Hong Kong dieters warned against craze for swallowing live worms

Excerpt:

"...The products are thought to use Ascaris worms: giant intestinal roundworms which grow up to 40 centimetres in length in a host's intestine and lay up to 200,000 eggs a day. A Department of Health spokesman warned that swallowing the parasites could cause abdominal pain and distention, vomiting, diarrhoea and malnutrition..."

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/308200,hong-kong-dieters-warned-against-craze-for-swallowing-live-worms.html#ixzz0f6Mpf27J

Women Paid 10 Cents to Sew $80 NFL Peyton Manning Jerseys

This article is harsh, but it's almost comical at how greedy those corporations are. 

NFL jerseys have been sewn under illegal sweatshop conditions at the Chi Fung factory in El Salvador for at least the last four years, according to a new report by the National Labor Committee.  Often forced to work 12-hour shifts, workers were at the factory 61 to 65 hours a week, including 12 to 15 hours of obligatory overtime, which was unpaid.  The workers were paid a below-subsistence wage of just 72 cents an hour, which meets less than a quarter of a family's basic subsistence needs for food, housing, healthcare and clothing.
Read more here...
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-labor-committee-women-paid-10-cents-to-sew-80-peyton-manning-jerseys-for-nfl-and-reebok-83531737.html

Secret memo reveals offer to help topple Saddam before 9/11

Tony Blair offered British support to join the United States in overthrowing Saddam Hussein six months before the 9/11 attacks, it was revealed last night.

A top-secret Downing Street memo, Iraq: New Policy Framework, (says that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction would be used as a reason to take “direct action” against Iraq.

A section of the document titled “Regime change” says:

Read more at....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7009175.ece

13 teenagers shot dead as gunmen burst into party in Mexico border city

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=36215798&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&rpc=23&videoChannel=1&sp=true


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/01/13-teenagers-killed-mexico-gunmen-drug-cartels

• Further 17 wounded in what neighbours believe was case of mistaken identity
• Attack adds to 16,000 killings in war between government and drug cartels

US fails in Iraq and now seeks a truce with the Taliban

Days earlier, the Nato commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, also signalled his belief that four years of hard combat with the Taliban would ultimately be ended by a political deal.

"As a soldier, my personal feeling is that there's been enough fighting," he told the Financial Times. The sentiment was ­echoed last night by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/28/afghanistan-un-peace-talks-taliban

Women told to stop looking for Mr Right

Author claims that over-30s would be happier if they settled for Mr Not Bad.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/24/women-stop-looking-mr-right

UN JOUR, UN NUIT

Into the dark night with photographer Patrick Zachmann...


http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/la-nuit

Life terms for torture murderers

Excerpt:

"....Marks caused by a sharp object were found on his body, described by Home Office pathologist Dr Nigel Cooper as "a grotesque game of noughts and crosses. Boiling water was poured over his feet in the bath, he was held against a hot radiator and scorched with a cigarette lighter."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8474665.stm

George Carlin "Life is Worth Losing"

Spend an hour and watch all seven parts of George Carlin's awesome stand-up. Truly interesting and deep.

Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEfx8OeTA1g

Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzNgMplUNwc&feature=related

Part Three:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrBVabH6Xl4&feature=related

Part Four:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWFMgHaq0fM

Part Five:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWsNeHfEMY&feature=related

Part Six:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHiTNETsny4&feature=related

Part Seven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlzqnYk3ZZw&feature=related