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Salon Chingon has posted a 47 minute high resolution documentary titled “Atenco: Breaking the Siege” about the violence that erupted there in early May. The website explains that “While an English-language version has not yet been released (but will be posted here as well as soon as it becomes available), the images in this 47-minute documentary speak for themselves.”
Boz offered advice to both Calderon and Lopez Obrador before tonight's presidential debate. Among the livebloggers of the event: Alfredo Sanchez (ES), Rodrigo Aguiar (ES), Eduardo Arcos (ES), José Luis López, Chilanga Banda (ES), and “Enigma” (ES).
Christian Garbis says that he fears war between Armenia and Azerbaijan will resume in the wake of the failure of the two parties to make progress on reaching a peace deal over Karabakh.
Tourism in Batumi is flourishing, and as a result, refugees living there are being paid to move on, notes Hulegu's Campaign.
Onnik Krikorian notes that the deadlock over Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues and wonders how long the international community will continue tolerating the inability of the two sides to sign a peace deal.
neweurasia reports on the recent large number of closures of NGOs in Uzbekistan.
Notes from Hareinik congratulates Armenia's chess team for taking first place in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin.
The Limey praises local paper the Bermuda Sun for publishing a story on last Friday's demonstration on its web site the same afternoon, prompting the Royal Gazette to retort that “its reporters and editors were busy getting Saturday's paper out.” But the Limey doesn't buy it: “in my opinion, the problem is that the RG (and the MON) do not place as much importance on their website as the Sun is starting to do. There have been other occasions when the Sun has broken a story on its website while the RG has been content to wait until the next day. Even after the RG's reporters and editors have produced a version of the paper, it's not unusual for it to fail to appear online. . . . Elsewhere in the world they’re talking about “Web 2.0”. Here in Bermuda, it sometimes seems like we're stuck in the pre-Web 1.0 era.”
Aruba's unions and political parties have been protesting the government's economic plan, but “since this is Aruba, not even our protests can be done efficiently,” says ArubaGirl.
Barbados Free Press speculates on why the Barbadian press might have forgotten to mention that June 4 was the 17th anniversary of the Tianamen Square massacre. Could it have had anything to do with the fact that the Vice Foreign Minister of China “was on the island for a visit”?
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...