Monday, May 04, 2009

Vincent Van Gogh and his missing ear...

For more than 100 years, famous artist Vincent Van Gogh has been portrayed as a tortured genius who cut off his own ear as he battled with mental illness.

But it seems we may have been given the wrong impression.

A new academic study claims he did not cut off his own ear but instead had it chopped off by French painter, Paul Gauguin, in an argument outside a brothel over a woman.

This version is the result of a ten-year investigation by two German historians. More...

See also:

  1. Meet Zach the 3 year-old reincarnation of Van Gogh!!! Wow!
  2. Don McLean singing about Vincent...
  3. China: painter uses daughter as nude model...

Nancy Pelosi's Sweatin' with the Socialists!!!

See also:

  1. 13-year-old Jonathan Krohn explains Conservatism...
  2. Obama, you're no stranger to bong...

Les Français, champions du sommeil et de la table!!!

Les Français passent plus de temps à dormir et à manger que les autres ressortissants des principaux pays riches, indique une étude de l'OCDE publiée lundi, selon laquelle les Norvégiens bénéficient de la plus grande quantité de temps libre.

Selon l'étude, les Français passent en moyenne près de 530 minutes par jour (8,8 heures) sous la couette, talonnés par les Américains et les Espagnols et distançant nettement les Coréens du Sud, derniers du classement avec quelque 470 minutes de sommeil par jour (7,8 heures). 

Les repas semblent être un autre temps fort de la journée type en France. Leur durée moyenne dépasse 130 minutes dans l'Hexagone, contre un peu plus de 80 minutes au Royaume-Uni et seulement 62 minutes au Mexique. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Qualité de la vie 2009, Vienne arrive en tête devant Zurich...
  2. Les français s’en fichent de la religion ! Et ils ont raison…
  3. La vie secrète de papa et maman…
  4. Le travail change et les maux s’intensifient...

Is Wolfram Alpha going to change the Internet forever?

The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before.

The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet's Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

Although the system is still new, it has already produced massive interest and excitement among technology pundits and internet watchers. More...

See also:

  1. This is the power of the Internet and why our governments are trying to control it...
  2. Internet has only just begun, say founders.
  3. Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard”

Recession drives more Japanese businessmen to suicide...

As Japanese businessmen endure a bleak year the people who live near the most infamous suicide spot in the country are seeing an upturn in the number of people entering Aokigahara Forest.

The first indications of a life that has been lost appear within a hundred yards of entering the forest. Scattered across mossy tree roots are a man's shirt, boxer shorts and trousers. Amid the clothes are a bottle of sake and another of Korean liquor, as well as empty packets of prescription pills.

The name is clearly legible on the envelope that the Japanese pharmacist would have handed over, unaware that the tablets were going to be used to help end a life rather than cure an illness. More...

See also:

  1. Mass farmer suicides in India as crops fail...
  2. China: a suicide every 2 minutes...
  3. Singapore: zoo cleaner commits suicide ... by offering himself to tigers.
  4. 32,000 people in Japan committed suicide last year...

4-year-old Gabby and some amazing gymnastics...

See also:

  1. Incroyable!!! La femme serpent...
  2. 6 year-old Madin Mohammed, the next Zinedine Zidane?

Catastrophe humanitaire pour les civils tamouls du Nord du Sri Lanka...

A la suite du voyage que vient d’effectuer au Sri-Lanka M. Bernard Kouchner, ministre des Affaires Étrangères, le MRAP appelle le gouvernement français et l’Union Européenne à multiplier leurs efforts, au-delà des mots et des postures médiatiques, pour obtenir des forces belligérantes, un cessez-le-feu immédiat qui ouvre enfin la voie à une solution négociée et respectueuse des droits de tous les citoyens du Sri-Lanka, sous les auspices des Nations-Unies.

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Comme le rappelle le Mouvement International contre la Discrimination et le Racisme – IMADR (dont le MRAP est le membre français), « depuis la décolonisation de 1948, les nombreuses minorités ont été victimes – de la part de la majorité cinghalaise - de discrimination juridique, politique et économique ainsi que de violence raciste : déchéance de droits civiques des Tamouls des Hauts Plateaux ; politique linguistique du "Cinghalais seulement" ; émeutes anti-Tamouls de 1958, 1977 et 1983 ; discrimination dans l'accès aux terres de l'État et aux fonds de développement ; habitat, services de santé et éducation au rabais dans les Plantations etc. » Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. L'armée accusée d'avoir tué 64 civils dans un hôpital au Sri Lanka...
  2. Pourquoi je me mobilise avec les Tamouls de France...
  3. Les Tamouls victimes d’une holocauste au Sri Lanka...
  4. Génocide Tamoul au Sri Lanka...

