freecounterpoint: Was it sushi or the Neocons?

Friday, November 24, 2006

Was it sushi or the Neocons?

12 comments:

Tecumseh said...: An update:

This evening, Scotland Yard confirmed that traces of the element, an extremely rare chemical that is relatively harmless unless ingested, inhaled or otherwise introduced to the bloodstream, had been found at Litvinenko's home in Muswell Hill, North London, and at the sushi bar in Piccadilly and the Millenium Mayfair hotel in Grosvenor Square, where the former spy held two meetings hours before falling ill.

Any predictions as to how the Left will spin this?; 11/24/2006 5:55 PM
Tecumseh said...: A tidbit:

Polonium 210 is highly radioactive and very toxic. By weight, it is about 250 million times as toxic as cyanide, so a particle smaller than a dust mote could be fatal.; 11/24/2006 11:02 PM
Mr roT said...: so a particle smaller than a dust mote could be fatal. probably nonsense. We need to check this out.; 11/25/2006 2:14 AM
Tecumseh said...: Here are the details:

the amount of material required to produce a lethal dose of radiation poisoning would be only about 0.12 micrograms

That's a dust mote for you, JJ -- maybe a mote in the eye? I expect that bottle of VCP is chilling well, yes?; 11/25/2006 2:08 PM
Mr roT said...: You're quoting a wikipedia source on Litvinenko as authoritative on polonium? Hilarious!; 11/25/2006 3:07 PM
Mr roT said...: I have gotten into the habit of reading the BBC's online fora to dredge up filth and foolishness. I hope this is the end of this endeavor, but I doubt it. ABout Litvinenko (about whom I could not give a damn less): Added: Saturday, 25 November, 2006, 13:55 GMT 13:55 UK
This is media led hysteria. For instance watching Sky news and I am not making this up a reporter introduced her package with these words.

'I am here live at the laboratory where the urine samples will be tested'

The BBC is being a lot more balanced, but certain media outlets are providing wall to wall coverage broadcasting half truths and supasition. With over 200 Iraqis murdered last Thursday, is it really that slow a news weekend?

Yet nobody is reporting an article by Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, in which it is alleged that Litvinenko was selling Russian State secrets to Israel. It could have been Israel rather than Russia who poisoned him They also have access to a reactor

Christopher Linthwaite, Beverley, United Kingdom

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This can be found (if you have the stomach for it) here.; 11/25/2006 3:40 PM
Mr roT said...: Here is more info on Po. Pretty bad stuff, indeed. They must have dropped a sign, though. They say your exposure ought to be less than 6.7 . 10^(12) grams! Must have been tough to feed Litvinenko a million tons of the stuff.; 11/25/2006 3:52 PM
Tecumseh said...: What's wrong with quoting Wikipedia on Pollonium? If you bothered to actually read what they say (instead of simply sneering), the claim about radiation dosage is backed up by the following reference. Are you going to pee on the Health and Physics Society, too, JJ? Pretty soon, you'll be left only witn the Beeb as a source (as in "a reporter introduced her package" -- she does have one??), or that lefty ban-the-bomb site, where E^x = E^(-x), for all x, from what you say.; 11/25/2006 4:27 PM
Tecumseh said...: ABout Litvinenko (about whom I could not give a damn less)

Don't know about you, but to me, his assasination smacks of state-sponsored terrorism to me. At a time when the Russkies are also supporting the Iranians in their drive for the atomic bomb (and providing them with weapons to defend the bomb factories), this is not a light matter to consider, methinks.; 11/25/2006 4:31 PM
Tecumseh said...: The Rosenbergs were convicted in a court of law, for high treason against the United States -- passing the secrets of the A-bomb to the Soviets during the Cold War. (You know, there is something called Article 3, Section 3 in the U.S. Constitution pertaining to this, despite what some may think.)

As for Alexander Litvinenko, he was a British citizen, living lawfully in his own adopted country. Whoever he worked for before, or whatever he said that did not go well with someone or another, is immaterial -- no justification whatsoever to get whacked by some goons, presumbaly in an act of state-sponsored murder. There is no conceivable legal or moral justification that could sanction such an act.

JJ, you should be able to see the difference, no?; 11/25/2006 10:20 PM
Tecumseh said...: JJ-- II must have gotten upset at your drawing a moral equivalence bewteen the KGB offing Litvinenko and us "whacking the Rosenbergs" and accidentally deleted your post. Maybe you want to reiterate your point? Or perhaps cooler heads will prevail, and you will reconsider?; 11/25/2006 11:23 PM
Mr roT said...: I was wondering where it was. How the hell do I find it? Seems gone.; 11/26/2006 1:49 AM

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