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Maldives issues arrest warrant for ex president Mohamed Nasheed

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Egyptian Soccer Riot Violence Kills At Least 73 (VIDEO)

A horrific riot exploded following an Egyptian soccer match in the Port Said on... more

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petition @current to give @nicolesandler from Radio or Not a show on Current TV

I will let her ustream bio speak for it’s self. Nicole Sandler hosted The... more

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A Passion for Books: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning... more

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Stop SOPA: Protect Your Online Rights!

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is... more

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DJ Mona-Lisa Exclusive News Report: Why I Live on The Streets of America

DJ Mona-Lisa moves to Orlando to be close to Disney World. Never did she imagine the... more

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Eve Arnold, Legendary Photographer of Illuminating Images, Dies at 99

Eve Arnold, who came to be regarded as a grande dame of postwar photojournalism for her bold, revealing images of subjects as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and migratory potato pickers, died on Wednesday in London at the age of 99. Born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1912, Ms. Arnold had lived in Great Britain since 1961.

Her death was announced by Magnum Photos, the photography cooperative to which she had belonged for more than a half-century. She was among the first women Magnum hired to make pictures. Ms. Arnold was a leading light in what is considered to be the golden age of news photography, when magazines like “Life” and “Look” commanded attention with big, arresting pictures provided by photographers who included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White.

Acclaimed for capturing celebrities in intimate moments after winning their trust, Ms. Arnold developed a particular rapport with Marilyn Monroe, the subject of a book of Arnold photographs. Foreshadowing the celebrity portfolios of photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Ms. Arnold captured Joan Crawford squirming into a girdle, Malcolm X collecting fistfuls of dollars at a rally in Washington and James Cagney and his wife doing an impromptu dance in a barn.

But other pictures, just as memorable, were of the unfamous. Among the more than 750,000 Ms. Arnold made were pictures in a South African shantytown, a Havana brothel and a Moscow psychiatric hospital. She documented a small Long Island town, Miller Place, and the first minutes of a baby’s life. She was an official photographer on 40 movie sets.

Her many honors include the Order of the British Empire and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. She was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and named a “Master Photographer” by the International Center of Photography in New York, considered by many to be the world’s most prestigious photographic honor.

This piece includes a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as two documentary short films.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/eve-arnold-legendary-photographer-of-illuminating-images-dies-at-99/Eve Arnold, who came to be regarded as a grande dame of postwar photojournalism for... more

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Casey Anthony Video Diary Found Online (VIDEO)

Could this be footage of a video diary / video blog of THE Casey Anthony? Yes,... more

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Charlton Library Sends Police To Collect Overdue Books From 5-Year-Old

CHARLTON LIBRARY SENDS POLICE TO COLLECT OVERDUE BOOKS FROM 5-YEAR-OLD: Watch The... more

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Year of Global Uprisings, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011

Today we look back at 2011, a year that saw the U.S. killing of Osama Bin Laden, the... more

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Climate Extremes- the year in review -part 1: It is all about humanity

I previously stated that I was going to recap 2011 regarding the extreme climate... more

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Solidarity With Indonesian Punks

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List Of Supporters Of SOPA: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act

Stop the Internet Blacklist Legitimization The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known... more

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Girl taken by Indonesian tsunami found after 7 years

A young girl swept away in the tsunami in Indonesia seven years ago and thought to... more

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Senators in Italy protest against austerity measures

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Pretty Lights Feat.(DJ DX) - Finally Moving

Pretty Lights Feat.(DJ DX) - Finally Moving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEznHFZdYDg

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China invites Kim Jong-un To Beijing

China didn't waste any time.

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Remembering Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 62, ended one of the greater intellectual careers of the last 40 years. Born in Portsmouth, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Hitchens started his career as a Trotskyite at “The New Statesman,” working along with noted authors, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, who would become his lifelong friends. In the early 1980s, he moved to the United States, becoming a citizen in 2007, and began working for liberal magazine “The Nation,” writing some of his earliest attacks on the conservative government and American foreign policy.

A prolific author, Hitchens left behind a massive body of critical writing, with more than a dozen books and hundreds of essays targeting everyone from the British Monarchy to Bill Clinton to George Orwell to God, usually with wit and more often than not, vicious and cutting remarks. Even those who hated his politics could not help but admire his skill as a writer and ability to craft a sharp turn of phrase, and many called him a friend.

Perhaps his most famous book was “The Missionary Position,” a scathing attack on Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity church, an organization that he called a cult. Hitchens described Mother Teresa as a “fraud” and accused her of glorifying poverty to enrich herself and the Catholic church, rather than truly helping the poor. The book infuriated Roman Catholics around the world, as well as politicians and celebrities who he claimed had used the charity and her reputation to mask their own evil deeds.

A later work, “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” accused the former Secretary of State of “war crimes,” and argued that Kissinger should be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture” for his involvement in atrocities in Southeast Asia and Central America. As a critic of the Bush administration’s use of torture, Hitchens filmed himself being waterboarded to demonstrate the cruelty of the practice. Hitchens claimed that, “The official lie about this treatment … is that it 'simulates' the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning.”

Hitchens had an enviable career arc that began with his own brand of fiery journalism at Britain’s “New Statesman” and then made its way to America, where he wrote for everyone from “The Atlantic” and “Harper’s” to “Slate and “The New York Times Book Review.” He was a legend on the speakers’ circuit, could debate just about anyone on anything and won innumerable awards.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, a troublemaker and was a gift, if it dare be said, from God.

This piece includes color photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/remembering-christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from... more

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Anti-African Rally in Tel Aviv

Levinsky Park, December 11, 2011 | Dozens of right-wing Jewish Israelis marched... more

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Paths of Hate: The Destructive Fury of War

“Paths of Hate” is an animated ten-minute short film directed by Damian... more

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