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Mon Jul 28, 03:11:26
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At least 4 dolphins have died
in the Dolphin Export Syndicate holding pens, and numerous dolphins
have died after capture by fishermen on being transported to these pens. Some
dolphins are being hooked (gaffed) instead of being caught in nets. The local
coral reefs are being destroyed by dynamite blasting of reef fish for food for
the imprisoned dolphins.
** GreenPeace says they have photos of 2 dolphins being dragged out of their holding pens (new home) in Cancun (DOA) DEAD upon arrival, of course the Marine Park denies this.
And even though it is an out of control civil war going on in the Solomons, one Canadian seems to be making profit from it all - the head of the Dolphin Export Syndicate, Christopher Porter; who told the press "I came to this country (Solomons) with an awareness and understanding of the cultural values dolphins play in the society."
What a dick!
No matter what the outcome...Tourists hold a big part of the blame for these dolphin captures, if they didn't pay the high prices to swim with or pet dolphins (making it a profitable incentive to capture them), there would not be such a market for them and they would still be happy social animals in their pods instead of being imprisoned for life to perform for humans.
Slavery is alive! ...Mexico and the Solomon Islands supports it!
The dolphin trade has been confirmed to be illegal.
Mon Jul 22, 03:24:03
PM
Dolphin kidnapping update from Reuter's...
You can email the SEMARNAT government official who gave approval to this great stupidity at: georgita.ruiz@semarant.gob.mx her name is Georgita J. Ruiz Michael, "Directora General de Vida Silvestre" (Director of Wildlife). Her online profile can be found here.
Mon Jul 22, 01:12:47
PM
Mexico supports the capture and sale of wild South Pacific dolphins! Another
great blunder by Mexican govt. officials ....shit, how can they do this? They
finally calmed down the fury from the dolphin pen (prison) they permitted in
La Paz, (Baja California Sur) leaving one dolphin dead and the owners fleeing
the country. In the "lawless" Solomon Islands fishermen have rounded
up 200 dolphins and are selling them internationally for around $260.00 each
to anybody that will come (bring their own container) and take them away! The
animals are being kept in shallow pens 1 meter (about 3 feet deep) in a bay,
there are no regulations, exporting laws or permits needed in the Solomons.
But Mexico, which signed to an "international convention banning the
trade in dolphins if it harms the species", REPEAT... IF IT HARMS
THE SPECIES... has already issued permits to the Parque Nizuc Marine
Reserve (an amusement park) in Cancun to bring back 30 of them. (all for
the sake of tourism?)
You can email these jerks at: info@parquenizuc.com and voice your opinions!!!
Mon Jul 21, 03:19:22
PM
Popo is making noise again.... "Popocatepetl"
- one of Mexico City's active volcanos has been spewing ash around the city
again, some areas very heavy with eye and throat burning ash as the city has
been on "yellow alert" over the weekend. I remember the ashes that
drifted down to California from Washington when Mount St. Helens erupted. Everybody
was complaining about their car's paint jobs getting ruined from the flakes
of ash. That was nothing compared to the thick coating some areas in D.F. got.
These cars were covered in a fine ash silt, everybody who must be outside is
wearing disposable blue surgery masks to keep from inhaling the ash. These eruptions
seem to go on every year or two, for at least the past few thousand years, coinciding
with the legendary Aztec romance between the warrior Popocatepetl and
the princess Izteccihuatl, when she was killed by a spear he stayed next
to her body awaiting her return. His spirit became a volcano and she became
a mountain created by his volcanic eruptions and they both live in the surrounding
mountain ranges of Mexico City. (so much for today's folkloric story...)
Fri Jul 18, 02:44:20
PM
Kind of a non-Mexico blog.... the French have decided to ban the use of
the word "e-mail" and "email"
in all correspondences, even though most of the French have been using "courrier
electronique" anyway. Well now the French are trying to
push a national campaign to change it to "Courriel" ...okay,
whatever.... just keep sending that "banned" wine & brie (that
is supposed to go to the US) here in Mexico, much appreciated!
By the way, in Mexico they use the words "email" and.... "correo electronico", like most French citizens they don't think of "email" as an American word, just the normal word.
Ya?
