Category: Current Affairs

Persian students page on the torturing of bloggers

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Here is the page referenced in today’s Day by Day comic strip. It’s a harrowing read… Physical torture, punches and kicks: “he banged my head to the bench that made my recently-operated nose bleed, and later I found out that they broke my nose”; “they punched us”; “we were alone in single cells for months”; … Continue reading Persian students page on the torturing of bloggers

Yet another UN scandal

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In which the remaining shreds of my lingering youthful hope for one world, united in brother/sisterhood and a universal desire for peace and justice, die a horrible, stinking death… Times Online – World: Sex scandal in Congo threatens to engulf UN’s peacekeepers HOME-MADE pornographic videos shot by a United Nations logistics expert in the Democratic … Continue reading Yet another UN scandal

Tsunami, Indian Ocean

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Re: the tsunami, instead of being an ordinary “me too” blogger, I instead present you with a snippet and link to Brian Alexander’s blog. He gives a summary, with some discussion and philosophizing, of information links. The discussion etc. (which I agree with) has much to do with how disappointing the MSM coverage of the … Continue reading Tsunami, Indian Ocean