Hello! How ya doin? People and Places the 2005 edition.

by boo hoo hoo! Tue Jan 11, 2005 13:35

Bill Gates talks to his team about tomorrow's patch releases for the "extremely critical" flaws in MS internet explorer 6. There have never been "extremely critical" flaws in th tech world since he told us about "Y2K" and the most sensitive amongst us stocked up on baked beans by the baker's dozen.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2910
Bill will also be talking to his liberal thinktank people who have done great work for the extension of liberal values throughout the Western World since he turned the age of Alexander and became the richest man in the world. Bill will also be talking to his people at the Foundation about the great work their doing on HIV research. Bill will be having a normal day. Bill might get really tippy toppy reports from his people on the news from Barcelona researchers who have proven that rats can distinguish between human languages.
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/sciences/20050110.OBS5860.html

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Mr Bush has been on the phone to the Palestinian leadership and the Israeli leadership and they've been on the phone to each other. Peace = Saleem = Shalom sort of stuff. All you need is love and a map.

Mr Bush has also announced his surprise appointment for Economic Secretary, Allan Hubbard, (not to be confused with old mother Hubbard, or L Ron Hubbard) who will take over half of the responsibility for the USA's finances as Mr Bush prepares his "social welfare reform" thingy in the second term of his presidency.

Zhang Yichi's is China's 1.3 billionth citizen, and his parents have rejected all corporation attempts to use him as an advertising propanganda coup-
"lucky to be China's 1.3 billionth citizen," the baby's father, Zhang Tong, was quoted as saying. "But it's unnecessary to act as an image representative for so many products, since Zhang Yichi is too young and too many commercial activities will have negative impact on the boy's healthy growth.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5457152

Brad Pitt and Jenifer Aniston might have proved the 7 year itch thingy and have announced that their relationship can't get beyond one Shakesperian age of man. But they're going to do their best to be friends and not have their filipino laundry staff wash the dirty linen in public.
"quandoque Homerus Bonus dormitat"

Steve Jobs, of Apple Computers, (the bunch of left-handers who made the first mouse and PC in a garden shed) is giving a key note speech today in San Francisco on his vision for the future of "new technology" you can get it the constant updates (if you don't have his phone number) @ this link-
http://macdailynews.com/macworld_sf_2005_keynote.php

by you *are* talking to me. Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:27

It's a fascist game she says.
don't we agree, imagine being thrown together with all those people and being watched 24hours a day 356 days a week, by the R&D quality control division of the corporations competing for your biometrics.
eurtghghghg...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1436526,00.html

by )-: - ever seen a crackhead on the street and thought.... Wed Jan 12, 2005 21:51

Pinochet (of operation Condor) has officially got his liberty to leave the compound / house in Los Boldos 130 km south of Santiago. Unfortuanately because all his money is frozen, Condor Man hasn't got the 3,500$ (2,669 €) to get out and about. The prosecution don't want him out because they say he's a "danger to society" on account of him ordering the deaths of nosey and liberal types who abounded in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay back when he was "useful" to "someone". His accounts in Riggs Bank USA holding 8,000,000$ have been frozen and his property is as well. His swimming pool is not frozen however, and his son and daughter are happy to keep him company in the house, where his son can tell him about the stint he just completed in prison for selling dodgey second hand cars like Fort transits without proper documentation.

It will be interesting to see who lends him the cash.

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Mark Thatcher is to plead guilty to charges that he was involved in a coup d'etat attempt in Equitorial Guinea tomorrow in the post Apartheid state of South Africa's high court, the Guardian and agencies announced today, which is part of their "anti-Thatcher" tradition, whom they loathed for the miners, the kids milk and well all of it. They are proudly reminding everyone that Maggie cried when he lost his way in the desert years ago today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/equatorialguinea/story/0,15013,1388962,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1379338,00.html

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The hard drug addicts of Europe, the UK and the USA will face their worst next years, as they adjust to less Tobacco, "Power and so", and will require sympathy, understanding, compassion and the full assistance of health authorities, commuity groups, prison authorities and social networks.

