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Monday, October 12, 2009

Friendly fire 12/10/09

- NK tests five short range missiles and requests everybody to stay outta their Eastern territorial waters until the 20th.

- SK presses the gas for the purchase of new jets.

- The hardest decision for this year (after Obama's Nobel): Economics Nobel. And the one who messed the less was...

- There is no small foe.

- About to getting divorced? How sounds a trip to Malaysia?


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Saturday, April 25, 2009

World leaders' summit... in Facebook!

Does anyone not know Facebook? For those living out of this galaxy, Facebook is a social network on the Internet. And everybody is there. Your friends, your exs, your school friends, the dog of the Quinns... Even Worldwide is there (and if you still don't follow us there, click here)

But, do you know who else is on Facebook? World leaders (click here to enlarge image).




Kudos to Jehad for the image.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Friendly fire 20/04/09

- No-one is surprised by Human Rights Watch report's appreciation: Hamas too used Gaza war to apply justice. Their way.

- Beware, Scottish criminals. Here comes the Jedi (Police) Force.

- The outlaw country no-man’s land of Somalia adopts the Sharia. Well, at least it’s something... On the other hand, the only theological country in the world (the Vatican) condemns Belgium condemn of the Pope words in Africa about condoms. But everybody is cool if they are the ones trying to affect other country’s policy.

- Being a journalist today sucks. Being a journalist in Israel sucks even more. Being a journalist in Israel being paid by a Spanish news agency; better find something else. Being an Indian journalist having to write about the inferior masculinity of the Indians; that’s better if you kill yourself.

- The video (click here) that made me stop hating Lindsay Lohan. At least the girl has humor sense.



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Monday, April 13, 2009

Behind PDRK's epic rocket-fail

Against what Kim Jong-Il is telling us, probable the North Korean satellite is now transmitting (indeed) from a subacuatic orbit instead than over our heads.

But at least now we know the real reason for that. Japan said that they wouldn’t do anything to stop the launch, but they left free their anti-Godzilla monster (via Lumberjack):



This is outrageous! Kim Jong-Il, declare war on them!

And Jon Stewart about the Korean Dong missiles. Best part from minute 3.30.

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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

April's fool (Updated)

Today in the media...

From Australia, the best one is Melbourne's own bull running. New Zealand cannot be left out either.

From the UK, the first exclusive interview with the banker from "Deal or no deal". Oh, and The Guardian will be publish from now on just via Twitter.

From the US, for now, just the best hoaxes from all time.

Don't believe everything you read today...

Update: Here is a condensated resume of some of yesterday's hoaxes.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Friendly fire 26/03/09

- The Top 10 conspiracy theories of all time.

- Biker brutal deadly brawl in Sydney's airport.

- Two American journalists detained in North Korea.

- Watch out! Let's don't put ETA's cons in jails near to the Basque Country. That could drive us into another peace process. And we don't want that, do we? El Mundo dixit.

- Last defense line in Iraqi soccer are bullets.


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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Party is over

If it wasn’t bad enough just with the economic troubles, Britons (and Irish) will have it tougher to get over it. Partying in the UK is becoming a luxury not affordable for everyone.

Let’s make an example. So, let’s say it is your birthday and you want to celebrate it with your friends. First step would be to call them. But calling is very expensive, is better texting. And with just one text that you can resend to everyone, it makes everything easier. So, you text them. Well, if the proposition from the Irish Green Party goes on, it will cost you 1c extra per text in taxes. Not much, but we just got started.

With everyone gathering to the party is time to take care of the supplies: alcohol and tobacco. For the second one, Ireland taxes it already at the highest rate in Europe. A packet can cost in excess of €7 when in other countries is less than half of that. But the new taxes being studied by Cowen’s government could boost that price in a 25 per cent more up to €10. Luckily I’m not a smoker. And luckily for smokers, they only can smoke in the outside. So temptation is not always around.

It’s time now to get wasted with alcohol. But hey, something is wrong here. Booze can boost to a 50p per alcoholic unit if Sir Liam Donaldson’s proposal is taken in consideration. That means getting a can of beer for not less than £1.1 (€1.25). In a supermarket, not even in a pub. And don’t even let me get started with the spirits...

Official position from the governments aims to reduce deaths by alcohol with that measure. It doesn’t escape that they also will get a huge amount of money in taxes. Not to mention that deaths by alcohol have already levelling off because of the financial crisis (it had to have something good) and the consequent descend in the sales are putting on risk more than 9,000 jobs only in Ireland.

Take that, add the actual prize for a movie ticket (€10), the previous ban on prostitution and a hypothetical overtax on chocolate, and the party is definitely over everywhere.

I think I’m gonna stay at home for my birthday.


