Today's dose of surrealism
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit - Seneca
Today's dose of surrealism
Categories: Health, Ethnic groups, 41 words2 feedbacks •How about this?
A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier, reports say.
Isn't that a worrysome way to die? Poor girl. Her sin: kissing her boyfriend.
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Today's dose of surrealism
Categories: Politics, Psychology, Ethnic groups, Government, War, 392 wordsSend feedback •A Nigerian state governor has denied reports that he escaped charges of money-laundering in the UK by disguising himself as a woman.
However, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha told the BBC that he could not remember other details of his journey back to the oil-rich southern Bayelsa State.
He insisted that he was innocent and that the £1.8m ($3.2m) found in cash and bank accounts was not his.
A US company has been given a two-year contract to help fight piracy off the Somalia coast - seen as among the world's most dangerous waters.
The $50m contract has been awarded by Somalia's transitional government.
America's Army is one of the most popular computer games on the planet and like many games, it is a shoot-em-up, get-the-bad guys kind of affair.
But unlike other games, America's Army is truly a product of the US military. The Army first released the game a few years ago as a recruiting tool.
But, at the recent Serious Games Summit in Washington, DC, the Army showed off a new use for its computer game - training soldiers for combat.
America's Army now has six million registered users, and scores of fansites, worldwide. That is not just because the Army gives the game away online for free.
Tomado de La Jornada:
En la construcción del país es necesario ir "pian pianito", aseveró el presidente Vicente Fox, quien de nueva cuenta alertó contra quienes, de cara a las elecciones de 2006, prometen resolver los problemas nacionales "de la noche a la mañana".
¿No es éste el muchachito que nos iba a resolver no sé qué importante problema nacional en 15 minutos?
Encabeza el teniente coronel Moisés la Comisión Intergaláctica del EZLN.
El diplomático estadunidense Joseph Wilson aseguró ayer que el primer ministro británico Tony Blair fue engañado por el presidente George W. Bush en torno a la guerra en Irak.
Wilson, quien sostiene que la Casa Blanca republicana reveló el nombre de su esposa, la agente especial de la CIA Valerie Plame, en venganza por haber rebatido las afirmaciones de Washington de que el régimen de Saddam Hussein poseía armas nucleares, sostuvo que funcionarios de la presidencia estadunidense llevaron un "doble juego" con sus aliados británicos".
¡Ya basta, maldito hipócrita!
Categories: Ethnic groups, Government, War, 202 wordsSend feedback •Otra jugarreta de bush:
Un reporte de inteligencia del Departamento de Estado estadunidense caracterizó en 1991 al fósforo blanco como arma química, después que fue utilizado por Saddam Hussein contra los rebeldes kurdos al término de la guerra del golfo Pérsico, declaró hoy el periodista italiano Sigfrido Ranucci, autor del reportaje que denunció que el ejército estadunidense utilizó esa arma contra civiles iraquíes en la ciudad de Fallujah, en noviembre de 2004.
El documento del que dio cuenta Ranucci en conferencia de prensa en Roma, señaló que en febrero de 1991 una fuente de inteligencia reportó que durante el alzamiento de la población kurda que siguió a la victoria de los aliados que sacaron a Irak de Kuwait, "fuerzas iraquíes leales al presidente Saddam Hussein probablemente utilizaron armas químicas de fósforo blanco contra los rebeldes kurdos y la población en Erbil y Dohuk".
"Cuando Saddam usó el fósforo blanco, éste era arma química", dijo Ranucci, pero "cuando los estadunidenses lo usan es arma convencional. Sin embargo, las heridas que esta arma provoca son terribles".
¿Qué ha hecho el mundo para merecer a bush y sus secuaces? ¡Ya perdónanos, diosito!
Charges prepared against Irving
Categories: Ethnic groups, History, Law, War, 131 wordsSend feedback •Meet David Irving.
The guy is under arrest in Austria, because he has publicly stated his doubts about the "official" number of deaths in the so called "holocaust".
This whole incident of a law suit against an historian because of his point of view reminds me of the authoritarian/presidentialist regime of Mexico after the revolution of 1910.
It reminds me as well of the witch-burning tendences the Europeans showed in the XVI century. Perhaps a characteristic?
The issue reflects the fact that there is no freedom of speech in those countries, and that those societies are (or so they pretend) deeply injured, sensitive to the matters in question beyond any rational judgment.
The truth is that there are things you can't talk about in Europe, for what I can see. Surprising.
The DVD players are killing God!!!
Categories: Entertainment, Popular culture, Religion, Tourism, Ethnic groups, Electronics, 10 wordsSend feedback •Can you imagine? The DVD players are losing their religion!
