Japan Proves Tories Wrong

Canada refuses to support the deep sea trawler ban not because of fisher interests, but because of processors who buy their stock from these bulldozers of the sea. As reported here both Hearn and his Newfoundland counterpart say that the deep sea trawlers have done limited damage to fish stocks. For them there is lots of sea left to hoover.

So explain this then...

Japan Admits Exceeding Bluefin Tuna Quota; 'An Horrendous Overcatch'

The Japanese overcatch was uncovered by Australian industry figures who scrutinised publicly available market documents. On a 6000 tonne national annual quota, Japan had been taking between 12,000 and 20,000 tonnes - severely damaging the fishery.

A report by the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin found Japan illegally caught up to $6 billion worth of fish.

If Japan had stuck to its quota, the fish stock would now be five times larger. Japan's quota has been halved to 3000 tonnes a year.

Or this.....Tiny, innumerable, threatened

Now, a new generation of technologically sophisticated factory trawlers has arrived, using vacuuming pumps to suck huge quantities of krill continuously out of the water.One such vessel is expected to take in 100,000 metric tons of krill during the 2005-2006 southern summer fishing season, and may be capable of "hoovering up" as much as 120,000 metric tons each season. Other ships of similar capacity are bound to appear, ultimately threatening the health of the entire ecosystem, unless careful safeguards are quickly put in place.

If we had a deep sea trawler ban then nonee of this would not have happened.

In 2004, the General Assembly passed a nonbinding resolution urging nations to consider temporary bans on bottom trawling. Japan, Iceland, Spain and other nations whose fishing fleets do much of the world's bottom trawling opposed a larger moratorium.

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Job Loss It's The Environmentalists Fault

Two Quebec Ministers in the Harper Government, the Minister of Labour and the Minister of Industry, state that its the environmental movement that have caused the job losses around softwood. Why because the Quebec provincial government imposed environmental laws on the private sector without consulting them and bringing them in gradually. You know like having the private sector use voluntary compliance. Oh gosh I can't wait for the Tories Clean Air Act.

Blackburn said Ottawa's environmental legislation, to be tabled Tuesday, "is a step in the right direction" because it still allows businesses to flourish.

Of course the job loss in the softwood industry has nothing to do with the Tories failure to bail out that sector, while waiting for their Softwood lumber deal to pass the house. Nope, not a thing to do with that. Of course industry can continue to function on the promise of future funding from the softwood deal, yep they can take that to the bank.

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CMHC to be Privatized

Which priority was this?

The Harpocrties will sell anything not nailed down regardless of it's financial success...it's called devolution of federal power.

Ottawa eyes privatization of CMHC
Private companies — mainly U.S.-based multinationals — are ready to rush in to the lucrative mortgage-insurance market that CMHC dominates. And the federal government has signalled it wants out of the housing business altogether, arguing that it's a provincial responsibility. “Trial balloons are being floated around” and can be traced back to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's office, one Bay Street source said. “This has been in the wind for a couple of months now,” said another private sector source.

The success of such endeavours can be seen in the Liberals selling off the student loan progam to the banks. Hows your debt doing?!

And it's a sure fire way of creating a Housing Bubble like they are experiencing south of the border.

And of course privatization of the CMHC will benefit the Tories pals in business but do nothing for ordinary Canadians.


A tip o' the blog to Politique Vert

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Tories Face Farmer Backlash

As I said here before the Conservatives are listening to the smallest minority of the social conservatives in the their party base when it comes to the Wheat Board. Of course it fits with their neo-liberal idoeology, which is why they do it. However when it comes to the broader base of the farming community across the Prairies, the folks who are the real voter base for the Conservatives, well they are about to lose them over this issue. Cause its not just about the Wheat Board, its about democracy. Which of course scares the bejesus out of the Harper autocracy.

Farmers fretting over Wheat Board's future

Doug Chorney's devotion to the Conservative Party runs deep enough that he spent last winter hammering campaign signs into the frozen prairie on behalf of the local Tory candidate.

But Mr. Chorney, a 41-year-old grain farmer, believes the federal government is about to make an enormous mistake by dismantling the monopoly power of the Canadian Wheat Board.

"They've never properly explained how you can have a strong and viable Canadian Wheat Board in a dual market," Mr. Chorney says. "In fact, every credible voice on the subject says it's not possible."

"They're really floundering on this issue," he says.