Police cars cause more than 9 accidents a day in Britain...

More than nine accidents a day on Britain's roads are caused by police cars, new figures have disclosed.

Officers admitted causing 3,357 crashes last year – an average of more than 64 a week - many of which were caused by basic driving errors.

Accidents were caused by failing to stop at junctions, doing U-turns without looking, taking bends too quickly and failing to use mirrors when reversing. More...

See also:

  1. India has the world's highest rate of road fatalities....
  2. Europe doing away with traffic lights and road signs, and accidents diminish...
  3. French police chase a caravan driven by a plucky driver! 
  4. Daring cyclist completely outwits cops!!!

Eating and sleeping: the French do it best...

True to their reputation as leisure-loving gourmets, the French spend more time sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world's wealthy nations, according to a study published Monday.

The average French person sleeps almost nine hours every night, more than an hour longer than the average Japanese and Korean, who sleep the least in a survey of 18 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Despite their siesta habit, Spaniards rank only third in the poll after Americans, who sleep more than 8.5 hours. More...

See also:

  1. The best cities in the world to live in are...
  2. A Map of Global Happiness and Well-Being?
  3. Rumania's Miss Platnum and Give me the food!!!
  4. Tired Britons say sleep is better than sex!!!

Pregnant women are smug!!!

See also:

  1. Spanish man is pregnant ... with twins!!!
  2. Australia: pregnant woman selling herself as a "pregnancy fetish." Sad...

Chernobyl children, Switzerland and the sweet taste of freedom...

Hundreds of Belarussian children suffering from radiation after the Chernobyl power plant disaster in Ukraine have been denied a visit to Switzerland.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko cancelled the trip after fearing some children would not want to come back home. The decision has angered Swiss organisers who say the youngsters are being used as political pawns.

For more than a decade, about 400 children from the eastern European country – aged between seven and 16 - have made an annual journey to Switzerland to receive medical treatment and social support. More...

See also:

  1. Bulgarian "AIDS" nurses demand compensation from Libya...
  2. A child meets the State...
  3. Parents of children who died in Sichuan quake harassed and imprisoned by Chinese authorities...

Parents of children who died in Sichuan quake harassed and imprisoned by Chinese authorities...

The Chinese authorities intimidated and unlawfully detained parents and relatives of children who died in the devastating Sichuan earthquake and harassed activists and lawyers who tried to assist them says a new Amnesty International report released ahead of the first anniversary of the disaster (12 May). 

Amnesty Internationals' report Justice Denied: Harassment of Sichuan earthquake survivors and activists documents instances where some parents and relatives were detained for up to 21 days for trying to seek answers from officials about why their children died.

Some have been detained repeatedly and the youngest detainee was only eight years old. More...

See also:

  1. China quake teacher, Running Fan, has a new job...
  2. "Who killed our children?" asks Chinese director in Sichuan quake documentary...
  3. China: teacher held for publishing quake photos...
  4. Chinese official begs on his knees to prevent protests!!

Drunk girls in drunken stupour...

Des filles complètement ivres et pathétiques...

See also:

  1. Tired? Sleepy? Drunk? No worries! My horse knows the way home...
  2. Drunk and out in Turkey...
  3. Drunk and out in Russia...

La peste porcine, dernier fléau de l’industrie de la viande...

Le Mexique assiste à une répétition infernale de l’histoire de la grippe aviaire asiatique, mais à une échelle encore plus tragique. Une fois de plus, la réponse officielle arrive trop tard et entachée de mensonges. Une fois de plus, l’industrie mondiale de la viande est au centre de l’histoire, s’obstinant à nier toute responsabilité, alors que le poids de l’évidence concernant son rôle ne cesse de s’accroître. Cinq ans après le début de la crise de grippe aviaire H5N1 et après cinq ans aussi d’une stratégie mondiale contre les pandémies de grippe coordonnée par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (l’OMC ou WHO) et l’Organisation mondiale de la santé animale (OIE), le monde chancelle sous les coups d’un nouveau désastre, la grippe porcine. La stratégie mondiale a échoué et doit être remplacée par un nouveau système de santé publique qui puisse inspirer confiance au public. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. La source de la grippe porcine est la multinationale Smithfield?
  2. La grippe porcine est à nos portes et Monsanto aussi...
  3. Grippe porcine: pour l'amour de dieu, ne vous faîtes pas vacciner...

