Martin Gumucio

Welcome to Chako Paul City.

Founded in 1820 by a rich widow. The population is dominated by lesbian lumberjack-ladies and any man that dares to enter gets beaten up by the local police.

The story was run recently by a whole number of magazines that the chinese paper Xinhua News was reporting of  a lesbo town in the northern parts of Sweden.

Searching google very quickly reveals that there seems to be no foundation for this at all. Xinhua news has no such story in its archives, and nobody has been able to produce a link or a screenshot of the original story.

Kind of sobering to see a pure fabrication get so much attention, isn’t it? Thankfully we live in an age where it is possible to quite quickly check sources, use that power and never trust anything too much..

Thanks to Anders for filling me in on the details.

I heard about this on this weeks BBC Digital Planet. It is an effort to map up all the different arguments from the two different sides, and an effort to make the current crisis in Gaza comprehensible.

It’s absolutely impossible, unbelievable, it’s a massacre. “They know no limits now,” the medics report. “They are going crazy.”

Read what is happening in Gaza right now from people that are there: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/

Update 9 / 1:

It is no secret that Israel wants to keep international press and really anyone from reporting out from the Gaza area, and today i noticed that the link above had gone dead. Very depressing and i hope this is due to a technical problem and nothing else.

Meanwhile you can still see the blog here

Update 10/1

They were just doing a page redesign  phew!