Pertinent with the mess going on in Iran now!
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Untouchables
This is a very interesting link to the untouchables. Again from The Travel Photographer. The untouchables are from the Dalit caste and are born into opression in spite of this being a modern world and laws prohibiting it such as the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 The International Dalit Solidarity [...]
Displaced Colombians
Colombia is close to my heart having lived there in the past. Unfortunately the ongoing conflicts within Colombia have displaced around 3 million people internally second only to Sudan. Here’s an audio slideshow “Colombia’s Displaced Indians” with photographs by Moises Saman, and narrated by Simon Romero (also the author of the accompanying article) concerning the [...]
FDR Inauguration Speech from 1933
Some classic lines from Franklin D. Roosevelt the 33rd president of the US and the only one who did four terms, and how history repeats itself. And it that isn’t enough, check out this on Time of Obama in his college years. Time article found via the Online Photographer.
Obama
From The Frame Was there anybody not watching? I think this was the most watched event ever on TV. It must have beat the Olympics and the soccer World Cup?
Sarah Palin comments from John Cleese and more on the election
From: panopticist And on the photos that won the election. The press has such power, but the politicians have to be smarter! And for something different, here are fantastic photos of Antarctica.
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