Chicago Violence Rises With the Heat of the Summer

It looks that the U.S. is the most violent society in the western hemisphere. Why is to so? According to one estimate 12000 people are murdered every year in the U.S.

Chicago is one example. Rest of the country has similar incidences of violence.

"The figures can be numbing: There were more than 2,000 shootings in Chicago last year, and the city is on pace for more this year. The violence rises in the heat of summer. But beneath the sobering figures are personal stories, both of fear and resilience. NBC News' Tracy Jarrett spent time in Chicago to hear them." NBC

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Pakistan: Attack on Christians

George W. Bush spread 'democracy' in Afghanistan. Now Obama is spreading 'democracy' in Afghanistan. Some of that 'democracy' has spilled over into Pakistan. Violence has become norm in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now Taliban are targeting Christians. Christians are already poor and underprivileged in Pakistan/India. And now their lives are in danger.

There are about 70,000 Christians in the city of

Peshawar, capital of deeply conservative Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa province

"But some of the violence against Christians is organised and directly related to American-led war in Afghanistan, so has an expressly political motive.

Months after the US-led coalition attacked Afghanistan in late 2001, a grenade attack on a chapel inside a Christian mission hospital Taxila city killed four people."

Read more on the story here BBC News.

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Our World and violence

Yesterday I was looking at the headlines from around the world. It looks there is violence and killings everywhere. What kind of world we live in? We are supposed to have progressed but it looks centuries ago lot fewer people could be killed when bow and arrow, and swords were the major weapons.
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Armed siege at Kenya shopping mall enters second day; 59 dead

Gunmen stormed a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in a brazen midday attack .  

 

By Alastair Jamieson, Patrick Garrity and Simon Moya-Smith, NBC News

An armed hostage siege at a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in Nairobi, Kenya, entered its second day Sunday - with officials saying the death toll had reached 59. American citizens, including a 26-year-old San Diego woman, were among at least 150 wounded in Saturday’s attack. Several foreigners, including a Canadian diplomat, were among the dead.  NBC News


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 Shooting of 13 at park puts Chicago back in the spotlight Chicago Tribune-7 hours ago At least 16 bullets were fired into Cornell Square Park around 10:15 p.m. on ... Though gun violence has long plagued the city's impoverished ... About 60 police officers converged on the park and crime lab investigators combed the scene. ... The images again captured the world's attention as international ... Christian Science Monitor   

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Police: 39 people confirmed dead in hostage standoff at Nairobi ... CNN-14 minutes ago "The Mujahideen entered #WestgateMall today at around noon and are still ... A security agent told CNN's Lillian Leposo at the scene that the violence was a terrorist attack. .... "This is a scene of crime, let police do their job." ... his own Formula One car, getting in the cockpit and driving it to the world title. San Francisco Chronicle

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Reports of Violence in Sri Lanka Ahead of Elections New York Times-Sep 20, 2013 JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — The thugs first appeared around 11:20 on ... to investigate potential war crimes even as a string of shocking videos that ... US, allies target Hezbollah financing, ties in Africa    

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Ya Libnan-1 hour ago A resource-rich but poorly policed part of the world, which already sees al ... West Africa has for a century or more been home to Lebanese communities built around trade. ... U.S. investigations led to a 2011 criminal case in New York ... of violence targeting the interests of Israel, the United States and other ...
Aaron Alexis: police piece together picture of man 'as normal as you ...

The Guardian-Sep 20, 2013

Soon, around 20 armed officers were in or near the building, ... Alexis has been described as a heavy-drinking, sometimes violent figure, ...

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U.S indeed is a very troubled and violent society

Before U.S tries to spread democracy in other parts of the world it must look inside their own society and how violent it has been; there seems to be no resolution in sight. On a daily basis there is shooting and killing. There are 10,000 deaths every year through violence. More deaths (of Americans) than Afghanistan and Iraq wars put together. Americans are exporting violence, not democracy.

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American Santa

American Santa

Gun violence is pervasive in the United States, with the highest rates of gun violence among western countries. In light of the tragic shootings in Connecticut, the answer of the NRA is NOT sensible gun control, but armed guards.

Really?

What is inhibiting common sense in American gun control policy? How much more tragedy has to happen? Also, with Harper abolishing the long-gun registry, rolling back gun control, is this same potential opening up in Canada?

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Las Angles: Violence is becoming the core of American culture

Torture of war detainees by Bush Administration, one of the highest murder rates in the world and a recent story of violence against inmates in a L.A. prison are manifiestations of the some of the main features of American culture. Surely that violence is not limited to L.A. or California only. Rev. Al Sharpton highlights the violence in the L.A. prison in this video.

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Keith Olbermann - Special Comment on Arizona shootings

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Great special comment by Keith Olbermann, he puts it well how violence is an increasing problem in American politics and how some political and media figures are festering this violence (on purpose or inadvertently). Olbermann also highlights how these media and political figures must take responsibility for what they say.

The sheriff in Tuscon said that the Tea Party and some TV commentators are having their impact.

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Commandant Joseph Harper's orders and soon after --New Video footage

It looks quite brutal.

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Commandant Joseph Harper’s orders and soon after

It is a sad day in Canada. Are we really a democracy? There was no need for such a huge meetings in our country at a cost of $1.2 billion and the spectacle which followed.

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Commandant Joseph Harper gives orders to police at G20

Harper gives orders to police in Toronto on the occasion of the G20. Demonstrators can go rogue but then so does police at times. The song is “Russian Red Army Choir – Russian Military Marches”.

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Shooting At Las Vegas Federal Courthouse

It sounds like a war scene in Iraq or Afghanistan. Is America at war with itself? Is it the side effects of so many wars? Also if you make guns so easily available to all kinds this is bound to happen sooner or later. It is becoming too frequent an occurrence and it is indeed very scary.

Is this the kind of America that Stephen Harper wants to turn Canada into, as he loves American values so much.

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Violence Breeds Violence

A very tragic event took place yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas where a soldier (a Major and a psychiatrist) killed 12 fellow soldiers and wounded another 30. One's heart goes out to the wounded, the dead and their families. It is bad enough that these soldiers get killed in the war theatre, it is all the more tragic that it happened at their own base in the home country.

However, it makes another issue very obvious, that violence breeds violence. The US indeed is a very violent society. And let us dispel the myth that it undertakes wars to spread democracy. It is actually spreading violence which is having its impact on the home territory. It took violence to Afghanistan which has become more violent than it was after former Soviet invasion; now that violence has spread to neighbouring Pakistan. Democracy in Afghanistan is very doubtful but violence indeed is for real. The same is true for Iraq. Violence has tremendously increased since the invasion of Iraq and it has spread into the whole Middle East. There must be a way to end this cycle of violence.

A good start will be to end these wars. The soldiers who are going to come back may suffer from PTSD and violence in society will continue by some for sometime to come; but with proper treatment it can be minimized. Of course violence in general in society continues which needs to be controlled.

A new kind of violence came on the horizon after Obama was elected President. The teabaggers and birthers are inciting violence. The outcome will be very undesirable. Especially gun totting teabbagers are indeed dangerous. This dangerous movement must be nipped in the bud. Then there are businesses who survive on violence and wars, such businesses who produce weapons. Efforts must be made that they find some other kind of business. Green energy business maybe the one to go into. Currently it is a very sad situation in the US and around the world. Americans approved two wars started by Bush at the cost of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars but have taken up arms to defeat healthcare reform. Will it get anymore ironic? There sure is a need for cultural change.

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