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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Well heres somethnig worthy of chatter anyway

Last year, well, speaking of dangerous places...

theres this place called Ingushetia where unrest has soared over the last 12 months and barely a day passes without a bomb attack, kidnapping or murder

... a web site owner was subpoened (or thereby equivalent of) for inciting racial hatred

but Reuters is claiming that detained opposition leader Magomed Evloev is not the founder of the ingushetia.ru Internet site and that is what this story corrects

http://www.reuters.com/article/europeCrisis/idUSL22455602

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That makes sense then right?

I mean even if there are two people with the same name,

the other, meaning both can still be targetted

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/oksana_chelysheva/2008/04/extreme_measures.html

To clarify, they should have written the Magomed Evloev in the story below is not the same person as the owner founder of the ingushetia.ru Internet site

Either that ingushetia.ru should stop bullshitting for attention.

But is Reuters: wrong?

Could be important for the cause to realize....registering in the US might help. Then again...you risk arrest in any case eh Reuters?

Right.


Posted by mach1231 at 4:57 PM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:04 PM PDT
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Flaggers with RYP in the lead are disgusting., ok make that contemptible.

Well well well, what else do you get by comparising

"one of the largest and most tangled custody cases in United States history"

(notable: N. Texas has 46300 more single men than single women – the fourth-largest male surplus in the country and leads the nation in Fortune 500 companies)

with

 Jeff Warrens

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The experiences of being born into a cult are comparable with that of a refugee.

I just wish they could come up with something better to do with their time. I mean its probably a real thrill being able to post a Photoshopped pic now and then, but this type of online "behavior' is annoying on its own (picture if you will, a monkey shrilly wailing its own pleasure at the amazement of discovering it can actually pick its own nose and put its contents on display and I think you will have established the general mentality of the average Flagger)..let alone a place dedicated to the worlds most dangerous places.

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Guess they dont know when and where to draw the line at anything and anything guaranteed for shock value is liable to make even their most insufferable die hard "fans" recoil further into their airtight smug personal bubbles of observation with more one lined jokes and one liners usually reserved for elementary school teachers to temper.

I think its probably safer to say the clowns provide ample cover for distraction for some of the more questionable characters their to smirk away at the spectators show being put on.

Focusing on 'The New Paparazzi'

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I guess I just miss the days when Chechnya received more attention, now caught between pro-Russsian factions.

Russian organised crime is now a global brand

Exiled War Reporter, Stranger in a Strange Land

It may secede eventually.

But posts like these I think also provide that bit of razzle dazzle to the Flag that most visitors to his site pine for and prey upon and may also explain that ever shriveling span of attention Flaggers are now becoming increasingly widely known for...I recall once RYP contended he prevented me from performing a "criminal act"

...selling your self online in a round about way advertising your self as a high priced call girl and then accusing your crowd of being nothing but a bunch of jack-offs...just how criminal do you have to be Sir Pelton...to earn ones self the distinction of being banned from your now flea bag infested site?

Have you written any letters of protest to any colleges or Universitys lately? I suspect they may have pulled his books from our shelves once they heard hed cut off access for entire IP blocks and cities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 2:46 PM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:19 PM PDT
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Monday, April 21, 2008

In 1999, the World Bank conducted a survey amongst 60,000 people living on less than a dollar a day.

When asked what they felt would make the greatest difference to their lives, the number one answer, above even food and shelter, was access to a voice.


Posted by mach1231 at 8:28 PM PDT
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A play about Rudyard Kipling before the war

 

 

In busting Simon and Nick out of jail... (why does RYP think Simon is lying? Perhaps he can be subpoened to testify if he feels that strongly about it? Wouldnt Simon just love that? Or perhaps RYP would?)

 perhaps he would be interested in knowing

Equatorial Guinea opposition leader Severo Moto has been arrested

EQ called for elections for 4/5,/08 a year earlier than expected

and Simon Mann's trial, arrested four years ago, is expected to begin after this vote

This could bring about potential embarrassment for Britain and Spain if he shows he had official support for his alleged attempt to overthrow the Government.

