Subclasses of Extremophile
From wikipedia:An extremophile is an organism that thrives in and may even require physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to the majority of life on Earth.The article then describes a few specific types. Acidophile, alkaliphile, and thermophile for example. For some reason the following classes are missing.
Minorophile: An organism that thrives in and even acts to generate a cosmopolitan, multicultural, multiracial, "majority minority" environment. Their mating call is "Diversity is our greatest strength." Obsessed with eradicating white bread and plain vanilla.
Fiscalophile: An organism capable of concocting devious methods of creating wealth. Typically the riches are derived from thin air, by borrowing from future generations, or by harnessing the power of the state to extract it from other organisms - often using a combination of these techniques. Usually found near large concentrations of money acquired under mysterious circumstances.
Gulagophile: An organism capable of silencing, banishing, imprisoning, torturing, or killing other organisms while claiming that it favors high ideals such as liberty, equality, and/or fraternity. A ruthless competitor, resistant to all forms of shame or decency.
Obscurophile: An organism that clouds the thinking of other organisms. Expert in both logic and fallacy these organisms most commonly gather whenever and wherever discussion concerns the traits of and differences between organisms.
Polyextremophile organisms fall in two or more categories, which means they thrive that much better in conditions detrimental to the majority of other organisms.
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It is revealed that the man accused of supplying the dynamite used in the March 2004 Madrid train bombings was an informant who had the private telephone number of the head of Spain’s Civil Guard bomb squad. Emilio Suarez Trashorras, a miner with access to explosives, as well as an associate named Rafa Zouhier both regularly informed for the Spanish police, telling them about drug shipments. Trashorras began working as an informant after being arrested for drug trafficking in July 2001, while Zouhier became an informant after being released from prison early in February 2002. Shortly after the Madrid bombings, investigators discover that Trashorras’ wife Carmen Toro has a piece of paper with the telephone number of Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano, head of Tedax, the Civil Guard bomb squad. She and her brother Antonio Toro are also informants.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a061804bombsquad
http://factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/
THERE is an on-going Internet debate and controversy about the number of Jewish casualties in the World Trade Center tragedy. How many Israelis did survive the bombing? We have kept out of this, but the discussion below deserves posting as it summarises different and often untenable positions
... The day after the attack on the World Trade Center, the Jerusalem Post, the most respected and famous Israeli newspaper in the world, reported that 4,000 Israelis were missing in the attack on the WTC.
The international Jewish involvement in banking and finance is legendary. Two of the richest firms in New York are Goldman-Sachs and the Solomon Brothers; and both firms have offices in the Twin Towers.
Many executives in these firms regularly commute back and forth to Israel.
New York is the center of world wide Jewish financial power and the World Trade Center is at its epicenter.
One would expect the Israeli death toll to be catastrophic. The Jerusalem Post certainly thought so on September 12, 2001.
...
When George Bush made his speech before Congress, it turns out that he made a significant error other than saying that the WTC attackers did it because they "hated freedom," Bush made a point of saying that in addition to thousands of Americans, 130 Israelis died in the WTC.
The implication was to say that Israel shared in our suffering, and that we and Israel are in this thing together.
Upon hearing the number of 130 Israeli dead, it seemed suspiciously low to me.
....
130 deaths would have been unusually low. As a place for doing business and for employment, the world Trade Center was not a huge MacDonalds; it housed tens of thousands of highly paid, high tech and high level jobs and executive positions.
They were primarily international finance, trade, banking and brokerage firms.
These are the kinds of businesses where Israelis are traditionally over-represented.
I asked myself how there could be only 130 Israelis dead, while there were an estimated 199 dead from Columbia and 428 from the Philippines? ...
But, while researching this article on Israeli terrorism against Palestine and America, I discovered the most surprising fact I have ever run across in all my years of research and writing.
I discovered a simple fact that has enormous ramifications in regard to the September terror attack.
"The New York Times
September 22, 2001
THE TALLY
Officials Say Number of Those Still Missing May Be Overstated
[...] But interviews with many consulate officials yesterday suggested that the lists of people they were collecting varied widely in their usefulness.
For example, the city had somehow received reports of many Israelis feared missing at the site, and President Bush in his address to the country on Thursday night mentioned that about 130 Israelis had died in the attacks.
But today, Alon Pinkas, Israel's consul general here, said that lists of the missing included reports from people who had called in because, for instance, relatives in New York had not returned their phone calls from Israel.
There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and buried.
After searching through dozens of articles trying to track down the true Israeli death toll, I finally found a New York Times piece that clarified the precise number of Israelis who died in the World Trade Center attack."
Of the 130 Israelis President Bush claimed had died in the World Trade Center, it turned out that 129 of them were still alive. Only one Israeli had actually died in the catastrophe of the World Trade Center.
I was incredulous.
"Good God," I said outloud to myself, "only one Israeli!"
The very low death toll of 130 suggested that a number of Israelis at the Trade Center had been warned before the attack.
When I found out the truth that only one Israeli had died, there could be no doubt that there had been a prior warning for many Israelis.
Having only one Israeli casualty among the 4,500 [3,000] dead at the WTC is simply a statistical impossibility.
Even if the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Jerusalem Post had grossly overestimated the number of Israelis in the World Trade Center by 3,000 (400 percent), there still should have still been one thousand Israelis there at the time of the attacks.
Again, even if only a few hundred Israelis were present at the time of the attack, only one Israeli death occurring there is statistically absurd.
Either September 11 had to be a big Israeli holiday, or a number of Israeli citizens had some advance warning of the impending attack.
The fact is that no Israeli or Jewish holiday falls on September 11.
The next thing I researched was to see if there were any confirmed warnings to Israelis prior to the attack.
I quickly found an article in Newsbytes, a news service of the Washington Post, titled "Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack." The Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, also confirmed the prior warnings to Israel and confirmed that the FBI is investigating the warnings.
The articles detailed that an Israeli messaging firm, Odigo, with offices in both the World Trade Center and in Israel, received a number of warnings just two hours before the attack. [...]
Now, who would have warned Israelis of the impending attack, if not Israel's Mossad?
November 23, 2001
From: Robert Reis
Odd but true
TODAY a person -- who was very angry with me for observing that the Newsday site listing all victims at World Trade Center did not include the anticipated percentage of names of people of the Jewish heritage -- approached me and said I was an evil person full of .... because he had gone to the CNN list and found 35 -- 40 % Jewish names.
He asked sarcastically "Aren't Horowitz and Rubenstein Jewish enough for you?"
I went to CNN and could not find such a list. I went to ABCnews.com and searched their list. No Horowitz and no Rubenstein. I went to Newsday list and found no Horowitz and no Rubenstein. I went to elbnet.com and did a victim search. No Horowitz and no Rubenstein.
Robert Reis
P.S.There were two "REIS" victims in WTC
From: Ed Toner
The Asbury Park Press printed the names of ALL the victims from Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Quite heavily Jewish populations. Many commuters to the WTC, daily. There was ONE "identifiable" Jewish name. Following the obituaries, I saw ONE more, a name which was not particularly Jewish sounding. That's TWO in the whole area.
Sunday, November 25, 2001
Ludicrous Diversion - London 7/7/05
Within minutes of beginning this documentary you will realize that you have been had by the British government and police and media.
http://tinyurl.com/m8col
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