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Meiwes, who said in court he had fantasised since puberty about consuming a man to fill the void caused by the sudden departure of his father, had been in touch with hundreds of people on the Internet, where he posted ads seeking fit men for “slaughter” … The fateful meeting came in March 2001 in Meiwes’s house after Meiwes responded to Bernd-Juergen B.’s Internet ad seeking someone to bite off his penis and kill him. With no trace of embarrassment, Meiwes told the court how the killing had begun with him trying unsuccessfully to bite off the victim’s penis, then cutting it off with a knife. They both tried to eat it raw, and then fried it, trying again unsuccessfully to eat it. Meiwes then waited for hours until the victim, weakened by loss of blood from his wound, fell unconscious shortly after calling out that he needed to urinate. He then laid him out on his butcher’s bench and cut him in pieces. He ate 20 kg (44 lb) of the body over the following months, defrosting pieces portion by portion. He kept the skull in the freezer and buried other body parts in his garden.

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I have discovered nirvana in a cheese… Saint-Agur. A few days ago, after sniffing maybe a dozen cheeses in Rainbow, the local lesbian wholefoods co-op, I settled on this creamy blue mold cheese. Later when I ate some of it I thought I must be mistaken – that maybe I was hungry and no cheese could possibly taste this good. So I decided to give it a few days and try again. My faith was rewarded: this is indeed an exceptionally fine cheese that is creamy, blue moldy, and altogether refreshing. I’ve tried it raw, on unleavened bread, and on pizza and it’s all good. Now I just have to find a good potato recipe and I am set! Saint Agur is from the Auvergne region of central France, which sounds delightfully similar to Averoigne, the sorceress-infested, vampire-ridden medieval French backdrop for many Clark Ashton Smith stories!

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Following on from the virtual whoring of the imaginary girlfriend auctions on ebay, it’s the Imaginary Semi-Psychotic Stalker Ex-Boyfriend – Includes blog devoted to “relationship.

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In 1920, the League of Nations awarded Britain the new mandate of Iraq as part of secret deals made during World War I. Just six months into British rule, Iraqi opposition was growing. After the unrest deteriorated into three months of death and anarchy, the British plucked an Arab nationalist fighter from exile in the United Kingdom and installed him as king. The monarchy lasted until 1958, when a military coup turned Iraq into a republic. To many Iraqis, today’s U.S. occupation reads like an old play with modern characters: America as the new Britain, grenade-lobbing insurgents as the new opposition, and Ahmad Chalabi and other former exiles on the Governing Council as the new kings.

Earlier here.

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Wasn’t outer space the dopey diversion of the well-behaved during the Cold War? Weren’t moon shots the 60s’ and 70s’ bread and circuses for a country worn out by a pointless war abroad and social insurrections at home? Replay. The country is again being worn out by a pointless war abroad and split by political and economic divisions at home. Insurrections can’t be far behind. China is looking to put a man on The moon. What better excuse for a president — whose deficits in dollars and sense already reach well past the moon — than to aim for Mars?

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We spun around, ready to fire. I saw a boy of about 15, wearing nothing but ragged black shorts, crouching and firing an AK-47 at the troops behind us. I could see two others, heads just above the top of the rice, firing as well … One thing was clear: these were local boys. They had the advantage of knowing every ditch and dyke, every tree and blade of rice and piece of cover, like it was their own backyard. Because it was their backyard … Later that afternoon, I turned to the radio man, a wiry African American kid who looked too thin to be lugging his 75lb radio, and asked: “By any chance, do you ever feel like the redcoats?” Without missing a beat he said, in a drawl: “I’ve been thinking that … all … day.”

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The man leading the US hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quit amid a lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein had illegal stockpiles of arms … David Kay gave no reason for leaving but sources in Washington speak of a mixture of personal reasons and his disillusionment with the search. He did say he believed Iraq had not had any large stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons during the 1990s.

Q: What happened to the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that everyone expected to be there?
A: “I don’t think they existed …
Q: You came away from the hunt that you have done believing that they did not have any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the country?
A: “That is correct.”

It seems that the Kay timed his resignation until after King Bush’s State of the Empire speech – so that Bush could refer to Kay’s earlier interim report to Congress. Compare and contrast:

We are seeking all the facts — already the Kay report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations.

There were no weapons of mass destruction. There were no active WMD programs. There were no mobile weapons labs. There was no nuclear program, or any efforts to obtain the technology to start one–even after UN inspectors were withdrawn in 1998. “On any given day,” Saddam Hussein could not have threatened the United States or neighboring countries, nor passed any WMD material to any terrorist group anywhere in the world. These are … the sober conclusions of David Kay’s official $300 million investigation.

Anyway, to replace Kay – a former true believer who went to Iraq convinced that WMDs lay buried in every garden and under every outhouse — the CIA is sending a former UN weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer. He professes to have “an open mind”:

David Albright, a former weapons inspector, said Duelfer had gained respect for his work at the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq. He said there was a perception that Kay was more of an ideologue, convinced the weapons existed.

Here’s what Charles Duelfer had to say in September 25, 2002:

The most striking intelligence is the statement that the Iraqi military has the capability to deploy and use chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes of receiving an order. Until Unscom left Iraq in 1998, we strongly suspected that the regime had the ability to launch a chemical or biological attack. This evidence suggests to me that concrete intelligence has now been obtained … On his nuclear weapons development, the dossier points to Saddams attempts to obtain uranium from Africa; and procurement attempts for enrichment-related equipment, specifically the key elements for uranium centrifugal-enrichment technology.

This guy seemed willing to take at face value the two most outrageously false assertions of the Blair Regime. I can see why they gave him the job.

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Courtesy of NTK, I found out that you can now rent imaginary girlfriends on eBay.

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The United States as a civilisation is largely a product of the recent post-Little Ice Age climate we’ve been enjoying. I wonder how well society will adjust to an impending return of 16th and 17th century climate conditions?

It is now clear that the Earth has entered the so-called Anthropocene Era – the geological era in which humans are a significant and sometimes dominating environmental force. Records from the geological past indicate that never before has the Earth experienced the current suite of simultaneous changes: we are sailing into planetary terra incognita.

Recent scientific evidence shows that major and widespread climate changes have occurred with startling speed. For example, roughly half the north Atlantic warming since the last ice age was achieved in only a decade, and it was accompanied by significant climatic changes across most of the globe. Similar events, including local warmings as large as 16C, occurred repeatedly during the slide into and climb out of the last ice age. Human civilizations arose after those extreme, global ice-age climate jumps. Severe droughts and other regional climate events during the current warm period have shown similar tendencies of abrupt onset and great persistence, often with adverse effects on societies.

Model calculations indicate the potential for cooling of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius in the ocean and atmosphere should a total disruption occur. This is a third to a half the temperature change experienced during major ice ages. These changes are twice as large as those experienced in the worst winters of the past century in the eastern US, and are likely to persist for decades to centuries after a climate transition occurs. They are of a magnitude comparable to the Little Ice Age, which had profound effects on human settlements in Europe and North America during the 16th through 18th centuries.

Earlier here.

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