Footsteps
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Footsteps recorded on video during an investigation.
Amnesty Int l Accuses Russia Georgia of Abuses
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ZHANG:Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses blamed on both sides in the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia. They accuse all parties involved of failing to take the necessary measures to protect their civilians during the conflict.STORY:Violence continues on the de facto border between South Ossetia and Georgia. Analysts say tensions could increase again after a five day conflict that saw Russia launching a massive counter-attack against Georgia. Both Georgia and separatist South Ossetia blame each other for stoking the conflict.Now human rights group Amnesty International says human right abuses took place on both sides. And the NGO is calling for the matter to be investigated.[John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International Spokesman]:"Amnesty is concerned that present needs shouldn't obscure responsibilities for past deeds and in that context Amnesty International is calling for a thorough independent and impartial investigation into allegations of serious human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law both by the Georgian and Russian authorities themselves but also by the international community."Thousands of people have been displaced from the fighting. Amnesty estimates that around 24,000 ethnic Georgians are still not able to return to their homes.Klara Durglishvili's family is one the thousands who is still waiting. They have set up camp in a school in the outskirts of Tiblisi. Her home was destroyed by the war but she wants to return to her village.[Klara Durglishvili, Former Resident of Evedi Village]:"People were killed the during bombing - at least twenty from the village. We still hope to return, but who knows, it may take years."President Mikheil Saakashvili's government is now faced with building thousands of new homes to provide shelter against the harsh winter.
X-Factor (1st, 2nd & 3rd Series) Covers (3rd 1-36)
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X-Factor is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Since its February 1985 inception, the comic has been revamped a few times, each relaunch featuring a different superhero team semi-related to the team featured in the book's previous run. All of the teams featured in X-Factor are spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise.The first X-Factor, launched in an eponymous series in 1985, features a team consisting of the five original X-Men, but the series also features several young wards of the team. In 1991, the founding members were incorporated back into the X-Men. However, X-Factor continued, focusing on a second X-Factor team, a U.S. government-sponsored team incorporating many secondary characters from the X-Men mythos. It was cancelled in 1998.A four-issue X-Factor limited series was launched in 2002. This series focused on the government's new Mutant Civil Rights Task Force, humans who investigated anti-mutant hate crimes and inadvertently discovered an anti-mutant conspiracy within their own ranks. This series focused heavily on the "mutants as a metaphor for minorities" aspects of the X-Men concept.In 2006, a new X-Factor series was launched, following the mutant detective agency X-Factor Investigations.X-Factor Investigations is a detective agency run by Jamie Madrox, formerly known as the costumed superhero Multiple Man. The agency was originally named XXX Investigations, but team members thought that it sounded too much like Madrox was investigating pornography. The new name is taken from the government-sponsored mutant supergroup former team the three founders had previously served on.The initial staff consisted of Madrox's best friend and special enforcer, Guido Carosella (Strong Guy) and former teammate Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane). Following the House of M, Madrox newfound wealth from winning a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?-style game show allowed him to recruit several of his former colleagues of the Paris branch of the now defunct X-Corporation. New members include M, a powerless Rictor, Siryn, and Layla Miller, who has inserted herself into the group to keep them from discovering the truth behind the mutant Decimation.The members of the team, as constituted in early 2007: Guido, Jamie, Layla, Monet, Rahne, Rictor, and Siryn. An eighth member was acquired temporarily a little later in 2007, when Monet rescued (or abducted, depending on your viewpoint) a French orphan girl named Nicole (with the reluctant help of Siryn and the clandestine help of a mysterious hooded personage of great power) and took her back to America. Nicole was supposedly the orphaned daughter of ex-mutants lynched by a mob. Monet felt personally responsible for Nicole because she had tried, but failed, to prevent the pogrom. Nicole, in an attempt to kill Layla, is later revealed as a robot and hit by a train. Nicole's cover story was a total fabrication. She had been manufactured as a tool to destroy X-Factor.Peter David has put a noir spin on the mutant series and has dealt with the former Multiple Man, Jamie Madrox as the central character. The new series spins directly out of House of M and opens with a suicide attempt by Rictor, who has lost his powers in the Decimation that has caused 90 percent of all mutants to lose their powers. The series deals with the attempt by the group to unravel the truth behind the decimation and its aftermath, getting involved with the events of Marvel's crossover Civil War, fighting with Singularity Investigations, and dealing with Madrox's powers and the consequences of it.The team also attempted to protect Professor Xavier when the Hulk attacked him and the New X-Men.In the first half of 2008, Jamie and Layla travel to a hideous future in which mutants are persecuted and imprisoned. Jamie manages to escape, and to return to the early 21st century, but Layla is still trapped in that undesirable future. Rahne believes she knows that Layla will return and will marry Jamie when she grows up. However, she fears (because of a glimpse she has had of the future) that she (Rahne), while in her wolf shape, will murder both Jamie and Layla. To prevent this, she quits the team and joins X-Force. Rictor also quits. The team is down to only four members: Jamie, Guido, Monet, and Siryn. They are attacked by a villain with a plan to kill all Mutants.X-Factor, the characters and covers presented in this slide-show are property of Marvel Comics. The song name is Last Train by Knotlamp and its property of its respective authors, artists and labels.
Because Its America!
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Tags: America bank boarder boarders CNN deportation fake fraud identification identity illegal immigrants investigation open passports patrol phony report scam special theft trust USA
this is a CNN special investigations report on why immigrants flock to this country only to abuse the freedom that America offers.
Law and Order: Orientation Unit
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A serious investigation into Team 3's CIRP results.
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