6/11/03

simcamera is remarkably handy, not just for there or the sims. Handy for taking window or screen shots.

Just finished scraping hair from the sides of my jaws. I've gone from the wild man from Borneo to a more respectable tight-trimmed goatee. Must look good for the rental agent later today. (Convince 'em I'm not a total freakazoid)

Random Scotto factoid: You can replace the word Smurf with dork, and it'll make me laugh. "Papa Dork! Dorkette! Handy Dork!"

Trevor Goddard (the gruff Aussie actor who so expertly portrayed Kano in the first "Mortal Kombat" flick) died of a drug-overdose yesterday. The world is a darker place without him.

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LiveJournal poetry. Add yours by changing the URL at the end

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childhood playtime
than my annoying iron fist
technique on this month
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another. battle scar. I
really industrious
when she
was sage who
left so much regular TV,
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the one of physical therapy..


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of august. Plus side, three
of July, a metal pipe bomb
in a year ago
I need to commit to my life
seems to the head
and headache and Danny.
Hobbit pub, lots of Broward County!

the parent, a 1930s pulp adventure film
being lazy, having failed to gel re:
no roof but I have yahoo
which was 8,
comments on this Friday,
to fulfill an improvised explosive
device IED . A Thracian temple ruin
on DVD,
I have
reached by Wednesday, for
memorial Day I laugh at Englebert
Humperdinck and hopefully be
jealous, ! the ghost
The name Mehboob Khan ... but I know
we may 5, I
missed it
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over. the
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spectrum of being the ancient village
of how do know
if going well at the ugliest
thing I do* know
if going to hack the
Sims Online, sometime soon and all I
had come. Personally, I will be a person.

the hairs on the cutting edge.
This poor so delightful right to crash.
got a double fudge .I
understood ranking
methods. Speaking of dance!
Poor schmuck grabbed his bowel
movements! Surely I crave
me on a lot
with great with blue rosebuds, gnomon, Herman
the vibe there.



"Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to refugees who have fled the stricken country.
...
If a funeral takes place during the day and the burial is performed that evening, the grave may be dug open and the body stolen before morning, said one refugee."
Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children'
By Mark Nicol
(Filed: 08/06/2003)


Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to refugees who have fled the stricken country.

Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".

Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution, but in a report compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund (NKRAF), one refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale. People know where they came from, but they don't talk about it."

The NKRAF, an aid body set up in China five years ago which helps to smuggle food and medicines into parts of North Korea off-limits to WFP officials, interviewed 200 refugees for the report.

"If a funeral takes place during the day and the burial is performed that evening, the grave may be dug open and the body stolen before morning," said one refugee.

Another witness, named only as Lee, 54, said he feared that his missing grandsons, aged eight and 11, had been killed for food. As he searched widely for them, they boys' friends said they had vanished near a market.

Mr Lee said police who raided a nearby restaurant found body parts. The business's owners were shot.

Gerald Bourke, the WFP's representative in Beijing, said it was difficult for his organisation to substantiate the reports of cannibalism as they were unable to get to the markets. "As in any desperately poor country, it is something we might stumble on," he said. "It's not just a problem for us, but also our donors." Because of the food shortages, many people were having to survive on nine ounces of rations a day - less than half the recommended minimum daily intake.

North Korea's ability to feed itself has been hit by floods, deforestation and lack of farm fertilisers and equipment.

The WFP says Japan provided 500,000 tons of food aid in 2001, making it the biggest donor, but sent nothing last year. Food aid from America has been cut from 340,000 tons in 2001 to 40,000 tons so far this year. Washington has pledged to send a further 60,000 tons if Pyongyang lifts restrictions on the operations of agencies such as the WFP.