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Sunday, 23 December 2012
Top 10 Deadliest Countries for Journalists
A free and fair press has always been a target for tyrants and
criminals. As a result, reporters, photographers, and bloggers can find
themselves in harm’s way while informing us of world and local events.
Sadly, this situation has not improved much with time: as of this
writing, 960 journalists have been murdered in the last 10 years.
The following are the “10 Deadliest Countries for Journalists”, as
ranked by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). To humanize the
grim statistics, each entry includes a passage describing a late
journalist, randomly selected from victim rolls that are entirely too
long.
NOTE: CPJ confirms a case only if it’s reasonably sure a journalist was
murdered “in direct reprisal for his or her work, killed in
combat/crossfire, or killed while carrying out a dangerous assignment.”
Should you wish to contribute to its efforts, you may donate to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
10. Mexico
Total Murders since 1992: 28
Since 1992, 89% of Mexico’s killed journalists were murdered, mostly by drug cartels and criminal gangs operating with near-total impunity. As could be expected from the failing drug war in Mexico, the victims’ beats typically focused on crime, with some overlap for covering government corruption.
One such victim was Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, a 21 year old
photographer working for La Prensa. He was kidnapped along with his
cousin (Juan Gomez Melendez) and a popular TV show host (Jose Luis Cerds
Melendez). All three were later found dead with gunshot wounds to the
head, next to fresh graffiti warning “Stop cooperating with the Zetas”.
The Zetas are a major drug cartel, and operate with such freedom in
Mexico that an armed Zeta walked into the police’s active crime scene
and moved the bodies to a different location.
Ruiz was still in college, and winner of a journalism award the previous year. He had been on the job eight months. 09 more countries after the break...
Top 10 Countries That Disappeared In The 20th Century
New nations seem to pop up with alarming regularity. At the start of the
20th century, there were only a few dozen independent sovereign states
on the planet; today, there are nearly 200! Once a nation is
established, they tend to stick around for awhile, so a nation
disappearing is quite uncommon. It’s only occurred a handful of times in
the last century. But when they do, they completely vanish off the face
of the globe: government, flag, and all. Here then, in no particular
order, are the top ten countries that had their moment in the sun but
are, alas, no more.
10. East Germany, 1949-1990
Created from the Soviet controlled sector of Germany after the Second
World War, East Germany was probably best known for its Wall and its
tendency to shoot people who attempted to cross over it. Now, it’s one
(over-reactionary) thing to shoot foreigners who are trying to enter
your country illegally, but these were its own people!
Basically little more than a Soviet satellite state, the collapse of the
notorious Wall and, with it, the demise of the old Soviet Union brought
an end to this failed experiment in Communism, and it was integrated
back into the rest of Germany in 1990. Because East Germany was so far
behind the rest of Germany economically, however, its reintegration with
the west almost bankrupted Germany. Today, however, things are swimming
along nicely, thank you. 09 more countries after the break...
Sky Habitat — A Luxury Residential Complex in Singapore
Singapore's CapitaLand construction company in 2012 started the
construction of the most expensive residential complex in Singapore Sky
Habitat. The snow-white 38-story skyscraper located on lush on 506
apartments planned to be completed in 2016. Luxury condominium project
to be located in the suburbs of Bichat, by the famous architect Moshe
Safdie, developed for him an impressive stage structure. 18 more images after the break...
Friday, 21 December 2012
Riddles of the Day
Jillian Northrup
of Oakland, USA and his team created a cool project-oriented ... This
tube, decorated for the technical pipe runs through the huge studio
apartment. What for? Answer a few pictures. 11 More Images after the break...
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