"If we just get a vote, we'll have no trouble showing that farmers want the CWB to stay," Mr. Chorney says. "We're not scared of a vote, and the other side is. That speaks volumes."

Mr. Strahl wouldn't commit to a plebiscite, he says in an interview.

"All this task force is doing is answering technical questions on what would be necessary to move from a monopoly position to a marketing-choice position," Mr. Strahl says. "You don't need a plebiscite on that."

Tories' plan to end Canadian Wheat Board monopoly has political risks

Alan Skardal has voted for the federal Conservatives for more than 30 years, but insists the ballot he cast for them last Jan. 23 was his last.

The grain and cattle farmer from Baldur, Man., says his commitment never wavered despite Tory-supported agriculture policies that cost him and his neighbours thousands of dollars through the years - from elimination of a grain transportation subsidy to support for meat packers during the mad cow crisis.

But the party's decision to look at ending the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on western wheat and barley exports before letting farmers vote on it is the last straw.

"I don't know who I will vote for in the next federal election, but I do know who it won't be. I will never vote Conservative again," Skardal, 50, wrote this month in a letter to the editor of the Farmers Independent Weekly.

And for more on the Wheat Board check out fellow Albertan and Progressive Blogger Buckdog.

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Global Warming Off's The Vine

Great Headline....but the facts are scary if you enjoy a Nouvelle Beaujolais.

French wine about global warming
Warming climate conditions between 1945 and 1999 have already brought the grape harvest forward by three weeks to a month in many parts of France - to its earliest point for the past 500 years, according to the ONERC.Though for the past 20 years, a general rise in temperatures has spelled good news for the French wine trade, a confirmed trend towards global warming could bring other unwelcome challenges.The summer of 2003 - when a heat wave gripped much of Europe - was an early warning sign: the grape harvest was down 17 per cent on average, almost entirely because of the climate, according to the ONERC.


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Micro Finance Pro and Con

With the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize going to Bangladesh Banker Mohammed Yunnus and his micro-credit bank Grameen, one has to ask why he did not get the Nobel for Economics, considering the neo-liberal American dweeb that did.

I have blogged here on micro-credit before, and it is, despite its faults and limitations, an alternative to NGO's, development Aid from the OECD States and IMF World Bank loans to the State.

Banker to the poor who changed lives of millions
By Justin Huggler. Mohammed Yunus is not a statesman or world leader. He is not feted everywhere he goes. He is an economics professor who lives in a small apartment in Bangladesh.

Banking for the poor Pakistan Dawn

"A person doesn't have to be rich to become creditworthy. Credit, he says, should be accepted as a human right," Younus told Gulf News in an earlier interview. "Credit is the last hope left to those faced with absolute poverty. That is why I believe that the right to credit should be recognised as a fundamental human right," he said. Righting a wrong with alternative credit

However there is a down side as I mentioned. High interest rates, overblown bueracracy, anxieties about paying back the loans, etc.

The Grameen Bank Founder Muhammed Yunus Gets the Nobel Prize.

Are micro-finance institutions exploiting the poor?

Microcredit, Macro Problems


In the Summer issue of the CATO Journal, the American adovcates of Free Trade find that Banking regulations are a problem in the developing world because of the inherent corruption of monopoly. The author of this particular article finds that both Private and State oversight of these banks are equally corrupt.

Conventional government regulation of banks is likely to backfire because the regulators are frequently incompetent or corrupt. Instead of serving the public interest, regulators often end up serving the banking industry and its political supporters.
The most compelling evidence for this point of view is the many banking crises around the world in which large numbers of banks have failed, leaving governments with the cost of compensating depositors. By one count, there were 168 such crises from 1976 to 2002. The usual cause
is that both governments and private owners have turned banks into pyramid or Ponzi schemes in spite of government regulation. The banks are insolvent (bankrupt) because a high proportion of their loans are bad and will never be repaid. Yet the banks can remain liquid and continue to operate for years because new deposits keep coming in. Such schemes are possible because of explicit or implicit government guarantees and insurance of bank deposits that reduce the incentive for the private sector to monitor the financial health of banks.
Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern
by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr., and Ross Levine
Reviewed by Robert E. Anderson
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Volume 26 Number 2, Spring/Summer 2006

While allowing removing deposit insurance from the banks might appear as a good idea on the surface the experience in Alberta shows that it is not. The Dial Mortgage scandal and the Principal Trust scandal of the early eighties shows that those that use uninsured banks can be ripped off just as easily. And I need not remind readers of the ultimate Ponzi scheme in the U.S. the Savings and Loans debacle of the ninties.