24 heures de garde à vue pour un SMS...

Méfiez-vous de votre téléphone portable, il peut vous conduire en prison. C'est en tout cas la mésaventure dont a été victime Stéphane, 29 ans, un habitant d'Abbeville sans histoire. Pour avoir reçu un SMS jugé « tendancieux », ce jeune menuisier a passé 24 heures en garde à vue au motif de « non dénonciation de crime ». Rien de moins. « C'est totalement irréel, s'étonne encore la victime de cette mauvaise blague. Je ne souhaite à personne de vivre ce que j'ai vécu. » Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. En Egypt les SMS peuvent tuer!!!
  2. Comment envoyer un SMS en Inde!!!
  3. La France gardée à vue...

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Man in England delivers baby ... thanks to YouTube!!!

An engineer in Cornwall delivered his baby son after watching an instructional video on YouTube. 

Marc Stephens watched the videos as a precaution when his wife Jo started to feel some discomfort. 

Four hours later, his wife went into labour and started giving birth before an ambulance could arrive at their home in Redruth. 

"I Googled how to deliver a baby, watched a few videos and basically swotted up," Mr Stephens told the BBC. More + video...

See also:

  1. Adult women playing house with fake babies!!!
  2. WTF! They throw babies from roofs in India!!
  3. Spain's barefoot nuns find salvation ... in YouTube!!!
  4. This is the power of the Internet and why our governments are trying to control it...

Wolf hunting witht the golden eagles of Mongolia...

La chasse aux loups avec des aigles en Mongolie…

See also:

  1. The fox, an extraordinary hunter...
  2. The Little Lion Hunter ...

Bollywood stars and voting: Do as I say, not as I do!!!

They were the Bollywood A-listers who told the youth of India that there was nothing more important than getting to the polling booths and casting their vote. 

But when it came to actually voting themselves – enduring the scorching April weather and marking a cross on the ballot papers – the actresses suddenly found themselves with better things to do. 

Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Asin, four of India’s leading actresses who participated in a video campaign championing the cause of democracy in the run-up to the election, had all failed to vote themselves yesterday, it was revealed. More...

See also:

  1. How a restaurant in Jaipur incites Indians to vote...
  2. Man in India kills his father for not voting for his favourite movie star's political party!!!
  3. Rock band tells India's youth "to shut up and vote..."
  4. Bollywood bad boy, Sanjay Dutt, to contest India election...
  5. Tamil movie star, Rajnikant, plays down future political role...

This is the power of the Internet and why our governments are trying to control it...

There is a very good possibility that the World War III option is an attempt to control the Internet by eliminating Net Neutrality and online free speech. It appears that the boundaries set between countries through treaties are vanishing due to the exponential dissemination of information through the Net. This is in conflict with the wishes of the oligarchy who are willing to do anything to maintain control.

The attack on the Internet is three-pronged, it involves bandwidth throttling by ISP’s, Internet censorship by governments, and the oligarchy trying to prevent Network Neutrality. More...

See also:

  1. The 10 worst countries for bloggers...
  2. Internet has only just begun, say founders.
  3. Does Pirate Bay verdict mean the end for free downloading?
  4. Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard” (For whom?)

Berlusconi's wife to divorce him...

The wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that she will file for divorce. 

Veronica Lario was quoted as saying she acted after reading reports of her husband attending the 18th birthday party of a woman in Naples. 

She reportedly said she could not be with a man who "consorted with minors".

The 72-year-old billionaire prime minister has not commented on the divorce reports. The couple have three children from their 19-year marriage. 

Days ago Ms Lario, who is Mr Berlusconi's second wife and a former actress, clashed publicly with her husband over his party's plan to choose female candidates for the European elections. More...

See also:

  1. Berlusconi, shapely women and entertaining the emperor...
  2. Berlusconi to earthquake victims: Take it as weekend camping...
  3. Mara Carfagna, Berlusconi's new spokesperson...

Yvonne Elliman and Can't find my way home...

