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( Disgusting 'article' behind the cut...Collapse )'Dead bodies are rising from their graves,' viewers told in hoax by hackers'
(From The Guardian)
A television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse on Monday.
The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into the emergency alert system of its Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station.
KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties. The network says there is no emergency and its engineers are investigating.
"The message did not come from our station, and appears to be the result of a hacker. Our engineers our looking into the origin of the alert to make sure a similar occurrence does not happen again," KRTV says.
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This had me LOL..... :-) :-)
The Chateau de Joux, high in the mountainous region of Franche-Comté close to the Swiss border, was one of the great state prisons of France, along with the Bastille and the Chateau d'If (described by Dumas in The Count of Monte-Cristo). The huge fortress dates back nearly 1,000 years, its medieval walls augmented by Charles V, Vauban and finally by the young Joffre as engineer officer.
It was in this icy castle that, in 1802, Napoleon ordered that another French general, Toussaint Louverture, recently snatched from the heat of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, where he had lived all his life, should be incarcerated. Locked in his cell (which he never again left) on August 24th, 1802, he died alone on April 7th, 1803.
Now, 200 years after, his death is to be marked in France by 'a great national commemoration, supported by the ministry of culture, sponsored by UNESCO, supported by many Caribbean and African countries and personalities', much of which will be centred on the château. Some 18 million euros will be spent to position the château as a 'site-symbol of the fight for liberty'.
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Toussaint is celebrated as 'the first black general of the French army', having been made general de brigade in 1794, the year in which the National Convention abolished slavery. In that year too the black father of Alexandre Dumas was raised to the same rank, commanding troops in Flanders. Later, Toussaint was general de division.
He was 'the first black governor of a colony' - Saint-Domingue, the western third of Hispaniola, today's Haiti; and also the 'first leader of a victorious slave revolution, father of the independence of the "first black colony to achieve this, going on to become the world's first black republic"'.
Born a black slave, he can be seen as a precursor of the abolition of slavery, of colonial freedom, and (as those in charge of the château today suggest) of such men as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba or Nelson Mandela.
He was in fact something more than any of these. He was, as Lamartine said, the black Napoleon.
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I originally posted this to the lj group ontd_political, for black history month. And also because Louverture is a figure who deserves more attention than he seems to have gotten so far, IMHO.
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