Sunday, April 15, 2007
A beautiful sunny day, even if it is cold right now
Remains of Missing American Airman Identified affter63 Years
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/WWII_Veterans_Remains.html
Australian Serbs Raise Funds for Captain Dragan
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21563669-29277,00.html
IWPR stories
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=334894&apc_state=henptri
Families seek justice in U.N. trial on Macedonia war crimes case
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/15/europe/EU-GEN-Macedonia-Seeking-Justice.php
Not directly related to the Balkans but of general interest...
Book by Pope Benedict Out
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/15/news/pope.php
"Faced with the abuses of economic power, faced with the cruelty of capitalism that downgrades man to a commodity, we have begun to see more clearly the dangers of wealth and understand in a new way what Jesus meant when he warned against wealth," the pope wrote.
I can't argue with that...I've felt that it's very wrong to treat humans or even animals and plants just as a commodity. The treatment of life as a commodity is the fault at the heart of Capitalism, Communism, and Fascism. All three do this, Capitalism as pure commodity, communism as practiced, despite Marx's views, as 'working units' and fascism doesn't even give humans the treatment worthy of an animal or a plant.
lice
Two men detained over women trafficking at Danube Bridge-Giurgiu border checkpoint
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n110230
Could Cell Phones Be Killing Bees?
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece
Personally I think this theory is a bit out there, yes I know bees behave differently around power-lines, for that matter it's known that a power-line affects humans as well and strange things happen around them, some of these strange things I have personally observed. Still I think it's a bit of a reach to say that cell phones are doing anything to bees. For one thing cell phones have been in general use for a VERY long time, better than 10 years. CCD is a much newer problem, within the last four years. I'm not saying this theory is impossible, just that I think it's got to be proven. They could run an experiment, I mean how expensive are a few cell phones and a few hives of bees to find out once and for all?
Personal note, yesterday a couple friends came by, to pick up an old immigrant trunk I gave them, I paid $30 for it when I first lived here, and really liked having it, it was so cheap because there's a broken place on it, and even charging what I paid for it really wasn't quite fair, so I felt it was better to just give it to a friend who would like it. My friend paints and this will be a great place to put her art supplies. While they were here, we had a glass of mead together and I saw the first honey bee of the year. This was around 4pm. I had been in a bad mood about things but seeing that little bee cheered me up. My friend is allergic to bees, but remained calm the bee was more interested in me anyway, I happened to be wearing blue, pretty much head to foot. She was probably interested in the mead more than us anyway, but was very docile and didn't go after it aggressively or anything. and later I got better news about my shipping problem, which I already posted about.
# posted by Katja R. @ 9:21 AM 