See also:

  1. J.C.Superstar: I don't know how to love him...
  2. Could we start again please?

Berlusconi quitté par sa femme : "Je veux le divorce"

Veronica Lario, épouse depuis 1990 du Premier ministre italien Silvio Berlusconi, a pris sa décision et elle l’annonce dans la presse italienne. Elle veut divorcer, comme elle pensait de faire depuis désormais dix ans. 

"Mon mariage est compromis. Je ne peux pas rester avec un homme qui fréquente les mineures", aurait-elle confié à ses meilleures amies.

Elle l’annonce, ce matin, dans les principaux journaux italiens : La Stampa et La Repubblica, politiquement proches du centre-gauche. Elle leur a raconté la rencontre décisive avec son avocat, une femme, "finalement quelqu’un à qui je peux faire confiance". "Vous êtes vraiment sûre, savez-vous que ce ne sera pas facile, et que vous aller subir des attaques très lourdes ?" "Je le sais parfaitement", a répondu la première dame d’Italie. "Je ne veux pas faire du bruit, je veux divorcer comme une personne normale". Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Silvio Berlusconi taclé par sa femme!!!
  2. Berlusconi aux rescapés du séisme:"il faut prendre ça comme un week-end en camping."
  3. Une blague de Berlusconi sur les femmes fait des vagues...

Obama pulvérise Sarkozy... en communication!!!

C'est grâce à Koz que j'ai découvert le compte Flickr de Barack Obama. Ou plutôt The Official White House photostream sur Flickr.  

Bien évidemment, cela donne de sublimes clichés, diffusés en quasi-instantané sur la plateforme de partage de photos la plus populaire. Comme celle ci-dessous capturée par Pete Souza, President Barack Obama during a budget meeting in the Rossevelt Room. Mais bien d'autres photos brisent allègrement la barrière de la vie privée, quand on voit par exemple des photos de Barack Obama tenant dans ses bras ses deux filles Malia and Sasha, quand on voit le Président des Etats-Unis courir dans les couloirs de la Maison Blanche avec Bo, le chien de la famille Obama, quand on voit Obama et son vice-Président Joe Biden jouer au golf sur la pelouse de la demeure présidentielle. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. 104ème semaine de Sarkofrance: une France glamour, vulgaire et sourde...
  2. Jacques Chirac au sommet de la popularité en France...
  3. Silvio Berlusconi taclé par sa femme!!!
  4. "Shocking": l'accolade de Michelle Obama à la reine froisse la presse...

Saudi businesswoman, unable to change "male only" law, calls it quits. Sad...

Alia Banaja is a local product. Born and raised in Jeddah, she graduated from a local university some years ago. Soon after, she established the first IT business run exclusively by women. At the time, the industry was dominated by males, but over the years Alia has validated her proficiency in the field and had signed up some long-term clients.

Her 2 The Point, formed in 2002, is a medium-sized company in the information technology sector and has worked on the successful implementation of several projects for government and private sector companies such as King Faisal Specialist Hospital and the Department of Home Economics at the King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, among others.

But Alia and thousands of other Saudi businesswomen faced a dilemma.  More...

See also:

  1. 50-year-old Saudi divorces 8-year-old wife...
  2. Saudi clerics want women to be banned from TV and the media!!!
  3. 75-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia to get 40 lashes for "mingling..."
  4. Saudi man cuts daughter's tongue, burns her to death...

Bewildered kitten outnumbered by cute puppies!!!

Pauvre chaton complètement dépassé !!!

See also:

  1. Kitten intrigued by fan!!!
  2. Stop playing with my food, dumb kitten!!!

Swine flu sounds like a phoney war...

Oh! God, now I know it is serious. The Health Protection Agency has sent me an algorithm to tell me how to deal with swine flu. It arrived today in an email with one of those red exclamation marks at the side. An algorithm, for those who don't know, is a "finite sequence of instructions, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem". It is very complicated. I do not understand it. Fortunately the primary care trust has also sent me a red exclamation mark email with instructions I can understand: "The main message remains: always use a tissue to catch coughs and sneezes, throw away used tissues and regularly wash your hands." More...

See also:

  1. Do not take a swine flu vaccine...
  2. Swine flu virus is man-made...
  3. Swine flu: creating fear, panic and more State control and spending...
  4. Swine flu vaccination propaganda ... in 1976!!!!

Is this a hint that we should start eating dog food?

 If the recession gets worse, we may be eating dog food for dinner. 

Don't laugh. It's apparently tastier than you'd expect. 

