Shotgun Weddings Among Korean Celebrities

I've been noticing lately a rash of celebrity weddings in Korea. Nearly all of them, the wife is 3-4 months pregnant. So it makes me wonder: do you have to get knocked up for a male celebrity in Korea to marry you? (That is, you have to be a celebrity yourself, if you're not, then I suppose it doesn't matter if you do get pregnant by a male celebrity, it's just that a female celebrity can't be hidden away, paid off, or hushed up!)

So far there's major Hallryu star Jang Dong Geun and Ko Soyoung. There was Kwon Sang Woo and his celebrity wife. Recently Tablo and his celebrity wife. Park Myungsoo the comedian also married because his girlfriend got pregnant. The guy from One Two also married his celebrity wife because she was pregnant.

I wonder to what extent the robust Sex Industry in Korea has to do with this. Where sex is pretty much readily available not just to ordinary citizens but especially to the rich and famous.

Relocating the Population of an Island

Where in the world is Diego Garcia?

The US and British militaries conspired to kidnap all the residents of the island of Diego Garcia and move them to a nearby island. Being in the Indian Ocean, the Indian Goverment while complaining, did not do what it could have because of some of it's own complicity.

Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia.

By David Vine, Professor of Anthropology

http://flonnet.com/fl2626/stories/20100101262607700.htm

Bush Family Nazi Connections

I first starting hearing about this story before the 2004 election, by the director of the Holocaust Museum, who was doing research on how Nazi money was laundered out of the country in 1945 in the last days of the war. He then came upon a dummy coporation set up in the Netherlands, and then linked it to Prescott Bush's firm in New York. He estimates about 1.5 million dollars at the time was illegally laundered out of Nazi Germany through this dummy corporation and filled the coffers of Wall Street.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, is now in it's 8th Edition.

Big Brother is Tracking You!

This is a link to a Newsweek article on how the Federal Government is tracking the users of cellphones' location in real time!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233916?GT1=43002

This is no longer a conspiracy theory, just an actual conspiracy. In Orwell's 1984, it was "Big Brother is Watching You" now it's "Big Brother is Tracking You"

The Age of Big Brother is here. Now while I'm not opposed to federal investigators trying to track corrupt public officials and human traffickers, such a vast erosion of civil liberties is slippery slope to overly pervasive government and corporate control over the lives of ordinary citizens. Where does the line get drawn as to who the enemy of the state will be? Since rich and powerful smugglers usually have little to no problem bribing, coerecing or otherwise corrupting public officials with their power, influence, and cash, (so they can afford themselves at the least some protection) what happens to local community groups opposed to official policy?

If activity under the Bush Regime is any indication we can be assured that small local activist groups will be targeted while CIA agents (gun runners, human and drug traffickers, and terrorist) will run free.