Search engine giant Google has blocked access to video footage of four masked men who vandalized the photo exhibition 'A history of sex' at an art gallery in Lund on Friday. Google prevented users of YouTube and Google Video from viewing the video, not for its depiction of a criminal act but because it contained images of a pornographic nature, Sydsvenskan reports.
The "pornography" to which Google referred was at the heart of Friday's attack, when a group of people believed to have been neo-Nazis stormed into the Kulturen Gallery and smashed seven of artist Andres Serrano's photographs with crowbars and an axe.
The four men, one of whom filmed the incident, made it clear that they disapproved of the sexual content of the exhibition. Before leaving, they distributed flyers bearing the message: "Against decadence and for a healthier culture".
By Monday a film entitled Nationalists against degenerate "art" had been uploaded to Google Video. Set against a soundtrack of death metal music, footage of the armed attack was interspersed with samples of Serrano's photographs and slogans questioning whether they could really be classified as art.
Soon however Google Video blocked access to the video after the clip flagged by users of the service. It later reappeared on Google's other video platform, YouTube, this time without some of the more explicit images. But the revised version was also "removed due to terms of use violation."
Google spokeswoman Maria Göth was reluctant to explain the decision. "We don't actually comment on individual videos," she told The Local. She had however spoken more freely after the film was removed for the second time. "We still think there is too much porn in the film," she told Sydsvenskan. Maria Göth explained to The Local that Google did not remove any material unless requested to do so by its users. "Community members can flag material that they consider inappropriate. Our policy group will then look at the video and make a decision," she said.
Speaking about the incident, Andres Serrano could scarcely believe that his work had been vandalized in the quaint old university town of Lund. “I was shocked and horrified,” the artist told the New York Times. “I never expected something like this, especially in this magical town, which is so sweet I joked about it being like something out of Harry Potter.”
Curator Viveca Ohlsson said that staff at the gallery were still in shock after Friday's events. "The whole thing is just terrible. I couldn't believe that something like this could happen in Sweden," she told The Local. Half of the fourteen photos on loan from the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York survived the attack and remain on display. "But the part of the exhibition where the pictures were destroyed is now closed," Viveca Ohlsson told The Local. "We would like to open it again but at the moment there is a police investigation underway and there are also insurance issues to be dealt with," she said.
Andres Serrano's work has long been shrouded in controversy. His images of corpses, as well as a crucifix dipped in his own urine, are among a number of his works that have provoked fury and physical attacks. 'A history of sex' is no exception. The exhibition includes images of a deeply controversial nature. In one photograph, a naked woman clutches a horse's penis, while others depict people in a series of sexual poses.
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Andres Serrano's work has long been shrouded in controversy. His images of corpses, as well as a crucifix dipped in his own urine, are among a number of his works that have provoked fury and physical attacks.
You'd think this assclown would get the message.
Being controversial for controversy's sake.
Being provocative for provocation's sake.
Being different for difference's sake.
Being sensational for the sake of sensationalism.
None of this constitutes the essence of art. It represents an intentionally contrived effort to attract attention by deliberately offending people without the least attempt at providing serious content or the sense of mastery, beauty and skill that real art conveys.
I'm amazed that someone hasn't physically assaulted this jerk already. He rates right up there with Tracey Emin of "My Bed" fame.
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I'ma with Mike on this one. Here's to hopin' they both lose! Two more fitting groups (Nazis and "Progressive Artists") could NOT deserve each other more.
And, Zen nails it spot-on. Being different for publicity and attention is NOT art.
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I'd disagree if the gallery got state money
Bright Pebbles, what if the so-called artiste "got state money"?
The NEA continues to show an intolerance of traditional values, in spite of the consistent outrage of the American public. Numerous grants have been awarded over the years to "artists" who do little to disguise their contempt for the religious beliefs of others. Consider Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" (a photo of a crucifix in a jar of urine) or Joel-Peter Witkin's "Maquette for Crucifix" which portrays a naked Jesus Christ surrounded by sado-masochistic obscene imagery. These portrayals of religion meet the NEA standard; however, one would be hard pressed to find a positive portrayal of religion as it would probably be seen as a violation of the separation of church and state.
