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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Boredness and Most Wanted Criminals


Bordeness can make you do very strange things, like looking up all the international arrest warrants on the Interpol website.... ( I was VERY bored, ok? )
Interestingly, there is just a minimal percentage of women listed on this page, the main part of them related to abduction of minors from family; but also some few related to fraud or arms trade or money laundering . I wonder whether this confirms my ( feminist?) theories about women being less violent than men etc. or whether this fact radicates in some way in society itself... I'm refering to girls still being educated to be obedient and behaving and so on ( in order to get a good husband :-P ), in this way forming a mental 'barrier" which makes women less susceptible to behave in a violent way or to pass social limits which would leave her in an 'outcast' position......it's maybe a little bit far-fetched, but completely personal theory of mine.

On the other hand, there are some very interesting and multi-faceted women among criminals, like Leila Khaled, a Radical Palestine Activist who was reportedly the first female hijacker ( an TWA flight from Rome to Athens in 1969 ) and is now an active member of the Palestinian National Council.
Or Phoolan Devi, who became famous as 'Bandit Queen' in 1980's India and has turned into some sort of legend in her native country, as she is believed to have taken revenge on a group of men from her village who formerly raped her, and to have given money --in a Robin Hood sort of way--to the poor and homeless after the raids she did with her 'gang' ( --no guarantee for objectivity given on this one; S.K. )...
So, you see, even though there might be as much potential vileness and violence among the 'fair sex' as among their male equivalents, in my opinion it is at least more enjoyable to take a look at the histories of those women who defied society and rules.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Pope goes megalomaniac


Ok, so after all this fuss in the media and the Arabian world going on about Pope Benedict XVI and the lecture he gave in Regensburg University, I decided to take a look at the original text in German.
Actually, it is suprisingly funny...folks I'm not gonna make any judgement about the content of the lecture itself, I just want to stress some irony involved here :

In the lecture, Pope Benedict XVI basically wants to communicate his conviction that Christianity is based on reason and forgiveness ( cf " Kingdom of Heaven" lol ) bla bla bla and confirms his point by quoting a dialogue published by Theodore Khoury which dates from around 1400 ( in this dialogue Islam is represented as a religion that imposes itself by using violence or force, quote : "show me what Mohammed has brought, and you will only find bad and inhuman things like his order to divulge the belief by the use of the sword“----I'm not judging on this one used as a quote either---just quoting, that is).

What really makes me laugh at all this is the point that the whole talking about love, understanding, forgiveness etc has just caused more violence and intolerance.
Big up for civilization and 21st century!!!!!!!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

beyond boredness...




Hi everyone,

I just published a link to my photo gallery...check it out, I hope you like it !
Actually I'm just thinking about buying some small Island ( possibly including some 'Pirates of the Caribbean'-like scenarios ), that would be really great. I like Caribbean, I like pirates, I like Johnny Depp...how come this guy is so mo....ing cool? ?? It's not only about being voted Sexiest Male Movie Star of All Time , most of all he appears not to bother about it...