A real alternative would be to create peoples banks, credit unions, with low interest rates and micro-loan economics. This would allow the working poor to develop savings thus capital.

An End to Poverty: The Will and the Means

Having survived the depredations of war, sickness and a natural disaster in rural Bangladesh, Pramila was sure her life would unravel completely when a fire destroyed her grocery store, her entire stock, her two cows and her stored-up crops.

Help was at hand, however, thanks to a revolutionary finance system known as microcredit, pioneered in the 1970s by Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank. “The Grameen Bank visited her the next morning,” Yunus records in his autobiographical book, Banker to the Poor. “Part of the loan she used to start up a small grocery store and the rest she invested in fertilizer for her irrigated land. With the help of her three grown sons, she was able to start paying off the loan. Three months later Grameen gave her a housing loan, and she constructed herself a new house.

“She is currently in her twelfth loan. She owns and leases enough land to sell about 10 mounds of rice paddy [unmilled rice] a year, after feeding her whole family” (see our interview with Professor Yunus: “Banking on Trust”).

The fact is that the Grameen Bank is one model, and just that, one that needs to be refined to overcome its weaknesses. Namely that it remains a monopoly bank rather than a peoples bank.

Micro-financing is a model that could be and should be applied in the advanced industrial countries as well as in the newly industrialized and developing countries. It is the missing element in Welfare Reform in North America which does not provide credit opportunities for the poor. Welfare itself is anti savings and credit which leaves the poor with an all or nothing alternative.
A living wage would be the alternative to welfare in advanced capitalist countries.

The other missing element is median financing to worker/producer owned cooperatives. Allowing workers to both create new businesses on a cooperative model as well as to bail out failing capitalist enterprizes that communities rely upon, but which are shut down as inefficient or unproductive. These need to be placed under worker control, and refinanced by a credit system ideally through credit unions, union pension funds and all three levels of government.

New initiatives for micro-credit individual businesses and worker/producer cooperatives could be financed by venture capital such as Labour Funds, which failed because they were directed at long term risky ventures like Bio-Tech. Instead a tax credit system, as well as government banking gurantees could allow for a pool of capital to be used for these purposes.



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Cherniak Unwitting Tory

The Conservatives messaging that you hear on Mike Duffy and Don Newman over Iggys commments about War Crimes is; "this summer the Liberal Leadership Candidates and MPs attacked Israel." It is their defense of Harpers comment that the Liberals are Anti-Semitic errr.... Anti-Israel/Anti-Israeli.(the two terms seem interchangable in the heat of debate on these political shows)

I scratch my head and ask myself, self where have I heard this before. The Liberal Party did not attack Israel but had an internal kerfuffle over comments made by a volunteer for one of the Leadership Candidates, and comments from one MP.

A tempest in a teapot that got blown out of proportion by Cherniak 's vociferous blogging outrage. So now the Tories are using Cherniak against the party. Delicious. This is what happens when you smear people. Chickens, home, roost.

And it seems that Cherniak just doesn't know when to quit....Cherniak in the Globe

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Does Bilingualism Matter?

Nope not in the ROC, only in Quebec. You can barely be understood in English and you can be PM just look at Jean Chretien, but heavens forbid you can't be understood in Quebecois. As I said before Dion's liability, which will be overlooked, is that he is not fluently bilingual.

Dion's English, like Kennedy's French in Quebec, became hard to comprehend when subjects got complicated.

As for the candidates, they came to rumble. Stéphane Dion picked a fight with Rae over fiscal responsibility. Rae pushed back — switching into French to demonstrate that he's more comfortable in his second language than Dion is in his —

So can we drop this crap about bilingualism when what we are really talking about is whether political candidates are fluent in Quebecois patois.


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Naked Newz Update 10/06

Earlier this month we reported the Nude news, stories with Nude in them, this update is for news stories with Naked in them.

Da Newz......

Nice to see she has work after her cocaine debacle.....

Kate Moss has made her most saucy film yet for the Agent Provocateur underwear label.

The supermodel, 32, strips off to just her knickers in the short 30-minute clip.

The film, which begins with Moss wearing a skirt and shirt, is the latest collaboration between the underwear label and the model.

Click here to see a trailer of the movie

A previous clip was so popular that the underwear company's website crashed.


Help crash the website again. Says Rolling Stone she has done more provocative work......

