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March 3, 2015

Chile's stadiums: from torture centres to the Copa America



Remember that the US had big part in this. An example of US overreach in the foreign affairs in other countries because we had support evil dictators because we were too paranoid about the potential effects of socialist government in South America. We could let go and let democracy have its away. Instead we had to resort to dictators to comfort our fear that our influence and power would wain just because a country wanted to experiment with democratic socialism. The reality is that the Soviet Union was not taking come in and take away our power. We could have treated the Chilean government like any other government and traded with them.

Instead, we let dictators take care who create an carnival of horrors for the Chiliean people. For more about this, you can go to

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/10/40_years_after_chiles_9_11
March 3, 2015

Hail in Huntington Beach, CA

All I can say is Wow!

March 3, 2015

Hail in Huntington Beach, CA

All I can say is Wow!

February 11, 2015

Police: Two Men Planned Imminent Attack in Australia

Source: Associated Press

SYDNEY (AP) -- Two men were charged on Wednesday with planning to launch an imminent terrorist attack in Australia, after police seized a homemade flag associated with the Islamic State group, a machete and a hunting knife in a counterterrorism raid.

The men, aged 24 and 25, would have carried out the attack on Tuesday if they had not been arrested that day in the raid in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield, New South Wales state Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters.

A video that was seized during the raid showed one of the men making threats, though Burn declined to detail exactly what was said. Australian Attorney General George Brandis later told the Senate that the video depicted one of the suspects kneeling in front of the Islamic State flag with the knife and machete while making a politically motivated statement and threatening to commit "violent acts" with those weapons.

The men planned to launch their attack in western Sydney, he said

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AUSTRALIA_TERRORISM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-02-11-00-16-53

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