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Over 50 dead in mass shooting in Las Vegas

posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.

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• Re:Incendiary (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:38AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:38AM (#576361)

  Odd, isn't it, that our inclusive left media doesn't include much of the bloodshed in Africa. Rwanda, Congo, South Africa, Ethiopia - the list goes on and on.

  Farther to the left than CNN and the New York Times, there is coverage:

  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/remembering-rwanda-and-clinton-failure/ (Rwanda)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/01/out-madness-matriarchy/ (Rwanda)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/what-you-need-know-about-famine-horn-africa-backgrounder/ (Ethiopia)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/us-drone-warfare-ethiopia-edition/ (Ethiopia)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/congo-dodd-frank-conflict-minerals/ (Congo)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/bosco-ntaganda-congo-warlord/ (Congo)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/fear-loathing-congo-war-criminal/ (Congo)
  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/11/congo-conflict-endangered-gorillas-are-pawns-0/ (Congo)

  https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-invisible-war/ (Congo)
  https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ethiopias-becoming-more-homophobic-as-we-speak/ (Ethiopia)
  https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ethiopian-troops-enter-somalia/ (Ethiopia)
  https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ethiopian-strongman-zenawi-dies/ (Ethiopia)
  https://www.truthdig.com/articles/rwanda-says-france-participated-in-genocide/ (Rwanda)
  https://www.truthdig.com/articles/david-rieff-on-africas-world-war/ (Rwanda)

  https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0417-04.htm (Rwanda)
  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/05/16/why-dont-we-care-about-congos-dead (Congo)
  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/01/24/drc-invisible-war (Congo)
  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/24/ethiopias-invisible-crisis (Ethiopia)
  https://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0525-04.htm (Ethiopia)

  https://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/8/they_are_destroying_the_female_species (Congo)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/30/congo_humanitarian_crisis_worsens_amidst_renewed (Congo)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/23/corporations_reaping_millions_as_congo_suffers (Congo)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/13/congelese_citizens_caught_in_the_crossfire (Congo)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/21/headlines/un_militia_linked_to_drc_committing_human_rights_abuses_in_kasai (Congo)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/25/headlines/congo_video_appears_to_show_killing_of_two_un_investigators (Congo)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/headlines/ethiopia_prime_minister_declares_state_of_emergency_amid_protests (Ethiopia)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/22/horn_of_africa_famine_millions_at (Ethiopia)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/7/headlines/ethiopia_23_die_in_disputed_circumstances_at_addis_ababa_prison (Ethiopia)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7/refusing_to_call_it_genocide_documents (Rwanda)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7/20_years_later_rwanda_commemorates_genocide (Rwanda)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/30/congo_humanitarian_crisis_worsens_amidst_renewed (Rwanda)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/31/draft_un_report_accuses_rwandan_troops (Rwanda)
  https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/10/headlines/south_africa_fistfights_erupt_at_president_zumas_national_address (South Africa)

  http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30553-rwanda-how-to-deal-with-a-million-genocide-suspects (Rwanda)
  http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23017-us-role-in-rwandan-genocide-a-look-at-rwandan-politics-then-and-now (Rwanda)
  http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24034-hate-as-a-contagion-the-role-of-media-in-the-rwandan-genocide (Rwanda)
  http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24374-the-life-and-crimes-of-war-criminal-bosco-ntaganda (Rwanda)

  What's his name, Nelson Mandela, became president after decades in jails and prisons, right? All without a bunch of killing, right? Uh-huh - right.

  People were killed in the struggle against apartheid. Who says otherwise?

  New York Times on Mandela [nytimes.com]:

  He was at various times a black nationalist and a nonracialist, an opponent of armed struggle and an advocate of violence, a hothead and the calmest man in the room, a consumer of Marxist tracts and an admirer of Western democracy, a close partner of Communists and, in his presidency, a close partner of South Africa’s powerful capitalists.

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