Archive for the ‘regions of the world i'm glad i'm not from’ Category
70,000 jobs a year…but at what cost?
A family in Fort Lupton, Colorado has been living with flammable levels of methane in their tap water since last fall, caused by natural gas drilling in the area not caused by drilling, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission…
In related obviously coincidental news, Colorado governor Bill Ritter is lobbying to remove many environmental regulations that govern natural gas drilling, including those prohibiting a method known to contaminate groundwater…click image for details
The amount oil and gas contributes to Colorado’s economy: at least $23 billion per year…
what do patrick swayze and kim jong il have in common?
click on Dear Leader to find out…
update: boyko borisov’s opposition party wins bulgarian elections
The poorest, most corrupt country in the EU has elected a former wrestler amid accusations of voter bribery…click image for details
In their defense, he was one of the few candidates not currently facing criminal charges…
a love of drama is not an ideal quality of a prime minister
Good luck to the poorest country in the EU…click image for details
This guy sounds like the president in Idiocracy, minus the porn career
warning: what happens in dubai doesn’t stay in dubai
Yes, it’s got nice hotels, but public intoxication and sex outside marriage are illegal…click image for details
requiem pour un con
i don’t know how i missed this, but gabonese dictator omar bongo died last month…after raping his country for 42 years
it’s tragic that dictatorship has been the rule rather than the exception in post-colonial africa…but they were simply filling a void left by imperial governments…who had absolute power…and we all know what that does
very interesting behind-the-scenes look at life in north korea
even if it’s faked…look closer at 7:50…how did a north korean coat factory get singer sewing machines?…
actually, i hope this was filmed on a back lot somewhere in southern california…i can’t even fathom living this way…it’s like something out of a dystopic cold-war-era b movie…
having to listen to shitty, sped-up propagandistic carnival music all day at work would, for me, be the straw that broke the camel’s back…an hour of that and i’d do something guaranteed to get me sent to a re-education camp…
that’s fucked-up…too fucked-up to illustrate with a photo…
gays in iraq had it far better under saddam than they do now…you can probably find straights who say the same thing, but they’re not having their anuses sealed shut with glue and then being forced to take laxatives…
it says a lot about human nature that torture and sadism are some of our most creative outlets…
