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Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity … The brawl apparently began when Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church after the Christmas Day celebrations. Armenian priests claimed that the ladders encroached on their portion of the church, which led the two sects to exchange angry words which quickly turned to blows … the robed and bearded priests scuffled for more than an hour using fists, brooms and iron rods as weapons.

Tags: Bethlehem, Christianity, Christmas, Church of the Nativity, religion by mike
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Politically motivated assassination of the youngest elected female head of government, first female leader of a Muslim country (and only Muslim nuclear State): 1,900 articles.

Tiger-Racoon Alliance to Eliminate Humanity: 3,200 articles.

Tags: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, racoons, tigers by mike
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Hit by price increases and shortages, many breweries, particularly the small “craft brewers” and the even smaller microbreweries, are being forced to raise prices, make do with modified recipes or shut off the spigots altogether. The humble hop, the plant that gives beer its distinctive flavour, is the main problem. Many farmers in the Pacific north-west, where America’s hop production is concentrated, have turned to more profitable lines—especially corn, which can be made into ethanol … Things are no better for barley, used to make the malt that yeast turns into alcohol. It too has been ploughed under in favour of corn.

Tags: EVERYBODY PANIC, alcohol, beer, energy, ethanol, peak oil by mike
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“Mystery” gift cards on eBay. People bid up to several hundred dollars for little pieces of plastic that may contain up to hundreds of dollars of stored value, but probably don’t.

Tags: Ebay, morons, scam by mike
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The entire country western music industry is a cover for drug running and the Monarch program. Many of the country western songs are tailored to be utilized for programming. In recent years, ‘Karaoke’ singing has become popular in the U.S. Karaoke singing is just one of several ways that Monarch slaves can be taken away from their homes for accessing, reprogramming, and for assignments. Various Monarch slaves are becoming acquainted with each other via this method. If anyone examines the pioneer Karaoke version of such songs as White Rabbit you will easily see that this film with its song is a tool used by select Karaoke spots for triggering Monarch slaves who have ‘Alice in Wonderland’ programming. Alice in Wonderland programming and The Wizard of Oz programming are two popular base programs still in use today. Walt Disney productions have played a major role in the Monarch program and some of their children’s films are being deliberately constructed with Monarch triggers and keys.

More information and backgrounder.

Tags: CIA, Disney, Illuminati, Karaoke, MKULTRA, Monarch Program, Wizard of Oz, conspiracy, country music, sex slavery by mike
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I slag off Wikipedia a lot for being full of mostly pointless crap about Star Wars characters and porn actors (reflecting the interests of most of its hardcore roleplayers) but it has some gems, such as this description of Scientology’s Core Beliefs. Proof that given enough time, smart people will construct a pseudo-intellectual metaphysics out of even the wackiest, obviously lobotomised shite.

Tags: Scientology, Wikipedia, religion by mike
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In 1974-2005 food prices on world markets fell by three-quarters in real terms … Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun—maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it—is at or near a peak in nominal terms. The Economist’s food-price index is higher today than at any time since it was created in 1845 … the Chinese consumer who ate 20kg (44lb) of meat in 1985 will scoff over 50kg of the stuff this year. That in turn pushes up demand for grain: it takes 8kg of grain to produce one of beef. But the rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America’s reckless ethanol subsidies. This year biofuels will take a third of America’s (record) maize harvest. That affects food markets directly: fill up an SUV’s fuel tank with ethanol and you have used enough maize to feed a person for a year. And it affects them indirectly, as farmers switch to maize from other crops. The 30m tonnes of extra maize going to ethanol this year amounts to half the fall in the world’s overall grain stocks.

Tags: corn, energy, ethanol, food, peak oil by mike
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France spent $3,464 per person on health care in 2004, compared with $6,096 in the United States, according to the World Health Organization. Yet Frenchmen live on average two years longer than American men do, and Frenchwomen live four years longer. The infant mortality rate in France is 43 percent lower than in the United States.

Tags: France, Kegels, birth, health care by mike
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Sending signals through time is a popular science fiction idea. Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness movie combines the tachyon pulse signal idea from Benford’s Timescape with some green-vomit+zombies horrorism.

Wilson’s Chronoliths has an interesting approach to the subjective perception of temporal paradoxes. In this case, the “message” is engraved in huge stone obelisks that are quite destructive. Like many sensawunda SF books, the ending is flat but some of the psychology is good.

Asimov also wrote some good ancient SF that played with retro-temporal signalling using thiotimoline.

Kind of the reverse of retro-temporality, Irish SF writer Bob Shaw used a magical substance called “slow glass” to send signals from the present into the future at dramatically altered rates. He teased out the implications of trans-temporal signalling combined with nanotech into some quite evocative speculations, including a vision of a rather maudlin, thoroughly mediated, panopticonised surveillance society.

Tags: Bob Shaw, Chronoliths, Gregory Benford, Isaac Asimov, John Carpenter, Prince of Darkness, Robert Charles Wilson, Timescape, slow glass, thiotimoline by mike
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By Noboru Iguchi (an auteur of the genre and an obvious Tetsuo fan).
Higher quality video.Minase Yashiro looks different without her prostheses.
She also does other work with not quite as many props.

More gory details.

Tags: Japan, Kataude Mashin Gâru, Machine Girl, Manga, Minase Yashiro, Noboru Iguchi, Tetsuo by mike
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