* In South Sudan, a town has been completely depopulated and another emptied and burned with the exception of a hospital and a couple of other especially fire resistant buildings. It's all rubble and corpses. Both sides of the Civil War are getting more and more brutal. It's sounding like the peace talks haven't accomplished much at this point, ( Read more... )

* "Drugs, cheating at nuclear missile facilities:"

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* TW: Blurred crime scene photo in video clip. Yet another innocent black man appears to have been murdered and the police are covering it up and refusing to investigate properly, this time in Texas. "Mystery surrounds Texas man's death:"

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* Chris Christie wants to remind you that he's the real victim in the bridge scandal, not all the people harmed or endangered by the petty vindictiveness of his administration. After all which is worse to be humiliated for being responsible for this terrible thing or to be have your ambulance delayed in a medical emergency. Obviously Chris ( Read more... )

* The President of the CAR has resigned at a regional meeting intended to stop the violence, as a result of him not being able to put an end to it ( Read more... )

* "Tripoli Residents Protest as 80,000 Rare Books in Lebanon Torched by Salafis:" http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/tripoli-residents-torched.htmlRead more... )

* More than 600 people are confirmed dead from flooding and mud slides in India. It is believe the real figure is more than a thousand, with several thousands more trapped, many without food ( Read more... )

* Fobok was kind enough to send me links rounding up various Canadian political scandals going on. I was so swamped this week it took a while to give them the proper attention. Here they are in case you are curious what else is going on besides the crack scandal ( Read more... )

* The flooding in central/Eastern Europe continues scary. While the water is going down in Germany, they had to open the dams on the Vltava worsening the flooding south of Prague. Villages and towns have been evacuated in areas under threat. Things remain scary in the Czech republic and Austria ( Read more... )

* Revised figure for Oklahoma: 18 dead and five still missing.

* Rachel Maddow gives historical perspective on the Republican plans for IRS hearings:

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