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My best hope for Simon Mann? Lack of evidence.  Not guilty. Charges dismissed.

  

"There was no extradition treaty between Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea when he was arrested and it cannot be made retrospective."

Simon Mann will be found guilty, lawyer says

If they  can arrest British helicopter pilots for the crime of flying around legal political oposition, they can arrest Mann....but it sure doesnt look good in an age of democratic reform.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 2:10 PM PDT
Updated: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:02 PM PDT
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Canadas best ...saluted
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: News on News
Last year, the German National Committee for UNICEF 
selected this ‘Photo of the
Year’ by US freelancer Stephanie Sinclair showing a man 
with a child
bride in Afghanistan. 
UNICEF strongly condemns child marriage worldwide
as a human rights violation and a form of sexual abuse and exploitation. 
 Ms. Sinclair’s photo shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan. 
The groom, Mohammed, is 40 years old and the bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she has just turned 11.

The image “raises awareness about a worldwide problem,” UNICEF patroness Eva Luise Köhler said at the award ceremony in Berlin. “Millions of girls are married while they are still under-age. Most of theses child brides are forever denied a self-determined life.”

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/germany_42274.html 

 

Yesterday, 

the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) held a gala
to recognize the excellence represented in submissions by 123 of Canada's most
renowned photojournalists. 
NPAC is pleased to announce the winners of the
second annual National Pictures of the Year (NPOY) awards competition.
    
More than 2,200 images from across Canada were entered in this year's
competition, representing a spectacular body of work. 
A prestigious panel of
judges, including top North American photojournalists and photo editors, were
tasked with judging the entries.

    WINNER

SPOT NEWS
62 entries
Sponsored by Canwest News Service

1st - Conrad Black gives the finger / David Chidley - Canadian Press
 
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http://npac.ca/npoy/
 
Top hat in arch / Bernard Brault was Reuters Photo of the Year. 
You can see it on the second slide in the HELLO Magazine
category for Personality/Portrait.
Not this one.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:26 AM PDT
Updated: Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:49 AM PDT
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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading
You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive.
You understand people better than they would like to be understood.
Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details.
You figure out what's going on before anyone knows that anything is going on!

Why you would be a good superhero: You don't care what people think, and you'd do whatever needed to be done

Your biggest problem as a superhero: Feeling even more isolated than you do now
What Should Your Superpower Be?
 
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"Canada as one of the worst in the world for cyberbullying"
 
Thats a laugh.
 
 
Please dont try and tell me that a Canadian Forces fighter pilot has to get his teeth cut at school for volunteering his services to the country.

 
A landmark deal with US-based Marvel Entertainment, Inc. means the 
creators of 
such globally renowned Super Heroes as Spider-Man, The
X-Men, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk, 
will help develop the United Arab Emirates
region's first Super Heroes theme park at the world's largest leisure, 
tourism
and entertainment destination.
Allocated within DUBAILAND(R), the Marvel Super Heroes theme park will be
a key anchor project. 
The design and conceptual master plan of this
4.5 million sq ft development has recently been finalized. 
The park, expected
to welcome visitors in 2012, will provide families an ultimate destination
with new and exciting rides that will enable them to re-live their childhood
and interact with their beloved Super Hero characters.
 
--
 
See you there! ;)
http://www.dubailand.ae/ 
 

Posted by mach1231 at 11:40 PM PDT
Updated: Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:57 AM PDT
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SRR...

 

ever heard of this place called Prince George?

B.C.-based Meow Records voted Canada's No. 1 indie record store

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Last year in Vancouver while waiting for service in a local neighborhood Starbucks I had the audaciously daring to start an impromptu conversation with the lad next to me as he and his brother or friend seemed positively both pumped and primed about something exciting to do with music

but as well equally determined not to let their enthusiasms wash over and spread like contagion to the rest of the caffeinated beverage imbibers...

but as it seemed like we had something in common I was curious enough to ask what type of happening or going on  was creating such a stir in the air 

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/04/19/acdc-album-vancouver.html

Well, they are recording and not playing but close enough.