Photo: The Simpsons.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Friendly fire 12/03/09

- Miss Atom 2009 contest’s results are in, and the winner is: Yekaterina Bulgakova. The prize: a weekend holiday in the communist paradise of Cuba.

- Drone wars: Taliban say they shot down an American UAV over Pakistan; USA say they shot down an Iranian UAV over Iraq.

- History lessons in animated .gif’s for teens addicted to the Internet. This week: I World War.



- France as the prodigal son of NATO.

- Massacre in a school in Germany. Apparently the gun madness is not only a problem in America, but in Europe too.


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Friday, March 06, 2009

Friendly fire 07-08/03/09

- At the end, Karzai won’t delay the elections. And he will continue with the help of his brothers to stop corruption in Afghanistan. Capone's way.

- How would look Barbie if she was a real woman.

- NBA, stuck from the free throws line and awesomely awesome with the long distance throws.

- What diplomacy didn’t handle, maybe will the science.

- Jon Stewart vs. Twitter.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Energy and sex

Spain and Russia have signed an agreement that will allow Spain to diversify its current energy sources. Until now, almost all the gas that came to the Southwest of Europe did so through Algeria, with the usual risks that it involves.

That’s why, the visit of Russia’s man in power Vladimir Putin President Alexander Medvedev to Madrid, came along whit a bunch of bilateral energetic agreements. Thanks to this new cooperation, Spain will too enjoy next winter the shortage in the gas supply. Lucky that it is always sunny in Spain...

The agreement also contemplates the possibility of Gazprom, the Russian monopolistic company for gas distribution and production, to explore new markets in Latin America by the hand of the Spanish Gas Natural.

All that seems like a prize a bit higher than what it could have been if finally Gazprom had took over the 20% of Repsol.

But apparently, that hasn’t been all Mr. Medvedev and Spanish President, Mr. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, talked about.



The translation:

Mr. Zapatero: “Tourism is a preferent economic issue in the relationship between Spain and Russia. Why? Because there is a huge increase in the number of Spanish tourists going to Russia. We had already more than 500.000 people going to Russia [last year]. Therefore, we have made an agreement to stimulate, to strength, to fuck... to support... these numbers...”

I can see a second Blue Division on its way to Moscow, this time loaded of condoms...






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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Sex, drugs and Rock'n'roll

I ended my last post with the excessive spending of the CEO’s of the Big Three. But as a friend pointed to me later, I could have followed quotating cases. There are lots of executives spending millions of dollars while their employers are losing their jobs amazingnly fast. One of the most famous cases was when a few AIG executives spent $440.000 in a spa just after receive a bailout of $85 billions from the American Government. Sorry, the American taxpayers.

In a spa, yes! Just to relax themselves. Maybe shortly that will be the only option they’ll have. If -as I said a week before- they are cutting the spending on their lovers, is to expect less generosity from them in the bedroom. And at the lap dance clubs, is not gonna be easier. In UK, Gordon Brown’s laborist Government plans to change the law for those kind of locals, increasing the requirements for them. From the inside, their owners say they aren’t offering sex, just “dancing”.

Sure.


The law, however, is only an amend that, according to various sources, doesn’t solve the problem. And it leaves nobody happy. Like with another sex law in preparation that seeks criminalize the people hiring prostitutes that are being exploited by others, equaling having sex with them with a rape, and banning pimping.

Sounds good. But in an insight look, is not so good. According to The Economist, the law leaves a lot of empty legal spaces that are even more dangerous. The prostitutes themselves argue that the only clients that won’t go anymore are the gentle clients, while the aggressive ones will continue even harder.

The ideal situation would be -again according to The Economist- a complete banning of prostitution (like in Sweden) or an open permission (like in the Netherlands, where some politicians went to test the system). If not, there is the risk of falling on the same mistakes as Hong Kong.

Without leaving the bedroom, last week I found on the Internet something really funny. It’s not enough with fruit flavored condoms, here comes the beer flavored condom! My question is: will it be available for different brands? Because it’s not the same a Budweisser, a Guinness or a Heineken. Anyway, a great way to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ending of the Dry Law with your partner.

But there are some things that never change. Like Chicago being the centre of corruption. Yesterday it was the Mafia; today are politics (Seriously, they are not the same). Not good for Obama, as it is the state he came from and there is already something that could get him down.

And about some other things, we discover -some of us already suspected it- that have been used longer than some thought. We knew the hassasins used hashish, but we didn’t know the Chinese smoked marijuana. Some other drugs only change the way they come. And finally, in Afghanistan maybe will be more profitable from now on to harvest the pomegranate rather than the opium. Well, not really.


At least, rock’n’roll is still legal. Except in China.


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