Violence Against Animals

En Ash Cities el 2007.12.22

2005 2006 Esto, como el año pasado (y el antepasado y el anterior a ese, ya saben...), es totalmente subjetivo, es sólo lo que más me gustó a mí, a nadie más, es sólo mi opinión, y sólo eso. No es una premisa que quiero imponer como verdad absoluta, ni nada, son sólo los álbumes que más me gustaron, emocionaron, significaron, etc., de este 2007 que se acaba. El resumen anual lo encontrarán en The Old Horizon. EPs, live albums: Sigur Rós ? Hauf/Heim Yeah Yeah Yeahs ? Is Is EP Daft Punk ? Alive 2007 2007...

En boliviarising.blogspot.com el 2007.12.05

Rachel Evans & Beatrice Bassi, November 30, 2007 Sucre, the home of Bolivia?s constituent assembly, has been subjected to right-wing attacks campesinos (peasants) were violently attacked when they arrived to defend the besieged assembly. The campesinos were violently expelled from their sleeping quarters at the Pedagogical Institute by right-wing students. Evo Morales, the democratically elected indigenous president, moved the assembly meeting site to military barracks on the outskirts of Sucre to escape...

En Dondequiera el 2007.09.09

When it comes to bad publicity, Puerto Rico often suffers many self induced black eyes. Sometimes it just seems that we just can't control ourselves in our attempt to soil our reputation. However, recently Whoopi Goldberg attempted to sully our reputation in comparing the actions of suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick with cockfighting in Puerto Rico. How dare she! Doesn't she know that Puerto Ricans are the only ones who can embarrass us in front of the world? Thanks to Literanista for bringing this to...

En Gil The Jenius el 2007.08.15

I heard about it days after the fact. Comes from not watching the noxious effluvia known as "local news" or even reading the ad-heavy wastepaper that passes for daily journalism. A man was directing traffic to help party-goers reach a young lady's 15th birthday celebration. A group of policemen intervene, forcing the man to stop his activity. He protests verbally and is physically forced to the ground. He is attacked, tries to defend himself and ends up seated, his back to a wall. He is restrained--his...

En La Rata Perversa el 2007.04.02

God´s Hostages by Sam Harris Kajal Khidr was accused of adultery by her husband's family and held hostage by six family members in Iraqi Kurdistan. Kajal Khidr was tortured and mutilated; family members cut off part of her nose and told her she would be killed after the birth of her child. After fleeing to Syria, two of her abusers were arrested. However, they were both released within twenty-four hours because authorities determined they had acted to safeguard the honor of the family. No charges were ever...

En Terminus a quo.. termino ad quem el 2007.01.19

When you think about Poland in the 40's or in the middle of 40's, you think about Jewish people and how they were treated by the Nazis, how their lives were and also you remind the massacre that Nazis did with lot of violence. Warsaw was a prosperous city, capital of Poland, they had a lot of markets, the economy was very equilibrate and good. They had very good professionals and honest people. One day their peace and brotherhood was interrupted by the Nazis because Hitler wanted more territory and more...