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Professor Alex de Waal, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, stressed the danger in the loss of international interest in Southern Sudan. He stated that internationalism is a necessary facilitator, although the solution must come from the Sudanese people...
Southern Sudan is currently marked by the targeted violence of regional elites asserting their importance and the widespread violence of the responding government, de Waal said, adding that he hopes for a situation of “managed disorder...
...important bands of the 90s, and Morello practically invented the genre of “Nu-metal,” but whatever you think of that movement you cannot say that it was subtle. Simplistic left-wing posturing works much better when coupled with loud, powerhouse riffs, and Zack de la Rocha’s rapping than it does here with Morello’s flat voice and only intermittently engaging instrumentation. The volume may have been turned down, but on “The Fabled City” the failure of the Nightwatchman project rings through loud and clear...
...It’s an odd contention that 250,000 chickens would by choice flock into one barn and cram themselves into narrow wire cages. And it doesn’t explain why egg producers have to ‘de-beak’ battery caged chickens–searing off their beaks to stop the stressed birds from pecking each other to death. Both the California Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals endorsed Prop Two, citing the suffering caged animals endure when denied their basic instinct to move...
...Samson’s contention also clashes with the experience of ‘Sam’, the investigator at Gemperle Enterprises. As he documented in his diary on Jan. 19, 2008, “I saw a live hen, who had escaped notice during de-population of the cages. I pointed out the chicken to a co-worker. He said, ‘I’m going to kill it.’ The worker held the hen upside down by her legs, as he attempted to break her neck. He then dropped the bird onto the floor...