By the Grace, we don't all have to go there / stay there.

Redemption and Forgiveness mean recognising that the point where you think "there go I" is long after that other person began their road, and for many they were pushed down it, by parents, by schools, by governments and states, by society.

You can't judge anyone, coz it's not your job.

Prisons are filled with the innocent, and the beautiful and innocent have often had no enemies but time. But we're all capable of doing better and leaving the darkness of the "XX century". Of growing old and like Odysses, forgetting which was Penelope and which was the other fecking bitch, and just worrying about your vine instead and not even thinking you'll get a book / telly show / dance company named after you.

sin é. .

don't buy
don't sell
don't be without a black sheep.

by baaa! Fri Jan 14, 2005 15:33

Adolfo Scilingo, has become the first person linked to Argentina's military dictatorship period 1976-1983 to go on trial abroad today in Spain.
He is accused of killing political prisoners during what became known as the "dirty war".
the Court proceedings began at 12h00 local time 11h00 GMT.
The prosecution are requesting 6,626 years imprisonment for 30 murder charges, 255 charges of terrorism, 286 of torture, and more.
http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_es.php?id=31398
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4173895.stm
He has fainted in court, and was carried to a room nearby the court by Spanish police officers, (he has been refusing food for several weeks).
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The Spanish press report that the 3rd in line to the British crown has been ordered by the family to visit Auschwitz for wearing a afrika corp wehrmacht uniform at a colonial fancy dress party recently.
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Fathers for Justice, the high profile protest group have staged a break-in attempt at the Big Brother house today which resulted in 15 arrests.
Germaine Greer has not commented.
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Michael Jackson is facing another law suit, the 1900+ page details of which have been released.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Entertainment/story?id=410942&page=1
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President George W. Bush has admitted he regrets blunt talk, such as his "dead or alive" reference to the still-at-large Osama bin Laden, that might have sent "wrong impressions" about the US to a global audience.
The US President also revealed his wife Laura had "chewed him out" over off-the-cuff remarks that reinforced his "cowboy" image overseas.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au
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Brad Pitt is still single, and hoping that a lovely girl will give the right details to MS "find a shag" by midnight tonight (with photo please) no time wasters, must be loving, sincere, sexy and understanding, and not ask too many questions.

by i used not put it so "bluntly". Fri Jan 28, 2005 21:36

Manuel Contreras was sentanced recently to 12 years for the kidnapping of a teenager of 16 years in 1975 and his subsequent death in Chile.
As one of the prime adjuntants of Augusto Pinochet (the director of the Condor Project) which overthrew the legitimate democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in a coup d'etat which started with the backing of US agents and corporations and others in South America on the 11th of September.

After Chile's September 11, thousands were rounded up and kept in illegal custody in the football stadium. The head of Pinochet's secret police shares responsibilty for that.

Those hundreds of thousands Chileans and South Americans and foreigners were murdered, tortured and simply "dissappeared".

Operation Condor served many more interests than simply securing copper mines for the corporations of the USA. It copperfastened the control of Southern America by a cabal of supremacists and evil scientist and war criminals whose arrogance never left their favourite symbols and words off the trail of clues.

Manuel Contreeas was arrested in these last 24 hours for only one death, that of a teenager.

In the past, before your great grandparents when an officer and a gentleman was to be arrested a coach was sent for him with the order of arraignment. On the seat would be left a pistol with one shot, which he was expected to make honourable use of before arriving at the prison block.

In the past before your great great great great great great great great (who's counting?) grandparents when an officer and gentleman was to be arrested he took his sword and ran upon it.

In the past 24 hours Manuel Contreras used his pistol to resist arrest and fired on the agents of Chilean democratic justice, and it took 25 of them to take him from his house to the prison block where he will remain, proof if any were needed of the dishonour of all those "officers" & "gentlemen" who hid under and served Operation Condor.

http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/notiziari/chile/20050128143733246962.html
http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20050128173225&tabID=1&ch=69
http://www.rpp.com.pe/noticia/internacional/24421.php