Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Greek Demonstrations Turn Violent
Just about each year around this time, students and workers and anarchists from all over Greece take over the Athens polytechnic to celebrate the 1973 student uprising. The students were protesting the Greek military agenda that ruled the nation from 1967-1974. To commemorate the uprising every year they protest. The protest ends in Exarchia a neighborhood made famous for being the birthplace of the anarchist movement in Greece. During the protests it tends to turn violent and leads to death for a few. The police will use tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bangs, and batons till the protests diminish.
Rolling Stone and Rape on Campus
Rolling Stone the popular magazine published an article telling of a rape incident on the university of Virginia campus. The victim was Jackie a freshman in the university. The magazine recognized that there was mistakes in the article. The journalist of the article even failed to contact the victim. Over the past couple years there has been quite a lot rape and sexual assault allegations at many campuses around the country. Due to the Clery Act campuses are to publish crime to the proper authorities but campuses have been known to have their shortcomings in this range. Although campy sexual violence remains all too real there does happen to be false reports as well. With 2-8% of the reports being false.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
America Created ISIS
In this documentary piece by vice Mark Danner talks about how the Bush administration failed to show how much of a disruption we would create in the Middle East. It didn't just start with the Bush administration, it started with the Reagan administration when they gave power and money to the militant groups of these areas. The funds and weaponry and information we gave them to fight the soviets backfired and led to us being attacked on 9/11 by the very same groups we helped. In term we helped Al Qeada grow and ISIS is just its spawn. A more heated, more angry spawn. 2,996 died on 9/11 the wars after killed 2,500,000 people. http://youtu.be/GU2avVIHde8
Monday, December 1, 2014
Blockbuster Wireless Auction
The Federal Communications Commision is auctioning off wireless frequencies. Much of which are going for tens of billions of dollars. Show the world how truly much telecommunications markets are booming. Even though these companies are bidding for this it doesn't seem right to the FCC for what they are auctioning off. Due to the president trying to limit the companies such as Verizon and Sprint from having too much of a share in a market aka a monopoly. But some of the money raised will be used for firstnet which is used commonly by police and fire fighters and other public safety agencies. We however suspect that these biddings will go to court if Obamas plan goes into place.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Libya.. A Broken State
It's been three years since the Libyan revolution and the fall of Qaddafi. Libya since then has become a state of anarchy. With militant groups being the ultimate rule rather than policy and government. There has become a Muslim uprising of jihadists groups. All these groups are seeking control of the Libyan lands to control the oil and the money that comes with the oil. The land and the people are distraught with terror and clashes from the Qaddafi militias and the jihadists and the people's militias.
Sealing Juvenile Records
For some juvenile delinquents they look towards adulthood as a second chance at a better life. However many states don't seal records for youths turning adults. However if you're looking for a better life as an adult. And trying to turn around your life it's harder. The juvenile courts are not sealing their records for good as they enter adulthood therefore effecting the new adults for the rest of their lives in fields like jobs and education.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Ongoing Search For Missing Students
On September 26th 43 students that were en route to Iguala were taken away by police but during this clash 6 people were killed. Investigators say that the police had acted at behest to the Iguala mayor and are feared that the 43 students were turned over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel. All 43 students are believed to be killed. But the family of the students pray they're okay. With this happening the police and the law have become scrutinized by the people over how they can just let someone of that power do such a thing. And there's marching and protesting to overturn the governemt as a whole.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Genital Mutilation in Egypt
The country of Egypt undergoes quite a horrible and oppressive act done to many women. They're mutilated at the rate of 91% of all women living in Egypt they've had their genitals mutilated to take away pleasures. UNICEF estimates that around 125 million women in 29 countries are mutilated each year. The opinion editor is one of the few fortunate women in Egypt to not have undergone the procedure. The UN and other countries have made treaties and whatnot declaring that genital mutilation of women is taking away a human right.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Afghanistan Poppy Harvest
The UN today has brought up the issue about poppy cultivation hitting record high. Even though Afghan has led a thirteen year long campaign against the cultivation of poppy (poppy is the root of the opiate drug heroin). With about a half a million acres of poppy plants in Afghanistan the country could go into a narco state with withdrawal of US and Allie forces.
