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Chapter 3: Friction explosives

by the Jolly Roger

edited by Invisible Avenger

This is a mild explosive, but it is quite dangerous in large quantities.

To make friction/touch explosive (e.g., that found in a snap-n-pops):

ï Mix iodine crystals into ammonia until the iodine crystals will not dissolve into the ammonia anymore.

Pour off the excess ammonia and dry out the crystals on a baking sheet

Let sit overnight.

ï Be careful, as these crystals are now your touch explosive.

Carefully wrap a bunch in paper. I mean carefully! Friction sets them off!

Throw them around…pretty loud, huh?

They are fun and usually mild. Large batches, however, have the potential to ignite spontaneously when

exposed to sulfites, sulfides, chlorites, chlorates, perchlorates, friction, heat, direct sunlight, static electricity…

They are intended to be easily ignited.

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. DON’T TR33$T ANYONE.

The plain at Cunaxa, some sixty miles north-west of Babylon, was ideal for calvary maneuvers-and the Great King now had some 34,000 armed horsemen at his disposal. After a quick change in strategy the Great King decided to try and hold Alexander at the Tigris. It was a bold and risky plan since no one could be sure where he might pop up. The Macedonians reached Abu Wajnam on September 18 and encountered no opposition. A few frightened scouts fled the area with the news to the Great King who was across the Greater Zab and approaching Mosul. Darius was forced to change his plans again. He no longer had the Tigris Between them. His best chance to locate another open plain suitable for cavalry and chariot maneuvers and to bring Alexander to battle there. His 2 scouts found Gaugamel, a village between the Khazir river and the ruins of Nineveh.

TAIPEI CITY FREE TAIWAN

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States. The Chamorros, Guam’s indigenous inhabitants, first populated the island approximately 6,000 years ago. It is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. The island’s capital is Hagåtña, formerly Agana. Guam’s economy is mainly supported by tourism (particularly from Japan, Korea and Taiwan) and United States armed forces bases. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes Guam on their list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. werd.

NMCB-5

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — It is with deep sadness and regret that we inform you of the death of Hilly Kristal, who died on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 from complications from Lung Cancer. Kristal, 75, founded the legendary rock club CBGB and ran the club for 33 years. A singer and songwriter himself, Kristal opened the club to showcase “Country Bluegrass and Blues”; instead the club became a breeding ground for Punk rock. Among the many acts that called CBGB home were Blondie, the Talking Heads, Television, Living Color, Patti Smith and the Ramones. The club closed in October 2006, but CBGB continues, with a retail store in New York City and worldwide merchandise sales; in addition, there currently are plans to open new CBGB clubs in several locations.
Kristal is survived by his daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, son, Mark Dana Kristal, son-in-law Ger Burgman, grandchildren Jenny and Adam Burgman, BGB, and the thousands of artists and musicians who played the club.
A private memorial service is planned. A public memorial will be held at a later date. Contributions in Hilly’s honor may be made in his name to the American Cancer Society or to the Hilly Kristal Foundation for Musicians and Artists (168 Second Avenue, PMB 207, New York, NY 10003).

9/11/01

NEVER SAY NEVER.. 

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1Mt, Johnston Island, 18.Oct.1962

1990: Outrage at Iraqi TV hostage show

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has appeared on state television with western hostages, provoking a storm of outrage
Saddam told the group of more than a dozen mainly British people they had been detained to prevent war and said Iraq wanted to see that they were safe.They are among hundreds of foreigners being held in Iraq since its invasion of Kuwait at the beginning of August.However, the Iraqi leader told them they were not being held as “human shields” saying Iraq was in a position to destroy any attacker.Saddam singled out one young British boy - named only as Stuart - and ruffled the child’s hair.Speaking through an interpreter, he asked Stuart if he was getting his milk.

The Iraqi leader told the group: “We hope your presence as guests here will not be for too long. “Your presence here, and in other places, is meant to prevent the scourge of war.”They would become heroes of peace, Saddam added. The detainees, who looked strained and nervous, were promised tuition for their children and given permission to write to their families. At the end of the 30-minute taped appearance, the Iraqi leader posed for photographs with the hostages before shaking each one by the hand. A spokesman for the Gulf Support Group, set up by relatives of stranded Britons, said the interview “made all of us feel sick”. The British Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, also criticised the broadcast.

Mr Hurd said: “I think the manipulation of children in that sort of way is contemptible.”

The TV appearance has also been condemned by the US.