The NEA also uses its grant money to endorse alternative lifestyles, such as homosexuality. Current NEA chief Jane Alexander vocally defended an NEA-funded performance by Ron Athey in Minneapolis in which the HIV positive Athey sliced into another man's back with a knife and cleaned up the blood with towels which were then sent on clotheslines over the audience. Alexander also recently told a homosexual magazine, The Advocate, that she intended to use the agency to "introduce people gently to gay themes all across the country. And I mean gently, because if you start with a kind of very overt thing, people get scared. You gently bring in gay people and introduce them to the world through art."
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Serrano is the photographer who touched off a firestorm of controversy with Piss Christ (1988), a large color photograph depicting a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist's urine. Serrano's Piss Christ raised the ire of numerous religious and secular groups, including the American Family Association, and brought condemnation from U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms. It also heated up the debate over whether the federal government should fund such artwork. Serrano had received in 1988 a $15,000 grant from Awards in the Visual Arts, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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VIENNA, Austria — Austrian authorities said Thursday they arrested an elderly Turkish-born man suspected of fatally shooting a younger Turkish associate and slicing off the victim's penis in what investigators called an "honor killing." Police in the town of Wimpassing in the province of Lower Austria made the arrest shortly after the Wednesday night slaying, and said the suspect — described only as a 76-year-old native Turk — did not resist.
Officials said witnesses claimed the man allegedly shot the victim, a 58-year-old Turkish-born man, in the street with a shotgun at point-blank range and then cut off his penis with a knife, leaving him to bleed to death. Two teams of surgeons worked at the scene to save the man but were unable to revive him, authorities said.
Investigators believe the suspect apparently was jealous that the younger man had flirted with his wife, and had sought him out as "a question of honor," said Franz Polzer, head of the region's criminal investigations office. The suspect initially fled into a nearby house after the slaying, but witnesses alerted police to his location and he walked out and surrendered shortly thereafter, Polzer said.
Police said the man appeared to have purchased the shotgun earlier on Wednesday. They said he had disposed of the knife, but that officers recovered the weapon after searching the area.
It was the first known attack of its kind in Austria, which is home to about 200,000 Turks — Europe's third-largest Turkish expatriate population after Germany and France.
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The only way to stop this crap is to make a penalty for it that is seen in their community as terribly dishonorable.
In this case, the very first thing the police should do when they make any "honor" offense arrest, is to shave the man or men's mustaches, then take their picture and show it around to the Turkish community.
Then have a section of a prison where they are treated like females. Forced to wear feminine clothing, in feminine colors and decoration, with "butch" female guards, and under the gaze of other prisoners who will humiliate them further. Go so far as permanent depilatory to the beard area of their face.
Such a program should be tailor made to a particular Muslim community, and well publicized among them.
It's not exactly WoT, but it's probably good that the citizens of Italy are so eager to read this book. I also loved the little homage to Mussolini at the end of the article:
In any case, dissent is in the air, and Prodi's centre-left government responded by vowing to halve the number of lawmakers as it unveiled its 2008 budget late last month -- although of course that would necessitate bipartisan electoral reforms.
The budget calls for a 10 percent reduction in parties' electoral expense accounts and the elimination of 33,000 local councillors.
"These steps are not enough," Rizzo said. "But they show the start of a conscience. It's the first time that a government has tried to deal with an old evil."
In 1923, the dictator Benito Mussolini cut the number of government cars from 16 to three. Today the prime minister's office has a fleet of more than 100.
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Cutting back on government and bureaucracy might be political suicide in Italy. In Fellini's 'Roma', he showed the enormous warehouse filled with bureaucratic paperwork about the Rome subway. Generations of bureaucrats, all devoted to passing paper.
