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Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
John Lennon – Imagine
Videos of the Week (2008/35)
The best fight scene ever – almost 4 minutes, unedited, by Tony Jaa. (Via Captain Obvious)
What would YouTube have looked like in 1985? (via mlogger)
Lethal Numbers 2
I found via JuliaL49’s here (in German) the report of the US Congress’ Democrates – sources: BBC News and Tagesschau, also CNN – which states that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost the USA from 2002 to 2008 thanks to “hidden costs” 1.6 trillion dollars – $20,900 per US family (or $5,300 per person), possibly increasing to $46,400 by 2017 (that’s $3.5 trillion total).
Numbers that make you go dizzy… it’s just not clear how fast they could withdraw in a sensible manner (assuming they want), and I agree with Julia that a fast withdrawal doesn’t seem to be an optimal solution.
They shoot with demonstrators!
As if it wasn’t bad enough what the military regime in Myanmar/Burma (now what’s the name?) is doing – and not just during the current demonstrations –, now the ZDFtext reports about shooting with demonstrators:
Translation: “They reportedly have beaten and shot with demonstrators again. They say it was warning shots.”
They must have quite big cannons… and how does this work, a warning shot of demonstrators – are they shot only slowly or a low height so they don’t die when falling back down? 
Alright, it may be just a typo – one little letter in the German text so it would read “…have beaten and shot at…” 
Bad enough.
How silent is the Chinese Mafia
Seen earlier on frischgebloggt.de (which lists new posts from many German blogs), about a gunfight among Chinese in Neuss (German):
Headline translation: “Tirades in Germany?” (to the ENJOY blog (German) – corrected in the mean time)
Of course there are tirades in Germany! Way too many, especially from politicians! I doubt, however, that the Triads are that verbose. Regardless of how much – or how little – the police knows about them (and, yes, doubting their presence in this country is quite naive).
(Please don’t be mad, Rai – I don’t mean to be evil or insulting at all when I show small writing mistakes or foreign word errors; even large newspapers find themselves e.g. on Zwiebelfisch (German).)