Mood:  accident prone

Read the amazing tale of a Former U.S. Army Ranger from Canada who participated in a daring brazen daylight heist of an American bank  (two minutes and 21 seconds and  $54,011 later) who fled to and was caught back in Canada would meet and rub shoulders with an international criminal politician while awaiting trial ....and so on..

Posted by mach1231 at 12:57 PM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:25 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

What would be an example of one of the least possible harbingers of an infectious disease and I don't mean say, your average mosquito but I mean..

 

 would you believe "used tires"?

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Global warming is man made and real. If global warming is a natural occurence certainly we cannot call all human activity (from factories to modes of rail air sea and car transport) benign to the natural process and not contributers.

 A) Global warming can also be called: "climate change".

 a.1) Climate change, natural or man made can contribute to a food crisis.

a.1-b) As the costs of energy rise due to supply and demand,  so do costs in agricultural production and adverse weather events i.e. cyclones can lower crop yields.

Talk about your adverse-inverse relationships. 

But even with cyclones, cyclones followed by food shortages in combination with already rising food costs (global food prices have increased an average 43 percent since March 2007)

Theres still something else lurking behind but does not necessarily have to follow.

 The threat of infectious disease as a result of manmade/natural

global warming.climate change need not be an international security threat.

 

 

http://www.glu.org/english/invasive_species/index.htm 

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/05/12/science-invasive.html 

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 Further reading....                               

Available May 27, 2008

 http://www.richardpreston.net/

Posted by mach1231 at 11:36 AM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:45 PM PDT

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Mood:  on fire

Canadian women are sick of something..

.http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/columnists/top3/story/4163929p-4751348c.html

Posted by mach1231 at 5:43 PM PDT

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Mood:  don't ask

The increasingly muddied picture of a country becomes...ironically: clearer 

From the cyclone hit country of Burma, an intrepid reporter wallraffs a report illegally and among other things mention of home recorded DVD's being sold on a black market.

Well, of course its a 'black market'.

Do they think we have capitalistically elevated ourselves to the point we could brand and market DVD's of mayhem in stores legally?

OK, lame jabs at military dictatorships aside, passed blocked roads, stunted aid trickling in and state controlled media there are going to be worse negative death inducing spin-offs yet as PopSci reports:

 Ripple Effect in the Wake of Cyclone Nargis

including a bad shock to an already lopsided food crisis in the making as the country dwindles its own food supply to its neighbors

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 So what about aid from neighbors?

Where are Burma's neighbors?

 One report called Burmas distinguished apathy and unwillingness to accept offers from its neighbors: "barbaric" 

... and just who are this countries neighbors?

And not, by the by,  if you believe this report.

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Furthermore its a stark observation to make , similar to saying 'Did you also notice the naked man was not wearing a shirt?' to say the Internet sure is getting more fluid for news

..just when you read a report reads that Japan could help Burma by releasing its stockplies of rice , lo, behold, faster than the click of a mouse...it gives them to the Phillipines.

This is after all commerce. Not starving people. Who starves for a living anyway? 

So, as an aid worker reports in... you get the pic.

I'd watch Burma for sudden orders from its neighbors for bulldozers, face masks, rubber gloves and earth moving equipment thanks to the influx of cash from its helpful neighbors. 

Posted by mach1231 at 4:32 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:44 PM PDT

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Mood:  quizzical

LOVE, war and betrayal may be the stock in trade of the operatic repertoire, but composer Nigel Osborne's latest work updates the format to one of the most harrowing war zones of modern times – the Balkans..

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Its all opera. Interestingly one of the players cant read music. Its on tour in Scotland before it travels to Turkey, Georgia, the Balkans and the US.

"In 1966, I was 16 and decided to hitchhike to Asia. I'd travelled over borders you couldn't dream of crossing today: Iran, Iraq, even Israel."

 Sevdah ideal for opera ? What is sevdah?

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sos-review/Conflict-diamonds--Nigel-Osborne.4093481.jp

Posted by mach1231 at 11:55 AM PDT

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Mood:  mischievious

"well here I am! any hoo-mans around..?" 

This photo snaps a polar bear strolling through

Brookfield, Newfoundland.

Quote: "And the Nay Sayers say Global Warming isn't happening." Un-quote.

Linked.

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The Bush administration says environmental groups are using legislation such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act to advance a climate change agenda to force the US into restricting its greenhouse gas emissions.

Critics of global warming say the polar bear measure would be used to take governments to court when they build new power plants.

Will the polar bear wink itself out at the costs of higher price for fuel?

Posted by mach1231 at 7:29 PM PDT

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Mood:  hug me

A hahahhahhahha

HA HA

@ Jumper of RYP's Black Flag Cafe

Overshadowed by co-defendant and movie star Wesley Snipes, a Lake County tax scofflaw named Eddie Ray Kahn perhaps deserved top billing...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/community/news/mountdora/orl-kahn2708apr27,0,2995462.story 

 Schiess and my word, my understanding from this story is that the tax filer on behalf of Snipes is a former Texas sherriff?

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RYP, you can ban me and all of Prince Georges libraries, Universities and IP blocks for major providers

but you can't ban the truth...esp from your self. LOL

Unless you choose to do so! Ha hahahahhaahahaha....(emote Emo emote!) 

Posted by mach1231 at 6:49 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:55 PM PDT

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Mood:  bright

Believe it or not theres another reason to support the efforts of PETA besides Pam Anderson (do you get it?)(.)(.)

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Click here to see why!

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And that is the recent attack by a bear in California that killed a trainer

makes you appreciate these are first and foremost wild creatures meant to be an awesome spectacle with an appreciation mixed with caution for the way nature intended...not trained clowns for our entertainment "priveleges".

See the bear rehearsal  in the Will Ferrel movie and the vs. actual take seen in the film 

and I am sure any thinking person would feel the same way.

PETA tell us when we and our friends and neighbors go  see (monkey see, monkey DO?) the new movie Speed Racer, what we won't see is the trainer who allegedly beat the chimpanzee who plays Chim Chim. Or see the chimpanzee bite an actor on the set.

The incident is downplayed here.  

Or aggrandized by PETA, depending on which way you look @ it.

Posted by mach1231 at 5:33 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, May 17, 2008 6:39 PM PDT

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Mood:  bright

Police say Quebec cabinet minister's aide kidnapped in violent attack 

Terrible! Scary, too! Last time, if memory serves, the Prime Minister invoked the War Measures Act !

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080517/national/aide_kidnapped 

Loathe to mention but is this Couillard related in any way to the spotlighted ex-girlfriend of our national Foreign Minister, Maxime Bernier?

Posted by mach1231 at 5:29 PM PDT

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Mood:  accident prone

I wish Joseph Campbell were still alive. The amount of knowledge he would be able to transmit in a single sentence about the times which we live would result in transformation in a media structured world that would elevate his status to that of ...well enough said

http://myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=Twain_Columbia

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For instance, imagine trying to finish this sentence for the venerable world myth authority Mr Campbell, take a ride on my imagination with me:

"Indiana Jones IS a hero, a modern day hero and/or/but_........if.."

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OK I'll start....you finish,...Indiana Jones is a:... "fictional hero". Period.

But actually in the middle of the Jones trilogy, Temple of Doom he does portray a hero.

I nominate this guy here as a true real life modern day hero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-CA6-RmeBY

Posted by mach1231 at 1:10 PM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:27 PM PDT

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