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Monthly Archives: May 2004
Plan Colombia – Hidden Agenda?
Plan Colombia, an ambitious and comprehensive offensive against drug traffickers and the guerilla violence that feeds off of them, was proposed by the intelligence apparatus of the US government under President Clinton in 2000. In it’s current form it involves … Continue reading
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Everyone Deserves a Second Chance
Lots of Americans and other foreigners are arriving in third world countries like Ecuador, attracted by low prices, great weather and easy living. Some are hazy about their origins and pasts, and one can only suspect that they are not … Continue reading
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Swedish Monster on Endangered Species List
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – A government watchdog has asked a regional council why it placed a mythical monster on Sweden’s endangered species list. The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s office in Stockholm also asked the environment court in the Jaemtland province of central … Continue reading
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Premature Burial
The Dowbrigade is infamous among his limited circle of friends for his squeamishness when confronted with on-screen horror or terror flicks. We have been known to leave the room or head for the popcorn stand at the first sign of … Continue reading
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The Fat Boys – Culture of the Abdomen
The socio-cultural and economic dimensions of the obesity gap are clearly visible in the third world and developing countries. Here, (the Dowbrigade is currently reporting from Ecuador) as was the case in the United States in the past, the obese … Continue reading
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Koala Conundrum
A complex and polemic situation. Tourism, preservation of the ecosystem and cruetly to animals often conflict in panoramas of human development. SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — A koala population explosion on an Australian island has prompted calls for 20,000 of the … Continue reading
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Beat Advice for Bloggers
Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of image of subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in a sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion – … Continue reading
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