December 02, 1999
FLOAT AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS
A massive $8.5
billion luxury floating metropolis will soon be built in Honduras. The
"Freedom Ship" will be a tax-free floating city that will circumnavigate
the globe to give its residents perpetual sunshine. Marketed towards the
ultra-rich who wish to hide their cash from the taxman, Freedom Ship
will be built in Honduras mainly due to its dirt-cheap labour, averaging
35 to 45 cents per hour. (Reuters)
BE VERY AFRAID
For those who
don't yet believe that there is a covert agenda to bring about a New
World Order (i.e. multi-national corporations exploiting the planet with
no regard for national laws), a website called www.konformist.com has
gathered some revealing quotes from some of the richest and most
influential fat-old-white-men in the world. Top of the list, "diplomat"
Henry Kissinger, speaking at the ultra-top secret Bilderberger
Conference in Evians, France, in 1991: "Today Americans would be
outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow
they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there
was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that
threatened our very existence. It is then that all the peoples of the
world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The
one thing that every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this
scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the
guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world
government." Lovely. His buddy, David Rockeller, in an address to The
Trilateral Commission, continues the sweet sentiments: "The
supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is
surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past
centuries." Yeah, if you're a filthy-rich fascist.
LOOK, OVER THAT
CLIFF! IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S A PLUNGING BUS!
Planning a bus
journey in the near future? Stay away from www.busplunge.org, a site
that chronicles bus accidents from all over the world. Accidents are
organized into categories such as: Bridgus Slipperius (bus plunge off a
bridge), Curvus Skiddus (bus careening past a curve in the road),
Ferryboat Sinkus (bus toppling off ferry), Driver Inebrious and Driver
Narcoleptus (self-explanatory), and, my favourite, Plainus Vanillus,
regular old bus plunges.
OUR FOREFATHERS CAN BEAT UP YOUR
FOREFATHERS
In what may be the greatest attempt at one-upmanship in
history, China is building a massive monument to celebrate its 5,000
years of uninterrupted civilization (as opposed to our piddling
celebration of the year 2000). The monument will include an eternal
flame, the "Holy Fire of the Chinese Nation," which will represent the
16 billion Chinese who have lived in the world since ancient times. The
monument will open on February 5, the Chinese Lunar New Year. To further
rub our Christian-calendar-based noses in it, Zhu Xiangyuan, creator of
the monument, urges us not to forget: "Mathematically the third
millennium doesn't begin until December 31, 2000." (Agence France
Presse)
SOME LESS CARS
When faced with the problem of not enough
money to build new roads, the mayor of Hasselt, Belgium, decided on a
completely different approach. He converted one of the town's major
highways into a pedestrian and bicycle street, and made buses free.
Since then, bus ridership is up 800%, and so many new businesses have
been attracted to Hasselt that taxes have been cut and the city's debt
is down. In celebration of the first anniversary of these extraordinary
measures, the mayor of Hasselt gave away free bicycles. (Carfree Times)
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