Gentrifiers, penguin dance, & Nuclear myths

"10/28/07 "AP" -- -- WASHINGTON: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster."

I don't know whome to beleave in, man. If I think of the past the same institute said that there is no WMD in Iraq. Now what is the problem. Is there something wrong with the media? Last night I saw the Spooks and the end is, that Iran has got nucleor bomb capability. I was a bit taken back as I was thinking of this article which was last weeks. Hmmmm.....

From: No Evidence Iran Building Nuclear Weapons : Mohamed ElBaradei
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18636.htm


(gentrify)verb: renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations (Example: "Gentrify a row of old houses")

Nice word. I Like it.

"The plots of haunted house films frequently portray gentrifiers as innocent victims and the people they have displaced as monsters."

And

"Haunted-house escapism allows us to evade two fundamental truths: that on some level we participate in the displacement of others, and that we ourselves are vulnerable to displacement and homelessness. At the same time, the stigmatization of the homeless in media and in governmental policy has become so extreme that "we" equate the homeless with monsters. When you lose your home, you lose your membership in the human community. You become something else: a ghost, a monster."

If you like horror flicks look at "Haunted House Films Are Really About the Nightmares of Gentrification"

I am watching a tv documentary about penguins. The penguins take time out to eat at sea. When they change over they do a dance. The commentator said that he does not know why they do it. But when I was watching I thought that it is like the bees doing the bee dance. The penguin who comes out of the sea tells the other penguin where the best food is available. Hmmm....




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