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News Briefs 30-08-2004

If news was slow last week, it went away for a holiday over the weekend. So today’s news is a mix of this and that and everything in between.

  • Some guy named Greg Taylor has new articles posted on Graham Hancock’s website. Remember the name, one day he’s going to be famous.
  • Michael Hayes has a new book, High Priests, Quantum Genes. He’s discussing his work over at Graham Hancock’s Mysteries Forum as the Author of the Month. Subscriber response has been disappointing so I highly recommend everyone give his books a read and plague him with questions.
  • The discovery of a 1300-year-old handwritten copy of the Qur’an has been made public.
  • NASA plans rescue shuttles. Thunderbirds are go!
  • Innovative technology may help clean up pollution.
  • Only in Australia: bananas will generate electricity for homes of the future. In related news, monkeys in Australian zoos protest the confiscation of their bananas. Being a Queenslander, Greg Taylor rejoices and throws out his old solar panels.
  • North Korea has an environmental crisis.
  • This could be linked to the Asian continent’s water crisis. This is the perfect example why a big population isn’t necessarily better.
  • Do you enjoy telling people off? According to a study, many people do. Now get back to work, you lazy good-for-nothing TDG readers!
  • A US White House report says people are the cause of global warming. Duh. People are the cause of all the world’s problems.
  • El Nino won’t go away, according to U.N. agency.
  • A mystery beast in Texas ate 35 chickens in one day.
  • The remains of 3000-year-old Pacific Islanders had their skulls removed and replaced with shell bracelets.
  • Artifacts found in Nicaragua could shake up Central American history. Aye carumba.
  • A deceased man’s family find a solid gold Viking arm ring in his attic. In related news, grandparents across the UK have their attics raided by gold-hungry relatives.
  • Flying cars are still decades away. I’m so disappointed, when I was a kid 20 years ago I thought we’d all be driving hover cars and wearing tight-fitting silver suits by the year 2004.
  • Psychologists in Stockholm think that if your boss is a charming, well-educated and polished leader intent on climbing the career ladder, then he/she could be a psychopath.
  • A friendly killer whale is damaging boats. This headline should read: Idiots in boats are damaging killer whale.
  • Dinosaur kangaroos are spotted in Chile. Perhaps eyewitnesses were hallucinating after eating kangaroo chili hotpot that was out-of-date and older than the dinosaurs?
  • Queen Victoria’s underwear secret. Hrmm, I wonder if the founder of Victoria’s Secret lingerie knew about this?
  • A Kentucky Presbytarian studies paranormal phenomena.
  • Scientists say full moons have no influence on earthly events. Oh yeah? Then explain why Bill turned into a werewolf and ate 35 Texan chickens!
  • From Fortean Times, an intriguing tale about a mysterious object photographed on the ocean floor in 1964.
  • The planet Venus may once have been habitable?
  • Ford is destroying its stock of TH!NK electric cars, saying they’re economically unviable.
  • Japanese Salarymen swelter in business suits during summer. Could air-conditioned jackets be the answer? Or society could be a little more lenient and allow for business people to dress practically in the hot summer months, but no, the complicated option is much better, the Salaryman must wear a shirt and tie at all costs! My heartfelt sympathies go out to the very sweaty and forever suffering Salaryman — may you get to crack open an ice-cold Asahi after work my friends!
  • There’s a new book called Bigfoot The Musical. Not to be confused with a broadway production of Jerry Springer the Opera.
  • Are you an American and can’t decide between Bush, Kerry or Nader? Then vote Bono for President (with Tool’s leadsinger James Maynard Keenan as Vice-President). When asked if he’d like to enter politics, Bono replied, “I don’t think I could live with the pay cut or moving to a smaller house.”

Arigato Mitch and Asahi.

Quote of the Day:

I’m sick and tired of party politics. You know, the left, the right – I’m sick of the left, I’m sick of the right. Even the liberals are giving me a pain in the ass. We need new solutions to old problems.

Bono

  1. Hi Rico,

    Well I wouldn’t e
    Hi Rico,

    Well I wouldn’t exactly say ‘new’, as they’ve been posted here for a while. But it looks good to see them elsewhere. 🙂

    Peace and Respect
    Greg
    ——————————————-
    You monkeys only think you’re running things

  2. Maybe two flaws?
    [Generating electricity with] this technology has a flaw: it takes an awful lot of bananas to generate a small amount of power.

    Then, from the article on Asia’s water crisis:
    [In India] Large-scale farmers with powerful pumps and deep wells still get good prices growing water-hungry crops like sugar cane and bananas.

    Since a lot of water is needed to grow both sugar cane and bananas, does this mean OZ will soon be running out of water too, or do they not need to irrigate?

    1. Australian Water = Australian Gold
      Australia is the driest continent on Earth regarding rainfall and fresh-water catchments. We have a population near 20 million at the moment and I’m continually amazed at how big business (such as Jerry Harvey of Harvey And Norman franchise fame) and Governments continue to push for a bigger population. Harvey for example wants a population of over 50 million by 2020!! Australia’s environment can not sustain a population of more than 25 million — we simply don’t have the water resources. I am not exaggerating when I say that this country would be heading for disaster if it gets any bigger. Within a century, wars will be fought over water resources (Turkey and Iraq fired the first shots in the 1990s). With El Nino and changing weather patterns, Australia today is already facing problems with fresh water supplies — it’d be an enormous disaster if our population was doubled what it is now. I’m talking Ethiopian drought and famine proportions.

      So no, I was NOT implying Australia has all the water in the world to waste.

    2. The Sunshine State
      Hi,

      Most places where they grow bananas and sugar cane in Australia (most notably, North Queensland) they have no shortage of water, getting around 100 inches of rain per year. Grandma Grail got around 40 inches in 3 days earlier this year actually…

      Rico on the other hand lives in Melbourne, where they get all four seasons in one day – and yet they still go out in that weather and watch men in tight shorts bounce off each other (and occasionally kicka football).
      😉

      Peace and Respect
      Greg

      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things

  3. charming isn’t he
    Hi,

    “Psychopaths tend to be charming, have a grandiose sense of self, and they like money, power and sex. They have strong verbal skills and can manipulate by telling a good story. Because they can talk big, you think they have vision and can lead an organisation, but a psychopath will mislead,”

    Seriously reading the link headline my first thoughts went to Tony B., then upon reading the article dubya came to mind too, that said there’s plenty more political leaders that fit the bill. As for company execs, the sell share value don’t they ? They don’t need vision just a good speachwriting team.

  4. Greg Taylor is already Famous…
    Indeed, Greg is already famous. His writing is great and he is getting better. This forum will allow the world to know him as good as the great Graham Hancock. I just wish some of my old friends would invest in his talents.

    O.

  5. Funny
    Yo, Bill, are you lurking behind the scenes somewhere? Although others are certainly welcome to enjoy it too, I couldn’t help thinking of you when I saw this:

    From JibJab’s new blog — The Twilighty Zone

    I intended to repost their little video of political satire, but I guess tdg’s firewall objected to the java script.

  6. Chickens and Werewolves
    Hi Rico,

    You can’t prove a thing. That animal never broke my skin that night, old gypsy women are palm-reading, superstitious gossips, and my absence on nights having full moons is mere coincidence. Many people have an aversion to silver and admire healthy farm animals and young, well-proportioned women. (Snarl). ;o)

    Bill

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