04/16/2011 archive

Apr 16 2011

from firefly-dreaming 15.4.11

This is an Open Thread

Essays Featured Friday the 15th of April:

Late Night Karaoke has Chhaiya Chhaiya to start the day, mishima DJs

Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!

                Six Days a Week!!!    at Six in the Morning!!!!

slksfca has thoughts on baseball & sculpture in “Our National Past Time”, Friday Open Thoughts

in Gabriel D‘s Perfect Conversation discussion is centered on & around More & Better

Gha!

Great News from edger: Bolivia To Grant Nature Equal Rights To Humans

from Timbuk3: The 100 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time!

Tonight #81  

The latest chapter of My Little Town from Translator The Day I Set Myself on Fire

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Apr 16 2011

Evening Edition

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

Now with 45 Top Stories.

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Ex-Croatian generals jailed for war crimes

by Nicolas Delaunay, AFP

27 mins ago

THE HAGUE (AFP) – Judges sentenced two retired Croatian generals to lengthy jail terms Friday for war crimes committed in one of the bloodiest episodes of the 1991-95 Balkans conflict, angering supporters and the Zagreb government.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) gave Ante Gotovina 24 years and co-accused Mladen Markac 18 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity but acquitted third defendant Ivan Cermak.

The court infuriated Zagreb by backing the prosecution claim of a “joint criminal enterprise” with late Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, aimed at driving Croatian Serbs out of their “ancestral homelands” in the western Krajina region.

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