March 27, 2003
ONE-SIDED WAR, ONE-SIDED WAR REPORTING
BBC war correspondent
Kate Adie revealed the startling news that the Pentagon was so
insistent on controlling the reporters in the Gulf region that
they threatened to bomb the satellite uplink positions of
independent journalists and other reporters not sanctioned by
the U.S. Military. As well as controlling their own media by
"embedding" reporters with U.S. troops, they have suggested
that journalists out in the field risk being killed simply by
being in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example, the
U.S. plan includes shutting down all of Baghdad's electronics,
and bombing any electronic transmission they detect, even if
it is a journalist's telephone or television broadcast.
According to Adie, when she asked a Pentagon official if they
were concerned with the potentially fatal consequences of such
actions, she was told "who cares...they've been warned." She
concludes that the Pentagon is "entirely hostile to the free
spread of information." Another reporter, Phillip Knightley,
reported the same conclusions after interviewing several
Pentagon officials, one of whom told him that the U.S. "may
find it necessary to bomb areas in which war correspondents
are attempting to report from the Iraqi side."
(gulufuture.com)
SURPRISE! BIG BREASTS AND HARD NIPPLES WON'T MAKE YOU HAPPY
A study from Dutch and
Swedish scientists suggests that women who have breast
augmentation surgery done for cosmetic reasons are three times
as likely to commit suicide than the general population. The
researchers believe the problem stems from issues of low
self-esteem and poor body image in women who have breast
implants, and suggested that surgeons should evaluate women
for psychological problems before carrying out any such
surgery. "If women have a psychological problem and they are
given breast implants they will still have the problem,"
concluded the researchers. In similar yet totally different
news, the new rage in cosmetic surgery is nipple enlargement,
done with injections of collagen or cartilage taken from the
patient's ear. Nipple surgeon Dr. Bruce Nadler says that most
people do it for that "teasing look" of erect nipples, while
others - mostly men - have nipple fetishes and want their
nipples to be the "biggest, most desirable nipples possible."
No word on how many men kill themselves after discovering
their super nipples don't make them feel good about
themselves.
(Reuters Health)
DISNEYLAND OF THE GODS
Erich von Daniken,author of over two
dozen books concerned with the alien origins of the human race
- most famously in his book Chariot of the Gods - is almost
ready to open his theme park dedicated to the alien visitors
who are responsible, in his opinion, for most of the
unexplained mysteries of our planet. Von Daniken's Mystery
Park, set in the Swiss alps, will include recreations of all
the major "extraterrestrial works," including Stonehenge, the
Pyramids of Egypt, the Mayan temples and the Nasca Lines of
Peru. Other attractions will include a giant Imax theatre, 3-D
films, and a 360-degree 'all-round' cinema exhibit which will
show that humans were created by beneficent aliens who bred
with ancient apemen in order to produce modern men and women.
(The Observer)
ON THE OTHER HAND, A SUCKER DIES EVERY MINUTE AS WELL
A man
in New Athens, Illinois has set up a service to try to connect
the recently dead with their still-living relatives. His idea,
Afterlife Telegrams, finds terminally ill patients who are
taught to memorize messages and are asked to try to deliver
them to their relatives after they pass away. At
AfterlifeTelegrams.com
, you can order the service for five
bucks a word, but before you waste your money, remember that
even the inventor of this concepts admits "we cannot rule out
the possibility that there could be no afterlife at all."
MOOOOOD MUSIC
A 10-year-old boy in Georgia has won first
prize for his science fair project which tested the results of
different styles of music on the milk production of his
father's 300 dairy cows. He tested the cows while playing
rock, country, and classical music, and found that the cows
produced 1000 extra pounds of milk when listening to classical
music.
(ABC)
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ONE MICHAEL JACKSON NOSE IS ENOUGH, THANKS
A Belgian man who
has had eight operations in order to make his face look like
Michael Jackson's, is about to undergo the last surgery which
will change his nose and complete the procedure. "It's the
last surgery I need," says Emmanual De Reyghere, 30, "Then my
nose will be the same as Michael Jackson's. It'll be perfect."
(orangetoday.com)
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
According to a list compiled by historian
William Blum, the U.S. has bombed 23 nations since the end of
World War II. The list begins with China in 1945-46, includes
Korea (1950-53), Vietnam (1961-73), Libya (1983), Panama
(1989), Yugoslavia (1999) and ends with the current bombing
campaign in Iraq. Blum goes on to explain that of these 23
countries, exactly zero have formed democratic governments as
a result of the bombing.