Gavin, 20 November 05
The temperatures rising and that amphibian sure looks warm… They’ve tried to have UK citizens arrested and held without charge or trial for three months. They’ve flown planes of torture victims to and fro to secret camps. John McCain is shouted down as a liberal for wanting to put restrictions on the amount of torture – though it seems he’s fine with those psychological methods.
Troubling thing – if you’re thinking just a bit of christmas consumerism might help shift the balance – here’s hoping there is something beyond the Amnesty catalog
Amongst their wares are some really nice looking salt lamps. But couldn’t they resist a bit of dodgey pseudo-science sales pitch:
cleansing the air by releasing negative ions which neutralise positively charged particles of air pollution
If this doesn’t get you – nor the descriptions evoking mountain streams and sea breezes – or the thought that the mineral is collected by hand by people of the Himalayan foothills, there is the hard sell for the soft eco-consumer:
the manufacturer returns 5% of the net profit to the local people.
Protect the human, five percent (net) at a time. Hell, the frog’s been boiling for three minutes now and nobody bothered to turn off the gas.
