Himalayan Bamboo

Autumn in Nepal

2007-10-04T18:09:00.000+02:00

The time is fastly approaching for my yearly trip to the Valley. The days are getting shorter here in Denmark, the rain stingier, the trees golden, good reasons to do like birds... fly South!Alas the booking of flights for me and my friend Steen is difficult, and MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE than in the years past! It seems that one of the good things (the ONLY GOOD THING!) of the Maobadi Troubles is

2007-07-31T14:48:00.000+02:00

SLATEfighting words God-Fearing People Why are we so scared of offending Muslims? By Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, July 30, 2007, at 12:33 PM ET During the greater part of last week, Slate's sister site On Faith (it is jointly produced by Newsweek and washingtonpost.com, both owned by the Washington Post Co., which also owns Slate) gave itself over to a discussion about

2007-06-07T14:32:00.000+02:00

June 06, 2007, 6:00 a.m.European LessonsThe Last Days of Europe show how immigration is at the root of Europe's current problems.By Stanley KurtzCan uncontrolled immigration kill a continent? According to Walter Laqueur, it already has. Laqueur, an historian who’s spent a lifetime moving between America and Europe, is a scholar and public intellectual of international

2007-04-19T16:33:00.000+02:00

Egon Bondy prý zemřel na popáleniny (Kliknout na větší obrázek) Egon Bondy BRATISLAVA 19. dubna 2007 | 13:50 Duchovní otec českého undergroundu Egon Bondy zemřel na následky popálenin třetího stupně. Napsal to slovenský týdeník Plus 7 dní, podle kterého se Bondymu stala osudnou cigareta, s níž usnul v

Atheists Won't Save Europe

2007-04-19T11:43:00.000+02:00

It's DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID!By Don FederGrasstopsUSA.com | April 19, 2007An article in The Wall Street Journal (April 12) breathlessly informs us of the latest fad on the Incredible Shrinking Continent -- “As Religious Strife Grows, Europe’s Atheists Seize Pulpit: Islam’s Rise Gives Boost To Militant Unbelievers; The Celebrity Hedonist,” the headline teases. The “Celebrity Hedonist,” isn’t geriatric

More nails into Al-Gore's Coffin

2007-04-18T14:21:00.000+02:00

Galileo Denied ConsensusTrying something new - using Google Docs to PERMANENTLY put stuff on the net. Well, as long GOOGLE is there...The skinny of this excellent article is: "if lawyers were in charge of the (scientific) truth, we'd still be living in the stone-age."

Justice and Embarrasment: Common Nepali reposes "Prachanda's" SUV

2007-04-17T20:30:00.000+02:00

I love it: thief gets what he deserves!I have, since my late, sage-like, grandmother opened my eyes at the stupid age of 14, been of the unshakable belief that socialism, in all it´s flavours: bolševik, nazi, soft social-democracy, all of them is THEFT. Basta!So it warms my stone-cold heart and slakes my thirsty stuborn sense of justice to see the Head Thief gets his comeuppance: from

Europe shows some life-signs

2007-04-17T19:52:00.000+02:00

1, School row over Al Gore filmBy Liz Lightfoot, Education EditorLast Updated: 6:34am BST 17/04/2007Parents who claim that an award-winning film on climate change is inaccurate and politically motivated are threatening a legal challenge over the Government's decision to send it to every secondary school.The film by Al Gore, the former US vice-president, won an Oscar for the best

Horror job!

2007-04-17T11:40:00.000+02:00

Danish prison warden talks about a world most of us doesn't even want to think about:The greatest part of the young men are of non-danish ethnic origin, they have major behavioral problems and a great addiction to hashish.---They get kick out of criminality, which they are not ready yet to give up. They never tried to work and have not wish to try – it doesn't pay enough. Their reaction when

Big Brother barks? Govt unveils shouting CCTV cameras

2007-04-04T16:30:00.000+02:00

Not bad..."Hey, Mr. Hussain, our softaware determinded your back-pack is too heavy! Maybe a bomb? Stop, lay face-down and don´t move..."Big Brother barks? Govt unveils shouting CCTV camerasThe SS and it´s boss Himmler loved gadgets: he leased IBM (early-) sorting machines. He got them for "elections"... but of course it was used to compile registers of Jews, and other "undesirables".His followers

Iran to release sailors 'as gift to Britain'

2007-04-04T16:11:00.000+02:00

HAPPY END? EASTER BUNNY?Or the Ah-Mad-In-a-Jar got cold feet and some tongue-lashing from the Senio Ayatollahs? Just hoping they believed the rumours of Friday bombing...World media News-Flash:Iran to release sailors 'as gift to Britain'By David Blair, Diplomatic Correspondent, and Matthew Moore Last Updated: 2:55pm BST 04/04/2007Iran is to free the 15 sailors and Royal Marines captured in the