Maulana Merajuddin, an Afghan cleric living in Pakistan, stopped opposing the use of polio drops after his own child fell prey to the crippling disease – the first ever polio case detected in Khyber Agency, in January 2007.
Mirajuddin, who lives in the Mastak area of Bara tehsil, told Daily Times that his two-year-old son Gul Khan was paralysed in January 2007, and doctors at the Jamrud Civil Hospital told him that his son had fallen victim to polio. “I made a mistake by opposing the visit of a polio-vaccination team to my village. I was impressed by the maulvis’ propaganda,” he recalled, and said polio had paralysed his son and made him a burden on his family forever. “My child is suffering from paralysis. We spent a lot of money and time but could not find signs of recovery,” he said.
A majority of clerics in the NWFP and FATA oppose the polio immunisation campaign. Maulana Fazlullah of Swat and Haji Namdar, head of hardline organisation Amer Bilmaroof Wa Nahi Anilmunkar in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, have often asked locals to boycott polio immunisation campaigns through their illegal radio stations. They say polio vaccines make children infertile and that the vaccination is a Western attempt to curtail the growing population of the Muslim world. Following directions from religious leaders, a number of people refused polio drops for their children and banned the entry of polio campaigners to their areas in FATA and NWFP. “Now I am sure that there are no infertility elements in the polio vaccine as a Muslim doctor has made it clear to me,” Mirajuddin said.
Wonder how fertile the paralyzed kids are going to be? Wotta buncha primitive maroons.
This article starring:
Amer Bilmaroof Wa Nahi Anilmunkar
Haji Namdar
Amer Bilmaroof Wa Nahi Anilmunkar
Maulana Fazlullah
TNSM
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Maulana Merajuddin, an Afghan cleric living in Pakistan, stopped opposing the use of polio drops after his own child fell prey to the crippling disease
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Maulana Merajuddin, an Afghan cleric living in Pakistan, stopped opposing the use of polio drops after his own child fell prey to the crippling disease
Ha Ha! I'll bet his son won't be scoring much with the gals. At least some part of this jerk's gene pool got drained.
polio had paralysed his son and made him a burden on his family forever
Sounds like he'll plenty of opportunities to reflect upon just how reliable his maulvisÂ’ propaganda was. Sure, it's tragic that this assclown's kid is paralyzed but there is simply no other way to get it through these idiots' thick skulls. One helluva lot more children have died at the hands of Islamists than due to this sort of nonsense, so this is just meager payback for their evil.
Been telling you that for decades now, you don't listen, you pay dearly for your feigned ignorance.
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Thanks, pops. Where's your moon god now?
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Rats.
I always that that fatwa was a good thing based on the reasoning that it is much more difficult to be a boomie if you have to drag an iron lung around with you.
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Hey Abdullah: its true. Polio vaccines are made from pork rectal tissue. Take them and you displease Allah. If you don't take them and find yourself crippled, that also pleases Allah and Allah knows best
The Punjab University (PU) Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) director Prof Dr Mugheesuddin Sheikh on Thursday accused the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) of threatening to kill him. PU IJT nazim Muhammad Ayub denied the accusation.
The PU professor wrote to the press saying several IJT workers had threatened him on telephone. “They threw a makeshift coffin into my house to scare me into submitting to their policies,” he wrote.
He also accused the IJT workers, led by Ejaz Bashir Gujjar, of abusing him and a hostel assistant superintendent.
Muhammd Ayub said IJT workers had not threatened or abused the professor. He said the IJT was a peaceful organisation working for the welfare of the students.
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Federal agents aren't saying much after executing a search warrant on Thursday at a Front Range business. On Thursday morning, agents with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service raided the Rocky Mountain Instrument Company, a precision optics and coating firm in Lafayette. Agents would not comment on the nature of their search saying the case is still under investigation.
