Since Sunday 19 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has been on general red alert with EZLN troops called into the mountains of Chiapas, and Zapatista communities advised to flee by their Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Governing Councils), amid fears that war in Chiapas is likely to resume. The Zapatista “Caracoles” or “centers of zapatista…
Month: June 2005
Another Giant Catfish…the End is Near
In this photo released by World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic, two Thai fishermen show a 293-kilogram (646-pound) giant catfish they caught from the Mekong River in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Saturday, June 11, 2005. Thai fishermen have caught this giant catfish believed to be the world’s heaviest living freshwater fish but…
Worldwide Week of Action Against Poverty to Launch Friday
The Global Call to Action against Poverty marks its first global White Band Day mobilization on Friday 1st July © www.whiteband.org © www.whiteband.org Some of the world’s most famous landmarks will be adorned with huge white bands on 1st July, as part of a curtain-raiser to a week of global action during which campaigners and…
Bush lying about rise in Aid to Africa
POLITICS-AFRICA: Bush Exaggerates Increase in U.S. Aid Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) – U.S. President George W. Bush has been significantly exaggerating the amount of money his administration has provided in aid to sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study released here Monday. Instead of a tripling of U.S. aid to Africa between 2000…
Crisp, Complex and Refreshing – New York Times
By ERIC ASIMOV Published: June 29, 2005 ON a hot summer night, a beer need only be cold and wet to satisfy. But consider if the standard were set a little higher. Imagine a beer that offered more than the internal equivalent of holding a cold, glistening bottle against a flushed and sweaty forehead. What…
Rhizome.org: RHIZOME ARTBASE 101
Rhizome.org: RHIZOME ARTBASE 101 Rhizome ArtBase 101 surveys salient themes in Internet art, a practice that has flourished in the last ten years. The exhibition presents forty selections from Rhizome.org’s online archive of new media art, the ArtBase, which was launched in 1999 and currently holds some 1,500 works by artists from around the world….
France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion Reactor – New York Times
France to Be Site of World’s First Nuclear Fusion Reactor – New York Times PARIS, June 28 – France won an international competition today to be the site of the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world’s future energy needs.
The Complete Bushisms – Updated frequently. By Jacob Weisberg
some of these are too hard to believe and yet…they come out of the president’s mouth.. for example “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 The Complete Bushisms…
Building a Jazz Library
There’s more to jazz than Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis. Jazz Article Center @ All About Jazz Building a Jazz Library
Doctors 'find dead foetus in boy'
Doctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains. They said the foetus would have become the boy’s twin had it grown normally in their mother’s womb. They said it was a case of an extremely rare condition where two foetuses…