Navy NewsStand - Eye on the Fleet

2007-04-04T11:16:00.000+02:00

Download HiRes More Photos 070402-N-6326B-068 SAN DIEGO (April 2, 2007) – The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) gets underway from Naval Air Station North Island on a schedule deployment. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG

Senior Russian general warns Washington to think twice before attacking Iran

2007-04-03T15:12:00.000+02:00

Senior Russian general warns Washington to think twice before attacking IranApril 3, 2007, 2:22 PM (GMT+02:00)The RIA-Novosty news service quotes Yury Baluyevsky, head of the armed forces general staff as sayin Tuesday, April 3: Such an attack would have global implications. “Inflicting damage on Iran’s military and industrial potential might be realistic, but winning [the war] is unachievable –

Iran, Britain back away from tough words | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

2007-04-03T13:44:00.000+02:00

The view of the same map - though from the other side! galleryPhotos[0] = ""; galleryPhotos[galleryPhotos.length]=new PhotoTemplate("http://images.chron.com/photos/2007/04/01/5717193/311xInlineGallery.jpg","", "Image from Iran's official Arabic-language television channel aired Sunday April 1

USS Nimitz, other warships leave San Diego for the Persian Gulf

2007-04-03T13:08:00.000+02:00

SAN DIEGO - The USS Nimitz and several other American warships left San Diego today for the Persian Gulf to join another locally based aircraft carrier strike group already in the region.The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join the San Diego-based John C. Stennis Strike Group and relieve the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to Naval Air Forces Public Affairs.Military officials said in a

Maoists in Singha Durbar.

2007-04-01T16:24:00.000+02:00

Must take break from monitoring the Iran stand-off to shortly comment on the developments in Nepal.Mark this day, whichever way the things turn, it's truly historic: Chaitra 18th 2063B.S. / 2007-04-01C.E.Preliminary portfolios (only 21 out 26 portfolios are known!) look like this:Nepali Congress (5)Girija Prasad Koirala Prime Minister and Defense MinisterRam Chandra Poudel Minister for Peace and

Jerusalem Post: War starts on Good Friday

2007-04-01T03:54:00.000+02:00

'US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday'The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday. According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault

Der Spiegel reports CDU asks for recall of all €U-ambassadors

2007-03-31T23:17:00.000+02:00

Unionspolitiker fordert Abzug aller EU-Botschafter aus TeheranDer stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Unionsfraktion, Andreas Schockenhoff, hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, dass alle EU-Staaten ihre Botschafter aus Iran abziehen. Dies sei die angemessene Reaktion auf die Krise um die 15 von Iran festgenommenen britischen Seeleute.---my transl.:CDU-politician [CDU-CSU is the major partner in Angela

The War starts on April 6th ?

2007-03-31T12:36:00.000+02:00

GPS read-out on the fatefull Friday morning. See the geo-coordinates!A seemingly simple hostage-taking could be how this begins.A series of mushroom clouds could be how it ends.That´s the opinion of a man whose book lies in front of me right here: Kenneth R. TIMMERMAN: Countdown to crisis-The coming nuclear showdown with Iran.And now more'n'more signs of ULTIMATE tensions in the region:The USS

Personal story: Horsens Sygehus - Leg operation

2007-03-31T03:40:00.000+02:00

At last I got my leg fixed - team under Dr. Jesper Kabel removed the nepali-hospital steel-plate. Jesper communicated via e-mail few times his concern about the screws and type of the plate. After nearly 2 hr. operation, during which I was anaesthetised with spinal injection, he told me: "They used the same AO-reconstruction plates as we do in Denmark!" Ah, the pleasures and conveniences of

Global Conflagration Looming: March 2007 mirrors August 1939

2007-03-24T03:58:00.000+01:00

I'll stop posting (and bitching) about Nepal and the relentless drive to power of the MaoBadBoyz™, at least for a while. It pains me beyond sanity to see my beloved, gentle people, my in-laws, my computer students and friends dragged into beastly paws of murderous, useless and passé UTOPIA... Thats'why I am WIDE AWAKE at 4 in the morning - but there is more to it: There is larger game afoot and

Forward to the Past, Comrades!

