Balloon Dresses
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Designers have come up with some eye-popping dresses that are made entirely from balloons. Each dress consists of around 300 modelling balloons twisted together and took about ten hours to make. Most of the balloons are 60 inches long and either one or two inches thick. Balloon artist Katie Laibstain, 23, has sold some of her designs for as much as £1,000, even though they are likely to be wearable once only. Fellow balloon artist Steven Jones, 39, said his purple and gold dress took nearly 10 hours to make 'with an additional one and half hours to get the young lady in the piece'.

Dalai Lama Calls for Tibet Probe

Eliot Spitzer is lewd but still shrewd

Spitzer, a moral crusader who humbly announced his resignation days ago, effective Monday, could face other charges too, including soliciting and paying for sex, and illegally arranging cash transactions to conceal their purpose.

"If he's prosecuted under the Mann Act, it's because of who he is rather than what he did," Langum said. "Because he's the governor of New York and because he was a hard-liner on crime."

The act, named for Illinois Congressman James Robert Mann, grew out of hysteria during the turn of the last century over fears that immigrant men were abducting white women and girls who were leaving rural farm areas to work in cities, and forcing them into prostitution, historians said

At last, the EuP has been taken against Chinese oil giant PetroChina/ CNPC. It has sold it's shares in the company.

The European Parliament has disinvested in a firm accused of being one of the chief bankrollers of the Sudanese regime's military campaign in Darfur after pressure from MEPs and human rights activists.

We wait for more action to be taken!

Obama's speech
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/18/778950.aspx

wooow!! Eddie is gone too :-S

A man and woman loved their dogs so much, that when they brushed them they saved their fur. In fact they saved so much, that when the dogs died, they decided to have the fur spun, make jumpers and wear their dogs with pride!

Doggy Fur jumpers!

And.............. who says crime does not pay!

A career crimial was imprisioned for around 12 burglaries. Enough one might think, but he had a sudden guilty conscious (so the do gooders will tell you) and called police to his prision cell where he subsequently confessed to a further 305 burglaries. So for several weeks he was taken around his area by police and he duly showed them exactly where he burgled, including details of how he broke in and what he stole! He was taken to court again and the judge gave him just another two months on his sentance, to the outrage of those whose property he had burgled. The judge was astounded by his memory.

Now I can hear you saying 'well done chap', but when you admit to further crimes in prison you cannot be taken to court again when you are released and effectively come out with a clean slate. He sounds like one clever dude to me!

Five years ago, on the evening of 19 March 2003, President George Bush appeared on American television to say that military action had started against Iraq.

This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie
Patrick Cockburn
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-this-is-the-war-that-started-with-lies-and-continues-with-lie-after-lie-after-lie-797788.html

I love this guys writings:
Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
It is like a history lesson really

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-the-only-lesson-we-ever-learn-is-that-we-never-learn-797816.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZmD04YSqhc

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/aug/1246.html

Ghost flights are an outrage! Empty planes fly long haul! My "favourite" airline BA and still waiting for my compensation for being denyed boarding from Ankara to Heathrow 7 months later!