1 Billion Dollars is the price tag Canada has to pay for watching our own citizens being treated like dirt, by an army of riot police, itching for a fight, and outnumbering real protestors almost 2 to 1. Civil rights? No big deal, this is Harper's Canada, this is considered good entertainment for conservatives.
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Music posters still hang on the walls; stuffed animals decorate a twin bed in the corner of the room. Clothes lie neatly folded in the closet.
Neda Agha-Soltan's bedroom in Iran remains practically untouched since the day she died.
A little more than a week away from the one-year anniversary of her death on June 20, 2009, Neda's family refuses to forget their daughter's spirit.
Journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan traveled to Tehran to interview Neda's relatives in their home for a new documentary on her life and her tragic death.
HBO's new documentary, "For Neda," tells the personal story of the woman who unwittingly became the symbol of the post-election reform movement in Iran when her death was captured on a cell phone video and shown around the world.
"She is any girl, anywhere, but this just wasn't anywhere," the film's producer and director, Antony Thomas, told CNN. "I wanted to show the people who demonstrated, whatever happened, that their courage has not been forgotten."
Not able to find a professional camera crew that would accept the assignment, Kamali Dehghan, a print journalist who had never handled a movie camera before, took a two-day crash course and smuggled a camera into the country.
link | HBO documentary will debut in U.S. at 9 p.m. ET Monday.
Neda Agha-Soltan The Angel of Iran(1982-2009)
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While its easy to put all the blame on those obnoxious fish and chip eating, tea sipping monarchists. One person freshly appointed as de-facto president in 2000, the former CEO of Halliburton DICK Cheney was in the perfect position to encourage and perhaps fudge a few regulations on deep water drilling for his old company Halliburton. The construction of the rig began in 2001 and Halliburton had the vital responsibility for doing the sloppiest job as possible in sealing the pipes with cement, a job that may have caused one of the largest environmental disasters in human history.
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If I'm boiling mad over that clusterfuck in the Gulf and heading east, I can imagine how pissed the residents are.
What gets me the most is that BP and their many attempts (both tried and discussed) so far have been to try to SAVE as much oil as possible. And I'll just bet that they haven't even considered any options to make it stop.
Drinking at 13
Meth and barbs by 15
LSD at 17
At 19 I flatlined from an overdose
And by 20 I was in full blown opiate addiction
Let me NEVER forget what it is to lose it all and may I always know how fortunate I am to be clean. Nineteen years ago this month I stopped the fucking insanity.
Today, over 200 people of all ages, genders, races and sexualities met hate head on as they confronted the Westboro Baptist Church during their protest of Grant High School.
Around nine or ten followers of the WBC arrived at Grant High School at 7am this morning. Their website (godhatesfags.com) said that they were going to be there until 8am. However, a large crowd, at least 200 people, came out to meet them and they left at 7:30am. Reportedly, the Grant High School students were kept inside the school during the protest for their safety. However, when the WBC left, the kids from the school came out and sang, "Lean on Me."
It's continually inspiring to see such community support against such hatred and such creativity too.
BEAUTIFUL! [Read More »]
According to the extremist group's website, they chose Grant High School to criticize gays and the education system. link
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