Friday, October 20, 2006
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
EUREKA! I Have Found It!
http://www.acelp.homestead.com/Smokers.html
Basic instructions on how the ace frehley 'smoker' guitars worked.
Smoke bomb
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Home made smoke powder burning
Smoke bombs are a firework designed to produce colored smoke upon ignition. While there are smoke generating devices that are dropped from airplanes, the term "smoke bomb" is typically used to describe the three varieties of smoke devices:
Smoke balls - hollow, cherry-sized spheres of brightly-colored clay filled with a smoke composition. They produce a forceful jet of colored smoke for 10-15 seconds.
Smoke candles - (also called a smoke generator or smoke canister) cylindrical cardboard tubes with a fuse, usually 1½ inch (37 mm) in diameter and several inches long and looking like a giant firecracker. Such devices create a thick cloud of smoke for up to several minutes. Uses include providing smoke for smoke testing and creating a smoke-screen for paintball and airsoft games.
Smoke canister - A metal can that releases smoke when a pin is pulled. Used for signalling by military personnel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_bombMonday, October 16, 2006
Former Abu Ghraib General: Torture Is Continuing; Order Came From Very Top
Amnesty wants Rumsfeld and others tried for Human right violations;
AI also called on foreign governments to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated for violations of the Geneva and torture conventions."If those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them," said William Shulz, executive director of the U.S. branch of the international human rights agency.
There is no statute of limitations on crimes such as torture, Shulz added. "The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998," warned Shulz. Gen Pinochet was arrested on an international warrant issued by a Spanish judge.
If the United States "continues to shirk its responsibility" of investigating allegations of abuse to the top of the chain of command, Shulz said, foreign governments should uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. officials involved. In addition to Rumsfeld and Gonzales, the list covered former CIA Director George Tenet; Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq; Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo; and Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy.Shulz said the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment legally bind the countries that have signed them to exercise "universal jurisdiction" on people suspected of violations. Certain crimes, including torture, amount to offenses against all of humanity so all countries have a responsibility to investigate and prosecute people responsible for such crimes, he said.
Of course led by US President Bush , his Vice-President Dick Cheny and others , the AI accusations were labeled as absurd .
"It is also worth noting," stressed Schulz, "that this administration never finds it 'absurd' when we criticize Cuba or China, or when we condemned the violations in Iraq under Saddam Hussein."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10691.htm