Category: News
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Violence Against Journalists Grows in Mexico's Drug War – washingtonpost.com
Armando Rodríguez, at El Diario newspaper, was the top crime reporter in the deadliest city in Mexico. He had seen it all. But this was different. This was personal. Earlier this month, someone had hung the decapitated body of a local drug thug from a bridge on the airport road. Later the head appeared downtown…
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Digital Billboards Become a Bohemian Blasphemy – LA Weekly
A study by the U.S. Green Building Council in Texas found that the yearly carbon consumption fron a single digital billboard is enough to power 13 homes. Beyond excessive power usage, the light pollution these signs emit is so intense that, for instance, one billboard that was erected this year — near Topanga Canyon and…
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From Silver Lake to Suicide: One Family's Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre – News – LA Weeklypage 1 – LA Weekly
“Dear Folks,” the letter begins, “I think of you when I hear a Beethoven symphony or the words of a childhood hero repeated and more beautiful as I approach my forties. The strength and principles you planted into me at an early age, though inconsistent with the larger culture I grew up in, is now…
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Jonestown, 30 years later: original audio recordings from People's Temple and Guyana. – Boing Boing
The section I’ve spent the most time in is the Audiotape Project Index, which includes copies of original recordings made by People’s Temple members in California and Guyana Check it out here.
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In Peru, a Rebellion Reborn – washingtonpost.com
After years in relative obscurity, the Shining Path, one of Latin America’s most notorious guerrilla groups, is fighting the Peruvian military with renewed vigor, feeding on the profits of the cocaine trade and trying to win support from the Andean villagers it once terrorized, according to residents and Peruvian officials. Check it out here.
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Newly Released Photos Drive Speculation About N. Korean Leader – washingtonpost.com
The first batch of Kim-is-fine photos was released Oct. 11, but they flunked the seasonal leaf test. They showed Kim inspecting a military unit near trees whose foliage looked suspiciously summery. The photos released Sunday featured authentic autumnal colors, but newspapers in Seoul have remained dubious, seeking input from photo experts and neurosurgeons.
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Palin Bags a Bigfoot | Weekly World News
Click Note: The Click is politically neutral. WASILLA, AK – Records and eyewitnesses have come to light that prior to announcing her candidacy for the Vice Presidency; Sarah Palin shot a Bigfoot from a helicopter. Check it out here.
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MOSCOW SEX MARKET – Nigeria's Daily Sun
Are you a woman being lured to Moscow, the Russian capital, for prostitution? You had better watch it. You may be heading for an early grave. Moscow is not the best of places for the profession, particularly for blacks. If you dare, you may learn too late, in the hands of a certain group of…
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Desire to build new house pushed me into sale of human parts, says man caught with 9 skulls
A grave digger in Lagos who was arrested recently for being in possession of 9 human heads said it was the desire to build a new house that pushed him into the illegal act. Tunde Adenuga, had been exhuming corpses from the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos, chopping off the heads and other vital parts for…
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Washington County Sheriff’s Office » Bookings
This is me, Trent, talking: This is my new favorite website. Is there any better way to pass the time than to take in these wonderful mug shots and see what they got popped for? Jail Bookings and Citations in the last 48 Hours by time, descending. Includes Cite and Release. Check it out here.…
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The Long Road to Chaos in Pakistan – NYTimes.com
The chaos that is engulfing Pakistan appears to represent an especially frightening case of strategic blowback, one that has now begun to seriously undermine the American effort in Afghanistan. Tensions over Washington’s demands that the militants be brought under control have been rising, and last week an exchange of fire erupted between American and Pakistani…
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On a Vital Route, a Boom in Piracy – washingtonpost.com
Somali pirates plying the Gulf of Aden in speedboats equipped with grenade launchers and scaling ladders have launched what the maritime industry calls the biggest surge of piracy in modern times, sending shipping costs soaring and the world’s navies scrambling to protect the main water route from Asia and the Middle East to Europe Check…
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Point/Counterpoint: Gov. Palin Has No Experience vs. Please Keep Your Voice Down, My Poor Retarded Child Is Sleeping
Could you please stop tearing apart my record so loudly? I just put my special needs child down for a nap. You remember my poor, Down syndrome baby, don’t you? The developmentally disabled child I carried to term despite knowing that he had special needs? The child who would be helpless without my constant care…
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FATFOOT! | Weekly World News
We may soon have to rename Bigfoot “Bigbelly.” Researchers warn that the elusive backwoods creatures are hooked on junk food and have become dangerously overweight! Check it out here.
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Foreign Policy: Seven Questions: Reading the Tea Leaves in Pyongyang
Kim Jong Il’s mysterious failure to show up for his country’s 60th birthday bash has set off a wave of speculation about Dear Leader’s health. To find out what might be happening in Pyongyang, FP spoke with expert Ken E. Gause, who has been studying the North Korean regime for two decades. Check it out…
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Foreign Policy: How to Catch Osama
Seven years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden remains as elusive as ever. Most analysts believe the al Qaeda leader is hiding out in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan. So, FP asked five Pakistani experts to tell us how to catch him. Check it out here.
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The revolution will be streamed: RNC arrests rooted in YouTube
A series of preemptive police raids on Twin Cities anarchist groups prior to last week’s Republican National Convention roiled the blogosphere, after prominent progressive writers such as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake posted video from the scene. But according to a warrant affidavit filed by the Ramsey County sheriff, it was a…
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Right at the Edge – Special Report – NYTimes.com
PAKISTAN’S WILD, LARGELY ungoverned tribal areas have become an untouchable base for Islamic militants to attack Americans and Afghans across the border. Inside the tribal areas, Taliban warlords have taken near-total control, pushing aside the Pakistani government and imposing their draconian form of Islam. And for more than a year now, they have been sending…
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The Final Days of the Presidency of George W. Bush – NYTimes.com
George Bush does not want anyone feeling bad for him. Hates the idea, in fact. Why should anyone feel bad for him? He knew what he was getting into, and he is doing what he thinks is right. But as he enters the twilight of his presidency, he finds it both a liberating and a…
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Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe – NYTimes.com
“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” Malia’s mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. “It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.” Check it out here.