Random Linkage 2008-Jan-25 AM
- After some slowdown in recent years, it looks like humans are eating up the Amazon rainforest again. Perhaps we’ll find King Kong this run-through as reward for the thousands of species of plants and animals we’ll surely drive to extinction
- Letter to 14,000 Charter Communication customers:
Dear Customer, we are sorry we erased the last few years of your email. Here’s $50.
- After liver replacement operation, girl’s blood type and immune system changes to that of donor. This has never happened before, and doctors are trying to figure out if it can be done again. She’s apparently no longer in need of foreign organ anti-rejection medication
- According to the FBI agent who handled him, Saddam Hussein “…kept up the illusion that he had weapons of mass destruction before 2003 because he did not think the United States would invade…” Furthermore, Hussein did not have WMD at the time, but intended to start a weapons program up again, according to the agent.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am
According to the story, clearing of the rain forest is being “spurred by heavy market demand for corn, soy and cattle.” The story — nay, almost any story you read about environmental rape — does not make the connection between the increased market demand and increasing world and local population … lest we insult someone’s mother, or question the beliefs of a culture dominated by procreation-obsessed Roman Catholicism.
Down in the story, is this bit of irony: The coordinator of Greenpeace’s Amazon campaign “said corn is increasingly being grown in the Amazon because of high international prices brought on by U.S. President George W. Bush’s decision to promote use of corn-based ethanol.” Thus the slashing and burning to create crop land in Brazil while U.S. forces slash and burn Iraq to protect our oil supply.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Thanks for the feedback. I love your site, by the way - security/anti-security/security-theatre is a hobby interest of mine.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
So you’re the one whose hit keeps showing up on my stats!