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Colombia's Death Squads
Thursday, August 31, 2000
"On the night of Jan. 9, 1999, government and international investigators say that 150 paramilitaries forced several Puerto Asis residents at gunpoint to drive them to El Tigre along this road. That night, paramilitaries slaughtered some two dozen people in the village. Meanwhile, the 24th Brigade established a check-point just above the fork in the road and barred vehicles from going to Puerto Asis from Santana. Witnesses told investigators that about 30 buses were stacked up in Santana for several hours. The check-point made travel along the road between El Tigre and Puerto Asis less congested and a getaway with no witnesses easy."
"On Nov. 7, 1999, paramilitaries killed 12 people in the town of El Placer, according to Amnesty International. Witnesses told investigators that the 24th Brigade was in El Placer just days before the massacre, and arrived again just hours after the 50 armed men had finished pulling locals out of their houses and shooting them in the barren fields surrounding the town"
My fellow Americans, our supposed bastion of democracy and champion of human rights is supporting these people with your tax dollars. Don't think it can't happen here as well.
tvtattle
Thursday, August 31, 2000
If you're as hopelessly addicted to the boob tube as I am, this weblog is worth a look.
Family flustered by foul-mouthed Furby
Thursday, August 31, 2000
Foul mouthed Furby wants sex!
"Despite the Furby's bad language, the Martins plan to keep the toy, hoping that it will become a collector's item. But the couple recommends that parents listen to what Furby says before giving it to their children."
Typical. Moral outrage leads to greedy hypocrisy.
(Link courtesy of Unknown News)
Venezuela Investigates Firestone and Ford
Thursday, August 31, 2000
Venezuelan officials accuse Firestone and Ford of an 'conspiracy against consumers'. It is interesting that Firestone started to recall these defective tires in the Middle East over a year ago. Instead of bulding a safe vehicle, Ford cut corners with it's crappy Explorer SUV by fiddling with the tire pressure This leads me to believe that corporations don't have any qualms about killing innocent people if they think they can get away with it. What's a few lives vs. obscene profits?
Florida has started a racketeering investigation. Can you say 'pending multi-billion dollar lawsuit'? I knew you could!
Indian cinemas are Millionaire losers
Thursday, August 31, 2000
"The Indian version of British TV hit 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' is being blamed for a slump in box office returns at the country's cinemas."
Personally, I think that 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' is some kind of bizarre mind control experiment. I can't believe that seemingly intelligent people that I know watch it with a kind of religious fervor. I've tried to watch it and I was bored out of my mind, both by the banal questions and the tedious format.
At least you have to have a few working brain cells to get on 'Jeopardy'!
Bone dry
Monday, August 28, 2000
A real human skeleton is hard to come by these days:
"In 1985, India banned the export of skeletons to foreign countries. Before this, it was the supplier of more than 80 percent of the world's human skulls and skeletons. There is a shortage in the United States as a result. Doctors and those studying the fine anatomical details of skeletons worry about a generation of medical and dental students relying increasingly on plastic replicas instead of the real thing to learn about bones and how disease affects them."
Huge Reward For Capture Of Japanese Monster
Monday, August 28, 2000
Twenty million yen award offered for capture of strange snakelike creature in Japan:
"Though none from the teeming throngs of bounty hunters has yet managed to get their hands on the cash they stand to earn from catching a tsuchinoko, Yoshii retailers have certainly developed a yen for the creature. Sales of locally produced tsuchinoko rice cakes, tsuchinoko cakes and tsuchinoko wine have skyrocketed."
Even if there's no creature, it seems to be a good maketing ploy!
Violent Material Marketed To Youth
Sunday, August 27, 2000
"A draft report on the investigation shows that movie studios advertised violent R-rated movies during television shows with predominantly teen audiences. It also shows that producers of violent video games touted products suitable for "mature" users in magazines aimed at young teens, according to sources who are familiar with the report's findings."
Guess what? They're marketing sex to kids too!
Police 'big cat' warning
Sunday, August 27, 2000
Big cats are on the prowl in the U.K.:
"Big cat experts believe there may be as many as 100 leopards and pumas roaming the British countryside. They believe the animals are the offspring of beasts released by owners in the 1970s after the introduction of stringent new laws governing wild and dangerous animals."
Life in the clouds
Sunday, August 27, 2000
Bacteria living in clouds may cause increased precipitation.
Up and away
Sunday, August 27, 2000
Is a strap on helicopter the solution to traffic jams? I hope not! Imagine all of the accidents and noise pollution this thing would cause.
Secret torpedo test 'blew sub apart'
Sunday, August 27, 2000
Remember this article from last month? Turns out that one of those rocket powered torpedos may have caused the Kursk submarine disaster that claimed the lives of over one hundred Russian sailors.
North Pole Now Underwater
Sunday, August 27, 2000
It constantly amazes me how NASA scientists constantly dismiss the obvious effects of global warming. How much more evidence do they need? Perhaps it's just a matter that government agencies do nothing more that implement current policy, as opposed to doing actual scientific research. Burying your head in the sand has a way of catching up to you, but I guess ignorance is bliss. At least until it kicks you in the ass.
Noah's Ark for plants sets sail
Saturday, August 19, 2000
Millenium Seed Bank aims to save seeds from more than twenty thousand species of plants.
Nando Sportserver Police Blotter
Saturday, August 19, 2000
Find out how which athletes are in trouble with the law today.
