Poor Mojo's Newswire

When the gases are released, they make this one of the most polluted places on the planet, with La Oroya ranking alongside Chernobyl for environmental devastation, according to a US think-tank, the Blacksmith Institute.

The company is a US corporation, Renco Doe Run. The gases are the product from the main smelter a mile or two down the valley. The high mountains around keep out the cleansing winds, meaning that airborne metals are concentrated in the valley. Neither humans nor nature can escape the company's outpourings of poisons. And, despite evidence that gases have been behind the premature deaths of workers and residents young and old, the business-oriented, pro-US government of President Alan Garcia is too afraid of foreign investors to do anything about it.

So, as I said, I installed Juice, which worked perfectly while I was asleep. And I've finally gotten around to installing Miro, previously known as The Democracy player. Which I thought was a pain in the arse. I'm sure it's very clever to run a video tutorial for a vlog-catcher, but, frankly, my VCR doesn't come with a videotape explaining its operation.

And blip.tv? If you're a dedicated vlog site, why can't I get more than 14 kb/s out of you on a Sunday night?

Oh, and to answer a few comments: no, I'm not looking for high production values in podcasts. But I'm also not looking for a gaggle of hillbillies yakking away about nothing in their fucking meth lab. The podcast guides are full of this shit. "Skeeter and Mothra are cousins, brother and sister and husband and wife, and every morning on trailer-radio they shriek in an unknown language about the price of Sudafed while their eighteen children rape dogs in the parking lot outside." Fuck the democratisation of radio. That's nothing but retarded people trying to emulate what they already hear on American radio.

Abhorrent Taboo was mainly a Hordeside RP guild on Ravenholdt, but recently expanded to an Alliance auxillary on Blackwater Raiders. The guild leader posted a somewhat hostile "welcome message" on the BWR forums: "Role-playing is legal. Even if you are role-playing something that would be considered deplorable and highly illegal IRL, it's still just role-playing and isn't subject to any form of disciplinary action. Negative publicity is still publicity. Make a Digg or website about how sick we are. Report us to PervertedJustice. All it does is bring in more members. In fact, the Digg the guy on Ravenholdt made about us was so effective, several people signed up for WoW just to be in our guild. The bottom line is: We're allowed to do what we do on any server we please and no one can do anything about it."

Debat even published an interview with Barack Obama for PI in which Obama said Iraq was "a defeat for America." That major statement would undoubtedly get attention in the American press. Except it turns out that Debat apparently made up the whole interview. Out of thin air. Fake interview. Never happened.