Word: militiaization
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...donate BoardPlus or Crimson Cash to aid the situation in Darfur say the money will go to the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), which provides logistical support to troops monitoring the shaky year-old cease-fire in the region in western Sudan. The Darfur government has sanctioned the actions of militia groups that have killed tens of thousands of residents there...
Even as the recording and movie industries sue hundreds of college students for illegally swapping files, popular musicians such as David Byrne, the Beastie Boys, and Chuck D. and Fine Arts Militia are encouraging the very behavior the industry is trying to stop: sampling, copying, remixing and circulating their songs online for free. Under a novel licensing scheme called Creative Commons (CC), developed by Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, artists can publish their work under middle-ground protection as "some rights reserved" instead of "all rights reserved." That way, others can listen to or remix the work--usually for noncommercial...
...years for the respectability of a wedding license, and now she was to achieve it. She wore a black taffeta afternoon dress with two gold clasps at the shoulders. A minor party official with the coincidentally appropriate name of Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer) was brought in from his militia post to perform the brief ceremony. As the law prescribed, both bride and groom swore that they were Aryans. Wagner signed the marriage certificate, glanced at his watch, saw that it was just after midnight and changed the date from April 28 to April 29. Then they all had champagne...
...country in the world has more men and women under military command than China. The People's Liberation Army includes some 4 million regulars who are supported, when necessary, by a lightly armed Basic People's Militia of 4 million men and women and an unarmed Ordinary People's Militia of up to 6 million...
...results. Some 200 red-bereted policemen, backed by 400 Lebanese soldiers and Syrian observers, took over security in Muslim West Beirut and at Beirut International Airport. For the first time in several weeks, militiamen all but disappeared from the city's streets, and the offices of the various Muslim militia groups were shut down. The changed situation prompted the feuding Christian militias on the other side of Beirut's "green line" to reunite their fighting forces. The Syrians had not stopped the artillery and rocket exchanges that rage sporadically across the line, but for the moment at least they...