This has been a particularly bad year for Charlotte athletes; one was murdered, one started a riot, one was killed in a completely reckless car racing accident and, of course, one's on trial for executing his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Some role models, huh?
I realize that most athletes are perfectly decent people, but all of this has left such a bad taste in my mouth that I don't even watch sports anymore.
Are We Trapped In a Borg Like World?
Saturday, August 19, 2000
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that we may become robots."
Erich Fromm
Insightman
Thursday, August 17, 2000
I finally got a real world look at the funky Honda Insight gas-electric hybrid car on I-40 today. Here's a page with tons of information on it. Unfortunately, the sticker price is too high (20 grand) and gas is still too cheap to get most Americans out of their bloated luxobarges and SUVs. At least it's a step in the right direction.
Cannabis may make you a safer driver
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Though I strongly advise everyone not to operate any kind of potentially dangerous machinery whilst high, this article is most interesting:
"Instead of proving that drug-taking while driving increased the risk of accidents, researchers found that the mellowing effects of cannabis made drivers more cautious and so less likely to drive dangerously."
As our roads get more and more congested, I guess eventually we'll have to dope everyone up before getting behind the wheel to prevent rampant road rage.
(Link courtesy of Unknown News)
Sasquatch scores on the tackyometer
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Is pop culture the enemy of cyptozoological research? As far as mainstream scientific acceptance goes, I'd have to say 'absolutely'.
The quest for the facts is a difficult one.
Intelligence in the Cosmos: Flesh or Machine?
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Astronomer argues that extraterestrial contact will likely be with machine based life, not organic life.
Hail war points cannons skyward
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Can sound wave generating 'hail bangers' prevent crop damage?
Smells like Teen Spiritualism
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Ghost of Kurt Cobain appears on shut down Compaq Presario.
I guess this a more modern version of direct voice communication with the dead!
(Original link courtesy of Found)
Grease Guzzler
Sunday, August 13, 2000
Grease powered vehicles seem to be catching on:
"There are several advantages to grease-burning diesels over conventional diesel engines -- and gasoline engines, for that matter. They emit fewer toxic byproducts, they utilize fuel from renewable sources and they consume a waste product that must otherwise be disposed of by less efficient means."
Electron blasphemy may set physics on its ear
Sunday, August 13, 2000
Elementary particles may not be.
I also like this article since it worked in a quantum physics reference to one of my all time favorite movies, Caddyshack.
High-Tech Wreck
Sunday, August 13, 2000
Begin Rant:
Technological advances are not all they're cracked up to be. I'm no Luddite, but I do believe that technology does not make our lives better (that's just corporate propoganda), but in fact makes us work harder. How many people do you know that are already slaves to machines? Where's the backlash against this electronic mind control? We continue to grow more out of touch with what's really important; our family, our friends and our local environment.
I did figure out a new way to annoy rude people on cell phones. Just sit down next to them and say 'shut up' firmly every two seconds or so. When they get up and try to walk away from you, just follow them and keep repeating 'shut up'. Drives 'em nuts! Try it, it's easy and fun!
End Rant.
Drought Monitor
Sunday, August 13, 2000
Speaking of a lack of water, here's a page with drought information for the U.S. I live in the crispy brown portion of western North Carolina. As far as I can remember, this is the driest conditions I've seen in the past fifteen years or so.
I'm sure it's going to be a nasty fire season.
Water: oil of the future?
Sunday, August 13, 2000
Forget petroleum. The most important natural resource of this century will be plain old fresh H20"
"Numbers abound about how dire the shortage will be. The Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute projected earlier this year that by 2025, only about a quarter of the world's population, including Canada, with its rivers, lakes and aquifers, will have enough fresh water. Roughly a third of the world's population will have too little water to meet their needs. That includes people in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Israel, South Africa and half of India and China. This figure even takes into account that these countries will learn to use water more efficiently over time."
Frightening, no?
(Link courtesy of kiplog)
Astronomers track nearby planet
Saturday, August 5, 2000
Jupiter size planet found orbiting Epsilon Eridani. It is the closest planetary system yet discovered.
I Want My SUV
Saturday, August 5, 2000
Begin Rant:
I'm not sure who I loathe more: obnoxious cell phone users or obnoxious SUV drivers. People who use both at the same time really annoy me!
"Americans love SUVs because we are a nation of poseurs. We love to buy things that will never really have any practical application -- things like cowboy hats, pit bulls, Corvettes, assault weapons, etc. That we will never use them for their intended purpose is beside the point. The point is that they fulfill the need to pretend."
Bingo. It's 'lifestyle' consumerism run amok again!
Now my mom wants to trade her Camry for a RAV 4. Why? So she's high enough off the ground to see where she's going! I assume that's because of all of you Expedition and Suburban 'drivers'. Thank you so much for making our roads an even more dangerous and deadly place.
Here's another SUV Poseur page.
You can get a free "Drive Now: Talk Later" bumper sticker here.
End Rant.
(Original link courtesy of Blue Green)
Drive safely, pay less
Thursday, August 3, 2000
Some Texan drivers are paying less for car insurance by allowing satellites to monitor their driving performance.
City dwellers 'dying younger'
Thursday, August 3, 2000
Air pollution is the culprit.
Nanodot
Wednesday, August 2, 2000
This is an interesting Slashdot style weblog and discussion forum from the folks at the Foresight Institute. The subject matter is nanotech and other coming technologies.
(Link courtesy of Bubble Chamber)
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