Egyptian Militants Kill Off Duty Soldiers and Police
Egypts restive Sinai peninsula has been in a major surge of militants and jihadists and military uprising. But today five police/soldiers of Egypt were killed by Ansar Beit a Muslim military group. The group is known to be allies of the controversial jihadist group ISIS. The Egyptian police/military is unsure whether or not Ansar Beit actually performed this or if they are just taking claim to a act of violence that wasn't actually done by them.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Driver Plows Down Pedestrians in East Jerusalem
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Sands Own Vacation
Many happen to think sand stays in one place but in reality it moves all around and travels the world. Today 75%-90% of the worlds natural beaches are slowly disappearing. This however leads to the sand and gravel companies booming with projects to refurbish the beaches before spring and summer projects millions. We need to stop taking sand for granted and look at it as a natural resource before it diminishes and all is at the bottom of the sea.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Probe Alleges Suspected Nazis to Receive Millions in Social Security
Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals have collected millions in social security benefits. A team of journalists who found that the justice department allowed the suspected Nazis to keep the benefits if they agreed to leave the country. However the investigations led by the justice department have not made it clear who these people are exactly due to the confidentiality of records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LM8Eq5Ijs&list=UUZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LM8Eq5Ijs&list=UUZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ
What Are You Afraid Of?
Often not a tiny bit more than half of all Americans believe that gang violence and child abductions have increased over the past twenty years but in reality they have decreased over that time. Along with those fears many Americans fear things such as identity theft, walking alone at night and speaking in public. But a shocking result was that many were afraid natural disasters but few of those actually had emergency supplies or a kit ready. The research team plans on taking these survies of the people annually and that it would show people that America has improved drastically.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Suicide Bomber Attacks
About 47 Shiite houthis were killed earlier October 9th. They were protesting in Yemen, and one suicide bomber went off after the prime ministers speech. Another bomber went to a security outpost driving a vehicle filled with explosives killing 20 soldiers. No group has claimed the responsibility of the bombings.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
A British Message to Israel
So Israel is building and expanding their territories and even though other countries have been like "hey man stop that's illegal" Israel just keeps going ahead and continuing what they're doing. Pretty much Israel and Palestine have no real set borders and this is causing a lot of conflict and many other things as well. And it's just leading to more and more death. All the while Britain is saying that Israel needs to settle down and stop attacking.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Fight Against Ebola
When the fight against Ebola has taken over central Africa this homeless shelter turns into a treatment center against the virus. It also provides training for volunteers to fight against the outbreak so it won't take anymore lives. The outbreak is so bad that there's quarintine camps, where people go to see if their symptoms worsen or not. If they do they stay if they don't change they leave the next day. If they go away they leave too. But most end up dying. However though the few that survive the Ebola are said to be immune to the entire virus itself and they are looking for a cure from this.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Dying with Dignity
In 1997 Oregon created the death with dignity act, allowing citizens to obtain life ending prescriptions from a physician. You have to be a mentally healthy 18+ Oregon citizen. Some doctors however find this morally corrupt. Saying that it goes against their reasons for being a doctor and whatnot. Ultimately I completely agree with Oregon and I even believe that if you want to end your life on your own terms you should be able to do it as soon as possible.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Fighting for Mother Nature
In France a forest is about to be destroyed and the French Eco activists have tried peaceful protests to get the police/government to stop destroying this forest. Quite odd as the police had made it turn from peaceful to a miniature war. The Eco activists are tying themselves to trees, living in them and trying hard to keep them. But in the end it turns into a altercation with rocks, bombs, tear gas and fire.
