voodoo chile

I heard a radio report of a Nazi being arrested in South America going by the name of Paul Schaefer, thought nothing of it at the time. I then read about it more in depth in the newspaper over the weekend, and i've managed to track down the story here and here on the BBC site. The thing that caught my eye was that he went on the run and managed to set up a mini German colony in Chile in South America, under the protection of General Augusto Pinochet. The whole notion of setting up a small colony of Germans in South America is pretty surreal, and by the end the land and the business was apparently worth several billion dollars, it all makes for an interesting read.

As i was searching for that story i stumbled across this one as well, this Bush propaganda machine is pretty damn scary. I think it's even more important now than ever to be vigilant over how the news is brought to us, and who is bringing it to us, and that it is actually the news.

Pontless statistic of the week: By country of birth, there were approximately 100,000 more Germans than Bangladeshis living in England and Wales, according to the 2001 census(from here.)