Huttz World - My weekly selected posts: 2008

Sunday, December 28, 2008

A little blue pill for the Afghan warlord...

A little blue pill for the Afghan warlord...

First published at Qassia:

While the CIA has reportedly a long reputation in winning over fickle Afghan warlords, chieftains and other leaders with the usual variety of inducements: food, pocket knives, tools, mirrors, medicine and surgeries for family members, toys and school equipment, tooth extractions and, even pharmaceutical enhancement for an ailing patriarch with a limp libido - there is always the little blue Viagra pill!

In recent times an aging chieftain reportedly appearing even older than his 60 plus years, with a very well used look and bearded face of a tribal patriarch and husband to four much younger women, gave a regional CIA officer the opportunity to glean some vital local information regarding the possible whereabouts of Taleban, drug dealers, and agents infiltrating from Iran.

On returning to the area four days the CIA man gained the required information from a now fully rejuvenated patriarch who looked like he was literally jumping out of his skin, and also a request for more of those little blue pills! The newest weapon in the CIA arsenal?

This is not a paid advertisement!

Monday, December 15, 2008

Outgoing President George W Bush receives ultimate Arab insult in shoe throwing incident...

Outgoing President George W Bush received ultimate Arab insult with shoe throwing incident...

Outgoing President George W Bush received the ulimate insult in the Arab world when he had a pair of shoes thrown at him by a local journalist at a media conference in Iraq.

Despite the shoe-thrower being arrested, it is unlikely he will be severely punished because most Iraqis have applauded his actions. Shoes are the dirtiest things a person can throw at another because they are the closest to the ground. In Bush's case many Iraqis consider that he is responsible for dragging Iraqi society through the dirt. Interesting!

There was a distinct delay between the throwing of the two shoes - security guards appeared to be slow in reacting.
What if the Iraqi journalist's intentions had been more sinister?

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Key National government introduces fascist 90 day hire and fire law in NZ...

While this is not my political blogsite, this post deals with social issues which must be discussed.

The newly elected rightwing National Government in NZ has introduced under urgency and passed into law a '90 day hire and fire Act' giving small employers(under 20 employees) the legal right to sack workers without notice or grievance procedure within the ninety day period.

While the provisions of the new law are attacked, the worst aspect was the law being introduced under urgency a couple of weeks before Christmas. Under urgency prevents debate in the committee stages of law making.

The only protection workers will have are those under human rights legislation.

I understand a similar situation exists in the US, but it is not enacted in law, but through employers hiring procedures.

Critics claim that compliance costs will increase, as they did when a similar law was enacted in Britain.

I can't understand how it will assist the employment of more workers; it will just make those already at risk more vulnerable, especially the young, ethnic, or foreign workers on short term visas.

The largest union in the country,the EPMU, made the unparalled and unsuccessful petition to the Governor General to intervene.

In the 1990's the then National Government introduced the controversial Employment Contracts Act(ECA) which affected NZ workers in a number of negative and repressive ways and kept National out of office for nine years. There is genuine fear here that the new law may be the thin edge of the wedge!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Taleban promises Pakistan its support in any war with India...

The Taleban has promised Pakistan its support in any future war with India because of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Pakistan and India have become traditional foes over many years and have fought many wars against each other since partition in 1948.

However, analysts have claimed that the offer by the Taleban is a ruse to take the heat off the terrorist group and inflame anti-Hindu sentiments, and to draw support away from Islamabad's fight against Al-Qaida and Taleban militants in the tribal regions close to Afghanistan.

The US is proposing to negotiate withn those involved to come up with plans to avoid any future conflict in the volatile region.

Read

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The world of factualTV - the world's number one destination for factual videos...

The world of factualTV - the world's number one destination for factual videos...

I discovered a new site which may or may not interest you, your family and friends or others here.

factualTV is described as the world's number one destination for factual videos. It has a vast library and a global community solely designed for fans of factual videos and documentaries.

You can search among thousands of titles, well indexed by category, keyword, popularity etc, and find those videos that specifically match your niche interest.

factualTV allows you to download videos for a small fee and sometimes even free of charge.

factualTV is a place where you and others with niche interests can share the same interests on a global scale. Pretty awesome if thats your cup of tea, so to speak!

If this interests you, perhaps you would like to pop over for a visit Here

Sunday, November 2, 2008

This post is to provoke comment - how old's a teenager...

I'll ask you this question fellow bloggers. How old really is a teenager?

New research that has emerged questions the way society puts the various age groups into little pigeon holes: babies, toddlers, infants, children, teenagers, young adults, middle aged, seniors, geriatric etc.

