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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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| 12:10a |
Alert David Icke! Man 'targeted by aliens'A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens.
Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites. They are now investigating local magnetic fields to try and work out what makes the property so attractive to the heavenly bodies.
But Mr Lajic, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house he owns in the northern village of Gornja Lamovite, has an alternative explanation. He said: "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate."
"I am being targeted by aliens. They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this. When it rains I can't sleep for worrying about another strike." Y'know, normally I'd laugh, but the guy's got a point. This is what the Masonic lodge and the reptoids do when they get bored. | | 10:24p |
Professor calls for tax on 'poison' butterA top public health expert is calling for a health tax on butter, saying it's "pure, natural poison" and as bad as cigarettes.
"We have a health tax on alcohol and cigarettes and there should be a health tax on butter. It's the most poisonous commonly consumed food in New Zealand. It's about the purest form of saturated fat you can eat and it has no protein and no calcium. Butter has had all the good things taken out and just left the poison." | | 10:31p |
Chinese provocateurs staging violent attacks to discredit Tibet movement?Dafydd at Big Lizards has some documentary evidence that the attacks on the Olympic torch procession may have been planned in Beijing. One particular attack made international news when a supposed supporter of Tibet attacked a torchbearer in a wheelchair during the Paris parade:
The impression this gave the world was similar to what Chinese authorities wanted the world to think about protests in Tibet — that the Tibetans had initiated the violence and were “terrorizing” China. However, the young man attacking the wheelchair-bound torch carrier had his picture taken before this assault, only he wasn’t marching with Tibetan supporters. Dafydd has the photograph that clearly shows him as a supporter of the Beijing contingent in Paris, arriving at the parade under the Communist China flag — wearing his Tibet bandana.
Be sure to read the rest of Dafydd’s post, especially for the reaction in the Chinese blogosphere. | | 11:01p |
WWII Star Wars Action FiguresAction figure customizer extraordinaire Sillof is at it again, following up his Steampunk Star Wars collection with a World War II themed line of figurines. Choice pieces include Han Solo in a bomber jacket, holding a German Mauser (which incidentally was the base for the prop used in the Star Wars movies) and a gorgeous rendition of a Stormtrooper, outfitted in armor and burlap. The gallery is below.  ( Han and Luke under cut )The guy also has some nifty steampunk Star Wars action figures. ( Steampunk Leia and R2D2 ) | | 11:48p |
Modern India still prays for boysTomar, 50, said his wife had also had three abortions. Asked if the intent had been to abort female fetuses, he looked silently at the ground.
"It would have been easier to have a son. Even just one," said Shanti, 38, whose stringy hair and worn skin make her look 20 years older. She's holding their youngest girl, 3-month-old Shezal.
While researchers once thought education and wealth would dampen the preference for boys, the reverse has turned out to be true.
According to UNICEF, about 7,000 fewer girls than expected are born every day in India. According to the British medical journal The Lancet, up to 500,000 female fetuses are being aborted every year. This in a country where abortion is legal but sex-determination tests were outlawed in 1991 — a law nearly impossible to enforce, since ultrasound tests leave no trace.
For a recent report, the group ActionAid sent interviewers to 6,000 households in five north Indian regions. In Punjab state, researchers found rural areas with just 500 girls for every 1,000 boys, and communities of high-caste urbanites with just 300 girls per 1,000. | | 11:55p |
More Cubans abandoning communist island in 'silent exodus'In the first half of the US fiscal year, which began on October 1, almost 3,000 Cubans tried to reach US shores by crossing the shark-infested Florida Straits, according to the US Interests Section in Havana. The number represents a 21 percent increase over the previous year.
Some Cubans are abandoning the island of some 11 million inhabitants legally; Others leave illegally, crowded on smugglers' fastboats. Almost all are heading to the islands nearby arch-enemy, the United States.
The number of Cubans who additionally are departing for Europe and Latin American countries is not known.
Far from tapering off, what often is described as a "silent exodus" has actually picked up since Raul Castro took the reins of government -- officially as president in February, and for over a year as interim leader before then -- although his government has introduced a steady stream of minor reforms aimed at eliminating unpopular restrictions and boosting economic efficiency. |
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