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27. januar 2005
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As the world remembers one genocide...
 It is today 60 years ago that the Red Army overran the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the world started to learn the full extent of the holocaust. An estimated 1.1 milltion people died in the largest of Hitler's horror machines, hundreds of thousands of them were Jews who were gassed to death immediately after being transported to the camp.
Survivors, veteran soldiers and world dignitaries are present, making serious speeches, telling us all that this must never happen again.
Meanwhile, African Union observers say up to 100 people were killed when planes bombed a village in Darfur in Sudan. Mostly, if not exclusively, civilians were killed.
"It is a major ceasefire violation," said Jean Baptiste Natama, a senior African Union official in Sudan.
AU monitors are also investigating reports that 100 more people were killed in a militia raid last week.
Some 70,000 people have died and more than 2m fled their homes in the two-year conflict.
The Sudan government has been trying to blame rebels and militias outside its control for the violence. However, this they will have a hard time explaining away. The Sudanese government is the only party in the conflict with an air force.
10:32:47 PM 
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Global warming watch
So when is that global warming going to hurry up and arrive?
The worst snowfalls in more than 50 years have paralysed Algeria's capital, Algiers, and more than a third of the country, the authorities say.
Yes, I am very well aware that one instance of unusually cold weather is not evidence against global warming. I'll remember it if the alarmists also remember that single instances of unusually warm weather is no evidence for global warming. Remember the heat wave in Europe last summer?
9:50:31 PM
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Shoulder fired missiles seized in Nicaraguan sting operation
This is worrying indeed:
Nicaraguan police, with U.S. assistance in a sting operation, thwarted black marketeers trying to sell SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles capable of downing commercial aircraft earlier this month, raising fears that some missiles already have been sold to terrorists, The Washington Times has learned.
U.S. officials think the missiles are being provided by elements of the Nicaraguan military. One official said intelligence reports suggest Nicaraguan army elements are keeping a secret stash of SA-7s not inventoried by international inspectors.
These "army elements" are understood to be supported by the strengthened but still in-minority Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
7:51:31 PM
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Wikipedia - the unusual and the nonsensical
I just made fun of Britannica, but the Wikipedia actually makes fun of itself under unusual articles. It contains a lot of very good, informative and funny articles.
As Wikipedia has progressed, a lot of very funny early joke articles were deleted. To preserve them, there is Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. There is also a (subjective) "best of" page. Through a massive exercise of willpower, I restrict myself to one example:
Gender analysis: looking at one's sex. One must bend down.
PS: Oh, so much for self-control. One more, from the Announcements page:
I would need the names & addresses of Literary Agents who's business is Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) related. Have used ESP all in my life and written a book about. The manuscript is completed and edited by a person who has nine of her books (not ESP related) published. Please send your suggestions to ***. Thanks for anybody's help. Tom Kallai
He asked for it and he got it:
So you have ESP, right? So, why don't you just... man, this joke writes itself!
Walked straight into that one.
1:06:55 AM
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Wardrobe malfunction still traumatizes children a year later
The guys at The Onion certainly haven't lost their touch:
As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the Super Bowl XXXVIII tragedy, an FCC study shows that millions of U.S. children were severely traumatized by the exposure to a partially nude female breast during the Feb. 1, 2004 halftime show.
"No one who lived through that day is likely to forget the horror," said noted child therapist Dr. Eli Wasserbaum. "But it was especially hard on the children."
Cracks me up.
12:37:13 AM
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