Guess in the rumour mill industry sometimes its the thought that counts.

Just dont tell Kurt of the BFC. - lol

Speaking of which heres a guy with a brain and a good question to boot who querys:

What has happened to this forum?

 


Posted by mach1231 at 1:21 PM PDT
Updated: Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:17 PM PDT
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Mystery of flying object
Mood:  caffeinated

Police are mystified about a small metal object that crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand. 

 Sounds like a plot for a  M. Night Shyamalan movie in play, he could lift the next plot line off the comments page.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4486777a6479.html

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This is Sitka, Alaska..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually this is Dock Square in Rockport Massachusets which now has a new set of totem poles and a sign welcoming folks to Sitka, Alaska, thanks to Disney/Touchstone Pictures.

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/archive/x282705

 

Locals , too, are upset and riled.

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Probably too tough for the soft avacodo eating sun drenched Californians.

http://smallscreen.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1400706.php/Tougher_in_Alaska_on_History_not_for_wussies

I guess an Alaskan native was too expensive for Disney to hire for their new movie so they had to hire a retired English teacher

instead. Cheapskates! 

And this is the star of CRASH? Hmmh, her self involved in a crash? Crude, crude...crude example of art imitating life then life imitating art back again.

"CRASH" boldly reminds us of the importance of tolerance as it ventures beyond color lines...

 

 

 

 

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Meanwhile, back in reality newspaper - land

 

The First Nations in parts of the Alberta area of Canada are among the wealthiest aboriginal communities in Canada, thanks to extensive royalties from oil that sits under their land.

But it is there that recently a 23-month-old girl remains in stable condition but doctors will never be able to remove a bullet from near her spine because it would probably kill her.

Police have reported 12 gun-related incidents in the last three weeks alone.  Among those, a 20-year-old was shot, two teenage girls were threatened with guns and shots were fired outside a funeral last week.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/080416/n0416111A.html

Ahem. Here is Wikipedias entry for

Hobbema

Do they mention that it is a place of 12,000 people?

A place where 13 gangs sell cocaine and other drugs on four reserves in the Hobbema area (60 km south of Edmonton) according to police?

Two years ago, gang violence had spiked, meaning reports of 150 drive-by shootings in just one eight-month period, sometimes as many as five a night.

In light of this recent shooting, Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said he'll wait for suggestions from reserve leaders before getting involved.

I had a thought about the level of involvement he would take if he were responsible for a different portfolio but no, only the Prime Minster of Canada could rise to such a high level of distinct incompetence.

But hey folks, back to Disney, car crashes (20 MPH car crashes mind you) and Alaskan natives being played by retired English teachers.

Where else on public radio programming can you hear polar bears growl, peregrine falcons cry and killer whales splash?

http://www.encountersnorth.org/


Posted by mach1231 at 10:39 AM PDT
Updated: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:44 PM PDT
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Iran demands attention.
Mood:  caffeinated

Iran demands attention.

Goota get me one of


 

these sand colored bikes and matching helmet.

They go well so with me blog. 


Posted by mach1231 at 9:08 AM PDT
Updated: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:15 AM PDT
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Iran demands attention.
Mood:  caffeinated

You won't hear anyone say it but Iran is really a prime reason why the US invaded Iraq in 2003.

But the most underexamined potential co-operative alliance in my mind would be between Israel and Turkey.

"As the only secular democracies in the region, both have market economies,  both are integrated into the European economic order. The major export and import partners indicate an integration with the states of the Western states .."

 

 

See also 

ISRAEL: Discussing Armenian genocide

 

 

 

 

 

 


Posted by mach1231 at 9:08 AM PDT
Updated: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:38 AM PDT
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