Things you wont find @ The Flag
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: Crime and Punishment

A story located here

reports that Ken Saro-Wiwa has taken a job in his dad's former country.

 

Ken Saro-Wiwa 's dad and 8 others were hanged while under military dictatorship rule and henceforth Nigeria was ejected from the Commonwealth.

Friday Night
Mood:  special

Murs LA

Life and Death in PG,BC,CANADA
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Crime and Punishment
FYI, click if you dare: this IS Prince GEORGE.

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Other than logging accidents,("It’s safer to be a soldier in Afghanistan than a forest worker in BC,” .... the now notorious Highway of Tears, biggest danger here is breathing the air? Worst air quality in the province. I have not been without my moments of existential angst especially when it comes to complacent attitudes
and that inspid mix of white colonial rationalism
and vapid indifference.

The local peeps here "gave up" prime acreage of pristine waterfront property with beatific views to be moved to a reserve situated miles away. The sickest most vile twist in this end game of dislocation and cultural upheaval is the death of
14 year old Aileah-Sager Auger.

The news conference held with much media in attendance was at the traditional area where they were originally dislocated from. Meaning the old burial grounds are adjacent a park where the Aboriginal Day Celebrations were held.

Globe and Mail was there as well as CTV cameras

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060622.wxbcwomen22/BNStory/National/home


So where does the sadness end and the jubilation begin?


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Logging deaths spark outrage

Australian indigenous art metes premium prices
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: Crime and Punishment

Reading recently how a museum in France gave indigenous works of art nominally from Australia the
international breezies.

And then I discovered this.

In contrast, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to give up many of its most prized antiquities, which were allegedly looted from Italy.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060622-101406-8529r 

 '...the market for looted artworks "is second in value only to the drugs trade."


At the same time,the First International Forum of United Indigenous Peoples is being held this week in Pau, France.

Over 24 native indian elders, artists and political leaders have travelled from here in B.C. to France to participate running from June 19 to 26.


http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/06/19/haida-conference.html


In the same week that an official Haisla pole was also repatriated from Sweden. In Vancouver first,
then home. What a week it's been for the art world.

http://www.sculpture.org/portfolio/sculptorPage?sculptor_id=1000363

 

 

 

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South Africa: Jo'burg's Urban Poor 'Fear Crime As Much As Hunger'

 

Wahabbi wannabe
Popular American lingoism meets referential term to diatribical idealogical religious doctrine in a crash collision that jars the senses of English proffesor and mediveal scholar alike.

"wahabbi wannabe"

Whether or not Arab trained militants have been participating in Chechnyas war of independence seems to be the question of the ages at the Black Flag Cafe.

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Or vice verca. Someone should query search terms 'laundry list' on the BFC archives via way back machine to see what I mean.

Or maybe: "laundered" list?

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But life goes on here as normal as can be in Prince George BC. Thats my garangtuan sized summation so far.

Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Crime and Punishment

"Mrs.Junger, could you come down here please? I think theres something wrong with your washing macine."

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In the early
sixties,
thirteen Boston
-area
women were raped
in
their apartments,
then
strangled to death
with
their own clothing.
Police
suspected the same
man was
responsible and the
killer
earned the moniker,
The Boston Strangler.


Listen to a CBC reporters interview with 'Perfect Storm' author Sebastian Junger.

absolutely chillingCBC's The Current : Sebastian Junger

All the news thats fit to blog about...
Mood:  amorous
Science of nutriiton in the news. You are what you eat. And dont eat. Will the folk wisdom initially enshrined in the saying : Let food be your medicine, be twisted by science?

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A recent report on child nutrition alerted the world to a staggering health risk: More than one quarter of all children under the age of five in developing countries are underweight.

The World Bank says the prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world.

Equally of concern, though, are the dramatic increases in childhood obesity. At the World Health Organisation (WHO), we estimate more than 20 million children under the age of five worldwide are overweight or obese.

Recent studies also link low birth-weight to the development of overweight and diabetes in later years, demonstrating a clear link between under- and over-nutrition. These are issues that directly affect the economic growth of the country.



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The U.S. government may soon have to review their genetically engineered food or genetically modified food on a mandatory basis, if a new lawsuit filed Wednesday proves successful.

The lawsuit, filed by the Center for Food Safety in U.S. District Court in Washington against the Food and Drug Administration, not only calls for a mandatory review of genetically modified food, but also requires sellers to label the food to buyers as such.



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The use of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children has soared six-fold since the early 1990s, a new report finds.

The surge appears to be largely due to doctors who prescribe the drugs to treat mental illnesses -- including behavior disorders and mood disorders -- that don't have a psychotic component. In many cases, the U.S. government frowns on such "off-label" treatment, but it is legal.




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Oh yeah...Harvard gets green light for testing human cloning experiments in the name of science
related to stem cell research.

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Boss stops in for 30 seconds
Mood:  special


I think that it's about nine seconds in that...Downbound Train

Lifted from :

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/DownboundTrain.html

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Harrowing.

Chilean navy ship docks to protests
Mood:  don't ask

This is a toy.

Don't think its the same vessel docked in San Diego recently to protests, seen here docking in Auckland.

... and here

Protestors included International Humans Rights Museum (maybe they need a new exhibit), Amnesty International and surviving families and relatives of those who were lost to the former floating torture chamber under the prosecuted leaders Pinochets regime.

Fellow by the name of Patricio Henr?quez has made a documentary about the Chilean Navy’s training vessel. It is called: THE DARK SIDE OF THE WHITE LADY .

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Esmeralda Chilean Navy Training Ship docks to protests

 UPDATE: story; Arturito is becoming famous for solving mysteries that people cannot. In June, it discovered the massive arms cache buried at the German rightwing paramilitary compound Colonia Dignidad. Then, in August, it detected the remains of the body of businessman Francisco Yuraszeck, who went missing in 2004. In both cases, officials were unable to find anything on their own and relied on Arturito to solve the mystery. lost gold found

See also here,  here and  here.

Germans?And gee I didnt know Citibank was involved.

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YAHOO! RESEARCHER SPEAKS IN CHILE

The director of Yahoo!’s research department, Prabhakar Raghavan, gave a presentation Monday on internet ethics, search engines, and Yahoo! “Challenges in Internet Seaches” at the Núcleo Mileno Centro de Investigatión de la Web.

http://ngnewsarticles.blogspot.com/2005/11/yahoo-researcher-speaks-in-chile.html

 

 

Coffee?
Mood:  flirty



Read about which peoples, according to University of British Columbia History Professor Nicholas Hudson,
became the "most vilified people on Earth".

The women, in particular, were deemed to have an almost animalistic sexual appeal.

The Khoekhoen.

In the new: enduring over three centuries of shame and degradation, the descendants of the first people to meet southern Africa's white settlers may be able to return to the land that was once theirs.

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Brad Pitt in Namibia? Leo Di Caprico in a film called The Blood Diamond? Word is that the diamond industry is scrambling to set its publicity machines in motion just in time for its release. 3 years after the Kimberly Agreements were formalized, detractors who staked a claim in its neglibleness now have merit.

But I wonder if Pitt is related by lineage to

Thomas 'Diamond' Pitt.

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