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Kyi hungry in Burma
Aung San Suu Kyi has reportedly added a hunger strike to her arsenal of weapons against Burma's ruling junta, which has kept her under house arrest since 1989. Critics fear the United Nations has been duped into believing the junta plans to restore a democratically elected civilian government in 2010. Aung San Suu Kyi has reportedly added a hunger strike to her arsenal of weapons against Burma's ruling junta, which has kept her ... more
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The Death Squads of Baghdad
A video I stumbled across from December of 2006.
Fair warning, it is relatively graphic.
I indeed know this is old news, but I also know this didn't/ doesn't get anywhere near sufficient coverage here in the US.
"The torture and slaughter of Iraqi civilians is reaching unprecedented heights with estimates of up to 655,000 dead.
"Night after night death squads rampage through Iraq's main cities. In Baghdad, up to a hundred bodies a day are dumped on the streets. Often they've been tortured with electric drills. Yet those doing the killing have little to do with al Qaeda or Sunni insurgents.
"The majority of the killings are carried out by Shia death squads who want to turn Iraq into a Shia state aligned to Iran.
"This shocking film investigates the links between the death squads and high-ranking Shia politicians. It reveals how the Shia militia that these politicians control have systematically infiltrated and taken over police units and even entire government ministries. It investigates how these units are closely linked to the death squads, indeed they often are the death squads. And the killers act with impunity -- there's little investigation into their activities." A video I stumbled across from December of 2006. Fair warning, it is relatively graphic. ... more -
Crosswalk Criminal
Whitney Stump was arrested in July of 2007 for vandalism. What he vandalized was a neighborhood intersection, by painting a crosswalk for pedestrians. Whitney Stump was arrested in July of 2007 for vandalism. What he vandalized was a neighborhood intersection, by painting a crosswalk ... more
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Christmas, just another day in Iraq.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two separate suicide attacks, including one apparently targeting workers in a northern oil hub, killed at least 34 people on Tuesday, shattering more than a week of relative calm, local and U.S. military authorities said. BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two separate suicide attacks, including one apparently targeting workers in a northern oil hub, killed at least 34 peo... more
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El Presidente Math
Street artists in Colombia strike back at government propoganda with their own dose of political graffiti.
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