There is now much thought being put into the classification of "teenager". So how old really is a teenager? Thirteen to nineteen?

The research I mentioned above is in relation to the maturation of the prefrontal cortex lobe: the part of the brain that determines our reaction to complex situations, cognitive behaviour etc. Scientists now believe young adult brains may not be fully matured up to 22 years of age, or in some cases 25 years of age.

This is a real concern considering what pressures society puts on young adults and expects them to succeed. We let them drive motor vehicles and drink alcohol in their mid-teens and send them off to war as soon as they are 18 years of age. Even the voting age has been reduced in many western countries. When they stuff up we are ready to jump on them , condemn them, threaten them with violence and prison, but fail to realise they may not actually be mentally mature enough to succeed at the tasks we give them as a society in the first place; mentally they are still young teenagers, even if physically they are fully mature adults!

Think back to an earlier generation who didn't let their older children(teenagers were unknown then) drive motor vehicles, drink alcohol or go off to war until a later age? The pre-world war two generation didn't need research scientists to tell them that young adults didn't fully mature mentally until their early twenties, did they?

What do you think of that fellow blogger?

Read

Friday, October 24, 2008

This Monday 27 October is Labour Day in New Zealand...

This Monday 27 October is Labour Day here in NZ.....

This Monday is Labour Day here in NZ and most workers wouldn't know the history behind it. Oh yeah, its something to do with a holiday for workers, some would say!

I know you celebrate Labour Day in the US too. I'll tell you a little about ours.

It's 165 years since an English carpenter, Samuel Parnell, arrived at Wellington's Port Nicholson in 1840 determined that life would not be a continuation of the work-slavery he and his fellows had previously endured back in the England of those days. After all what would be the point of travelling 12,000 miles down to New Zealand if conditions were to be the same?

On his arrival, a fellow passenger reportedly asked Parnell if he would set up a store for him. He agreed, but as a condition he made his famous and historical statement that is the ethos behind Labour Day here in NZ: He would work only eight hours a day, because his philosophy was that in any 24 hours,eight were for work, eight for sleep and eight for recreation.

Parnell knew he couldn't change things on his own; he needed a movement for change behind him. So he made it a mission to meet incoming ships to the new British colony here and explain to tradesmen just how things were and should be in New Zealand.

According to nzhistory.net.nz a workers meeting was held in October 1840 on Lambton Quay in Wellington at which workers resolved that any tradesman breaking the eight hour rule would be thrown in the drink - would get a dunking in the harbour!

Oh how times have changed, so much for the ethos behind Labour Day, now just a holiday reminding us all of the intestinal fortitude of one Samuel Parnell who started a movement for change in the interests of workers rights, long before there were established trade unions(labor unions)or any inclination for establishing any.

Since the arrival and establishment of Labour Day, and the changes made to workers rights with the advent of the Employment Contracts Act here by the previous right wing National government in 1991, many workers now work in excess of 50 hours a week, and many are paid minimal overtime rates or none at all, levels exceeded only by South Korea.

There was a time in NZ when our trade unions were strong enough to ensure we had at least minimal rights and we considered unions overseas including the US with a little derision, and even more with stronger advocacy from the more militant unions here. So much has been lost during the last 17 years that we need another Samuel Parnell to make some determined decisions. Well lets enjoy Labour Day at least, while we still have it!

Read

Friday, October 10, 2008

Cambodian couple share house literally in divorce settlement - sawn in half...

A real weird story this one! A Cambodian couple have terminated their 18 year marriage with a divorce settlement that sees them share the house - literally!

The wooden house they once shared as a couple has been sawn in half. "Very strange, but thats what my husband wanted," the wife said by phone from a village 62 miles from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Apparently he brought his relatives around with their saws and cut the house in half. Her half is still standing.

Read full story here

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Children face five times the risk of brain cancer from extensive cell phone use...

Scientists have issued warnings to US legislators that the risks of brain cancer from cellphone use is real - people under 20 years are five times more likely to develop brain cancer from cellphone use.

These have come from David Carpenter, director of the Institute of Health and Environment at the University of Albany, who testified before the House sub-committee on domestic policy,"We must not repeat the situation we had earlier with the relationship between smoking and lung cancer." he said.

And another from Robert Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute, who said most studies that claimed no link between mobile phone use and brain cancer were outdated, had methodological concerns and did not include sufficient numbers of long-term mobile phone users.

People under 20 years were five times more at risk and likely to develop brain cancers.

