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U.S. CONSIDERING HALT TO KILLING CIVILIANS WITH DRONES AFTER PAKISTANI REQUEST London, U.K. – Innocents die in war, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose. It is part of the nature of war, that innocent people die, and while it sometimes raises the ire of the populace, it is an essential component of any conflict. Without civilians dying there is really no reason for an enemy to capitulate. Dead innocents often starts and often ends wars.   VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE UNLIKELY TO USE CANCER ATTACK AGAINST CHAVEZ Caracas, Venezuela – Despite what many people seem to believe about Venezuela and its leader, Hugo Chavez, the country is actually a democracy and Chavez is the elected leader. While few will argue that the political system in the country is healthy, full of robust candidates and strong political infrastructure, it is a democracy, an actual democracy, and Hugo Chavez is just a really popular politician.   IN POSSIBLE LAST STRAW IRAN BANS SIMPSONS DOLLS, POGS, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS Tehran, Iran – There has been, arguably, no time in history when Iran was a more significant force in the public imagination. While people will look to the Islamic revolution, or Iran Contra, or even the Fatwa on Salman Rushdie as the most incendiary moments in the history of that country, now is the time when things have reached a fever pitch, dwarfing all those historical examples.

SYRIA DOESN’T REALLY KNOW WHO KILLED ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN HOMS Damascus, Syria – From the outside, it appears that things in Syria are getting to the point beyond which things can never be recovered. Every day stories of violence bleed out of the country as protestors and police forces continue to clash in what has quickly become the darkest days of the Arab Spring which, at one point, held so much promise for the people of the region. MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS WOULD RATHER NO ONE WINS PRESIDENTIAL RACE Mexico City, Mexico – There has never really been anything like what is happening in Mexico right now in the history of the world. A developing country, one with a good deal of wealth and potential for success, with entire sections totally consumed by criminal elements, lawless territory that had once been relatively safe, is something very foreign in the modern world. JAMAICA MELTS DOWN THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL GUNS AND TRIES TO SMOKE THEM Kingston, Jamaica – To most outsiders Jamaica is the land of Bob Marley and Marijuana, nothing more and nothing less than an island paradise where absolutely everyone takes thing easy. That is what most people would like to believe Jamaica is and, for those who visit the resorts on the island it really is just that, but like any country the facade is a little different than the reality.

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