In the last few years, organic dog food made with human-grade free range meat and fresh vegetables has spiked in popularity among health-conscious shoppers. Some companies even claim, for instance, that "humans actually taste our foods, as part of our QC process!" More...

See also:

  1. Rumania's Miss Platnum and Give me the food!!!
  2. Why I eat meat (and why you should too...)
  3. A very filthy McDonald's in Adelaide, Australia...
  4. Processed food for processed people...
  5. What are we eating? The truth about food...

Is Egypt's pig slaughter an attack on Christians?

Slaughtering pigs to halt swine flu is like destroying ferries to stop them sinking. At least in Egypt we know that ferries pose a threat in which thousands may die. Yet the Egyptian authorities are presently slaughtering 300,000 pigs (the entire pig population of the country) while the farmers protest for their livelihoods. The cull was originally publicised as ‘a precaution against swine flu’.

But there is no scientific evidence that pigs are transmitting the virus to humans. And neither can the flu be caught from eating pork. 

So the Egyptian officials talked of a more general ‘health measure’ aimed at ‘restoring order’ to Egypt’s pig-rearing industry. More...

See also:

  1. Brigitte Bardot slams "cowardly" Egypt for planned pig slaughter...
  2. Unhappy Mother's Day for British pigs, says PETA...
  3. Egypt: donkeys ordered to wear ... diapers!!!
  4. Egypt voices: Sexual harassment...

Swine flu virus is man-made...

See also:

  1. Swine flu alert clears old stock of Tamiflu...
  2. Is swine flu a biological weapon?
  3. Ron Paul, swine flu and the State's scare tactics...

Après l'Hadopi, voici la Loppsi! Internet en danger...

Après la vache folle en 1985, la dissolution de l’assemblée nationale en 1997, la tempête de 1999, la bulle dite Internet de 2000, le 11 Septembre 2001, le SRAS en 2003, les crues de 2005, l’année 2009 promet que l’on dépasse toutes les plaies d'Egypte réunies : la tempête encore, la crise mondiale, l’hadopi, les tremblements de terre, la grippe du porc ... et maintenant, 27 Avril 2009, 17 heures et des poussières, l’an I de l’Internet nouvelle génération a sonné : j’ai nommé : LA LOPPSI : la loi pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure !!!

Ou plus exactement l’article 6 de la LOPPSI qui doit modifier la loi n°2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Nous sommes tous fichés du matin au soir...
  2. La surveillance des e-mails cachée dans le projet Hadopi???
  3. France: Un «courant anti-Internet» dans la majorité?
  4. Sarkozy confirme le projet de filtrage du net sans contrôle judiciaire...

104ème semaine de Sarkofrance: une France glamour, vulgaire et sourde...

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La couverture de Paris Match mercredi 29 avril, qui relatait le déplacement des Sarkoy en Espagne, valait le détour : Carla Bruni-Sarkozy à côté de Letizia Ortiz, une photo sortie tout droit des années 1960. Les commentaires sur le voyage présidentiel portèrent davantage sur les courbes "galbées" de Carla et de Letizia, leurs tenues, leurs bijoux, que sur le fond des divergences franco-espagnoles. Comment s'en étonner ? L'Elysée avait choisi les 21 journalistes français accrédités, dont ... 15 photographes et 2 journalistes "people"

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Pourtant, il n'y a qu'à voyager un peu pour prendre la mesure de la "stature" de notre monarque à l'étranger. Toute la presse étrangère le décrit comme un chef d'Etat agité, narcissique et grossier. En près de 2 ans de présidence, Nicolas Sarkozy a popularisé la vulgarité aux sommets de l'Etat: ses proches usent de violence verbales inouïes; le président ne peut s'empêcher de se moquer, quand lui-même ne supporte pas la dérision à son encontre; ses ministres stigmatisent et caricaturent l'opposition. Le sarkozysme est avant tout une pratique clivante, violente et grossière du débat politique.  Article complet...

Voir aussi:

  1. "On est étonnés par le climat de peur dans les médias français"
  2. Obama humilie Sarkozy avec maîtrise et grandeur...
  3. Nicolas Sarkozy, cessez de bafouer nos libertés !
  4. Une mamie en colère contre Nicolas Sarkozy!!!
  5. Sondages et manipulations et le Guide Suprême Nicolas Sarkozy...

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Dude beating up a giraffe! Quick, call PETA...