Mon Jul 14, 12:36:03
PM
The Circus is in town...... sad (old) animals - I am depressed________
Thu Jul 07, 11:46:02
AM
The "mid-term" elections just finished yesterday in Mexico (now
we can buy beer again)... we are now halfway through President Fox's PAN party
8 year reign. We had quite a battle between the PRI (nazis), PRD
(labor party), PAN(cito), PSN (national party) - by the way, if
I could vote I'd probably vote for them... they had the best
advertising campaign (nobody from that party showed their faces on their
party's posters) sex sells! And then there was the new party in town - CONVERENCIA
(for anybody that can't decide which way to go, like their head candidate who
couldn't vote because his (IFE) ID card had expired!).
But as messed up as Mexican politics and its blunders are... at least they are public blunders and not covered up like the latest US blunders (or should I say atrocities?) Remember a few years back when Congress spend $80 million dollars to prove Little Willie Clinton couldn't keep it in his pants? Now who did that hurt? Okay, his family... the other women's lives possibly? But did anybody die or was our taxpayer billions spent by Clinton to cover it up?
NO
Now we have Little Georgie W. Bush, a no talent/non-leader rich kid... who accepts forged CIA documents to play war games and kill innocent people here and abroad (great for the 2004 Presidential Campaign he must have thought).
CONGRESS???? WHERE ARE YOUR INVESTIGATIONS???
When little Georgie W.'s term is up he can kick back with the millions his daddy (George Bush) is making for him as advisor in the Carlyle Group (a multi-billion dollar organization, one of the nation's biggest defense contractors, global telecommunications and blue-chip investors including major banks, insurance companies, billion-dollar pension funds and wealthy international investors) along with a group of advisors from the Reagan and (1st) Bush administrations. Then little Georgie can go back to his ranch, his Tex-Mex food and his clueless wife ("...what is brie?") and live happily ever after - bastard!
AND ALL THE INNOCENTS...?
Thu Jul 01, 10:52:26
AM
Having trouble with the "new" (beta) Blog software sorry for the
delays... html'ing it until somebody fesses up - is it the software? .....or
is it the server configuration. Life used to be sooooo feliz!
Thu Jun 26, 03:07:05
PM
For those Bug lovers out there, the VW Bug lovers that is.... ("vochos")
the last plant making those ugly bugs (that Mexico has relied on for the past
50 years) in Puebla is finally closing down - making way for the newer bugs
and the flow of other imports to take its place. Soon the green
and white taxis of Mexico City will start to disappear too as the govt.
cleans up!
Gonna miss those ugly bugs............
Thursday, June
19, 2003
So what do you do
when your esposa's ex starts trying to show his macho barrio rooster feathers
and creates trouble for her son and our finances?
Find out who is
pulling his puppet strings?
(probably his new wife...)
Or just confront him with what is going to happen if he starts making these little irritating innuendoes and ludicrous legal documents, and trying to rewrite history. The problem with the mentality of the barrio people in Mexico City... (and elsewhere I suppose) their world is a myth and they all want to be Urban (barrio) Legends in the eyes of their peers. Sad, demented... irresponsible, but "real life" unfortunately. Since most men don't stick around for the family in this country, the mother plays both rolls - so the mother is also the father in most families. Except for commercialism, Father's Day doesn't really exist in Mexico... unless you walk into a Sanborn's or WalMart promotional display. I know I'll probably get alot of shit for this... but most Mexican men are wimps (unfortunately), "mommies boys..." because that is all they had for a figurehead in their family when they were growing up.
Welcome to Mexico...
a country run by mothers!
1:35
PM
Monday, June 16,
2003
A visit to Lagunilla....
once a beautiful and
tranquil trading mecca, mercados bursting with artesanos - now some 20 years
later it is a dangerous and seedy place where depending on the weekend, you
can find
anything. One of the most dangerous mercados in all of Mexico City, Lagunilla...
just a couple of quadras (blocks) from the Zocalo (the center of Mexico, the
Temple
Mayor and the Government Palace). The mercado goes back about 4 city blocks with
only one way in and one way out, and by 6pm the vendors and stands disappear
leaving
a dirty littered barrio behind. Until recently even the policia stayed out of
the area, now they hold a presence around the perimiter, but they don't usually
venture into the mecca...
On any given day,
a truckload of stolen goods, exquisite Mexican antique furniture, or an occasional
artifact from one of Mexico's many ruins can find its way to Lagunilla.
As they say here in Mexico "anything is possible, it might be hard to find,
but anything is possible..."
If you find yourself
curious enough to visit this mercado I would like to warn you to "watch
your back" at all times... especially if you are a foreigner - you are being
watched and usually followed by thieves and robbers and things can become quite
dangerous. So remember, dress-down, no jewelry, always check behind you while
walking and speak Spanish.... or don't speak at all. People do end up robbed
and dead here... but to some the risk is worth the adventure with the possibility
of finding rare and beautiful treasures.
