December 2010
Afghanistan: 14 Civillians Killed In Roadside Bomb... →
An IED along the highway to Kandahar in Helmand province incinerates a minibus packed with men, women and children. Militants have been planting larger and larger bombs targeting Western troops, but more often the victims are civilians.
Every day across Afghanistan, rural people crowd aboard rickety communal taxis that ply the roads linking remote towns and villages. And every day, they run...
Iraqi Civillian Deaths Continue To Drop →
A glimmer of good news in Iraq: Civilians deaths from violence were down for a third straight year, dipping 15% to 3,976, according to nonprofit group Iraq Body Count. Two-thirds of those deaths were the result of bombings attributed to al-Qaeda in Iraq and other terrorist or sectarian groups. US troops were tied to 32 of the deaths, down from 64 last year. The drop was most pronounced after the...
WatchIraq: A Look Back at 2010 As part of a TimesCast series on the major stories in 2010, Steven Lee Myers, Baghdad bureau chief, takes a look back at the major developments in the country.
Ivory Coast on ‘Brink of Genocide,’ New UN... →
Ivory Coast is “on the brink of genocide,” according to the country’s new United Nations ambassador appointed by Alassane Ouattara, who is regarded by the UN, the African Union and the U.S. as the winner over incumbent Laurent Gbagbo in the Nov. 28 presidential election. Youssoufou Bamba, the Ouattara government’s first officially recognized envoy, said after presenting his credentials today in...
Assange Alerts His Hostages →
Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks.“These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview...
Watchdubstepfriday:
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tracklist 1. Wiley - Don’t Hide Away 2. Terror Danjah - Power Grid 3. Dore - Psychedelic Bagpipes 4. Starkey - Gasping For Air In This Vortex 5. Rustie - Tempered 6. Ashburner - Next Hype 7. Terror Danjah - 808 8. Starkey - 11th Hour 9. Mt Kimbie - Maybes (James Blake remix) 10. L-OW -...
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$85 Roundtrip!!
Atmosphere: If I Was Santa Cluas
MERRY XMAS...
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Video: Its Sick Out Here: Seattle Police Execute... →
iburntrees:
FUCK THE POLICE!
"Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions" →
ryking:
Manning’s friend David House relays Manning’s Guantanamo prison conditions. House is one of the few people authorized to visit Manning.
Go, girl; Seek happy nights to happy days.: Lunar... →
svenpartymaan:
selva: Happens once every 456 years. OMG. This drives me nuts. There are lunar eclipses all the dang time. We’ve had 11 total lunar eclipses just in the past decade.
The distinction about this one is we haven’t had one on the winter solstice since the 1600’s, but no one besides gawthy teens…
This one is special because it coincides with the winter solstice.. FYI