2007-03-24T00:15:00.000+01:00

Proposal of curriculum of Maoist Education for 9-10 year old nepali children:As if we need more evidence of the inhuman, more: STUPID intentions of MaoBadBoyz! With competences like "How to make and use guns, General introduction to explosives, grenades and booby-traps..." and the like, the children will be "REALLY" well-equiped to live and prosper in the global economy!Or maybe the Jungali

Show whips off the camouflage net

2007-03-23T12:23:00.000+01:00

My kind of show: Military and Art, both in the same venue. Must see this summer, if I summon courage to visit anything in London... A major London exhibition on the history of military camouflage looks at how it took to the field and ended up on the catwalk. Dress the French army as harlequins, Picasso reportedly quipped during World War

Václav Klaus vs. Al-Gore: Answers to questions from the House of Representatives

2007-03-23T10:46:00.000+01:00

Here is the (official from the Castle) english translation of President V. Klaus´ "Answers". Note that this guy is talking NOT about the validity or falsehood of "Climate Change" but mostly about (sinister) aspects of this new religion and their impact on human freedom and development in the 3rd world. Couldn´t agree more...---Answers to questions from the House of Representatives of the U.S.

Gore, not Earth has a fever!

2007-03-22T13:41:00.000+01:00

Totally moronic performance of the Chief Pontif of the Order of St.Gaia. Al-Gore, the "inventor" of internet and icon to the moonbats planetwide raised more then few eyebrows with his hysterical postulates:"The planet has a fever," Gore said. "If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that

Cz. president Václav Klaus compared ecology to totalitarianism

2007-03-21T08:29:00.000+01:00

During visit to the U.S. Czech maverick president, Václav Klaus, compared ecology to totalitarianism.Today he will face Al Gore in the Congress for undoubtedly lively debate...Sorry, take that back: for this you would have to REVIVE and confirm Al Gore has a PULSE.My respect for Pres. Klaus and his pigheadedness is slowly rising. Yes, yes I know of his dubious "privatization" in the early 90-ies

Glass-Bottom Deck 4,000'/1220m Feet Above Grand Canyon Floor

2007-03-20T13:32:00.000+01:00

Update 2007-03-24 12:44There is cool video posted on YouTube:Glass-Bottom Deck to Be Unveiled Tuesday March 7: Tribe member Don Havatone celebrates the 'rollout' of the Skywalk over the Grand Canyon at the Hualapai reservation in Arizona. HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. — Visitors who have marveled at the Grand Canyon's

En stemme fra Harbin (Voice from Harbin)

2007-03-17T13:15:00.000+01:00

This a cri-de-couer from a chinese refugee in Denmark. He´s angry and sad that Århus town will be "partnered" with Harbin. He states the obvious, and in accordance with my life-long observation of the communist religion: it´s organized thievery! And he goes further - he presents evidence that the hospitals in the city harvest (unvoluntary, of course!) organs from Falun Gong prisoners. And this is

'We are being ruled by highway economic bandits'

2007-03-17T08:47:00.000+01:00

No, no. This is not about Nepal and the MaoBadBoyz™. This is another "communist experiment" on live, breathing, human beeings. And the sorry, tragic results thereof...Funny, if in light of the tragedy you could call that, funny thing it´s published in the bastion of lefty Bush-bashing, the pomously named GUARDIAN UNLIMITED.Though the "hot" war is only a year ago, there is distinct simmilarity of

Secular Islam Summit

2007-03-16T03:22:00.000+01:00

The St. Petersburg Declaration March 5, 2007, 15:15We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.We affirm the inviolable freedom of the individual conscience. We believe in the equality of all human persons.We insist upon

New species of leopard with largest fangs in cat world discovered

2007-03-16T02:42:00.000+01:00

New species of leopard with largest fangs in cat world discovered by FIONA MACRAE16:51pm on 15th March 2007 This clouded leopard which feasts on monkeys, deer and pigs has been discovered living deep in the Borneo rain forest. Video...see the clouded leopard in its natural habitat• Windows Media Player• Real Player New species: The Bornean clouded leopard Long thought to be identical to

Guitarist flies... outa´ window...

2007-03-13T10:07:00.001+01:00

clipped from www.tonyrogers.comA teenage guitarist got so carried away while bouncing up and down on his bed mimicking a rock star that he flew out of a third floor window to his death, a Singapore newspaper reported Wednesday. The Straits Times said Li Xiao Meng, a 16-year-old from China who was studying at

Lurte døden i isen

2007-03-10T12:20:00.000+01:00

Tough guy from Alta:----Lurte døden i isenLang erfaring som pilot reddet livet til Svein Tangen Andersen (60) da sjøisen brast under tråkkemaskinen han kjørte på Svalbard.

