china blog
hey gang, in my precious few internet breaths, i'm going to be posting some items at Magnificent Foreign Dream during my stay in china this summer. have a look at it if you have a moment. xie xie.
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
this is more confusing than amusing.
saw it on boinboing
hilarious. kinda boring after awhile...but nobody has posted for a while. i'll end the drought now.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
You'll do a heck of a job, Baroody
Bush golden boy Michael Baroody, manufacturer lobbyist, to "protect" consumer rights as head of Consumer Product Safety Commission. NYTimes excerpt:
Experts in executive compensation said it was unusual for someone to be paid under a severance agreement for voluntarily leaving to take a top position at another organization.Yay, a freebee. Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
let's improve our vocabulary of ethnic slurs
unless you're a fucking flapdragon, that is.
link
Sunday, May 13, 2007
if you like david cross then you'll love this!! lol ttyl
originally from freewilliamsburg.com.
Friday, May 11, 2007
drinky the crow show
Spamtrap installation
this installation is sweet, but what about reading the messages before they're destroyed? poor king josef mtabo in niger won't get the money he needs to pay back loans for his country's failing health insurance programs.
"Spamtrap" is an interactive installation piece the prints, shreds and blacklists spam email.Sphere: Related Content
"Spamtrap" - watch the video
Thursday, May 10, 2007
This guy, terrorist, released by US
A few days ago from the BBC:
Posada Carriles: "I've always believed in the armed struggle"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4558777.stm
Anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles has posed a double headache for the US: his alleged crimes relate to Cuba and its ally Venezuela, and he is a former CIA employee.
The 79-year-old is wanted by both Latin American states for masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, in which 73 died.
He is also being investigated for the 1997 bombing on a hotel in the Cuban capital, Havana, which killed an Italian tourist.
Jailed in Venezuela in 1976 after being found guilty of bombing the Cuban plane, in 1985 Posada escaped.
Charges dropped
Twenty years later, in May 2005, he was detained by US immigration officials after allegedly entering the country illegally, via Mexico.
In 2007, a US judge's decision to dismiss charges of immigration fraud against him have angered Cuba and Venezuela who are both continuing to push for his extradition.
The authorities in Havana describe Posada as "the Bin Laden of the Hemisphere".
They have accused the US of double standards in its war on terror and of protecting the Cuban suspect due to his status - and the secrets he may know - as a former CIA employee.
Some Cuban exiles hostile to the communist government in Havana regard Posada as a hero, said Pepe Hernandez, president of the Cuban American National Foundation.
"He's been fighting one of the worst tyrannies this continent has experienced," Mr Hernandez told AP news agency.
Assassination plot
Before his detention in Miami, Posada, who was born in Cuba but has Venezuelan citizenship, insisted his "only objective" was to fight for Cuba's "freedom".
Reports suggest he was involved in operations against leftists across Latin America over the decades, from Guatemala to El Salvador.
According to declassified US government documents, he once worked for the CIA. The papers also reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that Posada was one of those behind the plane bombing.
In an interview for the Miami Herald newspaper, Posada denied any involvement in the plane attack but declined to confirm or deny involvement in other violence.
In August 2004, Panama granted him a pardon over a plot to assassinate President Castro during a visit by the Cuban leader to Panama in 2000.
The US authorities have refused requests for Posada's extradition, saying he might be tortured, and failed to find takers when they suggested sending him to a country other than Cuba or Venezuela.
It's on Democracy Now today.
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