Invictus
William Ernest Henley
1849–1903

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

GETTING OFF ON CATASROPHE, TO RUN AWAY FROM REALITY
SCORES OF PEOPLE IN WRITHING PAIN, THIS IS THE COUNTRY THAT HAS TO REIGN
SEE AN END TO ALL OF OUR HOPES, PUT EVERY FOOL ON THE END OF THE ROPE
RISING FORCE AND THE POWER GROWS
WAKE THE SLEEPING GIANT THAT NO ONE KNOWS

KEEP FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE, YOU’RE IN A MARATHON RACE NOW
I DON’T NEED TO SHOW YOU PROOF, ‘CUZ NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR THE TRUTH
YOU’VE ALWAYS BEEN ON YOUR OWN, PROTECTING THE BROTHERS AND THE BLOOD
TOMORROWS ANOTHER DAY, AND HE WHO FUCKS WITH YOU PAYS IN SPADES

MORALITY IS AT AN ALL TIME LOW, A FUCKING LAUGH WHERE EVER YOU GO
AND EVERYBODY IS LOOKING AT THE PAST, YOU KNOW THIS WORLD AIN’T GOING TO LAST

KEEP FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE, YOU’RE IN A MARATHON RACE NOW
AND I DON’T NEED TO SHOW YOU PROOF, ‘CUZ NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR THE TRUTH
YOU’VE ALWAYS BEEN ON YOUR OWN, PROTECTING THE BROTHERS AND THE BLOOD
TOMORROWS ANOTHER DAY, AND HE WHO FUCKS WITH YOU PAYS IN SPADES

AND THIS IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT.

1940: Exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City by a Spanish Communist, under the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Malas are also used in many forms of Mahayana Buddhism, often with a lesser number of beads (usually a divisor of 108). In Pure Land Buddhism, for instance, 27 bead malas are common. In China such malas are named “Shu-Zhu” (数珠）; in Japan, “Juzu”. These shorter malas are sometimes called ‘prostration rosaries’, because they are easier to hold when enumerating repeated prostrations. In Tibetan Buddhism malas are also 108 beads: one mala counts as 100 mantras, and the 8 extra are meant to be dedicated to all sentient beings (the practice as a whole is dedicated at its end as well).

21kt, Bikini, 24.Jul.1946

WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING, RUBY RIDGE, WACO, OLYMPIC CITY BOMBING, THE UNIBOMBER, OKLAHOMA CITY, SOMALIA, HAITI, AFGANISTAN, IRAQ (8 YEARS OF DAILY BOMBING RAIDS IN THE “NO-FLY” ZONE) BAGHDAD BOMING (IN RESPONSE TO AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE GEORGE HW BUSH), JAMIE GOERELIC’S “WALL”, USS COLE, BOSNIA (WITHOUT A U.N. SANCTION) , SUDAN, RWANDA, EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE, KENYA-NAIROBI-DAR ES SALAAM EMBASSY BOMBINGS, 1994 NORTH KOREAN ARMS AGREEMENT, ELIAN GONZALEZ, CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING, SEPT. 11, WEN HO LEE, WEB HUBBLE/ SUSAN McDOUGAL, ETHIOPIA.. HOW SOON WE FORGET WHEN WE FIND A SCAPEGOAT..

PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING

1945 : Hirohito announces unconditional surrender

On this day in 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces the news of his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II over a radio broadcast to the Japanese people.

After meeting with the Soviet Union in Potsdam, near Berlin, to determine post-war terms for defeated Germany, the governments of the United States and Great Britain (together with China) issued an ultimatum to the Japanese government in late July 1945. It offered a simple choice: surrender unconditionally to the Allies in World War II, or risk total annihilation. In their carefully worded reply, the Japanese failed to capitulate completely, and on August 6, the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another such bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The threat of further nuclear attacks drove Japanese officials on August 10 to accept the terms put forth by the Potsdam Declaration and submit their unconditional surrender.

On the afternoon of August 14, a Japanese radio broadcaster told the public that Emperor Hirohito would soon make an Imperial Proclamation announcing the defeat. The following day at noon, Hirohito went on the radio himself, blaming Japan’s surrender on the enemies’ use of “a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which is incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives.” The emperor was not only a political leader in Japan; he was also revered as a near-god, and many Japanese did not fully accept the news of defeat until they heard him speak those unthinkable words.

As sadness and shame engulfed Japan, joy spread around the Western world. In the United States, news of Hirohito’s announcement reached airwaves on August 14 (due to the time difference), and that day was declared Victory in Japan–or V-J–Day. That afternoon, President Harry S. Truman addressed a crowd that had gathered outside the White House, saying “This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would.” That day, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped one of the most famous photos ever published, a shot of a sailor in full uniform kissing a nurse in the middle of New York City’s Times Square. The photo, published by Life magazine, became a symbol of the general atmosphere of jubilation in the United States following the end of World War II.