Who Ate All The Pies

Apparently Doctors in the US have decided that being a 'fat bastard' (aka morbidly obese), is no longer a personal responsibility issue, but is in fact to be classed as a 'disease' - on the par in fact with cancer.

American Medical Association After You!

The approved measure as voted on by the American Medical Association was "RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association recognise obesity as a disease state with multiple pathophysiological aspects requiring a range of interventions to advance obesity treatment and prevention."
 

UGLY MUG

According to press reports a gentleman from the Midlands area of the UK rang the police using the 999 emergency only number ....

Would You?

after the escort/prostitute he had booked, turned out to be ‘uglier’ than expected.

The Lands That Time Forgot

There used to be a time when the countries of Central and South America were safe havens for escaping Nazi's such as Adolf Eichmann, and Otto Skorzeny (the Great Nazi War Hero) for example, set up a secret organization named Die Spinne which helped as many as 600 former SS men escape from Germany to Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, and other countries.

Adolf Eichmann Lived In Argentina.

Communists such as Trotsky, would also use Central and South American countries as 'safe havens' .... he famously was killed by Stalin's assassins in Mexico City.

Leon Trotsky - Mexico

The other group that found safe havens in Central and South American countries, were the US and Italian Mafia such as Lucky Luciano, who used these countries as bases of operations when the US or Italian authorities were breathing too heavily on the back of their necks .... Cuba was effectively a Mafia state for a period just after the Second World War.

But now a different breed see South America, and Ecuador in particular, as the place of preference for claiming refugee status ...... now its alleged rapists such as Julian Assange or traitors such as Edward Snowden (who has also asked Ecuador for Asylum) who appear to be the main claimants to the dubious honour roll who have used Southern American states to escape justice.

Julian Assange and Edward Snowden - Both Claiming Asylum Ecuador

A quick glance at Ecuador shows that this is not the Sweden of South America (which is probably a good thing as far as Mr Assange was concerned) .... in fact its a rather typical country for that region, with a history of corrupt weak civilian regimes, interspersed with a military junta (1972–79), and as recently as 2010 they declared a one-week state of emergency, which put the military in charge of public order and suspended civil liberties. It also has the usual South America habit of exploiting the the indigenous Indians human rights (which amounts to about 25% of the population) .... but, hey, that's par for the course.

So isn't it rather strange that these self styled champions of democratic freedom choose this rather socially backward state as the model 'state' to get to? ..... unless of course its the fact that it has no extradition treaties with most European countries and the US?

Writing on the Wall

Yes for the White Americans the writing is on the wall as concerns the demographics ….. reports by the US Census Bureau confirmed recently that half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a racial or ethnic minority, and is further evidence that the white American will cease to be the majority of the population within a very few years.

Hispanic America, The Future USA?

There has been a small increase in the absolute numbers of White citizens, but this is only due to European immigration in 2012, and the data confirms that for the first time in over a century, there were more deaths than births among white Americans.

 

Lord Shiva In Flood

This image from the Associated Press caught my attention, not so much for the story about Indian unpreparedness for the annual monsoon floods (which is a bit like Siberians not expecting snow in Winter), but for its striking look.

Shiva Caught In Flood

If you were to remove the background and just presented Lord Shiva "the Destroyer" or "the Transformer"  then it could be almost as though Shiva is walking through the destruction. It maybe reminds us of one of the other 'old ones' ...

Shiva Rising From Chaos

Maybe 'Ophion', the first of the Titan Gods to rule Olympus (he was overthrown by Kronos), who was believed to have been born fully formed in the sea, wading ashore from the chaos (in truth some versions suggest he was a snake ... but why ruin a good bit of symbolism).