One half of the population, here and in the Middle East, is barely being used when it comes either to causing terror or preventing it. Ninety seven percent of bombers and suicide bombers are male, as are over ninety percent of those conducting the so-called ‘war on terror’. Maybe it is time to consider what…
Kim Jong-il on Al Jazeera about USA
(I found this to be a pretty interesting article…not to mention the oddity of who it is and where it is published….cd) âU.S. emerged as a result of genocideâ?- Kim Jong-il 9/23/2005 7:00:00 PM GMT “Sinister plots are continuously being hatched by U.S. intelligence agencies” The six parties, involving China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Mesa airlines entering the interisland market
Undeterred by the bankruptcies of Hawaii’s two largest airlines, a Phoenix-based regional carrier is planning to crowd into Hawaii’s interisland market in the first quarter of next year by offering low-cost, high-frequency service to all the major islands. Mesa Air Group Headquarters: Phoenix Aircraft: 182 Destinations: 165 cities, 44 states, District of Columbia, Canada and…
Boing Boing: Custom purses made from old books
(sometimes the strangest things pop up on boing boing…I’ve got a few books I might like to have made into purses…cd) Boing Boing: Custom purses made from old books Custom purses made from old books Rebound Designs makes purses out of old and unloved hardcover books — they will also do custom work if you…
Reality Studio
(For those who are fans of William Burroughs, here is a page of great links, excerpts, and more…cd) Dr. Benway Operates (from Naked Lunch) “The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. In Naked Lunch, Soft Machine and Nova Express I show who they are and what they are doing and…
Silent epidemic in the Pacific
(Imagine if there would have been a high incidence of HIV/AIDS when Captain Cook and his sailors arrived…instead of syphillis getting spread from horny sailors to disease free islanders (and wiping out a significant portion of the healthy population i.e. sexually active and able to resist European invasion) the sailors would have returned to Europe…
Seu Jorge's "Cru"
Speaking of Rio, hopefully Jimmy Page has learned a thing or two from the street kids. Seu Jorge used to be one of them. His first album, Carolina, debuted in 2001. He later appeared in the powerful film City of God and provided the awesome Portuguese-language covers of Bowie tunes on the soundtrack to The…
City of Zeppelin
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Zeppelin’s Page made Rio citizen Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has been made an honorary citizen of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro for his work helping its street children. The legendary rocker was presented the honour at Casa Jimmy (Jimmy’s House), which Page opened in 1998 and has so far…
Party for Peace in Liberia as experience faces off against celebrity
(Liberia’s “Iron Lady,” Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, could become Africa’s first elected female president. She was once a supporter of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian leader hiding out in Nigeria after being indicted for war crimes by the Special Court in Sierra Leone. But, she says she broke with him years ago and I think I believe…
South African grandiloquence and prolixity
(When I arrived in Africa recently, my bags did not. The South African airline that remained in possession of my bags sent me the most amazing apology note, before proceeding to do nothing. This followed after the purser on the flight apologized for the lack of peanuts by announcing his regret that he did not…