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Ethiopia: Caught between the Gambella genocide and the Connecticut massacre. Why kids?

By Getahune Bekele In a nation like Ethiopia, savagely devoured by a brutal clannish tyranny, there is very little difference between the living and the dead; with the living hunkering for the liberty of six feet under rather than living … read more »

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Jamie “Kill all the White People” Foxx Blasts Hollywood Violence

The hypocrites in Hollywood are running scared after a mentally ill 20-year-old, Adam Lanza, invaded Sandy Brook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and proceeded to murder 20 small children. Their first reaction, of course, was that guns were to blame. … read more »

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King Mohammed’s message to Barack Obama, Royal Compassion and Tenderness

The Newtown massacre is the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history and one of the deadliest mass shootings around the world. A gunman at Virginia Tech University killed 33, including himself, in 2007. Only Virginia Tech and the mass killings … read more »

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School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut live!

A shooting at a suburban Connecticut elementary school has resulted in “multiple fatalities,” according to Newtown, Conn., Mayor Mark D. Boughton. Boughton told reporters that those killed in the Friday morning assault included the shooter. The Hartford Courant has reported … read more »

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Bridging the Death Penalty Divide

I’d like to offer a simple proposal that, if enacted, could generate a great deal of a most precious resource: moral clarity. It concerns the death penalty. Opponents of capital punishment for murderers argue that the state has no right … read more »

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Man killed a homeless man with a hatchet and ate his brains and eye’

A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly hacking to death a Connecticut man and eating the victim’s eye and part of his brain. Police in Lynn Haven, Florida, said Wednesday that 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith was arrested Tuesday night … read more »

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US journalist held in Libya says she was beaten

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A journalist from Connecticut detained in Libya for six weeks said Tuesday she was fired upon and then beaten when she was captured but later treated better as she was moved from prison to a luxurious … read more »

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Man gets 27 months in Nigerian e-mail scam

A Greenville man who authorities said tried to pass himself off as a Nigerian diplomat in a scheme to bilk hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Connecticut woman was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison and ordered to … read more »

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