Friday, November 02, 2007
NEW EXCITING INTERNATIONAL BLOG FOR WRITERS
I'm a proud member of/contributor to a creative international blogspot founded by my new Belgian-Dutch writer friend Dirk Vekemans. POETRY KESSEL-LO POEZIE.POETRY KESSEL-LO POEZIE - http://poetrykessello.blogspot.com/ Drop by!
Thursday, November 01, 2007
MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook - New York Times
Tis the era of uber cyber-social networking & spending useless time creating money for Internetz media moguls & their monopoly wars. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Taking bets NOW. Please provide name, social security or foreign passport number, correct date of birth, criminal background information and swear on your horse's ass that you've never plotted the overthrow of any government or corporation. Oh sorry, that was redundant.
MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook - New York Times
MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook - New York Times
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Deaths of Innocent Men in U.S. Custody during the "War on Terror."
from Mark Crispin Miller's blog/newsletter:
Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror." "Taxi to the Dark Side" takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar, who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village.
So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial?
Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. Hisdeath came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at the prison by U.S. soldiers....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4603066186176011479&hl=en
Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror." "Taxi to the Dark Side" takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar, who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village.
So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial?
Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. Hisdeath came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at the prison by U.S. soldiers....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4603066186176011479&hl=en
The International Literary Quarterly
Here it is. Peter Robertson's new e-journal, its first issue featuring:
Lydia Davis
Daniel Gunn
W.N. Herbert
Robert Alan Jamieson
Gabriel Josipovici
Suzanne Jill Levine
Laura Marney
Carol Novack
Thalia Pandiri
George Szirtes
The International Literary Quarterly
Lydia Davis
Daniel Gunn
W.N. Herbert
Robert Alan Jamieson
Gabriel Josipovici
Suzanne Jill Levine
Laura Marney
Carol Novack
Thalia Pandiri
George Szirtes
The International Literary Quarterly
Monday, October 29, 2007
Religion is bad for your health
From ATHEISTS AGNOSTICS SKEPTICS & HUMANISTS ON MYSPACE
According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005) countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom (among the least religious societies on earth) show the highest levels of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality as well as the lowest homicide rates and infant mortality. The 50 worst tend to also be the most religious. Meanwhile the U.S., (with its high level of religious adherents distinct from any western democracy) is also burdened with high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, STD infection and infant mortality. (http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005//)(http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/pdf/2005-11.pdf)
According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005) countries like Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom (among the least religious societies on earth) show the highest levels of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality as well as the lowest homicide rates and infant mortality. The 50 worst tend to also be the most religious. Meanwhile the U.S., (with its high level of religious adherents distinct from any western democracy) is also burdened with high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, STD infection and infant mortality. (http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005//)(http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/pdf/2005-11.pdf)
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