Un gars en train de malmener une girafe ! Vite, appelez PETA…

See also:

  1. Terror chicken goes on a bullying rampage!!!
  2. Don't mess around with Tamil superstar, Rajnikanth!!!

What do you do if you owe someone $100 and can't repay? Let him sleep with your girlfriend, of course!!! WTF!

Russell Bileci owed Maurice Williams $100.

How police said they decided to settle the debt could cost both men long prison terms.

Investigators said Friday that Bileci said he would repay the debt by allowing Williams to have sex with his 46-year-old girlfriend in the downtown residential hotel where they all lived.
The woman, who was asleep when the deal was made, knew nothing about the agreement, and investigators said Bileci sat silently in their room while she was sexually assaulted for at least a half-hour before she was rescued by police who arrested the two men. More...
See also:

  1. Woman in India raped after husband gambles her away...
  2. The man who sold his daughter for cash and beer...
  3. German sells his wife for a crate of beer!!!
  4. WTF! Jealous husband puts wife on sale on eBay!!!
  5. Would you swap your wife for a ... goat?

European court condemns Switzerland for discrimination against conscript...

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has condemned Switzerland for discriminating against a partially disabled army conscript.

The man was willing to do his military service but was rejected because he suffered from Type I diabetes. As the Swiss doctors considered him less than "40 per cent disabled", he had to pay SFr700 ($615) in lieu.

The Federal Court in Lausanne backed the army's decision, so the man, now 30, went to Strasbourg. More...

See also:

  1. India's caste/apartheid sysem challenged in court...
  2. Jeremiah Wright attacks the U.S. elite for dodging military service...
  3. Swiss heartland voters tell German nude ramblers to buzz off !!!
  4. Geneva police criticized for heavy-handed methods...

Why do people in the Greek island Icaria live longer?

Making it to 90 years old is awe-inspiring in much of the world. But on a tiny Greek island in the North Aegean Sea, nonagenarians barely merit a second glance. 

The island of Icaria could be the newest of the world's so-called blue zones — places where residents have unusually long life spans.

Dan Buettner has crossed the globe many times over the years in search of blue zones, and he recently teamed up with AARP and National Geographic to study Icaria. More...

See also:

  1. If you have the insane desire to live till 114...
  2. Japan, where living up to a 100 years is no big deal...
  3. Shigeaki Hinohara, 97-years-old and still going strong...
  4. The horrible bingo of growing old...

Very weird Japanese commercial!!!

Une pub japonaise très bizarre!!!

See also:

  1. Guinness: share one with a friend ... or two!
  2. The Swiss have a sense of humour!!!
  3. The funniest commercial of all time?

Grippe porcine, ou la pandémie imaginaire...

J’ai froid. J’ai chaud. Entendez comme je gémis, j’ai mal. Perclus sur mon grabat dans la pénombre, je vais succomber, c’est sûr. La fièvre intense est imminente, déjà des frissons morbides parcourent mon corps asthénique. Passer de la vie à trépas alors que j’ai rien accompli de vibrant dans la vie, alors que j’ai jamais fait fortune, que j’ai pas dominé le monde avec mes grandes idées humanitaires, la vergogne. L’aphte cloué sur ma langue me fait baver, long ruissellement d’écume vers le dernier souffle, ça me lance furieusement. Je vais crever comme un clebs, revenir à la poussière médiocrement, la queue entre les jambes, sombrer dans l’oubli, moi qui avais foi en ma grande carrière de prophète. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. La source de la grippe porcine est la multinationale Smithfield?
  2. La grippe porcine est à nos portes et Monsanto aussi...
  3. Grippe porcine: pour l'amour de dieu, ne vous faîtes pas vacciner...

L'armée accusée d'avoir tué 64 civils dans un hôpital au Sri Lanka...

La rébellion tamoule du Sri Lanka a affirmé, samedi 2 mai, via un site Internet qui relaie ses revendications, qu'au moins soixante-quatre civils avaient été tués dans un bombardement de l'armée contre une structure médicale dans leur dernière enclave du nord-est. Le site Tamilnet.com a indiqué que deux obus avaient été tirés contre ce petit dispensaire planté sur les cinq km2 de bande côtière qui restent aux mains des Tigres de libération de l'Eelam tamoul (LTTE). Deux médecins travaillant dans l'hôpital ont confirmé l'information à la BBC. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Des avions sri lankais bombardent des villages tamouls…
  2. Sri Lanka : grève de la faim des Tamouls à Paris…
  3. Pourquoi je me mobilise avec les Tamouls de France...