Read here

Friday, September 12, 2008

Husband of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin ordered to testify...

Todd Palin, husband of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, has been ordered to testify to an inquiry into her alleged abuse of power.

The Alaska legislative probe began after Mrs Palin was accused of pressuring staff to fire her sister's ex-husband as a state trooper.

Mrs Palin, the governor of Alaska, denies any improper behaviour. She will not have to give evidence, although twelve others will be required to do so.

Will this be the slippery ice that gives the Obama camp the traction it needs to get a lead in the campaign?

Read story here

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Spring Of Life: Get more diggs for your posts

History to repeat itself in New Orleans...

NEW ORLEANS - With a historic evacuation of nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city's empty streets Sunday night — and even presidential politics took a back seat as the nation waited to see if Hurricane Gustav would be another Katrina.

The storm was set to crash ashore late Monday morning with frightful force, testing the three years of planning and rebuilding that followed Katrina's devastating blow to the Gulf Coast. The storm has already killed at least 94 people on its path through the Caribbean.

Read full story here

Friday, August 22, 2008

Black hole star mystery solved...

Black hole star mystery solved...

The researchers modelled how molecular clouds are sucked into black holes. Black hole theory has always intrigued me

Astronomers have shed light on how stars can form around a massive black hole, defying conventional wisdom.

Scientists have long puzzled over how stars develop in so extreme conditions.

Molecular clouds - the normal birth places of stars - would be ripped apart by the immense gravity, a team explains in Science magazine.

But the researchers say that stars can form from elliptical discs - the relics of giant gas clouds torn apart by encounters with black holes.

They made the discovery after developing computer simulations of giant gas clouds being sucked into black holes like water spiralling down a plughole.

"These simulations show that young stars can form in the neighbourhood of supermassive black holes as long as there is a reasonable supply of massive clouds of gas from further out in the galaxy," said co-author Ian Bonnell from St Andrews University, UK.

Read full story here

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Isaac Hayes, Theme from Shaft singer,Academy and Grammy Awards, Isaac Hayes has died at 65 years...

Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65.

Hayes was pronounced dead at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis an hour after he was found by a family member, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. The cause of death was not immediately known.

With his muscular build, shiny head and sunglasses, Hayes cut a striking figure at a time when most of his contemporaries were sporting Afros. His music, which came to be known as urban-contemporary, paved the way for disco as well as romantic crooners like Barry White.

Read the full story here

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Iran tells the US and other major powers to kiss my nuclear butt...

Iran tells the US and other major powers to kiss my nuclear butt...

Iran said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over Tehran's disputed atomic ambitions.

Western officials gave Tehran two weeks from July 19 to respond to their offer to hold off from imposing more U.N. sanctions on Iran if it froze any expansion of its nuclear work.

That would suggest a deadline of Saturday but Iran, which has repeatedly ruled out curbing its nuclear activities, dismissed the idea of having two weeks to reply

The West accuses Iran of seeking to build nuclear warheads under cover of a civilian power program. Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, denies the charge.

"In whichever negotiation we take part ... it is unequivocally with the view to the realization of Iran's nuclear right and the Iranian nation would not retreat one iota from its rights," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.

Read full story here

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Would you remarry if I died...

Would You Remarry if I died...

"Dear," said the wife. "What would you do if I died?"

"Why, dear, I would be extremely upset," said the husband. "Why do you ask such a question?"

"Would you remarry?" persevered the wife. "No, of couse not, dear" said the husband.

"Don't you like being married?" said the wife. "Of course I do, dear" he said.

"Then why wouldn't you remarry?"

"Alright," said the husband, "I'd remarry."

"You would?" said the wife, looking vaguely hurt. "Yes" said the husband.

"Would you sleep with her in our bed?" said the wife after a long pause.

"Well yes, I suppose I would." replied the husband.

"I see," said the wife indignantly." And would you let her wear my old clothes?"

"I suppose, if she wanted to" said the husband.

"Really," said the wife icily. "And would you take down the pictures of me and replace them with pictures of her?"

"Yes. I think that would be the correct thing to do."

"Is that so?" said the wife, leaping to her feet. "And I suppose you'd let her play with my golf clubs, too."

"Of course not, dear," said the husband. "She's left-handed."

Visit the Qassia site today

Monday, July 28, 2008

Former US astronaut,Dr Edgar Mitchell, claims UFO visits to Earth...

Former US astronaut,Dr Edgar Mitchell, reportedly admitted in a radio interiew recently,"I happen to have been privileged to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real," Dr Mitchell said," Its been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly its leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, its been happening quite a bit..."