Nepali Orphanages in 'children for sale' racket

2007-03-10T08:27:00.000+01:00

F*%&king NGOs !The greatest scourge of the country after the MaoBadBoyz and the Murdering Bus Drivers, and probably more destructive in the long run, are the estimated 15,000 NGOs scams! Orphanages in 'children for sale' racketBy Thomas Bell in KathmanduLast Updated: 1:55am GMT 10/03/2007Dishonest agents and orphanages in Nepal are running a multi-million-pound international

Maoists continue to kidnap children!

2007-03-03T07:02:00.000+01:00

Can leopard change his spots? Do Tibetans walk with thermoses? Is Pope catholic?The hypocrit murderers bid their time to TOTALLY enslave nepalis. The terror continues, and the agreements signed with SPA (Seven-Party-Aliance) are just fig leaf for the tired, dying PM Koirala...And this is the country Denmark paid billions (kroner, not rupees!) in the past 30-35

The Royal Moustache

2007-03-02T08:59:00.000+01:00

The Royal Moustache and Baluwataar Tea Pary 25 01 2007 Gyanendra, the ‘ousted’, rejected and ejected (any other words out there?) king, has sported the mustache, huh? Don’t dare to dismiss this as yet another Gyanendra bashing cheap joke but that was the talk of the town today after newspapers in Kathmandu came up with front page image of the monarch in

Chitwan Bus Mishap: 15 dead

2007-02-28T11:21:00.000+01:00

The murdering bus-drivers strike again! Been telling all these years that the bus-drivers were killing more Nepalis than the MaoBadBoyz...Chitwan Bus Mishap: 15 dead; bodies of 6 Indians, 4 Nepalis identified

What´s there for us?

2007-02-28T06:11:00.001+01:00

Our lovely dogs, Bhaire (r) and Shandi (l) checking out the bag Master brought from Bhaktpur. Lovely evening light marking the end of another glorious day in the Kathmandu Valley.Steen took this nice shots Monday afternoon - see more on my ´picasaweb´!

I have fun living like a bird

2007-02-26T21:56:00.000+01:00

Update on the Paragliding Lady:She´s FANTASTIC!I was so fascinated with this lady I found this article in obsure czech paragliding mag :I have fun living like a bird Standa Hlavinka & Ewa Wisnierska Cieslewicz Cześć Ewa! Although you look like a tender Polish girl you speak like a strict German. Your double last name puzzles me too. Who are you in fact? My name is Ewa

Storm whips paraglider to heights of 32,000 ft / 97534 m

2007-02-26T20:04:00.000+01:00

Storm whips paraglider to heights of 32,000 ftBy Nick SquiresA champion paraglider described today her terror at being flung to a height greater than Mount Everest by a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia. Wisnerska rated her chances of survival as "almost zero".Ewa Wisnerska, 35, was sucked so high that she blacked out and became encased in ice.

Where are the guns?

2007-02-26T05:57:00.000+01:00

Military expert raises eyebrows at Maoist weapon stats Kantipur Report KATHMANDU, Feb 24 - Military expert Dr

Monarchy in Existential Crisis

2007-02-26T05:41:00.000+01:00

Rabin Chitrakar laments the decay and chaos of post-monarchy Nepal:Everyone is playing their own trumpets and expects others to listen to none other but them.We all have preferences. Some of us want change NOW. Others want it the RIGHT WAY. Yet others wish neither happened.Whatever the choices, the bloodshed in the past decade has forced our leaders to work for peace. And a peace process is in

Dejà-vue-all-over-again: Prague 1948/Kathmandu 2007

2007-02-25T07:53:00.001+01:00

Prachanda steps up tempo against monarchyMaoist chairman Prachanda has intensified his call for the declaration of republic in the country right away.Addressing a mass gathering in the western Terai town of Butwal on Saturday, Prachanda said the republic should be declared both by the parliament as well as from the streets. He said declaration of republic by parliament alone may not suffice and

Legacy of 9/11: "US senior citizens" not pusies!

2007-02-25T05:48:00.000+01:00

US tourist allegedly kills mugger with bare hands | Jerusalem PostA tour bus of US senior citizens defended themselves against a group of alleged muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, Costa Rica police said on Thursday.One of the tourists - a retired member of the US military - put assailant Warner Segura in a head lock and broke his

Nepali Maoist Arrested Has Links With Laskar -E-Toiba, Says Indian Army

2007-02-22T13:21:00.000+01:00

Nepali Maoist Arrested Has Links With Laskar -E-Toiba, Says Indian ArmyUpdate 2007-02-26Well, maybe we are victims of Indian Army manipulation:Indian Army claim on Maoist-Lashkar nexus fictitious: Indian media

Lösar @ John´s

2007-02-22T12:43:00.000+01:00

Steen took to the floor with Indu. The rock-band was from SIKKIM, and the singer, well she was Eve Cassidy´s younger sister!