91 killed as Sri Lankan army hits hospital...

The Sri Lankan army has killed 91 people at a makeshift hospital inside a civilian safe zone in the last two days, two doctors have told the BBC. 

The doctors said bombardments from the army had killed 64 people on Saturday, including patients, their relatives and bystanders in Mullivaikal. 

About 87 people were injured. Another 27 people reportedly died on Friday. More...

See also:

  1. Sri Lankan planes bombing Tamil villages...
  2. UN accuses Sri Lanka of shelling civilian 'safe zone'
  3. Tamil civilian casualties in Sri Lanka war (Graphic)

Cops brutalize and taser naked man...

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  1. The police and Ian Tomlinson...
  2. Connecticut cops beating up suspect...
  3. Bay City teen dies after being tasered by police...

Au Canada, il y a un Parti du Sexe...

Une formation politique marginale veut décoincer le débat politique dans l'Ouest canadien en faisant campagne sur le thème "le sexe est bon, rendons-le meilleur!".

Le Parti du Sexe ne se fait guère d'illusions sur ses chances d'accéder au pouvoir aux élections législatives du 12 mai dans la province de Colombie-Britannique. Il profite plutôt de la campagne électorale pour défendre sur la place publique ses idées un peu particulières sur la sexualité, qui ne sont pas abordées par les principales formations. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Le Canada va lancer une chaîne de la "pornographie locale!!!"
  2. Quand les stars du cinéma indien entrent en politique...
  3. Le canton du Jura classé X ??? Ah, le porno...
  4. Traitement au Viagra pour footballeurs en Bolivie!!!

Nous sommes tous fichés du matin au soir...

6h15 . Le téléphone sonne. C’est le service de réveil de Swisscom. Les réveille-matin ne m’ont jamais inspiré confiance. Je confie donc cette tâche à une entreprise! Et un petit caillou…

 6 h 35 . Petit-déjeuner, brosse, rasoir. Dans quel ordre, cela ne vous regarde pas. Par contre, pour mon fournisseur d’accès (provider), ma boîte e-mail ainsi que mes itinéraires de sites consultés n’ont presque aucun secret. Pas leur contenu, mais l’activité oui: qui m’a envoyé des mails et à qui j’en ai adressés (le jour, l’heure). Sur Internet, chaque site visité capture mon adresse IP (la signature de mon ordinateur). Le dit site sait ainsi d’où je viens et pour quel autre site je le quitte. Cela lui permet de personnaliser la publicité affichée à chacun de mes passages. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. La vidéosurveillance ça coûte cher et rien ne dit que ça marche...
  2. La surveillance des e-mails cachée dans le projet Hadopi???
  3. Google! Attention! Danger...
  4. Google Chrome, un navigateur espion?

Friday, May 01, 2009

Kitten intrigued by fan!!!

Un chaton intrigué par un ventilateur !!!

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  1. The pit-bull and the kitten; a love story...
  2. This dog must be a kitten taster!!!
  3. Kitten and remote control mouse...

The 10 worst countries for bloggers...

With a military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for years for posting critical material, Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger, the Committee to Protect Journalists says in a new report. CPJ’s “10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger” also identifies a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia where Internet penetration has blossomed and government repression has grown in response.

“Bloggers are at the vanguard of the information revolution and their numbers are expanding rapidly,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “But governments are quickly learning how to turn technology against bloggers by censoring and filtering the Internet, restricting online access and mining personal data. When all else fails, the authorities simply jail a few bloggers to intimidate the rest of the online community into silence or self-censorship.” More...

See also:

  1. The top 10 internet-censoring countries...
  2. South Korean blogger Minerva is freed from jail...
  3. Phoenix cops raid home of anti-police blogger...
  4. China has more than 50 million bloggers!!!
  5. Moroccan blogger jailed for criticizing the king...
  6. Blogger arrests hit record high...
  7. John McCain: I hate the bloggers!!!

Brigitte Bardot slams "cowardly" Egypt for planned pig slaughter...

French animal rights activist and former actress Brigitte Bardot has written to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, slamming the decision to slaughter the country's pig population in the wake of swine flu.

"Taking advantage of the global hysteria over the propagation of 'Mexican' flu, which has nothing to do with animals, in order to launch a campaign to exterminate pigs raised by a destitute section of the population is extremely cowardly," Bardot wrote in the letter, a copy of which was also sent to AFP. More...

