The Central African Republic will be holding a runoff election at the end of the month after none of the prospective presidential candidates received a majority of votes this past Friday. Accusations of fraud have come from about 20 of the 30 candidates who applied for the job, but despite trepidation, the election seemed to…
Month: January 2016
Saudi Executions and Iran Row
Saudi Arabia started off the new year by executing 47 people in a single day, many of them convicted as terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda and involved in terror attacks during 2003-2006. One of the condemned was a Shia cleric named Nimr al-Nimr, who was convicted of “seeking ‘foreign meddling’ in the kingdom, ‘disobeying’ its rulers,…
The Oregon Militia Standoff
Tl;dr version: A militia group occupied a park office to protest ranchers who were given trumped-up charges for setting controlled fires on land the feds shouldn’t own, but they forgot to bring enough food so PETA send them vegan jerky. A self-described militia organization occupied an office building at the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s…
Stop Apologizing!
Fuck you, don’t tell me what to do. It’s a free country–don’t tread on me! A comic on my Facebook feed triggered my wanting to write this, but I’ll save it for the end because it’s substantively different than what’s been irking me. This is one of those thing’s that’s floating around the aether. It…