Let’s all just calm down and watch Kate pole dance in that White Stripes video. It’s art. Seriously. It is.


Harry Potter gets Barn chores......

Harry Potter boy star in naked West End role

Daniel Radcliffe may find that the audience is a little too close for comfort when he performs a sensational nude scene on stage in the West End next year. Sixty people from the audience will actually be seated on stage when the Harry Potter star simulates a sex act

Yes but its a sex act with horses like something out of All Creatures Great And Small.

Is being naked sex? I thought it was nudity. Being naked is not sexual, it is natural. Sex is in the mind of the voyuer. And yes being naked is good for the cause just ask PETA.

Would you strip naked for a good cause?
Sometime last year, several female celebrities decided to pose nude for a calendar. They didn't mind because they did it for a "good cause" and any money they received was to be donated (was it for children with cancer? I don't remember). On my campus, similar publications circulated and they were surprisingly popular. Yesterday, there were a group of college-age students parading around the neighborhood half-naked claiming they were raising money for some sort of organization. Is this what our society has come down to? People exploiting their sexuality to raise money in the name of a good cause?

These guys in Germany posed for a good cause.... a rose by any other name......Naked Men's Garden Calendar Fundraiser

These folks also from Germany couldn't wait to do a calendar so they did some direct action... Protestors Strip Naked at Library Threatening to be closed due to lack of use, the Kingsteignton library was the scene of a naked protest held by locals that feel that it is essential the library stay open.

And speaking of performing sex for the public for some folks it just comes naturally....

Naked Truths
Many things have been said of Sook-Yin Lee over the years, but the notion that she lacks sufficient courage has not been among them. Shortbus, which opened here recently, she downplays her iconic boldness to play Sofia, a seemingly gentle couples counsellor with some serious relationship problems of her own. Despite a vigorous—really vigorous, as we see in the movie’s long, highly explicit opening sequence—sex life with her husband, Sofia has never had an orgasm. And thus launches a pursuit that centres the rest of the tale, which takes her repeatedly to the anything-goes nightclub of the title. “Frankly, I don’t think I did any acting before this,” confessed Lee, back in town for the film’s local debut, at the just-wrapped Vancouver International Film Festival.

Wait a minute is this a remake of Deep Throat Canadian style? Well the opening party for the film sort of confirms this...Sex-starved East Village hippies get naked for John Cameron ... Wait a minute when were hippies ever sex starved?


In small town Manitoba they don't want women strippers....but male strippers are popular....

Naked hostility

A strip show set for tomorrow night at the Ste. Anne Hotel has been met by stiff opposition from some area residents, and town council appears to have taken their side. "We don't think exotic dancers are the best image for our community," Mayor Robert Gosselin told the Sun yesterday. Hotel manager Amanda Koltusky said she's surprised at the sudden opposition, especially since it's so close to the show. She said they've been advertising since before the September Long Weekend, and it's not the first time the bar has hosted strippers. Customers were so keen to see four male dancers last April, Koltusky said she had lineups out the door and had to turn people away.

The cheeky writer did manage to get the word stiff in the opening line of an article on strippers.

Its not what you think....RACING NAKED STREAKS

It's about horse racing.

In New Zealand the Invisible Woman appears......

Invisible to the naked eye
You may have noticed the massive billboards stopping traffic on Fanshawe Street and on the Airport Bendon headquarters building- a seemingly naked woman reclining with "invisible" written across her- as if she were anything but! Then, the full story was revealed...and she was wearing the new "Invisible" bra designed-unlike the billboard model- not to ever be noticed at all! The days of the VBL (Visible Bra Line) are numbered thanks to the brand new, ultimate t-shirt bra from Bendon which eliminates dreaded bulging back fat and “double boobs”, resulting from cup spillage; unsightly symptoms which many women can experience with regular bras.

Hypocrisy is spelled A L B A ...sure she has morals...they allow her to pose like this... but she is opposed to being seen naked....go figure....

Jessica Says She Will Never Strip Naked For A Movie

The stunning actress, who shot to fame playing a sexy stripper in ‘Sin City’, insists she will never bare all on the big screen and doesn’t care if her prude attitude harms her Hollywood career. She told Elle magazine

“I don’t do nudity. I just don’t. Maybe that makes me a bad actress.

Maybe I won’t get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety.”

Alba, who was seen almost entirely in a bikini in her 2005 film ‘Into the Blue’, has a no nakedness policy because it goes against her morals.

Bare breasts will get you kicked out of a PG-13 rating, but swearing and violence of course won't.....Scarlett Johansson Was Stopped From Exposing Her Breasts

Getting naked on stage or screen is not limited to female stars, more guys are doing it now...NAKED AMBITION PERHAPS it's something in our water, but James McAvoy has joined fellow Scot Ewan McGregor as an actor who likes stripping off. Like his more famous countryman, Shameless and Narnia star James is fast gaining a reputation for going nude on stage and film. McAVOY: "I LIKE BEING NAKED ON STAGE'

Of course it is smart to make sure you have no security cameras recording you.....but to get busted for public indecency when you are in the privacy of your office afterhours....well that is pushing it......Ohio Prosecutor Naked in Government Building After-Hours ...Maybe he can sue for violating his presumption of privacy.....

Contrary to the headline no the stockbroker is not naked....
Getting naked isn't such a great idea when you're selling options

However as reported here before, naked short selling is right up there in damaging the political economy of capitalism as hedge funds are...

President and CEO, Richard A. Altomare, a prominent and outspoken critic for over ten years on the adverse effect of “naked shorting” on smaller public companies, their stockholders, investors and employees and the severe economic damage of this practice on the economics of States and Localities, heartily endorses the well reasoned comment statement to the SEC dated October 4, 2006, on the scandal of “naked shorting” by the very prestigious North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (NASAA).

The sexism of haute coture and RockNRoll culture shows through in the self deprecations of one Posh Spice.....Victoria says she looks "awful naked" ...Because she has had children and now looks like any other mother. "I've got so much saggy skin on my stomach," Mrs Beckham added: "I might fit into jeans but, trust me, I look really awful naked." Gee what does that say to the other mothers out there ? Get thee into a Burka?

He will eat what? ......Naked chef doesn't have balls Jamie said: "One thing I won't cook is genitals - the balls and the general genital area. Some countries tend to cook that and I'm not into that. I don't mind offal, but not genitals."

Of course even though he wears the apron in the family his refusal to cook balls may have something to do with a slight castration phobia....mind you his comments should be taken with a grain of salt considering it comes from a guy with his mouth full of offal..... Naked truth spices up debate

THEY were comments intended as food for thought but celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's views on working women and the demise of family life has caused tempers to reach boiling point.
The young father-of-two, who wears the apron in his own home, told Good Housekeeping magazine that working mothers were responsible for crumbling family values because they no longer had time to cook healthy meals or ensure their families shared dinner together.

Like the Naked Chef the nudity is TV title titillation only....Close encounter with A Naked Scientist



Ice T who once upon a time was a rapper before he
became a cop on TV has released a new old album entitled Gangsta Rap...sheesh...he ain't no gangsta he's Mr. Law and Order...maybe he should have called it Gangsta Buster......

Or he could have called it the Two Virgins since he and his wife imitate John and Yoko......

The cover shows both Ice T and his wife, CoCo, spread naked across a bed.

Of course John and Yoko were more political, and politically savvy, than Ice T who will not be spied upon by the FBI.....
'The US vs. John Lennon'
The movie covers Lennon's days as a social activist and war protestor, explaining, for example, the seemingly loony publicity stunt of doing press conferences in bed with wife Yoko Ono in 1969 (immortalized by the song Ballad of John and Yoko). In truth, Lennon was more crafty than crazy, figuring he could grab the world's attention by acting outrageously. Lennon succeeded in the publicity arena, but didn't make much headway on his overall goal: to end the war in Vietnam.

Of course the way to woo a girl is to do yoga for her....naked....shows how flexible you are....Fiennes steps out with new love he wooed with naked yoga

The new generation of gaming geeks and nerds have their own version of the Snap On Tools calendar...of course the nude gamers are women models... we all know that the majority of gamers are guys....but would nude geeks and nerds sell asks Joystiq?

Totally Nerdcore has launched a calendar to try and please gamers and simultaneously line their own pockets. It contains full-on nudity, and the site doesn't come close to being SFW, so surf at your own peril. Yes, you can now own a photo of a naked woman wearing nothing but a Nintendo Power Glove, complete with a convenient, built-in hanging loop. It will really tie your game room together.



Spanish political candidate offers 'naked truth' He is wearing clothes in this photo...typical politician can't trust them to really expose themselves to the public.

Albert Rivera, a 26-year old lawyer, holds up a campaign poster showing himself naked, in Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 20, 2006. (AP / Manu Fernandez)

And some folks look plain ugly naked, but they may reveal the secrets to a long life.....They're naked and they live longer

they're ugly, they're naked, their homes are underground, but they may hold a secret that could help humans live longer.

Naked Mole-Rat May Hold Answer to Longer Life


This little guy is ugly but you know what's uglier? A naked Troll. Naked Troll Project reaches its goal

Of course this little fella ain't as cute as Suzanne Sommers but then again the science behind his longevity is better than hers, remember she promoted the flaky thigh master,

SOMERS' HORMONE BOOK CAUSES CONTROVERSY

THREE'S COMPANY star SUZANNE SOMERS has been blasted for writing "nonmedical, misleading and unsubstantiated" claims in her new book on hormone therapies.The 59-year-old actress claims her book AGELESS: THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT BIOIDENTICAL HORMONES contains a "medically validated approach", which can help maintain "a healthy, vibrant, mentally sharp, sexually active life - while building the body's natural defenses against age-related diseases".However, DOCTOR ERIKA SCHWARTZ, from the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in New York City, tells the New York Post, "We believe Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones is detrimental and dangerous to the thousands of women who will read it.

Speaking of TV and Movies faux-auter director David Lynch, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Dune, etc. etc. doesn't like to talk about his movies...Naked Lynch Stripping himself of celluloid, the 'Inland' emperor has no clothes

This gives new meaning to cruising...
Cruise to get religion, get naked, get your Klingon

When Holland America's Maasdam sets sail to the Caribbean in February, the first thing most of the 1,250 passengers will do is shed their clothes. Every stitch. And why not? They will be participating in a nudist cruise — just one of many special-interest sailings that cater to fans of everything from "Star Trek" to chocolate concoctions to the sound of Sinatra. The people who organize such cruises, sometimes chartering an entire ship, say they are a wonderful way for people with similar interests or lifestyles to get together.

If we all fought naked there would be less wars....Naked War by Pickford Brothers


Sometimes women ask the darndest questions.
The near-naked truth Why do men visit strip clubs? Experts offer varied explanations for behavior

And when they don't the answer they want they ask someone else....
She wasn't satisfied with just one guy....Boca Raton woman pens book about ‘527 naked men’

More exploitation of gamer grrls by Adult MSM...that is Main Stream Mens Mags.....Tekken Girls Get Wet And Naked in Maxim

Some folks are crazy enough to go looking for the hottest spot on earth and they still wear their clothes.

Pure, Naked Heat Tourists seek out one of Earth's most scorching spots

This is a way to make sure you weigh in and of course it happened in Thailand home of Ladyboys and the worlds largest sex market and the reporters are still shocked...go figure....Boxer goes naked to make weight for world title fight
Caballero stunned reporters by removing his underwear at the weigh-in for his WBA super bantamweight fight with champion Somsak Sithchatchawal of Thailand.

Cheeky Turk......Top designer's hat trick with naked model

In a cheeky parody, avantgarde Turkish-born, British based designer Hussein Chalayan shocked the Paris Fashion Week crowd yesterday by sending a model down the runway wearing little more than a hat and a fetching pair of heels. Perhaps this pared-down part his collection will be available shops - as the Emperor's New Clothes range?

She would feel right at home at these Nude Festivals........

Running of the Nudes
Spain has long been famous for the running of the bulls at Pamplona. While Hemingway was a big fan, there are those who object to the cruelty factor and, in protest, have staged their own festival — the Running of the Nudes. The festival takes place at the beginning of July a couple of days before the running of the bulls.

With the exception of the presence of the bulls, the general idea is pretty much the same. Both involve crowds of people running frantically through the streets of Pamplona, except that in the one instance everyone is completely starkers. So if you care for the well-being of bulls and are a bit of an exhibitionist then this is the festival for you.

Hadaka Matsuri
When it comes to running naked through the streets, the Japanese in Inazawa City are old hands. Since 767 BC the Naked Man has been taking a nude journey to the Kounomiya Shrine. The Naked Man’s odyssey currently takes place on January 13 each year. As he walks through the town, the Naked Man is said to absorb all the evil and bad luck of the people who touch him and after he has paid his respects to the Shinto deity, he is driven out of the town, taking all the bad luck with him.

Being the Naked Man is no easy task. In the depths of winter he has to walk the streets in a cotton loin cloth, while 9000 men in similar attire jostle frantically to touch him, while ‘guards’ lining the streets douse them all with icy water. Apparently it is a great honour.

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