Best Job in the World – Tuna Fishing!
This has to be the best job in the world. I know.. these guys probably only get paid about $1.00 per hour, but fishing for Tuna for a living. Life could be a lot worse!
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BBC Reporters Caught And Beaten
A team of BBC journalists in Libya were kidnapped by security forces loyal to the Gadaffi.
Reports say they were hooded, imprisoned, beaten, and subject to repeated mock-executions. While imprisoned, they witnessed horrific torture of rebels who’d also been captured by Gadaffi’s forces.
The BBC reports:
One of the three, Chris Cobb-Smith said: “We were lined up against the wall. I was the last in line – facing the wall.
“I looked and I saw a plain-clothes guy with a small sub-machine gun. He put it to everyone’s neck. I saw him and he screamed at me.
“Then he walked up to me, put the gun to my neck and pulled the trigger twice. The bullets whisked past my ear. The soldiers just laughed.”
A second member of the team – Feras Killani, a correspondent of Palestinian descent – is said to have been singled out for repeated beatings.
Their captors told him they did not like his reporting of the Libyan popular uprising and accused him of being a spy.
The third member of the team, cameraman Goktay Koraltan, said they were all convinced they were going to die.
It seems that the events in Tripoli are far from the sort of mere civil unrest we saw in Egypt, which at some high points, managed to put together moments of humanity.
Three Men vs. Fifteen Lions: Its a Good Day If No one Gets Eaten
Three Dorobo men walk right up and swipe a wildebeest from a pride of lions. It’s a fine line between badass and dumbass.
The Electric Proms Is Axed As Part Of The BBC’s Culling
The BBC has announced that its Electric Proms gig series has been axed.
The shows had been running annually since 2006 in London primarily at the Roundhouse venue, and had seen acts including Oasis, Paul McCartney and The Streets play.
The decision to not continue the event comes after the recent announcement that the BBC will be cutting almost 1,000 jobs across its services, and must deliver a saving of £46 million as part of widespread cutbacks.
BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music controller Bob Shennan said: “In the current climate we are faced with making difficult decisions, including how to best deliver high-quality live music programming throughout the year in light of continuing efficiency savings.”
He added: “I feel that Radio 2 can achieve the same impact of the Electric Proms in an alternative, more cost-effective way.”
Corporate Revenge
All of this G20 stuff is sickening. Like burgers. I was whining about brutality in computer games a while back, but here’s a computer game that demonstrates, in a cute and cartooney way, exactly how much more ruthless, rapacious and brutal real life is. I recently watched my way through David Attenborough’s ‘Life On Earth’ series, made back in the 80′s. I can’t recommend it highly enough. 12 hours of beautifully researched and written film about some of the most precious and beautiful wildlife that we’re currently murdering. At the end of it he makes the particularly striking point that this lonely, beautiful Earth we inhabit is the only place in the Universe where life exists. This being the case, I am never going to eat another fast-food meal (this is a real true promise), because I don’t want to be responsible for cutting down rainforest to make room for farming beef. Hopefully you will feel more like I do when you’ve played this game.