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Suffer the little children…
Islamist insurgents and Somali government forces engage in running battles in Mogadishu: More than 200,000 people have been displaced in the past two months, while hundreds of civilians are believed...
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dia de los muertos
A San Francisco Day of the Dead installation from November 2, 2008. [link to site] **** I also found this charming guide to making your own altar to the departed: Following are some objects to...
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Solstice
Enjoying a snowy sunset at Oostende beach in Belgium. [Spiegel] I realise I’m a couple of days off – – but no pleasing shot of the sun showed up on time. Looking over Democracy NOW! I noticed this...
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Turning point…
Gateshead, England: People walk past Anthony Gormley’s Angel of the North in heavy snow Photograph: Scott Heppell/AP I think we are at it… Reports late today that the separation of incoming passengers...
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And the wars go on…
A bird perches on razor-wire at the US army’s Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi, Iraq [Ben Curtis/AP] I don’t see them ever ending. Simply expanding, moving, shifting. Why would they ever end? They...
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Protest
Phoenix, Arizona: Jesus Ruiz protests against Arizona’s new immigration law during a candlelight vigil outside the State Capitol. The state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, ignored criticism from...
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Arrest
Oil booms are seen offshore as Brown pelicans nest on Breton Island off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Wildlife in the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created by Theodore Roosevelt,...
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So threatening…
Pro-Palestinian activists from Turkey hold a news conference on board the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara as part of a humanitarian convoy. (Erhan Sevenler / Reuters / May 31, 2010) It’s not the first time...
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Mission creep…
A vinca flower floats in brown, oily sludge in a canal behind a home just off Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, Louisiana [Chuck Cook/AP] But it’s capped now and little things like sludge in Lake...
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Clap clap clap
Pyongyang, North Korea: Performers sit beneath a screen showing images of leader Kim Jong-un at a theatre during celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung...
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