Obstacles to College
Students of Princeton university are calling on the university's administration to stop the recieving of criminal information from the state. At NYU (New York University) they are leading a campaign of incarceration to education coalition. Pretty much they're saying that past involvement with the judicial system shouldn't affect a person aiming to receive a higher education.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Islamist State Member Warns of Attacks on NYC
A Canadian Islamist left his homeland to go to Iraq and join the Islamic state aka Isis and become a foreign fighter. This man was shown in a video that he claimed to have set up attacks on Canadian and American people. And that he will not rest until the Isis flag flys over the whitehouse. In the video he claims to have part in plotting attacks on NYC. This whole video is a interview between a vice news journalist and this Islamic freedom fighter over Skype.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Egypt's Hunger Strikes
Mohammad Soltan a 26 year old graduate from the Ohio State University was arrested in 2013 for sympathizing with Muslim brotherhood. Which his father was the one who was sympathizing but since he wasn't home. Mohammad was arrested in his place and charged with his "crimes". Mohammad has been in prison has set a record for the longest hunger strike recorded in Egyptian prisons. Not only him but other too have joined him in this hunger strike to show protest the inhumane conditions of the Egyptian prison system. Some of the guards have tried to force feed the prisoners but it has yet to succeed. Hopefully Soltan doesn't
die.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
The Threats to America from the Islamic State
The Islamic state has released a one minute video portraying war and violence between United States troops and jihadists. The video is a trailer for a full length propaganda movie being created. However the video is of poor quality made using computer generated fires and explosions. Overall it's just a way to try and get attention to make Obama send ground combat troops to the Middle East. Nothing more than an annoyance, the equivalent to a kid taunting another kid to a fight.
Scotland's Moment of Destiny
Today Thursday September eighteenth Scotland is voting on whether or not to leave the United Kingdom and become its own country. Scotland has been a very independent land, they pretty much function as a country with their own parliament and seperate systems from the rest of the United Kingdom. However the rest of the United Kingdom wants them to stay and are using threats to keep them in the Kingdom. They told them they won't let Scotland keep the British sterling as a currency if they break apart from them. Which is holding many Scots back from voting a definite yes.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Anti-Japanese Wartime Shows Dominate Chinese Television
The genre of anti-Japanese wartime shows has taken about 70% of the Chinese television market. The Chinese government is pumping money into these shows to improve patriotism in the Chinese public. These shows seem to be fueled from Chinese and Japanese tension that has been there since World War Two. This has however led to many different outcomes for china, with some Chinese becoming full on nationalists and patriots wanting to fight to the death for China, while others have flocked to Japan and some have embraced Japanese culture while still living in China.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/chinas-tv-war-on-japan.html?_r=0
Israeli and Palestinian Kidnappings
Israelis had kidnapped a young teen by the name of Mohammad Khadeir, and burnt him alive because of Palestinian protests, the neighborhood he lived in held a walking funeral and it turned into a protest and a violent one at that. The Palestinian side threatened that for every one man the Israelis kill/kidnap they will kill/kidnap ten. "The blood of Mohammad Khadeir will not be forgotten" said one Palestinian citizen. The city of Jerusalem had wouldn't let men aged 16-40 enter the city because the threat of a bombing was more open. The end of the video is a protest and as you see the protest ends peacefully.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mTRthNWxli0
Friday, September 5, 2014
Russia and Ukraine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrSb8G57cI
In this vice news clip you can see the total destruction and tear of the brink of war between Russia and the Ukraine, never once has the world gotten to this point, in this you see it from a Ukrainian citizens point of view, in the begging you see a house that was hit from a Russian infrantry she'll that completely devastated a family and killed one man. War is all too common in this world.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
http://nyti.ms/1qxDrQd
What truly makes a man poor is it the absence of someone in their lives or is it society? Does having a father affect the male or female child more? Well statistically the male child would have a lessened chance to truly succeed in life compared to the female child. What else affects the child? Well obviously the location and the social structure around the growing child will have drastic changes to the child. What makes people poor? Way too much.
What truly makes a man poor is it the absence of someone in their lives or is it society? Does having a father affect the male or female child more? Well statistically the male child would have a lessened chance to truly succeed in life compared to the female child. What else affects the child? Well obviously the location and the social structure around the growing child will have drastic changes to the child. What makes people poor? Way too much.
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