According the DCIS Web site, that agency devotes its resources to investigating terrorism, computer crimes and public corruption. However, no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed at this time. Looking at the company's website, it appears that Rocky Mountain Instruments employs a lot of Chinese and has a lot of federal contracts. Does DCIS do counter-espionage? Sounds like someone was exporting restricted items without a permit to me.
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Rocky Mountain Optics provides all sorts of rare and vital specialty materials including deposited thin film coatings used in various defense technologies. Among them are monocrystals of lithium niobate [LiNbO3], an acousto-optic material used in real-time analysis threat discrimination systems on fighter jets.
External ambient microwave signals are detected and consolidated into a single feed. This waveguide is directed into the modulating line of a Bragg cell. The varying microwave energies create different degrees of optical deflection within the cell. A highly collimated—or laser—light source shone through the stimulated cell is steered by these energy fluctuations into a spatial array of photodetectors that are positioned and calibrated to register activity in various spectral frequency bands.
In effect, the Bragg cell allows for near-instantaneous sorting of complex and overlapping microwave signals that arise out of dogfight furballs and dense EMF environments. Attempting to use ultra-fast high resolution ADCs (Analog to Digital Converters) would create an intolerable lag time due to propogational delays and subsequent DSP (Digital Signal Processing) computational cycle times. Instead, each sensor in the real-time analyser's optical detector array is able to promptly indicate activity in such critical frequency bands as missile targeting lock-ons and FoF (Friend or Foe) discrimination systems.
This technology is decades old but continuing advances in materials purity and detector sensitivity keeps it at the forefront of useful methodologies. Perhaps someone else here is better versed and can correct any errors in my description.
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I did too, but don't know enough to know if he's blowing smoke - I don't think so, LOL... :-)
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A simplified version:
Consider a prism with a krypton white-light laser being shone through it. Imagine that different colors in the white light source represent different signal carriers, like communications, guidance, and other signals. On the prism's other side is an array of photodetectors spaced precisely so that each one will detect a separate color in the ROYGBIV spectrum.
This is what the Bragg cell does. The difference being that piezo-transduced microwaves actively alter the acousto-optic crystal's refractive index and steer the light beam towards one or another photoreceptor in the array. Some of the earliest applications for Bragg cells were in laser printers. The problem with them is that relative large amounts of change in driving energy don't produce much angular deflection. It was only with the advent of truly compact high efficiency photosensors that these analysers didn't require relative long "throw" lengths between the Bragg cell and the detector array. Long throw lengths required large bulky assemblies that were more sensitive to vibration and G-force related structural deflection (dimensional stress).
Major advances in crystal growth have allowed for other even more exotic crystals such as tellurium oxide, as shown in the following figure. It illustrates how an acousto-optic spectral filter works:
At the very bottom, please note the radio frequency input. This drives a piezoelectric transducer that introduces mechanical stress into the crystal thereby altering its refractive index. This, in turn, alters the path of light travelling through the crystal according to the wavelength of that illumination. In effect, giving you a tunable optical filter. These are used in making ultra-compact spectrophotometers the size of a matchbox that used to take up an entire bench top with their mirrors, gratings and prisms.
If the RF input corresponds to your external microwave environment, then the scattering of the transverse light source will be proportionally directed towards various locations on the crystal's other side. By calibrating the crystal with known RF frequency sources, the detectors can be positioned in correspondence with where expected in-flight RF frequencies need to be detected.
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I saw this in the local paper this morning http://www.timescall.com/news_story.asp?ID=3967 and there were a couple of things I found interesting: the comment "... was purchased by Yubong Hahn..." makes me interested in tracking down exactly who or what Yubong Hahn is and the comment "based in Lafayette, with offices in Korea and Russia" makes me wonder what the Korean and Russian offices do.
They may just be manufacturing plants given Zenster's description of their products. But although no one big thing caught my eye, all the little things made me go "Hmmm".
