31.7.04

this really should be disseminated as widely as possible:

Hail, the Conquering War Hero Comes Home

"Kerry was an extremely aggressive officer and so was I. I liked that he took the fight to the enemy, that he was tough and gutsy--not afraid to spill blood for his country"

and thats just the beginning...

30.7.04



when Captain Cook came to Tahiti he was greatly surprised to find that the Tahitians had sexual intercourse in public and "gratified every appetite and passion before witnesses". Thus, he reported in his Account of a Voyage Around the World (1769):


A young man, nearly six feet high, performed the rites of Venus with a little girl about 11 or 12 years of age, before several of our people and a great number of natives, without the least sense of its being indecent or improper, but, as appeared, in perfect conformity to the custom of the place. Among the spectators were several women of superior rank who . . . gave instructions to the girl how to perform her part, which, young as she was, she did not seem much to stand in need of.
Sex, it turns out, is the key to the social life of the bonobo

29.7.04

Jeder Augenblick ist von unendlichem Wert, denn er ist der Repraesentant einer ganzen Ewigkeit

Goethe


also see:# 1
Pippi is untidy, wears mismatching stockings, and she loves her freedom.



The anarchistic protagonist was condemned by some authorities in the heated discussion of permissive upbringing. "She had no mother and no father," wrote Lindgren, "and that was of course very nice because there was no one to tell her to go to bed just when she was having the most fun, and no one who could make her to take cod liver oil when she much preferred caramel candy." In her articles from 1939 and 1949, Lindgren defended the right of children to be treated like human beings without being oppressed: if the children are given love, good behavior will look after itself.
Wired awake
Soldiers in the field go for days without rest. Now, a Guardian investigation discovers that the MoD has been buying a new stimulant in bulk. Ian Sample reports on the dangers of sleep deprivation, Thursday, July 29, 2004

war on drugs

28.7.04

POISON GAS IRAQ PAID WITH AID MONEY;

'Development Cooperation charged for sale of chemicals to Saddam' TROUW; Friday 23 July 2004By Marc Doodeman AMSTERDAM -

The Dutch government wants the ministry for development cooperation to pay for the raw materials for poison gas that the Dutch company Melchemie illegally supplied to Iraq in 1985. This emerges from data of a commission of the United Nations that processes claims of companies. The Dutch State has 41 claims on Iraq totaling an amount of Euro 245 million. The ministry of finance confirms the amount, but refuses to say whether this includes money of the Dutch chemical company Melchemie. This company however is mentioned explicitly in the UN-list. In 1985 Melchemie supplied Iraq for 1 million dollars of raw materials for mustard gas. The company from Arnhem received no money from Iraq, but was compensated by an export credit insurance with the State. The State then took over the claim on the Iraqi government. Currently the Netherlands wishes to cancel such claims on Iraq. In doing so this cancellation will be booked as "aid" at the expense of the budget for development cooperation. Due to the interest, the claim of Melchemie has increased to an amount of 2 million dollars. Melchemie was convicted in 1987 for the supply of four essential chemicals to make mustard gas. In March 1988 in the Iraqi town of Halabja more than 4.000 Kurds died due to lethal poison gas. A direct connection between the poison gas and the war materials of Melchemie was never proven. The MP Hans van Heijningen (Socialist Party) considers it 'completelyinsane' that the ministry for development cooperation has to pay for this debt. "The idea that not the Kurds, but rather the company that supplied the raw materials was compensated .... it is just scandalous". Last week, minister Van Ardenne (development cooperation), also on behalf of her colleague Mr. Zalm of Finance, informed parliament that she does not know exactly what kind of claims the Netherlands has on Iraq. "This is not correct", says Mr. Van Heijningen. "These data are already for two years available on a website. They have been provided to the UN by the ministry of finance itself". Aid organization Both ENDS considers the rescheduling of the debt of Iraq to be premature and calls it bitter that exactly this debt rescheduling is done at the expense of the budget for development cooperation.

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23.7.04


The U.S. included so many nuclear weapons in its first missile-age plan for nuclear war that top military commanders called it a "hazard to ourselves as well as our enemy," according to newly declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.


"Since it was first created in 1960, the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)--the U.S. plan for nuclear war--has been one of the most secret and sensitive issues in U.S. national security policy. The essence of the first SIOP was a massive nuclear strike on military and urban-industrial targets in the Soviet Union, China, and their allies. To make such an attack possible, U.S. war planners developed a complex organizational scheme involving the interaction of targeting, weapons delivery systems and their flight paths, nuclear detonations over targets, measurements of devastation, and defensive measures, among other elements, and successive SIOPs would become even more complex. Much of this information remains highly secret and may never be declassified; it is even possible that no civilian official has actually seen the SIOP."



Lieutenant General Thomas Power, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command, 1957-1964, and Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, 1960-1964, presided over the creation of SIOP-62.




Here seen later in his career amiably discussing the forthcoming nuking of japan with an obviously charmed british "ally"

22.7.04


"greetings from orange county"



the corporate- naked and sexless as god made it!

21.7.04

"Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings."

20.7.04



transgression:
"Controversial Kristopher Schau loves to shock his audience, and few knew what was in store for them as they went to his concert at the Quart music festival. In the middle of the concert, a young couple entered the stage. «How far are you willing to go to save the world?» asked the young man, and without much ado, the couple pulled off their clothes. Cumshots provided the background music as the couple had intercourse right in front of the audience. A banner was raised on stage informing the audience that the couple was having sex to save the rainforest. After completing the intercourse, the couple received applause from the audience and disappeared."

via dr. menlo.

19.7.04



mass murderer on 'crime crusade'


visual culture to create the impression of a spinning world - "the economy that's fake anyway" appears real. it would be hard to believe that an operator actually requiring the information speeding by on this quote bar, extracts any of it via this spectacle. what is left is an auratic feeling of elitist authority, keeping the uninitiated from questioning anything.



one world, one company, anywhere, anytime.
aljazeera:

"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said the Bush administration was holding the tapes of these acts. "The boys were sodomised with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war," he told the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) earlier this month."

telling as ever: corporate media coverage on this.

18.7.04

certainly better for you than traditional chemotherapy...

17.7.04

Another spliff story

apparently helps you see in the dark now...

.. next it will enlarge your penis, do your homework, pay your bills and go to the dentist for you. Now that it has already been proved that marijuana is not only good for you, but mass consumption will also lead to world peace.

16.7.04

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