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BASHAR ASSAD SAYS SYRIANS ARE DYING TO IMPLEMENT NEW REFORMS Damascus, Syria – One could be forgiven if you didn’t really trust the words coming out of Bashar al-Assad’s mouth anymore. After more than a year of Civil War and breaking promises to end the violence, Assad and his regime are not exactly the bastions of trustworthiness anymore but he is still the leader of his nation and so his word is the official word.   DALAI LAMA WARNS OF CHINESE PLANS TO KILL HIM WHICH ISN’T REALLY NEWS AT ALL New York, NY – There are no stories, well few stories, revolving around the events of 9/11 that have a positive ending. True, there are certainly tales of heroism and self-sacrifice, but for the most part the stories that came out of that infamous day are nothing but awful, terrible stories told thousands of times over.   SOCIALIST HOLLANDE WANTS FRANCE TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF FINANCIAL SACRIFICE HE IS MAKING AS PRESIDENT Paris, France – In a few days Francois Hollande will take charge of France as the new President. Gone will be the old regime, the once vaunted future of the nation, swept out in an embarrassing loss driven by French anger and frustration over economic woes. GREECE STILL TECHNICALLY HAS MONEY TO RUN OUT OF WHICH WILL HAPPEN SOON Athens, Greece – For more than a year Greece has been undergoing a kind of silent rebellion. Unlike the revolts throughout many of their neighbours in the Middle East and Africa, the battle that the Greek people have been fighting hasn’t been against dictators or oppression, but it has been just as passionate.

SYRIAN SECURITY FORCES MAKE FUNERAL A PARTY AFTER OPENING FIRE Khan Sheikhoun, Syria – One day we, the world, may look back on the continuing violence in Syria and regret that we did nothing to stop it. That would not be unprecedented – think Cambodia, Rwanda, or even Darfur today – but that doesn’t make it any better for future generations.   EVEN ISRAEL HAS NO IDEA WHEN THEY WILL START A WAR WITH IRAN Jerusalem, Israel – One day, it seems, there will be a war between Iran and Israel. After so many years of beating the drums it seems inevitable now that something will happen between the two adversaries and for good reason. Iran hates Israel and Israel hates Iran right back. SERBIAN GENERAL MLADIC GETS LAST LAUGH ON SURVIVORS DURING TRIAL The Hague, Netherlands – In the grand story of human atrocity the war and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia that consumed much of the 1990’s is really a footnote. Given the grand scale and incredible numbers of other similar events, the violence in that conflict was minimal, at least on an historical level. NORTH KOREAN WOMEN SOLD INTO SLAVERY IN CHINA THANKFUL FOR BETTER LIFE Beijing, China – For most people in the western world the concept of slavery means exactly one thing and one thing only. It is also, for those people, something which ended years ago. Slavery though, even racial slavery, has never been isolated to the United States and it is not over, not even really close.

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