Sunday, January 25, 2009
Rio
The governor of Rio de Janiero has vowed to clean up the Copacabana beach - starting with the brotherl “Help”. There will also be an odour control system to combat the smell rom a nearby sewage treatment plant. According to Wagner Victer, “Now, instead of smelling of human waste, Copacabana will...
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Sports
A Massey University researcher in New Zealand, Matt Barnes, has made the discovery that alcohol interfers with muscle recovery. This means that sportspeople whjo take an after-match tipple are effectually and effectively reducing their muscular ability for the match next week as the this effect of...
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Emotionally Blackmailing Aussies
Last week some moron ignored a fence and stepped on a Fairy Tern chick at Mangawhai Spit, north Of Auckland, New Zealand. As there are only 40 of these birds (39 now) known to exist in the entire world this event goes beyond the tragic. Meanwhile Aussie brothers, Ashish and Akshay Miranda, died when...
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Garth George
Garth George has a weekly column in the NZ Herald. Last week his burning question ws “Why are the products of the booze barons not required to carry labls such as: alcohol can kill; alcohol can cause you to stop breathing or stop your heart; alcohol can destroy your brain, destroy your liver, damage...
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Gallipoli: 1916
March "Two months later Robbie recorded a rather insulting sermon which certainly did not make him sleepy: ‘We were told it was perhaps a good thing for Australia and New Zealand that we failed on the Peninsula, otherwise we were in danger of becoming vain and glorious and suffering from swelled...
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Gallipoli: February 1916
The news of the campaign has been so heavily censored in NZ that the first casualty lists are only just beginning to be published. The campaign is presented in the Press as a victory and this perception provides the basis of the Gallipoli myth. "The great Gallipoli misadventure was over. Two...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Love Keeps You Warm
It’s -10 degrees in Hanover, Germany. Six year old Mika and his seven year old girlfriend decided to elope to Africa last week and get married in the sun. They were stopped by railway officials and convinced by two policewoman to put their plans on hold.
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OOOOO…. You’re Sooooooo Big !
How I’ve longed to hear those words... but today it’s a reference to the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Astronomers at the Havard-Smithonian Centre for Astrophysics have been able, at last, to accurately calibrate our galaxy. They discovered it is 15% broader than previously imagined, spins 15% faster...
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Cure For Suicide
British researchers have discovered the way to reduce the incidence of suicide is to increase the number of suicides. Apparently large scale traumatic events help people contemplating suicide to feel more connected to their community. They also noted extensive use of this technique reduces the...
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War: What Is It Good For?
The Greeks seem to have finally got the bee out of their butt only to have the Palestinians and the Israeli’s grab it and shove it where the sun don’t shine. Back in New Zealand Father Gerard Burns, parish priest of Te Ngakau Tapu in Porirua, smeared a memorial to former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin...
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