So this is what Canadian football does to the locals:
Ticats fan jailed for Argo ear bite
CBC TORONTO - A Hamilton Tiger-Cats fan has been sentenced to six months in jail for biting off part of a Toronto Argonatus fan's ear.
Christopher Stevenson, 28, was convicted of attacking a Toronto man following the 2002 Labour Day game between the Argos and the Ti-Cats at Ivor Wynne Stadium.
The identity of the assailant was the central issue at the trial.
Stevenson testified it was not him, but a friend who bit the victim's ear.
6 May 1953: Airman Ronald Maddison died less than hour after sarin gas was deliberately dripped onto his arm as part of an experiment at a chemical weapons facility at Porton Down, Wiltshire. Fifty-one years later, a fresh inquest has decided that Maddison was unlawfully killed. His relatives intend seeking compensation from the Ministry of Defence, and more than 500 claims from exservicemen who were involved unwittingly in the WMD tests (and survived) could be forthcoming.
We shouldn't be too surprised about this. Everyone does it to everyone eles, abd we just don't hear about it except when spooks get caught, like the Mossad agents in New Zealand.
Channel Nine's Sunday did a report yesterday morning. Included is an interview with retiring Indonesian intelligence chief General Mahmud Hendropriyono.
Transcript at http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1683.asp
He seems to have secured a mandate based on his policies of pre-emptive war, war on the environment, crony capitalism, veiled racism, homophobia and a fundamentalism that would make the Taliban proud... our country is split down the middle creating a cultural civil war that is not going away any time soon. It is a fight over values in which there is very little middle ground remaining. The stakes are extremely high for all we hold dear.
- John Passcantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace, 4.11.04
Some photos from our visit to the Adelaide Zoo during our recent holiday in South Australia are on-line now in my little-publicised gallery site.
Los Tomateros de Culiacan are leading the Mexican Pacific League! They are 16-9 after beating Los Venados de Mazatlan 10-9 in 11 innings on Thursday.
Come on ye Tomato Growers!
Imagine John Howard ordering the Federal Police to raid a News Limited newspaper office to seize documents. A ridiculous concept, of course. He would never upset Rupert Murdoch like that. Nor would he disturb the Fairfax corporation, or the West Australian, or Rural Press, or any other newspaper publisher in this country... would he?
If it's the National Indigenous Times, he would.
11 November 1918: The armistice that brought the Great War to an end. It was meant to be The War to End All Wars, but as we watch the videophone images from Fallujah, we know that this was a forlorn hope. While intolerance, greed and ignorance prevail in the world's corridors of power, we shall never successfully manage international conflict.
Your Excellency,
On the sad occasion of the death of President Yasser Arafat, we extend our condolences to the Palestinian people and to the leadership of the Palestinian Authority. We also ask God’s comfort for the members of his family in this time of deep grief.
President Arafat will be remembered for bringing the Palestinian people together and for his unique and tenacious contribution to the cause of establishing their national home.