It caused some controversy, but it was supposed to. Now, one man is headed to municipal court for burning a Mexican flag in protest in front of the Alamo. This is not a joke. The racist ("razista") hypocrites who run San Antonio are seriously rubbing American faces in the double standard from which they so openly benefit here in Texas.
The city is charging 46-year old David Bohmfalk with burning without a permit, even though no one gives permits to burn a flag.
"I was raised to respect my country," Bohmfalk said.
All the rallies and talk of amnesty for undocumented immigrants in May 2006 lit the fires of patriotism for Bohmfalk, he said. "I just got angry," he said. "I decided I had to do something, make my statement, and that's what I did."
Bohmfalk had his own protest in front of a building known for revolution, where Davy Crockett and James Bowie made a stand. So did Bohmfalk but he used a lighter instead of gunfighter. Park police cited Bohmfalk for illegal burning of rubbish, even if it was a Mexican flag he set ablaze. Rubbish???? Even the Reconquista occupation regime of San antonio can tell the manifest truth once in a while.
"Because of what it's made out of, it took a little while to burn it. It took me two minutes, but I got it lit," Bohmfalk
Authorities say his actions left some of the Mexican nationals in the Alamo crowd feeling burned. However, Bohmfalk's attorney, Jason Jakob, says, freedom of speech is Bohmfalk's constitutional right. "My client felt so strongly, and exercised protest, by burning that flag," Jakob said.
You can burn an American flag but you can't burn a Mexican one ...
Bohmfalk says while he was detained by police, he was harassed, his life was threatened, and he was even assaulted by some tourists who spit on him. Ironically, all these offenses are punishable by law. Jakob says flag burning is not. That's US law, not the law (such as it is) of San Antonio Reconquista.
"In America, every day we see people burning the American flag and it's become desensitized," Jakob said. "If we can allow that, we can certainly say that the Mexican flag can be burned." Not if you're a brain-dead leftist (excuse the redundancy) collaborator or sycophant. According to them, the US is an oppressive nation-state while Mexico is an underprivileged neighborhood or a dysfunctional family or perhaps (in truth) a holding area for future left-conformist voters.
As a former Texas police chief and military veteran, Bohmfalk says he knows his rights, and is fighting for them. "Why should a foreign flag get any better protection than the American flag?" he said. According to racist invaders and their sycophants on the political left, it is because burning the Mexican flag is racism while burning the Stars and Stripes is a protest against imperialism.
The city has not returned calls for comment. They left out "Oprima el 'uno' para Ingles"
As for Bohmfalk's right to a speedy trial, that's been delayed as well. His trial has been reset three times. Excuse me? What country is this again?
"Constitution? We don't got no stinkin' constitution! We don't need no constitution!" This is unbelievably loathsome and disgusting. It is apparently only legal to burn American flags, even in the United States.
Santa Ana came a cropper but it looks like a Mexican dictator is back in charge in San Antonio after all. The occupied city of San Antonio is engaged in naked racism, hypocrisy, and abridgment of the Constitution, while the craven Arbusto regime in Washington stands idly by and lets it happen.
In a Constitutionally ruled country, federal marshals would be sent to San Antonio to arrest these racist hypocrite officials and throw them in their own jail for abridging Bomfalk's First Amendment rights.
Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad, and hypocrites from La Raza (Las Razistas) would do well to remember Buena Vista and Chapultepec. Your left-liar sycophants can only cover for you so long. Time is just about up.
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I wonder what would happen if Bohmfalk went back to the Alamo and burned an American flag. Would he be arrested again for "burning without a permit"?
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"I wonder what would happen if Bohmfalk went back to the Alamo and burned an American flag."
Nothing.
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Another addition to the Orwellian Newspeak V.2000 [rev.2007] where in a 'nationality' become a 'race'.
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Liberal Limits."
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LOL, Gabby! Snark o' the day material, you got there!
