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How Did the Kony 2012 Video Go Viral So Quickly?

How ever did the Invisible Children campaign beat out Susan Boyle?

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Kony 2012 video is now officially the fastest spreading viral video of all time, with over 70 million views and half a million comments to date — and by the time you finish reading this post, there's bound to be many more.

The video's growth — it only had 20 million views yesterday morning — outpaces other popular viral campaigns by far, reports the Wall Street Journal.

PTSD Denial and Dead Afghan Civilians

Pushed Too Far? Soldier was a sniper who supported Navy SEAL's and Green Berets.

(SALEM) - Last week we learned that army psychiatrists are increasingly denying that combat veteran suffer PTSD from war; the military suggesting their problems were pre-existing and not a result of combat.

Sunday, at least 16 Afghan civilians were gunned down by a rogue U.S. Army soldier Sunday, who reportedly carried out the attack on an Afghan village after dark using night vision goggles.

Perceptions of the Syrian Uprising from Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp

The uprising in Syria has re-opened some old wounds in Shatila camp and between the Baathist Assad regime, now in its 41st year, and Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees.

(BEIRUT) - Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, despite being targeted over the past six decades for numerous crimes including massacres from various sources, in many ways is representative of all the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.

Located in South Beirut, Shatila was one of the first Palestinian refugee camps set up during the 1948 Nakba.

Application to Adjourn Proceedings Ignored by Family Court

The Musa Parents get Adoption Statement for a ‘Final Hearing’ on 12th March 2012

(LONDON) - An application to adjourn civil procedures until the outcome of the criminal proceedings was submitted to the Royal Courts of Justice on 24th February on behalf of Nigerians Bishop Gloria[i] and Reverend Chiwar Musa.

So far, the application has been ignored.

Appeal to POSCO Shareholders

"Effectively, your company has declared a war on us. An illegal war in which they are using paid mercenaries to kidnap and torture protesters."

(DELHI, India) - Villagers of Dhenkia, Nuagaon, and Gobindpur, express concerns and grief because POSCO is behaving like a medieval marauder in their villages.

POSCO has influenced the Indian Government, police and civilian administration to acquire lands, destroying homes and livelihoods, terrorizing villagers over the last four years.

EU Recommends Reversal of 2009 UNHRC Resolution Praising Sri Lanka

Cuba challenged the US Ambassador by asking her to submit a resolution on Guantanamo if they are so concerned with accountability issues.

(GENEVA) - UN Watch in Geneva, has reported that the EU has made recommendation to reverse the 2009 UNHRC Resolution that praised Sri Lanka’s conduct of the war.

The report also states that Sri Lankan Attorney-General challenged the premise and necessity of the draft.

Afghanistan: De-Pashtunization of Pashtuns by Taliban & Pakistan

Enough! It is time for this game to end. Pashtuns in Afghanistan, in the U.S. and around the world must now blow the whistle on false Pashtun from Pakistan.

(SEATTLE) - For more than a thousand years the Afghan nation, and Pashtun tribes in particular, have resisted all foreign efforts of domination.

Efforts by great empires have failed to suppress rich Pashtun culture and traditions, created during ancient Silk Road trading, the Jirga, language, art, music, song, poetry, dance, sports, food, humor, hospitality, etc...

The Privacy Implications of Facial Recognition Technology

Unless facial recognition software is used with the permission or at least with the knowledge of the individual, then the use of such software raises privacy concerns.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - By using facial recognition software, a law enforcement agency can use its video surveillance system to pull an image of an individual, run that image through the database to find a match, and identify the person.

It can pick someone's face out of a crowd, extract the face from the rest of the scene and compare it to a database of stored images.

PAKISTAN: Saleem Shahzad Case -Rule of Law or Rule of ISI?

Any civilized person will ask what are the processes and procedure that allowed for this complete impunity.

(HONG KONG) - Freedom of expression is one of the essential pre-requirements for the practice, protection and promotion of democracy.

If we are to speak of a democratic Pakistan we need to examine, whether the media is free.

Montana: Commute the Death Sentence of Ronald Smith

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - Ronald Smith's life hangs in the balance of a system that makes mistakes, fatal mistakes... The cornerstone of human rights is respect for the inherent dignity of all human beings and the inviolability of the human person.

Race, poverty, and geography are inexorably intertwined with the death penalty.