tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114la_vie_noirela_vie_noirela_vie_noire2012-01-25T20:56:30Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:247039F. U.2012-01-25T20:48:45Z2012-01-25T20:56:30Zpublic1<a href="http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9225635.html#comments">Am I the only one who wants to spit on people's faces over this shit?</a><br /><br />Yes, because the world is all about USA and their two right-winged political parties. What they do in Somalia? Just business that are useful to make their president look good and to rescue white first worlders. As my classmate uses to say, damn if they don't want to make everything look like one of their action tv-shows/movies where their Navy is heroic saving the world from brown non-westerners and it doesn't exist a biggest context for this shit (Somali pirates <em>and</em> sovereignty).<br /><br />Meanwhile, in Afghanistan...<br /><br />Also. <em>We know kidnapping, stealing is wrong yadda yadda</em>, but some people are way to naive, and believe everyone lives in a idealized middle-classed first world. Which doesn't happen. And no one gives a REAL shit about other people's tragedies. Way complex problems that have to do with poverty, lack of access, lack of resources in <em>their own countries</em>. Thank to... well, some shit against global south and its people.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=247039" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:231287Shows that Western first-world left is a joke a lot of the time2011-08-24T03:34:23Z2011-08-24T03:35:54Zpublic1<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/03/21/dem_congressman_were_in_libya_because_of_oil.html">Dem Congressman Ed Markey: "We're In Libya Because Of Oil"</a>.<br /><br />Say what.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=231287" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:230925As always, ignoring Gaza and its people2011-08-22T18:40:20Z2011-08-22T18:40:20Zpublic0While the West (for SOME reason) ignores it, Gaza is being bombarded.<br /><br /><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201182272758210801.html">Guilty until proven innocent</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote>The mini war that Israel waged on Gaza following the turmoil in South Israel is just another perfect example of how Gaza is the Middle East's "Biggest Loser." Caught in a thorny network composed of selfish interests and different agendas, the 1.5 million people of Gaza are indeed the biggest losers when it comes to just about anything in the Middle East.<br /><br />Our destiny does not lie within our hands. We do not have any control over even the smallest aspects of our lives. We do not enjoy the luxury of planning for tomorrow, let alone next week. We, the people of Gaza, valiantly try to go on with our daily lives as if things are in perfect order. But there are times when things are so bleak and so dark that everything we have been trying to build collapses in the blink of an eye.<br /><br />On Thursday, and after a rough night full of Israeli air attacks on different locations in the Gaza Strip, we woke up to another hot Ramadan day which was interrupted by news about a shooting operation in Eilat, whereby five Israeli soldiers were killed and 36 others were injured. Immediately and without even waiting for the details of the operation to be announced, people started fretting about a likely Israeli attack on Gaza.</blockquote><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=230925" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:219908Dude, what more do you need?2011-05-28T03:28:58Z2011-05-28T03:33:37Zpublic10Via <a href="http://theangryblackwoman.com/2011/05/27/infographic-casualties-from-the-war-on-terror-911-and-the/">The Angry Black Woman</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prosebeforehos.com/government_employee/09/11/perspective-on-911-and-the-invasions-of-iraq-afghanistan/">Perspective On 9/11 And The Invasions Of Iraq & Afghanistan</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote>Infographic: Casualties From The War On Terror, 9/11, And The Invasion of Iraq<br /><br />The stats breakdown are as follows:<br /><br />September 11th Victims: 0.28%<br /><br />American Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq: 0.55%<br /><br />Afghan Civilian Casualties: 4.39%<br /><br />Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 94.78%</blockquote> <br /><br />Also, the comments are pretty... uhmazing.<br /><br />[Stats were transcribed in TABW blog.]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=219908" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:216030la_vie_noire @ 2011-03-19T23:02:002011-03-20T02:07:15Z2011-03-20T02:07:15Zpublic12<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/201132002236603156.html">International forces bombard targets in Libya</a>.<br /><br />For God's sake. This is a mess. <br /><br />Yes, Gaddafi is a killer. But this has no excuse. Weren't Iraq and Afghanistan enough?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=216030" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:97931la_vie_noire @ 2010-08-08T09:48:002010-08-08T14:15:59Z2010-08-08T14:15:59Zpublic2I'm not posting much or answering because my emotional state isn't so good due to having the shittiest family ever (I mean it people, some day I'm going to talk about this) and <em>still</em> dealing with that.<br /><br />But seriously.<br /><br /><a href="http://historygeeksblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/hiroshima-at-sixty-five.html">Who the fuck is this guy and why the hell should people care about the shit he thinks?</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=97931" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:60114:63247Since apaprently no one is talking about this2010-04-07T22:54:59Z2010-04-23T04:57:49Zpublic4<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD08Ak01.html">Iraq video sets off renewed protests</a><br /><br /><blockquote>Journalist advocacy groups called for the reopening of an investigation into the 2007 killing of a Reuters photographer and his driver after the WikiLeaks website released classified video footage on Monday of a 2007 helicopter attack in Baghdad which killed 12 people.<br /><br />"This footage is deeply disturbing," said Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.<br /><br />"The video also confirms our long-held view that a thorough and transparent investigation into this incident is urgently needed," Simon added.<br /><br />The video shows the camera feed from an Apache helicopter<br /><br /> <br /><br />gunship as it performs an air strike on a group of men milling around an empty Baghdad street.<br /><br />The video also shows the helicopter firing on a van that arrived at the scene and was attempting to evacuate the only visible survivor of the first attack. The attack wounded two children who were inside the vehicle. Among those killed were Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40.<br /><br /><br />[...] <strong>But after US ground forces arrive and find wounded children in the van the helicopter attacked, the helicopter pilots blame the Iraqis.<br /><br />"Well it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle," says one.<br /><br />"That's right," says another.</strong><br /><br />"I know that two children were hurt, and we did everything we could to help them. I don't know how the children got hurt," Major Brent Cummings, the executive officer of the battalion who launched the attack, told the Washington Post after the incident. </blockquote><br /><br />Priceless. That's all I can say.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/0407/Killings-of-Iraqi-journalists-US-says-they-were-not-war-crimes">Killings of Iraqi journalists: US says they were not war crimes</a><br /><br />Oh. "The problems of journalism" I see. If this were the case of American civilians killed mindlessly by Iraqi soldiers...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/military-releases-report-on-2007-apache-attack-and-questions-linger/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher">U.S. Military Releases Redacted Records on 2007 Apache Attack, Questions Linger</a><br /><br /><blockquote>The conclusions? According to an investigation by the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, the aircrew “accurately assessed that the criteria to find and terminate the threat to friendly forces were met in accordance with the law of armed conflict and rules of engagement.” The report concluded that the attack helicopters positively identified the threat, established hostile intent, conducted appropriate collateral damage assessment and received clearance to fire.<br /><br />What’s more, the military indirectly blamed the reporters for being in the company of “armed insurgents” and making no effort to identify themselves as journalists. An investigating officer with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 2nd Infantry Division, concluded that “the cameramen made no effort to visibly display their status as press or media representatives” and added that “their familiar behavior with, and close proximity to, the armed insurgents and their furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants to the Apaches that engaged them.” A long telephoto lens, the officer says, could have been mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade.<br /><br />It’s also clear, however, that the military quickly figured out that they had inadvertently killed two Reuters employees, and that two children had been seriously wounded in the incident. During “sensitive site exploitation,” members of the ground unit recovered cameras and media cards from the scene, and were able to identify pictures shot by a Reuters employee at a coalition news conference.</blockquote><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=la_vie_noire&ditemid=63247" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments