<USA 2034: A Look Back at the 25th Anniversary Year The Oil Drum DrumBeat: October 27, 2007>

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Leanan on October 26, 2007 - 7:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

I can't see the video. I don't know why, but embedding YouTube videos are a real bandwidth hit, and sometimes they just don't play at all when you embed them. (Probably YouTube's proprietary player to blame.)

For those who may be having similar problems...

Part 1

Part 2

(I think the first one is the same video embedded above, as best I can tell from the URL.)

Anyways, if you're having trouble with the video looking really jerky or not playing at all, going to YouTube and viewing them there will probably work better than trying to watch it embedded here.

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team10tim on October 27, 2007 - 2:06am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

To view the video you need to install the flash plugin available for download here.

Tim

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Leanan on October 27, 2007 - 9:22am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I have the Flash plugin installed. I was referring to the well-known issue with embedded YouTube videos. They often don't run as well embedded as they do if you watch them at YouTube. Especially when traffic is heavy.

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MUDLOGGER on October 27, 2007 - 8:58am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

If you are reading this Leanan, here is the ultimate abiotic oil scam for your next drum beat:-)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2748936.ece

Absolutely worth reading in full. Snippet here:

From The Times
October 27, 2007
‘Miracle’ fuel that made a mockery of Mugabe

Jan Raath in Harare
When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure refined diesel out of a rock by striking it with her staff, ministers in Robert Mugabe’s Government believed that they might have found the solution to Zimbabwe’s perennial fuel shortage.
After witnessing her apparently miraculous gift they gave her five billion Zimbabwean dollars in cash (worth £1.7 million at the start of the year but now worth one seven-hundredth of that) in return for the fuel. Ms Tagarira was also given a farm, said to have been seized from its white owner during Mr Mugabe’s lawless land grab, as well as food and services that included a round-the-clock armed guard on the rock in the district of Chinhoyi 60 miles (100km) from Harare, the capital.
More than a year later officials realised they had been duped.

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Leanan on October 27, 2007 - 9:26am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That's a pretty old story. I think they knew they were duped last year when it happened. At least, I remember reading (and posting) it. It was one of those "odd news" items.

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