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Serious question time. The article mentions that "Park Police" charged him with the burning rubbish charge. I *assume* this means the National Park Service (I believe the Alamo is a NPS site and thus, is Federal property). Thusly, the President could put the squash on these charges PRONTO, and he should. But, why is he in municipal court then, unless they meant City "Park Police".
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I think we should encourage people to burn the American flag in Mexico.
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"Serious question time. The article mentions that "Park Police" charged him with the burning rubbish charge."
Well, hell, if that's the charge I would have to agree that 99 to life would be appropriate
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OK, there seems to be a lot of misconceptions about my beloved home city, so here goes:
Firstly, Mexicans do not "run" San Antonio. Our Mayor is Phil Hardberger, an Anglo.
Most of our City Council is not Hispanic either.
Our Police Chief is an Anglo too.
San Antonio is an amazing mix of cultures and political viewpoints. I would characterize it's politics, overall, as leaning to the conservative side, and it's far more conservative and traditional values friendly for example, than either Austin or Dallas.
We do know the bill of rights. We also think differently about the Alamo than most other people, particularly because we consider it our own.
Most San Antonians have a deep and abiding respect for what happened there. One of my favorite quotes comes from a plaque at the entrance to the sanctuary:
"Be silent, Friend. Here, heroes died, so that others might live free."
The Alamo is a shrine to us, and a memorial worthy of deep respect and reverence. It's not a plaform for political protest. I don't want ANY flags burned there, and I'm sure most San Antonians would agree.
Does he have a right to burn the Mexican flag? Of course. I felt like burning it a number of times, especially when I saw it being waved at pro-illegal immigation rallies a while back. Those people didn't even have a right to be in this country, and had the audacity to wave a foreign flag on our soil.
But this whole thing smacks of cheap theatrics and needless provocation. The Alamo is not the place for that.
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It was pointed out to me that the Rocker Ozzy O. let loose a yellow stream on the Alamo. Nothing happened to him.
Not so. In February 1982, Osbourne was ARRESTED and charged with defiling a National Monument after he lifted up his dress (yes, he was wearing a dress) and urinated on the Alamo. He paid a fine and was released. He was banned from playing in San Antonio. He apologized later and offered to play a concert and make a contribution to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (custodians of the Alamo). San Antonio then lifted the ban.
He performed the concert in October, and donated an undisclosed amount to the Alamo (most say it was between $10,000 and $20,000).
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Living in San Antonio, Mark Cuban has always been a sort of villian to us because of his ownership of the Mavericks and the natural rivalry with the Spurs.
But now, the whole world can enjoy his villainy. What a poor pathetic excuse for an American.
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So is this what De Palma's been reduced to? Doing third rate anti American propaganda flicks that, except for the true believers, few people will ever see or care about for a fourth rate film company?
Think this is your shot back at the big time, Brian? Well, you better keep trying because you're a long, long way from The Untouchables...
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Both Cuba and De Palma are ego's big enough to generate their own gravity. However, one is at least is not so blinded by his 'godliness' that seeing the suits applied to Mr. Moore by people never intended to be in his propaganda production could find similar torte life in theirs and understanding what a sympathetic jury in Texas could do to someone's pocketbook, no matter how large, it's a pure cost effective trade off. CYA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
VIENNA, Austria — Austrian authorities said Thursday they arrested an elderly Turkish-born man suspected of fatally shooting a younger Turkish associate and slicing off the victim's penis in what investigators called an "honor killing." Police in the town of Wimpassing in the province of Lower Austria made the arrest shortly after the Wednesday night slaying, and said the suspect — described only as a 76-year-old native Turk — did not resist.
A majority of clerics in the NWFP and FATA oppose the polio immunisation campaign. 
The Punjab University (PU) Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) director Prof Dr Mugheesuddin Sheikh on Thursday accused the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) of threatening to kill him. PU IJT nazim Muhammad Ayub denied the accusation.
It caused some controversy, but it was supposed to. Now, one man is headed to municipal court for burning a Mexican flag in protest in front of the Alamo. 