This is not a place
for tourists!
11:05
AM
Friday, June 13,
2003
Getting ready to leave
D.F., it has been another great week... stay tuned in the next few days for some
relived experiences. If you are from one of the newer countries in the world
(like
the US) you will find it mezmerizing and the information infinite (though hard
to obtain except through people... books and internet info dont really exist).
Hard to fathom civilizations building on top of one another, stealing bricks
from
temples and pyramids to make government buildings, churches, entire buildings....
and the Zocalo is just one huge archeological find. A country that is so poor
that when they dig up a street or take out a light post and find ancient ruins
underneath (everywhere) they just mark the area and cover it back up because
there
are no funds to excavate??!!!
Here is a photo
of the Temple Mayor in the heart of Mexico Citys
zocalo... where the "calendar of the sun" (wrongly named the Aztec calendar)
and other great artifacts were discovered.
Mas lunes.......
3:05
PM
Tuesday, June
10, 2003
The artesanos of Mexico
are quietly being removed from the squares and mercados throughout Mexico...they
are the ones who bring in the tourists and help keep the Mexican culture alive.
Why arent the police and government targeting the sellers of all the junk sent
over here from China or all the illegal copywritten products that are knocked-off
daily.... is this the new Mexican cultural heritage that they want to represent
the people of Mexico???
Maybe Im wrong....
maybe tourists want deformed copies of Bob
Sponge, DVDs that a blurrier that slow speed VHS tapes and lets not forget
those valuable pieces of Amber with insects in them - wow how did they find
so many pieces with insects in them??? A clue, if you are going to by amber,
rub it on your clothes then smell it, if it doesnt smell sweet it is resin.
I personally think there is not enough good jewelry in the squares and mercados...
but the artesanos are starving and gotta get a peso any way they can.... so
they are starting to do more production pieces and the unique ones are getting
harder and harder to find..... as if the real Mexican culture.
1:26
PM
Monday, June 02,
2003
Today's topic -
CENSORSHIP
I used to think
that Mexico was overly strict, not letting you bring certain personal possessions
into the country like VHS tapes (could contain pornography...), certain kinds
of books or your favorite Underground Comix collection that you have had since
you were a teenager - R.Crumb,
The Fabulous Furry Freak Bros., Cherry
Poptart (all pornographic.... or as they like to say at Mexico Custom... "immoral").
But at every corner newsstand they sell the adult Amine (Japanese comics) and
the popular "little books" of Mexico cartoon sex that have
been around for years! Soooo, where is the immorality line drawn, does it just
depend on how Catholic the Customs Inspector is?
But, all of this
is starting to look pretty mild compared to China or Saudi Arabia (all Middle
Eastern countries in fact). China seems to be coming out the winner in censorship
lately - especially for those that need the internet to survive, get info or
make a living. China has completely surrounded itself in a Great Red Firewall,
employing 100's of student software talents to squash information outside of
China. Filter King and other major software record attempts to get outside the
Wall, the reports are then sent on to the police. China has more than 30,000
police scanning emails, chatrooms and deleting and reporting "immoral
or detrimental" information to the old patriarchy of China. They don't just
go after the IP or internet cafe, if you are an internet user you have to be
registered with the police or you don't get an email account. There are about
45 million internet users in China now, which is only about 4% of China's population.
If it wasn't for
people trying to break out of the Wall to the rest of the world, the people
of China would know very little about SARS. It is too bad, China now has an
amazing Telecom structure now - but instead of using it in enterprise, they
are using it to squash information and economic growth. Hopefully things will
change by the 2008 Olympics - they have to let the Press get their information
out, over the Wall - ya?
3:20
PM
Tuesday, May 27,
2003
Selling Miracles
(milagros)...Tranquilino (very tranquil...) rides his
bicycle cart every day to Inglesia San Juan and sets up his display of miracles
that he sells. The church itself has an interesting history which as alot of
Mexico churches do, we might get into this at a later date. right now all I
can say is back in the 1500's there used to be underground tunnels connecting
the churches to one another, now these tunnels are part of the sewer system
- sad.
Back to Tranquilino!
If you have a problem, need help for yourself (protection?) or for somebody
else - he has it on his cart. From pictures, stickers, statues of Saints, to
crosses, little miracles (metal charms), you name it! You just better be careful
what you ask (wish) for with these little miracles... because they just might
come true.
3:49
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