Read more here and make up your own mind:

Another story

Sunday, July 20, 2008

He was young, gay, out and murdered...

At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.'s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women's accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he'd paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. "He wore makeup better than I did," says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn't have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran.

But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn't slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class.

Read Newsweek story here

The News at Six - Weird and probably true...

The News at Six...

Weird and probably true:

East German dictator Erich Honecker boasted of his hunting prowess by being photographed with game he'd killed - but his quarry was actually shot by Marx-men lackeys, his cook says in a tell-all book.

"While Honecker and his guests were wading through the woods, most of the hares had already been caught and strung up by professional hunters," wrote Jurgen Krause.

Some of the game was even frozen in advance - "many had not even been defrosted," Krause said.

****
In Malaysia, vanity has a high price.

A businessman there paid $54,300 for a license plate bearing his name, the highest price ever paid for a plate in the country.

The plate, which read simply, "TAN," went to a man identified as, well, Tan, The Star newspaper reported.

****
A small white terrier is back with his family after a mysterious 1,400-mile trip when a microchip implanted in his neck helped identify his owners.

The dog, Kobe, vanished from his Bellflower, Calif., home and was found by a stranger in Denton, Tex.

AVID, the California company that made the chip, flew Kobe from Texas to California and on Thursday he was reunited with his owners, the Ontiveros family.

****
The Taliban have gone to pot.

Canadian troops fighting the terrorists in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy - almost impenetrable forests of 10-foot marijuana plants.

General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian force, said Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover.

The Canadians did them one better - they covered an armored car with the herb as camouflage.

****
An 88-year-old grandma from Magnolia, Del., lost her lawsuit against the Postal Service over a clerk who accused her of being a terrorist.

When Lucille Greene tried to mail 30 fruitcakes as Christmas gifts in 2002, the clerk asked her: "What kind of explosives do you have in here?"

Greene was so flustered, she tripped outside, breaking her glasses and chipping a tooth.

The judge said the clerk was likely "less than courteous."

Other Stories

First published at Qassia:

Moses Code: What is the Moses Code? Fact or fiction. Incredible miracles. Law of Attraction. A new truth or recycled deception? A number of questions need to be answered.

I must say I had never heard of the Moses Code until reading the latest copy of THE GOOD NEWS. There is a new book, a DVD and a movie all of which claim the Moses Code promises the power to transform the world through a secret method supposedly revealed to Moses. But what is the story behind this revealed secret - The Law of Attraction?

On the cover of the newest New Age best seller THE MOSES CODE, author and movie producer James Twyman promises to reveal the secret for the "most powerful manifestation tool in the history of the world". Thats a huge claim!

Thirty five hunded years ago this technology was allegedly used to create some of the most incredible miracles the world has ever seen. Now you can allegedly use this secret - the Moses Code - to help manifest a new world yourself. The new movie "The Moses Code" will teach you how to use the Law of Attraction.

This big secret is allegedly "an ancient technique that has existed in the world for more than 3500 years, but was hidden away long ago because authorities decided it was too powerful to be arbitarily wielded." I bet it was!

So therefore the authors of the Bible - 'The Truth' - arbitarily decided it should not be included in the word of God. Other spiritual leaders who had evolved to the point of understanding the 'Code' and practised it, and had extraordinary results with it, including Jesus Christ,didn't want it passed on; and as a consequence it wasn't included in the New Testament either. Extraordinary indeed!

James Tyman claims the Moses Code will transform your life! Indeed, but whose truth is actually contained in it?

http://www.themosescode.com/

But is the code actually a deception? Read the "Moses Code Deception" by Christopher Lawson,March 10 2008.Or is it really channelled occult teachings?

http://www.spiritual-research-network.com/themosescde.html

The Moses Code

Today the story is allegedly different - mankind is undergoing a spiritual revolution. For the first time in our history man is realising his true potential. Really?

The Moses Code is made up of two words: I Am. The letters indicate that man is the ruler of his own destiny; I Am means that a human being is one with God and has the power to manifest miracles previously thought impossible.

It believes that we all have a part of God or the Supreme Being in us. We can, therefore,manifest what we want in our lives.

The code tells us that we already have the abilty but follow the code in the wrong way. http://www.law-of-attraction-outlined.com

The apostle Paul told people to "test all things" they are taught to prove whether these things are truthful. Seeking the truth never means leaving your brain at the door. Indeed!

Contributor's Note
Article sources:

http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joseph Rettig

The Good News magazine - May - June 2008