Flying in the nude

Fancy flying in the nude?
From this summer, you can.
German travel agency Ossiurlaub.de has started taking bookings for Europe's first nudist flight.The flight, from Erfurt to the Baltic island of Usedom, will begin in July.
55 passengers will be able to disrobe at altitude, although they will have to remain fully clothed until they board, and then put their clothes back on before disembarking.
The crew, sadly, will remain clothed for the duration of the flight - for safety reasons.
Managing director Enrico Hess said, brilliantly, "It's an unusual gap in the market.”
He went on to clarify that he doesn’t want people to “get the wrong idea”.
“It's not that we're starting a swinger club in mid-air,” he said, perhaps with a shrug of his naked shoulders.
“We're a perfectly normal holiday company."
A few drawbacks spring to mind.
Have they thought about the seats?
Will they be rigorously cleaned between flights?
Or will they be covered with those little squares of paper that you usually see on headrests? More importantly, have the passengers thought about how cold it gets on planes?
The idea behind it is to appeal to those from the old East Germany, where nudist holidays were big business in the 1970s and 80s.
They’re not the first, though.
The subtly-named Naked Air had the first ever naked, commercial flight from Miami to Cancun in 2003.
You can see the inaugural flight, in all its glory, at the company’s website.

Erotic bible

German Protestant youth group creates calendar with photos depicting erotic scenes from Bible. It's wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with hair and skin to Bible, pastor says.
A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, including a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson's hair and a nude Eve offering an apple.
"There's a whole range of biblical scriptures simply bursting with eroticism," said Stefan Wiest, the 32-year-old photographer who took the titillating pictures.
Anne Rohmer, 21, poses on a doorstep in garters and stockings as the prostitute Rahab, who is mentioned in both New and Old Testaments.
"We wanted to represent the Bible in a different way and to interest young people," she told.
"Anyway, it doesn't say anywhere in the Bible that you are forbidden to show yourself nude.
"Bernd Grasser, pastor of the church in Nuremberg where the calendar is being sold, was enthusiastic about the project which is explained online.
"It's just wonderful when teenagers commit themselves with their hair and their skin to the bible," he said.

Mexican farmers

Peasants belonging to the group 400 Pueblos, who fight for land rights for poor farmers, march naked in Mexico City.

I'm a Proud Friend of Israel!

I'm a Proud Friend of Israel! Are you?
Since September 2000, Israel and its citizens have been going through dark times.
Homicide bombers blowing themselves up (and by that taking lives of innocent civilians with them) have become an overwhelming, frightening sight in the streets of Israel.
Israel is being compelled to fight a fierce war against the terror infrastructure of the Palestinians, and also against the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel and its citizens need to know their friends and supporters are standing by them at these harsh times!

BOMBA demografica

"Come forse sapete, da decenni polemizzo con i demografi, una classe di baroni universitari che considero indiscussa primatista della mediocrità morale e intellettuale che impera da tempo, in Italia e all’estero, nel mondo accademico. Perché primatista di mediocrità morale ? Perché la demografia, in un’era di esplosione demografica qual è stata quella dell’ ultimo secolo, aveva il dovere morale di testimoniare l’indipendenza della scienza dinanzi alle follie dominanti a livello politico e religioso sulla questione della popolazione. Ma non lo ha fatto quasi mai. Anzi si è docilmente e vilmente allineata alle mode del tempo. Così, per esempio, in Francia è stata complice del nazionalismo forsennato che portò allo scontro con la Germania nella prima guerra mondiale, mentre in Italia è stata fascista durante il ventennio, democristiana nell’era democristiana e comunista durante l’egemonia comunista, ma sempre e comunque cieca, sorda e muta dinanzi alla minaccia sempre più drammatica della bomba demografica.

Ma alla mediocrità morale s’è aggiunta, come dicevo, quella intellettuale, poiché la demografia accademica non ha neppure capito l’immensa portata di quella bomba, cioè il suo impatto devastante su tutte le maggiori tragedie del nostro tempo: dalla fame alla guerra, dalla disoccupazione di massa all’inquinamento, dalla desertificazione del pianeta alle migrazioni disperate. Insomma, la demografia è stata, per il mondo assediato dalla sovrappopolazione, una sentinella codarda e/o addormentata che non ha mai voluto o saputo suonare l’allarme e non sa suonarlo tuttora." da http://www.luigidemarchi.it/

Zwangsburger Aktionswochen

USA - Dothan

January 13, 2008
3 women arrested for dancing nude
 Three women, including an 18-year-old, were arrested for baring all or almost all at a Dothan nightclub that features bikini dancing.
"They were naked, but they had shoes on I believe," said police Capt. Larry Draughon.
The three, who may have been customers at the Stardust Lounge, ended up spending part of the night in jail on misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure.
Arrested about 1:30 a.m. Monday, they were released on $500 bail.
Authorities said two of the women claimed to work at the club, but Jeff Baxter, a member of the corporation that owns the Stardust Lounge, denied that any of the women worked there.
He said it was his employees who called police to report the incident.
"This is a case of girls gone way too wild," he told The Dothan Eagle in a story Thursday.
The Stardust is a bikini bar and its dancers are required to be in compliance with a local ordinance barring nude dancing.
Other laws bar public nudity and lewdness where alcohol is served.
The three charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure were Tonia Schiefer, 27, of Dothan, Kimberly Rena Summers, 21, of Midland City, and Kayla Nicole Stafford, 18, of Westville, Fla.
Lt. Jean Turner, the agent in charge of the Dothan office of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said Stafford and Summers danced completely nude while Schiefer was only topless.
All three women were released from the Dothan City Jail after posting $500 bail.
Attempts to find phone numbers to reach the three for comment were not immediately successful Thursday.
ABC Board agents gave Baxter a citation Wednesday and could seek suspension or revocation of the lounge's license.