h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a bit of black comedy:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050313/ap_on_re_us/sunshine_week_oldest_foia_2

'FBI spokeswoman Megan Baroska told The Associated Press that the agency cannot discuss other people's FOIA requests.

"Basically, the FOIA is a matter between the FBI and Mr. Rosenfeld," she said. "Mr. Rosenfeld could file a request to get further information about his request." '

Oh brilliant!

Remember when a Canadian sniper got into all sorts of trouble for having a single still 'trophy' picture of an enemy corpse in Afghanistan? I'm sorrry, but I can't help but be struck by the extreme lack of discipline in the armed forces of some nations:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-videos14mar14,0,2298678.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Geez, the soldier's 18-year-old wife is surprised by how violent war is....ignorantfrickinhillbilliesmetalheadssmiley. Nothing like a little war porn to get you 'locked and loaded' I guess...sickos

Well, just in case the world didn't get the big "up yours" from the White House that was the appointment of John "there is no such thing as the UN" Bolton as Amerika's ambassador to the UN, Dubya has thrown all pretense of dipolomacy out the window and nominated Paul Wolfowitz as World Bank governor. If third world countries want debt relief they better quit the world criminal court now and start sending troops to Iraq.

Or, we could all just say "we're not going to make our payments, Wolfowitz Bank. what are you going to do? Reposess us all? You and who's army (since the American one can't hold on to a pissant chunk of desert, let alone the whole friggen world)? Or maybe we'll just go and ask China to lend us some money: they should be able to find enough by calling in all their loans to the U.S. "

"Suffer the little children to come unto me"

http://www.wsmv.com/global/story.asp?s=3096477&ClientType=Printable

Indeed.

I'm going to save my energy and skip the rest of the WTO protests:

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050301faessay84207/niall-ferguson/sinking-globalization.html

this is probably one of those links I shouldn;t post because one shouldn't waste bandwidth on them. Dunno if you have encountered them.
But:
http://www.politixgroup.com/221.htm
What got me was first part of the second paragraph:
"Objective sociological examination teaches that the Judeo-Christian ethic has enabled the nations employing it as their organizational belief system to ascend to unprecedented spiritual and material prosperity because of that worldview’s ability to balance the potentially competing needs of the individual with those of the group."

Which such an enclosed view that it beggars belief.

Ah well, forgo the insults for posting crud, I know, I know...

I was going to post something from Truthout.org, but I've been having computer trouble. I recommend checking it every day, however.

I'm going to try to look at your link, Ictoan. It looks to be both amusing and enraging.

Okay, I got part way through it and found myself wishing for a computer crash.

Codswhallop.

since the computer is still working, here's what I was going to post:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032105B.shtml

"Codswhallop."

Yup, that about sums it up. Did you read the 'about us' link? We are all young proffessionals who are in, or have been in, politics. Oh deary deary me. These are the folks that want to be in power when I'm in an OAP home.
Maybe I shouldn;t laugh so much Off to follow the links.

They won't be in politics for long: the Rapture is coming soon.

Oh yes had forgotten that.

But won;t the Zionist conspiracy stop it? After all, the Jews are in control of the world aren;t they?

No, no! The Zionist conspiracy is doing God's work by returning the Jews to Zion. The Tribes must be gathered before the second coming. Oh, sorry, Second Coming. That's why the American Religious Right is so supportive of whatever the Israeli Government does.

This is one that is of interest to me:

'A study on the impact of genetically modified (GMO) crops on wildlife has found birds and bees are more likely to thrive in fields of natural rapeseed than GMO seed.'

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A9319F39-404D-4421-8E95-9B0185A0CB23.htm

Gee. Surprise, surprise. If your GM crop isn't killed by Roundup but weeds are, you end up using more Roundup and the bio-diversity of your field drops.

and

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7258154/

and

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10116661

'Despite appearances, America and Europe continue to move away from one another at an accelerating speed: it's the most important world event since the fall of the Berlin Wall.'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032205I.shtml

Well, this is just bizzare! It seems conspiracies really do exist. Big conspiracies.

'Italian newspapers reported this week that newly discovered documents show the attack on the Pope was ordered by the Soviet KGB and organized by the Bulgarian secret service with the help of secret police of former East Germany.

According to Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, documents found in the archive of the Stasi, the East German secret police, appear to confirm that Bulgarian agents, acting on the orders of their powerful KGB counterparts, used Ali Agca to carry out the attack, while the Stasi was used to coordinate the operation and cover up its traces. '

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050331/w033120.html