Shifting the goalposts

2007-02-22T11:52:00.000+01:00

In The Pioneer > Columnists Sandhya JAIN writes:The stoning of King Gyanendra's cavalcade on the auspicious occasion of Shivaratri, supposedly by egalitarian Hindu devotees objecting to the custom of royal precedence, suggests growing Maoist fears that the forthcoming election to the Constituent Assembly may not give them a winning mandate. Reports from Nepal indicate that the institution of

Maoist excesses go unchecked

2007-02-22T10:49:00.000+01:00

Elderly person thrashed by PLA menDANG, Feb 19 - A group of Maoists from People's Liberation Army (PLA) beat up 63-year-old Tom Lal Bhusal of Saudiyar VDC-2, Beruwa on Sunday.---Maoists continue labor campPYUTHAN, Feb 19- Months have passed since Maoist Chairman Prachanda abolished all "peoples' courts" and "peoples' government" run by them. However, over a dozen people continue to be 'detained'

It snowed again... after 62 years!

2007-02-19T17:55:00.000+01:00

Kathmandu Valley SnowSome pictures from our compound on the day it snowed! Though it was around 13:00 in the afternoon, the tempeature plummeted to +1.6°C/abt.+34.9°F !All afternoon we heard a roar of bikes and cars going flat-out up the hill to Nagarkot.

Bustur varede 25 år

2007-02-06T16:29:00.000+01:00

Udland Jyllands-Posten: "Jaeyaena "Af LASSE NØRGAARD Jyllands-Postens korresondent76-årig kvinde genforenet med sine otte børn, der troede hun var blevet kørt over af et tog. Hun havde blot taget den forkerte bus.Endnu en kvinde, der har været forsvundet i årtier, er dukket op i Sydøstasien. Men i modsætning til "junglekvinden" i Cambodja har den 76-årige Jaeyaena Beuraheng boet i en relativ stor

US. Military shows off new ray gun

2007-01-25T02:16:00.000+01:00

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- The military calls its new weapon an "active denial system," but that's an understatement. It's a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire. Apart from causing that terrifying sensation, the technology is supposed to be harmless - a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons. Military

Only in China? Phone thief repents after 21 text messages

2007-01-24T12:12:00.000+01:00

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese thief has returned a mobile phone and thousands of yuan he stole from a woman after she sent him 21 touching text messages, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.Pan Aiying, a teacher in the eastern province of Shandong, had her bag containing her mobile phone, bank cards and 4,900 yuan ($630) snatched by a man riding a motorcycle as she cycled home on Friday,

Lost in city's jungle

2007-01-24T10:27:00.000+01:00

New immigrant Damon Mootoo had been in New York for less than a day when he faced one of the city's toughest challenges: navigating the confusing streets of Queens.Mootoo spent five long, cold days wandering Jamaica after he got lost during a walk and was too intimidated to ask strangers how to get home. Mootoo, 32, was rescued yesterday by a kindhearted churchgoer who spotted him shivering on a

Flashback on Pinochet & Left on National Review Online

2006-12-14T13:11:00.000+01:00

Flashback on Pinochet & Left on National Review OnlineExcerpts:When South Africa recently refused to extradite the former Ethiopian ruler Mengistu back to his homeland, there was not a peep of protest, though all of Pinochet’s crimes could have been fitted into an afternoon of Mengistu’s rule, and the tortures practiced in Chile were but therapeutic procedures by comparison with what was done in

RIP Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte

2006-12-10T19:35:00.000+01:00

1915 - 2006Thanks to the old bolshevik-killer for changing the tide of not only South American but Global history! MSM of course call him "dictator", but the love and respect of his grateful countrymen tell another story - at the cost of some 3,000 lefties thrown out of helicopters over the Pacific, he righted wrong and set the country on unprecedented democratic and economically liberal path.

The genuflecting Indian

2006-12-05T18:38:00.000+01:00

Well, it´s not only me who thinks about the MaoBadBoyz as murderers, Manvendra Singh even favorably compares Osama bin Loaded to Prachanda - the former killed FAAAR fewer people!The genuflecting Indian is back at it, grovelling lest the foreigner be displeased. It was a trait observed by a number of 19th century British officials. And it is on display even in the 21st century — supposedly the

tihar tika

2006-11-19T11:29:00.007+01:00