Archive for the 'international' Category
Prediction: Athens in Flames by Next Week
Greece just passed more austerity measures.
On my drive into work this morning, the riots in Greece were the lead story, with the reporter stating that the protests had grown immeasurably from the small group of anarchists the day before. The cops were firing tear gas into the crowd. i don’t know how that’s [...]
Deceipt in Egypt
I can’t find the embed link, but please click and watch.
What’s going on in Egypt is a lot less kosher than you are being told.
Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria
That’s what I call a clusterfuck of mammoth proportions, and it’s a hugely complicated problem: it’s very difficult NOT to celebrate popular revolts against dictators. At the same time, these dictators have been propped up by the United States government, and there’s every reason to expect that if the revolutionaries win, there will be negative [...]
Read More..>>Free the Taraz Ten
This story makes me angry:
The website is called “Becky & Jeremy’s Exciting Adoption Adventure,” created by a Haverford couple to capture a once-in-a-lifetime odyssey to bring home a son from Kazakhstan as well as the joys of raising a first child.
But what has happened so far to Becky Compton, Jeremy Meyer, and the 16-month-old they [...]
Amateur Flyover Video: BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales
Around the 6:33 mark, the narrator/filmer, John Wathen, comes to a pod of 36 dolphins stranded in oil, “struggling just to breathe”. Another 18 are discovered later, and then A GODDMAN FUCKING SPERM WHALE TRAPPED IN OIL UP TO ITS GODDAMN BLOWHOLE. “Across his back we could see red patches of crude as if [...]
Read More..>>Toronto Police Beat, Tase Unarmed Peaceful Protestors
Peaceful G20 protest at Queen & Spadina from Meghann Millard on Vimeo.
It is sometimes difficult to be sad when a cop gets shot.
Shorter Joe Biden: It Is OK For Israel To Kill American Citizens
that’s the only way i can add this:
US Vice President Joe Biden has offered the Obama administration’s strongest defence of Israel’s Gaza flotilla raid to date, in a interview on US television this evening, saying: “Israel has an absolute right to deal with its security interest.”
Appearing on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show, Biden defended Israel’s action [...]
Israel Really Messed Up
I’m not in a particularly bloggy mood this week (which usually means the next 24 hours will be filled with nothing but blogging), but I’ve certainly been reading an awful lot. My main focus continues to be what’s going on in the Gulf, but the Israeli raid on the flotilla to Gaza is causing [...]
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