: is the same one whom last late

winter kept saying, first coughing, rashes, then mold found. Now

abnormal blood tests about the kids and some teachers at Dongolia

School in Illinois. When the news came on, NO MENTION of it at all.

Having worked in labs, Hematology, the last CBC I had was very

abnormal, and the Dr dismisses it. These computers reading the slides

and not done by hand, is a joke. Drs are intimidated by us whom have

some knowledge. Another thing that should have put up a red flag,

was, that I had performed gas chromatography tests for the EPA, OSHA,

in the same vicinity this guy is located. But he has to send the

tests off.

Rarely post, and thought some of this may be of interest to you. I

thank Patilla for posting the information she had. I had already read

of it, and knew of the chemical/biological warfare developed by the

gov, not just in the US but in the UK, China, Japan, Germany,

Netherlands, etc. In fact all over Europe. Thank you for letting me

post and vent. How does one get help moving when they are virtually

homebound, contacted everyone, and I mean everyone for help? Red

Cross, Na. MS Socity, etc etc.. no one has any avenues to help. Even

just a trustworthy person, to help one move.

See: about the fuel.... http://www.clean-fuels.com/bug-fuel.htm

http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/kloschky/MoneransF

older/archaebacteria.html

http://www-micrbiol.sci.kun.nl/research.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/07/11/krakatoa/index.html

The day the world exploded

Author looks at 'Krakatoa,' then and now

By Adam Dunn

Special to CNN

Friday, July 11, 2003 Posted: 2:31 PM EDT (1831 GMT)

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait

between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, was said by

natives to be the property of Orang Aliyeh, a Javan god who was said

to breathe sulfur from his nostrils when all was not well on earth.

Apparently Orang was in a truly foul mood on the morning of August 27,

1883, when seismic forces long building beneath the mountain exploded

with a force hitherto unknown to mankind, obliterating the island and

triggering two tsunamis which killed over 35,000 people in the region.

The explosion, one of the loudest in recorded history, was heard

thousands of miles away and recorded by seismographs all over the

world. Its power has been estimated to be equivalent to that of 150

megatons of TNT, almost 10,000 times that of the atomic bomb dropped

on Hiroshima.

The eruption didn't just wipe out an island and its people; it was

also a break between a centuries-old colonial economy and a new, more

globalized one, says Simon Winchester, author of the new book

" Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 "

(Harper).

The telegraph and extensive connections that existed by 1883 allowed

news of the eruption to travel worldwide almost instantly, he says in

an interview from his Massachusetts home.

" The fact that people in Boston were reading about it the following

morning, whereas in 1865 it had taken two weeks for news to reach

London, was, to use a somewhat overworked phrase, a paradigm shift, "

he says. " The world changed around the 1880s, and Krakatoa was the

event and the cables were the agency of this change, I think. "

'A sort of pointillist portrait'

Author Simon Winchester

Winchester, a trained geologist, is a glutton for research, and had a

field day with the volume of correspondence between the then Dutch

colony and its mother country.

" All I had to do was advertise in Holland for anyone who had letters

or journals or anything that was relevant to the Krakatoa eruption, "

he said. " Literally out of the woodwork of drawers in long-unused

bedrooms came thousands of letters ... which enabled me to do a sort

of pointillist portrait of lots and lots of viewpoints of what

happened at the time leading up to and immediately following the

eruption. "

He also traveled to the area of the island's ruins (which he has been

visiting since the 1970s) and did research in the local language. What

emerges is a book full of detail, such as noting the sort of creatures

now living in the rent in the earth caused by the eruption,

" magnificently called chemolithoautotrophic hyperthermophilic

archaebacteria, " he writes.

In the book, science intermingles with history -- a trademark of the

author, who's also the author of " The Professor and the Madman, " about

the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. In " Krakatoa, " the

science includes cameos by Alfred Russel Wallace and Alfred Wegener,

whose theories presaged modern plate tectonics and geophysics, which

Krakatoa itself proved.

" No one knew in those days that [parts of the world] were moving, "

Winchester says, " but simply that juxtaposed close to Krakatoa were

two distinct bird kingdoms, animal kingdoms -- then it turned out that

these were two distinct plates ... and they were colliding at the rate

of about four inches a year, and had been doing so for the past 60

million years, leading to the kind of stresses and strains that

eventually gave rise to the volcano. " The theory of plate tectonics,

which came into wide acceptance in the 1960s, could point to Krakatoa

as evidence.

Eruption of religion and politics

Then there's the history of the place, which becomes entangled with

religion -- and modern-day politics.

The area was colonized by the Dutch in the 1600s, and the

administration was not always benevolent. In the 1870s, a militant

anti-colonial Muslim named Hajji Abdul Karim came on the scene, to be

followed by Arabian missionaries of a similar bent. (Islam had been

present since the 13th century, but it was a mild, diluted form.)

The world changed around the 1880s, and Krakatoa was the event and the

cables were the agency of this change, I think.

-- Simon Winchester

This is where, the author maintains, politics mixed with Krakatoa's

explosive fallout.

" The Muslim missionaries ... [were] very fiery young men, " Winchester

says. " They told the Javanese (who were clearly in the mood to believe

it) that Krakatoa's eruption was a sign from Allah that he was furious

with them for allowing themselves to be ruled by white, western,

Dutch, infidel colonials. The mullahs from Arabia advised them [the

Javans] to rise up and kill them [the Dutch]. "

In one chapter, " Rebellion of a Ruined People, " Winchester describes

how the aftermath of the eruption spawned a rising anti-Dutch

sentiment, culminating in the slaughter of 24 colonial workers and

their families on July 9, 1888, by " hajjis. " " It was essentially the

beginning of the end of Dutch rule, " Winchester says, " and the

beginning of the beginning of what is now the most populous Islamic

state on earth, Indonesia. "

Not everyone buys Winchester's interpretation; at least one outspoken

critic has taken issue with Winchester's linking of Islam with

explosions and violence.

Winchester's next book is a broader history of the OED. But after

that, he returns to explosions and their impact with a project on the

1906 San Francisco earthquake. He hopes to catch up with witnesses.

" There are still survivors of 18 April 1906 left, " he says, " and the

idea is to have it published in time for the centenary in 2006. "