See also:

  1. PETA to Pet Shop Boys: change your name...
  2. No love lost between Bardot and Muslims...
  3. Unhappy Mother's Day for British pigs, says PETA...
  4. The cutest little piggy you'll ever see...
  5. Meet Mudslinger, the amazing pig!!!

Swine flu alert clears old stock of Tamiflu...

It is almost three years since we faced the hysteria of an avian flu epidemic, when governments bought billions of dollars of Tamiflu – the same anti-viral now being promoted to combat a supposed swine flu pandemic. The shelf life of Tamiflu also happens to be three years.

The World Health Organization has, at the time of writing, increased its threat level to five, which means governments can activate their pandemic plans – and start handing out Tamiflu drugs.

This is extremely convenient for governments that would have very soon have to dispose of billions of dollars of Tamiflu stock, which they bought to counter avian flu, or H5N1. The US government ordered 20 million doses, costing $2bn, in October, 2005, and around that time the UK government ordered 14.6 million doses. Tamiflu’s manufacturer, Roche, has confirmed that the shelf life of its anti-viral is three years. More...

See also:

  1. Swine flu: creating fear, panic and more State control and spending...
  2. Do not take a swine flu vaccine...
  3. Our children will accuse us...
  4. The HPV vaccine. Ashley Ryburn tells her story. Terribly sad...

Pakistani lion-tamer and his whip...

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  1. Kevin Richardson and his family of lions...
  2. Argentina's Lujan Zoo, where visitors and dangerous animals mingle...
  3. The lion would not remember, they said...
  4. Arab playing with a lion!!! Wow!

Do you wash your hands after going to the toilet?

After washing my hands in a public lavatory on Wednesday, I carefully placed a paper towel over the door handle before going out. Next day, in a different public lavatory, the same thing happened. And, what is worse, I was muttering to myself on both occasions. All very disturbing.

Admittedly, my behaviour in each case was influenced by the sight of men failing to wash their hands after relieving themselves. Both men looked respectable and well past the age when offending against conventional wisdom loses its intrinsic attractiveness. I've seen this kind of thing before, of course, and simply shrugged it off as one shrugs off the million other routine examples of slovenliness this country's inhabitants seem, increasingly, to delight in exhibiting. More...

See also:

  1. There is actually a UN hand-washing day???
  2. Is your hotel room clean? How to find out...
  3. "No toilet, no bride" Indians fight for better hygiene...
  4. Bob Dylan and the stench blowin' in the wind!!!

La source de la grippe porcine est la multinationale Smithfield?

L’épidémie de grippe « porcine » est peut-être due aux pratiques polluantes d’une multinationale, Smithfield, spécialisée dans la production de porcs. Depuis trois mois, les habitants du village de La Granja, au Mexique, qui vivent à proximité d’une des usines de la filiale mexicaine de Smithfield, sont massivement victimes d’infections respiratoires. En septembre 2008, une épidémie de grippe aviaire avait déjà éclaté, sans que le gouvernement mexicain ni l’OMS ne s’en émeuvent. Smithfield a déjà été lourdement condamné aux Etats-Unis pour ses pratiques polluantes. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Grippe porcine: Ne cédons pas à la psychose…
  2. Grippe porcine: pour l'amour de dieu, ne vous faîtes pas vacciner...
  3. Grippe porcine: de nombreuses questions sans réponse...

Bardot accuse l'Egypte de "lâcheté" aprés sa décision d'abattre 250 000 porcs...

L'ex-actrice française et militante des droits des animaux Brigitte Bardot a vivement critiqué vendredi la décision de l'Egypte d'abattre son cheptel porcin, estimant que le gouvernement égyptien faisait preuve de "lâcheté extrême".

"Profiter de la psychose qui touche le monde, avec la propagation de la grippe +mexicaine+ qui n'a rien à voir avec les animaux, pour lancer une campagne d'éradication des porcs élevés en liberté en Egypte par des populations démunies, est d'une lâcheté extrême", écrit Mme Bardot dans une lettre adressée au chef de l'Etat égyptien Hosni Moubarak. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Brigitte Bardot sauve un taureau évadé!!!
  2. En Chine il y a un cochon qui va à la pèche !!!
  3. Mudslinger, le cochon intelligent...
  4. Un petit cochonnet trop mignon…