Thursday, December 2, 2004

PLAYING THE VIOLIN Guardian: "Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin. The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli officer pumping the body of a 13-year-old girl full of bullets and then saying he would have shot her even if she had been three years old." 1:45:32 PM    comment []

BHOPAL AFTER 20 YEARS AlterNet: "India's courts have tried to pursue justice for Bhopal, but they have been thwarted. In 1991, an Indian court ordered Union Carbide officials, including Warren Anderson, the CEO at the time of the disaster, to face criminal charges. After Anderson and the other defendants failed to appear, India's Supreme Court named them 'proclaimed absconders' - that is, fugitives from justice - and pressed for their extradition. After sitting on the extradition request for years, the U.S. State Department refused it without explanation in September 2004. Amnesty's report, Clouds of Injustice, estimates that 7,000 to 10,000 people died in the first three days of the Bhopal disaster and 15,000 more have died in the years since. Another 100,000 continue to suffer chronic, largely untreatable diseases of the lungs, eyes and blood." 11:54:12 AM    comment []

LOESJE GOES INTERNATIONAL Loesje is a Dutch girl. She began printing posters with comments on politics and society. Enter the world of Loesje. Loesje is een snoesje. 11:44:33 AM    comment []

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