Front Lines: The Ukranian Army

Since mid January the fighting between the Ukranian army and the russian based rebels has increased tremendously. The Vice News crew followed the 43rd battalion of the Ukranian Army. The Battalion has been protecting the city of Sloviansk from the Donetsk People's Republic. The Ukranian Army is dressed much in items donated from other nations such as Germany and Britain. With the 43rd battalion anxious to fight the offensive of the DNR (Donetsks People's Republic) only time will tell what will the end of this war will hold. 

http://youtu.be/d0-PrLzf5ps

Humans Killing Humans

Yet again the question on weather or not lethal injection is humane for a death sentence. Many people on death row have made a case about how lethal injection causes severe pain and a slow death. The Supreme Court stepped in to take the case of Warner v. Gross a lawsuit brought by four Oklahoma death row inmates who pleaded that the Lethal injection caused severe pain and suffering. Many think that the idea of a humane death penalty is quite contradictory to themselves. But the act itself is brutal and violent and should just pursue to the level of which they shouldn't consider it being humane if the person on death penalty has done something horrible to put them on death row.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/the-humane-death-penalty-charade.html?_r=0

AirAsia and Pain

This morning in the Indonesian ocean, divers started hauling up the dead bodies of flight 8501. The flight crashed December 28th, killing 162 people. A total of 115 victims are still unaccounted for. The plane left Indonesia city heading for Singapore. Since the crash the government had to locate the plane and wait for the weather to be calm enough so they could finally bring the bodies back from the water. With all the bodies in the fuselage and the divers locating the black box, the fear is that the plane stalled in the air. 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/world/asia/airasia-plane.html

Witchdoctors Albino Society in Tanzania

Tanzania has banned witch doctors in the country to help stop the killings of albinos in the country which their body parts are prized for the witchcraft acts. The acts that the witch doctors use with the body parts are to help bring good fortune and wealth. However how they get these body parts is the horrid part, with an instance of a gang of people stealing a 4 year old albino girl to use for this witchcraft act. The ban itself comes one week after the UN put pressure on the government to stop the killings of the albino society. With one in fourteen hundred Tanzanians being albino many are targeted by these doctors.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/14/tanzania-bans-witch-doctors-to-deter-albino-killings/

Death By Robot

At the human robot interaction laboratory in Tufts university the researchers have ran into a dilemma. It's a scenario, but beyond that it's led to the dilemma of whether or not a robot can make ethical choices. A woman is in pain and can't move, she has a robot assistant that gives her medicine and takes care of her. The robot has to ask a supervisor each time whether or not it can give the woman medicine, for the fear of an overdose or something of that sort. The woman is crying in pain for the robot to give her painkillers because she is experiencing a lot of pain. But however the network is down, and the robot can't reach the supervisor to tell it to give her medicine. What would the robot do? That's what the dilemma is. So the researchers at Tufts are trying to create ethical decisive skill for robots.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/magazine/death-by-robot.html

Gun-Running in the Jet Age

Most people who go to airports believe that the idea of smuggling a firearm through the security is impossible and would get you in trouble right away. To that a New York district attorney discovered that there was a security defect that most airports were prone to having. The defect being that airport security fails to screen workers such as mechanics, pilots, baggage handlers, and people of that sort. A scheme had been in place where five of those people had smuggled 153 firearms from Atlanta to New York in accomplices carry on bags. With "lax gun laws" according to the district attorney that this wouldn't happen if we had stricter gun laws. For that I disagree and believe that each person should be able to own a firearm for safety reasons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/gun-running-in-the-jet-age.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

San Pedro Sula Most Dangerous City in the World Third Year in a row

The beauty of San Pedro Sula is astounding, although it's a beautiful city it is known for one thing, being the most dangerous city in the world (excluding war zones) for the third year in a row. With a rate of 187 of 100,000  homicides per year it happens to be in the wraps of a growing in militarization and gangs. According to the Honduran government since 2003 47 journalists and media executives have been murdered in the city. With growth of cartels and drugs in the area, the city only grows more and more dangerous. Police armed to the teeth can't maintain the organized crime and guns around the city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bNRXLL_FCo