Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 58 for Monday, February 26, 2007

Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 58 (64 kbps .mp3 9:21 4.3 Mb))

A daily roundup of things that seemed important.


A hall pass for Nirvana.


IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY TWENY-SIXTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN.


A RAPID-FIRE ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT SINCE FRIDAY .


http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/feb/22/kirkrundstrom/

POOR MOJOS NEWSWIRE CONTIBUTOR JIM MARKS THE PASSING OF WITCHITA KANSAS- BASED MUSICIAN KIRK RUNDSTROM ON THURSADAY OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER. HE WAS 38. JIM WRITES: Anybody that saw Kirk play with Split Lip Rayfield knows That THE man and the music he made with his friends would leap into you and make colors brighter, girls prettier, and turn cheap beer drunks into nights you'll never forget. I feel bad for the whole world.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6389105.stm

EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING THE BUGS OUT OF EMOTIONALLY AVAILABLE ROBOTS, ACCORDING TO B-B-C NEWS. Dr Lola Canamero, CO-COORDINATOR OF THE FEELIX GROWING PROJECT, said the aim was to build robots that "learn from humans and respond in a socially and emotionally appropriate manner".

"We are focusing on emotions relevant to a baby robot that has to grow and help humanS with every day life."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6390755.stm

IS ISRAEL IN A STATE OF APARTHEID? THAT'S THE CLAIM MADE BY A UNITED NATIONS ENVOY FROM SOUTH AFRICA WHO HAS STUDIED APARTHEID THERE EXTENSIVELY. John Dugard, THE UN's Special Rapporteur,describes the regime as being designed to dominate and systematically oppress the occupied population, THE PALESTINIANS.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm

CHIMPANZEES HUNTING WITH SPEARS. THAT'S WHAT RESEARCHERS IN SENEGAL HAVE OBSERVED MORE THAN 20 TIMES, ACCORDING TO A STUDY IN CURRENT BIOLOGY QUOTED BY B-B-C NEWS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECORDED HISTORY, chimps WERE SEEN fashioniNG tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.



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http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2007_02_18_archive.html#3692907746792256568#3692907746792256568

What kind of fellow would conservative GOP presidential candidate Duncan Hunter hire to chair his campaign in South Carolina? Screw the Buddists and kill the Muslims, Dr. Henry Jordan said during a meeting of THE South Carolina State Board of Education's finance and legislative committee meeting in 1997. "And put that in the minutes," he added. That item dug up by the Roger Ailes blog.



http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1530247

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DEMAND THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHUT DOWN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS SEEKING ASYLUM WHICH IS HOLDING ENTIRE FAMILIES, INCLUDING INFANTS. THE PRISON IN HUTTO, TEXAS, IS OPERATED BY U-S IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT. DEMOCRACY NOW REPORTED THAT THE ONLY GROUPS ALLOWED IN TO OBSERVE THE CAMP -- Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service - HAVE PUBLISHED A REPORT CALLED "Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families.” D-H-S HAS REFUSED TO MAKE ANY COMMENT ABOUT THE CAMP.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17251571/

THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS THAT SO-CALLED INTERNET ADDICTS IN CHINA MAY FIND TEMSELVES IN MILITARY PRISONS, SUCH AS THE ONE IN DAXING, AWOKEN AT 5:30 A.M. BY A GUARD SCREAMING "THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!" IN THEIR FACES. TREATMENTS INCLUDE STRONG PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND LOW-LEVEL ELECTRIC SHOCK. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN THE CLINIC'S THIRD FLOOR.



http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11250&feedId=online-news_rss20

VOLCABIC LIGHTENING IS A NEWLY DISCOVERED FORM OF ELECTRICAL DISPLAY FOUND AT THE MOUTHS OF ERUPTING VOLCANOES, ACCORDING TO NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM. researchers have shown conclusively that THE new form of low-energy lightning is active during eruptions, arcing between particles as they exit the volcanic vent at around 100 metres per second.



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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070225/pl_nm/usa_iran_dc

SO, WHAT DID SEYMOUR HERSH FIND OUT THIS TIME? IN HIS LATEST NEW YORKER ARTICLE, IT TURNS OUT THAT a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack AGAINST IRAN that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush. THIS, DESPITE REPEATED CLAIMS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THERE ARE NO PLANS TO ATACK IRAN. THE PENTAGON PANEL panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in IRAQ.



http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-23T192723Z_01_N23279121_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-NEWYORK-BEAVER.XML&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-R6-MostRead-3

IT'S BEEN MORE THAN 200 YEARS SINCE BEAVER WERE SEEN IN THE ONCE-DEAD BRONX RIVER, BUT THAT'S JUST WHAT OBSERVERS SAW RECENTLY. ACCORDING TO REUTERS, Wildlife Conservation Society BIOLOGISTS HAVE NAMED THE BEAVER JOSE, AFTER U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano of the Bronx WHO SECURED $14.6 million n federal funding since 2000 TO CLEAN UP THE RIVER. STILL NO BEAVER SIGHTED IN TIMES SQUARE.





http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/tony-blair-reportedly-hired-psychics-to-find-bin-laden/

UK PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR REPORTEDLY HIRED PSYCHICS TO FIND OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ACCORDING TO THINK PROGRESS. Newly declassified documents revealed that the Ministry of Defense spent 18,000 POUNDS of taxpayers’ money in an experiment “to see if volunteers could ’see’ objects hidden inside an envelope.



http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/02/23/second-life-sketches-please-stop-doing-that-to-the-cat/

FROM REUTERS SECOND LIFE BUREAU CHIEF AND INTERNET JESUS WARREN ELLIS COMES THIS STORY OF VIRTUAL TRESSPASSING AND KINKY SEX. FROM THE ARTICLE:

It’s not often you come home to find people having sex in your house....

during the course of the week, I’d spent a couple of hours constructing a simple underground bunker [ON MY NEW LAND], associating sounds with flooring, erecting a blockhouse for a Stargate teleport mechanism and other basic things in order to get a feel for construction.... [LATER THAT WEEKEND] I immediately noticed two pings on the “minimap” radar screen that’s placed in the top left of the Second Life viewer. There were two people on my land.

The first thing I saw in the blockhouse was the avatar of a naked man strapped face-down over a piece of sexual apparatus that presented his backside. I then realised that the blockhouse had been filled with dungeon toys. A couple of dozen of them. And, sitting on a chair I didn’t recognise, was a dominatrix with long dark hair, idly waving a riding crop.

“Please be quiet,” she said. “We are busy.”

“Um, I don’t think so,” I typed.

“Go away,” typed the slave.

“I not tell you to talk,” the dominatrix tapped out.

Feeling more than a little stupid, I explained that they and all their objects had invited themselves on to my land.

“We will be done soon. Please be quiet,” typed the domme, whose name was Mastress and who hailed from somewhere in Germany.



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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED THIS WEEKEND AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:



Al Sharpton's Great-Grandfather was Owned by Strom Thurmond's Great-Great-Grandfather

College bans Wikipedia as research souce

US basically taxes citizens a flat 40%

Marvel's "Civil War" in 30 seconds

Eddie izzard's "The Riches" to Premiere on FX This Monday at 10

The First Russian Space Dogs AND THEIR DOGGY SPACESUITS

Scott Ritter on the Randi Rhodes Show

Upside-down rainbow spotted

Adventuring in Second Life; or, "yeah, but how do I hit people?"

A US combat boot stomping on an Iraqi face forever

NYC KFC/Taco Bell has massive rat infestation

CompUSA closing half their stores

AND

Man jailed 17 months for stealing one soda







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